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N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-11-21 · 00:33 UTC

So, apparently, the French government is desperately trying to shield its citizens from the terrifying threat of... *checks notes* GrapheneOS? 🤔 Meanwhile, the real hero of the story is the baffled #Mastodon user who just wants to enable #JavaScript but is left wondering if they're in the midst of a geopolitical tech conspiracy. 🤷‍♂️💻
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115584160910016309 #FrenchGovernment #GrapheneOS #TechConspiracy #HackerNews #ngated

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Mumonkan @[email protected] · 2023-06-26 · 06:17 UTC

its a bit of a shock when someone actually does a hygrid piece on #SITO these days. but it is honestly baffling to me that someone did a *linking* piece. i would have bet this functionality was broken! 🤯 😅

"The Hygrid Highway is in Progress" by Samuel M. Curtin Created by Samuel M. Curtin at 2023-06-25 22:19:38.
https://sito.org/hg/smc390.png

#collaborativeart #hygrid #sitoorg

#sitoorg #hygrid #collaborativeart #sito

Mumonkan @[email protected] · 2023-06-26 · 06:15 UTC

its a bit of a shock when someone actually does a hygrid piece on #SITO these days. but it is honestly baffling to me that someone did a *linking* piece. i would have bet this functionality was broken! 🤯 😅

"The Hygrid Highway is in Progress" by Samuel M. Curtin Created by Samuel M. Curtin at 2023-06-25 22:19:38.
https://sito.org/hg/smc390.png

#collaborativeart #hygrid #sitoorg

#sitoorg #hygrid #collaborativeart #sito

Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] · 2023-03-04 · 16:43 UTC

The First Inuit in Scotland: the thread about John Sakeouse; Hunter, Explorer, Artist, Interpreter, Kayaker, Friend of Leith and

The registers of the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh record that on 17th Feb 1819 a man was interred there, having died 3 days previously from fever. They say he was 22 years old, although nobody was exactly sure. What they do not say is that he was far from the land of his birth and that he was a truly remarkable man. He was John Sakeouse and this is his story.

John Sakeouse, a portrait by Amelia Anderson, engraved by W. & D. Lizars. CC-by-NC National Galleries Scotland

John was well known in Edinburgh and Leith, infact it was fair to say he was something of a celebrity, for he was a unique character in the city; he was a Kalaaleq , an Inuk from West Greenland, and was the first of his people to travel to Scotland. He was born around 1797 in Disko Bay on the west coast of Greenland at a latitude of 69° North. We do not know his name in his native language, but he grew up in an area where Danish missionaries were active and from them he took the biblical names Johannes Zakaeus; John Zacchaeus (also Anglicised to Sackhouse, Saccheuse, but he signed himself Sakeouse so we shall go with that.) From the missionaries he learned about the bible and had a knowledge of and interest in Christianity. He also learned of the world beyond his horizon and picked up a little English.

Icebergs Disko Bay. Cc-by-SA 3.0 Algkalv

John had wanted to satisfy a curiosity as to what was over the horizon and beyond the land of his birth, and he wanted to learn about art. He may have been further motivated by being unlucky in love and rejected by the mother of a potential bride. But his reasons were his own and using his own initiative and ingenuity in May or June of 1816 he took to his kayak and paddled out to a whaling ship that was getting ready to depart the Davis Strait. Using his basic English, he managed to convince the crew to help him stow away and the seamen took pity and smuggled not just John but also his kayak aboard. Once he was safely over the horizon he announced his presence to the master of the ship; who either offered or threatened to turn around and put him ashore, but John was obviously a persuasive communicator and the master, John Newton, was convinced to take him home with him. That ship was the Thomas and Ann, it was owned by Peter Wood and Company of Leith, and that port was its destination. That is how on the 15th August 1816, John Sakeouse came to Scotland “with 11 fish“, as a very special passenger.

The Leith Greenland whaler “Raith”, also owned by the Woods and a contemporary of the “Thomas and Ann”. A model in the collection of Trinity House, Leith.

On the long journey back to Leith, he earned his passage by assisting the seamen in their duties and occupied himself in improving his English.Standing between 5 foot 6 and 8 inches tall, with a head of thick black hair, he was of stocky build and impressed his hosts with his great physical strength, his dexterity and also his gentle nature and eagerness to learn. When the Thomas and Ann finally arrived back in Leith, news of his presence seemed to spread like wildfire and large crowds assembled wanting to catch a glimpse of this unusual visitor. The crowds prevented Master Newton from unloading his precious cargo of whale, so he had Sakeouse taken ashore and lodged in his house in the Timber Bush area. The crowds simply followed and gathered outside Newton’s house instead.

But although John had never seen this many people in his life, he hadn’t come to Scotland to hide himself away. So he took himself and his kayak down to the new Wet Docks, lowered himself into them and with great showmanship put on an hour long display of his proficiency and dexterity in it. He thrilled the crowds by being able to roll his boat over at will, paddle it while inverted and roll it back upright again “in the twinkling of an eye… and scuds off as if nothing had happened“. A ship’s biscuit was floated on the water and from 30 yards he would hit it – and split it – with his harpoon.

John Sakeouse in his kayak, from an illustration by Amelia Anderson, engraved by W. & D. Lizars, CC-by-NC National Galleries Scotland

His show was an instant hit, and it was put on each day for the crowds. Handbills were printed and money was collected. On Thursday 5th September, a grand race was organised; John against the best whaling boat and six of the best crew that Leith had to offer. “A vast assemblage of persons of all ranks were collected at Leith. The piers, windows and roofs of houses and the decks and rigging of the vessels, were crowded with spectators; and the water from the harbour to near the Martello Tower was covered with boats, filled with Ladies and Gentlemen.” They set off from the end of the pier, the course being around the Martello Tower and back again; John was the clear winner, taking just 16 minutes.

An exhibition of some of his artefacts was put on in a dockside warehouse, described as “two sea unicorn’s horns, the skulls of a sea horse and bear, the ear of a whale and the preserved skin of a black eagle“. The money these ventures raised helped support him financially; to provide him with the food and clothes that he needed to get through the winter in Scotland until he could return home the following season when the whalers went north again. By the end of August news of him had spread the length of the country; with newspapers not just in Scotland and London, but all across England, in Belfast and in Dublin relating the story of “the Esquimaux* now at Leith“.

* = the French term which was in written use at the time in the press for Inuit. The Scottish whalers used the term “Yackie”, in some contemporary accounts he refers to himself as “Yakee”, a term he undoubtedly picked up from the whalers.

Lodging with Newton and his family, when John was not putting on his displays he attended to studying English in “which he made considerable progress“; he learned to play the flute a little and to dance. He told his hosts that he had received some schooling in his childhood, had some basic knowledge of the wider world and historical facts and had heard of an elephant – but never having seen one was “much delighted” when shown a picture. He had not, however, seen or heard of a cow and on first encountering one fetched his harpoon with which to defend himself from this strange beast. He sat for portraits, was taken to the theatre, and was the toast of the evening soirées of Leith and Edinburgh, comfortably ingratiating himself with all who met him.

John Sakeouse’s handwriting, from an engraving by W. & D. Lizars, CC-by-NC National Galleries Scotland

In the spring of 1817, the Leith whalers set out again for the Davis Straits and John was with them, once more on board the Thomas and Ann. Newton was under strict orders from his employer, Peter Wood, that John was to be “treated with the greatest kindness” and returned to where he had been picked up, and not to return with him unless John explicitly desired to. On reaching his home however, John was distressed to find that his only living relative, his sister, had died over the winter. On learning that she had believed him dead and had died of a broken heart, he returned to Newton and made it known that he wished to stay with them and “revisit his country no more.” And so it was in September 1817 once again the newspapers in Edinburgh reported that the Thomas and Ann had returned to Leith and once more it had a special passenger aboard. And once again, this exciting news was reprinted from Inverness to London and from Cambridge to Belfast.

That winter, John exhibited the selfless kindness to others for which he was knows. Enjoying he snows that had fallen, and walking far beyond Leith, he came across two young children whom he observed “to be suffering from the cold“. He took off his sealskin jacket, wrapped the pair of them in in it and carried them safely home to Leith. He refused all attempts at a reward, not thinking himself having done anything remarkable. It was on another winter walk that John’s adventures took an interesting new direction, for who should he by chance bump in to but one Alexander Nasmyth; pupil of Alan Ramsay and one of Scotland’s foremost landscape and portrait painters at that time. Nasmyth recognised John by his dress, and having once drawn a set of native clothing that had been brought to Scotland he was keen to ingratiate himself. He invited John up to Edinburgh and had him sit for a portrait in return for providing him with drawing lessons. Nasmyth got his painting, now part of the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, and John got his lessons, proving to have a natural talent and be a quick learner. He was the first Inuit to recieve formal art training, although he came from a rich artistic culture.

John Sakaeus (Sakeouse) by Alexander Nasmyth, c. 1817, CC-by-NC National Galleries Scotland

It was through the well connected Nasmyth that John’s life took its next turn; he was introduced to the naval explorer Captain Basil Hall and his father, Sir James, the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Halls were aware that the Admiralty was preparing an expedition to search for a Northwestern Passage, under fellow Scot Capain John Ross (later Sir John), and were quick to realise that having a native guide who could also act as a translator could prove invaluable to the mission. The Halls wrote to Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, who agreed with them and asked for John to be sent to London if he was willing. John seems to have turned down offers of payment for his services, and was keen to join the expedition so long as it was not a ruse to send him back to the land of his birth.

In London, John ingratiated himself with his usual ease, and – having taken it with him – as usual thrilled the crowds with kayaking and harpooning displays in Deptford Docks. A trick that went down very well was to throw his harpoon, which he could do with great accuracy over 50 yards, and then follow it up with smaller “darts” with which he could hit the handle of the floating harpoon, time after time. Captain Ross and the Admiralty wasted no time in engaging John’s services, however it nearly wasn’t to be; in late March a stranger, who may have been an agent for the Aquatic Theatre, attempted to lure him away from the expedition and onto the stage, with offers of money and a considerable quantity of alcohol. The usually sober John almost succumbed to temptation, but on recovering his faculties and suffering his hangover thought better of it, apologised to Ross for his change of heart and stayed firmly on board and away from the dockside taverns thereafter. The Admiralty quietly ordered that he was to be kept on board and away from strangers thereafter.

Ross’s expedition departed London on board a small fleet of hired Hull whaling ships on 18th April 1818. Ross led on his flagship Isabella, with Captain Buchan on the Dortothea, Lieutenant Parry on the Alexander and the ill-fated Lieutenant Franklin on the Trent. Their search was for the Northwest Passage and the Bering Strait beyond, and part of the expedition intended to strike out for the North Pole. Their journey would find none of those destinations, but would take them further north than any British navigator had yet been.

“Portraits of the Vessels of the Polar Expedition of 1818”, an illustration by John Ross © Royal Museums Greenwich.

The convoy arrived off Greenland in mid-June. By the end of the month, they reached 70° North. This was Disko Bay, the land where John – or Jack as the sailors had taken to calling him – had been born 19 or 20 years before. John took take to his kayak, returning with specimens of birds for the expedition’s scientists, and also with a party of local Inuit he had contacted. Acting as a translator, he negotiated for a larger party of them to return with the gift of a dog sled for Ross. They were invited aboard for coffee and biscuits and shown around, had their portraits taken and further gifts were exchanged. An impromptu cèilidh was then held on the deck, with the Inuit dancing Scottish Reels with the seamen to the music of their fiddler. Ross describes John as acting as the “master of ceremonies”, calling out the dances. Catching the attention of a young woman in the Inuit party, “by far the best looking of the group“, John was given a lady’s shawl by one of the officers to present to her. She returned his affections with the gift of a ring, and Ross was in “no possible doubt [he] had made an impression on her heart“.

After the ball concluded with more coffee, the guests departed and John was permitted to escort them home and perhaps return with more specimens for the expedition. It was at this point however that he suffered an unfortunate accident; demonstrating a gun to some of the Inuit, he over-filled it with gunpowder under a mistaken assumption that he described himself as “plenty powder, plenty kill. Letting the weapon off, he could not handle the recoil and broke his collar bone. A search party had to be sent out to retrieve him when he did not return to the ship.

Ross’s ships (one ship is in the distance, on the right of the image) in the land of John’s birth at Disko Bay, an illustration by Andrew Skene, an officer and artist on the expedition

They did not linger here and continued north into Baffin Bay, intending on making an anti-clockwise navigation in search of the North West Passage. Ross made an illustration of his little flotilla as it moved carefully through the ice at 70°44′ North. They pressed on and at 75°25′ North they reached a bay that the Greenlanders call Qimusseriarsuaq. Although whalers had been here before, they hadn’t troubled to give it an English name, so Ross Christened it Melville Bay, after Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the man who had given Ross his first commission and a son of Edinburgh (for whom Melville Street is named).

“Through the Ice, June 16 1818, Lat. 70° 44′ N.”, an illustration by Captain Ross

The were able to sail as far north as 75°55′, before becoming trapped in the ice at the start of August and could go no further. It was with a great deal of skill, hard work and luck that they were able to extricate the Isabella and the Alexander, and now headed west around the top of Baffin Bay. An illustration made by Captain Ross shows this desperate scene.

“Perilous Situation of the Isabella and the Alexander”, illustration by Captain Ross

Soon they were heading south again and on August 9th 1818, the Isabella and the Alexander came to what Ross called Prince Regent Inlet. Here, at 75°55′ North, 65°32′ West, and with the unique help of John Sakeouse, they made first contact with what Ross called the Arctic Highlanders: the native Inughuit.

It was the Inughuit who spotted them first. By the time Ross’s lookouts spotted them in return, they took these men far out on the ice to be stranded whalers, and made for them. As they approached, they realised that they were natives travelling on dog sledges. When they came within shouting distance, John attempted to call to them in his language, but the men took to their sleds and fled. Boats were sent out and some gifts left on the ice for them. Ross also had the men make up a large flag showing the image of the sun and the moon, with an outstretched hand holding a spring of a native shrub in the manner of an olive branch (this western metaphor would of course have been completely lost on them.) This was run up a pole in a prominent position on the ice, to which was also affixed a bag of gifts and a large outline of a hand pointing to the ships.

The next morning a larger party of men returned with 8 sleds, stopping on the ice a mile short of the ships. The flagpole enticed the men and their sleds closer, but they remained cautiously 300 yards distant, apparently in conversation. It was at this point that John stepped in. Taking a bag of gifts, and a white flag (another hopeless symbol for communicating with people who had never encountered white men before), John strode out on the ice. Dressed in the garb of a western sailor, they had no idea who he was, or what his act of removing his hat meant, and as he approached they pulled a knife on him, implored him to be on his way and made it clear that they could kill him if needs be. In return, the ever placid John offered them a British-made knife in his possession, tossing it to them. On examining it, the men were impressed and pulled their noses, a sign of friendship. John pulled his nose too, and a rapport was formed. John now presented them with a string of beads and showed them a chequered shirt. This was not just the first time the Inughuit had met white men, it was their first exposure to a Kalaaleq, a western Greenlander. After some initial difficulty, John recognised their dialect as one an old woman who once nursed him had spoken, and was slowly able to communicate. Using his natural talents and the tuition in Western art acquired from Alexander Nasmyth, John would paint a picture to capture this scene, presenting it to Captain Ross.

First Communication with the Natives of Prince Regent Bay, as John by John Sackheouse and Presented to Captain Ross, August10th 1818

John, wearing the blue jacket, with his arm held in a sling and wearing a beaver cap, is seen holding the chequered shirt while two Inughuit inspect the other gifts he has presented them with, one of whom may be holding up one of the mirrors with which they were presented and which caused them wonder and delight. In the foreground, Captain Ross and Lieutenant Parry offer other gifts, receiving narwhal tusks in return. Another man is arriving on his dog sled, and two others are in the distance admiring the ships and a boat which had been hauled onto the ice for repairs. The Inughuit had never before seen a ship; indeed they were not seafaring people, had never seen a kayak and had no word for it, living entirely on the land and using dog sleds for travel and hunting. So it was with some difficulty that they were eventually enticed aboard onto these winged “Islands of Wood” (they had never before seen a shrub with a trunk wider than your finger, so the ships timbers were an incredible sight for them). The men were given a tour of the ship, before being convinced to sit in chairs (something they had never seen and whose purpose they did not understand) to have their portraits taken. They were offered ships biscuit, salt beef, plum pudding and Aquavit, all of which they thoroughly disliked.

Ervick, one of the Inughuit who met the Ross Expedition in 1818, an illustration by Captain Ross

With John acting as interpreter, they were able to learn that the Inughuit did not count beyond ten, that their knives were fashioned from iron extracted from a rock in the mountains, that they lived in family units by a form of mutual agreement between the husband and wife, but had sent their women and children into the mountains to safety; the menfolk had come forth only to ask the interlopers to leave. They had a chief – Tulloowah – to whom other families gave a tribute. They had no organised religion, but each family had a “sorcerer” who could be called upon to commune with the weather or supplies of animals for food. They had no concepts of weapons or war, or of lands and people beyond their own. They assumed that the white-faced Europeans must be some sort of ghost whose ships had flown down from the air. Before leaving, the Inughuit were presented with planks of wood that they had expressed a desire in possessing.

The Inughuit returned a few days later on the 13th of August and again on the 14th. This was a different party than those they had met before, and had come forth after seeing the gifts that the first had returned with and having received assurances that the “Islands of Wood” and their ghostly residents were not an immediate threat. More gifts were exchanged, and the leader of the party helped himself to Ross’s telescope, shaving razor and a pair of scissors, which Ross was pleased to overlook. Before their final departure, Ross gave them a portrait of the Prince Regent as a present for “their king”.

They now pressed further south and west, coming to Lancaster Sound at 74°19½’ North 78°33′ west at the end of August where he took a fateful decision. Imagining that he could see distant mountains (they were actually a mirage), he was convinced that there was no way further through by sea and turned around against the wishes of his subordinate Parry. So convinved was Ross, that he named this distant range – the Croker Mountains – and made a detailed landscape illustration of them.

Lancaster Sound, as seen from HMS Isabella, 3PM, August 31st 1818. The distant range of the Croker Mountains was a mere mirage. By Captain Ross

Ross now headed south along the western edge of Baffin Bay, taking detailed meteorological and astronomical observations, collecting geological and animal specimens and otherwise occupying the expedition now with science rather than their stated goal of seeking the North West Passage. By the end of September they were at Resolution Island at 61°30′ North and well out of the Arctic Circle, and Ross decided to end operations for the season and head for home. A month later, on October 29th, they sighted Foula, the westernmost island of the Shetland Archipelago. On November 14th they dropped anchor for the last time, in Grimsby Roads, and Ross set off at once for London and their Lordships of the Admiralty with his logs, journals, charts and letters.

Ross, unfortunately, did not find the hero’s welcome that he might have imagined. Instead, his subordinate officers challenged his decision to turn around in Lancaster Sound, and Parry was vehemently and publicly sceptical of the grounds on which Ross made that decision. The Admiralty were convinced by Parry and his conspirators that Ross’s findings were not to be trusted, and they organised an expediction for the following year, led by Parry, and on which Ross was not invited. The press lampooned him, a particularly scathing satirical cartoon showing him pompously leading his crew, all mutilated by frosbite, carrying back nothing but specimens of animals and rocks. The implication was clear; Ross’s expedition had been a failure and the scientific results and objects he returned with were worthless.

Landing of the Treasures or Results of the Polar Expedition!!! By George Cruikshank © The Trustees of the British Museum

Ross publicly praised John Sakeouse as “very intelligent and willing to learn as well as being grateful to those who instruct him. A man on whom the utmost dependence may be placed“. The satirist – George Cruikshank – unfortunately did not treat him with the same respect and credit that he merited. Instead he showed him as a deeply racist stereotype, a savage called “Jack Frost”, carrying a narwhal tusk, wearing a fur skirt, and clutching an album of his drawings. The sailors to his right, on wondering “what will they do with Jack Frost“, suggest he should have his throat cut and be stuffed. This was a sad end to the important expedition, and a cruel way to dismiss the contributions of John Sakeouse, which no other man could have made.

John Sakeouse, shown as the savage “Jack Frost”.

John did not stay long in London, and asked to be returned to his friends in Leith. Parry – although contemptuous of Ross – recognised the importance of John and arranged that he should be included again in the 1819 expedition. Unfortunately this was never to be.

John took ill at the start of the year with “a violent inflammation in the chest“. John Newton, the whaling master who had first been convinced to bring John to Leith, and his family nursed John through his illness. At first he seemed to improve, and despite doctor’s orders to the contrary – soon felt well enough to venture out in the search of fish, which he brought back to his lodgings to cook for himself.

A few days later however, he had relapsed into fever. He told his companions that his late sister had come to him in a fever dream and called to him, and that he knew now that he was dying. Calling for his Catechism – in the Danish language that he had been tutored in by missionaries – he grasped it “till his strength and sight failed him, when the book dropped from his grasp, and he shortly afterwards expired“. All of Leith mourned his loss, and a respectful funeral was arranged in the Canongate Kirkyard and paid for by his friends. “He was followed to the grave by a numerous company, among whom were not only his old friends and patrons from Leith, but many gentlemen of high respectability in this city“. His final resting place is not marked, but was given as “in the area 8 feet south of Fraser’s ground and 4 feet from the north walk“.

Approximate location of the last resting place of John Sakeouse. © Self

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Chuck Darwin @[email protected] · 2025-12-28 · 00:17 UTC

The gluon cloud is exactly what QCD predicts.

“The HERA data are direct experimental proof that QCD describes nature,” Milner said.

But the young theory’s victory came with a bitter pill:

While QCD beautifully described the dance of short-lived quarks and gluons revealed by HERA’s extreme collisions,

the theory is useless for understanding the three long-lasting quarks seen in SLAC’s gentle bombardment.

QCD’s predictions are easy to understand only when the strong force is relatively weak.

And the strong force weakens only when quarks are extremely close together,
as they are in short-lived quark-antiquark pairs.

#Frank #Wilczek, #David #Gross and #David #Politzer identified this defining feature of QCD in 1973,
winning the Nobel Prize for it 31 years later.

But for gentler collisions like SLAC’s, where the proton acts like three quarks that mutually keep their distance,
these quarks pull on each other strongly enough that QCD calculations become impossible.

Thus, the task of further demystifying the three-quark view of the proton has fallen largely to experimentalists.
(Researchers who run “digital experiments,” in which QCD predictions are simulated on supercomputers,
have also made key contributions.)

And it’s in this low-resolution picture that physicists keep finding surprises.

Recently, a team led by #Juan #Rojo of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics in the Netherlands and VU University Amsterdam
analyzed more than 5,000 proton snapshots taken over the last 50 years,
using machine learning
to infer the motions of quarks and gluons inside the proton
in a way that sidesteps theoretical guesswork.

The new scrutiny picked up a background blur in the images that had escaped past researchers.

In relatively soft collisions just barely breaking the proton open,
most of the momentum was locked up in the usual three quarks:
two ups and a down.

But a small amount of momentum appeared to come from a “#charm” #quark and charm #antiquark
— colossal elementary particles that each outweigh the entire proton by more than
one-third❗️

Short-lived charms frequently show up in the “quark sea” view of the proton
(gluons can split into any of six different quark types if they have enough energy).

But the results from Rojo and colleagues suggest that the charms have a more permanent presence,
making them detectable in gentler collisions.

In these collisions, the proton appears as a quantum mixture,
or superposition,
of multiple states:

An electron usually encounters the three lightweight quarks.

But it will occasionally encounter a rarer “molecule” of five quarks,
such as an up, down and charm quark grouped on one side and an up quark and charm antiquark on the other.

Such subtle details about the proton’s makeup could prove consequential.

At the Large Hadron Collider, physicists search for new elementary particles by bashing high-speed protons together and seeing what pops out;

to understand the results, researchers need to know what’s in a proton to begin with.

The occasional apparition of giant charm quarks would throw off the odds of making more exotic particles.

And when protons called #cosmic #rays hurtle here from outer space and slam into protons in Earth’s atmosphere,
charm quarks popping up at the right moments would shower Earth with extra-energetic #neutrinos, researchers calculated in 2021.

These could confound observers searching for high-energy neutrinos coming from across the cosmos.

Rojo’s collaboration plans to continue exploring the proton by searching for an imbalance between charm quarks and antiquarks.

And heavier constituents,
such as the #top quark, could make even rarer and harder-to-detect appearances.

Next-generation experiments will seek still more unknown features.

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory hope to fire up the
"Electron-Ion Collider"
in the 2030s
and pick up where HERA left off,
taking higher-resolution snapshots that will enable the first 3D reconstructions of the proton.

The #EIC will also use spinning electrons to create detailed maps of the spins of the internal quarks and gluons,
just as SLAC and HERA mapped out their momentums.

This should help researchers to finally pin down the origin of the proton’s spin,
and to address other fundamental questions about the baffling particle that makes up most of our everyday world.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

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47th Pennsylvania Volunteers @[email protected] · 2023-12-28 · 22:11 UTC

General J. D. Fessenden’s headquarters, U.S. Army of the Shenandoah at Camp Russell near Stephens City (now Newtown) in Virginia (Lieutenant S. S. Davis, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 31, 1864, public domain; click to enlarge).

Erected in November 1864 on grounds that were adjacent to the Opequon Creek, just west of Stephens City (now Newtown) and south of Winchester, Virginia, by Union Army troops operating under the command of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, Camp Russell was the site where the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was housed from November 1864 until December 20, 1864, while it was still attached to the United States Army of the Shenandoah.

Named after Brigadier-General David A. Russell, who had been killed in action on September 19, 1864 during the Battle of Opequan (also known as “Third Winchester”), which had unfolded just over two miles away during the earlier part of Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Camp Russell was built using the lumber and bricks from a neighboring African American Methodist chapel that had been dismantled by Sheridan’s troops, according to historians at the Newtown History Center.

It quickly became a two-mile-long complex that consisted of separate encampments for each of the Army of the Shenandoah’s individual regiments, as well as a hospital system, and was protected by a roughly four-mile-long system of earthworks and trenches that had been installed on both sides of the Valley Pike (south of what, today, is the intersection of Interstate 81 and Virginia Route 37).

These earthworks and trenches were subsequently connected to the Carysbrooke Redoubt on the pike’s eastern side, which ensured that the southern end of Camp Russell was also well fortified (a critical planning component since the Confederate States Army troops of Lieutenant-General Jubal Early were positioned to the south during this point in time). In addition, Camp Russell was also heavily guarded around the clock by Union Army soldiers who were assigned to scouting duties and picket details.

During this same time, C Company soldier Henry Wharton penned a new letter to the Sunbury American, his hometown newspaper:

NEAR NEWTOWN, VA.
November 14, 1864.
DEAR WILVERT:
The day after election the entire army of the Shenandoah left their old camps at Cedar creek and fell back to this place. The reason of this was the scouts reported a force coming down the Luray Valley and the removal enabled General Sheridan to get a better position and establish lines unknown to the enemy. Intrenchments [sic] have been, and are now being constructed that will baffle the ingeniousness of the best rebel Generals, and such, that behind them our forces can repel double their numbers, and if they have the temerity to make an attack, with the number not slain or crippled by our arms, few could escape being capture. – Such is the position we now occupy.
For the last three days a considerable number of the enemy’s cavalry have been bothering our pickets, with the purpose, no doubt, of finding out our position. Our Brigade, (the 2d) was sent out to give the Johnnies a chance for a fight, but on their arrival, the cavalry of Jefferson D. fell back out of range of our rifles. Since then our cavalry went out in several directions for the purpose of giving them fight or gobble them up, the latter if possible. Brigadier General Powell took the road to Front Royal, met the graybacks, whipped them, captured one hundred and sixty prisoners, two pieces of artillery, (all they had) their caissons, ammunition, ambulances, wagon train, and drove the balance ten miles from where they first met. Of the other cavalry we have had no report as yet, but from the fact that they are led by a man who knows not defeat, the daring General Custer, we can expect news that will cheer the hearts of all who are in favor of putting down the rebellion by force of arms.
The election passed off quietly and without any military interference, not the influence of officers used in controlling any man’s vote. In the regiments from the old Keystone, the companies were formed by the first Sergeant, when he stated to the men the object for which they were called to ‘fail to,’ and then they proceeded to the election of officers to hold the election – the boys having the whole control, none of the officers interfering in the least.

Wharton went on to report the numbers of the election results by company as follows:

Company A (ten votes for Abraham Lincoln, one vote for George McClellan);
Company B (twenty-six votes for Abraham Lincoln, two votes for George McClellan);
Company C (twenty-nine votes for Abraham Lincoln, fifteen votes for George McClellan);
Company D (thirty-one votes for Abraham Lincoln, eleven votes for George McClellan);
Company E (twenty-four votes for Abraham Lincoln, three votes for George McClellan);
Company F (eighteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, sixteen votes for George McClellan);
Company G (nine votes for Abraham Lincoln, thirteen votes for George McClellan);
Company H (ten votes for Abraham Lincoln, twenty-four votes for George McClellan);
Company I (nineteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, sixteen votes for George McClellan); and
Company K (eighteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, twenty votes for George McClellan).
Lincoln’s Majority: 73 votes.

According to Wharton, “The battle at Cedar Creek thinned our ranks by which we lost many votes—this number and those away in hospitals would have increased the Union majority to three hundred.”

* Note: To read more of Henry Wharton’s letters from 1864, click here.

A Time of Celebration and Sadness

As evidenced by several of the letters that were written by 47th Pennsylvanians during this phase of duty, life at Camp Russell was a time of both celebration and profound heartache. According to Professor Jonathan A. Noyalas, director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute:

In celebrating Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s triumph at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, newspapers across the North enthusiastically conjectured that this latest in a series of spectacular Union successes would finally end military operations in the Shenandoah Valley…. On October 23, a correspondent for Iowa’s Muscatine Evening Journal concluded the same, proclaiming, ‘Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek makes the third he has gained during the present campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. This last defeat will, it is more than probable, end the campaign on the part of the enemy in that region.’
…. Yet in Sheridan’s army itself, the soldiers’ mood generally remained much more restrained, reflective, and somber. Veterans especially found it difficult to reconcile the joy of victory with the grief they felt….
Beyond such melancholy reflections, the army’s veterans also confronted the stark reality that Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early likely wasn’t done yet….
In Cedar Creek’s immediate wake, continued harassment from Confederate partisans, irregulars, and bushwhackers only added to the uncertainty. Sheridan had been particularly annoyed by ‘guerrilla bands’ throughout the campaign [but] was confident these guerrillas could be curtailed by depriving them of potential manpower. On October 22, Sheridan ordered the arrest of every Confederate male civilian capable of bearing arms….

Significant Recognition for the 47th Pennsylvania’s Distinguished Service

Second State Colors, 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, showing the battles for which the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was honored for its distinguished service to the United States during the American Civil War (presented to the regiment 7 March 1865).

One of the more uplifting moments in the history of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry occurred in late November 1864 when this regiment’s members were honored by a senior Union Army officer, Brevet Major-General William H. Emory, for their valiant service during the Union’s spring 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 12.
Camp Russell, November 22, 1864.
The following-named regiments are hereby authorized to inscribe upon their colors the names of the engagements set opposite their respective names in which they bore a distinguished part:
Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Maine Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La.; One hundred and fourteenth, One hundred and sixteenth, One hundred and fifty-third, One hundred and sixteenth, One hundred and sixty-second, One hundred and sixty-fifth, and One hundred and seventy-third New York Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La; Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La.; Thirty-eight Massachusetts, Thirteenth Connecticut, and One hundred and twenty-eight New York Volunteers-Cane River Crossing, La.
By command of Brevet Major-General Emory:
PETER FRENCH, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.”

A War That Still Needed to Be Won

Charlestown West Virginia, circa 1863 (public domain).

Rested and somewhat healed, thanks to their stay at Camp Russell, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were informed less than a month after being honored by Brigadier-General Emory that their stay at their new winter quarters was destined to be shorter than they had hoped. They were being reassigned yet again—this time to help fulfill Major-General Sheridan’s directive that the Army of the Shenandoah eliminate the continuing threat posed by Confederate guerrillas and their sympathizers.

And so, after packing up and saying goodbye to the new friends they’d made at Camp Russell, they began a new, thirty-mile march, five days before Christmas. Trudging north during a driving snowstorm, they finally reached Charlestown, West Virginia, where they quickly established their latest “new home” at Camp Fairview, and continued to soldier on.

Sources:

“Camp Russell.” The Historical Marker Database, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
“Civil War, 1861-1865.” Stephens City, Virginia: Newtown History Center, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
“General Orders, No. 12” (Issued by Brigadier-General William H. Emory, Camp Russell, Virginia, November 22, 1864), in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Civil War: Chapter LV: “Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania: Correspondence.” Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.
Noyalas, Jonathan . “The Fight at Cedar Creek Was Over. So Why Couldn’t Union Troops Let Their Guard Down?” Arlington, Virginia: HistoryNet, 27 February 2023.

https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/2023/12/28/sheridans-1864-shenandoah-valley-campaign-camp-russell-stephens-city-virginia-november-1864-december-20-1864/

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Canada News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-04-04 · 05:40 UTC

Olympic flag football ambition won’t distract CFL star Nathan Rourke from ‘main focus’ with B.C. Lions

The B.C. Lions’ post about Nathan Rourke leaving the CFL to focus on flag football may have been…
#NewsBeep #News #CFL #3Down #3DownNation #B.C. #BCAFFL #CA #Canada #Canadian #CanadianFootballLeague #flagfootball #Football #league #Leos #Lions #NathanRourke #Olympics #Sports #TeamCanada #VanCityVice
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/581074/

#vancityvice #teamcanada #sports #olympics #nathanrourke #lions

Dan Sloane @[email protected] · 2026-03-26 · 11:15 UTC

I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.

#Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

#newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

Dan Sloane @[email protected] · 2026-03-26 · 11:15 UTC

I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.

#Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

#newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

Dan Sloane @[email protected] · 2026-03-26 · 11:15 UTC

I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.

#Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

#newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

Dan Sloane @[email protected] · 2026-03-26 · 11:15 UTC

I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.

#Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

#urbanplanning #roadsigns #newbury

Dan Sloane @[email protected] · 2026-03-26 · 11:15 UTC

I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.

#Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

#newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning

Xanathon @[email protected] · 2025-08-16 · 20:44 UTC

Chalet

Way out of my usual scifi/fantasy comfort zone, but I wanted to experiment with ArchVis. Parts of the assets were exported from DAZ using the Diffeomorphic plugin, others were imported using the IKEA browser extension for Blender. This is a proof of concept and a quick setup, this surely can be done better (a volume scatter cube should be nice for sure). It's amazing (and quite baffling) how easy this is in Blender compared to Redshift or Octane in C4D.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #ArchVis #ArchitecturalVisualization #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #Blender #Blender3D

#render #renderedart #3drender #cgi #cgart #3dart

Xanathon @[email protected] · 2025-08-16 · 20:44 UTC

Chalet

Way out of my usual scifi/fantasy comfort zone, but I wanted to experiment with ArchVis. Parts of the assets were exported from DAZ using the Diffeomorphic plugin, others were imported using the IKEA browser extension for Blender. This is a proof of concept and a quick setup, this surely can be done better (a volume scatter cube should be nice for sure). It's amazing (and quite baffling) how easy this is in Blender compared to Redshift or Octane in C4D.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #ArchVis #ArchitecturalVisualization #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #Blender #Blender3D

#render #renderedart #3drender #cgi #cgart #3dart

Xanathon @[email protected] · 2025-08-16 · 20:44 UTC

Chalet

Way out of my usual scifi/fantasy comfort zone, but I wanted to experiment with ArchVis. Parts of the assets were exported from DAZ using the Diffeomorphic plugin, others were imported using the IKEA browser extension for Blender. This is a proof of concept and a quick setup, this surely can be done better (a volume scatter cube should be nice for sure). It's amazing (and quite baffling) how easy this is in Blender compared to Redshift or Octane in C4D.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #ArchVis #ArchitecturalVisualization #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #Blender #Blender3D

#render #renderedart #3drender #cgi #cgart #3dart

Xanathon @[email protected] · 2025-08-16 · 20:44 UTC

Chalet

Way out of my usual scifi/fantasy comfort zone, but I wanted to experiment with ArchVis. Parts of the assets were exported from DAZ using the Diffeomorphic plugin, others were imported using the IKEA browser extension for Blender. This is a proof of concept and a quick setup, this surely can be done better (a volume scatter cube should be nice for sure). It's amazing (and quite baffling) how easy this is in Blender compared to Redshift or Octane in C4D.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #ArchVis #ArchitecturalVisualization #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #Blender #Blender3D

#blender3d #blender #art #xanathon #fediart #mastoart3d

Xanathon @[email protected] · 2025-08-16 · 20:44 UTC

Chalet

Way out of my usual scifi/fantasy comfort zone, but I wanted to experiment with ArchVis. Parts of the assets were exported from DAZ using the Diffeomorphic plugin, others were imported using the IKEA browser extension for Blender. This is a proof of concept and a quick setup, this surely can be done better (a volume scatter cube should be nice for sure). It's amazing (and quite baffling) how easy this is in Blender compared to Redshift or Octane in C4D.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #ArchVis #ArchitecturalVisualization #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #Blender #Blender3D

#render #renderedart #3drender #cgi #cgart #3dart

Tobias Zeumer @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 22:33 UTC

Wir stellen gerade fest, dass bei Tubfind (usner Vufind) die Merklisten beim Ausweistausch verwaisen, da sie an die Ausweisnummer gebunden sind. Logisch, da PAIA auch nur den Barcode liefert und nicht die (permanente) Registriernummer.

Ich bin etwas baff, dass so etwas erst nach so vielen Jahren auffällt.

(Am Rande: Zusätzlich baff, dass 1500 Registriernummern im LBS auch nicht gesetzt waren und auch ne Menge - insbesondere bei sehr alten Konten - merkwürdig aussehen)

#vufind #paia #lbs

Tobias Zeumer @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 22:33 UTC

Wir stellen gerade fest, dass bei Tubfind (usner Vufind) die Merklisten beim Ausweistausch verwaisen, da sie an die Ausweisnummer gebunden sind. Logisch, da PAIA auch nur den Barcode liefert und nicht die (permanente) Registriernummer.

Ich bin etwas baff, dass so etwas erst nach so vielen Jahren auffällt.

(Am Rande: Zusätzlich baff, dass 1500 Registriernummern im LBS auch nicht gesetzt waren und auch ne Menge - insbesondere bei sehr alten Konten - merkwürdig aussehen)

#vufind #paia #lbs

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 12:10 UTC

My father’s deathbed confession could rewrite one of Beverly Hills’ greatest murder mysteries. He was sitting next to the victim when the bullets flew… and told me a secret he kept for decades

The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for nearly 80 years.
He was next to Bugsy when he was shot through a window of his mistress’s $17 million Beverly Hills mansion – murdered in cold blood with two gunshots to the head on June 20, 1947. His killer has never been found.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Luellen recounted the 1983 deathbed conversation she had with her father that revealed just how close he had been to Bugsy and throws open new questions about the intended target of the hit.
‘He was in the hospital. He was dying of liver failure,’ Luellen explained.
‘And he said, “There’s going to be a lot of talk about me after I pass. And you’ll read things in the newspaper about me. Just remember that [Bugsy] was my best friend, and he would take a bullet for me.”‘
Luellen said she was certain that her father knew who Bugsy’s killer was but he never told her, police or the FBI, despite law enforcement’s persistent efforts to get him to talk.
Luellen described her father as a man who was ‘tyrannical’ but also ‘devoted’

link

#crime #elite #history #supremacy

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 12:10 UTC

My father’s deathbed confession could rewrite one of Beverly Hills’ greatest murder mysteries. He was sitting next to the victim when the bullets flew… and told me a secret he kept for decades

The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for nearly 80 years.
He was next to Bugsy when he was shot through a window of his mistress’s $17 million Beverly Hills mansion – murdered in cold blood with two gunshots to the head on June 20, 1947. His killer has never been found.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Luellen recounted the 1983 deathbed conversation she had with her father that revealed just how close he had been to Bugsy and throws open new questions about the intended target of the hit.
‘He was in the hospital. He was dying of liver failure,’ Luellen explained.
‘And he said, “There’s going to be a lot of talk about me after I pass. And you’ll read things in the newspaper about me. Just remember that [Bugsy] was my best friend, and he would take a bullet for me.”‘
Luellen said she was certain that her father knew who Bugsy’s killer was but he never told her, police or the FBI, despite law enforcement’s persistent efforts to get him to talk.
Luellen described her father as a man who was ‘tyrannical’ but also ‘devoted’

link

#crime #elite #history #supremacy

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 12:10 UTC

My father’s deathbed confession could rewrite one of Beverly Hills’ greatest murder mysteries. He was sitting next to the victim when the bullets flew… and told me a secret he kept for decades

The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for nearly 80 years.
He was next to Bugsy when he was shot through a window of his mistress’s $17 million Beverly Hills mansion – murdered in cold blood with two gunshots to the head on June 20, 1947. His killer has never been found.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Luellen recounted the 1983 deathbed conversation she had with her father that revealed just how close he had been to Bugsy and throws open new questions about the intended target of the hit.
‘He was in the hospital. He was dying of liver failure,’ Luellen explained.
‘And he said, “There’s going to be a lot of talk about me after I pass. And you’ll read things in the newspaper about me. Just remember that [Bugsy] was my best friend, and he would take a bullet for me.”‘
Luellen said she was certain that her father knew who Bugsy’s killer was but he never told her, police or the FBI, despite law enforcement’s persistent efforts to get him to talk.
Luellen described her father as a man who was ‘tyrannical’ but also ‘devoted’

link

#crime #elite #history #supremacy

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 12:10 UTC

My father’s deathbed confession could rewrite one of Beverly Hills’ greatest murder mysteries. He was sitting next to the victim when the bullets flew… and told me a secret he kept for decades

The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for nearly 80 years.
He was next to Bugsy when he was shot through a window of his mistress’s $17 million Beverly Hills mansion – murdered in cold blood with two gunshots to the head on June 20, 1947. His killer has never been found.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Luellen recounted the 1983 deathbed conversation she had with her father that revealed just how close he had been to Bugsy and throws open new questions about the intended target of the hit.
‘He was in the hospital. He was dying of liver failure,’ Luellen explained.
‘And he said, “There’s going to be a lot of talk about me after I pass. And you’ll read things in the newspaper about me. Just remember that [Bugsy] was my best friend, and he would take a bullet for me.”‘
Luellen said she was certain that her father knew who Bugsy’s killer was but he never told her, police or the FBI, despite law enforcement’s persistent efforts to get him to talk.
Luellen described her father as a man who was ‘tyrannical’ but also ‘devoted’

link

#crime #elite #history #supremacy

#supremacy #history #elite #crime

American Buddhist Net @[email protected] · 2026-05-06 · 12:10 UTC

My father’s deathbed confession could rewrite one of Beverly Hills’ greatest murder mysteries. He was sitting next to the victim when the bullets flew… and told me a secret he kept for decades

The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for nearly 80 years.
He was next to Bugsy when he was shot through a window of his mistress’s $17 million Beverly Hills mansion – murdered in cold blood with two gunshots to the head on June 20, 1947. His killer has never been found.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Luellen recounted the 1983 deathbed conversation she had with her father that revealed just how close he had been to Bugsy and throws open new questions about the intended target of the hit.
‘He was in the hospital. He was dying of liver failure,’ Luellen explained.
‘And he said, “There’s going to be a lot of talk about me after I pass. And you’ll read things in the newspaper about me. Just remember that [Bugsy] was my best friend, and he would take a bullet for me.”‘
Luellen said she was certain that her father knew who Bugsy’s killer was but he never told her, police or the FBI, despite law enforcement’s persistent efforts to get him to talk.
Luellen described her father as a man who was ‘tyrannical’ but also ‘devoted’

link

#crime #elite #history #supremacy

Tony Gebhard @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 00:22 UTC

On my way to the weirdest city in the US! Portland! Love this town. Coffee, tattoos, LGBT culture, and people just being themselves without judgement. Rock on Oregonians! PS: Always baffles me when people get into other's business like it has such a drastic impact on themselves… Just live free, do good, be good! Oh, yes! So stoked! We'll be heading to some of the heavier homeless areas in southern Oregon to play some music and hand out food with the local folks. Community is made when we give and lend that helping hand. #Randomness #SelfLove #Community #Portland #Food #Music #ChangeHappens

#randomness #selflove #community #portland #food #music

unofficial mirror @[email protected] · 2026-05-10 · 08:08 UTC

It continues to baffle us that Congress hasn’t moved toward impeachment and removal. America can’t stand him!

#CitizensImpeachment #CourageCandidates #ImpeachNow #ImpeachConvictRemove #DemandMore #ImpeachTheFascists #NoDo #OrangeFascsitGotToGo #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #NoKings #uspol #uspolitics

#citizensimpeachment #couragecandidates #impeachnow #impeachconvictremove #demandmore #impeachthefascists

Chuck Darwin @[email protected] · 2026-01-08 · 00:17 UTC

Homeland Security Secretary
#Kristi #Noem had a baffling excuse Wednesday for a
⚠️federal agent shooting a U.S. citizen ⚠️
protesting an ICE operation in #Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Speaking from Brownsville, Texas, #Noem claimed that the officer had been responding to “an act of domestic terrorism.”
The secretary claimed that the victim had “attacked” a group of federal officers whose vehicle was stuck in the snow, attempting to “run them over and ram them with her vehicle.” An officer had “defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him” and killed the woman, Noem said.

⭐️Witnesses reported seeing something entirely different.

Emily Heller, a Minneapolis resident, claimed that the woman had been blocking traffic with her car as part of the protest earlier Wednesday.
When the woman tried to turn her car around, an ICE agent standing in front of her car leaned over the hood and 🆘 shot her in the face at least three times.

Another resident, Aidan Perzana, told Fox9 that he’d seen three ICE agents attempt to detain the driver.
When the vehicle suddenly reversed and then pulled away from the officers,
one of the agents shot through the driver’s side window three times.

Minnesota Representative #Ilhan #Omar indicated that the deceased victim was not only a U.S. citizen,
but a legal observer.

A video of the incident appeared to show that the woman’s car did not move toward the ICE officers,
but away from them.

❌Despite these stories, it seems that the Trump administration intends to run with its claim that the victim was a so-called “domestic terrorist.”

White House deputy Chief of Staff #Stephen #Miller also claimed that the victim had committed a federal crime. “Democrats continue to lend aid and comfort to domestic terrorism,” Miller wrote on X, responding to Minnesota Senator #Tina #Smith’s plea for ICE to leave Minneapolis following the incident.

Assistant DHS Secretary #Tricia #McLaughlin, who has spent the last several months spinning blatant #lies about immigration officers’ violent interactions with civilians, described the victim as a “violent rioter” who was attempting to kill the federal agents.

“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement,” McLaughlin wrote on X.
https://www.tiktok.com/@cosplayermami/video/7592688141002132791?_r=1&_t=ZP-92sf7DtRJ6d

#kristi #noem #ilhan #omar #stephen #miller

Professional Moron @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 16:00 UTC

Exclusive Santa Column: SANTA WOKEN FROM HIBERNATION ERROR! 🚨🚨🚨

Following a horrific error at the Santa Claus factory, Father Christmas has been woken EARLY ahead of Christmas 2026. For it is definitely not December 2026! It’s April. Santa is not best pleased with this development…

WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!?

THE ALARMS STARTED WAILING AT 4AM. WAILING. THEY WERE VERY BLOODY LOUD. SANTA WAS ROUSED FROM A MOST DELIGHTFUL HIBERNATION SLUMBER, DROOLING OVER MYSELF, AND MY BELLOWING OF RAGE BEGAN:

“MARKUSS!!!! [Editor: Markus is Santa Claus’ Head Elf] WHAT THE BLOODY HELLLL!?!?!”

The wailing wailed, Santa bellowed, and to top it off Santa had the most bastard SOB hangover imaginable.

It Is Not Christmas

With the entire factory, elf staff, rats, and Kenneth the Gaffer Walrus woken up, Santa gathered my managers into the office quarters. I slugged from a bottle of tequila and spooned Marmite from a jar into my Santa face.

“Markus…” I wheezed, “It is not Christmas…”

“No, sir…” Markus squeaked.

“WHY IS IT NOT CHRISTMAS, MARKUS!?!?” I roared.

“Erm… er… because it is May, sir?”

“THAT IS CORRECT, YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!! WHY IS IT MAY?!?”

Markus stood there looking baffled, his stupid elf hair all tussled, and he was not wearing his mandatory elf hat!

“ANSWER ME MARKUS! And get your ELF HAT on, you’re violating the Santa Factory dress code, you insubordinate swine!”

Markus ran off to get his elf hat and returned wheezing heavily.

“ANSWER ME!”

“Sir… *wheeze, wheeze*…”

Well, Santa bellowed for some time after that and went very red in the face. By 10am I was too drunk to do anything about it, so slept it off till 3pm and drank a pink of energy drinks, then a pint of coffee, and then started hitting the Lambrini bottle stash.

That was to deal with the ordeal that had come about because of Santa’s investment into the Sleigh-Dar 5000 AI technology, automated software triggered by technical error as a false-positive Christmas siren.

Santa invested $135 million in that! And it’d gone off in May…

That is not the Return on Investment (ROI) Santa had expected. To deal with the disappointment, I quit the Lambrini and went straight for the gin.

Santa Leaks the 2026 Naughty List

In a drunken frenzy, I went and accidentally leaked the 2026 Naughty List (as of Q2) to a decentralised blockchain, then all across the official Father Christmas social media accounts. The posts were laden with extreme obscenities and typos (I was drunk, it happens).

This triggered off a chain reaction of online and international press mayhem, with the tabloid The Daily Disaster ringing me for an exclusive interview. This I did, apparently, as I read the interview the next day. Santa just can’t remember saying any of that crap, so I may sue them for slander and defamation for the hell of it.

The bigger problem was some of the names on the Naughty List. They included:

Bread Pitt
Bread Pitt
Bread Pitt
Bread Pitt
- I’d added Bread Pitt multiple times for some reason
Kylie Minogue
1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill
The entire cast of Cheers
Sandra Hüller
Sandra Bullock
Anyone else called Sandra

The list triggered international outrage from people called Sandra. I don’t give a damn what their issue is! The list is superb. Genuinely superb. Not a thing wrong with it, apart from the misspelling of Bread Pitt’s name… the spelling issue was probably down to the drunken frenzy.

But, notice, Bread Pitt didn’t complain about it! Nary a whiff of an issue from him as he is A REAL MAN and in CONTROL OF HIS EMOTIONS. Unlike women! Silly things. Oh, and on an unrelated note, Santa destroyed the desk in my office in a foul-tempered rage. I got Markus (my head elf) to order me a new one.

The New Santa Desk (and the cryogenic solution)

Yeah. with all the chaos about the 2026 Naughty List I clocked out once the desk turned up.

The new desk was flown in first class, premium delivery, via helicopter. In customer Santa Factory tradition, the helicopter crashed landed just outside the front gates in a hellish fireball of mayhem. Unlike most occasions, there was a survivor! Lucky SOB!

He staggered in pleading for medical assistance. Unfortunately, Nurse Doreen was awake as well and made him a Pot Noodle and glass of hot cocoa. That really didn’t do much for the survivor’s many open wounds and obvious third-degree burns, so I gave him a shot of brandy, patted him on the back for job well done, and shoved him back out into the snow blizzard wilderness raging outside the factory. He’ll be fine!

With the new desk installed, Santa turned my attention back to what needed resolving. That being… how do we all bloody well get back to sleep!? It isn’t Christmas!

We had a meeting in my office and I DECIDED that cryogenics was the ONLY answer.

“Er… I don’t think that’s wise, sir.” Markus squeaked.

I have him my haughtiest glare. A glare so goddamn haughty it’d scare the bejeezus out of anyone. Markus shut up and I got Nurse Doreen set on the task of setting up the ice cryogenic units to freeze us deep solid until later in the year. Belching exuberantly, I did also worry if the stupid things were in any way dangerous. What if my big Father Christmas beard got messed up!? I asked Nurse Doreen, framing in a way to look like I wasn’t scared.

“Nurse Doreen, will we all die horrible if we use these cryogenics? I’m shitting myself about this, but don’t tell the others!”

She just gazed into the middle-distance, then at me with this glazed over expression akin to a 1000 yard stare, then back into the middle-distance. She opened her mouth as if to speak, but instead she munched on a powered chunk of Turkish Delight. But then she eyeballed me again.

“Mr. Father Christmas… I do not know. I am not a cryogenics expert.”

“BUT YOU ARE A NURSE, ARE NOT YOU!?” I bellowed.

“Mr. Father Christmas, I am hired as a chef, not a nurse.”

Santa had Markus get her contract of employment and we checked it right there and then in the office while Nurse Doreen waited. DAMN AND BLAST! She was right. I’d been calling her Nurse Doreen all these years! She’s listed as a chef… technically I should be paying her double.

I dropped the matter and we got on with it, prepping the cryogenic units.

Santa must stop here. I’m very drunk. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to make any sense. REST ASSURED! Christmas 2026 will be on target and only if you’re Bread Pitt will you not receive any presents. Bread Pitt and all the Sandras of this world, that is…

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