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Shape of an Era
by Mike King
from Jump
Cut, no. 8, 1975, pp. 14-15
Gallows humor is the particular privilege of the oppressed. One of the cherished pleasures of workingmen is the right to terrify their fellows. I have seen a craneman drop scrap steel from on high onto a friend's lunchbox -and then laugh aloud as he paid for the joke by buying lunch all around. Miners will turn off their headlamps and crawl on hands and knees through the dark to sneak up on and goose a newcomer to the pit. For weeks the same practical joker will carry a double load while the newcomer learns his job. Danger is kept at a distance and made bearable by grisly laughter. People who work on high steel or in the hole know that they walk in the shadow of death and that their lives are a commodity with a negligible cost in the marketplace. They are constantly reminded of it by the negligent, cost-accounting attitude of the company men for whom they work. "They used to say," recalls a retired miner with a resigned smile: "Men are cheap, timber costs money." A version I remember goes like this:
The grim resignation that becomes the hard emotional surface of working people is likewise demonstrated in the ability to speak of the horrible treatment and bad conditions in the workplace with an air of almost detached amusement. In THE SHAPE OF AN ERA a man describes the "broken leg test" for miners hurt below ground: \
Formal medicine is little better, for the doctor is likely as not a company doctor with a function exactly analogous to that of an army medic: Keep the patient on the front line or failing that, discharge him for reasons of ill health due to "natural causes," i.e. unrelated to working conditions. That thousands of miners, for example, succumb over the years to one form or another of silicosis ("black lung," "red lung," etc.) is, in the eyes of company doctors, company researchers, company politicians, even company union men, "purely coincidental." Labor is caught, used, used up and then discarded. And the story of that dismal sequence is generally told by the academic and journalistic hirelings of the users—too seldom by the used.
THE SHAPE OF AN ERA is an admirable attempt to redress that imbalance and the distortions it maintains. The movie is a short history and documentary of the rise and fall of the mining industry along the Northern Range of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, told mainly in the words of the miners themselves. The "era" recorded runs from about 1890 to the present—although the bulk of the mines were closed in the mid-60s as the companies moved to South America. The mines involved are iron and copper mines owned and exploited by the big ore companies: Inland Steel, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Kennecott, Anaconda, Reserve. There are still a few mines being worked, copper in White Pines, Michigan, and iron in Silver Bay, Minnesota, and elsewhere—but most of the mines lie unused and desolate, still rich in low-grade ores and awaiting the much-heralded return of the industry.
It is curious that after only a decade of inactivity, so little is heard of the mines and the miners. "Mining means coal, and coal means West Virginia and Kentucky." There is an occasional pollution scandal and the like, but it is as though an entire generation of miners, their families, and their history had been wiped off the earth. To a great extent, that is exactly what has happened.
The closing of the mines has meant economic desolation and the consequent destruction of the community. The young people are driven off the land into the city workforce because, as the ancient Dylan song goes: "There ain't nothing here now to hold them." Left are deserted buildings, burned-out storefronts, 15-20% unemployment, and an economy entirely dependent upon seasonal tourism and minimum-wage, non-unionized light industry—textbook cases of underdevelopment. The labor that remains is desperate and captive ("Loyal" is the company and Chamber of Commerce term)—many Indians and women —and can be bought very cheap, with government subsidies. Yet, as this film shows, the Northern Range was for many decades the chief supplier of iron and copper ore to the world, until the Chilean mines began delivering at an even cheaper rate, again, as the song goes, because "the miners work almost for nothing."
The history of the mines and the miners is a rich history. Its main connective threads are the repeated attempts by the miners to organize themselves against the combined power of company and state. Such attempts inevitably met with the usual responses of threatened capital: scabs, goon squads, "free labor" laws, armed force, and outright murder. The worst example of the latter was the Calumet Mining "disaster" of 1913, when over 200 members of strikers' families, mostly children, were trampled to death after scabs shouted "fire" outside a crowded Christmas celebration. Roseanna Sever, a woman who as a child lived through the slaughter, recounts the terrible memory until her own tears force her to stop. It is the most moving passage in the film, and it was only the most savage example of a daily record of slaughter and carnage that remains the murderous practice of the mining industry. As a miner said to me once,
This is the story that is partly told in this excellent oral history of the mining era. One miner after another recounts his experience in the mines, his knowledge of the area, his education in the ways of the mine bosses. Around this core of remembrance a historical context is lightly drawn, unobtrusively. The background is presente in such a way as to give an adequate description of the mining industry's role in the U.S. economy and history. History of the best sort is constructed of just such a collation of the particular and the general, the singular and the collective, and this has the added advantage of being told from the point of view of working people, so often relegated to appendage status in bourgeois histories.
A few of the questions are answered by films like THE SHAPE OF AN ERA, of which I can only complain that they are too few and too brief. This film suffers from brevity, as all such underfunded projects do, but I understand that some of the same people are working on further films of this sort. Al Gedicks, who directed THE SHAPE OF AN ERA, is reportedly working on a larger film to cover the history of Wisconsin, and bravo for him. It is a shame that only foreign filmmakers like Jan Troell have been able to find the money to explore this territory, and then from afar. I urge movement groups, teachers, film clubs, particularly in the Midwest, to rent this film and use it to educate on working people's history. It is neither dogmatic nor condescending in its presentation, and it is crisply edited and intercut so that the usual weaknesses of the interview format are avoided. There are a few minor faults worth noting: the minimal narration, although well written, is delivered in a sententious drone that is mildly annoying. Too little is directly seen or described of the actual methods of union organizing under the gun. The reliance on retired miners' recollections leaves the current situation unclear (perhaps a supplementary film would be necessary to fill this gap).
The last point is of course the most important one, and this is less a cinematic problem that a problem of the future of the people of the Northern Range. In fact the film touches on just this crucial matter. What is to be done when the iron and copper bosses return, as they inevitably will, to exploit the mines and the people once again? Already what passes for the local media are softening up the populace for the much promised mining of the taconite ore in the area. However, the ascendance of fascism in Chile, along with the current depression, may have made such a move on the part of the companies no longer so urgent. But return they will, sooner or later, and with them will come all the quick money, cheap thrills, and cheaper death and destruction that characterizes the boom-and-bust mining industry. It remains to be seen whether the companies will find such easy pickings among the working people of the North Country as they have in the past, or whether those people will be able to organize to keep the mineowners in line. The local people feel, for the most part, that the bosses got the best of them the first time around—and, for the most part, they swear that this time it's going to be different. One can only hope that they're right.
THE SHAPE OF AN ERA, 16mm, b/w, 30-min., is a joint production of Community Action on Latin America (CALA), 731 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703, and CD Film Workshop, 28 Fisher Ave., Boston, Mass. 02120.


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A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit has ruled that Seattle violated the First Amendment by banning "disparaging" ads on city buses.
American Freedom Defense Initiative v. King County involved the submission of an advertisement for Seattle city buses that depicted mugshots of terrorists, predominately of Middle Eastern and Asian descent, with the slogan "Faces of Global Terrorism." After the city rejected the ad, deeming it to contain disparaging content, plaintiffs filed a § 1983 claim for the violation of their right to free speech under the First Amendment. After losing summary judgment, they appealed.
Relying on the Supreme Court's unanimous decision last year in Matal v. Tam – which as reported here, struck down a federal ban on the registration of "disparaging" trademarks – the Ninth Circuit followed suit with the Seattle transit advertising policy. Reasoning that "Matal applies with full force" in this instance, the Ninth Circuit held that Seattle's disparagement standard discriminates based on viewpoint because offensive speech is itself a viewpoint.
Although it reversed and remanded the case for entry of summary judgment in plaintiff's favor, the Ninth Circuit stressed that the First Amendment does not require Seattle to tolerate harm to its transit system, leaving open the possibility that the city may reject or cancel approval of the ad if it reasonably fears harm.

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I have tried a few times to get ahold of this video. Ebay the price always goes way up, the rentals have no idea what I am talking about. Hopefully someday it will be released on DVD so I can get a reasonably priced copy.
A good video if you are looking for footage is the Ed Parker tribute. A few people have copies floating around out there.


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Ward Thomas Cover 'Sigrid's 'High Five' For New Doormat Session
Ward Thomas' Doormat Session on YouTube has been given a make-over for their new Instagram Instazine which is a social magazine that features the series 'Restless Voices' ' which is a chat-show style collection of episodes that see Catherine and Lizzy talking to a variety of artists, producers and other famous faces about issues such as anxiety, streaming, mental health and much more
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djr33 your help with wals info
January 09, 2017, 11:19:22 AM »
dear djr you had tried to help me with wals a few times! I have a few questions concerning some languages! concerning wals chapter 50 for turkish it says case symmetrical I have an example ) a. nominative : okul.
b. accusative: okulu.
c. genitive : okulun.
d. dative : okula.
e. locative : okulda.
f. ablative : okuldan.
g.instrumental : okulla.
I dont get what case symmetrical with turkish!
for value 62 action nominal constructions it says ergative-possessive for french and german : here are my examples : Die Zerstörüng der Stadt durch die Feinde (the destruction of the city by the enemies) La performance du poème par le pianiste (the performance of the poem by the pianist) on wals it says : whereby the P (and the S) are treated as possessors, here appearing in the genitive case, while the A is treated differently, as a more peripheral NP (for instance, here as the agent in passive sentences, but not necessarily so). I can write examples in french and german easily for this value but I dont get this well : whereby the P (and the S) are treated as possessors, here appearing in the genitive case, while the A is treated differently, as a more peripheral NP
for value 65 : it says no grammatical marking in german (perfective imperfective aspect) I dont get it why no grammatical marking I think I checked the reference and I can send you the pic of the page if you cannnot find it! for 72 ( neither type of stem : imperative-hortative systems) for german and french I can understand nothing about this and I have no examples so far
( finally chapter 79 suppletion according to tense and aspect : for french tense and aspect!! I cannot understand the aspect!!! here sth I gave as an example : . J'ai eu.
b. tu as eu.
c. il a eu.
d. nous avons eu.
e. vous avez eu.
f. ils ont eu.
maybe you can make senseof it!!! this is a project I am working on in turkish but I will try making an english copy too when everything is finished! I can share it with you as well also now I will put it on another site but they may block me for too many questions! if you can help me I would be so glad!!! thanks djr33!!
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Re: djr33 your help with wals info
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January 09, 2017, 12:55:36 PM »
Unfortunately these questions are too specific for me to be able to answer without doing research about them.
WALS is a great database with good data, but many of the individual values they assign are either unique to that chapter of WALS or are the same terms as used elsewhere but defined in an idiosyncratic way. Mostly this is probably due to finding a useful definition to check grammars and to highlight major patterns around the world. But looking at that data in a lot of detail can lead to a lot of questions.
I've replicated one chapter (recreated the dataset myself) and looked at several others in detail (including replicating some data points) and it is often challenging.
First, you should of course read the chapter in detail and especially the definitions. But second, you should also look at examples from the map and do some of your own research to really get a sense (find some good/clear examples?) of what these categories are. Only then can you interpret the harder examples well.
Additionally, the WALS chapters are written by different authors. If you're lucky, the chapter you're looking at is written by someone who has done specific research on the topic before and you can read their paper or book that is it based on. Sometimes these are the most idiosyncratic definitions, but if you read the original research it becomes clear. If the chapter is instead written by one of the main editors, they may just be doing a general overview, but maybe with less idiosyncratic terms. Still, those editors have published a lot and may have an article or book that discusses the topic in more detail, so look at their publications (usually listed on their websites) to find something relevant. That should help.
You're asking a few different things here which would each require some background reading, so I can't answer them now. But if you have a specific question (keep is shorter) I can try to answer that.
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January 09, 2017, 02:26:22 PM »
Thanks I got reply to ergative possessive on another site linguistic exchange or sth! I can wait maybe you can do the rest in a week!!!
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January 09, 2017, 02:39:00 PM »
Please dont misunderstand me!! I AM
NOT ordering you to do anything! But if you could help that would be off the hook
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January 09, 2017, 02:51:33 PM »
Well, what I can personally offer is to answer questions I understand well. I don't mind writing a detailed reply, but doing additional research beyond a google search or two is more than I have time for. My answer above is an outline of what I would do, and actually what I do when I'm working with WALS. So aside from doing that for you, that's the most I can help.
If you have a simpler question or a different question, feel free to ask it, and if I know the answer I'll be happy to reply. Reading what you wrote above, I'm not sure about this one. At best I could spend more time reading the WALS page and then offer some guesses but that wouldn't be as valuable as you spending some time thoroughly investigating it.
(A little less on topic, I will add that the goal of this forum is to bring people together who have different areas of expertise so that hopefully one of them can easily answer your question. I'm working on trying to get the forum to grow, although I realize that right now there might not be anyone else here who works with WALS much. So in theory you shouldn't be addressing your questions to me specifically, and I would hope that someone [maybe me] can answer whatever questions you have. Maybe soon!)
As for this type of question, it would be a lot easier for me to answer something like "What is symmetrical case?" But what you are asking about is the data for specific languages, and that requires a lot more detail. And usually for a question like that I'd go to WALS or a similar source, maybe Wikipedia, for a definition, or write one from my own knowledge, and leave it at that. Figuring out why a certain language is coded a certain way in WALS can take some time even if you know the topic fairly well. So what's why I'm suggesting you do the background research for it. WALS is great for
at least
a "quick and dirty" answer to general questions, and it provides a strong starting point for more specific questions but getting involved to that level can take a lot of work. The best thing about it may be that all of the sources are cited so you can find more information as needed.
Anyway, I'm not complaining at you. I'd be happy to answer if it was easy for me to do so.
Although I'd also encourage you to dig in with the background research
(Sometimes I find myself spending a lot of time investigating one very small detail for papers that I'm writing when that detail isn't really central at all to my work, but I just don't want to misrepresent it. Sometimes this is fun, other times very tedious. Normal part of research though.)
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January 09, 2017, 02:56:06 PM »
Thanks anyways i! Maybe other site will cover them all
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Dear djr33 got the help on this site
and no longer need your help! Thanks
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Subject: Re: [cti-stix] STIX, Topics to Review, 10 May
I have reviewed the text.
I would like to clarify one thing – my does my non-objection mean that the text is "good enough", but can still change a bit in the future? I view the text as good enough, but I have enough presentation/editorial comments that I wouldn't consider the text "final". As long as the text can still change (without changing spirit/intent), I'm happy to offer a non-objection.
> Timestamp/Timestamp Precision
I have no objections to the content, and made some comments on presentation.
> Identifier
I'm not sure what's going on with the Version 4/5 UUIDs. I would object to this being marked "good enough" because of the ambiguity. That said, the current text is not that far away from something I wouldn't object to. (Is this superseded by the existing ballot)
> Custom Properties
I have thought about this some more, and I'd like to object to the "x_" structure. Eric's messages caused me to dig deeper and discover an entire RFC devoted to this topic (!!!) [1]. The thing is 9 pages long so just go read it :). Basically, I've been convinced that the approach laid out in RFC 6648 is the correct approach and that we should follow it.
This is a non-objection, but I think the narrative should be changed a bit (comment made in the doc); I also think we'll want to fine-tune some of the normative text.
> IDs & References
No objections, I do think terminology could be improved.
> Versioning
No objections, I do think there are a number of editorial changes that could be made to improve clarity. However, I would like to hold off on those while we write the rest of the document (I.e., I don't want to spend time perfecting one small part at the expense of getting other parts to "good enough").
> Package/Bundle
I would like to see a workflow or two identified where bundle is used. No objections, however.
Thank you.
From: <firstname.lastname@example.com> on behalf of "Wunder, John A." <email@example.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 12:41 PM
To: "firstname.lastname@example.com" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: [cti-stix] STIX, Topics to Review, 10 May
Hey all,
Here are the topics we need some in-depth review on currently to make more progress. These are in rough order of priority. Also, there are other topics as well, this list is for people who want to review something that's nearing finalization. If you're interested in early development on campaign, TTP, i18n, or other topics see Slack and the mailing list.
Also, as Bret said on the call…if anyone else has the time or bandwidth to "adopt" sections (perhaps Indicator or the Indicator Type vocab?) and move them forward let us know. I can walk you through the process we use and make sure you're comfortable with it.
Thanks everyone,
Timestamp/Timestamp Precision (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HJqhvzO35h62gQGPvghVRIAtQrZn3_J__0UcDAj-NXY/edit#heading=h.de8ah59mobqf)
Current Status: Awaiting Unanimous Consent
Requested Action: Review the draft text for the timestamp and timestamp precision sections. If you have any objections, please make them by 12 May, 2016 end-of-day UTC (~7pm ET), otherwise we'll move this text forward to draft.
Identifier (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HJqhvzO35h62gQGPvghVRIAtQrZn3_J__0UcDAj-NXY/edit#heading=h.ko24ggw4eq0q)
Current Status: Awaiting ballot
Requested Action: Review the (unmodified) draft text. Pat made some suggestions, but the vote is for the text as-is that calls out UUIDv4 specifically. Vote on the ballot when it's opened.
Custom Properties (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HJqhvzO35h62gQGPvghVRIAtQrZn3_J__0UcDAj-NXY/edit#heading=h.8072zpptza86)
Current Status: Objection to Unanimous Consent
Requested Action: Review the draft text and Eric Burger's response. We talked about this topic on the call, and general consensus was that we don't really need a formal registry of extension fields at this time. We could have some kind of informal registry via e-mail to the cti-users list, if the community seems interested as we get to that point, but that we don't need anything formal. As such, the language as-is seemed fine to most people. I would ask that you take the next 2 days to review this (through 12 May, end of day UTC/COB ET) and, if we don't hear any further objections, we'll motion to hold a ballot (having failed unanimous consent) to move it to draft status.
IDs & References (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YcEtyUGdFkJIPdDZ7K-mHbvjFt-5pOL2EIw_ZJuqNpM/edit#heading=h.h02ac9vlmabi)
Current Status: Review prior to motion to move to draft
Requested Action: Review the draft text for the identifier field on STIX TLOs, and how it's used for references. Provide suggested updates. Also, consider whether the _ref suffix is valuable for reference fields or if those fields would be better named without that suffix or with a different suffix (i.e. Do you prefer created_by_ref, created_by, created_by_id, or something else). We'll work through this over the next few days until it settles down, then move to draft preferably late this week.
Versioning (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YcEtyUGdFkJIPdDZ7K-mHbvjFt-5pOL2EIw_ZJuqNpM/edit#heading=h.rye5q2hkacu)
Current Status: Review/Normative Text
Requested Action: Review the draft text and suggest updates, it still needs some work to become good normative text. Review the open questions at the top to ensure that we've addressed them. Comment on which examples might be moved to an appendix/separate document to save room in the main specification. We'll try to push this text forward over the next few days so that we have finalized normative text to motion/vote on either late this week or early next week.
Package/Bundle (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HJqhvzO35h62gQGPvghVRIAtQrZn3_J__0UcDAj-NXY/edit#heading=h.6zghk3evovcs, e-mail)
Current Status: Development
Requested Actions:
1. Discuss having an ID field on bundle. General discussion on the call seemed to lean towards yes, but there was not a lot of consensus.
2. Discuss approaches for data markings on bundle. General discussion on the call seemed to lean towards a consensus of not having default markings but having a most restrictive marking field, is that acceptable?
See other e-mails for more info on package/bundle.
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China to focus on tackling deep financial risks in 2017, senior policymaker says / SCMP
Speaking in Hong Kong on Tuesday, a senior Chinese official from the Central Leading Group for Finance and Economic Affairs said that despite its official GDP growth figure of 6.7 percent last year, China's economy "lacked an inner driver for development," and that private investment "remained tepid…while financial risks led by growing property speculation were increasing."
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Had the best time on my tour yesterday. Learned a lot about the history of beer, the brewing process, and the history of beer in Boston - and got to try a bunch of really great beers!! Some of which I would've never tried on my own (I don't usually go for porters, stouts, or sour beers, but tried a few in tour that were really good.)
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Today, I found some white mold on my seedlings which are only 4 days old. The white mold is mostly harmless but try taking few simple steps to avoid it and prevent it from reoccurring in the future.
Sprouts Emerging from the Soil
In my previous post I shared how to start growing seeds indoors with a seed germination station. Everyday I check on my seedlings to see how they're doing. It's been about 4 days since I've started this batch of seeds and the sweet basil seeds are just starting to emerge.
White Mold On Seedlings
When I went to inspect the chives, I found what appears to be white mold growing in a few of the flats. You can see in the image below just to the left of center the white fuzzy mold.
This is a common problem in starting seeds that is high humidity and/or over-watering. If not taken care of, this will cause your delicate seedlings to die and may spread to other seedlings. This is definitely something to be avoided.
Mold Fighting Strategies
There are a few strategies we can try to reduce the humidity.
- Air circulation with a fan
- Propping up the dome
I'll start with trying with propping up the dome.
Use Popsicle sticks or in my case Chopsticks leftover from last week's Sushi bender to prop up the dome. This should reduce the humidity inside. Now that the dome is lifted, I'll need to monitor the soil moisture closely as the soil will dry out quicker.
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A quantitative screening method to detect rater-introduced bias in clinical ratings
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica volume 54, Article number: 53 (2012)
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We suggest a 'screening test' to examine large data files with clinical ratings for the occurrence of rater-introduced bias prior to using the data for quantitative analyses. The test is based on a statistical model in which a well-standardized interval-scale outcome (for example, milk yield) is related to clinical ratings (for example, body condition scores) obtained from multiple contexts (for example, dairy herds).
84,968 calvings from 279 herds, with subsequent body condition scores performed by 117 veterinarians within the first 21 days postpartum were analyzed with a multilevel random coefficient regression model. The model included an independent variable, where body condition score was centered within veterinarian. This is a so-called comparison effect to describe possible rater-introduced bias in the body condition scores. A highly significant comparison effect was found for second and older parities, indicating occurrence of possible rater-introduced bias in this large multi-herd data file.
A within-group centering technique (the comparison effect) appeared to be useful for discriminating between biased and unbiased clinical scores. In some cases, this test for bias should prevent further analysis of the data and divert the focus of study to the calibration of raters or alternative study designs.
In clinical veterinary medicine, numerous diagnostic measurements are ratings of conditions that cannot be measured using standardized metric tools. It is often relevant to employ collections of ratings from multiple raters (registry data) for benchmarking or statistical analyses. Lastein et al. [1] describe practicing cattle veterinarians' recording and use of a metritis score. The authors demonstrate that the veterinarians' use of the metritis score (ratings) was very different from the intended use, even if detailed rating manuals were disseminated to veterinarians prior to the study. The ratings could be systematically different (level-shift in scale), or the rating of a subject could be affected by the subject's context (relative rating). Relative rating may occur if other clinical findings are incorporated into the score, or if the score is adjusted to the prognosis (feedback) [1]. Because relative rating will render interpretation across observation contexts (e.g., herds) virtually impossible, we must detect such a measurement error prior to the analysis and use of the data. If a systematic relationship exists between the clinical condition being studied (X) and some other condition measured on a completely objective scale (Y), then level-shift or relative rating caused by rater (R) can be detected by means of an appropriate statistical model. If the effect of X differs among different levels of R, then relative rating is likely. This is also known as a comparison effect. A main effect of R indicates level-shift and is not studied further because it is less complicated to detect and adjust for.
The objective of this study was to demonstrate a quantitative screening method to detect occurrence of relative ratings or comparison effects prior to an anticipated statistical analysis of large data files containing ratings from multiple raters.
Concepts and terms
To demonstrate our approach to identifying relative ratings, we used the well-established relation between a very well-standardized interval-scale outcome (milk production in energy-corrected milk (ECM)) and a widely used rating, the body condition score (BCS) [2]. The BCS is an ordinal-scale rating with symmetrically distributed values. Veterinarians will likely be able to rank cows correctly using the BCS because they typically rate several cows during a single herd visit, and are consequently able to compare the cows directly. However, it is less certain that several veterinarians are able to assign the same BCS to the same cow. This hypothesis is supported by Kristensen et al. [3] who observed that within-rater agreement of BCS is higher than between-rater agreement. Relative rating could occur if the veterinarian provided 'preferential treatment' according to some implicit characteristics of the cow (e.g., a special feed ration to particularly valuable cows). Vaarst et al. [4] provides examples of this scenario in an udder health management context.
The data were extracted from the Veterinary Production Consultancy platform [5]. The mean energy corrected milk (ECM, kg) between 9 and 92 days postpartum in individual cows was calculated as a mean of the milk yields from test days within this time period. The final data file consisted of 279 herds with 84,968 calvings, with subsequent BCS rating performed by a veterinarian within the first 21 days postpartum. A total of 117 veterinarians observed and recorded the BCS of individual cows in the herds. Table 1 shows how veterinarians were distributed with regard to the herds.
The mean BCS by veterinarian was in the interval between 2.72 and 3.69. The interquartile range was 0.26, indicating that the veterinarians' BCS means were quite similar in most cases. Similarly, BCS means were calculated at herd level and ranged from 2.57 to 3.75, with an interquartile range of 0.31. The herd-level mean of the daily ECM per cow between 9 and 92 days postpartum had a median value of 33.5 kg ECM. Upper and lower quartiles were 31.5 kg ECM and 35.5 kg ECM, respectively.
Statistical model
To demonstrate rater-introduced bias in our non-controlled (that is, validation was not performed) observational data, a multilevel random coefficient regression model was used. Consider an ordinary multilevel regression model as model 1. Let symbolize the individual effect of cow i in herd j. Let be the outcome of cow i in herd j and an independent variable measured at cow level. is a random variable that accounts for herd j's departure from the overall intercept, . is the random error term.
In the following, only the first line of model 1 is presented because the rest of the model does not change. Let symbolize the effect of rater k as the mean of x within rater k and describe the comparison effect of rater k. We now suggest model 2 as a tool to answer the research question.
The parameters in model 2 can be interpreted as an effect related to the individual cow (+), and as an effect that relates to this individual cow's standing as assessed by the rater (). A possible effect of the rater on the clinical score will reveal itself by differing significantly from 0. Although model 2 can be re-parameterized to answer the question about a level shift in scale between raters, this was not done in the present study.
Statistical analysis
The data file was analyzed using a slightly modified version of model 2. We included the number of days postpartum that BCS was observed, and an interaction between days of observation postpartum and BCS to account for the biological changes due to fat mobilization early postpartum. Separate analyses were conducted for the first lactation, second lactation, and later lactations. BCS was grand-mean centered within parity groups by subtracting the mean from the individual BCS values. This technique eases interpretation of the parameter estimates related to BCS. Grand-mean centering does not influence other parameter estimates or variances [6]. All analyses were performed using SAS® PROC MIXED [7] with Maximum Likelihood estimation, and tests of parameter estimates were performed using likelihood ratio tests. Model fit and assumptions were validated according to standard principles and routine procedures [7].
Table 2 summarizes parameter estimates for significant effects after the removal of non-significant variables from the models. In the analysis of first-parity cows, the comparison effects could be removed from the model (P = 0.23). In the analyses of second and later parities, the comparison effects were highly significant (P < 0.001). In the analysis of third or later parities, the effect of the interaction between BCS and days of observation postpartum and the main effect of BCS could both be removed (P = 0.12 and P = 0.99, respectively).
In the analyses of the data file with clinical ratings, a significant comparison effect was observed for the second and later parities, but not for first-parity cows. The interpretation of these results is that BCS was rater-biased for second and later parities. For parities > 2, the effect of the individual cows' BCS could be removed from the model. The interpretation is that the relative standing of a BCS within a single rater was more important than the absolute BCS. The main effect of BCS could not be removed from the model of the second parity group because of the significant interaction between BCS and the postpartum day at which a cow was rated. We can only guess about the practical reasons for the difference between first and later parities. Knowledge about BCS recordings at drying off (only relevant at second and later calvings) might have been used somehow when the veterinarians recorded BCS after calving. However, to study this hypothesis we obviously require additional data collection, which is beyond the scope of this study. In the BCS setting, some veterinarians could also recommend that cows with high BCS postpartum should be given special attention or special feeding supplements. Such actions, if effective, would also reveal themselves as comparison effects.
In this study, we have deliberately chosen the postpartum BCS instead of the metritis score or lameness score because we believe that it is unlikely that major actions are taken based on the BCS. Actions related to the metritis score, such as medical treatments, may be directly related to the metritis score, and the action taken may be veterinarian-specific [1]. However, if effective actions are taken based on BCS and revealed as a comparison effect, the data will be useless or even misleading for the estimation of relations between the ratings and a given outcome, or between the rating as outcome and some explanatory variable. In other words, focus should be diverted to calibration or the development of alternative study designs.
We could have used a cross-classified design [8] to account for the unbalanced distribution of number of herds per veterinarian; however, this would not correct the underlying problem of rater-specific misclassification of scores. We could also have specified a model that featured the rater as a fixed categorical effect and included the rater in an interaction term with BCS. A significant interaction would imply a relative rating. Although this approach will work when relatively few raters are being considered, it is likely to be problematic when many raters are considered, as in our case. In addition, partial confounding between herds and raters will pose additional problems regarding the interpretation of results from a fixed-effect model.
Based on the results in this study, we suggest that many studies based on non-controlled data could benefit from initial investigations of the comparison effect. Burstein [9] suggested that the comparison effect is an effect related to 'lack of knowledge'. Based on our data, we find the BCS problematic for second and later parities, and we suggest that the comparison effect might be related to rater-introduced bias or rater-specific actions taken based on the clinical score. Hence, we require additional information, such as a standard for calibrating the crude scores or information about rater-specific actions, if we want to study the BCS in detail.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report in this study.
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We would like to thank the 117 Danish veterinarians (who conducted all of the BCS ratings used in this study) for their willingness to share their clinical recordings.
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MAK and CE contributed equally to the research hypothesis. Data preparation and data analysis and were done by MAK. Writing of the manuscript was done equally by MAK and CE. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Krogh, M.A., Enevoldsen, C. A quantitative screening method to detect rater-introduced bias in clinical ratings. Acta Vet Scand 54, 53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-54-53
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Now registered as 'Patriot's Dream', this hybrid between Rh. 'Carmen' and Rh. degronianum ssp. yakushimanum is one of those new hybrids that we have been waiting for! Shiny, egg shaped leaves on a compact dwarf rhododendron adds delight to the rock garden year round. Then, in May the flowers open a rich red color, which is unusual for a dwarf rhododendron. Excellent and rare.


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Asian Chili
My husband and I have done extensive traveling during our more than 50 years of marriage. As a matter of fact, I came across this recipe during a visit to Japan. The Asian flavor is a nice change. - Martha Ann Bernard, New Vienna, Ohio
Total TimePrep: 5 min. Cook: 1 hour 20 min.
Makes10 servings (2-1/2 quarts)
- 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 can (46 ounces) tomato juice
- 1 can (28 ounces) Chinese mixed vegetables, drained
- 1 can (14 ounces) bean sprouts, drained
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
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Nutrition Facts1 each: 166 calories, 6g fat (3g saturated fat), 33mg cholesterol, 548mg sodium, 12g carbohydrate (7g sugars, 3g fiber), 15g protein.
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My boyfriend should be happy,
Here comes an Evanescence reference:
The last poem I'm wasting on you.
I refer to you as Cunt-of-a-grandmother,
But you're really not a mother at all.
You're more of an übercunt.
Like of all the cunts I know,
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I am going to edit this,
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Gods, I hate you.
Your smile
That laugh
Your breath
I know three languages, and yet,
I cannot convey the depths of hate I have.
Stephen Hawking could not convey it,
Nor could Einstein make a formula.
Dr. Tyson would need more than his charisma,
And his brains to sway an audience to know…
How much I want not to love you.
But, life is choices,
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Thinking about tackling a new home improvement project? This article can give you some ideas on how you can start out on a new home improvement project.
If you heat with a wood stove, smoke will cause your walls to become dingy and you will need to repaint more often than if you heat with a furnace. When you do repaint, it is worthwhile to wipe the walls and ceiling down with a damp sponge to remove as much soot as possible before putting on a new coat of paint.
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It is clear to me now that I have been blessed in so many ways: Good health and the opportunity to pursue a life thats truly my own. I spent many years looking around and being bitter about this or that, feeling as if the world owed me something. I can now appreciate the truth: that it most certainly does not.
Once I realized this I began to look around with fresh eyes at a whole new world. A wonderful world I did nothing but inherit; solely being born into this body. I can now appreciate every passing moment with more vigor, taking every breath with gratitude. I can better appreciate the new people who come into my life, those who merely pass through it, and especially those who have been there all along. I can better appreciate the material conveniences at my disposal, accepting that everything I own is I fact a gift. This level of thinking has allowed me to redefine what I consider to be "a life worth living."
I know that the world has its troubles and challenges, I for one, have come to understand the struggle for basic necessities so many people must endure. But as I gain the skills and knowledge to combat these plights, I find happiness in being grateful for the things I do have. To appreciate the little things and see them for what they are - wonderful or worldly, unique or ubiquitous. All things that serve a greater purpose are worthy of praise.
4/21/2016 08:51:09 pm
Ryan, I love the thoughts you shared in "grateful for the little things". Thank you for the well said/written reminder.
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An outlier in an otherwise normal well-adjusted family, I suffer from an addiction I cannot hide and cruel in its grip to newsprint. Even though my family regularly tweaks my humiliating weakness with cruel humor, I cannot break the habit. Yet even as I wallow in the degradation of my need, I am puzzled and chagrined that my family has neither sympathy nor their own weakness for ink stained fingers. Obviously my example as a father was not that for which I wished, but as Cato the Younger probably said, "Est quod est". And as you might see from that remark, the mirror reveals the weakness in my parenting prowess.
Guising their snarky wit in the form of rhetorical questions, my family often wonders why I still read newspapers rather than listening to CPR or simply checking Facebook. Leading with my chin, I answer their witty snark, making the expected earnest and logical replies. But in truth, my newspaper habit is simply life's inertia. I subscribe to the Denver Post and the Wall Street Journal, having recently dropped the New York Times. The Times is a great newspaper for a great city, but sometime during the Barack Obama Presidency, it appears that Lewis Carroll became editor, to be joined by Chicken Little upon the advent of Donald Trump.
Despite my addiction, in later years I have found newspapers becoming less and less interesting, less and less newsworthy so to speak. That is until I came upon a new way to read them, a view through a different lens. Now I read them afresh, finding a comedy of sorts, a dark and unintentional humor to be sure, but humor nonetheless. Perhaps the insight grew naturally out of my growing understanding that I was a Deplorable among the Adorables, that dawning realization of my difference allowing me to find the humor. The goat living among sheep finds the shepherd's need for wool and fondness of lamb stew a puzzling bargain on the part of the sheep.
But more likely that Eureka! moment came from my unexplained and abnormal interest in one of humanity's great villains. Joseph Stalin was an evil man, astoundingly evil. But his total lack of empathy allowed him to become an astute observer of human behavior, as it really is – not as we think or desire it to be. Those such as Stalin, without empathy or conscience, are described as psychopaths. Perhaps we should steel our nerves and look to the ravings of psychopaths rather than the patois of psychiatrists for a truer look at ourselves.
Stalin knew us well, perhaps a living metaphor to the realities of shepherds and flocks. I have a T-shirt printed with one of his observations, an apocryphal one to be sure:
"Dark humor is like food – Not everyone gets it"
The words are not just a slogan. Stalin knew their truth. Among a long litany of other atrocities, he ordered six million Ukrainian peasants starved to death in a man made famine during the 1930's, including the members my own family not yet having immigrated to the United States. Responsible for the deaths of far more innocents than the justly reviled Adolf Hitler, his disguise as a wolf in the sheep's clothing of socialism prevents him from getting his rightful credit for his resume of terror. Perhaps if Stalin had been a nationalist or populist rather than a Man of the Left, he might assume his rightful place in infamy.
Dark humor – Not everyone gets it. A case in point is the always clueless practitioner of stand-up comedy, the Denver Post, smugly ensconced in its urban cocoon. A recent front page frames the photo of Denver Public Health workers walking among the tent cities of our downtown homeless population. The health workers, a nurse and her bearded protector, are there to provide free Hepatitis A vaccinations to the homeless population of Denver, some 3,500 to date,
The explanatory caption on the photo captures the sense of the story – "Hepatitis A is a virus, spread through squalor, that has left homeless people frightened and struggling to protect their hygiene." The words are those of staff reporter Andrew Kenney, recently a reporter for an independent advocacy group since folded into the comforting embrace of CPR (Colorado Public Radio). A self-described advocate of the homeless, one wonders if Mr. Kenney's dreams of a change in his circumstances; no longer saddled with the pedestrian moniker of "advocate" but cloaked in the glamourous charisma of "activist".
Mr. Kenney's last big piece in the Denver Post was a flattering, one might say even star struck, interview of incoming Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, self-described as a "democratic socialist" who believes in "community ownership of land, labor and resources". Ms. CdeBaca is "excited to usher it in by any means necessary". I refer you back to the thoughts (and actions) of Uncle Joe Stalin. Could he have said it any better?
One wonders – How do you keep a straight face when these people talk? Actually, if this is what makes it into the newspaper – What else is actually said but considered unsuitable for the public to hear? Do they seriously believe what they are saying? Mr. Kenney's reporting is dark dark humor, both for what is said and what is unsaid. But just as both my Ukrainian ancestors and Joe Stalin understood, there is tragedy, a heartbreaking reality, beneath the dark comedy.
According to the Denver Post, there are 5,000 homeless people living on the streets in Denver. Later on in the article though well camouflaged back on Page 6, we are told that Denver Public Health is focusing their efforts on people with "drug addictions". One suspects and is thankful that there exist adults directing the efforts of Denver Health towards real problems rather than catering to sympathies of Adorable fashion.
Public health officials not connected with the Denver Post name the prime cause of Hepatitis A to be the reuse of infected syringes to do hard drugs, not "drug addictions" or "squalor", soft euphemisms doing yeoman duty in blurring the gentle reader's view of feces strewn city streets and heroin shooting galleries. The homeless struggle with hygiene because they go to the bathroom on the street, where they sleep and do drugs. In their laudable efforts to maintain some level of hygiene on the streets, Denver has two mobile bathrooms circulating the city, serving the homeless at a cost of $1.1 million since 2016.
What is to be done about this tragedy? In the country that we love, how can there be thousands of people living on the streets of Denver, in "squalor" and struggling with "drug addictions"? These faceless homeless are human beings, each one loved by God, just like me, just like you. To their credit, Ms. CdeBaca and Mr. Kenney see the problem and are trying to do something about it. Despite my perhaps mean spirited lampooning of their words, I give them praise for that.
But as is so often the case, the art of the possible, the discipline of budgets and results, the hard reality of an engineer's world is missing, not at all welcome, in the councils of government. Of what use is accountability to those who cloak naked self-interest in obscuring clouds of bathos and empathy?
It has always been the case that the Joseph Stalin's of the world are enabled and supported by fellow travelers skilled in the use of compassion such as Boris Pasternak and John Reed. Revisiting the New York Times coverage of Joseph Stalin during the 1930's is a study in the willful blindness of those who believe in Utopia.
What is government for, if not to help such as these homeless? To be sure governments will not solve the underlying problems plaguing the homeless on the streets of Denver, but there are things government can do and should do to help. What better thing can government do than provide an environment where the homeless and more importantly those on the margin might have a home?
Perhaps we cannot save those already caught up in the whirling rapids of homelessness, but we can help those at risk on the eroding shores threatened by their circumstances. That is certainly the experience in Salt Lake City, America's trendsetter in actually combatting urban homelessness rather than pious sermonizing drawn from the progressive pundit's prayer book.
Why does there exist homelessness on this scale in Denver? How in fact do we help, how do we cure rather than medicate the plight of these unfortunates? The economy does not appear to be a problem. "Help Wanted" signs for low skill, entry-level jobs are everywhere. Denver's streets are construction zones witnessing an enormous increase in housing stock over the past few years. But it seems that all this new housing stock consists of "luxury apartments".
To those such as Mr. Kenney & Ms. CdeBaca, the "invisible hand of the market" has failed. A wave of well spoken and media savvy "democratic socialists" along with their enablers such as Mr. Kenney tell us that the free market has failed. Thousands of people are forced to live on the streets because there is a lack of "affordable housing" and as the Denver Post reports elsewhere, this dearth of affordable housing exists alongside a looming glut in "luxury apartments".
Any good story requires a villain and this story is no exception. Developers, those creatures of the invisible hand charged with trickling down, are the villains. How can this unfair and nefarious disparity exist? Obviously the developers' greed drives their desire to build luxury apartments instead of focusing on affordable (cheap) housing, something the people on Denver's streets really need. Even worse and proof positive of capitalist greed is the lack of new condominiums, the affordable and traditional first step into home ownership for urban home buyers.
When will this "invisible hand", this "trickle down" touted by the heartless, provide affordable housing for poor people? The rhetoric of "democratic socialists" is a strident call to arms! The government must step in to redress the failure of the market. These young idealists offer themselves, "community champions", passionate and articulate with both education and experience in the ways of the swamp.
They understand the problem and how to cure it. They will marshal the power of the "People", i.e. Government. City, state and federal governments all have their parts to play. The Federal government provides money, State government builds legal and regulatory structures channeling the money while City government actually spends the money and is then responsible to deliver the votes necessary to nourish and grow those governments. Unknown to these neophytes, they have simply rediscovered a Circle of Political Life existing long before the "democratic socialists" outgrew their pacifiers.
Unfortunately for the homeless as well as for the rest of us, most young "democratic socialist" leaders are clones of Ms. CdeBaca, graduates of elite universities, possessed of advanced degrees in soft ill-defined subjects, bypassing an actual job but having spent their all important career's formative years soaking in the Washington swamp. Almost without exception they are "fearless leader(s), prominent voice(s) and community champion(s) on social justice issues". Their downside is that, to a (wo)man, they are a bit short on experience in making anything actually work.
At the risk of my well known prejudices being called out, it appears that a perhaps telling common trait emerging in this wave of "fearless leaders" is, irrespective of gender, their lack of that most formative and powerful of real world experiences – marriage and children. Their short lives and narrow range of human experience have provided little appreciation for the laws of cause and effect, for unintended consequences and the depths of humanity's fallen nature. Mr. Kenney is a journalist – enough said – overdeveloped nose but atrophied Frontal Lobe.
Speaking as a former developer – at least of energy projects rather than those doubly cursed "luxury apartments", I can say that developers are indeed driven by greed, or at least the desire to make money. In my experience, developers are uncomplicated creatures with limited vision and simple wants. We are apolitical, allowing our pockets to be equally picked by both conservative and progressive politicians. We want to build what we are allowed to build, doing our best to avoid noble castles in the clouds almost invariably turning out to be hovels thrown together on the swamp's quicksand. We respond to incentives, avoid hopeless battles when we can and seek compromise whenever and wherever possible.
I am aware that I am both mean and sarcastic towards those seeking to lead us into the Promised Land. But as pointed out in the Book of Exodus, even Moses suffered from the slings and arrows of cynical and shortsighted agnostics. There is always and ever the kibitzer in the back row with no responsibilities other than to indulge in pins amid the balloons. However I think the reasons for the lack of affordable housing are no big secret, well known to anyone actually interested in an answer.
The State of Colorado's Construction Defects laws are more than friendly to litigants seeking solace in the pocketbook of the builder's insurance provider. And we mustn't forget the part played by the Building Codes for the City of Denver and Colorado, rivaling as they do the Federal Register in length and clarity.
It has been said, perhaps only an urban myth, that legal firms specializing in liability litigation purchase the first unit in any condominium or housing development. The purchased unit would be taken apart, searched for "violations" of the building code and documented. In time the HOA would be solicited to file a lawsuit against the developer, no cost to the HOA. Who turns down free money? The lawsuit was a slam dunk before a sympathetic and credulous jury, the HOA received a nice hunk of cash and the law firm banked a windfall.
Understandably developers and their insurers learned the rules of the game, building apartments for rent rather than condos for purchase. Juries have a different standard for landlords than for aggrieved condo owners. But as time has passed everything residential built and sold in Colorado now has a budget for the inevitable and expected litigation.
It is well known that Colorado's Construction Defects laws are badly in need of normalization. But . . . Colorado's Construction Defects laws are a very lucrative source of business to Colorado's Trial Lawyers. And . . . Colorado's Trial Lawyers are a very large contributor to Colorado's Democratic Party, as well as Democratic politicians nationwide. It must be said that the Democratic Party has Colorado's various governments firmly within their grasp. Presumably the trial lawyer community has made, or will soon make, some acquaintance with that "community champion" Ms. Candi CdeBaca. After her years in Washington, she is well versed in the ways of the swamp.
Another problem with affordable housing can be traced to the unavoidable consequences logically flowing from the Circle of Political Life. Money flows down; votes are the fertilizer necessary to nourish and replenish the sources of money. Reliable votes are getting increasingly expensive, what with pensions and wildly proliferating "activists" elbowing in for a piece of the action. Building streets and schools, providing for utilities, buying land for parks and green spaces costs a lot of money and those things don't buy votes, at least not reliable "no questions asked" votes.
To keep the Circle of Political Life turning, money has to be found for the traditional jobs of government, i.e. roads, utilities, infrastructure in general. But cities have spent all their money on other things, things that buy reliable votes. Cities, just like people, use the advantages they have for their – advantage. Those whimsical wordsmiths known as economists have a definition for this exercise in entrenched power – rent seeking.
Developers' need building permits. Cities need money. It's that simple. But our present generation of shepherds has grown wise in their craft, realizing that money isn't everything. Cities also need favors. There are important people within and without the city with needs that must be met; allies, supporters, temporarily out of office politicians, activist groups, unions. Their needs must be met if the city is to be at peace. One wonders where the money came from to support Ms. Candi CdeBaca as a "community activist". Perhaps there is a niche dating site for activists and favor seekers, something along the line of "Farmers Only"?
The building permit, the zoning change, the temporary use permit needed by the builders can all be had. But there are strings attached, explicit and implicit. The strings come at a price. Of course there is the budget set aside for litigation costs, but everything built in Colorado also has a budget for "permitting costs", "infrastructure" and "soft costs". All these budget items have an inevitable and logical effect on the price of the housing.
Of course it goes without saying that the line item for insurance just keeps growing. Trial lawyers, like community activists, are persistent thorns in the garden for which there exists no Round-Up, the prophesy of Genesis 3:18 fulfilled. Breaking down the developer's budget further will reveal line items for things like "public relations", "community outreach", "environmental assessment", etc. It is well known within the development community that using certain individuals and firms for these jobs will greatly smooth the permitting process.
Of course we can't neglect the effect of those Building Codes. As you might expect, the codes have been carefully crafted in the interests of clarity, clear and present danger avoidance and cost. Ha ha. Whose interests would be served if that were the case? Do you think that trial lawyers find profit in simple clear language? Surely you jest sir!!
Denver is a progressive, forward thinking city. It didn't happen by accident. In perhaps the smoothest con game I have seen in my lifetime, Denver persuaded the State's voters to allow extension of Denver's borders and build an airport twenty-five years ago. Riding on that success, Denver then pushed through a light rail transportation system beloved of Adorable urban thinkers. Light rail has since done an admirable job of boosting downtown Denver at the decentralized suburbs' expense, with the added benefit of starving regional freeway construction – again to downtown Denver's benefit.
As a result, Denver is an Adorable city, an outpost of Adorable America in a sea of Deplorables stretching for hundreds of miles in every direction. Like everywhere else in Adorable America it can be a very nice place to live. Urban Denver has all the amenities – walkable spaces with trendy bars and restaurants, a lively arts and entertainment district, gentrified districts with a hip upscale vibe.
Redevelopment of the old airport has given Denver cloistered and protected residential areas for Denver's burgeoning Adorable population – safely removed from gritty urban areas colonized by the homeless, with good schools, walkable shopping districts and light rail access to the downtown night scene. There are office buildings with sprawling cube farms for the cossetted Adorable workers moving all that data around and tending to the Cloud. Denver's airport, owned and operated by the City of Denver not some clueless regional entity, is an efficient hub connecting Denver to America's other Adorable enclaves.
Denver wouldn't be an Adorable stronghold if it weren't doing its part to Save the Earth. And you thought building codes were just dry technical standards immune to the fantasies of the social engineers – ha ha. The newly permitted housing stock is energy efficient, as energy efficient as possible – no expense spared. Sustainability, recycling, fair trade – they all are cleverly situated in the paragraphs and clauses as well as in the penumbras formed by emanations from the codes themselves.
Like every effort to establish a real utopia there is a downside to Adorable America. It's very expensive and costs a lot of money to live there. It's hard to build affordable housing when you are in a deep financial hole before you even move the first shovel of dirt. One can buy a nice house in Deplorable America for the permitting and land costs of a house half that size in Adorable America.
Even we few Deplorables living among the Adorables are ok with this – if we're already here. Our existing houses just keep going up in value. If new car prices keep going up, guess what happens to used car prices? We just grin and go along for the ride. What else are we supposed to do – move to Texas?
Adorable America is doing its part to help the homeless. We donate a dollar at King Soopers when buying groceries. We run in a 5K race, getting a t-shirt promoting our support of the cause. We "Like" inspirational Facebook/Instagram posts declaring "Hate Doesn't Belong Here!!" and follow Twitter-savvy activists. We vote Democrat because they "care".
Unnoticed is the great irony in our Adorable existence, to no great surprise as neither its recognition nor its appreciation is an Adorable virtue. Perhaps no greater taboo exists among the Adorables than our need to worship at the altar of "diversity". Our righteous hatred of the "plantation culture" of the Old South is unquestioned. And yet – does Adorable America resemble nothing so much as a plantation culture, perhaps not based on race but class & education?
Going back to Cato, est quod est. In a time and place where Virtue has given way to Eros, our culture searches for a substitute, realizing that individual satisfaction a poor standard for trust. Eschewing men of the cloth, instead we look to those called Doctor. Perhaps it is to Medicine where our future shepherds might turn for guidance as they take up the scepters of rule.
How can we not hurt for the homeless as well as all of the other casualties of the modern world? We live in a culture rich in resources. But those with the power to direct those resources, our political masters, might keep in mind, and take to heart, that most well known of Medicine's wisdom and cautions contained in the Hippocratic Oath –
As always Bill your insight and story telling are amusing and thought provoking. I think the "homeless" in Denver have always been there, just not counted as a reconciled part of our society. I recall talking about parts of town where the "hobos or bums", a historically less gentrified moniker, stayed during my youth. Whether there by affliction or addiction, it is a fallacy of our current elected officials, both conservative and liberal, to attempt to legislate a solution to this always existent problem. With the 21st century media to vested to explain why we should support legislative processes that will neither solve nor correct the plight to which they have chosen or sentenced. Perhaps we could seek a solution similar to the WPA, that provides a value to the community and resources to assist the community with other persistent problems, like sweeping the 16th street mall, or washing our buses and light rail cars, in exchange for a place to lay their head, nourishment and a secluded pursuit of their demons off the streets and in the parks, after work hours of course, like the rest of us.
So if the homeless have always been there as the previous writer suggests…have they always been on the entire west coast at the level or number they are today? Are we now making a big deal about nothing…I'm just surprised they aren't all the fault of this president Oh but just wait, they will be…and no doubt every Deplorables fault too!


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ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), one of the globally leading solar PV one-stop solution providers, announces construction execution of a 10 MW ground-mounted PV power plant in German.
ET Solutions AG, ET Solar's wholly-owned subsidiary, is awarded as the EPC contractor for a 10 MW PV project that is located in the town of Gefell in Thuringia. The project is about 180 kilometers west of Dresden, Germany. ET Solar also provides solar modules for this project. The construction has been started and is targeted to complete before June 30th.
This solar power plant is the largest single project that ET Solutions has so far been awarded. It is invested by the Cologne-based Wattner AG, for which ET Solutions is constructing other 12.6 MW ground-mounted projects in parallel.
Dr. Linhui, Sui, head of ET Solutions, commented: "The winning of such a flagship project further demonstrates the strength and advantage for being a down-stream oriented, vertically-integrated solution provider for solar modules, EPC service, and project finance."
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`One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.'
`One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.'
Brian Clough's twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. In this strikingly intimate biography - William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 - Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of football's greatest managers: from Nottingham Forest's double European Cup triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and Clough's descent into alcoholism.
Sad, joyous and personal, Hamilton's account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute to a brilliant man.
`One of the best football books I've ever read.' John Motson
`A startlingly vivid, sometimes painfully unvarnished memoir of Clough's triumphs and decline.' Richard Williams, Guardian
`A marvellous, warm and insightful book...if you're a football fan you must buy it.' Kelvin MacKenzie, Sun
'"Provided You Don't Kiss Me" is a case of great title, great book.' Sunday Express
'This gem of a book successfully casts fresh light on numerous facets of Clough's complex personality and managerial style. A brilliantly insightful, superbly crafted book and essential reading for anyone who wonders what made the great Brian Clough tick.' Jon Spurling, FourFourTwo
`A revealing and at times extremely funny story of the mercurial managing genius...an excellent piece of work that I can't recommend highly enough.' Independent on Sunday
`Justifiably prize-winning. A vigorous, funny, warm, warty account.' Daily Mail
'Duncan Hamilton's biography is that rare thing - a work of sporting non-fiction that has genuine literary resonance...I recommend you buy a copy.' Independent
'This memoir superbly captures the force of Clough's defiance and the weakness that made him, ultimately, a tragic figure.' FT
`Beautifully written...both homage and critique, intimate and objective.' The Times
'He deftly recalls the beautiful game... a tender depiction of Clough.' Independent
'A beautifully written and tender account of the relationship between a nervous young provincial reporter and a football genius.' Russell Brand, Guardian
Duncan Hamilton was a journalist at the `Nottingham Evening Post' for over twenty years. `Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough' was published to great acclaim in 2007 and won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He now lives and works in Leeds.


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Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine have committed themselves to minimum social standards – particularly in the field of labor legislation – through their Association Agreements (AA) with the EU. For several reasons, however, the implementation in this field falls significantly short. Basically, there is no accountability as the EU does not focus on the social dimension of the AAs with regards to the employment policies in the countries. The EU's implementation assessments hardly address social issues at all. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung brought together civil society and trade union representatives, experts and academics from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to discuss the most pressing issues regarding employment conditions. The result of the workshop is summarized in a comparative paper showing the lack of the implementation of the commitments of the three states in the social field. The aim of the paper is to raise awareness for the partly appalling working conditions in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine as well as to formulate concrete policy recommendations for the three countries.
Contact: Marco.Schwarz(at)fes-europe.eu
Rue du Taciturne 38
BE-1000 Brussels


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