If you want to sell your vehicle, you need to get maximum out of that. Buying a car is an investment, so you should consider the fact that people are going to make a conscious choice comparing your vehicle with the other ones available on the market. So do not hesitate to conduct some actions that will increase the sale price of your vehicle and at the same time make it more attractive for a future buyer.
When someone is considering your car for purchase, he is likely to order a CAR FAX VIN check to make sure the vehicle he will purchase is ok. That is why you need to make sure you provide real information on the vehicle, as if there are differences between the VIn check results report and information provided by you, the potential buyer is likely to refuse buying the car due to the lack of trust to you as a seller.
So you need to order VIN check first for yourself, and make sure there are no issues with the car you do not know about – for example, double-check that the car is not listed in the eligible police reports.
When you buy a car, the first thing you make a point of is the general appearance. This is the rule that always works, so you need to make sure the vehicle looks attractive; remove the scratches and damages; you may even have to refurbish the vehicle. Remember that if vehicle looks like new, you can increase the price considerably even if there are some issues in the interior.
If you are going to sell the car, you have to wash the vehicle inside and out, and make it shine. If you have no time for that, you'd better order cleaning from professionals. It will be more costly than just washing the vehicle yourself, but the result will be much more impressive. Make sure there is no unpleasant smell inside the car, or in the trunk. The potential buyer will definitely feel the smell, and will pay attention to it.
Consider that before making a purchase, the buyer keeps in mind the factors that affect his choice the most. You should also be aware what your potential buyer is seeking for.
Make small repairs, replace oil, and order diagnostics to make sure all the systems perform properly. If you are aware the car has any safety issues which are too costly to repair, decide what is better for you – to sell it as it is, but cheaper, or to make a repair, but then sell the vehicle for a higher price.
You need to understand who your car fits the best. Just consider why have you chosen it when you bought it, what factors were the main for you and made you choose this car among hundreds of other models. It is likely that your potential buyer is going to have the same reasons.
Consider that when you write an announcement, try to be honest and creative at the same time. Consider as an example the fact that Honda Accord that has been sold for $20 000 just because the seller made a viral video to promote it creatively. That doesn't mean you have to do the same – just remember that advertisement has to attract attention.
When you sell a vehicle you should consider the competitors. There are other people selling their cars, and some even sell the same model, so you need to make your offer good enough to sell your car for an optimal price.


I have built the 24" shelley foss, so this is bringing back memories, both good and bad amazing what similarities there are.. (is mine a 1:3rd scale version of yours?) great build.
one thing i would recommend: ditch the grain of wheat bulbs and go for LEDs.
My first Shelly Foss was a 36 inch back 20 years ago. I did a really novice paint job and railing job on it so recently I cleaned it all up, repainted it the true colors and re did all the railings with solid brass and solder. Looks really good now. Gave me the motivation to knock off this big Shelly Foss.
With regards to the Grain of Wheat lights. I researched the LED's and could probably figuring out the wiring for them. I could do it but I decided that I wanted more authentic lighting and besides I am running two full size marine blue top optima batteries in this tug to get the weight in it so I am not going to have an electrical supply problem. May even put an air horn in it. I may still put a few led's for the spot lights.
I just started wiring my 6 foot Harbor Tug tonight. The motor, prop and shaft is in and the power supply is on it. Just need to hook up the controllers for the motor and the bow thruster and I will be ready to do it's first test run to see how much wieght that tug will need.
I switched over to LEDs because of the life span, not for electrical reasons.
With a life of 20,000 hours, I don't think my great grand children will need to replace them, andIt is nice to know that I will never have a dead bulb in the middle of a mast that I have to fish out and replace again.
I like what Umi has done with LEDs cast into components, they look fantastic, and never have to be looked at for maintenance.
Now you have peaked my interest. Show me what UMI has done. I originally built these two monter scale tugs for just hauling a few carona beers down to my neighbors sitting on their docks or out to boaters on the lake without having to move off my dock (with style). Might as well consider doing it with some bling. I have never worked with lights on my boats nor experimented with LED's which I understand need a few extra electrical connections.
LEDs only weirdness is that they need a specific voltage, and the best way to get to that voltage is by wiring in a resistor. no biggie, and several websites now exist that will calculate the proper resistor for your voltage needs.
UMI's stuff may be a little small for this beastie, but you can always ask.
14:1 scale is what I need. Sort of no man's land when it comes to building large scale. On the one side is all the hobby stores that carry the kit parts for 20:1 or smaller scale applications and then there is West Marine that carries all the accessories for 1:1 scale. With 14:1 scale there is definitely a requirement for a band saw, drill and big imagination.
I have been ordering up some of the running gear for it and working on my 6 foot version of the 85 foot harbor tug (in another thread) putting all the electrical in so that I can get a better idea of how to do the electrical in this Shelly Foss.
not really, bought a 2004 42 foot country coach motor home and that became my new hobby for a few months. Much prefer a 12 liter cat diesel engine to a pittman motor. Will try to work on the tugs this winter.
I have been following your build with great interest. You're doing a fine job of it so far. And am awaiting further pictures of your tug as you progress. I'll just sit quietly over here in the corner and keep out of your way.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone have a guesstimate of what the all up weight will be with ballast?
I think this tug will be about 35 lbs for the finished tug plus three deep cell 12 volt boat batteries (40lbs each) for ballast that I install after I have lowered the tug into the water. I made the hull lite without any ballast so I could easily transport it.
I am going to use a combination of Pittman Motors and belt reduction drive units. See pictures below. I bought a reduction belt drive and replaced the motor it came with, with a pittman 12 volt motor. Not easy to find these Pittman motors anymore but I did find a few over the year. Have not worked on the Shelly Foss for a year now. Too many other projects on my bucket list right now. Just went down and snapped these pictures this morning for you.
The picture of the motor in the boat is of my 6 foot harbor tug set up which works really well. The prop is slightly bigger than the two props that will be on the Shelly foss. The pittman gets pretty warm to the touch since it is turning a 5.25 inch prop on the harbor tug. With the Shely foss it will be turning 4.5 inch kort props with a 2:1 reduction belt drive X 2 props and motors.
I have the astro flights in my 48 inch shelly foss but not sure if they would be good for a 4.5 inch prop. You want a motor that has sufficient windings and armitures so that the electronic speed control does not get figity at lower speeds. Creates a lot of heat when an electic motor is pushing a big prop at slow speeds and the electricity is arcing across the armitures as it spins around.
I am not an electrician nor do I know motors that well. I do know that the Pittman motors that I have do the best job at slow speeds and they are so quite. These motors were made for a particular navy project and were surplused many years ago. You can actually still get them as brand new but you pay over $200 or more for them. Probably not worth it. I found mine from other model builders that had them. The one in my harbor tug is brand new old stock.
I am not sure if the gearing in the Astros will be good for swinging the big prop either. I like the belt drive reduction over the gear. I have toyed with using various motors out of transfer pumps like they have at harbor freight for $25. Just take apart the impellor and pump on the front and you have a motor. Then order the belt, pulleys, bearings and shafts from some place in Europe over the internet and built the gear reduction unit. The trick is to find a motor with good windings and lots of armitures to reduce the arcing of the magnets when you are running slow to avoid the heat build up. Again I am probably not explaining this right but it does matter in terms of the quality of the motor to run at both slow and fast speeds efficiently. The 800 or 850 motor that was in one the previous pictures with the gear drive mounted on it really got hot with the 5 inch prop at all speeds. I replace that motor with the Pittman motor and it was just fine.
One guy I met at a rc meeting actually took at motor from a radar on a boat and used that for his belt driven drive motor. As I recall it was surplus and it was about 4 inches round by 6 inchs long. He was turning a 6 inch prop.
I am not sure when and if I will be getting around to finishing the 6 foot foss tug. I guess I would need maybe three more weekends to finish it but with the number of hobbies I have, I do not have that time right now.
The american Bosch are very good motors too. I tired to get some but they were out. Ebay is very limited on them too. They have not been made for years. If you go to a wrecking yard you might find them on the older 1960's and 1970's car wiper motors. The problem is that some of them have a adapter places on the face of them that are part of the wiper assembly and so they are not a clean motor. If you can find two of these at Loyalhanna then you will have a good motor to use in your tug. They are twice the size of the Pittman but that is ok since you will have more than enough hull to put them in. They work at lower speeds too since that is whata they were designed for. You may need to had a belt drive to make the speed of the prop more authentic though.
You are going to need the weight of at least three car batteries to get the hull to go down to the waterline. Build the tug light without any lead ballast so you can easily carry the hull where you want to take it. Biggest mistake I see is someone building these big boats and getting them so heavy that they need a small trailer or two people to load them into the water. That is what led shot weight packets from dive shops are for. I throw a few of them into the bottom of my tug for extra weight if I am just running one deep cell optima boat battery for weight.
I bought some special order cut pipe (aluminum and copper tube) from a place located here in Seattle. Quite the Candy store for buying all types of metals in any length you want. [link=http://www.onlinemetals.com/]Onlinemetals[/link] . I bought various pieces that I can tig weld or braze together depending upon whether I go Copper or aluminum. I think I walked away with an overkill amount of various odds and ends of metal so that I can improvise.
I had my 36 inch Shelly Foss as my prototype to build this on. I used the plans off the dumas 36 shelly Foss also. I ended up redoing the railings, electronics and paint job on my 36 inch model because it was my first build about 25 years ago and I did a really bad job on it. Now it looks as good as my Harbor tug and provides me inspiration for building the 6+ foot Shely Foss. I also have (2) 48 Shelly Foss Tugs. One still in its originaly unmolested box that has not been built yet and one that someone else started to build but passed away before they could finish it and I bought it off their estate. The builder got off the plans a bit building out the fiberglass hull and mating the deck to it so I figure I will start over with it and make it better. But then again, the 6 foot Shelly Foss is the bomb and anything smaller just does not seem right.
I got most of the prop hardware from a number of german hobby shops and Harbor Models. I have bow thrusters, smoke generators, fire monitors, water pumps, LED 12 volt lighting, electronic switches and all the other fun stuff to go on these big tugs. Trick is finding the right scale stuff to look right. I found various new old stock real rubber tires from various hobby model trucks and 4 wheeler manufactures that were selling the remaining stock of tires so that I could put tires around both tugs.
I live on a large lake here in Bellevue WA so both of my 6 foot tugs will be easier to see and be able to tow a sizable load.....like me on a inner tub with a cold one.
Now if I only had the time to work on them.


This morning I watched a shattering 60 Minutes piece I had not seen before. It was a 1998 interview with Hugh Thompson, Jr., who died yesterday of cancer--he was 62.
Thompson was the Army helipcopter pilot in Vietnem who, upon realizing that a massacre was taking place at My Lai, landed his helicopter and tried to rescue the Vietnamese civilians being murdered by American troops. When a lieutenant leading some of the ground troops refused to allow Thompson into a bunker to save its occupants--children and elderly villagers--Thompson did something unimaginably brave. He told the lieutenant he was going in anyway. He asked his younger crew mates, Larry Colburn and Glenn Andreotta, to shoot the Americans if they fired.
Thompson and his crew managed to save 10 people that day. To do so they had to train their guns upon their own countrymen. Andreotta was killed in combat three weeks later, but Thompson and Colburn lived to testify at the My Lai courts-martial. For this they were long reviled as turncoats.
The 60 Minutes piece was re-aired this morning to honor Thompson's memory. I'm sure a lot of you were familiar with him already, but I am ashamed to say that before this morning I never knew his name. In the piece, Thompson and Colburn return to My Lai on the 30th anniversary of the massacre. At one point a very old woman approaches them, and makes it known that she was there, lying in the ditch, surrounded by corpses. Why, she asks through a translator, why were they killed? And why was Thompson different from the other Americans? Thompson cries and tells her that he doesn't know. He tells her he's so sorry. Later, two of the women saved from the bunker sit with Thompson and Colburn as the interview continues--one woman clutches Colburn's hand and he returns her grasp. It's devastating.
Lauri - I never heard this story before so THANK YOU for sharing it.
I read somewhere once that heroes are ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
RIP, sir - you set the standard.


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Allows Attorney General to fund out-of-state healthcare expenses for child sexual assault survivors
COLUMBUS- State Reps. Michele Lepore-Hagan (D-Youngstown) and Tavia Galonski (D-Akron) today announced they will file the Protect Child Victims Act, legislation giving the Ohio Attorney General's office the ability to make emergency awards from the Crime Victim Compensation Fund for any healthcare treatment, including abortion care, for child victims of sexual assault and abuse.
"Child rape victims should have access to the abortion care they need in Ohio. We should not further traumatize those precious little bodies and minds by forcing them to go through nine months of pregnancy, child birth, parenthood, and all those health and safety risks that come with it, if they decide otherwise. As a mother, I can't comprehend doing that to a child against their will, but sadly this is the unfortunate world Ohio's out-of-touch Republican extremists want for them," said Rep. Lepore-Hagan. "We are committed to removing any barrier that stands in the way of their healing, including the cost of travel and receiving an abortion after being assaulted."
Administered by the Ohio Attorney General's office, and paid for by criminal fines as opposed to tax dollars, the Ohio Victims of Crime Compensation program assists victims with out-of-pocket expenses resulting from the crime. The Protect Child Victims Act would ensure all healthcare expenses resulting from a child sexual assault, including those received out-of-state and abortion care, are eligible for an emergency award of up to $2,000. The awards are made at the discretion of the Ohio Attorney General.
Senate Bill (SB) 23, Ohio's 6-week abortion ban, has already forced a 10-year old Ohio girl who became pregnant as a result of being raped to leave the state to receive an abortion. While an Ohio court has blocked SB 23 indefinitely, Statehouse Republicans have made it clear they want to ban abortion completely in Ohio. This legislation would financially support child victims such as this 10-year old girl. 538 children received abortion care in 2021, with 57 of these children being younger than 15 years-old, below Ohio's age of consent.
"This is just one more way we can improve Ohio's culture of reporting and supporting. We should encourage the reporting of sexual offenses and support the child victims who desperately need our help," said Rep. Galonski. "Ohio's children need us to step up, and parents deserve to know what we are doing to keep them safe. We hope to have bipartisan support in our efforts to protect Ohio's children."
While Ohio law generally prohibits state and local funds from being used for payment or reimbursement for abortion services, pregnancies that result from a rape that is reported to law enforcement remain eligible. Eligibility for the emergency award in the Protect Child Victims Act would require reporting to and cooperation with law enforcement, processes that are consistent with other crimes eligible for reparations at the discretion of the Ohio Attorney General. An emergency award of $2,000 would be deducted from a final award, up to $50,000, through the Crime Victims Compensation Fund's normal application process.
Reps. Lepore-Hagan and Galonski are among the Democratic lawmakers and leaders in Ohio on efforts to support abortion care access and sexual assault survivors. Rep. Lepore-Hagan is the lead sponsor of House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR 5), the Reproductive Freedom Act, legislation initiating a statewide vote on an amendment to Ohio's constitution guaranteeing the right to personal decision making on all matters related to pregnancy, family planning and contraceptives.
In April of 2021, Rep. Galonski introduced House Bill (HB) 266, the Hidden Predator Act, legislation eliminating the statute of limitations for rape, removing Ohio's marital loophole for rape, and extending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. She has also introduced similar pieces of legislation championing justice for survivors of sexual violence in the previous two General Assemblies.
"Our efforts in government should be focused on helping law enforcement deal with actual criminals. Extremists instead are dedicating resources toward criminalizing innocent children who have been through a traumatic, horrific event," said Rep. Galonski.
"This is a scary time, but we have hope. We want to give our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including Ohio's Attorney General, as many opportunities as possible to wrap these kids in love and show them we all care. This should not be a partisan issue," said Rep. Lepore-Hagan. "There are still people, like Rep. Galonski and I, who are fighting for our children's future."

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The TTC has been forced to keep its old fleet on the road far longer than expected, costing millions in maintenance that it wasn't planning to spend.
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There is no doubt that home prices have been rising steadily in the Pueblo real estate market. On Nov 28, 2017 the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Federal Housing Administration announced it will increase its loan limits in most areas of the country in 2018. The FHFA limits are for loans eligible or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In Pueblo in 2017, if you were to purchase a home with FHA backed financing you were only allowed to borrow up to $275,665. In 2018 that loan limit will increase to $294,515.
Other loan limits increases are 2 family dwellings, from $352,950 in 2017 to $377,075, three family dwellings from $426,625 in 2017 to $455,800 in 2018, four family dwellings from $530,150 in 2017 to $566,425 in 2018. According to the FHA, in 2016 the average home price in Pueblo was $149,000 which in 2017 will increase to $155,000. That represents an approximate increase in home prices in Pueblo County of 6%. That's roughly equivalent to the home price appreciation I am seeing when I analyze our home sales in the Pueblo MLS.
In layman's terms. When you purchase a home there is essentially 4 ways to purchase; cash, a conventional loan, an FHA backed loan, or a VA (Veterans) loan. Many loans in Pueblo County, roughly a third of all homes are purchased with FHA financing. This means that if you were to purchase a home in Pueblo County in 2017, the most home you could qualify for was the $275,665 figure. In 2018, if you are purchasing a home with FHA financing, you'll be able to purchase a home up to $294,515.
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Yoon Soo Park was born in Yecheon, North Gyeongsang- buk-do Province. He earned high education degrees in physics as follows: BS from Seoul National University, MS from the University of Albert, and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He received an honorary Doctor of Science from Chonbuk National University. He was also a visiting professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Seoul National University, and at Johns hopkins University. Park made his literary debut by winning the Korean Expatriate Literary "New Poet Award." He currently serves as Vice- President of the Korean Expatriate Literary Association.


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June 14, 1997: Defense's Emphasis of McVeigh's Political Ideology May Have Contributed to Death Sentence, Analysts Say
Many legal experts say Timothy McVeigh's defense lawyers may have inadvertently helped sentence their client to death (see June 11-13, 1997). At McVeigh's behest, the defense lawyers' strategy was to paint McVeigh as a political idealist who believed that the government's actions at Ruby Ridge (see August 31, 1992 and August 21-31, 1992) and the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas (see April 19, 1993 and April 19, 1993 and After), constituted the first wave of a larger assault by the government against its citizenry. Instead, many analysts say, the jury may have taken account of those beliefs in deciding McVeigh deserved to die. Law professor Laurence H. Tribe says, "The more he seemed like a person who misguidedly, but deliberately, schemed a form of revenge that involved the sacrifice of innocent life, the less likely the jury was to spare his life." Fellow law professor Erwin Chemerinsky agrees, saying: "We especially want to deter people from thinking they can commit mass murder in the name of politics. My guess is that the defense was hoping that the jury would see this as a person outraged and maybe feel more empathy with him. I certainly think that from the defense perspective it was a counterproductive instruction." Tribe believes McVeigh himself insisted that his lawyers emphasize his political ideology, saying: "Clearly Mr. McVeigh was unwilling to portray any kind of remorse through his demeanor or what he would allow his lawyers to argue. They must have decided that their only remaining recourse was to make what he did understandable, if outrageous." [New York Times, 6/14/1997] McVeigh's mother blames the government and the news media for McVeigh's conviction and death sentence (see June 13, 1997).
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10:00 a.m. December 1 - 4, 2000: US Supreme Court Overrules Florida Supreme Court's Ruling on Florida Recounts
The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the Bush presidential campaign's challenge on constitutional grounds of Florida Supreme Court's ruling on selective manual recounts (see November 20-21, 2000). The case is Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board. Throngs of protesters surround the Supreme Court building. Inside, the justices' questions indicate that they are divided on the legality of the Florida high court's intervention, and some justices seem to think that Florida courts should resolve the issue. Justice Anthony Kennedy says, "We're looking for a federal issue." Justice Stephen Breyer asks, "What's the consequence of our going one way or the other now in this case?" Observers will later describe Laurence Tribe, an experienced Supreme Court litigator representing the Gore campaign, as listless and flat, while Theodore Olson, arguing the Bush campaign's case, is "more impressive." Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia give the impression that they believe the Florida Supreme Court encroached on the Florida legislature's bailiwick. Justices Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor (see After 7:50 p.m. November 7, 2000 and (November 29, 2000)) express their irritation with the Gore arguments. When the arguments are over, the justices meet in chambers for the usual conference. At one end of the argument is Scalia, who wants to overturn the Florida decision and in essence award George W. Bush the election, and at the other, Justice John Paul Stevens, who wants the Court to stay out of the case altogether. Neither justice can command a majority among the other seven. Rehnquist begins drafting a ruling asking the Florida high court to clarify its ruling, to cite the state constitution in its decision (which the Bush team had argued would have been improper), or under state law (which the Bush team had found arguably permissible). All nine justices eventually sign onto Rehnquist's opinion. A 2004 Vanity Fair article will observe: "The unanimity was, in fact, a charade; four of the justices had no beef at all with the Florida Supreme Court, while at least four others were determined to overturn it. But this way each side could claim victory: the liberal-to-moderate justices had spared the Court a divisive and embarrassing vote on the merits, one they'd probably have lost anyway. As for the conservatives, by eating up Gore's clock—Gore's lawyers had conceded that everything had to be resolved by December 12—they had all but killed his chances to prevail, and without looking needlessly partisan in the process. With the chastened Florida court unlikely to intervene again, the election could now stagger to a close, with the Court's reputation intact, and with Bush all but certain to win." On December 4, in a setback for the Gore campaign, the Court unanimously sets aside the Florida Supreme Court ruling and remands for clarification the Florida Supreme Court's decision. [Supreme Court of the United States, 12/4/2000; US News and World Report, 12/13/2000; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/17/2000; Vanity Fair, 10/2004; Leip, 2008]
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December 8-9, 2000: Bush Asks US Supreme Court to Declare Him President; Republicans Attempt to Delay Process; Supreme Court Halts Recounts of 'Undervotes'
The Bush campaign seeks stays in the Florida Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US Supreme Court regarding the acceptance of 43,852 "undervote" recounts in Florida counties. Most importantly, the Bush campaign also asks the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, which would declare its candidate the winner of the Florida presidential election. Both the Florida Supreme Court and Eleventh Appeals Court refuse to issue the stay. Most observers believe that if the recounts are completed and their vote totals tabulated, Democrat Al Gore will win enough votes to win Florida, and thusly become president. Currently Republican George W. Bush has a mere 193-vote lead (see December 7-8, 2000), and recount totals from Miami-Dade County alone are expected to give Gore more than this amount. One example of the problematic situation in Florida is with Duval County, which includes the city of Jacksonville, where claims of massive African-American disenfranchsement and discrimination (see November 7, 2000) have already tainted the balloting. Duval has 4,967 undervotes, but they are mixed in with 291,000 others, all stored in boxes in a vault. The all-Republican electoral board, as seen on national television, has begun examining ballots, but as The Guardian observes, "with such painstaking reluctance to proceed, it amounted to an effective filibuster." Democratic spokeswoman Jenny Backus tells reporters, "What we've heard is that they're going to try to slow this down by every means they can." However, the US Supreme Court issues the requested stay and the undervote tabulation stops. The Court does not issue the requested writ of certiorari. [Supreme Court of the United States, 12/8/2000 ; Supreme Court of the United States, 12/9/2000 ; Guardian, 12/10/2000; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/17/2000; Leip, 2008] The divide among the nine US Supreme Court justices is plain. The five conservative justices, led by Antonin Scalia, have since December 4 been circulating memos among themselves and their clerks, bouncing various arguments off one another in what the liberal justices' clerks feel is an attempt to audition and solidify their arguments in favor of overturning the Florida high court's decision and giving the presidency to Bush. The four liberal justices, led by John Paul Stevens, have long felt that the Court had no business being involved in the issue, that it was instead up to the Florida judiciary and legislature to settle the matter. Stevens, writing the anticipated dissent for the minority, has to ask the majority for more time to complete his dissent, so eager are they to issue their ruling. When Scalia sees in Stevens's dissent the line that says, "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm"—a direct rebuke to Scalia's earlier argument that the Florida recounts would do "irreparable harm" to a Bush presidency—Scalia inadvertently delays the proceedings to write his own angry rejoinder, which reads in part, "Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires." Scalia's nakedly partisan stance discomfits even some of the other conservative justices' clerks and angers the liberal clerks. "The Court had worked hard to claim a moral high ground, but at that moment he pissed it away," one later recalls. "And there was a certain amount of glee. He'd made our case for us to the public about how crassly partisan the whole thing was." After Scalia finishes his rejoinder, the Court issues its stay, stopping all further recounts. Gore himself, unaware of the arguments and partisanship dividing the Court, still holds out hope that one of the conservatives—O'Connor or Anthony Kennedy, perhaps (see After 7:50 p.m. November 7, 2000 and (November 29, 2000))—can be reached. "Please be sure that no one trashes the Court," he admonishes his staffers. Gore decides to have campaign lawyer David Boies instead of Laurence Tribe argue the campaign's case in the upcoming arguments, perhaps hoping that Boies, more moderate than the outspokenly liberal Tribe, might win some support from either Kennedy or O'Connor. Boies has also been representing Gore in Florida, and can presumably reassure the justices of the fundamental fairness of what is happening there. The liberal clerks have no such illusions. What hopes they have now are pinned on the press. One has heard a rumor that the Wall Street Journal is preparing to publish a story reporting that O'Connor had been overheard at a dinner party expressing her opposition to a Gore presidency; that report, the clerks hope, might force O'Connor to recuse herself from the decision and tie the court at 4-4. However, O'Connor has no such intention. Gore's lawyers, aware of O'Connor's statements, consider asking her to recuse herself, but decide instead to restrain themselves in hopes that she will, according to a 2004 Vanity Fair article, "now lean toward them to prove her fairness." [Vanity Fair, 10/2004]
Entity Tags: County of Miami-Dade (Florida), Wall Street Journal, County of Duval (Florida), Anthony Kennedy, Albert Arnold ("Al") Gore, Jr., Al Gore presidential campaign 2000, US Supreme Court, The Guardian, John Paul Stevens, Laurence Tribe, George W. Bush presidential campaign 2000, George W. Bush, Sandra Day O'Connor, Florida Supreme Court, Jenny Backus, Antonin Scalia, David Boies
January 9, 2006: Former Government Officials, Law Professors Reject Justice Department's Arguments that NSA Wiretapping Program Is Legal
Fourteen law professors and former federal officials send a letter criticizing the Justice Department's recent legal arguments supporting the legality of the secret NSA surveillance program (see December 19, 2005 and December 21-22, 2005). The letter is signed by law professors Curtis A. Bradley, a former State Department legal advisor; David Cole; Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general and assistant attorney general; Ronald Dworkin; Richard Epstein; Harold Koh, a former assistant secretary of state and a former Justice Department official; Philip B. Heymann, a former deputy attorney general; Martin Lederman, a former Justice Department official; Beth Nolan, a former presidential counsel and a former Justice Department official; William S. Sessions, the former director of the FBI; Geoffrey R. Stone; Kathleen M. Sullivan; Laurence H. Tribe; and William Van Alstyne, a former Justice Department attorney. The letter is couched in legal language, but clearly states that the signees consider the NSA surveillance program entirely illegal: "[T]he program appears on its face to violate existing law." The signees consider and reject the Justice Department's argument that Congress "implicitly authorized the NSA program when it enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against al-Qaeda" in 2001 (see September 14-18, 2001), writing: "[T]he AUMF cannot reasonably be construed to implicitly authorize warrantless electronic surveillance in the United States during wartime, where Congress has expressly and specifically addressed that precise question in FISA and limited any such warrantless surveillance to the first 15 days of war." The signees also reject the Justice Department's argument that the president's "inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to collect 'signals intelligence'" is not prohibited by FISA. The signees conclude that the Justice Department has failed "to offer a plausible legal defense of the NSA domestic spying program. If the administration felt that FISA was insufficient, the proper course was to seek legislative amendment, as it did with other aspects of FISA in the Patriot Act, and as Congress expressly contemplated when it enacted the wartime wiretap provision in FISA. One of the crucial features of a constitutional democracy is that it is always open to the president—or anyone else—to seek to change the law. But it is also beyond dispute that, in such a democracy, the president cannot simply violate criminal laws behind closed doors because he deems them obsolete or impracticable." [Marty Lederman, 1/9/2006; Center for Democracy and Technology, 1/9/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Harold Koh, William S. Sessions, William Van Alstyne, Curtis Bradley, Beth Nolan, Geoffrey Stone, US Department of Justice, Walter Dellinger, Richard Epstein, Martin ("Marty") Lederman, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Ronald Dworkin, National Security Agency, Philip Heymann, David D. Cole
July 23, 2006: ABA Task Force Declares Bush's Use of Signing Statements Unconstitutional
The American Bar Association (ABA)'s Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine issues its final report for its investigation into whether President Bush has exceeded his presidential authority by using signing statements to assert that he can ignore or override laws passed by Congress (see June 4, 2006).
Bush Violating the Constitution - The report concludes that Bush is violating the Constitution by signing a bill and then issuing a signing statement declaring that he will refuse to obey selected sections of that bill. The president's own belief that a particular provision of a law is unconstitutional carries no legal weight, and gives him no right to ignore or disobey that provision, the task force finds. The Constitution gives presidents only two options: veto a bill, or sign it and enforce it. "The president's constitutional duty is to enforce laws he has signed into being, unless and until they are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court," the report reads. "The Constitution is not what the president says it is."
De Facto Line-Item Veto - Signing statements as used by Bush and earlier presidents (see 1984-1985, August 23, 1985 - December 1985, October 1985, February 6, 1986 and After, and November 1993) are evolving into a kind of back-door line-item veto, which the Constitution does not grant presidents—especially when Congress cannot override it. "A line-item veto is not a constitutionally permissible alternative," the report reads, "even when the president believes that some provisions of a bill are unconstitutional. A president could easily contrive a constitutional excuse to decline enforcement of any law he deplored, and transform his qualified veto into a monarch-like absolute veto."
Bringing the Presidency Back into Alignment - Over 150 newspaper editorial boards, columnists, and cartoonists quickly endorse the ABA's call to end the abuse of signing statements. Some critics of the ABA report say that, in attempting to avoid singling out Bush for criticism, the task force failed to address the root issue behind the signing statements—the unitary executive theory espoused by the administration (see April 30, 1986). Instead of asking that signing statements themselves be ended, some critics say, the Bush administration's attempts to usurp other branches' power for the presidency must be curbed. Law professor Laurence Tribe calls the Bush administration "pathological power holders" and "misfits" who are abusing a valid presidential tool. Task force member Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman, says the fundamental issue is to bring the presidency back into proper alignment with the other two branches. "It's not about Bush, it's about what should be the responsibility of a president," he says. "We are saying that the president of the United States has an obligation to follow the Constitution and exercise only the authority the Constitution gives him. That's a central tenet of American conservatism—to constrain the centralization of power." [American Bar Association, 7/23/2006 ; Savage, 2007, pp. 245-247]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, ABA Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, Bush administration (43), Mickey Edwards, Laurence Tribe, American Bar Association
December 13, 2006: Conservatives, Liberals Join in Legal Brief Supporting Enemy Combatant's Right to Trial
Civil libertarians, both conservative and liberal, join in filing a legal brief on behalf of suspected al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (see December 12, 2001), whose lawyers are preparing to file a suit challenging his detention as an "enemy combatant" (see February 1, 2007). Liberal and progressive law school deans Harold Koh of Yale and Laurence Tribe of Harvard are joined by conservatives such as Steven Calabresi, a former Reagan White House lawyer and co-founder of the staunchly conservative Federalist Society, in a brief that argues an immigrant or a legal resident of the US has the right to seek his freedom in the US court system. Al-Marri is a Qatari citizen who attended Bradley University in Illinois. The brief argues that the Military Commissions Act (MCA) (see October 17, 2006) is unconstitutional. The brief "shows the phrases 'conservative' and 'libertarian' have less overlap than ever before," says law professor Richard Epstein, a Federalist Society member who signed it, adding, "This administration has lost all libertarians on all counts." Koh says: "This involves the executive branch changing the rules to avoid challenges to its own authority. Serious legal scholars, regardless of political bent, find what the government did inconsistent with any reasonable visions of the rule of law." Epstein, who says Koh is "mad on many issues," agrees, calling the al-Marri case "beyond the pale." He says, "They figured out every constitutional protection you'd want and they removed them." Lawyer Jonathan Hafetz, representing al-Marri, says the case brings up issues about what the framers of the Constitution intended—something libertarians and judicial conservatives often look to. [Associated Press, 12/13/2006]
Entity Tags: Richard Epstein, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Federalist Society, Harold Koh, Steven Calabresi, Jonathan Hafetz, Laurence Tribe
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Civil Liberties
September 2007: Former White House Lawyer and Law Professor Say Bush Abuses Presidential Signing Statements
President Bush has abused his prerogative to issue "signing statements" that state the White House's interpretion of Congressionally passed laws (see Early 2005), according to former White House counsel John Dean and constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe.
History - Signing statements have no weight in law, but presidents have traditionally used them to state their belief that a particular legislative provision is unconstitutional, and on rare occasion (before the current president) to state their refusal to enforce that provision. Since Jimmy Carter's administration, various Justice Department officials have said presidents can refuse to enforce a particular provision of signed, legally binding legislation. [Dean, 2007, pp. 112-116] A group of young conservative lawyers in the Reagan administration decided that signing statements were a powerful, and stealthy, way to expand presidential power.
Dean: Bush's Use of Signing Statements 'Extraordinary' - However, Dean says that Bush has used signing statements far more extensively than any president before him. Dean notes that, while presidential signing statements themselves are not illegal or inherently wrong, "[i]t is Bush's abuse of them that is extraordinary." Dean writes there has been no concerted effort to find out if Bush is just saying he will not comply with the inordinate number of legislative provisions he has objected to, or if he is refusing to comply with them in practice. If the latter is the case, Dean writes, "he should be impeached immediately… because it would be an extraordinary breach of his oath" of office.
Tribe: Bush's Signing Statements 'Bizarre,' 'Reckless' - Dean cites Tribe, who said in 2006, "[W]hat is new and distressing [about Bush's use of signing statements] is the bizarre, frighteningly self-serving, and constitutionally reckless character of those views—and the suspicion that the president either intends actually to act on them with some regularity, often in a manner that won't be publicly visible at the time, or intends them as declarations of hegemony and contempt for the coordinate branches—declarations that he hopes will gradually come to be accepted in the constitutional culture as descriptions of the legal and political landscape properly conceived and as precedents for later action either by his own or by future administrations." [Dean, 2007, pp. 112-116; Joyce Green, 2007] Political science professor Christopher Kelley agrees. Kelley, who studied the Bush administration's use of signing statements, says: "What we haven't seen until this administration is the sheer number of objections that are being raised on every bill passed through the White House. That is what is staggering. The numbers are well out of the norm from any previous administration."
Signing Statements Supplanting Vetoes - In another disturbing trend, according to author and reporter Charlie Savage, Bush is using signing statements to supplant the traditional presidential veto. By mid-2007, Bush had vetoed just two bills. In contrast, Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, vetoed 37 bills. George H. W. Bush vetoed 44, and Ronald Reagan vetoed 78. Legal experts studying Bush's signing statements conclude that Bush and his legal team are using signing statements to function almost as line-item vetoes, a power the president does not have. The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that the Founding Fathers wanted the president to either accept a Congressional bill or reject it entirely, and if Congress overrode the veto, then the president had no other recourse than to follow the new law. But now, Savage writes, "the Bush-Cheney administration had figured out that if a president signed a bill and then instructed the government to consider selected provisions null (see December 30, 2005), he could accomplish much the same thing. Moreover, it was an absolute power because, unlike when there is a regular veto, Congress had no opportunity to override his legal judgments." [Savage, 2007, pp. 230-231]
Entity Tags: Laurence Tribe, John Dean, US Department of Justice, George W. Bush, Charlie Savage, James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., Christopher Kelley
March 14 - July 24, 2008: Lawsuit Challenging McCain's Citizenship Thrown Out
Fred Hollander, a New Hampshire resident, files a lawsuit challenging presidential contender John McCain (R-AZ)'s ability to serve as president. Hollander names the Republican National Committee (RNC) as a co-defendant. [Hollander v. McCain et al, 3/14/2008] Hollander's challenge hinges on a February 2008 report from conservative news blog News Busters that said since McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 (his parents, both US citizens were stationed on a Navy base in Panama at the time), he may not be eligible under Article II of the Constitution to be president. News Busters went on to report that McCain's claim to have been born in the Coco Solo Naval Hospital in the Canal Zone was false, since that hospital was not built until 1941, and the nearest hospital at the time of his birth was not on a US military base, but in the Panamanian city of Colon. Therefore, the report concluded, "we were lied to" about McCain's birthplace, and News Busters speculated that McCain's citizenship was in question. However, News Busters was in error. According to subsequent investigations by the press, the Panama Canal Zone did contain a small hospital at the Coco Solo submarine base in 1936, and McCain was born in that hospital. Archival records also show the name of the Naval doctor who signed McCain's birth certificate, Captain W. L. Irvine, the director of the facility at the time. News Busters, and Hollander, are in error in their reading of the law. Both of McCain's parents were US citizens, and McCain was born on a US military base, which qualifies under the Constitution as "US soil." The McCain presidential campaign has refused to release a copy of McCain's birth certificate, but a senior campaign official shows Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs a copy of the McCain birth certificate issued by the Coco Solo Naval hospital. [News Busters (.org), 2/21/2008; Washington Post, 5/20/2008] Additionally, the Panama American newspaper for August 31, 1936 carried an announcement of McCain's birth. [Washington Post, 4/17/2008 ] Two lawyers interviewed by CBS News concur that under the law, McCain is a "natural born citizen" and eligible to serve as president. Theodore Olson, the solicitor general for the Bush administration, and Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor generally considered to be a liberal, agree that challenges to McCain's citizenship are specious. [CBS News, 3/28/2008] Hollander files what is later determined to be a fake birth certificate with the court that purports to prove McCain has Panamanian citizenship. The court throws Hollander's lawsuit out on the grounds that Hollander has no standing to challenge McCain's citizenship. [US District Court, District of New Hampshire, 7/24/2008 ; Obama Conspiracy (.org), 2/27/2009; Obama Conspiracy (.org), 4/24/2010] The lawsuit is similar in nature to numerous court challenges to McCain's Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama (see August 21-24, 2008, October 9-28, 2008, October 17-22, 2008, October 21, 2008, October 31 - November 3, 2008, October 24, 2008, October 31, 2008 and After, November 12, 2008 and After, November 13, 2008, and Around November 26, 2008).
Entity Tags: Laurence Tribe, Theodore ("Ted") Olson, Michael Dobbs, Republican National Committee, John McCain, Fred Hollander, News Busters (.org), W. L. Irvine, Coco Solo Naval Air Station
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, 2008 Elections
August 24, 2009: Obama Administration Releases 2004 CIA Report on Torture
Cover of CIA OIG report, with redactions. [Source: CIA / New York Times]A 2004 report by the CIA's inspector general (IG) on torture (see May 7, 2004) is released to the public, after months of speculation as to its contents. The CIA opposed the release of the report for years, arguing that the release would demoralize its personnel and make it more difficult for the agency to do its job. The report's release is triggered by a federal judge's ruling in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The report, authored by former Inspector General John Helgerson, is heavily redacted, but the portions released to the public include a number of illegal and ethically questionable tactics used by US interrogators against detainees. Some of those tactics include the use of handguns, power drills, threats, smoke, and mock executions. Many of the techniques used against detainees were carried out without authorization from higher officials, and the Justice Department is reopening investigations into a number of the most serious allegations (see First Half of August 2009). The report says that the CIA's efforts to provide "systematic, clear, and timely guidance" to interrogators were "inadequate at first" and that that failure largely coincided with the most significant incidents involving the unauthorized coercion of detainees, but as guidelines from the Justice Department accumulated over several years, oversight "improved considerably." In the words of the Washington Post, "the report pointed to ongoing tensions between interrogators in the field and officials at the CIA Counterterrorism Center as to when detainees were compliant and when the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' was appropriate." [MSNBC, 8/24/2009; Washington Post, 8/24/2009] In a statement, Helgerson says, "The most important findings of the review related to basic systemic issues: had management controls been established; were necessary laws, regulations, and guidelines in place and understood; had staff officers and contractors been adequately trained; and had they discharged their responsibilities properly?" [Washington Post, 8/24/2009] Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff says that the "report was generated at the beginning by agency officials within themselves who had deep concerns about what was going on. I was struck. One officer is quoted in this report saying that he's concerned that he might one day—agency officers might one day end up on some 'wanted list' to appear before the world court for war crimes stemming from these activities. It was agents—it was the concerns about this came from within the agency. That's what generated this report."
Recommendations Redacted - Isikoff notes that at least half of the report is redacted, including the IG's recommendations, and says, "I'm told the worst stuff is in those blacked out passages, which means we still don't know the full story of this program." [MSNBC, 8/25/2009] The report contains 10 recommendations for action on the CIA's part, but all of them are redacted. [McClatchy, 8/24/2009] Helgerson states his regret that so much of the report is redacted. "The essence of the report is expressed in the Conclusions and Recommendations," he says. "I am disappointed that the government did not release even a redacted version of the Recommendations, which described a number of corrective actions that needed to be taken." [Washington Post, 8/24/2009] Isikoff's Newsweek colleague, Mark Hosenball, says he believes much of the redacted information has to do with "renditions": detainees transferred to foreign countries "and abused there." [PBS, 8/24/2009]
Detailing 'Crime Scene[s]' - Author and reporter Jane Mayer says she believes the report, "in essence, [details] a crime scene. It's very hard to get away from the fact that things like death threats and mock executions are specifically identified as torture under the Convention Against Torture and, therefore, are illegal, and they're considered very major crimes. So the problem for the Obama administration, which inherited this report and the question about what to do about it, is that it's a red flag to any prosecutor. It's very hard to ignore this, when you've taken an oath of office that says you're going to execute the laws and uphold the Constitution. So they've got to somehow do something with this. I was interviewing Larry [Laurence] Tribe, a law professor, who said, you know, it's hard to do nothing about this when you see it." Reporter David Ignatius notes that an earlier review by Justice Department prosecutors found that no one at the CIA could be prosecuted for crimes based on the findings of the report. However, that may no longer be true. "[I]t is interesting and troubling to people at the CIA that something that was already decided not prosecutable is now maybe prosecutable," he says. Mayer notes that during the Bush administration, possible prosecutions were short-circuited by political appointees such as then-US Attorney Paul McNulty, "who was very much a political player, who actually wound up having to resign later in the Bush administration for other political problems." [PBS, 8/24/2009]
Federal Prosecutor Appointed - In part as a result of reviewing the CIA report, Attorney General Eric Holder names a special prosecutor to determine if the CIA or its hired contractors broke any laws in interrogating detainees (see August 24, 2009).
Reactions - CIA Director Leon Panetta issues a statement that supports the agency's efforts while avoiding defending torture or abuse. In his statement, Panetta writes that he is not "eager to enter the debate, already politicized, over the ultimate utility of the agency's past detention and interrogation effort." He says the program produced crucial intelligence but adds that use of the harsh methods "will remain a legitimate area of dispute." Overall, Panetta says, the agency is committed to "moving forward" and not spending large amounts of time reflecting on past practices. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls the report, and the concurrent appointment of special prosecutor John Durham to investigate torture allegations (see August 24, 2009), "a great relief, a great moment for America as a country." He continues: "We've finally seen the rule of law brought forward in a way that it is clear and direct on this situation, which has been so sort of poisoned with personalities and politics and propaganda. It's a first kind of clear, bright light, and I couldn't be happier, couldn't be more relieved." [New York Times, 8/24/2009; Central Intelligence Agency, 8/24/2009; MSNBC, 8/25/2009] The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer says, "The report underscores the need for a comprehensive criminal investigation that reaches not just the interrogators who exceeded authority but the senior officials who authorized torture and the Justice Department lawyers who facilitated it." [Washington Post, 8/24/2009] Joanne Mariner, the terrorism and counterterrorism program director at Human Rights Watch, says: "The CIA inspector general's report provides compelling official confirmation that the CIA committed serious crimes. A full criminal investigation into these crimes, and who authorized them, is absolutely necessary." [Human Rights Watch, 8/24/2009]
Entity Tags: Jane Mayer, Central Intelligence Agency, Bush administration (43), John Durham, David Ignatius, Jameel Jaffer, Joanne Mariner, Eric Holder, US Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Paul J. McNulty, Sheldon Whitehouse, Laurence Tribe, John Helgerson, Mark Hosenball, Leon Panetta, National Counterterrorism Center, Obama administration, Michael Isikoff


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4.2.13 | Oh Look! It's A Blog!
.: The Big Bo.obies Show FAIR :. started on April 1st.
I blogged a sneak peek before Easter but now that it is open I have a lot of stuff to blog that includes appliers.
I am wearing the sunkissed tone but there are several skin color options available as well as different eyebrow colors and blush contour options.
Also at the fair is the top I am wearing from DeeTaleZ. It's a cute vintage top, that I chose to wear in pink, but there are several other light "vintage'ish" colors.
I paired it all with the new Truth Hair – Tymber available at FaMESHed (which I love) , and tada!
Skin: Essences – Opera 01 *sunkissed* brown @ .: The Big Bo.obies Show FAIR :.
Top: DeeTaleZ Tops hot vintage top pink @ .: The Big Bo.obies Show FAIR :.
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Liz Bryman was born in Sweden and educated in England, France and the United States. She has worked as a translator and journalist in France and the U.S. with connections to the international intelligence and political communities. She now lives in the U.S.
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It sounds like you put a lot of thought into this aspect of your stories, how do you view the relationship between science fiction and politics?
You know, the thing I think can be so great about SF is how it can do the big political thing – it can re-examine our assumptions, it can take a real sort of counter-culture punch at things – and get away with it, because it's only sci fi! And I have this sense that 1960s science fiction does exactly that; but then, at some point post-1984, post-Gibson, it all changes, or at any rate we see a lot less of that.
I am, to a large extent, a political writer. Osama, my recent novel from PS Publishing, is obviously political, but not perhaps in the way people would expect. I tried to do that "it's only pulp, really" thing with it. It's a noir detective novel. Which I think is the only real way we can make sense of this narrative of terrorism and the whole "War on Terror" thing – it seems to me to come from some alternate history pulp novel, in so much of its iconography and the way it is told, the way it is spoken.
I love having fun writing, so the politics is, hopefully, underneath that – whether it's taking the piss out of a few SF writers in a short story like "The School", which I had to self-publish, or taking on the whole thing about Wikileaks and having a lot of weird SF fun with it in "Enter The Dragon. Later, Enter Another." – which I also published on my blog.
I have the feeling we're in a very conservative environment, an American-conservative environment, when it comes to genre fiction now. I suspect I will end up self-publishing more of these stories as magazines go for safe. I don't like safe. I don't have a lot of time for it.
In The Great Game, you bring in a number of literary and historical characters. How did you choose who to include?
Well, you kind of throw everyone in. I had fun doing the village in the first few chapters – a sort of home for retired detective characters really. Which itself resembles the village from The Prisoner. Part of the fun of steampunk, I always thought, is that game of spot-the-reference, so it's there if you want it, but doesn't have to be. I think Miss Marple has a cameo there (holding a Gatling gun and firing at a Zeppelin!).
There are elements of the classic spy novel in The Great Game, were you a fan of those books growing up? Did you read anything in particular to get a feel for how to approach your writing?
Sure, I'm a huge Le Carre fan – the whole Miss Havisham scene is an obvious, I think, reference to the Connie Sachs scenes in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And I love Adam Hall's Cold War thrillers, which are a lot more action-oriented than Le Carre. They were a prime influence on my novella An Occupation of Angels earlier on.
You travel a lot. How does visiting other countries affect your writing process?
I have to admit where I am really makes a big difference to what I write – I went through an obvious "Vanuatu period" when I was living in Vanuatu, and a longer "Lao period" when I was living in Laos. More recently I spent a year and a half in Israel again and that's been instrumental for the next big project I'm working on. Sense of place is really important to me – not just to visit but to cook in, to speak the language of, to drink the beer and argue the politics of a place. There is what I heard called "Gap Year SF" – you know, this sort of tourist-vision of "exotic" places in science fiction, but I have little interest in that. I'm bad at travelling. I'm better I think at just settling down somewhere for a while.
After living in all these places, if you had to choose one place to spend the rest of your life, where would it be and why?
The World SF Blog showcases science fiction writers from around the world and you recently started the World SF Travel Fund, a charity that helps international members of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror community travel to major genre events. As someone with their eye on authors from around the world, what are you noticing regarding non-Anglo speaking writers?
I think it's not so much the industry but the Internet – the fact that the means of communication have radically changed – which gives people more access. Translations are still pretty much non-existent – though a particular hat tip to Ken Liu, who's been doing an amazing job translating Chinese short stories recently. But you know, when I look over the last 3 years (since we launched the World SF Blog and published The Apex Book of World SF) it does feel like something has happened. I'd like to think so, at any rate.
What has your attention these days?
I'm pretty busy with a whole raft of projects – February has 3 books coming out, The Great Game in mass market; a picture book, Going To The Moon, about a boy with Tourette's; and, hopefully, The Apex Book of World SF 2. At the moment I'm finishing a couple of short stories for a couple of anthologies, and kind of easing into 2012. It's going to be a busy year I think.
Is there anything you wish someone would ask you but they never do?
No one ever asks me about poetry, that'd be kinda nice.
Poetry doesn't get enough attention in general and I bet not many people think to ask science fiction writers about it. Who are some of your favorite poets and why?
I'm so glad you asked me that! I would say Philip Larkin is one of my favorite poets. T.S. Eliot, naturally. I have a soft spot for Bukowski, and I'm a big fan of Wendy Cope, whose technical skill is astounding to me. But I could go on and on – the early Yehuda Amichai, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, some of Frost. I love the Hebrew poetry in "Song of Songs," which I think is magnificent (none of the English translations really do it justice), and equally, Shakespeare's sonnets are just as remarkable today as when they were written. I adore Basho, as much for his travel narratives as for his poetry. I have a fondness for the British war poets though I have never had that much time for the Romantics, with the exception of Blake.
Does poetry factor into how you approach your fiction?
I started off as a poet – my first book was 1998 Hebrew poetry collection, Remnants of God. These days I don't publish poetry much, but tend to incorporate poems into many of the short stories and the novels – you can find them in Osama, for instance, or in the short story that preceded it, "My Travels with Al-Qaeda," while my story "Shira" — which means "poetry" in Hebrew — is all about poetry and uses some of my old Hebrew poems, or fragments of them, in the narrative. Or you get stories like "High Windows," which is inspired somewhat by the Larkin poem of that name. Poetry is the most powerful and the most true of any writing, and the hardest to do. To capture one single, perfect poem — say, Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" — is something you could spend a lifetime chasing without success.


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It would ideally have a windows client (with cloud sync) and thinking mobile app for reminders and such. Calendar with automatic scheduling of some sort would be great too.
Anyone heard of something along these lines?
If not - any suggestions of API's or services that one could start with to roll their own solution?

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Q: open urls in a certain order when clicking a button using pyQt I'm trying to build an url opener using pyQt. Everything is fine but when i try to open multiple URLs at once they open unordered. For example I run something simillar to the code below
def UK_N(self):
    if self.txt_S_UK.text() != '':
        url = 'url1'
        webbrowser.open(url)

def FR_N(self):
    if self.txt_S_FR.text() != '':
        url = 'url2'
        webbrowser.open(url)

def DE_N(self):
    if self.txt_S_DE.text() != '':
        url = 'url3'
        webbrowser.open(url)

def Open_N(self):
    if self.box_N_UK.isChecked() == True:
        self.UK_N()
    if self.box_N_FR.isChecked() == True:
        self.FR_N()
    if self.box_N_DE.isChecked() == True:
        self.DE_N()

self.btn_N_Open.clicked.connect(lambda: self.Open_N())

and what I get is 3 tabs with url3 in the first one url1 in the second and url2 in the third. Is there a way to make these appear in the order I've programmed them?

A: This seems to depend on external processes that are outside of your control. Ideally, you would open the first url, wait for a notification that it had loaded, then open the next url, and so on. But of course, there is no such notification, so this doesn't seem possible.
Obviously, the order of the tabs depends on the nature of the resources, because they are being loaded asynchronously and some may load much faster than others. However, you could try to control things a little from within your program by using a timer to introduce a small delay:
    QtCore.QTimer.singleShot(200, lambda: webbrowser.open(url))

I wouldn't be surprised if this didn't work, though...


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Movies » Pirates of the Caribbean Rated: K+, English, Angst & Romance, Will T., Elizabeth S., Words: 1k+, Favs: 18, Follows: 4, Published: 6/3/2007
Just a little one off from me.
On a challenge was issued for someone to write a story about the scene between Will and Elizabeth below-decks on the Black Pearl. This is my response to that challenge, and I hope you guys like it because I wrote it when I was meant to be writing an essay, don't I know my priorities
Disclaimer: As with all other stories, I do not own Pirates, I just enjoy borrowing the characters every so often, throwing them in a blender and returning them, albeit in smoothie form. (Gross analogy, but you'll all live.)
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Will didn't know what he was doing below decks, only that he didn't want to be around Jack. What was he supposed to do now that they had 'rescued' him? Sure, they still had to find the way out of the locker, and Will was already beginning to see his reflection doing strange things, and quite frankly, he was sick of it.
But what was he supposed to do now that the man who had claimed his love's heart was back on board the ship. He couldn't bear to be around, to see their reunion. After all, he'd seen how her face had lit up on the beach when Jack came ashore. He had also seen her persuade him they were really in the locker, and not figments of his imagination.
But he also couldn't help get past Jack's announcement, that 'four of you have tried to kill me in the past;' well, Will could understand three, Barbossa, and the two dim-wits. But the fourth? Of course, Jack had then finished, "one of you succeeded" and immediately he realized what Elizabeth had done. He just couldn't understand why?
Was she so in love with him that it hurt her and she wanted him out of the way? Was she trying to save herself from a likely death at the hands of the Kraken? He no longer understood her. He was still at a loss as to whether they were even friends or enemies, and thus whether he could even trust her anymore.
His thoughts were broken when he heard footsteps on the stairs. He was expecting Gibbs to appear, looking for his rum-flask, or one of the other pirates looking for the same liquor. But when nobody appeared, Will, curious as to why a pair of feet had come down the stairs, and not continued on, nor returned above decks, ventured out.
There was Elizabeth, sitting on the lower stairs, obviously lost in thought. That expression, he had come to recognize its features from so many hours of staring at it when she didn't realize it.
That was another thing that was irking him; in the days before this second adventure with Jack Sparrow, whenever Will had found himself staring at his love, and betrothed, she had always sensed it, and turned to see his blushing face at being caught and smiling. He missed those smiles she used to give him.
He wanted to see her face light up at his presence again, wanted to see the smiles she used to give him; wanted to feel her lips against his; wanted to hear her voice, happy and joyous; wanted to feel her warm body against his, like when she was re-teaching him to waltz so he wouldn't step on her toes at their wedding, or just simply when they would embrace. The last time he had seen, heard or felt any of these things was so long ago; that day on the beach, the first time he had seen her since that morning in the Fort jail.
He approached her slowly, walking under the staircase, realizing that now was the only time he could get answers from her; in particular regarding that particular accusation Jack had made against her.
As usual, she remained ignorant of his presence, despite the fact she didn't jump when he knew he was in her line of sight.
Taking a deep breath Will opened his mouth to speak, forcing all tone of accusation to the back of his mind, and forcing himself to think he was asking her a simple question such as 'how was your day?' Oh how he missed those conversations they would have in the evenings when Elizabeth would sneak down to the smithy ready for her sword-fighting lessons.
"You left Jack to the Kraken?" Success! He thought to himself, it came out exactly as he wanted it too.
Elizabeth didn't look at him however, shifting her line of sight from the empty space in front of her to the floor, never once looking at him, instead almost forcing herself not to look at him. Internally, this maddened Will. Why won't she look at me?
"It doesn't matter now. He's rescued, it's done with." She responded, half a whisper.
Will sighed. He understood her language. Now all he wanted to know was why, why had she left him; how had she left him? Why had she kissed him? But their relationship at the present moment, their level of conversation, meant Will couldn't find it in himself to ask, any of these questions.
Instead he turned away, trying to see the sea through some of the holes in the side of the ship.
"Will, I had no choice." Will was surprised to hear Elizabeth's voice, and the sound of her jumping to her feet that accompanied it, but he couldn't look at her, not now knowing she was capable of killing someone she considered a friend.
"You chose not to tell me." He had wanted those words to be accusatory; as of yet, Elizabeth had never seen him truly angry, which was something he was especially happy about. But now – well maybe angry was the wrong emotion. Hurt was more what he now wanted her to see coming from him. Yet his voice let him down, his words coming out bland and almost monosyllabic.
"It wasn't your burden to bear." Internally Will only felt anger at these words, and realized that the only way he could make her see the turmoil he'd been facing was to face her, to make her see it through eyes that seemed now finally ready to see him.
Yet again, he couldn't bring the necessary emotions to his exterior, and his voice maintained the sound it had throughout their conversation. "But I did bear it, didn't I. I thought that," now was the hard part. How the hell was he supposed to say what he had thought since the moment he saw his fiancé kissing Jack Sparrow?
But Elizabeth saw his falter, and read what he was trying to say, and said what he had, for now well over a year, thought was true. "You thought I loved him." The way she said it made something in Will's heart beat a little quicker.
He had been wrong; she wasn't in love with Jack. Such relief seemed to fill him, but still he had more questions he wanted to ask, and seeing Elizabeth move to leave him standing their, a look of shock and disgust mixed on her features, Will couldn't help himself, grabbing her arms and pushing her against the upright behind her.
Elizabeth in the meantime, as she felt the hardness of the wood press into her back, with the heat from Will's body warming her front, felt something that she hadn't felt in well over a year.
"If you make your choices alone, how can I trust you?" He whispered, his face so close to hers, his breath tickling her skin.
Elizabeth felt her eyes flutter, loosing her concentration as she felt her heart ache. Why were they only now having this conversation? Why hadn't she told him right then and there, or in Tia Dalma's shack the night before they set off for Singapore? Surely he would have understood her predicament. But now, as his words filtered through her senses and she realized what he said, the warmth she was feeling left her; left her feeling cold and wanting to escape his always comforting – despite the time between – arms.
"You can't." It hurt her so much to say those words, and she could see, too, in Will's eyes, that she had just hurt him as well. "But all you can trust," she went on in a whisper, "is that I, like you would do anything to protect me, would do anything to protect you." It was as Elizabeth was half way through this sentence that she felt her voice crack, felt something dark rise in her throat that was not bile, but instead rose and then appeared behind her eyes: tears.
When they had sat in the long boat, watching the Kraken pull the Pearl and Jack down to the depths along with it, Elizabeth had never shed a tear, and when they arrived at Tia Dalma's, the lone tear that fell had not been about the death of Jack, but the guilt, that it had indeed been she, who had left him there on deck, to await his fate. Now, a year since that day, Elizabeth had shed no more tears, not a single one, and yet here, trying in vain to escape Will's clutches, she felt like the entire ocean was about to pour out of her eyes.
Will saw how her eyes shut, how her head fell. He knew what was about to happen, he had seen it happen only twice before; the first time was not long after they first arrived in Port Royal, some twelve years earlier. It was the first ship that arrived carrying news of England and more people to make up Port Royal's society. On that ship, Elizabeth received word that her favorite cousin had died. Will remembered her reaction because he was sitting in the room with her, playing a game of cards when the maid came in with the note.
The second time was the day they were supposed to be married. She had played with the buttons of his jacket at the same time, and Will, despite the fact that he knew she was about to cry, couldn't help but wonder at just how beautiful she was, he'd commented her on it too. Now, however, he was at a loss.
He could sense she wanted to escape him, so instead of hugging her, he dropped his arms, stepping away from her, waiting for her to move. But she didn't. She just stood there, now looking as though she wanted him to hug her.
"I'm sorry, Will." She whispered, lifting her head, and allowing Will to see her own pain.
Upon seeing her tears, Will couldn't help himself, returning to her and wrapping his arms about her tightly, feeling her rest her head on his shoulder. Neither of them said a word, but both felt calmed by the closeness they had with each other. Only Elizabeth, nuzzling her head into his shoulder, smiled at the comfort, but they both realized that there was still a hope for them, even if it was going to take time.


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Im wondering what kind of dc motor controller i should get to get it running without the dash and controller card in the scooter.
And do you need a new bms or is it possible to use the one integrated in the original battery?
Its a 3Ø BLDC with hallsensors. I believe 300W on an ES4.
I think all hubmotor scooters are the same configuration aside from their respective volts and wattage.
It's 36v300w it says it on the motor where the QR code is.
So if i get a Dc brushless controller whats the difference with how many W it supports?
would this work or would it not work because of its only 250W support?
If you get a controller with less power, you will either burn the controller or get less power = less acceleration and lower top speed.
Ok so you guys suggest getting a dc controller with atleast 700w? or may the motor get bad from to much W in the controller card?
Also wondering what this cable with 4 wires does?
I get that the red and black is the power but the other one? is it needed for the BMS? and will it work connecting to a dc controller?
No risk burning the motor when using original battery. Go for a 500w to 1kw controller if you can find such.
The 4 wire connector is charging + bms communication. You will only use the charging part if you use a generic motor controller.
Thanks guys. will update when i get the parts needed!


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