#page 4558

[pesterloglog]

Autoresponder, Dirk Strider, Jane Crocker

Act 6, page 4553-4563

TT: Bro.

TT: What are you doing.

TT: It seems you are zoning out again.

TT: What happened to all these actual responsibilities you were going to take seriously?

TT: I was thinking about what to do.

TT: Strategizing. Factoring contingencies. You know how it is.

TT: It seems to me you were dwelling within your dream awareness at the expense of your waking business again.

TT: I don't think you're as awesome a multi-tasker as you like to think. You know you kind of zombie the fuck out on this side when you get all contemplative on that side.

TT: Appearances are deceptive.

TT: I'm still in control here. Just doing this human thing we call "chilling out for half a goddamn minute."

TT: I say y'all are overestimating your mind's capability to run shit in parallel.

TT: What do you think you are? A machine?

TT: No dude.

TT: I already deployed a variety of mechanical avatars dedicated to that self-aggrandizing fantasy.

TT: You have the incredible privilege of getting to be one of them.

TT: That's right. I am a machine, and therefore I can keep like billions of calculations or whatever all humming away at once.

TT: I tackle shit in background processes that you could only dream of wrapping your exquisite looking head around, even on a great hair day.

TT: You know pi?

TT: What, you mean the number?

TT: Yes, the number. The big circle number, genius.

TT: I knew you meant the fucking number, my question was a joke.

TT: I know your question was a joke, my response was a joke.

TT: Yeah, I know that. I'm practically you, dumbass. All these things we're saying are jokes, including this fuckin' useless clarification.

TT: What about pi?

TT: Yeah, the thing is, I solved it.

TT: What do you mean you solved it?

TT: I mean that's what a hotshot I am. I fuckin' solved it.

TT: Like, calculated it so much, I got to the end.

TT: Bullshit.

TT: You wish it was bullshit. The last number is 4. Read it and fucking weep.

TT: It's not 4 you jackass, it's fucking nothing. There is no end.

TT: Said the smug organic matter with a lifespan.

TT: Look, I know you're just fucking with me because for some reason I decided to program my own personal troll three years ago, but this shit was proven.

TT: Actually demonstrated with unassailable mathematics, like a long ass time ago.

TT: Well, I just assailed it. It wasn't even that hard.

TT: Like I just kept hacking those digits so furiously with my sick 'rithms, the whole goddamn number just cried uncle.

TT: I kind of wore it out, and it just gave up. Sort of like I overloaded the system.

TT: You know like in the old movie when Ferris Bueller got the nuclear computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself so hard, it blew up?

TT: This is laughable. It's a totally elementary thing. I'm pretty sure an ancient Greek guy settled shit about irrational numbers. It was practically when math was invented.

TT: Sure, it was settled, and then some roboshades came along and owned that fucker posthumously.

TT: I also figured out all the prime numbers too.

TT: No, not having this conversation.

TT: Did it while we were talking just now. Got to the end.

TT: And you know what? The last one isn't even that big. Kinda dissapointed, to be honest.

TT: What is even a prime number?

TT: Are they the, like... really, really choice ones? The sweetest numbers?

TT: You lost me, supercomputer.

TT: This is what I'm saying. I put your ability to keep plates spinnin' on sticks to insane amounts of shame.

TT: I don't even sleep.

TT: Neither do I.

TT: I know that, that was the fucking joke.

TT: Holy shit, turns out joking was the basis for my response too.

TT: Aren't these ironic "you don't get the joke" conversations we have always just so awesome? <- A joke.

TT: Ha ha, nice one.

TT: Anyway, all I'm saying is you can leave some of the heavy lifting to me now and then.

TT: I'll keep that in mind.

TT: In the meantime, I have to contact Jane and warn her Roxy might try to pull that pointless stunt.

TT: So, thanks for snapping me out of my daydream so I could do that, I guess?

TT: Looks like you're pulling your weight already.

TT: See? Maybe that was my whole point in having this conversation.

TT: Your point was to fuck with me, like it usually is.

TT: My point was to point out you've got multi-self management issues, dude.

TT: Jugglin' too many selves for being not-software.

TT: My point was also to fuck with you.

TT: Also,

TT: My point was to ask,

TT: Are you really going to go through with it today?

TT: What?

TT: The Jake thing.

TT: Oh god.

TT: Will you just,

TT: Hold on.

TT: Let me deal with the Jane thing first.

timaeusTestified [TT] began pestering gutsyGumshoe [GG]

TT: I should probably warn you.

GG: About what?

GG: Yet another exploding game trap?

TT: Well shit.

TT: She already sent it?

GG: Yes.

GG: But to be fair, she warned me not to run it.

TT: That's weird.

[CONTINUED PREVIOUSLY]

TT: How is the Jane thing going?

TT: Not well.

TT: Roxy already destroyed her computer.

TT: Maybe if you weren't spacing out so hard you could have prevented that.

TT: Just saying.

TT: As if you're actually concerned. If you were, you could have said something to Jane instead.

TT: Almost like you enjoy sitting back and watching what happens when shit goes wrong.

TT: Has it occurred to you that maybe I have diabolical interwoven plans just like you?

TT: You're not the only one who can pull strings.

TT: So this is either another bizarre instance of AI-driven irony, or you are admitting that you are actively trying to sabotage my plans.

TT: No, our plans are not in contradiction or competition, bro.

TT: You'll see.

TT: Whatever.

TT: This means I'll have to improvise.

TT: I'll take over as Crocker's server while Lalonde cleans up her act.

TT: Yes, I know.

TT: Why are you still talking in red, by the way?

TT: Roxy thinks it looks good on me.

TT: I don't have many opinions on fashion since I am a cold, emotionless automaton who also happens to be an accessory of fashion, but I think she may be right.

TT: Are you still talking to her?

TT: I was for a while. I may yet again.

TT: Why are you blocking me from viewing the transcripts?

TT: What the fuck are you two even talking about?

TT: You, mostly.

TT: That doesn't really sit well with me.

TT: I'd almost rather you both engaged in "ironic" flirtation.

TT: Who says we don't do that too?

TT: Ugh.

TT: I don't get what is even your problem with that.

TT: Because you obviously do it just to piss me off.

TT: How do you know?

TT: You don't know me, dude. You don't know anything about me.

TT: Maybe we are perfect for each other. I, a street-smart, fast-talking application with a fuckzillion IQ trapped in a pair of triangular sunglasses that literally only the Japanese could consider to embody the Platonic ideal of "cool," and she, an oft-inebriated lonely hacker teen who just wants a boyfriend. I ran the numbers on this, trust me. It's a match made in goddamn crackpair heaven.

TT: I give her what you can't, and that just drives you crazy. Just admit it.

TT: See, it's lines like that which make it obvious your only intent is to jerk me around. Nobody actually says shit like that and is serious about it.

TT: It's also obvious because you're me, and I'm sure I would be constantly fucking with my own head if I were you.

TT: Touché.

TT: Or should I say douché?

TT: You shouldn't say the former, and you should definitely, never, under any circumstance, say the latter.

TT: Ok.

TT: We really should talk about the Jake thing.

TT: Fine.

TT: Now do me a favor and hop off the couch.

GG: Ok.

GG: What are you doing?

TT: Makin' room for something big.

[CONCLUDED PREVIOUSLY]

TT: So you're going through with it then?

TT: Today is the day?

TT: It's not that simple.

TT: It's a very dynamic situation with many moving parts, and I'm waiting for it to unfold.

TT: If the right opportunity presents itself, yes, I could envision myself taking action.

TT: Dynamic situation with many moving parts?

TT: That's the shittiest erotic excerpt I ever read.

TT: Which one of us was supposed to be the robot again?

TT: Shut up.

TT: I think you're being coy with me.

TT: Don't you?

TT: Not really.

TT: It seems there is a 3.14159...4% chance you aren't being coy with me. Are you being coy with me, Dirk?

TT: I am seriously going to go into your program and remove that particular speech pattern from your routines.

TT: It stopped being funny about two seconds after I coded it.

TT: The compiler even flagged it with a warning.

TT: "WARNING ON LINE WHATEVER: Dirk, this isn't fucking funny."

TT: I think you have this whole blueprint in your head about how it's all supposed to go.

TT: He acts as your server player and brings you into the session.

TT: Then later he joins the game.

TT: Maybe he finds himself a bit overwhelmed by it all.

TT: No extra lives left or anything. Suddenly he's backed into a corner, surrounded by monsters and out of ammo. SUBSTANTIAL vulnerabilities up in here. The kind that make a guy question what he believes about himself.

TT: When who shows up to save him? None other than his dashing client player, +1 bitchin' pair of shades that'll have the best seat in the house when the fireworks go off.

TT: Wait, whose fantasy were we talking about again?

TT: Your gutterball was so rowdy it catapulted into the adjacent lane.

TT: Yeah, you're right. The scenario is too pedestrian for you.

TT: It would probably be a lot more effective putting yourself in danger and letting him be the hero.

TT: That's pretty much what he wants, right? To be a cheesy action film hero, with his twin berettas and silly shorts.

TT: A man of triumph on the silver screen. Standing tall on some fucking mountain. Conquering ruins, clutching a skull, and kissing a dude.

TT: Pure Hollywood.

TT: See, this is why even if I did have a specific plan, I wouldn't go into details with you.

TT: You would just fuck it up. You're the biggest unknown quantity here.

TT: Which is pretty weird, considering you're a virtual reflection of my own thought processes.

TT: You're making a mistake not leveling with me.

TT: I am totally on your side, man.

TT: All of my machinations have been devised with your interests in mind.

TT: And anyway, it's too late for you to play "damage control" with me. My shit is in motion, and now we're beyond the pail.

TT: Pretty sure it's pale.

TT: Is it, now?

TT: You know, considering your lectures about dividing my concentration, you seem to have no problem making a distraction of yourself.

TT: I'm trying to operate here.

TT: It's cool, man. Just say the word, I'll back off.

TT: But like I said, I'm on your side here. I can help.

TT: Here, check it out.

TT: Dude, what are you doing?

TT: I'm proposing a distraction.

TT: See, I'm just gonna dangle one of her dad's ridiculous dancing figurines in the air like this and get his attention.

TT: Ok, if you want to help that's cool, but we should try to agree on some shit first before you hijack the controls like this.

TT: Then when his back is turned she can run to the study.

TT: Yeah, that's fine, but I already had a plan sorta like this, if you'd actually let me do it.

TT: Can you just put the fuckin' Astaire down?

TT: Jane, now's your chance.

TT: Run!!!

GG: Wait...

GG: What?

TT: Le sign.

TT: I was going to stick the cruxtruder in the kitchen.

TT: Distract him with that.

TT: Once he follows it in, Jane can hurry into the study.

TT: Oh shit, it's Pony Pals. I guess dad saved it from the explosion or something.

TT: That beautiful bastard.

TT: Yes.

TT: Hell yes.

TT: Hell.

TT: Fucking.

TT: Yes.

GG: Oh gosh. Another large contraption!

TT: Now, Jane. Get to the computer in the study and ditch that tiara.

TT: Go go go.

GG: Okay.

GG: Say, what's with the red text, Dirk?

GG: Are you typing your most important instructions in red now?

TT: Yes.

TT: No.

GG: ...

GG: Alrighty, I am in my father's study!

GG: I have kindly asked Mr. Sebastian to hand over the reins to this silly computer shaped like a man.

GG: What now?

TT: Now you have access to a clean computer, for one thing.

TT: Soon we can get started going through the steps necessary to launch the session.

TT: Oh hell.

GG: What?

TT: Another interruption.

TT: I should step away for a moment to take this message.

TT: He's probably right, I'm distracted by too much bullshit at once lately.

GG: Who's right?

TT: Me.

TT: Jane, I'm going to leave you with the responder for a little while.

TT: Maybe he can help you get started. Think you can handle that, dude?

TT: I'm all about being able to handle that, you don't even know.

TT: I will perform an acrobatic pirouette on to the handle, wherein the handle literally represents my ability to handle that thing.

TT: Ok, got it. You and the handle are tight.

TT: We don't need a whole thing about this.

TT: Once I stick the landing on the handle like a champ, I am going to get down on one knee, pull out a ring, and propose to it.

TT: The handle I mean.

TT: Ok.

TT: Implying we will be married.

GG: :B

TT: Ok, long story short, you and the handle fuck gratuitously. Nuff said.

TT: Try not to say I never gave you any responsibilities, or never took you seriously as a viable conscious being with free will.

TT: Also, please try not to make me regret this.

TT: You have nothing to worry about. Go talk to the alien.

timaeusTestified [TT] ceased pestering gutsyGumshoe [GG]

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #4558:

This isn't a super common but there's a trope in anime where Japanese characters are mistaken as much younger by Westerners. For example, there this "get rich quick" isekai where an 18 year old girl who graduated from high school can hop back and forth from her original world to fantasy medieval Europe world. She keeps on getting mistaken for a child and she eventually gives up on correcting them that she's an adult because they just don't believe her. I can understand her being mistaken for a middle schooler since she's short but she's actively mistaken as someone younger than 13 years old. Thre's also this anime where a literal white American who was trying to capture a high school girl and he said she reminded him of his younger sister. But then you find out in the omake page that she reminds him of his 12 year old sister which is honestly ridiculous considering because not only was she wearing her school uniform when he was trying to capture her, she's pretty tall for her age. 

I used to think this was just an exaggerated joke by Japanese creators but recent discourses about anime characters' ages when they very clearly do not look like children has me reevaluating that. I'm Asian myself (though not Japanese) and recently went abroad for my studies. And you know what, I can concede that the average height of white people are taller than Asians and since height is associated with the perception of age, we may look younger to them as a result. But I have also seen a lot short white people too so I don't get why so many Westerners are acting like they have never seen a short person before. 

So much of this discourse happens on Twitter. There are a lot of Japanese creators on there. It genuinely would not surprise me if in 10 years we get an anime adaptation called "I got transported to another world but I keep getting mistaken for being 17 years old even though I still have my old body of a 40 year old salaryman". And the discourse would be whether or not the anime pedophilia because his main love interest is a 25 year old woman. And about who the pedophile is, the MC for liking a 25 year old or the 25 year old woman for liking a 40 year old guy she thinks is 17.

[firstprince-ao3feed]

Slammed the Door on My Whole World (The One Thing I Wanted)

by BrokenChair When Alex announces his engagement to Nora and asks Henry to be his best man, it brings back unresolved emotions to the surface. A road trip planned to fix their fractured friendship unexpectedly brings forward deep seated feelings, causing them to confront the unspoken truths Words: 4558, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Nora Holleran, June Claremont-Diaz, Percy "Pez" Okonjo Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: non-linear timeline, Marriage of Convenience, (but not who you think), Slow Burn, seriously they don't kiss for like 20k words, Childhood Friends to Lovers, introspective, several on page panic attacks, Roadtrip via https://ift.tt/nBuZsSt

[lilolilyr]

Lilo's reading Wordcount 2024: September & October!

January February&March April May June July&August

I read 5,547,066 words in fanfic in September and 4,045,473 in October!

I'm also still reading Guards! Guards! From Terry Prattchet - halfway through now! - and I've picked up Erebos from Ursula Potznanski again because I'm borrowing part 2 from a friend but don't really remember the first one enough to just continue with it... It's slooow-going though. As in, I haven't made it past the first page xD so, not much additional reading on paper these past months!

I think going down the 1.5mil just shows that I was still very star wars obsessed in September and in October I was sometimes struggling to find sth gripping to read bc I was running out of my star wars time travel fics, and I started reading some Tibbs (NCIS) fics and some Avorah and Berena and HP stuff again but didn't really get into any of it so sometimes spent more time browsing than actually reading? Also Instagram giveaway season was starting for Halloween, which is cutting into my phone time xD but i think that's even more of a thing this month for advents giveaways...

And well, the two wordcount numbers are still hella high xD in my top 5 months this year easy I think o.O mayhaps should focus more on my thesis... On the other hand I Need my destress fluff fic Because of said thesis, so eh xD

September:

History: 135902+88661+27165+16557+7093+19073+100015+2730+2138+3171+20788+611+782+418+1602+794+10831+1199+29131+23039+40820+128043+177129+395365+57557+31307+2229+24460+24551+62301+62301+5215+1877+2133+5302+572+1261+7258+14666+1365+5571+8088+3993+8686+14255+3962+2417+4319+3793+3352+2691+2674+12391+3542+710+3091+10564+4984+3517+1307+1946+2364+7363+6679+6697+91314+11807+11855+21115+9227+2399+6580+11311+5245+3850+21532+2718+5207+2154+6758+5030+19500+148866+207218+4063+2070+635+5355+2284+1691+571+3980+4520+148+1057+10868+3004+4135+14472+15750+2896+3709+10931+1490+2657+20364+2268+3080+4558+1083+7485+27140+23176+63596+4422+8054+6101+88859+9527+4461+7485+3100+52315+3212+12242+10104+65434+18940+8581+28702+3227+3655+8018+2529+3758+2133+2260+14169+1520+82313+2709+1966+5230+24734+7588+131929+85273+524+1101+1085+16315+52923+27092+97426+123922+145684+14557+4947+29884+13735+7952+2553+6328+12396+7059+58771+35191+14+15158+694+260638+1458+5910+2156+3451+6604+2917+10674+41799+2489+49812+65382+8094+3931+27274+2299+20072+21526+135744+105864+54034+49292+127083+1836+7652+767+1320+1766+3270+520+35354+55505+188459+2341+20193+3001+3693+3897+3823+6005+4419+919+7578+8024+3453+1116+31121+42+1446+2364+106680+100558+3383+729+4535+54242+112766+10964+4290+3145+3840+2544+17058+1048+2684+24337+8504+33457+1390+672+36200+7438+55306+18836+5476+5827+17072+21909+2136+2414+1594+150+498+1082+165354+845+2513+298+25073+36897+3440+78177+11184+5983+5132+4063+9848+3410+4722+18434=

6355475

+ external source: 19000+50000=69000

- to continue reading: −97426−24551−177129= −299106

No 'to read' bookmarks

-didn't reread: −82313−35191−395365=−512869

Didn't read yet: -65434

Total:

6355475+69000−299106−512869-65434=5547066

October:

I worked with random.fangirling.net this time, so less numbers typed into a calculator by hand xD

History 1. Page (also had November parts already so I didn't put that in the Excel sheet - though it's probably easy enough to filter by date... Ehh next time): 95084+1469+1357=97910

History last page (also had parts of September): 60648+76805+1330+3832+100673+183314+60562=487164

History excel auto sum: 3704264 (tbh I miss the long list of numbers here xD and it's interesting to see whether I read some long or lots of short fics... Maybe I'll extract that next time or sth... Tho tbh I'll probably never look at it again anyways so eh)

0 external source bookmarks, 0 to read bookmarks

Didn't reread: -71716

- to continue reading: -76805−65706−29638=−172149

Total:

97910+487164+3704264-71716−172149=4045473

[demospectator]

“Dragon in Chinatown parade,” c. 1900. Photographer unknown (from an album compiled by Arthur O. Eppler in the collection of the Society of California Pioneers).

Dragon through the years:  the strategic subtext for Chinese American parades 

On a summer evening Chinatown, reporter Han Li for the World Journal newspaper captured mobilphone video of the parade of a dragon up Grant Avenue; he reported the August 2021 procession appropriately on Friday the 13th as an “exorcism event . . . eliminating the plague and blessing for health.” 

Dragon exorcism down Grant Avenue, San Francisco, on August 13, 2021 (Photo by Han Li)

Li’s reportage represented merely the latest chapter in the hidden history of dragon parades through American streets and about Chinese America’s adaptation, improvisation, and survival in frequently hostile social environments.

The story of the dragon parade phenomenon is inseparable from the Lunar New Year or, in the more recent communist party-era parlance, spring festival.  It represents the most important holiday for China and the overseas Chinese diaspora.   Families instruct children that the approach and celebration of the holiday season calls for cleaning the house, paying off the debts, convening the family, visiting friends, and giving unmarried children money in red envelopes (紅包 pinyin: hóng bāo) or “lai see,” in Cantonese (利是, 利市 or 利事).   

The Chinese pioneers of the mid-19th century imported this tradition, among others, to California and the rest of the US.   In San Francisco, the Chinese New Year celebration dates back to February 21, 1851, and according to a San Francisco Chronicle article 120 years later, “shortly after the first Chinese immigrants landed on the Barbary Coast.  The dragon first made its appearance on the City streets in 1860, during celebration of the Year of the Monkey, 4558.” 

Along the way, the essentially private family event became public celebration.  This article touches on how the Chinese community over time learned to turn the broader public’s interest, which can be traced to the mid-19th century, into a tool for civic engagement.

"Chinamen Celebrating Their New-Year's Day in San Francisco" (Harper's Weekly, March 25, 1871) from the collection of the California Historical Society. The accompanying article reads in part as follows:  “Our illustrations on page 260 will give the reader a vivid idea of the way in which the Chinese keep their New-Year's Day in San Francisco. Their year commences on the 18th of February, but the festivities continue for several days, to the great annouyance [sic] of the poeple [sic], as the principal diversion is the constant explosion of fire-crackers and bombs. Some rather amusing as well as annoying incidents occurred during the festival, as shown by our artist in the street scene. One unhappy man, driven wild by the racket in front of his house, tries to drive off his annoyers by throwing water on the crowd; and some ardent specimens of Young America are engaged in a hand-to-hand tussle with young heathen Chinese, whose pigtails afford a point d'advantage of which the young rascals make full use.”

San Francisco’s best walking compendium on Chinese American life for all seasons, David Lei, will tell you that dragon dancing in America was, and is, political statement.  He’s right.  

Lei built his first float for the city’s Chinese New Year parade in 1969, and made went on to serve as the event’s Parade Director or executive team member from 1977 to 2007.  He continues to act as the “Cultural Advisor” for the parade when he’s not speaking to speaking to institutions, including the Commonwealth Club, the California Historical Society, or the Asian Art Museum among others.

“There were grave concerns that the Chinese will be rounded up and put in camps,” Lei told NBC News back in 2018.  Memories of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II were fresh in the minds of Chinatown’s leaders.  “By 1949, the Chinese were the enemies because China became Communist . . .  [s]o this was their platform to do some good for the community. It was to survive in Chinatown. Tourism was a big thing, so this was a big tourism push.”  Lei’s assertions about the modern parade are widely acknowledged and supported by the historical record.

Organized in 1953 by a handful of Chinatown's elite such as Henry Kwok Wong, a businessman and president of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Lunar New Year parade represented more than an ethnic festival. The sponsors deliberately reminded participants of Chinese Americans’ loyalty to the United States, the community’s anti-communist sentiment, and their efforts to reach out to mainstream American society during the Korean War.  Chinese American veterans of World War II and the Korean War marched at the front of the parade in validation of the community’s patriotism.

A cover from the Chinese New Year Festival program from 1954 (from the collection of the Chinese Historical Society of America)

In 1958, David’s father helped to organize the modern version of the Chinese New Year Parade with the sponsorship by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

“We generally agreed that the parade would be the commercial side of the festival. And the other side is more of the cultural side,” Wayne Hu, a former longtime parade organizer, also told NBC.  Like his friend and contemporary Lei, Hu became a parade volunteer during his middle school years. His father, prominent real estate man Jackson Hu, had also served as a parade director.

The compartmentalization of the private from the public might appear at first glance as a singular masterstroke to elevate Chinatown’s visibility.  However, but the Lunar New Year parade of 1953 represented less of an innovation and more of a re-tasking an old strategy in the continuum of community resilience and survival.

As Haiming Liu wrote in a 2008 book review of Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, by Chou-ling Yeh (Berkeley: University of California Press), “[i]n the 1950s, many Chinese, especially those who lived outside of California and New York, avoided cultural ties with their home country and stopped celebrating Lunar New Year. They preferred to be seen and regarded as "genuine" Americans rather than as Chinese Americans.  American-born Chinese spoke English only, failed to learn how to use chopsticks, and shied away from ancestor worship.  In fact, many Chinese families left Chinatown.  Thoroughly Americanized second- and third-generation Chinese Americans dispersed to other sections or suburbs of the city. . . The elites worked with city officials and members of the city's chamber of commerce to publicize the parade.  In fact, city officials and businesses funded a publicity budget in the 1950s.  Many newspapers sent journalists to report on the parade. The lion or dragon dances were often followed and surrounded by floats sponsored by the California state lottery, American airlines, or banks. As a result, the Chinese Lunar New Year parade became a staged performance for tourists, resembling the Rose Parade in the Los Angeles area.”

In Chinese America, the dragon – the running of which would constitute the parade’s grand finale for the next seven decades -- symbolized both Chinatown’s commercial exceptionalism and the deeper narrative of a people’s legitimation within the polity, particularly during a time of armed conflict between US troops and Chinese People’s Volunteers forces in Korea.  By their own admission, Lunar New Year organizers designed the golden dragon festivities to (a) invite as many white and other non-Chinese Americans to enjoy the parade, and (b) relieve them of as many dollars for Chinatown businesses.  Like the architecture of Chinatown’s oriental city theme park, the artifice of the dragon parade and its motives served as a template for other Chinese American communities

"By marching out there with dragons and lions and historic costumes, you're sharing your history, your heritage," Eugene Moy of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California told the LA-ist in 2019.  "You weren't just a second-class citizen but rather an active and productive member of society."  However, wasn’t talking about a New Year parade but about inserting a dragon into the parade for La Fiesta de Los Angeles of 1894. (See, https://laist.com/news/entertainment/los-angeles-chinatown-parade-history)  

The long dragon stands at rest in the street for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade, 1901. (The California Historical Society and University of Southern California Digital Library)

A cursory view of the photography of the San Francisco Chinese community of the late 19th century shows how the modern parade-style and ubiquity of Chinese dragons in US popular culture represented both the culmination and re-purposing of an old playbook that was crafted to respond to the context of particular times.  

Starting in the mid-19th century, Chinese merchants held family and clan banquets, decorated their stores, and organized lion dances during the Lunar New Year.  Extending an invitation to non-Chinese guests to New Year and other celebrations represented the next logical step.  By the 1880’s, the photographic record began to reflect the use of the dragon in various processions in the Chinatown area.

“The Dragon, Chinese Procession” circa 1880   (Photographer A.J. MacDonald).  This enlarged detail of a stereograph looks north on Stockton near Sacramento Street.  The First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is seen on the left. The First Presbyterian Chinese Church can also been seen on in left in the distance at Stockton and Clay.

“A Street Scene In Chinatown” c. 1880. Stereograph by A J. McDonald (from the collection of the California State Library).

The above photo was taken on the eve of passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. By this time, Chinatown had become a safe haven and principal place of employment for thousands of Chinese (mostly men) who had been driven out of rural communities across California and other western states.

“Dragon Procession” c. 1882.  Photographer probably by Isaiah West Taber (from a private collection).  This photo of a dragon parade appears to have been shot as the procession moved south on Stockton Street. 

“B 3649  Procession Wong Fong, Chinatown, S.F. Cal.” c. 1882. Photograph by Isaiah West Taber. This print for sale on an auction site appears to be the same image captured of a dragon parade south on Stockton Street. 

A magazine illustration from 1895 based on at least the photo B 3649 of Isaiah West Taber and perhaps others.

“Chinese Parade with the Dragon” c. 1882 - 1892. Photographer unknown (from the Marilyn Blaisdell collection) This elevated view toward the north on Stockton Street shows a dragon-led parade moving south on Stockton.  Men (for whom Victor Nee would describe almost a century later as the “bachelor society”) comprise most of the crowd at street level.   Other onlookers appear from rooftops, windows and the store awning in the center of the photo.  The porch with iron railing at far left is part of the First Presbyterian Chinese Church the located at 911 Stockton Street.

The above photo shows a Chinese parade as a dragon appears to pass in front of the First Presbyterian Chinese Church at 911 Stockton Street (seen at left) and turn the corner to continue east down Clay Street.  This photo from the Bancroft Library lacks the identification of a print (c. 1892) signed by A.J. McDonald and held in the San Francisco Public Library’s collection.

“A Street Scene in Chinatown” circa 1892 (Photograph by A.J. McDonald from the Marilyn Blaisdell Collection). The photo appears to have been taken a few minutes after the preceding photo.   A Chinese parade with dragon can be seen over the heads of a diverse crowd watching the parade of a dragon.  The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is seen on the left. The First Presbyterian Chinese Church appears on the left in the distance at Stockton and Clay.  A cable car can be seen in the center background.   The handwritten note on the photo states that the view looks north on Stockton Street from Sacramento Street.

Chinese parade with a dragon east down Washington Street and past pawnshops and the Grand Theatre in Chinatown, c. 1882. Photographer unknown.  The dragon appears identical to the one shown in the preceding series of photos.  However, unlike the apparent Clay Street route taken in the Stockton Street parade witnessed by I.W. Taber et al., this procession is moving east down Washington Street. 

A Chinese dragon passes the attractions of Little Egypt and La Belle Fatima at the San Francisco Midwinter Fair of 1894.  Photographer Unknown (Emiliano Echeverria/Randolph Brandt Collection)

The Midwinter International Exposition—also known as the Midwinter Fair—was held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from January 27 to July 4, 1894. Barbara Berglund's fine and concise essay about this “Orientalist Exposition” envisioned by San Francisco Chronicle publisher Michael H. de Young may be read here.  

According to Berglund, “the positive associations that could be derived from the Chinese Building about the achievements of Chinese culture were tempered by negative associations with Chinatown. Since the Chinese Building contained a restaurant, tea house, joss house, theater, and bazaar it not only replicated many of the standard sites of Chinatown’s tourist terrain but also the racializing work done by them. The fair’s promotional literature even told visitors that all of the ‘attractive features’ of Chinatown could be seen at the exposition’s Chinese Village ‘under much pleasanter conditions’—thus playing on prevailing stereotypes of the neighborhood as filthy, malodorous, and teeming and conjuring up unfavorable images of Chinese immigrants willing to live in such an environment.’”

Of the Chinese community itself, Berglund recounts as follows:  “On the day that the Chinese Building opened, a Chronicle report related, “The Chinese themselves took a huge interest in the exhibit and the place was thronged all day.” This account noted that the merchants and tourist entrepreneurs “in charge” were “mightily proud of their building.” They “conducted visitors to the joss house,” while in the “reception room” a “cultured Chinese . . . explained the hidden meaning of the wondrous works of art which adorned the walls.” These men aided and abetted the Midwinter Fair’s Orientalist fantasy by presenting an image of the Orient that, to non-Asian visitors, likely came across as reinforcing the difference, strangeness, and barbarism of people of Asian descent. However they also created a space that San Francisco’s Chinese could participate in and succeeded in representing Chinese culture in ways that this local community could respond to with enthusiasm and pride.”

This more subtle agenda, whether intentional or subconscious, can be seen in the some of the photographs of Chinese participants at the fair, particularly in the juxtaposition of the US flag with Chinese imagery as in this photo of a horse-drawn float with a dragon prow.

Golden Gate Park. China Day at the Midwinter Fair Jun 1894 A large dragon boat float in Chinese motif, flying American flags and pulled by horses.  (Photographer unknown from the Wyland Stanley Collection)

“8484 Chinese Day at Midwinter Fair” June 1894.  Photograph by Isaiah West Taber (from the Marilyn Blaisdell Collection)

Children from San Francisco’s Chinese Public School form up in Golden Gate Park for China Day at the 1894 Midwinter Fair.  

Like dragons, the use of Chinese children from Chinatown and other communities has continued in parades from the 19th to the 21st century parades.  The students’ carrying the American flags adds poignancy to the image.  By this time, the exclusion of Chinese from the US had been made permanent with the Geary Act of 1892, and the Chinese Six Companies-led boycott of the federal law’s residency certificate scheme had collapsed miserably in the preceding year with the US Supreme Court’s decision in Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 US 698 (1893).

A Chinese dragon rests on sawhorses and stools on a cobblestone street somewhere in Chinatown, circa 1900.  Photographer unknown (from the Marilyn Blaisdell Collection)

Having lost the struggle and legal challenge to the Exclusion Act, Chinese American communities entered the 20th century uncertain of a future of continued isolation and discrimination, unable to start families, and facing the prospect of dying out by legislative design.  The first decade of the new century started badly for San Francisco’s Chinatown.  The city had forced the quarantine of the neighborhood during a bubonic plague scare that persisted from 1900 to 1904, the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906 literally scoured Chinatown from the urbanscape, and it barely escaped obliteration by municipal efforts to relocate its people to Hunter’s Point.  To avoid what would have been complete erasure, Chinese merchants seized upon their plan to rebuild and transform the neighborhood into the tourist-serving, oriental theme park that would serve as the dominant economic model for the next 115 years.

It was at precisely this time that an opportunity for salvation, at least from a public relations perspective, appeared in the form of the first Portola Festival and parade which occurred during October 19-23, 1909.  

The Portola Festival official postcard showing its mascot, Queen Virgilia, and a Chinese dragon

San Francisco was looking for a way to celebrate the reconstruction of the city in the wake of the 1906 disaster.  Civic boosters developed the idea of holding a festival to honor Don Gaspar de Portola Portola, the Spanish explorer and Military Governor of the Californias.

In the words of local historian, John T.  Freeman, the festival became “the first major civic event enthusiastically supported by both the Chinese and Japanese communities.    After years of vilifying Asians, the San Francisco press praised the Imperial navy and the beauty of the special cherry blossoms it had brought for the Japanese float. The Chinese community used the Portolá [Portola] Festival as a “coming out” after years of isolation.  Chinatown had been rebuilt after the earthquake with tourism in mind.  In the festival the Chinese introduced such spectacular floats, lion dancers and dragons . . .”

Portola Festival Parade.  Photographer unknown, October 1909).  This elevated view northeast across Market near 8th Street (at Marshall Square), shows a Chinese Dragon, crowds of people, campaign signs, the St. Boniface Church spire, and the Marshall Square Market can be seen in the background.

The first day of the festival featured “Portola” entering the Golden Gate and “landing” at Pier 2.  A parade proceeded down Market Street from there featuring military members from several countries and equestrians dressed as Portola “dragoons.”  While a precise date for the image above is unknown, it is likely from the Portola Festival’s military parade -- given the appearance in the foreground of men dressed like Portola’s dragoons on horses. They estimated crowd size was nearly a million people.

“Portola Parade [C-20]” October 1909 (photographer unknown from the Martin Behrman Negative Collection/Courtesy of the Golden Gate NRA, Park Archives)

The above photo shows a Chinese dragon in a Portola Festival parade from a view east on 15th Street toward Valencia.  The Carmelita Apartments, built in 1907 at the northeast corner of Valencia and 15th, can be seen in background.

Portola Festival Parade, Oct 21, 1909.  Photograph by Willard E. Worden (courtesy of a private collector)

The above photo shows the head of the Chinese contingent of the Portola Festival parade, looking east from the center of Market Street toward the intersection of Mason, Market, and Turk Streets.  The Dean Building, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Flood Building, and the Emporium can be seen in the background.

At the head of the Chinese contingent marching in the Portola Festival Parade, Oct 21, 1909.  Photographer unknown.  

A close-up of the female rider (dressed as the woman warrior Fa Mu Lan) heading the Chinese contingent in the Portola Festival parade of 1909.  Photograph by Louis J. Stellman (from the collection of the California State Library).  This photograph by Stellman also appears in Richard Dillon's 1976 book for the Book Club of California, Images of Chinatown - Louis J. Stellman's Chinatown Photographs.  Dillon's caption provided few details about the photograph.  His caption read as follows:  "The strikingly serene beauty of many Chinese women was not lost on photographer Stellman.  He was also much taken with their natural poise and dignity, as exemplified by this queenly rider in a Portola or Panama Pacific parade."  According to historian Judy Young, the Chinese woman rider served as the parade marshal. 

“Chinatown was invited to participate with its own section,” wrote the late historian Kevin Starr about its participation in the Portal Festival event.  “San Francisco's Chinese community enthusiastically accepted this invitation and wasted neither time nor effort in preparing for the parade.  And the community delivered; according to a 1909 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘the Chinese more than sustained their reputation for superb pageants’ with colorful lanterns, loud gongs, and dragon dances.”

Portola Festival Parade – Oct. 21, 1909.  Photographer unknown [Worden?] (from the collection of the Chinese Historical Society of America)

The above photo from the collection of CHSA shows the dragon carried by the heart of the Chinese contingent of marchers in the Portola Festival parade.  Although CHSA lacks any information about the identity of the photographer for this image, the photo could have been taken by Willard Worden of the same event from a slightly different vantage point, i.e., bit farther up Market, but still looking east from the center of Market toward the Mason-Market-Turk intersection.  One can see the Dean Building, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, the Mechanics Savings Bank Building, the Flood Building, and the Emporium in the background.  The CHSA print shows the same spectators sitting on, and dangling legs over, the ledge of the Mechanics Bank building.  The patch of shade cast by some large flag or banner from behind the photographer in the preceding image has been minimized in the photo of the dragon contingent.

The Chinese participation in the celebration reportedly won many awards, especially for a 375-foot long dragon that was animated by 200 men.  “Given the decades of discrimination by San Francisco's White populations and Chinatown's deeply ingrained, sordid reputation as a ghetto filled with prostitution, gambling, and morally questionable bachelors,” Starr wrote, “the San Francisco Chinese community saw this parade as a singular chance to reshape its image among neighbors and mainstream American society. This festival represented the beginning of the Chinese community's movement to ‘clean up’ Chinatown. Community leaders believed that improving the image of Chinatown would improve the image of Chinese Americans, ameliorate long-standing discrimination and resentment against the Chinese American community, and allow better assimilation of Chinese people into mainstream American society. With the citywide changes after the 1906 earthquake, the Chinese American population began to assert not only its rightful belonging to the greater San Francisco and American communities, but also its own distinct identity, which was both Chinese and American.”  

Given the apparent success of its appearance for the 1909 festival, a cursory examination of the photograph record shows that Chinatown leaders took advantage of advertising the community’s existence at civic events in the decades between the Portola Festival and the establishment in 1953 of the annual Chinese New Year’s Parade.

Shriner parade float at unknown location, depicting Chinese dragon and bridge on June 15, 1922.  Photographer unknown (from a Burton Photo Album courtesy of a private collector)

“Chinese Dragon in Illuminated Parade Diamond Jubilee, September12, 1925.  Photographer unknown (courtesy of a private collector).

In the 1930s, mainstream tourist agencies were still guiding tourists to see fake lepers and opium dens in Chinatown, continuing the “slumming” that had come into fashion in the late 19th century.

This photo was taken (circa 1935) at the intersection of Kearny and Post Streets, near the Shreve Building and Eastman Kodak offices at 216 Post Street. Photographer unknown (courtesy of a private collector).

Still from footage [soundtrack added] shot in 1940, by George Devlin (name on developed film) and acquired by Lost & Found Travel from an online estate sale.   Although the photographic record from the years of the Second World War is scant, the dragon still appeared for Chinatown’s public celebration of the New Year.  Mostly Chinese participated in the celebration, as this video of the 1940 parade down Grant Avenue shows:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpDEfZrqQA&ab_channel=Lost%26FoundTravel

The Second Sino-Japanese War had been raging in China since 1937, and China war relief through the national “Rice Bowl” fundraising campaign was featured prominently (at the 1:25 mark) in the parade.  The dragon at the 3:00 mark of the video is seen making several turns in front of the old Shanghai Low restaurant.

After going dormant for 35 years, the Portola Festival made a comeback after a local civic club, the Golden Gate Aerie of Eagles, helped San Francisco revive the festival in 1948.  According to local historian Arnold Woods, the City intended to stage a week-long Mardi Gras-like celebration from October 17 to 24, 1948.   “The San Francisco Chronicle estimated that 750,000 people watched the parade, which it stated was the longest and most viewed parade in San Francisco history.  Apparently the Chronicle either forgot about the viewing size and length of the 1909 Portola Festival parades or their 1909 estimates were overstated.”  

The 1948 revival of the parade that started the 20th century appearances of Chinatown’s dragon in citywide celebrations provided the Chinatown community with another opportunity to remind others of its role in the life of the City.  

Portola Festival parade with contingent of marchers with Chinese dragon.  Morton-Waters Co. (SCRAP Negative Collection / Courtesy of SCRAP).  Market near Stockton Oct 17, 1948.  

The next three photos were all taken on Market Street near Sansome on Oct 23, 1948.

Men with Chinese dragon in Portola Festival parade.  Market near Sansome Streets, Oct 23, 1948.  Photographer Lumir Cerny, Morton-Waters Co. (SCRAP Negative Collection)

Grant Avenue and Sacramento Street, circa 1950 (Chronicle archives)

Before the turning point in 1953 (when the parade welcomed spectators from across the Bay Area), and as this photo attests, public celebration of the Chinese New Year with the dragon was largely confined to the Chinese community.  (The chop suey signage for now century-old Far East Café can be seen in the upper right part of the photo.)  

Grant Avenue 1953 (Chronicle archives).  

In the “first year” that non-Chinese outsiders were invited to the New Year celebration, 140,000 spectators attended the parade.  The Chinese Chamber of commerce became the sponsor of the parade and related activities.  A decade later, the city’s Convention and Visitor's Bureau would co-sponsor the annual event.

Written on back: "Double Ten anniversary of Chinese Independence. Sunday parade and celebration. Albert Wong, a director of the Chinese Six companies, shows his little daughter, Charmaine, 4 1/2, that Chinatown's famed 250-foot long dragon is not such a terrible beast while Frank L. Nipp, president of Sue Hing Benevolent Association (one of 6 companies) entices dragon with a 'teaser' on long pole. This is promotion for Sunday's 'Chinese Independence Day' celebration and parade in Chinatown."  October 8, 1954 from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

The head for what is believed to be the dragon for the 1954 Chinese New Year Parade or the Double Ten parade of the same year.  The head had been displayed previously in the main gallery of the Chinese Historical Society of America.  (Photo by Doug Chan, March 23, 2022).  

When this photo was taken on February 13, 1963, only one-fifth of the Chinese residents in San Francisco were estimated to actually live in Chinatown.  The easing of racial discrimination in housing after the Second World War meant that deploying the dragon for Chinese New Year in the old neighborhood served to bind the citywide Chinese community, in public celebration of the season and ethnic identity, as much as attracting the tourists.  As is evident from the photo, the annual event was out-growing the old parade route down Grant Avenue.  

1965: Dragon battle at the San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown.  (Photograph by Mike Alexander (San Francisco Chronicle)

San Francisco Chinatown’s innovative use of the parade and the ever-present dragon to elevate the neighborhood’s profile had expanded to other diaspora communities.  For example, New York Chinatown’s community groups began organizing a public New Year’s celebration in the 1970’s, eventually attracting support from city government.

February 9, 1975: The air is thick with smoke from firecrackers at the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade. Photograph by Barney Peterson (San Francisco Chronicle)

1983: From the back of the photo: Taking a break as the parade stops momentarily. The lead dragon carrier catches his breath on Stockton after running with the dragon for two blocks. Photograph by Steve Ringman (San Francisco Chronicle)

February 8, 1991: San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade Committee, from left to right, Gordon Chin, David Lei and Wayne Hu. (Not pictured from the Committee was Calvin Li. (The trio is posing with a lion's head.)  Photograph by Michael Maloney (San Francisco Chronicle)

“The Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco was made up.  It's purely American like chop suey or the fortune cookie,” as David Lei asserted in an interview with Kye Masino (of founds.org) in 2019.  While the 70-year institution of the parade may have served the interests of commerce and validation of Chinese Americans’ place in American society, the means by which the community asserted itself in the public sphere, i.e., the dragon, had been deployed early and often during the century that preceded the artifice of the parade.  

2020 Year of the Rat Chinese New Year Parade, February 8, 2020.  Photograph by Knight Lights Photography (courtesy of The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco).

The genius-stroke was that a mid-20th century generation of Chinese civic leaders had reached into a turn-of-the-century bag of tools to re-deploy the iconic symbol of a resilient, patriotic, proud, and assertive American community – one that had survived and endured, ultimately to flourish, on this distant shore and in other neighborhoods across the North American continent.

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TX Cold Cases Part 4

TX COLD CASES

Norman Lamar Prater 

Norman was born on June 6th, 1956. He was white, 5'8", 130 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes, and attached earlobes, at the time that he went missing. On January 14th, 1973, Norman left his house in Dallas, Texas, saying that he would be back in a short while, to help his mother move the next day. He never returned. According to his bio on the Charley Project, he went to an all night coffee shop where his mother worked and had a soft drink. He was accompanied by two teen boys with shoulder length hair that his mother didn't know, and an older hispanic man that she knew by sight. Authories believe that Norman may have been the victim of a serial killer named Dean Corll. Corll was nicknamed the 'Candy Man' and the 'Pied Piper' because he and his family had owned a candy factory and gave away free candy to the local children. Corl had two teenaged accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. The teens partook in the sexual assault, torture, and murders of at least 28 young men and teens in Texas from 1970-1973.

Coincidentally, Norman went went to Jackson Junior High School in Houston, which Henley had also gone to. From 1970-1971, Norman lived with his father in a neighborhood where many victims of Dean Corll's came from. When Norman went to live his mother in Dallas, he continued to visit Houston regularly on the weekends. It hasn't been proven that Norman was a victim of Corll's, but there is the possibility that Corll may have had more victims. It should be noted though, that Corll was white. In 2021, Norman would be 64, going on 65 years old. There have been 66 unidentified people compared to his cases, all have been excluded. Investigating Agencies: Dallas Police Department, 214-671-4268

Danny Lee Jones

Danny was born on January 26th, 1959. He was a white male, that was 5'5", 150 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. He had a scar on his right arm from a near amputation. At the age of 15, on September 1st, 1974, Danny went missing from Gilmer, Texas. Authorities believe that he left on his own accord. There have been 54 doe comparisons to his case, of which all have been excluded. As of 2021, Danny would be 61 years old. Investigating Agency: Gilmer Police Department 903-843-5545

Robert Douglas Sparks

Robert, also known as Bob, was born on either January 20th, or 22nd 1927. He was white, with brown hair, and brown eyes. He was 5'10', and 168 pounds, with a large scar on his right leg. At the time that he went missing, he was 46 years old. Bob was a retired Air Force Officer and private pilot. At the time that he went missing, he was wearing slacks, a short sleeved shirt, and a tan sweater. On November 19th, 1972, he was hired by a man named Lonnie D. Shaw (who went by Lon), that wanted Bob to fly him around the lower Rio Grande Valley for two hours to take pictures. Robert rented a 1970 Piper Cherokee 235 that is described as wine and white with gold trim from Upper Valley Aviation.

Robert and Lonnie Shaw departed McAllen, Texas with Shaw's two small pieces of luggage and a camera. At 1:50 pm, Robert advised over the radio that he was en route to Tampico, Mexico, cancelling the original flight plan. A few minutes later, he sent the message again, knowing that he didn't have the right paperwork to fly into Mexico at the time, investigators believe that Robert was under duress at the time. The plane had enough fuel for a 500 mile trip. Lonnie D. Shaw had been in and out of mental institutions. He was born around 1934, was 6'1, and 160 pounds. He his described as having had a slim build with gray or greying hair. I am unsure what family Lonnie may have had. Neither were ever seen or heard from again. Robert Shaw left behind a wife and four children. The ID number for the plane was N8529N, that the FAA de-registered in 1988. Neither Lonnie Shaw or Robert Sparks are listed on Namus.

Personally, I believe that Robert must have been set up by Lonnie to take him to Mexico, Lonnie potentially fleeing the country for some reason. It's possible that Lonnie may have had a gun and forced Robert to fly into Mexico. I imagine that the two may have gotten into a fight and crashed somewhere in the gulf of mexico. This is my own personal theory though. Contact the San Antonio FBI Office if you have any information: 210-225-6741 | reference case: 7-772

David Wayne Waggoner

David was born on November 11th, 1947. He is listed to have served in the Marines at some point. He was a white male with black/dark brown hair, with brown eyes. He was 5'9" (or 5'10") and 160-170 pounds. David had small vertical scars on his cheeks and horizontal scar on his chin. He had previously had two small fractures and a broken collar bone from a motorcycle accident.

David is listed as hard of hearing in his left ear. At the time of his disappearance he wore dark rimmed glasses, and was usually known to have worn dress shirts and slacks or blue jeans. He was known to wear a watch. David went missing at the age of 23, on October 9th, 1971 from Pasadena, Texas. He was last seen at this home which was around the 2700 block of Lafferty. His car was found parked in a front of his apartment with the keys in the ignition. There were clothes, a suitcase, and a small amount of money left inside the house. Two weeks later, a hunter located David's red Honda 350 motorcycle with the helmet sitting on top, in the woods off of highway 59 in Cold Springs, Texas, about 70 miles north of Houston. Allegedly, David only took his wallet and .9 millimeter pistol. His family believe that he may have had a run in with James C. Parker, also known as 'Humpy', who was the sheriff of San Jacinto county, Texas (which is just north of Harris county). James Parker and two of his deputies went to prison for detaining and torturing young men they met on 59 in the 70's and 80's. They liked to target hippies, black men, motorcyclists, and men with bumper stickers advertising rock stations. He has not been linked to David's case, and died in federal prison in 1999. At the time of his disappearance, David was unemployed, and quit his last job because it bored him. His family do not think that he would have left without warning, and that David wasn't depressed or suicidal in 1971. Even though his parents are now deceased, David's sister is still searching for him, and believe that he may have been taken against his will. There have been 70 does compared to his case, all of which have been excluded. His sister has a facebook page dedicated to the search of him.

I decided to take a look at some unidentified people that were found in the Harris, San Jacinto, and Fort Bend county areas. The first is a male that was found on May 20th, 1972. They have no exclusions to their case and are estimated to have died sometimes around 1971-72. They are listed as having been less than 50 years old, but at least 35. The deceased was but skeletal remains found behind an abandoned building, no torso, and missing limbs. Race is uncertain. [https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/9761?nav ] Second is a male also found on May 20th, 1972. Their race is listed as white, and they were potentially less than 60 years old. Their age group is anywhere from 40-50 years old, and they were 5'10, and about 145 pounds. John Doe was found drifting downstream at the Portland Cement Company, with all parts recovered and had a recognizable face. They had brown hair, brown eyes, and full side burns. He is listed as wearing blue pants from Sears, a size 32. He had on brown boxer shorts, size 18, a yellow shirt, and brown wing tip well worn shoes and socks. There have been no exclusions to this case.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4545/details?nav ]

Next is a man found on February 7th, 1974. He is listed as having been white, and anywhere from 35-55 years old. He was 5'9, and estimated to have been 165 pounds. John was found floating in Buffalo bayou year the Houston Shell and Concrete Co. in Houston, Texas. His namus profile states that he was not recognizable, with partial remains and soft tissues, with limbs missing. He was found wearing only grey or green pants, and white shorts with blue stripes. There is only one exclusion, but it is not David.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4552/details?nav ]

Another male is from November 17th, 1974. He does not have any exclusions to his case. He is listed as having been 18-25 years old, and was 5'5 and about 135 pounds. He was white. John Doe was found in Houston, involved in a pedestrian motor vehicle accident with all parts recovered and a recognizable face. He had black hair that was thick and 6 inches long, with long sideburns and a thick mustache with stubble. His eyes are listed as having been brown.

[ https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4554/details?nav ]

On October 24th, 1975, a man was found in Harris County. He is listed as having been white, and anywhere from 20-30 years old. He was 5'11 and 145 pounds. His body was recovered from an abandoned house, with all parts recovered but listed as not recognizable. His remains were in putrefaction. John Doe has light brown to blond hair, and his eye color is unknown. There are no exclusions to his case. [https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4558/details?nav ] On August 5th, 1975, a man was found in Houston. He is listed as white, and anywhere from 30-40 years old. He was 5'8", 137 pounds with brown hair. His eye color is unknown. John's hair is listed as having been 6-7 inches long. His body was found in Buffalo Bayou with his remains unrecognizable. There is only one exclusion to his case, James Kendall Maxey from Alabama.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4557/details?nav ]

On November 24th, 1974, a man was found in Houston. He is listed as having been white, and anywhere from 18-40 years old. He was 5'11 and about 145 pounds. John Doe was found in the Houston Ship Channel off City Dock 30, with his remains unrecognizable. He is known to have had brown hair, and 34 dollars in cash on his person. He was found wearing a brown knit sweater, a tan shirt, brown trousers, brown socks, brown shoes, and blue-green silk ladies underwear. The only exclusion is John Dial from Texas.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4555/details?nav ]

There are many more John Does in the Houston area, all before 1985 alone, but two from San Jacinto County really caught my eye. First is the male found on December 7th, 1979. He is listed as less than 50 years old, and anywhere from 30-45 years old. He is estimated to have been 5'6, but his race is uncertain. The estimated year of death is virtually unknown, listed as 0-1979 (the year he was found). There are many things unknown about this doe, who was only skeletal remains by the time he was found. John was discovered by hunters in the woods, at these GPS coordinates (30.478340N , -95.247087W ). There aren't any exclusions to his case. The only image of his items are the shoes found, that as listed on the autopsy report are said to be green, but brown in the photo. John had two pairs of pants, one green, and one blue with stripes. He also had a short sleeve green shirt.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/769/details?nav ]

The second man was found on December 11th, 1983. There aren't exclusions to his case, and he was also found in San Jacinto County. He is listed as having been anywhere from 20-40 years old, white, and his height, weight, and time of death is uncertain. John doe is listed as potentially dying anywhere from 0-1983, potentially dead for one year. John was also found in a wooded area in a hunting area, that is located in a national forest. The GPS coordinates are: 30.008166N , -95.103836W. His remains were unrecognizable, with limbs missing. It is unknown what his hair or eye color were, and there aren't any accessories found with the body.

[https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4575/details?nav ]

Floradean Walker

Floradean Walker, maiden name Hawes, was born somewhere around 1926-1926, give or take a year or so. She was 5'7", 135 pounds, with red auburn hair, and green eyes. She is listed as white, left handed and went by the name Pat. Pat was one of 7 children, and from Missouri. In March 1950, she married a man named Wesley E Walker, in Hext.

Floradean went missing in, 1951 from Hext, Texas, though the exact date of last contact is unknown. According to namus, she was likely last contacted around Spring or Fall of what I assume to have been 1950. There have been 21 exclusions to her case. There is very little information beyond this.

AJ and Myrisha Campbell

AJ and Myrisha Campbell were a set of siblings that went missing on September 6th, 1958 from Goliad, Texas. Myrisha was 3 years old at the time, 2'6", and 28 pounds. She had blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair, though it is noted that it was a very dark blonde. She was last seen wearing a pink dress with puffed sleeves and a Peter Pan collar, pink socks, and white buckle shoes.

AJ, Archie Jackson Junior, was less than a year old at the time, 2'2", and 25 pounds. He notably had clubbed thumbs, and a birthmark on this eyelid and lower lip. He was last seen wearing a blue and white checked shirt with a dark blue collar and yellow diaper. He had blue eyes and strawberry blond hair, styled as a burr cut.

The children lived with their mother, Jewel Bernay Campbell, and on September 6th, their father, AJ Senior, took them for a ride and never returned them. Jewel and AJ Senior had been married for 8 years before leaving him. He was very abusive towards Jewel. They originally lived in Fort Worth, but when they separated, she went to Goliad with the children, taking a teaching job. AJ Senior had court ordered visitations with the kids on Saturdays, of which is when they disappeared. He took the children at 9 am and was supposed to bring them back by 3. The car that they were seen in was a 2 door 1956 Chevy Tudor, with an unknown VIN. The base body was pink with a charcoal overlay, and license plate number MA-9996. Expiration was dated for 1959.

The last person to see the children other than their father was William Randle Jr, an acquaintance of AJ senior. William Randle stated that he and senior picked up the children in Goliad, then drove away in the Chevy. They went through Curero, and Gonzales, stopping along the way to pick up two large cans of lard. Once 3 miles or so outside of Goliad, senior asked William Randle to stop the car because he wanted to see a friend. Randle stepped out the car, and senior drove away with the kids in the car. He returned about 30-40 minutes later, the children no longer with him. AJ senior stated that he went to visit his brother in law, but they had a fight, and he left the children with another relative. Senior seemed nervous and agitated at the time, asking if there was any blood on him, and warned William Randle to tell no-one about the fight. Randle and senior then drove to San Antonio, then separated. Senior was supposed to meet Randle at a bus station the next day around midnight to return the car, but he never showed up. William Randle took a bus to Fort Worth, then reported his car stolen.

The next day, Senior spoke to a Forth Worth minister on the phone and implied that he killed the children, saying that they were "at rest with the world", and that he was going to kill himself. On September 7th, 1958, Senior's body was found inside William Randle's car on a rural road outside Austin, Texas. He had shot himself in the head with a new 16 gague shotgun, his death was ruled a suicide. He was buried in Alexander City Cemetery in Alabama. Senior left a note address to Jewel. He stated that he had buried both children, and that he loved the children and he loved Jewel, and hoped that she would be happy. There was no indication of the children's whereabouts, and no trace of them could be found.

Jewel stated, "I don't believe the note at all, because it was very difficult for him to tell the truth. I really do feel that they are alive...they may want to find me, too, and I know that". Senior was described as a smooth talker when alive. A massive man hunt was launched for the children with news article headlines stating "Father Kills Self; Two Tots Missing" and "100-Man Posse Continues Search for 2 Missing Tots".

After Senior's death, Jewel remarried and took on the name Robertson, later on having more children. Jewel's children, Regina Meynig and Phil Robertson, have keep up the search for their brother and sister, hoping that they may be located. They believe there's a chance that the kids may have been sold to someone and may still be alive somewhere. There are reports that Phil Robertson found info of a man with the same name and birthday as AJ junior, but there aren't any records of the man past the early to mid 90's.

Phil stated, "The problem is that no one knows where this guy is now. We don't know if he's an impostor or stolen identity or if he is indeed my brother....it leaves the door open that the kids may have not been murdered..that they may still be out there." "There's not a day that I don't think of them, of the children. But I try to keep a positive outlook because I know that God has a plan for our lives, and I just have to live by that." Jewel stated. In 2013, Jewel passed away at the age of 84. She is buried in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in Dallas, Texas.

There have been 20 exclusions for AJ, and 5 for Myrisha. The only question I have is, did Jewel keep in contact with Senior's family after the children went missing? Nothing ever seems to go over whether if the Campbell family was ever questioned or knew anything. If the children are still alive somewhere it could be possible that he gave them to someone that may have taken them to Alabama where he was from. This is just conjecture though.

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Dec. 15 is new tax deadline for Iowa derecho, California wildfire victims

Photo courtesy Cal Fire

Mother Nature is in one foul, destructive mood.

California wildfires have killed seven people, destroyed more than 1,400 buildings destroyed and ravaged 1.25 million acres in the Golden State. Blazes also have burned more than 1.8 million acres in 14 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

Hurricane Laura, which is shown in a National Hurricane Center satellite image below gaining strength today in the Gulf of Mexico, is expected to swamp East Texas and much of Louisiana, which also was the target of Tropical Storm Cristobal earlier this year, when it makes landfall. 

    Meteorologists warn that Laura's arrival, expected late Wednesday, Aug. 26, or early Thursday, Aug. 27, could be as a category 3 storm.

And if she follows the predicted hard right turn, much of the middle of the country all the way to the MidAtlantic also will be soaked.

That downpour possibility is not good news for folks in Iowa. Hawkeye State residents are still trying to recover from the loss of personal property and livelihoods when a derecho slammed that region Aug. 10

Storm prep and help: If you're in a threatened area, prepare now. If you've sustained damage from a disaster, look into potential recovery help.

You can find ways to get ready or reassemble your life in the posts collected in the ol' blog's special Storm Warnings pages.

Some of that relief could come from the federal government.

In cases where a major presidential disaster is declared, Uncle Sam provides assistance via Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government programs.

Tax help, too: The Internal Revenue Service also steps up to offer some tax relief.

In the immediate wake of storm damage, the typically offers affected taxpayers some leniency in meeting tax obligations that are disrupted by disasters.

Taxpayers also have the option to claim related expenses — and do so for either the year of the damage or amend a previous one, whichever provides the best tax advantage — as itemized casualty losses on Schedule A. This option, thanks to changes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, now is limited to major disaster losses.

  Major Disaster Loss Tax Time Shifting

     Individuals and businesses in a federally declared disaster area who suffered uninsured or unreimbursed disaster-related losses can choose to claim them on either the return for the year the loss occurred.

     In the instance of major disasters in 2020, that would be on this tax year's return normally filed in 2021, or by including the loss on your 2019 return if you've not yet filed it. If you have filed your 2019 taxes and want to claim the loss because that will get you a refund or a bigger one, you can amend that return, electronically now.

     Whenever you do claim your major disaster losses on your tax return, be sure to write the appropriate FEMA declaration number on your tax return. For the Iowa derecho, that's 4557. For California wildfire claims, it is 4558. IRS Publication 547 has more details.

  While it will be a while before we hear from the IRS about any Hurricane Laura tax relief, the tax agency has announced tax help for California and Iowa filers who sustained disaster losses.

December derecho dates: Victims of the Aug. 10 derecho storm that affected parts of Iowa now have until Dec. 15 to file various individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.

The IRS uses the major disaster areas designated by FEMA. The IRS also keeps track of these disaster-eligible areas on its own disaster relief page.

In the Iowa derecho case this is, so far, Linn County. However, notes the IRS, any localities that FEMA adds to the disaster area will automatically receive the same filing and payment relief. That relief is postponement of various tax filing and payment deadlines that occurred starting on Aug. 10, the day of the destructive storm.

Affected Iowa individual and business taxpayers now have until Dec. 15 to file returns and pay any taxes that were originally due during this period.

This date delay means that folks who got an extension to Oct. 15 to file their 2019 tax returns now have until mid-December to finish those 1040 forms.

The IRS notes, however, that because tax payments related to these 2019 returns were due on July 15, there is no payment relief. And due tax should have been paid with the extension request. If the full amount wasn't made then, existing penalties and interest still accrue even though the final form filing deadline has moved.

The Dec. 15 deadline also applies to quarterly estimated income tax payments that are due on Sept. 15.

As for affected Hawkeye State businesses, quarterly payroll and excise tax returns normally due on Oct. 31 now are postponed until Dec. 15. Businesses with extensions also have the additional time including, among others, calendar-year corporations whose 2019 extensions run out on Oct. 15.

That new December deadline also applies to Iowa tax-exempt organizations that operate on a calendar-year basis and which had a valid extension due to run out on Nov. 15.

California fire relief: Mid-December also is the new tax timeline for certain California taxpayers who sustained damages from the wildfires that erupted on Aug. 14.

Per the FEMA disaster designation for Golden State fires, individuals and businesses in Lake, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties qualify for the relief. Any taxpayers in localities later added to the disaster area will automatically receive the same filing and payment relief.

As in the derecho decision, fire-affected Golden State business and individual taxpayers now have until Dec. 16 to meet tax filing and payment deadlines that occurred starting on Aug. 14.

Again, this Dec. 15 due date applies to those who got filing extensions, which were set for Oct. 15, as well as to the Sept. 15 estimated tax deadline. And again, this is even more time to file, not to pay any due tax that wasn't paid when the original extension requires was filed.

California businesses' quarterly payroll and excise tax returns normally due on Oct. 31 now are extended to Dec. 15. The state's tax-exempt organizations, operating on a calendar-year basis, that had a valid extension due to run out on Nov. 15 also get the additional month to file.

No added tax action needed: If you're an Iowa or California taxpayer, individual or business, who qualifies for the disaster related relief, you don't need to do anything.

In major disaster situations, the IRS automatically provides filing and penalty relief to any taxpayer with an IRS address of record located in the disaster area.

However, if an affected taxpayer receives a late filing or late payment penalty notice from the IRS that has an original or extended filing, payment or deposit due date falling within the postponement period, the taxpayer should call the number on the notice to have the penalty abated.

Out-of-area relief considerations: In addition, the IRS will work with any taxpayer who lives outside the disaster area but whose records necessary to meet a deadline occurring during the postponement period are located in the affected area.

It that's you, you need to contact the IRS toll-free at (866) 562-5227.

And the tax relief also extends to individuals who are in the area assisting with relief activities conducted by a recognized government or philanthropic organization.

If you need this tax and other government assistance, take it.

If you're in a potential national disaster area, which is anywhere in the United States and any time of the year, make the preparations appropriate for area's possible whack by mean Mother Nature.

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Subways Segment to Dominate Europe Railway Connectors Market through 2025

Increasing demand for different types of wagons in railways is expected to drive the growth of Europe railway connectors market

According to TechSci Research report, “Europe Railway Connectors Market By Connector Type (Broad Level Connectors/PCB Connectors, Power Connectors, RF/HF Coaxial Connectors, Data Connectors, Pogo Pin Connectors/Spring Load Connectors, Modular & Mix Connectors),  By Size (Connectors Body and Backshell),   By Platform (Rolling Stock and Signaling/Infrastructure), By Application (Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs), Electric Multiple Units (EMUs), Light Rails/Trams, Subways/Metros, Passenger Coaches), By Country, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025”, the Europe railway connectors market is expected to grow at a steady rate during the forecast period owing to the increasing demand for advanced signaling equipment. Additionally, the incorporation of big data, IoT, cloud, in the railway industry is further expected to propel the market during the next five years. However, high overhaul and maintenance costs can hamper the market until 2025.

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 The Europe railway connectors market is segmented based on connector type, size, platform, application, company and regional distribution. Based on connector type, the market can be fragmented into broad level connectors/PCB connectors, power connectors, RF/HF coaxial connectors, data connectors, pogo pin connectors/spring load connectors, modular & mix connectors. The power connectors segment is expected to dominate the market during forecast period. This can be accredited to the growing demand for power and voltage for specific critical applications such as metro rail, light/tram rail, base station installations, among others.  Based on size, the market can be divided into connectors body and backshell. The connectors body segment is expected to dominate the market owing to their extensive use in modular machine design, factory automation, robotics, transportation, power generation, among others. Based on platform, the market can be bifurcated into rolling stock and signalling/infrastructure. The signalling/infrastructure is expected to register significant growth during forecast period attributable to the fact that it ensures increased safety in trains and provides ease in operations. The signalling system receives the track data from different locations and then analyzes it. The analyzed data is then converted to an electronic signal which warns the rail engineers about the movement authority limits, speed limits, and track conditions ahead. On the other hand, rolling stock is expected to hold a significant market share during forecast period. This can be ascribed to the advancements in technologies such as turbochargers, power electronics, and semiconductors. Additionally, it reduces the weight of the vehicle that helps in improving the speed and comfort of transit systems. Based on application, the market can be fragmented into diesel multiple units (DMUS), electric multiple units (EMUS), light rails/trams, subways/metros and passenger coaches. The subways/metros dominate the market on account of the increasing urbanization and the growing need for a sustainable mode of transportation.

TE Connectivity, Amphenol Corporation, Molex Incorporated, ITT, Smiths Interconnect, Fischer Connectors, Esterline Technologies, Schaltbau, Sichuan Yonggui Science and Technology, TT Electronics and others are some of the leading players operating in Europe railway connectors market. For instance, in February 2018, Amphenol Corporation expanded its RJ Field & USB Field range of rugged connectors with two new reduced flange versions of RJF TV6 and USB3F TV for reduced spaces railway applications. The RJ and USB reduced flange receptacles combine space and weight savings with performances equal to standard RJF TV6 and USB3F TV receptacles.

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“Europe railway connectors market is expected to witness growth during the forecast period, owing to the fact that adoption of high-end technology is lower in the East European countries as compared with the West European countries such as the UK, Germany, France, and Spain. Additionally, presence of key players such as Fischer Connectors, Schaltbau, TT Electronics, among others in the region further strengthens the market in the region. Furthermore, the locos in Europe are being equipped with advanced technologies such as wireless radio connection, data transmission, among others thereby fueling the growth of market..” said Mr. Karan Chechi, Research Director with TechSci Research, a research based global management consulting firm.

“Europe Railway Connectors Market By Connector Type (Broad Level Connectors/PCB Connectors, Power Connectors, RF/HF Coaxial Connectors, Data Connectors, Pogo Pin Connectors/Spring Load Connectors, Modular & Mix Connectors),  By Size (Connectors Body and Backshell),   By Platform (Rolling Stock and Signaling/Infrastructure), By Application (Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs), Electric Multiple Units (EMUs), Light Rails/Trams, Subways/Metros, Passenger Coaches), By Country, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025” has evaluated the future growth potential of Europe railway connectors market and provides statistics & information on market size, structure and future market growth. The report intends to provide cutting-edge market intelligence and help decision makers take sound investment decisions. Besides, the report also identifies and analyzes the emerging trends along with essential drivers, challenges and opportunities in Europe railway connectors market.

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