Captain Queeg:" Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... "
from the movie The Caine Mutiny see any similarities, mikeya
Gmd i wasn't of the putting people on ignore but now i have added that one person who is entirely useless and of totally insane and invalid opinions and thoughts on ignore and i realize i should have done it months ago. He will remain alone on my ignore list like he is alone in life, seems fitting.
Grand jury probe into Santa Clara Stadium Authority and Santa Clara City Manager Julio Fuentes with allegations of destruction of evidence:
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/02/03/…
And now we read that Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews has resigned right after the Super Bowl, and with no advance notice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29491…
Things are happening faster than I can keep up. Thanks to Mikeya02 for offering this thread.
Santa Clara California, day after my Christian Eating Lions made their debut, and the Super Bowl:
Mayor Jamie Matthews signs a call for a closed doors City Council Meeting for the next day to review the City Manager Julio Fuentes. Fuentes is the focus of a Grand Jury probe into the Stadium Authority, and also of allegations of destruction of evidence.
Then Matthews announces his own retirement effective immediately. So he won't be at the meeting.
So Mayor Jamie Matthews resigned yesterday, though he called it retirement. But before he did this, he signed a notice of a special closed session City Council meeting to review City Manager Julio Fuentes.
So we are waiting to see if Fuentes resigns before the meeting. If not, it sounds like they are poised to fire him. Though it could split 3 to 3.
The only one who seems to want a larger political career is City Council Member Dominic Caserta, and so far he's mostly been a clown. But in this he could be a deciding vote.
I didn't watch the video, but the lead picture is of the Hilton Saint Claire Hotel, in downtown San Jose, near Cesar Chavez Park and San Jose State.
Original Joe's Restaurant is just a block down the street.
We don't really know what the Grand Jury is looking at, or what the real source of contention is between City Manager Julio Fuentes and some of the members of the City Council, or why the Mayor resigned yesterday.
I hate to admit it, but I'll take SJG's mindless yammering over JS69's constant approval seeking threads. At least with SJG you never know what to expect. With JS69 its just the same regurgitated shit with a new title.
Well as it certainly wasn't a thread intended to be used for talking about anything important, just more ad hominem, so I claimed it for some unfolding events.
Ok let's all just read SJG's book about strippers instead of mine. I'll buy 5 lap dances for anybody who can stay awake after reading the first chapter.
I keep watching for news that Santa Clara City Manager Julio Fuentes has resigned, before the 4:30 special closed door meeting of the City Council which Mayor Jamie Mathews called yesterday just before submitting his own resignation.
I thought Fuentes would resign today. But if he is claiming a hostile and race based work environment, then maybe he won't.
I would have thought that the remaining 6 of the City Council would then have fired him, and probably unanimously. But maybe not. Maybe the rumored divisions run extremely deep.
But we don't really know what this is about, or what evidence the Civil Grand Jury is looking at. It must be something which is going to be embarrassing, like that lots of money has been lost in running the stadium.
Personally I am glad to see Mayor Jamie Matthews go. I would like to see Fuentes go, and I would like to see all of the remaining 6 of the City Council go. I view the stadium and the construction bubble which has followed as simply the continuing legacy of Edward DeBartolo, Meyer Lansky, and Carlos Marcello, making a leveraged buy out of a small city. Want to see how the Mafia works, then look no further than Santa Clara's City Hall.
The best would just be to be able to use that stadium again and feed them all to my lions.
I'm not sure if they had any parade. Maybe the issue is that some members of the City Council were committed to Santa Clara getting lots of and lots of money in retail, plus real estate boosting.
Maybe it didn't go off as planed, as San Francisco got all of the action.
Lisa Gillmor, with her father some of Santa Clara's largest real estate barons, boosting.
"Bruce and Carolyn Yodis live in a condo off Lafayette Street and often walk to the stadium's restaurants, concerts and football games. Their property values are soaring, she said."
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-stadium… I was busy grooming my Christian Eating Lions, so I wasn't paying attention. But I don't think this week long party or the $1.2Meg parade took place. Everything and everyone must have been in San Francisco.
I mean, Julio Fuentes is a jerk. Sooner he is gone the better. But in my opinion Santa Clara City Council Members Lisa Gillmor and Debi Davis are downright criminals. They deserve much worse than just firing.
So probably he huge week of festivities that Santa Clara had planned on somehow got canceled. They wanted retail money, but most of all they wanted to extend a real estate bubble.
And it is exactly this sort of thing which causes recessions.
This article is misleading, as the closed door council meeting was supposed to be to decide what to do about Julio Fuentes. But they are saying that what to do about the vacant Mayor's seat is the issue. I guess that does come first.
Many business owners and likely the City of Santa Clara itself actually lost money on the Super Bowl, while the NFL pocketed over $100 Meg.
Disgruntled residents at a City Council Meeting tell the NFL that next time it's "Pay to play or go away".
Problem is though the City is being run by real estate speculators who don't care how much money is spent, so long as property values continue to increase.
Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ticket prices for seats that, thanks to the layers of luxury seating that typify new stadiums, usually offer a worse view of the action.
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product…
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This patterns holds. A soon-to-be-released Stanford case study of the last five Super Bowl cities confirms that there is no significant statistical basis for the claim that sex trafficking, or the demand for paid sex, increases around marquee sporting events.
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The Super Bowl sex trafficking sirens seem to fly in the face of conventional prostitution economics. Most sex workers build a cache of reliable clients that provide most of their income through steady year-round visits. For the myth to be true, traffickers would have to travel from event to event, board their captives in hotels at inflated rates, advertise to attract dozens of new-in-town customers, then charge less than the local prostitutes to undercut the competition. All while law enforcement is on its most alert status.
“It’s just not a viable business model,” McNeill said. “From an economic standpoint, the whole trafficking myth is bogus. It doesn’t make sense.”
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"Prostituted" individuals is anti-trafficking code for consensual sex workers, filtered through a definition of trafficking that defines all sexual labor as necessarily forced.
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Still, champions of the crackdown list the Bay Area and Silicon Valley as among America’s highest risk areas for human trafficking, especially labor trafficking, which is three times more prevalent than sex trafficking worldwide.
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Cindy Chavez, center, has taken the lead on publicizing human trafficking at the county, which some critics suggest may be a form of political star building.
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On Dec. 1, county Supervisor Cindy Chavez led a press conference announcing the plastering of human trafficking awareness signs on all 350 VTA vehicles. The predominant poster depicts a young, light brown-skinned teen with an American flag bandana blindfolding him. Next to hotline numbers read the phrase: “Don’t Be Blind: If you see or suspect human trafficking, say something.”
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Yes, these posters are everywhere right now! Usually PSA posters going up means that we are in an economic down turn, so they can't otherwise sell the ad space.
"Maggie McNeill writes a blog on the lives of sex workers that is critical of law enforcement's approach to human trafficking."
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2014…
“[Anti-trafficking organizations] are all profiting from the criminalization of prostitution,” she said. “If the police weren’t out arresting people for prostitution and trafficking them into their bogus services, their ass would be out of a job.”
That stadium was built in the midst of a recession. But now there seems to be a real estate Ponzi scheme that has gotten going.
Mayor resigning day after the Super Bowl, and seeming intent to fire the City Manager. Now that City Manager countering with a racial harassment claim. Whatever is really going on has not come to the surface yet , but it will.
And then County Supervisor Cindy Chaves riding the Human Trafficking bandwagon. Inside San Jose doing a good job of debunking it.
Now the fox is guarding the hen house. No backroom deal to appoint a mayor is going to create transparency! Gillmor has only started to sound sensible in recent months because she could see that she was going to get voted out of office in November. Now, her term is effectively extended for another 2 years.
Silicon Valley is going to be crooked as Chicago!
SJG
We don't have the entertainment industry here, but we still have some visible hotties:
▪First, there was some concern that given previous tensions between council members and the even number of seats (following Jamie Matthews’ departure), Santa Clara’s council would not be able to come to an agreement on controversial land-use issues. This shows that the council is making a real effort to find common ground under the new Gillmor era.
▪Second, density — as in real, urban-scale density — remains politically challenging in Silicon Valley cities, even when project sites are in transit-served locations.
Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, urged the council to approve the project, noting that BART is slated to terminate at the Santa Clara station that’s kitty corner from the site. Funding sources like the federal government want to see that cities are building up station areas that will help feed ridership and revenue to these nodes. “Part of bringing rapid rail to Santa Clara is building the appropriate homes and commercial development that will go hand in hand with that effort,” he said.
In approving a scaled back project, Santa Clara is leaving density on the table. But it might have been the only politically feasible way to get any project at all on the site.
Wagner's Bayreuth Opera House
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c… Stage in front of proscenium. But, many modern theatres go much further than this, extending the stage in front of the proscenium and having wrap around seating.
“More than dreamers, Ogletree and Marshall are revolutionaries in the erudite, passionate, and proudly obscure world of organ building. From their base in Needham, Mass., they have set out to build the finest, cost-is-no-object digital organs in the world — instruments to rival in grandeur the world’s leading pipe organs. And by many accounts have succeeded, brilliantly.”
These guys offer the 128' octave ( C = 4.2hz ) using rotary speakers
“I think the wheels are coming off the train right now. I wonder what’s next,” said Deborah Bress of Santa Clara Plays Fair. “We have a city that used to be very open and friendly to its citizens that isn’t.”
These were both on that 500 block of Bascom Ave. Not been to either, but I had flagged both as places I wanted to go, based on RUBMAPs Advanced Search. This is actually not San Jose, but the unincorporated Burbank Area, where The Pink Poodle Strip Club is.
Lots more new little AMPs opening, very quickly. Often looking to be just back door entrances to something else, so likely not licensed, and especially the girls won't have massage licenses to worry about. :) :) :)
For the Akhnaten Opera they are using the lower octaves of the Celesta. I thought it was some sort of hammer bells. But it sounds nice. Still even if it is steel hammers on steel rods, and with the wooden resonator box, I would not expect it to the that loud. I also think the force required would mean that one's hands would tire quickly. I take to heart what Cameron Carpenter says about organs versus pianos. So I know I would like the synth patch version of the celesta better.
And some pit orchestras are doubling the celesta with a synthesizer.
Several aspects of Akhnaten’s biography, especially several taboo sexual
imputations, may have originated in later Egyptian sources that, following the
restoration of the traditional priesthood, essentially engaged in a historical smear
campaign against the usurper. Nevertheless, Akhnaten’s legacy still contains complex,
even troubling aspects for modern audiences. As a monotheist, Akhnaten was both
an idealist and an absolutist, and his destruction of the images and worship of the old
gods was ruthless—leading us, perhaps, to see him less as a rebellious spiritual hero
defying a conservative order and more as a prophet of modern religious intolerance.
Another such dilemma is played out musically at the opening of Act III. In
Glass’s sharp juxtaposition of the royal family’s dreamy, wordless singing against the
denunciations of the people, we might hear represented an inherent paradox in the
mystical experience, whose withdrawal from everyday reality is both its blessing and
its curse. Led by their spiritual imaginations, Akhnaten and his family move beyond
words into a purely musical, transcendent realm, but also become increasingly insular
and alienated from the very real empire that their negligence of duty allows to decay
and crumble.
Akhnaten was not Mubarak. His leadership did not purposefully limit the
freedom of his citizens nor was he brutal to his people. However, he was a man
who became increasingly uncaring about the daily needs of his country. While he
was history making in his declaration of monotheism, he allied himself more with
God than his citizens. Constructing a utopian city, surrounded by mountains and
bordered by the Nile, he became philosophically, and literally, isolated from his
people. As in modern-day Egypt, an historical populace continually marginalized by
its leadership becomes a populace who will revolt.
The original work of Philip Glass concludes the opera with a modern look back
at the Akhnaten era during the Ruins scene. I have added another modern scene
during the opera’s Prelude and extended the Ruins scene—with a current reflection
on life—as the opera concludes. Through the use of projections and present-day
action, I invite you to consider the parallels of these two significant eras.
When belief becomes obsession and rulers become myopic, the citizens will
determine a new fate for themselves. History, as they say, certainly does repeat itself.
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How do they do the back drops in this opera? I would have assumed that front projection of slides is the easiest. But then they have so much light on the performers in the front. And they are too close to the lower edge of the back drop for that.
Sydney Opera House, they say this is an opera house, not a concert hall. And it looks to me much like the Disney Music Center in Los Angeles. So no proscenium? No place to hang curtains or raise them, no wing areas to move setting to and from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Ope… Oh, now I understand, this place in Sydney has at least 4 different performance rooms in it. The concert hall is the largest, as shown in the picture. But there is also a proscenium theater, which is used by the Opera and the Ballet companies.
So if it is not front projection, it must be back projection. How well does this work, how big can it be, and how much front light can you have? This can not be one of those business projectors reflecting light off of and LCD chip. And it can't be just 35mm slides either. Probably slides big like motion picture film. 70mm, 105mm? What ever they use today. Bigger takes the heat better. And them some is moving motion picture film. That kind of equipment is expensive and it is costly to make the movies.
At least with back projection you eliminate the problem of matching the border of the projected light with the boarder of the black surround. You just go a bit over with the light.
And then how much behind screen depth do you need.
Antoine Court, who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (Nîmes, January 25, 1725[1] – Paris, May 10, 1784), was a former Protestant pastor, born at Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom in 1781.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Co…
Jean-Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean-Baptiste or Paul Christian (1811-1877), was a French author, known for The History and Practice of Magic, first published in France in 1870.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bapti…
It is true that Sanders is advocating going after the wealthy elites who dominate the economy by raising taxes, closing tax loopholes and placing tax havens off limits while at the same time doubling the minimum wage to help low-income earners. And it is true that he is proposing to also redistribute that wealth in the form of funding universal healthcare, tuition-free university and much-needed infrastructure projects. But none of this constitutes socialism.
I think a basic income guarantee is mandatory. Capitalism is what creates unemployment. And Cecil Williams and the people who run Guild Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco have got it right. Poverty is caused by social marginalization.
So a corollary is simply this, everyone wants to do well. They want to win the admiration of family and friends. So if they are not doing well, then there must be some social marginalization or disability at work here. But as the main problem is marginalization, then we should not talk about disability, as usually this just means more marginalization.
And of course it is absurd that people should be accepting psychiatric labels. These are just an extreme form of oppression.
So for there to be justice there has to be this basic income guarantee, or what amounts to cradle to grave welfare.
The typical person on welfare takes far less out of our economy than those employed do. And if the welfare recipient is not driving around much in a car, then they are treading far more lightly on the earth than those who senselessly burn up gas and dump CO2 into the atmosphere to do jobs which produce absolutely nothing which people need to live.
Now welfare takes money out of gov't coffers, but in the US welfare has never been more than 3% of federal expenditure. This is much less than corporate welfare and other expenses directed to the betterment of the middle class in order to maintain political allegiance, or to keeping the poor down. So welfare is a cheaper way to keep our society going than the present state of affairs.
And then as far as federal accounts, it is the federal gov't which controls the printing press, the furnace, and interest rates which multiply the availability of money by the inverse of the interest rate. Suffice to say, federal accounts and the money supply are all under gov't control, hence it is artificial. It is just a matter of who and what are being served by it.
So as those who are not doing well are simply the victims of social injustice, we must redress this social injustice.
1. Stop using psychiatric labels, learning disability labels, or morality labels.
2. Offer people value producing work, not nonsense just to get a paycheck.
3. Provide this cradle to grave welfare system as efficiently as possible, and understand that everyone wants to be a useful and meaningful part of our society.
4. Follow my recommendation and hold parents accountable for exploiting their children, using them to give themselves a adult identity. This amounts to psychological child abuse. So besides criminal prosecution where practical, also prevent disinheritance and offer something like a divorce from one's parents when their is parent v child animosity. Make the parents pay, and pay dearly. Make it so that child exploitation no longer pays.
5. And for those who insist on calling the poor lazy or immoral, know that this is how Capitalism works. It is the family where this starts, with the designation of a child as the blacksheep. Those who denigrate the poor are just doing what their parents did to them. So the poor and marginalized need to start standing up for themselves rather than submitting. They and all of us must start engaging in public advocacy and non-violent civil disobedience.
6. And then since the New Economy and Libertarianism are really just the old Social Darwinism and Eugenics Movement, saying that the poor are not fit to compete, we all need to be prepared to do more than just be non-violent. We don't want to be like Anne Frank's father, hiding in an attic waiting for the Gestapo. We need to be ready to engage in guerrilla warfare, the use of lethal force, and without taking prisoners. Unless we are willing to do this, then we are helping the eugenicists who say that we are not fit to live. Gandhi and Jesus lived in violent revolutionary times. They were only able to accomplish their works because others were maintaining the constant threat of lethal violence on a large scale.
In both places Epiphanius represents the doctrine as giving rise to sexual libertinism. Mircea Eliade has compared these Borborite beliefs and practices involving Barbēlō to Tantric rituals and beliefs, noting that both systems have a common goal of attaining primordial spiritual unity through erotic bliss and the consumption of menses and semen.
How could there be such a dispute about monies claimed to have been paid, or about contractual obligations? Undoubtedly this is why there is a Civil Grand Jury impaneled and why Mayor Jamie Matthews has resigned and why City Manager Julio Fuentes is resigning. Previously what the real issues were behind these resignations was not known.
Everyone involved in the politics of the South Bay cities and watching from the sidelines has known that there was something seriously wrong. But this is the first mention of anything which could conceivably lead to criminal charges. But it is still not clear who might be charged.
They do make different furniture styles of these too.
As I study the video closer I believe I can see the Steinway logo, though something may have been done to it to obscure it. Steinway though never made more than 88 keys and there is nothing in the standard piano repertoire which goes outside of that.
San Jose: attempted matricide - completed suicide, 20yo man
San Jose police: Man dies after stabbing mother, self
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/… 900 block of Palm Street, near Sacred Heart Church.
This place had been Viet Coffee during the day time and Viet Bar at night time. Don't know of any reason it would be the site of a shooting. But perhaps because many Viet Coffee customers are regulars, someone decided that that would be a good place to get someone. Don't know what a real motive might be though. Keeping ears open for any discussion of other illegal activities which could bring large sums of money into play. San Jose continues to have a shrinking police force, and so they can't do as much as they used to. It is not impossible that other patterns of illegal activity have started to surface. And this place, serving alcohol and being only a minor coffee shop, could potentially have gone a new direction. Don't know, but will keep eyes and ears open.
Zarathustra, Strauss
In this video they show you the organ pipes, the organ console, and the organist. They will always have a rear view mirror so they can see the conductor. In this one they don't double the pipe organ with anything else. So on my computer, 32' C = 16.4hz, is not hearable at all.
Probably Strauss keyed this in C so that he could use the lowest note on pipe organs.
So imagine today being able to do it with a 64' C note = 8.2hz, or even 128' C = 4.1hz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RdZ7rO_…
In this other version I can't tell if they have the 32' rank pipe organ or not. But they do use the wood basses. Those only go down to 16' E. So they could play 8' C. Or maybe they have a brass instrument which can do 16' C, and then they could do 16' G on the basses. You see that they do real short fast bowing so it sounds like a rumble. Playing 16' C and 16' G will make your brain believe that there must be 32' C being sounded. This is a psycho acoustic effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23d…
Of course the E and E flat tympani's are what really make this interesting. Understanding this, it would not be that hard to write something like this of one's own. :)
another Zarathustra. In this I see no pipe organ. I see the quick short bowing of basses. But I cannot hear anything at all through the computer and my earphones. Maybe these are contra basses instead of double basses. So instead of E A D G tuning, may these really do go all the way down to 16' C, a full octave below a Cello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bU7ibq…
but right here it says exactly what had been my understanding:
The double bass is generally tuned in fourths, in contrast to other members of the orchestral string family, which are tuned in fifths. The standard tuning (low to high) is E–A–D–G, starting from E below second low C (concert pitch). This is the same as the standard tuning of a bass guitar and is one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of standard guitar tuning.
And this is most interesting because in perfect temper tuning, the natural 5th is extreme close, but the 4th is not. So this is why violin's, viola's, and cello's work so well with temper tuned music. But the bass being in 4ths is a different story.
Ah! Patience and the Internet pay off. Here is the answer to my conundrum! C- extension
In Britain, the United States and Canada, most professional orchestral players use four-string double basses with a C extension. This is an extra section of fingerboard mounted on the head of the bass. It extends the fingerboard under the lowest string and gives an additional four semitones of downward range. The lowest string is typically tuned down to C, an octave below the lowest note on the cello. More rarely this string may be tuned to a low B, as a few works in the orchestral repertoire call for a low B, such as Respighi's The Pines of Rome. In rare cases, some players have a low B extension, which has B as its lowest note. There are several varieties of extensions:
In Western Austria, close to that big lake
Rieger organ, Hofsteigstraße, Schwarzach, Austria
were you to cross back into Germany you'd be about equidistant between Stuttgart and Munich, say 120 miles to reach either.
Seriously tied up in contentions 24/7 political matters. So don't worry, nothing has happened to me. :)
Eventually I will be able to be more out about my f2f life. And that is when I'll be taking to the road as well, partaking at SC's and AMPs everywhere I go. P4P yields dolled up hotties, and it is the fastest and most reliable way to get results in a new place.
Drawbridge CA, out exploring some years ago I stumbled upon this ghost town by accident. Just highly weathered wood stickup up out of the mud now. This used to be the South Bay's Vice Zone, reaching its peak during Prohibition.
It was because of the instrument's narrow range that I knew that writing one's own music would be a necessity. Always easier to write the music if you have the words already. I learned this from a book about how to write advertising music.
I did largely have it worked out in my head, each of the pieces. I played them for myself on a cheapie keyboard synth. Then for the Rector I demonstrated on their piano.
I believe that the best organ music has to be specifically written for organ. ( temper tuned, as pianos are not, and non-percussive, as pianos are not. )
This is no good. Some of the new places are back door only. They are probably places which don't even officially exist.
Lux Spa was not a place I've visited, but it was known to be good, more of an AAMP level of service than an AMP level. Seemed connected to a similar place which SJPD closed, out on E. Santa Clara St.
The trafficking argument is total bullshit.
But there is an exchange circuit between LA and the Bay Area for the younger girls who don't want to work in their home town.
The 2 ft clearance distance around massage tables is not something I'd heard of before. Some of these places are very improvised and the rooms are too small. LE could just be trying to make it tough on them.
But it could be that without that clearance it looks like the set up is not really for massage.
In the old days girls showed me that it is best just to take the sheet of the table and spread it on the carpet and fuck on the floor.
But today these shops seem to have larger massage tables.
Also nice to get the girl onto your lap and get friendly with her. But some of these places just have rooms that are too small.
This idea of prohibiting that address from hosting another AMP once they have been busted, is of course no good.
This is the same thing as with strip clubs. Local authorities like to demolish the buildings. No Good!
I've not had time yet to look at other old and new threads.
Law enforcement sources told the celebrity gossip website that a call was placed at 8:38 AM, reporting a “possible suicide.” The dispatch call alluded to a female employee involved in an argument on campus, who sustained a head injury — possibly from a gunshot wound — while being escorted out by security. It was not immediately clear what happened to the female employee mentioned in that call.
I guess Dougster's 30 year long boom of 2015 is over.
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Troll Notice: watch out for this 'san_jose_gay'. He posts trying to imitate me.
Here, Meat72 brags about how he uses trolling as a retaliatory weapon simply because he does not agree with many of my views.
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=4…
It has been obvious that 'san_jose_gay' and Meat72 are the same. But it also looks like Meat72 is DoctorPhil.
Well what he must have meant was, Robert Gie, an artist and psychiatric patient. But as Meat72 presents himself, that is not something he would likely know about. It is something DoctorPhil would know about. And DoctorPhil is the one who always talks about meds.
2/3's of such killings are done by juveniles. But sons who kill their mothers are usually a bit older than sons who kill their fathers.
Most such cases are settled without a jury trial, and so what is know to the authorities never comes to the surface.
In the US, around 300 cases per year, or 2% of the general homicide rate. The perpetrators are always very immature for their age, usually people who have never been in any real trouble before, and who would have a very hard time living on their own. And not people would do well in prison.
$744k was the net for the Super Bowl. What a joke. It always was a scam, orchestrated by real estate speculators trying to keep a construction Ponzi scheme going.
Sure SJGuy, how would you explain Dr. Phil having reviews in locations entirely different than me, when you have no reviews? Yeah, and you're the one calling out trolls with your meta-narratives and ad hominem.
Giant flags and pickup trucks? Around here there are people who drive around displaying huge flags, attached to stakes in the sockets in their pickup trucks. But these have always been American flags.
Now, for the first time, I see someone using their pickup truck to display an enormous California flag. Is there some meaning to this?
4 states on the Mexican border? States on the Canadian border? Banks across these borders? Shielding Muslim and Mexican residents? Free crossing zones? Eventually dissolving the United States and replacing it with a United North America?
Have 240 years been enough?
We will find out when voters go to the polls in November.
This was March 2015, I had not know about this. I am very familiar with this Coffee Shop and the family that owns it. A dozen years ago I was there all the time. The wife has huge tits, and I did not know her marital status. She and I got along very well.
That the authorities want to enforce the laws prohibiting gambling is fine. But the way they are portraying this is just completely incorrect. Some people like to gamble. I don't go along with it. I think gambling works is a similar manner to Born Again Christianity and drugs. I wish they would not do it. But I can't see that the gambling done in that Coffee Shop is any different than that stupid California Lottery which effects more people and I want to see eliminated.
Even in years of average or greater rainfall, I feel that we still are trying to support too large a population. This tends to be the case throughout the entire South West.
3. San Joaquin ( north of San Francisco seems to use buses. )
https://www.amtrak.com/san-joaquin/where… North it does go to Rohnert Park and to Eureka. But train it gets down to Bakersfield
4. Coast Starlight is actually not on the coast, it is a train running inland, via highway 5, through Redding, and into Oregon
https://www.amtrak.com/san-francisco-bay…
Appears to go from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Not sure if this is all train. Should be able to change to the San Diego trolley, which goes to San Yisidro :).
3. San Joaquin ( north of San Francisco seems to use buses. )
www.amtrak.com/san-joaquin/where-we-go North it does go to Rohnert Park and to Eureka. But train it gets down to Bakersfield
4. Coast Starlight is actually not on the coast, it is a train running inland, roughly along the same route as highway 5, through Redding, and into Oregon
www.amtrak.com/san-francisco-bay-area-no…
Bruno Bettelheim had serious limitations and he made completely improper claims. But, this does not mean that everything he said was wrong.
He visited and Israeli Kibbutz in 1964. He did not spend nearly enough time. And he was not reconciled with his own Judaism. Nor was her prepared to deal with Socialism.
Bettelheim was most interested in the separation of children from their mothers. Now today they do much less of this. But as it was, sounds like children would early on be sent to live in the children's home. Their care would be taken on by a Metaplot.
They would visit their parents every afternoon, and then live with them on the weekends.
Now of course this is all a matter of degree, dependent on the details. They can't live their entire life with their mother. So to me it sounds fantastic, because their is redundancy and built in compensation.
Bettelheim was looking at this to repudiate John Bowlby. Bettelheim wanted and example of how to limit the level of neurotic toxic mother love.
But the people who originally set up the Kibbutz system were not talking about it this way, but maybe it still means the same thing. They were looking at an arrangement which would liberate women, reduce the amount of child care work they had to do, so that they could do more of the same types of work the men did.
So children would be cared for, but more in batch mode. I think probably more was expected of children earlier on. I don't think it was like one of those nasty English boarding schools or anything like that. I think they had to take care of each other. Much less bullying than in boarding schools, or even than in our schools.
So these communities were set up in the remote, hard to settle, and dangerous places.
And everyone was in the military.
They served well too.
I've watched lots of videos. It is all interesting. At first some lived in teepees.
They practiced agriculture and construction. Now they do manufacturing. But what is manufactured in a socialist commune will be devoid of panache. It will be utilitarian, like plastics, ammunition, and a huge dairy.
So as the country was established and remote property ownership was ensured and capitalism thrived, the Kibbutzes started to have problems. Menachem Begin came in in 1977, and that was their first conservative government, and attitudes turned completely against Kibbutzes.
I see one woman interviewed, an Engineer in a plastics factory. She says, "I want my baby in my home."
Well, the middle class never would have come into existence if it had not been given a free hand to exploit children. So Israel and it's Kibbutzes are going the same way. Some have privatized, and some even pay wages now.
I still want to learn more about it. Zionism is nothing if not pronatalism. But it sounds like the Kibbutz version was always moderated, and especially considering that it goes back to the beginnings of the 20th Century.
In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. And in the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establishment's refusal to confront it. And he renders a fascinating, groundbreaking portrait of the two leaders at the center of the crisis: Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Beinart offers provocative proposals for how the relationship between American Jews and Israel must change, and an eloquent and moving appeal for American Jews to defend the dream of a democratic Jewish state before it is too late.
Why would anyone want to live anywhere else but Mexico City?
Tijuana is rougher and maybe not quite as warm. Mexico City is a center of finance and government. It shows.
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=118245
City of Santa Clara is building it's own Las Vegas. They aren't presenting it this way, but this is clearly what it is.
Hotel space plus restaurants. They aren't saying bars and they aren't saying casinos, yet, but that is clearly their intent. Once you have this, it will be just like anyplace else where you have an NFL stadium. The NFL runs on gambling, and once you get those cash flows, you get every other kind of vice too.
When you have hang out places, and especially with hotels on top, then the law becomes impossible to enforce.
Oh well, I guess soon I won't need to travel far from home to find places like we talk about here on TUSCL. But for the people who live on Santa Clara's North Side, this will be exactly what they don't want.
No reason this $6.5G project needs to be, just like there was no reason the stadium needed to be.
And then they have some condos. They always present these as the entry way to home ownership. That is what it is really for, propping up single family home prices.
Just like Madison Nguyen's Vietnam Town. That is the way now, retail on the bottom and condos on top. The condos don't seem to interfere with anything, and they are a more stable revenue stream. And they are built to prop up the real estate market. Strange how that works, the law of supply and demand are inverted. You have to pay association fees, and these can go up at any time.
They always present the retail as being very upscale. But upscale retail malls have been going under left and right. The people who have the tenacity to run retail are usually immigrants. Usually they are violating labor laws and the tax code. Often they are violating more than that. People have grandiose ideas about their projects, but often they turn into slums.
People in San Jose were up in arms over the Gold Club, a bikini strip club. Well what Santa Clara is making is all stealth.
Founder, can we add Santa Clara's Northside Vice Zone to the listings? Might as well get ready for it, better lounge hookers than Vegas.
What drives this continuing gentrification? Local government for one. They keep acting to try and increase the population. For another its the gutting of the tax code under Reagan, as that continues to cause economic stratification.
Never talked with the people from this Grace Baptist Church, but it has always looked well meaning to me.
My concern is with this Karen Addato, who founded Breakthrough Outreach. She sounds like a first class nut.
She is more like a cop than anything else. Or a social services case manager, but on wheels. And I don't know who is funding her.
The only dignity that people who have been made into the family scapegoat and live on the street have, is in their privacy. And so this is what she is committed to breaking down.
And then of herself, two brothers drinking themselves to death. Has she ever considered why they might have done this? No of course not. She has her own ideology of denial. She is a "Devout Christian". So she wants to make other people out on the street, and with drinking problems or whatever, submit. She wants to take away the last shred of dignity which they have, their privacy.
And then there is this Murphy bill coming along, which makes forced psychiatric treatment happen easier. This Karen Addato, she's someone who could enforce involuntary medication. She would like doing that.
Some people seem to think that this is just some minor problem, an over zealous mental health establishment, and the influence of Big Pharma.
I disagree entirely. I see Recovery, Psychotherapy, and Salvation Seeking as being responsible for the subjugation of a large, double digits, percentage of the population.
Capitalism needs this. It needs people it can ritually humiliate, in order to maintain discipline.
Maybe before in the Industrial Age, it needed cheap labor, or slave labor. Now this is no longer necessary. It does not matter if those it humiliates are living in public housing and on welfare and disability money. All that matters is that they lead hopeless lives, are made to submit, and are displayed ritually. And so it uses the middle-class family to generate its untouchable caste.
SJG is okay with me. His posts appear to be shorter which means I end up reading the whole thing. Also, all those hyperlinks of his helped me find the site stripclubhound. I'll agree with Papi from earlier, we'll miss SJG when he's gone. Nothing like knowing you'll read about front room action or treating strippers like a civilian date when someone posts about how to OTC or catching feelings for a stripper.
Anyone ever read this guy? People have been recommending him to me since before 1980.
But I also have seen times when is books have been used by Far Right elements. I don't know if his stuff really supports that or not, beyond just being a way to challenge religion.
Some of the people running Santa Clara have been able to make it look like they are somehow in opposition to the 49ers. This is total subterfuge to try and get re-elected.
Santa Clara County's Child Protection Services Social Workers having difficulty, complaints of calls not being answered and of toxic work environment.
County Supervisor Cindy Chavez getting involved, and Dave Cortese had already been involved, apologizing for the number of cases which were getting dropped.
^^^That's pretty stupid of Trump to do, if it is true. One of the strengths of the Miss Universe (and Miss USA) pageants are all of gorgeous mixed race women.
^^^ SJG, what are your thoughts of the recent shortage on law enforcement patrols in San Jose, where they declared an emergency to place detectives to cover the shortfall, hence reducing staff to cover investigations of more serious crimes?
Is San Jose of appropriate size to be able to play that "shell game", or will you find a backlog of hard core criminals getting away with burglaries and drug trafficking?
You find many police officers refusing to do the work of patrol because the compensation doesn't warrant the hazards they endure. Not a lot of succes stories those patrol officers deal with on a routine basis, and I think this police shortage is a direct result of the backlash the liberal media and "black lives" movement has created. The chickens have come home to roost!
How would the organization that you're creating help to aleviate this public safety matter? Would you suggest sending several street walkers out to suck the men dry of all their testosterone hence calming them down enough where they're too spent to commit crimes?
^^^ SJG, what are your thoughts of the recent shortage on law enforcement patrols in San Jose, where they declared an emergency to place detectives to cover the shortfall, hence reducing staff to cover investigations of more serious crimes?
Is San Jose of appropriate size to be able to play that "shell game", or will you find a backlog of hard core criminals getting away with burglaries and drug trafficking?
You find many police officers refusing to do the work of patrol because the compensation doesn't warrant the hazards they endure. Not a lot of succes stories those patrol officers deal with on a routine basis, and I think this police shortage is a direct result of the backlash the liberal media and "black lives" movement has created. The chickens have come home to roost!
How would the organization that you're creating help to aleviate this public safety matter? Would you suggest sending several street walkers out to suck the men dry of all their testosterone hence calming them down enough where they're too spent to commit crimes?
This is true. Some deliberate deep cuts to fill a budget hole. And most of the fiscal problems are directly traceable to putting money into re-development to try and change city demographics, spending public money to try and help speculators profit, been going on since about 1980.
And then because of trying to renege on pension contracts, police and fire are pissed, and so there continues to be an exodus. Not good. The candidate who would have reversed this, endorsed by police and fire, Dave Cortese, was defeated in a completely income level and race based election by Sam Liccardo. First thing he then did was fire the City Manager, a guy who had been making good headway in making peace.
This is a problem!
This may also be why the great Vietnamese AMPS have made comeback.
"declared an emergency to place detectives to cover the shortfall"
Well, police get shifted about in their duties as needed. But I don't know anything about any declared emergency. And they do most certainly investigate more serious crimes. San Jose has a low homicide rate and a very high rate of solving them. But the police shortage is serious. And we have also placed way too much emphasis on police only, to reduce crime.
They want to reduce the emphasis on law enforcement in dealing with crime. And they want to empower low income people in standing up to police and court excesses.
I don't know anything about any shell game or any hard core criminals running about free. Overall San Jose is a more law abiding and heavily policed place than what gets talked about on TUSCL. Overall very safe for its size of 1 million, or the 10th largest city in the nation.
Police officers refusing to work, never heard of this. The issue is conservative city regimes trying to renege on the pension contract.
This has nothing what so ever to do with any 'liberal media'. There really is not such a thing. Most media just does source journalism, printing what the police tell them. And this has nothing to do with the black lives matter movement. The issue is pensions and foolish use of public funds in past decades to try and gentrify and to line the pockets of real estate speculators. The issues we have with police excesses have usually involved police being completely improper with Hispanics, totally unlawful Disorderly Conduct arrests.
The chickens coming home are the stupidity of neo-liberal regimes in trying to increase private profits and saying that that serves a greater public good.
I really am concerned, I feel that you are just posting back to me things which must have come from some extremely distorted Right Wing media source.
Then as far as my fledgling organization, we will have our own ongoing education and our own leadership in multiple technology industries. Our men and some of the women will be kept busy there. And then all of our men will also be kept busy getting fucked and sucked dry each day by stripper grade hotties, plus sometimes also bedding down with them.
But we don't send our women out to service outside people. And we never get money that way either. As many will have come from Strip Clubs and AMPs, they may still do what they do, but we don't involve ourselves in that, or get any of the money. The ones who live on our premises will have retired from such commercial practices. We don't have anything to do with promoting any form of prostitution, and we never get money from anything like that.
As far as influencing politics though, we certainly won't want to be calming people down. We will be organizing people so that they can make revolution and be effective. Just common crime and violence are not effective.
We will be getting people to totally reject alcohol, drugs, born again christianity, and psychiatric medications, and instead to work with us and start re-educating themselves, and to become politically conscious so they can file lawsuits against past abusers. For people who have had children in order to scapegoat and use them, we will be their worst nightmare, as they will be held accountable. And then the psychiatric system is going to get shredded, and the evangelical churches will be torn to pieces too.
And then as people who reject things like born again christianity and psychiatric medications and the self-reliance ethic are able to politically organize, we will be able to steer the overall politics way to the left, so that probably things come to resemble Sweden or the French Socialist Party.
Crime in the US is simply the result of desperation. Hiring more police does not remedy this. Restructuring society so that is based on a premise of human dignity is what stops crime.
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I think the image of he voluptuous woman is firmly planted in the darkest, least evolved parts of our brains. If you look at the stone-age fetish figurines -- like the famous Venus of Willendorf -- they were basically little statues of fat chicks that cavemen jerked off to.
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Coop
He was a much featured artist for Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.
Magia sexualis : sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism / Hugh B. Urban, 2006
Paraphrasing to simply his close, "perhaps the final lesson we have to learn is this: If there is a "magic" in sex, it may not lie so much in the possibility of generating income, enchanting straying lovers, or bringing spontaneously gifted laptop computers, rather it may lie in the hope of creating a more equal, fair, and free society that benefits men and women of all ethnicities and sexual orientations. Such a hope may well be "magical" in the sense that it is ultimately utopian and never perfectly attainable. But it is no less worthy of fighting for and striving toward.
Revolutionaries of the soul : reflections on magicians, philosophers, and occultists / Gary Lachman, 2014
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from the movie The Caine Mutiny see any similarities, mikeya
:)
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/02/03/…
SJG
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/moldea…
SJG
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPg2M1U…
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
The DeBartolo Family and Organized Crime
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/moldea…
SJG
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPg2M1U…
San Jose Metro, Feb 3 -9 2016, Josh Koehn's cover feature
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/02/03/…
http://cgja.org/feeditem/santa-clara-cou…
And now we read that Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews has resigned right after the Super Bowl, and with no advance notice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29491…
Rats jumping from a sinking ship!
SJG
Santa Clara California, day after my Christian Eating Lions made their debut, and the Super Bowl:
Mayor Jamie Matthews signs a call for a closed doors City Council Meeting for the next day to review the City Manager Julio Fuentes. Fuentes is the focus of a Grand Jury probe into the Stadium Authority, and also of allegations of destruction of evidence.
Then Matthews announces his own retirement effective immediately. So he won't be at the meeting.
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/dfm-m…
SJG
They are usually negative.
I read a few of them and got pissed off so I just post and leave it at that.
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/02/08/…
More Santa Clara news:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-af…
So Mayor Jamie Matthews resigned yesterday, though he called it retirement. But before he did this, he signed a notice of a special closed session City Council meeting to review City Manager Julio Fuentes.
So we are waiting to see if Fuentes resigns before the meeting. If not, it sounds like they are poised to fire him. Though it could split 3 to 3.
The only one who seems to want a larger political career is City Council Member Dominic Caserta, and so far he's mostly been a clown. But in this he could be a deciding vote.
More newspaper accounts
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
referring back to discussion of going to district elections
http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold…
more accounts
http://www.ktvu.com/news/86893749-story
background
http://news.theregistrysf.com/santa-clar…
a real estate journal
http://news.theregistrysf.com/santa-clar…
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/sports…
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
Fuentes
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Julio-Fuentes/…
SJG
http://www.ktvu.com/news/87103149-story
I didn't watch the video, but the lead picture is of the Hilton Saint Claire Hotel, in downtown San Jose, near Cesar Chavez Park and San Jose State.
Original Joe's Restaurant is just a block down the street.
We don't really know what the Grand Jury is looking at, or what the real source of contention is between City Manager Julio Fuentes and some of the members of the City Council, or why the Mayor resigned yesterday.
SJG
You have to be able to make it through SJG's posts to notice, but he actually shows off an ironic sense of humor, here and there.
SJG-->"Thanks to Mikeya02 for offering this thread."
See?! See?!
:)
SJG
SJG
I thought Fuentes would resign today. But if he is claiming a hostile and race based work environment, then maybe he won't.
I would have thought that the remaining 6 of the City Council would then have fired him, and probably unanimously. But maybe not. Maybe the rumored divisions run extremely deep.
But we don't really know what this is about, or what evidence the Civil Grand Jury is looking at. It must be something which is going to be embarrassing, like that lots of money has been lost in running the stadium.
Personally I am glad to see Mayor Jamie Matthews go. I would like to see Fuentes go, and I would like to see all of the remaining 6 of the City Council go. I view the stadium and the construction bubble which has followed as simply the continuing legacy of Edward DeBartolo, Meyer Lansky, and Carlos Marcello, making a leveraged buy out of a small city. Want to see how the Mafia works, then look no further than Santa Clara's City Hall.
The best would just be to be able to use that stadium again and feed them all to my lions.
http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_294…
SJG
http://abc7news.com/business/santa-clara…
SJG
I'm not sure if they had any parade. Maybe the issue is that some members of the City Council were committed to Santa Clara getting lots of and lots of money in retail, plus real estate boosting.
Maybe it didn't go off as planed, as San Francisco got all of the action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCIiZhK…
So maybe three City Council Members running for re-election in November have turned against the City Manager? They are all crooks anyway.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-af…
Yes
http://abc7news.com/business/santa-clara…
Lisa Gillmor, with her father some of Santa Clara's largest real estate barons, boosting.
"Bruce and Carolyn Yodis live in a condo off Lafayette Street and often walk to the stadium's restaurants, concerts and football games. Their property values are soaring, she said."
Something from 2014
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-stadium…
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-stadium…
I was busy grooming my Christian Eating Lions, so I wasn't paying attention. But I don't think this week long party or the $1.2Meg parade took place. Everything and everyone must have been in San Francisco.
If so, I'm glad they were far from me.
SJG
http://www.sfexaminer.com/santa-clara-wo…
SJG
But here it looked like Santa Clara was planning big stuff:
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-stadium…
I mean, Julio Fuentes is a jerk. Sooner he is gone the better. But in my opinion Santa Clara City Council Members Lisa Gillmor and Debi Davis are downright criminals. They deserve much worse than just firing.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/purdy/2015/…
And then finally:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/santa-clara-wo…
So probably he huge week of festivities that Santa Clara had planned on somehow got canceled. They wanted retail money, but most of all they wanted to extend a real estate bubble.
And it is exactly this sort of thing which causes recessions.
Here we go, something updated:
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
This article is misleading, as the closed door council meeting was supposed to be to decide what to do about Julio Fuentes. But they are saying that what to do about the vacant Mayor's seat is the issue. I guess that does come first.
Yes, so this was just last evening:
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29493…
SJG
2PAC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jp20gOw…
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2…
This is part of what is driving the post super bowl meltdown in Santa Clara right now.
SJG
Disgruntled residents at a City Council Meeting tell the NFL that next time it's "Pay to play or go away".
Problem is though the City is being run by real estate speculators who don't care how much money is spent, so long as property values continue to increase.
SJG
http://www.vdare.com/posts/san-francisco…
SJG
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/01/21/…
Op-Ed: ‘Big City’ Santa Clara Needs Full-time Leadership
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/02/11/…
Kevin Moore’s Book on Levi’s Stadium, 49ers Looks Amazing
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2015/09/16/…
http://www.hailmarypassbook.com/
Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ticket prices for seats that, thanks to the layers of luxury seating that typify new stadiums, usually offer a worse view of the action.
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product…
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/category/n…
SJG
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln0RciE…
The Yardbirds - Dazed and Confused (Studio version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rM9BVNT…
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This patterns holds. A soon-to-be-released Stanford case study of the last five Super Bowl cities confirms that there is no significant statistical basis for the claim that sex trafficking, or the demand for paid sex, increases around marquee sporting events.
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The Super Bowl sex trafficking sirens seem to fly in the face of conventional prostitution economics. Most sex workers build a cache of reliable clients that provide most of their income through steady year-round visits. For the myth to be true, traffickers would have to travel from event to event, board their captives in hotels at inflated rates, advertise to attract dozens of new-in-town customers, then charge less than the local prostitutes to undercut the competition. All while law enforcement is on its most alert status.
“It’s just not a viable business model,” McNeill said. “From an economic standpoint, the whole trafficking myth is bogus. It doesn’t make sense.”
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28763…
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"Prostituted" individuals is anti-trafficking code for consensual sex workers, filtered through a definition of trafficking that defines all sexual labor as necessarily forced.
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additional discussion of human trafficking
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=4…
SJG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8tZafM…
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Still, champions of the crackdown list the Bay Area and Silicon Valley as among America’s highest risk areas for human trafficking, especially labor trafficking, which is three times more prevalent than sex trafficking worldwide.
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Cindy Chavez, center, has taken the lead on publicizing human trafficking at the county, which some critics suggest may be a form of political star building.
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On Dec. 1, county Supervisor Cindy Chavez led a press conference announcing the plastering of human trafficking awareness signs on all 350 VTA vehicles. The predominant poster depicts a young, light brown-skinned teen with an American flag bandana blindfolding him. Next to hotline numbers read the phrase: “Don’t Be Blind: If you see or suspect human trafficking, say something.”
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Yes, these posters are everywhere right now! Usually PSA posters going up means that we are in an economic down turn, so they can't otherwise sell the ad space.
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/01/21/…
"Maggie McNeill writes a blog on the lives of sex workers that is critical of law enforcement's approach to human trafficking."
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2014…
“[Anti-trafficking organizations] are all profiting from the criminalization of prostitution,” she said. “If the police weren’t out arresting people for prostitution and trafficking them into their bogus services, their ass would be out of a job.”
SJG
Shocking Blue - Venus (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz…
Los Bravos - Black Is Black (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsv7USKm…
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5…
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4…
Mayor resigning day after the Super Bowl, and seeming intent to fire the City Manager. Now that City Manager countering with a racial harassment claim. Whatever is really going on has not come to the surface yet , but it will.
And then County Supervisor Cindy Chaves riding the Human Trafficking bandwagon. Inside San Jose doing a good job of debunking it.
SJG
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/02…
Now the fox is guarding the hen house. No backroom deal to appoint a mayor is going to create transparency! Gillmor has only started to sound sensible in recent months because she could see that she was going to get voted out of office in November. Now, her term is effectively extended for another 2 years.
Silicon Valley is going to be crooked as Chicago!
SJG
We don't have the entertainment industry here, but we still have some visible hotties:
http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/files/2014/0…
http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/ln/2013…
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/persona…
Amy Winehouse-I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Duet With Paul Weller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Fr22vi…
live version
Winehouse & Paul Weller I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Creedence Clearwater Revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXJQOWsp…
Strong Super Dump
•13617 Ralph Culver Rd
•Houston, TX 77086
http://www.superdumps.com/ultibed.php
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Strong…
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9324899,…
about 8 miles north by northwest from the center of Houston
A couple takeaways:
▪First, there was some concern that given previous tensions between council members and the even number of seats (following Jamie Matthews’ departure), Santa Clara’s council would not be able to come to an agreement on controversial land-use issues. This shows that the council is making a real effort to find common ground under the new Gillmor era.
▪Second, density — as in real, urban-scale density — remains politically challenging in Silicon Valley cities, even when project sites are in transit-served locations.
Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, urged the council to approve the project, noting that BART is slated to terminate at the Santa Clara station that’s kitty corner from the site. Funding sources like the federal government want to see that cities are building up station areas that will help feed ridership and revenue to these nodes. “Part of bringing rapid rail to Santa Clara is building the appropriate homes and commercial development that will go hand in hand with that effort,” he said.
In approving a scaled back project, Santa Clara is leaving density on the table. But it might have been the only politically feasible way to get any project at all on the site.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
SJG
Rudolf Steiner and the Science of Spiritual Realities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbzXPIX…
Rudolf Steiner - the path to knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc39Ielp…
Weimar California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar,_Ca…
How to build an auditorium?
Wagner's Bayreuth Opera House
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
Stage in front of proscenium. But, many modern theatres go much further than this, extending the stage in front of the proscenium and having wrap around seating.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/67141…
Walt Disney Center, no proscenium
http://thisstage.la/wp-content/uploads/2…
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=disn…
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=disn…
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=disn…
looking to the rear
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=disn…
Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall, huge open center area
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=atla…
UC Santa Cruz, main stage, 1972, real neat. Most action of course in front of proscenium
http://taproduction.ucsc.edu/facilities/…
http://taproduction.ucsc.edu/facilities/…
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
http://www.bing.com/search?q=san+jose+ce…
http://www.bing.com/search?q=san+jose+ce…
http://www.bing.com/search?q=san+jose+ce…
http://www.bing.com/search?q=san+jose+ce…
http://sanjosetheaters.org/theaters/cent…
San Francisco Opera House, virtual tour
https://tour.lcp360.com/nocache/sfwm3/in…
fully exposed orchestra pit, opposite of Wagner's Bayreuth.
Rudolph Steiner's Goetheanum, Basel Switzerland
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=goet…
Fully rectangular seating area? Actually tapered the wrong way? 1000 seats. necessary? Old fashioned in some respects.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=goet…
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=goet…
http://www.domusweb.it/content/dam/domus…
But also this odysseetheater
http://www.odysseetheater.org/ftp/anthro…
https://www.facebook.com/Odysseetheater-…
something else
http://www.domusweb.it/content/dam/domus…
was this the old Goetheanum which burned down?
Must have been the old Goetheanum
http://anthrowiki.at/images/thumb/b/bd/S…
Santa Clara Convention Center
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sant…
http://partner.psav.com/~/media/Partner%…
Mission City Center for the Performing Arts
http://www.sfcv.org/sites/files/u19/NewI…
http://wilcox.schoolloop.com/cms/page_vi…
So the most extreme behind proscenium is this Rudolph Steiner's Goetheanum
The most extreme in front of proscenium is this no proscenium Walt Disney Center Los Angeles
Steiner's Oddessy Theater I need more info on.
SJG
SJG
Essential Teachings of Helena Blavatsky and Rudolph Steiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7z2Wrxg…
Carl G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8VwzFT…
Largest Driver
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speaker…
Rotary Woofer
http://www.rotarywoofer.com/
How it works
http://www.rotarywoofer.com/howitworks.h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_woo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
http://www.iar-80.com/page142.html
https://bassment.wordpress.com/
128' organ pipe, real or imagined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmsORjN…
128' electroinics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVd2vdW…
Martin Digital Organs
http://www.martindigitalorgans.com/
http://comptonorgans.com/
http://www.pykett.org.uk/electronic_orga…
http://www.lawrencephelps.com/Documents/…
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=3…
LMAO. Worse than Juice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3…
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/janko.htm
http://www.thecipher.com/wholetone_keybo…
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/music…
http://muto-method.com/en/chromatic-keyb…
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/03/s…
http://dvorak.mwbrooks.com/layout.html
"The Red Book and The Red Book: Jung, Tolkien, and the Convergence of Images"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oh14vf…
Marshall & Ogletree virtual pipe organ
Organist Cameron Carpenter demonstrates the Marshall & Ogletree virtual pipe organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTMtDYA…
http://organpower.com/
140 Crescent Road
Needham, MA 02494
(800) 525-5790 Toll Free
(781) 444-5790 Main
(781) 444-7077 Fax
http://www.marshallandogletree.com/
“More than dreamers, Ogletree and Marshall are revolutionaries in the erudite, passionate, and proudly obscure world of organ building. From their base in Needham, Mass., they have set out to build the finest, cost-is-no-object digital organs in the world — instruments to rival in grandeur the world’s leading pipe organs. And by many accounts have succeeded, brilliantly.”
These guys offer the 128' octave ( C = 4.2hz ) using rotary speakers
Cameron Carpenter on CBS 'Sunday Morning'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ApgF2s…
Essential Teachings of Helena Blavatsky and Rudolph Steiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7z2Wrxg…
Carl G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8VwzFT…
Largest Driver
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speaker…
Rotary Woofer
http://www.rotarywoofer.com/
How it works
http://www.rotarywoofer.com/howitworks.h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_woo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
http://www.iar-80.com/page142.html
https://bassment.wordpress.com/
128' organ pipe, real or imagined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmsORjN…
128' electroinics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVd2vdW…
Martin Digital Organs
http://www.martindigitalorgans.com/
http://comptonorgans.com/
http://www.pykett.org.uk/electronic_orga…
http://www.lawrencephelps.com/Documents/…
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03…
“I think the wheels are coming off the train right now. I wonder what’s next,” said Deborah Bress of Santa Clara Plays Fair. “We have a city that used to be very open and friendly to its citizens that isn’t.”
Santa Clara County Jobs Gains Weaker than though, but East Bay Stronger than thought:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2…
http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-ne…
2 AMPs closed on Bascom Ave, DA's Office Vows more
http://patch.com/california/campbell/2-b…
Deputy District Attorney Alisha Schoen
These were both on that 500 block of Bascom Ave. Not been to either, but I had flagged both as places I wanted to go, based on RUBMAPs Advanced Search. This is actually not San Jose, but the unincorporated Burbank Area, where The Pink Poodle Strip Club is.
Lots more new little AMPs opening, very quickly. Often looking to be just back door entrances to something else, so likely not licensed, and especially the girls won't have massage licenses to worry about. :) :) :)
SJG
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03…
New, County Supervisor Dave Cortese. So much better if he had been elected Mayor of San Jose, instead of Sam Liccardo.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_29…
SJG
http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold…
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/03/08/…
SJG
Melina Abdullah
http://blacklivesmatter.com/
http://www3.forbes.com/leadership/the-mo…
Says the most liberal is San Francisco. But I'm not sure if this list is really accurate, or how they are giving their rankings.
Curious and concerning organization:
http://everylibrary.org/wp-content/uploa…
http://everylibrary.org/
Not sure what this is, not yet at least.
Unelected Mayor Lisa Gillmor presiding over the selection of a new City Council Member:
http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/…
Kathy Watanabe
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/03/08/…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-watana…
SJG
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/current-ev…
https://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/met…
More about conservative and liberal cities, with extensive analysis and a special emphasis on California.
For cities not much more than 100k population, Cambridge MA, Berkeley CA, and Gary IN are extremely liberal. The most liberal for their modest size.
The one in these lists that really surprises me is Jacksonville Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonvil…
For its size and how black it is, I would have expected it to be one of the most liberal. But in fact it is one of the most conservative!
Military presence, and then after a couple of transportation companies it is finance companies and this Swisher tobacco company.
But I think the real reason is that this analysis is based on how people vote, and this could be highly skewed by the felon purge.
starts 51 min in
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/14/th…
Santa Clara County
Closing Massage Parlors, but seems to be in unincorporated areas. San Jose PD is too short handed.
http://www.crimevoice.com/2016/03/14/ill…
Fronts for prostitution? Well what do you expect, the girls will give you what you want. What's the big deal.
And the trafficking argument is total bullshit.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news…
Problems in County Jail, Cindy Chaves and Dave Cortese addressing it.
SJG
Philip Glass Akhnaten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiv-LU8…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJnASQY…
http://www.ueunion.org/stwd_clos.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fighting-clo…
http://www.goiam.org/index.php/imail/lat…
Fighting Shutdowns in California
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cg…
U California Pamphlet
http://content.ucpress.edu/ancillaries/1…
Books Inc, closing SF Castro St. Store, but opening 12 store in Santa Clara
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Book…
Citrix
https://www.citrix.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Sys…
nook
http://www.nook.com/careers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26…
Violin Memory
http://www.violin-memory.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Mem…
Monta Vista Hard Hat Lynux
http://www.mvista.com/
San Jose, CA
MontaVista Software, LLC
2315 North 1st Street
San Jose, CA, 95131
Tel : (408) 943-4500
email address provided
Echelon
http://www.echelon.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_Co…
HQ in San Jose?
2901 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
Building Automation
Home Automation
Industrial Automation
Books inc, closing SF Castro St. Store, but opening 12 store in Santa Clara
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Book…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasic…
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/15/fo…
SJG
Philip Glass - Akhnaten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvTwoTt…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra_…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_orches…
Bayreuth Orchestra Pit
http://www.blackfootpac.com/Images/Facil…
Does portion of stage slide shut? But is it not totally flat on top then? Trip hazard?
Maybe some of those lose pieces shown in the picture get installed on top of the part that moves, to make the stage totally flush?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eve…
World's Largest Church, Seoul Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoido_Full…
830,000 members, 12,000 seat church building. Overflow seating in nearby buildings and video monitors.
http://english.fgtv.com/a1/a1_01.asp
Described as Full Gospel, but affiliated with Assemblies of God. Believed to be a major source of the Word Faith later type of Pentecostal theology.
Oral Roberts University, Prayer Tower?
http://www.oru.edu/news/oru_news/2011050…
7777 South Lewis Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74171
http://www.oru.edu/prayer_tower/
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt…
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt…
http://www.oru.edu/news/oru_news/2011050…
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt…
India, Prayer Tower
http://www.jesuscalls.org/prayer/
Jeremy Rifkin
http://www.amazon.com/European-Dream-Eur…
But some might not be able to select the role they get cast into:
The Hiding Place full movie Corrie Ten Boom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX0GwjXE…
Claude Berr, born Sioux City Iowa, 1925
part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdzf5aQ…
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgU3wvQ…
part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BPWoYzp…
The Partisan, by Leonard Kohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BGWx8hr…
Just a preview clip of Jean Renoir's masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2quk1a…
Sophie Scholl - White Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJXLZdn…
Sophie Scholl & The White Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6irHPPwb…
SOPHIE SCHOLL THE FINAL DAYS Full Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtC08tW…
Philip Glass, Akhnaten - video of live opera performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XENvMGyy…
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
http://www.music.indiana.edu/
Seating Chart
http://www.music.indiana.edu/operaballet…
here?
http://indianapublicmedia.org/support/fi…
http://www.music.indiana.edu/about/image…
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jaco…
https://www.teenlife.com/media/uploads/l…
https://www.teenlife.com/media/uploads/l…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/images/sm…
https://www.google.com/maps/place/IU+Jac…
40 miles south by south west of Indianapolis
Sydney Opera House
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G61PeNE2chg/Tl…
Michael Goguen
Sequoia Capital Partner, Sex Abuse Case
http://nypost.com/2016/03/14/ex-sequoia-…
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celesta
also has Sugar Plum Fairies recording
For the Akhnaten Opera they are using the lower octaves of the Celesta. I thought it was some sort of hammer bells. But it sounds nice. Still even if it is steel hammers on steel rods, and with the wooden resonator box, I would not expect it to the that loud. I also think the force required would mean that one's hands would tire quickly. I take to heart what Cameron Carpenter says about organs versus pianos. So I know I would like the synth patch version of the celesta better.
And some pit orchestras are doubling the celesta with a synthesizer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiophone
Akhnaten, Philip Glass, full opera, Indiana U
http://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive/str…
program
http://music.indiana.edu/events/program.…
Several aspects of Akhnaten’s biography, especially several taboo sexual
imputations, may have originated in later Egyptian sources that, following the
restoration of the traditional priesthood, essentially engaged in a historical smear
campaign against the usurper. Nevertheless, Akhnaten’s legacy still contains complex,
even troubling aspects for modern audiences. As a monotheist, Akhnaten was both
an idealist and an absolutist, and his destruction of the images and worship of the old
gods was ruthless—leading us, perhaps, to see him less as a rebellious spiritual hero
defying a conservative order and more as a prophet of modern religious intolerance.
Another such dilemma is played out musically at the opening of Act III. In
Glass’s sharp juxtaposition of the royal family’s dreamy, wordless singing against the
denunciations of the people, we might hear represented an inherent paradox in the
mystical experience, whose withdrawal from everyday reality is both its blessing and
its curse. Led by their spiritual imaginations, Akhnaten and his family move beyond
words into a purely musical, transcendent realm, but also become increasingly insular
and alienated from the very real empire that their negligence of duty allows to decay
and crumble.
Akhnaten was not Mubarak. His leadership did not purposefully limit the
freedom of his citizens nor was he brutal to his people. However, he was a man
who became increasingly uncaring about the daily needs of his country. While he
was history making in his declaration of monotheism, he allied himself more with
God than his citizens. Constructing a utopian city, surrounded by mountains and
bordered by the Nile, he became philosophically, and literally, isolated from his
people. As in modern-day Egypt, an historical populace continually marginalized by
its leadership becomes a populace who will revolt.
The original work of Philip Glass concludes the opera with a modern look back
at the Akhnaten era during the Ruins scene. I have added another modern scene
during the opera’s Prelude and extended the Ruins scene—with a current reflection
on life—as the opera concludes. Through the use of projections and present-day
action, I invite you to consider the parallels of these two significant eras.
When belief becomes obsession and rulers become myopic, the citizens will
determine a new fate for themselves. History, as they say, certainly does repeat itself.
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How do they do the back drops in this opera? I would have assumed that front projection of slides is the easiest. But then they have so much light on the performers in the front. And they are too close to the lower edge of the back drop for that.
Sydney Opera House, they say this is an opera house, not a concert hall. And it looks to me much like the Disney Music Center in Los Angeles. So no proscenium? No place to hang curtains or raise them, no wing areas to move setting to and from?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G61PeNE2chg/Tl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Ope…
Oh, now I understand, this place in Sydney has at least 4 different performance rooms in it. The concert hall is the largest, as shown in the picture. But there is also a proscenium theater, which is used by the Opera and the Ballet companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscenium…
Theater Design Website:
https://theatredesigner.wordpress.com/th…
So if it is not front projection, it must be back projection. How well does this work, how big can it be, and how much front light can you have? This can not be one of those business projectors reflecting light off of and LCD chip. And it can't be just 35mm slides either. Probably slides big like motion picture film. 70mm, 105mm? What ever they use today. Bigger takes the heat better. And them some is moving motion picture film. That kind of equipment is expensive and it is costly to make the movies.
At least with back projection you eliminate the problem of matching the border of the projected light with the boarder of the black surround. You just go a bit over with the light.
And then how much behind screen depth do you need.
How much does all of this cost?
SJG
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
SJG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arca…
Antoine Court, who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (Nîmes, January 25, 1725[1] – Paris, May 10, 1784), was a former Protestant pastor, born at Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom in 1781.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Co…
Jean-Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean-Baptiste or Paul Christian (1811-1877), was a French author, known for The History and Practice of Magic, first published in France in 1870.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bapti…
#5 The Hierophant ( High Priest ) ( Pope )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hierop…
http://web.archive.org/web/2009022309433…
#7 Chariot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chario…
http://www.tarot.org.il/Hebrew/Cards/07_…
#16 The Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_…
#17 The Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(…
https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/525213…
#18 The Moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_(…
https://sites.google.com/site/plamura/ta…
http://www.learntarot.com/maj18.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/2009022309394…
#19 The Sun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(T…
#20 The Judgement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_…
http://www.learntarot.com/maj20.htm
Learn Tarot
http://www.learntarot.com/
Tree of Life Tarot + Star
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=the+…
Mythical Goddess Tarot
http://imgarcade.com/1/the-star-goddess-…
SJG
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/15/w…
It is true that Sanders is advocating going after the wealthy elites who dominate the economy by raising taxes, closing tax loopholes and placing tax havens off limits while at the same time doubling the minimum wage to help low-income earners. And it is true that he is proposing to also redistribute that wealth in the form of funding universal healthcare, tuition-free university and much-needed infrastructure projects. But none of this constitutes socialism.
Bernie Is Not a Socialist and America Is Not Capitalist
http://www.theatlantic.com/international…
SJG
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-canadian-p…
I think a basic income guarantee is mandatory. Capitalism is what creates unemployment. And Cecil Williams and the people who run Guild Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco have got it right. Poverty is caused by social marginalization.
So a corollary is simply this, everyone wants to do well. They want to win the admiration of family and friends. So if they are not doing well, then there must be some social marginalization or disability at work here. But as the main problem is marginalization, then we should not talk about disability, as usually this just means more marginalization.
And of course it is absurd that people should be accepting psychiatric labels. These are just an extreme form of oppression.
So for there to be justice there has to be this basic income guarantee, or what amounts to cradle to grave welfare.
The typical person on welfare takes far less out of our economy than those employed do. And if the welfare recipient is not driving around much in a car, then they are treading far more lightly on the earth than those who senselessly burn up gas and dump CO2 into the atmosphere to do jobs which produce absolutely nothing which people need to live.
Now welfare takes money out of gov't coffers, but in the US welfare has never been more than 3% of federal expenditure. This is much less than corporate welfare and other expenses directed to the betterment of the middle class in order to maintain political allegiance, or to keeping the poor down. So welfare is a cheaper way to keep our society going than the present state of affairs.
And then as far as federal accounts, it is the federal gov't which controls the printing press, the furnace, and interest rates which multiply the availability of money by the inverse of the interest rate. Suffice to say, federal accounts and the money supply are all under gov't control, hence it is artificial. It is just a matter of who and what are being served by it.
So as those who are not doing well are simply the victims of social injustice, we must redress this social injustice.
1. Stop using psychiatric labels, learning disability labels, or morality labels.
2. Offer people value producing work, not nonsense just to get a paycheck.
3. Provide this cradle to grave welfare system as efficiently as possible, and understand that everyone wants to be a useful and meaningful part of our society.
4. Follow my recommendation and hold parents accountable for exploiting their children, using them to give themselves a adult identity. This amounts to psychological child abuse. So besides criminal prosecution where practical, also prevent disinheritance and offer something like a divorce from one's parents when their is parent v child animosity. Make the parents pay, and pay dearly. Make it so that child exploitation no longer pays.
5. And for those who insist on calling the poor lazy or immoral, know that this is how Capitalism works. It is the family where this starts, with the designation of a child as the blacksheep. Those who denigrate the poor are just doing what their parents did to them. So the poor and marginalized need to start standing up for themselves rather than submitting. They and all of us must start engaging in public advocacy and non-violent civil disobedience.
6. And then since the New Economy and Libertarianism are really just the old Social Darwinism and Eugenics Movement, saying that the poor are not fit to compete, we all need to be prepared to do more than just be non-violent. We don't want to be like Anne Frank's father, hiding in an attic waiting for the Gestapo. We need to be ready to engage in guerrilla warfare, the use of lethal force, and without taking prisoners. Unless we are willing to do this, then we are helping the eugenicists who say that we are not fit to live. Gandhi and Jesus lived in violent revolutionary times. They were only able to accomplish their works because others were maintaining the constant threat of lethal violence on a large scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_…
SJG
low wage right-to-work states which advertise their anti-union environment, coming out of So Cal
http://content.ucpress.edu/ancillaries/1…
follow on
http://www.academia.edu/1782800/Forging_…
need to subscribe for this
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780520957633?…
SJG
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/15/fa…
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/15/is…
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/17/fa…
John Nichols
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/16/do…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
SJG
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/03/14/…
SJG
Best of Debussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZmdzCG…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Deb…
http://soundzgreg.blogspot.com/2012/01/c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chat_No…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus
History of the Rosicrucian Order
part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWkuo09…
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtNuKKBH…
Rosicrucianism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZSRKNw-…
In-Depth Analysis of the Rosicrucian Order, The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, Manly P. Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igpu98O0…
Rosicrucian Paths
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rosicruci…
http://amorc.blogspot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Wait…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_Cross
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectorium_…
http://www.goldenrosycross.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_My…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarion
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/epipha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbelo
In both places Epiphanius represents the doctrine as giving rise to sexual libertinism. Mircea Eliade has compared these Borborite beliefs and practices involving Barbēlō to Tantric rituals and beliefs, noting that both systems have a common goal of attaining primordial spiritual unity through erotic bliss and the consumption of menses and semen.
http://www.darkmirrors.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L777RhL_…
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/49e…
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201…
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49er…
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2016/03/21…
http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/3/20/11…
http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/3/20/11…
How could there be such a dispute about monies claimed to have been paid, or about contractual obligations? Undoubtedly this is why there is a Civil Grand Jury impaneled and why Mayor Jamie Matthews has resigned and why City Manager Julio Fuentes is resigning. Previously what the real issues were behind these resignations was not known.
Everyone involved in the politics of the South Bay cities and watching from the sidelines has known that there was something seriously wrong. But this is the first mention of anything which could conceivably lead to criminal charges. But it is still not clear who might be charged.
SJG
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
The Best of Rachmaninoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpaPWuDQ…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbwJ78g…
notice that that looks like more than 8' 11" of piano, more like about 10 ft. It could be one of those Boesendorfers with the 9 extra and unused keys.
http://www.company7.com/bosendorfer/grap…
Notice the knob on the case side. Not aware of any other make which has ever had that.
I once saw a 97 key Boesendorfer at a local store, priced to sell at only $180k.
Oops, looks like others can have that knob:
http://image.superstreetonline.com/f/fea…
They do make different furniture styles of these too.
As I study the video closer I believe I can see the Steinway logo, though something may have been done to it to obscure it. Steinway though never made more than 88 keys and there is nothing in the standard piano repertoire which goes outside of that.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/49e…
http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49er…
San Jose police: Man dies after stabbing mother, self
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
900 block of Palm Street, near Sacred Heart Church.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-…
http://www.ktvu.com/news/107683647-story
20yo man
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
Ed Kemper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTnEY8y-…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmFuNBgF…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q887vyH2…
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Fatal Vietnamese Café Shooting!
Bon Mua, 1937 Tully Road, getting close to Eastridge Shopping Center
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
Bon Mua, 1937 Tully Road, getting close to Eastridge Shopping Center
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3250561,…
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03…
This place had been Viet Coffee during the day time and Viet Bar at night time. Don't know of any reason it would be the site of a shooting. But perhaps because many Viet Coffee customers are regulars, someone decided that that would be a good place to get someone. Don't know what a real motive might be though. Keeping ears open for any discussion of other illegal activities which could bring large sums of money into play. San Jose continues to have a shrinking police force, and so they can't do as much as they used to. It is not impossible that other patterns of illegal activity have started to surface. And this place, serving alcohol and being only a minor coffee shop, could potentially have gone a new direction. Don't know, but will keep eyes and ears open.
SJSU Political Correspondent
http://www.larrygerston.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Reviving-Citizen-E…
The Seven Hermetic Principles - Mark Passio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bs6sWFv…
http://www.whatonearthishappening.com/
In this video they show you the organ pipes, the organ console, and the organist. They will always have a rear view mirror so they can see the conductor. In this one they don't double the pipe organ with anything else. So on my computer, 32' C = 16.4hz, is not hearable at all.
Probably Strauss keyed this in C so that he could use the lowest note on pipe organs.
So imagine today being able to do it with a 64' C note = 8.2hz, or even 128' C = 4.1hz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RdZ7rO_…
In this other version I can't tell if they have the 32' rank pipe organ or not. But they do use the wood basses. Those only go down to 16' E. So they could play 8' C. Or maybe they have a brass instrument which can do 16' C, and then they could do 16' G on the basses. You see that they do real short fast bowing so it sounds like a rumble. Playing 16' C and 16' G will make your brain believe that there must be 32' C being sounded. This is a psycho acoustic effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23d…
Of course the E and E flat tympani's are what really make this interesting. Understanding this, it would not be that hard to write something like this of one's own. :)
http://www.contrabass.com/
Here it says that the string bass can do 16' C, so it would be one octave below a cello. That was not my understanding.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bass…
I guess there is "double bass" and then even lower, "contra bass".
Anyway, this reed instrument goes a bit below 16' C = 32.8hz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass…
sounding pitch, down to 32' B flat. So an 88 key piano goes down to 32' A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass…
So probably this can do it too, non-reed
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/orch-tub…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bU7ibq…
I think this sounds 1 octave below what is written, so this would mean that it goes to 16' C
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bas…
but right here it says exactly what had been my understanding:
The double bass is generally tuned in fourths, in contrast to other members of the orchestral string family, which are tuned in fifths. The standard tuning (low to high) is E–A–D–G, starting from E below second low C (concert pitch). This is the same as the standard tuning of a bass guitar and is one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of standard guitar tuning.
And this is most interesting because in perfect temper tuning, the natural 5th is extreme close, but the 4th is not. So this is why violin's, viola's, and cello's work so well with temper tuned music. But the bass being in 4ths is a different story.
Ah! Patience and the Internet pay off. Here is the answer to my conundrum! C- extension
In Britain, the United States and Canada, most professional orchestral players use four-string double basses with a C extension. This is an extra section of fingerboard mounted on the head of the bass. It extends the fingerboard under the lowest string and gives an additional four semitones of downward range. The lowest string is typically tuned down to C, an octave below the lowest note on the cello. More rarely this string may be tuned to a low B, as a few works in the orchestral repertoire call for a low B, such as Respighi's The Pines of Rome. In rare cases, some players have a low B extension, which has B as its lowest note. There are several varieties of extensions:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
4 extra semi tones when you use this, so you get to 16' C.
And some even go to 32' B
So I am not now seeing that there is any Contra Bass lower than Double Bass, just Double Bass using the C-extension or the B-extension.
But in that above video they do show some very low wind instruments, including the Conrabasson, with it's reed.
http://www.isbworldoffice.com/images/bas…
http://www.isbworldoffice.com/bass-sell.…
And who exactly is vengeful or an a__hole?
SJG
http://www.isbworldoffice.com/images/bas…
SJG
Inauguration de l'orgue symphonique, Philharmonie de Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgU6zHT…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieger_Org…
http://www.rieger-orgelbau.com/en/
In Western Austria, close to that big lake
Rieger organ, Hofsteigstraße, Schwarzach, Austria
were you to cross back into Germany you'd be about equidistant between Stuttgart and Munich, say 120 miles to reach either.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4382121,…
ExMormon
http://www.exmormon.org/
Mormonism, Alice Miller, and Me
http://www.exmormon.org/whylft112.htm
Secret Ceremonies
by Deborah Laake
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Ceremonies-…
SJG
Eventually I will be able to be more out about my f2f life. And that is when I'll be taking to the road as well, partaking at SC's and AMPs everywhere I go. P4P yields dolled up hotties, and it is the fastest and most reliable way to get results in a new place.
Drawbridge CA, out exploring some years ago I stumbled upon this ghost town by accident. Just highly weathered wood stickup up out of the mud now. This used to be the South Bay's Vice Zone, reaching its peak during Prohibition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawbridge…
The new Vice Zone will be of course next to that stupid NFL stadium. People don't realize what is happening, otherwise they would never allow it.
Look at the Erik Satie music:
http://www.free-scores.com/PDF_EN/satie-…
How hard to you think it would be to write music that it is this good, and still keep it this sparse and easy to play?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_UETbq…
I set some Psalms to music for an Episcopalian Rector who had bought a psaltery once.
http://songofthewood.com/product/plucked…
It was because of the instrument's narrow range that I knew that writing one's own music would be a necessity. Always easier to write the music if you have the words already. I learned this from a book about how to write advertising music.
I did largely have it worked out in my head, each of the pieces. I played them for myself on a cheapie keyboard synth. Then for the Rector I demonstrated on their piano.
Erik Satie on organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kj0CRU…
and here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_tj4rj…
I believe that the best organ music has to be specifically written for organ. ( temper tuned, as pianos are not, and non-percussive, as pianos are not. )
also check out this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mffn1EfR…
My Christian Eating Lions are doing very well too.
SJG
Tuscl is about the only place on the entire Internet where I can really speak freely. Any where else, mongering is completely unaccepted.
Why we need Free College and Universal Single Payer Health Care, and why Bernie Sanders is our man!
"Love Trumps Hate": Actress Rosario Dawson on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/4/lov…
San Jose trying to regulate massage parlors
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/04/04/…
http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p…
This is no good. Some of the new places are back door only. They are probably places which don't even officially exist.
Lux Spa was not a place I've visited, but it was known to be good, more of an AAMP level of service than an AMP level. Seemed connected to a similar place which SJPD closed, out on E. Santa Clara St.
The trafficking argument is total bullshit.
But there is an exchange circuit between LA and the Bay Area for the younger girls who don't want to work in their home town.
The 2 ft clearance distance around massage tables is not something I'd heard of before. Some of these places are very improvised and the rooms are too small. LE could just be trying to make it tough on them.
But it could be that without that clearance it looks like the set up is not really for massage.
In the old days girls showed me that it is best just to take the sheet of the table and spread it on the carpet and fuck on the floor.
But today these shops seem to have larger massage tables.
Also nice to get the girl onto your lap and get friendly with her. But some of these places just have rooms that are too small.
This idea of prohibiting that address from hosting another AMP once they have been busted, is of course no good.
This is the same thing as with strip clubs. Local authorities like to demolish the buildings. No Good!
I've not had time yet to look at other old and new threads.
SJG
Zarathustra for French Horn and Piano
https://youtu.be/TRg-75VKOFU?t=19m22s
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-af…
Suing to get this removed, finally:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3667246,…
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04…
SJG
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/appl…
This is Infinite Loop Drive, not the new spaceship.
Could be suicide.
SJG
Body found dead in conference room. But woman may have been injured?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/appl…
Law enforcement sources told the celebrity gossip website that a call was placed at 8:38 AM, reporting a “possible suicide.” The dispatch call alluded to a female employee involved in an argument on campus, who sustained a head injury — possibly from a gunshot wound — while being escorted out by security. It was not immediately clear what happened to the female employee mentioned in that call.
Now they say no one else was involved.
SJG
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Tec…
Boston Properties
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
SJG
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sa…
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sa…
Santa Clara Broker Accused Of Stealing Nearly $1.5 Million From Trust Account
http://patch.com/california/milpitas/san…
Santa Clara County Jail Inmate Dies While in Custody
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/04/27/…
Body Found at Apple Headquarters in Calif.
Infinite Loop Drive
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-…
SJG
Former Greek Finance Minister: Massive IMF Bailouts are "Ponzi Austerity" Scheme
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/28/fo…
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San…
San Jose, Double Parricide, Two Brothers Arrested
http://bilbaoya.com/2016/04/29/californi…
http://www.ktvu.com/news/134554899-story
Intel Making Cuts, Santa Clara, Folsom, Oregon.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/04/26/in…
I guess Dougster's 30 year long boom of 2015 is over.
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Troll Notice: watch out for this 'san_jose_gay'. He posts trying to imitate me.
Here, Meat72 brags about how he uses trolling as a retaliatory weapon simply because he does not agree with many of my views.
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=4…
It has been obvious that 'san_jose_gay' and Meat72 are the same. But it also looks like Meat72 is DoctorPhil.
Right here, Meat72 uses the word 'giy' in conjunction with mention of psych meds.
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=4…
Well what he must have meant was, Robert Gie, an artist and psychiatric patient. But as Meat72 presents himself, that is not something he would likely know about. It is something DoctorPhil would know about. And DoctorPhil is the one who always talks about meds.
http://mikejay.net/wp-content/uploads/20…
http://mikejay.net/the-art-of-mind-contr…
So here we have it, 'san_jose_gay', 'Meat72', 'DoctorPhil', trolls all, and all the same, and responding to each other on the same threads.
Meat72 is this guy's primary handle. He is nothing but a creepy jackass.
SJG
But like almost never, is that really the whole story.
http://www.amazon.com/When-Child-Kills-P…
2/3's of such killings are done by juveniles. But sons who kill their mothers are usually a bit older than sons who kill their fathers.
Most such cases are settled without a jury trial, and so what is know to the authorities never comes to the surface.
In the US, around 300 cases per year, or 2% of the general homicide rate. The perpetrators are always very immature for their age, usually people who have never been in any real trouble before, and who would have a very hard time living on their own. And not people would do well in prison.
SJG
http://thevillagessuntimes.com/2016/05/0…
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Per…
SJG
http://www.pv-tech.org/news/sunpower-to-…
SunPower has around 45MW of large-scale commercial and public agency solar power systems operating or under contract in Santa Clara
Electric Vehicle Charging Center The Largest In California
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/04/25/sant…
DC Fast Chargers
http://gas2.org/2015/12/26/bmw-and-nissa…
http://www.karmaautomotive.com/
Man atop VTA train in San Jose fouling up morning commuters
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ma…
California suburbs growing fast as many are priced out of cities, data show
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me…
SJG
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - live ft Lisa Fischer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kl6q_9q…
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
Santa Clara dog trainers get new home after losing fairgrounds spot
http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold…
Rent control spreads from pricey San Francisco to suburbs
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29719820/r…
Levi’s Stadium rent dispute escalates between 49ers, Santa Clara
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Le…
Exclusive: First deputy on scene of ACE train derailment describes chaos
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29610…
California bullet train: Judge rules against Central Valley farmers who oppose project
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci…
SJG
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses - Live On Copacabana Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0QATz8a…
https://sfbay.ca/2016/05/06/stubblefield…
Annual memorial honors police officers killed on duty in Santa Clara County
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/crime-courts…
SJG
sounds basically correct to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLw8Sqr…
http://abc7news.com/sports/santa-clara-c…
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/…
$744k was the net for the Super Bowl. What a joke. It always was a scam, orchestrated by real estate speculators trying to keep a construction Ponzi scheme going.
Talk about building new County Gov't Center
http://patch.com/california/losgatos/san…
SJG
$731k public coffer profit for Super Bowl. Big joke. Private businesses often lost money.
SJG
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/10/troubl…
Santa Clara County deputy arrested for alleged child abuse
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Sant…
Abuse of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Florida
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/11/to…
SJG
Just keep trolling yourself San Jose Guy/Gay.
http://abc7news.com/sports/santa-clara-c…
SJG
Ken 369
www.yelp.ca/biz/ken-369-san-jose
says it is closed:
5316 Monterey Hwy
San Jose, CA 95111
Lu Beer and Bar Restaurant
www.yellowpages.com/san-jose-ca/mip/lu-r…
1595 Monterey Hwy,
San Jose, CA 95110
www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_2901…
San Jose: Man killed in shooting outside nightclub off Monterey Highway
SJG
Now, for the first time, I see someone using their pickup truck to display an enormous California flag. Is there some meaning to this?
4 states on the Mexican border? States on the Canadian border? Banks across these borders? Shielding Muslim and Mexican residents? Free crossing zones? Eventually dissolving the United States and replacing it with a United North America?
Have 240 years been enough?
We will find out when voters go to the polls in November.
SJG
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/18/ho…
This was March 2015, I had not know about this. I am very familiar with this Coffee Shop and the family that owns it. A dozen years ago I was there all the time. The wife has huge tits, and I did not know her marital status. She and I got along very well.
That the authorities want to enforce the laws prohibiting gambling is fine. But the way they are portraying this is just completely incorrect. Some people like to gamble. I don't go along with it. I think gambling works is a similar manner to Born Again Christianity and drugs. I wish they would not do it. But I can't see that the gambling done in that Coffee Shop is any different than that stupid California Lottery which effects more people and I want to see eliminated.
http://www.vietnamesecoffeeshops.com/vie…
All is not well in our county jail:
http://abc7news.com/news/2-deputies-arre…
http://stick.com/
Stick Enterprises
6011 Woodlake Ave.
Woodland Hills, CA, 91367
SJG
King Crimson, Live, Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vmURBKH…
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_29…
Even in years of average or greater rainfall, I feel that we still are trying to support too large a population. This tends to be the case throughout the entire South West.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/aaron-persky…
http://abcnews.go.com/US/potential-juror…
Great outrage over the light sentence in this Stanford rape case.
SJG
So in San Francisco, it runs along Market St.
So MBOT is at O'Farrell and Polk, about 2000' from Market St.
New Century is at Larking and O'Farrell, same distance.
Crazy Horse is on Market St., at Taylor and Turk
North Beach Clubs, like Roaring 20's are at Broadway and Columbus, about 2000' from Market St.
Gold Club is on Howard St and New Montgomery
THis is about 1000' from Market ST, but on the other side. This is the only one reasonably close to the 4th and Townsend Cal Train Station.
South Beach Yacht Club, at 2nd and King / Embarcadero
BART heads off into the transbay tube at the Ferry Building, at the start of Market ST.
So how about the East Bay?
In Richmond you are within 4000' of the yacht harbor
In Pittsburg you are about the same distance.
In Hayward, 1.5 miles of Hayward State
San Leandro Yacht club within 2 miles of San Leandro Bart, just before Hayward
SJG
1. Capital Corridor
http://www.capitolcorridor.org/route-map…
2. Surfliner
https://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentSe…
http://www.pacificsurfliner.com/#station…
3. San Joaquin ( north of San Francisco seems to use buses. )
https://www.amtrak.com/san-joaquin/where…
North it does go to Rohnert Park and to Eureka. But train it gets down to Bakersfield
4. Coast Starlight is actually not on the coast, it is a train running inland, via highway 5, through Redding, and into Oregon
https://www.amtrak.com/san-francisco-bay…
SJG
1. Capital Corridor
www.capitolcorridor.org/route-map/
2. Surfliner
http://www.pacificsurfliner.com/#schedul…
https://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentSe…
Appears to go from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Not sure if this is all train. Should be able to change to the San Diego trolley, which goes to San Yisidro :).
3. San Joaquin ( north of San Francisco seems to use buses. )
www.amtrak.com/san-joaquin/where-we-go
North it does go to Rohnert Park and to Eureka. But train it gets down to Bakersfield
4. Coast Starlight is actually not on the coast, it is a train running inland, roughly along the same route as highway 5, through Redding, and into Oregon
www.amtrak.com/san-francisco-bay-area-no…
https://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-t…
5. West Train Routes
https://www.amtrak.com/west-train-routes
6. California Zephyr, does not go into Wyoming, gets from Salt Lake City to Colorado directly.
https://www.amtrak.com/california-zephyr…
SJG
This is extremely interesting to me.
Reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Doctor-B…
Bruno Bettelheim had serious limitations and he made completely improper claims. But, this does not mean that everything he said was wrong.
He visited and Israeli Kibbutz in 1964. He did not spend nearly enough time. And he was not reconciled with his own Judaism. Nor was her prepared to deal with Socialism.
Bettelheim was most interested in the separation of children from their mothers. Now today they do much less of this. But as it was, sounds like children would early on be sent to live in the children's home. Their care would be taken on by a Metaplot.
They would visit their parents every afternoon, and then live with them on the weekends.
Now of course this is all a matter of degree, dependent on the details. They can't live their entire life with their mother. So to me it sounds fantastic, because their is redundancy and built in compensation.
Bettelheim was looking at this to repudiate John Bowlby. Bettelheim wanted and example of how to limit the level of neurotic toxic mother love.
But the people who originally set up the Kibbutz system were not talking about it this way, but maybe it still means the same thing. They were looking at an arrangement which would liberate women, reduce the amount of child care work they had to do, so that they could do more of the same types of work the men did.
So children would be cared for, but more in batch mode. I think probably more was expected of children earlier on. I don't think it was like one of those nasty English boarding schools or anything like that. I think they had to take care of each other. Much less bullying than in boarding schools, or even than in our schools.
So these communities were set up in the remote, hard to settle, and dangerous places.
And everyone was in the military.
They served well too.
I've watched lots of videos. It is all interesting. At first some lived in teepees.
They practiced agriculture and construction. Now they do manufacturing. But what is manufactured in a socialist commune will be devoid of panache. It will be utilitarian, like plastics, ammunition, and a huge dairy.
So as the country was established and remote property ownership was ensured and capitalism thrived, the Kibbutzes started to have problems. Menachem Begin came in in 1977, and that was their first conservative government, and attitudes turned completely against Kibbutzes.
I see one woman interviewed, an Engineer in a plastics factory. She says, "I want my baby in my home."
Well, the middle class never would have come into existence if it had not been given a free hand to exploit children. So Israel and it's Kibbutzes are going the same way. Some have privatized, and some even pay wages now.
I still want to learn more about it. Zionism is nothing if not pronatalism. But it sounds like the Kibbutz version was always moderated, and especially considering that it goes back to the beginnings of the 20th Century.
SJG
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=98443
The Crisis of Zionism Paperback – April 2, 2013
by Peter Beinart
In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. And in the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establishment's refusal to confront it. And he renders a fascinating, groundbreaking portrait of the two leaders at the center of the crisis: Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Beinart offers provocative proposals for how the relationship between American Jews and Israel must change, and an eloquent and moving appeal for American Jews to defend the dream of a democratic Jewish state before it is too late.
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Zionism-Pe…
SJG
Why would anyone want to live anywhere else but Mexico City?
Tijuana is rougher and maybe not quite as warm. Mexico City is a center of finance and government. It shows.
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=118245
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9e…
City of Santa Clara is building it's own Las Vegas. They aren't presenting it this way, but this is clearly what it is.
Hotel space plus restaurants. They aren't saying bars and they aren't saying casinos, yet, but that is clearly their intent. Once you have this, it will be just like anyplace else where you have an NFL stadium. The NFL runs on gambling, and once you get those cash flows, you get every other kind of vice too.
When you have hang out places, and especially with hotels on top, then the law becomes impossible to enforce.
Oh well, I guess soon I won't need to travel far from home to find places like we talk about here on TUSCL. But for the people who live on Santa Clara's North Side, this will be exactly what they don't want.
No reason this $6.5G project needs to be, just like there was no reason the stadium needed to be.
And then they have some condos. They always present these as the entry way to home ownership. That is what it is really for, propping up single family home prices.
Just like Madison Nguyen's Vietnam Town. That is the way now, retail on the bottom and condos on top. The condos don't seem to interfere with anything, and they are a more stable revenue stream. And they are built to prop up the real estate market. Strange how that works, the law of supply and demand are inverted. You have to pay association fees, and these can go up at any time.
They always present the retail as being very upscale. But upscale retail malls have been going under left and right. The people who have the tenacity to run retail are usually immigrants. Usually they are violating labor laws and the tax code. Often they are violating more than that. People have grandiose ideas about their projects, but often they turn into slums.
People in San Jose were up in arms over the Gold Club, a bikini strip club. Well what Santa Clara is making is all stealth.
Founder, can we add Santa Clara's Northside Vice Zone to the listings? Might as well get ready for it, better lounge hookers than Vegas.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San…
http://www.ktvu.com/news/168013759-story
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_3…
http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/07/0…
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Androgyny, biology and latent memory in the work of Austin Osman Spare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7G2MXeB…
https://fulgur.co.uk/abraxas/
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
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http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2016/07/06/…
Never talked with the people from this Grace Baptist Church, but it has always looked well meaning to me.
My concern is with this Karen Addato, who founded Breakthrough Outreach. She sounds like a first class nut.
She is more like a cop than anything else. Or a social services case manager, but on wheels. And I don't know who is funding her.
The only dignity that people who have been made into the family scapegoat and live on the street have, is in their privacy. And so this is what she is committed to breaking down.
And then of herself, two brothers drinking themselves to death. Has she ever considered why they might have done this? No of course not. She has her own ideology of denial. She is a "Devout Christian". So she wants to make other people out on the street, and with drinking problems or whatever, submit. She wants to take away the last shred of dignity which they have, their privacy.
And then there is this Murphy bill coming along, which makes forced psychiatric treatment happen easier. This Karen Addato, she's someone who could enforce involuntary medication. She would like doing that.
Some people seem to think that this is just some minor problem, an over zealous mental health establishment, and the influence of Big Pharma.
I disagree entirely. I see Recovery, Psychotherapy, and Salvation Seeking as being responsible for the subjugation of a large, double digits, percentage of the population.
Capitalism needs this. It needs people it can ritually humiliate, in order to maintain discipline.
Maybe before in the Industrial Age, it needed cheap labor, or slave labor. Now this is no longer necessary. It does not matter if those it humiliates are living in public housing and on welfare and disability money. All that matters is that they lead hopeless lives, are made to submit, and are displayed ritually. And so it uses the middle-class family to generate its untouchable caste.
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Listening to Music #3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4echOq2…
http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-lead…
Trump, Irresponsible Like A Dictator
http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altma…
Santa Clara County: Domestic violence levels return to historic average
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
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http://gizmodo.com/an-earthquake-swarm-h…
I just felt two.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/m…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jay…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicamerali…
http://www.julianjaynes.org/
Anyone ever read this guy? People have been recommending him to me since before 1980.
But I also have seen times when is books have been used by Far Right elements. I don't know if his stuff really supports that or not, beyond just being a way to challenge religion.
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Jean Baudrillard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror…
http://www.telospress.com/
Wall Street, how it works and for who, by Doug Henwood
http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/WallStr…
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/12/its-offi…
This is not good!
Will the 49ers play in Santa Clara elections?
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/article/zz/…
Some of the people running Santa Clara have been able to make it look like they are somehow in opposition to the 49ers. This is total subterfuge to try and get re-elected.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-we…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unpr…
Map
http://www.christianpost.com/news/louisi…
Some other shocking historical photos:
http://detonate.com/shocking-historical-…
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Miles Davis - So What
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOG…
County Supervisor Cindy Chavez getting involved, and Dave Cortese had already been involved, apologizing for the number of cases which were getting dropped.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen…
Leonardo Dicaprio and some hot looking women. I guess they have to take their high heels of for the yacht.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature…
In April, two County Hospital Doctors fired for failing to report to CPS, and the resulting violent death of a toddler.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29831931/w…
Failing to report should have landed these doctors in prison. That is the law.
follow up story
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article…
Barefoot Caravan trailer, a bit pricey
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/barefo…
http://www.go-barefoot.co.uk/the-full-sp…
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http://www.jumpvibes.com/22-trump-scanda…
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news…
http://patch.com/california/cupertino/su…
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/portlet/arti…
Jaw Dropping Rio Athletes:
Sophie Horn
http://www.lifedaily.com/20-hottest-fema…
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http://www.vcstar.com/news/state/Fire-de…
Sadly, Summit Inn burned down August 16, 2016
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Summit…
On highway 15, between San Bernardino and Victorville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Inn
http://www.theroadwanderer.net/RT66cajon…
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Jean Gebser's Ever-Present Origin Part 1 by John David Ebert 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB77_07i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Gebse…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber
FIRST ON 7: New Jersey officers with guns chase young boy in mistaken identity case
http://abc7news.com/news/first-on-7-offi…
Santa Clara County: Sheriff, coroner offices headed for split
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
Matricide 89yo
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08…
Man Kills His 89-Year-Old Mother, Self In Santa Clara Home
Santa Clara: Elderly woman, son dead in suspected murder-suicide
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
Santa Clara: Coroner identifies woman, adult son killed in murder-suicide
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
Mother, son killed in apparent murder-suicide in Santa Clara identified
http://kron4.com/2016/08/24/mother-son-k…
Ex-Santa Clara County deputy accused of assaulting inmate
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general…
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-af…
Santa Clara: Former mayor and council candidate under investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matricide
Is San Jose of appropriate size to be able to play that "shell game", or will you find a backlog of hard core criminals getting away with burglaries and drug trafficking?
You find many police officers refusing to do the work of patrol because the compensation doesn't warrant the hazards they endure. Not a lot of succes stories those patrol officers deal with on a routine basis, and I think this police shortage is a direct result of the backlash the liberal media and "black lives" movement has created. The chickens have come home to roost!
How would the organization that you're creating help to aleviate this public safety matter? Would you suggest sending several street walkers out to suck the men dry of all their testosterone hence calming them down enough where they're too spent to commit crimes?
Is San Jose of appropriate size to be able to play that "shell game", or will you find a backlog of hard core criminals getting away with burglaries and drug trafficking?
You find many police officers refusing to do the work of patrol because the compensation doesn't warrant the hazards they endure. Not a lot of succes stories those patrol officers deal with on a routine basis, and I think this police shortage is a direct result of the backlash the liberal media and "black lives" movement has created. The chickens have come home to roost!
How would the organization that you're creating help to aleviate this public safety matter? Would you suggest sending several street walkers out to suck the men dry of all their testosterone hence calming them down enough where they're too spent to commit crimes?
This is true. Some deliberate deep cuts to fill a budget hole. And most of the fiscal problems are directly traceable to putting money into re-development to try and change city demographics, spending public money to try and help speculators profit, been going on since about 1980.
And then because of trying to renege on pension contracts, police and fire are pissed, and so there continues to be an exodus. Not good. The candidate who would have reversed this, endorsed by police and fire, Dave Cortese, was defeated in a completely income level and race based election by Sam Liccardo. First thing he then did was fire the City Manager, a guy who had been making good headway in making peace.
This is a problem!
This may also be why the great Vietnamese AMPS have made comeback.
"declared an emergency to place detectives to cover the shortfall"
Well, police get shifted about in their duties as needed. But I don't know anything about any declared emergency. And they do most certainly investigate more serious crimes. San Jose has a low homicide rate and a very high rate of solving them. But the police shortage is serious. And we have also placed way too much emphasis on police only, to reduce crime.
I support the work of:
https://acjusticeproject.org/
They want to reduce the emphasis on law enforcement in dealing with crime. And they want to empower low income people in standing up to police and court excesses.
I don't know anything about any shell game or any hard core criminals running about free. Overall San Jose is a more law abiding and heavily policed place than what gets talked about on TUSCL. Overall very safe for its size of 1 million, or the 10th largest city in the nation.
Police officers refusing to work, never heard of this. The issue is conservative city regimes trying to renege on the pension contract.
This has nothing what so ever to do with any 'liberal media'. There really is not such a thing. Most media just does source journalism, printing what the police tell them. And this has nothing to do with the black lives matter movement. The issue is pensions and foolish use of public funds in past decades to try and gentrify and to line the pockets of real estate speculators. The issues we have with police excesses have usually involved police being completely improper with Hispanics, totally unlawful Disorderly Conduct arrests.
The chickens coming home are the stupidity of neo-liberal regimes in trying to increase private profits and saying that that serves a greater public good.
I really am concerned, I feel that you are just posting back to me things which must have come from some extremely distorted Right Wing media source.
Then as far as my fledgling organization, we will have our own ongoing education and our own leadership in multiple technology industries. Our men and some of the women will be kept busy there. And then all of our men will also be kept busy getting fucked and sucked dry each day by stripper grade hotties, plus sometimes also bedding down with them.
But we don't send our women out to service outside people. And we never get money that way either. As many will have come from Strip Clubs and AMPs, they may still do what they do, but we don't involve ourselves in that, or get any of the money. The ones who live on our premises will have retired from such commercial practices. We don't have anything to do with promoting any form of prostitution, and we never get money from anything like that.
As far as influencing politics though, we certainly won't want to be calming people down. We will be organizing people so that they can make revolution and be effective. Just common crime and violence are not effective.
We will be getting people to totally reject alcohol, drugs, born again christianity, and psychiatric medications, and instead to work with us and start re-educating themselves, and to become politically conscious so they can file lawsuits against past abusers. For people who have had children in order to scapegoat and use them, we will be their worst nightmare, as they will be held accountable. And then the psychiatric system is going to get shredded, and the evangelical churches will be torn to pieces too.
And then as people who reject things like born again christianity and psychiatric medications and the self-reliance ethic are able to politically organize, we will be able to steer the overall politics way to the left, so that probably things come to resemble Sweden or the French Socialist Party.
Crime in the US is simply the result of desperation. Hiring more police does not remedy this. Restructuring society so that is based on a premise of human dignity is what stops crime.
SJG
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street - Soul Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjqR5Rr…
http://abc7news.com/news/south-bay-infan…
San Jose Infant Dies Of Injuries After Father’s Alleged Abuse
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08…
6-Week-Old Abused Baby Dies in San Jose, Father to be Charged With Murder
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/6-W…
San Jose baby dies after alleged abuse by father
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…
What a Place to Call Home Means to Affordable Housing Residents
http://www.publicceo.com/2016/08/what-a-…
Judge In Stanford Rape Trial Reassigned From Criminal To Civil Division
http://sfist.com/2016/08/26/judge_in_sta…
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I think the image of he voluptuous woman is firmly planted in the darkest, least evolved parts of our brains. If you look at the stone-age fetish figurines -- like the famous Venus of Willendorf -- they were basically little statues of fat chicks that cavemen jerked off to.
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Coop
He was a much featured artist for Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.
http://www.dking-gallery.com/pix/Coop/CO…
http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m…
Paraphrasing to simply his close, "perhaps the final lesson we have to learn is this: If there is a "magic" in sex, it may not lie so much in the possibility of generating income, enchanting straying lovers, or bringing spontaneously gifted laptop computers, rather it may lie in the hope of creating a more equal, fair, and free society that benefits men and women of all ethnicities and sexual orientations. Such a hope may well be "magical" in the sense that it is ultimately utopian and never perfectly attainable. But it is no less worthy of fighting for and striving toward.
Revolutionaries of the soul : reflections on magicians, philosophers, and occultists / Gary Lachman, 2014
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Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSAN4tK…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Hermetic-…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/082235229X/?ta…
book preview
https://www.amazon.com/dp/082235229X/?ta…
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Glenn Gould-Alban Berg-Piano Sonata in One Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNk_A4Zo…