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Indy leaders announce 'historic' parks investment
by: Jacob Burbrink
Russ McQuaid contributed to this report
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indy Parks system is getting an $80 million boost from the Lilly Endowment.
On Tuesday, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett joined leaders from Lilly Endowment, Indy Parks, the Eagle Creek Park Foundation, the Friends of Garfield Park, the Holliday Park Foundation, and the City-County Council to announce $80 million in grants. The grants will go to improving Indianapolis Parks.
Lilly Endowment President Jennett Hill couldn't even get the full announcement out before the crowd at the Washington Park Family Center broke into sustained applause.
"It is my pleasure to announce today that Lilly Endowment is making grants totaling $80 million to support strategic improvements…" was all Hill could say before she was drowned out by the clapping of a grateful community's hands.
Lilly Endowment awarded four grants in response to a coordinated application by the Indy Parks, the Eagle Creek Park Foundation, the Friends of Garfield Park, and the Holliday Park Foundation. The grants are:
$71,900,000 to the City of Indianapolis Department of Parks & Recreation to support improvements in 42 parks located in all nine townships of Marion County.
$2,600,000 to the Eagle Creek Park Foundation to support improvements at the westside park.
$2,500,000 to the Friends of Garfield Park to support improvements at the southside park.
$3,000,000 to the Holliday Park Foundation to support improvements at the northside park.
The Lilly Endowment grants will dwarf Indy Parks capital spending included in the current City budget by a 14:1 ratio.
"Whenever money gets tight, Parks always seems to be the first one on the cutting room floor," said Mayor Joe Hogsett. "Today's grant is far in excess of what we're able to do from the city on an annual basis."
Two dozen of the city's 214 parks will see improvements funded by the Lilly grants over the next three years.
"New spray pads, new playgrounds, improving or resurfacing hard courts, basketball courts," said Indy Parks Director Phyllis Boyd who listed only a few of the capital projects that will be undertaken. "These spaces are places where families can take their kids, where teenagers can go and play sports, get engaged in organized leads and things like that."
New facilities will mean expanded Parks programs and demand more staffing.
"We now have much more competitive pay for our parks staff," said Boyd. "We are gonna be, in terms of lifeguards, we have a couple different ways we are going to increase the pipeline."
Boyd said Indy Parks will more intensively train lifeguard candidates to prepare them for their lifesaving certification tests in the water.
"As far as looking forward into 2024, the U.S. Olympic swimming trials are coming to our city, so we're partnering with USA Swimming on a citywide swimming program, because, right now we don't have a real great pipeline for lifeguards, so, we need to work on that."
Dubarry and Wes Montgomery parks on the city's eastside were the sites of gun violence and murders in 2022.
With fewer than ten parks rangers, the City will be hard pressed to provide security in presumably safe public places.
"I think we'll have ongoing discussions with our public safety partners at IMPD about budgeting for the parks rangers and they do serve an incredibly valuable purpose," said Hogsett. "Their numbers have decreased over the years. I'd like to see a reversal in that trend."
The City began fixing Indy Parks on its own in 2021 with $45 million dedicated to the Circle City Forward campaign which has already supported the construction of a family center at Douglass Park.
"Parks have an important role to play in public safety, not only to provide recreational opportunities for young people throughout the community," said Hogsett.
You can learn more about the planned projects by selecting a location on the map below or by scrolling through the list of projects funded by the grants.
Al Polin Park: Al Polin Park is in the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood and was established in 1973. Approximately $600,000 of Lilly Endowment funding will go toward a basketball court upgrade, walkway improvements, playground replacements, and beautification.
Chapel Hill: This park is located at 900 Girls School Rd. Indy Parks worked with Chapel Hill United Methodist Church in developing the park's master plan and entered into a long-term land lease agreement. $2 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help replace the playground, upgrade the basketball court and baseball diamond, and add pickleball courts, a comfort station and a splash pad.
Dubarry Park: Located at 3698 Dubarry Rd., this 27-acre east side park offers a playground, comfort station, fishing pond, and sledding hill. $700,000 in Lilly Endowment funding will go to a new splash pad.
Eagle Creek Park: With more than 5,000 acres, Eagle Creek Park is the largest park in the Indy Parks system and celebrated its 50th birthday in 2022. Recent investments in the park have resulted in $831,362 in improvements. $2.6 million from Lilly Endowment funding will support accessibility upgrades for the Pin Oak Trail near the Earth Discovery Center, additional community program engagement, and the development of a documentary about the park's history.
Franklin Township Community Park: This 99-acre park is located next to Franklin Central High School. $2.85 million in Lilly Endowment funding will support construction of a new playground, shelter, hardcourts, and the paving of the existing nature trail.
Frederick Douglass Park: Located in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood at Andrew J. Brown and E. 25th Street, the 43-acre park was established in 1921. As part of Circle City Forward, the City has secured almost $23 million for a new family center, including fitness areas, locker rooms, a gym, and program activity space. In spring 2021, project organizers and designers began meeting with the public to create plans for the new facility, and the final design was presented in July 2021. $5.268 million in Lilly Endowment funding will support construction of a new playground, multi-use synthetic sports fields, and office furnishings and appliances.
Garfield Park: Established in 1876, Garfield Park is the city's oldest park and includes unique amenities, such as a conservatory, the Sunken Gardens, and the MacAllister Center for the Performing Arts. $5.5 million in Lilly Endowment funding will improve the Pagoda, playgrounds, and Sunken Garden fountains.
Geisse Soccer Park: The Mary and John Geisse Soccer Complex at Eagle Creek Park will receive $2.458 million in Lilly Endowment funding for improvements to the park's drainage system, pavilion shelter, and comfort stations to accommodate expanded programming.
Graham Edward Martin Park: Located on 67 acres near Fall Creek Parkway East Drive and W. 16th Street, this park will benefit from $1.86 million in Lilly Endowment funding. The project includes construction of a splash pad, a shelter, two parking lots, pickleball courts, a comfort station, and improvements to the sports fields near Crispus Attucks High School. The City has committed an additional $450,000 to improve playground facilities.
Grassy Creek Regional Park: Located at the intersection of E. 30th Street and N. German Church Road, Grassy Creek has many natural amenities such as wetlands, lowlands, and forests. $5.65 million in Lilly Endowment funding will go to construct new playgrounds and park trails and provide furnishings and appliances for a new environmental center. The City has secured an additional $8.6 million in funding to acquire 82 acres of land and construct the environmental center.
Gustafson Park: This 30-acre park is located at 3010 Moller Road. Planned improvements include a new digital scoreboard, comfort station, playground, and basketball courts. $1.6 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help upgrade the existing football field to a synthetic multi-purpose field.
Holliday Park: The 94-acre Holliday Park is home to the Ruins, a 13,000-square-foot nature center, and more than 3.5 miles of trails. $1.5 million of City-secured funding and $3 million in Lilly Endowment funding will go to playground and signage improvements, walkway upgrades, and gazebo maintenance.
Krannert Park: This park is located adjacent to Interstate 465 between Rockville Road and W. Washington Street. The existing family center is being improved to make room for new exercise areas, multi-purpose rooms, locker rooms, a new enclosed swimming pool, and an exterior splash pad. $10.6 million in Circle City Forward funds will go to the family center renovation, while $3.73 million in Lilly Endowment funding will upgrade the playground, trails, and basketball court.
Kuntz Sports Complex: This park is located at 1502 W. 16th St. $2.75 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help convert the practice field from natural turf to synthetic turf, improve the grade and irrigation of the main field, and install new LED stadium lighting at both fields.
Major Taylor Skate Park: Part of the Indy Cycloplex at 3649 Cold Spring Rd., the skate park features the Major Taylor Velodrome, criterium bike course, and a BMX track. $750,000 in Lilly Endowment funding will help expand the popular skate park and add LED sports lighting to extend operational hours.
Perry Park: Located on the city's south side and established in 1961, Perry Park offers outdoor recreational opportunities and includes Indy Parks' only permanent ice rink. The City has secured $1.1 million in local funds for aquatic and park improvements and has allotted $1.3 million in Lilly Endowment funding for a new playground and shelter.
Riverside Regional Park: Established in 1903, the 862-acre park is located along the White River on the city's near west side. The Riverside Regional Park Master Plan responded to neighbor and stakeholder desires for new amenities and updates, including an aquatic center and athletic fields, converting Riverside Golf Course into an adventure park, building Riverside Promenade, and renovating Taggart Memorial into a performance venue. Through Circle City Forward, the City has secured more than $6.5 million for the adventure park and promenade. A previous Lilly Endowment grant funded the Taggart Memorial project. Lilly Endowment's latest grant will provide $11.55 million for new sidewalks and nature trails, enhancements along White River, upgrades to the soap box derby track and development of the Taggart Memorial Playground.
Sahm Park: Located at 6801 E. 91st St., the park will be connected to the Nickel Plate Greenway once that trail is developed. Due to increasing demand for community rental spaces, $2.7 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help renovate the tennis pavilion, add additional shelters and walkways, improve parking, and replace the playground (built in 1996), which will feature adult exterior fitness equipment.
Southside Park: Located in the University Heights and Rosedale Hills neighborhoods, this park is a short walk from the University of Indianapolis and serves students and community residents. $2 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help install new playground, adult fitness equipment, a sports field, hardcourts, and a shelter.
Southwestway Park: This is the city's second largest park and features an extensive network of hiking and mountain biking trails, baseball and soccer fields, and a playground. $1.25 million in Lilly Endowment funding will go toward construction of a comfort station, a shelter, an expanded parking lot and a playground with adult fitness equipment.
Tarkington Park: Located near W. 39th and N. Meridian streets, the park boasts a splash pad, performance shelter, and basketball and tennis courts. $3 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help complete phase two of the park's master plan by adding circular walkways, additional shelters, a farmers market pavilion, and field improvements to better serve youth football leagues.
Tolin Akeman Park: This five-acre park is located at 4459 Shelbyville Rd. $1.27 million in Lilly Endowment funding will go towards upgrading a playground, and adding a shelter, basketball court, pickleball courts, and a walking trail.
Washington Park: With more than 120 acres on the city's near east side the park features extensive green space, a family recreation center, an outdoor basketball complex, walking trails, playgrounds, an 18-hole disk golf course, and a mountain bike course programmed in partnership with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Through Circle City Forward, the City has committed $437,000 to improve the family center, add a northside playground and shelter, and a new design for the center playground and splash pad. $3.5 million in Lilly Endowment funding will help replace the central playground (built in 1995) and add a new splash pad, shelter, parking lot, and comfort station.
World Sports Park: Located at 1313 S. Post Rd., this 46-acre east side park consists of three multi-use sports fields for cricket, lacrosse, hurling, rugby, and Gaelic football. The $5.1 million dollar facility was completed in 2014. $2.15 million in Lilly Endowment funding will go towards a new concession pavilion with restrooms and a paved parking lot.
Playgrounds in 18 small parks across the city will be upgraded with $8.38 million in Lilly Endowment funds. Updates will feature rubberized or synthetic turf play surfaces, accessible walkways and shade structures. The parks are located in some of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Indianapolis.
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'The mood is rather flat' - Swansea City expert on whether they can do Bristol City and Middlesbrough a favour against Derby County
Anything other than a Derby win will do for City
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Swansea City manager Graham Potter (Image: Ryan Hiscott/JMP)
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Bristol City are hoping for a favour this evening.
The Robins gave their play-off hopes a shot in the arm with last night's 2-1 victory over Millwall.
Goals from Jamie Paterson and Famara Diedhiou helped the Robins come from behind to take a vital three points that leaves them a point behind Derby County and Middlesbrough in the race for sixth place.
Yet Derby play Swansea City tonight in a game in hand that could well extinguish the Robins' play-off hopes once and for all.
If the Rams take victory, then there will be no chance of the Robins making the top six - but anything less and it will go down to the last game of the season on Saturday.
Ahead of the game, Teesside Live spoke to WalesOnline football writer Ian Mitchelmore to get the lowdown on Swansea and whether Middlesbrough and Bristol City can count on a favour from Graham Potter's side.
What's the general mood at Swansea after conceding the two late goals to draw with Hull?
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"Having had faint hopes of reaching the play-offs, the mood has quickly turned rather flat after what was a hugely disappointing draw against Hull.
"Swansea were in control and led 2-0 with 13 minutes left on the clock. But Hull were much improved in the second half and probably deserved a share of the spoils if truth be told.
"The last two matches now feel somewhat irrelevant, and the attention has quickly shifted to the summer transfer window which could be yet another turbulent one."
Ahead of that game - and at 2-0 up - was there a genuine belief Swansea could sneak into the top six?
"Swansea were huge outsiders, but while there was a mathematical chance of finishing in the final play-off berth, there was still belief.
"But with the favours that Swansea would have needed, the general belief that it was never really going to happen."
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On the back of that 2-2 draw, what do you expect from Swansea on Wednesday? Will they be flat or has Potter got his squad looking at the bigger picture and ahead to next season?
"It's all about next season for Swansea. Graham Potter has built a squad that has fully bought into his methods, and the players quite simply love playing for the current manager.
"Those on the fringes will be hoping to make a mark with a view to becoming more prominent figures next season while those who are in the set-up will hope to maintain their improvement under Potter in these final two outings.
"Swansea are also unbeaten at home in the league in 2019 so that's a record they'll be aiming to keep intact."
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How do you expect the Derby game to unfold?
"I think it could be quite an open game with the way the two sides play. And with that, there should be goals too. Swansea will be desperate to sign off on a high in what will be their final home game of the season, but Derby are in pole position to finish in sixth place.
"For the first time in a while, I'm not predicting a home win, although I fancy Swansea to get a point."
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Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians
from the NYPD:-Times-Square-is-the-hottest-third-person-shooter-on-the-market dept
Thu, Dec 5th 2013 11:59am — Tim Cushing
Stop me if you've heard this one:
An emotionally disturbed but unarmed man walks into heavy traffic near Times Square. Police officers arrive on the scene and try to apprehend him. The unarmed man reaches into his pocket, prompting police to open fire in a crowded area. Man is unwounded but two bystanders are shot.
I don't really remember the middle part of this joke but the punchline is this:
An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to an indictment unsealed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
While you're letting that sink in, here are some more details.
Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney's office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax "recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death."
"The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders," said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.
Here are some more details from the original coverage of the incident.
The police arrived and the crowd grew. The hulking man continued on, ignoring the officers' commands while eluding capture. Then the man reached into his pants pocket, withdrawing his hand as if it were a gun, the police said, and pretended to shoot at some of the officers.
As Scott Greenfield points out, this descriptive wording is a prime example of Creative Writing 101 (Law Enforcement Edition).
Note the language of the article. "Hulking" man. "Withdrawing his hand as if it were a gun." These aren't the words of a news account, but the language of justification and excuses.
Broadnax didn't even have a gun, as officers plainly saw before opening fire. He had a Metrocard in his hand, and no matter how hulkingly he pointed it at officers, it still didn't turn into a weapon capable of wounding other people. His weaving around in traffic was potentially dangerous, but more to himself than others.
Returning once again to the "language of justification and excuses" deployed by the DA's office: someone wandering around in traffic in New York City is hardly creating a "grave risk of death." NYC has plenty of pedestrian traffic, not all of which crosses only at the corners. The man certainly created a "disturbance" but the shots fired by the responding officers created the only injuries. And yet, it will be the man shot at (and missed) who will pay for the mistakes of the officers.
The narrative being pushed (back at the time of the incident and again by the DA's office) is that the officers had no choice but to risk firing shots in a crowded area because the man wouldn't cooperate (and menaced officers with a Metrocard). But recordings of the incident suggest the cops actually had many more options are their disposal.
There are no doubt times when shots must be fired, and there are no doubt times when a bullet will strike a bystander despite the best, and most competent, efforts of police. But the video of this, taken by a bystander who was not shot, shows a great many cops in the area before the two cops shot at Broadnax, and makes it difficult to understand why the newspapers don't question why all those cops couldn't manage to take down one big crazy guy without shooting up the bystanders.
The video Scott Greenfield posted back in September no longer exists. But this video shows a swarm of NYPD officers attempting to apprehend Broadnax before the shots are fired.
Broadnax was finally subdued by a single officer with a Taser but not before two pedestrians had been shot in an effort to ensure their safety. Holding the arrestee responsible for the bad decisions (and worse aim) of two cops basically sends the message to officers that irresponsible gun usage is perfectly fine, as long as the intentions are pure. If in the future officers hit other bystanders by firing in crowded areas (as they have in the past), the blame will be passed along to the intended target for "forcing" the police to make unwise decisions.
[Postscript: Ken White at Popehat has more thoughts on the NYPD's resemblance to Ike "Don't Make Me Hit You" Turner.]
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Well, at least they didn't confiscate the camera phone.
DOlz (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:09pm
I've heard this excuse before
Isn't this the classic excuse in domestic violence, "I didn't want to beat them, but they made me do it".
It seems the more power people have the less they think they are responsible for using it properly.
scotts13 (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:10pm
And I suppose if they wreck several police cars while chasing you on a traffic ticket, you have to replace them, too? If they kill pedestrians? If they kill themselves?
Arsik Vek (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:12pm
I would hesitate to discharge a firearm in Times Square if the guy were bull rushing me, much less over an unconfirmed threat. That place is *way* too crowded for gunfire.
another example of incompetent people who, once they put on a police uniform, think that they have the right to do whatever they please, including firing loaded weapons, in crowded situations, rather than tackle an unarmed man to the ground. and please dont tell me that he was running away, or anywhere else so fast that they couldn't catch him?
it also shows exactly how bad they are when it comes to hitting their target. i was of the opinion that annual shooting 'exams' had to be performed to ensure those using a firearm were competent enough to do so. if correct, how did these manage to get through?
Anon E. Mous (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:19pm
When you were a kid just starting school and as you progressed in those first few years we were always taught that the Policeman was our friend and was their to help us.
Now more than ever nowadays it seems the opposite when you have cases like this where due process is out the window and your right matter not one iota.
It seems now that covering up police misdeeds and the blue wall of silence are at the forefront. This is the reality. The bad thing is that the Policeman's word carries more weight with the court than some average joe and even more so if you have any kind of a criminal record.
If it wasn't for cameras recording and these types of events being reported , the average joe wouldn't even have a chance.
The mere fact that they will charge you (whether you are guilty or not) is a travesty in itself as the mantra now seems to be we will charge them and make the story fir to the event innocent or not.
It is almost now if you call the Police you had better have someone recording it for YOUR safety and security otherwise you could be behind bars.
I guess teh old days where the police were proud and had integrity is long gone, and you wonder why people have a distrust for the police.... events like this are why.
The alternative is equally if not more disturbing - there were no good old days where they police had integrity. They just get caught easier today.
�The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,� said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey
Sounds to me like the NYPD is trying to find ways to take non-criminals and punish them for doing nothing. It's just raising the bar on "disorderly conduct", "resisting arrest", and any other buzzwords cops throw around (in specific cases to try to drum up extra charges and get themselves out of an investigation).
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kP (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:31pm
I didn't mean to hurt you baby....
... but you know how I get.
Oblate (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:36pm
"Innocent" bystanders? Are you sure?
How innocent were these bystanders- they might have had cameras, which would make them more dangerous to the police than Mr. Broadnax. If I were them I wouldn't be surprised to see charges of interfering with police, theft of government property (the bullet that hit each of them), tampering with evidence (where did that third bullet go?), and felony trespassing, among others.
Alternatively, they could be charged following the computer "hacker-security" model: since these bystanders have shown how poor the marksmanship of these police is, they must now pay for rudimentary firearms training for the police. If not for the action of these bystanders (getting shot) the lack of skill and proper training would never have been a problem for the police.
BentFranklin (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:40pm
The police and DAs aren't even trying to hide their lack of justice.
Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 12:47pm
Is that registered? Because I'm all over it if it isn't.
Why isn't NYPD pressing charges against the bystanders who got shot? They were surely aware that once the NYPD arrived on the scene, they would start shooting first, and ask questions later. They contributed to the situation that injured bystanders by getting shot themselves.
Maybe take a break from crawling Greedle looking for bad cop stories and find out
Chris Brand, 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:04pm
One thing's clear
Somebody should definitely be charged with assault. Personally, I'd be looking at the ones that fired the guns.
Hay, the NRA will love this - "guns don't kill people, people do, and not the ones with their fingers on the triggers either."
Sampson (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:09pm
Throwing bottles at the wrong department...
I think everyone is pointing at the wrong department here.
As mentioned in the article:
"the Manhattan district attorney�s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault..."
If your Justice system is corrupt then you don't have a hope in hell of getting a normal response to any incidents.
Jeff_Vader_runs_the_Deathstar? (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:10pm
Felony Interference with an Officials Negligent Discharge?
Pretty sure that's a Federal thing under the Lewinski Act of 1998
As opposed to being a troll cop supporter making excuses for shitty cops?
The NYPD are pussies and cowards
That's why they shoot unarmed civilians: they're weaklings who wet their pants whenever they're confronted by anything other than docile compliant civilians.
Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:17pm
I also need to look up ih8nyc.com.
Re: Throwing bottles at the wrong department...
Right. The cops made a mistake. The DA's office ensured justice would be miscarried by tossing it down the staircase late in its third trimester.
Alt0, 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:24pm
Broadnax was finally subdued by a single officer with a Taser but not before two pedestrians had been shot in an effort to ensure their safety.
JEDIDIAH, 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:30pm
Attempt succeed or fail?
Has this actually gone before a jury full of New Yorkers yet? I would not expect this kind of nonsense to get past a room full of New Yorkers. I would be mighty disappointed if it has.
IANSL, buy isn't Hulk able to muscle off bullets? Their PR^H^H news story is lacking if it were intended to make the cops look responsible.
Stephen, 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:40pm
That's the corner of 42nd and 8th with the Chevy's on the NE corner, Duane Reade on the NW and the Port Authority Bus Terminal on the SW. It's the far west edge of Times Square. Any one who says he was a danger weaving through traffic has not seen how everyone walks on that corner--and every corner in NYC.
I think that that makes it 10 people shot by cops in Midtown in the last year, one person shot by a non-cop.
Andrew D. Todd, 5 Dec 2013 @ 1:43pm
A Parallel Case in Manchu China
I have been reading Jonathan Spence's _The Death of Woman Wang_ (1978) about crime and punishment in Seventeenth-Century China. There is one case described which is partly parallel to this shooting. On July 6, 1670, a man named Chen Kuo Hsaing marched into a village school, seized one of the little boys, dragged him outside and onto the steps of a temple, and methodically, and with the maximum possible brutality, beat him to death with a club. The boy was the son of Chen Kuo Hsaing's deceased cousin, and the killer, having thoroughly misunderstood the law, thought that killing the boy would make him legally entitled to inherent the boy's family farm, which was in the hands of the boy's mother and guardian. He claimed that the boy's deceased father had killed Chen Kuo Hsaing's father during the Manchu invasion in 1643, nearly thirty years before, and that killing the boy was just a form of self-defense. Of course, no one else had ever heard of this supposed earlier murder, and the cousins had lived peacefully for those nearly thirty years. The magistrate was grimly amused at this story, and had Chen Kuo Hsaing executed by garroting.
The Seventeenth Century was a hard time in North China, a time of failing governments and barbarian invasions and bandit uprisings and earthquakes and famines. The harsh conditions brought out all the submerged animality of deprived peasants. It was the kind of time and place where sadistic killers could not conceive of anyone objecting to their killings. These officers in New York obviously said to themselves that they had always wanted to shoot into a crowd of innocent bystanders, and that if there was a crazy street person present, they could do it and claim self-defense. The Twenty-First century is a hard time in New York...
So, hang on:
Does this mean that I can charge police with assault with a deadly weapon if I hit someone whilst aiming at the police?
That's....weirdly awesome, in a dark way.
Deranged Poster (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:06pm
And that's why you're not a cop.
ChrisB (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:31pm
So let me get this straight? Everyone on this board thinks it is okay for a deranged man to antagonize cops? So if he did pull a gun and start shooting, you'd be okay with a few dead civilians? While the cops were doing what: trying to talk him down, karate chop him, tackle him, or maybe just shoot for the knee? Give me a break. This anti-cop 20/20 hindsight nonsense is typically of Tim. Maybe 1 in 10,000 encounters with cops go wrong, so all cops are bad, right? Pathetic.
Anonymouse Coward, 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:38pm
Count # 10 has been added to the indictment: failure to provide an adequate target resulting in grievous injury.
If the world were truly rational Mr. Broadnax would have pulled a ham sandwich out of his pocket.
JMT (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:43pm
Re: Really
You did read the bit where the police missed the unarmed man and hit two innocent bystanders right? You're really going to defend that level of incompetence? Do you know anything about basic gun safety?
DMNTD, 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:47pm
Hey ChrisB, I got an even easier answer. Cops are cowards.
Assmaster, 5 Dec 2013 @ 2:55pm
NAMBLA members in NYPD
It's well known in police circles that there are NAMBLA members in the NYPD, and they are tolerated. Next time you're pulled over, and you have little children in the car, ask the Officer if he's a member of NAMBLA, North American Man Boy Love Association.
Baron von Robber, 5 Dec 2013 @ 3:04pm
If he's deranged, then intent to antagonize. He's derranged.
But he didn't pull a gun, ergo, a gun to return fire was never neccessary. But no, gun-happy cops fire without thought to the crowd. Brilliant.
But at least one right thinking cop did bring him down with a taser that should.have.been.done.in.the.first.place.you.moron.
>as long as the intentions are pure
What the f*ck? Trying to kill someone who doesnt even have a weapons is a good thing? This kind of shit only happens in america. Even the streets of iraq are safer than an american city.
John Fenderson (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 3:20pm
Re: NAMBLA members in NYPD
Yeah, that couldn't possibly go wrong.
Re: Police Integrity
Our local cop shop has a good reputation in the community. The are courteous when doing their functions. I have had the pleasure of dealing with them on a number of occasions during somewhat distressing events and they have always risen to the occasion.
I have high praise for them here, even when they have had to pull up the young ones for doing stupid activities, like one of my sons and a mate of his.
Our local churches here pray for them regularly, particularly since ICE has become a scourge in our community. We let them know it as well. They seem to appreciate that someone cares for them and their work and are willing to support them.
I know that there are other areas that do not have the quality of personnel that we have and in those locations the reputation is much lower. The nearest city's public transport system has their internal enforcement group and the general opinion is that they are a bunch of power hungry, megalomaniac thugs. This opinion has been documented as being well deserved.
average_joe just hates it when due process is enforced.
ADyslexicWalksIntoABra (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 5:54pm
Why use real bullets?
About 5 years ago, around 7am, there was a clearly deranged man staggering down Market Street in SF. This is pretty normal, save for the 8 inch long chef's knife he was waving around that was rightfully freaking out the few people up so early. I watched as maybe 10 police surrounded him, warned him to drop the knife a few times and then counted down from 3...2...1
And then the shot him.
With a bean bag from a shotgun type weapon.
He went down, was handcuffed, and then was taken away in an ambulance.
I know we are very suspicious of police here, but this seemed like a totally appropriate handling of a potentially dangerous situation.
Shooting at someone with real bullets in the middle of a crowded area is stupid. Police have beanbags, tasers, and pepper spray for a reason. And if any of those had been used, this would be a non-event.
Thankyou, I am glad someone here has some objectivity, but this IS Techdirt, a Government hate site its exactly what you expect here.
There is no such thing as 'unbiased' or 'two-sides of every story', it is has to do with the Government its automatically "THEY ARE EVIL".
what were these people doing there anyway, rubbernecking ?? standing around video it ?
oh there is a crazy man and some cops with guns "LETS GO THERE !!!!" no, lets not run away and take cover and let the police do their job. Lets go there and video it and put ourselves in harms way. The people who were shot should be charged for stupidity !!
That One Guy (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 7:44pm
Re: Why use real bullets?
But see using non-lethal rounds wouldn't allow them to feel like big boys, they're given all these fun 'toys', and they'll be damned if they don't get to use them. /s
dave blevins (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 8:32pm
Really ??
You can't make this sh*t up, just too outrageous to be fiction.
There's always one(or two in this case)...
Had he presented a legitimate threat to the lives of those around him, lethal force might have been justified, though even then they had options other than opening fire in a crowded area.
Instead, they opted for lethal force, firing three shots, hitting two bystanders, and completely missing their target. If the idea was to cause more harm, then they succeed with flying colors. If however they were trying to contain and prevent harm, then I'd say they failed spectacularly.
Now, on it's own this would just be a case of lousy judgement on the part of the officers, obviously they should have gone with non-lethal methods(what finally took the man down was a taser, so they did have the right tools available, they just didn't use them properly), where it gets completely ridiculous is then charging the one they were shooting at with assault, a felony level charge, as though it was somehow his fault the cops on the scene were so trigger happy two people got shot.
As the popehat coverage of the incident points out, this is 'abusive spouse' type thinking, where it's somehow the victim's fault for the aggressor's actions, as the agressor is unable to be mature enough to be responsible enough for their own actions, blaming others for 'forcing' them to do something.
Re: Re: NAMBLA members in NYPD
I love Marlon Brando.
Bergman (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 9:04pm
Re: Blues Brothers
Yup. They call it felony murder.
Exactly. He's far too professional and responsible to be a cop.
Rekrul, 5 Dec 2013 @ 9:34pm
And yet my friend still insists that if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from the police...
Re: Re: Really
If there were actually means to charge people for stupidity, you'd be public enemy number one.
BernardoVerda (profile), 5 Dec 2013 @ 11:56pm
I'm just not quite getting your point. Just what does your comment have to do with the actual story?
I'm not making the connection, somehow...
how did they know he was unarmed ? AT THAT TIME ??
oh that's right, they didn't.
what the hell is a "legitimate threat " and how do you know that he did not have a gun in his pocket ? or a knife?
he was a threat, that is clear, it was not known if he was armed, but considering the large number of armed people in the US it is only sensible to assume he is.
so he was a threat and the idiots who were hanging around rubbernecking deserve to be shot in crossfire, because they put themselves into that situation.
The crazy man was charged because his actions led to the actions of the police, if he was not acting in a threatening manner the police would not have acted, but he did, so the police did.
How brain dead do you have to be to hand around a crazy man and police with guns?
oh there are some cops with guns, and a crazy man, it must be safe to go there and hang around and get your camera out and take some "happy snaps" !!!... brain dead does not even come close to explaining the actions of some people !!!
Koby (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 12:59am
I'm aware that there are other states besides NY in which the perpetrator is responsible for the actions of the police officers. While I'm not familiar with NYC laws, it's likely that they have something similar. The bottom line is that if someone does something stupid, such as jump around in traffic when the cops are out to make an arrest, then the perp will be held legally responsible instead of the cops.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Dec 2013 @ 1:33am
in 2011 176 police officers lost their life while on duty, 67 of them were killed from gunfire, that's more than 1 a week.
did you hear the story about the police officer who did not react immediately and take action, but waited to see if it was a credit card or a gun, he was killed because it was a gun.
on average more than once a week the person who reaches into their pocket and pulls out something IS A GUN, and the police officer is shot by that gun.
The police officer has to live with that risk every day, the crazed man only has to do it once.
so if I am a cop in America, and someone pulls 'something' out of their pocket and makes actions like he is shooting you, I am not going to take a few extra seconds and triple check if it is a gun or something else, I am going to shot (at) that idiot, and if someone is stupid enough to be hanging around there and rubbernecking I don't give a shit about them either, if they are too stupid to get out of harms way, that is their problem not mine..
I guess I don't have the same level of hatred for anything "Government" as most here.
Ninja (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 1:45am
Considering his nickname I had to lol even harder..
Subvoice, 6 Dec 2013 @ 2:57am
now here's a solution for you:
Ban all Metrocards!
see, so easy, problem fixed.
me@me.net, 6 Dec 2013 @ 4:37am
to train officers to be better than publicly funded attack dogs
Ramon Creager (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 6:32am
"they had no choice"
And it's buddy, "time was running out". This is the language used to squelch debate and justify the unjustifiable. Why was there no choice? What does it mean "time was running out"? Who makes such a decision? It is Orwellian (and dangerous) to blame the powerless (a mentally ill man posing no real threat in this case) for the poor decisions of those who hold all the cards.
But I get it. The police can never be wrong. The police can never be held accountable. And they are sooo misunderstood, such a difficult job.
And, anyone else disturbed that a grand jury should buy this juvenile argument?
Bengie, 6 Dec 2013 @ 6:35am
I can kind of understand where they're coming from. If you do something illegal, like walking into heavy traffic in NY, and someone gets injured as a direct or indirect result, you take responsibility.
Kind of like if someone breaks into another person's house, with no intent of harm, but the scare an elderly person and they have a heart attack, those thieves can be charged with man slaughter.
I still question trying to throw the book at this person and get them on every technicality for the sake of revenge.
Harry Mudd (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 6:50am
Welcome to the Police States of America, where the police don't have to follow the law, they ARE the law, as well as the judge and jury!
DCL, 6 Dec 2013 @ 8:43am
Re: Re: Re: Really
So what the heck were all those people doing on the street in the first place! Don't they know there are people with guns in the world?!?!? I know you are just trolling but i have to say something.
Granted I will give you that people are stupidly drawn to crazy events like that but take that away and the street was still too crowded to fire off shots like that. And if people would have moved into stores to get away....well bullets penetrate glass really well. If the cop had hit a 12 year in the head and killed them how different would you feel?
As long as we are discussing long shots for who is to blame... the bad actions of the police in the last few years has been very public and so a lot of that current draw has been increased because people want to get it on film and get their few minutes of fame.
in general I think your view and the police view is too paranoid... not everybody has a gun, not everybody who does something whacky is a threat to all of humanity. Like it was said before some people just take out their wallets and that doesn't justify getting shot. I am all for police taking precautions to protect themselves but if you are that afraid of being shot to the point you shoot first with no gun in sight then you shouldn't be a cop.
A gun is a tool... some people use tools to do great things and others just well... just suck at using them and shouldn't rely on them in their daily lives or vocations. The cop behind the gun has the responsibility to use that tool correctly, but because of the blue line, militarization and the general trend of society to pass off personal responsibility to others that good judgement of when to fire a weapon is becoming less common.
And what if he had a gun? Just having a gun does not mean you will use it. If he had a toy gun visible in his pocket does that mean the cops can start spraying with a MP5 to stop him and later blame him for the multiple deaths? Where does the line stop? If the end justifies the means what is the end what the end the cops are trying to get to here? Self preservation at the cost of innocent bystanders? If so then reread my previous paragraphs.
On a different but related note... people need to stop using the term "non-lethel" options since they really are "less than lethal". There are plenty of examples of people that have died from Tazers or pepper spray or being at the wrong end of a police baton.
weneedhelp (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 9:08am
"why the newspapers don�t question why all those cops couldn�t manage to take down one big crazy guy without shooting up the bystanders." Because cops are pussies.
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 9:28am
Perhaps by the fact that he wasn't pointing any kind of weapon at them.
So let me get this straight -- you think that citizens in the street should run for cover every time they see a cop doing his job? And you see nothing wrong with that?
It's a very good thing you aren't a cop.
USA Police State
So many pigs for one people? The police watch too manny Hollywood movies.
robert spano, 6 Dec 2013 @ 5:45pm
it is a bad idea to hire comedians as District Attorneys.
BernardoVerda (profile), 6 Dec 2013 @ 6:51pm
Police officers have a difficult and sometimes dangerous job, often under the scrutiny of the general public.
But cab drivers are actually much more likely to be wounded, or killed, by violence committed with a knife or gun or other weapon, on the job, than police officers are.
We admire diligent and professional officers of the Law, and depend on them in many ways. Police are granted special permissions and allowances to enable them to do their job properly. But at the same time as we grant these privileges -- because we grant them these privileges -- we demand the aforesaid competence and professionalism, and inevitably and rightly despise those who act like thugs or clowns, yet expect to still receive special treatment and undue allowance for bad behaviour..
Better question: Did they have any reason to believe he was armed?
Your comment is so full of stupid I can't believe you're genuinely serious, so well trolled.
That One Guy (profile), 7 Dec 2013 @ 12:28am
Time for a little perspective.
In the same year, those involved in crop production(farming basically), suffered 245 fatalities, animal production 148(124 from cattle ranching alone), mining 155, construction 738, manufacturing 327, food and beverage stores 86(55 of which were from shootings, meaning the odds are higher that working in that field will get you shot vs police work), truck transportation 485.
Put plainly, police work isn't even close to the most dangerous job a person can take, and yet somehow they're supposed to get a pass when they pull and gun and shoot someone, intentionally or not, in the line of duty?
Source statistics for those curious:
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0259.pdf
1) Why do you have your gun drawn in the first place (before he pulled anything out of his pockets)? Do you draw your gun in every encounter whether or not shooting the person is justified?
2) Why do you even HAVE a tazer if you aren't going to use it here?
3) Why can't you hit where you are aiming? If it HAD been a gun you would have been dead ANYWAY because you missed!
4) Why don't you just let the crazed man walk around? By your logic, people will automatically get out of his way, and those that don't deserve whatever they get, right?
5) Why are they in harm's way? The guy is unarmed. Maybe some of them even know that.
6) If you "don't give a shit" about people, why are you even responding to the call, and for that matter why are you an officer in the first place?
7) How would those rules apply to other people? If I, not a police officer but perhaps in a dangerous line of work like night clerk at a frequently-robbed convenience store, see someone take something out of their pockets, can I shoot them before I see what it is? Or do you want a special rule just for you that lets you shoot people first and ask questions later?
8) According to Popehat, "Overall the NYPD usually requires about 331 rounds to hit 54 targets, of which 14 will be innocent bystanders, 24 will be dogs, and 16 will be people the NYPD was actually aiming at." Given those numbers (out of every 30 people shot by police 14 are bystanders), should you really be shooting at people who are not CLEARLY armed when you're literally in Times Square?
ijim, 8 Dec 2013 @ 5:07am
not surprised but....
There are thousands of these crazies and each one more dangerous than the next. It was two a.m. These people milling around times square at two a.m. are seldom "innocent"
MRMcCartney, 8 Dec 2013 @ 6:33am
So let me get this straight? So it's OK to shoot at, and hopefully kill, a deranged man (mentally ill, and unarmed), because he was ANTAGONIZING police? Who do you people think you are? If a mentally ill and unarmed person was to confront me and I shot him, I would go to jail that minute. But that is OK because you have a badge! If you can't do something without a badge, you should NOT be able to do it with a badge.
justme, 8 Dec 2013 @ 10:10pm
you sure it's not one in 10,00 encounters with the public goes wrong, so cops have to treat everyone like a criminal because of it?
DudeWasHere (profile), 21 Feb 2014 @ 5:12am
I think you are missing the point here. It is not that all cops are bad (some may feel that way) but that the system attempts to hide the error in judgement by some individual police officers by passing the blame to someone else, instead of assigning the blame properly and correcting the situation through better training and discipline. The police are suppose to be professional and in control at all times. There is the difference. Police are only supposed to use deadly force when it is safe and prudent to do so. They lost control of the situation here. Were they totally in the wrong in this situation, no. Were they bad cops, probably not. Could they have dealt with the situation better? YES! The real issue here is that they failed to control the crowd. They failed to properly assess the threat, and finally only those with a clear sight line and low risk of collateral damage should have fired, and that means having the strength and professionalism to NOT pull the trigger if necessary. And yes the crowd bears some responsibility as does the perpetrator. The morons in the crowd that thought it was safe and prudent to stand with the perpetrator bewteen them and the police all deserve darwin awards, or at least honourable mentions.
Hell yeah, or at least make sure the person being approached is not between them and the police. If a cop is approaching someone with lights on and hands on holster, get the hell out of there.
And this is why you should not be a police officer. You obviously do not have the discipline or control to handle the job as required. Not everyone does, and there are those individual police officers who deal with these risks every day, living with the risks. Not taking the shot unless absolutely necessary. They are the ones we do not hear about. They are the ones we need.


It's the clearest indication we have ever had yet of an extraterrestrial intelligence–a powerful narrow-bandwidth radio signal that gave every indication of coming from outside the solar system. But is the "Wow!" Signal for real . . . ?
Computer printout of the "Wow! Signal".
Are we alone in the universe? It wasn't until recent decades that science finally had a way to try to answer that question, as the "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (SETI) began a systematic survey of the night sky, looking for possible radio transmissions from technological civilizations on other solar systems. Contrary to the popular image, SETI researchers are not looking for actual "decoded" messages from the space aliens–what they are searching for is a "narrow bandwidth" signal, a strong radio pulse that is confined to just one frequency, the hallmark of an intelligently-produced artificial signal. While space is full of objects that produce radio waves (there is an entire branch of observational radio astronomy devoted to studying them), these natural signals tend to be spread over a wide range of frequencies–there is no known natural phenomenon that produces a radio signal that is focused within just one frequency.
In 1972, the University of Ohio decided to dedicate some spare time with its "Big Ear" radio telescope to SETI, and systematically focused the 150-yard-wide dish on different areas of the sky to search for radio signals. The receiver being used was, as are most SETI searches, concentrated on a 50-channel area around a particular bandwidth, 1420 MHz. This frequency, used by radio astronomers to map the distribution of interstellar gas clouds, is between the natural radio signals produced by interstellar hydrogen and interstellar hydroxyl, which produces a quiet radio spot known as "The Waterhole". At the time, SETI considered that frequency to be the most suitable spot on the radio spectrum for any intentional signals sent into space to attempt to contact other civilizations.
As the computer recorded the incoming radio waves, the strength of the signal was coded by a numerical scale from 0 to 9, then continued upwards with an alphabetical scale from A to Z. For the next five years, the radio search revealed nothing but 0's and 1's–empty space and ordinary low-level background radio noise. Then, in August 1977, SETI researcher Jerry Ehman was going through printouts of all the data that had been captured in the past few days when he came across the computer-coded signal "6EQUJ5", recorded at 10:16 pm on August 15, indicating a rise in signal power that reached a maximum strength of "U" (30 times higher than the background radio noise) before declining, over a total period of 72 seconds, as that particular point in the sky entered and then exited the telescope's field of view. And the signal was found on only one of the receiver's 50 channels, a very narrow bandwidth. It was exactly the kind of pattern that would indicate a focused narrow-band artificial signal, and it was right in the Waterhole, the frequency that would likely be used for a contact attempt. Ehman excitedly wrote "Wow!" in the margin of the paper printout.
Next, the signal was examined to determine how far away its source was. By international treaty, the area of the radio spectrum around 1420 MHz is protected and is reserved solely for scientific purposes–nobody is allowed to use it for transmissions. Nevertheless, researchers had to consider the possibility that the signal had come from some kind of super-secret spy satellite orbiting the Earth, or by a signal from the Earth that was reflected off an airplane or satellite or even off the moon or an asteroid. Those possibilities were quickly erased, however. The radio signal did not exhibit any Doppler shift (the change in frequency caused by an object that is moving), indicating it was stationary in respect to the Earth. That ruled out most sorts of objects in Earth's atmosphere or orbit, or any nearby celestrial object (and this was confirmed by the fact that no planet or known asteroid was in the correct position to have reflected a signal). It was, however, consistent with an object at a great astronomical distance, far enough away to be fixed in relation to the Earth–such as a star.
At the time of the signal, the Big Ear radio telescope was pointed at a patch of sky about one-fourth the size of the full moon, in the constellation Sagittarius. Printouts showed that the signal had not been detected either the day before or the day after, indicating that the "Wow!" Signal had lasted less than 48 hours. In the four decades since then, over 100 different researchers have pointed dozens of radio telescopes at the same patch of sky, and have heard nothing. Whatever the "Wow!" Signal is, it has never repeated itself.
(1) A geostationary satellite. These orbit around the Earth at a particular distance that allows them to stay at a fixed point in the sky–they do not move relative to the Earth's surface, and could have produced a signal without a Doppler effect. However, there were no known satellites in that area of sky, and satellites are forbidden by international convention from broadcasting at the 1420 MHz frequency. And it is enormously unlikely that any satellite would have only broadcast just one signal for one day and never broadcast again. Nevertheless, the possibility remains that the source of the signal was some sort of secret geostationary military satellite, or an Earth signal that was reflected off or re-transmitted from such a satellite.
(2) A pulsar or other radio source that sweeps across the sky as it rotates, with a slow rotation. This would explain why the signal has not been detected again–the beacon would only be detectable at the time it passes by Earth. However, known pulsars have rotational periods of just a fraction of a second, and they emit radio signals and static in a wide range of frequencies–they do not transmit narrow-band signals focused at one frequency. Nevertheless, the possibility remains that the signal was generated by some new sort of slowly-rotating pulsar that we have not seen before. Since the source area has been monitored for as long as 14 continuous hours since then without detecting any signal, the rotational period for any such pulsar would have to be longer than that (indeed, since the Big Ear dish did not detect anything for 24 hours before or after the signal, the period between signals must be longer than 48 hours).
(3) Another possibility that has not been ruled out is that it was an ordinary low-level radio emission from a hydrogen source in space that "scintillated"—had a temporary increase in power—to produce a short burst of unusual energy, due to some stellar phenomenon or to a coherence effect as it passed through a cloud of interstellar hydrogen gas. This would be an unusual "one-off" event that was unlikely to repeat with any regularity, thereby explaining why the signal was never heard again. The "scintillation" hypothesis seems to be the one held by most astrophysicists. However, there is no detected source of any lower-energy continuous radio signal in the area that could have been temporarily scintillated–if it is there, it would need to be a very low-energy source.
(4) An extraterrestrial transmission. Everything about the "Wow!" signal is still consistent with an ET transmission. However, all attempts to hear the signal again have failed, and it is enormously unlikely that any ET civilization would have broadcast just one signal for one day–particularly since a radio signal strong enough to produce the strength observed in the "Wow!" Signal would require a transmitter of at least 2.2 Gigawatts in power, over a thousand times more powerful than anything on Earth. But, others have pointed out, those observers who have looked for the "Wow!" Signal and not found it have been assuming that the signal is omnidirectional; an equally viable possibility is that the alien radio signal is itself a beacon that points in one direction and sweeps across the sky as the alien planet rotates, and therefore can only be detected at the particular time it passes by Earth. The ET Hypothesis cannot be definitively ruled out.
So, does the "Wow!" Signal indicate that ET has phoned us? Science simply cannot say. The best we can conclude is that the possibility cannot be ruled out that it was a narrow-band radio signal with an origin outside the solar system–though the source of that signal (and whether the source was natural or artificial) remains completely unknown.
Another possibility occurs to me, but I do not remotely have the knowledge to know whether it is at all likely: that the signal was generated by the equipment itself, through some or other hardware or software glitch.


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Hi, everyone. My name is Susan Laine. I'm a Finn but I write in English. Today is release day of my paranormal gay romance, Stealing Dragon's Heart. This is the sixth in the Lifting the Veil series but it is completely a standalone, so you don't need to have read the previous books. You can find the story from Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks, and other retailers.
Notorious master thief Finn Grayson is hired to break into a high-class skyscraper in New Shanghai and steal a priceless artifact known as the Shard. But someone's gotten to the Shard first—and the penthouse suite turns out to be a dragon's lair.
Cameron Feilong, Guardian of the Earth Shard, is ancient enough to realize that he and his unbidden guest are being used like puppets on a string. Forming a shaky alliance is the only way for them to survive and to stop their ruthless foes.
Today I'm here to talk a bit about the behind the scenes, and to do a giveaway of one (1) e-book.
My mother introduced me to ancient Chinese culture, art, and literature when I was a child. Ancient China felt like a mythical land, far removed from contemporary Finland. I've wanted to write a story based on what I'd learned for a long time. The setting is an alternate contemporary Earth, and about a decade after the mysterious Veil lifted, reshaping our reality. Our boring human world and the magical realm of myths, legends, and folklore ended on a collision course, irrevocably changing our planet.
What's so special about Stealing Dragon's Heart then? The answer: Dragons! Specifically Chinese dragons that are depicted as wise, good, and honorable. I may wish to be a werewolf myself if I could, but of all the mythical, paranormal, and supernatural creatures I most wanted to meet a Chinese dragon.
Their effect on Chinese mythology is substantial, and they appear far more complex than their monstrous counterparts in Western myths. The Chinese dragons are typically shown as snake-like creatures that move on four legs, and they have characteristics of turtles, fish, serpents, and the like. These beings represent positive powers, and they control rain, floods, typhoons, tsunami, and other water-related phenomena. Dragon was an imperial symbol of power, strength, and good fortune.
I mostly kept that image with my dragon. Cameron Feilong is an immortal dragon. But his powers connect with the element of Earth, not Water. His sacred duty is to guard the Earth Shard. He is wise and powerful, and he is a sign of good luck for his human and flawed anti-hero, Finn Grayson, a thief who ends up in the lair of the dragon but manages to get through unscathed. Mostly, anyway.
As you can see, Huángshān, or the Yellow Mountains, and their scenery were common subjects of artwork and poetry an ancient China, and even today through photography and film. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), tens of thousands of poems were written about Huángshān alone, and a school of painting was named after the region.
The cover of Stealing Dragon's Heart, which depicts the Wǔ Xíng painting style, was done by the extremely talented Anne Cain.
Cameron Feilong, my ancient dragon, shares my love of Wǔ Xíng artwork and poetry, and he even lives high in the Yellow Mountains. I adore ancient Chinese poetry, and the multitude of interpretations. In the story Cameron talks about his favorite poems and poets, among them Dù Fǔ and Li Bai, two essential poets of the Tang period. Below is an English translation of one of Li Bai's poems, Long Yearning.
To be in Chang'an [capital city of the Tang Dynasty].
Frost coalesces on my bamboo mat, changing its color with cold.
I roll back the hanging, gaze at the moon, and long sigh in vain.
A beautiful person's like a flower beyond the edge of the clouds.
Below is the green water billowing on.
The spirit I dream can't get through, the mountain pass is hard.
As you can see, there's a connection between literature, painting style, and nature. The aesthetics of these three always pleased me as a child, and now as an adult, ancient China inspired me to write a story about a wise dragon and his perilous adventure with a human thief.
So there you have it. My thoughts on Stealing Dragon's Heart. I hope you liked reading my sort of intro into the story and the ancient Chinese culture.
I'm doing a giveaway of an e-book (Stealing Dragon's Heart, or anything from my backlog), so if you'd like to enter, comment below with an answer to this question: "If you could be any mythical or paranormal being, which one would it be, and why?" Good luck, everyone!
Thank you, DSP Blog, for hosting my guest post, and thank you readers for stopping by!
As much as I too love dragons, I would be Pegasus. I think horses are amazingly beautiful and flying is my desired superpower, so Pegasus!
Michelle, I hear ya! So many amazing beings with awesome powers and sweet looks. Deciding is so hard!


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The Saint Patrick's Day Test also known as the Donnybrook Cup was an international rugby league football match played between the United States and Ireland from 1995 to 2012. The game was usually held on or around March 17 to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day. There have been eight matches, with five won by the USA and three won by Ireland. Ireland competed as a full test side for the first two matches, winning both. In 2020 the first two fixtures were regarded to full international status as the Ireland A teams for those two games were upgraded to senior national status, due to the similarity of the squads involved in those games. In 2021 USARL and RLI were in talks to re-establish back the fixture in 2023.

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Englishman David Hobbs – 'Hobbo' to his friends and fans – is one of motor racing's most remarkable all-rounders. In a 31-year driving career he raced in almost every imaginable category: endurance sports racers, touring cars, Formula 1, Formula 5000, Indycars, IMSA, Trans-Am, Can-Am and even NASCAR – he has done the lot. And on top of that he has been a television commentator in America for nearly 40 years, bringing wit and wisdom to the screen, presently as part of NBC's Formula 1 team. Now, at last, he has put down all his experiences in this highly readable memoir that will be welcomed by racing enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Lena Dunham's Apology For Defending A 'Girls' Writer Accused Of Sexual Assault Is A Little Late
By Karen Fratti
Lena Dunham has a tendency to put her foot in her mouth on social media, but this time she might have crossed a huge line. Over the weekend, Lena Dunham's apology for defending a Girls writer of sexual assault came way too late for many women on Twitter, since the harm was likely already done. Romper's request for comment from Dunham's representatives was not immediately returned.
In case you missed the story, according to Vanity Fair, actress Aurora Perrineau accused former Girls writer Murray Miller of sexually assaulting her in 2012 when she was 17 years old. Perrineau reportedly filed a police report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office and, according to The Wrap, gave a polygraphed statement in September, which the media outlet was able to obtain.
In that statement, Perrineau alleged that she met Miller at a party with friends where she says to have told him her age. "At some point, I woke up in Murray's bed naked. He was on top of me having sexual intercourse with me. At no time did I consent to any sexual contact with Murray," she alleged, according to The Wrap. Romper's request for comment from both Perrineau and Miller's representatives was also not immediately returned.
Later on Friday, Dunham and Girls co-creator Jeni Konner issued a statement on social media defending Murray, alleging that Perrineau had falsely reported the incident.
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Every one is innocent unless proven guilty and it's a bad look to condemn people in the media or on social media before they have a chance to defend themselves in a legal setting. Which is why as soon as Dunham released her statement, people were quick to criticize her for tarnishing Perrineau's story before an investigation. If there's one refrain so many of us have heard over the past few weeks as sexual assault allegations have surfaced against men in all industries, it's "Believe Women."
Dunham herself tweeted back in August that people shouldn't accuse women or assume they are lying when they come forward with sexual assault allegations, since one of the main reasons women don't report is a fear of not being believed or publicly shamed and blamed, according to RAINN.
Despite having expressed this viewpoint in the past, Dunham and Konner wrote in their statement on Friday:
While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year. It is a true shame to add to that number, as outside of Hollywood women still struggle to be believed. We stand by Murray and this is all we'll be saying about this issue.
On Saturday, Dunham walked her defense of Murray back on Twitter, acknowledging that she "naively believed it was important to share [her] perspective on [her] friend's situation." She added:
I now understand that it was absolutely the wrong time to come forward with such a statement and I am so sorry. We have been given the gift of powerful voices and by speaking out we were putting our thumb on the scale and it was wrong. We regret this decision with every fiber to our being.
Her apology though came way too late for many, since, as she said, by speaking out using her platform, she may have tipped the scale in favor of her friend. Given her celebrity, speaking out against another women coming forward was not the best choice despite whatever "insider" information she might have had, as she alluded to in her first statement. Simply, Dunham should have known better.
Many Women On Twitter Thought So, At Least
Others Weren't Shocked At All
If anything, getting involved in the situation turned the tables of the conversation so that it became about whether or not Lena Dunham is a feminist or not instead of giving the alleged victim space to report and LAPD investigators to do their jobs.
If anything, casting doubt on a woman of color while otherwise standing up for other women in their allegations (one of the initial alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein's to come forward, Asia Argento, tweeted that she had received a letter of support from Dunham), is very problematic if Dunham intends on posturing as an intersectional feminist.
It's true that we have to collectively have a conversation about how to handle the onslaught of sexual assault allegations, the grey areas, and how we deal with the perpetrators, or we risk "botching" the whole thing, as Erin Gloria Ryan from the Daily Beast aptly put it this week.
The past few weeks have felt like a rapture of sorts and though false reporting is very, very rare, it is one tool that the patriarchy uses against women who report sexual assault, which results in most cases of rape not being reported, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Both types of allegations deserve attention, but focusing on the many and not the few might be a better plan of attack if women want to chip away at rape culture.
When celebs like Dunham, someone who claims to be a defender of women's rights, intervene to discredit women, it does everyone else a disservice


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Home | Search | Phrase Dictionary | Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
The meaning and origin of the expression: Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
The proverbs of John Heywood
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Hold with the hare and run with the hounds'?
To deceitfully purport to remain on good terms with both sides in a conflict.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Hold with the hare and run with the hounds'?
The proverbial saying 'hold with the hare...' is first found in John Heywood's 1546 glossary A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue:
There is no mo [more] suche tytifils [scoundrels] in Englands grounde,
To holde with the hare, and run with the hounde.
When Heywood coined (or more probably, heard and then wrote down) 'hold with the hare and run with the hounds' hare coursing was a commonplace form of hunting for food. In more recent years it was undertaken for the entertainment of the onlookers. It is now illegal in the UK, although it still takes place. The 'holding' refers to the hare's tactic of pressing itself low to the ground to avoid being seen, only bolting at the last moment.
The notion that one can't legitimately support both sides of an argument is graphically illustrated by the hare/hounds imagery as there is no grey area - either the hare gets away or it is killed.
Heywood frequently attended the Tudor courts and it appears that the expression was well known there. Just a few years after Heywood it was repeated to Elizabeth I, albeit in the mirror image form. Bishop Richard Curteys included it in A sermon preached before the Queenes Majestie at Grenewiche, 1573:
They will say that white is blacke, and blacke white: they will runne with the hare, and holde with the hounde.
Hares crop up frequently in the language, no doubt because they were an everyday sight in mediaeval England when many of these phrases were coined:
A hare's nest
The mad March hare
To chase two hares
First, catch your hare
Few of these are now used, reflecting the relative rarity of hares due to hunting and habitat loss. It's probably the case that the majority of people now living in the UK have never seen a hare in the wild.
See also: the List of Proverbs.


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 Mord an Bord, Verweistitel von Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut, deutscher Spielfilm von Erwin C. Dietrich (1970)
 Mord an Bord (2002), deutscher Fernsehfilm von Edzard Onneken (2002)
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Hip-hop star Nas protests FOX News 'Obama smears'
By gene_stout on July 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM
New York rapper Nas has joined a protest against FOX News.
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Citing what he calls "race baiting" and "Obama smears" by FOX, Nas will join ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver more than 620,000 petition signatures demanding that the network end its "pattern of racist attacks against black Americans," among them presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
In a statement to media, Nas, ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org announced the petition will be delivered to FOX's Manhattan offices on July 23 at 2 p.m. ET.
In joining the protest, Nas cites FOX's portrayal of the Obamas as outsiders, as well as an on-screen graphic referring to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" and the confusing of Obama and Osama by a pundit, who joked that they should both be assassinated. In February, Bill O'Reilly talked about a "lynching party" to deal with Michelle Obama.
"FOX poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news," Nas said in the statement.
"When FOX talks about lynching the woman who may soon be our first lady and then refers to this wife and mother as a 'baby mama,' they are maligning not only the Obamas, but black women and black people across this country," said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, said in the statement.
"We have over 600,000 signatures — more than half a million people — saying that we won't stand for FOX's racism and hate-mongering."
Nas came to the attention of ColorOfChange.org, a 450,000-member grassroots organization focusing on issues of importance to African Americans, and MoveOn.org, after the release of the new song, "Sly Fox." It features such lyrics as, "Watch what you watchin'/ FOX keeps feeding us toxins," and, "I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth/ Not the biased truth/ Not the liar's truth/ But the highest truth."
But Nas stirred controversy last fall when he announced that his 2008 album would be named for the "N word." The title came under fire from the NAACP, Reverend Jesse Jackson and a Brooklyn, New York, assemblyman. Nas latter scuttled the title, simply calling the new album, which was released July 11, "Untitled."