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from enum import Enum
from typing import Optional, Tuple

import numpy as np
import stp
import stp.situation as situation

import rj_gameplay.situation.decision_tree.plays as situations
from rj_gameplay.play import (  # defend_restart,; defensive_clear,; keepaway,; prep_penalty_offense,; restart,
    defense,
    kickoff_play,
    offense,
    penalty_defense,
    penalty_offense,
)

POSSESS_MIN_DIST = 0.15
MIN_PASS_SPEED = 0.9
MIN_NEAR_BALL_DIST = 0.35

class BallPos(Enum):
    """Enum for representing the possession of the ball."""

    OUR_BALL = 1
    FREE_BALL = 2
    THEIR_BALL = 3
    CONTEST_BALL = 4

class FieldLoc(Enum):
    """Enum for representing where the ball is on the field."""

    DEFEND_SIDE = 1
    MIDFIELD = 2
    ATTACK_SIDE = 3

# TODO: evaluate whether this class is useful at all
class HeuristicInformation:
    """Class that represents all the heuristic information needed by the decision
    tree situation analyzer.
    """

    __slots__ = ["ball_pos", "field_loc", "is_pileup"]

    ball_pos: BallPos
    field_loc: FieldLoc
    is_pileup: bool

    def __init__(self, world_state: stp.rc.WorldState, game_info: stp.rc.GameInfo):
        self.field_loc = self.__calc_field_loc(world_state, game_info)
        self.ball_pos = self.__calc_ball_poss(world_state, game_info)
        self.is_pileup = self.__calc_pileup(world_state, game_info)
        if self.is_pileup:
            self.ball_pos = BallPos.CONTEST_BALL

    @staticmethod
    def __calc_field_loc(
        world_state: stp.rc.WorldState, game_info: stp.rc.GameInfo
    ) -> FieldLoc:
        """Computes the current location of the ball.
        :param world_state:
        :param game_info:
        :return: The current FieldLoc.
        """
        ball_pos: np.ndarray = world_state.ball.pos

        field_len: float = world_state.field.length_m
        midfield: float = field_len / 2

        if ball_pos[1] <= midfield:
            return FieldLoc.DEFEND_SIDE
        elif ball_pos[1] > midfield:
            return FieldLoc.ATTACK_SIDE
        else:
            return FieldLoc.MIDFIELD

    @staticmethod
    def __calc_ball_poss(
        world_state: stp.rc.WorldState, game_info: stp.rc.GameInfo
    ) -> BallPos:
        """Computes the current ball possession.
        :param world_state:
        :param game_info:
        :return: The current BallPos.
        """

        for our_bot in world_state.our_robots:
            if (
                our_bot.has_ball_sense
                or np.linalg.norm(
                    np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(our_bot.pose[0:2])
                )
                < POSSESS_MIN_DIST
            ):
                return BallPos.OUR_BALL
        for their_bot in world_state.their_robots:
            if (
                np.linalg.norm(
                    np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(their_bot.pose[0:2])
                )
                < POSSESS_MIN_DIST
            ):
                return BallPos.THEIR_BALL
        if np.linalg.norm(world_state.ball.vel) > MIN_PASS_SPEED:
            for our_bot in world_state.our_robots:
                ball_to_bot = np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(
                    our_bot.pose[0:2]
                )
                ball_to_bot_unit = ball_to_bot / np.linalg.norm(ball_to_bot)
                ball_dir = world_state.ball.vel / np.linalg.norm(world_state.ball.vel)
                dot = abs(np.dot(ball_to_bot_unit, ball_dir))
                if dot > 0.7:
                    return BallPos.OUR_BALL
            for their_bot in world_state.their_robots:
                ball_to_bot = np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(
                    their_bot.pose[0:2]
                )
                ball_to_bot_unit = ball_to_bot / np.linalg.norm(ball_to_bot)
                ball_dir = world_state.ball.vel / np.linalg.norm(world_state.ball.vel)
                dot = abs(np.dot(ball_to_bot_unit, ball_dir))
                if dot > 0.7:
                    return BallPos.THEIR_BALL
        # TODO(1578): Re-implement actual previous logic here.

        return BallPos.FREE_BALL

    @staticmethod
    def __calc_pileup(
        world_state: stp.rc.WorldState, game_info: stp.rc.GameInfo
    ) -> bool:
        """Computes whether there is a pileup or not.
        :param world_state:
        :param game_info:
        :return: The current BallPos.
        """
        our_near_bots = 0
        their_near_bots = 0
        for their_bot in world_state.their_robots:
            if (
                np.linalg.norm(
                    np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(their_bot.pose[0:2])
                )
                < MIN_NEAR_BALL_DIST
            ):
                their_near_bots += 1
        for our_bot in world_state.our_robots:
            if (
                np.linalg.norm(
                    np.array(world_state.ball.pos) - np.array(our_bot.pose[0:2])
                )
                < MIN_NEAR_BALL_DIST
            ):
                our_near_bots += 1

        if (
            our_near_bots > 0
            and their_near_bots > 0
            and our_near_bots + their_near_bots >= 3
        ):
            return True
        # TODO(1578): Re-implement all the logic here.

        return False

class PlaySelector(situation.IPlaySelector):
    """Play selector that returns a play and situation based on world state
    (see select method)
    """

    def __init__(self):
        self.curr_situation = situations.Defense
        self.curr_play = defense.Defense()
        self._midpoint_latency = None

    def select(
        self,
        world_state: stp.rc.WorldState,
    ) -> Tuple[Optional[situation.ISituation], stp.play.IPlay]:
        """Returns the best situation and play
        for the current world state based on a hardcoded
        decision tree.
        :param world_state: The current state of the world.
        :param game_info: The information about the state of the game.
        :return: The best situation for the current world state.
        """
        game_info = world_state.game_info
        heuristics = HeuristicInformation(world_state, game_info)

        if game_info.is_kickoff():
            if game_info.our_restart:
                if game_info.is_setup():
                    self.situation = situations.PrepareKickoff()
                    self.curr_play = kickoff_play.PrepareKickoff()
                elif game_info.is_ready():
                    self.situation = situations.Kickoff()
                    # passing is bad
                    # self.curr_play = kickoff_play.Kickoff()
                    self.curr_play = offense.Offense()
            else:
                self.situation = situations.DefendKickoff()
                self.curr_play = penalty_defense.PenaltyDefense()

        elif game_info.is_penalty():
            if game_info.our_restart:
                if game_info.is_setup():
                    self.situation = situations.PrepareKickoff()  # TODO wrong situation
                    self.curr_play = penalty_offense.PrepPenaltyOff()
                else:
                    self.situation = situations.PrepareKickoff()  # TODO wrong situation
                    self.curr_play = penalty_offense.PenaltyOffense()
            else:
                # I believe penalty defense can just have goalie in box to start, no prep play necessary
                self.situation = situations.PrepareKickoff()  # TODO wrong situation
                self.curr_play = penalty_defense.PenaltyDefense()

        elif game_info.is_direct():
            if game_info.our_restart:
                self.situation = situations.OffensiveKickDirect()
                self.curr_play = offense.Offense()
            else:
                self.situation = situations.DefendRestartOffensiveDirect()
                self.curr_play = defense.Defense()

        elif world_state.game_info is None and self.curr_play is None:
            self.curr_situation = situations.Defense
            self.curr_play = defense.Defense()
        elif world_state.game_info.state == stp.rc.GameState.STOP:
            self.curr_situation = situations.Stop()
            self.curr_play = defense.Defense()
        elif (
            heuristics.ball_pos == BallPos.OUR_BALL
            or heuristics.ball_pos == BallPos.FREE_BALL
        ):
            self.curr_situation = situations.Offense
            self.curr_play = offense.Offense()
        elif heuristics.ball_pos == BallPos.THEIR_BALL:
            self.curr_situation = situations.Defense
            self.curr_play = defense.Defense()
        elif heuristics.ball_pos == BallPos.CONTEST_BALL:
            if (
                heuristics.ball_pos == BallPos.CONTEST_BALL
                and heuristics.field_loc == FieldLoc.ATTACK_SIDE
            ):
                self.curr_situation = situations.OffensiveScramble
                self.curr_play = offense.Offense()
            else:
                self.curr_situation = situations.DefensiveScramble
                self.curr_play = offense.Offense()

        return self.curr_situation, self.curr_play

    @staticmethod
    def __analyze_restart(
        world_state: stp.rc.WorldState,
        heuristics: HeuristicInformation,
    ) -> stp.situation.ISituation:
        game_info = world_state.game_info
        if game_info.is_kickoff():
            if game_info.our_restart:
                if game_info.is_setup():
                    return situations.PrepareKickoff()
                elif game_info.is_ready():
                    return situations.Kickoff()
            else:
                return situations.DefendKickoff()

        elif game_info.is_penalty():
            if game_info.our_restart:
                if game_info.is_setup():
                    return situations.PreparePenalty()
                else:
                    return situations.Penalty()
            else:
                if game_info.is_setup() or game_info.is_ready():
                    return situations.PrepareDefendPenalty()
                else:
                    return situations.DefendPenalty()

        elif game_info.is_direct():
            if heuristics.field_loc == FieldLoc.ATTACK_SIDE:
                if game_info.our_restart:
                    return situations.OffensiveKickDirect()
                else:
                    return situations.DefendRestartOffensiveDirect()
            elif heuristics.field_loc == FieldLoc.MIDFIELD:
                if game_info.our_restart:
                    return situations.MidfieldKickDirect()
                else:
                    return situations.DefendRestartMidfieldDirect()
            elif heuristics.field_loc == FieldLoc.DEFEND_SIDE:
                if game_info.our_restart:
                    return situations.Restart()
            else:
                raise RuntimeError("Unknown field_loc {}".format(heuristics.field_loc))

        elif game_info.is_free_placement():
            return situations.Stop()

    def __repr__(self):
        """
        returns the string with the current situation.
        """
        text = ""
        text += self.curr_situation.__class__.__name__
        return text

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FOOTBALL > Russia > Premier League
THE MATCH PREDICTION Rubin Kazan - FC Ufa 24.04 18:30
Home or draw (1Х)
WIN 1.25
The match between Rubin Kazan and FC Ufa is scheduled on Wednesday at Kazan Arena.
Rubin Kazan plays nicely on their home ground so they should lose points here. The team plays with a lot of heart. The team is sitting in the 10th place in the rankings with 30 points. In the last matches, they lost to Krylya Sovetov (0-1) and FC Rostov (0-2). The home team will likely add the next match to their record of victories.
FC Ufa seems to be an obvious underdog in this battle. The club plays badly on the road in the clashes with their opponents. In the last matches, Ufa lost to Arsenal Tula (1-2), had a draw with Yenisey (0-0) and CSKA with a score of 2-2. They will try hard to earn a draw here, and it will be a truly competitive match for sure.
Match Prediction
Obviously, it's going an intense epic battle. The home team shouldn't lose to their opponent here. Relying on our opinion, we predict Rubin or Draw (odds 1.25).
DRAWS: 2 LOSSES: 3
DRAWS: 2 WINS: 1 LOSSES: 2
Rubin Kazan 1 : 1 FC Ufa
FC Ufa 1 : 1 Rubin Kazan
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Chevy's Talladega win result of "staying committed to the cause"
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It had been a tough start to the 2019 season for Team Chevy, going winless in the Cup series' first nine races.
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If you look closely at poetry books in your personal library, it is very likely that you'll find at least one poem about an art work. If you like it. Make a dozen copies and bring them to the workshop to share with the rest of the participants.
Leonard will be providing a variety of ekphrastic poems for close reading and discussion. He will present strategies for writing these poems that have been used over time and some that are uniquely of our time.
The goal for the sessions will be to generate a large number of poems to put on display next to or under a host of artworks that will be on the wall for the festivities at MRAC on DEC. 2. With this in mind we are inviting all MRAC Humanities Members and friends in the community to participate. If you've never written, or shared a poem before you're as welcome as our long time poetry associates.
Even children over 13 with an interest in writing are welcome. You and a grandchild might have fun composing a poem together for one of the paintings. Some work written in the workshops will likely be shared in draft form. During the course of the workshop participants will have a chance to get feedback from others. As each participant develops his or her poem(s) into a final draft Leonard will provide on-line guidance if requested. Check your calendar, sign up today to reserve your seat for the NOV 3 Workshop!
In order to cover MRAC'S operating expenses, cost of admission will be $15. Middle School and High School Students over the age of 13 will be admitted free.
Those who are not members can also enter gratis by taking this opportunity to join MRAC at the special rate of $50 (a $10 reduction) only being offered in conjunction with our EKPHRASTIC EXTRAVAGANZA. What a great chance for all of us to hang out, get to know each other better and create art together!
Leonard Belasco is a lifelong resident of Germantown, one of the city's most vibrant artistic communities. An English and Creative Writing teacher for 36 years in the Philadelphia public schools, he makes time in retirement to mentor young teachers, is active in a community garden that provides fresh produce to a church cupboard, plays jazz drums, is studying West African drumming, is an old time yo-yo master and is a doting grandfather to four incredible members of the next generation.
Over the years he co-founded and co-edited two ground breaking journals: About Education, a magazine for creative educators and The Insect Trust Gazette, an avant-garde publication inspired by William Burroughs (one of the contributors) and the Dada movement. Belasco studied with Stephen Spender, Robert Creeley and May Sarton. He was nurtured by a host of fine poets, including William Matthews, Cleopatra Mathis, Lisel Mueller, Sidney Lea and Christopher Gilbert during several sojourns at the Frost Place in New Hampshire.
Belasco is the founder and facilitator of the Poets Table workshops at MRAC. He recently performed a work he wrote honoring the legendary musician Sun Ra in front of a 15 piece band at World Café Live and is planning a bi-weekly radio show featuring jazz vocalists and their accompanists which will air on G-Town radio's new FM frequency 92.9. Ekphrastic poetry is one of his special passions.


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July 29, 2021 by hereandsphere
OUR BEST DAYS DO NOT LIE AHEAD
^^ Chuck Berry gave us "Promised Land" 60 years ago.
Ronald Reagan, forty years ago, as President, told Americans that our best days lie ahead. I heard him say it. I was inspired. We all were. We believed him when he told us that it was "morning in America."
We were wrong. It should have occurred to us — or to me, at least — that if the sentiment needed saying, that it wasn't something assumed — that there was no assurance at all; that perhaps our best days did NOT lie ahead; indeed, that they were very likely behind us,
America the world's great democracy, the unique experiment in self-government, has lost its mojo. The nation that conquered the Depression, won the World War, was the "arsenal of democracy," won the heroic civil rights struggle, defeated the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War — that America, the hope and savior of all humankind, has used up its energy and is today a kind of collapsing, crumbling colloseum.
Stay with me awhile as I demonstrate…
Let us start with the January 6th, 2021 terrorist attack by Trump hordes on the US capitol. A nation is not in its best days when a mob of its citizens violently attack it.
We've all seen the videos, heard the shouting, listened to the police officers who were assaulted on that horrible day. It was NOT our best day, and best days are not coming soon because the violence of January 6, 2021 is out there being touted and praised by the supporters thereof.
It is not morning in a nation where roaming mobs of miseducated brats deface statues of our heroes, as happened last summer. Below is a photograph of an ignoramus attacking the statue of Mathhias Baldwin, a Philadelphia Quaker and Abolitionist who paid from his own money to set up a school for Black children 30 years ahead of its time.
So much for what Chuck Berry in 1961 called the "Promised Land," his song and ours, done back when we all understood that America was the new Canaan, the land of our hopes and struggles to which we all, and our ancestors all, had risked everything to get to.
Destroyed by our own hands, attacked by our own neighbors, insulted and broken by those who hate the nation that not so long ago all had loved.
The music, too, has turned on itself. The music of 1961 — as that, of 1951, 1941, 1931, and also that of 1971 — was enthusiasm, exuberant, straight-ahead beat, a fast-forward rhythm, a voice of confidence, triumph, joy. It was the sound of victory. It was a battle hymn of the Greatest Generation. Think Count Basie, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, James Brown, the Kingsmen, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Gary U.S. Bonds. But now ? The hit music of today — hip hop and its variants — has a chunk beat, a square rhythm that encloses the self within it. It's the sound of a locked door to a very small quarters within which one hides from the world and shrinks from challenge. It is pent-up and sometimes murderous (for real) and always it is sad; its sex is a lot of talk, no action. Even when dancing, it is "dancing in the dark," as Bruce Springsteen wrote in 1985 and as house music and techno do it.
The America of 1962 to 1969 sent men to the moon. Today we send house prices sky high.
Civil rights activists of 60 years ago dressed in their Sunday best, protested in the daytime., steeled their courage to nonviolence no matter what. Result ? They won the support of almost the entire nation. Today ? Don't get me started….
The Civil Rights heroes of 1950-65 believed in the dream of America. What do protestors of today believe in ?
Wage workers in 1961 America had strong unions and got ahead. They could buy a house. What can wage workers do today ? Even when they have a union, house prices have long since lifted way beyond. In 1968 I paid $ 35 a month to rent a two bedroom apartment in Roxbury. Today a two bedroom apartment in East Boston costs $ 2100 to $ 3200 per month. Has my salary increased 80-fold to accommodate this price surge ? Hardly. Has yours ?
So no; it is NOT "morning in America." as for our days that lie ahead, they are not our best, not even average. They are sick and getting sicker. I'm not talking the pandemic. We can still conquer viruses, at least those in nature. Computer viruses, it seems — cyber attacks — are beyond us.
We used to be the victor in war. Then came Viet Nam and failure. Ever since, except for the first Gulf War (1190-1991), it has been failure, extended failure followed by ignominious withdrawal, abandonment of allies. We have "the greatest military in the world'" but no will to use it greatly.
Our democracy — our Constitution and the ideals vowed in the Declaration — used to be our treasure, our lodestar to which we would all rush. Today we are told — by our educators, and enforced by the corporate elite — that our Constitution is nothing but racism and our Declaration an hypocrisy. is it anyt wonder that 30 percent of the nation feels betrayed and wants nothing but to stab us dead and set up a crooked noisy fascism, or that another large percent want to wipe out our history and equal protection of the laws and all that it implies in favor of "diversity," "inclusion," and "equity" ?
As for the Ogre, he is still out there, honking his immodest horn. He has his wanna-be's as well, screeching to seduce our attention like the selfie whores they are.
I fear that I am tempting your patience, dedar reader. Fear not. What more can I add to examples from music, money, the law, the nation, and our courage at home and in war ? We all have our own anecdotes to add here. They add up, however,m to the same thikng : our best days DO NOT lie ahead. Far from it.
— Mike Freedberg / Here and Sphere
Americans in 1961 had strong labor unions, could earn fair wages and fight for more. Today ? Unis stNo, it is NOT 'morning in America."
No, it is NOT "morning in America."
BOSTON WILL NO LONGER BE THE BOSTON WE GREW UP IN
Boston is changing drastically. The Boston we came to be in, back 40, 50, 60, 70 years ago, is all but gone. It is becoming a city of highly educated, skills-minded incomers from elsewhere in America. No longer is it the destination of immigrants impoverished and abused, escaping lives barely livable in search of the opportunity and freedom that America offers. That Boston has had its time, served its purpose, just as America, from its beginning served its purpose to immigrants from everywhere.
America is immigrant nation : but as we have seen these past ten years or so, immigrants are no longer the ideal, no longer welcome in the nation their predecessors built.
It isn't just Boston; it is everywhere in the United States. We see it in assaults against Asian-Americans. We feel it in travel bans. We hear it in the rants of fascist politicians.
The consensus among us, sadly, is that we are full up; that immigration has become a burden, not an opportunity. I happen to disagree completely with this view — to me, immigration is and always will be America — but I recognize that my view is losing custom.
So it is with Boston.
I take you back now to Rome.
Come with me to the ancient city as it changed from the capital of a vast imperial bureaucracy, economy, and learning to the headquarters of an ascendant Christianity. The Rome of 700 A.D. was an entirely different city from Rome in 400 A.D.: different population, different ideals, different elites. Gone were the Senatorial families; gone the libraries; gone the palaces, the marketplaces, the baths, the city prefects. In their place, immigrants from, Greece, pilgrims from the north, refugees from German invaders. Rome in 700 AD was hardly a city at all. it was a last retreat, a Helm's Deep (to recall The Lord of the Rings movie). It had almost no economy other than what pilgrims visiting Saints' shrines left as a devotion. The Papal bureaucracy — staffed almost entirely by newcomer families from Greece and beyond — was its only link to a literate, sophisticated past.
It wasn't really Rome at all.
So it is now with Boston. A city becoming as unlike the Boston we knew as Rome in 700 wasn't the Rome of 400. Yes, THAT big a change.
What we call the "traditional Bostonian" –working class voters of Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish origins; many of them city workers; families whose sons became policemen, politicians, and priests — has shrunk in number to less than 20 percent of all voters. For the first time since the 1860s, there is no candidate for Mayor of Irish descent. This should not surprise. The people most confident of tomorrow's Boston are its recent arrivals : Black citizens, mostly of Caribbean origin; Hispanic voters, the sons and grandsons of immigrants and refugees; highly educated transplants from elsewhere in America, lured here by our educational masterworks, our finance firms, and our hospital employments.
All over Boston these three streams of people have taken command of homes, apartments, turf, shopping tastes, the arts and talk. And of our politics. The politics of the Boston I grew up in were personal and factional. Ideology had very little to do with what we campaigned for. City jobs were a big deal. When I first worked at the School Committee in 15 Beacon Street, the City had 30,000 employees; elections for City of Boston Credit Union board were major campaign efforts. City employees and their extended families made up a good 30 percent of all voters in most city elections. The tradition was that strong. City firemen handed down their jobs to their sons and grandsons; same with the police force. Fire and police were like medieval European guilds.
The descendants of Irish, Italian, Jewish and Polish immigrants dominated every neighborhood except Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the South End and Lower Roxbury, which were the home of Boston's then smallish African-American citizens. Today, that is all changed. Descendants of Irish immigrants dominate only seaside Dorchester, Charlestown, part of South Boston, and a few portions of West Roxbury and Brighton. The Brahmins who dominated Beacon Hill and Back Bay are almost all gone now. Boston's African-Americans have mostly moved to the suburbs.
With them have gone the Kennedys. In 2020 a Kennedy lost a Democratic primary race — in Massachusetts !! — for US Senator — lost it by ten points. Unthinkable. I still can't believe it happened. Well, it di happen. So there's that.
With the immigrants and the Kennedys have gone incredibly affordable house prices. it is hard to accept that merely 50 years ago, homes in Boston could be bought for $ 20,000 if not less — a whole lot less, in many cases. I was talking to a voter in Roslindale yesterday who recalled 65 years ago paying $ 14,000 for his Garrison-style home, now worth $ 700,000.
With those long-gone house prices has vanished any pretense to a world-class public school system. In 1960, a Boston school teacher earned about $ 5000 a year or less. They were mostly young women pre-marriage or older women after motherhood years. Many were unmarried for life; school kids were their children. Yet these women, underpaid, taught vigorously. They brooked no misbehavior in class; and in this they were firmly backed by their school principal and by the superintendent.
Their students were almost all the children or grandchildren of immigrants. M y Mother and her six siblings — born to an immigrant couple from Ireland and Eastern Europe — were among them. They and their teachers were "the greatest generation." We should, I hope, remember, as we go about the new Boston, what that greatness was like, even as we tear all of it down to serve the vastly different new.
Today, and probably far into the future, Boston will be something utterly else. it will be a City of transplants from elsewhere in America — and a few from overseas — the highly prosperous and workaholic motivated, skilled to the uttermost, and of managers managing managers who manage the managers of vast pools of money and medical research, of technology labs and glittery retail shops. Supporting this economic meritocracy will be the schools and the politics, the media and the restaurants, the health clinics and the bike repair shops, the sports activists and the arborists, all of whom seek to recreate the environmental idylls they grew up with out there in America's fly-over country even as they replace my immigrant city with a surfeit of feel good requirements which, if you don't share them, will cast you as out as the elites of 1950 cast out their black sheep.
TellI hope you, dear reader, are ready for the next Boston. Maybe you will tell us, we who by then will be partying in heaven or getting wasted in hell, what the city of influencer pronouns and climate-justice bicycle veggies is like. Tell us of its music, its movies, its art, if these still exist in a form we can recognize (which I doubt). Myself, I look forward to earing about it even as I worry about my grandkids having to actually live in it.
Please be kind to my grandkids. They were brought up the old ways and will have to undergo loads of mentoring to adjust to your expensively buttered, liberally pronoun'd, smokeless, artificially intelligent version of "Boston."
Of course it is true that life belongs to the living. Its their environ, not ours. They have to live in it, endure it, spurn it, escape from it, profit in it. I am hoping they will profit and not be profited on. But that we will have to see about.
—- Mi Freedberg / Here and Sphere
July 20, 2021 July 20, 2021 by hereandsphere
ARE VOTERS PERSUADABLE ?
^^^ the five faces of Mayor : can you be persuaded or is it all about the default spin ?
Another way of stating the headline is to ask "do candidates matter ?" Maybe yes, maybe no.
We are living in an age of ideology, where for a critical bloc of voters, the issue is the important thing and never mind, these voters seem to say, the character or qualifications of he or she who advocates that issue. Mr. Trump epitomized this sort of voter mindset. "Yes," said his supporters, "he's a bastard, but he is a bastard for us." Meanwhile, Mr. Biden, for all that nearly everyone recognizes his impeccable character, earns no points thereby among those who backed Mr. Trump.
Myself, I said last year, and still say it : "I'd rather spend four years disagreeing with President Biden than tolerate ten more minutes of Trump." For me, character matters A LOT.
That's because as I see it, issues come and go, but the quality of a man is what it is; and quality deals finer with every issue than lack of character with any. A politician sets an example for the nation by who he is, not by what he thinks on this or that issue.
Thus for me, character matters a lot, and whatever I may think on this or that issue, I can be persuaded to change my position by a candidate who makes herself a solid case for a position I did not hold until we discussed.
In other words, I am a persuadable voter. Am I the only one ? I doubt it. I think there are a lot of persuadable voters. The problem is that it takes time to persuade a voter, and most campaigns find themselves unwilling to invest time in doing so. In a Citywide Boston election, there's likely to be up to 152,000 voters voting. It's far easier to find the 77,000 (hopefully) who agree with a candidate's position than the 15,200 or so — rule of thumb says that ten percent of voters can be persuaded — who can be persuaded.
Lesson : Few candidates really care about you or me or our neighbors. They care about majority mathematics.
Ideally, a candidate will work to win a vote one vote at a time — because that is how votes are actually cast : one at a time — but rare indeed is the local campaign in which a candidate actually makes the effort to do that. It's so much easier, and more efficient, to find out what a polling majority thinks on an issue and go around voicing the majority position in such language as her spin doctors decide the majority will trust. I s it any wonder that voters feel that politicians don't listen to us ? They don't.
The individual voter for the most part doesn't exist and is never campaigned to. That's especially the case for voters who aren't selected by a "voter file' company which selects out voters who aren't 'super voters' or such like. If you're not a "super voter," you might as well be deported or dead; the campaign will never mail to you, never phone bank you, never knock on your door.
It's a vicious circle. You don't get campaigned to if you aren't a "super voter," and not being campaigned to, you are likely to not vote and so become even less "super' than you were before.
One would like to think that those who run for office actually LIKE people. After all, you're going to represent people and to work for the betterment of people. Doesn't it make sense that you should then LIKE people ? Sadly, I have known plenty of candidates who either did NOT like people or did not like campaigning to them. (Worse still are the candidates I have known who didn't like SOME people, but they are a different case altogether. Let's leave them aside, which is where they should be.)
Yesterday i chatted with a neighbor, very politically active, who told me of how a candidate he supported was at his house all the time during the campaign, but after the candidate won ? Not a word, not even recognition — a "hi, how are you ?" — when he and the now elected person met at events.
I'd like to think that this is rare, but it isn't.
Endorsements can be just as worthless. Two days ago an elected in Boston endorsed a Council candidate in language so obviously boiler-plated to him by that candidate's spin doctors that I belly-laughed — "hey there, ______, you CAN'T be serious !"
Word : if you are going to endorse a candidate, do it in words YOUR OWN, words that can be believed rather than guffawed at.
But of course such default endorsements aren't intended to persuade. they're intended to pat the endorser on the back for being "with it."
This year, the "pat myself on the back" endorsement spin is "equity and inclusion justice." Or some combination of those trending words. Equity, inclusion, justice. As far as I'm concerned,. when you default to these words you debase them to the level of predictable sand salad. These words used to mean something. Not any more. All they mean now is "hey look at me ! I'm your guy ! See ? I got the lingo, don't primary me, I'm on your side !"
As for persuasion, you know what gets persuaded by these sorts of campaigns ? That the politicians don't give two shits about you and don't even try to pretend that they do.
Guess what a voter who realizes these truths is gonna do ?
July 6, 2021 July 6, 2021 by hereandsphere
AN AGENDA FOR BOSTON's NEXT MAYOR
It's not easy to discern who will be Boston's next Mayor — at least four appear poised to get there — but whoever wins out should strongly consider the agenda I am about to set forth.
There is, first of all, a great deal of bad policy consequences to undo, mistakes that have festered for as long as 50 years and compounded to the point of absurdity. I address these in my list.
There is also a serious call to change direction. The City has, for the past 28 years, since the election of Tom Menino, opened the floodgates of land speculation and luxury housing and has also done away with an elected school committee. Both these decisions must terminate NOW.
And now to my agenda :
Housing — the most mal-administered factor in all of current City government — ( a ) there must be an end to zoning variances except in case of true hardship. Apply the law. No other exceptions. ( b ) prioritize and subsidize the construction of single-family and two-family houses, especially along waterfronts ( c ) admit three-family dwellings where feasible ( d ) plant trees on all residential streets and encourage trees and foliage generally in as much open space as is available and isn't a ball field or marsh ( e ) no more huge-box apartment blocks (f ) rigorously enforce building codes so that builders cannot cut corners on quality of materials. (Note : These reforms would render moot all of the so-called "affordability" ordinances and regulations that have rendered Boston houses LESS affordable ! )
Public Safety — the very foundation of our having a City at all — : ( 1 ) clear the "methadone mile" and keep it cleared ( 2 ) expand the police force's gang unit ( 3 ) increase police presence in Downtown, especially late night ( 4 ) appoint Nora Baston the next Commissioner ( 5 ) accept the State's $ 850,000 crime-fighting grant ( 6 ) expand the youth worker force ( 7 ) support neighborhood crime watch groups ( 8 ) curb the use of so-called "dirt bikes" on City streets by enforcing laws against public nuisance and disturbing the peace; create a specific task force to police these regulations. ( 9 ) support our police men and women — and show it !
Schools : which are crucial to the City retaining families who now move to the suburbs because they have no coinfidence in the school system — ( 1 ) eliminate busing, thereby saving $ 100,000,000 annually ( 2 ) re-establish neighborhood schools and set up parent-teacher associations, which before 1974 were so important to school morale and quality ( 3 ) change the City charter to give us a school committee elected in part — 13 members plus two appointed by the Mayor ( 4 ) toughen the examinations required for students to gain admission to the "exam schools" and allow no dilution thereof [yes, neighborhood the student lives in can be a discretionary factor in admission, as it is for most boarding schools] ( 5 ) do a comprehensive, on-site appraisal of all facility maintenance and upgrade need, including air conditioning an d heating systems, some of which has been undone for 40 years, and allocate the monies to repair all such over a budget cycle of no ore than four years, with deadlines written into the order ( 6 ) consolidate school facilities to account for reduction in student numbers from 92,000 [present capacity ! ] to 54,000, which is the current enrollment; sell off excess buildings and apply the proceeds to the Capital Fund ( 7 ) allow principals to hire (and fire) their entire pedagogic staff ( 8 ) appoint a Superintendent from within the system only
Roads : are for cars and buses. Any other vehicles use the City's public roadways at their own risk.
City hiring : bring back ;patronage to a degree. A mayor must be able to have her own close people in house to assist her work and to promote her politically.; merit is essential, of course, to technically skilled positions, but much City work isn't that hard to master. There should never be any stigma attached to one's acquiring a City job because one worked on a Mayor's election campaign. If anything, work on the campaign teaches the campaigner a lot about City government that can't be readily learned any other way. Lastly, patronage hires relieve the present concentration upon ideology, which, since the elimination of patronage, has all but monopolized the political sphere and not in a healthy way.
Fifty years ago Boston had over 30,000 public employees. They and their families, living almost all in one, two and three family houses, constituted a permanent community of interest and neighborhood connection that made the City stable and vibrant. Today much of the Boston voter list is singles living in apartment or condo blocks and high rises barely knowing each other, working in 10,000 different jobs and having no community except the social media-generated ideology of the moment. It is of course their free choice, but I don't think the current custom is in any way preferable to what was our City.
This is hardly a complete list, but it will do for a start.


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Provide hand hygiene materials in waiting room areas, and encourage patients with respiratory symptoms to perform hand hygiene.
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Have health care providers (and others such as intake personal) use surgical masks during the processing and evaluation of patients with respiratory symptoms.
Instruct intake personnel to remain at least 3 feet from unmasked patients.
Use droplet precautions to manage patients with respiratory symptoms until it is determined that the cause of symptoms is not an infectious agent that requires more than standard precautions.
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Workers' trade unions from several countries have expressed support for the 400 workers at the Electrolux oven plant in NV Romania, who entered their sixth week of strike upon demanding RON 350 (EUR 73) monthly pay rise, the leader of the Samus trade union at the Romanian plant Sorin Faur announced on April 10, local Agerpres reported.
The foreign trade unions have reportedly approached the plant's management. The plant's managers said in a press release that they already pay among the highest compensation packages in the region.
"We are not giving up. As regards those messages from peer trade unions, they are still coming. Yesterday, a petition was drafted to be signed by trade unions and sent to the group's top management in Stockholm. In the morning, I saw it was signed by trade unions from Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland and there are more and more others. The IndustriALL Europa Federation has drafted this petition, as IndustriALL Global has also taken over the initiative and is a global industry federation with 500 millions of trade unionists in Europe, America, and Australia," said Sorin Faur in a meeting with the factory workers.


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This Week in Fresnoland: The obscure plan that preserves the Tower District's culture
by DANIELLE BERGSTROM January 26, 2021
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Good morning, and welcome to the Fresnoland Lab newsletter. Today is Tuesday, Jan. 26th.
Last week in Fresnoland, Monica wrote about water bill debts that have accumulated in the months since Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a moratorium. She also wrote about whether Vice President Kamala Harris will persist in her advocacy of water rights as she had done as a senator and candidate for the office she now holds.
It's Danielle Bergstrom, policy editor for Fresnoland, here.
This week, I'm going to wonk out on two of my favorite things: urban planning and the Tower District. (I'm actually a trained city planner! I'm also a Tower resident.)
If you're on social media, you may have seen the #keeptowerweird hashtag pop up.
It began in response to the owner of the historic Tower Theatre selling the building to Adventure Church. The theater is currently in escrow. A second bid from current occupant The Painted Table came in, and they're taking some heat for attempting to go against the church.
The snag: the theater isn't zoned for a large-scale church. It's in the "Commercial Main Street" district, which is intended for walkable entertainment areas like Olive Avenue in the Tower, home to several bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.
The community has pushed back, and hard — over 2,100 residents and businesses have signed a petition urging the city to reject the church's presumed application to rezone the theater to allow for a church. The top concerns? Business owners concerned about the future of their liquor licenses if a church is allowed to come in next door; and, what happens to the soul of the Tower District if its namesake is sold to an entity with a questionable reputation with the LGBTQ community.
(The theater is home to the Reel Pride Film Festival, one of the nation's oldest LGBTQ film festivals, as well as the Rogue Festival, a widely popular fringe festival highlighting alternative and counter-culture performances.)
This isn't the first time a community has protested over a church buying a cultural asset — as explained in the Visalia Times-Delta, a church tried to buy a major downtown theater there, and the Visalia City Council used its eminent domain powers to shut down the potential sale and keep the theater ownership community-oriented.
We're likely at the beginning of a long, protracted battle over the soul of the Tower District.
So far, the city appears skeptical of the rezoning request, as evidenced by this letter from City Manager Thomas Esqueda and public statements from City Council members Esmeralda Soria and Miguel Arias, both of whom represent the Tower District. The council is expected to discuss the matter during the closed session of their meeting this Thursday.
This isn't the first time the Tower District has faced a test of its character. But the Tower is uniquely positioned, compared to many other Fresno neighborhoods, to control its destiny.
I spoke with two people with a long history in the Tower: Mike Clifton, the current chair of the Tower District Design Review Committee, and Craig Scharton, the politician-turned-urban revitalization evangelist who got his start in politics organizing in the Tower District.
In 1986, a local family proposed to build a nine-story apartment complex on the corner of Floradora and Van Ness avenues, across the street from single-family residential homes, and adjacent to a small strip of bars, restaurants, and shops on Van Ness.
Neighborhood residents organized against the project, and successfully got the City Council to reject the project's proposal. But the local City Councilmember, Ted C. Wills, supported the project, against the protests of the neighborhood. They were infuriated. Scharton, an unlikely candidate, ran against Wills, and won.
But he soon learned that power can only get you so far if you don't know how to use it.
In 1988, Tower residents — including Mike Clifton — banded together to fight a proposal to build a convenience store and car wash at the corner of Palm and Olive. They lost. The Circle K and the adjacent car wash are still there.
Residents went to their then newly elected city council member, demanding: how could you let this happen?
Scharton said the proposal never came to the city council. It never had to.
At that time, Olive Avenue was zoned C-6. That's the type of zone district you would see on a street like Blackstone, where strip malls, car lots, and repair shops are the norm.
It was also planned to be a four-lane, divided road, sort of like Palm Avenue, where cars go very fast, discouraging people from wanting to walk around, or eat on a sidewalk patio.
The Tower District is what planners call a "streetcar suburb" — fancy, brand-new homes built in the first part of the 20th century along the streetcar lines that ran up Wishon, Fulton, and Van Ness, mixed in with apartment buildings, bungalow courts, and small commercial districts, lined with restaurants, bars, and shops.
It's one of the city's last intact walkable urban districts that haven't been totally destroyed by urban renewal schemes or freeway construction. (Could that be because much of the Tower wasn't previously redlined?)
But more important than the urban design charm of the Tower, it's the alternative culture and LGBTQ+ capital of the San Joaquin Valley.
Back to zoning. Typically, if a business complies with the zoning, they don't need to go to the planning commission or the city council for approval.
So Scharton went to Russ Fey, Fresno State Urban Planning professor and asked for his help.
Fey told him: you need a specific plan.
In planning parlance, a specific plan is a big deal. The Tower District already had a plan on the books — the Fresno High-Roeding Community Plan, adopted in the 1970s.
But community plans aren't legally enforceable. They don't include specifics about zoning, building height, or design. Specific plans are, well, that specific.
And the Fresno High-Roeding Plan wasn't built by the community. Residents wanted something that represented the community vision for the neighborhood.
After a few years and dozens of community meetings, the Fresno City Council unanimously adopted the Tower District Specific Plan in 1991, in the Tower Theater.
And then they launched a committee made up of residents whose job was to defend the plan.
A little over a decade after the plan was approved, the Tower District Design Guidelines were approved — another initiative led by Tower residents.
(Full disclosure: I served on the Tower District Design Review Committee in 2019.)
The Tower committee has had its run-ins over the years. Clifton said one of the biggest fights was over a proposal to build a drive-through coffee kiosk in the Tower Theater parking lot. Drive-thrus are antithetical to walkable, urban districts. And the kiosk would have eliminated much-needed parking for businesses.
The committee's recommendations are ultimately advisory to the City Council.
"Sometimes we win, and sometimes we lose," said longtime Tower committee chair Clifton. "As long as we fight like hell, I've learned to shrug off the times we lose."
If Adventure Church moves forward with the rezoning process, it will have to get through many stops: but the Tower District Design Review Committee is one of the first on the list. These are public meetings, and Tower residents are encouraged to participate.
The church will also need the City Council's approval to amend the Tower plan.
Plan amendments aren't exactly uncommon in Fresno, but very few have faced significant community opposition, in my memory.
The Tower plan has given residents significant leverage in land use decisions for the neighborhood.
Increasingly, city councilmembers have seen the advantages of having a community-driven plan help drive future investment and business decisions in a neighborhood.
These plans don't just talk about zoning and land use. They help the city figure out how to prioritize resources for streets, sidewalks, parks, and bike lanes.
In the past decade, the City Council has approved specific plans for southwest Fresno and the Fulton Corridor in downtown. Three more are underway: west of 99, South Central Fresno, and Central Southeast.
As someone who used to be involved in implementing the plans, I can't say this enough: read your plan. Ask your city councilmember to join the committee responsible for fighting for it. If your neighborhood doesn't have a plan, ask your city councilmember to make a budget request for one.
I'll leave this on one final note: plans can be changed. They should adapt, as the community shifts to respond to need. But a plan is only as good as the community behind it. Get your neighbors involved!
And now, the week's top reads:
(For the most recent local coronavirus updates, visit www.fresnobee.com/coronavirus.)
Housing, Transportation, and Land Use
Gov. Newsom and top legislative democrats announced a deal to extend the state's eviction moratorium through the end of June. Sacramento Bee
Fresno declared an emergency over these apartments in 2015. Now, a man died in a fire there. Fresno Bee
The federal eviction moratorium, implemented through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been extended to the end of March, to help tenants who have been battered economically by the pandemic. NPR
Soil-less gardens and farms? It's a growing industry — $9.5 billion in sales is expected to nearly double in the next five years. Hydroponics — the soil-less cultivation of crops in controlled environments — might be the future for growing enough food to feed an exploding worldwide population. Los Angeles Times
Fresno travelers have one more airline to choose from when Southwest Airlines enters the Fresno air travel market with daily nonstop round trips to Las Vegas and Denver. Fresno Bee
According to estimates provided by state court officials, California courts are bracing for eviction cases to double over the next year as pandemic-related financial woes deepen for thousands of renters across the state. Los Angeles Times
Mayor Jerry Dyer announced a new program to get Fresno's homeless, which will target an estimated 250 people who are presently sleeping in tents and other unsafe areas along Highways 41, 180 and 168. Fresno Bee
How many California renters stand to lose their homes when the state and national moratoria end? It depends on whom you ask and what they are using as gauges. Cal Matters
Economy and Neighborhood Inequality
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 900,000, according to the Labor Department's report. However, unemployment numbers are still historically high and reflect the devastation of a raging pandemic. Los Angeles Times
President Biden is asking the Department of Agriculture to allow states to increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — commonly known as food stamps — and to increase by 15 percent benefits awarded through a school meals program for low-income students started during the pandemic. Washington Post
America's unemployment numbers are staggering, an indication of the economic hill the new administration has to climb when it comes to getting desperately needed help to millions of workers. Vox.com
The global coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 worsened Fresno's 2020 unemployment picture. Fresno Bee
Water and Air Quality
As the pandemic forced businesses to shut down and put travel on hold, wealthy countries reduced their environmentally-harmful emissions in almost every sector of their economies, but carbon emissions from gas-guzzling SUVs increased. NPR.org
Firefighters chased wind-driven blazes up and down the state early this week as trees and trucks were toppled, Yosemite National Park was forced to close and two coronavirus vaccination centers were shut down. Months-old embers from a deadly California fire were blown back to life by powerful winds that raked the state and prompted safety blackouts to tens of thousands of people. Fresno Business Journal
In an effort to maintain a strict cap on emissions from cars– the single largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office directing the government to revise fuel economy standards, reversing the Trump administration rules. Sacramento Bee
The Tule River Tribe of Tulare County, a Central Valley Native American tribe, is getting $250,000 to develop a comprehensive energy and climate plan. Fresno Business Journal
Measure P's first park comes to Fresno High/Tower District next summer
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This Week in Fresnoland: The obscure plan that preserves the Tower District's culture

by DANIELLE BERGSTROM, Fresnoland
January 26, 2021

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Good morning, and welcome to the Fresnoland Lab newsletter. Today is Tuesday, Jan. 26th.

Last week in Fresnoland, Monica wrote about water bill debts that have accumulated in the months since Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a moratorium. She also wrote about whether Vice President Kamala Harris will persist in her advocacy of water rights  as she had done as a senator and candidate for the office she now holds.

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It's Danielle Bergstrom, policy editor for Fresnoland, here.

This week, I'm going to wonk out on two of my favorite things: urban planning and the Tower District. (I'm actually a trained city planner! I'm also a Tower resident.)

If you're on social media, you may have seen the #keeptowerweird hashtag pop up.

It began in response to the owner of the historic Tower Theatre selling the building to Adventure Church. The theater is currently in escrow. A second bid from current occupant The Painted Table came in, and they're taking some heat for attempting to go against the church.

The snag: the theater isn't zoned for a large-scale church. It's in the "Commercial Main Street" district, which is intended for walkable entertainment areas like Olive Avenue in the Tower, home to several bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.

The community has pushed back, and hard — over 2,100 residents and businesses have signed a petition urging the city to reject the church's presumed application to rezone the theater to allow for a church. The top concerns? Business owners concerned about the future of their liquor licenses if a church is allowed to come in next door; and, what happens to the soul of the Tower District if its namesake is sold to an entity with a questionable reputation with the LGBTQ community.

(The theater is home to the Reel Pride Film Festival, one of the nation's oldest LGBTQ film festivals, as well as the Rogue Festival, a widely popular fringe festival highlighting alternative and counter-culture performances.)

This isn't the first time a community has protested over a church buying a cultural asset — as explained in the Visalia Times-Delta, a church tried to buy a major downtown theater there, and the Visalia City Council used its eminent domain powers to shut down the potential sale and keep the theater ownership community-oriented.

We're likely at the beginning of a long, protracted battle over the soul of the Tower District.

So far, the city appears skeptical of the rezoning request, as evidenced by this letter from City Manager Thomas Esqueda and public statements from City Council members Esmeralda Soria and Miguel Arias, both of whom represent the Tower District. The council is expected to discuss the matter during the closed session of their meeting this Thursday.

This isn't the first time the Tower District has faced a test of its character. But the Tower is uniquely positioned, compared to many other Fresno neighborhoods, to control its destiny.

I spoke with two people with a long history in the Tower: Mike Clifton, the current chair of the Tower District Design Review Committee, and Craig Scharton, the politician-turned-urban revitalization evangelist who got his start in politics organizing in the Tower District.

In 1986, a local family proposed to build a nine-story apartment complex on the corner of Floradora and Van Ness avenues, across the street from single-family residential homes, and adjacent to a small strip of bars, restaurants, and shops on Van Ness.

Neighborhood residents organized against the project, and successfully got the City Council to reject the project's proposal. But the local City Councilmember, Ted C. Wills, supported the project, against the protests of the neighborhood. They were infuriated. Scharton, an unlikely candidate, ran against Wills, and won.

But he soon learned that power can only get you so far if you don't know how to use it.

In 1988, Tower residents — including Mike Clifton — banded together to fight a proposal to build a convenience store and car wash at the corner of Palm and Olive. They lost. The Circle K and the adjacent car wash are still there.

Residents went to their then newly elected city council member, demanding: how could you let this happen?

Scharton said the proposal never came to the city council. It never had to.

At that time, Olive Avenue was zoned C-6. That's the type of zone district you would see on a street like Blackstone, where strip malls, car lots, and repair shops are the norm.

It was also planned to be a four-lane, divided road, sort of like Palm Avenue, where cars go very fast, discouraging people from wanting to walk around, or eat on a sidewalk patio.

The Tower District is what planners call a "streetcar suburb" — fancy, brand-new homes built in the first part of the 20th century along the streetcar lines that ran up Wishon, Fulton, and Van Ness, mixed in with apartment buildings, bungalow courts, and small commercial districts, lined with restaurants, bars, and shops.

It's one of the city's last intact walkable urban districts that haven't been totally destroyed by urban renewal schemes or freeway construction. (Could that be because much of the Tower wasn't previously redlined?)

But more important than the urban design charm of the Tower, it's the alternative culture and LGBTQ+ capital of the San Joaquin Valley.

Back to zoning. Typically, if a business complies with the zoning, they don't need to go to the planning commission or the city council for approval.

So Scharton went to Russ Fey, Fresno State Urban Planning professor and asked for his help.

Fey told him: you need a specific plan.

In planning parlance, a specific plan is a big deal. The Tower District already had a plan on the books — the Fresno High-Roeding Community Plan, adopted in the 1970s.

But community plans aren't legally enforceable. They don't include specifics about zoning, building height, or design. Specific plans are, well, that specific.

And the Fresno High-Roeding Plan wasn't built by the community. Residents wanted something that represented the community vision for the neighborhood.

After a few years and dozens of community meetings, the Fresno City Council unanimously adopted the Tower District Specific Plan in 1991, in the Tower Theater.

And then they launched a committee made up of residents whose job was to defend the plan.

A little over a decade after the plan was approved, the Tower District Design Guidelines were approved — another initiative led by Tower residents.

(Full disclosure: I served on the Tower District Design Review Committee in 2019.)

The Tower committee has had its run-ins over the years. Clifton said one of the biggest fights was over a proposal to build a drive-through coffee kiosk in the Tower Theater parking lot. Drive-thrus are antithetical to walkable, urban districts. And the kiosk would have eliminated much-needed parking for businesses.

The committee's recommendations are ultimately advisory to the City Council.

"Sometimes we win, and sometimes we lose," said longtime Tower committee chair Clifton. "As long as we fight like hell, I've learned to shrug off the times we lose."

If Adventure Church moves forward with the rezoning process, it will have to get through many stops: but the Tower District Design Review Committee is one of the first on the list. These are public meetings, and Tower residents are encouraged to participate.

The church will also need the City Council's approval to amend the Tower plan.

Plan amendments aren't exactly uncommon in Fresno, but very few have faced significant community opposition, in my memory.

The Tower plan has given residents significant leverage in land use decisions for the neighborhood.

Increasingly, city councilmembers have seen the advantages of having a community-driven plan help drive future investment and business decisions in a neighborhood.

These plans don't just talk about zoning and land use. They help the city figure out how to prioritize resources for streets, sidewalks, parks, and bike lanes.

In the past decade, the City Council has approved specific plans for southwest Fresno and the Fulton Corridor in downtown. Three more are underway: west of 99, South Central Fresno, and Central Southeast.

As someone who used to be involved in implementing the plans, I can't say this enough: read your plan. Ask your city councilmember to join the committee responsible for fighting for it. If your neighborhood doesn't have a plan, ask your city councilmember to make a budget request for one.

I'll leave this on one final note: plans can be changed. They should adapt, as the community shifts to respond to need. But a plan is only as good as the community behind it. Get your neighbors involved!

And now, the week's top reads:

(For the most recent local coronavirus updates, visit www.fresnobee.com/coronavirus.)

Housing, Transportation, and Land Use

Gov. Newsom and top legislative democrats announced a deal to extend the state's eviction moratorium through the end of June. Sacramento Bee

Fresno declared an emergency over these apartments in 2015. Now, a man died in a fire there. Fresno Bee

The federal eviction moratorium, implemented through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been extended to the end of March, to help tenants who have been battered economically by the pandemic. NPR

Soil-less gardens and farms? It's a growing industry — $9.5 billion in sales is expected to nearly double in the next five years. Hydroponics -- the soil-less cultivation of crops in controlled environments -- might be the future for growing enough food to feed an exploding worldwide population. Los Angeles Times

Fresno travelers have one more airline to choose from when Southwest Airlines enters the Fresno air travel market with daily nonstop round trips to Las Vegas and Denver. Fresno Bee

According to estimates provided by state court officials, California courts are bracing for eviction cases to double over the next year as pandemic-related financial woes deepen for thousands of renters across the state. Los Angeles Times

Mayor Jerry Dyer announced a new program to get Fresno's homeless, which will target an estimated 250 people who are presently sleeping in tents and other unsafe areas along Highways 41, 180 and 168. Fresno Bee

How many California renters stand to lose their homes when the state and national moratoria end? It depends on whom you ask and what they are using as gauges. Cal Matters

 Economy and Neighborhood Inequality

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 900,000, according to the Labor Department's report. However, unemployment numbers are still historically high and reflect the devastation of a raging pandemic. Los Angeles Times

President Biden is asking the Department of Agriculture to allow states to increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — commonly known as food stamps — and to increase by 15 percent benefits awarded through a school meals program for low-income students started during the pandemic. Washington Post

America's unemployment numbers are staggering, an indication of the economic hill the new administration has to climb when it comes to getting desperately needed help to millions of workers. Vox.com

The global coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 worsened Fresno's 2020 unemployment picture. Fresno Bee

Water and Air Quality

As the pandemic forced businesses to shut down and put travel on hold, wealthy countries reduced their environmentally-harmful emissions in almost every sector of their economies, but carbon emissions from gas-guzzling SUVs increased. NPR.org

Firefighters chased wind-driven blazes up and down the state early this week as trees and trucks were toppled, Yosemite National Park was forced to close and two coronavirus vaccination centers were shut down. Months-old embers from a deadly California fire were blown back to life by powerful winds that raked the state and prompted safety blackouts to tens of thousands of people. Fresno Business Journal

In an effort to maintain a strict cap on emissions from cars-- the single largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office directing the government to revise fuel economy standards, reversing the Trump administration rules. Sacramento Bee

The Tule River Tribe of Tulare County, a Central Valley Native American tribe, is getting $250,000 to develop a comprehensive energy and climate plan. Fresno Business Journal

This article first appeared on Fresnoland and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Club de Fútbol Extremadura – hiszpański klub piłkarski z siedzibą w Almendralejo, działający w latach 1924–2010.

Historia
Klub Club de Fútbol Extremadura założony został w 1924 w Almendralejo. Do 1952 klub występował w ligach regionalnych. W 1952 klub awansował do trzeciej ligi. Dwa lata później awansował do Segunda División. W drugiej lidze Extremadura występowała przez 7 lat do 1961, najwyżej plasując się w tabeli w 1959. W 1970 klub spadł do ligi regionalnej i przez następne 7 lat występował w niej, dwukrotnie po drodze awansując i spadając z trzeciej ligi. Po reformie ligowej w 1977 klub występował w nowo utworzonej Tercera División. W Tercera División grał do 1990, kiedy to Extremadura awansowała do Segunda División B. W 1994 klub po 33-letniej przerwie klub powrócił do Segunda División.

W 1996 klub odniósł swój największy sukces w historii w postaci awansu do Primera División po wygraniu barażu z Albacete Balompié. Extremadura w swoim premierowym sezonie zajęła 19. miejsce, co oznaczało spadek do Segunda División. Po spadku z pierwszej ligi trenerem klubu został Rafael Benítez i w następnym roku klub powrócił do Primera División. Tak jak za pierwszym razem przygoda z Primera División zakończyła się spadkiem po przegranym barażu z Rayo Vallecano Madryt. Po spadku Extremadura przez trzy sezony grała w Segunda División. W 2007 klub z powodu kłopotów finansowych został zdegradowany do ligi regionalnej. Ostatecznie w sierpniu 2010 klub z powodu bankructwa został rozwiązany.

Sukcesy
 2 sezony w Primera División: 1996–1997, 1998–1999.
 13 sezonów w Segunda División: 1954–1961, 1994–1996, 1997–1998, 1999–2002.

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