Well, we finally got a break in the dry weather. We've had two rain storms in the past week, and we were sorely in need. We actually did a get the outer edge of Hurricane Hermine that brought us some of this rain, and I am very thankful. So now things in my garden seem like they are happy again instead of pouting and wilted. Now that summer is starting to fade and we are starting to get some cooler temperatures, I took some time this Labor Day to plant out the Red Tree Peony Seeds from SP Reader in GA I received a couple weeks ago. If your garden has started to cool down and moisten up a bit, then now would be a good time to plant peony seeds in your area too. If you don't have any peony seeds, and you'd like to plant some, you should definitely check out the APS Seed Sale. It is only for APS Members, but if you are this interested in peonies and you're not an APS Member yet, you should definitely sign up!
I planted these red tree peony seeds in my fledgling tree peony garden. There is still some space here to plant in some nice soil. So I decided to go ahead and plant out these seeds there. To plant the seeds I just got some garden gloves on to prevent dirt from getting under my finger nails. Since I didn't want to cultivate the entire area, I just made some seed holes for the peonies using my thumb. The soil wasn't too hard to work with, and I was able to make a nice divot in the ground for each seed. Then I placed one seed in each hole, covered them with soil, and tamped it down. I can't wait to see what these seedlings may bring. It will take years to know if any of these seedlings will be garden worthy plants, but hopefully it will be worth the wait!
That's awesome. You'll have to send me the pics when they bloom, I'd love to see what you get!


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In the early 1900s, Whiskey Pete was a renowned rumrunner. Given that he was a legend, he made the request to be buried standing… with a bottle of his own rum in his hand. Obviously, his requests were obeyed. However, few years later, some workers accidentally exhumed a body which was believed to be his (due to the upright position). Since then, there have been rumours that he is haunting the hotel and casino which bears his name. Many visitors have conveyed that they felt watched while playing at the casino. Others also said that they have witnessed the strange figure of an elderly man dressed in old western clothes.


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Formula Ford Engine Cover
October 2, 2013 danick1991
When we started the Formula Ford restoration project, we quickly decided that the current engine cover was unusable due to being excessively heavy and the unsuccessful alterations made to accommodate the relocated air filter.
Therefore the decision was made to make a new engine cover out of glass fibre reinforced resin using an existing mold that we planned to modified. After the minor modifications to the nose cone, it was thought that the engine cover would be a similar task. However we were more than surprised by the amount of work that it required to get it to the state it is in today.
Initially the mold was modified by adding a piece of supported mdf to made the mold shallow and effectively bring down the height of the pattern (to allow for recovery access to the roll hoop in case of an accident). Unfortunately this plan did not work as the weight of the glass fibre matting and resin while being laid up, caused the mdf to bow and set in an irregular shape.
When the engine cover was placed on top of the chassis, it was apparent that certain sections did not have adequate clearance. This resulted in the offending sections being cut and the cover made to fit. Replacement sections were made from the mold and flat panels and merged together (plenty of resin).
The majority of time created this new engine cover was spent either filling or sanding. This was to ensure that the top was perfectly flat, sections met without a seam and all imperfections were removed. The filler was applied in thin layers and heavily sanded to keep the weight to a minimum and strength high.
Modification of the existing mold
Interesting use of masking tape and putty
Fibre glass laid up two layers thick
Rather mishapen engine cover
Part of the engine cover failed to clear the chassis
Replacement section in mold
All sections being glued together
Finally the correct shape with adequate clearance
Requires a little work to ensure top is flat and all lines flow smoothly
After hours of filling and sanding…
A few coats of filler primer and a base colour
Ready for final paint after a quick sand down
Unfortunately it is still waiting for it's final coat of white paint to match the rest of the freshly painted body panels, but will hopefully in the near future be either used on the car or as a pattern to create a mold for future engine covers.
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Iranian McCarthyite Stool Pigeons Try to Shit on David Hirsh …………..
Jonathan Uncategorized June 7, 2022 June 7, 2022 3 Minutes
Hirsh untouched by Iranian stool pigeons' shit
Chris Williamson is a former Labour MP who was expelled. He recently voiced support for applying the death penalty to anyone in the UK with contact with Israel or an Israeli, including on social media (as recently voted by the Parliament of Iraq). That would include me and tens of thousands of others.
Press TV is the mouthpiece of Iran. It lost its licence to broadcast in the UK and is banned from Youtube. Williamson fronts an Israel hate series on the channel – called 'Palestine Declassified'. His sidekick is David Miller, the former Bristol academic dismissed for antisemitism.
In a recent edition of this garbage Miller actually said
There's a Zionist Stranglehold over the top of the music industry
The latest programme attacks David Hirsh. My Jewdar hit Nazi and Stalinist levels – it is truly repulsive ……..
First, look at the blurb
He regards himself as being part of the democratic left tradition though he says he has no objection to being recognised as a Jew or as a Zionist
Me neither. I'm proud of both. Why shouldn't I be? Why shouldn't HE be? In what way does being Jewish and Zionist violate the 'democratic left tradition'?
It has been claimed that Zionist lobby groups – the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council – funneled £50,000 to Engage, which challenge the idea it was a grassroots campaign
Shock horror … Jewish communal organisations fund organisations fighting antisemitism .…. And Bears Shit In The Woods ….
Palestine Declassified has searched the publications of David Hirsh over the last two decades and found no conflict of interest disclosures by him referencing any money, expenses or hospitality received from the Zionist movement or directly from the regime.
Where is the 'conflict of interest'? Why is it a 'conflict of interest' for a University Lecturer to fight antisemitism? And to be Jewish and Zionist? Would it be a 'conflict of interest' for a Muslim University Lecturer to fight Islamophobia?
Now the actual vomit-inducing programme:
The Jewish National Fund is described as 'racist'. A lie, it supports all communities in Israel.
At 14.30 David Hirsh is called a 'McCarthyite stool pigeon'. This phrase is straight out of the Stalinist lexicon – which speaks volumes about Williamson and Miller. In fact coming from those guys it's a Badge Of Honour. I'm jealous.
And he's described (14.45) as an 'alleged academic'!! Yeah right. I guess the 'genuine academics' are the deranged UCU idiots who signed support for Miller.
And David Hirsh is 'doing his best to denigrate calls for decolonisation by student groups'. This is in response to this tweet:
Let's try to explain – in simple words for our stool pigeon friends ……….. The antisemitic Left regards Israel as a 'colony'. This is demented because Israel was created thanks to the COLLAPSE OF A COLONY – the Ottoman Empire. In addition Israel has none of the characteristics of a colony – eg a language like French, Spanish or English that is widely spoken or a former Imperial Capital such as London, Paris, Vienna or Istanbul.
But if you are a student or an academic who wants to 'decolonise' the curriculum and you (wrongly) think Israel is a 'settler colonial state' then it's not rocket science to see how you can slip into antisemitism – especially (IHRA definition) 'claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor'.
David Hirsh is referred to as an "Israeli asset" suggesting he is some kind of paid puppet of the Israeli government. (Pretty ironic coming from stooges of Iran – oh sorry I am not supposed to understand irony …)
At 16.46 the UK's counter-extremist Prevent Programme is falsely and libellously described as 'targetting Muslim children'. Later (21.30) Williamson describes Prevent as 'Islamophobic' (at 22.00 Miller agrees). Horrifically a student of Hirsh went to PressTV to try to smear him .. Hirsh brought Prevent coordinator William Baldet MBE into one of his classes. Ludicrously Miller says that this presented a threat to Muslim students….
As for 'McCarthyite stool pigeons'.………. Who do you think fits the bill …..
1. An eminent Jewish academic who has never shied from criticising Israel?
2. Proven antisemites in the pay of a regime which is committed to the destruction of the world's only Jewsh State?
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'It's only words': the melancholy of the St Phillips Estate – The Glebe Society
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'It's only words': the melancholy of the St Phillips Estate
Ian Stephenson, Glebe Society Planning Convenor, Bulletin 5/2021 July 2021
Sitting down to write about the DA currently on exhibition, to build two eight-storey apartment buildings and five faux terrace houses in the St Phillips Heritage Conservation Area, the plaintive melancholy of the Bee Gees' 1968 hit song Words came to mind.
Changing the pronoun from you to I, the song seems an accurate representation of the NSW planning system as it relates to the St Phillips Heritage Development Control Plan (DCP): I think that you don't mean a single word you say, it's only words.
Why so bleak? I have been researching the history of the area for a forthcoming Glebe Society video. In 1949 the land to the east of Cowper St was resumed by the Housing Commission and between 1953 and 1967 15 three-storey blocks of flats were built.
The 1962 textbook Local Geography in the secondary school has a picture of them. The same work refers to the monotony of Glebe's terrace houses. To my eyes the flats look worse.
The Housing Commission Redevelopment Scheme, c.1962 (Source: Sydney Teacher's College Faculty of Geography, Local Geography in the Secondary School, Sydney, 1962, between p. 38 and p. 39 [Max Solling Collection])
By the 1970s, taste had changed and it was the terrace houses which were cherished. By the 1980s Glebe was protected by heritage conservation zones. The boundary in this area for the St Phillips estate was, rather sensibly, Cowper St.
In 2008 the Department of Housing commissioned a study from John Oultram to provide guidelines for the use of the area. In Section 8.7, Oultram noted 'there is considerable scope for new buildings on the site provided that they pay due regard to the scale of the surrounding areas'.
This also was very sensible – the 1950s flats could be demolished but make sure what you build in their place respects the scale of the conservation area across the road.
In 2011 the Glebe Affordable Housing Development Control Plan was passed to allow redevelopment of the land. It was also required to 'protect, preserve and respond to the heritage significance of the surrounding heritage conservation area'.
As can be seen from the images below these controls were not very well implemented.
The high rise outside the conservation area is now being used to undermine the conservation area itself.
Thus, Extent Heritage Pty Ltd in their Heritage Impact Statement [HIS] for the DA at 17-31 Cowper St note:
the proposal will allow for a structure that is substantially taller in height to the major significant character of the area. However, it should be noted that the dominant areas of low-scale residential terrace housing are located to the west and in the core of the heritage conservation area, while in immediate areas and the east we have many larger scale residential developments.
Efforts to mitigate this impact has been made through stepping the heights of development, with a lower three-storey development facing west towards the centre of the St Phillips Conservation Area. Here, the design has thoughtfully emulated the surrounding historic character with the three-storey terraces that front Mitchell Lane1, ensuring that area of the development does not overwhelm the opposite block of single-storey Victorian terraces.
The St Phillips Heritage Conservation Area is on the left side of Cowper St and the Glebe Affordable Housing Scheme on the right (source: Google street view)
Given that the site adjoins 42 terrace houses, the statement that 'the dominant areas of low-scale residential terrace housing are located to the west and in the core of the heritage conservation area' is disingenuous and the idea that five terrace houses can screen two eight-storey apartment buildings is ludicrous. Are these magic terrace houses which are being proposed?
Having argued on specious grounds that changing the scale of the western side of Cowper St from low rise to high rise at its northern end (the entire western side of the street, all half a kilometre of it, has no building higher than two storeys!) is acceptable, the Heritage Impact Statement then seeks to discredit the design of the infill which is to be demolished.
While the building is a representative example of the last major period of development in Glebe, there are other more interesting examples of this style of infill housing in the vicinity such as 2-18 Mount Vernon Street and 42-58 Catherine Street, Glebe [which is one apartment block].
This is a long-discredited idea of conservation based on a dubious notion of connoisseurship that you only need to keep the best example of a genre and everything else can go. How you identify what is the best is by no means straightforward and in any case there are so many other important things such as context, history and value to the community which determine heritage value.
The implications of this idea that you only need to keep the best example of an architect or building type are staggering. For example, Francis Greenway designed three churches in NSW: St Luke's, Liverpool; St James', Sydney and St Mathew's, Windsor. Some argue St Mathew's is the best, so if they are right that means other two can go.
St James' can be replaced by a 20-storey building, because the NSW Supreme Court which is across the road in King St is 20 storeys high, but with the proviso that the new building has to have a low rise building at its east end to soften the interface between it and the Hyde Park Barracks. It will need to be one of these magic terraces the NSW LAHC are proposing for Glebe.
The Glebe Affordable Housing Project viewed from Cowper Lane (Source: Google street view)
The infill in Mount Vernon St and Catherine St – which Extent Heritage Pty Ltd like – was designed by John Gregory whilst that in Cowper St was by David Tory.
Mind you their report doesn't tell us that, it's strong on assertion and weak on evidence.
The eminent architectural historian Dr James Broadbent AM wrote of the Cowper St project:
the proposed development erodes the conservation area whose logical boundary is, and should remain, Cowper Street. This is not only a matter of maintaining the well and logically defined boundaries of the conservation area but also of respecting the planning ideas under-pinning the Glebe urban renewal scheme itself which can now be appreciated as a sophisticated and important piece of urban planning and heritage conservation planning of the late 20th century. That planning itself is of significant heritage value and should be respected, maintained and not amended piecemeal.
Just as the Glebe planning scheme as a whole is an important example of mid to late 20th century heritage conservation in urban areas, so the individual houses are fine and considered responses to the design and heritage significances of the 19th century houses. The respect and appreciation shown in the design of the infill houses to the scale, materials, colours, textures and forms of the old houses is masterful: sophisticated, romantic yet practical.
Extent have another argument in their armoury which is that 'the buildings on the site, while marginally sympathetic infill styles, are not exemplary of their type and can potentially confuse interpretation of the mostly Victorian architectural values of the Conservation Area'.
The five new terraces and the two eight-storey apartment buildings from Paddy Doherty Reserve (Source: Johnson Pilton Walker, Design Report, Glebe Mid-Rise Project LAHC 2019/128 – BGW9F, 9 April 2021, p. 14)
They are saying that because 17-31 Cowper St echoes the form, scale and pattern of the neighbouring houses (as good infill in an historic townscape should) people might think it is a 19th-century building. What nonsense.
Curiously, they raise no such objection to the pair of eight storey apartments designed to look like woolstores, which are to replace the present building. Surely, if this logic applies to the building being demolished it must apply to the proposed buildings? In any case it is very confusing having the apartments based on an historic building type which does not occur in the St Phillips estate.
JPW, the architects for the development explain that
the Glebe Mid-Rise Project is a considered response to the site's rich history and context. The urban form responds to the locality's varied building typologies, old and new, and creates an effective and appropriate transition between adjoining blocks of different scales and uses. Using the precedents of Glebe woolstores and the Sydney terraces, we found an urban composition that fits comfortably with the surroundings, without compromising the amenity or liveability for residents and neighbours.
The woolstores that the proposed buildings are modelled on are in Ultimo not Glebe – a different suburb with a very different history. Preserving local identity is exactly what the Council's City of Villages planning framework has been about, but it looks like that is now passé – so it is farewell to the St Phillip's estate and welcome to little Ultimo. Confused and confusing is what this project is.
Another difficulty relates to amenity and liveability. The strength of the public housing in Glebe's church estates has been the way it connects residents to the street and the community. This applies to both the old houses and the 1980s infill.
The urbanist Jan Gehl has written that
high rise separates people from the street, meaningful contact with ground level events is possible only from the first few floors in a multi-story building. Between the third and fourth floor, a marked decrease in the ability to have contact with the ground level can be observed. Another threshold exists between the fifth and sixth floors. Anything and anyone above the fifth floor is definitely out of touch with ground level events.
The public housing tenants in Glebe don't need a Danish urbanist to tell them this, they know it from their lived experience. That is why they are fighting so hard to save the Franklyn St estate from being razed for high-rise.
The new apartment buildings are to have roof gardens. The architects say these 'will provide a 'backyard' amenity to the apartment residents, and opportunities for social connection'. So, in the new St Phillips estate if you want to have an informal chat over the fence with your neighbours you will need to do it from an ultra-lite plane.
Glebe is a unique because of its proximity to the city, its coherence, its scale, its broad social demographic, the way the urban fabric integrates residents of public housing into the community in old houses, and well-designed low-rise infill. Now we are heading for a tale of two cities with the private owners in houses and the public housing tenants in high rise apartments.
Over the last five decades the policy of Commonwealth, State and Local government has been to conserve the heritage of Glebe. Substantial density has been added at the fringes, at Harold Park, for example but now it is eating its way into the conservation areas. In March Sydney City Council approved the removal of 17-31 Cowper St and 2A-D Wentworth Park Rd from the St Phillips Heritage Conservation Area but I understand this has not been enacted yet.
Many dubious arguments are being put to destroy the St Phillips conservation area such as if there is a low-rise Neutral2 building and it is close to a tall building, it can be demolished and replaced by a tall building. The most frustrating thing of all is that goal of creating additional public housing could be achieved by sensitive infill.
It is tempting when looking at the way Glebe's highly evolved instruments for managing its conservation areas are being undermined, to give way to despair and think of the Bee Gees in respect of local and State Government, I think that you don't mean a single word you say, It's only words.
However, we do live in a democracy, local and State governments are elected and we have to keep the pressure up. When bad decisions are made such as spot rezoning in conservation zones, call it out. If bad developments proceed, call them out.
As Jack Mundey said at the 40th anniversary of the Glebe Society:
We have to redouble our efforts to make sure that whoever is in power in Macquarie St, we've got to tell them, that they can't destroy all of Sydney and therefore we've got to fight for the heritage we own, for the heritage that we've built and the heritage we want to inherit.
The Glebe Society is lodging an objection to the Cowper St DA, you should too. The details of the DA can be found on the Council's website.
Anne Summers, The Little Green Book, the Facts on Green Bans, Tomato Press, Glebe, 1973, p. 19
Notes: 1. Actually, the backs and sides, not the fronts, of the terraces face Mitchell Lane and they are one and two storeys high not three. 2. Buildings in conservation areas are defined in the Development Control Plan as Listed, Contributory and Neutral.
Posted on July 6, 2021 for Ian Stephenson
Posted on 6th July 2021


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Someone dressed up as the PATH network for Halloween
Can you really say you're from Toronto if you've never gotten lost in the PATH?
The 30+ km subterranean pedestrian walkway is a part of everyday life for many who work, shop or travel within the downtown core.
But with connections to multiple subway stations and more than 75 buildings, as well as its 1,200 shops and restaurants — making it the largest underground shopping complex in the world — the PATH can be a bit of a confusing labyrinth for those who aren't familiar with it.
Apparently, according to one resident, this is what makes the underground network a perfect Halloween costume.
A post shared by Rob Shostak (@robonto) on Oct 31, 2019 at 5:19pm PDT
Rob Shostak paid homage to the PATH by dressing up as its wayfinding signage, with the PATH logo adorning his torso and directional markers on his head, hands and behind.
He even took his costume underground for a mini photoshoot, with him posing in various sections of his beloved walkway.
"The PATH can be a scary place for many who are not used to the wonders of [the financial district]," he says in a social media caption. "Perhaps that's what makes it appropriate for a Halloween costume."
The PATH team loved Rob's costume so much, they put a photo of it on the official PATH Instagram.
A post shared by PATH Toronto (@path.toronto) on Nov 1, 2019 at 6:27am PDT
Rob says in his post that in his nearly 15 years of living in the city, he would habitually avoid the PATH, only ever ending up there by mistake and usually getting lost whenever he did find himself there.
After recently securing a job at an office directly connected to the network, he said he's since "fallen in love" with it after getting to know it better.
Considering it has such adoring fans, maybe those of us who have a love-hate relationship (or no relationship at all) with the PATH just need to give it more of a chance.
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Mon 31 7:30 PM Ducks vs Red Wings
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings MP 2021-2022 34 16 18 34 4 25 3 0 22 15 14 18:35 1
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2020-2021 44 9 14 23 -14 34 1 0 38 38 21 20:24 0.5
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2019-2020 71 19 34 53 -21 39 5 0 52 81 43 21:15 0.7
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2018-2019 76 32 41 73 -6 75 7 2 80 100 69 21:51 1
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2017-2018 82 16 47 63 -9 61 1 2 76 81 56 19:51 0.8
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2015-2016 80 23 22 45 11 34 4 0 65 39 43 16:33 0.6
TOTAL NHL 467 132 191 323 -63 305 26 5 400 405 295 19:09 0.7
NHL NHL Detroit Red Wings 2015-2016 5 1 0 1 -2 18 0 0 9 3 0 14:28 0.2
NHL Detroit Red Wings 2021-2022 34 102 36 157 274 235 538 2:59 0:02 18:35
NHL Detroit Red Wings 2020-2021 44 134 42 67 361 369 495 2:47 0:19 20:24
NHL Detroit Red Wings 2017-2018 82 232 103 69 656 658 499 2:10 1:59 19:51
NHL Detroit Red Wings 2015-2016 80 221 80 104 41 59 410 2:03 0:06 16:33
NHL Detroit Red Wings 2015-2016 5 10 12 100 1 1 500 2:58 0:13 14:28
Last 10 Games Total 6 6 12 4 33 4 9 3:54 0:00 18:14
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1/13/2022 DET vs WPG L 0-3 C 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 6:04 0:00 20:19
1/9/2022 ANA vs DET L 4-3 (OT) (SO) C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1:31 0:00 6:36
1/8/2022 LAK vs DET L 4-0 C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 7 2:24 0:00 18:33
1/4/2022 DET vs SJS W 6-2 C 1 1 2 2 5 0 0 3:19 0:00 19:14
1/2/2022 DET vs BOS L 1-5 C 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 4:41 0:00 19:04
12/31/2021 DET vs WSH L 1-3 C 0 0 0 -2 3 0 0 2:48 0:00 17:39
12/18/2021 DET vs NJD W 5-2 C 3 1 4 4 3 2 0 4:30 0:00 20:51
12/16/2021 CAR vs DET L 5-3 C 1 1 2 -1 2 0 0 3:19 0:00 22:30
12/14/2021 DET vs NYI W 2-1 C 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 3:16 0:00 18:43
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NHL 2019-2020 100 95 86 68 75 88 84 67 85 82 76 71 68 68 89 80
NHL 2018-2019 93 100 67 68 74 95 94 76 92 87 93 63 64 66 92 81
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It's so hard to decide what to work on with all the glorious fabric choices surrounding me ~ what to do do , what to do? My studio couldn't be more inspiring than it is right know. Hope that doesn't sound too braggy ~ I'm just grateful to be able to do the work that I do. my studio is pretty compact (18 ft. by 9 ft), but completely functional - which is key, and the fact that I can fit over 4000 yards of fabric neatly in the space really is something worth bragging about, wouldn't you say? Today is cleaning day. The studio gets a complete cleaning every week at 8:00 am sharp and I can usually manage to keep things looking semi orderly for appointments in the studio on Thursday between 10 & 2, but by 3:00 pm, all bets are off. When I work, I make a pretty impressive mess.
Yesterday, I worked on belts and a new groovy top for my friend Tanya. Tanya stopped by last cleaning day and picked out a little Midwest Modern - I think she's going to love her new pretty new top.
I think it's almost 8, so I better get going. Please post a comment and I will randomly select someone who will receive a sample pack of my Pop Garden.
I love Tanya's top! She is sure to love it too! Hope I am picked to win.
Cute top! Pick number 2 this time (hehehe).
The new Pop Garden is great!
What a beautiful studio... and a pretty dress!
Oh, I love this fabric. And cute top!
I would so love to win, what a lovely fabric line! Thanks for sharing.
OMG that is gorgeous! I love it (and of course all the fabric and the studio too).
I love the new fabric line and I have to say your dedication to being organized and clean is awesome. I hope I win!
i want to live there too...i could organize it for you every day! simply lovely fabric!
LOVE that top!! Cannot wait to get my hands on the new Pop Garden. It is gorgeous!!
Sorry I missed the giveaway, but I still wanted to say how yummy these bolts look all lined up.
Your studio is amazing, as is that blouse. Would love a chance to win some pop garden!
4,000 yards?! Your studio is lovely, inspiring, and enviable!
I love your style and taste reflected in your "stash". And what an efficient idea of making a time window for appointments- very smart! I found your blog thru Jackie at Tallgrass Prairie. I think I'll be looking around for a while. Great blog!


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Britain and the EU – isn't it time we filed for divorce? Should we call it a day? Or accept that the EU is our future, warts and all?
Some people just can't bring themselves to acknowledge that a relationship is over. Finished. Unsalvageable. David Cameron, for instance. His long awaited speech on Europe has been one big exercise in denial. Yes, we should stay married to Europe, he says, because we can now renegotiate our wedding vows and get the EU to do things our way. Who is he kidding? If it were so easy to pick 'n mix what we want from Brussels, wolfing down all the soft-centred goodies and rejecting the nutty ones, wouldn't every member state do the same? That would be a certain recipe for a 27-speed Europe and why on earth would Brussels agree to that? After the euro crisis, Brussels is hell-bent on tightening the rules not loosening them. So once you discard the new wrapper Cameron is trying to put around a thorny old problem, the reality re-emerges in all its starkness: we can't live under the old rules – Cameron himself is clear about that – and the new rules will entail an even greater loss of sovereignty. So time for divorce.
But do we really want to throw away all we have achieved in the post-war decades – years of painstaking negotiations which have led to a peaceful and prosperous Europe? Not only has the EU enhanced trade between its members – to Britain's benefit as much as the others – it has also provided Europe with a real voice in the world. Of course it's far from perfect. That's why it needs to be reformed not rejected. And of course it involves some loss of sovereignty: in a globalised world that's inevitable. But only political juveniles hanker after a lost world of unfettered sovereignty. Time to be grown up and accept that the EU is our future, warts and all.
So which side of the argument should we heed? This is the biggest national issue of our time: Britain's destiny is at stake.
Speakers for the motion
Former leader of UKIP (2006-2009)
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Former Conservative MEP for South East England
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Katinka Barysch
Leon Brittan
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Leader of UKIP from 2006-2009, and again from 2010 until his resignation in the aftermath of the EU referendum. As leader of UKIP, Nigel was a major figure in the campaign to leave the European Union.
Former Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, who was a prominent campaigner for Brexit. He is a prolific journalist and author of nine books, including A Doomed Marriage: Britain and Europe.
Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform. The CER is an independent London-based think-tank that seeks to make the EU work better and strengthen its role in the world. It is cross-party and privately financed. She previously worked as an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a consultant in Brussels, and is a member of the advisory boards of FINCA, a micro-finance charity, and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).
Leon Brittan was a former Conservative Home Secretary and Vice President of the European Commission., who also variously served as Minister of State at the Home Office, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Home Secretary, and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Brittan was awarded a Life Peerage in the Millennium New Year Honours List, and appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for North Yorkshire in 2001.
Nik Gowing has been a main presenter for the BBC's international 24-hour news channel BBC World News, since 1996, where he presents The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London and location coverage. For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996).
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This study investigates the artistic network of merchants in the Hanse trade organization from ca. 1400-1530. Also known as the Hanseatic League, the Hanse functioned as a late-medieval trading organization before the advent of early modern global trade. As a critical node in the extensive Hanse trade network, the city of Lübeck, Germany stood unrivaled artistically and economically by any other cities in the Baltic region. Strongly connected to mercantile ports across the Baltic and North Seas, as well as inland to Westphalia and Cologne, Lübeck merchants bought, negotiated, and transported art from workshops across network lines. This dissertation uses both the urban image of Lübeck and carved and painted altarpieces as models for artistic transactions in the Hanse during the "Golden Age" of Lübeck in the fifteenth century. As the first study to investigate Lübeck art across multiple media within the Hanse network, this dissertation reveals the decisive roles merchants played as consumers and agents in the production, mobility, and use of works of art in the Baltic region. Like Venice and Nuremberg to the south and Antwerp to the west, Lübeck's local and extraterritorial mercantile networks were instrumental in fueling an art market and crafting a civic identity in the late-medieval trade city.
Tillery, Laura, "The Hanse As Artistic Network In Late Medieval Lübeck" (2018). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2758.


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For an upbeat view of the country's crisis, look at Edmond Grace SJ's recent article in Eureka Street. Edmond has written extensively on political and social issues and is the author of Democracy and Public Happiness. Recently he wrote a series of articles for the Irish Times on Ireland's three crises: banking, political and religious. He chairs the organising committee for the Venice Workshop on Faith and Politics, a joint collaboration of European Jesuits.
Despite misigivings about summing up the results of schooling (in school league tables, published this week) in statistics "that could be read off by a one-eyed colour-blind metre-reader" – as Schumacher described the points system – it is no harm to feel pleased that on the narrow criteria of Leaving Cert. Points and access to difficult third-level courses, Gonzaga heads the list, with Belvedere in the top 20 and Crescent in the top forty Irish schools.
Fr Paddy Greene SJ will facilitate a"Dare to Dream" workshop, Friday 9th – Sunday 11th December 2011. Participants will be helped to explore how dreams point to places of growth, healing and surprise. Topics also include recall of dreams, dreams in other cultures, death in dreams, dreams and health. There will also be time to work on dreams in the group setting. Contact Debbie Moore, Magis Irleand at 01 8880606 or visit the Magis Ireland website.
Frank Sammon SJ was the respondent to a paper on Teilhard de Chardin, given by Dr Deirdre Kinlen to a Patrician group on 21 November. The group's high level of participation prompted Frank to take his Teilhardian studies further.
Magis Ireland – South Africa Volunteering Programme offers young people a chance to make a difference and they are looking for volunteers now for their 11th Aug – 25th 2012 programme. Applications forms now available on the Magis Ireland website. Closing date: 28 November. Contact Debbie Moore: 01 8880606.
Jesuit schools used to aim at giving pupils a Copia verborum, meaning a large supply of words. In our last issue, Belvedere boys had argued and charmed their way to the UCD L & H Mace. This week the focus is on Colaiste Iognaid: Third Year 'Jes' debaters Eoghan Finn and Daragh McCarthy debated against 80 school teams from around the country to win the prestigious All-Ireland Belvedere Mace. Congratulations. Vivat copia verborum!
Every Monday during Advent, beginning on 28th November, a reflection and prayer on the following Sunday's gospel takes place from 6.00pm-6.45pm in the Ignatian Room, Gardiner St Church, Dublin 1. This will be led by Fr Donald Neary SJ and will begin with some background to the gospel and end with guided prayer on the gospel text. All are welcome.
Renowned literary scholar Professor Terry Eagleton will give a lecture on "Jesus and tragedy" in St Mary's Church, Haddington Road, Dublin, on Thursday 1 December at 8pm. It is one in a series of lectures being organised by a Gonzaga alumnus, Judge Kevin Cross, and his committee.
Footnote: Father Luis Archer, featured in the last AMDG Express, was proud of his Irish ancestry, being descended from a Kilkenny man who emigrated to Oporto in 1720 (to avoid the Penal Laws) and who married an Englishwoman he met in Portugal.
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The first journey on Route 2020 kicked off on January 1
Dubai: Al Furjan resident James Christopher Arriola and his girlfriend, Kristine Argente, were among the first Dubai residents who hopped into one of the trains of the newly-opened Route 2020 on the first day of the new year.
By Angel Tesorero, Staff Reporter gulfnews.com
The ride was smooth and comfortable, they said.
The new route of the Dubai Metro connecting the Expo 2020 site.Image Credit: Supplied
On Friday at 10am, the first journey on Route 2020 of the Dubai Metro started from Jebel Ali Station to Al Furjan Station. Four of the seven stations of Route 2020 opened on January 1. The remaining three will commence operations before the opening of Dubai Expo 2020.
The Dubai Metro extension on the Red Line is not only dedicated to the Expo 2020 site but the mass transit network is also built to serve around 270,000 residents living in the fast-growing communities along the route.
James Christopher Arriola and Kristine Argente.Image Credit: Supplied
Arriola and Argente said the journey from Jebel Ali Interchange Station to Al Furjan took around six minutes. Like many residents in the area, they welcomed the opening of Route 2020 as a great New Year's gift as they now have a better and more accessible public transport. Dubai Metro is the backbone of public transport in the city and Route 2020 is the showcase of the future of mass transit.
Before the opening of Route 2020, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) gave the media a tour of the stations, including the iconic Expo 2020 station. Each station has a distinct interior design taking the elements of nature, including earth, air fire and water.
Jebel Ali station (formerly Nakheel Harbour & Tower) is the connecting station between the Red Line and Expo 2020 line.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
Jebel Ali, which is the interchange station, has water for its theme. It covers an area of 8,800 square metres with a capacity of 320,000 riders per day. The Gardens has an air-inspired theme for its 8,100 sqm elevated station that can accommodate up to 125,000 riders per day. Discovery Gardens, another elevated station, is Earth-inspired. It is spread over 8,600 sqm while Al Furjan's area is 8,600 sqm and its theme is water. Both Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan stations can hold 125,000 riders per day.
The soon-to-open Jumeirah Golf Estates, an underground station, is touted as the biggest metro station at 28,700 square metres — its designed being inspired by the element of fire. Another underground station is air-inspired Dubai Investment Park. Both stations can accommodate up to 250,000 riders daily.
Iconic station
The most iconic station is Expo 2020. Its theme is 'Future' — with every inch of its 18,800 sqm area representing Dubai's vision of the future.
The Expo 2020 station, which boasts a unique design featuring the wings of an aircraft, signifying Dubai's future drive towards greater innovation, spans an area of 18,800 square metres, with a total capacity of 522,000 riders per day in both directions at a rate of 29,000 riders per hour in both directions, according to Abdul Mohsin Ibrahim Younes, CEO of the Rail Agency at RTA.
Expo 2020 Dubai metro station is seen during the media tour.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
He said the station can accommodate the large volume of commuters expected at 35,000 riders on weekdays and 47,000 on weekends or around 47,000 or 29 per cent of Expo visitors daily.
The station has three passenger platforms and three routes. It is linked on the eastern side with the Expo exhibition and Expo COEX, and on the western side with the EXPO Mall and urban complex. The station design enables its integration with public transport means with spaces for buses, taxis stands, bicycles and other mobility system people use.
Station icon
Unmissable is the memorial of Expo 2020 station — an artwork inspired by the noble connotation of the phrase "I believe in God" that was lifted from the poem "The Beginning of the Fifty" by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.PROJECT COMPLETION TIMELINE* 29 June 2016 — Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, lays the cornerstone of the Route 2020 Project.
* 24 October 2017 — RTA starts working on Route 2020 Tunnel.
* 8 November 2018 — Overhead bridge work is completed.
* 10 November 2018 — The first train arrives
* 30 October 2019 — The arrival of the last train
* 14 March 2020 — The end of construction work and start of operational trials.
* 7 June 2020 — The opening of Route 2020
* 1 January 2021 — The first journey on Route 2020 of Dubai Metro starts from Jebel Ali Station to Al Furjan Station at 10am
The RTA explained, "the poem encapsulates the faith in God. It also talks about wisdom and foresight as well as motivates the youth to make achievements and raise the standing of the homeland."
"The memorial was designed by international artist El Seed, and is decorated in blue to match the predominant colour of the station. The monument measures 1.5×3.5 metres and is placed on a 1×4 metres base. It depicts a harmonious scene characterised by flexibility and firmness. It describes the synergy between details of the past and decisions of the future. The blue colour entwines with the predominant colour in the station. It is dominant colour in nature that symbolises stability, loyalty, trust, intelligence and peace," the RTA added.https://7698776b053908c2345c58ba57c471f5.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
Bigger capacity and smart gates
Younes also noted the new trains for Route 2020 have bigger capacity. "Each new train can accommodate up to 699 passengers, as compared to 643 passengers for trains on the Red Line," he said.ROUTE 2020 FACTS AND FIGURES* Dh10.6 billion is the project cost
* 15km span of Route 2020 (11.8km of elevated track and 3.2km underground track)
* 7 stations, include 1 interchange station with the Red Line, 1 Iconic Station at Expo site, 3 elevated stations and 2 underground stations
* Route 2020 is one of Dubai's first project 'Towards the Next 50 Years'
* 270,000 residents living along Route 2020
* The total area of elevated stations ranges from 8,100 to 8,800 square metres, and the area of the two underground stations ranges from 27,000 to 28,700 square metres
* The iconic station at Expo site spans 18,800 square metres and has a capacity of 522,000 riders per day
The last cabin of the train is reserved for women and children and part of the first cabin is allotted as Gold Class while the rest are Silver Class. Seats are in a transversal style in the Gold Class and longitudinal pattern in both the Silver Class and Women & Children cabin.
Abdul Mohsen Ibrahim Younes (middle), CEO of Rail Agency, RTA with senior officials boarding a train on Expo 2020 route.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
Hasan Al-Mutawa, Director of Rail Operations at RTA, meanwhile said all seven stations of Route 2020 have smart fare gates. "Unlike traditional barriers that only have sensors to open and close at fixed intervals, the smart gates at Route 2020 have 3D cameras as an added safety feature. These 3D cameras mounted on top scan the passengers from top to bottom and determine if the person would need more time to pass the gate," Muttawa explained
He added: "If someone is carrying a stroller, the camera will send a signal to the gate to keep it open for a longer time to let the person pass safely. The smart cameras also have facial recognition and the smart fare gates are fitted with high accuracy scanning of Nol cards and mobile phones. The smart gates also require little space and we were able to put more gates so people can check in and check out swiftly especially during busy hours."
Gold standard in energy efficiency
Another striking feature of Route 2020, according to RTA, is energy efficiency. Mohammed Al Ameri, Director of Rail Maintenance at RTA, said all stations use HESOP or Harmonic and Energy Saving Optimiser system. The HESOP system works by converting and transferring any unused power — this means the energy not used and generated by a trains while braking can be transferred to next train or to any accelerating trains on the grid.TIMINGS, LINK BUS ROUTESService timings of Route 2020 are synchronised with Metro Red Line. Operations are 5am to 12 midnight from Saturday to Wednesday; 5am to 1am (next day) on Thursday; and 10am to 1am (next day) on Friday.
Two Metro link bus services also opened on January 1. The first is Route F45, which starts from Al Furjan Metro Station and heads to the Discovery Gardens at a 20-minute frequency during peak hours. The second is Route F56, which starts from the Dubai Internet City Station and heads to Al Khail Metro Station at a frequency of 15 minutes during peak hours.
Aside from the regenerative electricity, all stations also use energy-efficient LED lighting systems. All energy is optimised and an expected 6.6 million KW of electricity will be saved annually. Al Furjan is the first station to get the Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certificate, the internationally recognised green building certification system, and other stations will use their certifications, noted Al Ameri. More
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City moves ahead with plans to rezone Governors Island
Plan could make way for 4.5M sf of development
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The city is moving forward with plans to make way for 4.5 million square feet of development on Governors Island.
The Trust for Governors Island held its first meeting this week to discuss rezoning part of the island for commercial real estate development, Crain's reported. Though the island is zoned for residential use, a 2003 agreement with the federal government prevents the city from building housing. A 2010 masterplan for the island set aside 33 acres for future development, and paved the way for 43 acres of new parkland that was completed last year.
The trust is seeking to rezone part of the island to allow a variety of buildings, including hotels, dorms and offices. Most of the structures will rise between 75 to 125 feet tall, though some dorms and hotels could reach 300 feet high. Some of the office buildings might feature 100,000-square-foot floor plates.
"That's a building type you don't really get in Manhattan," said Michael Samuelian, who was tapped to head the trust in 2016. "But it could be very valuable for the types of tenants we are trying to attract."
The trust hopes to begin the public-review process for the rezoning by the end of the year. If approved, the organization would plan to issue a request for proposals by 2020. [Crain's] — Kathryn Brenzel
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How much revenue was made from Retail and Wholesale Sales last year?
If the total revenue this year is 0.5% lower than than last year, how much revenue was made from Retail and Wholesale Sales last year?
We know that THe revenue this year is $75 000, and we now that this is 0.5% less than last year, which means it's 100 – 0.5 = 99.5% of last year's revenue.
Then we know that 20% of lst year's revenue came from Retail.
So they made $15 075.38 in retail revenue last year.
$22 613.06 in wholesale revenue last year.
Where can I find quarterly statistical data? It can be a variety of things: crops, revenue for retail firms.?
I am in a forecasting class and our project consists of finding data and making a 2-3 year quarterly forecast. I cannot find a website that has any good information. Can someone please help? Data with seasonality and/or trend, such as retail firms or crop production, would be benifitial. THANK YOU!
They have a link to commodity market reports (under I Want To… on the righthand side), which sounds like the type of data you're looking for.


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arXiv.org > cs > arXiv:1207.0663v6
cs.LO
cs.CC
cs.GT
Nathanaël Fijalkow
Computer Science > Logic in Computer Science
Title:Parity and Streett Games with Costs
Authors:Nathanaël Fijalkow (LIAFA, Université Paris 7 and Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw), Martin Zimmermann (Saarland University)
(Submitted on 3 Jul 2012 (v1), last revised 24 Jun 2014 (this version, v6))
Abstract: We consider two-player games played on finite graphs equipped with costs on edges and introduce two winning conditions, cost-parity and cost-Streett, which require bounds on the cost between requests and their responses. Both conditions generalize the corresponding classical omega-regular conditions and the corresponding finitary conditions. For parity games with costs we show that the first player has positional winning strategies and that determining the winner lies in NP and coNP. For Streett games with costs we show that the first player has finite-state winning strategies and that determining the winner is EXPTIME-complete. The second player might need infinite memory in both games. Both types of games with costs can be solved by solving linearly many instances of their classical variants.
Comments: A preliminary version of this work appeared in FSTTCS 2012 under the name "Cost-parity and Cost-Streett Games". The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements 259454 (GALE) and 239850 (SOSNA)
Subjects: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO); Computational Complexity (cs.CC); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
Journal reference: Logical Methods in Computer Science, Volume 10, Issue 2 (June 26, 2014) lmcs:794
DOI: 10.2168/LMCS-10(2:14)2014
Cite as: arXiv:1207.0663 [cs.LO]
(or arXiv:1207.0663v6 [cs.LO] for this version)
From: Martin Zimmermann [view email] [via LMCS proxy]
[v1] Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:16:47 UTC (34 KB)
[v2] Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:45:48 UTC (34 KB)
[v3] Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:49:15 UTC (63 KB)
[v4] Tue, 27 May 2014 18:55:03 UTC (47 KB)
[v5] Wed, 28 May 2014 08:39:07 UTC (47 KB)
[v6] Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:12:57 UTC (42 KB)


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Jérôme Rota (Saint-Jean-de-Védas, 1973) is a French software developer. He is also known by the name Gej.

In 1999, while he was working as a graphic designer and a technical director in an advertising agency in France, he made the  "DivX ;-)" 3.11 Alpha video codec (the smiley was a part of the name) by hacking the Microsoft MPEG-4v3 codec (which was actually not MPEG-4 compliant) from Windows Media Tools 4 codecs. His hack had the advantage of supporting the AVI formatted files. Initial peer-to-peer rapid spread of the program turned into its introductions to the markets. As a result, a company was established.

The new project was first given the name ProjectMayo, and an open-source MPEG-4 codec called OpenDivX was made. It was later changed into a proprietary, closed-source product and the name was changed to DivX (dropping the smiley from the original MSMPEG-4 hack). Rota joined the company DivX, Inc. (formerly known as DivXNetworks, Inc.), based in San Diego, in 2000.  The company employed up to 300 employees by February 2007.

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1973 births
Living people

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This is going to be amazing… and not only because I have a story in it!
It's been a while since I've been able to post, largely because I've been so busy!
I've been sweating on this new project of mine, an anthology of horror and dark fiction, titled Suspended in Dusk. Over the last few months I've collected 19 short stories which I feel are a broad representation of some of the established and new talent within the horror/dark/weird genres. I am also very pleased that over one-third (42% unless I screwed the maths) of the table of contents are women who, frankly, scare the crap out of me every bit as much as their male counterparts (probably more!).
This anthology has been picked up by Books of the Dead press, run by James Roy Daley. James has previously published fantastic and award-winning authors such as Jonathan Maberry (multi-Bram Stoker winner), NYT Best Seller Tim Lebbon, and so many more.


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This week Cape Town unveiled the first phase of the MyCiTi bus service, between Table View and the Civic Centre, on its Integrated Rapid Transit System. The new service is already transforming the way residents view buses. The bus is a salve to many who previously dealt with a complicated network of taxis, buses and rail. One passenger, whose commute was reduced to only 30 minutes, commented, "I used to sit in traffic for two hours…I'm falling in love with the bus already".
City officials have also praised the system, saying that it will improve the city's transport system and lessen traffic congestion. However, ANC Mayoral Candidate Tony Ehrenreich, would like to see more priority given to extending the service to the city's poor, who travel from Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain (the largest townships outside of Cape Town) on over-crowded trains and buses.
The launch today follows lengthy negotiations with the local taxi operators, a similar situation that Johannesburg's Rea Vaya experienced. A contract was finally signed on late Sunday, less than a day before the My CiTi launch.
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New Dems and revisiting Alexander-Murray
by David Andersonat9:02 am on February 28, 2019 . It has 12 Comments.
The New Democratic Coalition wants to revive Alexander-Murray again. Modern Healthcare has the details:
The 101-strong New Democrat Coalition wants to fund reinsurance and cost-sharing reduction payments in a package that closely resembles the deal struck last Congress by Senate health committee leaders Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.)….
To prod leadership into action, the group sent a letter urging prompt committee action to key committee leaders—Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) of Energy and Commerce, Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) of Ways and Means, and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) of Education and Labor.
Kimberly Leonard notes that this has an interesting intra-caucus tension:
Centrist House Democrats on Wednesday announced they would be pushing for a healthcare plan to shore up Obamacare, only hours after the House's liberal Democrats pushed for a fully government-financed healthcare system. https://t.co/5RqIfk5tnS
— Kimberly Leonard (@leonardkl) February 27, 2019
An associate jackal sent me the letter which will be below the fold.
Alexander-Murray was a good bill for its context. It sought to address significant concerns and possible concerns. Everything in that bill except for the catastrophic plan section had a straight forward chain:
Identifiable Problem — Clear text with a clean logic model — Problem addressed with a high probability of solving the problem that was identified
It appropriated funds for Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) for two years as almost everyone except for Balloon-Juice readers were convinced that not funding CSR would do very bad things to the market.
It handled a variety of 1332 issues that several states had complained about.
It sent the healthcare.gov navigation and enrollment assistance funding away from HHS and to the states.
It kicked CMS in the butt to get Section 1333 (interstate compacts for opt-in multi-state markets) regulations written.
Significant reinsurance funding to lower non-subsidized premiums.
All of that made sense at the time.
And most of that bill still makes sense. Section 1332 waiver boundaries and rules can be cleaned up. Navigation and enrollment assistance to the states at Alexander-Murray levels would increase enrollment. Section 1333 regulations would be a good thing for states that want to create larger, inter-state risk pools to reduce variance costs. Reinsurance or other forms of assistance would help the non-subsidized buyers.
However as I have argued many times, the termination of cost sharing reduction subsidies is not sabotage. It instead has actually strengthened the market. The cohort of people earning between two and four times the federal poverty level are seeing much lower net of subsidy pricing.
As I noted in October 2017, the world has changed:
Inaction means, over the long run, more people will get low(er) out of pocket expenses/lower deductible insurance for lower premiums through structured, subsidized exchanges. I think that after a year or two, the expected social contract of what "acceptable" publicly subsidized insurance will move to Gold instead of Silver plans. Lower cost Gold plans and very affordable Bronze plans will increase long run uptake of PPACA insurance among people who earn between 200 percent and 400 percent FPL. This is a group with more political power than Medicaid recipients and Medicaid recipients were able to successfully mobilize to defend their interest this year. Appropriating CSR and thus maintaining the status quo is closer to conservative policy and ideological preferences than resetting the effective benchmark to Gold.
Ironically, we're now far closer to the Obama 2007 healthcare plan today than we were on January 19, 2017.
There can be good reasons for liberals and Democrats to agree to appropriate CSR. Rep. Pallone's 2018 HR 5155 appropriated CSR but used the fund flow to expand CSR eligibility and levels as well as expand premium tax credit subsidy eligibility to more people. But the fundamental nature of the ACA has changed due to the termination of CSR and the politics have changed since October 2017 when there was a legitimate fear that not paying CSRs would cause the market to collapse.
But that trade-off has to be made with a recognition of reality. Terminating CSR has created a different market that is more favorable, in isolation, to Democratic policy preferences than Republican policy preferences. The New Dem coalition needs to realize that it was not effective sabotage but a backdoor incidental strengthening.
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On The Lack Of Analytical Utility Of The Concept Of Deterrence
by Cheryl Roferat11:42 am on February 19, 2019 . It has 49 Comments.
With the US withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, we will be hearing more about deterrence. That word is used far too broadly, muddying discussions of military strategy and focusing discussions of war and peace too narrowly.
As the Cold War progressed from open competition for bigger bombs in the 1950s, through the terror of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the realization that Ronald Reagan expressed so nicely, "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," slowly formed, although seldom expressed openly by the governments of the United States or the Soviet Union. Nuclear war became more unthinkable, and communication and arms control measures were instituted to make it less likely.
That uneasy standoff continued through the fall of the Soviet Union. It is often attributed solely to both countries' possession of enough nuclear weapons to destroy the other, that rough equality called deterrence. But there are many other reasons to avoid nuclear war, like developing a country's economy and attending to other areas of instability. When those reasons are left out, discussions of strategy are distorted.
Deterrence is the ability to warn off another party from doing something bad to you. "If you do something bad to us, we will do worse to you." The emphasis on mutual nuclear destruction pulled the term toward nuclear use, but it is more general. Deterrence theory is now largely about nuclear weapons and often descends into unrealistic game theorizing. Nuclear arsenals are often referred to as "deterrents," a concretization and further distortion. Deterrence is a relationship, not a thing in itself.
Deterrence can lead to an arms race as one party seeks to overcome the other's power to deter. That was why arms control treaties were a stabilizing factor in the later Cold War.
There are some current analyses that use the word "deterrence" but are talking about something else. Deterrence is treated as a concrete thing that exists on its own, when it is a descriptor of a particular relationship. If deterrence is a thing that can be imposed on a situation, or a characteristic of particular weapons, then much becomes possible.
Escalate to De-Escalate
Russia is believed by some to have a military doctrine of "escalate to de-escalate." Russia would use a small nuclear weapon early in a conflict to indicate its willingness to go nuclear and thus scare off an opponent and end the war at a time favorable to Russia. There is a question as to whether this is in fact Russian doctrine. If deterrence depends on knowing what the other party is thinking, then it's important to know whether this is Russian doctrine.
In response to such a move, more than one action is possible. The United States might indeed calculate that withdrawal and negotiations toward peace are best. But the decision equally could be to retaliate in kind: Russia nukes Tallinn, and the United States nukes Rostov. And then what? Or the response might be a different sort of attack. The decision depends on a calculation of costs and benefits. Use of a nuclear weapon has been felt to change the course of war fundamentally. Does that assumption fail to hold for a small and early nuclear attack?
Within the United States, those who assume escalate to de-escalate is Russian doctrine argue that low-yield nuclear weapons are necessary to deter that strategy or to meet it if its use is not deterred. The threat of meeting it, of course, is part of deterrence. It could also be argued that having only high-yield weapons (which is not the case) deters an escalate to de-escalate strategy because of the potential escalation to the use of those weapons. Instead, the argument is that the United States would hold back from using those weapons.
Those arguing that low-yield weapons are necessary to deter an escalate to de-escalate strategy are choosing one set of actions and responses, one set of motivations, out of that group. I do not see that clarity.
"We Must Match Their Weapons"
Vladimir Putin claims that Russia is working on exotic new weapons – a stealth underwater drone to deliver a radioactive tidal wave, a nuclear-powered nuclear cruise missile, a hypersonic delivery vehicle. All seem to be impractical or not a material change in the balance.
I am highly doubtful that the first two will ever exist, and the third is a very expensive way to evade missile defenses that can be overcome with the numbers of nuclear weapons Russia possesses. Nonetheless, some people's definition of prudence demands that we match those weapons. A pointless expenditure of billions of dollars may be what Putin is baiting us into whether or not those weapons are real.
The point of deterrence is to avoid war and to avoid the use of nuclear weapons. Decisions for war or use of nuclear weapons are much broader than matching weapon for weapon. There is an argument that deterrence requires that each new development be met with a new development on our side. This opens the way for all those imaginary weapons every boy ever wanted. And it's not how deterrence works.
"This Weapon Is For Deterrence Only"
That claim is nonsense.
The weapons laboratories have long justified their work by saying that they design and build nuclear weapons so that they will never be used. That justification is attributed to Norris Bradbury, the second director of Los Alamos.
Deterrence depends on a believable threat to use force. The effectiveness of nuclear weapons in deterrence depends on the possibility that they will be used. But if deterrence works, they won't be used. That's the basis of the Bradbury justification. It's a paradox.
To develop a new weapon and assure the public that it's for deterrence only, not use, undercuts the believable threat to use it. If this is the justification, developing it is pointless because it makes no difference to the balance of power.
These three scenarios do not illustrate deterrence, but rather tactics that can lead to escalation. Deterrence means that war or nuclear use will be avoided. The decision is whether war or nuclear use will be disastrous for the whoever takes the step. That is a big, overall decision. The details worked out in these three examples would be a small input.
Although nuclear weapons were not used during the Cold War, it's unlikely that nuclear deterrence was the only reason. Trade relations, treaties and other agreements,and internal divisions within a country all influence decisions on peace and war. Diplomacy played a role. And the bottom line is that a nuclear war is in no country's interest.
Cross-posted to Nuclear Diner.
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Hey, Thanks, Kevin!
by Cheryl Roferat5:37 pm on December 18, 2018 . It has 61 Comments.
Kevin Drum has taken my Steele dossier analysis and made some evaluations of the claims. Here's what he came up with:
It looks about right to me.
Aside from three oddball claims that I couldn't really classify (6, 7, and 19 if you're counting), it looks to me like the dossier includes 15 claims that are now fully or partially supported and 27 claims for which we have no evidence so far. These 27 claims include a fair amount of insider Kremlin gossip.
What I found most interesting is this: although there's no public evidence one way or the other for these 27 claims,² there doesn't appear to be a single claim that we know with certainty is false. There are claims that have been denied by the American participants, but none that we have documentary proof of being mistaken. Partly this is because it's hard to prove a negative, but it's still surprising that not a single claim in the report has been conclusively debunked. It's especially surprising since the dossier is a patchwork of raw intelligence, and even if it was well done by competent professionals you'd still expect it to include at least a few claims that, two years later, we could say were categorically wrong.
Emptywheel, however, feels that I'm missing evidence against some of the claims. I've suggested that she and talk about it offline.
And open thread!
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Reconsidering The Steele Dossier
by Cheryl Roferat12:58 pm on December 17, 2018 . It has 114 Comments.
It's time to reconsider the Steele dossier. Not necessarily to show how much Christopher Steele got right or wrong, but because it is a relatively compact collection of information about how the Donald Trump campaign may have worked with the Russians. Looking at it can help to organize the torrent of information coming at us.
Lawfare has posted an excellent summary, in narrative form, of recent evidence in court filings that supports the material in the dossier. It also gives a good background summary of what the dossier is.
The narrative form tends to impose a particular organization on the material. The dossier is a raw compilation of human intelligence, with no evaluation. The court documents now available do not point to one single scenario; in fact, much of their material is redacted, so we know that there is much more to the story.
I've seen people more informally claim that the dossier is supported, but they seem to be referring to a general sense that a story that can be elicited from the dossier are similar to what is in the news. This is often correct, but when I have checked some of these claims with my breakdown of the dossier, the correlation is often cloudy.
My breakdown of the dossier is a listing of its claims, in the order in which they are presented in the dossier. In this post, I'll state the claim and add evidence for or against it. I may have missed some things; there's a lot out there.
In this post, the claims are in italics, often shortened from the wording in the dossier. They are identified by the numbers in my breakdown, along with the Company Intelligence Report (CIR) number and date of the document in the dossier. I have included a broader selection of relevant evidence than do the Lawfare authors. The summaries of information may be verbatim from sources or shortened. If you want to do detailed analysis, refer to the linked sources. Read more
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Who Is Sam Clovis?
by Cheryl Roferat3:01 pm on November 11, 2018 . It has 152 Comments.
This is a small point in the larger Russia investigation. But in my science, I have found that small points that don't seem to make sense can be important. I am not putting forth a theory here. I want to raise questions that I think reporters should be looking at. The overarching question is Who is Sam Clovis and how did he develop his contacts?
When Donald Trump announced his foreign policy advisors in March 2016, a great many of us said "Who?" The five people announced were Joseph E. Schmitz, Gen. Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Walid Phares. Three had policy experience. Two didn't. None were obvious choices.
Page was off to Russia that June. He had meetings with at least one high-level official, although his answers to congressional committees on that subject are evasive. A few years earlier, two Russian agents attempted to recruit Page as an informant.
Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to the FBI earlier this year. His wife worked for Joseph Mifsud, who had Russian connections and a job that looks like a cover. Mifsud has disappeared.
Who recommended Page and Papadopoulos? Eventually it came out that Sam Clovis, the national co-chair of the Trump campaign, had brought them into the campaign. Read more
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How Long Can You Wait to Reduce Your Shielding Gas Waste??
Recent significant price increases have been implemented by the major gas producers. Delivery costs have also increased significantly. It's time to reduce your use while improving weld quality!
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Use purchases over a period of 6 months to a year to avoid introducing errors due to variable amounts of inventory.
Notes: 1) If your using CO2 it probably was purchased in pounds. You'll need cubic feet (CF) in the calculations; there are 8.74 CF per pound of CO2; 2) Argon is usually sold in CF or in 100 CF- if you are purchasing Argon in Liquid form you may be purchasing it in gallons. If so there are 113 CF of Argon gas when measured at 70 deg F and 1 atmosphere in each liquid gallon; 3) If the welding wire purchase records are only kept in dollars, you'll need the cost per pound. If needed, ask your supplier, they keep the data in a form that you can use directly.
Compare the typical values in the above table with your usage.
Multiple the value from the far right column in the above table times the wire purchase amount; 5.0 CF/ 1 pound X 46,000 lb of wire purchased = 230,000 CF of gas you should have purchased.
But you purchased 610,000 CF of gas. Therefore 610,000 – 230,000 = 380,000 CF was wasted or 380,000 Wasted / 610,000 Purchased = 62% Gas Wasted!
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