And yet what my parents did for me set me on an amazing path.
What would you have thought if your parents had told you at 17 that no matter what you did, even if you murdered someone, they'd still love you just as much? Mine did. And, religious people that they were, they threw in that God would still love me too, no matter where I went or what I did.
None of my friends could imagine their parents saying such a thing. Even the religious ones. But the idea was incredibly freeing, so I set out to explore it for myself.
I went alone to New York City specifically to sleep in Grand Central Station.
Decades later, I'm not sure this was a logical way to explore unconditional love, but it seemed quite connected at the time. Life was unpredictable and beyond my control, and I wanted to know how to live it. I wanted to get far outside my comfort zone, to put myself in a place where I had no resources of my own to count on. Would some force beyond myself actually show up? And—what do you know—something did. When I woke up two men were waiting for me, and they offered to cook me breakfast at their place. Encouraged, and yet a little scared, I reminded God as we walked there that I was counting on him.
This was the late 1950s. No one I knew talked about gay people; homosexuality was considered unspeakable.
That got me mad. "I'm no angel," I said. "I'm just like you guys." I told them more about my unconditional love experiment. "I need God as much as you do, and if God is here for me then God is here for you too." They found that hard to believe, given all they had heard from religious people. But they were tantalized by the thought that God was actually right there in the room with us and was not angry with them. They simply wanted, as we all do, to be accepted and affirmed, to belong, to have value.
Ronnie—who had been a Marine—turned his face so I couldn't see his emotions. Until that moment he had never heard "God loves you" from someone who really believed it.
But I wasn't there to explore ideas about homosexuality. I was exploring life and my parents' radical idea that all of us are totally accepted, even with all our stuff. In the next few years my exploring took me hitchhiking more than 40,000 miles, all around the US and down through Central and South America. But those are stories for another time.
I knew this sense of security did not come to me because I was especially good, brave or intelligent. I didn't have encoded in my DNA a personality that predisposed me to take risks—nor some key to the divine that made the risks I took work out positively. The only thing different about me was that I actually believed that I was loved and valued, even though my parents had no delusions about how good I was.
On this trip, it began to hit me that I'd discovered something primal, that I'd somehow returned to what everyone really wants to believe. But would it continue? And did this gift from my parents tell me something about my life's work, which—after Martin Luther King's assassination—would focus on reconciliation? I had a lifetime of exploring ahead of me.
For three decades, Roger Dewey sought to combat racism through organizing intensive urban experiences and internships, with over a hundred churches in the region sharing resources through urban service projects, housing renovation, and small business development and consulting.


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NEWS: Mississippi Sound theme park planned for Biloxi
By jedimaster1227,
October 22, 2013 in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Member Title: Tron Carter
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/10/21/5048163/mississippi-sound-theme-park-planned.html
Plans for a music-related Mississippi Sound theme park in North Biloxi will be revealed to the City Council today.
Glenn Miller will give the council an overview of the plans of a theme park north of Interstate 10 and west of Mississippi 67 in the newly-annexed area of Biloxi. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall.
On the agenda is zoning for the newly-annexed area of the city, said Jerry Creel, community development director.
Miller, a developer from Cruger, north of Jackson, is managing partner of most of the annexed area that is known as Pine Haven Development.
About half of the 1,200 acres is wetlands, and he told the Biloxi Planning Commission it can have parks, a stage and trails, but no buildings on that portion of the land.
Miller said they plan to build a 140-acre theme park plus an amphitheater and "a souped up flea market" similar to one recently built in San Antonio. "It is really nice on 88 acres and has 15 venues in it," he said of the market. "It is like starting 1,500 new businesses that are affordable. It is sort of an incubator for the new businesses." He said the San Antonio venue can host art shows and rodeos, "and it draws about 60,000 people a weekend out in San Antonio. Of course we don't look for it to draw quite that many here," he said, "but it will be a big draw."
The developers also have five hotel sites along Mississippi 67, purchased in 2007.
"Everybody is familiar with how everything has been upside down but we are getting close to getting some equity partners to help on all the development," Miller told the Planning Commission. He said they are working with three big funds interested in investing in the development.
Miller said the development probably would extend across 67 into D'Iberville.
Pine Haven property was zoned for 7,400 houses and apartments when it was in the county, Miller said. "We scrapped that. We don't need that." Instead the developers would prefer commercial zoning on the entire property that would support light commercial and retail, he said.
The property elevation ranges from 25 feet on one side to 100 feet with a view of casino row.
"It is almost like you are sitting in Biloxi on Highway 90 now," he said.
Edited October 23, 2013 by cfc
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jps294 1 post
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Jackdude101 1 post
vacoaster09
This is great to hear!
gisco
If they start out small they could make a go of it. If they try to do everything at once it will be a failure in my opinion. Do the flea market and amphitheater going to get revenue flowing in. Once you get that going they can work on the theme park and hotels.
I have a long-time buddy who lives in Biloxi.
Wonder if he knows about this, happening.
Edited October 23, 2013 by Nrthwnd
Jakizle
Member Title: Wishing I was in Japan
Sure would make the drive along I-10 better!
Or they could end up being another Uncle Bernie's.
I wish them good luck in their endeavor.
Jackdude101
The question is whether it will be a true theme park or just another heavily-expanded FEC like Waterville USA down the road in Alabama.
jps294
I'm so exited as being in college in Mississippi and there is no parks anywhere since Alabama Adventures closed this state is boring other than back at home in Texas. But I truly don't see this happening at all imo.

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I want to write about next security courses on Networks, Systems and Hacking which are going to be delivered for free by FEVAL in Extremadura. It will be five training courses where students will learn basic and advanced security techniques to protect and attack networks and systems. In addition, students will learn computer forensic techniques to analyse digital evidences. Last year, I was the teacher. However, this year, I don't know yet who are going to provide these training. Nevertheless, I think it's a good opportunity for learning about security information.
The first course, which start next month, is about basic security on networks and systems, where students will learn concepts and skills to understand main information security issues on networks and systems. Students will learn methodologies, and they'll also use security tools, for protecting IT infrastructures and implementing security plans. Besides, students will manage the Risk Management Process and they'll also read and create Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans. For instance, last year, we spoke about Antivirus, Application Control, Web Filtering, Antispam, IPS/IDS and we even deployed a virtual firewall.
After finishing the basic security course on networks and systems, we can continue learning information security in the advanced security course on networks and systems. Students will get a deep knowledge about security management and operations, access management techniques, security software methodologies, cryptography, and security laws and regulations. For example, last year, we introduced Web Application Firewalls with SQLi and XSS attacks.
If you like hacking, you can also take the ethical hacking fundamental course where students will learn concepts and technical skills to discover vulnerabilities and attack services with the aim of auditing information systems. For instance, last year, we spoke about vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed, Apache Struts and Shellshock as well as we tested with vulnerabilities assessment systems like Greenbone and OpenVAS into Kali Linux and OSSIM.
If you really love hacking, the ethical hacking fundamental course is not enough because you'll want more and more hacking techniques. Therefore, the advanced ethical hacking course will be interesting for those students who want to learn advanced techniques to get unauthorized access by targeting systems. For example, last year, we were talking about Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET), Windows Powershell attack, OWASP - Top 10, Web Application Vulnerabilities, DoS Attacks, etc.
This year, there is a new course about Digital Forensics, which sounds fascinating, where students will learn methodologies, procedures and techniques to look for electronic evidences. Computer forensics activities are increasingly requested by organizations because there are lots of security incidents which have to be analysed to determine the scope of attacks.
Regards my friends. I hope this will be interesting for you. Keep studying.


Year five Gad's Hill student Sienna Bromley will star in Les Miserables this summer.
Sienna, who has just turned 10 and lives in Chatham, secured the coveted role after auditioning with hundreds of other hopefuls.
She will play the part of Eponine, a pampered child who turns into a ragged and impoverished teenager, at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London.
A talented actress and singer, Sienna dances with the English Youth Ballet and will also appear in The Nutcracker this year.
Class teacher Mrs Glynda Cullen said: "It is a fantastic achievement and everybody at Gad's is thrilled for Sienna.
"She works hard in school and deserves every success – I am very much looking forward to watching her.
Headmaster David Craggs added: "We are always proud of our students' accomplishments, both in and out of school.


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Q: elasticache how to duplicate the configuration group default.redis3.2 in order to change one parameter without writing the 103 unchanged keys I use AWS elasticache  using this parameter group default.redis3.2,  as you can see in this cloudformation sample :
"itophubElastiCacheReplicationGroup" : {
  "Type" : "AWS::ElastiCache::ReplicationGroup",
  "Properties" : {
    "ReplicationGroupDescription" : "Hub WebServer redis cache cluster",
    "AutomaticFailoverEnabled" : "false",
    "AutoMinorVersionUpgrade" : "true",
    "CacheNodeType" : "cache.t2.small",
    "CacheParameterGroupName" : "default.redis3.2",
    "CacheSubnetGroupName" :  { "Ref": "cachesubnethubprivatecachesubnetgroup" },
    "Engine" : "redis",
    "EngineVersion" : "3.2.4",
    "NumCacheClusters" : { "Ref" : "ElasticacheRedisNumCacheClusters" },
    "PreferredMaintenanceWindow" : "sun:04:00-sun:05:00",
    "SecurityGroupIds" : [ { "Fn::GetAtt": ["sgpHubCacheSG",  "GroupId"] } ]
  }
},

what I want to achieve is to have more than the default 16 databases, to do so, I have to change the key databases in the parameter group. Since default.redis3.2 is read only, I have to create my own, I want to have every parameters but  databases identical to default.redis3.2.
It represent 104 parameters, I don't want to copy past each one of them by hand, so :
I'd like to know if there is a way to copy/inherit the parameters of  default.redis3.2 created by aws ?
(If possible using cloudformation)

A: Having no response, I created manually the conf. comparing it to default.redis3.2 every default values was the same, so I ended up changeing only databases.
I created it manually, and then, I've recreated it this way :
"hubElastiCacheParameterGroup" : {
  "Type": "AWS::ElastiCache::ParameterGroup",
  "Properties": {
    "CacheParameterGroupFamily" : "redis3.2",
    "Description" : "parameter group to match itop hub needs",
    "Properties" : {
      "databases": "200"
    }
  }
},

using it here :
"hubElastiCacheReplicationGroup01" : {
  "Type" : "AWS::ElastiCache::ReplicationGroup",
  "Properties" : {
    [...]
    "CacheParameterGroupName" : { "Ref" : "hubElastiCacheParameterGroup" },
    [...]
  }
},

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↑I went to Air New Zealand to pay money for the Japanese abacus camp next month. Everything is going well so far. At that time, there was a very low tide. I have never seen such a low tide but it was not a foreboding of a tsunami. I was relieved.
↑In the afternoon, I called on Pone in the school's office, and asked him to write a letter to arrange an official leave for the teacher who will participate in the Japanese abacus camp. After this, I will make a VISA for them at the Japanese embassy.
↑Around 3 o'clock at CDU I made the official questions for the outer islands' competition. I completed about half. Maybe tomorrow I can finish it. After 2 weeks from now, we have the first competition of the school year in Ha'apai.
↑After work, I met Melissa and she corrected my blog, then she went back to her house with Taika.
Following that, we went to Teufaiva sports field to jog. After that, I moved to the JICA dormitory to check and reply to e-mails. I received nearly 30 e-mails today, because I am arranging the Heilala festival and asked the participants whether they can help to run the Japanese booth or not.


Greater Ohio Policy Center congratulates the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission who last week approved a Complete Streets Policy requiring that every roadway project that receives MORPC-attributable federal funding provide accommodations for motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, transit users, and other users of all ages and abilities on the same road. With this announcement, MORPC becomes the largest MPO in the country to adopt this comprehensive complete streets approach to its projects. MORPC's announcement follows up on a national movement by the National Complete Streets Coalition, which urges transportation agencies to change their orientation toward building primarily for cars but rather urges transportation planners and engineers to consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
Greater Ohio urges other MPOs across Ohio to look at MORPC's innovative policy and consider adopting comprehensive Complete Streets policies to ensure the transportation needs of all Ohioans are being met.


Stop by our booth #5263 and see what is new at Aerial Bouquets. For over 30 years, Aerial Bouquets continues to introduce new products, programs and merchandisers to the floral industry. Our balloon programs are a proven success and our seasonal promotions are a great way to theme your department and increase your sales! Stop by and let us show you how we can make a difference, and best wishes for a successful show.


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Reactive emergency response (auto dial) will automatically connect you to the dedicated call centre when your smartphone's sensors detect an extreme event/stop.
Reactive emergency response (auto dial) will automatically connect the subscriber to the dedicated call centre when the smartphone's sensors detect an extreme event/stop.
Proactive shake-to-call (manual dial) functionality including one-touch dial, making it easy for anyone to use including children and the elderly.
Call-centre operators will notify family and friends of the situation as well as telling them where you have been taken.
Reassuring human element: operator at first-line response call centre will always stay on the line with you until the emergency services have arrived at the scene.


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Van Halen Too Slow For Sammy Hagar
Posted on April 1, 2010 by Skid in Needs Reviewed, Uncategorized // 0 Comments
Rocker Sammy Hagar would only consider a return to Van Halen if band leader Eddie Van Halen agreed to work faster.
The singer is disappointed the reformed Van Halen haven't returned to the studio with original frontman David Lee Roth – and he claims any new material will be a long time coming if his experiences with guitarist Van Halen are anything to go by.
The Chickenfoot star tells the San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspaper he's amazed the band hasn't released a new studio album in 17 years and recalls his last studio experience with the group was not fun.
Hagar reveals that he recorded new songs with Van Halen for the band's "Best of Both Worlds" compilation – slowly.
He explains, "We tried to make a record, but, y'know, it just was taking so long we only got three songs done, and not 'cause of me, I'll tell ya straight up. If anyone ever says anything like that I was the problem on that record, they're crazy. I had my stuff totally together.
"I went in, I knocked my stuff out, and then Eddie would take months to do a guitar solo or something. It was just way too drawn out. I can't work like that."
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Q: What is the element#createTextRange() method? I came across this answer here as well as a few others on SO, that run a .createTextRange() method of a DOM element object. The closest reputable documentation to it that I could find was on Document.createRange() over at MDN, but that's definitely not it.
Could anyone explain this method? Such as what it returns? I would love to be pointed towards some documentation.

A: I'm pretty sure createTextRange is an Internet Explorer specific method, which was used in IE v6, I believe.
I don't know which other versions of IE support it (maybe older versions, maybe newer versions), but it probably doesn't work in any other browser.
The old documentation that I was using year ago is gone, but I found this documentation about createTextRange:

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*https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/platform-apis/aa704299(v=vs.85)

*https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/platform-apis/aa703806(v=vs.85)
(I'm used to MS changing their URLs, so I hope these links are not broken again)
I'm not sure anymore how to use it properly, and I can't test it, as I don't have an InternetExplorer, but here I took some lines from some of my old codes (I simplified it here, so I might have broken something):
var elm = document.getElementById("sourceText");
elm.value = 'some text';

const rng = elm.createTextRange();
rng.collapse( true );
rng.moveEnd( 'character', 7 );
rng.moveStart( 'character', 2 );
rng.select();

A: You entering the DOM .... the source to render it as a page and javacript
You get a range on selection events : selection, there is the current target then the selection...
for à read it can help retrieve all selected elements in event data, after manipulating it ?...
At that level you will need the specification...
Ranges (are sub tree within the dom)
It's abstract definition show the tree of nodes address/structure appearing
https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-abstractrange
And other related :
 https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#ranges
[DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range]
Joseph Kesselman; et al. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification. 13 November 2000. REC. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/
That's it ?


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Beautiful taffeta crinoline skirt in a pretty shade of frosted mint! Three tiers, very full and just perfect for a dinner party! Side hook and eye closure with a little elastic in the waist for the perfect fit. This was originally made as a crinoline but I think its too pretty to hide under another skirt! Shown in the first two photos with another crinoline underneath and the third photo is just on the dress form.


Lady B— B— finding in the Authors Room some Verses Unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Railery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballade.
To the Tune of the Cutpurse.
4 Because he could find no Word to come pat in.
7 And so went to Bed in a desperate Case.
9 He found it was strangely fill'd in the Middle.
11 Who would not Write Verses with such an assistant.
18 Or whether it came from Above or Below.
20 For he ne're could have fill'd it so well of himself.
22 Who would not Write Verses with such an assistant.
26 When he found a new Help from Invisible Hand.
31 You may know by the Hand, it had no Cloven Foot.
33 Who would not Write Verses with such an assistant.
Title (in Source Edition): Lady B— B— finding in the Authors Room some Verses Unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Railery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballade. August, 1702.


The GL Verso gas log set by Napoleon comes in three sizes and is available in natural gas or propane. The logs are reversible so you can change the look of your space any time. It comes with a cast iron grate, sand or glass bottom (depending on gas type), and turns on and off with the flip of a switch.


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The First Round in Petitioners' Challenge to the SoCal Metroplex Project
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on March 27, 2018
Posted in Airspace, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Litigation
Because the Federal Aviation Administration's ("FAA') airspace redesign projects throughout the United States have apparently negatively impacted hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people, and because we have received a number of requests for a discussion of the bases for the currently pending challenge to the FAA's SoCal Metroplex airspace redesign project, a copy of…
Challenge to FAA's Southern California Airspace Redesign Progresses
On Friday, March 16, 2018, Petitioners in Benedict Hills Estates Association, et al. v. FAA, et al., D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 16-1366 (consolidated with 16-1377, 16-1378, 17-1010 and 17-1029) filed an Opening Brief in their challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") in its realignment of flight paths over heavily populated…
Operators of Small Unmanned Aircraft Uses for Recreational Purposes Will Soon Face Regulation
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on November 22, 2017
Posted in Aircraft, Unmanned Aircraft Systems ("UAS" or "Drone")
On or about November 16, 2017, the United States Senate acted speedily to pass the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018," H.R. 2810 ("Defense Reauthorization Act"), originally introduced in January of 2017, and now awaiting signing by President Trump.
The Senate's motivation is not obscure, where it sets forth, among other things, guidelines for "Collaboration Between Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Defense on Unmanned Aircraft Systems," or UAS, H.R. 2810, § 1092. Most notably, that section re-imposes rules originally imposed on the operators of small, unmanned aircraft, weighing between .55 and 55 pounds, used for recreational purposes ("model" aircraft). Those rules were set aside by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in May, 2017, in the published opinion Taylor v. Huerta, 856 F.3d 1089, 1093 (D.C. Cir. 2017), on the ground that the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-95 ("FMRA") specifically prohibits FAA from promulgating "any rule or regulation regarding model aircraft." Id. at § 336(a).
Congress has now enacted a revision to FMRA's prohibition, and thrown model aircraft back into the regulatory arena.
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Congress Moves to Increase Judicial Oversight of Federal Agencies
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on January 20, 2017
Posted in Federal Regulation, Litigation
On January 17, 2017, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the "Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017." Buried deep within its pages is Title II, the "Separation of Powers Restoration Act." That title, although only two sections long, dramatically changes the legal landscape for challenges to the actions of federal regulatory agencies. Currently, in adjudicating challenges to administrative rulemaking and implementing actions, the federal courts invoke the precedent established in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837, 844 (1984). In that case, the Supreme Court held: "We have long recognized that considerable weight should be accorded to an executive department's construction of a statutory scheme it is entrusted to administer…" In adopting Chevron, the Supreme Court effectively gives administrative agencies almost complete deference, not only in the interpretation of the regulations they implemented, but also, and more controversially, in the way the agencies carry out the mandates of those regulations. Thus, challengers seeking to use the judicial system to point out and rectify what are perceived as misapplication of the regulations, butt up against the reluctance of the courts to question or interfere with the agency's construction of the regulation or the evidence and its application in carrying out the agency's order. In Title II, the Congress has stood the current deferential standard on its head. …
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City of Burbank Attempts to Strike Deal with FAA for Curfew at Burbank Airport
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on December 21, 2015
Posted in Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA), Airports, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
In what looks like a swap of increased capacity for reduced hours of operation, brokered by Representative Adam Schiff, the City of Burbank has offered the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") a 14 gate replacement terminal at Bob Hope Airport ("Airport") in return for which the FAA is being asked to approve a mandatory nighttime curfew…
East Hampton Airport Still Subject to FAA Oversight of Noise Restrictions Despite Absence of FAA Funding Constraints
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on January 7, 2015
An article of December 23, 2014 in a local East Hampton, New York newspaper, now circulated to a wider audience throughout the nation, gives the impression that, upon expiration of its contractual relationship on January 1, 2015, "East Hampton Town will be free of Federal Aviation Administration oversight and able to set access restrictions at the East Hampton Airport, essentially opening the door for relief from often loud, and sometimes rattling, aircraft noise." The article apparently misapprehends, and consequently, vastly overstates the impact of the expiration of the town's contractual commitments to FAA, in return for funding of airport improvements. The fact is that, with or without the constraints of such contractual commitments or "grant assurances," the application of noise and access restrictions will depend entirely upon FAA's determination concerning the applicability of a parallel set of constraints set forth in the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, 49 U.S.C. § 47521, et seq. ("ANCA"), which, in turn, will depend on the noise levels of the specific types of aircraft the airport wishes to control or eliminate.
The newspaper article errs in at least two ways.
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The Federal Surface Transportation Board Finds California Environmental Quality Act Preempted as Applied to High-Speed Rail Projects
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In a surprising decision, Surface Transportation Board Decision, Docket No. FD35861, December 12, 2014 ("Docket"), the Federal Surface Transportation Board ("Board") ruled that the application of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21000, et seq., to the 114 mile high-speed passenger rail line between Fresno and Bakersfield, California is preempted in its entirety by federal law. The Board's decision is not only surprising in the context of prevailing legal authority, but also potentially important in the context of other modes of transportation.
The decision is surprising because it went far beyond the scope of the petition filed by the responsible State agency, the California High-Speed Rail Authority ("Authority"). The Authority asked only that the Board find that injunctive relief as a remedy under CEQA is foreclosed as preempted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act ("ICCTA"), Pub.L. 104–88, 104th Congress, and is, thus, barred under 49 U.S.C. § 10501(b) which gives the Board jurisdiction over "the construction, acquisition, operation, abandonment, or discontinuance of spur, industrial, team, switching, or side tracks, or facilities, even if the tracks are located, or intended to be located, entirely in one State," 49 U.S.C. § 10501(b)(2). The Authority further argued that, as it had completed CEQA review in May 2014, the Board need not address whether CEQA is generally preempted, but need only address whether injunctive relief resulting in a work stoppage is available as a remedy in the lawsuits filed against the Authority.
Despite the Authority's limited petition, the Board expanded its ruling to include a finding that § 10501(b) prevents the states and localities from intruding into matters that are "directly regulated by the Board (e.g., rail carrier rates, services, construction, and abandonment)," Docket, p. 8, and from "imposing requirements that, by their nature, could be used to deny a rail carrier's ability to conduct rail operations." Id. The Board employs the rationale that "Section 10501(b) [ ] is intended to prevent a patchwork of local regulation from unreasonably interfering with interstate commerce." Id.
The Board recognizes, however, that "[n]ot all state and local regulations that affect rail carriers are preempted by § 10501(b)." Id. at p. 9. It acknowledges further that "State and local regulation is appropriate where it does not interfere with rail operations," Id., and that "[l]ocalities retain their reserved police powers to protect the public health and safety so long as their actions do not unreasonably burden interstate commerce." Id.
On that basis, and ignoring that "states and towns may exercise their traditional police powers . . . to the extent that the regulations 'protect public health and safety, are settled and defined, can be obeyed with reasonable certainty, entail no extended or open-ended delays, and can be approved (or rejected) without the exercise of discretion on subjective questions,'" Id. citing Green Mountain v. Vermont, 404 F.3d 638, 643 (2nd Cir. 2005), the Board concluded that CEQA was categorically preempted as a "state preclearance requirement that, by its very nature, could be used to deny or significantly delay an entity's right to construct a line that the Board has specifically authorized, thus impinging upon the Board's exclusive jurisdiction over rail transportation," Docket, p. 10, citing DesertXpress Enters., LLC-Pet. For Declaratory Order, slip op. at 5. The Board further found that CEQA lawsuits "can regulate rail transportation just as effectively as a state statute or regulation." Id. at 14, citing, inter alia, Maynard v. CSX Transp., Inc., 360 F. Supp. 2d 836, 840 (E.D. Ky. 2004) [explaining that common law suits constitute regulations].
The Board decision, however, appears to be based on two fundamental misconceptions.
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FAA Reports Increasing Conflict Between Drones and Civil Aviation
By Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D. on December 3, 2014
Posted in Aircraft, Transportation, Unmanned Aircraft Systems ("UAS" or "Drone")
The Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") reports that close calls between conventional aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems ("UAS" or "drones") have increased during 2014 to more than 40 per month over earlier reports of 10 such incidents in the months of March and April. Some of these incidents have occurred in the busy airspace surrounding Los Angeles, California, Washington, D.C., and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Some of these conflicts have arisen because untrained operators of recreational drones are unaware of FAA's guidelines governing such use. Those guidelines ask, among other things, that "hobby" drones stay away from civil aviation, below 400 feet AGL, and at least 5 miles from airports. However, as FAA prepares to release its highly anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for small unmanned aircraft systems, the focus is not on hobbyists, but on commercial operators.…
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By Paul Fraidenburgh on November 25, 2014
Aviation and aerospace attorney Paul Fraidenburgh was quoted in "Pirker v. Huerta Ruling Clears the Way to UAS Integration" published in Avionics Magazine on November 25, 2014. The full article is available here: http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/commercial/Pirker-v-Huerta-Ruling-Clears-the-Way-to-UAS-Integration_83611.html#.VHUKG53Tncv
Bonner County Wins Major Victory in Property Owner's "Takings" Lawsuit
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The decision of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Idaho in SilverWing at Sandpoint, LLC v. Bonner County, a case that has been "hanging fire" for almost two years, was worth the wait. On Friday, November 21, 2014, the Court granted Defendant Bonner County ("Bonner County") summary judgment on all Plaintiff SilverWing at Sandpoint, LLC's ("SilverWing") federal claims for inverse condemnation, or "taking," of private property by a public entity without just compensation, in violation of the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, or violation of a plaintiff's constitutional or other federal rights by a person acting under color of state law. See, e.g., Monell v. Department of Social Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 690 (1978). In addition, the Court granted summary judgment on SilverWing's state law contract claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
In this case, SilverWing claimed that Bonner County had taken its property by implementing a plan for the airport, an Airport Layout Plan ("ALP") approved in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"), that showed the single runway at Sandpoint Airport moving 60 feet to the west, toward SilverWing's property. SilverWing argued that forcing the movement of a taxiway that already been constructed to service the "hangar homes" in the development, and thus causing it to incur upon the five lots closest to the runway, making them unbuildable, caused a loss to SilverWing of $26 million. The Court ruled that implementation of the requirements of the ALP was a federal requirement arising out of federal responsibility for aviation safety and not within the discretion of Bonner County.
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This is unbelievably fantastic news! The Canadian government will pay for the expenses of every illegal Mexican family and allows them to enter without papers? Every illegal should know about this and tell their friends SOB.
Maybe the pro-illegal Christian groups should also help spread the word?
In addition, Canada has also the same birthright citizenship law that the US has so the illegal breeding machines will, in the future, be as devastating to the Canadian economy as they are to ours.
Edit: Be prepared liberal Canada! The "refugees" need to "flee" the big bad USA.
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Strange, i always thought fed up US citizens would be the first group to have massive illegal immigration to Canada.
Considering all of the FREEBIES, Alanboy . . . maybe we should be taking advantage and leave the Illegals here.
As the old saying goes...good intentions pave the path to hell.
Canada will soon learn that while it 'feels good' to save a few poor Mexicans immigrants from their life of hell in Mexico and the Evil US.....it doesn't feel quite so good when there are suddenly 12+ million mexicans marching in Canadian streets demanding all the rights of citizenship without any of the sacrifices....and if they don't get it, Canada will be labeled a racist country akin to the US.
Canadians as a group (with the possible exception of the Quebecois due to their 'Latin' based culture) are like Americans: slow to anger but, once goaded--------go psychotic (within the rule of law).
I hate to agree, evilnewbie . . . however, I have a feeling you are absolutely correct.
Let's all hope and pray that doesn't happen and The Canadians keep handing out the FREEBIES.
You also must take in consideration Asians are a sizeable population in many Canadian cities. They might not be as PC as their white Canadian counterparts.
Although when push comes to shove: I tend to ID people by their nationality vs. their probable ethnicity once I realize where they hail from.
Read that a Black person from Great Britain is an Englishman in my eyes.


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Patti Smith for AnOther Magazine Spring/Summer 2006
From the Archive: Patti Smith In Conversation with Jefferson Hack
In an article lifted from the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of AnOther Magazine, Jefferson Hack meets the ultimate rock'n'roll visionary, Patti Smith
TextJefferson Hack
Lead ImagePatti Smith for AnOther Magazine Spring/Summer 2006
"A photograph is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you, the less you know" – Diane Arbus
14Patti Smith for AnOther Magazine Spring/Summer 2006
There is a hidden quality to Patti Smith that no amount of talking to her, no amount of uncovering her past or looking at her photographs or reading her texts will reveal. A visionary and a mystic, Patti has held on to that sacred quality most of us have erased to make it easier to get on with living. For the artist, the poet, it's the gift that makes them respond to the world in an original and extraordinary way. You feel it as powerfully in her silence as you do in her words, in her absence when she leaves the room, when she walks off the stage, as much as when she's there in front of you. It's a kind of noble truth; a vibrant stand-off between the divine and the destitute, the hardy and the heartbroken.
In Patti Smith's house, we come face to face with her material and ethereal mindset. The urban folklore of her inception as an artist is played out in her opened notebooks, her early memoirs. Volumes of Rimbaud, Genet and Slake, in which she immersed herself during her youth are present, well-thumbed, still referenced today. A set of drums belonging to Fred Sonic Smith, her late husband and dearest love (who died in 1994), or the monogrammed slippers of Robert Mapplethorpe, her best friend and first love (who died in 1989), take on a talismanic quality, a power beyond the physical. Her home is not spooky in any way, it's just that all around her are the memories, the influences, the rites of her passage and the codes that inform the person she is today.
The world-changing events of September 2001 and the subsequent invasion of Iraq have been key themes in Smith's recent output. In artwork she recently exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum, we see the skeletons of the Twin Towers silk-screened with a meditative fastidiousness. On her last album Trampin' (2002), the incantations of Radio Baghdad call out to the souls of those who condone acts of war and perpetrate religious hatred. "Suffer not your neighbours affliction," she begs, but, "extend your hand, extend your hand." Smith is a political weapon, always has been. Since she released her first single Piss Factory / Hey Joe in 1974, she has campaigned against social injustice and has stood up for greater human understanding.
Patti Smith's vantage point is that of the perpetual outsider. "Outside of society, they're waitin' for me, outside of society that's where I want to be," she sings on Rock'n'Roll Nigger, one of the tracks from her album Easter. It's a position she shared in the 70s with friends and collaborators like William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, and artists like Mapplethorpe and Jackson Pollock, all long gone from the cultural front lines. Today, through events like the Meltdown Festival, she continues to "be a thorn in the side of the establishment", and has come to share this role with a new generation that includes Kevin Shields, Antony Hegarty, Cat Power, Fugazi and filmmaker Jem Cohen, uniting them in new creative and political explorations. Surely, if such a thing as a new countercultural movement could exist once more (and it might well do), then Patti Smith could be, as she was in the late 70s, its revered figurehead.
In the foreword to Early Work, a collection of her writings and poetry from the 70s, Smith states, "An artist wears his work in place of wounds. Here then is a glimpse of the sores of my generation. Often crude, irreverent – but done, I can assure you, with a fierce heart." It's an acknowledgment of the idealism and naivety perhaps with which she first presented her ideas – the incarnations of great songs, anthems and lyrical mind bombs. This kind of bravery in putting new ideas on the line, to be inventive against what is popular in your time, is something that is lost in rock'n'roll today. It is not that brave artists don't exist, but that bands are fast tracked by the record industry into the super-annuated promotional machine – into an entertainment vortex where they all look and sound the same. Patti Smith reinvented the language of rock'n'roll in the same way that Hendrix reinvented its sound, in the way that Pollock reinvented painting. This kind of development, the space for cultural experimentation and cross-examination of the form, is almost lost now in a time when artistic freedom is short-circuited by the pre-packaged requirements of the entertainment machine.
In a glass cabinet, Smith keeps her Commandeur de I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest accolade awarded by the French Republic to artists and writers who have contributed to furthering the arts. For someone who used to refer to herself as "The Field Marshall", she sees it as the ultimate medal in a cultural war – in her spiritual crusade. it's not about brandishing guitars as weapons as she once felt she needed to do, but about mining the depths of the personal and the political. "The artist's calling is a sacred one," she reminds us, "and the artist's duty, a political one".
In her new volume of poetry and writing, Auguries of Innocence, Smith's duties pour into her words. It's a slim book, but one that is rich in its evocation of love, devotion, dedication and the divine. It's a homage to those close to her who she has lost along the way: Fred Sonic Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Stohl, the pianist in the Patti Smith Group, and her brother and road manager Todd Smith, all of whom died long before their time. It's as if their ghosts are urging her, provoking her to challenge, question and reveal more.
Patti Smith, however, managed to give death the cold shoulder. Her performances in the 70s were unconventional, unrehearsed; she would bend and twist, and hurl herself around the stage. She would simulate masterbation, howl her babelogue and pump her fists in the air, invoking, challenging the audience. In 1977 she fell off the stage in Tampa, Florida, and broke two vertebrae in her neck. It laid her up for a few months but didn't lay her out; she recorded Easter in 1978. It took something much more profound – emotional not physical – to end Smith's public life.
In the late 70s, at the height of her fame, when the Patti Smith Group were playing to stadiums in Italy and had just released their biggest selling album Wave, Smith decided to retire with her husband so they could raise their children Jesse and Jackson (now aged 19 and 24) away from the limelight. It was a graceful and unconventional and totally unexpected exit from the game.
In many ways, Patti Smith is the ultimate rock'n'roll visionary not just for what she did, but also for what she didn't do. She is an artist who has found a way to balance the sacred and the profane. She ignites the mythological potential of rock'n'roll with the reality of living as an American artist under a coercive regime. "People have the power," she tells us on Gone Again from 1996, and that's the point she will always make. The truth is that it may only take one artist like Patti Smith to change rock'n'roll, but the people, you and her as one, can do much more than that; you can change the world.
Jefferson Hack: You're performing a lot at the moment. Are you enjoying it?
Patti Smith: Yes immensely. When I was younger I didn't know so much about performing, it was all intuitive. I didn't train to be a singer or a musician, I just did it. And I was pretty fearless.
JH: Were you surprised by how much of a physical performer you could be?
PS: Yeah, I was always shocked at how aggressive I was, because normally I'm pretty even tempered. But I have these feelings in me, because there is so much injustice in the world, that I can't help feeling a certain amount of rage. Performance has always been a way for me to channel that rage. lt's been a very good vehicle.
JH: How did it feel to play the entire Horses album at the Meltdown festival last year?
PS: That was one of those nights when the people really ruled. They were really electric and I could feel their energy – it was a beautiful thing. We recorded the show, but I felt like somehow, if I could have captured the audience and recorded them, it would have made it great, not because they were cheering and clapping, but because there was an electricity in the air that was really fantastic. Our bass player mixed the recording for the anniversary CD and he brought Gioria round, and we sat in the car and listened. lt made me cry. lt had a real spirit. Sometimes you attempt things like that but you don't know if they're really going to come across well, but I was happy with it. I felt like the spirit of that night wasn't that different to the early years. For me, Gioria was a declaration of existence. What I'm trying to say is that we weren't just going through the motions. I felt like that authenticity came through.
JH: Do you feel as creatively powerful, as free in your expression as you did when you wrote Horses?
PS: Well hopefully I feel more powerful. Even though I'm older I still feel that I haven't accomplished all of the things I want to, nor have I reached the place I want to get to, so I'm still struggling and working, just like I always did. In that way, I'm connected with all of my selves. I don't feel like somebody who produced a bunch of genius work at one point and now I'm in my declining years. I feel like I'm still trying to communicate something through a song that will touch people. I'm still working on things.
JH: Do you think that you have certain codes in your life and in your work?
PS: When I was younger, I didn't really think about how my actions or work would affect people – how it might redesign their thinking. Or if I hurt somebody, how that resonated in their life. So I am really trying to be more conscious of that, and I think that a lack of codes or having certain personal standards just leads to a murky chaos. Not an exciting anarchy or anything, just people hurting each other, people getting sick. I think it's important to have that. I learnt a lot when I lived in the Chelsea Hotel in the 60s. I would see people spinning out of control all over the place. Some died, some committed suicide, some got so disconnected from reality that they could no longer work or form a sentence straight. I certainly didn't want to get like that.
JH: So you never had a long period when you used drugs – had a serious relationship with them?
PS: When I was young, I was only exposed to drugs in books. I'd read about the hashish eaters of Afghanistan, and the French poets who took opium, and it seemed really romantic and special. For me, drugs were like rituals. Like when American Indians go to the sweat lodge and take peyote and have a specific vision that informs the rest of their life. I thought it was important for jazz musicians so they could explore their music, allowing them to improvise. When I came to New York in the centre of drug culture in 1967, I saw all these people around me, all this drug use, without any spiritual or aesthetic meaning, or any kind of direction, just partying, using drugs, being slaves to them, and I didn't understand that. I found it very disrespectful. I didn't think people shouldn't take them, but I thought that they should be taken seriously. I don't believe drugs should be taken for recreation and so casually. I thought that then and I still believe it now.
JH: Did that have any bearing on your relationship with Burroughs, the most famous junkie in America?
PS: When I met William he was no longer doing drugs, because of his poor health. I've never seen William strung out. But, ironically, he was a good example for me, because he was really disciplined. Only sometimes he would be at the bar and have a little too much to drink, which he wasn't supposed to do. He had a medicine cabinet, and he was very disciplined. He lived till he was 83. I saw William as a man with a lot of dignity. He was always well dressed, wore a shirt and a tie, overcoat – always a gentleman. I mean this is what I remember as my perspective of him. Of course I had a big crush on him, he was very kind to me. The example he set was of a person with self-discipline who really respected drugs. Sometimes, I would look around me and everybody seemed so messed up. What bothered me most, was the inability of people to have a normal conversation. Everybody was like Dennis Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now. I didn't understand that kind of rap. Even though I was well read and intelligent, I was still a New Jersey girl. lt was hard for me to comprehend the way people seemed insincere and surface with each other. However, within that world, I did meet a lot of really interesting people who I could communicate with. Like Gregory Corso who I would talk with for hours about poetry, performance, political issues, and Sam Shepard, who had this cowboy aspect to him.
JH: So within the lifestyle you found what you wanted …
PS: It's about codes again, or a way of working ... Artists have a certain lifestyle. I believe that if it is your calling to be an artist, you have a real responsibility to that work and, one could say, to God. Also if you believe, being able to animate God within you, your work is a gift. And you know, everyone has the potential to animate God in some way or other; it might in the way they tend the plants in their garden, or in the way they raise their children.
JH: God being what exactly?
PS: I mean ... look at someone like Jim Morrison ... who I believe could have evolved into a great poet ... People would have really profited by his work, and I think he wanted that. I don't think Jim Morrison wanted to die, but he abused himself so much with drugs and alcohol that he died at just 27.
JH: So you see that as a tragedy, as a waste?
PS: Yes, I see it as a waste. I suppose it's judgmental of me, but I didn't want to be like that. I would pay a certain price for art, I would be lonely, work really hard, sacrifice material things, I'd even sacrifice having fun, whatever one had to, but I was not willing to sacrifice myself. I think about these things even now, in terms of my own longevity. In another year and a half I'll be 60, and I think that's a real milestone for a human being. I feel very connected with my whole self. I feel in touch, you know, with my 11-year-old self, with all my selves, and the work that I want to do. I feel connected with all of the steps I've taken through the years. I'm glad that I've lived for so long and hopefully I have a few more decades so I can do better work, or more inspirational work for other people.
JH: When you spoke to the audience in Ghent (editor's note: Patti was speaking at the Fusebox event curated by filmmaker Jem Cohen) about your political views you said, 'we are the disenfranchised'. What did you mean by that?
PS: I perceive this period of life on our planet as very dark. The people in power are very powerful, and I don't see them being toppled too quickly. Not only the government, but also the corporations, the pharmaceutical and oil companies – they're all sleeping with governments. The world seems more corrupt than ever. And I feel that our cultural voice is weak.
JH: The music, art and media worlds are really putting up no resistance. There is no sense of a counterculture like there was in the 60s. Now there is a series of highly developed micro-cultures that aren't unified.
PS: That's it. That is the idea of disenfranchisement – we have this umbrella, but we don't seem to have any sense of unity.
JH: In America, post 9/11, there is a kind of McCarthyism, which says if you're not with us, you're against us, and if you're against us you are anti-American. lt puts people who are patriotic in a lose-lose situation.
PS: Especially after 9/11, because that, unfortunately, caused a resurgence of nationalistic sentiment. After the attacks people united, and that brought nationalism back to America, which I think is really unhealthy. Being nationalistic to me is being self-orientated. Patriotism is completely different. The Bush administration would like us to think that if we question the government we're not patriotic, but what Thomas Jefferson did in penning the Declaration of Independence, was highlight the absolute need for Americans to constantly question the government. I mean Thomas Jefferson said rather overthrow your government than be sheep.
JH: Another code …
PS: Yes absolutely, the true American code is against the Bush administration. You know, George Bush is nothing but the new King George. He fears, or his administration fears, the organic way the laws evolved on which the US was built, and has set up a smokescreen so that the people are very disconnected from their rights as citizens. And not only our rights, but our duties. It's our duty to question, it's certainly the media's duty to question and I think they have failed completely and betrayed us. They failed and betrayed us in their reporting of the Iraq occupation, and they're failing us now. And that's why I talk about being disenfranchised. I was heartbroken when the Bush administration said they were going to invade Iraq. I couldn't believe that the people would let them do that. I couldn't believe that the Democratic Party would support him in giving him the power to do that. We were betrayed down the line. So, again, where are our examples today? The Democratic Party has, since I was a child, been the torchbearer for doing the right thing.
JH: Not supporting the war and wanting a change of government are two different things. That's the danger of having a two-party system, they become so closely aligned. Kicking out the reds and getting in the blues doesn't necessarily work.
PS: That whole colours thing is bullshit – that polarisation of people. During the Vietnam war, the red and the blue didn't mean shit to the 50,000 parents who lost their sons. Suddenly nobody cared if they were Democrat or Republican, it didn't matter. People wanted the war to end because their children were dying. It was a huge emotional and physical drain on our country – the guilt and confusion, all the death. 50,000 Americans died, but hundreds of thousands were maimed or psychologically damaged, and so the nation had a strong, unified voice against it. When we protested against the Iraq war, 150,000 people gathered in Washington, and Jesse Jackson spoke, along with various other strong speakers, but it was never reported. The press gave us a small paragraph somewhere. I had five different interviews set up with CNN, but they cancelled every one of them. I realised that the only way you can influence political change in America is for huge numbers to come forth, and I don't see that happening right now. So what I feel is that we who believe, and are not heard, and have no real voice or real power, because of our media, have to find each other and unite. And I think that is really important. We can't become depressed or feel ineffectual, we have to start building a counterculture, a new underground, and just do our work.
JH: Like your heroes, Rimbaud and Blake?
PS: I always come back to William Blake because in his time, he saw so much injustice, saw women being beaten to a pulp in the street, 11-year-olds as prostitutes, toddlers as chimney sweeps, children in the mills working through the night with no food. He just walked the streets, and saw such rampant human degradation, and was so moved by it, that he tried to make changes. He tried to join political movements, but they were so disorganised that he had to withdraw. He spoke out and was nearly hanged for dissent, and so finally he did the best thing that he could: he worked. And he spoke about issues and offered new possibilities, or laid out the horrific situation children were put in. People didn't listen in his lifetime, but future generations did. And now, William Blake's work and thoughts inform our culture. So I don't have an 'if you can't beat them join them' philosophy, but I also don't have the 'if you can't beat them, curl up in a ball' philosophy. If you can't beat them, just do your work. And as I like to put it, it becomes a thorn in their side – just keep pricking them and pricking them and pricking them until they bleed.
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Q: Monitor is not displaying maximum and minimum water in interface in Netlogo I have  tried and explored the already answered question on this forum before posting my question.I am building a model for water use by farmers. I want farmers to use water own by them and then from their patches and then want to have changed water variable of patches, farmers and  as a global variable sum of both surface water of farmers and patches. and I expect to see output as maximum and minimum water at every tick. But my monitors and graphs displays same value. I am unable to find the mistake please guide.Codes are given below with picture of GUI.Thanks.
globals [TW  well-depth]; total water
breed [farmers farmer]
farmers-own [SWA] ;surface water availbility
patches-own [ wtd GW ] ;water table depth and Groundwater

to setup
  clear-all
  create-farmers num-farmers [
    move-to one-of patches
    set SWA  random 12
  ]
  ask patches [
    set WTD 2
    set GW 3
    set pcolor green
  ]
  reset-ticks
end

to go
  ask farmers [
    update-water
  ]
  tick
end

to update-water
  ifelse swa < 5 [
    ask patches in-radius 1 [
      set pcolor blue
      set TW gw + [SWA] of myself
    ]
  ]
  [
    ask patches in-radius 1 [
      set gw  gw - random-float .0005
      set well-depth wtd / gw
    ]
    set tw swa
  ]

end

Interface setup:

Plot setup:

Hi, I want to build a model for timeline of farmers cropping in a year and update yearly farmers income, wealth, water available, water use etc.For that I have tried to build a model considering suggestions from previous answer to this post. I need to completely solve the given issue. If I take access-water in my codes as a global variable. my maximum and minimum value of water get changed but it remains same when I stop the model. But as per suggestion if I take excess-water as farmers-own then excess-water graph displays a constant line and a constant maximum and minimum water. I need to see fluctuations although I have tried to include water use in my model.Expected output of my model majorly will be water use/ access-water, groundwater and surface water.Please recommend corrections.
Thanks
      Globals [ potential-buyers  year season  TAWS TGWU TWR   rprice wprice  excess-water ]
    Breed [rfarmers rfarmer]
    Breed [pfarmers pfarmer]
    Breed [wcrops wcrop]
    Breed [ccrops ccrop]
    Breed [rcrops rcrop]
    rfarmers-own [
  savings
    tubewell
    wyield
    ryield
    land
  CRPDCSN
   WR-wheat
  SWA-rabi
  GWA pumping-on?
   seasonality
  input-cost
wealth
  wrevenue
  wincome
  wwealth
  allowed-pumped-water
  wr-rice
  income-1
  SWA-kharif
  income-2
  rincome
  rrevenue
  rwealth
]
patches-own [Gwater well-depth
WTD]

    to setup
  clear-all
  ask patches [set pcolor green
    Set WTD 3 + random-float 18.005

  set Gwater  GW / WTD
   ]
  create-rfarmers no-of-rfarmers [set shape "person"
                                  set color brown
                                 move-to one-of patches
                                 set land 12
                                 set wealth 1000 + random 500
                                set input-cost 5 + random 3
                                set tubewell 1
                                set wr-wheat 10 + random-float 12
                                set SWA-rabi 4 + random-float 6.6
                                set SWA-kharif 6 + random-float 9.6
                                set wr-rice 18 + random-float 15
                                set GWA   pumping-on?

                                set wprice 1.300 + random 5.0
                                set rprice 1.500 + random 1.00
                                set wyield 25 + random 20
                                set ryield 40 + random 20
                                                               ]
Reset-ticks
end

to go
ask rfarmers [cropping-decision
;use-GW
update-wealth-w
 ]
tick
update-timeline

end
to cropping-decision
    ifelse  wealth > input-cost and land > 2 and ticks mod 2 = 0
                 [ set CRPDCSN "wheat"
                   if wr-wheat < SWA-rabi [ use-GW]
                   set seasonality "Rabi"
                    ]

                    [set CRPDCSN "rice"
                     Set seasonality "Kharif"
                    go-2]

    end
to use-GW
    ifelse (SWA-rabi - wr-wheat) < 0  [set pumping-on? true

                                                       ask patches in-radius 4 [ set wtd wtd + random-float 1.00005]
                                                      set input-cost input-cost  + 0.0005  * ( wr-wheat - SWA-rabi) / wtd ; changed from 200 to 20 t0 .05
                                                      set gwater gwater - random-float 0.0005 / wtd
                                                      set excess-water SWA-rabi - wr-wheat + sum [gwater] of patches in-radius 1
                                                      if excess-water > 0 [sell-buy-accesswater]]

  [set pumping-on? false
    set wyield wyield - random-float 0.0005
  set excess-water SWA-rabi
  set input-cost input-cost  - random-float 1 ]

end

to sell-buy-accesswater
                       set potential-buyers other rfarmers in-radius 4 with [(excess-water <= 0)]
                      ask potential-buyers [set input-cost input-cost + 0.0005 * ( wr-wheat - SWA-rabi) / WTD
                                             set wyield wyield - .0005 ]
                                             set income-1 0.0005 * excess-water
                                             set wyield wyield + random-float .000005
                                             set excess-water excess-water - [excess-water] of potential-buyers

end
to update-wealth-w
set wrevenue wprice * (wyield * land)
              set wincome wrevenue - input-cost * land
              set  wwealth wealth + wincome + income-1

end
to update-timeline
 if ticks mod 2 = 0 [set season "Rabi"   set year year + 1
   set wprice wprice + 1 ]
;Ask rfarmers [set SWA-Rabi SWA-Rabi - random-float .0005]] ;to incorporate effect of climate
  if ticks mod 2 = 1 [set season "Kharif"
    set rprice rprice + 1]
 ; ask rfarmers [Set SWA-Kharif  SWA-kharif - random-float .001]

end

to go-2
ask rfarmers [use-GW-R
;buying-selling-GW-R
;lsell-buy-water-r
update-wealth-r
update-wealth
]

end

 ;;;;;;;;;;; Same procedure is adopted for rice;;;;;;;;;;;;
to use-GW-r
  ifelse (SWA-kharif - wr-rice) < 0  [set pumping-on? true
                                                      ;set Gwater  (gwater - (SWA-rabi - wr-wheat))
                                                     ;set GWA 10 + random-float 10
                                                      set input-cost input-cost  + .0006  * ( wr-rice - SWA-kharif) / wtd ; changed from 200 to 20 t0 .05
                                                      ask patches in-radius 4 [ set wtd wtd + random-float .005 ]
                                                     set excess-water ( SWA-kharif - wr-rice + gwater )
                                                      if excess-water > 0 [sell-buy-accesswater-r] ] ; + GWater]

         [set pumping-on? false
          set ryield ryield - random 2]

end

to sell-buy-accesswater-r
  set potential-buyers other rfarmers in-radius 3 with [(excess-water <= 0)] ; and  (wtd >= allowable-lm-pumping)]
                ask potential-buyers [set input-cost input-cost + 0.0005  * ( excess-water) / WTD
                                      set ryield ryield - .005 ]
                                      set income-2 0.5 * (excess-water)

end

to update-wealth-r
 set rrevenue (rprice * ryield * land)
              set rincome rrevenue - (input-cost * land)
              set rwealth  rincome + income-2

end

to update-wealth
  if ticks mod 2 = 1
  [ set wealth  wealth + .0005 * (rwealth + wwealth) ]
end

here is the interface setup of the model

A: You are asking your plot to show the TW of turtles, but TW is a global variable- there is only ever one value for TW. When you ask for [TW] of turtles you are returned a list of identical values (whatever TW currently is) whose length is the same as the current number of turtles. So, say for example that you have 5 turtles and a TW of 11; when you ask for plot max [TW] of turtles you are really asking Netlogo to plot the maximum of [ 11 11 11 11 11 ], and the same is true for the minimum.
Another problem with this setup is that since TW is a global variable, every time you run update-water, you are having each patch modify TW. In your model, whatever TW is currently set to will be overwritten by whatever patch is last called. You may want to rework your update-water to be specific to farmers or patches, rather than using a global variable.
I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to plot- do you want the minimum and maximum water available to a farmer? That might be something like this:
First, add FW to the farmers-own variables, then try this modified update-water procedure:
to update-water

  ifelse swa < 5 [
    ask patches in-radius 1 [
      set pcolor blue
    ]
    set FW swa + sum [gw] of patches in-radius 1
  ]
  [
    ask patches in-radius 1 [
      set gw gw - random-float 0.0005
      set well-depth wtd / gw
    ]
    set FW swa
  ]

end

When you now show [FW] of turtles, you get a list like [10 17 6 19 18 7 9 15 5 10] instead of a list of identical numbers. Now try plotting with the same plot update command you used before, but with FW instead of TW. If I'm way off, please let me know what you're wanting to plot.
Edit:
Simplistic example of water use, where the farmers each "use up" the swa available to them. Replace the update-water procedure with the one below and run your model- you should see farmers start to use up their swa until their swa is less than 5, then they will start to use up the nearby patch gw until it is all used up.
to update-water

  ifelse swa > 5 [
    set swa swa - random-float 0.5
    set FW swa
  ]
  [
    set swa 0
    ask patches in-radius 1 [
      if gw > 0 [
        set pcolor blue
        set gw gw - random-float 0.25
      ]
      if gw <= 0 [
        set gw 0
        set pcolor black
      ]
    ]
    set FW swa + sum [gw] of patches in-radius 1
  ]

end


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Department of Clinical Genetics /
Human Mutation /
H. Brems (Hilde), E. Pasmant (Eric), A.S. Thornton (Andrew), K. Wimmer (Katharina), M. Upadhyaya (Meena), E. Legius (Eric) and L.M. Messiaen (Ludwine)
Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing legius syndrome
Human Mutation , Volume 33 - Issue 11 p. 1538- 1546
Legius syndrome presents as a mild neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) phenotype. Multiple café-au-lait spots and macrocephaly are present with or without axillary or inguinal freckling. Other typical NF1-associated features (Lisch nodules, bone abnormalities, neurofibromas, optic pathway gliomas, and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors) are systematically absent. Legius syndrome is caused by germline loss-of-function SPRED1 mutations, resulting in overactivation of the RAS-MAPK signal transduction cascade. The first families were identified in 2007. Here, we review all identified SPRED1 mutations and summarize molecular, clinical, and functional data. All mutations have been deposited in a database created using the Leiden Open Variation Database software and accessible at http://www.lovd.nl/SPRED1. At present, the database contains 89 different mutations identified in 146 unrelated probands, including 16 new variants described for the first time. The database contains a spectrum of mutations: 29 missense, 28 frameshift, 19 nonsense, eight copy number changes, two splicing, one silent, one in-frame deletion and a mutation affecting the initiation codon. Sixty-three mutations and deletions are definitely pathogenic or most likely pathogenic, eight SPRED1 mutations are probably benign rare variants, and 17 SPRED1 missense mutations are still unclassified and need further family and functional studies to help with the interpretation.
Keywords Legius syndrome, NF1, RAS-MAPK, RASopathy, SPRED1
Persistent URL doi.org/10.1002/humu.22152, hdl.handle.net/1765/65753
Journal Human Mutation
Organisation Department of Clinical Genetics
Brems, H, Pasmant, E, Thornton, A.S, Wimmer, K, Upadhyaya, M, Legius, E, & Messiaen, L.M. (2012). Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing legius syndrome. Human Mutation, 33(11), 1538–1546. doi:10.1002/humu.22152


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