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extern crate clap;
extern crate toml;
extern crate semver;
extern crate tempdir;
#[cfg(feature = "color")]
extern crate ansi_term;
extern crate tabwriter;

#[macro_use]
mod macros;
mod config;
mod lockfile;
mod deps;
mod error;
mod fmt;

use std::io::{Write, stdout};
#[cfg(feature="debug")]
use std::env;

use clap::{App, Arg, SubCommand, AppSettings};
use tabwriter::TabWriter;

use config::Config;
use lockfile::Lockfile;
use error::CliError;
use fmt::Format;

pub type CliResult<T> = Result<T, CliError>;

fn main() {
    debugln!("executing; cmd=cargo-outdated; args={:?}", env::args().collect::<Vec<_>>());
    let m = App::new("cargo-outdated")
        .author("Kevin K. <kbknapp@gmail.com>")
        .about("Displays information about project dependency versions")
        .version(&*format!("v{}", crate_version!()))
        // We have to lie about our binary name since this will be a third party
        // subcommand for cargo
        .bin_name("cargo")
        // Global version uses the version we supplied (Cargo.toml) for all subcommands as well
        .settings(&[AppSettings::GlobalVersion,
                    AppSettings::SubcommandRequired])
        // We use a subcommand because parsed after `cargo` is sent to the third party plugin
        // which will be interpreted as a subcommand/positional arg by clap
        .subcommand(SubCommand::with_name("outdated")
            .about("Displays information about project dependency versions")
            .args_from_usage("-p, --package [PKG]...    'Package to inspect for updates'
                              -v, --verbose             'Print verbose output'
                              -d, --depth [DEPTH]       'How deep in the dependency chain to search{n}\
                                                         (Defaults to all dependencies when omitted)'")
            // We separate -R so we can addd a conflicting argument
            .arg(Arg::from_usage("-R, --root-deps-only  'Only check root dependencies (Equivilant to --depth=1)'")
                .conflicts_with("DEPTH")))

        .get_matches();

    if let Some(m) = m.subcommand_matches("outdated") {
        let cfg = Config::from_matches(m);
        if let Err(e) = execute(cfg) {
            e.exit();
        }
    }
}

fn execute(cfg: Config) -> CliResult<()> {
    debugln!("executing; execute; cfg={:?}", cfg);

    verbose!(cfg, "Parsing {}...", Format::Warning("Cargo.lock"));
    let mut lf = try!(Lockfile::new());
    verboseln!(cfg, "{}", Format::Good("Done"));

    if let Ok(Some(res)) = lf.get_updates(&cfg) {
        println!("The following dependencies have newer versions available:\n");
        let mut tw = TabWriter::new(vec![]);
        write!(&mut tw, "\tName\tProject Ver\tSemVer Compat\tLatest Ver\n").unwrap_or_else(|e| {panic!("write! error: {}", e)});
        for (d_name, d) in res.iter() {
            write!(&mut tw, "\t{}\t   {}\t   {}\t  {}\n", d_name, d.project_ver, d.semver_ver.as_ref().unwrap_or(&String::from("  --  ")), d.latest_ver.as_ref().unwrap_or(&String::from("  --  "))).unwrap();
        }
        tw.flush().unwrap_or_else(|e| {panic!("failed to flush TabWriter: {}", e)});
        write!(stdout(), "{}", String::from_utf8(tw.unwrap()).unwrap_or_else(|e| {panic!("from_utf8 error: {}", e)})
              ).unwrap_or_else(|e| {panic!("write! error: {}", e)})
    } else {
        println!("All dependencies are up to date, yay!")
    }

    Ok(())
}

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Afrika Bambaataa Allegedly Molested Young Men For Decades. Why Are the Accusations Only Coming out Now?
After years of silence, the hip-hop pioneer's alleged victims are stepping forward. Here are their stories.
by Dave Wedge
October 10, 2016, 10:08pm
This story appeared in the October Music issue of VICE magazine , a collaboration with THUMP and NOISEY. Click HERE to subscribe.
Ron Savage grew up in the poverty-stricken Castle Hill section of the Bronx in the 1970s. On the streets, gang violence was a fixture of day-to-day life. At home, he lived in fear of his dad, a drunk who terrorized him and his sister and abused their mother.
One of the few respites he had was the neighborhood hip-hop party, thrown regularly at the Center, a community space in the Bronx River Houses. DJs played breakbeats from soul, funk, rock, and Latin records while b-boys danced and MCs rhymed. The parties drew droves of people, especially teenagers. It was at one of these parties, in 1979, that Savage met Afrika Bambaataa, the mysterious and eccentric visionary who, alongside DJ Kool Herc and DJ Jazzy Jay, is considered one of hip-hop's founding figures. A longtime resident of the Bronx River Houses and former warlord of the gang the Black Spades, Bambaataa, among others, identified the four pillars of the nascent subculture—b-boying, MCing, DJing, and graffiti writing—later adding to it a fifth: knowledge. In a few years, he would release "Planet Rock," widely credited with launching him and the Universal Zulu Nation—the hip-hop and African American advocacy organization he conceived of in 1973—to international stardom. Today, the Zulu Nation counts hip-hop royalty like Nas, Lil Wayne, and Big Boi as affiliates, in addition to younger rappers like Joey Bada$ and Freddie Gibbs. Acclaimed TV series The Get Down—not to mention countless documentaries and a recent showcase at Cornell University—credit Bambaataa with uniting a divided neighborhood, offering a way out of gang life, and helping to launch a movement that would place African American art forms at the center of global popular culture.
"To me, he was cool. He was like a god," Savage, now 50, told me. "It was like, 'This is the guy I had always heard about.' Everybody knew who Afrika Bambaataa was back then."
Savage immersed himself in this new world. He began carrying records to parties for Bambaataa's partner, DJ Jazzy Jay. He loved how Bambaataa gave him and the other neighborhood kids special attention and remembers how the DJ would buy all the kids burgers from White Castle after getting paid for a gig.
Afrika Bambaataa appears in an official Universal Zulu Nation publicity photo from 1990. Notables pictured in the group are deceased member Lucky Strike (far left); Crazy Legs, from the Rock Steady Crew (far right); and Zulu member "King Righteous," kneeling to the right. Other individuals are unidentified. All archival courtesy of rushtown298 unless otherwise noted.
"He was a father figure to me," Savage recalled. "I looked up to him as someone doing something positive. I looked at him as a role model, because the role model I looked up to in my house was an alcoholic. I used to see my father always arguing and fighting with my mother, and I didn't see that in Bam. So that's how I had the attachment to him."
Savage said the attachment brought him very close—too close—to Bambaataa. In late March, Savage made headlines when he became the first of a series of men to accuse Bambaataa in the media of sexual abuse. In back-to-back interviews, first with controversial radio host DJ Star on his YouTube channel, the Star Chamber, and later in the New York Daily News, he graphically described how Bambaataa allegedly molested him when he was just 15. Since his accusations came out, at least three more men have accused Bambaataa of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers. Meanwhile, Bambaataa is at-large, his whereabouts unknown.
The accusers, three of whom spoke extensively to me for this story, claim that these accounts of alleged abuse have been common knowledge in the Bronx River community and beyond since the early 80s, including among many of Bambaataa's closest friends and Zulu soldiers. They tell of a decades-long cover-up by the Zulu Nation and a hidden network of victims whose lives were allegedly haunted by death threats, suicides, drug abuse, and violence. Beneath the disturbing headlines, two questions remain: How could the Zulu Nation have known about this for years, as the accusers and others claim, yet never done anything to stop it? And how did Bambaataa—a man universally hailed for decades as a musical pioneer and community hero—manage to evade public scrutiny for more than 30 years?
The Castle Hill houses. Photo by Cole Wilson.
Back in the mid 70s, the South Bronx epitomized urban decay. The Cross Bronx Expressway, completed a decade earlier, had cut the area in half; by the 60s and 70s, property values had plummeted, racial tensions ran high, and more than 20 percent of the population—mostly middle class and white—had fled. Murder rates tripled, and arsons ravaged entire neighborhoods. President Carter called a 1977 visit to the neighborhood "sobering," and President Reagan compared it to London after the Blitz of World War II.
Amid the poverty and chaos, street gangs with names like the Black Spades, the Savage Nomads, the Seven Immortals, and the Savage Skulls sprang up to take charge. While the gangs provided protection for local residents and gave aimless young men with no opportunity a purpose and sense of belonging, they quickly became notorious for running drug, prostitution, and theft rackets, and engaging in staggering episodes of bloody urban warfare.
Bambaataa, a member of the Black Spades, decided in 1973 to create an organization that would offer an alternative to the gangs that were wreaking havoc on the neighborhood. He called it the Universal Zulu Nation, named after the 1964 war film Zulu and inspired by the Afrocentric and Black Power ideologies that emerged in the late 60s. Members were required to follow a strict moral code focused on self-improvement, closeness to God, community service, and universal equality. Bambaataa called those who succeeded "King" or "Queen," as a show of respect to improve self-esteem.
Over the next few decades, the organization expanded its activities, which now include planting communal gardens, running neighborhood-watch patrols and after-school programs, organizing urban-reclamation projects, and even providing free legal services to members. Zulus also threw hip-hop block parties and promoted and managed concerts for the genre's earliest artists, especially Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. Today, the Zulu Nation has dozens of active chapters across the US, as well as in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, France, Honduras, New Zealand, Australia, and Belgium, among other countries.
In 1982, Bambaataa struck gold with "Planet Rock," a futuristic electro-rap track that was fueled by TR-808 drum beats and spacey synthesizers. It became a massive local club hit and then a global sensation, one that would open the door for rappers and electronic-music producers across the world. The success of "Planet Rock" made the Zulu Nation a lucrative entertainment business, while an affiliated security arm called the Zulu Warriors provided additional jobs for members. The Zulu Warriors handle concert and VIP security and have been responsible for protecting dozens of artists for years, including Jay Z, Nas, Busta Rhymes, A$AP Ferg, Lauryn Hill, and others.
Party flyer from the T-Connection in the Bronx, 1981.
Savage joined the Baby Zulus, an apprentice group for future Zulus, earned the Zulu nickname "Bee-Stinger" (which he keeps today), and became a "crate boy," an unpaid position that entailed carrying records and gear for Zulu DJs. It was a goal for many poor, disenfranchised kids in the neighborhood.
"Crate boys are pretty common in hip-hop—apprentice DJs trying to learn the craft or looking for a career in the music industry," Steven Hager, a hip-hop historian and former New York Daily News and Village Voice reporter, told me in an email interview. "But nobody cultivated or recruited them like Bam."
Savage loved being part of the Zulus, hanging out at the Center parties and having a front-row seat to the birth of hip-hop. But in 1980, just two years before Bambaataa's career really took off with "Planet Rock," everything changed. One day that year, when Savage was 15, he said Bambaataa sent a cab to Adlai E. Stevenson High School on Lafayette Avenue to pick him up. Savage, a freshman, ditched class, got in the cab, and was driven to Bambaataa's house in the Baychester section of the Bronx. Inside the house, Savage was met by Bambaataa and another man, who Savage wouldn't identify.
"There was a guy there, and Bam said that I could watch TV in the room. When I went in the room, there was a photo book… on the bed," Savage recalled. "It [had pictures of] other people's penises, other guys."
Bambaataa, he said, came into the room, saw him looking at the book, and asked him if he knew how to "jerk off." According to Savage, Bambaataa told the teenager to pull out his penis and proceeded to manually stimulate him. Bambaataa also took out his penis and had Savage do the same to him, Savage said.
After they were finished, the second man came into the bedroom with his penis out. Savage said he was "scared" and ran out of the house, crying. As he ran through the Bronx streets sobbing, a woman noticed he was upset and picked him up.
"She told me to get in her car, and she drove me back to my school," he remembered.
Ron Savage at 14. Photo courtesy of Savage.
Savage didn't tell anyone about the incident at the time. Just a day or two later, a similar scenario unfolded when Bambaataa stopped by Savage's Castle Hill house. He said the two engaged in oral sex in his car and later at a house. Bambaataa would abuse him at least four or five more times, Savage said.
The molestation stopped, Savage says, when he began to pretend he wasn't around when Bambaataa would show up at his house. In the years that followed, he withdrew from friends and family, cut ties with Bambaataa, and sank into a deep depression. As he got older, his depression worsened. He cut himself with scissors and attempted suicide multiple times, once by overdosing on pills.
"I was angry with myself," he said. "I used to gaze out my window and blame myself."
In his 20s, Savage worked for Strong City Records and Dick Scott Entertainment, becoming a music manager and promoter for German dance group Snap!, rap group Showbiz & AG, and beatbox pioneer Doug E. Fresh. He was later employed as a security guard and turned to political activism with a focus on education, and in 2006, he became an elected member of the New York State Democratic Committee. Savage said that though he would remain a member of the Zulu Nation, after the last alleged molestation, he never spoke with Bambaataa again. He explained that the alleged abuse severely impacted his relationships with women and is behind intimacy issues he says he still has today.
"It fucked me up, man," Savage said. "The question that always bothered me was, Why me? That's what I've always wanted to ask [Bambaataa]. It damaged me."
"Bam was like your uncle who paid your way through college, but molested you."—Hassan Campbell
Like Savage, Hassan "Poppy" Campbell, 39, grew up in a dysfunctional home and was surrounded by poverty and drug and alcohol addiction. He described life in the hardscrabble Bronx River Houses by saying: "One day you're at a party; the next day you're getting shot at, or you're on welfare." Campbell, who is a decade younger than Savage, was also drawn to Bambaataa. In the late 80s, when he was just 12 or 13, Campbell began hanging out with the Zulus and, like Savage, immersed himself in the burgeoning b-boy culture.
Campbell lived in the Bronx River Houses with his mother and five siblings. His mom, he said, was "abusive" and suffered from mental illness. Like Savage, Campbell said the parties at the Center provided a healthy distraction from the chaos at home. He often fought with his mother and would run away, sometimes staying at Bambaataa's house when he had nowhere else to go. He too called Bambaataa a "father figure."
"He took care of me," Campbell said. "He made sure I had everything I needed. And he made sure my mom had everything she needed.
"Bam was like the godfather," he added. "A lot of parents in our community were on drugs, and Bam took advantage of that."
That trust took an insidious turn, he said, when he was just 13. Campbell said another man had previously molested him, which "made it easier for Bam to molest me."
He described a story very similar to Savage's: It began with Bambaataa showing him a book of pictures of naked men engaged in sex acts. The pornography viewing escalated to touching and, later, oral sex. The alleged abuse, he said, was "constant" and went on for years.
"This wasn't no onetime thing," he said. "This was an ongoing thing for several years."
Campbell kept the alleged abuse secret. He said it eventually stopped when he "broke away" from Bambaataa in his late teens and turned his anger toward the gangs and criminals on the Bronx streets.
"I started acting like a wild animal," he said.
He recalled the way the anger festered and the devastating effects it had on his life. Campbell told me that he became a criminal as a teenager and started carrying guns. In 1993, he was charged with second-degree murder for the killing of a Bronx man. He went on the run but was caught and arrested in Connecticut in 1994. His co-defendant was found not guilty, and Campbell pleaded out to assault, landing him a three-year sentence.
Bambaataa, he said, "took care" of him while he was in jail and when he was released.
"When I came home from jail, Bam took me shopping and stuff like that," he recalled. "Bam was like your uncle who paid your way through college, but molested you."
According to Campbell, he was locked up again for parole violations and attempted murder, and in 2000 was charged with shooting three people in the Bronx, in a case he claimed was dismissed. He said he was charged in a Bronx River murder in 2004 and spent a month in jail before that case was also dismissed.
"He said, You don't have to be gay to have that done to you. He did it, and I ended up telling him to stop. I didn't tell anyone until I was 30."—Troy
Another alleged victim who stepped forward after Savage was a 51-year-old former Bronx resident who asked that only his first name, Troy, be used for this article. Troy, who also spoke out to the Daily News in April, told a tale that is similar to that of Savage and Campbell. His parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up with his mother and other relatives in the Bronx River Houses. He joined the Zulus for camaraderie and protection in the late 70s and got to know Bambaataa from hanging out at block parties. He looked up to and trusted Bambaataa—so much so that when he was 13, he decided to seek dating advice from the star DJ. In 1978, Troy was on his way to see his new girlfriend when he decided to stop by Bambaataa's house to get tips on what to do when it came time to be alone with her.
"I figured I'd go see Bam because he was like an older brother," Troy told me. "He said, 'You know about getting head and all that?' At that age, you don't think about stuff like that. Well, at least I didn't."
The hip-hop icon, Troy said, showed him a book with pictures of naked boys and then performed oral sex on him.
"I remember him showing me a book of penises," Troy recalled. "He said, 'You don't have to be gay to have that done to you.' He did it, and I ended up telling him to stop. I didn't tell anyone until I was 30."
Now a married father of three adult children, Troy moved out of the neighborhood to live with his dad shortly after the alleged incident and immersed himself in martial arts. He moved out of New York altogether in 1989 and joined the US Army.
"A lot of guys went down a negative path," he said. "It didn't do that to me. I was really angry, but I got into martial arts. That's how I dealt with it."
Bambaataa and DJ Grand Wizard Theodore (from the Fantastic 5) pose together at a 1994 Zulu event in NYC.
All three alleged victims and several other people interviewed for this story said that for years there were rumors both in local black communities in the Bronx and in the broader hip-hop community about Bambaataa being sexually involved with teenage boys. But he managed to escape widespread scrutiny, even after the first allegations started to publicly surface.
Author and blogger Khalil Amani, a Colorado-based writer for DJ Kay Slay's Straight Stuntin Magazine, was the first to publicly allege sexual misconduct by Bambaataa. Amani, the author of a book about homophobia and homosexuality in the rap industry, wrote an article in April 2013 claiming that Bambaataa was stabbed by a man he had allegedly sexually assaulted. The story, which was picked up by the Drop and other hip-hop sites, claimed that Bambaataa had drugged a man and performed oral sex on him without his consent. According to Amani's report, the man woke up, realized what was happening, and stabbed Bambaataa. A top Zulu member, reportedly with Bambaataa at the time, was also allegedly cut with the knife.
The article angered members of the Zulu Nation, who Amani said asked Kay Slay to have it taken down. Amani removed the article a day or two after it was first posted, but he then decided to put it back up about a week later, prompting threats. It's still up on Amani's website.
"I got a few threats," Amani told me. "One guy was Zulu from here in Colorado. He said, 'You know you can be touched, right? You're right down the street. You can be touched.' The Zulu Nation is very intimidating."
Campbell and Savage both said they too have intimate knowledge of the reported stabbing incident, corroborating Amani's account. Campbell told me he visited Bambaataa at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx and that Bambaataa, who was recovering from a knife wound to the stomach, told Campbell about the incident. He then gave Campbell a picture of the alleged assailant and asked him to seek revenge, Campbell said.
"I was at the hospital [after] he got stabbed," he told me. "I was one of the first soldiers that he called to deal with the situation. He lied and told everybody he never got stabbed when he had 100 people [waiting for him] outside the hospital." In interviews with Allhiphop.com, Zulu officials denied the stabbing and said Bambaataa was being treated for chest pains.
Campbell said that the story, as Bambaataa told it to him, was as follows: The alleged assailant took a cab to Bambaataa's house in New Rochelle the day of the incident. Bambaataa claimed that the man was "acting weird" and walking around the house. The Zulu leader with Bambaataa at the time was eating a sandwich when he heard Bambaataa screaming in the next room. He ran in to see what was going on and saw the man with the knife and Bambaataa bleeding from a stomach wound. The man with the knife then slashed the Zulu leader in the stomach and ran out of the house.
Campbell added that he later saw a bandage on Bambaataa's stomach, and that he spoke about the incident with the other Zulu leader who had been there. He said he also spoke with the alleged assailant's brother, who told him that his brother had stabbed Bambaataa because he had been "date raped."
On the day of the reported stabbing, Savage said he too was told about the incident, this time during a phone call with the Zulu leader who was with Bambaataa when it happened.
"He just said, 'Bam got stabbed,'" Savage said of the phone conversation. "And he said that he [also] got sliced."
While the incident further fueled rumors in the Bronx and in the hip-hop community of Bambaataa's questionable behavior, the mainstream media never reported it; no criminal charges ever came about, and the story went away. But the rumors about Bambaataa's alleged sexual abuse picked up again in 2014, with the publication of Savage's book, Impulse Urges & Fantasies, a memoir of his life as a music executive and activist, in which he reported being molested by a "Hip Hop DJ that he and everyone else looked up to." He didn't, however, name Bambaataa as the perpetrator.
About a year later, Campbell posted a video on his personal Facebook page accusing Bambaataa of molesting him. Campbell said that "it created a shitstorm" in the community, but that he quickly removed it after getting an angry phone call from a top Zulu security official. According to Campbell, days after he posted the original video, he met with Bambaataa and several top Zulu council members. Campbell said Bambaataa "apologized" to him and promised to make amends by stepping down from the Zulu Nation and buying a tombstone for a Zulu member who had been a friend of Campbell. Bambaataa fulfilled neither of those promises, Campbell said.
"He was crying," Campbell recalled. "He apologized. He tried to say that he wasn't doing that to no more kids. But I know he was lying."
After the meeting, Campbell agreed to keep the video off his Facebook page and stay quiet about the accusations. He said he was "embarrassed" and "just wanted the situation to go away." He also acknowledged he wanted to protect the Zulu Nation, as well as his own job as a Zulu Warriors security guard.
"It was putting food on the table for a lot of guys," Campbell said of the Zulu entertainment business. "Everybody piggybacks off of Bam. They live off him. They get income off of [him]. They're not going to bite the hand that feeds them."
Flyer created by Buddy Esquire for a 1979 New Year's Eve party at the Bronx River Center, featuring performances by Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.
While Campbell's video caused a stir in the community, Bambaataa had dodged yet another bullet. But when Savage appeared on DJ Star's YouTube channel, the Star Chamber, on March 29, 2016, the story finally reached a mass audience.
The next day, two top Zulu lieutenants pressured Savage to recant, issuing veiled threats in intimidating conversations that were captured on audiotape by Savage, copies of which I obtained. One of those Zulu leaders, an associate of Ice-T named Mickey Bentson, acknowledged, when I called him in July, that he had pressured Savage because he didn't want the Zulu Nation "brand" damaged. Bentson also said, among other things, "Suck my dick, fag." A publicist for Ice-T described Bentson only as the rapper's "friend" and said: "Ice doesn't have any comment on this matter." Savage said he also received a call from a third Zulu official within a day or so of going public, in which he was allegedly offered $50,000 to retract his statements.
Something else happened in the days after Savage's story went public: Campbell said his 2015 Facebook video mysteriously resurfaced on the web, followed by alleged death threats from Zulus.
"I had got a phone call saying, 'Be careful, because brothers is talking about moving on you about the Ron Savage situation and that video,'" Campbell told me. "Somebody called me and told me to watch my back. They were supposed to be moving on me, killing me or whatever."
Campbell said he called Bambaataa after receiving the threat, told him he felt unsafe, and wanted him to provide security. But Bambaataa, still in charge of the Zulu Nation, brushed off the threats. So Campbell went public, first to DJ Star and then to the Daily News.
"I had no choice," he said. "I don't know why my video came back up, but it did, and when it came back up, there was a lot of tension here and a lot of threats being passed around. Somebody told me that certain people were talking about killing me because they feel like I was behind Ron Savage doing what he did."
Campbell said he feared for his life after the story of his alleged abuse broke and insists he has since been in touch with other victims who "are scared to death to come out," including the family of a British man who claimed to have been molested by Bambaataa in the UK, but has since committed suicide. My attempts to locate the victim's family were unsuccessful. Among those close to the scandal, there are stories swirling around about other alleged victims in the US and Britain who committed suicide or died of drug overdoses. Campbell said he believes there are dozens of victims and has also been in touch with an alleged victim from Brazil.
Shamsideen Shariyf Ali Bey, a man claiming to be Bambaataa's bodyguard, also came forward and told DJ Star in May that Bambaataa traveled with "hundreds" of teenage boys over the years, including many who shared hotel rooms with the Zulu founder. Ali Bey, an original Black Spade member and active Zulu also known as Lord Shariyf, said he told Zulu council members in 2007 about alleged child sex abuse by Bambaataa, but nothing was done.
"He's a pedophile," Ali Bey told DJ Star. "There are many instances that I saw young boys in and out of his room… I can say I've walked in on stuff where I say, 'What the fuck is going on?'"
After going public, both Campbell and Savage came under attack by the Zulu Nation, which issued a public statement in April accusing Savage of being "mentally challenged" and calling Campbell a "liar" and, bizarrely, a "government paid police informant." The same statement also claimed the accusations were a "government sponsored media attack" and part of a "racist" anti-hip-hop campaign by New York authorities. Bambaataa, who in a story in XXL Magazine initially claimed to not even know his accusers, issued his own statement in April denying the abuse and calling the allegations "cowardly" and "baseless." Since the statement and a few subsequent media interviews, he hasn't been heard from publicly.
A lot of the people from the community don't publicly speak out about Bam because there is a fear there. Bam, he's always been strong. He has an army with him.—Hassan Campbell
The question most often asked when these types of allegations finally surface is why the accusers didn't come forward earlier.
According to Wendy Murphy—a veteran sex-crimes prosecutor, national victims' rights advocate, and professor at New England Law in Boston—it often comes down to fear. Sex-abuse victims are frequently scared for a variety of reasons, including being ostracized from a particular group or being re-victimized by the justice system.
"Victims also often worry that the abuser will retaliate, and they don't think the legal system will treat them fairly," Murphy told me. "It often takes time for victims to reach the point where they feel empowered to tell what happened. For child victims, delayed reporting is even more common, because they are easy to silence—especially when the offender is a trusted adult."
For those close to the Bambaataa scandal, the situation was compounded by stark economic realities and a fear of intimidation and violence.
"These are people from lower-income areas who didn't have shit, and all of a sudden they were eating off of this new thing called hip-hop, and it was a way to get out of that pressure cooker," DJ Star, who broke the Bambaataa story and has covered hip-hop for decades, told me. "The reality is the Zulu Nation came out of a gang… If you had the mind-set not to tell, not to speak up, not to talk to police, and you have a gang that can terrorize the entire state of New York, you're dealing with a very powerful entity that can make your life a living hell."
With its combination of extremely vulnerable alleged victims and a powerful regime looming over them, the Bambaataa case bears a number of parallels to the Catholic Church scandal, in which pedophile priests usually targeted young boys, often from low-income broken homes. The church ignored the epidemic for decades, if not centuries, shuttling accused priests to and from parishes and paying off victims to avoid detection. Since the scandal broke in the early 2000s—prompted by dogged reporting by the Boston Globe, dramatized in the Academy Award–winning film Spotlight—it has become a case study in systemic corruption and its role in enabling pedophilia.
"Bam took the kids who were struggling—the kids who didn't have good parents and had nothing," said one longtime DJ associate of Bambaataa's, who requested anonymity. "It's all about the money. These guys [in Zulu Nation] are on the payroll—doing security, carrying equipment. A lot of them have felony records. They can't get other jobs. They needed that paycheck. So they would keep quiet."
Party flyer from James Monroe High School in the Bronx, 1981.
And just as the church shielded pedophile priests for decades, those involved with or close to the Bambaataa scandal alleged that top leaders of the Zulu Nation did exactly the same thing, by protecting the music icon—and the organization—at all costs.
"In the African American community, and as a matter of fact in every community, child molestation is like a secret. Nobody wants to touch it," Campbell said. "We're taught to be quiet about it. So that's pretty much what the situation is."
He added: "A lot of the people from the community don't publicly speak out about Bam because there's a fear there. Bam, he's always been strong. He has an army with him. He had the most dangerous soldiers around him."
Authorities have said nothing about the Bambaataa scandal publicly. A New York Police Department source told me there is no active investigation because there have been no allegations that would fall within the statute of limitations. In New York, the statute of limitations on child sex abuse expires when the victim turns 23, a law Savage is seeking to have changed. In June, he was part of a contingent of sex abuse survivors who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to press the New York State Assembly to change the law, but lawmakers tabled the proposal. Savage has pledged to continue the fight.
Meanwhile, the scandal has sharply divided the hip-hop underground. Rap pioneer KRS-One, a longtime friend and ally of Bambaataa, has been excoriated on social media and in hip-hop forums for publicly supporting Bambaataa, including by Savage, who, in an interview with Allhiphop.com, called the iconic MC "worse than any Catholic priest" and pushed for a boycott of his music. KRS-One, much like some members of the Zulu Nation, has blasted the accusers for trying to tear down Bambaataa and tarnish his legacy. KRS-One has gone so far as to say, in an appearance in Birmingham, England, that "anyone who has a problem with Afrika Bambaataa should quit hip-hop." DJ Kool Herc, another lifelong associate of Bambaataa, also would not criticize him, telling me: "I'm very much aware of the matter. I'm not fair-weather, though. He's a friend of mine. His organization has an internal dispute. That's it."
Other rappers have weighed in against Bambaataa. Lord Jamar, an activist, actor, and rapper—he is a member of the politically and socially conscious hip-hop group Brand Nubian—criticized Bambaataa in an interview with Vlad TV for lying about knowing Savage and said that rumors about Bambaataa being gay have persisted for 20 years. Rapper and activist Talib Kweli, a member of the hip-hop duo Black Star, tweeted that he was "disappointed" in the Zulu Nation's handling of the scandal. Arthur Baker, an electro and hip-hop pioneer who helped produce "Planet Rock," knew little of the scandal, but said "obviously it damages [Bambaataa's] legacy."
"I feel good that I spoke up. But I wish I had the courage to come out when I was younger, so I could have saved other kids."—Ron Savage
While the Zulu Nation's initial response was to attack the alleged victims, the organization has since reversed course. In May, more than a month after Savage first spoke out publicly, the group excommunicated Bambaataa and several other top leaders. In a long public statement issued a few weeks after the announcement of the leadership change, the Zulu Nation made a heartfelt public apology to Savage and Campbell for "unjust and inexcusable attacks on their characters."
"We extend our deepest and most sincere apologies to the many people who have been hurt by the actions of Afrika Bambaataa and the subsequent poor response of our organization to allegations leveled against him," the statement read. "To the survivors of apparent sexual molestation by Bambaataa, both those who have come forward and others who have not, we are sorry for what you endured and extend our thanks to those who have spoken out for your bravery in bringing to light that which most of us were sadly unaware of, and others chose not to disclose."
Zulu King EL One, the current spokesman for the Zulu Nation chapter in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, criticized the ex-members who intimidated and lashed out at alleged victims.
"You can't go and threaten someone. These are members of our organization," Zulu King EL One said in a phone interview we conducted. "We don't want to deal with anyone who has caused harm to the organization or said things against the victims. You have to respect the victims 100 percent."
He added that the embattled organization was planning a massive leadership meeting in September to discuss how it could move forward from the scandal.
"It's critical to lay all the cards on the table and get all the emotions out," he explained. "It's been an emotional roller coaster, because we're dealing with the founder of our organization who many of us looked up to for years. It's disappointing to know that someone you may have looked up to… could not be the man who you thought he was."
Still, it appears Bambaataa isn't truly finished trying to run the Zulu Nation. In a recording of a two-hour conference call that took place on August 14—a copy of which Campbell gave me, and which Zulu King EL One confirmed as authentic—a voice that both Campbell and Zulu King EL One identified as Bambaataa's is heard speaking with several longtime top Zulu leaders. Though he is no longer the group's leader or, technically, a member of the group at all, he offered his thoughts about how the Zulu Nation should move beyond the scandal and who should lead it.
"I'm not looking for people that just want to be hip-hop," says Bambaataa, who on the call refers to himself as "the African man." "I've had enough of that. We need business-minded people. See who really knows government. Not just coming around here because they know hip-hop and want to do hip-hop."
However, a Zulu member named Cashus D from the Midwest Region cuts him off, angrily telling Bambaataa he has no business being on the call.
"I ain't messing with this," Cashus says. "Bam, you got to get out the way… If you want the Zulus to thrive, you got to get out the way."
After Cashus reprimanded him, Bambaataa didn't speak again on the call.
In an email to me, Zulu King EL One said that most of the new leadership was not on the call and that most of the organization's leaders "refuse to participate in anything related to Afrika Bambaataa."
"Some leaders may have a close relationship with Bam and look to include him in efforts to move forward," Zulu King EL One said. "The leadership overall does not want nothing to do with Bambaataa unless it pertains to him being honest with us and seeking help. He can't be the cure for the UZN [Universal Zulu Nation] ills when he is the one who has caused this pain."
Ron Savage near the Castle Hill houses. Photo by Cole Wilson.
There are also signs that the Bronx River community where Savage, Campbell, and Troy grew up is beginning to address wounds from the scandal. In August, a meeting focused on sexual-abuse awareness and victim support was held at the Bronx River Houses with members of the Association of Black Psychologists, the National Association of Black Social Workers, and Black Psychiatrists of America.
The scandal comes amid a renewed mainstream interest in old-school hip-hop and the genre's roots, fueled partly by the success of Baz Luhrmann's new Netflix series, The Get Down, the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, and a slew of documentaries, including Ice-T's Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap and Shan Nicholson's chronicle of gang culture in the Bronx, Rubble Kings, in which Bambaataa plays a prominent role. And while Bambaataa's brand has certainly taken an irreparable hit from the accusations, his impact on pop culture continues. Most recently, he was a consultant, along with many of hip-hop's founding figures, on The Get Down. (Emails to Luhrmann's attorney were not returned.) Bambaataa's massive memorabilia and record collection remains at Cornell University, where he's been a visiting scholar. But Sirius XM Radio's Backspin channel, which for years aired his ZuluBeatz mix show, has canceled it, a spokeswoman said.
Still, unlike the scandals surrounding black icons like Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson, the media has largely ignored the Bambaataa case. Part of that is probably due to Bambaataa's fading celebrity, but it also could stem from another unfortunately common fact of newsroom decisions: The alleged victims are from poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods, where despair and tragedy are often taken as a fact of life. And some say there are racial elements at play as well.
Meanwhile, no one I interviewed for this article seems to know exactly where Bambaataa is, or at least they won't say so publicly. Some speculate that he is hiding in the UK. Others say Chicago or Connecticut. Bambaataa's attorney, Vivian K. Tozaki, declined to comment for this story. My attempts to reach Bambaataa through Tozaki and social-media channels were unsuccessful. Zulu King EL One said of Bambaataa: "He's just completely fallen off the radar—he's kind of just disappeared."
On a recent, scorching day in East Harlem, the scene at Poor Richard's Playground on 109th Street and Third Avenue felt like a throwback to hip-hop's scruffy beginnings. Poppers and lockers practiced their moves on the tarmac. Young men worked up a sweat playing handball. Over at the DJ stand, DJ Jazzy Jay—the groundbreaking turntablist who released the first record with the iconic logo of Rick Rubin's Def Jam Records—took his turn at the decks.
Held every Thursday in playgrounds across the Bronx, the park jams are modeled after the legendary original throwdowns at the Center. They are like a living, breathing museum of hip-hop history, attracting a who's who of the genre's formative years, many of whom are members or affiliates of the Zulu Nation. Bambaataa attended the park jams for years but has been conspicuously absent since the allegations surfaced.
Savage, dressed in a fuchsia polo, pressed gray denims, and sleek gray Nikes, smiled, laughed, and bobbed his head as Jazzy Jay dropped a dusty breakbeat groove from the Meters. He said he was unfazed by the Zulus and Black Spades, some of whom are longtime friends of Bambaataa's and are angry with him and the others for going public. Savage was at ease, called the Zulus there his "friends," and said he harbored no ill will toward the organization as a whole. Like the other two alleged victims I interviewed for this piece, he said he's not considering any legal action against Bambaataa but would like an acknowledgement and an apology.
Since making his accusations public, Savage said he's made it his mission to help protect a new generation of kids in the Bronx. He spoke about working with an organization called ULULY that focuses on utilizing hip-hop in education, and has launched a new awareness campaign for child sex abuse that he's seeking to have implemented in New York schools.
Nearby, some children splashed in a water fountain. "I feel good that I spoke up," Savage said. "But I wish I had the courage to come out when I was younger, so I could have saved other kids."
This article was originally published on THUMP.
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I've typed several posts on this and then deleted them because they were too long or preachy or whatever.
What note were you replying to?
Was it the first note?
I would probably say what you were saying in another way, except for a response to the first note, yet I didn't want to crawl through 80 notes.
Hey, after reading your great post on this subject, please don't delete any more! If they are half as good as your post here, we'd really want to hear more. Well said!
Any obsession is bad, no matter what it is, anything that takes away your ability to think clear is not good. Skating has been my obsession for a long time, thank God I am not married and have no kids, but it has for sure got between me and work and me and every serious relationship i've been into.
LOL. Unrepentant - that's what it sounds like to me. With a lot of work, your condition, sir, might be downgraded to "obsession:. Until then, it is far, far worse. Right off the scale... LOL.
The post I'm referring to was never actually posted.
I guess I was referring to the gist of this thread and to someone who had cut back on skating because of pressure from his spouse. He tried to put a positive spin on it, but to me it just sounded like a jealous spouse. I don't have time for that and won't deal with it in MY marriage.
I wasn't really clear on that was I?
Have you ever been mad and typed an email to someone and then decided not to send it? That's what this amounted to. I spent time typing a post and then before I hit submit, I changed my mind about submitting it. I did that several times in this thread. They all said what this one said, just more rambling or giving examples sometimes.
Sometimes things come out harsh and people misunderstand. Yes, I'm selfish about some things and I can be high maintenance sometimes, but when the chips are down, I can handle it.
I know what you're thinking, she talks a good game, right? LOL You have no idea.
I know we all have our stories so suffice it to say that of the 5 (or is it 6?) major events we can experience in our lives, I experienced all 5 in a 3-6 months time frame and had to handle everything alone while trying to take care of a 6 yr old and 2 yr old. It's a long story, maybe I will write a book someday.
Apparently the obsession with skating has been cured for everyone (the post above this one is 2008). Or maybe just the obsession with writing about skating has passed. Or maybe there is a newer obsession thread I don't know about.
So how about a head count! ANYBODY still obsessed with skating? (except myself and @foot2big) What happened? I know this message board is not very smartphone friendly so maybe that is an issue for the younger obsessed skaters.
Obviously if your skating obsessed train has departed the station you won't be here to tell us about your newest obsession(s), or why you moved on from skating. But if you ARE here, and you skate so much and talk about skating so much that you are alienating your friends and relatives - CHIME IN PLEASE!!!
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I've been twice the past 2 days in a row and 4 times on saturday!
oh yeah, for sure. I have been guilty of jumping from hobby to hobby in the past. I have a job that has a weight limit (life flight nurse) and i have always been a powerlifter/football player. Well now i have to be under 220 and I despise running. Biking in Houston is a nightmare so my wife and i decided to try out skating. I always did it when I was younger, now i'm 33, and have no shame of lacing up my skates and hittting 15 miles on them. I am going 3 to 4 times a week, and I would go everyday if my schedule allowed. My wife enjoys skating with me, but she has no interest in training, studying how to get faster and stronger. Me, i'm all about trying to best myself in all activites!
Same for me. I always have goals that represent ways that I need to improve my skating. Faster times over known courses of races routes.
I structure workouts to have metrics, so I can monitor/confirm my extent of progress. I have distance goals for every session. Weekly goals based on weather permitting amount of training time available.
Until this past week, Spring weather here in Chicago has been horrible.
Ten days ago after another week of no training bad weather had finished, eating the weekend too, we got a decent enough Monday for be to do 18 miles.
Then when I saw that after Tue. we were in for several more rainy days, I decided I must skate on Tue. PM, no matter what, just to get as close as I could to a measly 40 miles in 10 days.
On Tue. PM I felt fine and started out going south into the wind for 8+ miles.
The wind died out some, by the time I reached the turnaround and headed north, so I did not get as much assist on the way back.
As I approached the worst stretch of pavement on the way back, just over a mile from my car I started to run out of gas. Made it through the bad zone ans headed up the longest uphill stretch of the path through a construction where a too narrow, too sharp temporary detour turn had been badly conceived.
Already slowed from the hill and feeling tired, I slowed more to let two side-by-side bikes cut the corner before I reached it.
There is that point in the transition from rolling at speed to almost stopping where you kind of lose track of your balance from the loss of rolling momentum, and right then this happened to me triggering a fall rearward to my left, with my left ankle rolling out right below my falling weight.
I felt the pain as my left ankle bent outward and hyperextended to the limit point of where ankle parts start to tear and/or break.
My first thought was "how much training time will I lose?"
I got up and "limp skated" back to the car feeling good that I could at least put some weight down on the foot.
This injury is a severe ankle sprain with major trauma to ligaments and muscles - some slight tearing possible.
It's now 9 days since the fall, and I am steadily improving my limp speed and nearing a normal gait, but my focus remains on how soon can I lace up my skates again. I am shooting for this Sat. or Sun.
Am I addicted to skating? - no doubt about it!
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I understand exactly the weight problem and will only point out that diet and exercise need to be coincided to achieve the desired results, err, diet is the elephant in the room, time to track calories, your job (livelihood) is the important thing, skipping lunch, leaving the sugar on the table, not drinking sugary drinks...etc.
A slow withdrawal, but a conscious one.
Who are these fabled freinds/relative creatures? What size do they wear? Can I take a request to the DJ for them?
Oh yeah. We're still here and still obsessed. The best part about life is the skating. What makes it even better is skating with friends and family. Skating makes life complete.
I know the feeling, just like my hockey obsession years ago, I just wanted to wake up early and went to that outdoor rink when no one was there, and practiced about 2 hours for every Saturday and Sunday.
I am not changing to get up early and skate in some communities when people are still inside the house or sleeping, and I skated in any ways I wanted.
If it is call an obsession, it is a good one, but just watch out your knees and do not get the temper/desire to break records.......unless you have a plan to try the marathon or something like that.
It is okay to have interests in many things in different times. Since we only liv e once, and we only get to be in the 20s once, 30s once, 40s once, and so on, why should a person only does the same things over and over just to be on safe side? I like to get into different things, versatile is what I expect my life to be.
I can remember when every friend I had (and some relatives) were only seen in a skating rink on adult nights. I made more lasting friends in that rink than I did in 5 years of college.
This month, I've skated twice a day 14 out of the 21 days. Those other days I only skated once.
I might have a problem. I built this in my backyard.
I built this in my backyard.
A few weeks ago a woman on quad skates at the park where I do laps asked me what I was training for after she learned I crank out 100+ miles almost every week lately. I just told her I have a mileage disorder. I don't train, I just skate - sometimes until I can't go any longer (which currently is about 35 miles). I am just addicted to how it feels to roll on skates and can't help myself.
Oh, that is a problem. It filled up too quickly, I think you should buy some acreage.
I bought pool noodles to slit open, then put pipe insulation over that with glue. These are for putting on the fabricated I beam columns at a covered pavilion at the local park. It is just big enough to crank out some good laps during the week. I live over an hour from any rink now...since the local one shut down. The covered noodles are for installing on the column's flanges in case of collision, to protect me from damage So time to add some hours of skating during the week.
Can't imagine a wife, or any SO being upset about someone with a skating obsession. Compared to drinking in bars, abusing drugs, watching sports more hours per week than any of us can skate, etc. There are so many less positive and costly things one could be doing. Wheels are "expensive", but if you buy a Corvette, new tires will set you back $2500, $160 doesn't seem outrageous after all. If someone wants you to deny who you are and not pursue a positive passion, why have them in your life. My wife is a rower, I do everything I can to facilitate her getting out on the water. When we met, she was shocked to learn the cost of high end bikes, but she soon bought another one for me. Support anything positive and you'll both be happier.
My wife doesnt talk about bikes and i dont talk about shoes.


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Elsewhere in CONCACAF, expected home wins for Mexico, CRC
By Nicholas MendolaJun 7, 2017, 5:49 PM EDT
The United States should handle its business against Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, a game with a few more nerves than usual given the Yanks' disappointing performances in three of four World Cup qualifiers so far.
We've previewed that battle here, and T&T faces a similar challenge to the other CONCACAF visitors on Thursday.
[ MORE: How will Arena line 'em up? ]
First, the table:
Mexico — 10 pts, +4 GD
Costa Rica — 7 pts, +4 GD
Panama — 5 pts, even GD
USMNT — 4 pts, +1 GD
Honduras — 4 pts, -5 GD
T&T — 3 pts, -4 GD
Mexico vs. Honduras
El Tri has already played three of its road matches in the Hex, beating the Americans and T&T while drawing Panama. It won't be worried about Los Catrachos' visit, having lost just two of its last 19 matches overall and knowing what the U.S. did to Honduras just a few months ago.
Honduras is the Americans' second biggest ally this week, with Jorge Luis Pinto's men on the road at Mexico and Panama. The likely result is a loss and a loss or tie, both of which would allow the Yanks to push Honduras deeper in its rear view mirror. A tie in that second match would be extra special to the Yanks' hopes of finishing the week in the Top Three.
Costa Rica vs. Panama
After home draws against Mexico and the U.S., Panama is feeling more confident than usual ahead of a visit to Costa Rica. Los Canaleros would hand the hosts a lot of unease if it can squeeze a point in San Jose, as Los Ticos are looking at this two-match international week as a chance to all but sew up a spot in Russia.
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UK District Energy Finally Has A Voice On The World Stage
In a world first and after 102 years of the International District Energy Association (IDEA), the UK has finally found a voice on the world stage with an invite extended to the UK's newly formed UK District Energy Association (UKDEA) to make multiple presentations at the district energy world congress in Toronto in June. The UKDEA was proud to be invited to speak on behalf of District Energy owners, operators and local authority partners in the UK. This was in a year when the President of the IDEA commended the delegates to embrace the "I" in IDEA and his key note message was that "heat is the dominant factor in energy consumption and electricity is just a side show".
Of particular interest to the over 800 delegates from across the World was not just the technical expertise in the UK, but the significant level of public private partnerships in UK district energy schemes (or 3P projects as they are known in North America). Delegates repeatedly commented to the UKDEA delegation that prior to the conference they were not aware of district energy in the UK and were delighted to welcome the UKDEA to the family of international district energy associations.
The Chairman of the UKDEA not only provided one of the key note speeches to open the nearly week long conference, but also presented a focused case study on public private partnerships, as well as serving on one of the industry Q&A sessions, making the UK the most prolific contributors to the conference - all in the first year of the UKDEA.
At the conference the UK District Energy Association has forged important information sharing links with our North American and European District Association partners. District Energy Associations from around the world, including Canada, USA, German, Denmark and others were keen to collaborate and disseminate their experience to help the fledgling UKDEA guide its members from lessons learnt and experiences gained over the last 102 years of the IDEA..
With an ever increasing network of industry and Government contacts the UKDEA has now extended this information sharing concept not only to our North American partners but also to key European DE Association decision makers and are looking at ways to work together to pursue common goals within the EU.
Giving his overall impression of the Conference, the Chairman of the UK District Energy Association, Simon Woodward, said "Considering the IDEA has been operating for over 100 years and we have much we can learn from others across the World, it was clear from the conference that the UK's embryonic district energy industry and association which has only been in operation for a year, can teach much to others who have been practitioners for decades. By working together we can deliver a co-ordinated and strong message setting out the benefits of district energy schemes and promote what we as an industry are delivering in the UK"
The partners, owners and operators of the largest district energy schemes in the UK have aligned themselves in the creation of the UK District Energy Association (UKDEA); with the aim of not only promoting district energy as a means to deliver significant carbon savings, but also to establish a direct link between the Government and the industry's small market base.
The Association is a not for profit association of companies and public sector organisations involved or interested with these major schemes. Still in its infancy, the UKDEA has attracted leading players in the industry, with the UKDEA's Full members comprising of seven major organisations:
Cofely District Energy Limited
Enviroenergy Limited
Shetland Heat, Energy and Power Limited
Thameswey Limited
Veolia Environmental Services Limited
Together these seven organisations represent the: Birmingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Shetland, Southampton and Woking District Energy schemes, together with a number of schemes in London including Olympic Park and Stratford City, Bloomsbury Heat & Power, Whitehall, Hatfield and the Greenwich Millennium Village.
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Over 100 MW of low carbon generation plant (CHP, biomass, EFW etc)
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Through Full and Associate membership, the UK District Energy Association's aim is to represent current and potential owners, developers, consumers, partners, operators and product suppliers of District Energy schemes throughout the UK.
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El Segundo, Calif. (February 10, 2016) - Griffin Capital Corporation ("Griffin Capital") announced today, on behalf of Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Inc. (the "REIT"), the acquisition of the 200,846-square-foot Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Corporate Headquarters (the "Property") located in Durham, North Carolina. The four-story, Class A office building is leased in its entirety to Toshiba TEC Corporation (the "Tenant" or "Toshiba TEC") through April 2028, and is subleased to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of the Tenant. The Property serves as the corporate headquarters for Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, which was created when Toshiba TEC acquired IBM's Retail Store Solutions business for $850 million in 2012. Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a leading supplier of retail point-of-sale systems and integrated in-store solutions for retailers globally.
The seller, International Business Machines Corporation, was represented by Brian Scott and Ben Kilgore of CBRE.
Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Inc. is a publicly registered non-traded REIT with a portfolio that currently includes 16 office and industrial buildings totaling approximately 3.45 million rentable square feet and total acquisition value of $515 million. The REIT's sponsor is Griffin Capital Corporation ("Griffin Capital"), a privately-owned real estate company headquartered in Los Angeles. Led by senior executives with more than two decades of real estate experience collectively encompassing over $22 billion of transaction value and more than 650 transactions, Griffin Capital and its affiliates have acquired or constructed approximately 53.5 million square feet of space since 1995. Griffin Capital and its affiliates own, manage, sponsor and/or co-sponsor a portfolio consisting of approximately 36.6* million square feet of space, located in 29 states, and 0.1 million square feet in the United Kingdom, representing approximately $6.3* billion in asset value, based on purchase price. Additional information about Griffin Capital is available at www.griffincapital.com.


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No Quarter Given
Nov 9, 2020 | The Informed Citizen
Can you imagine being forced to shelter someone you don't know in your home indefinitely? We're not talking about a distant cousin that annoys you by borrowing your stuff without asking. We're talking about a British soldier that is essentially occupying your house and you're expected to pay for his upkeep.
In the 1700s, that situation was reality for American colonists and is one of the many reasons they rebelled against the British government.
Quartering Acts
After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, England decided to keep a standing or permanent army in the colonies to protect its territory. In 1765, the English Parliament passed the first Quartering Act, which required the colonists to incur the cost of providing lodging and provisions for the British soldiers stationed there. That meant finding them acceptable barracks. If barracks weren't available then the colonists would need to find the soldiers a place to stay whether at an inn, livery stable or a "private building." In addition, the colonists had to provide "supplies" for the British soldiers, meaning they had to feed them as well. The colonists considered the Quartering Act "taxation without representation," which was a violation of English law. English law also prohibited the presence of a standing army in times of peace without the consent of the people.
Tensions ran high as the colonists resented the British maintaining a standing army among them. They considered it a threat, and making matters worse, the colonists were made to pay for the army they resented. Things came to a head in Boston in 1770. At the time, thousands of British soldiers were being quartered there among the more than 15,000 Boston citizens. On March 5, 1770 a skirmish between one British soldier and a colonist escalated and when the dust cleared, five colonists were dead. The incident became known as the Boston Massacre and it would fuel the fire of revolution.
After the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, a political protest where the colonists tossed 342 chests of imported tea into Boston Harbor, the British retaliated by passing a second Quartering Act. The Quartering Act of 1774 extended the list of alternative dwellings where British soldiers could be quartered to "private homes." That meant that if the colonists could not find adequate lodging for the soldiers elsewhere, they were required to open their homes to them. You can imagine this did not sit well with the Americans.
The quartering of soldiers so enraged the colonists it was among the grievances outlined in the Declaration of Independence. So, it was no surprise that the framers of the U.S. Constitution would include in the Bill of Rights an amendment that addressed the issue. The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Still Relevant?
While the Third Amendment was relevant when it was ratified in 1791, what does it have to offer us today?
The amendment has the distinction of being the least litigated amendment in the U.S. Constitution. Still, the Third Amendment has been cited in lawsuits as evidence that the Founding Fathers valued privacy. For instance, in the 1965 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Griswold v. Connecticut the Court held that, under First, Third, Fourth and Ninth amendment grounds, the U.S. Constitution protected a married couple's right to use birth control.
In the majority opinion of the Court, Justice William O. Douglas wrote, "The Third Amendment in its prohibition against the quartering of soldiers 'in any house' in time of peace without the consent of the owner is another facet of that privacy."
Some legal scholars claim that the amendment is proof that the framers of the U.S. Constitution meant to protect citizens from government intrusion and suggests a "right to privacy."
Bernard Bell, a professor at Rutgers Law School and a constitutional law expert specializing in privacy law, doesn't see the Third Amendment as having very much to do with privacy rights.
He says that while privacy can be hard to define, in terms of constitutional law it can be expressed as autonomy or freedom of action and also as the right to be free from physical intrusions and informational privacy.
"Even as to privacy in another sense, the right to informational privacy and freedom from physical intrusion by government, the Third Amendment has had little importance over the history of our country," Professor Bell says. "To be sure, what the amendment prevents, having to house soldiers in one's home, would be extraordinarily intrusive. But governments have not sought to quarter troops in private homes. And surely we have a more robust right to informational privacy and freedom from physical intrusion than that."
In terms of citizens' privacy rights, Professor Bell thinks the Fourth Amendment provides more protection.
"In short, the Third Amendment has little value on any privacy issue other than quartering troops in homes," Professor Bell says, "and thus is irrelevant to current privacy arguments."
What's a Soldier?
While the U.S. Supreme Court has given it little attention, the Third Amendment has been interpreted in lower courts. A 1982 ruling in Englblom v. Carey by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined that national guardsmen are soldiers and that the Third Amendment can be applied to the states. This decision only set precedent in New York, Vermont and Connecticut.
In 2015, a Nevada district court rejected claims by a Henderson, Nevada family that their Third Amendment rights were violated when the Henderson police seized their home without a warrant. In that case, the court ruled that the police are not soldiers.
Do you think the Third Amendment is still relevant today? Why?
If an amendment is no longer relevant in modern times, should it be stricken from the Constitution? What is your reasoning?
Some legal scholars see the Third Amendment as upholding privacy rights. In the article Professor Bell disagrees. What do you think? Explain your reasoning.
Can you think of a modern example, real or imagined, of a Third Amendment violation?
autonomy: the right of self-government.
barracks: a building used to house soldiers.
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Secrecy Prevails in Bid to Open Records
In a case that pitted trade secrets against Georgia's open records law, a maker of cancer treatment medicine is claiming a victory for corporate confidentiality. A Georgia appeals panel held that state regulatory agencies faced with open records requests for corporate filings must determine whether the documents constitute trade secrets before releasing them.
By Trisha Renaud | August 02, 2000 at 12:00 AM
In a case that pitted trade secrets against Georgia's open records law, a Georgia maker of cancer treatment medicine is claiming a victory for corporate confidentiality. A Georgia Court of Appeals panel has held that state regulatory agencies faced with open records requests for corporate filings must determine whether the documents constitute trade secrets before releasing them. The July 7 ruling requires the agency to designate which records are trade secrets and therefore not subject to Georgia's Open Records Act and to inspection by competitors. The state's technology businesses have watched the case closely. The Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was ready to release documents filed by Theragenics Corp., a Georgia maker of radioactive medical products used in treating cancer. Theragenics competitor International Brachytherapy (IBt) had requested the records. The two companies have been embroiled in litigation in which Theragenics alleges that IBt and some of its principals misappropriated proprietary information belonging to Theragenics. IBt, through counsel, had asked for access to Theragenics' filings with EPD, which the Buford-based manufacturer must furnish to be licensed in Georgia. Notified by the EPD, Theragenics balked, filing suit in Fulton Superior Court to obtain an injunction to prevent DNR from releasing the records. Access to those documents, which detail its operations, would be akin to furnishing a "technical roadmap" to its competitors, the company argued. Theragenics lost in Fulton, but now its lawyers are claiming a big win for Georgia's technology companies in the Court of Appeals. "This is not an Open Records Act case," says Theragenics' lawyer Jerry W. Blackstock. "It's a trade secrets case." With last month's ruling, Blackstock says, "The Georgia Court of Appeals has told technology companies, 'Yes, your trade secrets will be protected by the state.' " AG'S OFFICE INTERVENES But the state attorney general's office has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to review the panel's decision. The petition for certiorari argues that the ruling "imposes an unreasonable responsibility and burden on public agencies and their employees which will serve to frustrate the public policy behind the Georgia Open Records Act." Theragenics was the first company to research, produce and market a radioactive "seed," used in treating prostrate cancer. The treatment, known as brachytherapy, involves injecting rice-grain-size pellets of the radioactive isotope Palladium-103 into a patient's body. The treatment is an alternative to surgery. Blackstock says the treatment has a 96 to 98 percent success rate in curing such cancers. The company also has been successful and is building a second manufacturing facility in Tennessee. COMPETITOR SEEKS FILES As a user of radioactive materials, Theragenics is regulated by the EPD and required to submit certain documentation to the agency. About one-third of the documents were earmarked as proprietary or confidential when they were submitted. In November 1997, IBt filed an Open Records Request to review Theragenics' files. EPD notified Theragenics it intended to release any documents not marked confidential but allowed Theragenics to review the papers before release. Theragenics then told the EPD many of the unmarked documents — about 60 percent of the file — were also proprietary information. The EPD, however, notified Theragenics that any document not designated as proprietary when first submitted would be provided to IBt. That's when Theragenics headed to court. But Fulton Superior Court Judge Philip F. Etheridge ruled against the company, refusing to enjoin the DNR. The appellate panel concluded that Etheridge had incorrectly framed the issue. The issue wasn't whether Theragenics had filed the documents correctly. Writing for the panel, Presiding Judge Marion T. Pope Jr. found that the issue was whether Theragenics otherwise took reasonable efforts to protect the information. "If reasonable efforts were made to protect the dissemination of the information except for providing it to the EPD, then trade secret status was not lost simply because Theragenics did not notify the EPD each time that it provided them with information containing trade secrets," Pope wrote. Pope noted that DNR had no rules explicitly requiring companies to notify the agency at the time of filing that its documents were proprietary. Instead, DNR's own rules give it authority to classify documents as confidential when they relate to secret processes, formulas, and methods, or where they were furnished on a confidential basis. The court's finding "does not eviscerate the purpose of the Open Records Act," Pope wrote. "Indeed, it is hard to envision how disclosure to a foreign corporate competitor of a private entity's confidential or proprietary information, which it was required to file with a state agency in order to operate a business in this state, would promote the purpose of the Open Records Act." He wrote that state agencies must always determine whether records are subject to the Open Records Act or whether exemptions to disclosure apply. "Moreover, even if the state agency is notified that it is receiving trade secret or other information allegedly exempt from disclosure, it is nevertheless incumbent upon the state agency to verify a filing entity's designation before refusing to disclose the information." Notifying the company, as EPD did with Theragenics, was a "good first step," Pope noted in a footnote to Theragenics Corp. v. Georgia Department of Natural Resources, A00A0107 (Ct. App. Ga. July 7, 2000). Presiding Judge J.D. Smith and Judge M. Yvette Miller concurred. CLOSELY WATCHED CASE Blackstock, a partner at Atlanta-based Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, who handled the appeal with partner John W. Harbin and associate Tracy M. Culver, says Georgia technology companies had been following the appeal closely. "This case has gotten some notoriety," Blackstock says. The DNR's petition for certiorari, however, argues that the appellate decision creates a new and burdensome obligation on public agencies to determine whether its filings are proprietary information and ignores the obligation of the filer "to protect its own allegedly secret information when submitting it to a public agency." Determining whether documents constitute trade secrets isn't an easy process, the brief argues, and under the Open Records Act, the agency has just three days to do so.


Where I can get vegan products?!?
I want to help animals increasingly, much as I can. I live in Ontario, Canada. ANY ANSWER CAN GET BEST ANSWER! When I can get vegan clothing, like what brands do not test on animals or use animal carcasses or skin or fleece clothing? Besides, Lancôme Paris test on animals? and what brands of cleaning products like soap and stuff, not tested on animals? In this when I use shampoo and conditioner clean live. I can use toothpaste Colgate Total Advanced Health, is this good for vegans? I also use lotion Burts for hands and lips Balme bees. Do you know any makeup or other products that do / don 't test animals, not only for what is / will be used. REMEMBER ANY ANSWERS TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU CAN GET BEST ANSWER. Also, what are some vitamins I take because I'm vegetarian?
A good place to Pangea is seeking vegan products. Http: / / www.veganstore.com/ Colgate-Palmolive uses animal testing. Http: / / www.arkonline.com / archiveanimaltest.html So "Lancome as part of L'oreal. Http: / / Live Clean .com/article/2008/0221/article_205607.html www.freeskyland never tests on animals, is environmentally friendly, and has a green entrepreneurship. Burt's Bees does not test on animals either. Good cosmetic brands include Zuzu, Gabriel, Zia, and the beauty without cruelty. Partial a list of companies that test on animals http://search.caringconsumer.com/ As household products, almost all evidence of the major brands. For things you can not clean with vinegar and baking soda, the head of Whole Foods, if you live near Oakville and Yorkville. The large grocery stores also carry to brands like Seventh Generation and Ecover. If you eat a balanced diet, the only vitamin you need is a B-12.
As Canadians get ready to welcome the warm weather, bulky winter layers aren't the only thing we need to shed. Many of us use the winter hibernation to indulge in all of our favourite comfort foods and find that our summer clothes are feeling a little tight. Cue the annual May/June rush to lose a few pounds before it's time to hit the beach.
Although many people have lost weight and kept it off on low-carb diets, including actress and Atkins spokesperson Courtney Thorne-Smith, there are a lot of myths out there about this approach to weight loss.
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Got My License. Now what?
As you can tell I am new to the forum, I have been poking around for a while and have just recently gotten my General Lines Life, Accident and Health License. My question is now what? To better illustrate my question: I have recently been approached by State Farm, I have been reading the recent post on SF and have begun wondering if SF truly is the right decision for me and my family. What I am wondering (and please keep the newbie bashing to a minimum if possible) is other than the obvious answer of becoming either a captive or an independent agent what other avenues are available to me?
Re: Got My License...now What?
Do you want to work to eventually get a P&C license and maybe your own State Farm agency? If so, this is a great start. If not, if you want to concentrate on life and health, maybe go with a good captive and get trained, like mutual of omaha or NYL or NW or the New England or somebody. It's up to you, pick your career path. Do some research. Find your niche. Get trained and then maybe go on your own. It's up to you. Did you really think hard about it prior to getting your license? What are your thoughts?
I have had my L&H since 2004, started independent...didn't really know anything. But the timing was such that I becamee captive with a couple of well known health insurers and now I just passed the P&C this month and I am on the path of independence until I'm out.
I have been thinking about entering into the insurance industry for a while now and since I began the talks with SF I went ahead and tested for the General Life, Accident and Health, passed and just wanted some ideas of what other opportunities were out there. I am interested in becoming an independent agent but just wanted to get an idea of options. Is there any good stock in pursuing an Insurance counselor license? Or would I get better results with trying to get in with NYL and the such with out getting a P&C? Again I know these are very basic questions but because ya'll have been around the block I was wondering if there were positions out there that did not require having to become a captive or independent agent.
I am asking because of the experiences I have read about not really being able to make a real profit for a few years. i am not in a position where we could go with out income for over six months.
Stay Away From Captive! Go Independent!
I received got into this business a few years ago, and went captive. I passed the CA Life agent and ser. 6&63 easily, but there is a lot to learn beyond that in this industry. Maybe not for everyone, but if you want to right by your clients, it is nice to have some help with complicated cases.
You can use this form for help, there are a lot of good people here, but it may not be enough for all cases. If you are captive, you will have someone that you can go too.
If you do go indy, I would highly recommend you find a someone to mentor you. This will help keep you motivated, and give you someone to go to when you have case you need help with.
What part of the country are you from? I may have somebody who can help you.
Let me make a few calls and see what I can come up with. What part of Texax?
McKinney, thanks for your help. I really appreciate all that you are doing.
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WATCH: Schiff Admits Trump's Impeachment Is About Stopping Him From Winning Re-Election
by John Salvatore on January 23, 2020
The following article, WATCH: Schiff Admits Trump's Impeachment Is About Stopping Him From Winning Re-Election, was first published on Flag And Cross.
He admitted it, folks. The impeachment of President Donald Trump is strictly political. Of course, conservatives knew this from day one. The mainstream media has yet to catch on, but maybe now they will get a clue. Maybe.
On Wednesday afternoon, radically far-left Congressman Adam Schiff said something that should end this charade once and for all. And yeah, Schiff's words are a very big deal.
From Daily Wire:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is serving as a Democratic impeachment manager during President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial, admitted on Wednesday that Democrats' partisan impeachment was about stopping the president from being re-elected.
Schiff said, "The House did not take this extraordinarily step lightly. As we will discuss, impeachment exists for cases in which the conduct of the president rises beyond mere policies, disputes to be decided otherwise, and without urgency at the ballot box."
He added, "Instead, we are here today to consider a much more grave matter and that is an attempt to use the powers of the presidency to cheat in an election," Schiff continued. "For precisely this reason, the president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won."
"The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won."
— Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, during his opening statement to the U.S. Senate #ImpeachmentPBS pic.twitter.com/LaJux1Bh9I
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) January 22, 2020
Rep. Adam Schiff: "What we've seen here is far more serious than a third rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters."
"Where is Howard Baker? Where are the people who are willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty?"
Rep. Adam Schiff: "What we've seen here is far more serious than a third rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters."
"Where is Howard Baker? Where are the people who are willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty?" https://t.co/Q5w6PVVxew pic.twitter.com/IvDskBzXxG
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 21, 2019
POTUS called out Schiff for being the lying [insert word here] that he is. And in typical Trump fashion, he spoke the truth and did so with confidence. See for yourself…
If Shifty Adam Schiff, who is a corrupt politician who fraudulently made up what I said on the "call," is allowed to release transcripts of the Never Trumpers & others that are & were interviewed, he will change the words that were said to suit the Dems purposes. Republicans…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2019
….should give their own transcripts of the interviews to contrast with Schiff's manipulated propaganda. House Republicans must have nothing to do with Shifty's rendition of those interviews. He is a proven liar, leaker & freak who is really the one who should be impeached!
False stories are being reported that a few Republican Senators are saying that President Trump may have done a quid pro quo, but it doesn't matter, there is nothing wrong with that, it is not an impeachable event. Perhaps so, but read the transcript, there is no quid pro quo!
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Hey, you arrogant ignorant fool, all you are doing is pushing the most of the independent and some of the democrat voters our way! Thank you, you bumbling idiot. Also thank, Pelosi, Waters, and Nader, for us!!
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Sickening Bastard….!
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What would you do with the Incarnations?
Discussion in 'Indivisible' started by the_rpg_king, Dec 24, 2015.
I'll start. What would I do with the Incarnations is that I would make a book of Incarnations to keep track of them and add them to my collection in my folder. What about you?
Happy holidays to you too. Seems like the thread idea inspired the holidays.
I can't decide... Probably something to do with Zebei. Can't get enough of him!
If I had incarnations we'd argue over take out.
Hmm... Depending on how well Ajna can "block out" her Incarnations, I think I'd get very good at lightning quick showers where I hardly look at myself.
Ship all the female ones with each other.
New idea! I choose the two Incarnations out of the 28 and make them my spirits. I choose Dhar to keep my body heat maintained during the Winter and Nuna to grow flowers for my yard when Spring comes and so on.
You spend winter snuggling in bed with Dhar?
Actually, I been freezing in the morning, so I wake up use Dhar to keep me warm as my Fire Spirit.
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I'd play clue with them.
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Be a very large and quirky family.
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harem. not saying who, but harem.
I'd treat them to my room and have a big DJ party!
I would pet Lanshi and tell him he's a good boy.
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think of an obvious answer for someone perverted like me.
Midnight Bliss all of them?
"Every fiber of my being hates this but the promise of free bread is too tantalizing to pass up"
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I'd rather Relius Astral Heat all of them. Amane Astral Heat works well too.
I would try to learn from them and try to make them my friends.
We would play Settlers of Catan all days.
I'd rock paper scissors them daily.
This sounds like a sexual euphemism.
If by 'sexual euphemism' you mean 'I'm gonna be the champ' because they probably aren't familiar enough to be quick on the draw for a while, then you're spot on.
And by a while I mean like, four minutes.
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Are you some sort of RPS god that you can change your hand in that microsecond that they choose theirs???
Seriously, nobody's gone for the "Get out of my head!" joke yet? See, this is why we need more Punwheel.
No, but they might be after a few rounds of that.
Start a traveling circus of course!
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