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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

This day in History: Sep 25, 1959: Little Augie Pisano is murdered

Mob assassins shoot Anthony Carfano, known as Little Augie Pisano, to death in New York City on Meyer Lansky's orders. Lansky, one of the few organized crime figures who managed to survive at the top for several decades, was estimated to have accumulated as much as $300,000,000 in ill-gotten gains by the 1970s. Still, the government was never able to prove any wrongdoing.

Meyer Lansky, the son of Russian immigrants, had an eighth-grade education, which put him far ahead of many other criminals. According to legend, Lansky was a straight arrow until one day in October 1918, when he joined a fight between teenagers Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano over a prostitute. After the three were charged with disorderly conduct, Lansky and Siegel became friends and began running a high-stakes craps game.

The two later expanded into bootlegging, car theft, and extortion, and helped form the New York "syndicate." Lansky, a ruthless leader who would not tolerate disloyalty, ordered the murder of a thief who failed to provide an adequate kickback. Although he was shot several times, the thief survived to name Lansky as one of the assailants. Lansky then poisoned his hospital food, and though he survived a second time, the threat was enough to change his attitude toward testifying. Later, he even rejoined Lansky's gang.
In June 1947, Lansky ordered the death of his old friend Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills, California. Siegel, who had been sent to the West Coast in order to establish a new mob presence, came up with the idea of building The Flamingo, Las Vegas' first major casino. The casino had been built with mob money, and Lansky was angry over the pace of Siegel's loan payments.

When Lansky ordered the murder of Anthony Carfano 12 years later, Carfano had been intruding on Lansky's gambling interests in Florida and Cuba. His death eliminated all competition and opened up emerging markets for Lansky in South America. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lansky made a special effort to stay out of the public eye and was fairly successful. He died of lung cancer in 1983.

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Tire Mount

Roof Rack Tire Mount
As the tire size went up on DinoEvo, the spare wheel didn’t fit in the original spot under the van anymore. Also the area is now used for an additional Diesel tank.
I was thinking about to do a rear bumper swing-away tire carrier, but decided against it for several reasons. It is very crucial for us to have easy and quick access to the trunk door. Opening the tire carrier several times a day would have been annoying. Another reason was the overall added weight of a heavy steel bumper. Sure, it would add more protection, but adding a couple hundred pounds just to carrier a tire wouldn’t be smart with the overall already limited payload. Therefore the spare tire went on the roof. Not as good for weight distribution, but the lesser evil.
DinoEvo came with a light-bar on the roof, which I took off right away. Now I used parts of it again to make the structure for the tire mount. The design of the mount is pretty simple. I bought some heavy-duty aluminum rectangular tubing and bolted four of them with stainless steel hardware to the existing roof rack as well as the old light-bar crossmember. The tire itself is going to be tie-down as well as secured with a lock.

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Victoria’s Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel Is Wearing A Kitten As A Bikini Bottom On Instagram

As I was getting ready for bed last night, I was lucky enough to catch this gem when it was retweeted across my timeline. It was only Wednesday, but suffice it to say the rest of my week is made, thanks to Candice Swanepoel.

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Not usually being one to venture over to Instagram frequently, I luckily made the exceptional decision to click the link in question, knowing full well that Swanepoel is among the hottest women to ever grace the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’s esteemed, 10/10 filled runway.

What I was met with, as the Emoji so kindly conveyed just milliseconds before I had my mind blown, was the reason I’m going to be checking Instagram relentlessly for the rest of my life.

My first reaction? “Oh. My. God. That’s an Angel wearing nothing but a cat. This is AWESOME.”

Naturally, he’s never been more comfortable in his life from the looks of that scrunched up face that simply reads, “I’m in heaven,” which totally adds up…with Candice being an Angel and everything.

Man, the things I would do.

It’s beyond me why her original tweet only has some 177 RTs at the time I’m writing this, but I guess justice is done, because the best photo I’ve seen in 2014 so far has amassed some 136,000 likes on Instagram since last night.

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Sun Leads Industry with New Enterprise Flash-Powered Servers

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Webmaster NewsSANTA CLARA, CA – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the next step in its end-to-end enterprise Flash strategy with the availability of robust solid state drive (SSD) Flash technology in its x64, chip multi-threaded (CMT) Rack and Blade systems. Selected Sun x64 and CMT systems are available for free 60-day trials via Sun’s Try and Buy program, with up to 20-40 percent discount if the system is purchased at

Sun’s unique systems design approach to SSD integration across software, systems and storage leverages enterprise-class components and redefines the storage hierarchy. This holistic systems approach helps customers achieve up to 65x faster response times, up to eight times better throughput, and up to 38% less power consumption than servers with traditional spinning hard disk drives.

The enterprise Flash market is poised for significant growth in 2009, driven by better economies of scale for Flash technology that more efficiently allows companies to serve and manage exponentially growing amounts of data. The first major vendor to announce an end-to-end Flash strategy in early 2008, Sun has integrated Flash technology into its popular Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage family and today introduced SSD innovation into its leading server portfolio.

“Sun’s innovative x64 and CMT server designs with the Solaris OS push data center efficiency to its limits on performance, scalability and energy requirements,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. “Sun is leading the charge with the addition of Flash technology to our server platforms that blow the doors off with huge performance increases, greater cost efficiencies and savings in power consumption.”

Sun’s x64 and CMT servers and blade systems are already among the industry’s best performing and most efficient platforms for virtualization as well as enterprise, Web, database and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Sun’s x64 servers and blade systems support multiple chip architectures, including UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors; as well as operating systems like Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Open Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware. Sun Blade systems offer customers up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and racks systems, and 15% less energy consumption versus equivalent rackmount servers. Sun CMT servers deliver breakthrough performance and dramatic eco-efficiency with up to four times higher performance, up to four times higher performance per watt, and cost as little as one-fourth of competitive servers. Now with the integration of enterprise solid state disks into Sun systems, customers can double performance to increase I/O intensive applications and lower power consumption significantly.

“The industry has witnessed the evolution of Flash technology from consumer products like the Apple iPod into the enterprise datacenter, driven primarily by decreasing costs for Flash technology and the promise of better application performance in a lower power envelope,” said Gene Ruth, senior analyst with the Burton Group. “The integration of solid state disk innovation and servers is a natural fit and promises compelling price/performance points for customers.”

Sun designed its Solaris ZFS, the first and only file system optimized for Flash, that offers increased performance and minimal downtime. Solaris ZFS can combine DRAM, SSDs, and traditional hard drives into a “Hybrid Storage Pool,” which provides customers with the speed of Flash SSDs and the economies of hard drives. In November 2008, Sun also introduced the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems with integrated Flash for dramatically reduced storage I/O bottlenecks, never-before-seen storage analytics capabilities, and a greatly simplified management interface.

Sun also today announced the Sun Flash Analyzer, the industry’s first and only tool that gives customers insight into their SSD-based servers to understand how to increased application performance. This new tool detects I/O intensive applications that can best leverage Flash technology and will then make suggestions about ways to improve system performance. The Sun Flash Analyzer runs on Solaris 10 OS, Windows and Linux operating environments and can easily be downloaded at

For more information about Sun’s new SSD server portfolio, the Sun Flash Analyzer tool or the Solaris OS, please see and click on the “Unleashing Application Performance with Solid-State Drives and Sun Servers” white paper or these blue prints: “Optimizing Systems to use Flash Memory as a Hard Drive Replacement” or “Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools with Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System.”

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KPMG rolls out new data analytics platform in its forensic advisory business selecting ControlCircle for datacentre services

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Web Hosting ToolsUnited Kingdom – ControlCircle today announces that it is providing comprehensive datacentre services for KPMG’s UK Forensic advisory business as the professional services firm deploys an industry leading, high performance data analytics platform to support clients requiring fast analysis of computer-based data. This will help them better understand their businesses, reduce commercial risks and maximise profits – crucial in the ever challenging economic climate.

Employing around 150 staff, KPMG’s UK Forensic division is one of the fastest growing of the company’s practice areas with revenues in 2008 totalling more than £60 million. While a range of traditional fraud prevention and detection services are provided, other related services, such as data analytics, are rapidly expanding too as clients seek to improve organisational effectiveness.

Stephen Gallagher, partner, data analytics, KPMG Forensic, explains, “Clearly data analytics involves crunching through vast amounts of data to find hidden trends and patterns. Historically, this would have involved just the capture, extraction and presentation of digital evidence used in fraud investigations but we’re moving the game on to help clients use analytics in a more proactive way to potentially gain a competitive advantage.”

A major data analytics success recently was where KPMG Forensic helped a FTSE 100 company save millions after the installation of a new enterprise-wise SAP billing system. Gallagher says, “A large number of incorrect invoices had been issued and then provisioned for. To decrease the provision level, we extracted 500 million rows of transactional data from a range of sources and 15 million customer records, analysed the incorrect billing, and as a result £50m of revenue was released to the top line, as a more accurate deferred revenue provision was agreed with auditors.”

With increased demand for its forensic services, KPMG needed to deploy a heavy weight data analytics solution with sufficient hardware and processing power to cope with the large data volumes so that it had the right infrastructure in place to support the business moving forward. It turned to ControlCircle for help in developing, managing and hosting a custom built platform.

Darren Pauling, director, KPMG Forensic, says, “We went out to tender 3 years ago, short listed two datacentre services companies and, after doing the necessary due diligence, selected ControlCircle. Data security was absolutely our key concern, as well as speed of response and accessibility in any chosen supplier. This is the first time we’ve worked with an outside partner in Forensic as we simply didn’t have the resources in-house to expand the operation as fast as we wanted.”

ControlCircle is providing datacentre space in London where KPMG has currently taken 16 racks, along with power, cabling, and physical security which includes separate cages within its datacentre suite, CCTV and biometric access. BGP Internet connectivity is provided as part of the fully managed service, as well as consultancy services to design, specify and install the systems in the datacentre, and 24x7x365 monitoring and support.

Gallagher adds, “We needed a partner who is easy to work with and flexible as our business is very reactive – speed is normally of the essence as projects are typically one off and short term where a client will engage with us for a specific job. ControlCircle’s approach supports this.”

SAS analytics and reporting suite has been installed with KPMG as the data analytics platform to underpin its forensic business. The partnership will enable KPMG’s customers to benefit from SAS’ market leading business analytics software.

KPMG’s whole data analytics environment comprises a range of best-of-breed tools from various vendors. From a data management and cleansing perspective, KPMG utilises tools like Datanomic and data mining tools from SAS to look for trends and patterns in the clean data. In addition, KPMG’s own bespoke written KTrace and KLean software allows staff to specifically look for irregularities in financial transactions. Pauling says, “We’ll use whatever best-of-breed software clients require to solve their specific issues – the platform is very much multi vendor and flexible in this sense.”

The project nature of its forensic business has therefore dictated KPMG’s whole choice of technology and driven the need for a flexible computing model where a pay-to-use approach has been adopted with some systems. ControlCircle has been instrumental in advising KPMG about what technology to deploy to support this utility computing approach, advising and supplying various systems such as the SAN storage among others.

NetApp’s multi protocol FAS3170 storage platform has been installed, with KPMG able to pay per client project based on the amount of data stored. With the system in the datacentre configured to provide up to 34TB worth of storage today, but with the head unit able to scale to 840TB of raw data, KPMG has a class leading platform available to cope with a myriad of future forensic projects.

Damian Milkins, ControlCircle’s chief executive officer, says, “The pay as you use storage approach based on a per gig stored basis means that KPMG avoids large upfront costs normally associated with storage where you have to over provision based on what you might need. Equally there are no delays when extra capacity is required as the system is already configured and ready to go. This means KPMG can respond to client needs and deliver projects far faster, turning the storage on and off as they like, and paying accordingly, which is perfect for a business which is so project based.”

The NetApp FAS system is connected to UNIX-based high availability Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers through Brocade 5000 fibre channel switches running at 4 gigabit per second connectivity. The Sun servers feature dynamic domain and zoning – in effect offering a virtual server capability – to enable multiple UNIX-based applications to run on one physical box so that the data analytics team can maximise their capacity.

ControlCircle has also managed the installation of Brocade’s chassis-based NetIron MLX-16 switching routing platform to provide KPMG complete flexibility in terms of how it manages its network based on the number of client projects being worked on. A core network switch, it offers scalability from gigabit to 10 gigabit Ethernet, MPLS connectivity, wire speed performance, easy deployment of additional switch blades and competitive cost per port pricing.

Inherent in the datacentre services provided by ControlCircle is the ability for KPMG to quickly change the amount of equipment deployed and managed without extra rack space necessarily being required. Once appropriate due diligence technical assessments have been carried out, engineers can quickly provision extra power capacity in a rack on a per project basis with KPMG just paying for the extra power consumed. In other words, ControlCircle is enabling KPMG to make maximum use of its rack space through flexible contractual arrangements.

To enable the various practices which form the recently created KPMG Europe LLP entity[2] to have access to the new data analytics platform, in addition to its Indian operation, Citrix NetScaler, a web application delivery appliance, is providing secure SSL VPN capabilities and its Smart Access functionality for policy filtering.

This means granular control of who can access the system based on IP address – crucial given the sensitivity of projects managed by the forensic team. This is in addition to firewall technology implemented by ControlCircle from Check Point and Juniper.

Gallagher concludes, “In the old days, when a big investigation job came in, we would have had to add to our systems as we went which we recognised wasn’t a sustainable way of working. The beauty of the new platform is we’ve now got an infrastructure which is totally flexible which means clients can be better served, operational efficiency is enhanced, CAPEX reduced, with our technology partners recognising that a usage-based model is an equally valid way of charging over and above the traditional licensing route.”

About ControlCircle
ControlCircle, a City-based data centre services company, is focused on designing, implementing and providing ongoing monitoring & management of mission critical networks and systems for companies and e-commerce sites who need complete confidence in system uptime and security.

Vendor neutral, with a consultative approach to meet clients’ needs, ControlCircle offers an end-to-end solution covering data storage, network security, networking and connectivity, hosting and managed services. And it is the breadth of its managed services, SAN and 24/7/365 monitoring and support which sets ControlCircle apart. For further information about ControlCircle, visit

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KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, is a subsidiary of KPMG Europe LLP and operates from 22 offices across the UK with 11,500 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a turnover of €2.2 billion in the year ended September 2008. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 148 countries and have more than 113,000 professionals working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative. KPMG International provides no client services. For further information, please visit
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Disco Acetates-Firststar records

Firststar records issued Acetate remixes. I think it was issued in 1982-1983. The Acetates were 12" and had no label on it. They made acetates and issued them in the same way as Disconet did. On a sheet DJ's could fill in their rates and must return it in a envelope with stamp, which was also included at the record. Here are the two ones i know:

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Naya Restaurant and Lounge

I have to admit, when I think of eating Indian food, I usually just think about ordering in, not going out. I was recently invited to try the menu at new-ish Indian restaurant Naya. Given it's close proximity to my house and it's promise of "new" Indian food, I just couldn't pass up this comped media dinner.

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There is an interesting contrast at Naya. The lounge is dark and sexy while the main dining room is soft and white. I arrived too late to sample many of the appetizers that were being passed around the lounge, but the fried peanuts were enough to whet my appetite. I had a few sips of the Dancing Lotus cocktail ($12). With Belvedere, Cointreau, lychee juice, and pomegranate. I wish it had been a little heavier on the pomegranate and lighter on the Cointreau and lychee juice.

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We soon moved to the dining room to begin the tasting. The green salad ($8) was bright and refreshing.

Green Salad

I'm not the biggest fan of regular potatoes, but the sweet and tangy dressing of the Sweet and Sour Potato salad ($8) masked the blandness of the potato without being overpowering. This is one of the lightest potato salads I've ever had.

Sweet and Sour Potato Salad

One of my favorite dishes of the night was the Sprout Street salad ($7) with chickpeas, potatoes, tortilla chips, sprouts, and sweetened yogurt. It had great textures and flavors and again didn't feel too heavy.

Sprout Street

Next up was the Four Flavored Chicken ($12). The types were blackened, green, red, and malai tikka. The chicken was full of flavor, but a little dry. This was a rare instance I would have preferred something saucier.

Four Flavored Chicken

The last appetizer was the Silky Lamb Kabob ($11) with charred minced lamb and garlic mashed potatoes. Once again, the lamb had great flavor, but I would have preferred some sort of dipping sauce because it was a bit dry. The fried onion on top was a forgettable, but if you enjoy mashed potatoes (I do not), you would like this garlicky version.

Silky Lamb Kabob

For our first entree we had the Butter Chicken Masala ($16). It's actually a cornish game hen in the buttery tomato sauce, but it hit the spot. It comes with "Naya Rice" which is a lightly seasoned white rice. It comes with a lot of the entrees.

Butter Chicken Masala

The Everest Lamb ($17) is a warm and comforting dish with tender lam ossobuco, onion-tomato glaze and Naya rice.

Everest Lamb

We were next greeted with a couple of side dishes. The Yellow Lentil Stew ($8) was delicious as was the Fenugreek and Green Pea Curry ($8)

Fenugreek and Green Pea Curry

Yellow Lentil Stew

It was then time for a couple of seafood dishes. I really liked the Cognac Prawns ($20) with jumbo shrimp, onion-tomato masala, cognac and a reduced balsamic glaze served with the ever present Naya rice. Some people felt it was too sweet, but I thought it had a good balance of saltiness and spiciness to balance out the sweetness.

Cognac Prawns

The last seafood dish was the Apricot Patagonian Seabass ($26). It's Chilean seabass with apricot curry and black rice. I thought the curry was more like apricot jam and a bit too sweet, but the seabass was perfectly cooked and paired well with a slightly different kind of rice.

Apricot Patagonian Seabass

Coconut Moile Baby Eggplant with mustard chili, coconut curry sauce, Naya risotto ($15).

Coconut Moile Baby Eggplant

We were also treated to garlic and regular naan ($3 each), but by this late in the game, I was full of the meatier dishes and Naya rice to give it too much thought which is a shame since garlic naan is one of my favorite foods ever.

Garlic Naan

Coconut Moile Baby Eggplant

I really should have paid more attention to the desserts, but I was entirely too full by this point. The chocolate samosa was bursting with chocolate goodness, but I was not a huge fan of the other pastry which was a bit too soggy for my tastes.

Dessert plate

Chocolate Samosa

Naya is a beautiful restaurant. It feels like you're at a fine dining establishment, but with a very relaxed and casual vibe. Many of the dishes are vegetarian and will cater to a wide variety of tastes. This new Indian cuisine is alright with me.

One year ago: Thomas Keller Oreos
Two years ago: Pumpkin Bread with Cinnamon Cheesecake Layer
Three yeas ago: Slow Roasted Tomato Soup

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3705 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90026
(323) 663-8268

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Georgia Pellegrini said...

I'm totally checking this out next time I'm in town!

vanillasugarblog said...

i would be happy with just fresh Naan!
wow. what a great spread--very jealous as i love indian food, very much and its been years since i've had any, let alone any kind of takeout.

marla said...

Sounds like a FUN night out :)

Joanne said...

I've had exactly one gourmet indian meal in my life and it was amazing. Definitely one of hte best meals of my life! This all sounds delicious!


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Monday, May 5, 2014

Strawberry-Rosé Spritzer and Six Years of Blogging

Each year that my blog's birthday comes and goes, I think to myself, I can't believe I've made it another year. This site certainly isn't what it used to be, and I doubt it ever will be again, but it's nice to have this piece of the Interweb in which I get to share delicious food and drink and ramble a bit. My blog birthday treats seem to mostly be centered around strawberries and Nutella because...why not? This year, I decided to celebrate in cocktail form with strawberry-soaked rose wine and a hint of bitterness from my favorite aperitif, Aperol. It brought a hint of spring to my Chicago kitchen, even when it snowed two days later. Luckily, I am now enjoying a nice week in California to warm my soul. Anyway, thanks as always for continuing to let me share on here and cheers to another year!

One year ago: Magic Cake
Two years ago: Nutella Pop Tarts
Three years ago: Strawberry Crisp
Four years ago: Nutella Sandwich Cookies
Five years ago: Perfect Party Cake
Six years ago (my first post...don't judge!):The Return of The Glamorous Life

Strawberry-Rose Spritzer
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Makes 8 servings

2 cups strawberries, washed, hulled, and chopped
1 750-ml bottle rose wine
2 cups soda water
1/3 cup Aperol
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

In a large pitcher, combine the strawberries and rose and let the strawberries steep for at least three hours or overnight.

Strain the rose from the strawberries and reserve the strawberries for garnish. Pour the wine back into the pitcher and mix in the soda water, Aperol, and lemon juice. Fill each glass with ice cubes and a few strawberries and pour the drink over the ice. Serve immediately.

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H. C. said...

what a lovely & easy drink to make for the summer!

and yeah, totally agree on blog not being what it used to be, but still appreciative of this little nook for me to rant & rave about all things edible & potable.

Joanne said...

happy blog birthday chica! i always love seeing what you have to share. :) This spritzer is so lovely. I love rose`s to begin with and the strawberry infusion sound so nice.

Devon said...

Six years of blogging is amazing. I've just come back myself after a long time and I truly admire your dedication.

lisa is cooking said...

Happy blog birthday! I'd love to toast the occasion with a glass of this spritzer.


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60 Years Ago Today: Same Old Shit!

What if we were living in an exact repeat of political arguments 60 years ago? Spoiler Alert: WE ARE!

Wake Up

Wake Up Already ... this was 60 Years ago!

Technology is accelerating all around us, but our public policy debates are clearly going in circles. How fascinating that we could be out exploring the galaxy by now, yet here we are hashing out this junk yet again. Exhibit A:Alice In Blunderland: A Fantasy for Every American Citizen” (1952)

Ever heard people calling for you to “Wake Up!” and railing against “big government’, “tax & spend” policies? Freaked out about scary alerts that the Federal government is threatening to control everything? Oh and did ya notice the attacks on public sector workers, dubious examples of government waste, equating regulation with anti-capitalism and, of course, questioning progressive taxes for the wealthy & corporations.
Well you can find them all in this anonymous 1952 political propaganda comic book.

“It’s Time For All Of Us To WAKE UP! ”
“Time to cut every cent of government waste and inefficiency”
“Time to clamp down on the ‘spend and tax’ spiral”
“Time to stop the growth of the overpowering Federal government”
“Time to bring government back home”

FUCK …. this is exactly like right now, in 2012.

Alice In Blunderland

Alice In Blunderland

Tea party patriots, fundamentalist conservatives, libertarians and Ron Paul supporters may (or may not) be surprised to see the exact language of today’s headlines. A few easy to remember memes, repeated as though they were unquestionable, targeted as a populist message, even though the policies advocated do little or nothing for the average American.

So the natural question arises: Who the fuck made this?  We don’t really know. So another good question is: What group had something to gain by advocating these policies and designing this well-produced yet oddly anonymous comic? Again it’s not known, but I suspect it was NOT a grassroots movement by ‘We The people’ to make America into a more fair, diverse and free nation of economic opportunity … this suspicion is based on the only authorship reference given anywhere in the entire comic:

© 1952, Industrial Services, 295 Madison Ave. New York, NY.

The name “Industrial Services” in New York is intentionally vague enough, and is amusingly difficult to trace on Google.  295 Madison Ave is a large building, so even the address is just approximate, it would have been a suite within that building. Comic guide searches turn up *Only One Credit* to “Industrial Services”,   “Alice In Blunderland” was the only publication “they” (whoever they were) put out under this name.

The Blunderland Experience:
In the comic Alice goes on a tour inside of “Government” and is guided through Blunderland and the tour is punctuated by a carefully selected series of “Fantastic Facts” which drive her to desperation.  Not surprisingly, the “facts” are not supported by any references or citations. They are vague and leave much to the imagination and context of the presentation!

Let’s examine a few. The first “fantastic fact” we learn sets the tone for those that follow.

“There are 29 Federal Government agencies duplicating each other’s work in making loans … 28 handle welfare projects … 50 compile statistics … etc, etc.!”

Ok, of all the shit you can complain about with Federal Government services … these 3 things are what they highlight? Does this say anything about where they are coming from? A concern for reducing oversight on loan activity, a disdain for welfare projects and a dismissal of the usefulness of statistics. Hmmm. Ok, Here are two more “Facts” from this anonymous political comic.

“We now have a quantitative framework with marginal qualitative reallocations to formalize the procedure for the further refining and implementing of our objectives”  – Actually this is the “easiest” sentence in an involved “explanation” made by a Federal controls agency official – as recently reported by the United Press.

Thousands of tons of obsolete, useless records and documents are kept in steel cabinets on costly office floors at maintenance charges of $29 per file a year when they might be stored in cardboard containers in warehouses at $2.15 a year – or better still, thrown away!

Okie-dokey, the complaints about technical language are clearly out of context and intended to create the impression that all government bureaucracies are a big pile of technical jargon with nothing to show for it. It also seems similar to the anti-intellectual, proud-to-be-ignorant trend in America, as exemplified by Fox News and the Bush II era of politics. This quote is probably real … but taken from a technical analysis using standard methodologies, which sound like greek, just like any technical jargon does. Even I can understand what is being said, which is ‘we figured out a solid way of self-testing to make sure we’re meeting goals”. On the 2nd point, the fascination with making public records easy to destroy and hard to access, or just tossing them out is quite interesting!!

Alice In Blunderland panel

We are gonna take your WOMEN!

Back To The Storyline
Alice, after expressing confusion about Blunderland (aka. Federal Government), is called unpatriotic and taken to court. Here she is pre-judged before a jury of the government workers we have been told are so horrible. Her mad-hatter tour guide turns out to also be her prosecutor. A rabbit reads the verdict:   “We find the defendant Guilty of treason, unpatriotism, non-conformism, vandalism and  – er – etcetera and (ahem) etcetera.”

Then the government workers attack her menacingly, with slight sexual overtones as a guy in prison stripes with a net says “She wouldn’t become a ‘stockpile stenographer’ ” and, given that this was 1952, I see very clear Racial Overtones with the skin color of the ‘Doormouse’ also attacking her!
Meanwhile chaos erupts with more calls of “traitor” and “non-conformist” from the courtroom mob. She awakes to find it was all a dream, but now she must TAKE ACTION! before it’s TOO LATE!

Take-Away Message To The Reader:
The entire government, Especially Federal is your biggest enemy. No positive aspects to Federal government are mentioned. Apparently they exist solely to take and waste your money. Everything that is a frustration in your life is somehow a result of Federal interference or the laziness of public employees. Statistical research about American society, racial, social & financial demographics are not necessary, or useful … merely an extravagance. As is record-keeping, nobody in the future wants to know what we were doing in 1952. Put them all in cardboard boxes in remote warehouses, so they are easy to burn all at once … or just throw them away.
Fuck … whatever, right?

So yeah, that’s weird …
I’d love to know more about who produced this comic and the memeology behind it.  If you can figure it out, then post a comment with your research! My (self-consciously biased) intuition is that it’s a conservative think-tank or business investor consortium of some kind who funded this, and for basically the same purposes as most of the anti-fed rhetoric nowadays … to drive lunkheaed populist support for elitist goals, tie up the fed in legislation, and cut down on regulations and oversight so some few corporations can make mad profits!
Probably at the expense of the environment and the general welfare of the US citizen.
… Same old shit, different generation.  Where’s my fucking escape spaceship?
Oh, not available in this “future”? Ok, I’ll settle for the ‘Satellite of Love’ for now.

Don't Panic. I've been following conspiracy theories since you were in diapers and studying the UFO phenomenon since I could read. I'm here to reassure you that nobody is in control and the future is extremely uncertain. I've enjoyed a life-long fascination with science, philosophy, mysticism, spirituality, nature, transhumanism and the outer limits of human knowledge (ufos, cosmology, entheogens, consciousness, extreme art and music).
MIQEL.com is my website, the primary joys in life for me are being a musician, designer, artist/painter, researcher & Shabda Yoga practitioner. Also a huge fan of Bucky Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson, John Coltrane, Paul Laffoley, Tisziji Munoz & MST3K.
  • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

    Without any reference at all to this article, I must say that I’m delighted to see someone new posting.

    That goes for you too, Matt Staggs.

    • DeepCough

      It’s because something is wrong with the damn Submit Story page (That, or they froze me out.)

      • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

        Perhaps they did.

        Once I started paying attention, I was surprised how many comments magically go “poof”. Including one or two of my own.

        It is possible that they may want to exhibit the same editorial control over the story submissions.

        • Anarchy Pony

          Are you sure you’re not getting flagged or something?

          • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

            Well, that could be possible, but I doubt it.

            The one instance I clearly recall of my own post going poof was a reply I made to Calypso where I pretended to misunderstand something he was saying and so intentionally interpreted his comment about his job dealing with 200 mentally ill people as referring to his time spent here.

            I specifically used the name of this site in the comment. But other than calling everyone on the site “mentally ill” there was nothing particularly offensive about it. Nothing worth flagging, to be sure.

          • Matt Staggs

            I’ve had a few of my own comments disappear. I assure you that there’s no deleting of comments going on. I mean, someone said I like to suck dick and I let it stand on one of the posts I wrote. I would’ve started there were I so inclined!

      • Matt Staggs

         Hey DeepCough,
        The Powers That Be are aware. Don’t you usually submit your posts via email, anyway? I’m hoping that will be resolved very, very soon. For the record, I’ve tried to email you a couple of times but the email address that’s on file is incorrect. I’ve gotten bouncebacks.

        • DeepCough

          Well, that e-mail finally went defunct, so I’ll submit to y’all my new one, mm’kay?

          • Matt Staggs

  • Anarchy Pony

    Anyway, this looks to me like the work of Birchers.

    • Secretlab

      This actually is similar, but far less slick, than some Birch Society material I saw growing up in the 60’s. JBS was created in 1958 (according to Wiki), so the mystery is still unsolved.

      • Secretlab

        Correction: more slick. Clearly, I’m a childhood victim of COMMUNISM and FLORIDATION! It’s hopeless, really.

      • Anarchy Pony

        Well maybe it was created by pre-birchers. Seems to have all the same sentiments they espouse.

    • MIQEL

       Good, I was hoping someone would catch that MST3K reference. I hear ya on the Birchers thing … ideologically related for sure. Also “Industrial Services” is not very creative either … “Chaos Engineer” found this awesome reference, it’s a copy of an EVEN EARLIER comic of the same name & similar narrative

  • Nephilim

    As long as they keep us ignorant of history and divided into factions this is all we will ever get.  Anyone else feel like a hamster on a wheel?  You should, it was planned that way.

    • http://buzzcoastin.posterous.com BuzzCoastin

      you can exit the wheel anytime you’d like
      but I have found
      many people prefer the wheel to freedom

      • Nephilim

         True, and true…  Heading for the exit right now as a a matter of fact, and I am excited like the French when Lindbergh landed.

  • Durga_daggr

    astrologers have been talking about this for a while now. See: Transit cycle of Uranus and Pluto during times of revolutionary upheaval.

  • http://buzzcoastin.posterous.com BuzzCoastin

    the stages of political enlightenment:

    is there more to this than meets the eye?
    wow! there’s a lot of stuff I didn’t know
    everybody should know about this stuff
    nobody gives a shit about this stuff
    they’re all deluded robots
    they actually like living like robots
    ah, fogetabotit
    I’ll just post comments on DisInfo & places like dat
    a wait for Armageddon to cum

    • Thomascoker420

       Check out this different type of economy, spread to everyone you know, or at least try lol… Like you said noone cares enough…. But yea… It is a viable system as opposed to our current economic growth system.  http:// steadystate. org/discover/

      • http://buzzcoastin.posterous.com BuzzCoastin

        the idea of sustainable practices
        being the basis of an economy is an excellent idea
        and in modern times
        this occurs spontaneously during times of crisis

        we will have to wait for the impending social collapse
        before any serious reform can begin

        and now
        back to our regularly scheduled program

  • 420

     Check out this different type of economy, spread to everyone you know,
    or at least try lol..
     It is a viable system as opposed to our current economic growth system.
    http:// steadystate. org/discover/

    • Anarchy Pony

      Dude, you gotta sound like you’re not a spambot.

    • rtb61

       Problem with that is, pretty much any kind of political system would work, you only have to make one correction, remove psychopaths out of the equation.
      They basically corrupt the whole of democracy to feed their own insane egos.

  • chaos engineer

    Curious comic. It seems to have taken its inspiration from John Kendrick Bangs’ 1907 political satire, Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28069

    • MIQEL

      Wow, thank you! Great find :)

  • Simiantongue

    Oh dear Wotan in Valhalla, evidence of ideological stratification. You mean the socio/political fodder teapartiers spread everywhere for their sheeple to graze upon these days isn’t something new? Who’da thunk it.

    If you were surprised by this historical piece of propaganda don’t think twice about it, it’s just a natural part of the “every generation thinks they invented it” syndrome. That effect will fade when you get old enough to accumulate some perspective.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JTJP6CBNJUEDKEC7AZHI7ASE3I Coyne

    What’s new about this? The same could be said about 50, 40, 30, 20, and 10 years ago! These stop-spending-stop-taxing-balance-the-budget rows come around as regular as visits to the bathroom.  They always break down for the same reason: “Cut Someone Else!”

    (“Cut those wasteful thieves over there; but don’t cut me, that would utterly destroy the country, which can’t survive without my subsidy.”)

  • paprtowl

    i was only 8 years old at the time but things have accelerated , maybe to the point that they can’t be reversed , the answer is in our hands.

  • Theonepercent

    Of course it is the same old shit.  It is about shifting from one regime to another.  Does anyone really know who funds OWS or any protests for that matter.   What better way to  get the people to dig their own graves.  As someone mentioned in these comments everyone is on a hamster wheel even the protesters.

  • Thezetigeistmovement

    I’ve said it before on other articles, but will reiterate again. The Zeitgeist Movement has been spreading information about an alternative steady state true Resource Based Economic Model for a few years now, and it’s on the back of the works of Buckminster Fuller. Constant consumption is not sustainable, and our politicians don’t know a damn thing about how to do anything. Go ahead and ask any politician how we’re going to feed people. How we would build a bridge, or anything for that matter. I urge everyone to looking into the proposals of TheVenusProject .com and TheZeitgeistMovement .com

    Here’s a Ted presentation – youtube.com/watch?v=4mkRFCtl2MI


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U.S. Department Of Justice Secretly Granted Immunity For Internet Providers Engaging In Cybersurveillance Program

cybersurveillanceIf it’s in the name of “security,” telecommunications corporations can now monitor users’ personal messages with special legal immunity granted from existing wiretapping laws, CNET News reports:

Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications on networks operated by AT&T and other service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws.

The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors’ Internet links. Since then, however, the program has been expanded by President Obama to cover sectors including energy, healthcare, and finance starting June 12.

The Justice Department agreed to grant legal immunity to the participating network providers in the form of what participants in the confidential discussions refer to as “2511 letters,” a reference to the Wiretap Act codified at 18 USC 2511 in the federal statute books.

“The Justice Department is helping private companies evade federal wiretap laws,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which obtained over 1,000 pages of internal government documents and provided them to CNET this week.

The Wiretap Act limits the ability of Internet providers to eavesdrop on network traffic except when monitoring is a “necessary incident” to providing the service or it takes place with a user’s “lawful consent.” An industry representative told CNET the 2511 letters provided legal immunity to the providers by agreeing not to prosecute for criminal violations of the Wiretap Act. It’s not clear how many 2511 letters were issued by the Justice Department.

  • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

    Unfortunately for them, there is a difference between “legal immunity” and “de facto impunity”.

    No one can guarantee the latter.

  • http://artasith-m-nasdsnre.tumblr.com/ Simon Valentine

    legal immunity? haha no such thing
    even as a proposition it’s set to violate at least one law
    there’s no such thing as a lawful or legal action
    and it doesn’t have to stay that way
    and that doesn’t have to be illegal
    there are only illegal actions
    and cases in which “oh hey a new handle, a genus favor from the gods”
    legal inoculations don’t get versus’ed like Monsanto
    and they should
    no one’s any different
    pools of water don’t stand over pools of water
    and density metaphors are illegal

  • Calypso_1

    This ‘immunity’ has existed long before the internet, since the beginnings of the telcoms & has been well documented. There has been a revolving door between telcom execs & operational directors of the NSA. They were monitoring phone & telex traffic in the 60 & 70’s as documented by DOJ investigations. There were secret courts to handle this long before FISA. Most of the initial ISPs in this country were started by NSA & DIA personnel.

    The DOJ is just trying to get in on the game.

    • http://artasith-m-nasdsnre.tumblr.com/ Simon Valentine

      tessellative mercing
      i say disinfo has a disinfo style brownout and disiminates information regarding which players thumb up or thumb down

  • anarcho

    They can pronounce immunity all they like, they will be made to answer to a higher “law,” the will of the people – one way or another, if you know what I mean

  • http://slrman.wordpress.com/ James Smith

    Free country? Free, my eyes! In the area of removing rights and freedom, BHO is no better than GWB. Worse, because he has the opportunity to do something positive but is only making things less free.


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Monthly Archives: May 2010

DIT AI Group Researcher Wins FLAIRS-23 Best Student Paper Award

DIT AI Group PhD researcher Rong Hu was today awarded the Best Student Paper award at FLAIRS-23. Rong was presented the award for her paper “Off to a Good Start: Using Clustering to Select the Initial Training Set in Active Learning” which was written together with Dr Brian Mac Namee and Dr Sarah Jane Delany. […]

AISTATSS 2010 Active Learning Challenge Presentation

Patrick and Amy have created a powerpoint presentation explaining the techniques they used for their entry in the AISTATS Active Learning Challenge. The presentation is based on two short papers submitted to the Active Learning and Experimental Design Workshop: SVM Based Active Learning with Exploration Exploring the Frontier of Uncertainty Space


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Caption Reads: "Molded Beef Ring - Meat set in gelatin and waiting in the refrigerator brings peace of mind when company's coming."

From a random cookbook my MIL gave me.

Does anyone buy the Penzey's Spice cooking magazine? Part of the charm of them, least I thought, was that they had horrendous food photography. Bad lighting, props from the 70s, and old fashioned, yummy food.

A few months back I made a trip into one of their stores and saw that they have now updated the entire magazine. It might was well be an issue of bon appetit. I was so disappointed.

Laura said...

The meat ring caption should read more like "Peace of mind when company's coming, that the bastards won't be breathing for long after munching on this tasty treat!"

Just my humble observation. hee hee!

Future Envy of the PTA said...

I just vomited in my mouth a little looking at that beef mold... yikes.

Pink said...

i absolutely love these el grosso old recipe pics. i had a friend in college who framed them and hung them on her living room wall!