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If one can imagine history as being colored – red, say, for warfare, maybe blue for plague or famine – then, to my eyes at least, pretty much all of history would be coated with a wash the color of irony. (Query: what hue would you make that?) The intensity might vary with time, but it would never be totally absent.
Consider, for instance, Elbridge Gerry.
Gerry was born in 1744 and died in 1814. In his seventy years, he accomplished a prodigious amount. He started at age 22, when he became a Massachusetts delegate to the Second Continental Congress, where he served from 1776 to 1780 and from 1783 to 1785. There he signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. In 1787 he was a delegate to United States Constitutional Convention. He was one of only three who refused to sign the Constitution because it didn't yet have a Bill of Rights. He was next elected as a member of the House in the first Congress. From 1810 to 1812 he served as governor of Massachusetts. In 1813 he became Vice President under James Madison, an office he held until his death.
In short, Gerry was a bona-fide member of that extraordinary set we revere as the Founding Fathers.
But what do we remember him for today? For signing a redistricting plan for Massachusetts so convoluted in its efforts to insure Republican victories that people said it looked like a dragon. In fact, an editor of the day said it looked like a Salamander, the legendary lizard born from the heart of a fire. So he promptly dubbed the plan the Gerrymander.
There is a nice double irony here: Not only do we remember a certified Founding Father as nothing more than the father of a political dirty trick, but we mispronounce his name in the bargain. Elbridge Gerry pronounced his name to sound like Gary. But as preserved in his eponymous portmanteau word, it is pronounced to sound like Jerry.
I suppose one could even say that there is a third irony here. Once upon a time, gerrymandering was a recognized political sin that characterized only the most brazen of machine politics. Today, as part of the general lowering of the moral bar in public affairs, it has become something perilously close to standard operating procedure across the country. Every time there is a census, whichever party happens to be lucky enough to be in power in a state does its level best to make that happy condition permanent. And if the recent upheaval in Texas becomes the norm, it will no longer be a decennial event: Every time the legislature changes hands we can look for the districts to be redrawn.
What is amazing about all this is the sheer shamelessness of it all.
Think about it. To achieve their goal of job security, the politicians are committing a subversion of the franchise at its most basic level. If every district is going to be as solidly blue or red as the politicians can manage, then it no longer matters who you vote for or even if you vote at all. If your choice is from the majority, your vote isn't needed. If yours is from the minority party, your vote can't keep your candidate from losing. Your elected politicians have changed the system so that your vote means nothing at all.
Oddly enough, this troubles me. So let me make one of my usual modest suggestions.
The essence of the problem of trying to eliminate gerrymandering is twofold. First, the politicians will resist the idea to their last breath. Second, virtually every group of people we can think of to substitute for the politicians can also be impugned as having a vested interest according to some future scenario. So exactly who would we trust to do the necessary redistricting required by the changing census? Judges, say? Lawyers, perhaps? How about good old-fashioned "disinterested volunteers?"
Don't think so.
To address the first problem, it is clear that we will have to pry the redistricting power out of the hands of politicians by main force, neither altruism nor public spirit being conspicuous in our current crop of "servants." Fortunately, with the initiative/referendum system, the public has the power to overrule the pols. Granted, this system has lately been bastardized to serve largely the special interests and the zealots, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be made to serve its original purpose of embodying the public will.
As to the second, I think it is clear we have to get humans out of the loop. There is simply no group that all are willing to trust.
Suppose, instead, we passed an initiative mandating that in the future redistricting would be done by computer. That the software program to perform the redistricting be contracted out via an open bidding process. And that the software had to conform to a KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) set of guidelines.
Such as:
1) The source code belongs to the state and must be open to everyone,
2) District boundaries have to be based solely on:
a) Municipal and county boundaries,
b) Number and location of eligible voters,
3) The districts within municipal, county, and state boundaries must be drawn so as to equalize, as nearly as possible, the number of eligible voters, subject only to the following additional constraints:
a) The lengths of the boundaries around each district are to be minimized.
b) The boundary changes from the last redistricting are to be minimized.
I'm not one of those people who constantly harks back to "the good old days." But in this one case, I'd like to see gerrymandering (with apologies to Elbridge) restored to its traditional status as a dirty word.


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It happens to the best of us, running into fifth hour late, the teacher gives you that dreaded "tardy" look. All you did was get lunch, how were you supposed to know it wasn't an advisory day?
There are many strategies to keep on your teachers' good side, but the one that seems to work better than others is an offering from the local coffee shop.
There are two things that will ensure your offering's quality: it must be appropriate and seasonal. Appropriate refers to the fact that teachers have different preferences regarding their coffee.
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Coffee offerings are not universally accepted, but they are a good practice to not only show respect for teachers' time but are also a good start at removing the dreaded "tardy gaze" when walking in late.
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Improving ways to assess development efforts is an important task. Yet, little has been done to understand the connection between the effectiveness of NGOs and their financial accountability. We use Benford's Law to assess accuracy of financial reports by a sample of Ugandan NGOs. We find 25% of the sample provide financial information that may be inaccurate to the true values. We find NGOs with better beneficiary ratings are more likely to submit credible financial data. This contradicts the belief that upward accountability demands crowd out serving the client community. We also distinguish between the decision to withhold some requested financial information and the decision to report inaccurately. We find no evidence that the two decisions are related, with the former decision due to limited capacity and skills. The results suggest a bigger role for beneficiary assessments in monitoring the sector, rather than an increasing demand for financial reporting.
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Hatton leaning towards Canelo beating Golovkin
By Allan Fox: Ricky Hatton is high on Saul "Canelo" Alvarez right now and leaning in his direction to do the job on middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin on September 16. Hatton, a former two division world champion, says he keeps changing his mind about the Canelo-GGG fight.
Hatton states that he originally thought Triple G would be the one that would win that fight over Canelo (49-1-1, 34 KOs). But after seeing the problems Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) had in his recent fight against Daniel Jacobs on March 18, he's looking at Canelo as the guy that just might do the job.
Hatton is impressed with the 27-year-old Canelo's punching power and especially his body punching. He doesn't think Golovkin has been hit to the body by anyone during his 11-year pro career as of yet.
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"It's the best fight that can be made in boxing," said Hatton to IFL TV in talking about the Canelo vs. GGG fight. "You've got two pound-for-pounders. You probably got the top 3 and 4 pound-for-pound in the world at the minute. The way they fight and the skills, that's an absolute dream," said Hatton.
Hatton is probably correct about Canelo-GGG being the best fight that can be made in boxing right now. What's sad is it's probably not going to bring in nearly as many pay-per-view buys as the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor fight, which will be taking place 3 weeks ahead of the Golovkin-Canelo fight on August 26. It shows you that the casual boxing fans have scant knowledge about how good of a fight Canelo vs. GGG is. The casual fans are more aware of Mayweather and McGregor. That's likely due to their personalities rather than how well they fight. It obviously helps that McGregor and Mayweather are both great fighters in their different sports, but it's their personalities that helps drive interest in their fights. Canelo doesn't speak English, and he rarely attempts to. He seems to be bashful when it comes to speaking English. Golovkin speaks only broken English, and he tends to do very little trash talking. That's what's missing from the Canelo and Golovkin fight. The two fighters aren't doing enough trash talking in the media to get more attention to their September 16 fight with the casual boxing fans. They're too reserved when they do speak, and they seem to lack the over the top personalities needed to get the casual boxing public to focus their attention on their fight rather than on the Mayweather-McGregor circus event on August 26.
"I keep changing my mind," said Hatton in discussing his struggles to pick the winner for the Canelo-Golovkin fight. "I always thought Golovkin [would beat Canelo] until his last fight where he struggled a little bit," said Hatton in talking about Golovkin's fight against Danny Jacobs on March 18. "Canelo hits very, very hard, especially to the body. Nobody has hit Triple G to the body yet. When you get hit down there, it can be difficult," said Hatton.
Canelo's punching power is not as good as Hatton believes it to be. We just saw how Canelo couldn't put a dent on the chin of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their fight on May 6. That fight showed that Canelo did not bring his power up with him from the 154lb division where he's been fighting for the last 7 years. Canelo does have power, but not the kind of power that guys like Golovkin, Danny Jacobs, Jermall Charlo and David Lemieux possess. Those guys are on a different level. Jermell Charlo is also a very big puncher. He's not at the level of his twin brother Jermall Charlo, but I still rate his power as better than Canelo's.
The body punching that Canelo does isn't going to be enough of a factor for him to get any real edge against Golovkin. Canelo doesn't throw a lot of body shots. He's mostly a head hunter. When he does go to the body, he's vulnerable to getting hit. I don't think Canelo is going to want to take any chances of getting nailed by any of Golovkin's big punches in this fight if he can help it.
If you look at Canelo's fights against Austin Trout, James Kirkland and Floyd Mayweather, he wasn't throwing a lot of body shots. The reason for that was because he was getting hit by those guys. Canelo couldn't lower his head to throw body shots, because Trout, Mayweather and Kirkland would have nailed him. Canelo is a good puncher when he's facing guys that don't hit him back. Canelo was able to land body shots against Amir Khan and Liam Smith, but those were fighters with limited talent and not much in the way of punching power.
Hatton: I hope McGregor knocks Mayweather out
Hatton says he's hoping Conor McGregor knocks Mayweather out in their fight on August 26 on Showtime PPV at the T-Mobile Arena. Hatton doubts that McGregor will be able to pull off the upset. He'd like to see McGregor do it, but his lack of boxing experience is going to be a problem for him. Hatton figures that if Canelo, Oscar De La Hoya and himself were unable to land on Mayweather, then there's no chance that McGregor will be able to hit him.
"I have a lot of Irish fans and friends," said Hatton. "I'm a fan of Conor McGregor. I think he's a character. I'd love to meet him someday. He's my type of guy. But if you ask me how the actual fight would go, we're talking about Canelo there, what a wonder fighter he is. He's pound-for-pound, he's up there, you know? He couldn't lay a glove on Mayweather. Oscar De La Hoya, probably one of the most technical boxers of my era, he couldn't land on him. I couldn't do it. As good as puncher he is in the UFC, this is a boxing match. I can't see how Conor is going to solve the puzzle that so many of us couldn't. I hope he does. I hope he knocks him out. If you ask me, honestly, I'd love to see it, but I can't see it," said Hatton.
Hatton sounds more than a little bitter about his 10th round knockout loss to Mayweather from December 8, 2007. Mayweather really schooled Hatton in that fight for 9 rounds before knocking him out in the 10th. Hatton tried to rush Mayweather, and he was caught with a check left hook and knocked out after slamming into the ring post. That loss for Hatton was the beginning of the end of his boxing career. Hatton only fought 4 times more after that, beating Juan Lazcano and Paulie Malignaggi before losing to Manny Pacquiao and Vyacheslav Senchenko. Hatton retired after his loss to Senchenko in 2012.
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A tall and proud townhouse awaits your adventurous nature in this historic city. Plenty of hall space for coats, hats and racecourse finery. Climb the stairs to the light and airy kitchen with every modern convenience you could need to make a city break stress free. A large table for get-togethers and pre-race discussions, nightcaps and strong black coffee the morning after, brewed by the De Dietrich coffee machine an all singing attendant. Even the tea is made easily here thanks to the Quooker hot tap. Spoiled you will be.
With Restaurant1539 a stride away you may choose to dine out each night, an easy luxury you deserve.
Relax in deep sofas at 1 Chester Bolthole and finish your drinks. TV addicts will enjoy the Sky box and BT My View awaiting those who need some downtime.
Getting ready for your adventure couldn't be more pleasurable in the most enormous shower room we have seen, with underfloor heating throughout the bathroom, indulgent it will be. Run a bath instead, filled with bubbles for the inner child, with soft towels heated ready.
Upstairs two bedrooms you will find – a master with king-sized bed and masses of space to hang your much-loved outfit chosen with such care. With garden and city views, the skyline draws you in happily ensuring peace and quiet.
Across the hall, another king sized bed with desk too – for those who need to work. The WiFi friendly space allows for busy moments that we sometimes cannot avoid. Mix business with pleasure if you can and enjoy the Roman City of Chester, arguably the richest city in Britain archaeologically and architecturally.
With the oldest continuously operating racecourse in Great Britain – some say in the world – smiles have been on faces since 1539. By 1817 a grandstand was needed as crowds became so huge. The thunder of hooves in the final furlong, a tip of a hat, a nod of a head, the clinking of celebratory drinks as a win has happened. The Chester Experience is easy when you know where to stay.
- Sleeps up to 4 guests
- Private parking for 1 car nearby
- Dog friendly – 1 small dog please state breed
- Changeover day is flexible, 3 night minimum (4pm check in/10am check out)
- Short breaks available throughout the year
- WiFi
- Across the road from Chester Racecourse
First Floor:
- Kitchen table with seating for 6
- Fully equipped kitchen with De Dietrich oven, microwave, induction hob, washing machine/dryer and dishwasher
- De Dietrich coffee machine
- Quooker hot water tap
- Sitting room with two sofas Smart TV, Sky Box, BT My View
- Walk in shower room with under floor heating
- Bathroom with privacy door, basin, bath, heated towel rail and lavatory
Second Floor:
- Master bedroom with King Sized bed, wardrobe, mirror and side tables
- King bed in second bedroom with chest of drawers and desk
- Gas central heating and constant hot water on HIVE system
- Travel cot (no bedding supplied) and high chair available
- Electricity and gas included
- No smoking
- Dog charge £20 extra
- Please note: a 30% deposit (excluding last minute bookings) and a booking fee is required at the time of booking
"Just returned from the racecourse Bolthole in Chester. What a fantastic house amazingly clean and tidy. Bathroom was massive both myself my husband and our guests couldn't get over the size of it. Kitchen was all singing and dancing, with everything we could have possibly needed. If we ever need to stay in Chester we will certainly use this accommodation again".


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When we bought our first home in 2017, everything was functional and put together. However, it wasn't as up to date as we would have liked, We knew we eventually wanted to start doing some renovations but as you may know, renovating a home, no matter which part, can be expensive and time consuming. For the first year and a half we hadn't done any major renovations, until December 2018.
At first all we were changing was our vanity, ours didn't have very much space and no drawers. Once the old vanity was out, J realized the floor was rotted out, only to find out most of the sub floor was rotten, which meant we had to replace it! Now usually when you renovate a home, especially one built in the 1950's, you're bound to run into some obstacles. In our case, we ran into a few obstacles over the course of the renovation. A rotted sub floor, a rotted wall behind the tub, and crazy bad plumbing, etc.. Thankfully my husband is a carpenter and knew exactly what to do in this situation.
After we had replaced the subfloor, we then needed to rebuild the wall behind the tub, and add in a pony wall for a shelf in the shower. Then we put down our vinyl flooring and whats next? Tile! Me and J both had totally different visions of how we wanted our shower to look, so we had a tough time agreeing on some tile. Eventually we chose a tile that we both agreed on and within 2 days, it was all installed!
Mouldings and baseboard trim were next. The original crown mouldings were still in perfect condition so why change it? We needed baseboard trim as well as a new liner for the window sill and door. Following that, we added some drywall, sanded and painted the whole bathroom! After the finishing carpentry was all done, it was time to decorate! My all time favourite part. I headed to Jysk to buy white towels, the dollarama to get baskets for the closet and a vase for some fresh flowers!
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- Tear up floor(s)
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Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman fired back at Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson, who took a jab at Norman on Twitter over his Madden NFL 17 ranking.
After a video from practice surfaced last week of wide receiver Pierre Garcon running past Norman in a one-on-one drill, Peterson replied to a tweet by saying, "but he's the highest rating lol madden is a joke." Norman, who actually broke up the pass on the video, received the No. 1 ranking among cornerbacks in Madden NFL 17; Peterson was fourth.
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