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Columnist says protect parks; Hentzell designation decision pending
By Dave Felice
As Denverites await a decision from Parks Manager Lauri Dannemiller, a prominent environmental writer says "it's time Denver residents pay more attention to our irreplaceable, priceless parks." And, Advocates for Denver Parks say it's as important as ever to send a message to the city administration in opposition to a plan to give away nine acres of Hentzell Park Natural area.
Environmental affairs columnist Joanne Ditmer says parks, including natural areas, "should be protected and increased" instead of given away for other purposes. "No one's making more land," writes Ditmer in a Denver Post column. "But there are always people who want to use park land for something else."
Read the entire Ditmer column here.
Mayor Michael B. Hancock wants to trade the Hentzell Park Natural Area to Denver Public Schools (DPS) for an office building at 13th and Fox. By Parks regulations, Dannemiller must make a recommendation on removing the natural area designation before the trade process can move forward.
Dannemiller says she'll reveal her decision on January 2nd or 3rd. The decision will be setting precedent because no park land has ever been de-designated. If she decides to remove the designation, she'll defy widespread public opinion and an 11-to-6 decision by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to retain designation. If Dannemiller rejects de-designation, she'll countermand her boss, Michael B. Hancock.
Ditmer's comments echo those of Denver Post editorial writer Vince Carroll:
"(S)hould good people with good causes be allowed to encroach on the city's limited inventory of parks and open space?" Carroll wrote recently.
Carroll concluded: "It's not merely 9 acres in southeast Denver in potential jeopardy. If the city can unceremoniously swap that land for offices, it can do the same with any open space not protected as officially designated park land."
Read Carroll here.
In another column, freelance writer Susan Barnes-Gelt mentions Hentzell Park as a major issue facing incoming Planning Director Rocky Piro and "citizen concern over the opaque dealings between Denver Public Schools and the Hancock administration."
Read Barnes-Gelt here.
In another article, Denver Post reporter Jeremy P. Meyer promotes the notion that opposition to the Hentzell scheme is limited to "some southeast Denver neighbors."
Respected writers such as Ditmer, Carroll, and Barnes-Gelt, however, seem to understand that opposition is much more widespread throughout the city. The citizen concern is documented by a front-page article in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle and standing-room only attendance at the Parks Advisory Board meeting December 13.
Read the Chronicle article here.
Meyer reports Hancock dismisses the opposition by saying "From what we know about controversies is that you hear from roughly 15 percent of the community" and "We need to ask 'who are we not hearing from?' "
Hancock's office has not released any of the communication it has received, pro or con, regarding the Hentzell scheme. Parks and Recreation has posted six multi-page comment documents on line, most favoring retention of natural area. There were more people in the audience for the Advisory Board meeting than any time in recent memory.
Three of Hancock's five appointees to the Parks Board voted to retain natural area designation, putting the future of their appointments in jeopardy. The property is located in Councilwoman Peggy Lehmann's district. Lehmann's appointee also voted to keep the natural area designation.
Both attendees and Board members complained that the Hancock proposal divisively pitted the interest of parks, open space, and wildlife against schools and domestic violence victim assistance.
Meyer reports Hancock apparently intends to overlook opposition. "Hancock wants (the transaction) to happen even though he knows there will be pushback," writes Meyer.
Read the Meyer report here.
Here is a consolidated list of e-mail addresses for city officials, members of Council, and the Parks Advisory Board:
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For more information on Hentzell Park Natural Area, see:
www.DenverNature.net
www.DenverDirect.tv
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All Things MJ with Jessica LeRoux - December 30, 2012
Hey Now,
Its time to be through with 2012, and 2013 should be a very educational and mind expanding year! I have big plans in the coming year to remain invested in the political process surrounding the cannabis industry, and to do my very best to keep you informed so that we can ensure that we all remain relevant in a rapidly changing regulatory system.
I have been out most of this past week with that wicked evil bad flu that has been going around, but Im fully recovered and ready to cook up some fun for your patients. Deliveries for next week will be delayed a day all the way around due to the Holiday on Monday/Tuesday but please feel free to let us know what you would like us to deliver and we will do it very happily. And as usual the savings are at the bottom of the news, and will be all year long in 2013! That said you shouldn't skip the homework, there are gonna be a lot of important issues that you will benefit from timely participation in.
Also about 5-6 of the Xmas cards we sent to all of you bounced back, so if you didnt get our card please lemme know so we can ensure you get our remembrance of our gratitude for your support in 2012! Thanks!
just a reminder that the legislative session in CO begins on January 9th, so if you can be at the capitol to kick off the session that is the day, more news on the opener next week! Also a reminder that the A-64 task force has their next general meeting on Monday 1-7-13.
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Setback for CINQ?
Ed. note: This is a very long piece regarding the latest information on the proposed beltway expansion being challenged by Citizens Involved in the Northwest Quadrant (CINQ).
From CINQ - A lot has recently happened and I have delayed release of this information due to Christmas. In summary, Golden lost the lawsuit but it is preparing an appeal, to be joined by Superior and other organizations. Many close to this case have commented that the Federal judge has made a grossly poor decision. We are aware that the judge was lobbied by at least one very high profile federal official, which is highly unusual. This speaks to the lengths supporters of the beltway will go. We are very glad that Golden will seek an emergency injunction and appeal the case. Maybe we will get a fair shake from a federal appeals court. There's a lot here, and information is provided in sequential order as it was received by us.
Today's Boulder Camera reports that the federal case regarding the transfer of land at Rocky Flats for the Jefferson Parkway recently decided in favor of U.S. Fish & Wildlife has been appealed by the cities of Superior and Golden and two environmental groups. The article is on line at http://www.dailycamera.com/superior-news/ci_22255712/superior-environmentalists-appeal-jefferson-parkway-ruling
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Walkabout - December 21, 2012
by Gerald Trumbule
It's a cloudy overcast day today - perfect for a walkabout in my neighborhood near City Park on York.
I've got this thing about giant old trees in the neighborhood. As much as I love trees, I think these old giants should be removed and replaced with trees that are more in keeping with the scale of the architecture they are near. I've had 4 of them cut down on this block on properties I owned (at an average cost of $1000 each) and then replanted with 5 small trees that will only grow about 35 feet tall, which is in keeping with the height of the buildings. I contacted the Denver Forest and Trees Department about this some years ago and they told me they don't cut trees down because they are ugly or out of scale. A few years later, I read that the Curtis Park neighborhood got a grant for exactly that purpose.
The condo project at 17th and Gaylord got finished. It looks like they redid the balconies. Must have cost a boatload of money...
but they look much better.
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A personal observation of the Hentzell Park deal
by Bill Langton
Special to Denver Direct
To follow on with the saga of trading the 11 acres of land controlled by Denver Parks and Recreation for a closed school at 13th and Fox to be used as a Shelter for Abused Women and Children, the DPR (Denver Parks and Recreation) Advisory Board voted 11-to-6 against the proposal (December 13). I attended the meeting to see what this was all about. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Parks Board is advisory. DPR is capable of accepting the advice or rejecting it. Time will tell.
I would like to give you my observations on this complex issue foisted on DPR.
As a retired businessman, I found early in my career that these kinds of proposals are never what they seem to be. So, the rule is to follow the money and you will uncover the motive.
First, if the city wanted the school on Fox Street for a shelter, the city could could simply buy it and create the shelter.
Second, if we need a elementary school for southeast Denver, the School District could find a site and develop it. The vote in November gave the District plenty of money.
So why create this subterfuge? If you take the jaundiced view that the city wants this land for commecial development to increase the tax base, it starts to make sense.
The city could not take public land under the DPR rules because it is classified as natural area and prohibited from such acts. But if the administration reclassified it and the school district took over the land then when the school district determined that it was unfit for an elementary school they could sell it for commercial development.
To get the declassification, city officials needed to create a situation where if DPR Advisory Board did not vote to reclassify they they were against Abused Women and Children and were against schools. What a dilemma!
Fortunately, some on the Advisory Board asked some very straight questions. Is this really a fair exchange? The Mayor's representatives said "Oh yes." The school on Fox Ave is valued at 3.7 million and the 11 acres of open space is valued at 3.2 million. How can that be unless it was valued as commercial property? It has no value as open space.
Board members also asked if the DPS was committed to building on this site. They went into great detail on how there would also be community facilities, such as, a ball field for everyone to enjoy. But, then they also recieved a letter from the DPS (Denver Public Schools) saying that the School District would not be able to start building until 2014 and if the demographics or anything else changed, they might not go forward.
So, ergo, the open space is gone, the DPS now can move forward to sell the site for commercial development.
It is hard to imagine building an elementary school next to Havana, one of the busiest state roads in Denver. Children would have to cross Havana to go to school and I assume a 15 mph speed limit would have to be posted during rush hour. This would create a major traffic and safety problems. Children would also use the trail to go to school and run off all of the existing wild life that makes the trail so special. In other words, it is my opinion that school would never be built.
This is my view from listening to the discussions at the Parks Advisory Board meeting and my experience in business. It may or may not be as nafarious as I have made it out but I do think this was a con from the start and the real questions is what developer is behind it and how does the Mayor benefit other than increasing a tax base.
Anyway, one major bullet has been dodged, for the time being, but I think we have to watch this very closely.
Bill L.
Jessica LeRoux reports on the first A64 (Legal Marijuana) Task Force Meeting
Here is as full a review as I can possibly offer of today's Amendment 64 Task Force meeting, in light of the fact that the panelists seem to have been selected as much for their marble mouthed mumbling qualities as any other obvious qualification. Should be an interesting 8 weeks, I have the dates for pending meetings as well as Pix of important power point pages. I will try to condense this into as quick a read as I can, so I will go over the intro to the meeting and discussion points about the panel, post the pics, and below each picture i will elaborate about the topic in the photo, and give pointers on the panelists proposals and responses. When I want to interject my own thoughts I will *** and change fonts...
The meeting began with Jack Findlaw the Governors office and Barbara Brohl from DOR saying they would be the authority on A64, and going around the table to do introductions. Then Barbara Brohl laid down the basis for the day's session as being "issue Identification". Panel Members were given a binder of worksheets and info contacts etc... the binder contents were reviewed, including the fact that the MMED plans to assist with writing the rules in WA state as well as here. and for the record I am in the process of obtaining a copy of the Map (tab 12) contained in the Binder which shows the state MMJ bans by region.
The group proceeded to set the dates for meetings to occur after the new year, which again are open to you to attend and will also be at the gaming office building at
17301 W Colfax. Meeting dates are as follows.
Monday 1-7-13 12 1-5pm.
Tuesday 1-22-13 1-5pm
Tuesday 2-5-13 1-5pm
(and possibly if nesc 2-28-13)
Then Jack Findlaw started the session with the statement that the MMED is the standard, which alarmed me as I thought the voters wanted recreational to be regulated like alcohol, not over-regulated to death.
"Task force is intended to review legal & policy issues not debate legality of marijuana"
these two power point pages show the role and desired outcome of the task force... they also show some skull, to keep it sexy for ya!
what's cut off here is 'participate in work groups" and "review state law to identify and make recommendations for changes if applicable"
what is cut off here is "work groups will share their recommendations with the Task Force where the recommendations will be discussed and subject to approval"
*** This subject to approval aspect is going to complicate things i predict, based on the need for a "quorum". What that means is that a majority, of greater than 50% of the panel (at least 13 panelists) must agree " to a consensus" on an issue for it to move forward. This is alarming given that the panel only has 2 1/2 people who may represent "us" out of 24 people, thereby potentially disenfranchising patients.
and alarmingly when there is no Consensus the majority vote of the majority of workgroup members in attendance is the way they will move forward if there is a quorum. Also alarmingly we were told if a panelist is going to be absent they may send a proxy to vote on their behalf, but if a proxy is underinformed about previous materials debated or discussed they may cast an uninformed vote we all have to live by.
Also Task Force members must vote on issues, and only may abstain is there is a conflict of interest. WHO DECIDES what is a conflict?
We learned that the meetings will be open to the public, but you need to sign up to speak when you arrive not after the meeting.
The DOR will be taking minutes at meetings which will be posted to their webpage upon their approval at the next meeting (2 week time frame). The work group meetings and all Task force meetings will be posted to the public in compliance with CO open meetings act. ***There is no timeline for how many days in advance these meetings will be posted.
Then we got this powerpoint of the task force workgroups and who is in charge of em...
The grey back grounds make these hard to read, but we have the actual PDF of the real powerpoint attached here too...
Then they went through the groups one by one, in a session where panelists got to give feedback about each work group's agenda. so I will post each pic, share my personal observations and concerns, and give you the panelists comments....
***Ok, so things were going along weirdly enough, but when questions arose about #5 on this guideline, strangely nobody knew where that suggestion came from! State run Cannabis would only adhere to the intent of regulating like alcohol if we lived in Utah folks.
The panelists were asked to identify other issues that fall under this topic, I am presenting an edited version as I couldnt write it all verbatim.
Findlaw: we have choices, to regulate like alcohol, like MMJ, like gaming, MMED is model since it is working... **** really? who told him that?
CS: Alcohol is Model citizens voted for & the framework.
DB what is regulatory framework for WA state?
KB: which implimentation model gains favor will affect local control.
DP: banking issues and federal implications
CU: Define uses
KB: what does DOR envision looking at beyond licensing?
?: Public Consumption
CS: Banking, federal preemption not issue, unless we bring to table, should not be discussed or used at threat. *** Good point.
VM: Will insurance Co's cover MMJ patients, what effect will that have on medicaid funds?
RK: Ideally harmonized Medical & recreational, ***not at expense of patients please.
?: Grey Market sales?
RK: Emergency funding for regulatory, where, when how?
MS: Regulation for home grows...
CT: clarity on outdoor grows
*** here my main concern is that the chair person for this workgroup is Kevin Bommer from Municiple league, as you know I shared a document from his office 2 weeks ago where the CML ws already prioritizing Prohibition over regulation. The CML has also been instrumental in passing many regional bans. I question if the state plans to write a pretty set of rules while at the same time encouraging Kbomb to get the local municipalities to enact bans in every area retail sales might ever be eligible to occur.
main topics were:
BB Different rolls for different agencies state & local.
MS identify opportunities for retail?
DB: Local advertising regs?
CS: who binds local certification?
*** once again they seem to be very keen on finding ways to take money!
We learned a few things on this one, like that the co-chair of this workgroup also happens to be the co-chari of the CCJJ who decides about DUI laws. *** Cozy no? Most of these points centered on DUI no surprise. But there were some other shocking issues of topic...
*** the 1st speaker to chime in on this topic also made the news today for her other opinions... Tamara Ward is a panelist who also is primary signatory of the letter sent by CO business groups to the DOJ requesting that the federal government enforce the Controlled Substances Act. Read the link here, I think this person among about 5 others should be recused for conflict of interest. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/12/marijuana_amendment_64_task_force_conflict_of_interest.php
TW: Concerns for employers
MS: 280 E tax issues on state level
CS: decouple state & fed taxes for industry
DP?: Student Aid issues, Housing, Contract enforcability???
CS: Where does money go once collected? **** Great Question!
CS: Define Excise tax v other taxes
BB: Where will excise taxes be collected?
CG: Child court issues Dui & juvie court for underage driving intoxicated
MS: (union) DUID in workplace in blood while not using... (nanogram level)
cs: redefine probable cause
kb: redefine muni code rules for misdemeanor
*** expect plenty of new laws to be passed to keep enforcement profitable! See items 2 through 6... and how to keep for profit jails filled long term,
see 7 & 8.
Topics here included:
BB: #6 define safe use, re child services & custody, home grows, and child abuse...
MS: labeling standards
DZ: Illegitimate vs criminal sales definitions... *** note this ass hat's language... this is the "citizen at large" member of the panel who also ironically works in the El Paso Cty DA's office under none other than MMJ hater Dan Maye... nothing to see here...
CU: Diversion to Minors?
DZ: comparrison to Gaming as well as liquor?
*** expect even more new stuff here, as they "think of the children" !
Topics spun out from this one like cheesewhiz from a can shoved up a chihuahua's ass! (sorry, needed to blow off some steam, this typing sucks).
JF: issues of medical vs recreational potency, proposed limit of 10% THC on recreational cannabis.
CT (kiddie drug cop nanny man) blathered on about: advertising to kids, using cartoons, sponsoring youth sports, exposure to smoke, expose to grows, drug culture, impact to drug free schools, duid, substance treatment facilities, mental illness facilities, community colleges? *** this was all one comment in like 20 seconds, the guy sounded all agitated, like he needed to smoke some weed or something.
MS: Responsible vendors- tamperproof package.
CS: re potency please use science vs conjecture.
BB: label & package to deter kids
Smalls: Prohibited chemicals and pesticides
RK: testing standards for potency and health safety
JS: Hashish advertising
RC: Size limits for retail grow operations, plant limit, who regulates?
DZ: community acceptance should be considered
VM: sunset these rules in 4 years in case some dont work out? **** changed my opinion of this woman right here, very sensible.
MS: industry needs a consumer watch dog agency.
Also as I typed this up I got a response from Mark Couch at MMED, he sent me a link to a PDF of all the power point slides so that is attached here, and will let you see the text behind the skulls and grimaces in the pics i took for you. It comes out sideways, but no biggie turn your head!
*** so there you have it... I think what we've learned is that many of these people have 0% of a clue on this topic, and no emotional investment in its success, in fact we seemed to find that in spite of our 3 or 4 years as an industry with a very very few bad apples the prevailing view of panelists was that cannabis users are criminals and addicts who can not be trusted to act responsibly without a nanny state to watch over them. Of course about 35% of these panelists careers depend on that belief system, how is that a conflict of interest? (sarcasm alert) We need to start an email bomb project to let these people know that patients still exist, the medical market is not the same as recreational, and the will of the people was to decrease the drug war and money spent on it, not find new ways to wring blood and money from the same old stoners.
Twirling Hippy Confections
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Colorado could save millions with its own Bank
Ed: Are you aware of the "State-owned Bank Initiative"? Colorado could save millions by following the lead of North Dakota, which has proven the concept works well. Here is an update from those working to get this on our ballot for the future.
Each of you has expressed interest in the idea of a state-owned bank in Colorado along the lines of the Bank of North Dakota. This is to update you on progress of that idea in 2012. As most of you know, planned legislation to establish a state-owned bank in Colorado in 2012 did not materialize. As a result, Bob Bows, who is on the board of the Public Banking Institute, and I became the co-sponsors of two initiatives in 2012, one to amend the Colorado Constitution to establish a state-owned bank, and the other to amend the Colorado Constitution to authorize political subdivisions to establish their own banks. We received valuable assistance on our proposed initiative to establish a state-owned bank from Marilyn Barnewall, a Republican with a strong banking background, who has done and is still doing much to publicize the importance of this issue for Colorado and the country. We believe this is truly a multi-partisan issue, appealing to Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Green Party members, among others.
Our initiatives went through each step of the process --- the Colorado Legislative Council, the Secretary of State, and the Title Board. As we anticipated, our only opponents were the two main associations of banks in Colorado. The Title Board ruled in favor of our initiatives on each issue that the banking associations raised. The banking associations then filed an appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court, raising a number of issues. We timely filed our responsive briefs on May 29th and May 30th. The Supreme Court on June 10th issued an order saying they would reverse the action of the Title Board and would file a written opinion explaining their reasons. Under the statute governing initiatives in Colorado the Supreme Court is supposed to rule on such measures promptly, but to date, over six months later, they have still not issued their written opinion. On behalf of Bob and me as proponents I filed a Motion to Expedite the Court's Written Opinion on December 14, 2012, because we need the written opinion in order to know how to proceed in 2013 or 2014, and the opinion is long overdue. We would have reported back to you sooner, but without the court's written opinion explaining its action there was not much to report.
In the meantime, we learned of some reasons that a state-owned bank might possibly work as a "TABOR enterprise", a way to get around possible problems under TABOR (Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, a provision of Colorado's Constitution that restricts the raising of revenue and the level of expenditures). We realize we need to learn more about the workings of a TABOR enterprise in order to know whether it is practicable and feasible under the law governing the TABOR amendment. So we'll be looking into that and perhaps setting up a meeting to discuss various alternatives for proceeding further in 2013 or beyond.
I am attaching a summary of our 2012 initiative proposal to establish a state-owned bank in Colorado which explains its benefit, and that we had planned to use as a flyer once our ballot measure was approved. We believe the idea of a state-owned bank in Colorado could promptly turn around the state economy in Colorado, restore full employment, put people back in their homes, refinance student loans at affordable rates, strengthen the state budget, restore bank lending to Colorado businesses desperately needing such funding, and eventually to enable a reduction of the tax burden on Colorado citizens.
Please let us know any thoughts, suggestions, or questions you may have on this important subject.
In a separate email you will be invited to sign a petition initiated by Bob Bows through Moveon.org. to urge creation of a state-owned bank in Colorado. We strongly urge you to sign this petition and to invite others to do so as well.
Thanks very much for your interest and cooperation.
Ballot Initiative #95 -- to Amend the Colorado Constitution to Establish a State-Owned Bank
for the State of Colorado - Modeled on the Bank of North Dakota
Since 1919 North Dakota has owned its own bank, the Bank of North Dakota (BND), which holds all fees and taxes collected by the government of North Dakota and invests it through loans made through or in conjunction with private community banks for industry, agriculture and other services needed by the citizens of the state. This has produced many advantages:
* BND has paid the state treasurer >$325 million from bank profits over the past 10 years; $61M in 2010
* ND is the only State with continuous budget surpluses since before the financial crisis of 2008
* North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate (3.0%) of any State in the U.S.
* North Dakota has one of the lowest home foreclosure rates and credit card default rates in the U.S.
* In FY 2010 BND enjoyed a 19% return on investment
* North Dakota has had no bank failures and has the most community banks per capita
* Banks in Colorado are failing five times more often on average than banks in other states
* In 2011 North Dakota enjoyed almost $500 million in tax cuts and 30% in cuts over 2009-2011
* These benefits are not due primarily to North Dakota's oil; e.g. Alaska and Montana have as much oil but have high unemployment >7.7%, and have had budget deficits
The proposed Colorado Amendment would add §22 to Article X of the Constitution of the State of Colorado:
Establishment of State-Owned Bank. The measure establishes a bank owned by the state of Colorado. The bank is authorized to lend money at interest or at no interest to promote development, commerce, industry, and agriculture in the state and to promote home ownership, maintenance and construction of needed infrastructure, education, public health and safety, and other purposes for the general welfare of the citizens of the state of Colorado. The bank will have the same powers as other banks chartered by the State and the power and authority to deposit public revenues and funds in the bank, except as expanded or limited by the General Assembly. The bank would not be subject to any revenue or spending limits such as under TABOR, but the measure would not alter TABOR's restrictions on new tax measures. The bank would be regulated, managed, and advised by public officials, banking professionals, and public representatives, and be subject to annual public audits. It would be backed by the full faith and credit of the state.
Hancock Digs in After Negative Vote, Calls Hentzell Natural Area "Blighted"
Hentzell Natural Area - photo by Ray Ehrenstein
In an e-mail response to Denver resident Marty Amble, Mayor Michael B. Hancock signals he intends to reject a vote of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to retain designation of the Hentzell Park Natural Area.
Hancock's e-mail is dated December 15, two days after the Advisory Board's 11-6 vote against his proposal to de-designate nine acres of parkland and trade it for a Denver Public Schools office building downtown.
Instead of acknowledging that the Board and concerned citizens citywide might have a valid point of view, Hancock is now stating that nine acres of Hentzell Park Natural Area are "blighted, overrun with weeds, and have lost any significant natural area values."
If that is true, it is because the Parks and Recreation Department—which is under Hancock's control in the Executive Branch—has abandoned any maintenance or restoration of natural areas.
And as numerous citizens and the City's retired naturalist Susan Baird testified before the vote, the mayor's statement is untrue: this natural area has much native vegetation and supports numerous species of native wildlife. It is not a manicured park of Kentucky blue grass because it was never intended to be so.
Park advocate Joe Halpern declares: "It is shocking to me that the Mayor has gone from calling the area "underutilized" Thursday night in his statement at the Advisory Board to "blighted." If the Mayor considers this natural area worthless, what hope is there that he will not see other natural areas in the city as prime building sites for his real estate deals?"
In fact, one major point made by the Advocates for Denver Parks coalition is that many areas which are commonly thought of as parks are not designated or dedicated, and could also be in jeopardy of abuse or destruction.
From: MileHigh.Mayor@denvergov.org
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:25:31 -0700
Subject: RE: Hentzell Park Natural Area - Comments
Marty –
Thank you for your email regarding the 26-acre Hampden Heights Natural Area. The City and County of Denver and Denver Public Schools are currently negotiating a trade of nine acres of the natural area for a 46,000-square-foot building at 1330 Fox St. near downtown Denver.
The proposal provides an optimal location for a much-needed early education center and elementary school in the Hampden Heights neighborhood while allowing the city to deliver a centrally located, easily accessible domestic violence resource center.
The land swap is a unique opportunity to deliver better services for our children and families, while activating under-utilized land and saving taxpayers money. These nine acres are not presently designated as parkland. Rather, they have become blighted, overrun with weeds and have lost any significant natural area values. (emphasis added)
Like you, I am committed to improving our park system and open space areas. I have worked tirelessly to preserve and increase park space and natural land for families, children and neighborhoods. As a former City Councilman, I proudly helped the city add more than 300 acres of new open space. As Mayor, I've strongly supported our Parks and Recreation Department's efforts to continue adding new parkland and open space.
On the whole, Denver will see our park and open space portfolio grow by another nearly 140 acres within the next five years. Specifically, I look forward to working with Councilwoman Peggy Lehmann to designate the remaining 15 acres of the Hampden Heights Open Space as Hentzell Park. This will increase the size of the dedicated Hentzell Natural Area to 76.7 acres.
Our city has one of the best and most lauded urban park systems in the nation. I assure you that we will continue to grow our parks system wherever we find opportunities, and we will continue to chart a course to enhance the welfare and well-being of all of our residents.
Michael B. Hancock
Hey Now!
This is gonna be a very busy week, followed by a potentially very slow week. I am wondering if anybody at all will want an order in the week between Xmas and NYE? Otherwise I will try to bring EVERYBODY a big ol' order this week making all deliveries by the 23rd, so everybody will have any holiday special orders on time... This plan includes the Customized full size 9" party cheesecakes, if your patients want one, please have orders in no later than Tuesday the 18th. (Co Springs area, you gotta tell us by Monday the 17th... since Tuesday is your delivery day!)
I will be at the Governors 1st Task Force on 64 Meeting Monday afternoon, and may not be able to make your reminder calls for orders... please help us out by sending in orders ASAP. I will have a special update Newsletter about that meeting (whihc you are welcome to attend) for you all after that meeting so look for my review on Tuesday Am.
I will gladly personally make special deliveries for you in the week of Dec 26th through Dec 29th, but since I likely wont have a full staff sitting here at the Kitchen during the Holiday time they could spend with their family, wondering if orders are coming in... You might want to email orders, allow for some flexibility on products and delivery day, and give plenty of notice if you do need some year end inventory... if you need to reach me my Cell is 720 369 0107 but it doesnt work really well at my house, so text please... And as you know Im also moving out from my house in the last week of the month so I will be back and forth a bunch...
And if you stop reading here, know that I am very grateful to you and your MMC for your continued support of Twirling Hippy Confections in 2012. Without your help, we would not be one of: "the few, the proud, the City of Denver & MMED Vertically Licensed MIPs" Thanks!
Hope to see you Monday, here are the details if you want to attend... if not, look for my review on Tuesday, and get on the emails please!
Amendment 64 Task force 1st meeting Monday the 17th, open to public.
All meetings of the Task Force and any working groups will be open to the public. The Task Force will also endeavor to solicit public comment as part of its consideration of the policy, legal and procedural issues that need to be resolved to implement Amendment 64.
The Task Force will hold its first meeting at noon Dec. 17 in the Department of Revenue Gaming Conference Room, 17301 W. Colfax Ave., Suite 135, in Golden.
please read the entire link to the article on who made the Governor's Task force here.
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1251634887823
look closely at the list of Task Force members and see if you have a relationship with any member please send an email reaching out to that person on a personal level. On a more proactive level we would also like members to write letters to panelists on the Task force and please use your own words but touch on these three points if you can...
#1. increased enforcement against illegal grows/sales. #2. Licensing prioritization for compliant currently licensed MMJ businesses #3. DUI protection for red card holders...
Reaction to Obama's new marijuana statements
From Tom Angell, Chairman of Marijuana Majority
"The president's statement about not targeting individual marijuana users doesn't mark a shift in policy. The federal government rarely goes after individual users. The real question is whether the Obama administration will try to prevent voter-approved marijuana sales systems from being enacted or if they will force individual users to buy marijuana from the black market, where much of the profits go to cartels and gangs that kill people.
"The president also tries to unjustifiably pass the buck to Congress, claiming that there's not much he can do to change federal policy on marijuana because 'Congress has not yet changed the law.' The fact is, the executive branch was granted the power to unilaterally reschedule marijuana when Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970. The president should lead on this issue instead of deferring to Congress, a branch of government that he probably knows better than most isn't exactly prone to getting a whole lot done these days.
"One positive thing to take away from this interview is that the president couched his opposition to marijuana legalization by saying he doesn't support it 'at this point.' That could indicate his position on this issue may 'evolve' to catch up with the majority of voters who now support letting states set their own marijuana laws, not unlike how his position on marriage equality 'evolved' as it became clear the what direction the public was moving in."
Excerpts from the interview, which will be released in full tonight, are online at http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-marijuana-users-high-priority-drug-war/story?id=17946783
Citizen Win! No Hentzell Park De-designation
Just phoned in by Dave Felice
The Denver Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted 11 to 6 against de-designating a part of the Hentzell Park. This may stop Mayor Hancock from completing his "done deal".
The Rose A. Andom Center website: has been scrubbed of this statement.
We have a home…
A building at 1330 Fox Street has been secured by the City of Denver for The Center.The Center has a long-term lease for use of the building and will be responsible for raising all renovation funds and reimbursing the City for ongoing occupancy costs.
Hancock's Landmine
Opinion by Gerald Trumbule
Hentzell Park Natural Area photo by Ray Ehrenstein
Have you been following the parkland-for-a-building swap deal being promulgated by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock? Hancock has advocated for a domestic violence center in Denver. That's a good thing. While in no way impugning his motives, it seems he has forgotten, at least briefly, that Denver's assets are not his to give away or trade. I don't think he anticipated the ferocious love we have for our parks and parkland here in Denver. He's stepped on a landmine of criticism.
And then there is new conflict-of-interest complaint. We'll have to see if this goes deeper than a mere temporary lapse of good judgement. He could pull the plug on the deal, but that may signal deeper concerns.
Experience teaches us that whenever the City/Mayor is involved in land, be it purchase, sale or swap, the citizens need to be extra vigilant.
Ethics Complaint Filed Against Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Member
James T. Allen, Advisory Board member
For background on the alleged conflict of interest go here.
From the Complaint, filed today:
Commencing on or about August 1, 2012, et seq, including, but not limited to the official meeting of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) on November 8, 2012, James T. Allen, an appointee to the PRAB participated in discussions, exchanged e-mail, attended meetings, and otherwise sought to influence a decision by the PRAB to an exchange of property (1) between the City and County of Denver and the Denver Public School District 1.
By participating in discussions, exchanging e-mail, and attending PRAB meetings, James T. Allen demonstrated a conflict of interest because of his concurrent position as Director of Bond Construction for Denver Public Schools. Allen's mere presence in a room where discussions took place constitute an attempt to promote an d influence a favorable judgment on his behalf.
As remedy, all discussions, meetings, and decisions by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board involving James T. Allen and the Denver Public Schools are to be declared null and void. Allen is to take a leave of absence from his position with the City and County of Denver until the matter involving his conflict of interest is fully resolved.
1) The matter under discussion involves a proposal to exchange nine (9) acres of city-owned parkland at Hentzell Park Natural Area for an office building at
1330 Fox Street
. The building is owned by Denver Public Schools.
8 degrees in Nederland while I type away, and we have snow! Got a response to the letter I mailed the Governor last week, and i actually got to fill out an application to join the Governors task force on Amendment 64, wish me luck!
COMPLETED City of Denver MIPS license inspection card... All licenses done, all state & local agencies paid in full, just waiting on some papers to prove Twirling Hippy Confections is 100% legally legit, at least with the state of CO!
If you're selling a MIPs which is made in Denver and that MIPs doesnt have one of these inspection cards at least in progress, they might have some licensing issues soon, Denver Excise says that only 3 dozenish MIPs have done the Denver license application so far, & only about 30% of those have completed it...
Quote from the State's A-64 FAQ sheet... "Cultivation, sale, and possession of marijuana for adults age 21 and older is still illegal under federal law. As a result, prosecution of marijuana crimes may shift to the Colorado federal courts within the available resources of the U.S. Attorney's office. That prosecution could include possession or use of marijuana and operating marijuana businesses made legal by Amendment 64." read the rest here:
this story is making the rounds... Statement From U.S. Attorney's Office on Initiative 502
The Department of Justice is reviewing the legalization initiatives recently passed in Colorado and Washington State. The Department's responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged. Neither States nor the Executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress. In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance. Regardless of any changes in state law, including the change that will go into effect on December 6th in Washington State, growing, selling or possessing any amount of marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Members of the public are also advised to remember that it remains against federal law to bring any amount of marijuana onto federal property, including all federal buildings, national parks and forests, military installations, and courthouses.
Marijuana: Rumblings about federal crackdown on Colorado over Amendment 64blogs.westword.com At this point, there's still no official word from the Justice Department about a response to Amendment 64, the Regulate...
Colorado Municipal league is the entity that has helped dozens of localities ban MMJ, now Kevin Bommer is helping towns across the state pre-ban amendment 64 on the bias that 64 does not give local governments enough time to implement new regulations.
note they repeatedly list prohibition as the 1st option for their members to persue rather than regulation. Not to mention that the Voters have had their voices heard, 53% to 46% mmmkay, CML has always had an anti-agenda about Cannabis.
some of these "businesses" are influenced by this malarky...
Amendment 64: Business organizations ask feds to clamp down on Colorado marijuana measure
at least one lil town isnt under the influence of CML... Boulder council: No ban on recreational pot shops for nowwww.dailycamera.comDespite the concerns of City Attorney Tom Carr, the Boulder City Council held off on any action, saying they needed more information and public input before they could even consider a ban on stores selling recreational marijuana.
BUT some other little towns have some issues still, we support you Brad & Karen! go team go!
Medical marijuana ban in Dacono targeted by repeal petition
just in time for Xmas and new years...
Worth Repeating: Suicide Rates Fall In Medical Marijuana States - Toke of the Townwww.tokeofthetown.com"We conclude that the legalization of medical marijuana leads to an improvement in the psychological well being of young adult males, an improvement that is reflected in fewer suicides." This story didn't make it past the network news filters, was ignored by the mainstream media, and numerous mental...
also worth mentioning going into the Big Three weeks of holiday driving and parties, be alert for DUI crackdown. Please advise all patients to drive responsibly and DO NOT MEDICATE IN THE CAR esp during the next 4 weeks.
case in point...
whoa what is up with the goatee? that might actually be creepier than the porn/cop mustache which preceded it...
King Says Delta-9-THC Leaves System Hours After Smoking Pot www.krextv.com For the fifth time in three years, lawmakers are pushing for a driving under the influence of drugs per say standard in Colorado. Sen. Steve King (R-Dist. 7) said people suspected of driving under the influence of marijuana would specifically be tested for Delta-9-THC. He says this form of THC does ...
see also, now called impaired driving month... remember the highway funding issues with DUI's back in the 80's?
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month | The White Housewww.whitehouse.govDecember is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month - a time to focus our efforts toward recognizing the risks and reducing the prevalence of drugged driving.
third on the topic... this happened in Denver in 2010-2011... the state manager in question is still in charge.
FYI: What Do Forensic Chemists Do, And Why Would They Cheat?www.popsci.comEarlier this fall, a forensic chemist at the Massachusetts-based crime lab William A. Hinton State Laboratory was
In Wake of Scathing Review of Fracking Report, University of Texas Revises Conflict of Interest Polinews.sciencemag.orgThe University of Texas (UT), Austin, is getting a hard lesson in what can go wrong if you fail to spot and disclose a potential conflict of interest. UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of...
Fracking wastewater wells were also linked to earthquakes near raton in CO early this week... Remember MMIG is tied to the fracking lobby, and always has been. When you buy meds from an MMIG member MMC you are subsidising the Industry that is poisoning our precious ground water and spreading cancer across the state. It is your right to know these facts, and it is your right to question if your MMC or MIPS is a Member of a group that pays rent on the offices of the CPA (our state's fracking lobby shares their office suite with MMIG) BOYCOTT MMIG.
Bring Proposed Loss of Parkland to Vote of the People
At the November 8, 2012 meeting of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, Denver Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Manager Lauri Dannemiller brought forward a request from the Denver Public Schools (DPS) that nine acres of the Hentzell Park Natural Area in southeast Denver be "de-designated". The proposed de-designation would allow DPS to use the land as a site for a pre-school/elementary school complex. In exchange, a building at 1330 Fox Street, now owned by DPS, will be used to house the city's new Domestic Violence Center, a mayoral priority.
This action flies in the face of the DPR's own Management Plan for Hentzell the purpose of which is to restore Hentzell to a showy example of sandhills and riparian vegetation that once existed in the area. De-designation would set an unacceptable precedent that could erode the quality and size of Denver's park system, and it highlights serious problems with the way in which Denver's parkland is classified and protected.
These problems include the following. First: It is within the authority of the DPR Manager to de-designate Natural Areas. This is a flawed policy. All parkland managed by DPR including Natural Areas, Parks, and Open Spaces, is held in the public trust. It is not to be used (or sold) for purposes removed from conservation, preservation, and recreation. In fact, the Denver City Charter provides the model (see Part 4, Section 2.4.5) for how this land should be treated. The Charter explicitly prohibits the sale or leasing of land designated as a park by ordinance without approval by a majority of registered voters. It is clear that the de-designation of nine acres of the Hentzell Park Natural Area violates the spirit of the City Charter.
Second, a significant minority of what DPR labels as parks and the citizens of Denver have come to consider as parks, "parks" such as Stapleton or Ruby Hill, for example, have never been designated by ordinance as such. These undesignated "parks" are at risk of being used for whatever purpose a particular administration considers appropriate at the moment. This poses a threat to our current and future park system.
Third, we need more not less land to achieve the goals of the DPR stated mission (see the DPR Game Plan). The population of Denver, now estimated to be 620,000, is expected to rise to 754,000 by 2030. In light of the projected increase in population and a likely increase in the density of population in central areas, it is critical that we convert more not less land than we have at present to parkland of all types.
As a result of these issues and threats to Denver's parks posed by the precedent that would be set by the proposed de-designation of nine acres of the Hentzell Park Natural Area, we should :
1. Bring the issue of de-designation of the Hentzell Park Natural Area to a vote of the people;
2. Mandate the immediate designation of undesignated (and legally eligible parkland) including Natural Areas and Parks; and
3. Revise the relevant rules and regulations so that designated Natural Areas cannot be sold or leased or de-designated, without a vote of the people.
I urge that citizens concerned with maintaining our parkland and enhancing our park system join the growing list of individuals and groups that have endorsed the position noted above (seewww.denvernature.net for a list of organizations), and email comments to DPR Manager Lauri.Dannemiller@denvergov.org or parksandrecreation@denvergov.org or Mayor Michael Hancock milehighmayor@denvergov.org or attend the next Parks and Advisory Board meeting on Dec. 13, 3013, 5:30 pm, at the 4th Floor (Room 4.F.6) Web Building, 201 W. Colfax.
Kathleen Wells, Ph.D. on behalf of Advocates for Denver's Parks
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Hi, It's sad that although the Omnia Pro has a 16M AMOLED screen, we never get to utilize it fully. Any work around for this? Maybe someone can port android on this phone..
Looks nice. Doesn't work in landscape mode so well though. BTW, this app is in Chinese I guess. Did anyone manage to get an English version?
What is Java Mobile? I installed it and it has replaced my previous Java menu with some Chinese stuff!! ErnstJanf Please offer some explanation of what these things are!
The sound is not great with the mono loud speakers, but plug in the headsets/ earphones - it's bliss!!! You can easily disable the sluggish interface if you don't need. SPBMobile shell works like a charm, you can have a look at it.
Some explanation on these uploads please? What has been fixed in bluetooth? It will be nice if you can mention what was broken and what was fixed.
You have to disable touchUI to get start menu.
surf the internet on the b7610 with your broadband connection?
Need not be IE mobile. Any browser will do :) When connected to your PC, your mobile automatically will use the PC internet connection.
Missing on mine too. Wondering how to enable it!
You cannot change the background of work mode that way.. Samsung today is different from Windows Mobile's default today, most apps are not compatible with samsung today. If you want those widgets to be displayed in your work screen, you will have to disable the samsung today..
I am bugged of playing Solitaire on this! I tried using a NES emulator, but the resolution of the phone is too high and it wasn't looking nice! Can you suggest some good games which run well on Omnia? A list of free games with links would be very helpful to everyone I guess.
Hard reset using this method is not working ;) I tried installing old omnia touch player for this, it's not working.. I want to do hard reset.. someone please help.. I have tried volume key up + lock screen.. It's not working.
Hi, My touch player hangs after searching for new files. I have to soft-reset it everytime! Any idea what could be the problem? It says 11 file(s) added and hangs. It is not responsive the menu long press, not the touch screen responds ;) Pleae help.


Claire August is a third year in the HAST program at BCB. Currently, she is studying abroad at Central European University in Budapest, where she is pretending to be a philosophy student. Her interests include reading and exploring Berlin. One time she won $5 on a scratch ticket.


According to the Georgian policy towards the occupied territories of Georgia, the state is obliged to develop peace initiatives and formats vis-à-vis the occupied territories, carry out and participate in the peace processes. This policy also involves funding treatment of patients living in the occupied territories (tempoary occupied Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia and Former South Ossetia A/R) from the state budget. More precisely, the state budget finances the medical services for non-Georgian citizens (Abkhazian and Ossetian patients) living in the occupied territories, which is implemented within the "State Program for Referral Service".
Due to the importance of the issue, IDFI requested public information from the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs regarding statistical data of 2014-2017, on patients living in the occupied territories, receiving stationary services provided by the medical institutions of Georgia. The ministry has fully provided requested information.
- In 2014-2017,16,935,074.81 GEL was spent from state budget on the medical expenses of Abkhazian and Ossetian patients. 6,188 patients received medical services.
- In 2014-2017, more Abkazians (3,595) were using state-funded medical treatment than Ossetians (2,650).
- In 2014-2016, the number of patients receiving state-funded medical treatment financed by the state budget increased 2.4 times and the budgetary allocations almost doubled.
- In 2014-2016 the number of patients using state-funded medical transportation increased by 50% and the the budgetary allocations almost doubled.
- In 2014-2017 the number of Abkhazian patients (3,595) receiving medical treatment financed by the state budget was higher than the number of Ossetian patients (2,650). Therefore, medical expenses on Abkhazian patients were higher (9,759,689 GEL on Abkhazian patients and 8,098,078 GEL on Ossetian patients).
- Patients living in the occupied territories most often refer to Georgian medical institutions in case of oncological, onhematological diseases or for requesting medicines.
The analysis was prepared in frames of the project "Empower Society for Strengthening Good Governance", financially supported by International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The responsibility of the content of the article lies with the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI). It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.


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Day Two: From Jimi Hendrix to the Rolling Stones
"This world is big and wild and half insane…"
It was the album that Ray Davies had been building toward since shifting the direction of his R&B based band. It was almost their last stand. Eventually it would be viewed as the song cycle that would forever redefine the Kinks as the rightful heir to the throne of true English rock eccentrics. A year before, their brethren the Beatles took a loosely based concept about a group of lonely hearts' troubadours and turned it into the anthem for the Summer of Love. The following year, as they wallowed in discontent, Davies drove a tweed and Earl Grey stake directly into the center of their psychedelic-based babble.
Artist: The Kinks
Album: The Village Green Preservation Society
Label: Sanctuary
Image: http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/t/thekinksvillagegreenpreservationsociety.jpg
First date: 1968-11-22
US Release Date: Available as import
UK Release Date: 2005-02-28
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society is one of the boldest statements by any act of the modern music era. It's so focused on its own idiosyncrasy that it avoids the dated trappings of most '60s recordings to perfectly capture a man and his mood. Having pushed his brother Dave and the rest of the band toward a more refined, folk-ish approach, Davies' songwriting was reaching new heights of stunningly sophisticated simplicity. It had been evidenced early on, with standout tracks like "The World Keeps Going Round" from The Kink Kontroversy (1965) and "Sunny Afternoon" from Face to Face (1966).
The latter album was even important, as it represented Davies return to performing after a nasty nervous breakdown. The pressures of stardom saw him turn inward, wistful for a time and a country that was traditional, tempered, and taciturn. So while the Fab Four explored the studio as a means of expression, the Kinks broadened such horizons by merely looking out their backdoor. Something Else arrived during the after burn of the post-Sgt. Pepper's celebration, and fans were not quite ready for twee tracks about Waterloo sunsets, afternoon teas, and a head boy at the school named David Watts.
The Village Green Preservation Society faired no better. While viewed as a masterpiece today (and rightfully so), its British-centric themes and understated 'golly gee' subtleties were lost within all the sex, drugs, and flower power. Davies claims the album-length look at UK hamlet life was inspired by Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood as well as a growing discontent within the band. Fearing this would be the last Kinks album, he tinkered with it feverishly, including and then dropping the sizable hit "Days". As the amount of material grew, the frightened frontman saw it as a kind of swansong -- to fame, to fortune, to a forgotten way of life.
Indeed, all throughout The Village Green Preservation Society, Davies outlines the basics of his lost England. The title track asks an uncaring god to bless "the George cross", "little shops, china cups, and virginity". Later on, he would lament the "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and the easy, superficial trappings of celebrity ("Starstruck"). Tossing in a few fairy-style stories along the way ("Phenomenal Cat", "Wicked Annabella") and odes to that most instantaneous of memory makers -- the photograph ("Picture Book", "People Taking Pictures of Each Other"), he created a kind of revisionist regression. Davies now thought it was hip to be square, and wanted to share said sentiments with a hopefully accepting audience.
The musical method he chose, however, would ring hollow in the ears of eager listeners. The Village Green Preservation Society avoided the power chord chug of the early Kinks hits ("You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night") to explore more acoustic, orchestral settings. Strings and keyboards cascaded over carefully strummed guitars, and when a tad more meat was needed in the mix, the charges were more considered and compact. This is especially true of the terrific "Big Sky". While Davies sing-speaks his soul searching stanzas ("Big Sky feels sad when he sees the children scream and cry/But the Big Sky's too big to let it get him down"), a veritable overview of British music circa the late '60 swirls around him.
In the Orwellian referencing "Animal Farm", the break before the last verse seems to resonate the loudest:
Girl, it's a hard, hard world, if it gets you down,
Dreams often fade and die in a bad, bad world,
I'll take you where real animals are playing,
And people are real people not just playing.
It's like a reality check slamming into the then current Carnaby Street din, describing in a set of straightforward words the pitfalls of getting twisted inside the era's scattered idealism. For Ray Davies, his time in the limelight started out with a bang. But ever since making the grade, he was melancholy over the price -- personal and professionally. The Village Green Preservation Society was a warning of where things were going. Too bad too few paid attention at the time.
-- Bill Gibron
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks Separate But Very Equal The Ot

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Mandatory Public School Uniforms Are A Good Thing
Nowadays, we see many teenagers dress in spaghetti-strap tank tops, low-cut shirts, drop pants, pajamas, and even spandex shorts in school even though there have been policies about dress codes. Teachers, parents, and other adults feel disgruntled about the way they dress. Many students also complain about difficulties in concentrating on schoolwork because of the same reason. Obviously, what students wear to school has become a very distracting issue in the school environment. Therefore, school uniforms should be required in public schools due to many reasons.
There have been many forums and discussions about mandatory school uniforms in public schools. They assume that wearing uniforms is a kind of Nazi education tactic; however, school uniforms reduce fashion-envy among students. For example, it is extremely easy to tell who is rich and popular at a public high school. Only popular girls wear Buckle Jeans that cost approximately one hundred dollars per pair. Only popular boys wore Ralph Lauren T-shirts to school. High school students are teenagers who are developing their self-esteem; therefore, it is important to guide students to lead a confident life without caring too much about appearance and materialistic things. In every public school, lots of students try to follow the newest trends and brands by begging their parents to buy them expensive clothes. They also work too hard to earn money for buying clothes, rather than focus on schoolwork. Moreover, the cases in which students steal and commit crimes are increasing like a strong wave.
Many students think nowadays that it is more important to put appearance first, not intellect. Students who do well in school are often called nerds and geeks. They are also known for having no life since they study so much that they don't care about what they wear, but "a nerd ten years after the graduation is the boss". Thus, when all students are required to dress the same in school, from tops to shoes, they won't be able to show off their wealth. There shouldn't be any great distances in economic matters between students because they are sensitive subjects to most people.
In addition, many people object to this idea because they think uniforms violate their freedom of expression. They can't express their own personal styles and characteristics because of the blandness of the uniforms. It is true that everyone has their own right to express themselves; however, they do not go to school all day and all year long, which means they can express themselves in many other situations. Furthermore, everyone lives in one big community, in which discipline is an utterly essential part. If a puppy doesn't get trained when he is young, he will grow up a wild dog that urinates wherever he wants and barks at whom he sees. Discipline today will contribute to the success of all students in the future.
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Victoria's Secret model Karlie Kloss is learning to code, and the highly-selective startup school she's going to just raised $9 million
Maya Kosoff Apr. 16, 2015, 11:00 PM
Flatiron school founders Avi Flombaum and Adam Enbar. DNAinfo
The Flatiron School, a New York-based programming school for adults and high schoolers, has raised a $US9 million round of funding led by Thrive Capital with participation from CRV and Matrix. The startup is teaching a bunch of people, including Victoria's Secret model Karlie Kloss, how to code.
The school was founded in 2012 by two men who met on Twitter, Avi Flombaum and Adam Enbar. Enbar was working in venture capital researching higher education, and Flombaum was a self-taught, college-dropout hedge fund CTO who taught people to code in his spare time
"Avi told me his favourite part of teaching was that he could help some of his students actually get jobs," Enbar tells us. "And that blew my mind. I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm speaking to the deans of universities and they can't figure out how to get their students jobs, and this guy's doing it on nights and weekends for fun and he's getting them amazing, high paying jobs as engineers.'"
I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm speaking to the deans of universities and they can't figure out how to get their students jobs, and this guy's doing it on nights and weekends for fun.'
Flatiron School is a highly selective, full-time intensive programming school — it accepts just 6% of applicants. Its job placement rate is 99%, meaning normal people can walk into Flatiron School with zero coding experience and 12 weeks later, they can leave with a $US70,000 software engineering gig at a place like Google or Intel. Flatiron School's courses cost $US12,000, but if students accept job offers through the company's placement program, they will get a $US4,000 refund on their tuition.
In addition to training normal people, Flatiron School has celebrity appeal. Victoria's Secret supermodel Karlie Kloss started taking classes at Flatiron School about a year ago, Enbar says. (Kloss also dates one of Flatiron School's lead investors, Joshua Kushner).
"She was really inspired to share [learning to code] with more girls — especially younger girls. So she's donating 20 spots to girls to attend our summer high school coding program."
Though Flatiron School was initially bootstrapped, it raised its $US5.5 million Series A round of funding in April 2014 from Matrix Partners, BoxGroup, and CRV.
Flatiron School is expanding its high school coding program to six new cities this year, including Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles. Flatiron School
After seeing the success of its adult program, Flatiron School decided to start using its curriculum to teach high schoolers how to code too. "Even at a very high level, a state and government level, people are realising it's really important to expose kids to computer science skills," Enbar says. "But because they don't teach them in high school, not nearly enough kids even explore it as an option in college, and so we're not graduating enough people with technical skills."
Flatiron School offers summer courses and after-school courses for high school students at its New York campus and at the country's best high schools, including The Dalton School in New York City's Upper East Side and Palmer Trinity in Miami.
"We're really investing in building up our ability to train incredible teachers and create amazing curriculum and software so that we can actually increase access to this education," Enbar says. "We believe education is fundamentally not about content. It's about people. If you think back to your favourite college class, you don't remember that awesome textbook. You don't remember the slides in any individual lecture. You remember that really passionate teacher or the great study group you had."
Karlie Kloss at the Met Ball. Getty Images
For its high school programs, Flatiron School is partnering with programs like Teach for America and DoSomething.org to train more teachers and give more students access to computer science. This summer, the company is planning its high school programs in six cities: Miami, Austin, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
In terms of growth, Enbar says Flatiron School is more concerned with keeping its adult courses selective and high quality than trying to enroll tons of people. "When we think about building a next generation education institution, we don't think about growing by enrolling tens of thousands of students and losing quality," Enbar says. "We think about growing by maintaining a really high bar for quality and having impeccable results."
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When we are struggling in our spiritual lives, it means that we have to put in more external activity. When there is an internal struggle, it means that externally there is a vacuum, that externally we have not put in enough worship of Krsna, not enough chanting of Hare Krsna and not enough absorption in Krsna's teachings. There is not enough Krsna upadesh but we just have to increase it, somehow do more and then the breakthrough will come.
'śraddhā'-śabde—viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya (Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.62). All good will come from serving Krsna, from devotional service. That is śraddhā'. That is faith. So that is madhyam. The madhyam has faith. Kanistha does not. Kanistha means weak determination.
So this is our predicament. We are waiting for Krsna to somehow or other send us some grace. "Oh, Krsna, please be merciful to me. Please send me the inspiration. Please send me nectar. Krsna, I pray to you." Few minutes later… nothing is coming. The struggle goes on, the struggle continues. Because we have to make that step first, make the gift to Krsna of ourselves. We have to give ourselves in service and immediately the inspiration will be there. Immediately!


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package org.apache.flink.runtime.state.memory;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.JobID;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializer;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.CheckpointingOptions;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.flink.core.fs.Path;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.execution.Environment;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.query.TaskKvStateRegistry;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.AbstractKeyedStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.CheckpointStorage;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.ConfigurableStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyGroupRange;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.OperatorStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.TaskStateManager;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.filesystem.AbstractFileStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.heap.HeapKeyedStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.heap.HeapPriorityQueueSetFactory;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.ttl.TtlTimeProvider;
import org.apache.flink.util.TernaryBoolean;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkArgument;

/**
 * This state backend holds the working state in the memory (JVM heap) of the TaskManagers.
 * The state backend checkpoints state directly to the JobManager's memory (hence the backend's name),
 * but the checkpoints will be persisted to a file system for high-availability setups and savepoints.
 * The MemoryStateBackend is consequently a FileSystem-based backend that can work without a
 * file system dependency in simple setups.
 *
 *
This state backend should be used only for experimentation, quick local setups,
 * or for streaming applications that have very small state: Because it requires checkpoints to
 * go through the JobManager's memory, larger state will occupy larger portions of the JobManager's
 * main memory, reducing operational stability.
 * For any other setup, the {@link org.apache.flink.runtime.state.filesystem.FsStateBackend FsStateBackend}
 * should be used. The {@code FsStateBackend} holds the working state on the TaskManagers in the same way, but
 * checkpoints state directly to files rather then to the JobManager's memory, thus supporting
 * large state sizes.
 *
 *
State Size Considerations

 *
 *
State checkpointing with this state backend is subject to the following conditions:
 *

 *
Each individual state must not exceed the configured maximum state size
 *         (see {@link #getMaxStateSize()}.

 *
 *
All state from one task (i.e., the sum of all operator states and keyed states from all
 *         chained operators of the task) must not exceed what the RPC system supports, which is
 *         be default < 10 MB. That limit can be configured up, but that is typically not advised.

 *
 *
The sum of all states in the application times all retained checkpoints must comfortably
 *         fit into the JobManager's JVM heap space.

 *

 *
 *
Persistence Guarantees

 *
 *
For the use cases where the state sizes can be handled by this backend, the backend does guarantee
 * persistence for savepoints, externalized checkpoints (of configured), and checkpoints
 * (when high-availability is configured).
 *
 *
Configuration

 *
 *
As for all state backends, this backend can either be configured within the application (by creating
 * the backend with the respective constructor parameters and setting it on the execution environment)
 * or by specifying it in the Flink configuration.
 *
 *
If the state backend was specified in the application, it may pick up additional configuration
 * parameters from the Flink configuration. For example, if the backend if configured in the application
 * without a default savepoint directory, it will pick up a default savepoint directory specified in the
 * Flink configuration of the running job/cluster. That behavior is implemented via the
 * {@link #configure(Configuration)} method.
 */
@PublicEvolving
public class MemoryStateBackend extends AbstractFileStateBackend implements ConfigurableStateBackend {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 4109305377809414635L;

	/** The default maximal size that the snapshotted memory state may have (5 MiBytes). */
	public static final int DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE = 5 * 1024 * 1024;

	/** The maximal size that the snapshotted memory state may have. */
	private final int maxStateSize;

	/** Switch to chose between synchronous and asynchronous snapshots.
	 * A value of 'UNDEFINED' means not yet configured, in which case the default will be used. */
	private final TernaryBoolean asynchronousSnapshots;

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	/**
	 * Creates a new memory state backend that accepts states whose serialized forms are
	 * up to the default state size (5 MB).
	 *
	 *
Checkpoint and default savepoint locations are used as specified in the
	 * runtime configuration.
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend() {
		this(null, null, DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE, TernaryBoolean.UNDEFINED);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new memory state backend that accepts states whose serialized forms are
	 * up to the default state size (5 MB). The state backend uses asynchronous snapshots
	 * or synchronous snapshots as configured.
	 *
	 *
Checkpoint and default savepoint locations are used as specified in the
	 * runtime configuration.
	 *
	 * @param asynchronousSnapshots Switch to enable asynchronous snapshots.
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend(boolean asynchronousSnapshots) {
		this(null, null, DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE, TernaryBoolean.fromBoolean(asynchronousSnapshots));
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new memory state backend that accepts states whose serialized forms are
	 * up to the given number of bytes.
	 *
	 *
Checkpoint and default savepoint locations are used as specified in the
	 * runtime configuration.
	 *
	 *
WARNING: Increasing the size of this value beyond the default value
	 * ({@value #DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE}) should be done with care.
	 * The checkpointed state needs to be send to the JobManager via limited size RPC messages, and there
	 * and the JobManager needs to be able to hold all aggregated state in its memory.
	 *
	 * @param maxStateSize The maximal size of the serialized state
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend(int maxStateSize) {
		this(null, null, maxStateSize, TernaryBoolean.UNDEFINED);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new memory state backend that accepts states whose serialized forms are
	 * up to the given number of bytes and that uses asynchronous snashots as configured.
	 *
	 *
Checkpoint and default savepoint locations are used as specified in the
	 * runtime configuration.
	 *
	 *
WARNING: Increasing the size of this value beyond the default value
	 * ({@value #DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE}) should be done with care.
	 * The checkpointed state needs to be send to the JobManager via limited size RPC messages, and there
	 * and the JobManager needs to be able to hold all aggregated state in its memory.
	 *
	 * @param maxStateSize The maximal size of the serialized state
	 * @param asynchronousSnapshots Switch to enable asynchronous snapshots.
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend(int maxStateSize, boolean asynchronousSnapshots) {
		this(null, null, maxStateSize, TernaryBoolean.fromBoolean(asynchronousSnapshots));
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new MemoryStateBackend, setting optionally the path to persist checkpoint metadata
	 * to, and to persist savepoints to.
	 *
	 * @param checkpointPath The path to write checkpoint metadata to. If null, the value from
	 *                       the runtime configuration will be used.
	 * @param savepointPath  The path to write savepoints to. If null, the value from
	 *                       the runtime configuration will be used.
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend(@Nullable String checkpointPath, @Nullable String savepointPath) {
		this(checkpointPath, savepointPath, DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE, TernaryBoolean.UNDEFINED);
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a new MemoryStateBackend, setting optionally the paths to persist checkpoint metadata
	 * and savepoints to, as well as configuring state thresholds and asynchronous operations.
	 *
	 *
WARNING: Increasing the size of this value beyond the default value
	 * ({@value #DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE}) should be done with care.
	 * The checkpointed state needs to be send to the JobManager via limited size RPC messages, and there
	 * and the JobManager needs to be able to hold all aggregated state in its memory.
	 *
	 * @param checkpointPath The path to write checkpoint metadata to. If null, the value from
	 *                       the runtime configuration will be used.
	 * @param savepointPath  The path to write savepoints to. If null, the value from
	 *                       the runtime configuration will be used.
	 * @param maxStateSize   The maximal size of the serialized state.
	 * @param asynchronousSnapshots Flag to switch between synchronous and asynchronous
	 *                              snapshot mode. If null, the value configured in the
	 *                              runtime configuration will be used.
	 */
	public MemoryStateBackend(
			@Nullable String checkpointPath,
			@Nullable String savepointPath,
			int maxStateSize,
			TernaryBoolean asynchronousSnapshots) {

		super(checkpointPath == null ? null : new Path(checkpointPath),
				savepointPath == null ? null : new Path(savepointPath));

		checkArgument(maxStateSize > 0, "maxStateSize must be > 0");
		this.maxStateSize = maxStateSize;

		this.asynchronousSnapshots = asynchronousSnapshots;
	}

	/**
	 * Private constructor that creates a re-configured copy of the state backend.
	 *
	 * @param original The state backend to re-configure
	 * @param configuration The configuration
	 */
	private MemoryStateBackend(MemoryStateBackend original, Configuration configuration) {
		super(original.getCheckpointPath(), original.getSavepointPath(), configuration);

		this.maxStateSize = original.maxStateSize;

		// if asynchronous snapshots were configured, use that setting,
		// else check the configuration
		this.asynchronousSnapshots = original.asynchronousSnapshots.resolveUndefined(
				configuration.getBoolean(CheckpointingOptions.ASYNC_SNAPSHOTS));
	}

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//  Properties
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	/**
	 * Gets the maximum size that an individual state can have, as configured in the
	 * constructor (by default {@value #DEFAULT_MAX_STATE_SIZE}).
	 *
	 * @return The maximum size that an individual state can have
	 */
	public int getMaxStateSize() {
		return maxStateSize;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets whether the key/value data structures are asynchronously snapshotted.
	 *
	 *
If not explicitly configured, this is the default value of
	 * {@link CheckpointingOptions#ASYNC_SNAPSHOTS}.
	 */
	public boolean isUsingAsynchronousSnapshots() {
		return asynchronousSnapshots.getOrDefault(CheckpointingOptions.ASYNC_SNAPSHOTS.defaultValue());
	}

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//  Reconfiguration
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	/**
	 * Creates a copy of this state backend that uses the values defined in the configuration
	 * for fields where that were not specified in this state backend.
	 *
	 * @param config the configuration
	 * @return The re-configured variant of the state backend
	 */
	@Override
	public MemoryStateBackend configure(Configuration config) {
		return new MemoryStateBackend(this, config);
	}

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//  checkpoint state persistence
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	@Override
	public CheckpointStorage createCheckpointStorage(JobID jobId) throws IOException {
		return new MemoryBackendCheckpointStorage(jobId, getCheckpointPath(), getSavepointPath(), maxStateSize);
	}

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//  state holding structures
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	@Override
	public OperatorStateBackend createOperatorStateBackend(
			Environment env,
			String operatorIdentifier) throws Exception {

		return new DefaultOperatorStateBackend(
				env.getUserClassLoader(),
				env.getExecutionConfig(),
				isUsingAsynchronousSnapshots());
	}

	@Override
	public <K> AbstractKeyedStateBackend<K> createKeyedStateBackend(
			Environment env,
			JobID jobID,
			String operatorIdentifier,
			TypeSerializer<K> keySerializer,
			int numberOfKeyGroups,
			KeyGroupRange keyGroupRange,
			TaskKvStateRegistry kvStateRegistry,
			TtlTimeProvider ttlTimeProvider) {

		TaskStateManager taskStateManager = env.getTaskStateManager();
		HeapPriorityQueueSetFactory priorityQueueSetFactory =
			new HeapPriorityQueueSetFactory(keyGroupRange, numberOfKeyGroups, 128);
		return new HeapKeyedStateBackend<>(
				kvStateRegistry,
				keySerializer,
				env.getUserClassLoader(),
				numberOfKeyGroups,
				keyGroupRange,
				isUsingAsynchronousSnapshots(),
				env.getExecutionConfig(),
				taskStateManager.createLocalRecoveryConfig(),
				priorityQueueSetFactory,
				ttlTimeProvider);
	}

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	//  utilities
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "MemoryStateBackend (data in heap memory / checkpoints to JobManager) " +
				"(checkpoints: '" + getCheckpointPath() +
				"', savepoints: '" + getSavepointPath() +
				"', asynchronous: " + asynchronousSnapshots +
				", maxStateSize: " + maxStateSize + ")";
	}
}

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describe("Cordova Device Bridge", function () {
    describe("on getDeviceInfo", function () {
        var _devices = ripple('platform/cordova/2.0.0/bridge/device'),
        devices = ripple('devices'),
        s,
        e,
        _deviceInfo = {
            available: true,
            osName: "Unit Test OS",
            osVersion: "0.1.0",
            name: "Unit Test Device",
            uuid: Math.uuid(),
            cordova: "2.0.0" //hard-coded in lib/client/platform/cordova/2.0.0/bridge/device.js
        };

        beforeEach(function () {
            s = jasmine.createSpy("success");
            e = jasmine.createSpy("error");

            spyOn(devices, "getCurrentDevice").andReturn(_deviceInfo);
        });

        it("can be called with only success specified", function () {
            _devices.getDeviceInfo(s);
            expect(s).toHaveBeenCalled();
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].available).toEqual(_deviceInfo.available);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].platform).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osName);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].version).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osVersion);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].name).toEqual(_deviceInfo.name);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].uuid).toEqual(_deviceInfo.uuid);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].cordova).toEqual(_deviceInfo.cordova);
        });

        it("can be called with success and fail specified", function () {
            _devices.getDeviceInfo(s, e);
            expect(s).toHaveBeenCalled();
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].available).toEqual(_deviceInfo.available);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].platform).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osName);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].version).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osVersion);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].name).toEqual(_deviceInfo.name);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].uuid).toEqual(_deviceInfo.uuid);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].cordova).toEqual(_deviceInfo.cordova);
            expect(e).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
        });

        it("can be called with success, fail and empty args specified", function () {
            _devices.getDeviceInfo(s, e, []);
            expect(s).toHaveBeenCalled();
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].available).toEqual(_deviceInfo.available);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].platform).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osName);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].version).toEqual(_deviceInfo.osVersion);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].name).toEqual(_deviceInfo.name);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].uuid).toEqual(_deviceInfo.uuid);
            expect(s.mostRecentCall.args[0].cordova).toEqual(_deviceInfo.cordova);
            expect(e).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
        });
    });
});