As sad a state of affairs as it is, many people buy airplanes because of its "lipstick" or paint job. A good looking plane is great, but like good looking women, it really boils down to what's inside of that beautiful package. Often, the outer package is not an indication of the quality within that cover.
Airplanes are continually exposed to harsh environments, and the real purpose of the paint is to protect the plane's skin. So, touch up your paint for two reasons. The first reason being to keep corrosion from eating our birds alive, and secondly, to simply make our birds as attractive and up to date as possible.
Most owners do not have touch up paint for their birds, and think that because the paint is getting older, there is no way to match the paint. Not so. We've touched up 30 year old paint jobs and the plane looks so much better afterward. Let's face reality; a good looking clean plane just seems to fly better. At least it seems so!!
If you have a Pep Boys auto parts store near you, you can remove the inspection covers from your plane that contain all of the colors needed and take them down to Pep Boys to match it. They even come with in a bottle with its own application brush. If Pep Boys hasn't made it to your neighborhood yet, I'm certain that there are other auto parts stores that carry the same selection.
Under a good and true light, compare these bottles of paint with your color. It might surprise you at how often you might find a good match.
There are also small cans of car color spray paint that may match as well. You can spray some in the cap and then use a brush to touch up.
Older Mooney's have their windows screwed in, and those screws if factory installed, tend to rust making the rest of the plane not look its best. A suggestion is to touch them up!!
Additional causes such as Mechanic's screw drivers tending to slip and slide the paint away as well. Additionally, stone chips from the prop are also paint removing culprits.
These touch up paints will go a long way toward improving your plane's looks and will certainly benefit it aesthetically.
If you simply cannot find a color match, then locate an automotive paint supplier near you. For a small fee, they will computer match your color(s), then mix some up for you. However, this as inexpensive as finding your color directly at Pep Boys, but effective nonetheless.
Coast to Coast Aircraft Sales see planes all the time that have really good paint, yet because of IFR erosion and other causes, the leading edges have paint wear spots.
This type of touch up is more difficult, but there are options. Masking and spraying the wing color leaves an unattractive and obvious paint line, so that is usually out. I have seen some owners cover up the erosion by masking about 4" from the leading edge top and bottom, then painting the leading edge with one of the contrasting stripe colors–this looks pretty good. Others paint the area needing attention satin black to look like de-ice boots, while others buy strong and long lasting vinyl tape. Vinyl tape can come out good if you follow the directions precisely. Remember that million dollar motor homes use these vinyl tape graphics and it lasts for years and years with little care. An additional advantage with vinyl tape is that early every color under the sun is available.
Common Mooney rust spots to touch up include the pilot tube shroud, elevator control actuator rods near the tail end, gear legs, and tie down rings, not to mention screws. If you have installed stainless steel screws, you don't have to worry so much about corrosion taking over.
How about your seats and panel? If you have a black instrument panel, a large black Marks-A -Lot type felt pen will do wonders on that. An additional suggestion to use Marks-A-Lot is on your yokes if black. Radios can even benefit from occasional touch up. If the vinyl or leather on your seats is showing age, but the inserts are fine, you can remove the seats and paint them with vinyl/leather spray paint.
Why not make our airplanes look as good as they can be while preserving the metal?
In upcoming articles on maintaining our prided birds, we will address inexpensive ways of re-doing the interior on the cheap. Keep checking back here to learn more tips on how to care for your prized airplane.
As I have stated prior, many people buy a Mooney because of sharp new paint. Sharp paint is definitely attractive, but should not be the reason you purchase a plane. Mechanical condition should rate ions above fresh paint.
There are two ways to repaint your Mooney. Sand or strip. What are the differences?
Sanding and painting usually runs considerably less than stripping it. That's attractive for certain, as painting any aircraft can be expensive.
Stripping the old paint is harsh on the environment, and can be harsh on your airframe.
Keep in mind that when we repaint our cars, rarely do we completely strip the old paint off.
First off, you must use a company that is intimately involved with both processes. Try not to let those who do not do sand and paint talk you out of sanding as a possibility. It is obvious that stripping starts completely afresh, but those caustic chemicals can get in to places that the water blasting away of the stripper cannot reach. The problem that this can at times create is the stripper continuing to eat away at the aircraft aluminum. Additionally, it is not uncommon for a new strip and paint to blister after a few years because of the conditions of weather, humidity, poor preparation, etc. Your bare aluminum is exposed to all of these factors, and extreme care must be exercised in order to minimize the blistering possibility.
Not only are paint blisters unattractive, but corrosion can be growing beneath those blisters, so attention would have to be paid to avoid aircraft's "Big C"; corrosion.
There are many shops nation wide that care and know how to minimize subsequent blistering when stripped, but the possibility remains as does corrosion growth if all the stripper is not water blasted completely.
Keep in mind that if your old paint is missing in too many areas, and is not adhering well to begin with or is checked badly, this will not make a good candidate for sand and paint.
You can use any paint scheme you wish.
You will eliminate additional weight (normally just a few pounds if sanding is done deeply and properly.
Problems common to using stripper include under paint blistering and as important, corroded areas due to stripper when not completely removed and then you still have to worry about areas stripper gets in and later begins corrosion.
Expect to pay from $1200-2000 more to totally strip the plane.
Paint seems to adhere better to the old paint than starting from bare aluminum, so blisters are less likely.
You can change colors to any you wish, but you should try to keep the original scheme. No matter how deeply you sand, and how smooth the finish is, at some point in the future, the old lines can swell and bleed through showing paint lines under the new paint. Only you would notice this probably, but you are the owner. We recommend staying as closely as possible to the old paint scheme. Adding stripes where they did not exist prior will be okay however.
A shop that is used to sanding as well as stripping, will remove all control surfaces and strip them no matter what. This will keep it easy to rebalance them once painted. Unbalanced control surfaces can be dangerous, so be certain your paint shop rebalances them and signs your log book off accordingly.
If sanding is chosen, a good shop will sand way down in the depths of your old paint. Once that is done, a good shop will completely primer your plane, and from that forward, all else will be the same as a strip and paint.
Over the years, I have had or recommended dozens of Mooney's sand and painted. You cannot tell the difference visually, and I have yet to hear a complaint about the process.
The paint shop we use ourselves here in South/Central Texas is a great example of a good job while holding prices to a lower level than in most cities. Many people fly their planes here to save up to many thousands of dollars, and still get a good job.
If you contact us for help, we can make suggestions to you on which way to go, and help guide your Mooney through the paint process.
One thing we want you to remember about us. What other company has taken the time, effort, and money spent, getting you so much useful information to apply to Mooney ownership?
At Mooneyland, we think we care more than any others care and prove it every day with so much useful and informative information. We truly love Mooney aircraft, and do what we can to make the used fleet the best that it can be.


Keynote talk given at the 9th Treatment of Personality Disorders Conference, 6th November 2015 at the University of Wollongong, on "The importance of the BPD therapeutic relationship."
Much psychological literature will state that it is the therapeutic relationship that is the most important part of therapy, regardless of the modality. Never is this truer than for the person with Borderline Personality Disorder. If you are in therapy long enough, certain unconscious dynamics and repeat patterns of dysfunctional relating emerge.
My twenty year therapy was extremely difficult. It has been the hardest, longest, most painful journey I have ever been on. It was like hiking to base camp Everest without acclimatising to the atmosphere and oxygen levels on the way up. There were many times when I could not breathe properly, and I floundered on the wayside. Sometimes my therapist rescued me and sometimes she didn't. Eventually, I learned to acclimatise myself with mindfulness and yoga.
I have the greatest respect for my therapist. She was able to help me neuroplasticise my brain and become emotionally self-sufficient. She turned my unpredictable world into a predictable one. She was always consistent, reliable and honest. During our twenty year relationship my therapist and I exchanged thousands of texts and emails, argued, fought, apologised and debriefed. We also loved and laughed, merged and unmerged, bonded and attached, healed and hugged, and exchanged many gifts. There were frequent highs and lows, transference and counter-transference and much dependency on my part.
When my third child was eight months old, I ended up in a psychiatric ward at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. I was thirty three and felt abandoned, misunderstood, cheated, burned out, angry, homicidal and suicidal. This was where I met my newly minted therapist. I had so much self-loathing, I felt toxic and was sure I would contaminate her with my presence. Her greatest achievement during that time was her ability to not piss me off. I started to look forward to therapy because I enjoyed her undivided attention, even though all she wanted to do was talk about my mother.
For a long time in therapy I did not have a coherent narrative. My stories were long, rambling, confused, boring and disordered. This gave my therapist a pretty clear idea of what sort of attachment process was going on in my head. Heinz Kohut, Austrian born psychoanalyst who developed Self-Psychology believes that empathic mirroring is an essential part of the mother-child therapist-client bonding experience. One day it dawned on me that my therapist was mirroring my movements. I leaned forward and rested my hand on my chin and so did she. When I ran my fingers through my hair, I waited for her to do the same. My foot would jerk upwards when I mentioned my mother, and it was very enlightening to watch her foot kick up occasionally as well. I would also swear increasing frequency, and was bemused to hear her mirroring my language as well. Although this was perhaps not quite the reflective experience Kohut had in mind. In hindsight, I realised she had been doing this for a long time. It resonated with my unconscious long before I became cognitively aware of it, and it felt empathic and bonding. I felt known, understood and validated. I was also very attached and dependent on her. I was clingy, regressed and child-like but I wanted to find out more about myself. I spent my days and nights reading heavy academic journal articles on transference and counter-transference.
It is believed "chronic feelings of emptiness" comes from missed developmental milestones and a lack of learned social skills. My therapist displayed deep empathy and taught me what I had missed out on growing up. This is not to say my mother did not try to model this for me, but at the time I was not capable of learning from her. I was also unable to learn from teachers and friends at school either. I did not learn what children are supposed to soak up from their environment.
My therapist partially filled the emptiness for me and the rest I had to learn how to do myself without alcohol, food, cigarettes and drugs. To encourage me to exercise, she invited me to go for a walk instead of sitting in her office. It was surreal to see her outside her office, out of context, especially when we got chatted up by two men and their dog in the street. To keep the momentum going, we decided to exchange photos of interesting things we had seen on our separate morning walks. This created a beautiful feeling within me, which is still with me today.
I knew she had feelings for me. Not as intense as the feelings I had for her, but one day, out of the blue it seemed, she told me that she loved me - in the context of therapy that is. It was a strange moment for me, and one that I will always treasure. She didn't hate me one day and love me the next like I did with her. She had a better grasp on her feelings. It embedded in me that not only was I loved, but that I was lovable. This is a long way from how I felt about myself when I first met her.
Most of all she has helped me connect with my mother whom I know has concerns about how I have represented her in therapy. The therapist is not there to split up mother-daughter relationships, it is to help one another connect at a level both parties are comfortable with. It is to help me enjoy my mother's company in the present moment, rather than seeing her through thirteen year old eyes. This is neuroplasticity at its finest.
It takes courage to do an archaeological dig on yourself, examine the material and understand and come to terms with your history. It is frightening to find, face, confront, overcome and transform your demons. Yet nothing worthwhile in life comes without a cost. I can look back on the last twenty years and realise just how sacred our relationship was. It is one that that will remain in my heart forever, it is now part of who I am.


Bonerba, Elisabetta, Edmondo Ceci, Nicola Montemurro, Giuseppina Tantillo, Angela Di Pinto, Gaetano Celano, and Giancarlo Bozzo. "Rapid Modified QuEChERS Method for Pesticides Detection in Honey by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography UV-Visible". Italian Journal of Food Safety 3, no. 2 (May 13, 2014). Accessed April 20, 2019. https://pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2014.1647.


Know of any good short hair styles for prom?
By zara | November 22, 2009 - 4:22 pm | November 22, 2009 What will you look like?
Should I have my HAIR WASHED and STYLED at the SALON before attending my friend's wedding?
Do you ever have your hair done for a wedding?
Do they always wash your hair before styling it?
Does anyone know of a free online program that I can put my picture into then experiment with hair styles?
By zara | November 22, 2009 - 11:53 am | November 22, 2009 What will you look like?
I would like to use a web program that I can upload a picture of me into, then it lets me change my hair color and styles. I have heard of such a program, but I am unsure of where to find one. Please send me the link to one if you can. 🙂 Thanks.
Where can I find photos of emo hair but with out the…emo?
By zara | November 22, 2009 - 10:52 am | November 22, 2009 What will you look like?
I hope this makes sense. I love the hairstyle, but thats pretty much it. I want to find photos of hairstyle that resemble this but with out the kids in crazy make up or haircolors and such. Just normal pretty photos, maybe even professional ones.
Ideas for how I should wear my hair to my moms wedding?
By zara | November 21, 2009 - 4:22 pm | November 21, 2009 What will you look like?
My hair is shoulder length, brown, thick and wavy. It is ugly so how can i make it look good for my moms wedding?
what type of hair style should i get for prom?
By zara | November 21, 2009 - 2:02 pm | November 21, 2009 What will you look like?
I like the whole "scene/emo" styles where its cut into choppy layers and you tease it, so thats what I have done. I have black hair with pink highlights and cut into choppy layers. My boyfriends mom is taking me to get my hair styled for prom but im not sure what to have done. I feel bad about her paying but still… So I want somethingg cheap but what can I get with this hair?
1. dont answer the question if you have useless information you will jst get a thumbs down from me and you will loose the points you get for answering it.
3. I dont like to use the word "emo" let alone im not insulting anyone but how else would you explain the hair? its like the scene queens. I didnt name them dont get all pissy with me. I like their hair so I did it no different then someone who likes an actress hair and copied that dont get all pissy with me i didnt name it thats just what its called for lack of a better name.
send me photos of everday hairstyles for a teenager 16 and up?
By zara | November 21, 2009 - 1:21 pm | November 21, 2009 What will you look like?
What is a place you can put your picture up and try on hairstyles FOR FREE?
By zara | November 21, 2009 - 12:29 pm | November 21, 2009 What will you look like?
Any help would be great!!!! 🙂 I only have a week to decide how to cut my hair.
What celebrity haircut would be best?
By zara | November 20, 2009 - 5:46 pm | November 20, 2009 What will you look like?
i looked through a lot of websites. I'm starting to think that i should get one like JAmie Lynn Spears.
How to- prom hair .. ideas?
By zara | November 20, 2009 - 4:33 pm | November 20, 2009 What will you look like?
I have a wedding coming up. I have natural curly hair. Any suggestions as what to do with it for my wedding?
By zara | November 20, 2009 - 4:32 pm | November 20, 2009 What will you look like?
Its is my wedding and i would say that my hair is about mid back in length.
I need help finding a photo to describe the hairstyle I want for my wedding to the stylist?
By zara | November 20, 2009 - 3:43 pm | November 20, 2009 What will you look like?
I want my hair mostly down with big loose curls, I have long hair. I want a little bit of the hair at the top pinned up and just the rest of it down. I have tried finding pictures but nothing I have found is quite right. Help!!!
How should i wear my hair for a wedding in Santa Claus Indiana?
By zara | November 19, 2009 - 4:32 pm | November 19, 2009 What will you look like?
Would this hairstyle suit me? (photos…)?
By zara | November 19, 2009 - 3:36 pm | November 19, 2009 What will you look like?
How long should hair be for prom?
By zara | November 19, 2009 - 2:22 pm | November 19, 2009 What will you look like?
My hair is past my shoulders, and I'm not sure if I should keep growing it out or cut a few inches off. I think I want an updo for prom, so what's the best length?
where are free DIY hairstyle sites where you upload your pic?
By zara | November 19, 2009 - 1:49 pm | November 19, 2009 What will you look like?
I want to upload my picture onto the computer and "try on" different hairstyles and makeup but I can only find ones you have to buy…anyone know some free ones?
Where can I find great updo hair styles for a wedding?
By zara | November 18, 2009 - 7:02 pm | November 18, 2009 What will you look like?
I am ATTENDING a wedding tomorrow night. I have straight, slightly below the shoulder length reddish hair. My bangs are longer, but not fully grown out. I am looking for something that I can do that will be up, out of the way, but includes curls, as my husband loves them. Any ideas or websites to check out?
I want to do the style myself, as I don't want to pay a fortune for this.
Does anybody know a good website which got gallery with different hairstyles?
Does anyone have photos of a "bridal bob-cut' hairstyle!?
By zara | November 18, 2009 - 3:36 pm | November 18, 2009 What will you look like?
I am having trouble figuring out what to do with my hair for my wedding day. I am getting married on the beach… -Montego Bay, Jamaica. But, with my angled-bob, the back is pretty short and I would like to wear a tiara and a veil.. just need some help!
what are some website that have great prom hair styles for a black girl?
By zara | November 18, 2009 - 1:55 pm | November 18, 2009 What will you look like?
By zara | November 18, 2009 - 5:22 am | November 18, 2009 What will you look like?
Are there any websites that will allow you to upload your picture and see what hair styles/celebrity hair styles, look best on you for FREE?
How do I get my hair like this!????HELP!!!!!!!?
By zara | November 17, 2009 - 11:04 pm | November 17, 2009 What will you look like?
My hair scrunches pretty well. It is about 2-3 inches past my shoulders, thick and poofy (sort of like a triangle). I wanted to know how to get my hair to look like this.
What type of make-up and hair for my wedding day?
By zara | November 17, 2009 - 4:21 pm | November 17, 2009 What will you look like?
I have an oval face…high cheek bones.
i have long blonde hair and auburn-brown eyes.
i want to look beautiful without looking overdone or a cakeface!
also, for my previous wedding, i had my hair in an up-do, but it made my face look really chubby, and i was only 125lbs so i dont want another up-do. i want my hair to be down, but im not sure what to do with it?
Photos of a great hairstyle for pale-skinned, THICK dark-haired person? :)?
By zara | November 17, 2009 - 3:39 pm | November 17, 2009 What will you look like?
I have very thick curly dark-brown/black hair – about mid-back length when straightened – and very fair skin. I don't want to dye my hair, but I'd like a new hairstyle that's about shoulder length or a bit higher. 🙂 I also have bangs that I'm trying to grow out – does anyone have pictures of nice hair styles that I may be able to get?
Any site that can show me how I would look in diff. hair styles? for free?
By zara | November 17, 2009 - 11:31 am | November 17, 2009 What will you look like?
I have had , long , straight blonde hair since i was born… I want something different. Do any of you know somewhere I could go and download my pic and see different hairstyles on myself?
In twilight how did bella fix her hair for prom?
By zara | November 16, 2009 - 1:55 pm | November 16, 2009 What will you look like?
Our school dance is coming up soon and I want my hair to look like Bella's did at prom. Any tips or websites would be nice! Thanks!
Know of any good places to find pics of wedding hair with birdcage veils?
I have a great birdcage veil and a large hot pink satin rose I want to use and am having trouble finding good pics anywhere.
Where can I find photos of braided extension hairstyles for African American children?
By zara | November 16, 2009 - 1:12 pm | November 16, 2009 What will you look like?
I would like a photo gallery of possible styles only.
Doe anyone know any GOOD websites that let you try on different hairstyles for FREE and EASY?
By zara | November 16, 2009 - 12:22 am | November 16, 2009 What will you look like?
i am curious but i dont want any of those little catches. Thanks!
How should I wear my hair for this summer wedding?
By zara | November 15, 2009 - 4:19 pm | November 15, 2009 What will you look like?
Are there any tricks that my hairstylist can use to make my hair bump for prom when it the bump doesn't stay?
By zara | November 15, 2009 - 11:43 am | November 15, 2009 What will you look like?
My parents won't let me buy those things that make the bump stay. Are there any tricks my hairstylist can use so it stays in my hair all night long at prom?
Can you give me some photos for good hairstyles or updos for school?
By zara | November 15, 2009 - 10:49 am | November 15, 2009 What will you look like?
How to wear my hair to a wedding in april?
By zara | November 14, 2009 - 2:16 pm | November 14, 2009 What will you look like?
Im going to my BFs sisters wedding in April and Im going to be meeting some of his family for the first time so i want to make a good impression. But i have no idea how to do my hair. its not very look and its thin please help??
Does anyone have photos of Hayley Williams shorter hairstyles?
By zara | November 14, 2009 - 1:15 pm | November 14, 2009 What will you look like?
Like it says, I want photos of Hayley Williams shorter haircuts, but not with the completely straight short bangs. The length like just bellow the shoulders as longest, and side-bangs.
Color doesnt really matter. Thanks on advance!
Of the four pictures number 1 and 2 were too long on the length. The others could do. But I guess that leaves more specific guidelines.
Does anyone know of a website that has nice prom hair?
By zara | November 14, 2009 - 11:46 am | November 14, 2009 What will you look like?
My senior ball/prom is coming up and I'm trying to find a nice hairstyle that will go with a strapless dress. any ideas of a website with pics?


If you weren't waiting in a long early voting line this week, you might have been in similar formation trying to fill up on bottled water. On Monday, Austin Water issued a boil-water notice due to recent flooding, asking customers to bring tap water to a three-minute rolling boil before drinking. Residents were told they'd need to halt all outdoor water use and reduce personal water consumption by 15-20%. The notice affected 880,000 Austin Water customers.
Silt levels in the water coming in from the Highland Lakes slowed Austin Water's treatment facilities, and made it such that clean water can't get produced fast enough for city consumption. But because Austin Water needs to produce a certain amount of pressure for effective fire protection, the utility needs to keep levels of production high out of the plant. So they pulled the goalie and allowed water to be distributed "at treatment levels not typical of the utility's high standards for consumption."
In an address before Travis County commissioners Tuesday morning, Chief Emergency Management Coordinator Eric Carter said the notice could go on for 10 to 14 days. However, that figure was quickly contradicted by Austin Water officials, who said they expect the boil order to last only "a handful of days." During a press conference at City Hall later that day, officials said the boil-water notice would end "hopefully by this weekend." Why the conflicting reports? If you tell an emergency manager to plan for a five-day trip, he'll pack a bag for 10 days, said Travis County officials. While the county will continue to plan for a possible 10-to-14-day boil-water notice, they expressed confidence in Austin Water's shorter estimates.
Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros added that the utility's estimate is contingent upon sufficiently refilling drinking water reservoirs and ensuring water quality. One variable that can't be controlled, he warned, is the weather; rains on Wednesday will likely set back that weekend goal. He said Austin Water has seen lower demand, as the city urgently requested, over the last 24 hours; even though the city's three treatment plants are operating at just a third of their usual capacity due to the nasty condition of their raw water inflows, drinking water production is still higher than consumption. "That's really, really positive," he said.
By Wednesday the precautionary measure turned into an official state-mandated notice as required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Up until now, Austin Water had not exceeded regulatory turbidity (water cloudiness) standards. However, the brief spike has ended and doesn't require any changes to the measures already in place and does not put the public at additional risk, say city officials.
Residents should call 311 if they see gross violations of water restrictions or have any nonemergency concerns.


Apple products may be fantastically marketed and look great, but according to a recent study by environmental watchdog Climate Counts, the company is a serious environmental offender.
Although the study seems to have made a big splash, it does not account for initiatives in progress. By looking only at what information is made public, Climate Counts has created a less-than-exhaustive hit list of environmental offenders. Simply because the NGO found no information on the website about Apple's attempts to assess the global impact of its products does not indicate that there are none.
What the report shows is that Apple needs to improve dialogue between itself and consumers about its products and their environmental impact. Climate Count has called attention to social responsibility among major corporations, but remains a less-than-convincing condemnation of Apple and its products.


I don't even know where to start with this one. A couple of days ago, I lost one of my personal heroes.
I consider my first real introduction to David Bowie to be the time I heard "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" on the radio way back in 1995. I was in high school and my musical tastes were just coming into their own, but I knew the second I heard it, I was on to something. It tapped straight into the dark, layered aesthetic that I already had swimming around in my head, but couldn't articulate. I rushed out and got Outside, which would go on to become one of my favorite albums of all time, and followed that up by snatching up anything and everything I could find with his name on it, starting with Low.
I went very much out of order, but I didn't care. I devoured his discography, and it quickly became apparent that this alien who I'd known only by name and reputation had written song after song that spoke directly to me. It was like someone had reached into my brain and set my mind to music. He both saw the world as I did and somehow gave me a whole new way of looking at it. It wasn't just music. It was a distant kinship.
I was one of those stereotypical artsy misfits in high school. I never scored the pretty girls or hung out with the popular kids, but I had my own identity that I cultivated and guarded. I soon took a certain private pride in being the only kid in school who could recite every lyric to every song on Hunky Dory. I was a loner and a weirdo and Bowie let me and the rest of us loners and weirdos know it was ok.
I could go on further about his importance and relevance, but it in the coming days and weeks, the internet will be full of those types of tributes, written by people who are much more eloquent than me. I will say though that he was not only my personal favorite musician of all time, but also one of my biggest influences and obsessions. He managed to create and transcend style, always managing to stay three steps ahead of anyone else. Just when you thought you'd finally solved the slippery riddle of what it took to be "cool", he reminded you that he'd already redefined the word twice while you weren't looking.
You simply can't escape his influence. Hell, my best friend named her daughter after him. That kid's going to be the coolest kid in school one day.
We can take solace in what he left behind – over thirty years of pure genius. Yes, there were a couple of missteps along the way (you don't put out that kind of volume without having a few misses), but cousin, when the hits hit, they hit. My only regret is that I never got to see him perform live.
Thank you, David Robert Jones (Bowie). Thank you for literally changing my life and leaving behind one of the greatest musical legacies since the inception of rock and roll. And thank you for the parting gift of Blackstar, an album that not only acts as a fitting goodbye to his fans, but a flawless and poignant reflection of a man at the end of his career and life. You had a good run, buddy. Thank you for all of it.
This past weekend was not how I wanted to start off 2016. This is the first of two tributes I'm writing tonight and I'm not exactly thrilled about doing either one.
A few days ago, we lost a true gentleman of horror. I had the pleasure of meeting Angus Scrimm a few years ago and it was one of the best celebrity encounters I've ever had. It was in 2012 at the Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, NC. Those of you do conventions know how it goes. Upon arriving, you have your sights sets on your priority guests and make a bee line straight to their tables, then kind of get around to your own personal b-listers, and so on. So, even though I saw Mr. Scrimm sitting at his table on and off, I kind of took my time to get around to him. I've always really enjoyed his work, but if I was being completely honest with myself, he wasn't at the top of my list that night.
The day went on, pictures were taken, autographs were collected, and before I knew it, things were wrapping up and everyone was packing up their tables. I decided to do one final sweep and hit all the ones I hadn't visited yet. As I approached his table, I felt a little bad about ignoring him all day (surprisingly, he never had much of a crowd), but it would turn out that my timing was perfect.
I'd spent my total budget on autographs, so I asked him if I could just get a picture. He said he hated to charge me, but it would be $10, and as much as he would love to do it for free, his "people" would get angry, even though they'd stepped away for a few minutes. I was totally tapped out, so I asked him if we could just talk for a minute.
What followed was one of the best convention experiences I've ever had. He asked me to sit next to him and for the next 20 minutes or so, we exchanged brief life stories. He seemed much more interested in me than I was in him. He was incredibly kind and soft spoken and a truly gracious gentleman. The guy couldn't be more different than his character in the Phantasm series.
After discussing me for a bit, I shifted the focus to him and we discussed how he first got into acting, the convention experience, and a little about his home life. I've had some really positive experiences with celebrity encounters, and a few not so great ones, but he was all class and his encounter definitely ranks now as one of the most memorable. I can't say enough good things about him, and from the tributes I've read from celebrities and fans alike in the last few days, everyone echoes that sentiment.
Just before he had to leave, he gave me this flyer for Satan Hates You, a film he had just finished, which sadly I haven't seen yet. I plan on doing something about that this week.
Angus Scrimm scared the living hell out of me as a kid and I literally had nightmares about him looming over me, yelling, "Boooyyyyyy!" Who didn't? But, meeting him was one of the best highlights of that weekend, and of every convention since. R.I.P. Tall Man. You'll be missed.


British Painter, 1859-1921,Scottish painter and printmaker. Following a brief apprenticeship with a shipbuilding firm in Clydesdale, he entered the Slade School of Art (1876) where he adhered to the uncompromising realism advocated by his teacher Alphonse Legros. After completing his studies at the Slade (1880), Strang became Legros's assistant in the printmaking class for a year. For the next 20 years he worked primarily as an etcher. His etchings include landscapes in the tradition of Rembrandt, pastoral themes indebted to Giorgione and macabre genre subjects, marked by a sense of tension and suspended animation. He also etched 150 portraits of leading artistic and literary figures. The commitment to realism and psychological intensity that characterizes the best of Strang's etched work is also evident in the paintings that dominated the latter half of his career. The influence of the Belgian and French Symbolists' work and Strang's growing confidence in the handling of colour combined in his mature style with a linear clarity and schematic colouring that is best seen in such works as Bank Holiday (1912; London, Tate). His oil portraits, for example Vita Sackville-West as Lady In a Red Hat (1918; Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.), are strikingly potent images of their time. An important collection of Strang's graphic work is in the Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.


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Q: Repeat drawable in imageview? Is it possible to repeat a drawable in an ImageView? I manage to repeat my drawable as a divider in a ListView, but not as an ImageView. Here is my repeated image definition:
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A: Yes it's possible. You just need to specify the scale type of the ImageView. Without it the <bitmap> is just scaled.
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A: You could use a "dummy" view like a LinearLayout to accomplish this. Just create a LinearLayout with the size you need and set its background drawable to be your repeating bitmap.
See Android Tile Bitmap.

A: Does it have to be an ImageView?  When I want this kind of functionality, I use a container like LinearLayout and just use my BitmapDrawable as in your example as the background.  Since the "background" attribute is inherited from View, if you don't need any more functionality than to display a repeating image, you can just use a View in your xml layout.

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DESIGN PUBLIC REALM
November 11, 2016 by Julian Mirabelli 1.6K
Public Realm Redesign in the Works for U of T's Willcocks Street
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Big changes are in store for a pedestrianized Willcocks Common, as the University of Toronto is looking to upgrade the street with a new public realm plan that would reimagine the thoroughfare as a gathering and social space at the heart of its downtown campus. Currently in the early design stages, the proposal for the stretch between Spadina Avenue and St. George Street would see the implementation of a new tree canopy, along with new paving, landscaped islands, gathering and event spaces, and a basketball court.
Rendering of Willcocks Common looking east from Spadina, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
The move to redesign the Common comes after the successful pedestrianization of Willcocks Street in 2012, which followed a two-year pilot project carried out by the City of Toronto's Transportation Services, Public Realm Section in conjunction with the University's Office of Campus and Facilities Planning. In September 2015, local firm DTAH was selected to oversee the design and implementation of a long-term vision for Willcocks Common.
Site plan, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
The portion of the street between Spadina and Huron will either be a shared pedestrian and vehicular road or a closed pedestrian road, while the stretch between Huron and St. George will be an exclusively pedestrian zone. Accommodations would be made for drop-off zones and lay-bys for New College and the Faculty Club on the western portion of the street, while through-way traffic moving north-south on Huron Street will be maintained through the intersection.
Plan of the proposal, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
The main concept for the design involves the overlay of an 8-metre grid of canopy trees throughout the entire space of the street. The grid would then be modified to accommodate existing site constraints and to integrate new spaces and programs along its length. A new paving strategy will unify all the elements of the street and set it apart from its surroundings.
Concept diagram, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
In order to differentiate the Common from its surroundings, the street will be slightly raised onto a 'table top', such that there will be no grade change between the designated road and the sidewalks. A series of organically-shaped landscaped islands will be interspersed throughout the Common that respond to existing and anticipated pedestrian flows along the street.
View from the Huron Street intersection, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
The design of the Common incorporates a series of exterior rooms, imagined as distinct areas along the stretch to be used for a variety of activities. The exterior rooms include event spaces, flexible open spaces, and areas for informal gathering and social activities. Main features of the plan include a half basketball court, located on the south side of the Common just east of Huron Street, and a seasonal event space at the intersection of Huron. Access to the adjacent buildings will also be improved and integrated into the new design.
Diagram showing exterior rooms, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
The project is still in its early stages, with no defined schedule as to when we might see these changes implemented. It is currently at the end of Phase 1, which involved initial design and community engagement that wrapped up in October, and is now paused for fundraising for an indeterminate amount of time before kicking off Phase 2, which comprises detailed design and construction.
Rendering looking west from St. George Street, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
Rendering of Willcocks Common, image courtesy of the University of Toronto
We will unfortunately have to wait until we see further progress on this initiative, but in the meantime, we will keep you updated as new information becomes available. You can get in on the discussion and tell us what you think by checking out the associated Forum thread, or by leaving a comment in the space provided on this page.
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"Does Britain have free speech?"
Niall Kilmartin (Stirling) · Big Brother · Liberty · UK affairs
The title is quoted from a Quillette article (h/t instapundit) inspired by the following letter to author James Flynn from Tony Roche, publishing director of Emerald, explaining their decision to drop his book:
"I am contacting you in regard to your manuscript 'In Defense of Free Speech: The University as Censor'. Emerald believes that its publication, in particular in the United Kingdom, would raise serious concerns. … the work could be seen to incite racial hatred and stir up religious hatred under United Kingdom law. Clearly you have no intention of promoting racism but intent can be irrelevant. …"
In the 1930s, J.R.R.Tolkien's publisher contacted him regarding publishing 'The Hobbit' in Germany. To do so, they were legally obliged to provide an assurance that Tolkien had no Jewish ancestry. Tolkien gave them two courteous letters, saying he would rather they sent the first but he acknowledged it was up to them. The first politely withheld the information. The second expressed Tolkien's "regret" that he had "no ancestors of the gifted Jewish race", adding that his pride in his German ancestry would be sensibly diminished if enquiries of this kind pointed to Germany's future. (Alas, back then, all too clearly they did.) Because it is this second letter that was found in the publisher's files, it is thought they acted on Tolkien's request to send the first.
My pride in being British will be sensibly diminished if Emerald's letter points to our future. My Brexit enthusiasm owes much to my knowledge that one side would let Britain become a place where Emerald could feel less concerned, while the other are determined to give them cause to feel yet more.
Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 "to champion new ideas", according to its website. I guess you could say free speech is an old idea and banning it is the new idea – though also a very old one. Or maybe 'champion' doesn't mean what I thought it did. Such pride as I ever felt in British publishers was sensibly diminished as I read that letter – and it did not cheer me to think that while the decision may reflect some cowardice or even complicity in Emerald, shocked to find an un-PC book had somehow crept into their planned list, the letter may also be factual and more honest than the activists who would prosecute.
September 24th, 2019 | 79 comments - (Comments are closed)
As annoying?
Niall Kilmartin (Stirling) · Big Brother · Civil liberty & Regulation · Liberty
We're confident that North Carolina's politics will annoy us from the right as much as California's does from the left, but we're equally confident that center-right North Carolinians won't try to personally and professionally ruin us for daring to disagree with them.
The quote is from a comment to this article (that I found from instapundit). The commenters – Californians who have decided to vote with their feet – complain they've seen one too many
smart, talented colleagues fired, and their reputations blackened, because they had the temerity to utter a heterodox opinion, or made it known that they voted for a Republican, or were insufficiently enthusiastic about adopting the latest politically-correct newspeak.
They expect to be as annoyed by NC's right-wing politics as by CA's left-wing politics. It may be just their way of expressing it. And I suppose it will be a culture shock (understandable they've not moved to Texas, or Alabama – or Samizdata 🙂 ). But I have a hard time imagining being as annoyed by politics that will allow me to dissent as by politics that will punish any hint of dissent.
But maybe that's just my typical right-wing focus on the honesty of the process rather than the nobility of the goal.
May 22nd, 2019 | 60 comments - (Comments are closed)
No bible cake – fine; no trans cake – crime
Niall Kilmartin (Stirling) · Civil Liberties · Liberty
Ironically, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission actually defended another baker who refused to bake a cake that would convey a message. In 2015, the commission declined to take up an appeal involving Azucar Bakery, which refused to bake Bible-shaped cakes with messages against homosexuality. The bakery's owner, Marjorie Silva, said she refused to bake the cakes because the writing and imagery were "hateful and offensive." Christian Baker Again Under Fire for Refusing Transgender Cake Despite Supreme Court Win
I'm all for there being as many articles as possible exposing the Colorado commission's ongoing war on free speech, but I do not think the word 'irony' means what this article thinks it does. I see not irony but consistency. When the Colorado commissioners treat the supreme court's ruling on them as a joke, but expect the bakery to treat their new case against it as no joke, they're not being ironic. They are consistently pushing their freedom-hating agenda.
Now if this were to help Trump and the GOP in the midterms, that would be ironic.
(One other thought: the she-it-he person who demanded the bakery bake a trans cake has apparently also demanded that it bake a satanist cake, but AFAICS the commission has not taken action over that. Is the commission prejudiced against satanists?)
If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a mighty empire!
Niall Kilmartin (Stirling) · Liberty · North American affairs
Twitter's CEO and its co-founder urge other left-wingers to consider a recent article explaining "Why there's no bipartisan way forward at this juncture in our history — one side must win". It's a long read – but almost any excerpt indicates which side the author is sure both should and will win. Trump…
"has alienated most of America and certainly all the growing political constituencies of the 21st century. He is turning the Republican brand toxic for millennials, women, Latinos, people of color, college-educated people, urban centers, the tech industry, and the economic powerhouses of the coasts, to name a few.
For a long time, Republicans have been able to hide their vile inner selves…
through a sophisticated series of veils, invoking cultural voodoo that fools a large enough number of Americans to stay in the game.
It is therefore almost a relief to the author that
Donald Trump has laid waste to that sophistication
so that it's now obvious to all – or almost all – that
The Republican Party is all about rule by and for billionaires at the expense of working people.
Whereas before…
The Republican Party for the past 40 years has mastered using dog whistles to gin up racial divides to get their white voters to the polls.
Trump just disposes of niceties and flatly encourages white nationalists, bans Muslims, walls off Mexicans, and calls out "shithole" countries.
I confess to some doubts about this – after all, not one Mexican has been walled off yet, and I have the impression that few muslims have in any sense been banned – but the author brooks no denial. And speaking of denial,
"The Republican Party is the party of climate change denial. Trump is the denier-in-chief, but there are 180 climate science deniers in the current Congress (142 in the House and 38 in the Senate), and none of them are Democrats. More than 59 percent of Republicans in the House and 73 percent of Republicans in the Senate deny the scientific consensus that climate change is happening, that human activity is the main cause, and that it is a serious threat.
If only I could trust the author's counting ability – but since believers in his "scientific consensus" are believers in a statistical method that can extract hockey sticks from random noise, can I feel sure that the numbers of sceptics are growing as fast as he says?
The essence of Trump is that there's…
No beating around that bush for the sake of appearances — Trump burned the bush down.
If only this were wholly true – but for once I'll agree with the author: there is truth in it. The alternate realities of Scott Adams were never so vivid to me than at the moment I read these assertions of how Trump exposes the right while thinking that the very words I was reading showed how the Trump phenomenon exposes the left.
The author explains his simple and foolproof plan:
The way forward is on the path California blazed about 15 years ago. … reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens — and by extension their elected officials — under the Democratic Party's big tent. The natural continuum of more progressive to more moderate solutions then got worked out within the context of the only remaining functioning party. … Make no mistake: A reckoning with not just Trump, but conservatism, is coming.
In short, the author and friends have both a duty to reject all compromise and, now that Trump has exposed their enemies' true nature, a 98.2% chance of winning this war they plan to hot up (or better – he doesn't actually quote a percentage); after all, it worked in California. What could go wrong, since…
This is a civil war that can be won without firing a shot.
As Reagan once said, "It takes two to tango." By contrast, a certain Adolf is merely the most infamous of many who have shown that it only takes one to start a war. Political correctness is all about 'inclusion' – except when it's all about excluding more and more people for *isms and *phobias ever more broadly defined. If PC follows this advice to make US politics explicitly a conflict that "only one side must win", then I predict that the prophecy will prove correct – but possibly also Delphic.
April 8th, 2018 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
Becoming more widely noticed
Niall Kilmartin (Stirling) · Liberty · Self-Defence
Political correctness is like HIV: after you've caught either, something that you could otherwise deal with easily can kill you.
Somewhere after 9/11, with Bush having informed us all about the fundamental and undeniable peacefulness of Islam, I began to think of our own governments as the HIV virus, preparing the welcoming ground for pneumonia that usually follows and eventually kills you. Islam is just one particular strain of bacteria causing common and normally non-lethal pneumonia.
– Alisa, commenter of this parish, two months ago
And note that one guy, by triggering internal SJW craziness, has done more PR harm to Google than has been done since its inception. It's like an autoimmune disease.
– instapundit today
August 8th, 2017 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Samizdata quote of the day
Johnathan Pearce (London) · Liberty · Slogans & Quotations
Pickup basketball is a beautiful example of the spontaneous, emergent order that arises from voluntary interaction predicated on classical liberal principles of dignity, respect for the individual, and voluntary cooperation. Every individual who has ever played pickup basketball can enumerate the rules for forming a team, playing, and interacting regardless of location, age or ethnicity- African Americans in the poorest sections of Harlem play by the same pickup rules as do those on the playgrounds of the whitest, richest suburbs in America.
– Trey Goff
May 9th, 2017 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
A slap in the face becomes a kick in the balls for the Education nomenklatura
Mr Ed · Civil Liberties · Education & Academia · Liberty · Self-Ownership
A fresh instalment in the case of the man, the heroic Jon Platt, prosecuted for taking his chid out of school in term time for a holiday, but was acquitted by Magistrates. Scandalously, bureaucrats on the Isle of Wight appealed against the decision of the Magistrates to throw out the case, only to find that the High Court has found 'no error of law' in the Magistrates' decision, so the acquittal remains. This has now blown back in the face of the bureaucrats, as this decision sets an unwelcome precedent with two High Court judges giving a ruling on the law, and meaning that for years, bureaucrats have harassed parents and got many to pay fixed-penalty notices on what was likely, in most cases, to be a wholly wrong interpretation of the law. As Mr Platt put it:
"Is there really 100,000 parents who are so criminally incompetent that it warrants dragging them to court?"
It appears that the scale of the problem is vast:
According to local authority data, almost 64,000 fines were imposed for unauthorised absences between September 2013 and August 2014.
And are the bureaucrats saying 'Oh well, the law is the law, we must respect it'? If they are, I can't hear them.
This is, of course, great news for parents in England and Wales who may now take their children on holiday in term-time without a realistic prospect of a prosecution. It also means that the old and absurd complaint about prices and supply-and-demand, 'Oh look, holiday prices go up at half-term, how exploitative blah, blah, blah, regulate the holiday industry…' will be less easy for buffoons and villains to make out, and there will be a more economic use of resources in the holiday industry, taking use one more step away from the Stone Age.
What's not to like when the light of freedom flickers more brightly?
German border controls – things ain't what they used to be…the 'Dodendraad'
Mr Ed · Big Brother · German affairs · Historical Perspective · Liberty · Military affairs · Privacy & Panopticon · Security
Recent events in Germany may have led some to ask if Germany still controls its borders. Well of course the German Federation does, it had an entire Border Police Force, the Bundesgrenzschutz to do that, and it has quietly been building a Federal Police Force by merging the Railway Police with the Border Police. However, the German Federal State does not seem to regard border control as that much of a priority.
It wasn't always thus for German governments, we all know about the Berlin Wall, or the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart', an example of German bureaucracy showing some resolve as to who crosses its borders. The Wall was of course, the weak point in the East German border, although technically it did not divide the Germanies, but the Allied Occupation Zones from the Soviet Zone and from the DDR, and for most of the time, there was no point fleeing to comradely Poland or brotherly Czechoslovakia, but that changed in the late 1980s. At the Berlin Wall, some 138 deaths have been recorded, there may have been many more.
But there was a more deadly border defence put in place by a German state, Imperial Germany, it was called the Dodendraad, a lethal electric fence, the implementation of which left, by one estimate, around 850 people killed, other reports say around 2,000 – 3,000 people were killed, including shootings etc. at the fence. You may well say 'It doesn't quite sound German', and you would be right. It wasn't even 'protecting' Germany's border, but someone else's. The Dodendraad (Wire of Death) was put along the frontier between occupied Belgium and the Netherlands in the First World War, as a means of controlling movement over the frontier. A frontier that had two peoples with effectively one language joined by trade and family, and separated by murderous force. The Wire did not cover all of the Belgian/Dutch border, as the Kaiser did not violate Dutch neutrality by seeking to place it around Baarle-Hertog's many borders with Baarle-Nassau.
The task facing the Imperial Army was demanding, there were no Belgian power stations to power the 2,000 Volt wires along the over 200 miles of the fence, as Belgium (we are told) had no power grid at that time.
Around the clock there was a guard every fifty up to one hundred and fifty metres. At nighttime the number of border guards was doubled, there were also more patrols. German soldiers were ordered to fire immediately after every unanswered warming. Yet they were not allowed to fire in the direction of The Netherlands. The soldiers walked from one switching cottage to the next one, returning when they met with a colleague halfways.
For the poor border Belgians, life was grim:
Placing the wire of death made it impossible to enter The Netherlands. Border traffic was reduced. For inhabitants of the border region this was a painful ordeal as their friends and relatives very often lived in both countries. All traffic to The Netherlands was forbidden or required a strict German control. Whether one could visit a relative or a friend on the other side of the border, depended on the arbitrary decision of the local commander who might – or might not – grant a written (and paid for) permit to leave the country for just a few hours or days. Belgians had to leave the country through a specific gate and had to enter again through the same gate, subject to scrutinous control and registration. If one failed to return in time from a visit to e.g. a sick relative, one simply risked having family members imprisoned or you were forced to pay a heavy fine.
So even before the Germans sent Lenin to Russia to found and then electrify the Soviet Union, they had built a model death strip that many a socialist thinking about the good old days of East Germany could have been proud of.
January 18th, 2016 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
'No offence' – in Northern Ireland…
Mr Ed · Civil Liberties · Civil liberty & Regulation · Historical Perspective · Irish affairs · Liberty · Slogans & Quotations · UK affairs
Thirteen members of a Loyalist marching band, the Young Conway Volunteers, have had their criminal convictions for 'doing a provocative act likely to cause public disorder or a breach of the peace' quashed after the Public Prosecutor agreed not to oppose their appeals.
The non-offence occurred after the marching band found themselves marching in a circle outside St Patrick's Church (Catholic) in north Belfast, whilst playing (allegedly aggravated by hostility) a tune alleged to have been 'the Famine Song' with the presumably catchy refrain 'The famine's over, why don't you go home?', but what they said was the Beach Boys 'Sloop John B' (reportedly an easy mistake to make, the basic tune is widely used). How this was proved at the original trial when they presumably were playing a tune on instruments and not singing was not made clear.
Although now acquitted, the band members agreed to be bound over to keep the peace for 2 years (not a conviction but a promise of good behaviour, breach of which could lead to a 7 day jail term).
Whilst this acquittal in the face of 'hate legislation' is certainly a good thing for liberty, I note the apologetic tone of the response of the Orange Lodge, which presumably has some connection to the band:
In a statement, The County Grand Orange Lodge of Belfast welcomed the successful appeal.
"We are glad that justice has finally been achieved for these band members who had been wrongly vilified by the media and nationalism," it said.
"There never was an intent to cause offence."
One might ask what on Earth were they marching for if not to 'cause offence' (in the subjective sense) on 12th July by their celebration of the lifting of the siege of Londonderry? To say that there was 'no intent to cause offence' appears to concede that offence was caused, rather than taken or even perhaps rejoiced in as an opportunity to throw the legal machinery of the State at the band.
Why not say that this legislation is oppressive, tyrannical and makes the law itself a politicised weapon, a sword, not a shield?
To me as an Englishman, the whole shebang seems utterly alien, the intolerance and fanaticism on both poles of the Ulster divide mark them as having more in common with each other than with insipid, fundamentally apolitical England. Whether or not that is a good thing for Northern Ireland, or for England, may in the long run be another matter.
December 1st, 2015 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
A welcome slap in the face from the Magistracy for the Education nomenklatura
Mr Ed · Children's issues · Civil liberty & Regulation · Education & Academia · Hippos · Liberty · Self-Ownership · UK affairs
A gentleman living on the Isle of Wight took his school-age daughter on holiday to Florida in term time. The child's absence from school was noted…
The Local Education Authority issued him with a fixed-penalty notice for £60, for failing to ensure that his child attended school regularly. He refused to pay this 'penalty' (a bureaucratic alternative to prosecution). The 'fine' was doubled (by the bureaucrats) to £120, he refused to pay, so he was summonsed to the Magistrates' Court by the authority to face a charge under Section 444 of the Education Act 1996 (from John Major's time).
Sure enough, he argued, my daughter wasn't in school, big deal. The offence was not made out. Here is the wording in question.
Offence: failure to secure regular attendance at school of registered pupil.
(1)If a child of compulsory school age who is a registered pupil at a school fails to attend regularly at the school, his parent is guilty of an offence.
So, for those (many) parents harassed, threatened and fined by bureaucrats, they have been acting as if the law required total attendance at school.
The rule of law has prevailed, the offence was not made out, on the prosecution's case, the case failed. What troubles me is that I find that, in England in 2015, refreshing.
But as Mrs Thatcher once said 'Just rejoice at that news!'.
Guy Herbert (London) · Liberty
Police powers last changed significantly at the turn of the year when the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act came into effect, along with a new 'Code of Practice'–delegated legislation in effect–under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
That's almost seven weeks ago, so obviously it is time to add to them. Enter the government today with yet another new police bill, the Police and Justice Bill empowering Community Support Officers in some interesting new ways.
Let's not forget meanwhile the gentle, undisturbed, unnoted, progress of the Powers of Entry Bill which will create a common (low) standard for search and seizure warrants to be issued to officials of all kinds in relation to their functions under around 200 Acts, ranging from adoption to zoo licensing. (And including some long-forgotten items such as the "horror comics" legislation of the 1950s.)
January 25th, 2006 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
The power wedge
There is a gap that is rarely acknowledged between the nominal powers of officialdom and their actual powers in practice. Unless we are vigilant, and the rules are tightly drawn powers will be (not may be, will be) used for broader purposes than those for which they are granted. What's more ways will be found to use the leverage of one power to enhance another. New police powers do not merely add to the force of those that already exist, they multiply and magnify them.
Last night an example of systematic police intimidation was proudly displayed as PR for the police on the most popular British TV channel (ITV1, not the BBC).
The program ("Inside Crime") was one of those encouraging people to assist with current investigations and appealing for witnesses to various murders and robberies. Fine. I don't think I have a problem with that: seems like a genuine public service. But of a 25 minute programme something like a fifteen minute segment was devoted to cameras accompanying police in Dartford as they "cracked down" on drugs and illegal working on one evening.
A sergeant swaggered around in a head mic proudly demonstrating how new technology allows the detection of traces of cocaine in pub lavatories. It was then revealed that "with the cooperation of landlords and managers" that night everybody wishing to enter a pub or club in the centre of Dartford had to submit to police swabbing their hands for drugs as a condition of entry. Those who tested postive were then formally searched under "reasonable suspicion".
The swabbing itself didn't count as a search because it was "voluntary". Thus is the law perverted by those who are supposed to uphold it. The programme was silent on what happened to those who got as far as the entrance to a bar but refused the entry procedure. I'd be interested to know.
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August 19th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)


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He was apparently fascinated by tales of the sharks in Taiwan. The ones with the head of a human female and evil eyes, and those that eat birds.
Let's see, there were/are tiger sharks in Danshui River and they did bite teenagers who swam in it. These sharks of course don't sing; neither do they possess a woman's head, nor would they leap out of water to catch a flying bird.
Wait, the 金錢仔, known locally as the "kim-tsîn-á", do sing!! They sound like male frogs looking for mates. And we have always thought that they were just voicing their displeasure when caught.
Dasnhui could have ended up a French colony and the French could have then even caught and eaten the fish. Of course that did not happen. Merci, mon Dieu (or Ma-Zu, for that matter).
These little 金錢仔 are still plentiful; unfortunately, they and other fish from Danshui River are no longer fit to eat as the River has long been polluted.
It is impressive that you can list so many names of fish in Tamsui River; however you missed Ro-Hee鱸魚, striped bass, which is very seldom.
七星鱸,金目鱸? Yes. And 沙梭 is very rare as well. Actually, my cousin knows a lot more about fish than I. I'll check with him next time I see him. Thanks for the input.
I like the term "kim-tsîn(n)-á" you used for it is said in Taiwanese instead of Mandarin. I read some books that introduce the plants, fishes or insects in Taiwan, and found that no local names are mentioned in them. That is quite weird that people get to know things on this land without their own language(s).
Your point is well-taken. 海洋大學's digital archives do record the names of fish of Taiwan in Romanized Hoklo; although this is probably an exception.
I think 鱸魚 is more commonly referred to in English as the Japanese seabass (suzuki in Japan). While striped bass (Morone saxatilis) are farmed in Taiwan, they are not found in the wild.
Thanks for the input. Indeed the striped bass is a N American native, introduced into Taiwan in the early 90s. The suzuki 鲈 is a favorite among the anglers in Japan.
Next time when you visit Danshui, please stop by my cousin's Fishball Museum where you'll see a huge collection of info on fish found in Danshui River.


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Filed Under: Penn State Football
Big Al says
You won't be wrong about Ohio State winning. But Ohio State isn't the unstoppable offensive juggernaut that the TV talking heads think it is. Their speed wears down defenses over time but their execution is all that precise. They can be beaten by a team whose offense can maintain possession and drain the clock. Since maintaining possession is Michigan's thing rather than State's, the Sanguinarians' fantasy of an upset won't be realized.
However, I do think the Kitties have a decent chance of losing by less than 15.5 points. The Schmuckeyes tend to play conservatively at the Beav. They play as if Penn State can't beat them as long as (1) they don't commit turnovers and (2) don't allow State's offense to generate "explosive" plays. I expect them to run more than usual and use more of a "bend but don't break" strategy on defense. So my prediction is anOSU 34 Penn State 20.
should have said "their execution is NOT all that precise"
The Nittany Turkey says
In the Franklin Era, PSU is 1-7 against tOSU. Sanguinarians remember only 2016 and cling to it like wool socks just out of the dryer.
Your prediction is reasonable, but I'm wondering how many "explosive" plays will be required to produce 20 points, and where they will come from. I guess you said it with the BBDB strategy.
I know from reading and watching the pseudo-analyses from "the other side", that they are worried about this one, which could boil over into coaching philosophy. Sanguinarians aren't the only ones with 2016 on their minds. They also remember 2018, when they squeaked by the Kitties 27-26 at the Beave. But this is 2022. (I said absolutely nothing in this paragraph).
Once they get past PSU, the Schmuckeyes have only Michigan on their minds.
I think it potentially will wind up more like 2013 than 2016. Yeah, that was "the other" 63-14. (I recognize that temporal comparisons are bullshit. I just wanted to sound like Phil Grosz.).
K. John says
It makes me sad to say this but I am hoping Ohio State wins by five touchdowns today. Why? Because people need a dose of reality and quite frankly, the comparisons to 2016 are just plain stupid. With the exception of quarterback, that team was considerably more talented than the current team, three players that created many pick your poison scenarios for Joe Moorhead to exploit while using a defensive scheme with the personnel to contain Ohio State and they were a tough bunch of "fighter". Currently, we have considerably less talent in the front seven, a defensive coordinator that is a one trick pony (bring pressure) and no difference makers on offense and to be honest, even if we did, Yurcich couldn't use them, and the team is no longer tough. We have become soft.
Soft? Yeah, they are much better at throwing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than they are at throwing blocks and making tackles. We'll be seeing lots of missed tackles in a couple of hours. And I've got to say that if P.J. Mustipher is the quintessence of our defense, we're as soft as his overhanging gut.
But pork and peanut butter aside, I am sadly leaning toward the five-touchdown humiliation and any surprises are extremely unlikely. PSU might get a lucky touchdown or two, like the Michigan game, but this one will be over in the first quarter.
I saw one of those dumbass simulation videos on the PSU YouTube channel. I jumped forward to the fourth quarter because I just wanted to see how it turned out, plus I don't like the incessant drivel spewed by the robotic pseudo-announcers. It was roughly 48-6 with a few minutes to go, and PSU scored a late TD in garbage time, even making a fourth-down conversion on the way. While I didn't like the way the stupid simulation of several weeks ago predicted an Ohio U. win, I think this one is pretty accurate.
I'm hoping Big Al is wrong and Ohio State puts on an offensive show. If our defense has any character at all, today is the day to summon it. I'm inclined to think that they'll turn tail after the first two Schmuckeye TDs.
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
—John McKay
Thinking 54 to 17 with a garbage time score. When I look at how they beat up Iowa and we have precisely two, maybe three defensive players that would start for them, and they are better coached to boot, it isn't looking good.
Interesting, how the gambling line hasn't moved at all from the 15.5 points it has been all week. Lots of foolish, Sanguinarian money out there must think PSU has a chance to keep it close.
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iPad Buyers Guide
iPad Air 3 vs iPad mini 5: Which should you buy?
Around here, we live and breathe iPads on a daily basis, and have used nearly every single one to find the best picks for you. With Apple's latest iPad Air and iPad mini offerings, which one is better?
Christine Chan
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Powerful features, compact size
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Starting from $500 at Amazon
10.5-inch screen
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Supports Smart Connector
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Compact 7.9-inch screen size
256GB storage capacity
Supports Apple Pencil
Screen 25 percent brighter
No Smart Connector support
When you look at the iPad Air (2019) and iPad mini (2019), they both have very similar features on paper, with a few exceptions and the fact that one is more small and compact.
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Cost From $499 From $399
Wi-Fi Only Yes Yes
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Storage capacity 64GB or 256GB 64GB or 256GB
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True Tone Yes Yes
Chip A12 Bionic A12 Bionic
Apple Pencil First-generation only First-generation only
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Face ID No No
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