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A client recently asked me about startups in the networking space and how to pick the one whose products be around for five years. After some research and reflection, I am beginning to realise that size doesn't matter like it used to. While big companies selling hardware have big costs, smal l companies selling software can easily survive and thrive in niche markets.
Size matters when designing and manufacturing hardware.
Size matters when building a global warehousing system for spare parts and a network of third party resources.
Size matters you are using vast networks of resellers and distributors. All of which need head count to sustain. Add value to the business but not to the product.
Open source enables startups to compete. And new software methods.
Whitebox switches and x86 appliances avoid large capital spending. Lowers business costs.
You need big profit margins to make custom hardware investment/gamble pay off against the risk.
1. Design & Manufacture – Its take vast sums of money to design and test a silicon chip that does networking. It takes more to manufacture the chip then produce a physical device that customers can use. Companies with large financial resources can make that investment/gamble.
2. Global Warehousing and Distribution – Once you have dropped many millions on a product, you have to produce enough product to fill warehouses and distribution centres around the world. This requires even more up front money to make this happen.
3. Bump Starting the Sales Engine Because you have invested/bet so much money on a hardware device, warehouse and distribution, you will double down your investment with sales teams, training program, resellers engagement.
4. Global Support Services Once the product is in the field, customers will want post-sales support and services. This means a global networks of arms & legs with suitable training to perform onsite work. Although most vendors outsource this to a third party such as Fujitsu, this still requires large payments and other costs.
These are some of the factors that require hardware companies to have huge capital requirements and long investment schedules. Its also why change is slow in hardware.
Networking startups who are building software-only products have fractional costs compared to hardware companies. An office, employees, laptops and a bunch of servers. The servers may be in a public cloud for a few years to avoid spending big money.
Software support is low-cost. Internet and phone can be centralised, site visits are sometimes needed but rare. There is no stock or distribution costs. The day-to-day running cost is a tiny fraction of the big hardware companies.
Both Whitebox Ethernet switches and x86 servers in small form factors enable low cost appliances that run the software.
Whitebox costs a fraction of branded products because the cost of manufacture is a fraction of conventional manufacture. For switch manufacturers in China, the opportunity cost to perform a production run of Ethernet is very low and could even be filling in idle production capacity.
Whitebox is high profit business for those manufacturers because it cuts out the middle-man (the brand-name networking vendor). Selling direct has been and continues to be a good business model for Chinese manufacturers.
Whitebox is cheap enough to stock your own spare parts. This fits a lot of business models though not all.
Whitebox hardware is changing the network market is the way that public cloud changed data centre. Its cheaper to outsource production to a manufacturer that can produce hardware at massive scale. This are also market commoditisation angle here too.
Startups can be plenty profitable by selling software only because costs are low and predictable.
Software-only startups will be (comparatively) small because they don't need large numbers of staff to manage non-core activities like warehousing & distribution. Just license management and software renewals. And developing more software.
A lot of software comes from open-source projects. Web interfaces, analytics engines, operating systems, boot loaders exist so that development focusses on the product. The impact of open source on startups is profound.
Software toolchains are nearly free from cost today. Widespread uses of common tools like git, Maven, Jenkins, etc cost nothing (while legacy products platforms have software platforms costing tens of millions per year in licensing costs).
Whitebox hardware means lower business costs by avoiding production and warehousing costs.
Networking startups can occupy small and unique niches in the market and be successful, profitable and viable. This has not been possible for the last 20+ years because all networking was hardware with large upfront investments and further costs for product sales & support.
No, it doesn't matter if it's hardware or software these companies will have to grow in order to protect themselves, there are no niche areas, there are too many of them and the market is not big enough to accomodate them.
Greg, I think you are right, there are many pros that make it easier to get into the 'game'.
Winning is a lot tougher though since other costs like salaries and marketing make a sizable portion of the cost.
Custom hardware is one advantage but marketing is probably the area where the large companies have the most leverage.


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By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League)
"Don't just give us money, and don't just show up for the Equal Opportunity Day dinner. That is not enough when you look at Black consumer power in this country. It's not enough for you to come and shake our hands and be our friends. We want in." — Vernon Jordan, National Urban League President 1971 -1981, on his message to corporate executives
The National Urban League recently released our annual report on the social and economic status of people of color, the State of Black America®. This year's edition, "Locked Out: Education, Jobs & Justice," was especially significant because it marked the 40th anniversary of the report, first issued in 1976 by Vernon Jordan.
In a video message Jordan recorded for the State of Black America® release, he recalled the tears he wept the night Barack Obama was elected President
"It dawned on me that my tears were not really my tears, but they were the tears of my grandparents and my parents. They were the tears of all those black people who toted that cotton and lifted that bale," said Jordan. "The notion that Obama was going to be President, or that any black person was going to be President, is stunning."
While we reflect this year on how far we've come since Jordan first issued the State of Black America®, Jordan's own life is a vivid illustration of the progression of civil rights throughout the latter half of the 20th Century and into the 21st.
"He is kind of the Rosa Parks of Wall Street," Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., told Bloomberg. "He realized that the first phase of the modern civil rights movement was fighting legal segregation, but the roots of racism were fundamentally economic."
According to the Bloomberg profile, published on the occasion of his 80th birthday last year:
"As a young man in Jim Crow Georgia, his first job was chauffeuring a White banker who was shocked that he could read. Now he counts some of America's most wealthy and powerful citizens as friends and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are proud to call him a mentor."
Jordan himself often recounts what he calls his earliest political memory, listening to Georgia's segregationist Governor Eugene Talmadge on the radio in 1943, when Mr. Jordan was only eight years old. "I have two planks in my platform," Talmadge said. "N***rs and roads. I'm against the first and for the second."
Persuaded by a recruiter to apply to an integrated college in the north, Vernon enrolled at DePaw University in Indiana over his parents' misgivings.
"Here were Negro parents, both of whom had grandparents who were slaves, who to some extent were conditioned to the southern way of life," Jordan told author Robert Penn Warren in 1964. "They could never quite adjust to the idea of their boy even being in Green Castle, Indiana, the only Negro in a class of 400 students, and they felt their boy, their baby, their prize, would be happier and have less frustrations if he went to a predominantly Negro institution."
But his parents came to realize the significance of Jordan's choice the night a White classmate came to stay at the Jordans' home.
"In the middle of the night, my father got out of bed and came into my room and turned on the light and stood there with tears in his eyes, put the light out and went back to bed and said to my mother, 'You know, this democracy thing is really here, and it's right here in my house.'"
Having struggled in college due to his sub-standard segregated education in Georgia, Jordan determined upon graduation to pursue a career in civil rights. After receiving his law degree at Howard University, he returned to Georgia where he successfully challenged the University of Georgia's discriminatory admissions policy.
Through the civil rights movement, he realized that economic empowerment would be the driving force for justice.
"In the 1960s, we conferred and defined the right to check into a hotel," he said. "The 1970s were about providing the wherewithal to check out."
In a commencement address at Stanford University last year he said, "It's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job. It is much easier to integrate a public park than it is to make genuine, quality, integrated education a reality. But that is the challenge at hand."
We are grateful that Vernon Jordan has dedicated his life to that challenge, and we are proud to continue his legacy.
Marc H. Morial is the president and CEO of the National Urban League. You can follow Marc on Twitter @marcmorial.
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SPECIAL SUNSHINE WEEK FEATURE: THE FOILES 2016
Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 14, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Specials
Some Government Agencies Are So Bad at Handling Public Records Requests, They Deserve an Award
By the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Last spring, Shoshana Walter with the Center for Investigative Reporting filed a routine public records request with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for a story on a rogue firearms instructor. The request was unceremoniously denied, so Walter did exactly what reporters do in that situation: she pushed back. Moments later she received an email that she was never meant to see.
"Okay, now what? She is being a pain. Do we ask Peter what to do with her?" wrote the public servant handling the request.
The official immediately tried to recall the message. Within an hour, the sheriff's department had a sudden change of heart and agreed to release the information. Meanwhile, all Walter could do was commiserate with other transparency advocates on the #FOIAFriday thread on Twitter.
Scroll through #FOIAFriday tweets, and you'll find that Walter's story is far from uncommon. In fact, the only thing unique is that, for once, Walter caught a glimpse of the cavalier attitude many government agencies take toward transparency.
March 13-19 is Sunshine Week, the season in which open government activists around the country make as much noise as possible about the need to reform laws on access to information, whether that's the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or state-level laws, such as California's Public Records Act (CPRA) and New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
Journalists, government watchdogs, and regular citizens around the country encounter weak excuses, flagrant stonewalling, and retaliation from government officials on a daily basis. That's why, to celebrate Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) created "The Foilies," our name-and-shame awards for agencies and officials who stand in the way of transparency and accountability.
Join us on this journey as we examine some of the most ridiculous experiences members of the public have faced while pursuing James Madison's 1822 advice: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
The Self-Server Award
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
The homebrewed email server former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used during her time in office was lighter on complying with the spirit of FOIA than that watered-down lager brewed in your cousin's closet. And just like your cousin deciding which buddies get to share in the homemade suds, Clinton herself decided which of her emails to share with the public and then deleted 30,000 of them.
Transparency advocates and journalists are right to criticize Clinton for using an insecure private email server, but it is important to remember that her story is merely the highest profile example of a public official misusing technology to stifle public oversight. For years, officials at the local, state, and federal levels have been using private communications to shield their work from public scrutiny—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has communicated exclusively with Blackberry PIN messaging to avoid creating any records and high-level White House officials used their private email to conduct government business. There are, sadly, dozens of other instances of governors, city councilmembers, and county commissioners doing the same thing.
When officials use private communications for work they are not just potentially violating open records laws, they are stymieing the public's ability to understand operation of their elected government and to hold those officials accountable for their actions. Clinton deserves this award, but so does every official who seeks to hide his or her actions from the public by using private communications systems.
Shawn Musgrave
The "Old School" Award
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis
Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky, ignited a national controversy last year when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. MuckRock News' Shawn Musgrave filed two requests for emails from that period, including emails covering the time when she supposedly scheduled a meeting with Pope Francis.
It turned out that marriage wasn't the only issue where Davis took a "traditional position." Rather than provide the 6,000 or so communications to MuckRock in a digital format, she insisted she was "old school on this email stuff," and instead asked for $1,200 for print-outs, despite the Kentucky Open Records Act requirement that electronic records be available in an electronic format. After a lengthy back-and-forth, Davis finally complied with the law and began forwarding the records.
Carl Malamud
Worst Definition of Terrorism
Transparency advocate Carl Malamud's Public.Resource.Org has been on a quest to make sure people have access to the laws that govern them. A righteous and benign endeavor, right? Well, not according to the state of Georgia, which is suing the organization for publishing a searchable and downloadable scan of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Georgia claims to hold the copyright in the laws, and by publishing them, Public.Resource.Org is not only engaged in piracy, but employing "a strategy of terrorism."
Just to be clear: reading a state's annotated statutes might bore some people to death, but publishing the laws of the land has never killed anyone.
Full disclosure: EFF represents Malamud and Public.Resource.Org in similar lawsuits around the country, but not the Georgia case.
Most Expensive FOIA Fee Estimate
Last year we issued this award to the Drug Enforcement Administration for asking for $1.46 million in fees to process a FOIA request related to the capture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (and that's even before he escaped, was interviewed by Sean Penn, and then recaptured).
This year, the Pentagon makes the DEA's assessment look like pocket change. When MuckRock user Martin Peck asked for the number of "HotPlug" devices (a tool used to preserve data on seized computers), the agency came back with a whopping $660 million fee estimate to "perform the necessary redactions of proprietary data."
The Secretary of Defense claimed it has no way to do a text search of its document system, so it would take 15 million labor hours to do the search and redact the documents.
By MuckRock's calculations: "15 million labor hours breaks down into 625,000 days, or a little over 1,712 years. So assuming one DoD employee started working on this nonstop tomorrow, they'd finish somewhere in the summer of 3728."
Susana Martinez
Special Prize for Drunk Dialing for Public Records
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez
New Mexico media outlets have been battling against Gov. Susana Martinez's stalling tactics with records requests basically since she was elected to office in 2010. Yet, when it comes to her own requests for public information, Martinez is a little impatient.
Last year, Martinez was partying in a room at a downtown Santa Fe hotel when the police responded to complaints of noise and bottles being tossed off the balcony. While still at the hotel, a furious Martinez called 9-1-1 and demanded to know the name of the person who filed the complaint. As the released dispatcher recording revealed, Martinez demanded: "It's a public record—give it to me."
We're a little sympathetic: the world would be a better place if we could all get public records on demand with a simple phone call. Unfortunately, that's not the case yet, apparently not even for governors.
Martinez claims she'd only had one cocktail, but witnesses told police she was visibly "inebriated." She later claimed, "nothing that I said or did was as a result of any alcohol." That's almost worse, isn't it?
Ministry of Silly Talks Award
UK Independent Commission on Freedom of Information
The United Kingdom also has a Freedom of Information Act, and last year a new body was formed to review the state of play (read: investigate whether transparency is too expensive and invasive). But at its first meeting in 2015, the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information announced a ludicrously ironic set of ground rules for reporters. As The Guardian reported, the meeting would be "off-the-record" and journalists could not quote anyone. Transcripts weren't published either.
Head Trip Award
U.S. Army Surgeon General
The U.S. Army wasn't happy with New York Times reporter Dave Philipps' investigation into concussions at West Point. As documents show, Army officials came up with a plan to undercut his story by stalling the release of FOIA documents until they could publish their own report. What's worse is that this wasn't the first time they'd pulled this trick. As Army surgeon general Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho said, according to a meeting summary, "Timing is everything with this stuff. We were able to do something similar…when the Colorado Springs Gazette attacked them with treatment of wounded warriors last year—killed any scrutiny from the media and killed their story."
Copywrong Award
City of Inglewood
Local governments hate gadflies, those tenacious citizens who troll public meetings at every opportunity. The city of Inglewood in California thought it would use copyright law as a swatter, suing local resident Joseph Teixeira. Teixeira had been posting video clips from city council meetings (which are public records) to YouTube with his own DVD-Bonus-Feature-style commentary, accusing officials of lying and betraying their constituents. Teixeira won the case in federal court in August, proving that trying to use copyright law to silence critics is a waste of everyone's time and tax dollars.
Gitmo, Get Less Award
Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg has been covering Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade, and that's how long its taken the Department of Defense to release information on the costs of running the offshore detention facility for enemy combatants in the "War on Terror." In 2004, a DOD official started compiling answers to her questions, but later informed her he was under orders not to release the information. So, Rosenberg filed a formal FOIA request in February 2005, received a rejection, and then appealed. In 2015, almost 4,000 days later, she received an apology for the delay and a decision that the secrecy was unwarranted. She received three pages of information that showed the tens of millions spent to maintain the controversial facility in its first years.
Correction Fluid Award
Willacy County Sheriff, Texas
The Houston Chronicle was researching a reported spike in crime along the Mexican border by filing Open Records Act requests for crime data with sheriffs across south Texas. None of the sheriffs asked the Chronicle to pay records fees, except for one: the Willacy County Sheriff provided Brian M. Rosenthal with an itemized invoice for $339.60 that included—wait for it—$98.40 worth of Wite-Out. Based on Staples pricing, that's a full 55 bottles worth of redaction or one bottle of Wite-Out per 18 pages of responsive documents.
Spellcheck Shmellcheck Award
These FOIA response envelopes received by MuckRock (mis)speak for themselves:
Beasts of Privacy Award
Oregon State Legislature
This year, we received three separate nominations in which FOIA officials were absurdly mindful of the privacy of animals. Reporter Elizabeth Dinan found on at least two occasions that the Portsmouth Police Department in New Hampshire were redacting the names of lost and loose dogs from its blotters. Meanwhile, MuckRock contributor Carly Sitrin found that New Jersey initially refused to release the necropsy results for dolphin that died in the South River, citing the dolphin's "medical privacy." NJ later reversed course.
The prize, though, goes to the Oregon State Legislature, which renewed a law exempting the names of people who sell laboratory animals to Oregon Health & Sciences University, ostensibly to protect vendors from overzealous animal rights activists. InvestigateWest reporter Lee Van Der Voo obtained records (released seemingly by accident by the Oregon Department of Agriculture) that illustrated the pitfalls of shielding an industry from scrutiny. As it turns out, one of the primary primate dealers to the university had previously served time for illegally smuggling orangutans as part of the infamous "Bangkok Six" case.
Sue the Messenger Award
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson
The Sacramento News & Review filed a public records request with the city of Sacramento for communications from Mayor Kevin Johnson's office regarding how the former basketball star and his staff allegedly engineered the collapse of the National Conference of Black Mayors. The City Attorney agreed the emails were public, but then Johnson's legal team threatened to file a lawsuit against SNR unless they abandoned their quest for transparency. SNR refused, Johnson sued, and now the story has been stalled as the case plays out through a protracted legal process. It remains to be seen whether the case will wrap up before Johnson leaves office next year.
The Culture of Secrecy Award
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Back in 2010 and 2011, the Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader filed Open Records Act requests with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for information related to child fatalities. The agency balked at providing many of the records, forcing the newspapers to sue.
A lower level court ruled in the newspapers' favor and ordered the agency to pay $1 million in penalties and fees. Rather than let it go at that, the cabinet appealed, only to dig itself deeper into the hole. After the oral argument in October 2015, the appeals court sided with the media and issued this juicy condemnation:
The Cabinet's conduct in this case was indeed egregious. The face of the record reveals the 'culture of secrecy' of which the trial court spoke; and it evinces an obvious and misguided belief that the Open Records Act is merely an ideal—a suggestion to be taken when it is convenient and flagrantly disregarded when it is not.
The Most "Helpful" Redactions Award
Office of Director of National Intelligence
Redactions are a way of life in FOIA, but a response the American Civil Liberties Union received from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in September takes this year's award for most ridiculous misuse of the black marks.
For years, the ACLU has been demanding access to records documenting the government's "targeted killing" program. In ODNI's response to ACLU, it claimed to be releasing an eight-page letter the ODNI Director James Clapper sent to ranking senators on the Intelligence Committee. That statement was belied by the fact that ODNI withheld nearly every word of the letter, save for the page numbers, names and addresses of the senators it was sent to, and a final concluding paragraph from Clapper. The redactions are so all-encompassing, there is no way to know what the subject of the letter is and whether it actually discusses the targeted killing program.
The kicker? The unredacted paragraph at the end of the letter begins "We hope this information has been helpful."
Yeah, real helpful. Keep up the FOIA trolling, ODNI.
Exhibit Inhibition Award
The Department of Justice (DOJ) believes that exhibits it used in open court when prosecuting a doctor convicted of illegally distributing prescription drugs are not, in fact, public records. The DOJ staked out this curious position in a long-running FOIA dispute with Rhode Island-based reporter Phil Eil after he filed a request for copies of the exhibits prosecutors used during the 2011 trial of the doctor, Paul Volkman. After stalling for several years and requiring Eil to sue for the records, the DOJ proposed to release the records in heavily redacted form.
Of course, anyone who attended the trial would have been able to see the records without the DOJ's redactions, which the DOJ claims were in part necessary to protect law enforcement concerns, despite airing those records in open court.
The Still-Interested Pat Down Award
Like the airport security line on a busy travel day, the TSA's backlog of FOIA responses just seems to keep growing. That's according to a compliance review by the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), one in a series of reports on various agency-components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OGIS found a nearly 70% year-over-year rise in the backlog of unfilled request—up to 924 in 2014—despite a small drop in the number of incoming requests.
How does TSA get through those old requests? Unfortunately, it turned to the dreaded "still-interested letter," checking to see if requesters still care enough to want an answer. TSA sends those out after a case has gone unclosed for four years—and, contrary to DOJ guidance, allows only 10 days for requesters to respond.
A bright spot in this sad story: since OGIS compiled its report, TSA has updated its procedures on still-interested letters to bring them into line with DOJ and the rest of DHS.
The Timey-Wimey Award
City of Wilmington, Delaware
In October, Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams had to clarify that he had not endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton for president after the campaign had listed his name on her website. The next day, America Rising, a conservative opposition research organization, filed a records request that asked for all communications to and from the mayor's public relations team for that single, tumultuous day.
Here's where the timeline gets bizarre: America Rising filed the request on October 21, asking for communications that were exchanged on October 20. Instead, the city said that America Rising had demanded the request be fulfilled by October 20, one day before the request was actually filed. The city denied the request, essentially claiming they lacked the time travel capabilities to respond.
Since then, America Rising has clarified its request twice, and it's still pending.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization that defends free speech, privacy, innovation, and transparency in the digital world. The Foilies were compiled by Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey, and Parker Higgins of EFF, with assistance from Michael Morisy and JPat Brown of MuckRock News.
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A passable presentation of Fritz Lang's slowly paced, overpraised noir will please historians and mirror aficionados.
As part of the original group of film noirs identified by Cahiers du Cinéma (along with The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Laura, and Murder, My Sweet), Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window has enjoyed a reputation as a genre cornerstone. It boasts many of the key noir ingredients: a man meets a mysterious woman and soon finds himself pursued by tough hoods, the law, and a never-ending supply of Venetian blinds. But from the opening scene, in which Freud's name looms on a chalkboard behind the unfortunately named criminology professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), it's clear that Lang is more interested in psych studies than any sort of existential howl. After Robinson sees off his vacationing family (in an astonishingly quick dispensing of family ties) and admires a gallery-window portrait of a fetching Joan Bennett, he and his private-club friends lament their middle-aged stodginess before he drifts off to sleep in one of the club's armchairs. Strong stuff! On the walk home, Wanley meets the woman whose portrait he's been admiring, they share a drink, and the two swing by her place to celebrate 15 plot-free minutes with some wine and innocuous conversation. It's the sudden entrance of a jealous beau, and a conveniently nearby pair of scissors, that finally jumpstarts the narrative engine. After quickly disposing of the body, Wanley nervously partakes in a privileged view of the investigation (the D.A. is one of his club friends). The late-second-act arrival of Dan Duryea, as the erstwhile bodyguard of the deceased, casts the boilerplate aside. But his weaselly menace isn't enough to push The Woman in the Window, with its unconflicted protagonist and a femme that's far from fatal, out of melodrama to the realm of potent noir. In the same year that Hitchcock employed Salvador Dalí to act out psychology tropes in Spellbound, Lang's familiar, ripe-for-interpretation trademarks—mirrors, clocks, and shop windows—dovetail nicely with the dime-store psychoanalysis. Although the much-maligned ending (a Code-satisfying change from the film's source novel) makes more sense after repeat viewings, The Woman in the Window is mostly notable as a dry run for the following year's Scarlet Street, a reunion of Lang, Robinson, Bennett, and Duryea that would boast tighter plotting, richer characters—and a pitch-black ending.
Sound is clear but the image is decent at best. The print is clean but contrast is a little on the sharp side, with grays prone to pastiness and whites seeming overblown in some shots.


STOCKTON, Sept. 18 -- Recently released federal data has prompted a beverage industry group to declare checkpoints ineffective and to push for more resources to be spent on patrols to prevent people from drinking and driving.
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration in August released data on alcohol-related deaths in 2003 and 2004. Last year saw a decline in fatalities, and most of the drop occurred in states that don't use sobriety checkpoints.
That led the American Beverage Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurant industry group, to proclaim checkpoints as an ineffective method in preventing alcohol fatalities.
"There were 411 fewer deaths in 2004, 394 of which were in nonroadblock states," said John Doyle, executive director of ABI. "It's a startling finding when you look at it through that filter."


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By Chanel Porter
Published May 15, 2022 3:17 PM
Cars collide Sunday in Camden County after one failed to yield; sends man to the hospital
CAMDEN Co., Mo. (KMIZ)
A man is in the hospital after a car hit another in Camden County Sunday because they failed to yield.
The crash happened just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday on Route MM at Shawnee Bend One.
One car failed to yield to another car when attempting a left-hand turn.
The driver of the car that was hit, 23-year-old Blake Hearn of Olathe, Kansas was taken to Lake Regional Hospital with serious injuries.
According to the crash report, he was wearing a seatbelt in the crash.
Chanel Porter
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Prayer of Manasses
Daniel (Greek)
1In the beginning, God#1:1 The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "אֱלֹהִ֑ים" (Elohim). created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5God called the light "day", and the darkness he called "night". There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8God called the expanse "sky". There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. 10God called the dry land "earth", and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas". God saw that it was good. 11God said, "Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;" and it was so. 12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; 15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so. 16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20God said, "Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky." 21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so. 25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
26God said, "Let's make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29God said, "Behold,#1:29 "Behold", from "הִנֵּה", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
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Out of the 16 people that held the position, John Hohenfeldt is only the second in the city's history to serve non-consecutive terms as mayor of Cudahy.
Out of the 16 people who have held the position, John Hohenfeldt is only the second in the city's history to serve non-consecutive terms as mayor of Cudahy.
But now that second term is coming to a close, too, a term that included a lot of pro-business measures, and some that did not turn out as he hoped in a struggling retail sector.
His decision recently to not run in the spring election will allow for either Bruce W. Schuknecht or Thomas Pavlic to take the seat as No. 17, depending on what voters decide April 2.
Hohenfeldt said it was a tough decision to not run again. Back in July, he began considering another term.
After consulting with his wife and family, he decided in early December he would not run again.
Hohenfeldt said he had a lot of good mentors over the years. Tips he got from Ron Hayward of West Milwaukee and the late Jim Ryan from Hales Corners, helped guide him, including the final decision.
After spending 20 years working in the industrial distribution industry, Hohenfeldt decided to try for the mayoral seat in 2004 and won. He kept the seat until 2007.
"I ran for the job and the citizens graciously put me in here," he said. His goal was to be business-friendly and to help diverse groups solve problems.
Hohenfeldt said his father instilled the idea of community service in him after serving on the library board during the second expansion of Packard Avenue. That attitude followed Hohenfeldt into the mayoral seat.
"Anybody that knows me, one of the first tags I put out there is I'm mayor of the greatest city in the state of Wisconsin," Hohenfeldt said.
Not just a mayor, Hohenfeldt said he is also the administrator for Cudahy among other duties. He said the role encompasses a lot of hats. Hohenfeldt would also go to emergencies at all hours to support the community.
"It was just a personal touch I could add," he said.
Hohenfeldt said someone approached him in 2013 about running for the mayor seat again and he decided to go for it and won again.
He said during his time in office almost 40 businesses have come in or expanded within the city. A few highlights Hohenfeldt mentioned included Patrick Cudahy, Angelic Bakehouse and the Layton Square retail and residential development — something Hohenfeldt said the city was trying to get for 20 years and is now mostly filled.
What makes Cudahy great? Hohenfeldt said it's a combination of the people, safe neighborhoods, affordable housing, the county park system and local services.
"Despite cuts in funding, we still provide premium services," he said.
The biggest challenge Cudahy faces going forward is the redevelopment of older retail areas, Hohenfeldt said, such as Packard Plaza, the Kmart property and others. He spoke to "lifestyle changes" and how retail has changed even over the last five years.
"They're (brick-and-mortar retailers) are trying their hardest in an environment where online retailers like Amazon are taking over the world," Hohenfeldt said.
Recently Kmart announced it would close in early 2019. In 2018, Cudahy lost its last grocery story with the Pick 'n Save closing along Packard Avenue. That location has a proposal for storage, office and retail use.
Speaking to the community as a whole, Hohenfeldt said that he is honored and blessed to have served the city.
"I thank the residents for the trust they've had in me," he said. "I always tried to work hard on their behalf and make the city better. A lot of people have helped along the way . . .I've been blessed."
Hohenfeldt said his next step is in either the private sector or working in government.
"I'm writing the next chapter, but nothing is definite on the plate yet," he said.


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GLOBES-CHOP COSTS LA $100M
January 9, 2008 | 5:04am
SURE, the NBC network is suffering from the strike-driven cancellation of the annual Golden Globes ceremonies this weekend – but the really big loser is the Los Angeles economy, which is bracing to take a $75 million-$100 million bath.
As of last night, all the major studios and celebrity magazines had put the kibosh on their star-studded after-party bashes at the Beverly Hilton – including HBO, Warner Bros./InTouch, Paramount/DreamWorks and NBC/Universal and the Weinstein Company. Hotel rooms and catering contracts were being cancelled, limousine services dismissed and restaurants bracing for countless empty tables.
"It's a major disaster and everybody is going to feel it," said one Hollywood insider. "Take limo services, for example. They routinely charge $1,000 or more for a day's service. There are hundreds and hundreds of cars that won't be going anywhere now."
The Beverly Hilton – the epicenter of Golden Globes activity – is taking a gigantic hit from all the cancellations by stars and journalists from around the world.
"The high-end parties cost up to $750,000 or more. The studios lose their deposits, the hotel loses its fees," another source told us. A Hilton spokeswoman wouldn't disclose any numbers, but told us: "We're working with our longtime clients to make sure that no one takes a huge loss. We want to make it a win-win situation for everybody."
Incredibly, one aspect of the Golden Globes that isn't going to change is the setting-up of swag suites around LA, where boldfaces notoriously collect tens of thousands of dollars in free clothes, accessories, trips and services.
"Although you'd have to expect that with none of the big stars showing, its going to be a bunch of Z-listers," one informer said.
But Melissa Lemer – co-host of the Silver Spoon Buffet at Voda Spa – told Variety: "There's no reason not to gift the celebrities and trendsetters in LA due to the strike. They still worked hard on the movies or TV shows. Those movies were still made. Those shows are still on and running." We're so glad to hear that some things never change.
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Any plan for deprecate 1.3 support?
Where can I see timeline/roadmap for projects?
> 1.4, so generics is a no-go.
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My daughter and I went on our first extended weekend trip together in January. She is my six-year-old kindergartner, and my oldest child of three. Some one-on-one time with a parent is scarce, so this was great for us. We flew to Connecticut to visit a long time childhood friend of mine, who also happens to have a kindergarten-age daughter.
Can I tell you how fun it was to see them together?? It was like looking through a time machine mirror at ourselves. Hmm, good movie/book premise. I call dibs on that.
One really, really fun thing we did that I am so, so excited to share was some very special photos. I had taken some fun photos of the girls having some hot chocolate after a sledding adventure. They were sitting side-by-side at the kitchen island being goofy and having fun. Well, the next night, my friend and I re-enacted the photos of our daughters. It was too much fun. I highly recommend it.
I requested help from Jill's mom (and fellow scrapbooker) for some fun childhood photos of Jill and I. I thought this one was perfect. It's so interesting to compare all these photos side by side!
I chose to put the older photo on clear acetate and cover the back side with a vertical 4x6 card where I wrote some funny "how to" instructions. I wanted the photo to be by itself but still be "with" the modern remakes. The overlay effect with the acetate in a 5x7 page protector did the job.
I'm really loving the white borders. This might be the new thing in the 2015 album. I usually hand-write my journaling but opted to print it out. Most of the cards I chose had lines or grid that I didn't want to cover, so I printed on vellum.
Below are some close-ups of the details in these spreads. I really tried to use my stash in these layouts. The only newer items are the Studio Calico wood veneers.
And special thanks to my bestie, Jill Winter, for letting me post these photos AND to her mom, Marcia Winter, for taking the time to send me some very special photos.


With no disrespect intended to those who lost their lives in Paris and their families, or in Syria, or in Iraq or parts of Africa and other locations virtually around the globe, these things must take place. They are but the beginning of what is to come. We haven't seen anything yet! So how can we, as followers of Jesus not focus on these events but on something else? The writer to the Hebrews helps us when after the goodness shown to us in Jesus is declared, he calls on us to 'keep drawing near to God' in confidence and faith. We do this continuing to confess what we know, namely that as Daniel declares, 'But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name is written in the book.' And we hold fast to this confession of our hope, not because somehow we can be bold or strong enough, but rather because, 'He (God) who promised is faithful.' We declare this as we continue to meet together around His word, as we find ways to stir one another up to love and good works and encouraging each other with acts of service and faith done in HIS name.


My love affair was not love at first sight, which happens to so many. It was that kind of love that sneaks up on you, that becomes apart of you, that becomes a passion. That kind of love that grows slowly without noticing.
I arrived in Louisiana from California the same night as Hurricane Rita with the Red Cross. I was brought to an old Armory building outside of Baton Rouge. I arrived after lights out and so they showed me to my bunk with a flashlight I was sharing a room with over 200 others. Rita was due to arrive within the hour. I could hear her coming for the Armory was made of tin. The sound was indescribable. Here I am in a new land wondering, what am I doing? Why was I so called to do this?
My very first time in New Orleans was Halloween day 2005. It was my first day off and we borrowed a car to go down to New Orleans. Even at its absolute worst, the city was beautiful. She was hurt and in pain but still beautiful. There were refrigerators up and down the streets, some sealed with duct tape, some not. The smell in some areas worse than others. The kind of smell that makes you immediately cover your nose and your gut wrenches. The French Quarter had no make up on. The ferns and flowers that fall from balconies like waterfalls were gone. Signs from building and streets were either gone or falling and replaced with handmade signs. Every building was labeled with a code that, once understood, was like a knife to the heart. Yet New Orleans was still hauntingly beautiful and mystical. I still saw her beauty. I felt her beauty. Her inhabitants were welcoming and excited for visitors. Yes, they looked beat down and tired, just like the city they lived in, but they had the most sincere, sweet smiles. They were so gracious and thankful at a time when they did not need to be. Her strength and resilience still shined brightly. She had survived again and made it clear she always would.
I left in November after I finished my time with the Red Cross and didn't think I would ever be back. Upon my return to California, I dropped myself back into my old life like I never left. It wasn't working – how does one get a slap in the face reminder to live every day with passion and joy and not move in that direction? I was confused, depressed after my return, not sure what to do next. I couldn't describe it to people back home – I was able to tell short stories as I remembered them. It was like looking at snapshots from a dream that didn't seem real, my minds way of dealing with what I saw, heard and smelled. The things that attacked the senses were beyond comprehension. The suffering that occurred in the city was beyond comprehension. To be present in that situation I often needed to shut off, disconnect, so that I could help in the moment.
New Orleans is like that love you didn't even know existed until it is gone. Like that friend you didn't realize meant so much until that absence is felt. Looking back now I see that was the beginning of the path back to New Orleans.
I woke up one day in late February, 2009 and I knew I had to go back. It was an immediate need. That same day I went into work and I gave my notice. I got my things together and boarded a plane with the idea that this was what was suppose to be.
I don't think I realized until a year and half later what it is about New Orleans that grabs one's soul. It is her passion, her passion to survive, her inhabitants' passion for life. One summer day there was this elderly woman that got on the bus with her walker. It was covered in beads, Saints paraphernalia, twinkle lights. She was wearing a hat in the shape of a football. That was the moment I knew what it is about New Orleans that drew me back so strongly. It is the passion.
Chef Lisa White submitted her love letter to New Orleans as part of the Love, Write, Light campaign, a project of Evacuteer.org and Dear World, in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Love, Write, Light campaign is currently working to raise awareness and funds to light to the 17 "Evacuspots" around New Orleans, the locations where those without transportation can access a free and safe ride out of the city before the next major hurricane. You can submit your own love letter to New Orleans and help light the Evacuspots at lovewritelight.org.
Chef Lisa opens Willa Jean, a bakery and cafe, along with Chef Kelly Fields in late Summer 2015. Chef Lisa White can be reached at lwhite@chefjohnbesh.com.


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from the toy-story dept
Wed, Dec 16th 2015 03:19pm - Timothy Geigner
It's a struggle that Disney ought to know quite well, having taken over the Star Wars franchise. The struggle between good and evil; the light side of the force… and the dark side. And it looks like we're all getting a front row seat to the internal strife of Disney via the ongoing silliness surrounding the image of a Star Wars toy accidentally released to the public by a retailer.
If you recall, our original post detailed how Disney was apparently abusing the DMCA process to take down the photographs of Justin Kozisek, contributor to Star Wars Action News. The photographs were of a toy that was in and of itself something of a spoiler due to the outfit the character is wearing. Pretty much everyone speculated that Disney was using the DMCA process to avoid the spoiler reaching audiences before the release of the latest film, which is, of course, not what the DMCA process is for. Also, most people were happy to agree that claiming copyright on images of a legally purchased retail item was Jar Jar Binks level absurdity. Well, Marjorie Carvalho, who runs Star Wars Action News, tried to reach out to Disney to see what was going on.
She wrote a polite e-mail to the Disney company e-mail address listed in her DMCA notice, explaining exactly what happened. While Carvalho didn't get a direct reply, her message seemed to have worked. Last night her account got a late e-mail from Facebook stating that "The Walt Disney Company has retracted their intellectual property report."
"All we did was write a letter, and a few hours later, it was retracted," she said in an interview with Ars this morning, pleased with the result. "It pays to take the high road and get your facts in order, rather than overreacting. I feel good about it, and it's nice that they're recognizing they made a mistake."
The light side jedi is humble and knows the best course of action when he or she is at peace. Carvalho's email must have had a tranquilizing effect on Disney, allowing it to turn away from the darkness. Much as Vader rendered himself useful for thirty seconds by tossing Emperor White Raisin or whatever his name was down a galactic laundry chute that for some reason had been installed in an Emperor's throne room, Disney realized its error and became good again.
For about an hour or so. The dark side is tempting, after all. According to the Ars Technica article linked above:
Not 10 minutes after getting off the phone today, Carvalho informed Ars that the image was taken down again. Disney sent an identical DMCA notice.
"For reasons we can't understand—Disney has now RESUBMITTED the claim, again removing the pictures (that they restored this morning)," she told her followers on Facebook.
This time, Facebook removed the entire post, not just the photo. It also administered a punishment to Kozisek, banning him from posting on the site for three days.
Yes, with the kind of speed that would impress a tie fighter pilot, Disney went from pulling the DMCA takedown to re-submitting it. Meanwhile, as Disney goes through this phase of self-discovery, images of the toy that it had hoped to censor exist roughly everywhere anyway, including in the reporting that has been done on this whole stupid episode. In other words, the only thing that Disney has managed to accomplish throughout this whole thing is to look bumbling and silly, and to Streisand Effect news about the toy all over the internet.
Filed Under: dmca, photographs, star wars, takedowns, toys
Companies: disney, facebook
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Comments on "Disney Grapples With Light-Side/Dark-Side, Retracts Toy DMCA, Resubmits It, Is Probably Our Father, Aaaah!"
rorybaustsays:
Disney has managed to accomplish throughout this whole thing is to look bumbling and silly
Actually the one thing they did do is to get an innocent fan punished a fan that actually stood up and defended the indefensible , and they wonder why people have no respect , plus they handled this in such hamfisted way as I had a copy of the alleged offending picture posted to my Facebook and hate F$$king Star Wars and it was not removed .
Davidsays:
Re: Disney has managed to accomplish throughout this whole thing is to look bumbling and silly
plus they handled this in such hamfisted way as I had a copy of the alleged offending picture posted to my Facebook and hate F$$king Star Wars and it was not removed.
You have to hand it to them: that one was one ingenious advertising campaign. Now that it's every citizen's duty to put the spoiler brat on display, people will wonder what it is all about and go to the movie.
and they wonder why people have no respect
Do they? Why would Disney care about respect? Despite stuff like this, people are still giving them money, which is what really matters.
What if they used the Streisand Effect to advertise said toy?
So I guess this means that taking a picture of something only creates a new copyright interest if it is convenient?
Same as ever – the most important copyright is the one owned by a corporation. If an individual or independent owns a competing copyright, that's less important and should be ignored wherever there's profit to be had.
Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 16th, 2015 @ 4:46pm
Only if it's a monkey.
Damned Nazis. They'll steal your teeth.
Arksays:
I tried to bring this to r/StarWars' attention. They were not impressed. Probably shouldn't have suggested waiting until after opening weekend to see the film.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3x3o12/why_you_shouldnt_see_star_wars_opening_weekend_no/
That One Guysays:
Hey, junkies got to get their fix, and if the dealer has a habit of slapping them around a bit and making it abundantly clear that they see their customers as nothing more than walking wallets, well that's a small price to pay, isn't it? /s
Yeah, asking for a boycott of a company's product because their legal department are assholes is not going to leave you with a lot of of companies to purchase from. Plus, the toys and movies are going to have been produced by totally different parts of the corporation, so you're calling for the wrong boycott. Even if people would listen to such a suggestion based on such obvious news as "Disney lawyers are dicks", almost everyone going on opening weekend pre-ordered their tickets weeks ago.
Next time, at least call for a boycott of the toys or a write-in campaign before everyone's already paid their money.
When it comes to shady IP law shenanigans, though, Disney is pretty much the final boss.
TechDescartessays:
"You're still up? Let me fix that for you."
Retract the claim once, and then file it again, resulting in a suspension of the account?
That's not admitting that they were wrong, that's realizing that they didn't hit hard enough the first time and winding up for another swing.
Uriel-238says:
Copyright SWATting?
Since websites like Facebook and YouTube seem to act autonomously and consistently, then yes, it's a matter of creating an autonomous macro that will result in the desired effect.
e.g. DMCA, remove notice. Repeat until target account is permanently banned.
Coyne Tibbetssays:
Re: "You're still up? Let me fix that for you."
It looks like a deliberate punishment to me. Challenge our DMCA notice? We will pull and repost it to bump your violation count and get you suspended.
I can't imagine a clearer message that Disney feels challenging their DMCA notices is unacceptable. "Right or wrong, it's our way or suspension."
Kronomexsays:
The image should read: Welcome to the Dickhead Side. We have Litigation Land.
The stupidity and greed of this company knows no bounds and any dirt (shit?) that sticks is worth it's weight in…well…crap.
alsays:
Best Marketing viral ploy ever!
The only problem, is the photo was taken by the fan. Of a product legally purchased and owned by the fan. They should be the sole copyright owner in this case.
Sorry, replied to the wrong comment. Should have been the anonymous joker insinuating Mike was upset about copyright working correctly.
Mike Masnick just hates it when copyright law is enforced. Bawk bawk! 🙂
And clowns just hate getting a DMCA notice. So here's one from me, to you.
Bad troll. No cookie. Try again.
JustMesays:
Re: A/C that isn't going to read this anyway
A) It isn't a copyright issue. You cannot own copyright on an image you didn't take of a toy that you are (or will be) selling. Right of First Sale says the owner can do whatever the heck they want with the thing, including taking pictures and posting them.
B) There is no "law" being enforced by Disney here. At best it is analogous to an embargo'd image, which is an agreement and not a law.
C) There was a law broken, but Disney did it by using the DMCA process (twice!).
Anonymous Loser hates it when facts get in the way of his pitiful lurker existence. Bwaak!
Bad illustration
"welcome to the Dark Side. We have Disneyland." makes about as much sense as a picture of Hitler above "We have Berlin". Well, yeah. That would be kind of a given. I?mean, once you got over the lousy Austrian landscape painter bit.
File a counter claim with Facebook.
First, that notifies Facebook that the product is bought by you, picture it taken by you, and is your copyright (unless you're a monkey). Facebook should put the photo back up. That satisfies the stupid auto-DCMA nonsense.
Then Disney's legal recourse is to be super douches, and actually file a lawsuit against said fan. Then we'll see if they really have gone to the Dark Side.
Never ascribe to malice, what can be attributed to stupidity. And the DCMA allows for a lot of stupidity.
Re: File a counter claim with Facebook.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to automation.
Re: Re: File a counter claim with Facebook.
If they are automating it and if that process results in unsupportable (bogus) DMCA takedown requests then they are in violation of the legal attestation they are signing. The penalties for perjury need to be enforced.
Ryunosukesays:
I said it before
The DMCA as implemented, is a restriction on freedom of speech. And thanks to Mike, I think we should try taking the DMCA violation out of an academic setting and into a practical setting.
I wonder what Walt Disney would think of all this crap.


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Friends in Amsterdam have said to me that the fire was in the Swisshotel, the woman killed was Romanian and the guy injured is French. There is some speculation that he started the fire to cover up something! Only speculation though...
yeah i was just reading that too
Ahhh.... A mystery!
Starting a fire in a hotel room to cover up something? You have to be a bit weird to come up with a plan like that, no?
Nothing surprises me these days, the world has alot of bad people who do weird and crazy things.
the rumour mill is in full flow and says that he may have killed the girl and tried to cover it up...I suspect stranger scenarios have been found.
Ah, as obscure as it is, that would explain. I thought perhaps they'd been smoking in the room, which perhaps was prohibited, and they thought they could cover the smoke up by more smoke, ie. a fire.
Perhaps that theory says more about me though, ha ha.
That sounds like the plot of a piss poor episode of The Bill.
Perhaps I should become a scriptwriter for The Bill then, whatever it may be.
ha ha now we know what you get up to in hotel rooms!!! Have a good weekend and be good
I never smoke in hotel rooms if it's prohibited. Though I did risk my life by hanging out of a little window whilst standing on a chair, having a cig in a hotel in Bruges. You have a good weekend too, Chris!
It's a police themed soap opera that's on ITV in the UK. It tends to have slightly daft plot lines.
That sounds fun, actually. Is it anything like Midsomer Murders or Morse?
Hahah, when I was in San Francisco I did the same thing, but I gave up and smoked my herb in the bathroom. Usually a vent will do the trick.
Christ midsomer murders! i detest that rubbish with a passion.
The Bill is one of the older style TV Series.
The Midsomer Murders or Morse Are Mystery Series
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