We bring you last week's top former Hoosiers players who are currently playing in pro basketball.
#1. Thomas Bryant (6'10''-F-97, graduated '17, plays pro in the NBA) could not help the Washington Wizards (24-32) in their last game. Despite his very good performance the Washington Wizards (24-32) were badly defeated 148-129 on the road by the Milwaukee Bucks. Bryant had a double-double by scoring 26 points and getting 14 rebounds. He also added 4 assists and 2 blocks in 32 minutes; quite an impressive performance considering it's only Bryant's second season in pro basketball. It's Bryant's first year with the team. He has relatively good stats this season 9.6ppg, 5.8rpg and 1.1apg in 45 games he played so far.
#2. James Blackmon (6'4''-G-95, graduated '18, plays in Italy) was not able to help VL Pesaro (6-12) in their last game on Sunday. Despite Blackmon's very good performance VL Pesaro was edged 89-86 at home by the second-ranked Umana Venezia. He was the top scorer with 29 points. Blackmon also added 6 rebounds and dished 6 assists (went 11 for 11 at the free throw line !!!). It's Blackmon's first season with the team. He has individually a very good year with high stats. Blackmon averages 21.2ppg, 4.0rpg, 2.2apg and 1.8spg.
#3. Eric Gordon (6'4''-G-88, graduated '08, plays pro in the NBA) led Houston Rockets to an easy victory against the Sacramento Kings (29-26) crushing them 127-101 in the NBA in Wednesday night's game. Gordon recorded 20 points. The Houston Rockets have 32-23 record this season. It was his team's third consecutive victory in a row. This season Gordon has very high stats. He averages 16.2ppg, 2.6rpg and 2.0apg.
#4. Yogi Ferrell (6'0''-PG-93, graduated '16, plays in the NBA) led Sacramento Kings to an easy victory against the San Antonio Spurs (32-26) 127-112 in the NBA last Monday. Ferrell scored 19 points in a mere 17 minutes; not bad, considering it's only his third season in pro basketball. The Sacramento Kings have 29-26 record this season. It's Ferrell's first year with the team. This year Ferrell averages 6.0ppg, 1.6rpg and 2.0apg in 45 games.
#5. Experienced Bracey Wright (6'3''-G-84, graduated '05, currently in Czech Republic) was the major contributor in a CEZ Nymburk's victory against the leader USK Praha (8-15) crushing them 97-59 in the Czech Republic NBL on Saturday night. He recorded 13 points and added 7 passes. It was the game of the round between two top 3 ranked teams in group Places 1-8. CEZ Basketball Nymburk (23-0) is placed first. So far his team won all twenty three games in the Regular Season. It's Wright's first season with the team. This year Wright averages 9.3ppg, 2.5rpg and 2.9apg.
#6. Jordan Hulls (5'11''-PG-90, graduated '13, plays pro in Germany) led s.Oliver Wuerzburg to an easy victory against the closely-ranked Giessen 46ers 101-84 in the German BBL in Sunday night's game. Hulls recorded 14 points, 3 assists and 3 steals in a mere 18 minutes. He has relatively good stats this year 12.6ppg, 2.6rpg, 3.1apg and 1.4spg in 17 games.
#7. Cody Zeller (7'0''-C/F-92, graduated '13, plays in the NBA) contributed to a Charlotte Hornets' victory against the Atlanta Hawks 129-120 in the NBA last Saturday. He recorded 10 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Zeller has relatively good stats this season 9.2ppg, 6.5rpg and 2.1apg.
#8. Will Sheehey (6'7''-F-92, graduated '14, currently in Portugal), who plays in the Portuguese LPB was not able to secure a victory for one of league's weakest teams FC Porto (12-5) in their last game. Despite his very good performance FC Porto lost 80-93 in Oliveira to the second-ranked Oliveirense. Sheehey was the top scorer with 19 points. He also added 4 assists in 28 minutes. Sheehey has very impressive stats this year 18.7ppg, 5.6rpg and 3.1apg in 15 games.
#9. D.J. White (6'9''-F/C-86, graduated '08, plays pro in Turkey) couldn't help one of league's weakest teams one of league's weakest teams Bahcesehir Koleji Istanbul (8-8) in their last game on Saturday. Despite White's good performance Bahcesehir Koleji Istanbul was defeated 88-73 in a derby game by the higher-ranked Galatasaray (#7). He was the second best scorer with 13 points. White has relatively good stats this season 13.1ppg, 4.7rpg and 1.7apg.
#10. Noah Vonleh (6'10''-PF-95, graduated '14, plays in the NBA) couldn't help the New York Knicks in their game against the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA. Vonleh recorded 9 points and grabbed 6 rebounds in 24 minutes. His team lost 84-96 in the NBA. He has relatively good stats this year 8.4ppg, 8.4rpg and 2.0apg in 54 games.
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Rescuing Children
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BUSH KIDS PROJECT
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ETHIOPIA PROJECT
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RESCUING CHILDREN FROM TURMOIL
RESCUING CHILDREN FOR OVER 25 YEARS
Sam has been involved in saving and rescuing children out of warzones for quite some time. Pictured below are some of the kids who are now young adults, either at school or learning a unique skill for when they decide to move on or stay within the AOEA's many training projects.
We love the people of South Sudan - it's just unfortunate that the country is so unstable. It's been war after war and to a certain extent, there is still fighting happening today by rebel militia groups in regions of the country that are no-go zones.
Our mission is to help where we can. At the moment we have around 185 Sudanese children at our main Children's home in Nimule South Sudan.
In total, Angels of East Africa (AOEA) is a registered NGO in the countries of South Sudan and Uganda - and in the USA, AOEA is a registered 501 (c3) with the IRS.
At present AOEA is responsible for around 350 children 24/7. These children are all housed, schooled and the older kids are in trade school or work at one of our projects. Some leave and want to go their own way. Once they are 18 years old they have that choice. We even have teens at College and University
This is Sam Childers and Samuel Childers - he bears the same last name as MGP Sam. (in fact a lot of the children do as Sam has adopted them) Young Samuel was rescued
from a war zone area in 2007. It's a miracle he survived such a bad injury in the bush after he was shot in the shoulder.
Today, Samuel is a young man, training at the AOEA farm in Nwoya, Northern Uganda. Samuel wants to have his own farm one day and is gaining valuable learning experience in local and western farming methods, thanks to the team at the MGP Ranch and Training Centre.
Tabua is a young girl who has come a long way. She has a disability and unfortunately because of this, she was treated in her local village by witch doctors. She bears burns over a lot of her body from the witch doctors and their sorcery.
Her mother disowned her, as people with disabilities are not understood and shunned according to the custom in
some villages.
Today, Tabua is growing up to be a fine young lady and attends school at one of the AOEA homes in Northern Uganda. Sure, she struggles with some things, but is loved and cared for by the team and family at the Gulu home.
She is a remarkable girl. Now she has opportunity and a future with Angels of East Africa (AOEA).
15 years ago Northern Uganda was a no-go zone as Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) had control of many parts of the far North and South Sudan, along with fringe areas of the Congo.
The best way to describe Kony is a terrorist!
A self-confessed prophet and brutal killer, he is wanted for war crimes and has escaped capture for more than two decades. His rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is notorious for abducting thousands of children to use as soldiers or sex slaves.
A former Cult altar boy, he has waged war and ordered violent attacks, first in his own country (Uganda) and then, after being forced out, in South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Lots of Sam's older children bear the scars of Kony and the LRA - some were shot, witnessed the murder of their families, and were even forced to kill their mothers and fathers. This unbelievable cruelty by Kony and his LRA put fear into the hearts of the people in Uganda and South Sudan.
Today Uganda is a peaceful nation - Joseph Kony and his militia are believed to be hiding somewhere in the Congo. He has never been found although much time was spent by the USA and Ugandan forces trying to track him down to bring him to justice for his crimes against humanity.
Rescued child in South Sudan
Alex is a young man with a big future, despite losing his arm after being attacked by the LRA when he was a young boy. Thanks to Sam Childers and his Team who rescued him from an LRA attack in a village in South Sudan, he survived. Listen to Alex's story by clicking on the video. (Alex now lives in Uganda with Sam)
One of the hard working ladies that can cook up to a 1,000 meals every day
Gulu - Northern Uganda
Being honest with you, if I would run into a situation where I'd have to pick up a firearm to save another child, would I? Absolutely! I wouldn't even think about it. I rescue people and feed people. I will do whatever I have to do, as long as it's within the law, to rescue a life.
SAM CHILDERS
Sam visits the AOEA Children's Village in Nimule - South Sudan
Sam with some of the kids he rescued- South Sudan
Children's Village, Nimule, South Sudan
AT THE END OF THE DAY IT'S ALL ABOUT SAVING AND RESCUING CHILDREN
HEADING OUT TO A CHILD RESCUE IN SOUTH SUDAN
Not so long ago Sam headed out bush with
some local government soldiers and his own security team to rescue children.
On this particular rescue, Sam brought back 23 children who were hiding in the bush, trapped in a
no-go zone which had been plundered by a local militia group in the Western Equatoria region. Many villagers were killed by the rebel group.
If you can Help Sam do more rescues see the donation box below
DO YOU WANT TO HELP MACHINE GUN PREACHER SAM CHILDERS RESCUE MORE CHILDREN???
If you would like to help Sam Childers, maybe think about making a donation via the PayPal link just here. Every dollar helps us in saving, rescuing, housing, feeding and schooling children that are victims of unfortunate circumstances.
We take nearly any currency via the PayPal link below. You can donate via Visa, MasterCard, Amex, etc or if you have a Paypal account you donate directly from that.
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Google Glass – What is it and how does it work?
Tech / By galnicholas
It may sound like science fiction, but Google Glass is very real and scheduled for public release in 2014. Will it be a useful tool we can all benefit from, or just a novel toy for technophiles?
Nobody seems to be working harder to turn the present into the future than Google. From self-driving cars to robots, their R&D projects read like a list of science fiction movie props. Before too long, one of these ideas, Google Glass, will be on sale to the general public. Google Glass is a hands-free headset featuring a small screen, that fits the user like a pair of glasses. They are Google's first attempt at creating a ubiquitous computer – a computer which fits seamlessly into its user's life, providing contextually relevant functionality, rather than expecting them to figure out the best use for the device on their own.
As a concept this sounds like an incredible idea. People generally don't like change, especially if it means they have to learn how to do something differently. Whilst tech savvy early adopters might love the idea, ease of use is what gives technology mass appeal. Potentially, a ubiquitous computer like Google Glass could almost literally sell itself, by telling a user how it can help them at the right moments.
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That may sound great in theory, but how does this compare to Google Glass in reality? Well the Explorer Model which was released to testers earlier this year may be missing some features which will be present in the public sale version, but so far it works using a series of voice activated commands, all starting with the magic words "ok glass". This allows the wearer to take photos using a 5 megapixel camera, record videos in 720p, send text messages, get directions, search Google and more, all totally hands free.
You'd be forgiven for thinking these features don't sound especially revolutionary or applicable to everyday problems. The hands-free element is novel but since we aren't all skydivers or extreme sports enthusiasts like those in Google Glass's promotional videos, it's hard to see this as a product that will change our lives, at least not in its current state. Since it has to be paired with an Android version 4.0.3 or higher mobile phone using battery draining Bluetooth, it isn't even a cell phone alternative yet.
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That being said, this is still early days and who knows what applications and functionality Google Glass may have in its public offering? Third party companies are bound to think of a vast number of applications if given the opportunity as well. Rumours suggest that eye movement based functionality, such as winking to take a picture, may even be available. But the possibilities for the technology itself are almost limitless. It doesn't seem a stretch to imagine an app which could tell you how far and fast you have walked or jogged for example. QR codes might finally be useful if you could activate them by simply turning your head in the right direction too. Since the key selling point here is context sensitivity, Google Glass is only limited by its ability to detect what you might want in a given situation.
Like all new technologies, Google Glass is bound to have a rocky start while not just its users, but their creators, work out exactly what it can be used for. But whether Google Glass has the potential to become something more than a hands-free phone camera, only time will tell.
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Hurry up to plan a wonderful China trip in the new year of 2019 now! But you may be daunted by having no idea what to explore in the vast and diverse China. Take it easy. You will always find many interesting places and things to explore whenever you come, and you won't regret a moment of your time in China because it will be a trip of once in a lifetime.
Hike Great Wall in Beijing is the Must-experience.
Visit Terracotta Warrior Site in Ancient Xian.
Go to visit adorable Giant Pandas in Chengdu.
Cruise leisurely on Li River to Yangshuo in Guilin.
Enjoy sureal Avatar landscapes in Zhangjiajie National Park.
Take a relaxing cruise on majestic Yangtze River.
Take a train to Tibet via Qinghai Tibet Railway.
Enjoy the World of Snow and Ice in Harbin.
The expensive and diverse China always offers a plenty of amazing tourist destinations for you to choose whenever you come and whatever experience you are expecting for. If you time allows, you can even spend a long in-depth China vacation which can be as long as several weeks even months, exploring the charming Chinese culture and magnificent nature. Followings are 10 tourist destinations recommended to visit in China in 2019. You'll enjoy some memorable experiences that please both the body and mind - leading you into the essence of China and under skin of the Chinese culture.
Beijing has a history over 3000 years, including more than 600 years being ancient capital. It has 7 World Heritage Sites - Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Great Wall... It is also the most popular transportation hub.
As the home to world-famed Terracotta Warriors and as the start point of Silk Road, Xian draws numerous tourists with its enormous historical sites and cultural landscapes, and gives you a chance to explore the ancient China history and culture.
Shanghai is the best place to see the modern and fashionable face of China. It is reputed as the "Pearl of the Orient" and the "Paris of the East". Shanghai took only 170 years to turn from a shabby fishing village into the largest metropolis in China.
Guilin has the most beautiful and typical karst landforms, also a dozen of ethnic minorities. The most visited place in Guilin is Yangshuo, a place you want to stay for months just to enjoy the relaxing and peaceful living.
Zhangjiajie is a perfect combination of the idyllic beauty of Guilin, the grotesqueness of Yellow Mountain, the peril of Mount Hua and the magnificence of Mount Tai, with the characteristics of quietness, wildness, mystery, beauty and elegance.
The holy land Tibet is the most sacred and mysterious destination in China. It seems Tibet has a magic power to pull one's soul towards Tibet. Many people also believe a Tibet trip can heal the pain the heart and even purify our minds.
Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Guilin and Yangtze River Cruise are strongly recommended for first-timers.
Travel with a travel agency if you want to explore China with a comfortable and worry-free way.
You can always places to visit in different time. But Autumn is the best season to travel China.
Before leaving for China, you have to get your passport and Chinese visa prepared in advance.
It is suggested to arrange the itinerary at a leisure pace. Then confirm with your travel consultant.
Start to book flights and hotels on your own, or let your travel agency book for you.
No matter it is your first trip, or the second or the third in China, China Discovery will always offer you a suitable tour package which take you to explore China in the best way. If you are one of the first-timers, you are suggested to visit the glorious historical cities Beijing and Xian, vibrant modern metropolis Shanghai and Hong Kong, beautiful natural wonders - Guilin and Zhangjiajie, the hometown of Giant Panda - Chengdu. You can also add Yangtze River Cruise to make your trip more leisure. If you are the second-timers, or the third-timers, you can try to explore the further and wilder destinations in China, such as Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Silk Road, etc. Check following most recommended tour packages or contact us to design your own China holiday.


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MEMORANDUM OF UNITY OF THE OPPOSITION FORCES
Kyiv, June 7, 2019
We, the plenipotentiary representatives of political parties "Opposition Bloc", "Party of Peace and Development", "Ours", "Renaissance", "Trust the Deeds", declare our decision to create a single political force to protect common political and spiritual values.
We are on a joint ideological platform; we have a minimum of differences in the vision of the country's development strategy, a similar understanding of the development of modern social and political processes. We believe that at this important and crucial moment the personal ambitions of everyone should move away. Our party members and our voters are waiting for us to consolidate the opposition forces.
We declare that our basic principles, which we intend to defend with all our strength, are:
- the establishment of a reliable and lasting peace in Ukraine, the organization of the negotiation process in the east of Ukraine within the framework of achieving reasonable compromises;
- consolidation of the non-aligned status of Ukraine in the Constitution, support of state neutrality as the basis of interstate relations;
- the revival of the Ukrainian economy, the new industrialization of the country, the creation of new jobs, raising the standards of quality of life;
- high level of wages, decent pension provision;
- development of local self-government, in-depth decentralization;
- ensuring the right of citizens to speak and teach their children in their native language without language dictates from the state;
- non-interference of the state in religious and confessional issues;
- normalization of relations with all neighbors of Ukraine, minimization of historical and political contradictions in favor of healthy pragmatism in interstate relations;
- concern for the prestige of Ukraine in the world arena and the authority of the institutions of power within the country.
We declare our intention to hold a unifying congress in the near future, at which an organizational structure with a single party leadership will be created.
The united political party will take part in the early parliamentary elections in July 2019. We call on other political forces that are on the opposition platform to join our union!
We believe in the correctness of our path and in our victory!
Borys Kolesnikov
Chairman of the Political Council of the "Opposition Bloc" Party
Vadym Novynskyi
Chairman of the "Opposition Bloc" faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Hennadii Kernes
Chairman of the "Trust the Deeds" Party,
Mayor of Kharkiv
Volodymyr Pylypenko
Chairman of the Political Council of the "Renaissance" Party
Yevhen Muraiev
Chairman of the "Ours" Party,
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Oleksandr Vilkul
Leader of the "Party of Peace and Development",
Bohdan Andreiev
Mayor of Uzhhorod,
"Renaissance" Party
Vadym Boichenko
Mayor of Mariupol,
"Opposition bloc" Party
Rostyslav Shurma
CEO of PJSC "Zaporizhstal",
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Shaun White Lists Two Neighboring Malibu Homes
David Arquette Lists Both an Updated 1950s Traditional Home and a Lake House
Rachel Wallace
Sonny and Cher's and Tony Curtis's Former Mansion Is for Sale for $115 Million
Jordi Lippe-Mcgraw
Football Legend Joe Montana Lists Sonoma Estate for $28.9 Million
Seal Buys Mansion Overlooking Malibu for $3.55 Million
The contemporary home is a mountaintop retreat
Seal was a judge on the Australian version of The Voice.Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
Seal has stayed out of the spotlight recently, and his recent home purchase certainly suggests that he enjoys a private life. The Grammy Award winner just picked up a new mansion for $3.55 million, and the abode is quite secluded, perched high in the mountains above Malibu, California.
The location isn't the only detail which makes the home ultra-private. The two-story modern dwelling is set behind gates down a long driveway and cannot be seen from the street, and it is surrounded by three landscaped acres. The property provides the "Kiss From a Rose" singer with both mountain and ocean views, as well as private hiking paths leading to a scenic overlook, according to reports.
The inside isn't too shabby either. Spread out over 3,6000 square feet, the home boasts four en suite bedrooms (some with balconies) and five contemporary bathrooms. The main space features a dining room, living room, and kitchen area that seamlessly flow into one another, and all have soaring ceilings with multiple skylights to let in plenty of natural light. Large sliding glass doors in the common living areas open up to a large patio with dining and lounging areas.
Out back there's also a large lawn, swimming pool, children's playground, tennis courts, and a screened-in garden. And, of course, the entire home is hooked up to a high-tech sound system so Seal can blast his tunes throughout.
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Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham Sells Brentwood Mansion for $29.5 Million
Kevin Durant Sells Oceanfront Malibu Beach House for $12.15 Million


View Poll Results: Which palm tree name is the ***iest?
I just wanted to know peoples opinion on other names we can give to some palm trees that would bring out there appeal..
Little Out of the Norm I would say.
Is that appropriate for a palm tree forum lol O WELL.
The brunette is hot and is that Lindsay Lohan in a bikini?
She just recently got let out of jail for drinking and driving and disobeying a court order for her to return back from some festival. She needs some good parenting, not celebrity parenting!


Vikens Hamn was built for tall ships and the local commercial fishing in 1869. Today, the harbor of the picturesque fishing village Viken on the south side of the peninsula Kullen is mainly used by leisure boats.
Vikens Hamn has a total of 200 berths for boats up to a size of 12x4x2 meters. Larger boats should enter the harbor in an emergency only. The charge for guest boats includes electricity and supply of fresh water, sewage disposal and the use of washing machines, dryers, toilets, showers and Wi-Fi.
In the immediate vicinity of the marina are three restaurants and at the harbor you can find the smallmaritime museum of Viken and Galleri Hamnen of ceramic artist Åke Larsson.


The unofficial start to the summer season begins with Memorial Day Weekend Provincetown from May 21-25, 2015. This small, charming, yet bustling little town on the very end of Cape Cod has long been a gay mecca. A few times during the summer the women take over for the weekend – and it gets no bigger than Memorial Day Weekend with awesome events put together by LesbianNightLife and ProvincetownForWomen. We are once again proud to be sponsored by the WNBA in 2015.
We have a great deal for you with the LNL Party Pass Bracelet – which gets you in to all the events below and has discounts at bars, restaurants, and shopping around Provincetown. Extra perks include bypassing the line at the door to enter. Keep reading for all the details and visit http://www.lesbiannightlife.com/memorialdayweekend/ to get your tickets/passes!
Six of the hottest female DJs from across the US will duke it out, musically of course, in the sun at one of the hottest pool parties in the country.


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Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award Goes to Woods Services
Langhorne, Pennsylvania Woods Services was recognized by @Aramark for community organizational leadership. Watch this heartwarming video showcasing their work. #BeWell.DoWell. http://bit.ly/32w91Xm
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Woods Services, a Langhorne, Pennsylvania-based organization, was awarded the 2019 Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award in recognition of its efforts to provide innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health and case management services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and complex behavioral and medical challenges. The award is accompanied by a $20,000 grant from Aramark.
The Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award honors exceptional high-impact organizations that are driving a culture of population health and well-being within their community. The award is presented annually by Aramark (NYSE: ARMK), a global leader in food, facilities and uniforms; and the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a strategic action network of thousands of committed social services professionals. This year's award was announced at the Alliance's annual Senior Leadership Conference in Savannah, Georgia.
For more than a decade, Aramark and the Alliance have partnered to help communities thrive by bringing resources to the local level and cultivating strong relationships. Aramark's global volunteer and philanthropic program, Aramark Building Community, enriches and nourishes lives by partnering with local community centers and sharing resources to inspire families to lead healthy lifestyles and help people succeed through education and employment. Since its establishment in 2008, Aramark Building Community has impacted more than 5 million families and children in 19 countries.
Aramark's commitment to people is a core part of the company's sustainability plan, Be Well. Do Well., focused on positively impacting people and the planet. Aramark's people priority is to facilitate access to opportunities that will improve the well-being of the company's employees, consumers, communities and people in its supply chain. Building on current work, Aramark continues to help people develop careers and livelihoods; access, choose and prepare healthy food; and grow communities, businesses and local economies.
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Elder Joshua Lyman: September 20, 2013 - 10 more days!!!!
The travel day is pretty much a missionaries vacation, haha!! There will be A LOT of sleeping and that is just amazing by itself, haha!! :) I don't think I have mentioned this yet, but I think my zone here is definitely the most diverse zone here at the MTC. We have 4 different missions and we have 8 different languages (Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Slovak, Czech, and Polish). Usually a zone at the MTC only has one mission and one language, but we all have such unique missions there aren't enough people going there so they put us all into one zone. It is really a cool experience and I love my whole zone so much!! It is kinda weird to think that I didn't know any of them 8 weeks ago, it feels like I've known them my whole life! :) Another think that is really cool that I found last week is: I will be the first 18 year old missionary to Slovenia!! So that's a pretty amazing opportunity!
Something that I have realized a lot these past few weeks and it is something that my teacher says a lot is: "This gospel is a transforming gospel". And I didn't realize how true that was until now here at the MTC. Being here my view of the gospel has changed so much and it really is the most important thing in our lives. And I really like the scripture Mosiah 27:25 and it talks about how in this life we are suppose to change. And that is why we were sent to this Earth, to learn and experience things that cause us to change into something better; becoming true sons and daughters of God and becoming: God-like. And we only become that by changing our hearts through the Atonement and changing into a state of righteousness.


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Jurgen Klopp says his players must improve their "decision making" after watching Liverpool play out a 1-1 draw with Rubin Kazan last night.
Klopp, 48, oversaw his first game in charge at Anfield on a night where Emre Can levelled for the hosts against 10-man Kazan.
It was the Reds' third 1-1 result from three Europa League outings and fourth draw in a row in all competitions.
Yet Da Costa is determined to keep his man.


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Finding Peace
Remembering Allah
4 Lessons from 4 Stories in Chapter Al-Kahf
Raiiq Ridwan
Allah has sent the Quran as guidance to all mankind. Each and every verse of the Quran has blessings and lessons for us in our daily lives.
However, Allah in His infinite knowledge, wisdom, and mercy chooses some over others. Just like He chose Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) over all the other Prophets, He chooses some chapters over others. For example chapter Al-Fatihah is the greatest of all chapters, and to be recited every day multiple times in our prayers. Ayat al-Kursi is the greatest verse of the Quran and so on.
Similarly is chapter Al-Kahf. The Prophet (peace be upon him) encouraged us to read the Surah every single Friday. Moreover, he encouraged us to memorize the first ten verses of the Surah because they will safeguard us from the Dajjal (the Antichrist), the worst of afflictions that will hit mankind.
So what lessons can we take from chapter Al-Kahf? There are too many to put in one article. Or dare I say, too many lessons for even one person to extract all of them. Every time we read the chapter, we will find new lessons.
In this article, we will look at the four stories, and extract three daily life lessons for us from each of the stories. There are lots more, but we will keep it to four.
Story 1: The People of the Cave
Youth in worship are particular favorites of Allah
The More You Know Him, The More You Love Him
Among the many interesting ways that Allah honored the young people of the cave is by mentioning that they were "fityah" (plural of fata")- young boys. This is a mention of their youth multiple times. Allah mentions the word "fityah" to refer to them twice in separate occasions to drive home the point that they were young people who worshiped Allah.
Allah loves all His worshipers. But the youth who worship Allah are among His favorites. So much so that in a hadith the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that Allah will give shade to seven categories of people on the Day of Judgement, and among them is a youth who worships Allah.
Do not blindly follow trends
Through different ways, certain trends, precedents and cultures get present in every culture and society. The youth of the cave came from a culture that worshiped idols. And even though they were young people who were more likely to be conscious of their self-image and what people would think about them, they chose Allah over everything else. They did not follow the people blindly but thought rationally.
This is our test as well. We live in societies where many things are norms and cultures, and might not necessarily be right. This is where we need to put Allah first, and not follow practices blindly.
Allah takes special care of His favorite slaves
What Are the 8 Qualities Allah Loves in the Believer?
The youth of the cave made du'a to Allah for mercy. They were confronted by an oppressive king who wanted to kill them. And then Allah protected them by giving them sleep for 300 years. Allah ensured that they would get sunlight too by changing the laws of nature. He also ensured that the dog would be kept in such a way that no one would dare enter the cave.
Moreover, Allah would move them from side to side in their 300 year sleep so that their body would keep moving. This is unheard of. Only because of their devotion to Allah did they get such blessed care from Allah. If we want Allah to take care of us, then we need to make sure we become among His favorite slaves by worshiping Him more.
Story 2: The Man of Two Gardens
Arrogance will come back to bite
The man who had two gardens was haughty and arrogant. He was trying to boast about himself and Allah taught him a lesson. He would look down upon other people and reject the truth when his poorer friend tried to remind him of Allah. So he was arrogant to the point that he said that all his wealth shows that Allah loves him. And it came back to bite him.
Arrogance is a disease that one never recognizes but is crushed with later in life. It is important that we recognize if we have this disease in us. The Prophet said that Allah said:
Pride is My cloak and greatness is My robe, and he who competes with Me in respect of either of them, I shall cast into the Hell Fire. (Muslim)
All we have is a mercy and gift from Allah
How to Grow in Spirituality (Video)
There are many times that we work to achieve something and we might feel that it is something we have achieved ourselves. That is what this man thought. He claimed that all he had was because of his own goodness.
What we need to remember is that everything we have is a mercy and a gift from Allah. We may put in hard work, but if Allah doesn't put blessing in anything, nothing succeeds. This is why we should be thankful for what Allah has given us. In fact the Surah itself begins by saying "Alhamdulillah".
Calamities can be our greatest blessings
The only time the man finally remembered Allah and wished he was grateful was when Allah took it all away. Life is not about how much we have or we do not have. It is about what brings us closer to Allah. That is the true blessing. And that is why Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said:
"A calamity which takes you closer to Allah is better than a blessing that takes you away from him."
Other scholars also argue that ease is probably a more difficult test than calamities as people are prone to forget Allah when all is easy.
Story 3: Lessons from Moses' Journey
Between Anxiety and Trust in Allah
Be humble in learning
This story is all about learning. Moses (peace be upon him) goes to learn from Al-Khidr (peace be upon him). Moses is unanimously acknowledged to be among the five greatest Prophets to have ever lived. And yet, Moses went to Al-Khidr and asked to learn from him. Not only that, Moses tried to abide by the conditions that Al-Khidr put on him. And when he failed to do so, he apologized.
Moses (peace be upon him) teaches us here the value of humility. In spite of being a Prophet, he was willing to humble himself to learn from Al-Khidr as a teacher.
Attach yourself to pious people
Moses (peace be upon him) is accompanied by a young man on this journey. Quranic commentators say that this boy later grew to be a Prophet called Yusha ibn Nun (peace be upon him). Attaching oneself to righteous people and being with them is among the ways that one becomes great themselves.
The Qadar of Allah works in ways that we do not understand
Al-Khidr taught Moses multiple things on this journey. Among the things that Al-Khidr did was kill a child who had not done anything.
This must have caused great grief to the child's parents. However, Al-Khidr said that Allah knew that this child would be oppressive and harsh to his parents later in life. Allah knows that we do not know.
When Allah takes something away from us, we should trust in His Divine wisdom. His Divine Wisdom was not clear to a Prophet, let alone people like us. However, Allah clearly wants good for us, and it is important that we trust the One who has given us everything
Story 4: Teach people to fish, not give them a fish
4 Spiritual Benefits Prayer Grants You
When the people asked Dhulqarnayn to help them, he did not just go and help them. Rather he taught them in building and helped them himself as well. Rather than just give them what they want, he taught them a skill that they could learn and master themselves. An old saying goes: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Never forget Allah
Dhulqarnayn is in stark contrast to the man of the two gardens. Regardless of the fact that he was being victorious and constantly winning new ground for his empire, he never forgot Allah. He was just in his dealings and remembered Allah in all his affairs. That is something we should remember. In our endeavor to earn sustenance, we should never forget Allah. During our successes, we should remember Allah.
Keep going with good deeds
Dhulqarnayn could have stopped conquering land or not helped the people. However, he kept going. He would take a path every time he was established somewhere and never resting. And he teaches us never to rest on our laurels and rather do more and more good deeds as much as we can.
These are some of the very few lessons from chapter Al-Kahf that we have shared today. Would you share a few from yourself?
(From Reading Islam archives)
Quran Chapter Al-Kahf
About Raiiq Ridwan
Raiiq Ridwan is a Bangladeshi medical student at the University of Bristol, UK. He has a Bachelors In Arts in Islamic Studies at the Islamic Online University. He is founder of "The One Message". He's certified life coach. He can write on topics related to Quran, dawah, depression, anxiety, achieving goals, productivity etc.


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"I loved the brutality of it": Suede and London
I wrote about Suede for the current issue of Uncut. This was something of a revelation for me, as I was able to remind myself how excited I was when I first heard Suede – I remember playing "Animal Nitrate" over and over again in my bedroom, thinking that I'd finally discovered a band I loved as much as The Smiths. Before interviewing the band, I went to see them play at the Roundhouse and all of that old energy was still there, and I was just as thrilled as I had been at 16.
One angle covered in wide-ranging interviews with Brett Anderson, Mat Osman and Neil Codling was the importance of London to the Suede aesthetic – this was a band that even renamed themselves The London Suede, albeit under duress, for their American releases.
When the band were formed, Osman and Anderson shared a flat on Hilever Road in White City "on the border with Notting Hill – bohemia one way, estates the other," Osman said, and Suede's music came to occupy this very same sort of space, the sort of London written about by Patrick Hamilton, Dylan Thomas, Gerald Kersh and Roger Westerby in those novels about outsiders arriving in London and being instantly swallowed by vice and excitement. Doing something similar around this time was the TV version of Hanif Kureishi's Buddha Of Suburbia, with a soundtrack by David Bowie – the combination of Suede and Kureishi is what led me to Bowie.
"London was a place where you can be what you want," says Codling. "You can disappear, you can embrace any subculture, you can reinvent yourself and glamour is a possibility inherent in that."
Anderson didn't deny any of this. "I romanticised what London was," he said. "I lived in a bit of a film fantasy. I loved the brutality of it, the loneliness and the hardness of it all. I really responded to that. But this is what we were living. I was part of this world I was writing about. I've always tried to find the romance in any situation I've been in and that happened to be the situation I was in. I've always loved art that deals with the prosaic. The Smiths aesthetic, I found that very powerful, 'the riches of the poor'. There's beauty in the brutality."
Anderson told me he's still inspired by London, often cycling the towpath from his home to West London to Camden, even if it doesn't directly appear on the band's new album. The excellent Night Thoughts is instead preoccupied by those unnerving concerns about children and fatherhood that keep Anderson – and myself – awake at night.
"I refute the tortured artist clichés, it's bullshit, a lazy misunderstanding of what creativity is," he said. "It's not expected of authors and film-makers, Michael Haneke always seems very balance and his films are genius of discomfort. For me, a writer is finding those moments of friction, and those can occur in any existence, in any relationship, no matter how stable or content. There are always misunderstandings and moments of friction and this is what I write about."
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Archive: Julian Cope interview
I recently rediscovered this 2005 interview with Julian Cope from Time Out. It took place over the phone and my main recollection is that Cope went to the toilet halfway through, with the sound of his piss hitting the urinal adding a certain sonic tang to the transcription.
They say that every boy needs a hobby; over the years Julian Cope has had plenty. At first it was taking LSD on 'Top Of The Tops' and talking about Scott Walker. Later it was sitting beneath a tortoise shell and listening to krautrock. Now it's playing monolithic sludge rock riffs and visiting ancient monuments. There's no pattern, it's just how things worked out.
But before we get into one of those 'isn't Julian Cope crazy?!' mindsets, let's clear one thing up: Cope isn't a whacked-out, moondog, schizoid beam-chaser, or even a ga-ga, freaked-up, attention-seeking acid-eater, he's just a lot more interesting (and, crucially, interested) than most rock stars. Let the man himself explain, as he prepares for his Friday night gig at the Royal Festival Hall: 'Playing the role of Julian Cope means I can hide behind what Julian Cope is supposed to be. People always say, "You're a lot more normal than I thought you would be", and I say, "Yeah, but if I was as weird as you thought, I wouldn't be able to achieve fucking anything". The whole point is that it's the subject matter that's weird, not the person behind it.'
These days such achievements are often literary – particularly best-selling books on standing stones (The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European). But Cope continues to record. His latest is Citizen Cain'd, an epic, guitar-shredding study of alienation and monotheism that is heavily informed by travels in Iran and stupidly heavy rock 'n' roll.
'We've all got an inner moron,' he explains. 'And rock 'n' roll entertains your inner moron, but that doesn't mean it can't be smart as well. I thought it would be great to take garage rock and fuse it with genuinely amazing guitar. American punk bands always struck me as being better because they were great musicians playing down. One of the reasons I work with Doggen is that he's one of the best guitarists I've ever heard. He's amazing. But it's context, I never put him in a good context. I'm never going to make him look like Eddie Van Halen if he's got to come out of the swamp.'
Talking of swamp, support on Friday is from San Francisco's Comets On Fire, quality purveyors of cosmic sludge, who are playing their first UK show. Cope has been a fan for a while. 'The great thing about Comets is they very much know where they're coming from. When I first got in touch with Ethan Miller (Comets main guy) I was saying, "Man, you're totally Roky Erickson meets John Fogerty with Hawkwind backing", and he said "Shit man, in my dreams that's where we are". But it's not in their dreams, they're there already.'
As he enthuses about favourite bands like Speed Glue And Shinky ('I'm a fucking cunt for a singing drummer') and Monoshock ('They're really vile. Like a sewer Stooges'), it's clear that Cope is totally into this stuff. And when Cope gets into something, it normally gets into print. 'I'm writing a book that's just called 'Rock 'N' Roll', but it has the most portentous subtitle in the world. I can't even remember it. On the back we're going to have a massive question mark and underneath say "Who will entertain your moron?"'
Will this be written in his trademark stream-of-consciousness style? 'Actually, I'm probably no more stream of consciousness than Robert Graves, I'm just fucking great at giving that impression. One thing I do is write what I want to say, then I go into an internet translator and turn it into German, turn the German into French and then the French back into English, and then pick out the nuggets. It ends up sounding like Faust lyrics. I'm happy that secret being leaked: the people who hear it and don't take it seriously won't learn anything, and the people that know wisdom is everywhere will take it on board and start doing it. Part of my job is to reveal other ways. I'm trying to be a facilitator rather than somebody who hides behind a cloak of mystery.'
And Friday? 'Expect generic dark psychedelia. I'm really punishing the cliché. Get there early because we're going to play two sets, one as people arrive, then after the Comets we'll come back and do that monolithic sludge. It's going to be a real vibe. Healthy amounts of mushrooms will be good and women should dress for the occasion.'
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Tagged Comets On Fire, Gig, interview, Julian Cope, Royal Festival Hall, singing drummers, standing stones
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Tagged arrest, Billy Doyle, Charles Manson, drugs, London, Mama Cass Elliot, Michael Caine, Pic Dawson, Scott McKenzie, Sharon Tate, Southampton, Waterloo
A brief history of Covent Garden
There are many reasons to cherish Covent Garden, not least of which is that it exists at all. The area nearly didn't make it past 1973, when it was scheduled for 'redevelopment' after the fruit and veg market moved out. The GLC drew up enthusiastic plans to replace 96 historic acres with a conference centre and lots of roads. The plan was defeated by locals who believed Covent Garden could have a different sort of future, one that didn't involve hundreds of buildings being demolished and everything getting covered in asphalt. They were eventually proved right, although nobody anticipated that Covent Garden would turn into the upmarket open-air shopping mall it has since become.
Inigo Jones might have approved of its current status, though. It was he who built an elegant Piazza on an old abbey garden in 1630, transplanting a piece of Italy to the centre of London and unwittingly creating that definitively London piece of architecture, the residential square. The area grew in significance after the Great Fire destroyed much of the City, but then decline set it. We may now see Covent Garden as the place where Eliza Doolittle met Henry Higgins, a halfway house between the posh Englishness of Mayfair and louche Frenchness of Soho, but the place got pretty debauched in the 18th century, a hive of taverns, theatres and coffee shops, all haunts for prostitutes like Peg The Seaman's Wife, Long-Haired Mrs Spencer of Spitalfields and the delightful Fair Rosamund Sugarcunt.
The area's drift in tone came as the market expanded and the gentry who occupied the Piazza decamped to the newer squares of Berkeley, Grosvenor and St James's. At around the same time, Charles II reintroduced theatre to the UK, and companies gradually moved from the nearby Inns of Court into Covent Garden by way of Drury Lane. Theatres brought rowdy audiences and actresses who doubled as bawds, and were a magnet for lowlife figures. In 1722, there were 22 gambling dens, countless brothels (one pimp published an annual guide to London's prostitutes called Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies) and street brawls were commonplace. In 1951, HV Morton argued that Covent Garden provided 'the most accessible glimpse that remains to us of Hogarth's London', but post-war Britain offered nothing quite as depraved as the third plate from Hogarth's Rake's Progress, set in Covent Garden's infamous Rose Tavern. Hogarth depicted the Rose as a den of sin, full of drunks, thieves and whores. The tavern specialised in women who engaged in flagellation, both giving and receiving. Pepys was a regular, although he only seems to mention the food, for which it was also famous.
Given such carnage, it is little surprise that in 1754 Henry Fielding would organise the Bow Street Runners, the progenitors of the Met, from Covent Garden, and the area slowly improved from a hotbed of crime into a straightforward slum. Throughout, the market remained central – Charles Fowler's fine market building was erected in the 1830s and the Flower Market arrived in 1870 – so it was easy to believe that when that moved to Nine Elms, Covent Garden would wither and die.
Amazingly, though, Covent Garden survived. That is largely due to its fringe attractions, which expanded to fill the vacuum left by the market. Theatre was key – opera was now a decidedly upmarket pursuit – but by the 1980s the area also boasted decent restaurants and, on Neal Street, trendy shops like Red Or Dead and Duffer Of St George. Credit must go to Nicholas Saunders, who opened a wholefood shop in Neal's Yard in 1976. His alternative empire slowly spread to other buildings, creating a colourful corner of the counterculture in the heart of Covent Garden even as anti-hippie punks gathered round the corner, in the Roxy on Neal Street. Neal's Yard still has an idiosyncratic flavour – the blue plaque to 'film-maker' Monty Python seems well placed (Palin and co had offices here).
What Neal's Yard illustrates is the way that amid the ubiquitous stage doors, posh shops and cobbled streets, the different parts of Covent Garden retain an individual imprint, from the bookshops of Charing Cross Road to the boutiques of Floral Street, where Paul Smith still has a rickety presence. Seven Dials is one of London's more interesting shopping areas, while the Piazza has been transformed from a ragged craft market into a chi-chi mall. The idea is to attract Londoners as well as tourists, and the Piazza has certainly smartened up, with the central market a mecca for shoppers, serenaded by opera singers and overlooked by a fancy Apple store in one corner and refurbished London Transport Museum in another.
Covent Garden is a patchwork then, more diverse than superficially similar areas like Soho and Spitalfields and still boasting enough fascinating nooks and crannies to keep even the most experienced Londoner busy for hours, even if Hogarth and Fair Rosamund Sugarcunt might no longer recognise the streets they once adored.
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Tagged Eliza Doolittle, flower market, GLC, Monty Python, My Fair Lady, nicholas saunders, redevelopment
Peter Hitchens on drugs and the moral, opium-eating, Victorians
Peter Hitchens is a very clever man. I'm sure he's also sincere – I can't believe British newspapers would employ somebody to say stupid and provocative things just to get attention, after all – but judging by the interviews he's conducted for his new book about drugs, The War We Never Fought, he's a little bit daft.
Hitchens theory is that there has never been a war on drugs. 'Drug-taking was, in effect, decriminalised by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971,' is how Decca Aitkenhead paraphrases. Instead, he harks back to the golden age of the Victorians, when there was 'increasing self-imposed moral conduct' (Hitchens' words.)
Where to begin with this nonsense? Well, let's just stick to the last bit, those morally virtuous Victorians. In a sense, he's right: the Victorians didn't take illegal drugs. That's because they were too busy snaffling down the legal ones – things like opium, cocaine and cannabis – which were available to just about anybody who needed them until 1868, and then over the counter from chemists until 1926. This was the golden age of drug-taking in Britain, with opium being consumed on a scale we could scarcely now believe.
Victorian London was awash with opium, not in semi-mythologised Chinese opium-smoking dens in Limehouse (of which there were very few), but in pubs, chemists, general stores and markets, where it was sold in bottles, powders, pills, lozenges, on plasters, in sweets and much else besides. The centre of trade was in Mincing Lane, London, where 90 per cent of transactions occurred. It was most commonly taken as laudanum, a tincture of opium and red wine, with saffron and cinnamon.
This was not thrill seeking. In the days before aspirin, opium was one of the few reliable painkillers available to Victorians, especially especially fever and diarrhoea, but also malaria, smallpox, syphilis and TB. And it was effective as well. As anybody who has taken codeine or morphine will confirm, opiates have a tendency to block you right up – something that was particularly helpful when the next cholera or dysentery epidemic was just around the corner.
However, opium was also used on children, particularly when teething, in specially formulated sweet concoctions like Godfrey's Cordial and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and thus surely led to the deaths of many by overdose. It also, believes the drug's historian Martin Booth in Opium: A History, 'provided an escape from the misery and vicissitudes of working-class life.' This was especially the case in the Fens, where 'many never take their beer without dropping a piece of opium into it.'
Because of these two factors, opium was belatedly seen as a physical and spiritual danger, and Victorian abstinence advocates put it right up there with alcohol and tobacco as serious threats to British life. What's interesting, though, is the way – anecdotally at least – users were able to effectively and relatively painlessly self-medicate, living normal decent lives despite their addiction, without resorting to crime. This is true for the working classes, it's true of the famous opium-eating writers like Coleridge, Shelly, Keats, Collins and De Quincey, and it's also true of the many great statesmen – the sort of people who shaped the British Empire so beloved by Peter Hitchens – who took the drug. You see, because opium was the only halfway reliable painkiller around, everybody took it – including people like William Wilberforce, the great Christian abolitionist, and William Gladstone, who popped some in his coffee before speaking in Parliament to improve his rhetorical powers – even if not all of them became addicted.
In later years, opium – and especially its stronger derivatives morphine and heroin – began to be used by those simply seeking a pathway to an altered consciousness, a shortcut perhaps to the sort of transcendent mystical experience some people get from religion. In doing so, they were merely following pattern taken by mankind in all civilisations since the dawn of time, however much Hitchens may wish that weren't the case.
As restrictions were introduced – for opium, not alcohol and tobacco – drug-use declined massively and by 1960 there were less than 100 registered heroin addicts in the UK. They received their drugs from doctors, cheap and undiluted, and were largely able to enjoy a normal existence (at least in comparison with their criminalised counterparts in America). However, as drug use increased in the 1960s, restrictions were imposed, culminating with Hitchens hated Misuse of Drugs Acts in 1971, after which drug supply passed almost completely into the hands of the criminal and use immediately rocketed. A far cry indeed from those morally virtuous days of the 1850s, when Britain's great and good could simply pick up a bottle of premium laudanum from their nearest general store and retreat into blissful opium dreams.
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Tagged coleridge, de quincey, fens, godfrey's cordial, hitchens, laudanum, laws, Limehouse, opium, restrictions, shelley, wilberforce
Why I hate the Champions League
Who came third the year Arsenal won the league at Anfield in 1989? Does anybody remember? Does anybody care? Indeed, who came fourth in 2007? Third when Manchester United won the treble in 1999?
Unless you're a fan of Nottingham Forest (1989), Liverpool (2007) or Chelsea (1999), it's doubtful you'll be able to answer any of those questions. And rightly so. Because finishing third or fourth is, in the greater scheme of the history of football, nothing to get excited about, it's not interesting, important or impressive. But thanks to European football's ridiculous obsession with the Champions League, Arsenal fans are celebrating limping home a distant third as if it is their club's greatest achievement since the Invincibles, just one that doesn't come with a trophy or will be remembered by anybody in a year's time. It's been a successful season insist fans of the biggest club in London, now seven years now without a cup, because it means they have earned the right to play in the Champions League again (until March, usually). And they seem to believe it.
Ah, the Champions League, the bloated, vile, venal parasite of European football, with its hideous anthem and putrid stench of self-importance. How I hate this wretched competition. Yet qualifying for it is now deemed to be the greatest achievement of any club, more desired than mere trophies and finals. Clubs with trophy cabinets that used to gleam with silverware are now more interested in securing next year's income stream, terrified about what might happen to the bank balance if they fail. Henry Norris and Arsene Wenger have more in common than we could have ever imagined when Wenger brought swashbuckling trophy-winning teary-eyed romantic football to the Emirates in 1998. Fuck success, fuck beauty, fuck romance, fuck football: give me the cash.
I don't get it. I never have. I understand why money is important in football, but that doesn't mean I want to have my nose rubbed in it. In 2003, Chelsea played Liverpool; the winner would finish third and qualify for the Champions League. This was, in financial terms, the biggest game in the club's history, I was told by friends. It was more important than a cup final, they said. Well, I've been to a few cup finals, and that sir was no cup final. It was a squalid mudfight for cold hard cash, a stripping down of modern football to its ugliest essentials. And yet it was presented as if it was a thing to admire, and people bought into it. Why?
I hated it then and I hated it now, especially as the Champions League's weight and wealth has expanded, rewarding failure in the rich leagues to the point where it has pretty much destroyed all European domestic football outside of England, Spain, Italy and Germany, and turning the FA Cup and League Cup into heavily sponsored footnotes.
It's even turned the Europa League into a joke, in England at least. Patrice Evra said it was 'embarrassing' that Manchester United were playing in the Europa this season, something you'd hope would make Uefa take a long, hard look at what they have done, although of course they didn't. The Europa has its fans, but in reality it's a sad and unlovable replacement for the splendid streamlined charms of the old Uefa and Cup Winners' cups.
But nothing can be allowed to compete with the CL's budget, which throws millions of pounds at so-so teams, encouraging billionaires to buy into the game in a bid to join the bunfight – something Uefa are now trying to ban without acknowledging the root cause, the disproportionate rewards offered by their beloved keynote trophy. Meanwhile, leagues, cups and the dignity and priorities of supporters all disappear beneath the whirling blades of Uefa's deranged zombie lawnmower.
And now we have come to the extreme logic of the position, where we're told that the main reason Chelsea should want to win the Champions League final on Saturday is so they can qualify for next year's Champions League, as if the trophy itself is just something that comes free in a packet of corn flakes, and nobody bats an eyelid. How can this be right? What have Uefa been allowed to do to 57 years of history? And why does nobody appear to care?
Posted in Football, History, Politics, Rant, Sleaze
Tagged Arsenal, Champions League, Chelsea, cup, cup winners cup, league, parasite, Spurs, Uefa, venal, vile, zombie lawnmower
Drugs and dead babies at the Queen's bookshop
Maggs Bros is a posh antiquarian bookseller on Berkeley Square that has a Royal Warrant and is supposed to occupy the site of the most haunted house in Britain, but it is also home to a small contemporary art gallery, located out the back and accessed via 50 Hays Mews.
The latest show is being curated by New Artists and features photographs by Richie Culver taken of London crackhouses. These are loosely based on Gustave Dore's engravings of Victorian opium dens.
The exhibition also features Polaroids by Shorvon & Hunter that explore the demise of the Polaroid and newspapers as forms of media. It's definitely worth a look if you are in the area before it closes on Monday, December 5.
If you do, you should also pop upstairs to see a selection of some items that Maggs's counterculture expert Carl Williams is currently selling. These include photographs of William Burroughs taken by Brion Gysin in Paris and an extraordinary mural taken from an American street gang club house. You could also pick up a copy of Carl's latest catalogue to see if he has anything you fancy, whether it be items to do with Crowley, punk or the Weathermen. Last time I visited, he showed me some pictures he'd just acquired of dead Victorian babies, but don't let that put you off.
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Tagged Burroughs, Carl Williams, Crowley, exhibition, Maggs
Hell W10: the film that killed the Clash?
In 1983, just as the band were starting to fall apart, The Clash decided to make a film. But stung by their experiences on the strange but compelling Rude Boy, they decided to make it themselves. They called it Hell W10, filmed it on 16mm silent black and white film, and made the plot up as they went along. The result, understandably, was somewhat bizarre.
'Let's make a film!' said Mick Jones in 2005. 'We had no other agenda there than that. Everyone put in their time without thinking about it. That was what we did on our time off; we worked! It was totally Joe [Strummer]'s idea. He directed it, he shot it, he did it. And then it was gone. It didn't even come out!'
Strummer believed the film was lost forever. In 1987, when it looked like he might carve out a new career for himself in the film world, he told an interviewer, 'I have directed a film myself, a black and white 16mm silent movie and it was a disaster. Luckily the laboratory that held all the negative went bankrupt and destroyed all the stock, so the world can breathe again. I shot without a script. God knows what it was about. I'm the only other one that knew, and I'm not telling.'
In 2002, the film was rediscovered on video tape and re-edited by long-time Clash collaborator Don Letts, who added a fine Clash soundtrack over the top. It is a strange piece indeed, a gangster tale that follows Earl, a musician and small-time hood played by Paul Simonon, who falls foul of the local crime boss called Socrates, 'The Lord of Ladbroke Grove', played with some relish by Mick Jones, resplendent in white tux ('You wanna end up as a pillar in a Canning Town flyover?' he threatens one lackey). Strummer gives himself a cameo as a corrupt and racist policeman. It's a cross between The Harder The Come and some of the pulp London crime novels of the 1950s (many of which have been republished by London Books).
Hell W10 also features some cracking period photography of Notting Hill, Paddington and Ladbroke Grove, and weighs in at almost 50 minutes, which suggests it must have taken quite some time to film.
What makes it particularly fascinating is that it was filmed just as the band were starting to go belly up; Topper Headon had already been kicked out for drug abuse, while Simonon and Jones were barely speaking, making their feud in the film a little too close to the truth. Things came to a head within weeks of Hell W10 being made, with Jones sacked from the band in September 1983.
In Letts's documentary, Westway To The World, both Jones and Strummer confess that the band had simply spent too much time in each other's company and should have taken a break; if they had done so, hotheads may have had time to cool. Instead, they made a film. Perhaps if they'd had a summer holiday in 1983 rather than fool around with a camera, the band of Jones, Strummer and Simonon might have lasted another few years. Still, it looks like they had fun making it.
Was it worth it? Watch and decide, this is the first of five parts.
Posted in Books, Crime, Film, London, Music, Sleaze
Tagged cinema, Combat Rock, film, Harder They Come, Hell W10, Joe Strummer, Ladbroke Grove, lost, Mick Jones, Notting Hill, Paddington, Paul Simonon, punk, Rude Boy, The Clash, Topper Headon
Strippers, beatniks, bikers and mods: celebrating BFI Flipside
I have a small piece in the Independent celebrating BFI Flipside, the BFI's DVD label for forgotten, weird British films from the 1960s and 1970s.
The key Flipside films for any self-respecting London nerd are 'London In The Raw' and 'Primitive London', two endlessly fascinating exploitation documentaries that 'lay bare' the London of the mid-60s, with much emphasis on the weird and the shocking.
These are dayglo Soho-obsessed precursors to the rightly cherished London classic 'The London Nobody Knows', but possibly more entertaining for their utter shamelessness: here you'll find strippers, wife-swapping, prostitution, Jack The Ripper re-enactments – anything that may titillate and tantalise.
It's pretty tame stuff now of course, which is partly what makes it so intriguing. This is a key point of London history – as the hairy freaks massed their forces in preparation for the myriad cultural explosions of the late-60s – and these films capture some of that sense of a city teetering on the brink of… something. Check them out, you won't be disappointed.
Posted in Counterculture, Film, History, Journalism, London, Secret London, Sleaze
Tagged beats, BFI Flipside, counterculture, documentary, film, independent, London In The Raw, Primitive London, The London Nobody Knows
Inside the Fleet: exploring London's lost rivers
I wrote this piece for Time Out in 2005 and for some reason it's never been available online. Until now.
It's only as the filthy brown water rises above my thigh-high waders and my feet struggle to grip the tunnel's slimy floor that I realise that drowning in a river of shit after breaking into a London sewer would be a really, really crap way to die.
It all began so well. I found Jondoe and Stoop, two urban explorers who get their kicks investigating drains, lost rivers and derelict buildings, on the internet and asked them if I could come on their next journey beneath the city streets.
We met near Farringdon. The plan is to explore one of London's lost rivers, the Fleet, which once flowed from Hampstead to Blackfriars. Although long bricked over, the Fleet, like many of London's old rivers, still flows underground through a series of pipes and culverts. Joseph Bazalgette integrated these rivers into his sewer system, using them as storm-relief drains to carry overspill into the Thames when the main east-west sewers were swelled beyond capacity. These days, heavy rain can still cause sewage to flow into the river via the Fleet.
Jondoe and Stoop have been in the Fleet before, but turned back when the stench became overwhelming for even these experienced drainers. This time, they are determined to reach the end. They believe no other UK urban explorer has made the trip, largely because it takes considerable planning to find a way into London drains. Urban explorers are driven by a combination of adrenalin and curiosity, and take their hobby seriously. This trip has been months in the planning. They've popped many manholes looking for the right entry point, and the weather has to be right – no rain for at least three days before we enter.
In a nearby car park, we change into waders, boiler suits, flourescent vests and hard hats – the latter more for disguise than protection. Carrying a couple of traffic cones, we're suddenly transformed into construction workers, practically invisible to passers-by. Nobody bats an eyelid as we walk through busy streets to the selected manhole, stick some cones round it, lift the cover and climb down the ladder into the gloom.
We enter a feeder tunnel with a five-foot ceiling, which means we have to abandon our hats and walk with cricked necks. It's cramped, damp, dank and dirty but doesn't smell too bad. Stoop and Jondoe glide like skaters along the slippery floor while I splash clumsily behind, using slimy walls to keep my balance. We head downwards along a series of mini-waterfalls. The light and noise that intermittently emerges from the grates overhead suggest we aren't getting deeper, but simply following the gradient of the road. It's a curious feeling, being isolated in the dark but with occasional glimpses of London reminding us that normal life continues up above.
Eventually we reach the end of the feeder tunnel and swing into the Fleet itself using broadband cables that make useful subterranean handrails. It stinks in here and the air is heavy with a strange mist. Jondoe points north, to where the Fleet is blocked by the main east-west sewer. Ominous clumps of matter fester in pools all around. 'Don't disturb them,' he says. 'It'll be full of gas that just sits there and collects.'
As he speaks, one of the hard hats we'd left by the entry point shoots out of the feeder tunnel on a wave and floats towards the Thames, bobbing along the shallow water that moves sluggishly down the centre of the tunnel.
We follow, heading south. The tunnel is around ten feet tall and wide, so we can walk two abreast. It's about the same size as a tube tunnel. The smell slowly subsides, although lumps of faeces and toilet paper gather in places where they've washed against the brickwork. Otherwise, there's just a trickle of brown water ferrying the odd cotton-bud downriver.
It's no hellhole, but still a far cry from the Fleet's sixteenth-century heyday as one of London's key tributaries, when, flanked by wharves and warehouses, it was a centre of London commerce. It separated Westminster from the City and carried cargo to the Thames, was compared unfavourably with the four rivers of Hades by Ben Jonson, was briefly turned into a canal and then covered in portions from 1732, by which time it was little more than an open sewer.
But this was not the end of it. In 1846, the Fleet exploded, its sewage gasses bursting the street above, rendering King's Cross Road impassable, destroying Clerkenwell poorhouses and smashing a Thames steamboat against Blackfriars Bridge. This river, it seems, has a habit of coming back to ambush those who thought it dead and buried.
Almost two centuries later, traffic and police sirens are audible overhead, competing with the constant crash of water that flows from numerous side tunnels, feeding the central trickle. Rats stop and stare as we walk past. I nervously keep my torch shining on them until we have moved on.
Before Ludgate Circus, the Fleet splits into two parallel tunnels, directly replicating the pattern of Farringdon Street overhead. Otherwise, it's impossible to work out exactly where we are. The tunnel heads south, but is full of turns. At one point we notice large iron rings cemented into the wall. They are support for scaffolding, but look like mooring rings. Throughout, the Victorian brickwork is surprisingly beautiful for something that is so rarely seen.
After about two miles of trudging, we emerge into an enormous end chamber, more than 20-feet high and elaborate in design and construction. Two short tunnels lead from here, ending in huge metal flaps, which we assume open directly into the Thames.
After taking pictures, we head back. Immediately, we realise there's a problem. It's much harder to walk uphill against the flow of water. On the way down, the water was a stream, heading back, it's more like a river. We labour onwards and upwards in the dark, but it's tough work.
Stoop eventually says what we've all been thinking. 'Is it just me,' he asks, 'Or is the water getting deeper?'
Water which before barely covered our feet is now above our knees, flooding downhill towards us at pace and rising slowly all the time. Wading into the tide, our clothes are heavy with water and our feet struggle to grip the slimy stone floor. Panicking rats scurry up the walls to get out the way of the bubbling water.
It's frightening. Nobody knows we are down here and as our pace slows I begin to ponder our options. Should we press on, or brave a side tunnel, where a ladder may at least take us above water level, so we can sit it out. But how long would that take? And what if the water keeps rising and the side tunnel we're in doesn't have access to the street?
We reach a turn where the water has become a torrent and Stoop tries to brace himself against the tide but instead starts sliding backwards towards me, threatening to skittle us all into the dirty water. For a split second I consider what an undignified death this would make, and with one final effort we press on, forcing ourselves to a point where we can stand without getting knocked off our feet. But we're exhausted.
Then Jondoe shouts, 'That's where we came in!' It is indeed. We pull ourselves up into the feeder drain via the broadband cable and watch the river below us boil to a frenzy. The Fleet is back with a vengeance. Later Jondoe explains, 'Somewhere further up the sewer they must have been doing some maintenance and so diverted the flow down the Fleet.' It is, he says, something he's never experienced before.
Twenty minutes later, after an exhausting walk through the smaller drain in the course of which I bang my head several times on overhanging pipes and bricks, I haul my battered, sodden body up the ladder and into the sunshine. It's bright outside. The air smells clean. Half-a-dozen people across the road pay us no heed as we emerge from the manhole and sit slumped in the road, moving only to remove our waders and empty them back down the drain.
We trek back to the car in soaking socks, leaving a trail of footprints behind us.
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Q: Homebrew doesn't find XCode 4.3 When I try to install something with homebrew I get an error message that it does not find XCode. But I just installed XCode 4.3 and also did a reboot.
admins-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ernst$ brew install macvim
Warning: Xcode is not installed! Builds may fail!
Error: No such file or directory - /usr/bin/cc
admins-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ernst$

Any ideas?
Update:
admins-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ernst$ which cc
admins-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ernst$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
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According to the Qur'an, no one can change Allah's words (6:115; 18:27). Yet Allah himself frequently changes his words by revealing a verse that abrogates (or cancels) an earlier verse (see 2:106; 16:101). Since the Qur'an is supposedly eternal, our Muslim friends have a problem. From all eternity, the Qur'an contained (a) verses that contradict the commands of other verses, and (b) a verse claiming that, if the Qur'an were from anyone other than Allah, it would contain "much discrepancy" (4:82). Because the eternal Qur'an does contain much discrepancy (numerous contradictory commands), it cannot be the word of Allah, according to 4:82.
For those who would like to take a closer look at the Qur'an verses on abrogation, here are 2:106 and 16:101, along with three Muslim commentaries on these verses.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn on 2:106—When the disbelievers began to deride the matter of abrogation, saying that one day Muhammad enjoins his Companions to one thing and then the next day he forbids it, God revealed: And whatever verse (mā is the conditional particle), that has been revealed containing a judgement, We abrogate, either together with its recital or not [that is only its judgement, but its recital continues]; there is a variant reading, nunsikh, meaning '[Whatever verse] We command you or Gabriel to abrogate', or postpone, so that We do not reveal the judgement contained in it, and We withhold its recital or retain it in the Preserved Tablet; a variant reading [of nunsi'hā] is nunsihā, from 'to forget': so '[Whatever verse We abrogate] or We make you forget, that is, We erase from your heart'; the response to the conditional sentence [begun with mā] is: We bring [in place] a better, one that is more beneficial for [Our] servants, either because it is easier [to implement] or contains much reward; or the like of it, in terms of religious obligation and reward; do you not know that God has power over all things?, including abrogating and substituting [verses]? (the interrogative here is meant as an affirmative).
Tafsir Ibn Abbas on 16:101—Then Allah mentions what was abrogated of the Qur'an and that which was not abrogated, as a direct reference to the claim of the Quraysh who said to the Prophet: O Muhammad! Why do you command us to do something and then forbid it, saying: (Such of Our revelations as We abrogate) We do not erase a verse that was acted upon before and which is now not acted upon (or cause to be forgotten) or leave unabrogated so that it is acted upon, (We bring one better) We send Gabriel with that which more profitable and easier to act upon (or the like) in reward, benefit and action. (Knowest thou not) O Muhammad (that Allah is Able to do all things?) of the abrogated and unabrogated.
Al-Wahidi on 16:101—(Nothing of our revelation (even a single verse) do we abrogate or cause be forgotten, but we bring (in place) one better or the like thereof) [2:106]. The commentators of the Qur'an said: "The idolaters said: 'Do you not see that Muhammad commands his Companions with something and then forbids them from the same and commands them to the exact opposite. One day he says something and the following day he retracts it. This Qur'an is nothing but the speech of Muhammad who has invented it. It is a speech that contradicts itself'. Allah, exalted is He, therefore revealed this verse (And when We put a revelation in place of (another)…) [16:101] and also (Nothing of our revelation (even a single verse) do we abrogate or cause be forgotten, but we bring (in place) one better or the like thereof…)".
Tafsir al-Jalalayn on 16:101—And when We exchange a verse in place of a [different] verse, by abrogating it and revealing another, for the welfare of [God's] servants — and God knows best what He reveals — they say, that is, the disbelievers [say] to the Prophet (s): 'You are just a fabricator', a liar, making it up yourself. Nay, most of them do not know, the true nature of the Qur'ān and the benefit [to God's servants] of abrogation.
Tafsir Ibn Abbas on 16:101—(And when We put a revelation) when We send Gabriel with an abrogating verse (in place of (another) revelation) in place of another abrogated verse, (and Allah knoweth best what He revealeth) and Allah knows the probity of that with which He commands His servants, (they say) the disbelievers of Mecca say: (Lo! thou art but inventing) from yourself, O Muhammad. (Most of them know not) that Allah commands His servants with that which is good for them.
Al-Wahidi on 16:101—(And when We put a revelation in place of (another) revelation…) [16:101-102]. This verse was revealed when the idolaters said: "Muhammad is mocking his Companions; one day he commands them to do something and the next day he forbids them from doing it, or brings instead something which is easier. He is nothing but a calumniator who says things of his own invention", and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse and the verse after it.
Farooq Ibrahim, "The Problem of Abrogation in the Quran"
Robert Spencer, "The Islamic Doctrine of Abrogation"
Sam Shamoun, "Abrogated Verses of the Quran: Evidence from Islamic Sources"
Thank you, Mr. Wood and associates, for mentioning abrogation. Apparently the eternal Allah did some deep steam cleaning of His mind!
Being a human behavior realist myself, I think the actual reason for revision is related to the Hijra -- Muhammad's travelling -- after he had virtually no success converting at Mecca.
The early prophetic verses in favor of PEACEFUL behavior then had to change, so Muhammad could improve the scoreboard tally of newly acquired Muslims at his destination -- Medina.
Presto! Much better results, when he beheaded at least 700 male Jew captives.
Plus, slaughtering Infidels comes in handy during centuries forward, not only to reduce available living resistance, but also to tell anyone else how to behave.
Not only do you have contradictions in the quran, but the very compilation of the quran itself was done in a manner that muhammed never approved of, muhammed never codified the quran nor gave any instructions for it, ibn masud who muhammed said was a recommended teacher of it had no say in the quranic compilation process and actually was against the quran that muslims use today, the quran rather than showing divine origins shows itself as being the work of human beings who had very little idea of what they where doing..
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Ever since I began reading about Islam, the concept of abrogation of Islamic doctrine, while remaining "true" within the Quran's eternal aspect has always been utterly absurd to me. How can something that is eternal and true be abrogated, or how can it abrogate itself? I cannot imagine how abrogation does not shatter everything related with this so-called "religion," since Allah apparently can change his mind on any whim (because he is almighty).
What is to say that Allah cannot decide to change his mind about MUSLIMS, and put them all in hell, regardless of how faithfully they practice the "prophet's" doctrines. If Allah can do ANYTHING (even abrogate the true and eternal), then what is to say that he cannot decide to throw Muhammad himself into hell? What is to say that he cannot decide that the Jews are right, and everyone else is wrong? Or perhaps side with Christians?
With such a fickle, whimsical "god" being in charge, I'd be horrified to be in its psychotic hands. There could be no pleasing such an almighty that could change the very nature of truth and justness. It is pitiful.
The abrogation verses alone prove that the Quran is a 7th century fabrication by M.
So Allah couldn't get it right the first time?! What nonsense and only the stupid can believe it.
Hi. I have been following your ministry for about a month and I have a question regarding abrogation. Considering that whether a verse is abrogated is determined by when a surah came down, how does one determine the chronology of this? Does the Quran give such a chronology, is it determined by the Hadiths, or is it something more complex than that?
The chronological order comes from the Hadith and Sira. If you Google "Chronological Quran," you can get a list of the order of Surahs.
Wow, Arwa! Thank you for proving that the Qur'an is wrong! You say that the Torah and the Gospel were the Word of Allah, but they were altered. But the Qur'an says that no one can alter Allah's words. Hence, the Qur'an is wrong, according to you. Thanks again for refuting Islam!


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Opening the media player several times resulted in Toyota ads as well, but it seems that i-MiEV ads play as often as the Toyota ads, so there is some decent exposure there. NPR listeners are probably a good target audience for the i-MiEV. Let's hear and see more of this!
alohart wrote: While listening to NPR's Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me![/url] on their Website today, I was surprised to hear and see a Mitsubishi i-MiEV ad!
I feel really bad having to point this out, alohart, but I'm guessing the overwhelming majority of visitors won't see that ad. You're being tracked, and the ad's targeted to you because the site ties to a service that identifies you as someone interested in the i-MiEV. I see the same sorts of things all over the web. BTW, this demonstrates how badly this kind of micro-targeting can miss the mark - we already own the car, so the ad buys are wasted.
Ok, it's happened. You can now get a LEAF cheaper than an iMiEV, and it's made in America.
HowEVer, one can't ignore the value of the last 16,000 miles of use, at positive cash flow. Waiting another year for a bargain LEAF wouldn't have been near as much fun!
Vike wrote: I feel really bad having to point this out, alohart, but I'm guessing the overwhelming majority of visitors won't see that ad. You're being tracked, and the ad's targeted to you because the site ties to a service that identifies you as someone interested in the i-MiEV.
Ah, you're probably correct although I have a "do not track" header sent with every Web request (which advertisers are free to ignore) and run Ghostery to block tracking as much as possible.
With the Leaf S priced lower than any i-MiEV starting this spring, Mitsubishi must do much more than just advertise to compete successfully. Mitsubishi missed its opportunity when the i-MiEV was the least expensive EV.
I'd like to point out that improving the efficiency of the *car* would sell more, because the range could be significantly improved. If the i MiEV was as low drag as the EV1, it would have a range of 98 miles or so.
jray3 wrote: Ok, it's happened. You can now get a LEAF cheaper than an iMiEV, and it's made in America.
I've started another thread on this specific issue (though obviously relevant to this topic as well).
I couldn't agree more (about it being less fun to wait yet another few months for the cheapo Leaf), though here in New Mexico I wasn't able to get the i-MiEV I wanted until after Labor Day (Mitsu did a terrible job filling pre-orders, a few folks were able to walk in off the street and buy one off the floor before I got mine, but none exactly matched my order sheet). I'm comfortable with the car's value to me for the price paid, and so far have really enjoyed owning and driving it.
Personally, I prefer the cheerful utility of the i's character to the Leaf's bland franco-futurist sculpting and game controller interface, though I freely admit that's a matter of idiosyncratic taste. As long as I can keep it running at reasonable cost (mainly hope the mechanicals don't wear out too quickly and can be fixed at less than extortionate prices), I see no reason to part with it any time soon unless some avid car collector were to offer me a good price to own a little EV history (not holding my breath on that one ).
"bland franco-futurist sculpting and game controller interface" -gotta love that review!!
Our car just dropped off the radar of the leading eco-car buying guide.
After being named Greenest Car of 2012 the i-MiEV was not even mentioned in the 2013 list or press release "due to anticipated low sales volumes", yet they list the compliance-cars Fit and Focus. Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies- time for some letters to the editor!
jray3 wrote: After being named Greenest Car of 2012 the i-MiEV was not even mentioned in the 2013 list or press release "due to anticipated low sales volumes", yet they list the compliance-cars Fit and Focus. Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies- time for some letters to the editor!
Maybe - but letters to MMNA would be more to the point. Don't get me wrong, I am so happy that unlike actual compliance cars, the i-MiEV wound up for sale nationwide, so I was able to get my hands on one in lil' ol' Albuquerque (where the Prius Plug-In is still nowhere to be seen). But the reality is that selling less than 800 cars all year through that nationwide distribution is beyond pathetic - those are below compliance-car volumes, after all. That's why, given the bare facts, my gripe is less with the Greenest Car editors and more with MMNA execs.
I still don't understand why Mitsu did so little to announce the existence of this car (notice I don't even say "promote"). The only ads they ever ran were those little Normal EVtown spots, which never named the car, never mentioned its price, didn't even indicate that it was available for sale beyond some oddball test market in Illinois (watch those ads again - that's exactly the impression it creates).
If this wasn't a compliance car, I'm not sure what Mitsubishi was trying to accomplish. The most credible story I've heard so far is that Nissan set the U.S. price for the Leaf lower than Mitsubishi had expected, and they were stuck at the end of an expensive development program with a less appealing car that cost so much to build that they couldn't sell it profitably at a competitive price. In other words, they had to sell 'em at a loss to sell 'em, and they sure weren't going to spend advertising dollars trying to boost those transactions. While I sort of understand that story, it doesn't jive with later statements that they were "disappointed" by sales and had to "re-think" their electrification plans; at the end of the day, I think the "losing money" story is close to the truth and their more recent statements are part of some scripted performance justifying actions planned long ago. That's the real self-fulfilling prophecy. We should probably count ourselves lucky that we wound up getting our neat little 'lectro-buggies at a price subsidized at so many levels.


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