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The New World Translation
In order to truly understand Jehovah's Witnesses and the bible that they use, the New World Translation (NWT), I believe that it is essential to have a basic knowledge of former Watchtower President, Fred Franz. He dropped out of college to join the movement in 1913 and knew the founder, Charles Taze Russell. Though now deceased, his influence both past and present cannot be overstated.
Anyone involved with the Watchtower Corporation (Jehovah's Witnesses) for any length of time would probably have been occasionally reminded of the scholarship of Fred Franz and his command of eight or more languages, including the biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek. While growing up in the 1970's, I remember hearing from different ones that Franz was a Rhodes Scholar. At other times I heard that he was at least offered a Rhodes Scholarship but turned it down to "pursue kingdom interests". This was usually presented in the context as an example to be looked up to.
I had just assumed that those who knew him well verified these facts and that they were without dispute. I often wondered what it must be like to be so intelligent and how a person could learn so many languages. That is, until I did a little research concerning the claims that surrounded Fred Franz.
Macmillan wrote of Franz in his 1957 book - "Faith On The March": "he carried away the honors at the University of Cincinnati and was offered the privilege of going to Oxford or Cambridge in England under the Rhodes plan" (pg. 181). "Besides Spanish, Franz has a fluent knowledge of Portuguese and German and is conversant with French. He is also a scholar of Hebrew and Greek as well as Syriac and Latin, all of which contribute to making him a thoroughly reliable mainstay on Knorr's editorial staff" (pg. 182).
So, here apparently was one source of the rumors regarding Mr. Franz's intellectual and linguistic prowess that I had heard so much about as a young boy. However, the facts about his education prove problematic for the support of such claims. Scanned copies of the scholastic transcripts of Mr. Franz's work as a student at the University of Cincinnati show that Mr. Fredrick William Franz quit his university education well before completing his bachelors' degree (first tier 4 year degree).
So, how could it be true that Franz "carried away the honors of the University of Cincinnati" when he didn't even graduate?
Franz seemed to try to run a little interference for himself when he wrote in his autobiography (in the article "Looking Back Over 93 Years of Living" for the May 1, 1987, Watchtower magazine):
"I had been chosen to go to Ohio State University to take competitive examinations with others to win the prize of the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship."
Simply being told what a student must accomplish in order to be invited to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, is certainly not the same as "being offered the privilege of going to Oxford or Cambridge in England under the Rhodes plan". This started me to thinking that there might be more to this story than met the eye. I wondered if there was anything else here that was different than what I'd been led to believe?
First, let's consider the other linguistic claims about Mr. Franz that was distributed in all the Kingdom Halls in the late 1950's. Macmillan wrote: "Franz has a fluent knowledge of Portuguese and German and is conversant with French. He is also a scholar of Hebrew and Greek as well as Syriac and Latin."
However, according to Mr. Franz's college transcript, his major language studies were in classical Greek (21 semester hours), not Koine Greek in which the New Testament was written. The Greek Franz studied has different grammar and syntax from that of biblical Greek.
At that time, there was only one course in biblical Greek even offered at the University of Cincinnati.
According to the 1911 university catalog, page 119, that course was titled: "The New Testament – A course in grammar and translation." Although Franz did take this class, this was not a full 3-hour college credit course. This was simply a survey course of New Testament Greek. Therefore it could legitimately be said that Franz never completed not even one typical college course in New Testament Greek. The one short course he did take was in a sense, well….anti-typical; if I may use a favorite phrase of his.
As for Hebrew and Syriac, they were not even offered at the University of Cincinnati. Franz did take 15 hours of Latin, but that would not qualify him as a scholar of that non-biblical language. Since there is no record of Franz attending other universities and the one he did go to is easily checked, the additional claims of him being a scholar of "Hebrew, Syriac and Latin" are apparently not true either.
Franz himself seemed to hold an inflated estimation of his scholarship credentials all the way to near the end of his life evidenced by what he wrote in his autobiography in 1987 :
"What a blessing it was to study Bible Greek under Professor Arthur Kensella! Under Dr. Joseph Harry, an author of some Greek works, I also studied the classical Greek. I knew that if I wanted to become a Presbyterian clergyman, I had to have a command of Bible Greek. So I furiously applied myself and got passing grades" (The Watchtower, May 1, 1987, pg. 24).
You'll note that this autobiography gives the impression that the majority of his Greek studies were 'Bible Greek' under 'Professor Kensella' and that classical Greek was secondary under 'Dr. Joseph Harry.' The only problem with this proclamation is that the opposite is the truth. Franz only took one, shortened 2-hour credit class of "Bible Greek." The other 21 hours of Greek he took were Classical.
Also noteworthy, according to the course catalog of 1911, is that Arthur Kensella was not a professor of Greek as Franz claimed, but an "instructor in Greek." The reason was that Kensella did not have a Ph. D. degree. Therefore, Kensella only taught entry-level courses.
As if Franz's personal academic records weren't embarrassing enough when compared with his self-perception; he also seems to have perjured himself in a 1954 Scotland courtroom when he claimed under oath that he could read Hebrew, but then failed to translate a short verse in Genesis when challenged by the prosecutor:
Prosecutor: Have you also made yourself familiar with Hebrew?
Franz: Yes …
Prosecutor: So that you have a substantial linguistic apparatus at your command?
Franz: Yes, for use in my biblical work.
Prosecutor: I think you are able to read and follow the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French.
Franz: Yes. . .
Prosecutor: Can you, yourself translate that into Hebrew?
Franz: Which?
Prosecutor: That fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis?
Franz: No...
(Cross Examination of Fred Franz. Pursuer's Proof of Douglas Walsh v. The Right Honorable James Latham, Clyde , Scottish Court of Sessions, Wednesday, November 24, 1954 , p.7, pars. A-B. and p. 102, par. F.)
Now with his scholastic record and testimony under oath in mind, please re-read Franz's claims about himself:
Does this seem like a man in touch with reality, in love with truth and animated by the humbling effect of the indwelt Holy Spirit? Or, does he appear to be a fleshly man playing fast and loose with the truth to cover over his real qualifications? You make the call.
For me, the reality is that Fred Franz, although apparently above average in intelligence and somewhat self-taught in Hebrew and other languages, was not a biblical scholar at all. He did not even complete a first tier Bachelors degree, much less a Masters' degree or a Ph. D., which of course is needed for competent biblical language translation work. In the real world where you and I live, he would have simply been forgotten and would have probably had a hard time finding a good job with such incomplete college work. However, with the help of a religious publishing company he ended up being esteemed as much as many heads of state and revered as a quasi-prophet or "oracle" with multitudes hanging onto his every word at conventions. Not bad for a college drop out.
These findings raise important and troubling questions. Why did Franz never object to the false claims in "Faith on the March"? His later claims in his autobiography certainly suggest that he himself was the source of these statements distributed by the Watchtower since they closely mirror those in Macmillan's book. So, why would someone take such a risk in promoting these claims that would someday surely be found out as false?
The answer is obvious to me as to why the risk was worth taking. It was at this time that the monumental task of translating the entire Words of God (as edited by Wescott and Hort in Greek) from the original languages into English was nearing completion at Watchtower headquarters. This "work" was being released piece by piece to all the members at this time and no doubt questions were naturally raised about the competency of this work. In my opinion, The Macmillan/Franz illusion served the purpose of creating an air of legitimacy surrounding the re-interpretation of Scripture by the Watchtower Translation Committee.
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses at Yankee Stadium, New York, August 2, 1950. The translation of the Old Testament was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960. The complete New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released as a single volume in 1961.
I believe that Witnesses needed to believe that competent and learned people were in charge of this complicated work as it was being released. And so, this competency seems to have been simply conjured up for the brothers and circulated in the congregations as "truth".
Although the "translators" of the NWT are officially anonymous, according to several Bethel sources including a former Governing Body member, the translation committee included these other men in addition to Fred Franz:
Nathan H. Knorr: No training in biblical languages. Entered Brooklyn headquarters in 1923; 3rd president of WTS from 1942 to 1977. Died 1977 at age 72.
Milton G. Henschel: No training in biblical languages. Private secretary and traveling companion to N. H. Knorr from late 1940s until early 1970s. 4th president of WTS from 1992 to 2000.
Albert D. Schroeder: No training in biblical languages. Took 3 years of mechanical engineering, unspecified language courses in college, dropped out in 1932 and soon entered Brooklyn headquarters. Registrar of "Gilead School" from 1942 to 1959.
Karl Klein: No training in biblical languages. Entered Brooklyn headquarters in 1925; member of Writing Dept. since 1950. Died 2001 at age 96.
George D. Gangas: No training in biblical languages. Greek-speaking Turkish national, entered Brooklyn headquarters in 1928 as a Greek translator from English to modern Greek publications. Died 1994 at age 98.
As you can see, none of the men on the translation committee responsible for the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures had any college training whatsoever in Hebrew; and only Fred Franz had one short survey college course in Biblical Greek. With this in mind the opening declaration of the 1984 edition of the New World Translation on the cover page seems particularly appropriate. Just under the title it reads:
Rendered from the Original Languages
New World Bible Translation Committee
Perhaps it is precisely because there was no scholar educated in the original biblical languages of Hebrew and Koine Greek on the translation committee that the author chose the word "rendered" as opposed to the word "translated" when characterizing the New World Translation. If the Watchtower employed a biblical "scholar" with very little college work in the biblical languages, it is certainly not surprising to me they would form a "translation committee" that couldn't actually translate … only 'render'.
If this is the case, and there is no evidence I've found to the contrary, then this is nothing more than simply employing word-games to create an illusion of competency and accuracy.
So this naturally begs the question; how did the members of the Watchtower Translation Committee know how to "render" passages since they had virtually no biblical language training? Of necessity, they must have looked to others; but who?
In several Watchtower publications, the Society has favorably cited the work of Johannes Greber as supporting its theology and key bible passages. Greber's stand on many major doctrines is identical to that of the Watchtower Society. In 1923, Greber, who was a Roman Catholic priest, became interested in communication with spirit beings. These spirits often spoke through his wife, who was a spirit medium. The spirits told him that the Bible was full of errors and couldn't be trusted and that he should translate his own. His experiences with spirits and their communications with him are related in his book, Communication With the Spirit World, published in 1932.
As a reminder, Deuteronomy 18 commands:
10 There shall not be found among you any one …that useth divination …or a charmer… or a consulter with familiar spirits…For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD
And again in Leviticus chapter 20 He warns:
6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off…
In open rebellion to God, Greber consulted the demons through his wife and other spirit mediums when facing 'difficult' passages while working on his bible translation. In the Forward to his "bible", he states that sometimes the correct translation would supernaturally appear as letters on the wall.
I own a copy of Greber's bible and it is identical to many passages in the New World Translation, especially those dealing with foundational Christian truths. The facts simply do not allow for the Watchtower to plead ignorance on this matter. Here are just a few citations to demonstrate the Watchtower's early acknowledgement of Greber's demonic involvement:
"Very plainly the spirits in which ex-Catholic priest Greber believes helped him in his translation" (W.T. 2/15/56/ p.111).
Also in that 1956 issue of the Watchtower magazine we find the following quote:
"Says Johannes Greber in the introduction of his translation of The New Testament, copyrighted in 1937: 'I myself was a Catholic priest, and until I was forty-eight years old had never as much as believed in the possibility of communicating with the world of God's spirits. The day came, however, when I involuntarily took my first step toward such communication, and experiencing things that shook me to the depths of my soul. . .My experiences are related in a book that has appeared in both German and English and bears the title, Communication with the Spirit World: Its Laws and Its Purpose.' "
So, if the Watchtower knew that spirits had assisted Johannes Greber in "translating" his bible version as early as 1956, why would they use him to support various renderings of the NWT for the next 20 years? Here are a few of those citations:
Aid to Bible understanding Page 1669, (Pub. 1969) The Word
Aid to Bible understanding Page 1134, (Pub. 1969) Memorial tombs
Make sure of all things... Page 489, "a god"
The Watchtower 9/15/1962 Pg 554, The Word
The Watchtower 10/15/1975 Pg 640 No Resurrection
The Watchtower 4/15/1976 Pg 231 No Resurrection
The Word Pg 5 "a God
Interestingly, the messages that the former priest received from his spirit guides, are startlingly similar to many of the doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses. For example, both Greber and the Watchtower deny the Deity of Jesus, and the Trinity, both deny that God is omniscient and omnipresent, both hold that Christ was the first of God's creation, both deny the existence of a literal hell, etc. It is only therefore reasonable to ask why it would be that a book containing channeled messages from spirits that are not of God, is teaching the same doctrines as the Watchtower Corporation?
It seems pretty clear that since the members of the Watchtower Translation Committee could not truly understand the original languages, they were limited to simply "rendering" the words of the bible into a form that agreed with their doctrines. Since many of these unique doctrines agree with Johannes Greber, who received them via occult communication; this raises the question as to just where these doctrines actually originate. And, since the NWT and the Johannes Greber Bible that was translated with the help of "God's Spirits" are in much agreement on key doctrinal passages, this raises the question as to whether either of these "translations" should be considered as anything other than a Satanic attempt at distorting God's words. You make the call.
For me, this is all right in line with what we know about Satan. Think about it. What is the likelihood that God's chief enemy would want to distort God's words? Did he not make his debut on the world scene by perverting the pure words of God:
"And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden"?
This, by the way is the first question recorded in the bible, 'hath God said'. Isn't it interesting how the change of just one small word can sometimes make a sentence say the opposite of Truth? The devil's main line of attack has always been and will always be the questioning and contradiction of the Word of God.
The deceptive quality between certain NWT passages and Franz's academic self-description is just too congruent to avoid mention here:
Franz- "I also studied the Classical Greek".
(Franz)
John 12: 45
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me
he that beholds me beholds [also] him that sent me
Brackets [ ] in the NWT means that part is not in any Greek manuscript at all.
Franz didn't 'also' study the classical Greek… this is what he mainly studied. Likewise, he that saw Jesus didn't "also" see the Father, as if they were totally separate. Jesus was claiming that a person was seeing both when they looked at him. Understand it or not, that is what Jesus simply claimed....that he was "God manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3: 16) and that he could, and was in fact existing in two places at the same time (John 3:13). Franz' insertion of his own words many thousands of times into Scripture infers a different meaning than what God intended. Watchtower publications simply take those altered meanings and expound on them.
Now I ask you, why would Franz, who has been proven to be untruthful both during and after the "bible translating" work of the NWT, and who failed a simple Hebrew test while under oath be trusted to do this work accurately and without inclusion of his own personal opinions? How could a body of religious leaders that has consulted and cited works of known occultists be trusted to accurately translate God's Words with godly fear? I simply cannot understand how people could do such things and convince themselves that they love God and truth. It is beyond comprehension how they can then condemn, malign, and label as apostate those who cannot conscientiously go along with works that have such open demonic influence.
The influence of Fred Franz on much of current Watchtower doctrine cannot be overstated. His influence was apparently substantiated by a comment Governing Body member Karl Klein reportedly made when he once half-jokingly lamented about Franz having "been our oracle for the past 67 years".
Many strongly suspect that Franz was also a ghostwriter for many of Rutherford's books and lectures. His style is unmistakable. Undoubtedly, he wrote much of the Society's books on prophecy well into the 1980's.
Yet, while these books are now out of print, rarely if ever quoted in current WT literature, and have been relegated to the dusty shelves of history; it is his 'renderings' that pose as the Word of God that pose the greatest hinderance to truth. Apparently, Franz pretty much single-handedly "translated" the NWT and this "bible" is the one book bearing his strong influence that is not out of print, and not likely to be any time soon. It is by far the most dangerous of his works because many revere the NWT as the pure Word of God.
As if all this isn't bad enough, there is another problematic feature of the New World Translation. In the Forward you will find that the New Testament portion is based upon the Wescott and Hort Master Greek Text of 1881. This text is based mainly upon two Alexandrian manuscripts which I believe the evidence shows to be corrupted. The readings of these manuscripts were available to the King James translators but were rejected because of the many disagreements that they had with each other as well as with most other ancient manuscripts.
It is this author's opinion that for a person who has been taught much changed doctrine, it is of benefit to research the two master Greek texts that are the basis for all English bibles today. These texts are the Textus Receptus and the Master Greek Text of 1881 devised by Westcott & Hort. In order to fully distill sound doctrine for someone with a strong Watchtower background, I believe that a person should come to some sort of conclusion about which text he/she believes the hand of God was upon. There are over 3000 differences between the two, many of little significance .... many of great significance.


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The Rise of Suburban Poverty
With 70 percent of the population living in the suburbs, Delaware is uniquely vulnerable to this systemic problem.
Karl Stomberg · August 12, 2020
America is a suburban nation, and not by accident.
Over the second half of the 1900s, a messy blend of government policies, economic changes, and old-fashioned racism transformed America into a suburban country. Today, just over half the country lives in a neighborhood they would describe as suburban. Dotted with white-picket fences, nuclear families, and single-family homes, these suburbs represent, for many, a new American Dream.
This change was especially large in Delaware. In 1920, half of the state's residents lived in the city of Wilmington. Almost everyone else lived in rural areas across the rest of the state. One hundred years later, Wilmington is just seven percent of Delaware's population, and rural areas make up less than twenty percent. Instead, the vast majority of Delawareans now live in the suburbs.
In Delaware, as with most places around the country, the suburbs are viewed as being mostly middle class and white. While this was never entirely true, it is a fair enough summary of what the suburbs have looked like for most of American history.
But over the last few decades, the suburbs have been changing. On top of being the largest source of overall population growth, they have also seen the largest increase in poverty. So much so, that about half of all poor people in the United States now live in the suburbs.
At first glance, the rise of suburban poverty may not seem like a big issue. It is still much lower than urban and rural poverty, and it hasn't become systematic in the same way it has in these other areas. But it doesn't take much for a trend to become an epidemic. If we do not address it soon, we run the risk of confronting an even worse version of institutional poverty: the kind that could mean disaster for a suburban state like Delaware.
By far, the best work on this subject is Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, written in 2014 by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube. It covers every part of suburban poverty: what it looks like, how it is growing, and its origins.
It is worth noting that the suburbs were never the cookie-cutter places they portrayed to be. While they were definitely richer and whiter than the cities, there were always low-income people and people of color that formed a small, but very real, minority in the suburbs. But in the last twenty years, these pockets of poverty began to multiply, developing into the systemic issue that we face today.
Some states have felt the impact more strongly than others. So far, Delaware has not been affected as much as states like Florida or Arizona. But, the warning signs are there, and we have to be ready for them. To understand what those warning signs are, we need to look back twenty years.
A HOUSE OF CARDS
A strip mall in South Newark (source: Google Maps)
The decade from 2000 to 2010 was possibly the worst for the average American since the Great Depression. While the Great Recession played a huge part in that, the collapse that it caused would not have been possible without the subtle rot that hollowed the economic system before 2008.
Despite national economic growth, the economy never realized the widespread prosperity that many had come to expect during the 1990s. Slow job growth and stagnant incomes prove that the economy never fully recovered from the stock market crash and short-lived recession in 2001. So while Washington was plowing forward with tax cuts and privatizing social security, the poverty rate began to rise. This increased precarity made many people prime targets for exploitation.
The most infamous form of exploitation during this time was the subprime mortgage boom. Banks targeted poor people, working-class people, and historically under-housed communities with predatory loans under the guise of increasing access to home-ownership. And these loans did not go to the cities and farms. Suburban residents made up 73 percent of all subprime mortgages.
Then in 2007, the grift came crumbling down. Once again, the victims were mostly the suburban poor. Follow the pattern of lending, 73 percent of foreclosures during that time were in suburban areas.
Meanwhile, as the subprime mortgage crisis turned into the Great Recession, the biggest job losses were among middle-income jobs. Then, during the recovery, the largest job gains were among low-income jobs. As a result, millions of Americans in the suburbs lost their primary asset and their solidly middle-class job simultaneously. Many ended up downgrading to a cheaper house or renting while working a job that paid less than what they had made before.
Of course, the recession did not impact every state equally. Initially, Delaware avoided the worst of the fallout. Unemployment peaked at 8.8%, and the foreclosure rate was well below the national average of 1.8%. However, as the months and years ticked by, Delaware didn't bounce back in the same way other states did.
Before the recession, Delaware had a lower unemployment rate than most of the country: the 8th lowest in the nation. By 2014, it fell to the middle of the pack. And as foreclosures fell in the rest of the country, they increased in Delaware as the mortgage crisis continued to take its toll.
By 2016, Delaware topped the nation in foreclosures and has remained in the top three since then. In 2017, it was one of only two states in the country to have its poverty rate go up.
Delaware might not have experienced the immediate collapse of suburban wealth and housing like other states did, but the Great Recession made it clear that we are increasingly vulnerable.
THE NEW GREAT MIGRATION
While the mortgage crisis was making existing suburbans residents poorer, another set of trends began to push more and more poor people out of cities and into the suburbs.
One of the biggest drivers of migration to the suburbs was the lack of opportunity in cities. Urban renewal programs like HOPE VI allowed cities to demolish public housing towers and replace them with low-rise mixed-income communities. But these new communities frequently had fewer subsidized units or fewer units overall. The move forced predominately Black and Hispanic residents to find somewhere else to go. Many of these residents might have wanted to continue living in cities, but they had no choice but to leave.
As manufacturing and other industries left major US cities and vacancies increased, a new group of gentrifiers arrived, driving up housing prices as they moved in. The return of jobs allowed some people to stay. But for others, staying was not an option. Instead of moving into increasingly concentrated areas of urban poverty, many families opted to move out of the city entirely and find new homes in the suburbs.
Unfortunately, leaving the city did not prove to be the solution to poverty either. Poor families were generally only able to move into neighborhoods that were more low-income than average.
These same neighborhoods also attracted new immigrants trying to get a foothold in America. But for both foreign and domestic migrants alike, many of these suburban neighborhoods morphed into areas of concentrated poverty like the ones they had tried to escape.
A census tract in Stanton
In Delaware, this trend has yet to become widespread. But it is well underway in several areas. One example is the area west of Stanton, near the intersection of Kirkwood Highway and Limestone Road (pictured above). In 2000, this area had a poverty rate of 5.2% and a white population of 75.73%. Twenty years later, it has a poverty rate of almost 24.43%, with a population that is now 50.66% Hispanic.
A census tract in Bear
It is a similar story in several neighborhoods near Route 40 (pictured above). In 2000, these areas had a poverty rate of only 8.56 percent and a relatively diverse population that was 53.89 percent white, 35.02 percent Black, and 6.59 percent Hispanic. Today, it has a poverty rate of 23.68 percent, and a population that is 28.53 percent white, 42 percent Black, and 26.04 percent Hispanic.
This is not to blame the residents for the rise of poverty in these areas. People were simply looking for a place where they could make a living and raise a family with the money they had. Focusing on individual choices hides the deeper issues, from job loss to gentrification, that led these families to these neighborhoods in the first place. It also does not prepare us for the bigger problems that we are yet to face.
NOT BUILT TO LAST
A street in Bear (source: Google Maps)
Even with all that we know about suburban poverty, it is easy to see it as a less pressing issue than urban or rural poverty. After all, the suburbs have less concentrated poverty and more room for upward mobility. So if we wait, maybe things will just get better, like they did for the suburbanites of the twentieth century.
Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The rise in suburban poverty has been met with an equal rise in concentrated poverty. Between 2000 and 2012, concentrated poverty in the suburbs grew by 139 percent, or three times faster than the growth of poverty in cities. Now almost half of all the people living in concentrated poverty in the United States live in the suburbs.
There are many aspects of the suburbs that make this rise in poverty even worse than urban or rural poverty. To put it bluntly: the suburbs were not well-designed. Charles Marohn, the founder of Strong Towns, described how he discovered that the financing for something as simple as a cul de sac didn't add up:
A typical city will dedicate 10% to 15% of its budget to infrastructure. Much of that goes to new construction and expansion, but let's pretend in this case that it all went to maintenance. And let's pretend, in our cul-de-sac, that all that money just went to the maintenance of this particular local street. Not the drainage and underground utilities. Not the ongoing snow plowing or street sweeping. Not filling the potholes or sealing the cracks.
And let's ignore any contribution the people along this cul-de-sac would be expected to contribute to maintaining the collector road, which was upsized on their behalf. Or the extra deep pipe, which was installed to accommodate them. Or the traffic signals, interchanges, frontage roads, lift pumps, water towers, or any other communal infrastructure investment they rely on to make their cul-de-sac work. Let's ignore all of that and just assume that all of their share of the tax revenue allocated to infrastructure goes just to perform basic maintenance on their street.
At 10%, that's a payback in 79 years. That's just straight division, not accounting for any interest on a bond or discount rate to account for inflation, which would lengthen that term. I don't bother with that extra math because 79 years is three times longer than the street is going to last anyway.
At 15%, the payback falls to 53 years, which is more than double the expected life of that street surface. These numbers are absurd, but they are pretty typical of what I was uncovering.
The suburbs just were not built to last. Building a community is easy, but the difficulty lies in maintaining it. Property taxes fund most local governments. When property values start to go down, and community members get poorer, the budgets for maintaining basic necessities become tighter.
This creates a downward spiral. As the community becomes poorer through job loss or mass migration, the remaining community members' local tax payments do not stretch as far. The local government isn't as able to maintain the community. Once this happens, services and schools start to suffer. Those who can move out, do, leaving the community even more financially unsound. It is a vicious cycle. We can't blame poor people for this problem, most of them are doing the best they can. It's the system that's broken.
To see an example of what this looks like in practice, just look at the Christina School District. Many issues have plagued the district, such as school choice, gerrymandering, and mismanagement. As the district began to struggle, families that could afford to leave did so or "choiced" their children out causing the district to struggle all the more. As a result, those who stayed in the district were those less able to move out, continuing the downward spiral. This pattern should serve as a warning.
Moreover, existing programs are woefully unprepared for the changing geography of poverty. Most of the place-based support programs that have been in effect since the LBJ administration's War on Poverty focus on urban and rural areas and are not fit to measure or alleviate the poverty that now pervades the suburbs. Budget limitations constrain county and local governments, and in most suburbs, the only form of community organization are authoritarian HOAs.
There is no easy solution to this problem. It will require a massive change in several cardinal sectors of our economy. If the suburbs are to survive, their construction and wealth-building methods will have to change substantially.
But before we can even start crafting these solutions, we need to acknowledge the problem. Suburban poverty has been allowed to skyrocket with little to no public discussion, and the longer that goes on, the less prepared we will be once the spiral begins. It is time to start taking this problem seriously.
Karl Stomberg is the Digital Editor of the Delaware Call. In the past he has served on multiple campaigns, and is currently an organizer for the Delaware Working Families Party. Read more from Karl Stomberg.

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Die Liste beinhaltet die Anzahl der jährlichen Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen in Deutschland von 1999 bis 2016 nach Segmenten und Modellreihen. Die Statistiken werden vom Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt veröffentlicht.

Methodik

Neuzulassung
Eine Neuzulassung ist laut Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) die erstmalige Zulassung und Registrierung eines fabrikneuen Fahrzeugs mit einem Kennzeichen in Deutschland. Fahrzeuge, die bereits im In- oder Ausland zugelassen waren, fallen nicht darunter. In die statistische Auswertung einbezogen sind Fahrzeuge der Bundespolizei und des Technischen Hilfswerkes (THW). Dagegen sind nicht einbezogen die Fahrzeuge der Bundeswehr sowie Fahrzeuge mit rotem bzw. Kurzzeitkennzeichen und mit Ausfuhrkennzeichen.

Personenkraftwagen, Segmente und Modellreihen
Das KBA weist die Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen (Pkw) seit 2001 gegliedert nach Segmenten und Modellreihen aus. Die Zuordnung von Pkw zu Modellreihen erfolgt anhand der Fahrzeug-Identifizierungsnummer (FIN). Wird für verschiedene Modellreihen eine gemeinsame Bodengruppe mit dem gleichen FIN-Fragment verwendet, ist die Trennung der Modellreihen problematisch. Deshalb wurden unter anderem VW Golf/Bora/Jetta, Seat Altea/Toledo/Leon und Porsche Boxster/Cayman zusammenhängend ausgewiesen.

Die Eingruppierung der Modellreihen in Segmente nimmt das KBA in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA) und dem Verband der Importeure von Kraftfahrzeugen (VDIK) vor. Sie erfolgt anhand optischer, technischer und marktorientierter Merkmale. Das Gerüst der Segmente sowie die Eingruppierung der Modellreihen werden laufend aktualisiert. Das Gerüst der Segmente bestand bei seiner Einführung 2000 aus MINI, Kleinwagen, Untere Mittelklasse, Mittelklasse, Obere Mittelklasse, Oberklasse, Geländewagen, Cabriolets (inkl. Roadster), VANs, Utilities und Sonstige. Dabei erfasst Sonstige Pkw, die aufgrund fehlender Merkmale (z. B. FIN-Fragment) keinem Segment zugeordnet werden können, sowie Eigenbauten, Exoten usw.

In den folgenden Jahren kam es zu folgenden Umstrukturierungen oder nennenswerten Umbenennungen im Gerüst der Segmente:
 Durch die EU-weite Harmonisierung der Fahrzeugpapiere werden Fahrzeuge mit besonderer Zweckbestimmung (Wohnmobile, Krankenwagen und andere) seit 2005 den Pkw zugeordnet. Dies hatte vor allem Auswirkungen auf das Segment Utilities. Wohnmobile führt das KBA seit 2006 in einem eigenständigen Segment.
 Das Segment Untere Mittelklasse trägt seit 2006 die Bezeichnung Kompaktklasse.
 Das Segment Cabriolets (incl. Roadster), das unter anderem offene Varianten der Modellreihen aus den übrigen Segmenten enthielt, bestand bis 2006. Seit 2007 sind offene Pkw in die übrigen Segmente eingeordnet und werden gegebenenfalls mit den entsprechenden geschlossenen Varianten zusammengefasst.
 Das Segment Sportwagen wurde 2007 eingeführt. Die zugeordneten Modellreihen waren zuvor in die übrigen Segmente eingruppiert.
 Das Segment Vans wurde 2007 in die Teilsegmente Mini-Vans und Großraum-Vans aufgesplittet.
 Vom Segment Geländewagen wurde 2013 das Segment SUVs abgespaltet. Zu den Geländewagen zählen seitdem alle Pkw-Modelle, sobald sie als M1G-Fahrzeug gemäß Richtlinie 2007/46/EG typgenehmigt wurden. Ohne eine entsprechende Typgenehmigung werden Pkw-Modelle mit "Offroad-Charakter" im Segment SUVs ausgewiesen.

Ausgewiesene Modellreihen
Ausgewiesen werden seit 2006 Modellreihen mit mindestens fünf neu zugelassenen Fahrzeugen in mindestens einem Monat des jeweiligen Jahres. Modellreihen mit weniger als fünf neu zugelassenen Fahrzeugen in jedem Monat des jeweiligen Jahres werden seit 2006 innerhalb ihres Segments unter Sonstige gefasst. Davon ausgenommen sind Modellreihen der Segmente Oberklasse und Sportwagen; diese werden bereits ab einer Neuzulassung im jeweiligen Jahr ausgewiesen.

Hinweise zu den Listen
Die Neuzulassungszahlen weist das KBA monatlich, jährlich sowie unterjährig kumuliert aus. In den folgenden Listen sind lediglich die jährlichen Neuzulassungszahlen dargestellt.

In den folgenden Listen sind für jedes Jahr die Neuzulassungszahlen nach der statistischen Erfassungsmethode, Zusammensetzung der Modellreihen und Segmentzuordnung dargestellt, die im jeweiligen Jahr gültig war. Daher sind Vergleiche der Neuzulassungszahlen verschiedener Jahre teilweise nur bedingt möglich.

Auf Änderungen bei der Eingruppierung von Modellreihen in Segmente, welche sich nicht aus den erläuterten methodischen Änderungen ergeben, wird in der folgenden Liste in den Abschnitten zu den jeweiligen Segmenten hingewiesen.

Überblick

Anzahl der jährlichen Neuzulassungen

Anteil in Prozent

Segmente

Leichtfahrzeuge
Das Segment der kleinsten Automobile, die heute als Leichtfahrzeuge nach den Normen gemäß EG L6e bzw. gemäß EG L7e zugelassen werden, wird von den Leichtelektromobilen dominiert. Sie werden in den KBA-Statistiken zu Automobilzulassungen nicht ausgewiesen. Bekannte Vertreter sind der CityEL und der Renault Twizy, von dem in den Jahren 2012 bis 2018 in Deutschland etwa 4800 Stück zugelassen worden sind.

Minis

Kleinwagen

Kompaktklasse

Mittelklasse

Obere Mittelklasse

Oberklasse

SUVs

Geländewagen

Cabriolets (incl. Roadster)

Sportwagen

Vans

Mini-Vans

Großraum-Vans

Utilities

Wohnmobile

Siehe auch
 Liste der Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen in Deutschland nach Marken und Modellreihen
 Liste des Bestandes an Personenkraftwagen in Deutschland nach Segmenten und Modellreihen
 Wirtschaftszahlen zum Automobil/Deutschland

Einzelnachweise

Neuzulassungen, Personenkraftwagen, Segmente
Neuzulassungen, Personenkraftwagen, Segmente


It's always interesting to find out how individuals become bona fide automotive enthusiasts. Some grow up in enthusiast families with cool cars always in the garage, while others get involved as a retirement hobby. Even more embrace the sport around the time they are eligible for their first driver's license. Steve Harrison knows exactly when his automotive love affair began. Steve, a commercial real estate specialist in Dacula, Georgia, recalls a specific car show, back in the mid-'60s in Atlanta. Ford had set up a booth with Shelby Mustangs and 427 Cobras on display. Steve had just finished helping his brother-in-law display his 1934 Ford coupe when the Ford rep came by, asking him if he would be interested in helping to detail their cars. Steve was eager for the opportunity to get close to the beautiful collection, and he smiles when he recalls that he got paid, but would have done it for free. From that point on, he was hooked.
When Steve married his wife, Jan, the family connection gave him a close look at another beautiful car, the 1966 Mustang fastback owned by Jan's father. Purchased new, the car was well traveled, with many long-distance trips around the country. Both Jan and her mother took their driver's test in this car, adding to the collection of family memories. When other cars came into the family, the Mustang languished for two decades under a tarp. When Jan's father passed away, Steve bought the car and began the long-term rebuild. With the help of his two boys, he began the restoration process, taking the car apart to assess the damage, and quickly discovered it was extensive. Realizing that professional help was the best approach, he contacted Don Head of Don's Collision Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
The long list of replacement parts began with the firewall, front and rear floorpans, all the sheetmetal in the trunk, various pieces of metal around the trunk and back window, doors, front fenders, hood, bumpers, and more. It might have been better to start with something new, but nostalgia and the family connection were important. The rotisserie restoration included a complete paintjob underneath, with the undercarriage finished as nicely as the top.
The goal for the car was to create a Shelby-style G.T. 350H with beefed-up engine, trans, and rear end, along with all modern conveniences like air conditioning, power door locks, power windows, and even a power trunk lid. Steve left the exterior essentially stock with the exception of a few tasteful Shelby additions beginning with a Shelby fiberglass hood and hoodpins, billet grille, LED headlights, bullet side mirrors, and open rear quarter-windows. Modern handling and performance began with removing the strut towers and installing a new Heidts frontend with rack-and-pinion steering. Total Control Products g-Bar rear coilover suspension upgraded the rear and SSBC power disc brakes on all four corners guaranteed modern stopping power.
The engine is a Ford Performance 302 crate engine with an Edelbrock intake, Holley 650 cfm carb, aluminum heads, roller cam, and long-tube headers from Summit Racing that snake through the narrow confines of the engine room. Chrome and polished aluminum details are everywhere, showcasing the potent V-8. It sends 340 hp to the Performance Automatic Street Smart AOD transmission that turns a Currie 9-inch Traction-Lok rear fitted with 3.50 gears. The car became a roller thanks to 17x7-inch Vintage Wheel Works Shelby 10-spoke wheels and Sumitomo HTR Z11 P235/45ZR17 rubber. Don's Collision Center completed the exterior, adding Shelby badging and spraying the Sunset Blood Red Pearl paint with gold stripes.
With the exterior looking better than new, the final efforts were devoted to the stunning interior, accomplished by Wayne Lundy Interiors in Lula, Georgia. The plush seats came from Pro Car, purchased without upholstery so that Lundy could wrap the seats, door panels, and headliner in matching tan leather, using expanded metal accents in the door panels—a theme that he carried over to the beautifully upholstered trunk, now opening with electric actuators. The dash, center console, and carpet are black, while white-faced gauges from MP line the dash. Steve grips a Billet Specialties wheel on a Flaming River column, while the RetroSound stereo plays classic 1960s music through a center-mounted speaker and components in the kicks. Vintage Air adds comfort during warm Georgia summers. Several years ago, Jan sent the glovebox door to Carroll Shelby, made a donation to his charity, and now they proudly display Shelby's signature. It was the perfect finishing touch.
Although it took almost a dozen years to rejuvenate, this half-century-old car is now a joy to own and drive. Shortly after these photos, Steve and Jan completed this year's Power Tour, and Jan is sure that Dad is looking down and proud.


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With schools set to open next week, officials are warning motorists to drive carefully and exercise extra caution around students in support of AAA's annual "School's Open - Drive Carefully" campaign.
The New York State Department of Transportation and state police are teaming with AAA to support the safety campaign, which is designed to alert motorists to the risks students face from motor vehicle crashes, which police said is the leading cause of death for children between 5 and 14 years old.
Throughout the state, AAA will distribute thousands of colorful posters to various municipalities to remind drivers there are children and school buses flooding the streets every September. The posters will be displayed at major intersections, business districts and school crossings. Upwards of 14,000 bumper stickers with the same message also will be circulated.
The campaign begins on Aug. 30 and extends through Oct. 13. Officials from the DOT also issued an alert reminding drivers that everyone, in every lane, on every roadway, must come to a complete stop for school buses with flashing lights.
"With traffic safety a top priority for our agency, we will once again ramp up enforcement and raise driver awareness as school buses return to our roads and our children walk our sidewalks," State Police Superintendent George Beach II stated. "We ask that parents, friends and neighbors spread the word and work with law enforcement year round. Please pay attention behind the wheel to make sure our kids stay safe."
Eastchester Police Chief Timothy Bonci asked parents to "remind your children to look both ways; cross only at corners; obey police officers and school guards; watch for turning cars and be especially alert in bad weather."
Police Major Joseph Dodd noted that there is a "need to show extra caution when driving as schools reopen, since it is then that vacation-minded children are apt to be less careful. Motorists should be particularly alert for children darting out between parked cars on busy streets.
"This is an ideal time for all of us to remember the importance of devoting our full attention to driving, and commit to eliminating distractions such as cell phones and electronics in our vehicles, in an effort to enhance the safety of school children."


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Set of Twelve French Cheese Plates made by 'Chauvigny Porcelaine.'
What a Frivolous, Fun Way to Serve your Cheese Course at Dinner..........
This Set of TWELVE Matching Cheese Plates are all in Pristine, Perfect Condition with no visible chips or cracks.
Each plates measures 19cms (7½") diameter.
There are Two of each of the Six Different Designs, each of them featuring a different french cheese:
Reblochon (a soft washed-rind and smear-ripened French cheese made in the Alpine region of Savoy)
Roquefort ( a sheep milk blue cheese from the south of France)
Emmenthal (a yellow, medium-hard Swiss cheese)
Brie (a soft cow's-milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern département of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in colour with a slight grayish tinge under a rind of white mold.)
Chèvre (French for Goat's cheese)
Camembert (a soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow's milk cheese. It was first made in the late 18th century at Camembert, Normandy in northern France.)
Each Plate shows the animal, from whose milk the cheese is made, and also details of the region that the cheese comes from in the background.
What a great present for a Cheese and Wine Connoisseur.................................you just need to provide the red wine, a baguette and the cheese of course!.........Bon Appetit!..........
There's always a discount for multiple purchases and we'll always combine shipping costs to give you the best price.
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Q: Opensource real django projects I'm trying to learn Django. And need something to go beyond Hello world and Polls tutorial. Could you please recomend any real project written in Django? Tried to search, but found not many.
Especialy interested in usage of buildout.

A: My project, Open Knesset, is a django based project that uses data scraped from the israeli parliament (the knesset), analyses it, and presents it to users in more friendly and informative ways.
We use buildout.
The main repo is here in github.
Another place you should look at is djangosites.org, they have a list of django powered sites with source code available.

A: Pinax and Satchmo is the two most popular django opensource project. You will learn alot beyond just hello world, especially best-practices.

A: You could try OSQA or Askbot. They are open source Stack Exchange clones and are Django projects, go to their sites (1) and (2) to see them in action.

A: I believe everything on the Django Packages site is open-source: Django Packages

A: List of the open-source Django projects:
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Open-SourceDjangoprojects

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Eric Copeland: Artist You Should Know
Written by Mario Cotto Dec. 10, 2014 Best New Music
A tried and true tenured artist throughout DFA's history, Black Dice has also arguably always been it's most left-field. A truly one of a kind outfit, they've pretty much always done things their way without regard for trends or what is "cool."
Although they started as an experimental noise project, like early Animal Collective or Tobacco, it was always hard to tell if Black Dice were a noisy dance music outfit tripping too hard to make proper dance music or a couple of heads making DIY "dance music" unaware of how truly damaged it sounded.
Regardless, the result has always been a gloriously hot mess.
Black Dice member Eric Copeland started participating in it when he was still in high school and has been releasing work under his own name for quite some time.
As a follow-up to last year's "Joke in the Hole" album and a 12″ on L.I.E.S., Copeland has released a new EP on DFA called "Ms. Pretzel".
Somewhat accurately and comically described as Copeland "throwing a wobbly dance party in a junkyard," it is also the sound of a dude making bold art that really pushes the boundaries of genre and understanding.
Come on baby, be the twist.


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The Red Wings have re-signed restricted free-agent center Dylan Larkin to a five-year contract, the team announced Friday.
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The Washington Capitals have re-signed right winger Tom Wilson to a $ 31.02 million, six-year deal.
Two days after footage showed him yelling racial epithets on Mr. Cohen's series "Who Is America?," Mr. Spencer has decided to step down from office.
The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed forward Jake Virtanen, who set career highs in games played, goals, assists, points and penalty minutes. It's a two-year deal with an average annual value of $ 1.25 million.
The Dallas Stars have re-signed young forward Devin Shore to a $ 4.6 million, two-year contract.
Backup goalie Eddie Lack, who appeared in four games for the New Jersey Devils last season, has re-signed, general manager Ray Shero announced Saturday. The team acquired Lack from Calgary in December.
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Chevron CEO John Watson is planning to step down as the energy giant seeks new leadership for a changing oil world, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Cooper Union was long known as an esteemed arts, architecture and engineering that was one of the last remaining higher education institutions to waive tuition for all students.
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FTO Genotype and 2-Year Change in Body Composition and Fat Distribution in Response to Weight-Loss Diets
The POUNDS LOST Trial
Xiaomin Zhang1,2,
Qibin Qi1,
Cuilin Zhang3,
Steven R. Smith4,
Frank B. Hu1,5,
Frank M. Sacks1,5,
George A. Bray6 and
Lu Qi1,5⇓
1Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
2Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
3Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
4Florida Hospital Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Orlando, Florida
5Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
6Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Corresponding author: Lu Qi, nhlqi{at}channing.harvard.edu.
Diabetes 2012 Nov; 61(11): 3005-3011. https://doi.org/10.2337/db11-1799
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Errata - February 01, 2013
Recent evidence suggests that the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) genotype may interact with dietary intakes in relation to adiposity. We tested the effect of FTO variant on weight loss in response to 2-year diet interventions. FTO rs1558902 was genotyped in 742 obese adults who were randomly assigned to one of four diets differing in the proportions of fat, protein, and carbohydrate. Body composition and fat distribution were measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry and computed tomography. We found significant modification effects for intervention varying in dietary protein on 2-year changes in fat-free mass, whole body total percentage of fat mass, total adipose tissue mass, visceral adipose tissue mass, and superficial adipose tissue mass (for all interactions, P < 0.05). Carriers of the risk allele had a greater reduction in weight, body composition, and fat distribution in response to a high-protein diet, whereas an opposite genetic effect was observed on changes in fat distribution in response to a low-protein diet. Likewise, significant interaction patterns also were observed at 6 months. Our data suggest that a high-protein diet may be beneficial for weight loss and improvement of body composition and fat distribution in individuals with the risk allele of the FTO variant rs1558902.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/db11-1799/-/DC1.
Received December 20, 2011.
Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.
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The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld	@erickschonfeld / 12 years
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter's all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art).
Identi.ca's answer to Twitter's scaling issues is by open-sourcing its code and encouraging others to host Identi.ca on their own servers, thus distributing the load. The service also supports other open standards, such as OpenID and a new one called OpenMicroblogging. Based on OAuth, the OpenMicroblogging standard is aimed at making it easy for people on other messaging services to subscribe to Identi.ca users and vice versa.
Identi.ca is the brainchild of Canadian developer Evan Prodromou (a Californian living in Montreal), who explains the thinking behind the project here. He has a lot of good ideas. In particular, we agree that decentralizing Twitter is the key to making it scale better, although there are other ways to do that as well. The service is also based on the idea that you can take your data with you at any time to any other microblogging service.
But for now, Identi.ca is only for super-early adopters. It lacks some basic functionality, such as the ability to search for other users to follow or to import your contacts from other services. (I guess you are supposed to e-mail all your friends the link to your Identi.ca profile so that they can subscribe to you or just hope they find your name on the public feed). These problems are easy enough to address, and Identi.ca has along list of features it is working on.
The bigger problem with Identi.ca is simply that it is not Twitter. However annoying Twitter's erratic outages may be, it still has the advantage of having many more users than any other competing service. If everyone is on Twitter, what's the point of going to Identi.ca? That can change over time, obviously, especially if Twitter does not get its act together. But the inconvenience of switching means that it still has time to fix itself.
That does not mean Twitter can afford to ignore the excitement generated by Identi.ca. In fact, it should adopt some of its ideas, like decentralizing its messaging system and making it easy for people to export their friends and data to other services.
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Indonesia floods: Death toll rises to 43
by 4th January 2020
The death toll in flooding that hit Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its peripheral areas has risen to 43, with more than 390,000 people displaced, the Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said on Friday.
The agency said the deaths were caused by drowning, hypothermia, electrocution and landslides.
The torrential rains hitting the capital and nearby areas since New Year's Eve have also disrupted public transportation systems.
Indonesia's Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency forecasts the heavy rains may continue in Jakarta until Saturday.
Jakarta and its surrounding areas are home to more than 30 million people.
In 2007, such magnitude floods in those areas killed at least 80 people and displaced about 320,000 others.
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Indie Music Album Reviews
prismatics - New Emotion
New Emotion
self-released; 2018
3.9 out of 5
By Jamie Funk
Prismatics is a synthpop/alternative rock band comprised of Brooke Austen (synthesizer/keyboards/vocals), Josh Clark (guitar/vocals), and Jo Bossi (bass/vocals). They released New Emotion which contains five songs.
There is a band called Chromatics that I'm a big fan of. I'm sure it's just coincidence but one thing I found funny is that they are also a synthpop band which takes inspiration from genres like new wave and glam. In fact they also have a female lead singer who sort of sounds similar to Austen. At any rate they should definitely tour together.
The EP opens with "Popaganda." You are greeted with a nostalgic sounding arpeggiated synth you would hear in '80s new wave song. The song starts to unfold with multiple vocal melodies, clean, shimmering guitar, bass and drums. There is a heavy '80's feel to this song from the goth tinted vocals to the beat which feels a little inspired by Blondie.
Up next is "Real Love" which is more of a ballad. The vocal harmonies are great and I really liked how dark they got the drums to sound during the verse. Once the chorus hits there is a change in energy that feels pretty celebratory and joyous.
The title track "New Emotion" is the arguable highlight. I liked how dynamic the song was. It's a song that picks up energy and I thought the hook a little after the one-minute mark was immediately memorable and classic sounding. "Sail in Light" is another winner. The vocal harmonies are really strong on this song. That being said the instrumental parts are on point as well.
They close with "Apparition." This song definitely soars. The funky bass stood out to me on this track and the juxtaposition against the shimmering guitars and synths worked very well. On top of that the vocal melodies are infectious.
There are really zero holes in this EP. I liked all the songs and look forward to a full length. Recommended.
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The Mercury Bay area can boast to being one of the few areas in New Zealand to have been discovered by two of the worlds great navigators, Polynesian explorer 'Kupe" and European explorer Captain James Cook.
The first Polynesian explorer to sight the Coromandel was reputed to be Kupe, traveling from eastern Polynesia in around 950 AD. Aboard his mighty double canoe, Matahorua, he sailed for over two weeks until he sighted what was later to be called Mt Moehau. Te Whitianga a Kupe was the original place name for Whitianga, meaning Kupe's crossing place. It is one of the few places in New Zealand to commemorate Kupe.
Kupe later left Whitianga to return to his homeland, however many of Kupe's tribe settled here. 400 years after Kupe's visit to Whitianga was Te Arawa, captained by Tama te-Kapua with Hei as the tauira (spiritual leader). Hei and his people stayed and settled the area and the descendents of his Ngati Hei tribe remain here today.
Captain Cook sailed into the Mercury Bay on the 3rd November 1769. Cook's ship "Endeavour" was met by Ngati Hei canoes on arrival in the bay and some testy encounters resulted in a Maori warrior being killed in a trading exchange with the crew of the Endeavour. It was 7 days later, on the 9th November 1769 that Cook observed the transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the sun, hence the names of some of the region's beaches and bays - Mercury Bay and Cook's Beach.
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U.S., China quietly hold military-to-military talks following N. Korean missile launch
By Jon Dougherty • November 30, 2017 November 30, 2017
Tagged china, contingency planning, military discussions, North Korea, United States
High-ranking U.S. and Chinese military officers held discussions in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday following North Korea's latest test of an upgraded ICBM experts believe is capable of reaching all of the United States.
The meeting, at the National Defense University, focused primarily on how the U.S. and Chinse militaries would communicate during a crisis on the Korean peninsula.
The discussion signaled that Beijing is now much more willing to discuss how both powers would manage a crisis involving North Korea.
The Pentagon downplayed the talks, saying they were scheduled long before Pyongyang's latest missile test. Still, they held significance because they marked an increasing willingness from Beijing to discuss North Korea militarily, a development that began only recently.
The engagement will serve as an opportunity to discuss how to manage crises, prevent miscalculations, and reduce the risk of misunderstanding," the office of Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement.
Oriana Skylar Mastro, a Georgetown University professor, told American media that her Chinese contacts indicated there is a new willingness to broach North Korea contingencies in the military dialogue.
"Things are shifting right now in both China and the United States. There seems to be an opening," said Mastro.
The attitude towards North Korea is shifting among some Chinese intellectuals. They note that North Korea represents a liability and a hindrance to China's ascension, not to mention a nuclear threat on its border. [source]
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Jon E. Dougherty is a political, foreign policy and national security analyst and reporter with nearly 30 years of experience in both fields. A U.S. Army veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, he holds BA in Political Science from Ashford University and an MA in National Security Studies/Intelligence Analysis from American Military University.
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The police chief in charge at Hillsborough has received £7.6m in legal aid, it can be revealed, as he lost his latest bid for more money to fight manslaughter charges.
Former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield headed the security operation at Hillsborough in 1989 when 96 fans were crushed to death on the terraces.
The retired police officer is facing charges of manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 people.
He applied to South Yorkshire Police for financial assistance to help him fight the Crown Prosecution Service's application to lift a 'stay of prosecution'.
But South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings turned down the new application, revealing he had already received £7.6m in fees for the Hillsborough inquests and defending a private prosecution in 2000.
This was put in place in place in 2000 when jurors failed to reach a verdict after a private prosecution for manslaughter, and the suspension needs to be lifted in the High Court before Duckenfield can go on trial again.
Duckenfield's application also asks for cash to fund 'the cost of his defence' if the stay of prosecution is lifted.
He added: 'The jury concluded that a breach of duty by the retired officer, which amounted to gross negligence, caused the death of 96 people who died at Hillsborough. I cannot ignore that conclusion.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe VagrantWrapper do

  let(:version_regex) { Regexp.new('^Vagrant (version)?') }

  before :all do
    @tmp_dir = "#{Dir.tmpdir}/vagrant-wrapper_gemtest"
    @tmp_old_vagrant = "#{@tmp_dir}/vagrant.old"
    @tmp_new_vagrant = "#{@tmp_dir}/vagrant.new"
    [ @tmp_dir, @tmp_old_vagrant, @tmp_new_vagrant ].each do |dir|
      Dir.mkdir(dir) unless Dir.exists?(dir)
    end
  end

  after :all do
    if Dir.exists?(@tmp_dir)
      FileUtils.rm_rf @tmp_dir
    end
  end

  before :each do
    ENV['VAGRANT_HOME'] = @tmp_new_vagrant
    @v = VagrantWrapper.new
  end

  describe "#new" do
    context "with no parameters" do
      it "returns a VagrantWrapper object" do
        expect(@v).to be_an_instance_of VagrantWrapper
      end
    end

    context "with good version parameter" do
      it "does NOT throw a Version exception" do
        expect {
          @v.require_version("> 1.0")
        }.to_not raise_error
      end
    end

    context "with bad version parameter" do
      it "throws a Version exception" do
        expect {
          @v.require_version(">= 4.0")
        }.to raise_error(VagrantWrapper::Exceptions::Version)
      end
    end
  end  # /#new

  describe "#vagrant_version" do
    context "empty search path" do
      it "returns nil indicating Vagrant not found" do
        @v.send("search_paths=", Array.new)
        expect(@v.vagrant_version).to be_nil
      end
    end

    context "system search path" do
      before :each do
        ENV['VAGRANT_HOME'] = @tmp_old_vagrant
        @v.send("search_paths=", @v.env_paths)
        @version = @v.vagrant_version
      end

      it "returns a valid version" do
        expect(Gem::Version.new(@version)).to_not be_nil
      end

      it "returns a version less than 1.1" do
        pending "missing support files" unless File.exists?("#{@tmp_old_vagrant}/vagrant")

        expect(@version).to_not be_nil
        expect(Gem::Version.new(@version)).to be < Gem::Version.new('1.1')
      end
    end

    context "extended search path" do
      before :each do
        @version = @v.vagrant_version
      end

      it "returns a valid version" do
        expect(Gem::Version.new(@version)).to_not be_nil
      end

      it "returns a version higher than 1.0" do
        expect(@version).to_not be_nil
        expect(Gem::Version.new(@version)).to be >= Gem::Version.new('1.1')
      end
    end
  end  # /#vagrant_version

  describe "#env_paths" do
    it "returns an array from a colon delimited string on linux" do
       allow(ENV).to receive(:[]).with("PATH").and_return("/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin")
       allow(@v).to receive(:windows?).and_return(false)
       expect(@v.env_paths).to eq(['/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin'])
    end

    it "returns an array from a semi-colon delimited string on windows" do
       allow(ENV).to receive(:[]).with("PATH").and_return('C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System;C:\Utils')
       allow(@v).to receive(:windows?).and_return(true)
       expect(@v.env_paths).to eq(['C:\Windows', 'C:\Windows\System', 'C:\Utils'])
    end
  end
  describe "#vagrant_location" do
    it "exists and contains vagrant" do
      location = @v.vagrant_location
      expect(location).to match(/vagrant(\.exe)?$/)
      expect(File.exists?(location)).to be true
    end
  end

  describe "#get_output" do
    context "-v" do
      it "returns the full version string" do
        output = @v.get_output("-v")
        expect(output).to match(version_regex)
      end
    end
  end

  describe "#require_version" do
    context "with >= 1.1" do
      it "does NOT throw a version exception" do
        expect {
          @v.require_version(">= 1.1")
        }.to_not raise_error
      end
    end

    context "with >= 4.0" do
      it "throws a Version exception" do
        expect {
          @v.require_version(">= 4.0")
        }.to raise_error(VagrantWrapper::Exceptions::Version)
      end
    end

    context "with < 1.1" do
      it "throws a Version exception" do
        expect {
          @v.require_version("< 1.1")
        }.to raise_error(VagrantWrapper::Exceptions::Version)
      end
    end

    context "with an empty search path" do
      it "throws a NotInstalled exception" do
        expect {
          @v.send("search_paths=", Array.new)
          @v.require_version(">= 1.1")
        }.to raise_error(VagrantWrapper::Exceptions::NotInstalled)
      end
    end

  end  # /require_version

  describe "#default_paths" do
    it "returns an array of paths" do
      expect(@v.default_paths).to be_a(Array)
    end
  end

  describe "#is_wrapper?" do
    let(:temp_file) { Tempfile.new('vagrant_wrapper_spec') }

    after do
      temp_file.unlink
    end

    it "returns true when the file contains the wrapper mark" do
      temp_file.write("This is a temporary file.\n#{VagrantWrapper::WRAPPER_MARK}\nBye.")
      temp_file.close
      expect(@v.send(:is_wrapper?, temp_file.path)).to be true
    end

    it "returns false when the file does not contain the wrapper mark" do
      temp_file.write("This is a temporary file.\nNothing.\nBye.")
      temp_file.close
      expect(@v.send(:is_wrapper?, temp_file.path)).to be false
    end

    it "returns false when the file is binary and does not contain the wrapper mark" do
      # NOTE: this was taken from the actual header of /opt/vagrant/bin/vagrant on an OS X
      # system where vagrant had been installed via "brew cask install brew".
      temp_file.write("\xCF\xFA\xED\xFE\a\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0003\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0002\u0000\u0000\u0000\t\u0000\u0000\u0000H\b\u0000\u0000\u0001\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0019\u0000\u0000\u0000H\u0000\u0000\u0000__PAGEZERO\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000")
      temp_file.close
      expect(@v.send(:is_wrapper?, temp_file.path)).to be false
    end

    it "raises an error when the file does not exist" do
      expect { @v.send(:is_wrapper?, "/nonexistant/file") }.to raise_error(Errno::ENOENT)
    end
  end

  describe "#windows?" do
    it "returns true on windows" do
      stub_const("RUBY_PLATFORM", "i386-mingw32")
      expect(@v.send(:windows?)).to be true
    end

    it "returns false on linux" do
      stub_const("RUBY_PLATFORM", "x86_64-linux")
      expect(@v.send(:windows?)).to be false
    end
  end
end

describe "bin/vagrant" do
  # 'vagrant -v' => 'Vagrant 1.7.0'
  # earlier versions included the word version in their output
  let(:version_regex) { Regexp.new('^Vagrant (version)?') }
  let(:vagrant_bin) { "ruby #{Dir.getwd}/bin/vagrant" }

  it "returns usage" do
    expect(%x{#{vagrant_bin}}).to match(/^Usage/)
  end

  context "-v" do
    it "returns the full version string" do
      expect(%x{#{vagrant_bin} -v}).to match(version_regex)
    end
  end

  context "with good min-ver" do
    it "returns the full version string" do
      expect(%x{#{vagrant_bin} --min-ver=1.0 -v}).to match(version_regex)
      expect(%x{#{vagrant_bin} -v --min-ver=1.0}).to match(version_regex)
    end
  end

  context "with bad min-ver" do
    it "prints the instructions" do
      expect(%x{#{vagrant_bin} --min-ver=4.0 -v 2>&1}).to match /instructions/
    end
  end
end

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Dem Opponent: 'Everything that People Dislike in Politics … We See in this New Version of Lindsey Graham'
Janet Ybarra 0 June 1, 2019 8:53 am
Sen. Lindsey Graham has drawn a Democratic opponent in his bid for re-election next year.
The South Carolina Republican's opponent, Jaime Harrison, said he is running because he doesn't like Graham's transformation from John McCain-style Maverick, to avid Donald Trump defender and toady.
"Everything that people dislike in politics today, the political opportunism, just doing things that is in your best interest instead of in the best interest of the people that you represented is what we see in this new version of Lindsey Graham," said Harrison, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. "I used to look up to Lindsey Graham as someone that even though I disagreed with him on the policy and sometimes political positions, I still thought that this was someone who was above the fray, a statesman who could work with both sides. But this new version of Lindsey Graham, we can call him Lindsey Graham 2.0, it is exactly what people hate about politics."
Graham has noticably changed positions in recent years, particularly on Trump himself. When both men were Republican presidential candidates in 2016 and afterward as Trump was in the White House, Graham often was Trump's fiercest critic.
However, just recently, Graham left many Democrats and others aghast as he recommended that Donald Trump Jr "plead the Fifth" in testimony before a Senate committee.
Harrison threw his hat in the ring this week and reportedly began a successful fundraising haul, bringing in about $270,000 in the first 24 hours of his campaign. That total came from about 9,500 donations, mostly small-dollar ones.
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Weekend Semi-Open Thread: The World Kept on Spinning While You Were Busy Watching the Oregon Massacre
As is our weekend habit and tradition, please do consider this a semi-open thread. What matters of public or private concern would you to share and discuss?
One death is a tragedy. One million is a statistic. Stalin supposedly said something of the sort. It is a cliche. But, cliches linger and persist because they are true.
Many Americans were focused on the Oregon massacre. The gun gods were fed their blood. But in that ritual, we were distracted other happenings that will kill more people, and impact the life chances of many millions more.
To wit.
During that same week, The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a case that would make it easier to prosecute insider trading. Political scientists have new research that demonstrates how political polarization and dysfunction are fueled by wealth and income inequality. And during these early moments of the 2016 election season, 158 families donated almost 50 percent of the monies.
The overwhelming amount of those monies have gone to support the Republican Party. Is this any surprise?
The news media chases down dead bodies in Oregon while the American people en masse are being carved up by the plutocrats. America is not a democracy. The plutocrats kill millions by suppressing their wages, forcing them to work a life of drudgery, and extracting every last resource from the Anthropocene. The news media, which is part of the same power elite, would prefer to talk about those who kill with bullets as opposed to with contracts, deregulation, and pushing buttons on Wall Street.
Terrorists bombed Turkey. American bombs incinerated people at a hospital in Afghanistan. Russia rolls out her new toys in Syria--for those grognards and other like types, the SU-34 Fullback is a beautiful machine of death--to bomb ISIS Assad's enemies. Is Fred Kaplan correct? Does the chaos in the Middle East and Syria possess the same dynamics as those that birthed World War One?
Yazidi women have formed a brigade to fight off the rapine ISIS monsters who have invaded their lands, killed their sisters, and hurt their families.
What are your thoughts for this Sunday? Anyone "celebrating" Columbus Day here in the U.S.? Readings to share? Music and movies to suggest? TV shows to binge watch?
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