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Archive for February 2009
Metaphors that make you go hmmmm.
From SFGate.com's piece on new Oakland A's reliever Russell Springer:
"It's been like that in every bullpen Russell has been in. He's like the Jell-O between the fruit."
This is not a happy mental image.
Image: Erich Ginder serving moulded jello shots at opening of his gallery show. Photograph by Joe Mabel, 4 January 2007.
Categories: random humor, Sports, words mattter
Typical Sunday Post Brunch Brain Bubbles: Bad Einstein Joke edition
From my brother, after a dim sum overdose:
If Einstein were to speculate on the behavior of a donut in free fall in one's mug of coffee, would it be a gedunkenexperiment?
My apologies to all.
Image: Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926): Kofetarica (Coffee drinker) 1888.
Categories: geek humor, random humor, The Sin of Puns
What Intelligent Design?: Latest Evidence For the Death (or Rage) of God
Because no benevolent deity would permit Glenn Beck.
h/t Josh
Image: Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo, 1530.
Categories: deceit, MSM nonsense, political follies, Race, Snark, Stupidity, words mattter
Program Notes: Take a look at this excellent video — which gives me an excuse to pile on George Will and the once-proud Post.
For starters, and for yet another reason that you should never trust George Will, take a look at this excellent video.
It's not just a good piece of reporting, it's a really smart use of the medium.
A digression, born of my days as a science documentarian: This short emerged out of some basic production decisions. To my eye, moving images appear to have been shot on a decent cheap camera — a few thousand bucks worth, not more.
The other production resources were even more modest: stills, acceptable quality sound and nothing else — no lights, no fancy grip gear, nothing. From the credits, it appears to have been the work of a one-man band: shot, directed, cut, audio recording all by the same multi-headed person.
And that's the key: this video is pleasing as well as useful to watch because the shooter/director did not try to finesse the fact of his production constraints. Instead, he chose to use what he had to make the best simple film he could. The most ostensibly "produced" moment in the entire piece is the graphic swoosh of the LA Times logo at the head of the work.
In the body of the video, what you get are well composed shots; clean, sometimes beautiful images within those frames; a careful, clear interview that produced enough clear narrative to voice the entire piece; and an editing sensibility that emphasized rhythm and dynamic variation. Nothing fancy, just solid work in the service of clearly understood production and narrative ideas. This is a glimpse of at least part of the future for science documentary (or documentary full stop).
Meanwhile, its content provides just one more instance among zillions to suggest that George Will is something more or rather less than an idiot: he's either deluded or deceitful.
I'm referring of course to sea-icegate. I know, I know: I'm way late to the game with the latest Will/Post follies. It's partly because I still can't believe that all it takes for you to get viewed as a serious thinker is the willingness to wear bow ties in public under the age of 75. Will has never seemed to me to be someone to bother with.
More generally, his eminence as an example of a conservative public intellectual has always had the same kind of emperor's clothes problem that beltway respect for obviously wrong right wing arguments has always enjoyed. It's particularly acute when ideology confronts science, as Will's does here. A gift for glib phrase making and a capacity to turn out clean prose on deadline is not much help if the actual data are against you. In such circumstances, it is necessary to have the capacity not to grasp that which is inconvenient to know. But the problem there is that willed ignorance is another way of saying dumb. Dim-by-choice is still a few bricks shy of a load.
Think of it another way: there is probably something like a normal distribution, a bell curve, that describes the quality of thought and expression of the punditocracy — MSM or new variant — on either side of the political spectrum. But one in which someone like Jonah Goldberg (or Rick Lowry) makes as far to the right of the curve as they do, implied by the status of the publications that carry their "work" (sic) suggests to this observer that the entire curve is shifted left. (Sorry guys. Convention, you know.)
In that context, it doesn't matter if Will shines in comparison to, say Jonathan Wells when it comes to a discussion of science as it touches public concerns. Being on the right tail of a bell curve crammed painfully off towards the origin (sorry Jonathan; convention, you know), is not much of an encomium.
So when George Will made a nonsense of the history of climate research, and gave in to the kind of crazed conspiracy theorizing last validated by that noted holder-of-liquor and friend-to-Jesus' countrymen, Mel Gibson, I couldn't get much roused.
But as a former fact checker at Discover, some decade or more before the esteemed Carl Zimmer played the same role, I have to say that I have never read anything this pitiful from a media organization that used to have some pride:
George Will's column was checked by people he personally employs, as well as two editors at the Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicates Will; our op-ed page editor; and two copy editors.
(Post ombudsman Andy Alexander, desperately wondering what happened to his youthful faith in the transcendent virtue of journalism in a democracy)
Let me translate:
Will's employees ask, "Mr. Will: are you sure about this stuff?"
Will answers: "I'm George Will. Of course I know this stuff."
Employees: "Ok then."
Will's editors say, "George. Anyone going to sue us over anything in here?"
Will: "Nope. Ice floes the size of Texas got no standing."
Op. Ed. Editor: "George, this is great! Real man bites dog stuff. Anything I should pull for the blow-up quote?"
Will: "Whatever you like; that's why they pay you the big bucks." (Chuckles.)
Copy Editors: "Mr. Will. This looks very clean as usual. You might want to think about this comma splice, though."
Will: "Good catch, my bravos. We keep you alive to serve the machine." (Chuckles. Louder as he realizes no one laughs with him.)
This is to say: Alexander's is not the description of anything approximating real fact checking. You need someone institutionally empowered with independent authority to go back to the original sources for each and every claim in a work. And then that person has to be able to confer with the writer about how to accomodate what they have learned in the mutual knowledge that nothing gets published until the checker is satisfied.
Carl Zimmer has written to this point already. Check out what he has to say, it's a damn good piece. (Bonus points if you get the joke embedded in the last sentence.)
I'll just add here an anecdote to illustrate Carl's point and mine. Back in the dawn of time, when my computer still had a chisel-and-slate input device, I fact checked the occasional Lewis Thomas column written for Discover. I did what you did: call everyone, go to the library (chisels/slates, remember) look up the papers. Once — my first go-round on a Thomas piece — I found he had got the description of one of his source's important arguments wrong. Not horribly so — but as written it was off, a paragraph that misread one of Robert Axelrod's claims. I don't actually remember the details (this was literally a quarter of a century ago.)
Nervously, I called Dr. Thomas — then as or more famous than, say, Stephen Jay Gould — to tell him what Axelrod had told me. I waited for the pushback, and got ready to haul in editors as necessary, but I wasn't looking forward to the exchange.
And then Thomas got on the line. He was perfectly unfazed, calm, kind and interested in what Axelrod had actually said. We talked the point through until he was sure he got what the problem was, and then we worked through the changes that would correct the text in ways that would allow Thomas to make his larger argument. As I recall, the emphasis in the piece shifted a little to accommodate his altered understanding of the work he was trying to bring to light, and after about a half an hour or so we were done.
Over the few months that I did my share of fact checking, I had to look over a Carl Sagan piece, one by Gould, and a bunch by some of the writers who had got to the magazine ahead of me. Carl could be a job to track down,* and Gould really didn't like being corrected on the little stuff (but my bosses said I had to; if there were 43 widgets in some corner of Victoriana and not 42, that had to be right and the author informed of the change), but they both understood the process, and each was polite to the very junior person, me or another, nit-picking a path through their prose month after month.
In the years since then, I've been fact checked plenty myself, and have been saved from public embarassment more than once by some dogged 20-something who wouldn't let a sloppy description of, say, adaptive optics, slip into print.
The critical thing to understand here is that neither Gould nor Sagan, (nor, more quietly, Thomas) lacked self confidence.
Will clearly does, and I would say with reason. What you see in this episode is a kind of cowardice none of those other writers ever displayed. The only reason you don't take fact checking seriously is because you do not dare to subject what you think you know to any kind of test. That's ok, if suboptimal in private life. It's not acceptable when you shout from one of the bully-est pulpits in American media.
Which, of course, brings the matter back to rest with those actually to blame for this: the people and the corporate culture that allowed Will's tripe to reach print. I still romanticize the Post for Watergate; watching the Nixon presidency unravel was the formative political event of my high school years. The Post has glided for decades on that triumph, and what this episode makes clear is that there's nothing left of that Institution but the name across the top of the front page.
Sad. I actually feel for ombudsman Alexander. It must suck to the dregs to have to stand up on one's hind legs and utter what one knows to be pure weaselry.
*Carl Sagan was the inspiration for my image of certain people as embodiments of Schroedinger wave functions. Unless you perform some kind of physical impounding, they remain oddly distributed over all possible locations. Y'all know who you are.
Image: Jame Gillray, "The impeachment, or "The father of the gang turned Kings evidence," May 1791. Those with sharp eyes will enjoy the fact that the image shows Edmund Burke indicting his former co-conspirators (as the cartoonist would have it). Let the patron saint of conservatism, more cited than read (it was ever thus) chastise one of those many who have for decades taken his name in vain.
Categories: climate, Climate follies, deceit, Journalism and its discontents, Stupidity, Uncategorized, words mattter
Self Promotion: Really, really good wine dept.
My friend Abel Pharmboy, host and voice of Terra Sigillata, has just done me the honor of posting an old piece of mine about drinking a legendary wine — Chateau d'Yquem — for the first time. I wrote I don't know how many years ago for an airline magazine now long since evansesced. It's fun, and if you like reading about conspicuous (and delicious) consumption, go for it.
And while you're there — if you haven't checked out the serious stuff that Abel deals with when not thinking about cost-efficient ways to pay homage to Bacchus, dive into the real meat of his blog.
Image: Jan Vermeer van Delft, "Girl with a Wine Glass" 1610.
Categories: Drink, Self-aggrandizement
Headlines that make you go hmmm
Try this one.
Memo to self: the internet is not in and of itself a source.
Somehow, somewhere, William Randolph Hearst is smiling.
Categories: Journalism and its discontents, Snark
What Darwin Said/Wrote on His 50th Birthday.
[cross posted at So Simple A Beginning, where a group of us are reading The Origin together.]
Happy Birthday, Charles! A day or two — or four late.
With that out of the way, what happened on the great day? Not quite now, nor then, not 200 years ago, but rather, on Feb. 12, 1859, the day Darwin turned fifty?
That birthday, of course, came nine months before he published the book that is the reason for the odd bit of hullabaloo you may have noticed around the web (and bricks-and-mortar "reality") as well.
The answer, from Charles' perspective?
Not much good …
…and the reason for Darwin's discomfort?
That same, dominating, seemingly terrifying book.
Here's what Charles Darwin wrote to his cousin, William Darwin Fox, from Moor Park, the water-cure establishment to which he had retreated to secure relief from his persistent stomach troubles:
I have been extra bad of late, with the old severe vomiting rather often & much distressing swimming of the head.
Now, as Darwin points out, this is an old complaint, a re-eruption of the distressing symptoms that he had first experienced in Chile during the voyage of the Beagle. As such, this is mere incident, part of the fabric of a life often lived in great discomfort.
But with Darwin, it never does to ignore the mind-body connection. Consider the sequence: on 18 June, 1858, Darwin received the famous parcel from Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalizing in the Malay archipelago (now Indonesia), which included the younger man's sketch of a theory that described the mutability of species through a selection mechanism very close to Darwin's own ideas about natural selection.
Darwin had some hints of Wallace's interests before, both through Wallace's published work and in correspondence between the two, but this, coming in the midst of his own attempt to distill a the work of a decade and more into a write up on the species problem, came as a terrible blow.
His friends famously rallied him: presenting both Wallace's paper and some of Darwin's unpublished work to the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858 — thus establishing Darwin's joint priority with Wallace, and laying the ground for Darwin to claim pride of place if he could only present the first fully developed argument for the ideas that he and Wallace had broached…
…which is why, from the summer of 1858 through the autumn 1859 publication of what became On the Origin of Species, Darwin was hard at work, extracting from his proposed much longer work what he called "an abstract" of the larger argument. It was that effort, much more than any birthday, even so canonically fraught a milestone as the two-score-and-tenth, that consumed Darwin. Certainly, he had no doubt as to the source of his physical distress:
My abstract is the cause, I believe of the main part of the ills to which my flesh is heir…
At first reading, this line plays to those who retail the conventional account of Darwin as deeply fearful of the dreadful secrets he was about to reveal in The Origin. It's easy to leap to the conclusion that the man who wrote of confessing to a murder early on in his consideration of the species problem might break under the stress of going public with his conclusions. And it is true that Darwin did play his cards close to his vest for years, and that he was determined, at the least, not to go widely public with his thinking until he felt his arguments were ironclad.
What then of the long-running argument that Darwin's illness was not psychological, not a trick played on his unfortunate body by his conflicted mind? The most common diagnosis of an infectious cause of Darwin's gastric symptoms is that of Chagas disease, which is supported by the fact that Darwin wrote in his journal of the voyage of the Beagle that, one night while naturalizing in Chile,
"I experienced an attack (for it deserves no less a name) of the Benchuca (Vinchuca), a species of Reduvius, the great black bug of the Pampas. It is most disgusting to feel soft wingless insects, about an inch long, crawling over one's body. Before sucking they are quite thin but afterwards they become round and bloated with blood."
The Benchuca bug is the insect carrier of Chagas disease, and the fact that this illness produces many of the symptoms that Darwin endured, plus this gold-standard report of encountering its vector persuaded a number of high profile Darwinists to entertain the suggestion after it was proposed in 1959 by Dr. Saul Adler, a tropical medicine specialist. Among them — Ernst Mayr, writing in the introduction to the Harvard University Press facsimile of the first edition of The Origin of Species I'm using for this project.
There are, though, serious problems with the diagnosis, not least that Darwin lived a long life characterized by a lessening of the symptoms that seemed to strike at moments of greatest stress with remarkable regularity. Writing more recently than Mayr, many Darwin experts have come to see the search for a specific point-source of Darwin's illness to be a mug's game. Here is Janet Browne on the subject in Charles Darwin: Voyaging.
...he only recorded being bitten by benchucas some months after this illness [his collapse on the way from Santiago to Valparaiso in 1834]…and that incident was not followed by any of the fever typical of sleeping sickness [Chagas] infections…Chagas disease was endemic in Chile and the characteristic symptoms of infection…would not have gone unremarked…Yet there was no serious sugggestion that a South American disease could be to blame [for Darwin's post-Beagle illnesses], although once or twice in extreme old age Darwin attributed his breakdown in health to this Valparaiso attack. (Voyaging, pp. 279-280).
Browne goes on to suggest that "sour new-made wine seems as good areason as any for disorders in Chile," while noting that the purgatives he was prescribed for his symptoms "would have incapacitated the hardiest."
In the end, without exhuming Darwin and being fortunate enough to retrieve enough biological material to run retrospective diagnostics, it is likely that the question of exactly what laid Darwin low on his fiftieth birthday (and all the other times) will remain unsolvable in any absolute sense. There doesn't even have to be a single cause, nor an exclusively physical or psychological account.
Still, it is important to pay attention to what Darwin himself tells us. No man or woman may be a perfect witness to their own state of being, but at least Charles was first on the scene. He knew, or thought he did, what ailed him: his abstract was making him sick.
But for all the evidence — and there is plenty — of Darwin's doubts and even genuine fear of public ridicule or worse in the 1840s, it does not follow that Darwin in the late 1850s, already working on his much longer version of the story he compressed within The Origin of Species, was vomiting up terror at his presumption.
It is always a risky game to psychoanalyze from a distance. But we do have direct testimony here: when pressed, not by disapproving public opinion but by the threat of professional eclipse, Darwin turned out to be eager, even swift to write up his ideas for as wide an audience as he could reach.
It seems to me that Darwin himself gives us a simpler explanation for his manuscript's role in his illness. In essence, he had been working too hard.
And in that context, his letter to Fox betrays a hint of relief, and the prospect of better days to come, given that "I have only two more chapters & to correct all, & then I shall be a comparatively free man." Even better, Darwin told his cousin, his peers were falling into line. "I have had the great satisfaction of converting Hooker & I believe Huxley & I think Lyell is much staggered."
This does not sound to me like a man cowering before the enormity of what he was about to do. This is someone who, when not retching into the bucket by his bed, is getting used to the scale of his achievement.
You go, Charles. Happy 200th, yet again.
Images: Charles Darwin at 51. According to the son of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, this portait is by Messrs. Maull and Fox, ; he writes that "the date of the photograph is probably 1854; it is, however, impossible to be certain on this point, the books of Messrs. Maull and Fox having been destroyed by fire." Other sources date the photograph from 1859 or 1860.
Map of Alfred Russell Wallace's travels from his book The Malay Archipelago, 1869.
Categories: Darwin, evolution, History of Science, Uncategorized


Mister Miracle #5 (2017) : How do you spend your last night on Earth? Why, with the one you love, of course! Having been condemned to death by the new Highmaster, Mister Miracle is going to have to return to New Genesis for his execution. Before he does, he and Big Barda go on one last date. But if Scott Free truly is infected by Darkseid, as Orion says, you can bet some dark force will intervene—only to what end?


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Henri Christophe (Grenada, 9 oktober 1767 - Cap-Haïtien, 8 oktober 1820) was van 1807 tot 1811 president en daarna tot 1820 als Hendrik I koning (volgens andere bronnen keizer) van het noorden van het koninkrijk Haïti.

Hij arriveerde als tiener op Haïti en vocht in 1778 als vrijwilliger mee in de Amerikaanse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog. Nadat in 1806 door toedoen van Christophe en Alexandre Pétion keizer Jacobus I was vermoord splitsten de Haïtianen zich in twee kampen: de zwarten onder Christophe vestigden zich in het noorden (de Staat Haïti) en de mulatten onder Pétion in het zuiden (Republiek Haïti). Tussen deze twee staten in liet men een strook niemandsland als natuurlijk buffer verwilderen.

In 1811 proclameerde hij zijn land tot erfelijke monarchie met zichzelf onder de naam Hendrik I als koning. Hij trachtte zijn staat - op voor Europeanen uit die tijd komische wijze - naar het model van de Europese monarchieën in te richten. Ondanks zijn moeite om het onderwijs te verbeteren en een wetssysteem - de Code Henri - in te voeren was hij een weinig populair autocratisch monarch die constant in conflict was met het zuiden. Door zijn als feodaal beschouwde beleid vervreemdden zijn onderdanen zich steeds meer van hem. Toen hij in 1820 door een beroerte half verlamd raakte en er een opstand uitbrak schoot hij zich een zilveren kogel door het hoofd. Zijn vrouw en kinderen overleefden hem.

In zijn opdracht werden het paleis Sans-Souci en de Citadel Laferrière gebouwd. In de citadel ligt hij begraven. Zijn volgelingen balsemden zijn lichaam met ongebluste kalk, en begroeven het in een van de binnenste delen van het fort. Dit om te voorkomen dat men zijn lichaam zou verminken.

President van Haïti
Geschiedenis van Haïti

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Q: What tactics can I use for China Infantry and GLA Demolition generals? I play Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour a lot with friends of mine, and none of us ever pick China Infantry or GLA Demolition generals. They just seem relatively useless compared to the other generals.
Is the game unbalanced, or are the strategies needed for these generals just not matching any of our play styles? If so, how are you supposed to play those generals?

A: As you hinted at you really do need to use the right strategy/play style for these generals. If you mainly play the US or China Tank Generals you will initially find it hard to use these Generals.
With both of these Generals the key is to flood the battlefield with cheap units. You need to get as many units as you can to overcome better defended enemy forces. Make sure your units are as spread-out as possible. This makes them less vulnerable to weapons with splash-damage (area-of-effect weapons) which are the biggest threat to these Generals.
Specifically for each General:
The Chinese Inf needs to use larger numbers of it's units to overpower stronger opponents.
The GLA Demolition General hinges on having a good constant flow of demo units to keep pounding away. More like a steady stream of units than a flood.

A: GLA Demolition:
Choose your tactic according to your opponent. If USA go for a sucide bomber rush. I suggest a tunnel network than a barrack near their base. Create 2 RPG's and go for their supply heli. Even if they loose 1 heli its a loss of damn big money. Make sure to take out their barracks first.
When China make your difense strong and built damn lot of scud stroms ;) Biggest advantage will be your Jarmen as he alone can destroy an entire base if enemy is a bit careless.
Use your rebel ambush/demolish properly
GLA toxin and China infantry can be difficult to handle.
China Infantry:
Make defense using bunker/gattleing pair or bunker with some mini gunners. Make a helix woth a big bunker and go for their base. also use your tropper vehicle for diffese. Mini gunner drop is damn powerfull. And use you super lotus on a low count super weapon.

A: With the INF Minigunner + Tank Hunter, you can rush it. Demos should build Demo traps. Lots of them will bring big defenses and SCUDS.

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Pierre-Barthélémy Portal d'Albarèdes, baron Portal, né le  à Montauban, dans le quartier des Albarèdes, mort le  à Bordeaux, est un homme politique français issu d'une famille protestante de Guyenne.

Ministre de la Marine de 1818 à 1821, il permet à la France de retrouver une marine digne par une politique de relance des constructions navales, de décuplement de l'armement et d'augmentation budgétaire, aboutissant à une flotte de 240 bâtiments en 1822, dont 46 vaisseaux et 34 frégates.

Biographie
Armateur, Pierre-Barthélémy Portal  avait créé en 1789 une maison de commerce sous la dénomination Portal, Larroder et .

Il est membre du Conseil du commerce (1801), puis de la Chambre de commerce de Bordeaux au début de sa création (1803). Il est ensuite ministre de la Marine et des Colonies (décembre 1818 - décembre 1821). Il a également été juge au tribunal de commerce, maire de Bordeaux, député pour le commerce de Bordeaux pour réclamer la restitution des marchandises saisies par les navires américains, nommé par Napoléon maître des requêtes en 1813, député de Tarn-et-Garonne en 1818, pair de France, régent de la banque de Bordeaux.

Il est nommé baron héréditaire par lettres patentes de 1818, baron-pair héréditaire par lettres de 1821.

Le musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux conserve un buste de Portal dû au sculpteur Dominique Fortuné Maggesi.

La bibliothèque universitaire de droit de Bordeaux a reçu en legs l'essentiel de sa bibliothèque juridique.

Un autre buste, ainsi qu'un portait en peinture du baron existent également au Château d'Urtubie, au Pays basque.

Il est le frère de Paul Portal, président de la Chambre de commerce de Bordeaux. Son petit-fils, le comte Stanislas d'Escayrac Lauture, explorateur français, écrivit d'intéressantes relations de ses voyages.

Distinctions
 Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur, .

Notes et références

Annexes

Sources bibliographiques

 Prosper Levot, A. Doneaud, Les gloires maritimes de la France. Notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins, Arthus Bertrand éditeur, Paris, 1866,  (lire en ligne)

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Naissance en novembre 1765
Naissance à Montauban
Décès en janvier 1845
Décès à Bordeaux
Maire de Bordeaux
Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies
Armateur de Bordeaux
Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur
Député de Tarn-et-Garonne
Député de la Restauration
Pair de France (Restauration)
Ministre de la Restauration
Pair de France (Monarchie de Juillet)
Régent de la Banque de France
Décès à 79 ans
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière protestant de Bordeaux
Négociant français du XVIIIe siècle


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Réunion extraordinaire de la Commission du transport en commun
Minutes 17 / Procès-verbal 17
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 1:00 p.m.
le jeudi 26 janvier 2012, 13 h
Andrew S. Haydon Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
Salle Andrew S. Haydon, 110, avenue Laurier ouest
Present / Présent : D. Deans (Chair / Présidente),
K. Egli (Vice-Chair / Vice-président), S. Blais, R. Bloess, B. Crew, S. Desroches, S. Qadri, C. Reporter, T. Tierney, M. Wilkinson
Regrets / Excuses : J. Ferrabee, E. Rahn
DÉCLARATIONS D'INTÉRÊT
No declarations of interest were filed.
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES AND COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY
SERVICES DES INFRASTRUCTURES ET LES SERVICES DE VIABILITÉ DES COLLECTIVITÉS
SERVICES DU TRANSPORT EN COMMUN
1. CHOOSING TRANSIT FOR EVERDAY LIFE: OC TRANSPO 2012 BUSINESS PLAN
OPTER POUR LE TRANSPORT EN COMMUN AU QUOTIDIEN : PLAN D'AFFAIRES 2012 D'OC TRANSPO
ACS2011-ICS-TRA-0001 CITY WIDE/À L'ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE
OThis item can be found at 05:54 on the Transit Commission Archived audiocast (part 1) & Transit Commission Archived audiocast (part 2)
REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS
1. That Transit Commission table this report for consideration at the Transit Commission meeting of February 29, 2012.
2. That, at the meeting of February 29, 2012, the Transit Commission recommend that City Council approve the OC Transpo 2012 Business Plan as follows:
a. The Marketing Plan, as outlined in Section 2.1;
b. The Service Plan, as outlined in Section 2.2;
c. The Fleet Plan, as outlined in Section 2.3;
d. The Facilities Plan, as outlined in Section 2.4;
e. The Technology Plan, as outlined in Section 2.5;
f. The Accessibility Plan, as outlined in Section 2.6;
g. The People Plan, as outlined in Section 2.7.
Alain Mercier, General Manager, Transit Services, provided a PowerPoint presentation overview of the staff report. Also presenting were: Robert Delage, Program Manager, Transit Technology Project; Larry Atkinson, Chief, Transit Maintenance; Laurie Blackstone, Manager, Transit Operations; Pat Scrimgeour, Manager, Transit Service Design; Vincent Patterson, Manager, Marketing and Strategic Development; Dan Villeneuve, Manager, Transit Capital Projects and Facilities Maintenance.
A copy of the presentation is held on file with the City Clerk.
Following a series of questions posed by members, the report recommendations were then put to the Commission and RECEIVED and TABLED.
STAFF/COMMISSIONER WORKING GROUP ON TRANSIT TECHNOLOGY
GROUPE DE TRAVAIL PERSONNEL / COMMISSAIRE SUR LA TECHNOLOGIE DU TRANSPORT EN COMMUN
2. OC TRANSPO REAL-TIME GPS DATA POLICY
POLITIQUE d'OC Transpo SUR LES données GPS en temps réel
ACS2012-CMR-OTC-0003 CITY WIDE/À L'ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE
OThis item can be found at 03:45 on the Transit Commission Archived audiocast
REPORT RECOMMENDATION
That the Transit Commission direct staff to work with the Staff/Commissioner Working Group on Transit Technology to develop an OC Transpo Real-Time GPS Data Policy that is in accordance with existing policy and which includes, but is not limited to, an Application Programming Interface (API) Overview and Terms of Use for the consideration of the Transit Commission at its March meeting.
CARRIED
3. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STAFF/COMMISSIONER WORKING GROUP ON OC TRANSPO COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING
ÉTABLISSEMENT D'UN GROUPE DE TRAVAIL, CONSTITUÉ DE MEMBRES DU PERSONNEL ET D'UN MEMBRE DE LA COMMISSION, SUR LES COMMUNICATIONS ET LE MARKETING D'OC TRANSPO
CITY WIDE/À L'ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE
MOTION OTC 17/1
Moved by Commissioner K. Egli
WHEREAS OC Transpo will be launching a number of significant public information and education campaigns in 2012 that promote stable ridership and an on-going commitment to improving the modal split and customer service; and
WHEREAS the Commissioners' sponsor group for the communications plan for the route optimization program and the Staff/Commissioner Working Group on Transit Technology have provided effective leadership in the timely delivery of programs in accordance with the Commission's vision; and
WHEREAS there is a benefit to establishing a staff/commissioner working group for marketing and communications efforts for OC Transpo;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that a Staff/Commissioner Working Group on Transit Marketing and Communications be created and that there be 5 Commissioner representatives consisting of the Chair, the Vice-Chair, Commissioner Blais, Commissioner Ferrabee and Commissioner Reporter; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Working Group undertake to review the planned UPass information campaign as its first order of business.
LEVÉE DE LA SÉANCE
The Commission adjourned the meeting at 2:15 p.m.
Original signed by Original signed by
R. Theriault Councillor D. Deans
Commission Coordinator Chair


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Chris Buescher's win Monday in the rain-delayed, fog-shortened Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., completed task one to get into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship post-season. Task two for Buescher is getting into the top-30 of the points standings. Right now, he's 31st in the standings, but just six points outside the top-30. David Ragan holds down the 30th spot after Pocono. With 21 of 26 regular-season races in the history book, Buescher has five races to crack the top-30 to make his win count and get him into the 16-driver, 10-race Chase.
Should Buescher get into the top-30, and therefore, get into the Chase, he'll be one of two drivers outside the current top-16 in points to get into the championship postseason. Tony Stewart, the winner at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway in June is 27th in points after missing the first eight races of the season.
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If you are selling sales, customer service and marketing software, especially in large enterprises so Artificial intelligence and machine learning has become essential. The biggest vendors from Adobe to Sales force to Microsoft to Oracle are jockeying for position to bring automation and intelligence to these areas.
Oracle announced several new AI features in its sales tools suite and Sales force did the same in its customer service cloud Just today. Both companies are building on artificial intelligence underpinnings that have been in place for several years.
By using increasing levels of automation and intelligence all of these companies want to help their customers in achieving their business goals. "while AI has been around for many years, it's just now reaching a level of maturity to be of value for more businesses",Said by Paul Greenberg, managing principal at The 56 Group, who has written multiple books about the CRM industry, including CRM at the Speed of Light, that
"The investments in the constant improvement of AI by companies like Oracle, Microsoft and Sales force are substantial enough to both indicate that AI has become part of what they have to offer — not an optional [feature] — and that the demand is high for AI from companies that are large and complex to help them deal with varying needs at scale, as well as smaller companies who are using it to solve customer service issues or minimize service query responses with chatbots," Greenberg explained.
This would suggest that injecting intelligence in applications can help even the playing field for companies of all sizes, allowing the smaller ones to behave like they were much larger, and for the larger ones to do more than they could before, all thanks to AI.
In fact, Greenberg says that AI has improved enough in recent years that it has gone from predictive to prescriptive, meaning it can suggest the prospect to call that is most likely to result in a sale, or the best combination of offers to construct a successful marketing campaign.The machine learning side of the equation allows these algorithms to see patterns that would be hard for humans to pick out of the mountains of data being generated by companies of all sizes today.
Brent Leary, principle at CRM Insights, says that AI, especially when voice is involved, can make software tools smoother to use and increase engagement. "If sales professionals are able to use natural language to interact with CRM, against to typing and clicking, that's a huge barrier to adoption that begins to crumble. he said And making it easier and more efficient to use these apps should mean more data enters the system, which result in quicker, more relevant AI-driven insights," .
In an interview last year at the Adobe Summit, Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis had this to say about AI: "AI will be the single most informational force in technology," he told Tech-Crunch. He appears to be right. It has certainly been trans-formative in sales, customer service and marketing.All of this shows that AI has become an essential part of these software tools, which is why all of the major players in this space have built AI into their platforms.
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The recent college basketball season at Hofstra was a fun run. We didn't get to the big dance, but we continue to build a winning culture. As an alum, I am proud of the continued forward progress for the program.
Coach Joe Mihalich completed his sixth season with us. He said that the key to the team's ongoing success goes beyond talent. The guys are close. They play together. They work together.
The Pride enjoyed a 16-game winning streak during the season, the longest active streak at NCAA Division I. Hofstra was near the top in team winning percentage for the season.
Coaching at Hofstra is fun for Joe, because the players love the game. Each player contributed with a positive attitude and the will to improve individual skills and the team concept. Competitiveness among the players is high and going higher.
So, we didn't earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The last appearance was during 2001. The coach knows that next year's team will need to put in more work. The coach is ready. The returning players are ready. Be assured that they will embrace the new players. Together, they will take that next step forward.
Aubrey Griffin, a senior at Ossining High School, is New York's new queen of high school basketball. She was named Miss New York Basketball by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association of New York.
Aubrey isn't the first Ossining player to receive the honor. Andra Espinoza-Hunter (Mississippi State) received the crown during 2017 and Saniya Chong (UConn and WNBA Dallas Wings) was honored during 2013. As you can tell, Ossining High School girls' basketball is a state powerhouse. The school is just the second program to feature three honorees.
The latest honoree is the most accomplished girls' basketball player from the Lower Hudson Valley. Aubrey is the only player named Section 1 player of the year, a McDonald's All-American, WBCA All-American, Section 1 champion, state champion and Federation champion. She is committed to UConn.
At one point, Aubrey averaged 25.9 points, 9.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 3.7 steals and 1.8 blocks per game. She scored at least 35 points in each game of the sectional final, regional semifinal and regional final.
Wow! Then there was more!
This season, Ossining captured its ninth consecutive Section 1 Class AA championship and moved on to its eighth straight state championship tournament appearance. The final game was an easy victory for Ossining – a 93-46 win over West Genesee. Aubrey earned tournament MVP honors after tallying 35 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists and three steals in the championship game. She set a New York State Public High School Athletic Association tournament record with 146 points.
For Aubrey, it has been success upon success. It all started for her during freshman year when she helped lead Ossining to its fourth consecutive state title at the time and its first ever Federation title. Aubrey then accomplished so much more, on the court and in the classroom, in the succeeding three years. Now, it is time to for Aubrey to move on to her new challenges at UConn.
Rasmus Dahlin, a defenseman, was the first overall pick in the 2018 NHL draft. At that point, he had played defense full-time for just one year.
Rasmus' rise to become the top pick at the age of 17 at a position that still was new to him placed the spotlight on the importance of long-term athletic development—develop the athlete first and then allow the player to focus on specialization.
To accomplish this in hockey and for any sport, parents should allow their children to experience a variety of athletic programs. When the player decides to concentrate on a specific game, then a coach should allow the young athlete to experience all angles of that game. The best way to learn is for an athlete to play multiple positions.
So, how can coaches and parents support our young athletes? Here are some thoughts, with a couple of examples from brothers Anthony and Nick Bernardo. A while ago, Anthony (who also participated in lacrosse and track) and Nick (who enjoys and still plays baseball) decided to concentrate on hockey. Their subsequent success on the Long Island ice hockey scene has been showcased for a number of years with the PAL Junior Islanders.
Encourage young athletes to try multiple positions. Learning, understanding and then executing the responsibilities of each position helps build game knowledge and player confidence. Anthony has played left and right wing on his hockey teams. As a right-handed shooter, he has learned that he can create more plays in the offensive zone from the left side than from the right side.
Let players "feel" the game from different positions. Players develop empathy and understanding for the challenges faced by teammates when they personally obtain a different perspective.
Each position is responsible for specific assignments within a game. The opportunity to adjust to different roles improves a player's awareness as the game unfolds. As a forward, Nick realized that his team's defensemen were not rushing the puck up ice to help generate offense. Now, as a defenseman for eight years, Nick concentrates on moving the puck quickly to the offensive zone after taking care of his responsibilities in the defensive end. Today's hockey is more dynamic than ever and a defenseman such as Nick knows that the position spends less time skating backward and more time joining the rush.
Encourage each player to contribute to the team concept. While some young players will be adamant that they only want to play one position, teach them the benefits of adapting their abilities to different positions. They will broaden their game knowledge, improve technical skills, build confidence and raise their compete level. This opportunity also allows players to begin to think about the team and it provides a coach with game day flexibility to cover for injured, ill, or otherwise unavailable players.
The brothers played polo regularly. Sometimes they played "hooky" from work to get involved in a game at the Riviera Country Club.
Enjoying the elite sport of polo at the California country club with some of Hollywood's biggest movers and shakers seemed a bit out of sorts for these two down-to-earth Missouri farm boys. But they enjoyed the comradery and the competition with Spencer Tracy, Leslie Howard and Will Rogers.
The younger of the two started riding horses as part of a health regimen after a breakdown. Someone placed a polo mallet in his hand and he just plowed forward, as he did with everything in life and in business. To get up to speed, he invited several of his employees to a conference room to listen to an expert lecture them about the elements of polo. Then, the brothers and any employees who remained interested practiced regularly at a nearby riding academy. They also housed a horse and a net at the offices so they could practice scoring goals during lunch hour.
According to several employees, the younger brother possessed the most drive. He had the ambition to play well. This was no different than his drive and ambition to be successful in business. After learning that the quality of the horses contributed to a high percentage of success in the game, he convinced his older sibling to purchase four expensive horses.
The brothers played for several years until the older and more prudent of the two advised his kid brother, who had played in matches that resulted in several fatalities, to sell the horses and give up the game. The older brother, Roy, maintained that the company's primary asset should not be playing such a dangerous sport. The end for polo did not come until the younger brother, Walt, took a spill and crushed four cervical vertebrae.
At that point, the Disney brothers concentrated solely on cartoons and feature films. Eventually, they added a theme park that they dubbed the happiest place on earth.
During early February, I was honored to participate in the dedication of the third satellite exhibit created by the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame. The first two offsite exhibits are located at Long Island MacArthur Airport and at Bethpage Ballpark. This new exhibit is in the west wing at Huntington Town Hall.
The exhibit pays tribute to the inductees of the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame who have a connection to the Town of Huntington as players, coaches, or residents. The photo of each inductee appears in the exhibit.
The celebrated professional athletes who are town representatives in the Hall of Fame are football's Emerson Boozer and Wesley Walker, boxing's Gerry Cooney, hockey's Clark Gillies, basketball's Tom Gugliotta and soccer's Sara Whalen.
Other Town of Huntington honorees in the Hall of Fame are Stephen Bowen, Charles Boccia, Don Buckley, Jill Byers, Fred Cambria, Rich Castellano, Tony Cerullo, Bob Chipman, Tom Combs, Bill Edwards, Ray Enners, Melvin Fowler, Fred Fusaro, Lou Giani, Frank Gugliotta, Tom Gugliotta, Kim Gwydir, Bob Herzog, Bill Ketcham, John Nitti, Ed Norton, Carol Rose, Cathy Vayianos and Ann Marie Wyckoff-Bagshaw.
As a 2014 inductee, I am very appreciative and excited to be included in this wonderful new exhibit and I extend my thanks to the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame and its director Chris Vaccaro and to Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci and the Town of Huntington. I am appreciative for the recognition of my high school and college athletic career along with my business and philanthropic contributions to Long Island.
It is a wonderful honor to be featured in an exhibit that places the spotlight on so many talented local people, including American hero and fellow Half Hollow Hills alumnus Lt. Raymond J. Enners, who are connected to amateur and professional athletics.
Wilbur was a three-sport athlete. He enjoyed football, skating and gymnastics. He also was a very good student and had his sights on attending Yale.
One day, while playing hockey on a lake in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio, the 18-year-old was struck in the mouth with a stick wielded by another boy several years younger but much larger. It may have been an accident, but the boy was known as a bully. Years later, that same boy was executed for the murders of his mother, father and brother.
The hockey injury caused weeks of excruciating mouth and jaw pain for Wilbur. Several front teeth were lost and replaced by the crude dentistry of the day. This led to digestive complications, heart palpitations and depression. Wilbur remained a recluse for three years, ending his pursuit of a Yale education. During that time, though, he initiated what became a passion for reading and learning. He read about everything and had a specific fascination for history.
Wilbur was close to his younger brother, who had started a print shop that issued a town newspaper and then began publishing a variety of reading material. They worked together in the printing business and then they became involved in the growing bicycle craze that had swept the nation. Since they both enjoyed mechanics, the brothers opened a shop that sold and repaired bicycles.
When the younger brother was diagnosed with typhoid, he spent more than a month in bed. As he recovered, Wilbur read to him. Together, they became fascinated about the discoveries of Otto Lilienthal, a German glider enthusiast who had studied the flight motions of birds.
The brothers were excited about Lilienthal's experiments and they never stopped learning. After several years of planning, they decided to use their mechanics ingenuity and their interest in the flight of birds to build several flying machines. They tested their creations at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, changed history. The setback for Wilbur while playing hockey was just one of many catalysts in their lives that led to the collaboration that taught the world how to fly.
A few weeks ago, Notre Dame football played in the Shamrock Series against Syracuse at Yankee Stadium. It was a time for the Fighting Irish to shine on the field but also an opportunity to be of service to the community.
About 100 alumni and friends participated in the alumni association's project at a Manhattan hotel, packing more than 400 Thanksgiving meal boxes for families and wrapping more than 100 gifts for children supported by Part of the Solution (POTS), a multiservice agency for the poor in The Bronx.
Besides football, Notre Dame always supports a community it visits. Since the game was in The Bronx, the alumni identified POTS as an organization to support. POTS is a one-step shop, offering services for people moving from crises to stability to self-sufficiency.
Each meal box was packed with potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, apples, corn, green beans, cranberries and a store voucher for a turkey. Whenever Notre Dame plays in a special event or bowl game, it supports the local community. Service is a large component of the university culture. In this instance, the football games is the centerpiece of the school's visit to New York City but the community support is the crowning jewel of what Notre Dame is all about.
The New York alumni group includes The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Westchester and Rockland counties. The alumni reflect on their time at the university and reflect the values of giving back to the community that they learned during those days.
Notre Dame did win the football game, but that takes a backseat to the smiles they brought to needy families during the holidays.
Michael Conforto, the young Mets all-star outfielder, always prefers to lead by example. He does this on and off the field.
Michael completed the first from the time he started to play baseball. His leadership has continued during his first several years in the major leagues. Now, he is expanding the second by extending his relationship with the Mets community.
This past season, Michael visited The Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Winthrop Hospital and its Children's Medical Center in Mineola. "Conforto Cares" is Michael's program that raises awareness about pediatric cancer and the challenges faced by its young patients.
For a while, "Conforto Cares" regularly had hosted young patients and their families at the Mets Citi Field home. Michael, however, decided that he also wanted to visit the youngsters at their temporary home where they receive their daily treatments. This past summer, during the first of many visits, Michael distributed Mets t-shirts to the patients and family members. He also provided pop-up replicas of the Mets home-run apple. Autographs and photos, of course, were a popular feature with the kids.
Back at the ballpark, whenever the children and their families visit, Michael and the Mets string together a series of hits for a memorable day. Their guests receive a tour of the stadium and the Mets clubhouse. They learn about scoreboard operations, and this includes seeing the magic button that raises the authentic home-run apple in centerfield. The children also practice their swings in the batting practice cages. Then, it is time for lunch with Michael.
Michael's goal is to help these children forget about the rigors of their treatments and just enjoy themselves as kids. "Conforto Cares" is a grand slam!


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FALL OF ELLEN GRACE
Cut off in early bloom
Nipped by Death's certain hand
Borne on a seraphs golden wings
To that far distant land
Lost is our darling Grace!
No! Lost is not the word
She found in Heaven above
A dwelling with the Lord.
Let us prepare the way
To meet our pearl on high
And join her once again
In mansions of the sky
These words appeared in the North Eastern Ensign, a local paper from Benalla in Victoria, on Friday 4 April 1890. They were chosen by Thomas and Jane Lloyd for their ten-year-old daughter, Ellen Grace Lloyd – who met a tragic end a few months earlier while walking home from school.
It was the 22nd of January 1890 – just another day in the small farming community of Lurg, four miles South of Benalla. Farmers were working in their fields, a local farmer Thomas Lloyd had milked the cows before making the journey into Benalla for business and his young daughter Ellen Grace Lloyd was walking the few miles from the family home to the Lurg State School with her younger brother John.
Back at the Lloyd farm – George Lionel Lambert was beginning his day. He was employed as a general labourer by the Lloyd family. Twelve months earlier Lambert, an Englishman, showed up at the farm asking if there was any work for him. Thomas Lloyd took him on and he had worked steadily for the family for the past year. It seems Lambert had had as much as he could handle of the labouring life, having a week earlier approached a solicitor in Benalla to ask what the best way was of sending a considerable amount of money from England to Australia as he wished to purchase his own farm in the Benalla district and settle down.
The day unfolded without incident, and when school was dismissed Ellen and John began to make their way back to the family farm. At the same time, George Lambert had finished his work for the day and had had asked Jane Lloyd if there was anything more for him to do. Jane said she had no further work for him – so George said he fancied doing some reading but did not currently have a book so he was off to Edward Henry's place to borrow one. George walked towards the Henry's farm, which was in the direction of the local school.
Ellen and John were making their way through the paddocks from the school back to the family farm – a shortcut they took every day on a well-worn track, keeping off the main road. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon, and being January there would have been sufficient light for the children to walk home in. John was trailing behind, but he could still see his sister walking ahead of him.
George Lambert, making his way from the farm, had reached a wooded section of land where the Greta-Lurg Road meets the Upper Lurg Road. And this I where he waited.
As Ellen approached the wooded area, Lambert struck – chasing the young girl into the bushes.
Trailing behind - John Lloyd could see his sister being chased by Lambert into the scrub – and as he ran closer to see what was going on he saw his older sister running once more, this time with her torso covered in blood. There is a bit of a discrepancy between the official record and what was reported in the newspapers as to what John did next. The Argus Newspaper reported that John was too frightened to see what was to follow when Lambert dragged Ellen off the track into the bushes, and states that he ran home to fetch his mother. But – at the inquest, John James Lloyd, just shy of eight years, testified that he found his sister, lying on the ground with her throat cut. Ellen looked up at John – but did not, and most likely, could not say anything. From the fence line, John then saw George Lionel Lambert walking toward him, blood streaming down his chest. Before Lambert could reach John and his sister, he collapsed on the ground.
I suspect The Argus didn't want to report that an eight-year-old boy found his sister in such a state for the sake of decency, or maybe the story just got a bit muddled between Benalla and Melbourne – either way, I'm sticking with the official record.
So – back to the story. John ran home to sound the alarm – running ¾ of a mile up the track to tell his mother what had happened. Jane Lloyd and her eldest son rushed back to the bushes at the intersection and found Ellen as John had described, lying dead on the ground with her throat cut, a very deep wound having been inflicted.
Lambert's body was found in the same state by the police when they arrived – with Constable Duncan McLennan stating "He had his boots, coat and trousers on and they were saturated in blood with the front of his trousers opened but no exposure". The constable seems to have been making a point to mention that Lambert did not appear to have exposed himself to, or sexually assaulted Ellen. McLennan searched the body and found a knife, a number of keys and an empty razor case on Lambert. He also had on him his birth certificate, a rough last will and testament, a photo of him and an unknown child taken in Melbourne and a few other documents – more on those below.
Constable McLennan moved the body to the Lloyd residence and awaited the arrival of his colleagues from Wangaratta, Patrick Blade and Arthur Steele. For those with an interest in the Kelly Gang, and given that is Lurg smack bang in the middle of Kelly Country the name Arthur Steele would be familiar. He was the man credited with capturing Ned Kelly and firing the shot that brought him down at the Siege of Glenrowan ten years earlier. Steele played a very small part in this story, assisting with the search of the bushland where the attack took place with Constable Blade.
The search of the bushland took place in the early hours of the morning after the shocking murder-suicide. Margaret Lloyd, sister of Ellen appears to have been at the scene of the crime at some stage, as she testified at the inquest that she found a razor handle, which she handed to Sergeant Steele. The only other item of note found at the scene, other than signs of a struggle and a great deal of blood, was a small bottle of violet ink found by Constable Blade.
An inquest was held at the Lloyds residence the same day – with testimony heard from a number of people regarding the movements of Ellen and Lambert the previous day. Thomas Sydney Davies, a doctor – examined the bodies of both Ellen and Lambert – determining that events had unfolded as one would have guessed – a tragic murder-suicide committed by George Lionel Lambert. He had used his newly sharpened razor and cut twice into the throat of Ellen Grace Lloyd, the second cut severing the carotid artery causing death in a few moments. On examining Lambert's body, he concluded that Lambert's single cut to his own throat was as indeed self-inflicted and that "he had evidently began tentatively".
Now we know what happened – but we don't know why.
A common thing in 19th-century inquests, you get the facts relating to the cause of death, and not much else. Sometimes a witness might make some additional and otherwise interesting comments in their testimony but in general, once the cause of death is determined and the facts are there to support it, proceedings stop.
While not specifically referred to in the inquest proceedings the documents found on Lambert were submitted as exhibits and survive to this day. The details in those documents reveal his motives, but, the best place to start Lambert's story is back at the beginning, in Dorset, Dorchester in England.
George Lionel Lambert was the third son of Francis Henry Lambert and was a member of an old a well-respected family in the area, living in the centre of town in a house named none other than 'Lambert House'. Tragedy struck the family when Lambert was only young, with he and his six siblings becoming orphaned. George had an older brother, John, and two younger brothers William and Arthur who went to Australia and George who was described as a "wild a reckless youth" was sent to school at Weymouth by his guardians. Proving too reckless for this school he was soon dismissed – and he met a similar fate at other schools he attended afterward. At one of the schools it was reported that the master found a pistol under his pillow and when questioned about the presence of such a dangerous weapon on school grounds Lambert swiftly jumped out the window and ran off. He was found walking the streets almost naked sometime after.
At some point in time his guardians determined that a stint in the mercantile navy might straighten the wayward teenager out, but, as the Bridport News printed in 1890 "his behaviour at sea was so bad that he was dismissed after the first voyage". If the mercantile marines couldn't sort Lambert out, his guardians thought perhaps the navy could. Despite one newspaper report stating that "in a short time he was dismissed from her Majesty's service for bad conduct or deserted his ship", his official navy record, retrieved from the British National Archives, states that his character was "very good" while serving aboard two different training vessels, the Impregnable and the Boscawen, between June 1881 and May 1882 when presumably due to some illness or injury he was invalided to the military hospital at Haslar, at Gosport.
Relying on only one article written on the other side of the world does pose some issues for me. For starters, this article, the only one that provides some insight into the previous George Lambert's life before arriving in Australia did state that Ellen Grace Lloyd was the niece of Ned Kelly, which is certainly not the case. So it does cast some doubt over other statements in the article – another being that upon arriving in Australia Lambert was leading a "depraved and dissipated life of which this tragedy is undoubtedly the sequel" and that those who knew him when he was a boy described him as a "heartless young scapegrace". A scapegrace, I've since learned, is "a mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child" in other words, a rascal.
One last note on the article – you can imagine that the English papers would hardly be trying to defend the man given the gruesome crime he committed (and I'm certainly not attempting to either), so it is safe to say the article was always going to be along the lines of a troubled boy from way back.
At some point after May 1882 Lambert came to Australia – possibly as early as 1883 when a notice appears in The Age newspaper from a George Lambert to a John James Lambert (same name as George's brother, living in Melbourne at the time) stating the following:
"If you still hold my father's will, the property holds good" – cryptic, but perhaps referring to the family property back in Dorset or some other item or items belonging to their father that George may have been in possession of?
This is the last trace of George Lionel Lambert until the tragic events in January of 1890.
Now, to the documents found on Lambert.
Exhibit I
Lambert's birth certificate, which he had sent away for in September, writing to a man named John Sparks and asking him to obtain a copy from London for him. Sparks appears to have known Lambert, in a short note written with a copy of the certificate he says "I hope you are now doing fairly well, believe me".
Exhibit II
The next document was written by Lambert over a month before Ellen's murder, it reads as follows:
"I give and bequeath unto Thomas Lloyd everything I possess on conditions that he bury me"
"God in his infinite mercy has decreed me to act thus. Great God is our father, and unto Him, we go, my darling Ellen Grace and I. We shall have no more earthly troubles and trials. God have mercy on our souls. God be merciful unto us sinners. God has called us to himself. We shall both meet in heaven. It is God's will then we both go together".
The document was signed by both Lambert and Ellen, but at the inquest, Ellen's sister Mary stated that Ellen's signature was not written in her hand – and declared it a forgery by Lambert.
Exhibit IV contained a short note:
"Thomas Lloyd to get my letters from the general post office and have the money contained therein to bury me according to the right of the Catholic Church".
From the short notes that Lambert had penned in the weeks leading up to the events of January 22nd, it's evident that he had an obsession with young Ellen, and perhaps knowing that he could never be with the young girl or act on any impulsion he made have had towards the girl – he arrived at the conclusion that the only way the two could ever be together was in death.
Exhibit V The most intriguing piece of the puzzle was the response that Lambert had begun to draft to John Sparks – containing a series of codes and ciphers containing a hidden message.
The cryptic message contains what appears to be two types of ciphers – a book cipher, where a series of numbers are provided with a page refer3ence and a specific book mentioned. Though, Lambert's codes were not specific enough to be useful in cracking his cipher over a century later – the two texts are "English History" and "History of Rome". If these codes were something real and not something made up by Lambert, then the references must have meant something to John Sparks. The other form of cipher appears to be a substitution cipher – a string of random letters that when substituted for other letters would reveal a message.
Lambert's message went as follows:
J Sparks
{Book code, English history} concerning {substitution code} everything to T.L, presumable Thomas Lloyd. More book codes and finally "your decision has arrived too late, you know you lied about me"
When Lambert's birth certificate was forwarded to him by John Sparks, the letter shows that Sparks was writing from Crewkerne, Somerset. He was a solicitor, in his 60s, with over 40 years of experience practicing law, but I can find no link between Sparks and Lambert. Was there some deeper relationship between them – something so clandestine that would see them is secret codes? Was he the old family lawyer, or was that unlikely given the distance between Dorset and Crewkerne? Were the codes just a figment of Lambert's imagination and when received by Sparks would be met with a lot of confusion.
As Lambert had killed himself after murdering Ellen Grace, it seems no further investigation was made regarding his connections back home or the meaning behind the codes – but it seems this mystery will endure.
Ellen was laid to rest on the 23 January 1890 at Greta, while the same day a Lambert was unceremoniously buried at Benalla.
George Lionel Lambert; with unknown childGeorge Lionel Lambert; with unknown child
A photo included in the inquest fileA photo included in the inquest file
Lambert's birth certificateLambert's birth certificate
Dated 1865, birthplace DorchesterDated 1865, birthplace Dorchester
A portion of the Lambert's codesA portion of the Lambert's codes
Undecipherable code found in Lambert's papersUndecipherable code found in Lambert's papers
Greta Cemetery Burial RegisterGreta Cemetery Burial Register
Showing Ellen Grace Lloyd's entry for burialShowing Ellen Grace Lloyd's entry for burial
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Protests in Spain against Martinelli
By Okke Ornstein | July 13, 2010
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Demonstration in front of the Panamanian consulate in Barcelona
Panama is living through a national strike today which will last 24 hours. There are protests in the country as well as the capital going on; students closed the Transistmica for a while, and the unions assembled in Parque Porras after small groups had closed streets here and there for short amounts of time.
Quote of the day came from Martinelli's mafia lawyer minister of labor Alma Cortés, who said that the government is not persecuting union leaders, "we only persecute anarchists and radicals".
If the Martinelli buffoons had any fantasies about promoting Panama's image as a modern and safe place to do business, they can kiss those farewell after the majestic screw-up with the sausage law. Protests against the brutal repression we're living through here - violation of the democratic process, detaining journalists, rounding up political opponents, manipulation of the legal/judicial system, killing activists and even babies - have now even spread to Spain!
Spanish labor unionists protested in front of the Panamanian consulate in Barcelona calling Martinelli a "murderer", demanding an end to the repression of dissent and violence against workers and in general mopping the floor with the Martinelli bunch of thugs that passes for "government" in Panama. And Martinelli can't send Gustavo Perez and his assassins to "restore order"! Here are the images:
The Panamanian consul in Barcelona, as we reported earlier, is a nephew of Panama's First Lady.
One down, many more to go in Bocas massacres
"Wild Bill" and his charming wife/girlfriend have been caught while trying to enter Nicaragua in a hijacked boat. This will solve at least a couple of murder cases in Bocas as well as some missing person mysteries, but the majority of the guilty in recent killing sprees remains at large.
Martinelli heads for new clashes as "divide and conquer" fails
Martinelli's partial suspension of the sausage law is a lame attempt at "divide and conquer", is not being taken seriously and will only lead to more protests and violent clashes.
The day after the week before
Street battle may be over in Bocas del Toro and daily life may slowly resume in the town of Changuinola, but we're only now getting a first glimpse at the size of the stinking mess president Martinelli and his government have caused.
2 thoughts on "Protests in Spain against Martinelli"
frombocas on July 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm said:
Harassing Paco Gomez was probably not the smartest thing to do either
Santiago on July 14, 2010 at 1:12 pm said:
These people are Tyrants´ Apprentices… yet they have done (and still can do) so much harm…


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