Haven’t seen this in the news yet but it’s huge for the George Floyd case: Apparently in May of 2019, Floyd was stopped by police for selling drugs, swallowed the drugs, and then had to be hospitalized for an overdose.
Wut? Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s phones “wiped” clean of their data” before inspector general could check them??
More than two dozen cell phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “wiped” clean of their data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could check them.
Newly released DOJ records show the phones were wiped of the data because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device and intentional deletion.
The records were released after a lawsuit from the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman said he “accidentally wiped” his device twice after he entered the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018.
Attorney James Quarles’ phone “wiped itself” of the data without his input, say the , the network reported.
The documents also show that a phone belonging to then-FBI attorney Lisa Page – who exchanged anti-Trump texts with fellow agent Peter Strzok — was restored to factory settings before the Inspector General’s Office got it.
Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari was executed Saturday
While spoiled liberal Americans were busy burning their neighborhoods protesting the myth of racial injustice, Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari was executed Saturday in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz.
His family were told that he had been hanged.
He was arrested on September 17, 2018 and accused of killing a Basij agent Hasan Turkman during the August 2018 protests in Shiraz.
Navid filed a complaint with the judiciary on September 13, 2019, detailing how he was forced to give false confessions while being subjected to “the most severe physical and psychological torture” during nearly 50 days in police detention.
“They put a plastic bag over my head and almost suffocated me. Using batons and other hard objects, they beat hard on my hands, abdomen, and legs. They used foul language and insulted me frequently. They tied me tight and poured alcohol down my nostrils,” Navid Afkari wrote in an open letter from detention.
In an audio file shared on August 30, 2020, Navid is heard saying that the Coroner’s Office in Shiraz carried out an examination of his injuries that were caused under torture.
“The evidence is there if the court wants to investigate [the acts of torture] … There is not one shred of evidence in this damned case that shows I am guilty. But they did not want to hear our voice. Then, I learned that they are looking for another head to hang from their noose,” Navid said.
What’s really happening at the harbor?
After the Mirror ran the story about Town Council’s plans to turn management of the harbor over to the Cape Charles Yacht Center, we received several important comments via email and social media. Most questioned the wisdom of using the yacht center, claiming the facility was incompetent and completely mismanaged.
Below are some of the more salient comments:
“Piece by piece local Watermen are being shoved out… This will be the final nail in the coffin we are done if they take over control of the harbor… The yacht center has had management issue after management issue over the last few years didn’t, they just bring in a big firm themselves to help them figure out their own Operation? Talk to any commercial fishermen and you’ll hear a horror story about the yacht center from every single one of us… So the harbor wasn’t making enough money to upkeep the harbor but now they are going to manage to do all improvements on %20 of the income?!? I don’t see how any of it is possible… The yacht center is going to bleed that harbor dry for every penny they can and then buy it for pennies on the dollar after a few years once they prove how much of a disaster it is… They have a private Interest next door… Their slips will be filled up first… The large fuel-ups will all happen on their side… The town is going to lose so much money on that harbor if they do that slip prices are going to double and triple to try and make up for all the money lost… The only money they are saving is the employees who will be fired.”
“This is no surprise as the town has tied the harbors hands not letting them advertise whatsoever or hold any events the towns event coordinator stated that the harbor will never hold another event after the losses that they saw from Clam Slam, but I think if you look at the bigger picture the amount of traffic they came into town was pretty epic…all the small shops on Front Street definitely benefited, and it was a real morale boost and economic boost to the town. I’ve heard stated from multiple town employees that the harbor is more of a liability than an asset, but in my personal opinion I believe they set it up to fail to try to get rid of it…we’re slowly losing our culture and our heritage. This town was founded on the harbor, not on the park, and no one is coming from Pennsylvania, Virginia Beach, or any of the surrounding areas to see the park we’ve invested so much in, but they are doing that with the harbor…we see transient people from all over the country in the world that fact we need to take that into consideration.”
“CCYC can’t run what they have. CCYC often refuses some boats because they are ugly. The watermen would be run out. The cost for slips would go up. Charlie and Spencer are good men that take care of locals and the watermen. What is wrong with the town leaders? Something smells fishy like old bait. This year boating is down because of the virus. Last year boating was down because of fishing limits that made a trip too expensive just to catch two small strippers. Cape Charles Harbor is an excellent harbor with great facilities. Anytime there is a problem it is always from the town leaders making stupid decisions…….like this dumb idea!!”
So the town of Cape Charles wants to wash its hands of the Town harbor… So I want to air publicly why I think the town has lost money the last few years at the harbor and where their critical mistakes were… So the land where the Cape Charles yacht center sits was the first mistake. This all took place quite a bit ago 15-20 years ago… It used to be a commercial fishing interest with a fish house and lots of room for commercial boats to tie up as well as a place to store their gear crab pots and dredge rigs and whatnot… This land was practically given to the Cape Charles yacht center an entity that basically is their own competition… Now jump ahead quite a few years about four or five years ago when we had a change in harbormaster’s quite a few boats left the town harbor and followed him over to the Oyster farm… On top of that, you now have the yacht center with dockage for what maybe 40 or 50 boats competing with the town harbor for transients… You also have the yacht center providing massive amounts of fuel for these yachts which were one thing they originally weren’t supposed to do…everything I just listed adds up to a financial loss for the town of Cape Charles… There simply are not enough boats coming to this little town when you split it between three different harbors… Now let’s talk about the boat ramp right many years ago that was given away by the town to the state of Virginia and that is why it has been free to use all these years… Yet again more money lost by the harbor by the way that boat ramp is supposed to go back into the town’s possession this year not that the income from that will save the harbor but it will be a boost in income if they charge for the boat ramp… Now let’s talk about their new plan they want to give the rest of the harbor to the Cape Charles yacht center… I have yet to hear a good explanation why and it just makes me feel like somebody’s pockets are being lined… it makes absolutely no sense to give away a harbor the entire harbor both sides to private interests so that they can profit off of the town of Cape Charles… Their plan is to receive 20% of the income from the harbor and somehow that is going to maintain the upkeep on the harbor when now they can’t even maintain the harbor with 100% of the income and are actually losing money… This is not the way forward, and this will not end well for the town…this will not end well for the waterman in the harbor… The only people that this will end well for are the people who are profiting off of it… It’s messed up that couple of people can profit at all of our expense.
Greed and more greed…what happened to doing the right thing and helping the small guys out
Absolutely no one there is looking out for waterman I promise that. I get videod everyday because I’m “blocking the public ramp” when I offload. The state took away our bulkhead and built a new ramp for us to use years ago but didn’t deem it for commercial use.
The CC Yacht Center is crumbling. The word on the water is THEY SUCK and have NO ONE to fix boats and everyone is leaving for different marinas who can actually fix boats and charge accordingly and not falsify charges and perform in a timely manner. They are probably trying to scoop up the Harbor because they suck at what they are supposed to be doing. Then the gas situation. Heard horror stories on that one, too. CCYC Management is clueless and the Town Harbor just doesn’t care anymore.
And finally, we received this one by email. It’s totally accurate, and made me laugh aloud:
Why are you covering up the harbor story? You spent years beating the dead horse that was the annexation agreement and the Bay Creek connector road until I wanted poke my eyes out. Why are you covering up for your buddy Eyre Baldwin? If they get control of management, they will control the entire harbor? Guess you missed that part, huh? Are they paying you to keep your stupid mouth shut? Where is the concern from the Mirror? This is the worst possible thing that can happen to this town, and the elected officials are right in the middle of this. WAKE UP ASS(radio edit)!
Point well-taken. What is really going on? Certain members of Town Council have been trying to shove this idea down our throats for years. The fallacy is that the harbor, which is municipal, should somehow be turning a profit. But that’s not how muni harbors work. I have docked at muni harbors along the bay, and it seems to me Cape Charles has one of the nicest I have seen. Sure, there are issues, but from an outsider, it appears Charlie Farlow and his skeleton crew do a pretty good job.
Is turning over operations to the yacht center really a good idea? Follow the money.
Bay Creek Announces New Villas to Meet Surging Demand
Bay Creek Nears Sellout of New Palmer Lake Villas’ First Phase Offering
New Villas on Golf Course to offer Low Maintenance Living; Additional Offerings Planned.
(CAPE CHARLES, Va.) – Bay Creek, a beach and golf community located along Virginia’s Eastern Shore, has sold nine of its new Palmer Lake Villas within hours of releasing the first 12 units.
The Palmer Lake Villas offer a combination of low-maintenance, stylish residences, and an experience-rich, coastal lifestyle. They were created to appeal to both full-time residents as well as those desiring a second
home.
Bay Creek offered the new Villas through a special priority reservation program. The sales took place through a virtual sales event – a first for Bay Creek developer Preserve Communities – where reservation holders
took a virtual tour and selected their desired Villa. They also had the option to put their home in the rental program, which has been at maximum occupancy this summer.
Nestled along the 12th and 13th holes of the community’s Arnold Palmer Signature Course, the Palmer Lake Villas offer views of both the golf course and water. Homeowners will also be moments away from two miles
of private beaches and nature trails.
“The demand for the Palmer Lake Villas at Bay Creek mirrors a bigger sales trend seen nationally over the past few months, as buyers seek more open space, scenic views, and other lifestyle benefits,” says JackMadden, director of sales at Bay Creek. “Their unique combination of easy access to activities and ‘lockand-leave’ attributes with golf course and water views will continue to make the Palmer Lake Villas very popular with prospective residents.”
Designed and crafted by highly respected Beacon Custom Homes, the Villas will continue the Bay Creek tradition of distinct architecture and Eastern Shore surroundings. Interested buyers can visitbaycreek.net/palmer-lake-villas. Plans call for a second phase of Villas at Bay Creek to be released later in the year.
“Even though there hasn’t been a new condominium or villa option offered at Bay Creek in over a decade, we were still blown away by the high level of interest in the Grand Opening release of these fantastic Villas,” says Bruce Fine, founding partner of Collins & Fine, Bay Creek’s marketing firm. “We expect the remaining three units to sell fast and anticipate even more interest in the next phase later this year.”
Bay Creek was recently named “Best Coastal Community” by Ideal Living Magazine.
Surfer Rules 2020
With the Summer of 2020 nearing a close, we return to our love for the ocean. It’s our favorite place in the world.
As soon as we have the time get in the water, we go there. We feel a mysterious longing for the sea as some kind of secret to our own identity as if our blood had salt water in it. Symbolically, I, the surfer, am—myself. The body with which I surf in the sea symbolizes the soul, with which I “surf” in God. The sea is God. The beach is the approach to God. Surfing is the experience of God, or the spiritual life.
“It’s perfectly logical to me that surfing is the spiritual aesthetic style of the liberated self.” — Dr. Timothy Leary
Beginning when I was kid of six or so, my family would take us to the beach, whether Kill Devil Hills or Nags Head or Kitty Hawk, usually in mid to late August to, as my dad would say, recharge. Growing up in Great Bridge, back in the day, we were always only an hour and a half or so away from the Outer Banks. In High School, Friday evenings we would strap the boards to the roof and drive 168 south with a few bucks and maybe a blanket to sleep on…not that we slept much. It was a monastic journey, aided by illegal plants from the good, green earth. It was a work, to work towards our desire for the sea, and that desire had to be deep…a sensual practice, it constitutes its sacred center, and the corresponding experiences are constructed in a way that leads to a belief in nature as powerful, transformative, healing, and sacred. In a deeper sense, it is an understanding that everything is part of God even though God is more than everything added together.
The key was to live well below our means, stripped down, just the essentials. Over the years, we put together a loose list of things we jokingly called ‘Surfer Rules’. Hardly rules at all, but more like a set of things to think about, ideas to live by. We’ve added some, taken some away, but every once in a while, usually after coming back from recharging, we like to revisit them, for old time’s sake if nothing else….
1. Always take the beach road. Even when there is a modern highway right next door, where you can drive 55 or 60, pull off onto the beach road, turn off the AC, and roll down the windows. Take the beach road.
2. Drive south. This is a metaphorical rule, but in most cases, it seems to fit. When you reach the ocean, there is invariably a T in the road where you can go north or south. Go south.
3. If you need more than a board (surf, boogie, skim, etc.), fishing tackle and something to boil shrimp in, you’re in the wrong place.
4. Avoid restaurants that advertise ‘All You Can Eat’ seafood buffets.
5. Eat at a place like Dune Burger, or something similarly named. You know the place, kind of a shack where you order from a sliding window and it has greasy picnic tables outside. Although this meal may be your last, eat at Dune Burger.
6. Surf or swim naked. Avoid intellectual stimulation. Think less, live more. Ride waves.
7. Avoid beach destinations that offer activities: author readings, children’s story times, yoga and exercise classes should be avoided at all costs. Outlet malls are strictly forbidden.
8. Try not to play Putt Putt…but if you must, have fun!
9. Eat Wanchese shrimp. Every beach has something that is uniquely theirs; the Outer Banks has Wanchese shrimp. Eat local.
10. Don’t be a you know what. Share the ocean, share the beach.
11. Never jog on the beach. If you do, please, no socks and running shoes.
12. Never wear Speedos. If you must, be sure to own it.
13. Long boards are okay. Just learn to turtle roll.
14. Wear Roxy Bikinis. Roxy rocks. Simple.
15. Never pay more than $3.00 for flip flops.
16. If you are at the beach, always shower outside. Use a hose if you have to.
17. Have cake by the ocean (we recommend a big blanket).
18. Eat breakfast at the Nags Head Pier. Every beach town has a pier, with a little wooden diner, where the coffee is strong and the waitresses are nice.
19. Use bloodworms for bait. You can catch anything with a bloodworm.
20. Own at least one pair of Birdwell Beach Britches.
21. Don’t be a you know what. Pick up your trash, and always clean up after your doggy.
22. If someone mentions that they remember when the beach road was sand, stop and listen.
23. Don’t Drop In On Another Surfer.
24. The Surfer Closest To The Peak Has Right-Of-Way.
25. Paddling Surfer Yields To Surfer Riding Wave.
26. Don’t Ditch Your Board.
27. Don’t Be A Snake.
28. Do Not Bother Children When They Are Surfing.
29. Pick up your trash.
30. Be considerate of others using the beach.
Seeing the sea is the fulfillment of the faith-from-afar and seeing God is the fulfillment of faith: “If you believe, you will see” (Jn 11:40). To smell the sea is the fulfillment of desiring hope from afar, a most mystical sense. Paddling into the sea is like self-forgetful, self-offering love. It’s an obligation, an offering of self.
“The key to post-terrestrial living is going to be grace and aesthetics… There’ll be no more constraints on linearity, of four walls; a building can be any shape at all. It’s tied to surfing because it means that we’ll be freed from gravity, and we can be totally into style and grace. And it may seem strange to be talking to surfers about post-terrestrial living, because surfing is water, and we’re talking about air or a vacuum. But it’s perfectly logical to me that surfing is the spiritual aesthetic style of the liberated self. The reason I define myself as an evolutionary surfer is because surfers have taught me the way you relate to the basic energies, and develop your individual sense of freedom, self-definition, style, beauty and control” — Dr. Timothy Leary
Spirit of Surfing’ is a low-key initiative started in 1995 by longtime surfer, Peter Cuming, surf elders Rob Conneelly, and Nat Young, and surf artist Roscoe Kermode. Spirit of Surfing was established to promote the traditions of free surfing; respect for the ocean, the land, and indigenous and local cultures wherever surfers are and travel; fostering community spirit; and a harmonious relationship with the natural environment. The general Spirit of Surfing (SoS)focus on active beach restoration work as part of their regular surfing life.
Happy Rest of Summer!
Cape Charles Town Council votes to join Joint Economic Development Authority
At the August 20, 2020 Town Council Regular Meeting, representatives
from the Joint Industrial Development Authority (JIDA), and Northampton County Administrator Charles Kolakowski presented proposed changes to the JIDA.
The name is being changed to the Joint Economic Development Authority. To participate in the Authority, the town must adopt an ordinance.
Thursday, Cape Charles Town Council approved the Ordinance to Amend an
Ordinance Entitled, “An Ordinance Creating the Joint Industrial Development Authority of Northampton County and Towns.”
Jim Baugh: Farewell Milky Way Sept 2020
All summer, photographer Jim Baugh has been capturing composite images of the night sky.
“It has been a great Milky Way Season with this year providing us with twice as many clear skies as 2019. For the “Grand Finale” I wanted to celebrate the end of Milky Season and the coming of fall. So had the idea to light paint the entire beach with fall colors. Meaning, I had to walk that beach 50 times setting up 25 lights, all total foreground image was 25 exposures at 9 seconds totaling 225 seconds at 400 ISO, Tokina 11-16mm. No tracking.The Milky Way last night was a very narrow window of about 10 minutes before the moon came up, so I fired off two 5-minute exposures and stacked them. Tracking mount was Ioptron Sky Tracker, Tokina 11-16, ISO 200, on a Cannon 200d/sl2” — Jim Baugh
Rotary Club Raffle Drawing Sept. 8th
The Cape Charles Rotary Club’s cash raffle drawing will be conducted on September 8, 2020, at 2:00 PM, in the Strawberry Plaza on Mason Avenue.
Cape Charles dignitaries will draw the $500, $250 and $100 winning numbers.
Please join this socially distant civic event, meet Rotary Club members, and enjoy the fun!
Oyster Farm Signage set to come down
Town Council discussed the Oyster Farm sign that stands on town property at Fig and Randolph streets. In 2016, the sign could go up as a temporary move to help visitors find the Oyster Farm, which the business considered to be in a remote location of the town. The provision was to stay in effect until the town erected wayfinding signs throughout the town. However, VDOT has indicated that wayfinding signs are no longer allowed.
Other competing businesses in town have complained that the allowing the Oyster Farm, and no one else to have signs in that location is unfair.
After discussion, it was consensus that the sign can stay until December, at which time it will be removed.
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