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Exoticism
The emergence of psychedelic rock in the late 60s was fueled by the same cultural interest in exotica that inspired the 50s exotica of Les Baxter and Martin Denny. The (Hawaiian) steel guitar is to country/western music what the sitar is to psychedelia: both instruments invigorated these forms of pop music through their novel, non-Western, that is, exotic sound. Exoticism and primitivism (both forms of essentialism) were terms used within the discourse of authenticity—that which is considered to be trustworthy or genuine—to sell exoticism to music consumers—"there ain't nothing like the real thing, baby." The Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto bossa nova hit, "The Girl From Ipanema" (1964), as well as the Getz/Charlie Byrd LP, Jazz Samba (1962), were to lounge exoticism (cool detachment) what Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" and "Oye Coma Va" were to hippie exoticism. Authenticity is merely a marketing tool, a way of validating certain popular music forms.
The embrace of the exotic became a form of bohemian expression. As Simon Frith has observed, "music is more like clothes than any other art form" (Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music, Harvard UP, 1996). Bohemianism substitutes aesthetics for politics, which is why songs such as "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones—the first true bohemians to become rich through rock music—is nothing but sheer posturing. By the late 1980s and the era of digital sampling, artists such as Peter Gabriel employed the sampling of so-called "world music" as a way to enhance—and therefore validate as authentic—his music within the marketplace. He wasn't the first.
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Driver indicted for crash that ended woman's pregnancy
A 38-year-old Far East Side man is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash last week that ended a woman's pregnancy.
A Franklin County grand jury on Tuesday returned a 10-count indictment against Tony S. Muldrow of Darrell Court on charges that include aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and failing to stop after a crash.
The crash occurred at 12:49 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of S. Hamilton Road and Dundee Avenue on the East Side.
Columbus police reported that Muldrow was driving south on Hamilton Road when his truck went left of center and slammed head on into a northbound Honda Accord that was stopped at a traffic light in the left-turn lane. Muldrow drove off and made in onto eastbound I-70 before his truck became disabled and he was apprehended, police said.
The passenger in the Honda, Ghislain Ngolo, 23, was injured and the fetus she was carrying was killed. The driver of the car, Roseline Keni, 36, also was injured.
Muldrow's blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.186 percent, according to Prosecutor Ron O'Brien. In Ohio, it is illegal to drive with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or above.

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The BOOM! Studios hit series Lumberjanes (by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak and Brooke Allen) took home the 2016 GLAAD Media Award for for Outstanding Comic.
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The first photos from the Archie set have me pretty excited!
As someone who's read every page of the comic and seen every minute of the TV series, I'll be your guide in pointing out the differences and opining on which medium handled each instance better.
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IAN Paisley Jr has been suspended as an MP from the House of Commons for 30 days.
It follows a Parliamentary watchdog substantiated allegations that he broke Parliamentary rules by lobbying for a foreign government which gave him valuable gifts.
The Commons' standards commissioner, Kathryn Stone, ruled that the North Antrim DUP MP had received a "very substantial personal benefit" from the Government of Sri Lanka in the form of luxury holidays.
Details of the holidays were first revealed last year by The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Paisley did not declare the visits – and then went on to lobby the Prime Minister on behalf of Sri Lanka's controversial government.
In a report published this morning, the commissioner said: "These two visits to Sri Lanka provided a very substantial personal benefit to Mr Paisley and his family.
"I find it surprising that such an experienced MP did not ask himself whether it was proper to accept such benefits from a foreign government.
"The commissioner found that Mr Paisley had "breached the House's rule on paid advocacy by writing to the Prime Minister on 19 March 2014 asking for an exclusive benefit for Sri Lanka, having received personal benefit and hospitality from that government within the previous twelve months".
The Commons' Standards Committee has now recommended that Mr Paisley be suspended from the Commons for 30 sitting days "in view of the seriousness of this matter", with the suspension to start on Tuesday, September 4.
Through his solicitor, Mr Paisley issued a statement saying he has "apologised unreservedly at the outset for his unintentional failure to register the hospitality he received.


People today have high expectations of their software and technology, and the users of Axon Evidence are no exception. Our customers demand, and deserve, a product that grows and adapts to the changing world of public safety, enables them to do more with shrinking budgets and resources, and is always available when they need it - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
As we expand our platform to cover every officer nationwide, building a system to scale with these challenges puts a tough demand on engineering teams. How do we innovate quickly to help our customers with their changing and growing needs, but also build and scale systems for growth? It seems so daunting a task that the phrase "changing the engine while flying" comes to mind. However, with some creativity, planning, and a bit of discipline, it is possible to upgrade or replace the most complex of our systems mid-flight.
Early on in 2016 it had become apparent that our search infrastructure for Evidence.com was unable to scale to the demands of our growing data volumes. Indexing was inordinately slow, the system required significant maintenance, and recovery from infrastructure issues was painful. As new data types and complexity came onboard, we needed a better and faster search indexing solution.
The team got together at the whiteboard to define both what we wanted out of the search indexing replacement as well as what we did not want out of our new system. We needed a significant indexing performance update - full reindexes should be measured in a matter of hours and incremental nightly reindexes in a matter of minutes, and our current system was not meeting those requirements.
We also did not want to substantially break search indexing compatibility with the front-end systems already in place. Having the old and new systems be compatible would enable us to quickly alternate between the two in case of unforeseen problems. That meant that instead of switching indexing technologies immediately, we would continue to rely on Apache Solr, our current solution, as our main indexing system, but innovate all of the technology around it to meet our business needs.
Success was easily measured - could we switch traffic to a new search indexing system without any regression in search capabilities? Performance? Index size and result quality?
It may come across as obvious, but first set out to establish why you are making the change, and what success will look like. With the intense rate of innovation in software engineering, its difficult to resist rewriting something simply to follow the latest design pattern or technology stack that will "magically" solve a lot of your problems. Stop that!
Another pit that I commonly see engineers falling into is designing for an ambiguous future. Sit down and really think about what your needs will be two years from now and try to design your system around that goal. For brand new systems it may be even shorter - a year or less. Accept that you will eventually need to overhaul your first attempt and don't be averse to that reality.
Agility and time-to-market are often much more important than any additional overhead of refactoring. Don't neglect the fact that your engineering skills will also grow during this timeframe - use that opportunity to refactor and upgrade along the way.
Experimentation is quite possibly the most important, and least practiced, task in engineering - and most likely, your team is doing it wrong.
Now I know what you're saying - "Our team experiments! We try everything out and build a prototype to prove our ideas." Successful experimentation requires much more than that. You need to establish a hypothesis, collect data, and communicate results to ensure that your new system design has a chance to meet the goals you determined earlier in the process. Well-designed experiments, although time consuming, will net huge wins down the line.
For our search indexing replacement project, we opted to build a system modeled after Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) - a design pattern that while potentially complex, had the best chance of adapting our data structures to our requirements.
Can we extract data at a rate fast enough to meet our SLA?
Would the CQRS modifications to our service architecture negatively impact performance during bulk and incremental search indexing operations?
What was the average time to refactor an existing service to integrate it into the new system, and how many potential and actual bugs were introduced during the process?
The team spent a few weeks designing and building these experiments - writing benchmarks and testing the design against real-world data spanning back several years. It helped us significantly improve several aspects of our approach and head off potential bugs early on.
Modern cloud software development mimics the building industry in many ways. Just as you wouldn't normally tear down a home to remodel your kitchen, you generally do not replace your entire cloud software stack in one fell swoop.
In construction, falsework refers to the use of temporary structures to support objects until they can fully stand on their own. In software you often need to build such temporary structures to allow seamless testing and integration of your new concepts and support controlled rollouts.
In our old search system, services would send messages to a queue determining what data needed to be indexed and a worker would pull those messages off of the queue and process them into Apache Solr. Services that needed data to be indexed would write messages directly into that queue.
The new indexing system would behave similarly, but with a few significant changes. First off, the message format needed to be changed to support additional use cases. Second, due to the use of a new high-speed streaming API for bulk indexing and a Quality of Service (QOS) feature to ensure that UI updates are processed before background work, we needed additional queues to support the system.
Our plan for replacing search indexing involved a multi-stage rollout. The first phase would deploy the new system into production and have it run in parallel to the existing system, but in write-only mode to a second data store. This would allow us to monitor the system over several days and check for any errors in processing. The second phase would roll customers into the new search engine indexing infrastructure slowly, giving us the ability to quickly switch back in case of any errors.
The team decided to build a new micro-service to recieve search indexing requests over Apache Thrift and enqueue them into one or more processing queues. This buffer between the producer and consumer allowed us to transform and multicast incoming requests into multiple formats and locations. Replacing all of the old queue-based code with this new service call wasn't the most glamorous work, but it did offer us the ability to run multiple versions of search indexing and queues in our QA environment during development. Today we use this feature to do controlled upgrades of the indexing system without having to take any downtime.
In a 24x7 cloud environment, continuity of service is extremely important. Good scaffolding and rollout infrastructure is critical to maintaining your SLA. Don't let your fear of the "old codebase" scare you from making targeted improvements to the old system in support of your replacement.
Good scaffolding also enables you to build known replacement points in your infrastructure. Replacing the queue based system with a journal (such as Apache Kafka) now is a straightforward and lower-risk change, thus future-proofing the design.
One of the tenets of software engineering at Google is the concept of frequent rewrites. Software is often replaced every few years to cut away unneeded complexity or requirements which are no longer applicable.
When rewriting search indexing, we felt that it might be important for our growing business to move to a different search indexing technology that offered some advantages in automatically growing large search clusters and supporting new data structures. Unfortunately, making this change would have required a substantial rewrite of our search query engine to the new system's search syntax and require us to big bang the search changes.
Instead of taking on this complexity up front, we decided to instead invest in writing our own domain-specific search language (using the flexible and easy Scala parser-combinators) that transpiles into Apache Solr query syntax. This approach not only gave us the flexibility to eventually replace the search indexer and query language, it also (somewhat accidentally) launched a new feature! Several customers now take advantage of our search DSL through the Evidence.com public API platform. This enables them to quickly integrate our software with their agency's specific tools and processes and has been quite a hit for those customers who use it.
When designing systems, strong interfaces and data contracts are more important than making the absolute correct algorithmic, platform, or technology choice. As an engineer, assume that someone will come after you and potentially rewrite large portions of the software to meet new requirements or needs. I have found that by focusing on making the next engineer's job easier with well defined interfaces between systems that are easily replaced, or code which is designed to be defensive and difficult to misuse, you end up designing a more robust and reliable platform overall.
Following these practices also makes it easier for you to go back to the drawing board and throw out bad ideas. Designing for frequent rewrites helps to keep the sunk cost fallacy at bay.
Looking too far into the future and trying to solve too many problems too soon can often be worse than not doing enough. Two years ago systems such as Axon Fleet were not even on the roadmap. Two years from now our challenges may look substantially different.
So you've invested time and effort into replacing a major component of your infrastructure. The team has run experiments, built microbenchmarks, run synthetic load tests in a stress or staging environment, and built rollout tools that let you precisely control rollouts down to the microsecond. How do you know it's all working?
A system without good metrics is guaranteed to fail, but what and how should you monitor? For Evidence.com we use a combination of real-time and aggregation systems to measure system performance in great detail. A good rule of thumb is to measure and trace all external boundaries - such as overall request time, database calls, and external service calls.
It's important that your dashboards accurately represent the customer experience using the site, making sure that the metrics span across systems. As systems become more complex and interconnected, platforms such as Zipkin or Opentracing.io are also great tools for debugging complex call graphs and measuring site performance.
I personally obsess over dashboards. A good dashboard helps the engineers on the project quickly pinpoint any potential system failures. A great dashboard should be self explanatory for any engineer within your organization to diagnose service problems.
Modern cloud systems require consistent care and feeding. With so many moving parts and with the internal and external dependencies consistently in flux, it's easy for failures in upstream systems or unanticipated behavioral changes to significantly impact your system or exacerbate conditions which were once rare. You can't abandon systems, and a culture of continuous improvement is key to exceeding customer expectations. Evidence.com is designed to quickly build and deploy, allowing engineers to safely update the system several times per day. Continuous integration and deployment are important tools to maintain this culture - nothing is more rewarding to an engineer to see their hard work deployed and in the hands of their customers or peers.
The era of the cloud has opened up new opportunities and challenges for software engineering. Our complex modern world with global user bases put new demands on our technology to always be there for us, available at a moment's notice. However with some discipline, skill, and planning you too can change the engine while flying.
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Statistically, Denmark is one of the safest countries in the world, meaning that visitors have little to worry about in terms of crime and women need not fear harassment in public nearly as much as they do in the United States. Still, if you visit this Scandinavian country, follow a few basic safety precautions so that you don't give petty thieves an easy target.
Gov.UK notes that in the past few years, pickpockets and purse snatchers have started operating in crowded areas of Denmark, such as train stations and shopping malls. There have also been some recent violent clashes between biker gangs and local groups, particularly in the capital, Copenhagen.
Although these are generally local conflicts unlikely to affect tourists, it's good to be aware of what areas you might want to avoid. If you do find yourself in need of help, dial 112, the country's free emergency number you can use to summon help.
Considering Copenhagen is such a large, busy city, it's amazing to consider its low crime rates compared to other European capitals. According to Bustle, for example, Copenhagen had a rate of only 0.3 homicides for every 100,000 residents, making it safer than Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, and Bucharest.
As with any other destination, though, you should keep an eye on your wallet or purse. Although not especially common, pickpockets and other petty criminals operate at many tourist attractions, train stations (especially in the city's main train station, Nørreport Station), and on its major shopping street Strøget as well as other areas popular with tourists such as Christiania, Nyhavn, and Kongens Nytorv.
Thieves are also known to operate in busy hotel lobbies and in cafes and restaurants. so keep your personal belongings, including passports and money, secure when you are in those areas of Copenhagen.
Aarhus (Århus), the second-largest city in Denmark, is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula about 116 miles northwest of Copenhagen and is known as one of the safest cities in the world, especially for tourists.
This is a destination where you don't have to worry about getting shot, mugged, or even robbed—as long as you remember some basic travel tips and keep your purse and wallet in sight, especially when attending crowded summer festivals in the city.
Nightlife in Aarhus is also much safer than many other European cities' club scenes, with police officers constantly patrolling the streets on weekends. Almost everyone is friendly here, too, so if you get lost, just ask a passerby for directions—they'll be more than happy to help.
Denmark's rural areas are very quiet but may be slightly less safe than urban areas—not in terms of crime but in cases where you might need help for other reasons, such as a medical emergency or car accident.
Many residents in rural areas do not speak or understand English well enough to help you with a safety issue, and emergency response times by police and ambulances may be slower in these regions.
On the upside, accidents in rural Denmark are rare and there is almost no crime. If you keep a flashlight handy and a pack of supplies (like food, water, and blankets) in the car for emergencies always use your headlights and seat belts, you should be able to travel all across Denmark without fear of harm.


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The Dictionary of Virginia Biography is published online through a partnership with Encyclopedia Virginia. Biographies that do not also appear in the three print volumes (surnames Aaroe–Daniels) link to lists of sources consulted.
Sources consulted for the biography of:
Joseph Farrar (1830–1892)
Birth and death dates on gravestone, Barton Heights Cemeteries, Richmond, Virginia
Biographical sketch and will in Farrar Family Papers, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Farrar's registration as a free negro in Free Negro Register, 3 December 1850, Albemarle Co. Free Negro and Slave Records, 1796–1870, Library of Virginia
1863 trial record in Richmond City Hustings Court Minute Book 28 (1862–1863): 658, Library of Virginia
Minutes of the Richmond Educational Association, 1867–1878, Ralza M. Manly Collection, City Records Office, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, Virginia
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Religious Activity
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Richmond City) Records, 1858–1975, Acc. 33482, Library of Virginia
Virginia Baptist State Convention Minutes, 1870–1892
Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of America Minutes, 1881–1891
Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 Oct. 1867, 9 June 1869, 17 June 1869, 25 June 1869
Richmond Daily State Journal, 6 January 1871
Richmond Whig, 23 March 1886
Richmond Dispatch, 18 May 1886, 1 June 1886
Richmond Planet, 24 May 1890
Richmond Dispatch, 10 March 1892, 12 March 1892
Richmond Planet, 12 March 1892, 19 March 1892
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I have wonderful memories of weekends and holidays spent in my ancestral home.
Today, after many years, I am very pleased to welcome you to visit this great house and share with you this region, this land that I love and know so well. I will share with you legends and old stories and will show you the beautiful landscape and the ancient architecture surrounding it. Your experience in northern Portugal will be unforgettable .
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When I was young, and I thought about what I wanted to do with my life, I realized I wanted to be like Felix the Cat. I wanted a magical bag of tricks I could reach into and take over a room and lead people on an adventure.
A theater arts degree and 30 years of performing and experimenting and having fun with kids of all ages has evolved into the Get Puppetty Stage. It's my Grandma's make up kit from the 50's crammed with all the gear we need to turn you into a puppet and recreate and film your favorite stories, or just make stuff up and see where it goes.
Technology has caught up with my imagination. I can now take a picture of your face, print it out, and we can slap it onto any body you want in just a few minutes.
…it's a game changer. It's you, but it's not you. Inhibitions melt away. Stories from the past that may have been difficult or traumatic lose their power and become funny and cathartic and relatable. The puppet can go through terrible experiences or explore strange narratives and the storyteller remains safe. Or if you just want to make James Franco suffer, we can do that also.
…and help you capture and share them. Your friends and family want to see your stories come to life and be told by you.
I am constantly surprised and delighted to watch people who don't think they are creative transform into amazing storytellers.
David showed up with his bag of tricks and created an experience that no one expected and a night that no one will forget.
While working with a group from China that felt a bit stuck on the task at hand, I took pictures of them all and made them into puppets. They all started laughing and got to work making their 'costumes' and made a story about their trip and how they all turned into superheros and saved the day. The fun and collaboration and bonding that resulted carried through to the other project and the feeling of being stuck was gone.
Mr. Johnson sat in a wheelchair in the back of the dementia ward staring out the window. After working with the folks for a while I asked a question about the story that was developing. "So, when the Wizard of Oz landed on Pluto and was greeted King Toto, where did the king offer to take the Wizard first?" From the back of the room, a gruff voice said loudly, "Took him to the pub for a pint!" The three attendants in the room all exclaimed, "Mr. Johnson!" Apparently, he hadn't spoken in years. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let me take Mr. Johnson to the pub.
I showed up at a party in Venice where I met Lilikoi (12) and her mom, Kyla. Lilikoi was engrossed in her iPad as the party went on around her. We started making puppets and soon Lilikoi had a puppet of her mom and was doing her best 'mom' voice and the two of them had everyone in stitches telling their story. Kyla said, "We haven't spoken this much in six months!" Lilikoi continued to hang out and the iPad sat in the corner for the rest of the night.
He got to the restaurant early and arranged to have a corsage and ring brought out with a bucket of champagne. My mother had never been to a fancy restaurant before and was so impressed that you get flowers and a ring when you buy champagne! "Nancy, this isn't like Cracker Jacks!" Cole, said. "I'm asking you to marry me!" I'll bet your family is just as weird and funny as mine. Let's get together and tell those stories.
Team building and creativity workshops, kids parties, and bringing some joy to senior care facilities are my favorites, but I can bring my bag of tricks to almost any event. Let's talk!


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house of Israel, saying, If ve do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you; and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hands of the Philistines." This was useful, faithful counsel, and it was happily well received; for it is added, "Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only." This shall be the glory, this shall be the strength of Britain, under' God: - If every man, listening to the rebukes, to the chastenings of Providence, shall rise up and cast away his idols, separate himself from his sin, and cleave to the Lord with purpose of heart, then, who shall harm us? We have, in truth, more to fear from our sins than from the French. Israel had never been smitten before the men of Ai, had there not been an accursed thing in the camp. If there be any dismay, any weakness, any danger attached to our present situation, it is from hence; we are a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Such a country was that of Sodom; but it would have been spared, if it had contained ten righteous persons. O Lord, spare our guilty land! for the sake of the thousands of thy children who daily supplicate for its peace and prosperity!
The Amalekites made an invasion on the south of Ziklag, the territory in which David resided; and they carried away his wives, his children, and his men. Trouble and distress ensued; yea, in the agitation and anguish of their spirits, they 'talked of stoning David. But we are informed, that " David encouraged himself in the Lord his God." Here again, is one of the best patterns for our imitation. Let us not indulge the vain confidence and the foolish presumption of the men of the world. They calculate on the ratio of wisdom, of numbers, and of bravery, which they have on their side; they forget that all these, and ten thousand more advantages, are nothing, unless the Lord be on our side. Let us therefore look to him;
let us put our trust in his wisdom, goodness, and power. David went out against Goliath," in the name of the Lord of Hosts." The church of old said, " Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and earth." Yes; if we are saved, our God must fight for us. Let us then not talk proudly; but let every one of us encourage himself in the Lord. Let us humble ourselves under his mighty hand, let every one of us turn from the evil of his way; and then, those who invade us, shall rue it as bitterly as did the Amalekites the invasion of Ziklag*,
I will mention another instance, which is so singular, that it must not be omitted:- It was the invasion of Judah, by the children of Moab, Ammon, and others, in the days of Jeho saphat. What was done? Then Jehosaph it eared, and
set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah; and Judah gathered together, to ask help of the Lord, even out of all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord and Jehosaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, and said, "O Lord God of our fathers, art thou not God in Heaven? and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the Heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that there is none able to withstand thee?" "O our God, wilt thou not judge them! for we have no might against this great company that cometh up against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee." This is the spirit, this is the language which is suitable to a frail and sinful people. From the king on the throne to the lowest subject, let us speak and act in this humble and devout manner. Then may we reasonably expect, that if our peaceful happy shores are invaded, our enemies shall be thundered upon from Heaven, and sink as lead in the great deep; or, if they reach our shores, it shall be said of them, "The stout-hearted are spoiled; they have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands."
But it may be proper to take another view of the subject, and notice two other instances of invasion; - I mean those of Jerusalem, by Nebuchadnezzar and Titus Vespasian. I would fain separate these, but there is not room. We have sufficient evidence that these invasions were immediately connected with the moral and religious state of the Jews. In the former period, they are described as fallen from their pre-eminence over all other people; having once walked in the light, the fellowship, and the practice of the truth, and were now sunk into the depths of ignorance, idolatry, and vice. This is Je hovah's complaint against them, about the time we refer to: "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but my people doth not know, Israel doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation! a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward §," &c. Faithful prophets warned them of their sin and danger; assured them of the destruction which never fails, sooner or later, to overwhelm the nation that forsakes God. But they treated these honest reprovers as fools and madmen, yca, as traitors and enemies to their country; while they courted and honoured the idle and the unfaithful prophets who flattered them, and spake Peace. What was the event? The Chaldean army approached; the Jews were infatuated, and forsaken of God; all was horror and desolation; and the whole Jewish people, who had been
the praise and the terror of other nations, were either slain, dispersed, or consigned to the most degrading and cruel captivity. Such is the sad catastrophe of a people who cast off the fear of God, and trust in an arm of flesh. Let Britain, then, hear and be admonished ; — let her king, let her princes, let her nobles, judges, and senators; let her merchants, traders, and inechanics; let all the people remember and turn to the Lord. We are highly exalted in privileges; these have been slighted and abused. We have been wooed by mercies, and chastened by judgments; let us then "be zealous and repent," lest we fall after the same example of unbelief. The ruin of other nations is recorded for our admonition. May we profit by such awful instances!
This infatuated people were at length brought back from Babylon; their temple rebuilt. By the patriotism of Nehemiah, Zerrubabel, and others, they were restored to peace and prosperity but not having learned obedience by the things which they suffered, they forsook their God again; and were again invaded, by the Roman armies. At last, their city was utterly destroyed; and those who survived the unparalleled carnage, were dispersed among all civilized nations, to proclaim, by their forlorn and miserable condition, the truth and justice of a holy God. Their fathers had sinned, and done foolishly; but they filled up the measure of their iniquity, by despising the gospel of salvation: they crucified the Lord of Glory, and did despite to the Spirit of Grace. Then did the wrath of God overtake them to the uttermost. There is no people in whose steps we are in so much danger of treading as the Jews; for we hear the same lively oracles of truth, the same gospel of grace, the same Jesus preached to us; and, I tremble to say, there are some symptoms of the same unbelief, of the same perverseness, among us. Yes; even among us is the name of Jesus blasphemed; his blood and righteousness are discarded, and despite done to the Spirit of grace. The letter of religion is substituted for its spirit, -and the form of godliness for its power. These are awful traits in the character of a people, on whom indulgent Heaven reflects its clearest rays; and on whom is bestowed the richest of all favours, Jesus, the unspeakable gift of God, and the blessings of eternal life through him.
Surely then, it becomes us to prostrate ourselves at the footstool of mercy, and confess, with blushing and grief, our numerous, our aggravated transgressions. Were God to deal with us according to our sins, he might permit our invading enemies to accomplish their cruel purposes: he might make them his instruments of righteous vengeance upon us; the Jews were upon the Canaanites, and as the Babylonians and Romans were upon the Jews. But who can tell? The Lord may hear the voice of our supplications, and interpose,
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as in former periods, to deliver our highly-favoured island from destruction. When the Spanish Armada threatened our coasts, the Lord appeared for Britain, by the total discomfiture of the "Invincible Fleet." When Popery and arbitrary power were coming in like a flood, the Lord sent a deliverer, in the person of William the Third. When, at two subsequent periods, the Popish pretenders to the throne, excited rebellion, and advanced in formidable array towards the capital, God again interposed, and dispersed their forces. God has lately defeated, we trust, the scheme of the Irish rebels, by permitting the explosion to take place before the time intended; and so frustrated the concerted plan. May we not then indulge the hope, that God will listen to the fervent prayers of his British Israel; and let the vaunting invader know, that "the Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge."
Bermondsey.
Rev. Sir,
I AM Credibly informed, that the vestries attached to some meeting-houses in this kingdom, exhibit a scene of merchandize; where sermons, pamphlets, and volumes are sold on the Lord's Day as regularly as they are in a bookseller's shop on any other day.
These articles may be unexceptionable, and even important; in this manner too, whole editions may be rapidly disposed of: but it is not only written, "Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy;" but also, "Let not your good be evil-spoken of:" and again," Abstain from all appearance of evil." While ministers acknowledge the sanctity of the Christian-Sabbath, and profess to be deeply concerned for that profanation of it which the military ardour of this awful period is likely to involve, it appears to me there is much inconsistency in this conduct, whatever may be alleged in favour of a few extraordinary cases, such as those purely of a charitable nature. Ministers, I trust, will, on a little reflection, perceive that the practice, as generally maintained in some vestries, is wholly indefensible; and ought, therefore, to be immediately abandoned. I am, Rev. Sir,
yours respectfully,
OBSERVATOR.
QUERY.
Is any serious person (a minister in particular) justifiable in associating with those whose conduct he knows is, on many Accounts, extremely reprehensible?
Leather-lane.
ANECDOTES.
SPARE TO SPEND.
MANY years ago, the writer of this heard Mr. Whitfeld relate, in a sermon at the Tabernacle, the following anecdote, which has so good a tendency, that the insertion of it in this work may contribute to the promotion both of frugality and generosity, qualities which may reciprocally assist each
Two persons, who were employed in collecting money for some public charity, knocked at the door of a certain gentleman, intending to solicit his donation. While waiting there, they overheard the master of the house severely reproving his servants for the waste of a small piece of candle. Judging from this appearance of extreme parsimony that of extreme parsimony that he was a covetous man, one of them proposed, that they should lose no more time in waiting there, but go on to another house. The other person, however, thought it best to stay. At length they were introduced, when the gentleman, having read their case, immediately presented them with five guineas. The collectors, so agreeably disappointed, could not conceal their surprize; which being observed by the donor, he desired to know why they expressed so much wonder at the gift. "The reason, Sir," said one of them, " is this: We happened to hear you severely blaming your servants for losing an inch of candle; and expected nothing from a person who, we feared, was so parsimonious. Gentlemen,' replied he, it is true, I am very exact in the economy of my affairs: I cannot endure the waste of any thing, however small its value; and I do this, that I may save, out of a moderate income, something to give to God and religion!
The moral is obvious. Masters and Mistresses of families, suffer no extravagance! Spare unnecessary expence! Spare, that you may have to spend for God;-and you, servants, avoid profusion and waste! Think not your masters covetous, because careful: it becomes both them and you to be careful, that there may be somewhat "to give to him that needeth."
G. B.
A copy of this anecdote, pasted on the wall of a kitchen, may probably have a good effect.
ON DUELLING.
SIR CHOMLEY DEERING, Member of Parliament for the county of Kent, was killed by his intimate friend Mr. Thornhill, in a ducl, the 9th of May, 1711. These gentlemen having sat too long over a glass of wine, it seems, began to make personal reflections on each other, which produced a challenge; and both of them were grieved they had quarrelled


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The Memoirs of a Street Agent
By Richard Lindberg
At a time when corruption and malfeasance infested the halls of justice in Cook County, Paul Davis Newey built a strong reputation as someone who could not be bought, sold, or compromised by the forces of evil who permeated this tough working man's town where politics and clout counted for everything.
Chicago, circa 1956. Corruption in the traffic court. Corruption in the police department, corruption in City Hall, corruption everywhere. Then an election surprise and a beacon of hope for those who had abandoned hope of reforming wicked old Chicago.
Benjamin Adamowski, an alderman's son, was elected Cook County State's Attorney in a bruising campaign that exposed a chink in the armor of the previously invincible Democratic organization. Adamowski, a political maverick interested in reforming local government, had recently broken ranks with the party and his longtime friend Richard J. Daley, to become a Republican in this bastion of Democratic machine politics.
Politically it was a kiss of death – not a good career move for a politician trying to recast the city in a positive image, but Ben was driven by ambition and he always marched to his own drummer – surrounded by men with high ideals and a pragmatic vision of life. Men like Paul Davis Newey, the son of an immigrant Assyrian minister who conducted his ministry in Chicago and Minneapolis where Paul was born in 1914.
Paul Newey's grandparents toiled as rug merchants in Chicago. And as a youngster Paul was taught Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ according to ancient biblical text.
Instilled with deep religious convictions but influenced by Warner Brothers' screen portrayal of gangsters and G-Men in a score of 1930s Hollywood films, Newey enrolled in John Marshall Law School in order to qualify for admittance to the FBI. Armed with a law degree, strong academic credentials, and a tough physical and mental comportment, he counted on becoming a G-Man himself, but the dark-complected young Assyrian-American did not exactly match the desired ethnic profile J. Edgar Hoover was striving for when hiring new Agents. In other words, non-WASP's need not apply.
Instead, Newey joined the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, earning $1,200 a year. After a couple of years in the service of his country in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve, Newey hooked up with the Federal Narcotics Bureau, becoming something of an expert on drug trafficking at a time when the problem was mostly confined to the inner city neighborhoods and downtown "honky tonk" districts. Cultivating informants in order to build a solid case became his specialty. While working in Detroit, Paul established levels of trust with a junkie pickpocket named Black Sam who followed the heavyweight champion Joe Louis into every major city and tank town from Maine to California. While the "Brown Bomber" slugged it out in the ring, Black Sam worked the crowd – dipping into people's pockets.
Agent Newey "turned" Black Sam into a reliable informant who helped him build cases. Black Sam also taught him an essential truth about the character of his home town – Chicago.
"Newey, I can tell you this," Black Sam confided to him in an unguarded moment. "Of all the cities I worked, Chicago is the most corrupt as far as politics and the police are concerned. It is the only town I know of where the cops will pick your pockets clean after a pinch. In any other town, once they found the needle tracks on my arm, I would be locked up for the night with enough money to leave town the following morning. But in Chicago they would not leave me enough money for carfare. That's how greedy the cops were in Chicago."
Paul Newey never forgot what Black Sam told him. The thought was uppermost in his mind in 1957, when he returned to the Windy City looking for work, after five years of service with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The veteran criminal investigator and licensed attorney is reluctant to discuss the specific nature of his work with the CIA – such information still remains classified after all these years – but in some ways it prepared him for his adventures in the Cook County State's Attorney's office working for Ben Adamowski as Chief Investigator.
"Chicago really had the worst reputation as far as its police department was concerned," he recalls. "There were some fine men back then – I didn't know Frank Pape that well, but the most honest cops of that era that I personally knew were John Ascher, Chief of Detectives, and Joe Morris of the old Scotland Yard detail."
"The best thing that ever happened to the Chicago Police Department was the reformation that took place after the Summerdale Scandal of 1960."
Overlooked in the history of those desperate times is the role Paul Newey played in unraveling Chicago's most notorious police scandal; one that involved eight burglar cops assigned to the old Summerdale District (now Foster Avenue). In 1958-1959, the eight men conspired with Richard Morrison, Chicago's most adept cat burglar, and a criminal mastermind, to break and enter dozens of retail stores in Edgewater-Uptown neighborhoods. The crooked Summerdale police officers kept all of the plundered loot – Morrison, who opened the stores, sabotaged the alarms, and acted as lookout, pocketed whatever cash he could remove from the safe
As Chief Investigator in the State's Attorney's office, Newey was in charge of an elite ten-man unit responsible for gathering the evidence necessary for his boss, Ben Adamowski, to present a solid case to a grand jury. Newey painstakingly assembled his team, knowing that Chicago politics, being what they are, would affect these men down the road. Therefore, he recruited men like Dan McCarthy and Bill Tuttle, drawn from the FBI, and Bob Schroeder, a federal narcotics investigator.
"I avoided using Chicago policemen and I'll tell you why," Newey explains. "From the very beginning I knew that when our team left the office these men would be punished if they became involved in some of the things we were doing that had political overtones, for instance the Summerdale raids. As a result they would have to suffer after we left office. On that basis I rarely used them."
Paul Newey and his squad compiled an impressive dossier following successful raids against Frankie LaPorte's gambling strongholds and strip clubs in Calumet City, where a sordid white slave ring that lured young Canadian girls and aspiring actresses into a life of prostitution was uncovered.
Cook County Sheriff Frank Sain wasn't interested in closing down the cesspools of vice and gambling. Throughout his dismal term of office as sheriff, Frank Sain was excoriated by Chicago Crime Commission Executive Director Virgil Peterson, who sent him weekly correspondence containing the addresses of all of the big-time clip joints and gambling hell holes in the city with a stern warning to do something – memoranda Sheriff Sain deposited in his circular file.
"Sain was "acceptable" as far as they (the Outfit) were concerned," Newey states. "When I was going to law school we had a professor at John Marshall who said there are two offices in the County of Cook where you can go in as clean as the driven snow and never come out the same way you went in."
"One is the State's Attorney's office and the other is the Sheriff's office," Newey adds. "With the Sheriff's office the only reason they limited you to four years is because they figured that if you can't steal enough to last you a lifetime, then you're not worth your salt."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Until 1970, a Cook County Sheriff was limited to one term of office.
In 1959 Newey secured an indictment against a kidnapper based on hypnosis evidence. He was one of the first investigators in this country to utilize truth serum and hypnosis as a means to solve a criminal case. The 19-year-old female victim described her assailant who was later identified and charged. However the evidence against the defendant was excluded and the trial ended in acquittal. It was a controversial tactic for the times – Newey was ridiculed by his peers – but he was never afraid to break new ground or use whatever resources were available to him to build a profile of a suspect.
Then came the mother of all police scandals and new dilemmas.
At the time of Summerdale, Newey's men were investigating a ticket-fixing scandal in traffic court when Jim Doherty, an assistant public defender who was representing the incarcerated Morrison, came to him with an amazing tale of police graft – one that was sure to blow the lid off of the whole rotten system of Chicago justice and expose the links between the criminal underworld and the Chicago Police Department.
"Doherty had a private practice on the side – it was a common thing in those days for a lawyer," Newey explains. "But when he discovered that Morrison and the eight cops were hitting Western Auto Supply – one of his clients, he was furious. That's when Jim made arrangements with his boss to have a personal conference with Adamowski. Ben told him that if he talked to me he was talking to him."
Newey took a statement from Richie Morrison that ran 76 pages long and presented it to Adamowski. Morrison ticked off an amazing list of names, dates, places, and vivid details concerning the North Side burglaries he committed in league with the crooked cops.
The evidence was incontrovertible and the implications were menacing. Just how far would this lead? Was the entire police department rife with corruption? The answer to that question seemed fairly obvious. At the very least the Morrison confession was political fodder for the enemies of Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Ben Adamowski was a powerful political foe who had broken ranks with the Democrats in 1955 after the party had dumped his friend, the former Mayor Martin J. Kennelly, from the ticket, and slated the ambitious Daley in his place.
Over the years Ben Adamowski has been tarred as a political opportunist who sought the Chicago mayoralty at any cost. According to the historian's conventional wisdom, the Summerdale revelations provided the means to feather Ben's nest for the 1963 mayoral election – an accusation which Paul Newey, his trusted assistant and future law partner hotly denies.
"I told Ben this Summerdale burglary ring was a very bad situation. I didn't know what to do about it. He said we got to go on it. I said if we have to go, we have to bring in the police department. If we do it alone they will scream to high heaven that its political."
"The only way to do this would be to call in the brass of the police department and see if they would go along with us," Newey advised. "It'll take two judges to get warrants for a nighttime search and we won't be able to get warrants from any of the Democratic judges. Right away their hackles will go up, but if we walk in there with the police brass we won't have any problems."
Newey summoned the departmental brass to a private meeting where he round-tabled Morrison's 76-page confession. The head of the traffic division, the chief of detectives – everyone except the hapless Commissioner Timothy O'Connor who was out of town and on the verge of losing his job, were present for the meeting.
"I said let's take a vote and to a man they said we have no choice. We have to get warrants and arrest all the policemen for burglary. So how could that be political?" Newey wonders.
The scandal finally broke in January of 1960. Armed with search warrants, Newey's raiders roused the eight cop-burglars from their warm beds and hauled them downtown to the Union League Club for an all-night interrogation.
The press instantly seized upon the story of the "Babbling Burglar" and within a few days, O'Connor was made the scapegoat by Daley, and forced to resign. It was a political crisis of grave magnitude and one that demanded swift action. Chicago Police captains and much of the ruling cadre were transferred or demoted while the Mayor convened a blue-ribbon panel to locate a successor who could break the stranglehold of political influence peddling and graft that permeated the department.
O.W. Wilson, a criminologist from the University of California was such a man. Within a year's time the leaky boat was patched and the mechanisms of reform were solidly in place.
For the State's Attorney and his chief investigator, heartache followed. In many respects, Summerdale was the high point of Ben Adamowski's roller-coaster career, but the political back wash accompanying their pre-pre-Greylord investigations and the unhealthy stench surrounding the Morrison case proved devastating. As Newey points out: "In many ways it was the kiss of death for us. For a long time after we lost the office I couldn't go into a courtroom without the Democratic judges giving us a bad time."
Paul Newey is understandably bitter when he reviews the vote fraud chicanery surrounding Ben's 1960 re-election loss to Dan Ward.
"The focus of the 1960 election was not really to defeat [Republican presidential candidate] Richard Nixon, it was to defeat Adamowski," he said. "We were creating bedlam in Cook County, so they knew they had to do something. That election was stolen from Ben – I have no doubt about that."
Newey shudders as he recalls election night, 1960, and the underhanded tactics employed by Daley's West Side Bloc tricksters who controlled Chicago's "River Wards" where the election was really lost. The margin of defeat: 26,000 votes out of 2.4 million cast. The Cook County Republicans were reduced to their lowest ebb of power since 1936 by the time the smoke had cleared.
"The way the election returns came in," Newey shakes his head and chuckles at the thought. "We were up all night before we knew it would be a loser. Ben wanted a recount but the Republican National Committee didn't come up with the kind of money we needed. Nixon wasn't that anxious for a recount because he feared it would tear the country apart."
Adamowski was down – but not out. He entered into a private law practice with Paul Newey and Francis X. Riley, while plotting a political comeback that never really materialized. Ben challenged Daley in 1963 – and lost. He took a stab at the Cook County Assessor's office a few years later, but the Republicans turned their back on him by this time. "Ben's problem was that he was too honest," Newey contends.
Meanwhile, Daley's imposing "Chicago Machine" had already flexed its muscle against those who had caused him so much embarrassment in 1960.
"After we left office they did everything they could in order to compromise us by putting the IRS on Ben and I," Newey believes. "Mayor Daley had Washington in his hip pocket. Ben and I were both investigated by the IRS intelligence unit which means they were trying to build criminal cases against us. My wife Viola was so fearful that we would be set up, she had a nervous breakdown. They went through all of my tax returns for six years and you know what? Ben ended up with a refund."
Nowadays, Paul Newey continues his legal practice, but he limits his time to pro-bono immigration work on behalf of members of the Assyrian community.
Ben Adamowski, his lifelong friend, passed away in 1982, but the memories are still fresh in Paul's mind. There is still one vexing issue – a piece of unfinished business from the past left for Newey to ponder. Who exactly was Richard B. Cain?
Newey is sorting out fact from the fiction in a book length manuscript he hopes to publish with veteran Chicago Tribune reporters Edward Baumann and John O'Brien about this mystery man Cain.
"Just before the 1960 election the Republican National Committee decided that they had to have some activity in Chicago to aide in the upcoming national election," Newey relates. "So they started a special unit on organized crime and at first they gave Elroy C. Sandquist the opportunity to take the job as a special assistant attorney general to prosecute Tony Accardo. After Sandquist turned it down, they asked Richard Ogilvie, an up-and-comer in Republican politics, if he would be interested, and he was as it turned out."
There was considerable bad blood spilled between Ogilvie and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who refused to assist the investigation at any level. In desperation, Ogilvie contacted Adamowski with an offer.
"He said I've got a couple who have been helping me from the Chicago P.D. and I think they are honest cops, and if you can have them transferred over to your police force then I'll be able to use them," Newey remembers. "Ben told Ogilvie to send them over to Paul Newey and if he thinks they are acceptable then we'll bring them in."
In walked Cain, a squat looking figure with horned rimmed glasses and a menacing disposition. With him, his partner Gerald Shallow.
"I used to screen all the cops that worked for me," Newey said. "I later found out that they had been recommended to Ogilvie by Jack Mabley of the Chicago American. So I had one or two of my trusted cops check them out – one of them was Sergeant Jim Hoy."
Hoy shook his head incredulously and said: "Chief, your not going to bring those guys here are you? He didn't say anymore, but he didn't have to. The body language spoke well enough."
Cain already carried around a lot of baggage. He was a prime suspect in the murder of Harry Figel, an Englewood blackmailer whose mangled body was found in back of the Greyhound Bus Terminal on Randolph Street. Figel, known as "Uncle Harry" to his associates on the streets, had incurred the wrath of the mob by refusing to pay his street tax. His stock in trade was extorting blackmail money from homosexuals. Cain, who was no stranger to the shakedown racket himself, victimized prostitutes, abortionists, and even threatened to expose a ranking member of the Chicago Police cadre whose sexual preferences were well outside the acceptable mainstream in 1960.
Cain and Shallow allegedly picked up Figel at a restaurant at 63rd and Ashland – one mile west of his headquarters at Cronin's Bar, 63rd and Halsted. After ending the life of this minor league mobster, they dumped his body in an alley behind the bus station and pled self-defense when questioned by their superiors. At the time, the evidence against Cain and Shallow was flimsy, and the only response coming from 11th and State was a departmental suspension. Later, independent investigators traced the murder weapon (a .25 Beretta automatic) back to Cain – and a suburban gun dealer where the item was purchased under his own name.
Despite the damning allegations against him, Dick Cain was held in high regard by Ogilvie, certain members of the press corps, and more than a few law enforcement officers who considered him a top-notch investigator. Sometimes though you have to take what you are offered.
Under pressure from Ogilvie to bring this guy in, Newey summoned Cain and Shallow to the office and told them that while he couldn't offer full-time employment, there was an undercover assignment available if they were willing to take a leave of absence from the police department. They would be paid from a secret contingency fund established by the State's Attorney. The assignment was to spy on Irving N. Cohen, Mayor Daley's City Commissioner of Investigation – sarcastically known as "Sweep it Under the Rug Cohen"
"Cohen's job was to keep the city gambling operations under wraps so the mayor would not get dirtied up," Newey related. "Ben had heard via the grapevine that it was Cohen's purpose to keep all the book joints going, but under wraps so that the media wouldn't make an issue of it during an election year. Daley knew they were wide open. It was Cohen's job to keep things suppressed. So I told these guys if you can check Cohen out and see whose going in and out of his office, I said maybe you can get pictures, and we can start from there."
Cain and Shallow, these two rogue cops posing as managers of "Accurate Laboratories," took leave of their jobs and rented an office across the hall from Cohen on Wabash Avenue. About the first or second day they were up there peeking over the transom trying to take shots, someone in Cohen's office spotted them. Arrests were made and the political fallout compromised Adamowski at a critical moment in the Summerdale investigations.
Shallow mended his fences with the Police Department and was later promoted to sergeant, incredible as it may seem. "Between the two of them they decided Shallow should take the rap and admit to it and Cain should play hard nose," Newey said. "He was planning to leave the department anyway and go down to Florida and work the Bay of Pigs operation for the CIA. The contract was not with Richard Cain directly – but between the U.S. Government and Sam Giancana."
Cain was a vassal of Giancana and Giancana was in bed with the Kennedys who were on a mission to rid Cuba of Fidel Castro. Under orders from the Chicago mob boss, Cain opened an office at Rush and Oak, where he recruited Cuban insurgents and soldiers of fortune to go down to South Florida to train as guerilla warriors – a black bag assignment, perfect for one such as Cain.
The Bay of Pigs invasion ended in disaster. It was a black eye fiasco for the president. The rebels that Cain hired and trained in Florida were driven into the sea. But Dick Cain returned to Chicago where he accepted an appointment as Dick Ogilvie's chief investigator after Ogilvie was elected Cook County Sheriff in 1962. Why Richard Ogilvie, a man of integrity and high ideals, vested so much confidence in Dick Cain who was criminally indicted in 1964 for a complicity in the Louis Zahn warehouse heist and a figure who consorted with a host of shady wise guys until he was assassinated in 1973, remains one of the great enigmas of the age.
It is personally troubling to Paul Newey even to this day, but he continues his efforts to flesh out the real truth behind the man and the myth that is Richard Cain – including persistent rumors that this Chicago mob-cop may have participated in the planning of the Kennedy assassination.
Paul Newey, a member in good standing of the National Police Officers Hall of Fame, is 83 now. He doesn't move as fast as he used to, but he keeps his finger on the pulse of Cook County government and his opinions and observations carry weight. The passing years have taught him one fundamental truth about crime, politics, and law enforcement – and the Richard Cains who infest the city.
"In this town you have got to be real careful about what you say, and to whom you say it to. You might be talking to your own executioner. Now it's a lot more sophisticated."
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GWM Ora Good Cat Malaysia review: A bargain of an EV let down by poor software
in Cars, EV, Reviews, Transport, Video
So far, we've seen plenty of different EVs, from futuristic ones, to fast ones, to those that just look like any other car. But for EVs to really succeed in the marketplace, they need range (not the distance one, we'll get to that in a bit). Not every EV has to be a big crossover, or have so much power it will rip off your face. Some should just be fun. And cute!
This is the Ora Good Cat, from the Chinese company Great Wall Motor (GWM). It's a funky name for an adorable little car. But is this cool cat actually good enough? We took this car for a spin to find out.
You can subscribe to this car through Flux
First, a bit of housekeeping. This car wasn't loaned to us by GWM but from the subscription service Flux. The company is offering several of the latest EVs, including this Good Cat as well as the BMW iX, the Mini Cooper SE and the Hyundai Kona Electric. You can even drive a Tesla.
You can subscribe to any of these cars for as long or as short as you want, and you can switch to another EV or even a petrol car at any time. Insurance, road tax and maintenance are all taken care of, and there's also a door-to-door service that will deliver the car to you and take it to service, right from your doorstep. Visit the official website for more information.
Good Cat, great price
The Ora Good Cat is the first car introduced as part of the GWM relaunch. Ora, in case you're wondering, is a sub-brand of GWM, just like Haval. Pricing starts at RM139,800 for the 400 Pro model, the 400 representing the amount of claimed range in kilometres. That makes it the cheapest electric vehicle in Malaysia today, undercutting the Hyundai Kona Electric e-Lite by more than RM10,000.
The one we drove is the top of the range model, the 500 Ultra with the magical 500km of range. It's priced quite a bit higher than the 400 Pro at RM169,800, but it's still a bargain—especially considering that the Kona Electric e-Max, which can only muster 484km on a single charge, sits on the wrong side of RM200,000. Astonishingly, GWM even bundles in a 7kW AC wallbox charger with each purchase.
We should point out that this particular unit is of Thai specification, which Flux managed to procure months before the Malaysian launch this week. As such, its software had not been localised and the standard equipment may not have matched the cars buyers will actually get. We doubt this will have made much of a difference, however, having spent a short amount of time with a local car at the launch event.
Cute mini-Porsche looks
Let's cut to the chase. You're here for the looks, aren't you? In a world where everyone's leaning towards aggressive SUVs, it's refreshing to see a small hatchback EV—one that wasn't designed to look like the Predator. The big round headlights give it an expressive face, and when you combine it with the curvy body, you get a design that's very similar to a certain sports car brand from Stuttgart.
That's not surprising, given that the Good Cat was styled by former Porsche designer Emanuel Derta. It kinda looks like a squished Taycan Cross Turismo, but in a good way—I like it. But it's at the back where the car is most distinctive; there are so few embellishments it looks almost alien-like. The taillights, by the way, are embedded in the rear windscreen, while the slim lamps on the bumper light up when the tailgate is open, maintaining visibility at night.
One more thing. The car you see here is finished in Hazel Wood Beige with a brown roof, and I'm not really a fan—it makes the whole thing look like a naked mole rat. I'd go for the Verdant Green model with the white roof. My girlfriend likes this colour, though, so it's got that going for it.
These special two-tone paint options, by the way, are only offered on the 500 Ultra, although you can still choose from the standard Hamilton White, Sun Black, Coral Blue or Mars Red—the latter with a black roof.
A nice place to spend time in
The colour scheme continues on the inside, where you'll find nice leather-like trim in either brown or green. It's matched to a light interior that really helps make the car feel bigger than it is, though good luck keeping it clean. The good news is that the Good Cat is at least solidly built—despite the odometer showing over 14,000 km of what must surely be hard use, the car still feels tight as a drum. This is a huge relief, given that China doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to build quality.
The only thing I don't like is centre console that sits at the bottom. The whole thing is finished in beige (or light grey in the case of the Verdant Green model), which looks cheap—especially when you consider that the USB ports and the 12-volt socket cover is black. That's not a good look.
Then there's the impracticality of having such light colours in areas that see so much use. There's a reason why other cars have storage compartments in darker hues—dirt gets everywhere in here, and if you spill something in the cupholders, you're gonna have a tough time cleaning it up. The unique colours are nice, but on balance, I think I prefer the black interior that comes standard.
Still, everything looks nice in here, with lots of chrome detailing and the Mini-style toggle switches. You can clearly see where the designers have taken their inspiration from. The seats are also very comfortable—the driver's pew is electrically adjustable, and there's even a welcome function that slides the seat back so you have more room to get in. Rear legroom is pretty good, too, although headroom is a little tight for taller passengers.
Where the Good Cat suffers is in terms of boot space. There's just 228 litres back here, and there's no real underfloor storage either, meaning that the charging cables have to fight for space with the rest of your luggage. There's no front boot, either, so the rear boot is all you get.
More than quick enough for daily use
The first thing you notice the minute you set off is that the Good Cat gets the basics right. It doesn't have a lot of power—the front motor makes just 141 hp and 210 Nm of torque—so it's never going to rocket forwards like a Tesla. But it does make effective use of all 141 horses. It feels more powerful than those figures suggest, using the instant torque to get up to speed very quickly.
During our testing, the Good Cat managed to accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 9.29 seconds. That doesn't seem quick—and indeed it's way slower than GWM's claimed 7.9 seconds—but it's more than adequate for daily driving. The top speed, on the other hand, is limited to 160 km/h.
As you'd expect from an electric car, the Good Cat is reasonably quiet, with no real "engine noise" to speak of; there's also decent insulation to keep wind noise at bay, though the Giti tyres do make themselves heard on rough roads. What this silence does do is amplify some of the noises coming from other parts of the car—things you don't normally notice in a petrol- or diesel-powered vehicle. I kept hearing a whirring noise coming from the back, along with clicks from the front under braking when adaptive cruise control was active. That's just something you'll have to get used to.
Speaking of braking, the Good Cat comes with a one-pedal driving mode, but the braking force isn't really strong enough for daily driving—I found myself having to press the brake pedal when reaching a red light. Also, the function has a tendency of switching itself off at random times, which is a little disconcerting. This may be due to the buggy software….that, we'll get to later.
Generally comfortable ride, uninspiring handling
As for the ride, the Good Cat is generally comfortable in daily driving, although there are instances where it lacks a bit of finesse. It's not quite as crashy as the Volvo XC40 EV we also drove recently, but there's an underlying firmness that reveals itself in the way the car fidgets over minor surface imperfections. Thankfully, this smoothens out once you get up to speed.
Given its small size and wide track, you'd expect the Good Cat to be a riot in the corners, but it really isn't. Sure, it possesses stable handling, thanks to the battery positioning giving it a low centre of gravity. But the car also rolls quite a bit, the steering is numb and imprecise and there's no real adjustability when you lift off the throttle mid-corner. It also dives quite a bit under braking, which might become a problem if you're driving in a spirited manner while carrying a few friends—especially those with a weak stomach.
Okay, so the Good Cat isn't exactly a stellar performer in the bends—it isn't that sort of car. But for everyday use, aside from the slightly bumpy ride at low speeds, it's actually quite a pleasant experience. You can certainly do a lot worse for under RM150,000.
Don't believe everything you read
Range is a major selling point of the Good Cat, but you really should take the claims with a pinch of salt. The car comes with two battery options—the smallest version has a capacity of 47.8kWh, providing a claimed range of 400km. This Ultra model has a 63.1kWh battery, which GWM says delivers 500km of range. That seems optimistic, given that the battery is quite a bit smaller than what you'd find in the Volvo XC40 EV and the Hyundai Ioniq 5—both of which can only go a maximum of 430km on a single charge.
The thing you have to remember is that GWM uses the outdated NEDC cycle for measuring range, which is more lenient; other carmakers have moved on to the more stringent WLTP cycle. In reality, you'd be lucky to hit 400km at most, and that's with the bigger battery.
Still, that range is more than good enough for driving in the city, and even a little bit beyond. I managed a day trip to Melaka, covering a distance of 147km, most of it on the highway where EVs are least efficient. I then drove another 45km to the Gentari charging station in Pedas-Linggi—for a total distance of 192km—and still had another 80km of range left. In most situations, the Good Cat should easily travel well over 300km.
Speaking of the Gentari station, the Good Cat isn't able to take advantage of the 180kW DC chargers there. In fact, the car's DC fast charging maxes out at 60kW, meaning that charging the Ultra from 0 to 80% takes 40 minutes. As for AC charging, the car is only able to accept a miserable 6.6kW—meaning that even with a wallbox, a full charge takes ten hours.
It can almost drive itself
In terms of safety, the Good Cat comes with all the driver assists you could ever want. Even the base Pro model is packed with things like autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane centring assist that will help take the strain out of highway driving. In stark contrast to the inconsistency I encountered with the XC40, the systems worked very well here. The car behaved predictably when accelerating, braking and turning, meaning I could trust it to drive long stretches by itself.
Whereas in the Volvo I got fed up and simply turned the systems off, in the Ora I kept them on. That's a big win for GWM—one that banishes the perception that Chinese cars are not safe.
A UI so bad it ruins the experience
You may have noticed that we haven't yet talked about the software, and that's because it's by far and away the worst part of the car. It all looks good on paper—you get a crisp 10.25-inch touchscreen, Apple CarPlay and a 360 camera with a 3D view of the car, and you can even change the colour of the car. There's even a seat massage function, which is surprisingly good.
The thing is, it seems that nobody has given the layout any real thought. It's as if someone just stuffed all the car's settings up their nose, sneezed, and just left it like that. I mean, why is the aforementioned massage function buried in the vehicle settings? Then there are the air-conditioning controls—yes, like everything else these days, the Good Cat puts them in the screen, which is annoying enough. Worse still, the icons are very small and easy to miss with your finger.
But the most infuriating thing is that when you have CarPlay open, the whole strip on the right of the screen for controlling the air-con goes away. This forces you to stop whatever your were doing, jump back out to the home screen and tap on the Ora icon—just so that you can do something as simple as adjusting the temperature or fan speed. It's ridiculous.
This wouldn't be such a chore if CarPlay in the Good Cat is as fast as in any other car—but it isn't. For reasons unbeknown to us, anytime you use a navigation app on your phone, the touchscreen starts to lag severely. Sometimes it can take more than a minute after tapping the screen before it actually responds. It's so bad that I've missed turns because the map showed me as being further back than I actually was.
All this is made worse by the fact that everything is controlled by the screen. As good as the steering assist is, there are times that I want to turn it off, and I can't do that on the steering wheel. Why, when there's a blank button right there on the left spoke?
It's just not worth the effort
I know we tend to nitpick a lot when it comes to tech. I know that a lot of what we say when we review something is based on personal preference. But that's not the case here. This is objectively bad UI design. Trust me, you will hate it.
And that's such a shame because I really wanted to like the Good Cat—it just looks so cute and cuddly! And the rest of the car really is as good as the name suggests. It's got a decent amount of range, it's powerful enough for most journeys, it's very comfortable and, most importantly, it's packed full of toys. Given the value proposition on offer, it's understandable you'd be tempted. But unless you really don't care about the tech, you might want to save on the headache and just buy the Kona Electric. Trust me, you don't need that kind of stress on your life.
Photography by Sofie Danial
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