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In physics, chemistry and materials science, percolation (from Latin percōlāre, "to filter" or "trickle through") refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.
During the last decades, percolation theory, the mathematical study of percolation, has brought new understanding and techniques to a broad range of topics in physics, materials science, complex networks, epidemiology, and other fields. For example, in geology, percolation refers to filtration of water through soil and permeable rocks. The water flows to recharge the groundwater in the water table and aquifers. In places where infiltration basins or septic drain fields are planned to dispose of substantial amounts of water, a percolation test is needed beforehand to determine whether the intended structure is likely to succeed or fail.
Percolation typically exhibits universality. Statistical physics concepts such as scaling theory, renormalization, phase transition, critical phenomena and fractals are used to characterize percolation properties. Combinatorics is commonly employed to study percolation thresholds.
Due to the complexity involved in obtaining exact results from analytical models of percolation, computer simulations are typically used. The current fastest algorithm for percolation was published in 2000 by Mark Newman and Robert Ziff.[1]
- Coffee percolation, where the solvent is water, the permeable substance is the coffee grounds, and the soluble constituents are the chemical compounds that give coffee its color, taste, and aroma.
- Movement of weathered material down on a slope under the earth's surface.
- Cracking of trees with the presence of two conditions, sunlight and under the influence of pressure.
- Robustness of networks to random and targeted attacks.[citation needed]
- Transport in porous media.
- Epidemic spreading.[2][3]
- Surface roughening.[citation needed]
- Dental percolation, increase rate of decay under crowns because of a conducive environment for strep mutants and lactobacillus
- Potential sites for septic systems are tested by the "perk test". Example/theory: A hole (usually 6–10 inches in diameter) is dug in the ground surface (usually 12–24" deep). Water is filled in to the hole, and the time is measured for a drop of one inch in the water surface. If the water surface quickly drops, as usually seen in poorly-graded sands, then it is a potentially good place for a septic "leach field". If the hydraulic conductivity of the site is low (usually in clayey and loamy soils), then the site is undesirable.
See alsoEdit
- Branched polymer
- Conductance
- Critical exponents
- Fragmentation
- Gelation
- Groundwater recharge
- Immunization
- Network theory
- Percolation critical exponents
- Percolation theory
- Percolation threshold
- Polymerization
- Self-organization
- Self-organized criticality
- Septic tank
- Supercooled water
- Water pipe percolator
- ^ Newman, Mark; Ziff, Robert (2000). "Efficient Monte Carlo Algorithm and High-Precision Results for Percolation". Physical Review Letters. 85 (19): 4104–4107. arXiv:cond-mat/0005264. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.4104N. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.310.4632. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4104. PMID 11056635.
- ^ Parshani, Roni; Carmi, Shai; Havlin, Shlomo (2010). "Epidemic Threshold for the Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible Model on Random Networks". Physical Review Letters. 104 (25): 258701. arXiv:0909.3811. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104y8701P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.258701. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 20867419.
- ^ Grassberger, P. "On the Critical Behavior of the General Epidemic Process and Dynamic Percolation". Mathematical Biosciences.
Further readingEdit
- Harry Kesten, What is percolation? Notices of the AMS, May 2006.
- Muhammad Sahimi. Applications of Percolation Theory. Taylor & Francis, 1994. ISBN 0-7484-0075-3 (cloth), ISBN 0-7484-0076-1 (paper)
- Geoffrey Grimmett. Percolation (2. ed). Springer Verlag, 1999.
- D.Stauffer and A.Aharony. Introduction to Percolation Theory
- A. Bunde, S. Havlin (Editors) Fractals and Disordered Systems, Springer, 1996
- S. Kirkpatrick Percolation and conduction Rev. Mod. Phys. 45, 574, 1973
- D. Ben-Avraham, S. Havlin Diffusion and Reactions in Fractals and Disordered Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2000
- Edouard Rodrigues, Remarkable properties of pawns on a hexboard
- R. Cohen and S. Havlin Complex Networks: Structure, Robustness and Function [1]
- Bollobás, Béla; Riordan, Oliver (2006), Percolation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521872324
- Grimmett, Geoffrey (1999), Percolation, Springer


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In his apparent ongoing quest to eventually run for public office on the strength of the fantasy football vote, a 31-yard TD run from Chiefs tailback Jamaal Charles has given Kansas City a 7-0 early first-quarter lead against Indianapolis.
Charles' touchdown was his 11th in Kansas City's last five games. It capped a four-play, 59-yard drive lasting less than two minutes.
For the Colts, it was yet another poor start — a problem that has marked their season. Meanwhile, the Chiefs' offense picked up right where it left off after high-scoring wins at Washington and Oakland.

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text: In the course of our lives, we must encounter something that we can not handle in a proper manner. For me, that is the standardized English test such as TOEFL and GRE. I had thought that my command of English was not that bad until recently. But after I got poor results from those tests, I found out that I was wrong. Of course, one can say that getting good scores from those tests does not necessarily mean you are good at English. But I can't fully agree with the statement in that s/he would get good scores if s/he excels in English. My last GRE test was a bit disappointing. I thought I would get easily more than 4 in writing section. Alas, the reality was more harsher than I had expected. One point went down in Verbal section, ten points disappeared in Quant (I got 170 in Quant in the first test). I don't know. My scheduled test is the 11th November. I know I have some, or more, problems in my English. There must be issues waiting to be solved, of which I am not aware. As well, speaking section of the TOEFL test is what usually terrorise me since I have never been in English-only environment for more than one month. These days, many South Korean mid- and high school kids have really good commands of English. For them, tests are just pieces of sweet cake. For me, it tastes like at best bittersweet, actually bitter in most cases, cake that you won't want to purchase whatsoever.


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The latest colorway of the Air Jordan 10 Retro hits stores tomorrow.
The second release from the "City" Pack, this is the "NYC" edition of the Air Jordan 10 Retro. They come in a black, black, dark grey and metallic gold coin colorway. Featuring a black-based leather upper with grey and gold accents finished off by "NYC" embroidered on the ankle and glitter throughout the outsole.
A regional release, look out for them at select Jordan Brand accounts throughout the East Coast as well as some overseas on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016. Retail is set at $190 for men. They will also be available in full-family sizing, running down to toddler.
Enjoy the official images below of the "NYC" Air Jordan 10 Retro in black, black, dark grey and metallic gold coin. If you're interested in picking these up when they release, check in with your local spots to see if they will be receiving them. Those of you looking for a pair now can, grab them from eBay here.


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Volume 46 (2013)
Reviewed Work(s)
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American Metropolis. By Alan Ehrenhalt (New York: Knopf, 2012). Pp. 276. Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-307-27274-4, $26.95
Design after Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities. By Brent D. Ryan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Pp. 261. Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8122-4407-6, $45.00
Urban renewal has long been sandwiched between two slices of paradigmatic bread: the Modernist "bulldozer" projects of Robert Moses and the "walking city" cherished by his nemesis and proto-New Urbanist Jane Jacobs. Scholars have depicted Moses and Jacobs as David and Goliath, with the diminutive Jacobs rallying her neighbors to block Moses' arterial road through Washington Square Park. And Moses, whose power in New York was virtually uncontested, glibly judged his opponent as "just a housewife." If the outcome marked a rare defeat for Moses, it also represented for his metro-vision a fateful warning. By the early 1970s, in part due to urban crises, "freeway revolts," and the Nixon Administration's erasure of federal funding for highway construction, renewal à la Moses lost traction in U.S. cities. The Moses-Jacobs dialectic, or what historian Robert O. Self-termed the "traditional centerpieces … of renewal drama," has obscured other actors, events, and phenomena in the continuing story of urban renewal. Alan Ehrenhalt's The Great Inversion and the Future of the American Metropolis and Brent D. Ryan's Design after Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities, while exploring demographics and policy, respectively, offer viewpoints that move beyond traditional polarity.[1]
Both authors praise Jacobs for defending "everyday urbanism" in the face of Modernist renewal. Their views on Moses differ, with the former asserting it is "impossible today to imagine a [Robert] Moses emerging anywhere" and the latter opining that "Modernist, centralized planning was not always bad."[2] Ehrenhalt, a journalist and former executive editor of Governing, and Ryan, professor of urban studies at MIT, suggest these centerpieces require updating if not partial abandonment. Jacobs has garnered more fans since her 1958 West Village victory and was a champion of Main Street qualities until her death in 2006. But her legacy currently is under revision, with some historians suggesting Jacobs' "admirers have gone a little too far" and that her near-universal canonization deserves closer scrutiny.[3] Moses, once regarded as a dictatorial genius, has also been reconsidered; instead of a destroyer of neighborhoods, historian Kenneth T. Jackson suggests that Moses' remarkable intellect, near-mythic organizational abilities, and unflinching determination warrant him a certain appreciation. With much of his work surviving in greater New York, Jackson points to the durability and timelessness of Moses' designs and how his bridges, roads, and civic spaces continue to serve their intended purposes.[4]
Moses and Jacobs aside, Ehrenhalt and Ryan argue that renewal itself needs greater elasticity. Rather than being bracketed by bulldozers and housewives, it should consider infusions of human, cultural, and monetary capital. These infusions, from "Latino-ization" in southern California to "yuppie-fication" on the Lower East Side, belong to a post-renewal era defined less by federal and state actors and more by private developers and citizens.[5] Scholars have demonstrated post-renewal is shaped by a piecemeal process of rebuilding and reinvestment and though by no means realized without contestation and occasional vitriol, the post-renewal city tends to bask in Jacobs' afterglow. Ehrenhalt and Ryan, focusing on different aspects of post-renewal, contribute vital traffic to this debate.[6]
Ehrenhalt visits cities from Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Denver to New York, Atlanta, and Phoenix. He argues that U.S. cities, once bound to urban-suburban divisions abetted by deindustrialization and white flight, are now witnessing demographic "inversions" that resemble late-nineteenth century configurations of Paris or Vienna. While poor minorities and recent immigrants settle in peripheral inner rings and beyond, educated, culturally omnivorous, and mainly white residents abandon cul-de-sacs and malls and choose to live in or very near the center.[7] The latter group contains college graduates, knowledge workers, and empty-nesters while the former visits the center to work or recreate. At the same time, property values in central areas have risen, driving some long-time residents and businesses out and completing the reversal of traditional postwar settlement patterns. This indicates a de-whitening of the suburbs and a small though significant white migration into central urban areas, a trend acknowledged by practitioners of suburban history.[8]
What accounts for the inversion? Ehrenhalt stresses that "inverters" crave the Jacobian "sidewalk ballet," seek respite from the "real or virtual gatedness of suburban life," and hope to find the diversity gentrification once eliminated. Consensus among many Millennials indicates that the suburban locales of their youth cannot provide the cultural opportunities found in cities. The inversion has also been aided by the 2008 economic recession, rising fuel costs, the spread of technology/social media, and growing preferences for living alone and/or in smaller spaces. In some cases, cities themselves facilitate inversion; marketing and branding strategies, or what urban theorist Edward Soja labels the "cultural fix," portray cities as capitalizing on heritage, art, or the creation of experiences.[9]
Summoning Jacobs' ghost, Ehrenhalt notes that today, nearly every urban planner tries to incorporate mixed-use zoning to regain the street life lost in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Within the inversion, renewal appears in forms ranging from restaurants and cafes, coffeehouses, music venues, and art galleries to residential units, factory lofts, expanded university campuses, and New Urbanist enclaves. But battles persist; in a revealing chapter about Houston, Ehrenhalt profiles state representative Garnet Coleman, who from his congressional perch is trying to prevent "shotgun property owners" and developers from compromising the Third Ward, a historically black neighborhood just south of central Houston.[10]
Though the inversion appears nationwide, Ehrenhalt shows certain cities fare better in receiving and sustaining the trend. Success and scope depends upon job opportunities, cost of living, infrastructure, and how cities transition from industrial to postindustrial economies. Whereas Philadelphia's and Boston's built environments are inherently well-suited for those who cherish a walking city, Phoenix, Dallas, and Charlotte spent millions on pedestrian-friendly amenities to satisfy "downtown longings." With car-dependency long dictating their spatial arrangements, repopulating thinned-out downtowns emerged an article of faith in those cities.[11]
Ehrenhalt warns that inversion is at best partial and nowhere has it fully corrected problems of poverty, crime, or structural decay. Center City Philadelphia's pricey condos, chic restaurants, and designer boutiques resemble renewal on the surface but in a greater metropolitan context, represent a healthy core and "badly decaying periphery."[12]Despite investments in Phoenix (sports stadiums, office buildings, and a light rail system), a recent poll revealed that thirty per cent of young Phoenicians felt their downtown provided little "twenty four/seven energy….or great food."[13] Nationally, an oversupply of new urban housing has trumped concerns about unmet demand, leading the author to conclude that the inversion is by no means a mass migration. The rapid spread of social media may obviate Millennials' need to decide on an urban, suburban, or even exurban base. Given both the potential and limitations of the inversion, Ehrenhalt's parting query calls on Jacobs: will the inversion "bring about the return" of the walking city or will technology substitute "regular social contact?" His answer seems ominous: with the proliferation of technology, "it hardly matters where they [Millennials] live."[14]
In Design after Decline, Ryan notes that urban renewal's demise brought both relief and disillusionment. Relief because it "treated existing neighborhoods with great brutality, and disillusionment because these developments also projected a vision of the future that was nothing if not optimistic." While recognizing the Moses-Jacobs polarity, he argues that renewal's demise had "no single actor to blame." This is not unfounded, as Ryan's second chapter measures and neatly summarizes the "sobering failure" of forty years of renewal concurrent with population loss in the nation's ten largest cities.[15] Though Boston and San Francisco could gloat about early post-renewal successes (Faneuil Hall and Ghirardelli Square, respectively) Design after Decline centers on Philadelphia and Detroit, two shrinking cities "left adrift" after urban renewal departed. Ryan's post-renewal actors are not the creative class, but mayors, architects, private developers, and bank presidents eager to transform the city. In a complicated and at times corrupt nexus, these actors heralded the post-renewal era and were determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous generations.
How were those mistakes avoided? Instead of Plan de Voisin-inspired housing or Futurama expressways, Ryan argues that renewal after 1970 contained neither brutality nor optimism. Projects such as Detroit's Victoria Park and Philadelphia's Poplar Houses were designed as small-scale, patchwork "subway suburbs" and emerged as islands in oceans of urban ruin.[16] Homes were built on small grassy lots, beset with picket fences and driveways, and contoured in curvilinear grids similar to suburban neighborhoods. Many residents were happy in homes they desired and found stable. Brutality was absent, for these developments did not resemble Le Corbusier's zeilenbau superblocks.[17]Instead, low-slung ranch and row house designs maintained degrees of human-scale, allowing common spaces between them to appear less forbidding. Lack of optimism is a trickier claim to make, for Ryan fails to include voices and actions of those who resided in these developments or how they responded to vestiges of middle-class suburbia in the city. In a material sense, Victoria Park and Poplar provided something better than the dilapidated structures on the perimeter. Where Ryan finds pessimism is not among residents, but in the germination and long-term effects of the projects themselves; the architecture lacked any real innovation, commercial establishments were not permitted within them, surrounding areas tended to devaluate, and with "reductive strategies" dominating post-renewal, ambition and sensitivity had flown out the window.[18]
Ryan believes that post-renewal still has a long way to go.[19] As evidenced by projects in Detroit and Philadelphia, it has been plagued by glacial inaction, lack of communication between residents and planners, a deadened utopian spirit, and apathy among politicians and developers to remedy vacant lots and decrepit building stock. Ryan advances several solutions. Via "palliative planning," cities should take action even if full recovery is unlikely and that through "interventionist policy," the decentralized actions of previous generations would yield to more focused, centralized proposals. Also, residents, those most affected by post-renewal, need to be empowered by (if not directly brought into) decision-making. Finally, post-renewal should adhere to a block-by-block sensibility. With large-scale clearance dead Ryan posits that shrinking cities, though always incomplete and in flux, represent the "richest opportunities" for urban designers. As an exemplar of this "social urbanism," Ryan cites Sergio Fajardo's mayoral administration (2003-2007) in Medellín, Colombia. In less than three years, Fajardo and his coterie of planners and advisers built or renovated libraries, schools, police stations, enterprise centers, and linkages between low-income areas and the city's metro system. These initiatives comprised an integrated urban project to benefit poorer districts. Yet Latin America, with its deep traditions of statism, is not the United States, where such actors have been pushed to the margins when it comes to post-renewal.
Ryan's conclusion imagines post-renewal into the mid-twenty first century. In 2012, social urbanism in Philadelphia and Detroit required significant financial participation from the state, as both cities were still repaying bonds from the demolition of abandoned structures. Private-sector renewal continued in affluent areas, for municipal governments prohibited the use of federal/state subsidies for housing other than for those with low- to moderate-incomes. Home designs were cutting-edge, employing lower-cost green and sustainable architecture and materials. By 2050, central neighborhoods would still experience the "inversion"—though some peripheral areas remained neglected—but new low- and moderate-income housing would be built with higher density along selected blocks and corridors, creating a more polycentric city. By 2060, Ryan supposes that shrinking cities would see their hemorrhaging stopped by considerate, democratic development. Yet optimistically predicting the future in Detroit and Philadelphia seems more a game of chance than a quantifiable undertaking.
Despite claims about inverters or more thoughtful planning initiatives, both Ehrenhalt and Ryan suggest that cities will always contain pockets of vacancy and vitality. For several decades, scholars lamented the decline of urban America, pondered the causalities of riots, deindustrialization, and capital flight, struggled with questions about reusing obsolete architecture, and even debated the relevance of cities.[20] Their conclusions tended to depress, sadden, and sketch out little hope; if American cities didn't opt for what Joel Kotkin terms the "glamor zone" approach or appeal to the creative class, they would shrink until the last vestiges of better days disappeared.[21] Quick-fix schemes such as casino gaming or sports venues, while briefly delivering suburbanites into town, failed to create sustained reinvestment in or reengagement with the city. Here, Ehrenhalt and Ryan enliven the debate: urban landscapes, if they are to become healthy and vibrant, require permanent residency, commercial invigoration, sound planning and management, reliable infrastructure, cultural offerings, and a pronounced degree of safety. Amenities are only half the battle, for the psychological distaste many Americans possess about their cities needs to dissipate. As Ehrenhalt states, there is no abandonment of the suburbs in progress nor, as Ryan notes, is a purely democratic post-renewal future certain to take hold. Cities, despite their appeal, still face problems that previous generations hoped to escape. In the post-renewal age, as examined via demographics in The Great Inversion and policy making in Design after Decline, the polarity of the Moses-Jacobs feud now is subjected to multi-polar debates about the future of the American metropolis.
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Temple University
[1] Martin Anderson, The Federal Bulldozer: a critical analysis of urban renewal, 1949-1962 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964); Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage, 1961); Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses: how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American City (New York: Random House, 2009); Rebecca Gratz, The Battle for Gotham: New York in the shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (New York: Nation Books, 2010); Sam Zipp, Manhattan Projects: the rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); Roger Biles, The Fate of Cities: urban America and the federal government, 1945-2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011); Raymond A. Mohl, "Stop the Road: freeway revolts in American cities," Journal of Urban History 30 (July 2004): 674-706; Robert O. Self, "The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn," American Historical Review 117 (Oct.2012): 1257-1258; Alan Ehrenhalt, The Great Inversion and the future of the American city (New York: Knopf, 2012); and Brent D. Ryan, Design after Decline: how America rebuilds shrinking cities (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
[2] Ehrenhalt, 37; Ryan, 35.
[3] Richard White, "Jane Jacobs and Toronto, 1968-1978," Journal of Planning History 114 (March 2011): 114-138, 115; Max Page and Timothy Mennel, eds., Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (Chicago: American Planning Association, 2011).
[4] Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York (New York: Knopf, 1974); Kenneth T. Jackson, "Robert Moses and the rise of New York: the power broker in perspective," in Hillary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds., Robert Moses and the Modern City: the transformation of New York (New York: Norton, 2007): 67-71. Other notable planners of the period, such as Philadelphia's Edmund Bacon and Boston's Edward J. Logue, have also received reconsideration; see Scott Knowles, ed., Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the future of the city (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); and Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
[5] Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos reinvent the U.S. City (New York: Verso, 2001); and Christopher Mele, Selling the Lower East Side: culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
[6] Alexander Von Hoffman, House By House, Block by Block: the rebirth of America's urban neighborhoods (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); Richard D. Lloyd, Neo-bohemia: art and commerce in the postindustrial city (New York: Routledge, 2006); David Grazian, On the Make: the hustle of urban nightlife (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008); Derek S. Hyra, The New Urban Renewal: the economic transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008); Sharon Zukin, Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); and Elijah Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: race and civility in everyday life (New York: Norton, 2011).
[7] Ehrenhalt, 111; Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism: or the cultural logic of late capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), 46-48; Bernadette Hanlon, Once the American Dream: inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).
[8] Peter Siskind, "Reshaping the American Dream: immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs," in Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds., The New Suburban History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006); and Matthew Lassiter and Christopher Niedt, "Suburban diversity in postwar America," Journal of Urban History 39 (Jan.2013): 3-14.
[9] Edward Soja, "Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era," in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, eds., The New Blackwell Companion to the City (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011): 679-689; Ehrenhalt, 162.
[10] Ehrenhalt, 8-9; Richard Florida, Cities and the Creative Class (New York: Routledge, 2005); Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo: the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone (New York: Penguin, 2012), 5; Avi Friedman, Peeking Through the Keyhole: the evolution of North American homes (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002); Miriam Greenberg, Branding New York: how a city in crisis was sold to the world (New York: Routledge, 2008); Dennis R. Judd and Susan Fainstein, eds., The Tourist City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
[11] Ehrenhalt, 184-186; William Graves and Heather A. Smith, eds., Charlotte, NC: the global evolution of a new South city (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010); Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire: lessons from the world's least sustainable city (New York: Oxford, 2011).
[12] Ehrenhalt, 137.
[13] Ehrenhalt, 202.
[14] Ibid, 235.
[15] Ryan, 40.
[16] Robert A.M. Stern, "Subway Suburb," in John Montague Massengale, ed., The Anglo-American Suburb (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981).
[17] Ryan, 138-139.
[18] Ibid, 178-179.
[19] For works that consider post-renewal debates and projects, see Nicholas Bloom, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s new towns and the transformation of the American dream (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001); Jill Jonnes, South Bronx Rising: the rise, fall, and resurrection of an American city (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002); Jon C. Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: the rise of post-urban America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006); and Paul L. Knox, Metroburbia, USA (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008).
[20] Max Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Steven C. High and David W. Lewis, Corporate Wasteland: the landscape and memory of deindustrialization (Ithaca, NY: IRL Press, 2007).
[21] Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996); Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999); Rebecca Solnit, Hollow City: the siege of San Francisco and the crisis of American urbanism (New York: Verso, 2000); Bryant Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the fate of urban America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Howard Gilette, Camden after the Fall: decline and renewal in a postindustrial city (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); James Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided: race and politics in the city of brotherly love (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007); and Joel Kotkin, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 (New York: Penguin Books, 2010).


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- patience
- space
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But as the days pass and the baby gets older, I'm starting to discover more:
- love
- perspective
- hugs and attention to go around
Mostly, I am learning that whatever I can give today will just have to be enough, even if it's back-to-back movies, pajamas all day, popcorn for lunch, and playing instead of laundry. Even if I only knit one round of my new hat, it's enough for now.
And I discover that my life is full of more than enough wonder and beauty, in the midst of diaper changes and homework and dance practice and flu bugs and trying to fit a bit of sleep in here and there.


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We reported earlier that LG's upcoming phone E900 which will be sporting Windows Phone 7 has been spotted. Android.com.pl came up with good quality pictures of the LG E900 and a video of the WP 7 UI running on it.
The LG E900 is reported to have a 3.7inch TFT capacitive touchscreen. The processor inside is Qualcomm QSD8650. There are some rumors that suggest that the processor is QSD8650A. The difference between QSD8650 and QSD8650A is that the first one will have a clock speed of 1GHz, while the next will have a clockspeed of 1.3GHz. It will also have a microUSB slot and a 3.5mm audio slot.
Other common features like Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth will be present. The price of this phone is reported to be between $300-400 which is very cheap considering the hardware.
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text: Essaouira - History, Music and a mad French-man 01/31/2016 For Photos Click HERE Essaouira, Morocco's Atlantic coast surf town was by far the highlight of my short stint in Morocco last year. After 4 days of getting lost in the hustle and bustle of Marrakech we hopped on a 3 hr bus towards Essaouira. Chloe from Marco Travel (who was born and raised in Morocco) told us it was a must and she was absolutely right! Within 20 minutes we were out of Marrakech and venturing through a beautifully barren landscape. Rolling hills covered READ MORE


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Tobacco Free Allen County presented EACS' Board of Trustees the Smokefree Schools Policy Leadership Award. EACS' lead among Allen County schools in the inclusion of e-cigarettes/vaping in its smokefree workplace policy as Tobacco Free Allen County staffers researched our county's school corporations' stances on the use of e-cigarettes and vaping devices on school property.
"It was a real pleasure to be able to recognize EACS's leadership in this area and we hope that it will inspire other school corporations to follow suit", said Nancy Cripe, Executive Director.
As a community partner of the Indiana State Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission, Tobacco Free Allen County works to prevent tobacco use, promote tobacco cessation, and protect non-users from exposure to tobacco toxins in our county, whether it be at work, in public spaces or at school. Part of the work consists of assisting governing bodies to draft and enact policies to prevent exposure to secondhand e-cigarette chemicals and protect youth from initiation to nicotine addiction through such novel devices.
E-cigarettes/vaping devices have been marketed as both cessation aids and a safe alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes, with no scientific backing for those claims. The limited research that exists does not justify either. Such marketing messages are not lost on our youth, however, who are drawn in by the "safer" claim; the novelty of the devices; the 7000+ flavorings of the solutions they contain; their "hi-tech" look; their versatile, customizable features; and erroneous reassurances that it's "just water vapor" being emitted.
From 2007 to 2014, rates of e-cigarette use among teens skyrocketed--in stark contrast to steadily declining rates of conventional cigarette use among teens.* According to the national Youth Tobacco Survey, administered in each state biennially, e-cigarette use tripled among middle and high school students in the two years between 2012 and 2014. While a dip in their use was shown on the 2016 Youth Tobacco Survey**, vaping devices remain the number one tobacco product currently used by teens, nationwide and in Indiana.
Cripe said, "This fact makes EACS' Board's foresight in getting out ahead of this new form of tobacco use especially noteworthy. It is crucial that our young people know that their school community leaders are committed to protecting them from toxic exposures. Of equal importance is for them to know that pro-health behaviors are their community's norm and that the adults charged with overseeing their academic and civic development care to protect them from a lifetime of nicotine addiction".
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Trias WWII UNITAS 6497
I have always loved classical, elegant and yet not too dressy watches especially with a hand wounded movement.
The Trias WWII is such example. It has the flair of the Chronoswiss Timemaster artistic dial, the case of Martin Braun and its heart beating from the ever reliable UNITAS 6497 workshorse.The best part about the Trias WWII lies with its price, which is just a fraction of what Chronoswiss or Martin Braun costs.
It is also worthwhile to note that the case design that the Trias WWII used are also used by renowned matchmaker like Christiaan van der Klaauw, Martin Braun, Muhle, Limes & etc. The design of this sort is popular with dressy watches with its protruding coin edge/bezel, long lugs and display back.
I can't quite make up what sort of dial design this is to give it a name, but surely a design from the yesteryears like the 40's. It can be found in Chronoswisss & etc. with its popular rail track on the rim and bold 12/3/6/9 numeric markers.
The Unitas, now owned by ETA started life back in the 50's as a pocket watch movement and has since been very popular with grande watches. The Unitas can be found in many brands like, Zeno, Martin Braun, Officine Panerai, Orfina/Royal Navy, Glycine, Jacques Etoile, O&W & Stowa, UTS, MeisterSinger, Schwarz Etienne, MSC, Epos & Eberhard among the few.
Most of the time, being an expensive watch or not, the movement usually comes in several types of decoration: some come undecorated, some with blue screws and some with geneva stripes which is popular with watch makers when comes to decorations to be displayed on its crystal back. It is such a shame that some watch makers actually hides this beautiful and monstrous of movement.
What makes the Unitas based watch desirable lies with its beauty, accuracy, reliability and its exclusivity. Nowadays, most watches are normally fitted with the ever popular ETA's like the 2824, 2801 and so on (not to discriminate here as the ETA's is a solid movement and I own a few) but rather common. The Unitas based watch make this watch unique and is only used by a handful match maker to differentiate their growing range.
At this point of my writing, perhaps there are already a few more watch maker had used the unitas on their new watches and will soon become as common as the ETA's. One of the main reason why the unitas was revived exponentially is simply due to the trend of big watches.
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The term "TRIAS" originates from a latin word which meant as much as three-ness or three things combines to become one. The name TRIAS reflects the three requirements that Trias follows: TRIAS timepiece unites a timeless and elegant design with high-quality and an excellent price ratio! Trias take this firm philosophy as a basis for our daily work and to carry out in each individual TRIAS. The magic number of "three" has further meanings in our philosophy:
TRIAS timepieces also represents country, water and air exploration, it is also the choice of our Logos, which contains the three elements of water, country and air. it is also used to represents the range of timepieces offered: Flieger, sport and classical models. The assortment covers a broad spectrum, from the oversized XXL flieger timepiece to the classical range. All timepiece correspond to the high quality, which we ourselves address to our products: Exclusive use of high-quality materials (e.g. all models in high-grade steel), Mechanism and precision quartz works, Sapphire and/or particularly hardened mineral glasses, screw back, 24 months warranty, waterproof to at least 50m.
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Mehaffey makes her move in Peru
World No 11 Olivia Mehaffey made six birdies in her last 11 holes to move within two stokes of the lead entering today's final round of the South American Amateur Championship in Peru.
The Royal County Down Ladies' star dropped two early shots at the fourth and fifth but birdied the eighth to stop the rot and then caught fire, storming home in five under 31 for a 68 that moved her up eight spots to solo fourth at Lima Golf Club.
At four under, 18-year old Mehaffey is two behind Paraguay's Sofia Garcia (68), who leads by one stroke from Peru's Lucia Gutierrez (70) and England's Bronte Law (67).
Castletroy's Chloe Ryan continued her fightback from a poor opening round with a second successive 75 leaving her in joint 41st.
In the men's championship, Knock's Colin Fairweather birdied the 18th for a second successive 73 that leaves him tied for sixth on two under with Argentina's Andres Gallegos and England's Marco Penge, six strokes behind Uruguay's Juan Alvarez.
Alvarez shot a three under 69 and leads by just one stroke in the R&A supported event from Welshman David Boote (71) and by three from Matias Simaski of Argentina.
Massereene's Tiarnan McLarnon, the Irish Close champion, shot a 73 but climbed 27 places to tied 26th on six over.


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Ashikaga Gakko, meaning Ashikaga School is well-known as the oldest academic institution. It is located in Ashikaga city, Tochigi prefecture, about 70 km north of Tokyo and about 70 km south of Nikko. So, Ashikaga would come handy if you plan your trip further to Nikko.
There are controversies about the origin of it, but it is said to have been established ca. 832 in the Heian period by Ono no Takamura and restored in 1432 by Uesugi Norizane, the lord of Ashikaga.
In the 1500s more than 3000 students came to study Confucianism, Chinese Medicine and Divination. The famous library contains more than 12000 volumes ( mostly in Chinese ) and some of Japan's oldest historical documents,
Missionary Francisco Xavier reported in 1549 the Ashikaga School as the largest and most famous university of Japan.
After the Meiji Restoration in the late 1800s the school was disestablished. After 1990 several wooden buildings including the former student living quarters, classrooms and the library were restored and today the school is under the direction of Ashikaga city board of education.
Now the Ashikaga Gakko has beautiful gardens and lovely, peaceful grounds to walk around.
Inside the school visitors can enjoy videos of the school's history and challenge the School Kanji tests ( I did and found it pretty hard ) and join a program reading Analects of Confucius aloud.
In the Ashikaga Flower Park you will find 1000-square-meter gigantic wisteria trellises and a 80-meter-long wisteria tunnel.


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By keeping its overheads low, when compared to the larger energy suppliers, Better Energy says it is able to keep prices lower for its customers. It also reviews prices about once a year.
The small supplier states that if a change in tariff occurs and a customer wishes to change provider, Better Energy will defer the change for a "reasonable amount of time" until the customer can switch suppliers to avoid the price rise.


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was built in 1927. When we purchased the home it had the 1985
remodel pictured above. Although we recognized the space was
outdated and not our taste, it somehow didn't bother us so long
as it was functional. As a result, we procrastinated in
updating the space. In fact, the reason we finally renovated
this year was because the appliances(refrigerator and stove)
were starting to give up and the ceramic tiles around the sink
began to fall off. Also, I've been propositioned to enter our
home in the neighborhood's annual home tour for 2012. A
really terrific designer and blogger Katie Denham of Katiedid also lives
here (another fact I can use to boast that our area is the
best!) and featured her home in the 2009 home tour. Her home is still being raved
about today and her kitchen was a show stopper and a stand out
favorite. I knew I had to do something to our space before I
opened the doors to the public.
just under $38K. The inspiration behind the design is French
square ft.
able to add 10 more square feet to the small space. We took
that space from the adjacent hallway behind the East wall of
the kitchen located directly behind the old electric oven which
contained a narrow utility closet that we only used to store
some tools.
budget was to open the kitchen up to the current formal dining
room behind the south wall. For our family, that was not an
option. Both Dan and I are big lovers of traditional formal
dining rooms and so joining the two rooms was quickly ruled
vegetable sink and faucet with pull out spray was installed for
convenient pot filling and pasta draining.
The small sink will have a round cutting board with a pull out
hole that fits perfectly over the sink for extra prep space on
the counter. While we wait for the builder to supply it, we
have improvised with this cutting board.
dentil moulding and door appliques. We thought it gave the
space a warm elegance typically found in French Country
as a serving cart for the dining room.
conveniently rolled anywhere in the space or out of the way
into the pantry or laundry/mud room.
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text: Tempe-based fixed gear/single speed bicycle brand State Bicycle Co. and The Hundreds have come together for a fixed gear bike. Featuring a black-and-white all-over print frame, custom Holdfast straps and Animal pedals, the two-wheeler reflects a sleek design recalling attributes distinct to each brand. In addition, there is also an exclusive all-black colorway. The bicycle will be available in limited quantities at The Hundreds' flagship locations, authorized retailers, and through State Bicycle Co.'s online store and flagship locations beginning Thursday, September 20, 2012. I'm really starting to like The Hundreds and doing this collabo made them even more official to me.


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For those of us of a certain age, we remember the cheesy, comedic voyages of the Love Boat as a staple of late 1970s TV. Captain Stubing, Gopher, Doc, Isaac and the blond chick would sleep their way through the passengers, smile and serve drinks. All this happened in a tidy hour format complete with laugh track. Well, the ship that was at the core of the show, the Pacific Princess, has finally sailed its last and is at the wreckers in Turkey. Unfortunately, the Turkish ship breakers are not known for saving furnishings or artwork, so all we will likely have are photos of the ship to remind us of its prime.
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15 October 2009
ERM has been named 30th in the Sunday Times' Top Track 250 League Table. A ranking which is 27 places higher than last year, and 38 places higher than in 2007.
The Sunday Times is one of the UK's biggest selling national Sunday newspapers. Its Top Track Ratings assesses the country's top private companies and produce six annual league tables. ERM was ranked in the Top Track 250 league table, which names Britain's biggest mid-market private companies, based on sales in their latest available audited accounts.
ERM's Finance Director Andrew Silverbeck said: "Such a significant jump in our ranking reflects the continued growth ERM experienced last year, despite current economic conditions. After substantial growth in the financial year ended 31 March 2008, the financial year ended 31 March 2009 was another year of continued growth for us. At constant exchange rates, we increased our net consulting revenue by 9% and our operating profit by 6%.
"Throughout the financial year, we continued to undertake a number of actions to invest in the future growth of the business. Following internal promotions, we appointed new regional CEOs in EMEA, Asia Pacific and North America. We also continued to focus on growing our services in areas of increasing client demand such as Impact Assessment and Planning and Sustainability and Climate Change.
"Operationally, our strongest growth region was Asia Pacific where trading profits grew 34% at constant exchange rates. This was achieved by continuing to provide services for multi-national corporations operating in the region as well as by delivering more projects for local clients.
"Given its wealth of natural resources and continued development, the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region continued to represent a key area of business activity. Trading profits in this region grew 30% at constant exchange rates. Across our practice areas we saw a 25% growth in sales in our Impact Assessment and Planning practice, driven by continued activity in the commodity markets, and a sales increase of 130% in our Energy and Climate Change services."
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South Africa will investigate the death of a Nigerian, who was alleged to have died in the custody of the police.
The outgoing South African High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Kingsley Mamabolo, said this in Abuja yesterday when he received the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora.
Reacting to a statement by the Chairman of the committee, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the envoy promised that the South African government would look into the reported case of the Nigerian killed in South Africa.
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ARLINGTON, VA, August 4, 2014 -- Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) awarded its 12th Sea Scout National Flagship Award to the Arlington, Virginia based Sea Scout Ship 1942, S.S.S. Dragonlady. The Sea Scouts and their adult leader Tom Ballew, the skipper of Ship 1942, accepted the award in a ceremony held Saturday at Solomons, Maryland. Keith Christopher, national director for BSA Sea Scouts, presented the Flagship trophy on behalf of BoatUS. This is the second time Ship 1942 has received this prestigious award -- it earned its first Flagship Award in 2007 and is considered the "hometown" Ship by nearby BoatUS National Headquarters staff.
Ship 1942 was founded in 1992, is sponsored by St. George's Episcopal Church and is one of the most active Ships on the East Coast. Like all Sea Scout units, Ship 1942 uses boats, seamanship and nautical skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people, ages 14 to 20.
The fleet ranges from day sailers and small cruising boats kept nearby on the Potomac River to five cruising sloops from 27 to 39 feet on the Chesapeake Bay at Solomons Island, MD. Activities range from formal training in boating handling, rules of the road and safety drills to boat maintenance, electronics and engine repair, with a good measure of fun thrown in. The program strives to let the youth lead the activities and make the decisions to the fullest extent possible, with support from a strong cadre of adult leaders.
To earn the Flagship recognition, the ship and its crew compiled an impressive record of accomplishments, with 68 days of on-the-water activities last year, including a 9-day summer cruise, plus hundreds of hours of community service projects and numerous other achievements.
Operated by the Boy Scouts of America, Sea Scouting has 6,500 youths, about one-third female, participating in 475 Ships nationwide. For more information about Sea Scouting, visit: www.seascout.org.
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Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is the nation's leading advocate for recreational boaters providing its over half-million members with government representation, services such as 24-hour dispatch, on water boat towing as well as roadside assistance for boat trailers and tow vehicles, feature- packed boat insurance programs, money-saving benefits including marina and service discounts, and vital information that improves recreational boating. Its member-funded BoatUS Foundation is a national leader promoting safe, clean and responsible boating and offers a range of boating safety courses -- including 33 free state courses -- that can be found at BoatUS.org/courses.
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Midtown Raleigh News
Report links high test scores with Wake's diversity policy
A national report shows that Wake County's low-income students are less likely to be stuck in a lower-performing school than their peers in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas.
The report found also that schools attended by low-income and middle/high-income students in the Raleigh-Cary metropolitan area exceeded test score expectations to an extent greater than in any of the 100 largest metropolitan areas.
The report being released Thursday by the Washington-based Brookings Institution doesn't identify why the results are much better than expected but says "one possible explanation is that Wake County has a history of aggressive districtwide socioeconomic integration policies."
The timing of the report likely will add more fuel to the emotional debate about student assignment in the state's largest school district. Wake is in the midst of implementing a new choice-based plan that replaces the previous method of trying to balance family income levels at schools.
"For many years, Wake County has been a national model for trying to address the gap between rich and poor and black and white," said Richard Kahlenberg, a researcher with the progressive Century Foundation and an advocate of socioeconomic diversity efforts. "This report finds support for that notion."
Wake County school board member John Tedesco, an outspoken critic of the former diversity policy, cautioned against reading too much into the report's findings. He said the Raleigh-Cary metro area's academic performance may be more reflective of its affluence compared to many of the metropolitan areas in the report.
"You can't compare a suburban affluent area like Wake with an urban high-poverty area," he said.
Until 2010, Wake's policy was to try to limit schools from having more than 40 percent of their students receiving federally subsidized lunches, which is a measure of income levels. Wake's approach earned it nationwide recognition for being the largest school district in the nation that bused students for diversity. A new Republican majority on the school board eliminated the diversity policy, blaming it for increasing situations where students didn't go to schools near where they live or were reassigned repeatedly to other schools.
Zoning considerations
Supporters of the new assignment plan have said its implementation has been successful in allowing parents to pick the schools they want their children to attend. But critics have advocated returning to a variation of the old model, which would more aggressively promote economic diversity in all schools.
Now comes this new Brookings report, which found that municipal zoning laws are restricting affordable housing across the country and making it harder for low-income students to get into high-quality schools. But the report found the Raleigh-Cary metro area to be an outlier.
The Raleigh-Cary metro area was ranked No. 43 in terms of having the most restrictive zoning laws. Jonathan Rothwell, the report's author, said the most restrictive zoning laws tended to be found in the Northeast, where regulation such as requiring large lot sizes makes it harder to find affordable housing.
Rothwell said Raleigh's zoning ranking typically would mean that the area would be in the middle of the pack when it comes to economic segregation and gaps in housing costs and test scores. But the report found that Raleigh had one of the lowest levels of economic segregation and one of the smaller gaps in housing costs between areas near high-scoring and low-scoring schools.
The report also singles out Raleigh's smaller-than-expected gap in test scores.
"This sort of progressive integration policies Wake County has been using can help explain the gap," Rothwell said in an interview.
But Tedesco said people should also look at individual group-level data that show that Wake's low-income and minority students were performing below the state average.
Moving forward, members of the school board's new Democratic majority have talked about revisiting the assignment policy and potentially adding a diversity component. Tedesco, a Republican, cautioned against making changes until they'd had more time to see how the new plan works out.


text: Burmese traders sneak into India as gates remain closed By Bit Irom The Asian Age (New Delhi), November 6, 1997. Moreh, Nov. 5: Tenthonoi has crossed the Indian border at gate 3 near the Indo-Burma border town of Moreh every day since the closer of border trade between the two countries. Many other traders have sneaked into India to sell smuggled goods at Moreh in connivance with law enforcing agencies of the government of India. With the help of an interpreter, Tenthonoi, a poor trader from Tamu, a small town about 4 km from Moreh, told The Asian Age that despite warnings issued by Burmese officials, including the Army, the police and immigration officers, not to cross the Indian border, over 100 Burmese businessmen from Tamu and adjoining areas sell items at Moreh every day. They come early in the morning and return at late night. Burmese cross the border near Magnag, Channiphai, Gagangjai, Gogoyang at gate three and four. At gate 3 and 4, they cross over despite the presence of BSF personnel. Tenthonoi adds that some Kukis at the border had robbed them of their belongings a few times. Since the closure of border trade, hundreds of Burmese traders have been facing hardship, he said. Border trade was closed from October 12 till 21 following a fire at the market complex of the Namphalong Bazar in Burma. Trade resumed on October 22. But it was closed again as the Burmese allowed only Meites and Meiti Pangals to do business at the Namphalong Market. Other communities, including Tamils and other Indians, were not allowed to enter Namphalong Market. Burmese traders had set up the trading centre at Namphalong. Although the Burmese State Law and Order Restoration Council had closed the gate and banned trade, Burmese traders continued their brisk business at Moreh. Mathoi, 34, a businesswoman, told The Asian Age that the Burmese military law enforcing officials had arrested over 300 traders, including 160 women, for crossing the border since trade was banned. The women were kept in the Achuk jail near Primary School, Tamu, while the non-traders were served deterrent punishment. They were also forced to clean the Tamu town, she said, adding that they had been given a month-long jail term.


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Mount Robson
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My dogs, Henry and Maggie, are very jealous of Lulu and wish their mother would take them to interesting places!ReplyDelete
Ditto, my dogs would LOVE to sniff around the grass next to a strange new parking lot LOL. I have to say, I was raised on a chicken farm and every time my DH suggests we get a few chickens, I tell him, "With your next wife." But I'm glad you and LuLu found each other. She IS adorable. And your photographs of the mountain are breathtaking!ReplyDelete
You guys are TOO funny! I do get some strange looks and double takes when people see Lulu, but I also get to answer questions and make people more aware of chickens. I don't let her out where there are dogs because she may turn into someone's lunch. Kay, I think Henry and Maggie are happy to go anywhere in the car. (I know my dog Coco did.) ;)ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos of Mount Robson. Lulu must be quite the conversation starter.ReplyDelete


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We did not want to be the clowns - Smalling reveals Mourinho's half-time pep talk
Chris Smalling revealed Manchester United's sensational derby comeback victory against Manchester City was inspired by a desire not to be "the clowns" at the Etihad Stadium.
Pep Guardiola's side appeared to be coasting to victory against their neighbours when they led 2-0 at the halfway stage of the contest.
However, knowing a win would see their rivals seal the Premier League title, the visitors rallied after the break to turn the match around and clinch a stunning 3-2 victory.
Paul Pogba scored twice to make it 2-2 before Smalling popped up to be the unlikely hero for Jose Mourinho's men, volleying home a 69th-minute winner to delay City's celebrations.
"At half-time a lot of us were feeling sorry for ourselves. We needed to make sure we played with pride in that second half," the England international told Sky Sports.
"I think the first half was terrible. Apart from the first 15 minutes, then we just dropped off. We didn't play our game and they could have been out of sight.
"He [Mourinho] didn't have to say too much because as players you know that was not good enough.
"The emphasis was that we did not want to be the clowns standing there watching them celebrating winning a trophy at the end.
"You saw us stand up. At 2-0 down away at City, where they've been fantastic at home all season, we stepped up and won the game."
Smalling's winner came after he had lost Vincent Kompany at a corner for City's opening goal.
Ilkay Gundogan's turn and finish made it 2-0 after 30 minutes, but Raheem Sterling twice fluffed his lines in front of goal before the break, blazing over on both occasions to let United off the hook.
"When you make a mistake like that, you want an opportunity to make amends. Thankfully, it came my way," added the centre-back.


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Saddle your horse, drink your last ale and say FAREWELL to the Kings of Metal! For Manowar have announced that their next tour will be their last.
It's a sad day and there will be much lamentation. In the 34 years since their classic debut Battle Hymns, the band has become an iconic and legendary presence in the metal genre for their DEATH TO FALSE METAL manifesto, All Men Play on Ten volume and, yes, the mighty loincloths. But their true legacy is their music. Manowar have released some of the best albums and songs you will ever hear.
The best album of all time? Sign of the Hammer.
The greatest song of all time? Bridge of Death.
The greatest guitar solo of all time? Ross the Boss ripping it up on Battle Hymn. Fucking yes.
I could go on. Manowar are my favourite band. They've been with me my entire heavy metal life. I sincerely hope that the tour will wing its way near me so I can catch them one last time. I'm going to miss them but, when I march, their sword rides with me.
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"Tracing Autism offers a theoretically rich and alternative perspective that departs from a critique of neuroscience to highlight how scientists 'move in, around, and out' with the complexities, anxieties, and ambiguities of autism neuroscience and the developing brain."
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"Much more than a study of the making of a specific diagnostic category, this beautifully written book helps us to understand the hopes, the passions, and the ambivalences of scientists at work at the intersections of neuroscientific research, clinical practice and personal commitment."
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Trump Still Hasn't Held A Presser, But NYT Got The Next Best ThingBy Jamal Andress | November 22, 2016
The press — and more importantly, the public — hasn't gotten a post-election press conference with President-elect Donald Trump. But in a meeting with The New York Times, the businessman-turned-politician answered some of the nation's most pressing questions.
The meeting covered everything from Steve Bannon's reported ties with the alt-right movement to Trump's recent decision not to push for investigations of Hillary Clinton. Here are the highlights:
Trump said he was "never a fan" of the electoral college, despite the role it played in getting him elected.
"I'd rather do the popular vote," Trump says. "I think we'd do as well or better." Says he was "never a fan of the electoral college."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
He said he doesn't want to "energize" the alt-right movement and that he doesn't consider Bannon alt-right.
Trump on alt-right supporters: "It's not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
On Bannon:"If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
Regarding Breitbart, the website Bannon ran before working for the Trump presidential campaign, Trump said it's "just a publication."
Trump is asked about concerns from minority groups about Breitbart News's coverage under Steve Bannon. His reply: pic.twitter.com/FBqCGwQpBr— Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016
On climate change, he said:
"Clean air is vitally important," Trump says about climate change. Says he is keeping "an open mind."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
"I think there is some connectivity" between humans and climate change, Trump says.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
Pushing for Clinton to be prosecuted would be "very very divisive for the country," he said. He also noted that some would say the Clinton Foundation has done "good work."
That last tweet was Trump making clear he doesn't favor prosecution. Added people could argue the Clinton Foundation has done "good work."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
When discussing his business interests and the potential conflicts that would come with being president, he said:
Trump on his businesses/conflict q's: "The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest."— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
"My company's so unimportant to me relative to what I'm doing." Trump.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016
For more on the meeting, check out The New York Times' live blog.


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Even our Prime Minister uses 360 degree feedback appraisal for his officers!
Government of India uses a new age employee assessment tool
Of the various kinds of reforms the Modi Government has brought about in India's system of Governance; a very unique & interesting one is the introduction of the 360 Degree survey tool as a platform for selection and appraisal of it's officers! This is yet another example that portrays how our Government is moving beyond the old & mundane system of rules towards bringing in a new approach to its work-style.
What is 360 Degree Feedback Survey?
360 Degree Feedback Survey is a process in which employees receive confidential, anonymous feedback from not just their superiors, but all the other people who work with and around them. It shows insight into a person's performance across different workplace competencies from multiple perspectives, most typically, their manager, peers, juniors and even external stakeholders like clients or vendors, in contrast to their own self-evaluation. 360 Degree Appraisal serves as an all- comprehensive performance assessment tool for employee evaluation. With different perspectives, it helps compile a more complete picture of an individual's strengths & opportunities for development of their performance and skills.
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To find out more about this news, read the article published by The Economic Times and learn how the 360 Degree assessment tool, a name heard of more in the corporate world has carved its niche in our system of Governance and is helping our leaders govern better!


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Founding the Postcolonial Republic in Bergeaud's Stella
Émeric Bergeaud's Stella is frequently lauded as Haiti's first novel. Written while the author was in exile during the 1840s and '50s and only published in Paris in 1859 after his death, Bergeaud's story retells the events of the Haitian Revolution from the perspective of two enslaved brothers, Romulus and Remus. The scant scholarship that exists on Stella tends to interpret the text as an allegorical retelling of the Revolution intended to vindicate the Haitian revolutionaries. While undoubtedly that, Stella, just recently translated into English for the first time, also accomplishes two other politically significant aims that combine postcolonial and republican themes.
First, as has been recognized by scholars like J. Michael Dash, in recasting the Revolution as a moment of political founding and Haiti as a new Rome, the exiled Bergeaud offers his fellow citizens an origin story for a state newly committed to republican values and self-governance, re-centering the Haitian people as the voice of their own revolution. Second, Bergeaud's appropriation of French republican values also poses a significantly richer philosophical challenge to French imperialism than mere adaptation of a founding myth. I argue that Bergeaud's second aim is to identify the ways in which French claims of social and political universalism are contrary to the state's imperial project.
Developing ideas found in the work of Dash, Achille Mbembe, and David Scott, among others, I demonstrate that the novel interrogates the relationship between republican France's proclaimed principles of universalism and its exclusionary colonial practices on the island then known as Saint-Domingue. Ultimately, Stella reveals how Haiti, by adopting a republican identity in the wake of the Revolution, claimed qualities its former colonizer had both professed for itself and denied its colonial holdings. In so doing, Bergeaud critiques the performative hypocrisy of France's reigning ideologies, republicanism and universalism through the recourse to violence depicted in the text. Part of a larger project on the role of violence in revolutionary republican political thought, particularly literary accounts generated by the French and Haitian Revolutions, this paper contributes to scholarship on Caribbean political thought; law and literature; and political violence.


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10 comments:
- Sarah B said...
What a marvellous story! How great that you could reconnect again and boy, those photos are fabulous!!
Have a great Friday :)
- September 16, 2011 at 5:51 AM
- melissa loves said...
Oh, that is SO fantastic mate! I love those folks you meet along the way, that mean SO much to you & then you get to reconnect with them. And you are right....his work is gorgeous. You know what else? I love that so many of his subjects are smiling or having a great time.
That says so much about him, for me. Love it, thanks for sharing this beauty! I WISH there was a shot of you! :)
- September 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- brismod said...
No way. How great to be able to find them again! I particularly love that first image. Just beautiful.
- September 16, 2011 at 6:12 AM
- David Toms said...
Jules, what a fabulous story, and how wonderful that you have got back in touch! Many years ago I too was an Exchange Student just out of high school, and low and behold through Facebook have connected with many old friends!
- September 16, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Blue Fruit said...
One of the joys of the modern world of communication! What a brilliant outcome, and you are both much the richer for rediscovering the connection.
- September 16, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Dustjacket Attic said...
Oh how fab...see, the upside of the internet addiction pays off! Ha ha.
Just adore that first shot.
Hope you are getting ready for a nice weekend and that the weather behaves.
- September 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Mise said...
These are absolutely wonderful photos, BUT we also want to see the fondue set, and, if you don't mind, the girl with crazy hair.
- September 16, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Naomi@DesignManifest said...
great story. Nice to learn more about you. and WHOA, gorgeous photos!
- September 16, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- Dreamy Spaces said...
That fireplace is so cool. A little grandiose, but pretty amazing nonetheless.
- September 17, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- captain kk said...
what a wonderful story! x
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Here are our books for today's letter of the day. We really enjoyed I See Myself. It really put the concepts of reflection and light into terms young kids can understand.
Here's an example of one of the inside pages, which asks the reader to try to look in the mirror in a dark closet. Loved this book!
Letter Recognition
After reading our books, we completed one letter recognition activity. Placing gems on the letter L (this dot marker page comes from Shannon's Tot School). I printed the page onto vellum paper, and placed it on today's sensorial activity, our light box! It was just our usual sensory bin, with Christmas lights placed inside then plugged in, and a piece of parchment paper taped over the top. Worked out great, without being too fancy.
Light Box - Sensorial Activity
I had been wanting to do a light table for a long time, since seeing them on Pinterest. We did a simple version here today, while exploring light and color-mixing. We observed our water blocks over the light for quite a while.
Then we brought the gems back out, as well as a few small, clear cups.
Little M&M, in particular, enjoyed filling these cups and pouring the gems back and forth.
They also enjoyed scooping and sorting.
Then the kids brought the blocks back onto the light box to combine with the gems.
And Honey Pot, ever the fan of pretend play, brought a little giraffe over to eat some gems while she had her own dinner.
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Well, it looks like the weather gods are laughing at Houston again, and have decided to ring in iFest with a good round of drenching rain. So if you'd prefer to remain indoors, don't forget Saturday is Record Store Day - there's even a Web site. Be a good consumer and help out your neighborhood music merchant, won't you? Here's what they've got going on:
Cactus Music (2110 Portsmouth): The mood at Cactus is positively post-coital these days after it got the stamp of approval from none other than Little Steven Van Zandt. The king of the Underground Garage stopped by Cactus the day after last week's Bruce Springsteen show, and upon walking in immediately pronounced it "a great fuckin' record store."
In person, Van Zandt is pretty much the same as on the radio or the Sopranos, relays owner Quinn Bishop. He spent more than an hour in the store, happily posed for pictures with employees (including Bishop, above), dropped a good bit of coin (the Kinks, Little Walter) and even Twittered about Cactus when he left. Steven has to buy music on tour, Bishop said, because there are no record stores left in New York City. Shame.
So what's Cactus doing for Record Store Day? Read on...
Like the other participating merchants nationwide, Cactus will offer a dozen or three Record Store Day exclusives (see that Web site for the full list): Wilco's Ashes of American Flags DVD, live CDs and LPs from Pavement, the Derek Trucks Band, Iron & Wine and Gaslight Anthem, and 7-inches from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Decemberists, Sublime, Whiskeytown, Jenny Lewis, the Smiths and lots more.
Performing in the store will be Houston power-pop upstarts the McKenzies, rockabilly vatos the Octanes and, on loan from Austin, Centro-Matic mastermind Will Johnson, who will also open his exhibit of baseball-player paintings (Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, etc.), "Disguised Combat, Long Haul, No Steroids: Ed. 1." in the Record Ranch when he gets done playing.
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Sig's Lagoon (3710 Main) is offering 50% off all used vinyl.
Vinal Edge Records (13171 Veterans Memorial Dr.) is opening early at 9 a.m., having a raffle for a $50 gift certificate, buy one get one free on used CDs and 7-inches and has six new crates of "fresh used vinyl." (?) The first 50 customers get a free Best of '08 CD and 10% off their orders.
Sound Exchange (1846 Richmond) thinks "every day should be Record Store Day." Hear hear!


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This week, 40 young singers arrive in Camrose, Alta., to begin seven days of choir boot camp, a.k.a. the National Youth Choir of Canada (NYCC).
Representing all 10 provinces and the Northwest Territories, and ranging in age from 18 to 25, these choristers will undergo a week of rehearsals and training to prepare for a seven-concert tour across Alberta. (Scroll down for tour info.)
"It will be an intensive period with up to eight hours of singing per day," says Michael Zaugg, conductor of the 2016 NYCC, via email. "The young musicians will also learn to work exclusively with a tuning fork." (That's choir talk for "there's no safety net.")
The choir will prepare a concert program that covers a variety of challenging a cappella works in five languages — German and Estonian among them — and includes newly commissioned pieces by Canadians Kristopher Fulton, Stuart Beatch, Alan Gilliland and Cy Giacomin as well as the world premiere of "Tread Softly" by Benjamin Bolden, winner of Choral Canada's 2016 Competition in Choral Writing.
To some, preparing so much difficult repertoire in such a short time might seem like choir hell, but competition to get into the 40-voice ensemble is fierce.
"Auditions are coordinated and singers are selected provincially or territorially by a provincial choral organization or another regional leading choral community representative," explains Meghan Hila, general manager of Choral Canada, the organizing body. "In some provinces, singers must first be a member of their provincial youth choir to be eligible to audition for the NYCC. Depending on the province or territory, singers may audition live or by recording. Each province and territory may select up to four singers (one for each voice part) and four alternates."
The late Diane Loomer, bottom right, was the first woman to conduct the NYCC, pictured here in 1994.
"I was very excited and proud," says 2016 NYCC member Nila Rajagopal about learning she passed the audition. "After singing in the Ontario Youth Choir for four years, being accepted in the NYCC was definitely a dream come true."
Regarding the busy week of rehearsals, she adds, "It is going to be an intense program so I'm making sure to stay hydrated and keep my voice and body healthy."
For Dion Flores, who studies choral conducting at Memorial University in St. John's, N.L., this will be his first time attending a summer music program. He says the intense schedule is a welcome challenge: "I graduated from Laurier University last year and we had a similarly intense schedule for our Stravinsky Festival. As stressful as it was, it was an incredible learning opportunity. No matter what, I think this is going to be a great experience for all."
Sonja Martin-Elson will represent the Northwest Territories in the NYCC this year. "There is nothing like performing music to bring a group of people together," she told us by email, "and I have never felt that more acutely than with choir. It is an activity that doesn't need a lot of space or a lot of money, which means it can be a great activity for northern communities. I want to improve my skills so I can share them with my local choir."
'I am also hoping to improve my overall musicianship skills and to make some friendships and connections that will last a lifetime.' — Nila Rajagopal
The NYCC was initiated by Choral Canada in 1984 and happens every two years. During its 32-year history, some of Canada's best choral conductors have led the choir, including Elmer Iseler, Jon Washburn, Lydia Adams and Wayne Riddell.
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, who was a chorister in the NYCC in 2004 and returned in 2008 as apprentice conductor, says the NYCC opened new horizons for him. "It allowed me to discover how rich and vibrant the choral scene is and how much I wanted to be a part of this community," he told us. Vallée is now director of choral studies at McGill University's Schulich School of Music.
"This intense sense of passion and community shaped my approach to choral music and led me to grow as a conductor and educator," he adds. "Being a part of the NYCC intensified my passion for choral music and confirmed my desire to pursue music as a career."
If you're in Alberta this month, keep an eye out for the NYCC bus and make a point of catching one of the choir's performances. Details below.
Tour dates
May 13 at 7:30 p.m.
K Glen Johnson Faith & Life Chapel, Augustana Campus, Camrose, Alta.
May 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Gaetz Memorial United Church, Red Deer. Alta.
May 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Hanna Community Centre, Hanna, Alta.
May 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Fifth Avenue Memorial United Church, Medicine Hat, Alta.
May 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Knox United Church, Calgary, Alta.
May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Gateway Community Church, Hinton, Alta.
May 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, Alta.


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Dear Patrick, I'm quite interested in that debate, because I entered about the same one a few weeks ago by posting http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Apr/0020.html the proposed note was clumsy to some respects (according to the numerous comments we got ;-) but the basic ideas were similar to yours. A problem is that the distinction is absolutely not taken for granted by W3C people. Have a look at : http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NameMyth.html Hence, I guess, the will of the URI WG to make the notion of URL obsolete. If I had to argue in favor of the URL/URN distinction : - URLs are defined with a mandatory protocol to *access* the resource (note that I wrote *access* and not *retrieve* -- some URLs are not "retrievable", e.g. mailto:) Of course, the protocol may involve external factors, hence a great variability in the "accessing process", but semantically speaking , the same (generic) resource is accessed however. The protocol, however complex defines a "space", and by construction, URLs identify "locations" in that space. What "lies" in that location (the resource) is set by the "owner" of the URL; it is bound by the protocol (what it can do/transport/provide) and by the constraint that the resource be unique -- URLs are *iodentifiers*. - URNs are defined outside any mandatory protocol. They are just *names*. The URN scheme specifies how those names are constructed, and what the can name. any comments Pierre-AntoineReceived on Friday, 8 June 2001 09:24:36 UTC
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