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Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Can't take my eyes off you....
and Its the start of a new Challenge over on Fab n Funky which the theme from the lovely Wends is Wild about you.....
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Digi image coloured with Promakers....and cut with Die-namics die....I've used some chalk for the background as I put my fingers with pink ink on it and time was running out to do it again.......Pink card from Stash and the papers are from LOTV....Sentiment Clearly Besotted...and some spellbinders hearts......
Thank you for your comments Joolsx
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Such a gorgeous image and a beautiful card Jools..LozReplyDelete
A really lovely card Jools and a super image. I wish I could do digital stuff. BarbxxReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Barb....If Mrs Numpty here can do it so can you!!....JoolsxDelete
Wonderful card. EmmaReplyDelete
Superb colouring and love the papers :-)ReplyDelete
Lovely Anniversary card Jools..ReplyDelete
It's lovely Jools, fab colouring, beautiful design and pretty colours.ReplyDelete
Hi Jools this is a gorgeous I love the image you have used. Take care. Hugs JackieReplyDelete
What a beautiful anniversary card and fabulous image xReplyDelete
I so love this image, might have to get it!! Perfect colouring and I love your design xxReplyDelete
Love the image and you've coloured it beautifully.ReplyDelete
Wonderful image and colouring Jools, love the background layout.ReplyDelete
Pam x
Fantastic image and great card design and colour combo, Jools.ReplyDelete
Alison x
Gorgeous Jools - perfect fro an anniversary card - looks so pretty in pink xReplyDelete
Gorgeous anniversary card Jools, super cute image!ReplyDelete
Wendy xx
Beautiful card and love the image and chalked backgroundReplyDelete
Carol x
Jools this is super pretty! Funny how so many of us were drawn to this image. I think it's pretty special. Love your soft colouring on this one and pretty paper combo. I also love the background you created around the couple. I love it when you do this, I can't work out how, but it looks brilliant! Hugs, Wends xoxoReplyDelete


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The Right(s) to the Hybrid City and the Role of DIY Networking
Keywords: Community information, Ownership, Self-organization, Community Wireless Networks
AbstractWe reconsider the concept of "the right to the city", introduced by French philosopher Henri Lefebvre, in the light of the new information space that ICTs create in contemporary urban environments. Such spaces include the use of global online social networks, locative media, e-participation platforms, online neighbourhood communities and so forth. Unlike the physical urban space that it overlays, this new and rapidly emerging virtual space has practically no capacity constraints. However, it is subject to inequalities in terms of access, representation, participation, and ownership. In this research note—an interdisciplinary collaboration between a computer scientist and an urban planner—we wish to study the role of wireless technology, which enables the easy deployment of local networks operating outside the public Internet, and the role of the free and open source social software, which facilitates the easy development of customized local applications, allowing citizens to shape their emerging hybrid space. We suggest that this sort of do-it-yourself (DIY) networking can be realised according to citizens' values, objectives and the particularities of the environment, and could ultimately enable them to compete with large ICT corporations such as Google and Facebook for their "right(s) to the hybrid city". We employ the urban sidewalk metaphor as an application that is subject to hybrid design and can profit significantly from the special characteristics of DIY networks.
How to Cite
Antoniadis, P., & Apostol, I. (2014). The Right(s) to the Hybrid City and the Role of DIY Networking. The Journal of Community Informatics, 10(3). Retrieved from http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1092
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Bottom Line: As the result of a concerted lobbying campaign by the National Rifle Association, more than 40 states have passed broad firearm preemption laws that specifically prohibit local governments from adopting reasonable gun laws tailored to local conditions. These laws prevent local mayors and police chiefs — the officials most familiar with local criminal activity and how to address it — from passing common-sense public safety measures designed to keep their communities safe. State firearm preemption laws:
- Override common sense by limiting cities wracked with gun violence to the identical laws that apply in rural areas where responsible gun ownership is more embedded in daily life;
- Are associated with increased rates of gun trafficking; and
- Lead to dangerous and illogical results, such as allowing a city to keep knives out of parks, rec centers, and city halls, but forcing the same city to allow guns in these sensitive places.
State firearm preemption laws are a relatively recent phenomenon inconsistent with centuries of American history in which cities and rural areas had different gun laws.
From the earliest days of the republic, communities adopted a wide range of gun laws tailored to local conditions, with generally stronger gun laws in densely populated cities that have greater potential for violent crime, and fewer regulations in less crowded, rural areas.
- Cities like Philadelphia, New York, and Boston had extensive laws on gunpowder and gun use dating to the colonial era,Churchill, R. H. (2007). Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment. Law and History Review, 25(01), 139–176; Cornell, S., & DeDino, N. (2004). A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control. Fordham Law Review. and throughout the 19th century state legislators expressly granted newly incorporated cities the power to enact such laws.Blocher, J. (2013). Firearm Localism. Yale Law Journal.
- As the country expanded, "Wild West" cities like Dodge City, Tombstone, and others adopted strong firearm regulations. Many banned firearms altogether within city limits, requiring visitors from frontier areas — where gun possession and use was widespread — to leave their firearms with law enforcement at the city limits.Dykstra, R. R. (1983). The Cattle Towns (pp. 119–121). University of Nebraska Press; Winkler, A. (2011). Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America (pp. 165–173). W. W. Norton.
- Throughout the nation's history, local communities faced few or no obstacles to enacting locally-tailored gun laws. Indeed, prior to 1980, only a handful of states had any form of firearm preemption laws.
Consistent with the tradition of local gun laws, in 1981, Morton Grove, Illinois adopted an ordinance that prohibited the possession of handguns. This sparked a backlash from the gun lobby, and the NRA launched a concerted effort to persuade state legislators to bar municipalities from enacting gun laws.Zorn, E. (1986, June 15). Morton Grove Gun Ban Quietly Turns 5. The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://trib.in/2ag4jFA.
- The NRA's campaign succeeded: Today, 42 states have broad firearm preemption laws. Only California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey and New York generally allow local officials to pass firearms-related public safety laws.Illinois allows localities to regulate possession and transfer of long guns and the transfer of handguns — but it does not allow localities to regulate handgun possession or carry.
The gun lobby's preemption campaign aims not only to tie the hands of local officials, but to intimidate and punish those who attempt to reduce gun violence through local law.
The most sweeping firearm preemption laws contain onerous, punitive provisions designed to intimidate city officials from even attempting to address gun violence.
- Under Florida's preemption statute, for example, local officials who adopt any firearm rules or regulations are subject to removal from office and fines up to $5,000; they are also prohibited from using any public funds to defend any local public safety rules.H.B. 80, 198th Gen. Assemb., 2013-2014 Reg. Sess. (Pa. 2014).
- Under a Nevada preemption law passed in 2015, a person who succeeds in challenging a local firearm law is entitled to attorney's fees and costs — and may be eligible to receive a monetary award of up to three times the actual damages proved in court.Nev. S.B. 175, 2015 S., 78th Sess. (Nev. 2015).
- Under a 2014 Pennsylvania law, which was later declared invalid, if a locality was sued over its gun laws, it was required to pay the legal fees and costs of the law's challenger — even if it repealed the law before the court issued a ruling.H.B. 80, 198th Gen. Assemb., 2013-2014 Reg. Sess. (Pa. 2014).
The gun lobby has also conducted a litigation campaign to punish local officials.
- The invalidated 2014 Pennsylvania law expressly gave groups like the NRA the ability to sue localities. The legislation was a direct response to courts that had concluded the NRA did not have legal "standing" to sue cities.
- The gun-lobby group Second Amendment Foundation has initiated litigation campaigns against cities it claims have violated preemption laws — suing or threatening to sue hundreds of cities in states from Maryland and Virginia to Oregon and Washington.Levintova, H. (2013, December 11). How a pro-gun group has been bullying small towns since Sandy Hook. Mother Jones. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1dfrarv.
These relatively new preemption laws are associated with increased rates of gun trafficking: states with broad preemption laws export guns used in crime to other states at a rate more than four times greater than states that allow local control.
States that allow local regulation of firearms export crime guns at a rate of 4.4 guns per 100,000 residents. By contrast, the 42 states with broad preemption laws have an export rate of 18.2 crime guns per 100,000 residents.Mayors Against Illegal Guns. (2010). Trace the Guns: The Link between Gun Laws and Interstate Trafficking. Retrieved from http://maig.us/1uAEZIO.
Preemption laws lead to dangerous and illogical results. For example, some localities can prohibit knives from their buildings, but not guns. And some states can and do prohibit guns from state government buildings, but cities are powerless to do so on their property.
In Pennsylvania, for example, the state legislature has prohibited guns in the state capitolSee Pennsylvania, Visiting the Capitol Complex, at http://bit.ly/1CaqF0e. and on state agency property,49 Pa. Code § 61.3. but it has preempted local governments from regulating firearms — so guns cannot be restricted in municipal buildings, or in any city or town hall.18 Pa. Code. § 6120.
- On August 5, 2013, an armed man entered the municipal building in Ross Township and shot and killed three people and injured at least two others.Mcevoy, C. (2013, August 6). Ross Township, Pa., shooting draws differing opinions on municipal meeting gun bans. The Express-Times. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2aLhgXr. Because of the state preemption law, Ross Township officials are forced to allow people to bring guns into the building.
Florida's very broad firearms preemption law has also led to dangerous and absurd results.
- Similar to Pennsylvania, guns are not allowed at Florida state legislative meetingsFla. Stat. § 790.06(12)(a)(8) (2015)., but Florida law prohibits cities, towns, and counties from passing locals laws — forcing localities allow guns in their municipal buildings and city halls.Fla. Stat. 790.33 (2015).
- Palm Beach County had to rescind ordinances that kept guns out of government buildings and parks — and a law that prohibited firing guns in densely populated areas.Alvarez, L. (2011, September 10). Florida Forces Cities to Pull Local Laws Restricting Guns. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://nyti.ms/2aysYEh.
- And in Fort Lauderdale, it is illegal to bring a knife to a parade — but guns are allowed.Wyman, S. (2011, October 4). Fort Lauderdale to allow guns – but no other weapons – at parades. Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2aqsePE.
Some states also prohibit public universities from setting campus firearm policy — despite the dangers of guns where young people and alcohol frequently mix.
In Colorado, Utah and Oregon, the state supreme courts found that state law preempts colleges from setting their own gun policy and forces them to allow guns on campus.Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, LLC v. Regents of the Univ. of Colo., 2012 CO 17 (Co.).
Meanwhile, Utah, and Idaho state laws expressly prohibit colleges from adopting policies that bar guns on campus.Miss. Code Ann. §§ 45-9-101(13), 97-37-7(2); Utah Code Ann. §§ 53-5a-102(4), 53B-3-103.
In Florida, voters recognized that local gun laws should reflect local conditions — even if the state legislature does not.
In 1998, Florida voters amended the state constitution to create an exception to the legislature's broad firearm preemption law. The amendment expressly allows counties to require background checks for gun sales that occur on property with a public right of access.
The anti-preemption amendment passed with 72% of the vote.Peter Jamison, Gun-show loophole laws on the books in Florida, but ignored, Tampa Bay Times, Apr. 6, 2013.
By preventing cities from tailoring gun laws to local conditions, preemption laws threaten public safety, and defy centuries of tradition in which cities adopted stronger gun laws than rural areas.
Local law enforcement and government officials know best how to keep their communities safe. They should be able to determine local public safety policies, not state legislators following the lead of the gun lobby.
States should repeal laws that prevent local leaders from passing reasonable gun laws. If states do not repeal their preemption laws entirely, they should adopt reasonable exceptions, such as:
- Allowing local communities to require background checks on gun sales, ban the firing of weapons in densely populated areas, and prohibit guns in government buildings and other sensitive places; and
- Allowing larger cities above a given population to adopt gun laws to protect public safety.


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Spanning 9 acres of land on its rocky plateau high above the Northumberland coastline, Bamburgh Castle is one of the largest inhabited castles in the country.
The Barn at Beal has a Visitor's Centre, Restaurant and Coffee Shop. It is situated at Beal Farm, a short distance from Berwick-upon-Tweed and opposite Holy Island. With a Guest House next door, superb views over Holy Island and wonderful home grown food it is a place not to miss.
Beal Farm, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, ND15 2PB. Tel:01289 381477
The Berwick Shellfish Company specialises in exporting shellfish of the highest quality to markets throughout Europe. The Company is a 3rd generation family business and has been in business for over 45 years. Free delivery for orders over £50. 00. Tel: 07714 900969
Taking a boat trip with Billy Shiel out to the Farne Islands during the spring is a real highlight.
Birdwatch Northumbria run local birdwatching tours on Holy Island, Seahouses and up in the Cheviot Hills.
The Black Bull is a charming thatched Pub in the Village of Etal in Northumberland. Tel: 01890 820200
The Borders Distillery in Hawick is the first distillery in the Borders since 1837. Open Monday - Saturday Tours run every hour and cost £12.00 which include a 40 minute tour of the distillery and a dram at the end. Tours 10.00 -16.00. Tel: 01450 3 74330
Started in 1948 by William Selby Robson, this family business has a lovely Visitors Centre with products relating to bees close to Berwick on Tweed by the Union Bridge. Old Farm Machinery is housed in the grounds.
The Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary provides a caring home for donkeys and mules in need of love and attention.
Babingtons Cottage sponsors two donkeys Twinkletoes and Sweetpea.
The Farne Islands lie 3 or 4 miles off the Northumberland Coast and midway between the fishing village of Seahouses and and the magnificent Bamburgh Castle. As well as being the most famous Sea Bird Sanctuary in the British Isles there is also a large colony of Atlantic or Grey Seals.
Gunsgreen House was built in 1753 by local smuggler John Nisbet of a John Adam design. Inside the house are secret hiding places for the smuggled goods. The house overlooks the glorious fishing village of Eyemouth and houses an interesting museum.
A 15" guage steam railway running from Heatherslaw, 6.4 km to Etal Village - a return journey journey of 50 minutes.
The Castle is semi-ruined and near Newcastleton. Built around 1240 it is one of the most sinister places in Scotland. Its name is thought to be derived from the old French word "l'armitage", meaning "guardhouse".
By Boat - this excellent unforgettable trip lasts 4 hours including the 2 hours spent on the island. Commentary is given en route.
By Car Holy Island (Lindisfarne) is a tidal island and vehicles can only cross the causeway when the tide is open. Opening times vary significantly every day and you should familarise yourself with the causeway opening times for the day of your visit!
High on a hill between Kelso &Greenlaw lie the remnants of the 12th/13 Century Hume Castle. Owned by the Hume or Home family Its commanding position can be seen for miles around.
Kelso Race Course opened in 1822 is described as 'one of Britain's friendliest Race Courses'. Voted the 'best small Course in Scotland and the north of England in 2007, 2014 and 2017. It stages National Hunt Racing from September to May. Tel:01573 221221.
Lindean Mill Glass, Galashiels was established in 1978 and are the pioneers of the studio glass movement in Scotland. See how glass is made in the studio. Tel:01750 20173
The history of mead goes back into the aeons of time. It is without doubt a strong contender to be classed as the ancestor of all fermented drinks. A wonderful experience to visit the shop on Holy Island.
The Lochcarron Visitors Centre in Selkirk gives you the unique opportunity to see first hand exactly how woven textiles are made. Established in 1947 it is the worlds leading manufacturer of Tartan woven fabrics. Monday-Thursday - 10.30, 11,30, 1,30, &2.30 or by prior appointment. Tel: 01750 726100
A late 16th Century Tower in the centre of the historic town of Jedburgh reflects the proud association of the town with Queen Mary who stayed here in 1566.
Anthony Babington (1561-1586) was convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. The Babington Plot and Mary's involvement in it were the basis of the treason charges against her which led to her execution.
Anthony Babington is related to Maggie Babington, the present owner of Babington's Cottage.
This well preserved 16th century tower near Kelso has an exhibition of tapestries and costumers. Sir Walter Scott drew many of his inspirations from Smailholm where he spent much of his childhood. He is buried at nearby Dryburgh Abbey.
Step back in time to the beginning of last century. Try typesetting by hand and watch the printing at work.
A delightful shop situated in the Hirsel Country Park. Angela Clay-Parker has a charming array of home accessories, lighting, childrens items and fabrics. Items can be personalised and commissions undertaken.
The Union Chain Bridge was completed in 1820 and was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. It is still the oldest suspension bridge. and still open to traffic.
With a population of only 100,000 and hills rising to over 2,700 feet the big open spaces are a paradise for mountain bikers, cyclists and walkers. The local tourist boards provide information on cycling and walking routes.
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Jim Clarks death in 1993 , Berwickshire District Council refurbrished the room to provide a museum. The worlds motor racing champion was killed on the 7th April 1998 in an unimportant F2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.


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Enough About Oscar
I didn't want to write anymore about Oscar and here I am. I am so pissed about how pissed people are getting about the show. Man, it's getting out of control. Mark Ebner needs to seriously get things into perspective. Has everyone turned into Steven Cojocaru? Enough with the catty remarks.
With a few exceptions, I'm pretty much with Burbanked on this whole thing. It's an award show. It's not a science. Millions of people watch it. Good luck getting them to agree on anything. So just watch it, have some drinks and enjoy yourself.
No presenter will ever be up to snuff. No single film will be that deserving. No actor will be humble enough, or say enough. Accept the facts and move on.


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Writers aren't just born with a pen in their hand and a novel in their diapers. They have to be introduced into the wonderful world of writing. I first developed my love for the written word by meeting these characters, who romped and played and showed me how the ABC's came together to form magical words.
Once I understood how words could form a story, a whole new world opened for me. Reading became my lifeline, my escape and my salvation. Some books served to inspire me when I was still too young to understand the word.
I moved on to books that opened up a whole new world; ones where my imagination could roam free.
Once I discovered reading, it was time to put my own thoughts and stories down on paper. The writing tools I used differ greatly from those today.
As a young writer, I remember my reading of my first original short story "What I did on my Summer Vacation." It was my first attempt at creative writing, since I never did anything interesting during summer vacations.
The first time I put words on paper; I became a writer. The tools have changed, the writing has improved with time and the inspirations come in many different forms these days. But, when someone asks me when I knew I wanted to be a writer, I answer "The day I met Dick and Jane."
My thanks and appreciation to all those teachers in my past who encouraged a small child's love of reading and writing.
Do you remember when you first wanted to be a writer?
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Beautiful! It's been a long journey to finding out I wanted to be a writer but I guess it all started my first year of school when we wrote school diaries and I was determined to get a sticker from the principal for my entry. When I got that sticker it was one of my greatest achievements to date.
In second grade I wrote a story called "Sex on the Beach" (you can't make this stuff up), which consisted of this couple going from the hotel to eat and watch TV, back down to the beach for some, er, fun, rinse repeat. I'll never forget my mom's reaction when the teacher called her down: a combination of horrified shock and subtle pride in my obviously vivid imagination. Although my seven-year old self was forbidden from writing racy sex stories henceforth, it was the start of my long love affair with writing.
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Our Limitless Limitations
Joel Eschenbach • February 18, 2017
Our culture idolizes productivity, success, hard work, and heroically overcoming all obstacles. Most of us have been trained to strive for perfection by willpower and determination. From inspiring Instagram quotes to Entrepreneurs I work with on a regular basis, the message is the same… "Be Limitless!"
Now, don't get me wrong, I want to become the kind of person who successfully overcomes my limitations and can someday look back at my past feeble self with pity. And, I'm actually a huge fan of setting goals, being more productive, working hard, and constantly improving. The problem is, I just keep running up against my own damn limitations! It's funny how that works… Sometimes the harder we try, the worse we get. No matter how successful we may be in certain areas of our lives, we all have those things that we just can't seem to get right.
Here's the thing: Our limitations are what truly transform us.
Let's say you want to become a more generous person. So, you tell yourself that you're going to be more generous, you read books on generosity, you may even know very giving people that inspire you to be more generous. But then a friend nees help and asks you for money. Maybe you forget that you want to be generous or you quickly remember how low your bank account is. For whatever reason, you say that you wish you could help them, but don't have the money right now.
What happens when you leave that interaction? If you are like me, you probably feel like crap, because the thing that you really wanted to be better at is exactly where you failed. You might say, "I did it again, I wanted to be generous, but I wasn't".
You hit a limitation, a shortcoming.
Let it sink in, because it's actually that limitation and the feeling that it brings deep within you that creates the space, desire, and momentum, to grow and stretch you in ways that information about being generous could never do. If we take the time to embrace and admit our weaknesses, our powerlessness to change, and the ways our actions affect others, then the next time we are in that situation, we may find that our heart is changing and that actions will follow.
Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." In other words, those who realize their limitations and need for help are the ones who are the most fulfilled and experience divine presence in their lives. They're the ones who are transformed and their limitations become their glory! That doesn't mean it's easy or that it doesn't feel humiliating at times.
What happens when we don't admit our limitations and shortcomings? We either tend ignore them, project our own weaknesses onto others and become more convinced of our own superiority, or we have huge blindspots in our lives that eventually come back to haunt us.
So, let's embrace our limitations, let them sink in. Then, ask for help, be honest, and stop trying to hide them. And even though it does not feel heroic at all, accept love and grace from others and God.
Let your limitations truly transform you. There's limitless opportunities.


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Harvard Law School Makes Online Zero-L Course Free for All U.S. Law Schools Due to Coronavirus
For Kennedy School Fellows, Epstein-Linked Donors Present a Moral Dilemma
Tenants Grapple with High Rents and Local Turnover at Asana-Owned Properties
In April, Theft Surged as Cambridge Residents Stayed at Home
The History of Harvard's Commencement, Explained
To the editors:
This week marks the anniversary of two of the most important events in our nation's history. On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. One hundred years and three days later, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. Today, the nation's youth remember Lincoln's speech only through the pages of history; we recall Kennedy's death through the striking clarity of our parents' memories. I hope we all take a moment to appreciate the significance of both.
The Gettysburg Address defines America. We read Lincoln's words and are immediately imbued with a sense of our country's purpose. Lincoln, however, enunciated his immortal words in an effort to define the civil war. He called the war a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could survive. After a terrible battle, Lincoln reminded America that the soldiers' lives were not lost in vain. Lincoln gave the nation hope.
The hope that Lincoln awakened at Gettysburg was the same hope extinguished on the day John F. Kennedy died. The assassination ended the promise of the New Frontier. Unlike Lincoln, Kennedy was struck down before he accomplished his mission. That mission remains unfulfilled even today. My generation still searches for a leader who inspires us the way he inspired our parents, who engages us in political discourse, and who brings us all closer to the spirit of the nation.
Both Lincoln and Kennedy guided the country through peril. Both men gave their lives for their country. Both remain beloved. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the world would "little note, nor long remember what we say here." He could not have been more wrong. His speech, and all the speeches and memories of Lincoln and Kennedy, will endure in this country forever.
Benjamin L. Schiffrin
Nov. 21, 2003
The writer, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, is secretary-treasurer of the HLS Democrats.
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Registered 2007-04-27 by Scott W. Dunlop
The Wasp Virtual Machine provides an efficient, compact Lisp environment for the implementation of network applications.
The Wasp Virtual Machine is a fork of the Mosquito Virtual Machine (MOSVM), with an emphasis on improving the maturity and community accessibility. Wasp Lisp offers a middle way between the elegance of Lisp and the pragmatism of other, more common dynamic languages.
Like MOSVM, WASPVM is provided under the Lesser GPL.
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Bug #113405: REPL Does Not Work
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Manic Monday Linky Party
Crafts, Recipes, Toddler Tales and so much more….
Have you been thinking about transferring to WordPress?
Well now is the time to do it! Start the new year off right for you blog by transferring to WordPress– you'll be so happy you did! I debated for months about making the switch and once I did I'm so happy and wish I had done it earlier! You can read more about the reasons I chose to switch here….but here are my TOP 5 Reasons to switch from Blogger to WordPress:
1. You OWN all of your own content– when you write stuff on Blogger it's the property of Blogger.
2. No ONE can shut down your blog but you! Yep, Blogger can and does shut down blogs at it's own discretion.
3. Brands prefer to work with bloggers on WordPress because there's so many rules with Blogger.
4. The plug-ins and widgets on WordPress blow Blogger's widgets out of the water– WP plug-ins can make your life so much easier!
5. WordPress SEO by Yoast! This plug-in is SEO for dummies– once I started using it I more than doubled my traffic from Google.
Right now Blogelina is running a special to transfer your blog to WordPress for just $60 (reg. $206)– and that includes a FULL year of hosting!
So, get the new year started off right– switch to WordPress and make 2014 the year your blog takes off! The sale ends today so don't delay!
Alright, now on with the Manic Monday Linky Party!!!
So the rules are simple…..If you link up please visit at least 2 other people for each link and show them some love! That is why we are here right?!
I'd love it if you subscribed to my weekly newsletter (it only comes once a week on Mondays to remind you of the party and let you in on anything you may have missed the previous week) or at least follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Pinterest….I like to do shout outs on these and hope that you'll see you post featured!
And, finally, please only link up family friendly posts including recipes, crafts, kid fun, family fun, DIY, etc. Giveaways are welcome but please no shops or affiliate links.
Thanks so much and HAVE FUN!!!!
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In his column today George Will notes the Fed's responsibility to maintain price stability and high employment and tells readers:
"Achieving the former is the best thing the Fed can do for the latter."
Apparently Will has not been following what has happened in the economy recently. While inflation has remained low and relatively stable, unemployment has soared. He also apparently does not recognize how the Fed hopes to boost economic growth through quantitative easing.
The biggest impact from lower interest rates is probably from mortgage refinancing. This both directly generates economic activity through people employed in the process (e.g. banking staff, appraisers etc.) and indirectly by reducing payments and freeing up money for other consumption.
The second biggest impact is on lowering the value of the dollar relative to other currencies, which will reduce the trade deficit. Anyone who does not want a large budget deficit and/or negative private savings (like we had at the peak of the housing bubble) must want to see the trade deficit move closer to balance. This is an accounting identity -- there is no way around it. And, there is no plausible mechanism to get the trade deficit closer to balance except by reducing the value of the dollar.
For some reason Will fails to mention either the impact of quantitative easing on mortgage refinancing or the impact on the trade deficit. There is also zero evidence of the hyper-inflation that he and other opponents of more aggressive Fed actions have been warning about for years.
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1. You play up your best qualities in the hopes that your dream school will notice you.
2. You try to learn everything about them — their major interests, their class schedule . . .
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7. You might go on a first date before making it official.
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Neymar, who hasn't played a game since breaking his foot in February, was named on Monday as the star of the Brazilian national team which will seek a record sixth World Cup out in Russia, AFP reports.
Coach Tite announced the team list at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro. Neymar's returning form will be a key factor for the team, which lost influential right-back Dani Alves to a knee injury last week.
Tite's 23-man squad, which was without major surprises, sees Alves replaced by Danilo (Manchester City) and Fagner, whom Tite knows from his time at the helm of Corinthians' 2015 national championship-winning team.
Fagner is currently carrying an injury of his own but has been cleared by team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar to play in Russia.
After sweeping aside South American opponents in the World Cup qualifiers, Brazil are seen as one of the favourites at the World Cup. Their campaign begins against Switzerland on June 17.
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The latest plans for a limited edition Record Store Day 2012 release have been announced with Arcade Fire set to release a 12" vinyl pressing containing remixes of 'Sprawl II' and 'Ready to Start', the latter previously only available as a bonus track on a limited edition copy of The Suburbs.
An unlikely combination is the double A-side 7" from Mastodon and Feist. The prog-metal giants will cover Leslie Feist's 'Commotion' while the indie princess supplies a take on covers Mastodon's 'Black Tongue'.* My name will be going down on a copy of one of those that's for sure.
Record Store Day brings artists and "real, live, physical, indie record stores" together. The limited edition releases are not available in publicly traded, corporate "music" stores so RSD is a way of enticing people back into the original record shops.
Other releases include 7"s from :
Beach House ('Lazuli B/W Equal Mind')
The Civil Wars ('Billie Jean/Sour Times' (both live))
Bowerbirds ('In the Yard/Always an Ear To Bend')
Bruce Springsteen ('Rocky Ground/The Promise')
Eddie Vedder ('Love Boat Captain/Wishlist').
- Record Store Day takes place on Saturday, 21st April in selected independent record stores worldwide
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www.humanrace.co.uk Triathlon, Duathlon and Open Water Swim races. Always well organised and beginner friendly.
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www.henleyswim.com Amazing races along the Thames in Henley and Marlow, and fun Relay races in a lake environment. Whatever your distance, there is a challenge for you – even a 14km swim!


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Eat, drink and shop... as you'd expect, our Tasting Rooms are London's heaven on earth for craft beer lovers. We have all of our beers on draught, as well as brewery fresh tanks installed – so basically straight from the maturation tank to your pint glass. All topped with a great dining experience.
We have a fully specced kitchen and a relaxed area overlooking the brewery floor, so you'll have some cracking food to pair with your beer.
The menu is British focused and perfectly matched to our beers so you can enjoy the best of both. When pairing beer with food, we like to think about 'cut, complement or contrast' – works every time, and of course we'll be on hand to make suggestions when a bowl of chips just won't do.
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You can taste throughout the day and our friendly bar staff can chat for hours about the golden stuff. In the likely instance you still find yourself wanting more, we even have a cold store room where you can pick up a case or two to savour later or share with mates. The bar in our Tasting Rooms is far from your average local watering hole, you're in the guts of a working brewery, watching the brewers work their magic just metres away.
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The small coastal town of Puerto Chicama, in northwestern Peru, is home to the longest, the most perfect, left-breaking wave in the world. Here, the wave stretches for about 2.2 km from the point —an isolated rocky outcrop where the wave breaks— to a long pier on the barren coast, where the wave ends. Locals confirm that the entire distance has been ridden on a single wave. The whole cape upon which the waves break, to their most westernmost end, is actually 4 km long, although no one has ever ridden it for that distance.
An endless series of left-breaking swells is a common sight at Chicama. "If you fall off or need a rest, just wait for the next wave coming right behind and off you go again! It is a dream," —Ben Herrgott, an Australian surfer. Photo credit: Jonathan/FlickrRead more »
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FRA: how Free Routes unlock the skies
The advent of Free Route Airspace (FRA) is creating new challenges for air traffic control professionals. The EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (EEC) at Brétigny helps the control centres meet this major change.
Since the advent of commercial flight, aircraft have flown along defined routes much like a motorway system in the sky. Junctions connect the different routes and established rules for direction and altitude flown helped to ensure safety. However, on this network crisscrossing our skies few flights were on a direct route from departure to arrival airport.
Advances in navigational technology and techniques, ground infrastructure and cross border cooperation now make more direct routes possible. Starting with a limited set of direct tracks, Europe is now progressing towards the full implementation of Free Route Airspace which allows the users to fly an optimal route of their choice, taking other factors like wind and weather into account, without being limited to a published route structure.
"Thanks to this concept, companies can plan and easily modify the route most suited to their commercial needs (direct routes, lower fuel consumption, reduced CO2 emissions and potential for lower prices for their customers)" explained Kevin Harvey, Operational Team Leader in the Simulation Unit at the EEC. Air traffic controllers, in turn, ensure that the planned route is respected.
In a Free Route Airspace (FRA) environment air traffic controllers remain responsible for the safe separation of flights. Traffic flows still need to be organised and structured near airports and close to military airspace. "Tools and procedures have been developed to help controllers manage this major change in the way traffic flies" says the Team Leader.
Facilitating a major change
Starting in 2001 the EEC has conducted multiple real-time simulations on FRA. These realistic experiments assessed the impact of this major change on the workload of the controllers and influenced the technical developments that have allowed for subsequent implementation. "Our simulations help the European air traffic control centres to prepare for this significant change in working methods". In recent years, simulations for FABEC*, FAB Danube**, Norway and Poland have validated FRA plans, paving the way for implementation.
FRA will progressively cover the entire airspace over the next years. "To ensure safe and smooth implementation, some States have introduced FRA in steps – at night or on weekends only initially – but are changing quickly to 24 hrs. operations. EUROCONTROL Network Manager launched the FRA strategic project in 2008 and is working with all partners to harmonise and synchronise full FRA in European airspace with a target date of 2021" added Kevin Harvey.
* FABEC: Functional Airspace Block Europe Central. The FABEC initiative is driven by civil and military partners of six States: High-level officials from the Ministries of Transport and Defense of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
In addition to the six participating countries, the United Kingdom is also linked to FABEC as a collaborative partner. This link testifies to the close interaction of FABEC airspace with UK airspace, in particular with the main airports in the London area.
** FAB Danube: Functional Airspace Block Danube (between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania)


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We knew they were coming; a combination of leaks and publicly available evidence has been building up over the past several weeks, painting the picture of Samsung preparing quite a few new Android tablets for release. Those have included new small as well as new larger-than-ever models, along with the introduction of a new "Pro" designation to the company's lineup. While Samsung hasn't yet gone official with the group, they now appear to be as good as confirmed, as we see the arrival of leaked pics, complete spec run-downs, and even a spotting of a Samsung banner at the CES, confirming the new Pro branding.
While all this might have you thinking that there's no new surprises, you'd be wrong. For one, it seems that we're getting not one, but two 12.2-inch tablets from Samsung, with this leak revealing both a Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 as well as a Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. We also see two new Tab Pros, a 10.1-inch and 8.4-inch option.
The larger three tablets should be available in both WiFi-only and LTE-enabled configurations; the WiFi versions will run Exynos 5 Octa chips, while the LTE editions receive Snapdragon 800s. The Tab Pro 8.4 will only be available with an 800, but we're unsure what radios it might have.
Clearly, Samsung has learned a thing or two from all our complaints about under-powered tablet hardware, as these four (at least if these specs are on the money) leave little to complain about. All four models – even the smaller Pro 8.4 – will feature WQXGA displays; that means 2560 x 1600, just like on the Nexus 10.
The smaller two tablets should each offer 16GB and 32GB storage options, and feature 2GB of RAM. The 12.2-inchers, on the other hand, would be available in 32GB and 64GB configurations, with 3GB of RAM. All four should ship running KitKat, and will feature 8 megapixel main cameras with 2 megapixel front-facers.
Design-wise, it looks like Samsung is really taking that faux leather Note 3 look and running with it. We also see a small change to Samsung's choice of Android hardware buttons, with the phasing-out of the menu button for a multitasking one, instead.
Source: @evleaks (Twitter), Android Central
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Stirring the Pot – More thoughts on partnering
As originally posted on the Blandin on Broadband blog…
More thoughts on partnering…
Based on the number of prospective Border to Border grants that I have been hearing about, I was thinking about how competitive this grant round will be. This is a new world for both providers and communities. At a recent Blandin Foundation Broadband Strategy Board, one member was smart to remind us "These are not partnerships, they are business transactions." It would be smart to remember some economic development basics as communities negotiate these deals with providers. As in most site selection competitions, there are many more communities than expanding provider companies. This smaller set has the advantage as they negotiate with multiple communities and know what each community is offering as incentives. Communities, possibly under non-disclosure agreements, will be tempted to sweeten the pot to become a selected community partner of that limited set of providers. With such a new program, the parameters of a good deal are more uncertain than more standard manufacturing or housing development deals.
Many communities will be talking prospective partnerships with CAF2 providers. In some ways, this will require a more sophisticated approach than dealing with a competitive provider building a new Fiber to the Home network. In the latter case, there is likely a feasibility study done by a third-party consulting firm on behalf of and paid for by the community. That consultant generally has a legal and professional obligation to represent the best interests of the community. Prospective costs, revenues, take-rates and pro forma financial statements can be used to determine the financing gap and reasonable local partner share. In addition, the new network will already be able to provide services well in excess of the 2026 state broadband standard of 100 x 20 Mbps and probably up to a Gigabit of service on Day One so future risk is minimized. That network is a permanent community asset.
Striking a deal with a CAF2 provider on an improved fiber-copper hybrid network will be more complicated both financially and strategically. Obtaining financial information from these larger providers may be more difficult and communities will be relying on the prospective partner rather than a third party under contract to the community. In addition, with the larger company, the financial accounting is likely to be complex. Most challenging will be understanding the net result of the network investment. With fiber-copper hybrid networks, delivered speeds will be inconsistent depending on loop lengths and condition of existing copper lines both outside and inside the customer homes. While DEED OBD requires that networks be scalable to deliver 100 Mb x 100 Mb services, significant additional future investment may be required to obtain that network capacity, and unless contractually agreed to, the company is under no obligation to make those future investments. And the same difficult rural countryside business investment case will be present that exists today.
In the economic development world, clawback provisions are often included in incentive packages. If a company fails to meet the goals set in the contract agreement, it must pay back all or some of the paid incentive. Communities should consider inserting clawbacks into their agreements with provider partners. For example, the state's 2026 goal for broadband is 100 x 20 Mbps to all households in Minnesota. Committing to reach that goal by 2022 or 2026 would be a minimum standard to include in any agreement with a provider partner. Clearly, with gigabit services being increasingly common today, setting a standard of one-tenth of that to be met in ten years seems almost inadequate. More aggressive agreements could be negotiated, including the idea that any local funds would only be committed if all affected residents would have access to the 2026 goal with this project is completed in 2017-18. If the community can not reach an agreement to get the network they need to compete for residents and businesses, it may be best to wait for the next grant round and to seek a different partner.
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Recently, I and a friend discussed widowhood rites in Nigeria. What brought about our discussion was the news of a certain woman who had to mourn her husband for six months.
To avoid being financially handicapped, her son took up her job as a causal worker until her mourning period was over.
My friend and I wondered out loud about how she would have coped financially if she had no son to take on her job.
Prohibition or restriction of movement during mourning periods is a common widowhood rite in most African countries including Nigeria. During this period, the movement of the widow is restricted and sometimes she stays in seclusion.
The duration of the period could be anywhere from a week to a year depending on the cultural and traditional practices of the late husband's community.
Other widowhood rites observed include scraping or cutting of hair (on the head and pubic area) with a blunt razor, forced to eat from unwashed bowls, being forced to cry among others.
These practices are justified based on the belief that a widow needs to publicly demonstrate the grief she feels after the death of her husband.
Specifically, due to modernity and civilisation, some women in urban areas are not subjected to long periods of mourning as they have full-time jobs to return to.
Sadly, same cannot be said for widows in rural Nigeria who are generally poor and have little or no say in their affairs. This category of widows are forced to observe widowhood rites such as prohibition of movement which exclude them from making any form of income.
Due to the restriction of their movement, widows in rural areas are most times unable to manage whatever businesses or jobs they might have. This contributes greatly to making widows worse off than they were before the deaths of their better halves.
It is not surprising to me that widowers in Africa enjoy lighter treatments and are not usually identified as poor compared to widows as society and culture is more favourable to the men. (Yes, I said it. You are free to label me a mad feminist or whatever people with thoughts like mine are called these days)
Widowers are not expected to mourn for a long period and can freely go about their businesses. Also, they are encouraged to mourn quickly and get a new wife. According to the World Bank, African men spend far more of their lives married than African women. From their early thirties to their early eighties, more than 80% of all men are married.
Clearly, the different treatment being given to men and women who mourn is a confirmation of society's gendered and patriarchal nature.Why have a woman mourn for painfully long periods and restrict her movement? So, the men can have enough time to grab all the properties I suppose.
With no money or property to their name, widows are often poor and at the mercy of relatives and friends. For instance in Mali, widows are found to disproportionately head the poorest households.
Driven by extreme poverty, widows in Nigeria and many other countries often adopt coping strategies such as engaging in exploitative informal work, engaging the children in child labour, begging and sex work.
These strategies do little to improve their financial well-being. Instead, widows and their families continue to suffer for the rest of their lives through stigma, discrimination and poverty.
It has been said that widowhood is designed to suppress women and part of the patriarchal design of our society. I quite agree with this as it seems all the rules benefit no one other than the men.
So what can be done to help widows?
For the plight of widows to improve Dominique Van De Walle, Lead Economist in the World Bank's Research Department says changes in inheritance laws and their enforcement, cash transfer schemes, and preferential access to housing, training, employment and schooling for their children, social policies can potentially help compensate for the misfortune stemming from the shock of widowhood.
In addition, governments have the responsibility to take appropriate measures to modify social and culture patterns of conduct and protect women's right to dignity and freedom and violence.
Also, the custodians of these cultures such as the Umuadas in Nigeria should be educated on the harmful nature of some widowhood rites among others.
It is my hope that these changes will come soon and women can stop being the wretched of the earth.
Before you leave, here are some facts about widows from the Loomba Foundation's World Widows Report:
- There are an estimated 258,481,056 widows globally with 584,574,358 children (including adult children).
- The number of widows has grown by 9 percent since 2010, partly because of conflicts and disease.
- The biggest jump has been in the Middle East and North Africa where the estimated number of widows rose 24 percent between 2010 and 2015, partly due to the Syrian war and other conflicts.
- One in seven widows globally is living in extreme poverty.
- One in ten women of marital age is widowed. The proportion is around one in five in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
- One in three widows worldwide live in India or China.
- India, with an estimated 46 million widows, has overtaken China (44.6 million) to become the country with the largest number of widows.
- A significant number of girls are widowed in childhood – a reflection of the prevalence of child marriage in developing countries and the custom of marrying off young girls to much older men.
P.S As I write this, TVC is airing a documentary on women in rural Nigeria. One woman says she is a widow and she breaks stones for the sum of N100 a day. This is less than a dollar.
She complains about the money not being enough to feed her and her children.


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Kim Clijsters' 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Jada, spent Saturday evening in the stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium, munching on a thick slice of watermelon, then savoring some candy.
Sort of like "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" — except how many children get to watch Mom win a Grand Slam title?
Her game as good as can be on hard courts, Clijsters won a second consecutive U.S. Open championship and third overall by easily beating Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-1 in a final that lasted 59 minutes and lacked any drama — perfect for a tot's short attention span.
"I'm glad to be standing here as the winner now. New York is an amazing place for me," said the 27-year-old Clijsters, a Belgian whose husband is from New Jersey. "The U.S. Open brings nothing but happiness to my tennis life."
She is the first woman since Venus Williams in 2000-01 to win the title in Flushing Meadows two years in a row. And Clijsters' U.S. Open winning streak is actually up to 21 matches because she also won the 2005 title. She missed the tournament in 2006 because of injuries, including wrist surgery, and skipped it the next two years while taking time off to get married and have a baby.
"It's been an incredible year being back. This is the first time I've been able to defend my title here at the U.S. Open," Clijsters said, reaching down to fix Jada's hair, getting mussed in the breeze. "The conditions have been very hard the last two weeks with wind — I've always tried to keep her curls down. I'm always hoping."
Last year in New York, when Jada pranced around the court during the postmatch ceremony, Clijsters became the first mother since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to take home a Grand Slam trophy.
On Saturday, in addition to another championship, Clijsters was awarded $2.2 million — the winner's check of $1.7 million, plus another $500,000 for finishing second in the U.S. Open Series standings that take into account hard-court tuneup tournaments.
"I've always felt more comfortable on this surface. Not just this year, but even when I was 14, 15, 16," Clijsters said in an interview the week before the U.S. Open began. "Everything comes easier."
Sure does, nowadays.
After losing the first four Grand Slam finals of her career, Clijsters has won her last three. Perhaps that will give some hope to Russia's Zvonareva, who is now 0-2 in major championship matches, after losing to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final in July.
Not since 1995 has a U.S. Open women's final lasted three sets, and this one wasn't about to end that trend. Indeed, you have to go back to 1976 to find a women's final in which the loser won only three games.
Put simply, the second-seeded Clijsters was too dominant; the seventh-seeded Zvonareva too shaky.
"She didn't really give me chances to get into the match," Zvonareva said. "But I also think that physically today she was just much better."
Over and over, Clijsters would scramble to balls that seemed out of reach and get them back over the net, sometimes doing full splits right there along the baseline. She compiled a 17-6 edge in winners, and made nine fewer unforced errors than Zvonareva, 24-15.
Clijsters broke twice to take the first set, and she did it by letting Zvonareva cause her own problems. Clijsters needed only four winners in that set, because Zvonareva made 13 unforced errors, including dumping a backhand into the net on the last point.
After that mistake, Zvonareva told a ballkid to get out of the way, so she could take a practice swing on her backhand side.
Didn't work.
When Zvonareva failed to get to a backhand and fell behind 40-love in the opening game of the second set, she cracked her racket against the court twice, breaking it, and earning a warning from the chair umpire.
"I was trying to find a way to pump myself up, to change something up," Zvonareva explained later.
But things only got worse for Zvonareva, known for losing her temper during matches.
She yelled at herself after two unforced errors in the second game of that set, and proceeded to double-fault to get broken at love and trail 2-0. All things considered, it was nothing compared to the tantrum Zvonareva threw in her fourth-round loss at last year's U.S. Open, when she wasted six match points. She bawled. She pounded her palm on her leg while sitting on the court. She slammed her racket against her leg. She begged the chair umpire to let her have some scissors so she could cut tape off her knees.
Zvonareva seemed to be much better at harnessing her emotions of late, perhaps thanks in part to her habit of placing a towel over her head during changeovers to block out distractions. That worked wonders at Wimbledon this summer, and for nearly two weeks at the U.S. Open.
But Clijsters never gave her a chance to get into this match. It was so lopsided, CBS analyst John McEnroe felt compelled to tell viewers early in the second set: "This might be the most I've ever wanted Kim Clijsters to lose serve. She's such a great person, but this is difficult to watch right now."
It wouldn't get any better from Zvonareva's perspective.
She never had made it past the fourth round at the U.S. Open before, but she won all 12 sets she played to get to the final, including during her upset of No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals.
About a half-hour before the final, Zvonareva and her coach, Sergey Demekhin, were alone on a patio outside the stadium, warming up with some stretching and hand-eye-coordination exercises. For a few minutes, Zvonareva made like a circus performer and juggled three tennis balls.
Once out on the court with Clijsters, though, one ball was more than Zvonareva could handle.
Her victory complete, Clijsters picked up Jada, cradling her in the crook of her left elbow, while holding the U.S. Open trophy in her right hand as photographers snapped away.
Moments later, after being plopped in a chair by Mom, Jada pointed to the nearby cameras and said, "No photos."


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Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America.
Two years ago, I wrote a short article titled "Transit-oriented development requires more than transit and development." My point was that to maximize the powerful potential of public transportation to reduce automobile dependence and associated environmental impacts, we should be thoughtful about it. Orienting development to transit requires more than just placing development near transit.
For example, the densest residential and commercial buildings should be placed closest to the station. Retail uses should be conveniently accessible. Walking routes should be clear and multi-modal transfers and vehicle drop-offs should be facilitated. And so on. I offered some sources of information on station-area planning that shed some light on the issue.
I didn't answer the all-too-obvious question of what sort of legal and policy underpinning was required to get us to the desired result. But yesterday, while browsing the new website of an architecture and planning firm I know professionally (Moule & Polyzoides designed NRDC's Santa Monica office), I ran across a very insightful essay written by one of the firm's principals, Stefanos Polyzoides, addressing that issue.
The article makes the very good point that transit-oriented urbanism works best when it is fine-grained, consisting of many different types and scales of development, created incrementally over time by different developers with varying circumstances and objectives. (My friend Liz Dunn is also very articulate on this point.) Larger "mega-projects," though they have a place, simply don't create the same feel of being in a real city, with the kind of diversity that those of us who love cities find so appealing. But fine-grained variety can hardly be mandated. So how do we create a framework that encourages and facilitates it?
One answer may be a form-based zoning code. As some readers know, traditional "Euclidean" zoning emphasizes permissible land uses in a given location while giving less attention to the scale and form of buildings and how they relate to the street and each other. Form-based codes do the opposite. Polyzoides believes that they are ideally suited to the task of creating transit-oriented development:
Transit-oriented development master plans typically establish the vision for such transit-centered neighborhoods, districts and corridors. They are best implemented through the actions of many developers, their projects often including many and diverse buildings and public spaces ...
Form-based codes are the indispensable tool for seeding the alternative to mega projects: incrementally assembled ensembles of smaller buildings and the human scaled places between them. This method of coding offers predictability by establishing the building, open space, landscape, and right of way standards that deliver an orderly urban form, by many development interests, over time. They also regulate uses in a flexible manner that allows a fast response to changing economic patterns and space needs. As form-based codes support phased, incremental design actions, they become ultimately supportive of both private and community interests. They maximize the performance of private projects, while building up a stable and permanent public realm.
The extended essay also emphasizes that there is a difference between emphasizing a certain architectural style, which Polyzoides does not advocate, and setting the bounds for urban form, which is more about articulating space in a way that facilitates walking and makes best use of the presence of transit. The essay also addresses such related issues as density, transit routing, public collaboration, architectural detail, and more.
Detail-oriented readers looking for an example might want to visit the Station Area Form-Based Code for Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas. According to the Form-Based Code Institute, the district is located within a struggling commercial district anticipating redevelopment in conjunction with extension of a Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail line to the city. Farmers Branch initiated a visioning process in 2001 that has now resulted in both a citizen-endorsed master plan and the new code, "designed to foster a vibrant town center for Farmers Branch through a lively mix of uses - with shop fronts, sidewalk cafes, and other commercial uses at street level, overlooked by canopy shade trees, upper story residences and offices."
Moule & Polyzoides
The introduction to the code for Farmers Branch offers a concise framing of the concept:
The Station Area Form-Based Code is a legal document that regulates land development by setting careful and coherent controls on building form—while employing more flexible parameters relative to building use and density. This greater emphasis on physical form is intended to produce safe, attractive and enjoyable public spaces (good streets, neighborhoods and parks) complemented with a healthy mix of uses. With proper urban form, a greater integration of building uses is natural and comfortable. The Form-Based Code uses simple and clear graphic prescriptions and parameters for height, siting, and building elements to address the basic necessities for forming good public space.
The document demonstrates that, while form-based zoning codes can be every bit as precise and demanding as use-based codes, the emphasis on good public space is very different. The city's website does not credit an architecture and planning firm with support on the project, but someone did a lot of work.
There are also a number of nice-looking transit-area plans and codes on the Moule & Polyzoides website, which contains a lot of good information on other urbanism and sustainability topics as well. (All of the images accompanying this post are from M&P, which kindly granted me permission to reproduce them. Click on them for the specifics.)
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
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© 2018 Concerned Citizens of Western Montana
Last week, many irrigators around the state were treated to an official-looking document appearing to have something to do with the water court and litigation. Its contents included an aggressive threat specific to irrigators: Support and acquiesce to the CSKT water compact or face the risk of losing your irrigation water for decades while you spend large amounts of money defending your inferior claims in the water court against CSKT objections to encroachments on their pervasive prima facie time immemorial claims.
Gee, wasn't it the nice, friendly and wonderful "Montana's Water Compact" just a couple of short years ago?
Their mailer reads as follows:
Montana Water Rights Litigation Notice
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Impacted property owners and water right holders in 54 of Montana ' s 90 water basins are likely to be the subject of litigation before the Montana Water Court without implementation of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribe ("CSKT") Water Compact ("The Compact ").
The Compact is a negotiated agreement made between the State of Montana, the federal government, and the CSKT, with input from agricultural groups and water users to prevent existing water rights from being challenged in Court. The Compact was passed by the Montana State Legislature and signed by the Governor in 2015, and is pending final approval in the United States Congress.
Consequently, under Montana law, the CSKT was required to file their tribal claims in the Montana Water Court. This legal action will require existing water right holders to prove their rights predate those of the CSKT, which have a priority date of 1855, or time immemorial. Without the Compact, all tribal claims are presumed valid, predate most if not all other water use claims, and can be enforced against all other water users until adjudication is completed.
Public records indicate you may have a financial, property or other interest that could be negatively impacted without final approval of the Compact. WITHOUT THE COMPACT YOU MAY LOSE THE ABILITY TO IRRIGATE FOR DECADES WHILE THE WATER COURT ADJUDICATES CSKT'S CLAIMS.
Farmers and Ranchers for Montana ( " FARM" ) is a coalition representing agriculture, irrigators , business and other stakeholders across Montana dedicated to implementing the Compact in order to prevent the litigation of existing water rights. The Compact will preserve existing water rights, reduce uncertainty, protect property values, and minimize decades of costly litigation .
PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY by visiting www.MontanaWaterCompact.com to join our coalition, take action, and ensure final approval of the Compact.
A name redacted copy of this mailer can be found at this link.
NOTE: Be sure to look closely at the postage stamp on page 2. Is that a tribal insignia? Is FARM using it to show solidarity with the CSKT, or is it possible they erred by using the tribe's money or postage meter to fund the mailing? Regardless, the Tribes created FARM through Mercury Consulting.
Some History
Before we discuss the notice, let's remind people that FARM is anything but a "grassroots" organization. Created with dark tribal money, via Denny's Rehberg's Mercury LLC, and with the help of Montana's good old boys swamp, they were able to use CSKT funds to advance a huge advertising campaign throughout the state of Montana to help get the CSKT water compact approved in 2015.
See our article from 2016, that researched its genesis using public records.
FARM: Grassroots, Astroturf or Something Else?
Even with all of that public relations glitz and glamor, the compact was so overreaching and controversial, a small group of republican legislators found it necessary to conspire with democrats to change house rules in order to garner a flawed and questionable "ratification" of the compact in the Montana legislature.
A few years down the road, and with some hindsight, it is clear that the goal was to get the compact ratified by all three governments before the public ever knew what hit them:
|Get the CSKT compact ratified in the Montana Legislature without ever letting legislators know how much water was being ceded or its impacts on the economy of western Montana. Give the parties immunity from damages resulting from the taking that they all presided over. Have the Montana Supreme Court bless their failure to secure the constitutionally mandated 2/3 vote in the Montana House and Senate
|Implement portions of the Compact prior to federal ratification to ensure that its impacts will take effect even if it never is ratified by Congress
|Partially Complete
|Hire lobbying / public relations firm to "sell the compact"
|File 10,000 claims, over 2/3 of the state of Montana, most with time immemorial priority dates
|Ensure there is no scrutiny of the tribe's overreaching and ridiculous compact claims as well as the 10,000 claims filed over 2/3 of the state of Montana. The tribe's currently have a stay until January of 2020
|To give the Montana water court the appearance that the water compact has momentum in congress
|Pitching tipis if necessary in the halls of Congress in an all or nothing effort to lobby for their water compact
|Work in progress
|Get a Montana Senator to introduce a bill written by tribal attorneys, with a $2.3 billion price tag and ownership of the largest irrigation project in the state of Montana
|Secure Federal ratification of the CSKT compact faster than any other compact ever
This FARM Notice adds one more item to what has now become a very offensive list:
To mislead, frighten and coerce Montanans into supporting the compact to "protect their own water rights" from an overly aggressive tribe.
Compact ratification or not, it is unlikely that the Montana Water Court will approve any additional stays on claims examination in Hydrologic Basins 76L and 76LJ.
This latest stunt by FARM indicates an increasing sense of urgency and desperation of the tribal government to secure a quick ratification of their beastly water compact.
Where is Montana, and Why Aren't they Crying Foul?
A reasonable person might ask if this FARM "Litigation Notice" is a blatant attempt to intimidate citizens, influence Congress, and to ensure a biased water compact outcome in the Montana Water Court? If successful, these efforts essentially guarantee that those of us living in western Montana can never have a fair hearing in the Montana Water Court, because our claims will be buried under the weight of the federalization of our water. If successful, water users in Eastern Montana will have a permanent cloud over their water rights and face decades of litigation even if the compact is passed.
So why isn't Montana calling foul on this FARM memo? Why is our illustrious and knowledgeable Attorney General missing in action? Why do compact proponents only have threats to advance their cause?
And importantly, no one who supports the compact can tell you why they do. Just ask them.
To the Montana elites supporting the compact, the ends have always justified the means. Once Montana made its decision to abandon its citizens and allow the federalization of its western water, it became necessary to develop respectable sounding "legal legs" and talking points for the public. Part of that strategy includes a mutual defense clause written into the compact. Keeping quiet in the face of bullying and coercion tactics toward your citizens could reasonably be interpreted as "mutual defense" while letting someone else do the dirty work.
The threat of 10,000 claims has always been part of the strategy. Montana clearly has decided to sit back and let its citizens continue to be divided and threatened by attorneys for one small tribe located in western Montana.
It's Now Up to the People to Stop this Nonsense
Because all three branches of Montana government, state agencies and its good old boys swamp continue to fail the people of Montana, the burden now falls on We the People to stop this madness.
We urge you to send a copy of the FARM memo along with your own comments to the Montana Water Court to express your displeasure with the tactics currently being used by FARM at the apparent urging of the CSKT. In light of the generous extension of time given by the Water Court to the Tribes, and in light of the professed "benefits" the CSKT compact is supposed to bring to Montana, why are they behaving this way?
If there is currently a stay on the examination of claims in the water court, surely it would be offensive to the Court to note the level of coercion that is still taking place during this interim period?
It's way past time to disarm the state's ability to divide its citizens against one another through its actions and its consistent failure to represent its citizens and protect their property rights.
If the property rights of all Montanans are not protected, no one's rights are protected. This means property rights that exist on both sides of the divide.


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Born in 1985, in Cracow, one of the most beautiful Polish cities. Her love for performing arts made her decide to begin Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University. She spent her last academic year in another amazing city, Barcelona, studying Spanish and Catalan language and culture. One day she grabbed a play written by a Catalan author and started to translate it, just for fun. One year later her translation was being published in an anthology, together with two other Catalan plays translated into Polish. Since then she decided to become a professional translator. In 2010 she graduated in translation at the UNESCO Chair in Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication in Cracow. She has translated eight theatre plays (of authors like Sergi Belbel, Lluïsa Cunillé, Rodrigo García) but being a freelance translator requires a lot of flexibility. Nowadays Agnieszka translates different kinds of texts, ranging from technical manuals to software localisation but she always treats her work as an art.


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Theft and obtaining a financial advantage by deception are regarded seriously by Victorian Courts. A key issue that often determines the magnitude of penalties is the quantum of the theft. Where it is alleged that only a small amount of money has been stolen, it is possible to have the matter heard in the summary jurisdiction rather than the indictable jurisdiction. In such cases, the maximum penalty is two years for one offence, or a maximum of 5 years for separate offences. Issues such as the degree of planning, and whether or not the theft was part of a course of conduct can aggravate the charges. Accordingly, sentences vary greatly in practice.


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Regrettably you deleted factual information that was the subject matter of two published books that exposed the money-laundering and drug smuggling business associates of a Presidential candidate and his own misdeeds and cover-ups as well. The non-fiction books are "Barry & The Boys" by Daniel Hopsicker and "The Conspirators" by Al Martin. The books also expose the link between the execution murder of Barry Seal and Jeb Bush. A third book in the works was seized by U.S. federal agents and was written by a former U.S. Treasury agent who had access to bank records. NONE OF THE AUTHORS WERE EVER SUED FOR LIBEL NOR SLANDER AND ALL THREE AUTHORS WROTE ABOUT FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCES. Americans have a right to know who they are voting for. Thankfully other forums are telling the story, although since Jeb Bush's legitimacy is a scam, his fraud should be exposed on this forum, which unfortunately does not have a "political scams" section. Uncle Sam Seized Book Manuscripts To Protect Jeb Bush? - WORLD Law Direct Forums
Using Wall Street to launder billions of drug moneys is a "SCAM" in my opinion, and when companies who do the laundering hire Jeb Bush as a consultant or have him on their campaign donation list, then I think the scam is even more noteworthy. When three American citizen witnesses to these crimes are all forced to live outside America by the government via court orders, I think the scam is something every American voter needs to know about. Witnesses Edward Chism, Bruce Gorcyca and Erling Ingvaldsen were all exiled out of North America so they could not be subpoenaed as a witness to crimes of Jeb Bush and his business associates like former FBI agent Terry Nelson, Barry Seal, etc. Again, all of this information is the subject of three books, and two of the authors were insiders of the illegal operations. Ooops... make that 5 books - I forgot to mention "CRIMES OF PATRIOTS" by Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal, and IMMACULATE DECEPTION - INSIDE THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY written by highly-decorated Army General Russel Bowen who disappeared right after the book was published.
If you or I did what Jeb Bush or Terry Nelson have done, we'd be stamping license plate tags is some prison factory for a decade. Hiding the details of the crimes does not change the past, but only helps a criminal get elected to public office where he can do even more damage. Sincerely, I hope you will read the books mentioned in this rebuttal and reconsider your political preferences to censor. I personally support Edward Snowden, Wikileaks, and none of the Bush family because I do not rely on TV News for my account of the truth in our world.
Perhaps your deletions were a bit premature? Perhaps you assumed that such serious allegations could not possibly be true? Or you could be a fan of the Bush family of war criminals and inside traders who have exploited American citizens for almost a century? Even if your intentions were honorable, I think free speech has always been a trademark of this web site and that is why I shared the information here. Take note that Mother Jones and Rolling Stone both exposed over 20 felony crimes involving the Bush family Bush Family Value$ | Mother Jones yet not one of them were prosecuted. Instead, all of the witnesses were targeted for retribution, false criminal charges, death threats, and even murder. If you condone these crimes, just keep deleting posts of people who try to expose them. If you are an American patriot please repost the missing information and let intelligent people use their own judgement. In any and all venues, CENSORSHIP SUCKS.
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Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team, and it forged relationships between the men and Trump insiders that would develop over the coming months — past the election and well into President Trump's first year in office, according to several people with knowledge of their encounters.
Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company's ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.
It is unclear whether such a proposal was executed, and the details of who commissioned it to remain in dispute. But Donald Trump Jr. responded approvingly, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, and after those initial offers of help, Mr. Nader was quickly embraced as a close ally by Trump campaign advisers — meeting frequently with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, and Michael T. Flynn, who became the president's first national security adviser. At the time, Mr. Nader was also promoting a secret plan to use private contractors to destabilize Iran, the regional nemesis of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates.
The meetings, which have not been reported previously, are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign in the months before the presidential election. The interactions are a focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, who was originally tasked with examining possible Trump campaign coordination with Russia in the election.
Mr. Nader is cooperating with the inquiry, and investigators have questioned numerous witnesses in Washington, New York, Atlanta, Tel Aviv and elsewhere about what foreign help may have been pledged or accepted, and about whether any such assistance was coordinated with Russia, according to witnesses and others with knowledge of the interviews.
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