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ICE Has Second Thoughts About Deporting the Widower of Fallen War Veteran
Written by Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week deported the husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, but just days later the agency reversed course."
ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty Images)
By Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
"There are plenty of people you can go after, but not a guy whose wife died in Afghanistan."
mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week deported the husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, but just days later the agency reversed course.
Jose Gonzalez Carranza, a 30-year-old welder living in Phoenix, Arizona, was allowed to re-enter the United States Monday afternoon through the port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, four days after he was deported to a shelter for migrants in Nogales, Mexico — a city he has never known.
Gonzalez Carranza entered the country illegally in 2004, and was married to Army Pfc. Barbara Vieyra, who was killed in 2010 in an insurgent attack when she was just 22 years old. Together, they have a 12-year-old U.S. citizen daughter, Evelyn Gonzalez Vieyra. Evelyn, who lives primarily with her grandparents, was not told that her father had been deported. According to Arizona Central, Gonzalez Carranza didn't want to tell her for fear of adding to the trauma they experienced together following the death of her mother.
"There are plenty of people you can go after, but not a guy whose wife died in Afghanistan," he told the outlet.
Gonzalez Carranza was never told exactly why he was allowed to re-enter the United States, but told the press he believes it was due to media pressure and grassroots support.
After the death of his wife, Gonzalez Carranza was granted "parole in place," which protects undocumented immigrants from deportation. As a result, an immigration judge terminated the deportation proceedings against him. For years, Gonzalez Carranza looked after his daughter and continued to live in the United States while undocumented.
ICE, however, refiled his case in 2018 and he was ordered to appear in court last December, but Gonzalez Carranza failed to attend. He told The Arizona Republic that the notice to appear was sent to the wrong address and that he was, therefore, never informed of his court date. A missed day in court, however, gave ICE the power to order him deported, which is what happened last Thursday morning, when ICE agents appeared at Gonzalez Carranza's door while he was on his way to work.
As the Military Times noted last year, the Trump administration, which has positioned itself has a champion for military veterans, has doubled down on requests made by immigrant veterans. As the news outlet reported, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data shows that the government has rejected a higher amount of requests by veteran and active-duty military spouses seeking protections for their undocumented spouses. Rejections of veteran requests have doubled since the last year of Obama's presidency, from 10 percent to 20 percent through the first nine months of fiscal year 2018.
In August, the wife of a decorated U.S. Marine was deported to Mexico, leaving behind two children who are both U.S. citizens. Her undocumented status was revealed during a traffic stop, and apart from her illegal entry charge in 1998, she had no criminal record.
Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL), who represents the district where she once lived, introduced the "Protect Patriot Spouses Act," which would protect the spouses of a U.S. citizen who served, or is currently serving, in the armed forces. The bill has received bipartisan support, but no further action has been taken.


Dream Big, Start small, adjust as we go!
An Invitation to like-minded "farmers" who care to teach, educate, share and retool others in sustainability, small cottage trade skills, food preparation ,natural agriculture.
Having the capacity to help provide the equipment, time, live stocks,construction knowhow and build the farm from scratch.
We need to be sustainable, we need brains,brawns, expertise, networks, funds and most important is to have a diverse group of "farmers" coming from everywhere and living in the farm as a community if possible.
For those interested, don't hesitate to contact us.
We could think of a way to solve specific issues that may be particular. What is important? Determination to succeed.
FAQ: our purpose and ideas.
Note: I utilized diagrams taken from other Authors to assist me in the explanations. Let me know incase you want to be mentioned. Thank you for the picture and diagrams.
and Check here about Farm/Homesteading Idea we have in mind.
Composting (Bokashi): 3 pail (mix of cow, goat manure), 2 pail pig manure, 1/2 sack ricehull biochar, 1/2 sack rice hull, 4 sack soil, 2 sack dried leaves top with black soil found just behind and EM.1 + mulch of rice straw- as of 13thJuly- 3 days still, then turn, 7th day ready to be applied to 13 rows of raised bed. Maintenance , once a week EM.1 spraying. Hope this works.
As of August 1st week, FUNGI is appearing, however we need to raised it up further.
16 raised beds is done on the east side and another 8 on the west side, prepped up with the organic matters and covered with 40% net to lessen the impact of heavy rains. Water Canal to avoid flooding the beds.
The 3 LA's Chicken love the place this time under cover of the 40% net, they have to be confined soon... controlled free ranging.
Started planting to test this EARLY!.1st week August, for cover crops, nitrogen source, Tapioca (from 1 year ago harvest) Kangkong, carrot, Corn. aheee. we are excited!. Don't know what will happen, Did we understand the bio dynamics of our place or not, lets see. Hope it will not rot.. Anyway, Water canal will help to avoid flooding.
Cant wait to have the Microscope and we might need to do soil testing if it doesn't work.
We will need to provide stable water supply/storage for watering during summer via barrel system, piped swale system (same elevation as the beaver dam), using the existing pipes or a ferrocement made tank. Which has less cost to implement? And distribute automatically to the beds easing the work. Thinking of using BIkal or Bolo bamboos as pipes(hose) for our drip watering system treated with salt solution to make it last longer or search for the bitterest herb/plant or legume found in the property. We will need to do taxonomy.
Will update this as it develop.
Note: EM and IMO being utilized.
In the future, 6 months from now, see HERE the produce.
UPDATE as of October 3 : With limited resources and different priorities, tasks at hand- things are not moving as thought!. Need to beef up our support. Time to hire experienced Sustainable Agriculture farmer to help us through? Anyone interested may contact us ASAP! OJT's are easy to find but a rare to hold.
The challenges of sustainable farming is on oneself, nothing else! If your not cut for it, but you desire it, then be your own tailor.
Lets play the odds systematically, fixes are always available by careful and keen observation, walk it through, adjust as you act and without leaving behind the lessons from our teachers, don't forget it. Look at all four fronts and you will see. And never give up.
18 October 2014 Wow!- despite bug down with manpower, time lines and budget, camera pics missing or whatever, lapses in communication and quick assumptions, the Plants are showing HOPE! Soon, every perspiration, tears, fears, sighs,frustration, Expectations, down/up feelings, pains of getting through, BALAKANG and ALL = WE ALL WANT TO SUCCEED!. KEEP IT UP, TOGETHER! THIS WILL BE ONE of your MOST TREASURED STORIES to live and tell and so do I. And Thank you Lord! Please bless our work, friends helping, people around us!
Its 2.5 months to go! Keep our motivations up! WE CAN DO IT! despite the odds..
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Here you'll find an overview of the wide range and diversity of top events in the Silandro and Lasa holiday area. Traditional event, cultural events, sport meetings: holidays in Silandro/Schlanders and Lasa/Laas offers entertainment for everyone.
The 4th Oldtimer meeting also takes place this year in Laces/Val Martllo. On this special weekend the freidns of the "old" cars who are maintained with a lot of love and passion meet.


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Q: Lazy loading does not load ICollection property I have a problem loading an ICollection object via lazy Loading.
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Whenever I load data to Product, all the properties can be loaded except the ICollection property. Did I make any mistakes?

A: hi I tried this on my local pc and it worked . Below are the Model classes and dbContext class . I removed some Properties to make it simple . Just on model creating I added one line .
EF Classes
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The living standards domain tracks not only the capacity of the Canadian economy to grow, but more importantly its capacity for economic stability, sustainability and future income streams for people.
This translates into quality job creation and economies so that individuals and families can meet their basic material needs; such as housing and food security. The living standards domain overlaps with many of the other CIW domains.
With a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Oriole Food Space opened its doors in 2013. The multi-use community food space offers a variety of programs, including community kitchens, drop-in food bank hours, food skills workshops, gardening workshops, and farm trips.The partner organizations, Fairview Food Security Network, Flemington Health Centre, North York Harvest Food Bank, and Working Women Community Centre, all share the belief that good food is a foundation for good health.


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'Depth' players make difference for Reds
Mark Sheldon
@m_sheldon
CINCINNATI -- After rallying in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Reds earned a 2-1 victory over the Tigers in Wednesday's exhibition at Great American Ball Park. Reserve outfielder Travis Jankowski provided the go-ahead run when his one-out RBI single to right field scored Josh VanMeter.
The game was scoreless until there were two outs in the bottom of the fourth. Facing Detroit lefty reliever Tyler Alexander, non-roster player Matt Davidson attacked a 3-1 pitch and lifted it to right-center field for a home run.
• Box score
There appears to be one open roster spot left for Cincinnati's bench, and Davidson has made a strong bid to be a backup at first and third base and the spot he held Wednesday -- designated hitter. During Friday's scrimmage, he slugged two home runs to help his intrasquad side get a series win.
"We love our bench. I think it's a great mix," said Reds manager David Bell postgame. "A little bit of everything. I wouldn't necessarily call it our bench, it's our team. All of our guys are going to contribute."
• No. 2 prospect Greene added to pool
It was also a good night for the Reds' pitching staff. José De León started it off with two hitless innings, two walks and three strikeouts. Though De León isn't expected to be on the Opening Day roster, he has a chance to get into the rotation later this season if something happens to one of the starting five.
• Notes: Senzel 'on a mission'; Moose-Galvis
"He provides depth for our starting rotation," Bell said pregame. "We're also really excited about him. He's always had the talent. We were really happy to acquire him. He's working hard with our pitching coaches to really polish off his pitching repertoire to go with some really elite pitches he has.
"We think he can be a bit of a sleeper and believe he is going to help us. He has the ability to become an outstanding pitcher in this league. We'll continue to keep him on track and make sure he's ready to go."
Lefty Brooks Raley gave up two hits over his two scoreless innings. R.J. Alaniz, Matt Bowman, and Sal Romano each pitched an inning without giving up a hit. In the top of the eighth against Joel Kuhnel, the Tigers' Willi Castro hit a single and advanced on a wild pitch. That enabled Castro to score when Jorge Bonafacio hit a two-out RBI single to right field.
In the Reds' half of the frame, VanMeter hit a one-out single and advanced on reliever Anthony Castro's error on a pick-off throw to first. Castro then hit Kyle Farmer with a pitch to set up Jankowski, who slashed the game-winning hit. Jankowski was informed on Tuesday that he has made the club as an extra outfielder for the bench.
Cincinnati swept the two-game exhibition series from the Tigers, who will be their first regular-season opponent on Opening Day on Friday.

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You may want your tree to be Crown thinned because you'd like more light or wind to pass through but maintain the shape and size of the tree. This process is where the foliage bearing branches – usually at the outer crown – are thinned, measured in percentages (ie. 20% thin). This can also help to produce a uniform density of foliage.


This conference is for everyone who is involved with local and sustainable food and farming in the Province. The conference (Fri & Sat) takes place at the College of the North Atlantic, 1 Prince Phillip Drive; Sunday's On-Farm sessions take place at various locations in the St. John's and Portugal Cove area.
ACORN-NL will be hosting its 2010 Sustainable Farming Conference in St. John's the weekend of OCTOBER 22th-24 th , 2010.
•Sunday on-farm practical workshops at two farms in the surrounding area.


Meet my new lady Molly !
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And tuning is infinitely possible.... Twin cars, long centre branch manifolds and stage tuned heads.
an engine compartment you can climb into and stroll around, things you can hit with a hammer to make them better, an engine you can change in under 2 hours ,a design that makes people smile ,what's not to like?
There is a lot to be said for going back to basics with motoring. And if you change your mind, chances are you will still come out on top selling on, so worth taking the punt.
And you used to be able to start without a key, dead easy!
In 1952, the Minor was substantially re-engineered following the merger of the Nuffield Organisation (Morris's parent company) with the Austin Motor Company to form the British Motor Corporation. As part of a rationalisation programme to reduce the production of duplicate components for similar vehicles, the Minor drivetrain was completely replaced with an Austin-derived engine, gearbox, propshaft, differential and axle casing. The more modern Austin-designed 803 cc (49.0 cu in) overhead valve A-series engine, which had been designed for the Minor's main rival, the Austin A30, was smaller in all dimensions, but nevertheless gave noticeable performance improvements over the pre-war side-valve 918 cc (56.0 cu in) Morris unit it replaced. The 52 second drive to 60 mph (97 km/h) was still calm, but top speed increased to 63 mph (101 km/h). Fuel consumption also rose to 36 miles per imperial gallon (7.8 L/100 km; 30 mpg‑US).
An estate version was introduced in 1952, known as the Traveller (a Morris naming tradition for estates, also seen on the Mini). The Traveller featured an external structural ash (wood) frame for the rear bodywork, with two side-hinged rear doors. The frame was varnished rather than painted and a highly visible feature of the body style. Travellers were built alongside the saloon model at Cowley minus their rear bodies. The half-completed cars were then shipped to the MG factory at Abingdon where the bodies (built in Coventry) would be mated to the chassis and the final assembly carried out. This was because the main Cowley production lines were no longer fully equipped to deal with body-on-frame vehicles such as the Traveller while the MG lines still handled these sorts of cars and had experience working with wood-framed bodies. Commercial models, marketed as the Morris Quarter Ton Van and Pick-up were added in May 1953. Rear bodies of the van versions were all steel. The four-seat convertible and saloon variants continued as well.
The Motor magazine tested a four-door saloon in 1952. It reported a top speed of 62 mph (100 km/h) and acceleration from 0–50 mph (80 km/h) in 28.6 seconds. A fuel consumption of 39.3 miles per imperial gallon (7.19 L/100 km; 32.7 mpg‑US) was recorded. The test car cost £631 including taxes.
A horizontal slat grille was fitted from October 1954, as well as a new dashboard with a central speedometer.
269,838 examples of the Series II had been built when production ended in 1956.
The king pins on these fail unpredictably, so it might be worth premptively replacing them. Not a huge job, and better than the front suspension collapsing as you enter a busy roundabout!
Also keep the area above the brake master cylinder cover clean: otherwise grit from your feet will get into the works.
The insurance quote sounds high to me. Specialist classic car insurers can often be cheap.
I ran a Triumph Spitfire as a daily transport for 15 years after I restored it. It was fun but I would never again go back to running a classic as a main car. I got fed up of constantly having niggles and jobs to do which is not fun in the winter. The car was garaged but I still suffered damp and fogging windows that I struggled to clear with the original rubbish heater and blower. Reproduction parts are often dire and often do not last as long as they should (eg a set of radiator hoses cracked after a year). Rust is a constant battle. The rebuilt gearbox I got from a respected specialist locked sold at speed and nearly caused my wife to have a bad accident. OK, they replaced the box it but I still had to strip it out and take it back to them.


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I would like to take a minute to thank Tituss Burgess for posting the best video on the Internet.
Burgess, who plays Titus Andromedon on Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," Instagrammed a video of himself, Jane Krakowski and Fey lip syncing to Beyoncé's song "***Flawless" on a plane.
The result is obviously flawless.
First, Tituss killed the intro. Then, Jane and Tina came in hot with some perfect synchronization.
And for the finish, Tina showed us all how it was done.


Reboots have officially jumped the shark.
We're not sure whether the world needed a fifth version of A Star is Born or the 2018 edition of the Furby, but we have them both and early views bode well for both.
It is also true that the problem of repetition is not exactly modern. The phrase "there is no new thing under the sun," is so old it is attributed to King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes. That said, at the point when crime sprees are getting in on the trend, we may have officially reached the point where we can definitively say there is one reboot too many in the world.
We're talking specifically about The Bling Ring Redux.
Earlier in the week it was reported that the Los Angeles police department arrested a criminal gang composed of three teenage boys and one of their mothers in connection with a string of high-profile robberies.
According to the LAPD, they were arrested after being pulled over in South LA. The trio allegedly had just robbed the home of Los Angeles Rams receiver Robert Woods. In the car was reportedly $50,000 in cash as well as assorted jewelry, watches and handbags. The mother of one of the teens was also charged in the case, in connection with a firearm also recovered from the car.
At the time, the police did not believe the suspects were involved in anything more than a single robbery.
"During recent months, the Los Angeles Police Department has become aware of residential burglaries targeting actors, producers, musicians, and professional athletes living in the Los Angeles area," said Lillian L. Carranza, captain of LAPD's commercial crimes division, during a press conference.
According to police reports the suspects planned to hit the homes of LeBron James, Viola Davis and Matt Damon next.
They were dubbed by local and national media channels "The Bling Ring" given their love of stealing shiny things — mostly jewelry — from homes of famous people, like the previous holders of the title.
The original Bling Ring also had a few more bizarre twists and turns, including an impassioned voicemail from one of its members on what she felt was an unflattering portrayal of her story in the Vanity Fair piece.
Then there was the ironic twist that this person also ended up sharing a cell with Lindsay Lohan during the month she spent in prison in connection with the robbery spree.
But unlike their more current version, the earlier Bling Ring kept much of what they stole, especially the designer shoes and jewelry. Today's Bling Ring wants the cash and, according to reports, was interested in selling those stolen goods on eBay.
Social media channels, particularly the photo-based Instagram, are excellent places for celebrities to connect with their fans — and show off their stuff. And this is done for very good commercial reasons — celebrity influencers have a well-established track record of using social media to kick of trends in cosmetics, fashion, jewelry and consumer electronics.
But the downside to social media is that it's also an excellent information channel for the dishonest. It offers the world a detailed inventory of one's most valuable possessions, along with an exact schedule of when one will not be home to guard them. The LAPD lieutenant investigating the most recent round of Bling Ring-style thefts noted that the boys in the group had targeted celebrities and professional athletes based on their touring schedules and social-media posts.
The original Bling Ring participants noted the same habits, though slightly adjusted for the time. Instagram wasn't an option the first time around, but they did use social channels like Twitter and Facebook, combined with Google Maps data, to give them a clear idea of where the people they wanted to rob lived — and when those people would not be at home.
For most consumers, the risk is that the information available online about them can be co-opted by cyber thieves for digital fraud. For the rich, famous and heavily followed online, the threat is that the bolder thieves and fraudsters of the world are collecting that personal information — and making house calls.
Police continue to investigate the Bling Ring Redux in Los Angeles, noting that they believe the scheme is larger than the four participants they have in custody.
The good news? Sort of? According to experts, the same tactics and tendencies that make it easier for potential thieves to smash and grab celebrity goods also make it easier for the authorities to eventually catch up with those thieves. Simply said: showing one's ill-gotten gains on social media is a common, but not terribly smart, move.
The trick is to turn the jewelry into cold cash, but anything from a high-profile robbery is tough to flip quickly on the open market as legitimate buyers will question where the items came from — maybe even using some of those same social media channels to check on items.
Moreover, Atkinson noted, thieves who steal high-profile goods from high-profile people often find they have a problem on their hands. Unless, like the original Bling Ringers, a thief is looking to keep trophies, stolen items have limited use because they are difficult to sell when the authorities are on the lookout for them. Stealing stuff, Atkinson noted, is often much, much easier than selling it.
So even when crime gets a reboot, it generally always ends the same way — in handcuffs.


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Synergistic Research PowerCell 8 UEF SE, Atmosphere Level 2/3 Power Cords
Goosebumps with my favorite music!
Review By Rick Becker
So what's most important in a system – the front end or the speakers? Where should you put the most money? These are the kinds of questions that arose for me when I first became aware of the High End. And the answers were as numerous as the sales people that I spoke with. Without a lot of experience or knowledge, what seemed like outrageous prices were daunting barriers to investing. Fortunately, I lived in a town with a few high-end dealers who were sympathetic to my thirst. A variety of high-end audio shows including Toronto and Montreal opened my mind to a broad international spectrum of products. Gradually, I learned how to listen.
Cables and power conditioners were gaining serious traction as significant components back in the early 1990's when I came into the realm. But for nearly a decade I remained content with home-brew interconnects, generic shielded power cords and a Tripp-Lite power conditioner. There were other contenders for my attention and my dollars in those days beside audio. When the urge or the need to upgrade struck it was usually for critical components like amplifiers or speakers that desperately needed replacement. Along the way – maybe from rec-audio.high-end or from observing successful layouts in rooms at shows – I developed a critical understanding of the importance of the listening room. When I re-married and we bought a house, the listening room was a prime factor. My wife, on the other hand, was thrilled with the kitchen. The new (to us) home opened the possibility of reviewing equipment and among the very first products I reviewed was the new JPS Labs In-Wall cable which I installed along with a 20 Ampere Romex line for comparison. I immediately began to take electricity more seriously.
The Synergistic Research PowerCell4 I reviewed in June, 2011, along with a nest of their Tesla SE T3 Active Power Cords with active shielding was an ear opener, advancing my system to such a level that I lost interest in the category and turned my attention elsewhere. I mean…like how could it get any better than this? It's a natural consequence of acquiring a very satisfying new component. By this time I was ascribing to the chain link model of audio systems where attention should be paid to improving the weakest link. Well, that's sort of true, but my adventures in hot-rodding a Linn LP 12 turntable and reviewing the Calyx 24-bit/192kHz DAC and the outstanding Kronos Sparta turntable tilted the balance of importance more toward the front end.
A lecture/demonstration at the TAVES show in 2012 by Roy Gregory of The Audio Beat brought a lot of more peripheral issues into play, many of them focusing on the importance of vibration absorption with footers and racks (Stillpoints was one of the sponsors.) but also on filtering the electricity and grounding the entire system. I've paid a lot of attention to vibration absorption over the years, including the use of AVM (Anti-Vibration Magic) to coat the fuses of my components. This interest led me back to Synergistic Research to review their new Black Fuses and Black Duplex outlet, two modest products (relative to the cost of amplifiers or speakers) that took my rig to new heights. An opportunity to borrow a friend's Atmosphere Level 2 interconnect and a newer (but not current) power cord from SR, fired my enthusiasm for experiencing more of their new products, which brings me around, finally, to the review at hand.
Andy Wiederspahn, who is kind of the point guard for Synergistic Research, had the new PowerCell 8 on the horizon and wanted me to review it. To ensure I experienced the best effects of this new product he asked me to send him a complete breakdown of my entire rig including all the cables. I was secretly hoping for a power cord or two, plus an interconnect and some speaker cables in the Atmosphere Level 2 series that would allow me to run their cables from my dedicated line all the way to the loudspeakers. That was not to be. In their greater wisdom, they beefed up the power cords for my best components. Along with the SE version of the PowerCell 8 comes an Atmosphere Level 2 power cord with a 20 Ampere connector to mate with the PowerCell. He sent a Level 3 Digital AC cord for my DAC, a Level 3 Analog AC power cord for the Coincident Statement Line Stage, and two Level 2 Analog AC power cords for Eddie Wong's Magic Tube Research monoblocks.
These were expensive power cords I would have been uncomfortable buying on my own initiative, but who am I to argue with their greater experience? Ted Denny dances with electrons and his wisdom permeates the company. The trajectory of their success is evidenced by their new factory with refined equipment that allows them to offer lower priced products that rival their statement products of just a few years ago. I had the feeling I was being set-up for a really good listening experience, but also for a lot of work.
I had not used the monoblocks for a couple of years, but I refreshed the capacitors by using the amps with my original Synergistic Research Tesla SE T3 active power cords for a while before the new gear arrived. I had forgotten how really good these amps are with parallel 300B tubes and seven transformers, each. When the package arrived, I tore down my rig completely and vigorously vacuumed the rug, suspecting I would be on my hands and knees a lot during this review. With a power conditioner having eight outlets instead of four, and active power cords that no longer needed a separate power supply, it was a whole new ball game. I no longer needed their two QLS power strips. I set them aside with plans for a follow-up review of them in the fall. As I re-configured the rig it didn't escape me that they sent the better cords for the source and preamp and stepped down a level to drive the power amps. This correlated to my understanding of the great importance of the front end in assembling a first class system.
One of the virtues of my vintage Sony ES CD player is the Repeat button, a feature that is sadly missing from most modern players and essential for burning in new gear. I could rack up the hours without having to listen or even be present. Nevertheless, it was evident from the start that good things were awaiting. The problem I faced was differentiating the contributions made by the power conditioner from the contributions made by the cables. I set up a protocol.
The Protocol
Some audiophiles are engineering types who like to see evidence of a scientific approach to product reviews. Others follow the approach of British Empiricists and like to read a more subjective assessment of the (as yet) unmeasurable variables of music reproduction. I kind of have one foot on the platform and one foot on the train. So I charted out a series of steps that would give me a quasi-scientific analysis as a basis for differentiation among the older products and the new ones with enough breathing room left in for personal opinion. The list started out with a dozen steps, but over the months grew to twice that. As I started writing about each individual step the task grew more tedious. By the seventh step, I could hardly bear to read what I was writing. A thousand words hit the editing room floor. I shifted gears into my familiar story-telling style.
Since I had been reviewing the new Coincident Dynamite speakers for the previous several months, I started out driving those speakers with the PowerCell8 UEF SE (hereafter, simply the PC8) and the Atmosphere Level 2 and Level 3 power cords. It was an obvious improvement with a stronger, more tightly focused deep bass than before, though it didn't remove the strong emphasis in the upper bass region of that speaker. It was clear this was going to be an interesting ride and it didn't take long for me to move my Kharma 2.2 speakers into position for the remainder of this review. With the Kharma there was a more solid image with better focus – a tighter sound, all around, than what I was accustomed to. The Kharma does not reach as deep into the bass as the Dynamites and there is no hump in the upper bass of the Kharma, so the bass doesn't seem as strong, but it was tight. (I was tempted to hook up my subs at this point, but didn't want to add another variable to the rig along with two additional power cords.) The female voices of Wilson Phillips' tight harmony were more differentiated & pinpointed. Mahler's 1st was more transparent, sounding almost as transparent as the live performance of Beethoven's 5th I heard recently in Cleveland. The lyrics in "One Mic" by the rapper Nas were much cleaner and more intelligible. The bass on that tune was not as forceful because it was less distorted and would not go as deep as with the Coincident Dynamite.
Adding the Synergistic Black UEF Fuse to the Coincident line stage brought further improvements. In my review of those fuses I suggested they would be a good way to get a taste of Synergistic Research without spending big bucks, and I stand by that statement. If you decide to invest in one of their PowerCells or a bevy of their power cords, the money spent on Black Fuses will not have been wasted. The effect was cumulative, not overshadowed. Since I only had one 8A Black Fuse from the review, Andy Wiederspahn was kind enough to send out a second so I could use them in the monoblocks, too. There was more transparency, greater timbre and better focus. Especially good was the overdubbed refrain on Bruce Springsteen's "57 Channels" which is often barely intelligible. Overall, music in this early stage of the review was brighter and sharper with more contrast. The music came out at me more. Mahler's 1st was even more like Severance Hall, moving me up from my actual seat 2/3rd back from the stage, to only 1/3rd back. Simply put, there was more presence. While the PC8 and power cords sounded impressive from the beginning, it was clear that the sound was evolving as they continued to break in.
Dedicated Line
To this point, I had been using my 30 Ampere (10 gauge) JPS Labs dedicated line. I switched the PC8 into the Synergistic Research Black Duplex outlet of my 20 Ampere (12 gauge) Romex line. The music was more relaxed, not quite as sharp and seemed to lack power on the attack of loud notes. This brings to light some interesting thoughts. I knew from my review of the Black Duplex that it was superior to the standard audio grade PS Audio Power Port. I also knew from my review many years ago that the JPS Labs In-Wall power cable was superior to the standard 20Amp Romex. Given the quality level of my rig at this point in time, a 30 Ampere Romex dedicated line should be considered a minimum requirement and a JPS Labs In-Wall 30 Ampere dedicated line would be preferable to that. Presumably, adding a Synergistic Research Black Duplex outlet to the JPS line would put some icing on the cake. I'll put that on my "to-do" list for a follow-up review. It is also obvious from the 20 Ampere IEC input connector on the PowerCell 8 that SR hopes you will use more substantial wiring than your basic 15 Ampere home wiring. It is rated for a 20 Ampere input, but music at reasonable levels will rarely and only instantaneously draw more than that. A dedicated line can be a relatively inexpensive addition to a high-end rig, particularly if the distance to the box is reasonable and you can run the wiring yourself. Serious, more affluent audiophiles will often run a second dedicated line for just the power amps, allowing them to position the amps closer to the speakers and reap the audible benefits of using short speaker cables with longer balanced interconnects running back to the preamp or source.
With the PC8 now plugged back into the JPS 30 Ampere line again, I swapped out the new power cords for the old ones. The Chinese drum cut on my compilation CD sounded more powerful, but was not as well focused. The refrain on 57 Channels was still very good. Most notable was that the bloom returned; a feature I loved so much about my reference set-up. The focus was not quite as good with the old cords back in, but the transparency was about the same, perhaps slightly better. And the voices of Wilson Phillips were not as distinguishable as with the new cords. The lack of bloom with the new cords led me to surmise that they simply needed more break-in time, but over the course of a couple of months, it had not happened. From the very beginning I had been using the gold tuning modules that purportedly bring out more bloom. What the Atmosphere cords brought out in this early stage of the review was a more accurate, highly focused listening experience that revealed room tone and a truer sense of the performance's venue. The new cords also gave the minute spatial and tonal differences among voices singing in harmony that led you to believe you were listening to real people and real instruments in a real space. I missed the bloom for a while, but I got over it as I learned to revel in the greater tonal color and micro dynamics that took its place. But this is not the end of the story on bloom. In speaking with Andy Wiederspahn about this he informed me that the new power cords need a lot of time to burn in. Like 300 hours. And even then it will continue to get better. Hang in here with me for a while.
Pillars Of A System
As I slide from room to room at audio shows, it is usually the speakers that first grab my attention, either visually, acoustically, or both. Speakers are also the first component mentioned when people describe their system to others. But I've come to recognize four pillars of a good system. The room is probably the most important, but often the one you have the least control over, given the building in which you dwell and the people and pets that share your home life. Positioning the speakers carefully and tuning the room will pay big dividends for those willing to put in the effort. Often times it takes more knowledge than money and there are lots of different ways to achieve the same goals.
The front end and the speakers – the two ends of the reproductive chain are clearly two additional pillars, each with fervent advocates as to which one is more important. And the fourth pillar, in light of what I learned in this review, is the power delivery system. That would include dedicated lines, power conditioner, power cords and grounding system. It is also the pillar on which a lot of us (me included) are reluctant to spend serious money. We need to get over that. For our front ends, amps and speakers to sound their best, there needs to be a quality network of electricity throughout our systems. Everything matters to some degree, for sure, but if you don't want your system to teeter like a chair with uneven legs, you need to keep these pillars relatively balanced in quality.
This is not to say amps, interconnects and speaker cables are not important. (Tom loaned me his SR balanced Atmosphere Level 1 and single ended Level 2 interconnects which mysteriously found their way into my rig, resulting in huge smiles from both of us.) I've come to learn that everything matters. The trick to improving a system is to find the components that will give you the most improvement by upgrading them. Sadly, there are those who completely ignore the power/cable category altogether. Yet I can also acknowledge a very few components that are carefully designed to filter out noise, and I know some dealers who present their wares without filtration (or regeneration) so as to present the products they sell with uncompromised honesty. The flip side of the coin here for the enthusiast is that without paying attention to the electrical power and signal pathways, they may blindly spend a lot of money replacing major components that do not need replacing.
Most of my time with the PC8 and power cords was spent with my electrical components on my long term "rack" and amp stands – home-brew supports that approximate what the majority of audiophiles typically use. Generous application of the wide variety of footers that I've reviewed and accumulated over the past fifteen years put my rig near (what I thought was) the top tier systems I hear at shows. The addition of the PowerCell 8 UEF SE and Atmosphere Level 2 and Level 3 power cords pushed me right up to that top shelf. The total cost of these upgrades is not insignificant, but in hindsight (which is indigenous to all reviews) it is an appropriate sum for the level of components I own. The value added is not simply what they contribute to the music, but also that they allow my components to reach their own higher potential. This not only increases the value of the components you already own, but eliminates the need to buy a new, "improved" version and suffer the loss incurred if you sell off the old one – if, in fact, you ever get around to doing that.
In saying that, I feel like I'm echoing my own comments on the Codia Acoustic Design Stage 3000 BAB Audio Rack I reviewed last October. At $5260, it was not a small ticket item, either. Like the Synergistic Research products here, it raised the resolution to that top tier, more than justifying its price. This presented an obvious question. To answer it, I tore out my home-brewed equipment rack topped with a Panzerholz shelf and installed the Codia to see if the improvements wrought by the PC8 and power cords would mask the improvements contributed by the Codia rack. As seems to frequently happen with gear designed to improve resolution and transparency, the combination was... well, synergistic. No bleeding edge notes pierced the night air. Shakey Horton's screaming harmonica on American Folk Blues Festival 1970 sounded like the real thing and the crystal in the dining room didn't shatter. The rig seemed pretty close to perfect. The primary shortcomings were the limited depth of bass response (about 33Hz) which can be addressed with subwoofers, and the absence of great slam, which would require more than the 18 pure Class A watts of Eddie Wong's SET monoblocks. Frankly, I don't think I want to give up the gorgeous tonal color and three-dimensionality his amps provide. And I'm not a head-banger.
I've learned something here. The Kharma Ceramique 2.2 speakers have been my reference for fourteen years now. I've been suspecting they might need replacement. First the Codia rack and now the Synergistic Research PowerCell8 and four Atmosphere power cords have shown me that I've yet to reach their full potential and I don't need to spend anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 to replace them. For my system, in my room, these Synergistic Research upgrades represent an extreme value, bringing out the very best I've experienced from my components so far.
That the products reviewed here surpass my other Synergistic Research products of only six years ago by such a wide margin attests to the fact that this entire category and Synergistic Research in particular, is making enormous progress through their research and development. I mentioned their recent expansion to a new facility earlier and their investment in more efficient production equipment has not only advanced the technology they offer, but made it more affordable. If you can't afford these particular models I've reviewed, or if they are not appropriate for the level of gear you currently own, there are models below these that may fit your needs. The PowerCell 12 UEF series above the one here approaches the performance of their previous ultra-high-end Galileo series. That series has recently been re-engineered as the Galileo UEF level for the very wealthy. As I've written before, this is not a company that is standing still. They are on a creative roll and appear to be having a lot of fun and success doing what they do. Nonetheless, research and development costs money and those costs must be passed along to enable future R&D.
It should be easy for you to prioritize your purchasing decision between the PC8 and the power cords. The PC8 UEF SE benefits the entire system for $2995. The Atmosphere Level 2 and Level 3 power cords at $1995 and $2995 respectively, will enhance a single component. If that component is at the front end then the benefit will flow through the chain. Look at what you have in place already and figure out where to invest if you can't go for everything at once. $2000 or $3000 sure seemed like and expensive add-on to a $5000 line stage and a $2000 DAC and it didn't make any sense to me until I heard it for myself. Once everything was fully burned-in there was no going back.
The Synergistic Research V8 and PowerCell8 series use a brick-shaped chassis of extruded aircraft grade aluminum with the receptacles facing upward, unlike the PowerCell 12 series which is designed more like a component with the outlets on the back side. The former, at height 3" x width 10.75" x depth 6", and weighing 6.6 pounds can easily be placed beside or behind a rack, while the latter, at height 5.5" x width 17.5" x depth 13.5" and weighing 19 pounds begs for a shelf on a rack – either that, or it will take up considerable floor space once the cables are attached. Obviously, there is a lot more to the PowerCell12 series, as well as a lot more cost. From the results of my listening tests, it is evident that Synergistic Research is packing a lot of performance into a modest, yet very well finished chassis in an effort to appeal to a broad spectrum of audiophiles.
As a reviewer, I appreciate the smaller footprint and upward facing outlets as it allows for a more convenient placement and easier plugging and un-plugging of gear – something I seem to do a lot. There are four small rubber feet on the bottom. I've placed the unit on a couple of vibration-absorbing blocks, but it is hard to say if they offer much, if any, benefit. A 20 Ampere IEC inlet is fitted to one end of the chassis. All the PowerCell and V8 conditioners are bundled with an appropriate level 20 Ampere power cord. The grip of the Black UEF duplex outlets is substantial and you need not worry about power cords falling out.
The Atmosphere power cables are about as supple as the Tesla series and were easy to work with but they do not make sharp right angle turns. The IEC connectors seemed to be the same G 07 models used on the earlier series and had a familiar, firm grip. The Atmosphere series lacks the entwined smaller cables used for the active shielding as this series incorporates that function internally, and no longer needs the additional plug-in transformers of the Tesla series. That's a real plus. The red anodized tuning modules are for the internal active shielding and they retain the blue LED light on their tip which gives the walls around the rig a blue cast and the rig itself a hint of Christmas.
Blinded By Science
Obviously I have not delved into a lot of science in this review. There is plenty of it involved in Synergistic Research products, but I'm not going to pretend to be an engineer. Rather, let me point you to their website for greater technical insight; though don't expect them to disclose the intricacies of their proprietary technology. Things that stand out for me are their use of graphene, their UEF (unified electronic field) technology, tuning capability with plug-in modules, quantum tunneling, complexity of design, man-hours of build time, two-stage burn-in, and last, but not least, made in America. It's all there, waiting patiently for you, along with pricing.
The instruments I'm most comfortable using are my own ears and my brain, which has become reasonably adept at interpreting the electronic signals that are transmitted from the ear. This leads me to another anecdote to share. All of my reviewing had been done using my CD player / DAC and FM radio as sources since they had set me up with a digital power cord for my DAC. But as a music lover, I'm much more of an analog guy. Since I had blown far past my initial protocol in this review, I figured it wouldn't hurt to reconfigure my rig for LP playback for one more trial.
The Coincident Statement phono stage has dual potentiometers that allow me to run it straight into the monoblocks. Due to personal business, it had been a couple of months since I had listened to music, save for a few evenings with Hearts of Space on NPR. The transport, DAC and tuner had slowly been drawing current for all that time, adding maybe fifteen hundred hours of burn-in to the PC8. It had been even more months since I had played an LP. Dropping the needle after all that time blind-sided me with what was almost the best LP listening experience I've had at home, save for a stint with the Kronos Sparta turntable and an $8000 AirTight cartridge. The lower noise floor, blacker blacks, the way the dust seemed to jump out of the groove to avoid the cartridge, the dynamics, the transparency were all so improved it sounded like somebody else's rig. The only downside was the recognition that my Charisma 103 cartridge lacked the smoothness I thought it had when my rig was less revealing. Alas, it's still a great daily driver.
The Big News is the rig had regained the bloom that I thought was gone forever. Now, I had bloom with a transparency and resolution that far surpassed anything I had experienced before with my hot-rodded Linn. The future looks bright as I look forward to embarking on Stage 2 modifications of the venerable old record player. To double and triple check this experience I revisited FM broadcast and CD playback. Sure enough, BB, the thrill has returned. While three hundred or a thousand hours may seem like a rather long break-in period, hang in there. It's great from the start, and gets even greater with time. Plus, you get to listen to music while doing it if you choose. For those soul-less persons who think bloom is a distortion or corruption of the original musical event, they can simply remove the Gold UEF Tuning Module from the Level 3 power cords. I had two of those – the digital version powering my DAC and the analog version powering my line stage (or alternatively, my phono stage.)
Going back to the live recording of Shakey Horton again, after the first pass I removed the gold tuning module from both the DAC and line stage Level 3 power cords. The bloom vanished, leaving a highly resolved but relatively flat soundstage. Next, I replayed the same piece with the gold tuning module in the Level 3 Analog power cord for the line stage where it would benefit multiple sources. A substantial portion of the bloom returned bringing me about 40% of the way back to full bloom. After several trials, I concluded that using the one gold module in just the DAC's power cord brought me back to about 60% of full bloom. Adding the second gold tuning module to the other power cord brought the bloom back to full strength. Keep in mind that beside the Gold UEF Tuning Module there is additional technology in the Level 3 that improves the resolution and bumps the price up another thousand dollars over the Level 2. If I were to have just one Level 3 power cord, I'd have it on one of my source components. You may not want to use it all the time, but the tuning module is a nice way to sweeten up a dry recording. Personally, I think it ranks right up there with dark chocolate.
It's not like bloom or no-bloom is the "right" way to listen and the other is not. It's more like the same group of musicians is playing in a different venue. At the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival earlier this evening I attended four shows. Each of them featured a pianist and three out of four featured upright bass and drums, so there was a lot of commonality of instrumentation. Each venue had its unique sonic signature that was additionally affected by the location of the seat I took. They included two churches that featured ample bloom and a corporate auditorium that was heavily damped with a lot of drapery. Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music was exceptionally fine sounding, as you would expect. All of the performances were obviously live, but the listening experience was vastly different in each venue. The particular recordings you listen to at home will also contain varying degrees of spatial cues that will be amplified or attenuated by your listening environment. The point here is that the Atmosphere Level 3 power cords all have the Gold UEF Tuning Module to bring your recordings more in line with your personal preference.
It is easy to imagine the PowerCell 8SE costing twice the price with a thick faceplate and fancy footers. You can add your own footers for a lot less than the difference and few will even notice the chassis of the PowerCell 8 if it's tucked behind a rack. As for spending thousands of dollars on power cords, I wouldn't have believed they could have made such a difference. Combining the two, there is not much sonic distance between my system now, and those costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. I may not be at the top of Mount SOTA yet but the air is pretty thin, the view is terrific and, as Jimi sings, "the wind cries Mary."
Reader Dave Lalin, on The Absolute Sound website made the comment, in essence, that... a purchaser who chooses to wait for "the next big thing" chooses to waste his most valuable commodity, which is their life and time. Sure, he said, you can wait two, three or even four more years for the timing or market conditions to be right. But life is to be lived now, while you can. John Mellencamp put another twist on that message in "Your Life Is Now".
As a cutting edge Boomer, that note rings as loud and clear to me now as when I bought my first motorcycle in my early twenties, or started climbing mountains in my forties. The time for music is always now, even as one's choice of genre matures. The PowerCell 8 UEF SE and Atmosphere Level 2 and 3 power cords revive the goosebumps with my favorite music and let me feel the bass vibrations through the leather of my listening chair. This is great gear and it's staying right here!
Sub–bass (10Hz – 60Hz)
Mid–bass (80Hz – 200Hz)
Midrange (200Hz – 3,000Hz)
Construction: Aircraft Aluminum
Dimensions: Height 3″ x Width 10.75″ x Depth 6″
Internal Active UEF EM Perpendicular Plane Cell area: 387 square centimeters including
Dielectric: PTFE
Connector Input: 1 each 20 amp IEC
Connector Output US: 8 UEF Black Outlets (Two Stage Quantum Treated)
Connector Output International (EU/AU/UK): 8 UEF Black Schuko outlets (Two Stage Quantum Treated)
99.995% Pure Silver Ground Strap: 62 square centimeters
Power Cable: Atmosphere Level 2 High Current PowerCell Power Cable
12 awg. Mil Spec Silver Matrix Multi-Stranded Wire
Swiss-made "Active Power Supply"
SR Quantum Capacitors
Point-to-point wiring
Silver Solder 4%
Hand Built Time: 2.5 hours
Quantum Tunneling: Standard Level 2
5 Day Burn In: 2 Step Process
Voltage and current Rating:
Input rating US: 20amp/125v
Input Rating International (EU/AU/UK): 16amp/250v
US Version: Rating is limited by the US Outlet rating of 20amp/125v
International(EU/AU/UK) Version: Rating is predicated upon the Schuko Outlet rating of 16amp/250v
Atmosphere Level 2 PowerCell power cable (included)
Level 2 High Current A/C Specifications:
three each 12 awg. Copper Matrix Alloy:
Dielectric: Modified PE
Shielding: Braided Ground Plane Technology
Geometry: 2 channel
One each 4th Gen-Tricon:
Silver Copper Matrix: Mono-crystal conductors with a separate ground conductor from shield
Shielding: Ground Plane Technology
Geometry: Tri-axial
Listened for signal direction before build
One each Silver Air String:
Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure mono-crystal Silver conductor
Dielectric: PTFE Air (sealed)
Handmade in our California factory
One each Tungsten Air String:
Silver Air Strings: 99.99% pure mono-crystal Tungsten conductor
One each Active Shielding UEF Cell:
Swiss-made DC bias Power Supply
UEF: Graphene treated pcb
Housing: Carbon Fiber Cylinder
One each Red Active Module:
Optional for lowest noise floor, completes Active bias circuit
Atmosphere Level 2 Power Cable Specifications
1 each Red Active Module:
Price: $1995 for five foot length
Atmosphere Level 3 Digital Power Cable Specifications
Three each Silver Air String:
Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure mono crystal silver conductor
Four separate conductors RCA / 8 separate conductors XLR
Modified Swiss-made DC bias Power Supply
One each Gold UEF Tuning Passive Module:
Optional voicing for increased warmth, liquidity
Connector Input US: 1 each Synergistic Research G07 Pure Gold
Connector Input Int'l: 1 each Synergistic Research G07 Pure Gold Schuko
Connector Output US: Synergistic Research G07 Pure Gold IEC 15 amp and 20 amp connectors
Connector Output Int'l: Synergistic Research G07 Pure Gold IEC 15 amp and 20 amp connectors
32 point-to-point hand soldered connections
Atmosphere UEF 4 Treatment: 2 different UEF coatings with Graphene are applied at a higher level to the UEF Active Cell, Quantum Capacitor, connectors, cabling and ground significantly reducing the noise floor and allowing a purer signal to transfer with less grain providing more warmth and detail. The conductors and ground plane and UEF Cell also benefit from dampening effect that UEF provides
One Termination for Atmosphere Active Tuning Module (Red)
One Termination for Atmosphere UEF Passive Tuning Module (Gold)
Silver Solder: 4%
Hand build time: 2.5 hours
Quantum Tunneling: Before the Active power supply is incorporated all connections and cabling are treated with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that lets electrons to flow more freely. This also allows the "Active Shielding" to work more efficiently yielding the maximum amount of low level information through the conductors and provides for the highest amount of realism in your music
Five day Burn-in: 2 step process
Atmosphere Level 3 Analog Power Cable Specifications
Silver Copper Matrix: Monocrystal conductors with a separate ground conductor from shield
Listened to determine signal direction before build
1 Termination for Atmosphere Active Tuning Module (Red)
1 Termination for Atmosphere UEF Passive Tuning Module (Gold)
Quantum Tunneling: Before the Active power supply is incorporated all connections and cabling are treated with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that lets electrons to flow more freely. This also allows the "Active Shielding".
Five day Burn-in: Two step process
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Resurrecting the Dodo: The Death and Life of Urban Planning
Sitting in the Burger King in the center of Almere – the Dutch New Town built on land reclaimed from the North Sea – it suddenly struck me that this might be the culmination of the entire history of urbanism. Chewing on a Bacon Double Swiss I looked out of the burger joint onto the neighboring multiplex, the empty public square, the parking garage, the shops that lead up to the station and out towards the houses where tree lined roads lead out to fields where expanses of sand are marked with coloured flags ready for foundations for new estates to be laid. This whole landscape has been transformed from sea bed, dredged up into city and given form and structure by the imaginative force of urban planning.
Almere is a synthetic city that forms the full stop at the end of the end of the history of urban planning. Its direct conceptual heritage springs from post WWII New Towns built in an era of optimism that allied a technocratic, top down form of planning in association with a belief in social democracy. It and they are laced with DNA from visionary high modernist plans such as the Ville Radieuse which in turn inherit the heritage of the Garden Cities of Ebenezer Howard. Almere, whose first house was completed in 1976, might be the only surviving relative of this family tree – the last Dodo in a lineage of urban planning stretching back like a biblical dynasty in which x begat y and y begat z and z begat and so on back through time. Soon after Almeres founding, however, the entire conception of urban planning changed.
At the end of the 20th century, the idea of urban design as a method of making the world a better place collapsed. Firstly, it came under a sustained attack from an unholy alliance from both left and right, from radicals and royalty. An orgy of strange bedfellows whose cast included Jane Jacobs and Prince Charles, New Urbanists and anarchists and so on who added their voices to an atonal chorus attacking the principles of top-down Modernist planning. These multiple and contradictory agendas formed not a coherent argument but an unanswerable force which cracked the structure of the discipline. Guilt and failure took the place of utopian positivism. The ideologies, methodologies, internal momentum, ambitions that had sustained a hundred years of progressive planning suddenly evaporated.
Disciplinary crisis is one thing (and not necessarily a bad thing). But the real change in urban planning wasn't precipitated by public debate, by arguments around the role or nature of urban planning. It was a shift in the conditions of planning itself. Urban planning as a public project conceived and implemented by government intended for the public good vanished. It became a project undertaken by private enterprise whose motivation remains first and foremost profit. From the Eighties onwards, the bodies that undertook planning became those of deregulated government. Private and quango-ised public/private institutions became the mechanisms of planning and development. And under these conditions, the entire conception of planning changed.
At its core, the Modernist project could be characterised by the desire to emancipate. This was the Mojo of 20th century urban planning, the thing which animated its actions. In the Reganite/Thatherite landscape and beyond, cities would no longer be conceived as mechanisms of social democracy, but solely as instruments of the market. We should regard the dismantling of this Mojo as a highly politicised act of ideology.
The famous photograph of Le Corbusier's hand, disembodied, hovering over a model of the Ville Radiese is an image that encapsulates a particular power relationship between the creator and the city, setting the architect as a powerful visionary forming the cities physical shape. The hand reached down from above, creating a city and a society in the manner of a sculptor shaping clay.
In our deregulated, neo-liberal context, there is another kind of hand looming over us. But it's not the hand of a visionary designer, nor the hand of an explicit ideology. It is the 'invisible hand' of Adam Smith, the hand of the market. This hand shapes our landscapes through its own kind of mojo: self-interest, competition, supply and demand.
Modernist planning was characterised by a totalised approach which seamlessly combined a vision of society with the means by which it might be manifested. Neoliberal, free market urban planning is a much more diffuse, slippery entity. This might explain characteristics of architecture and urban planning projects of the last decades. In the absence of a Modernist mojo we see heightened formalism – as though form has ballooned to fill the space vacated by ideology.
In place of ideology comes lifestyle, most obviously articulated in Richard Floridas "The Rise of the Creative Class". Florida imagines a demographic termed 'the creative class' composed of high-tech workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men. He argues that high concentrations of these "high bohemians" "correlate with a higher level of economic development and form an open, dynamic, personal and professional urban environment". Thus prosperity (the neo-liberal reinvention of emancipation) is not a function of the physicality of traditional urban planning – infrastructure and so on – but is created out of hip-ville gentrification. Urban planning's mojo is reinvented as a form of diffuse hype or vague vibe that somehow remakes our cities. Architects are part of Floridas 'solution' – not because of their professionalism, or their intellectual or design ability, but because of their membership of the Creative Class: their taste in music, the way they dress and where they hang out. Florida remakes the sensation of Modernism's totalised vision of the city. Except here the conceptual glue is not emancipation, but a high bohemian lifestyle.
Under the conditions of neo-liberal urban planning we can no longer engage in Modernism's utopian programme of social emancipation. But that doesn't mean we don't want to make a better world. We might argue that this desire for good-doing has been replaced with environmental concern as a means by which architects and planners might address the public good. The Green agenda argues that by understanding the environmental impact of architecture and the city and then developing energy-efficient and environmentally responsible ways of building we not only address issues of resources and climate change but also fulfill sentiments that we expect architecture (or architects) to exhibit.
Our current approach to sustainability, however, is characterised as a technological issue that can be 'solved' through engineering. And – like engineering – sustainability as an idea in urban planning presents itself as ideologically transparent. In other words, it does not declare a position beyond its technical remit. In this, it echoes neoliberalism's apparent ideological disengagement. But it's this appearance of benign practicality that makes neo-liberalism lethal, like a colourless, odourless anaesthetising gas. Equally, sustainability used as a justification for architecture and urban planning is disingenuous. Even if projects lived up to their zero carbon billing (without recourse to smudging the books by offsetting) their only achievement would be not making the world any worse. By isolating sustainability as a purely technical issue, it becomes a degraded echo of Modernism's totalising ambition that synthesised the technological with social and political ideologies.
These are just a number of characteristics of mojo-less urban design. On the one hand it is politically and ideologically disengaged. On the other, it must be fragmented so that the relationship between cause and effect – or rather what it does and why it does it – are divorced. We might well wonder if there is anything urban designers can do except illustrate neoliberal Floridian visions of hip-ville urbanism with a small carbon footprint?
The pressing concern is how we might respond to the terms under which contemporary urban planning is carried out. How might we make sense and develop tactics which resurrect a relevant and progressive practice? The first point of resistance to neoliberalism might well be history – a way to counter its end-of-history philosophy. If neoliberalism argues that we occupy a post-historical moment and a post-ideological condition, then collapsing the entire weight of history into our present circumstance might form the basis of escape. Not history in its received form but reevaluated and cut loose from its usual theoretical and artistic significance. This brewing cocktail of utopias, ideologies, solutions and tactics could suggest hybrid trajectories that might help us evade the fate neoliberalism delivers us up to.
Such a practical yet culturally rich toolkit might help in reformulating and reanimating the discipline of planning and at the same time inform detailed decisions in design work. What, for example, if the figures suggested by Paolo Soleri's Mesa City coincidently chimed with planning policy in Milton Keynes and thus began to suggest the most unlikely of hybrids? Could you fuse disparate elements together to create, for example, floating, linear, garden-Ville Radieus's? Might the non-judgemental re-assessment of these projects allow us to recompose the languages of urban planning outside of the traditional partisan arguments? And in doing this might we forge solutions that address present concerns that learn from histories real and fictional, ancient and modern?
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i'm very interested in your argument of history as resistance to neoliberalism–particularly in that hinge moment when capital was about to take over, and modernism still believed in itself as proposal and not as pure utopia. there are narratives that break apart and have been put aside, alternate histories that we have forgotten.


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Testers at Air Combat Command's 53rd Wing, Eglin AFB, Fla., recently combined upgrade testing and Sniper targeting pod training utilizing a borrowed B-1B from Dyess AFB, Tex. Wing personnel conducted a Tail Warning Function Spiral 2 force development evaluation to verify the new hardware and software upgrades work as expected to detect missiles or aircraft approaching a Bone from the rear. Another Eglin unit, the wing's 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, provided F-16s to serve as approaching aircraft. Initial results looked good. For the Sniper portion, the wing's Dyess-based 337th TES also brought along weapons systems officers to train with the 85th TES F-16 pilots who have Sniper experience. The ultimate aim was to validate the proposed B-1 academics to teach operational Bone aircrews in the use of the new targeting pod. "It's important to learn from the guys who've been flying with the pod for awhile," said Lt. Col. Chris Brunner, 337th TES commander. It also has set the stage for operational testing at Edwards AFB, Calif. Brunner said that completing Sniper pod testing for the B-1B is No. 2 out of 250 priority test items for ACC, but it's one notch higher for the Combined Force Air Component Commander in Southwest Asia, who wants to ensure the pod is operational for the next B-1 rotation to SWA. (Eglin report by Capt. Carrie Kessler)


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Beth Corcoran, President
Beth joined the Aspiring Attitudes Board in January 2020. She has three students who dance at the studio and previous non-profit board experience, so she is excited to use her skills to serve Aspiring Attitudes.
Beth is passionate about advocating for the disability community. She is an adoptive mom to 8 children, many of whom have various special needs. She homeschools her children and uses her experience as a teacher to host a podcast to help others homeschool children with learning disabilities.
Linda McKown, Secretary
The friendship with one of Aspiring Attitudes' first students introduced Linda to the dance and creative movement of the studio. She treasures the new friends she has made there and is inspired by the beautiful, courageous and creative work by everyone associated with Aspiring Attitudes.
Linda has many years of Board experience and in that capacity has advocated for people with different abilities nationally as well. She has great dreams for Aspiring Attitudes as it grows and touches people in the future.
Sherry Garner, Treasurer
Sherry was born and raised in Oklahoma. She was a Special Olympics coach for 14 years and was introduced to Aspiring Attitudes by several of the athletes on her team who also danced with the studio. When the studio moved to its location on Western in 2017, she volunteered to help with social media, the website, video work, and also ran sound at recital.
Sherry wholeheartedly believes in the mission of Aspiring Attitudes. These days, Sherry volunteers in many different capacities around the studio and even volunteers in a couple of the group classes every week. She is eager to see how all of us working together can further grow Shannon's dream of a dance studio for students of ALL abilities and help even more individuals experience the joy of dance.
Kim Cusimano
Kim joined the Aspiring Attitudes Board in the spring of 2021. She is the mother of four, and two of her children dance at the studio. She has seen firsthand the benefits of dance in her own children's lives.
Over 25 years ago, Kim and her husband chose to build their family through adoption. She spends her days now watching and helping all four of her children navigate young adulthood. Two of her children have special needs, and she desires that they also have ongoing goals and opportunities the same as their siblings. Her background is in education, having taught in public schools, a private school, and homeschooling her children for a few years. She appreciates the value of different and creative learning environments, giving everyone a place to belong.
John Galvin
John joined the Aspiring Attitudes Board in April 2021. He has one child (Keeleigh) who has been dancing at the studio for 3 years.
He was born and raised in Ireland, and has now spent half of his life in Ireland and half in Oklahoma. His hobbies include anything tech related, from tracking aircraft to mining cryptocurrencies! He wanted to join the Aspiring Attitudes Board in order to give back to an organization that makes such a difference in peoples lives.
Deanna Myers
Deanna Myers was born and raised in Oklahoma. She attended both public and private schools in Oklahoma City and in the small town of Cordell. She went on to graduate from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts in Education and obtained a Master's in Educational Administration.
Deanna taught school in Oklahoma City Public Schools before deciding to join the family business and take better care of her special needs daughter, Jennifer, and her youngest, Ashley. Deanna was also a board member of Jennifer's high school, Trinity.
Aspiring Attitudes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dance studio. As such, the studio is governed by a board of directors.
The Aspiring Attitudes Board is a working board comprised of men and women from the Oklahoma City metro area who are disability advocates dedicated to the success of the Aspiring Attitudes mission.
In addition to making decisions at regular meetings, each board member performs tasks that benefit the studio, such as writing grants, volunteering at events, or fundraising. The Board of Directors are the "volunteers in chief" of the studio.
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Google Calendar is an excellent choice, but you could also consider shared family calendars like Hub or Cozi and create one fully featured place to share events, messages and grocery lists.
Then allocate an hour one evening per week to make sure your shared calendar is up to date, and schedule together time and date nights for the upcoming weeks. There now: better right?
Today take a long, hard look at your children's after school activities and commitments and see where you can cut back both for the sake of allowing your child to have some do nothing time built-in to their week and reducing your own commitment as resident taxi-driver.
Look particularly for clubs and activities that happen on different evenings for different siblings and research alternative groups that happen on the same night. Children do not need to attend organised activity each and every night of the week. Their young minds are already a constant buzz of information and they need time to be able to process it during unscheduled at home time spent simply learning to be among family.
This one is important for the sake of better family harmony and explaining the reasons why you are cutting down on their activities will go a long way to making the transition easier for the children concerned.
Today consider drinking nothing other than plain water for the next thirty days. That means no tea, coffee, alcohol or juice of any kind for the next month.
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Though if thirty days sounds like a lot, test your stamina with a week's trial and you will for sure be that impressed with the changes you both see and feel, you will want to extend that week to the month recommended.
Today get mindful in your kitchen. Notice the way you move around it and the journeys you have to repeat across it because items are not where they should be. Consider whether you are storing items where you use them. Whether knives are positioned near the chopping board or tea-towels stacked near the sink. Notice how often you have to reach in to or up to awkward spaces and while you are making your cup of tea decide whether all the components necessary for its creation are within easy reach.
Then make changes accordingly. Add permanent glass boards to places where you find yourself working frequently to save the worktop. Add hooks to the sides of units for convenient tea-towels and cup hooks near the kettle for the sheer convenience of being able to grab a mug without having to move. Move the kettle closer to the tap. In short spend an hour or two making life in the kitchen as convenient as possible and thank yourself for your efforts when you notice how much easier life is.
Today decide to include a handful of chia seeds in your diet daily.
These tiny seeds pack a huge nutritional punch with nearly 10g of fibre and 5g of protein per ounce, and they are also an excellent source of calcium and Omega 3 which means that simply by sprinkling a spoon or two of these teeny tiny seeds over salads, meat or fish daily you have discovered one of the tastiest, fastest ways to really do your body a favour.
The perfect pantry staple for better health.
Today equip yourself with at least two good quality household squeegees and make light work of cleaning windows and banishing water from tiles and shower screens in the bathroom to leave them streak free.
Though they can be bought very cheaply in DIY sheds and even Ikea, it is worth spending a little more to make sure that the rubber tip across the horizontal plane of the squeegee is firm, without being stiff so that it is flexible enough to bend in to the edges of all surfaces but won't disintegrate too quickly nor come away from the handle itself.
Keep one permanently in all bathrooms and add another to your housekeepers caddy for faster, better window cleaning.
Finally today commit to going through all the family photographs you have stored away in boxes in the attic or the garage. Throw away old photograph packets, chuck out old and damaged negatives and then start working your way through packets of photo's highly likely to contain some photos you really don't need: from people you don't recognise to blurry, out of focus images and all those that seem to have been taken a hundred times over.
When you are done you should be left only with those photographs that tell the story of your family. Photo's worthy of the heirloom quality albums you may now grant yourself permission to buy and treasure for evermore.


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Download "At the moment, we have around 200 looked-after children. Around 120 carers in and around Wandsworth borough foster them."
1 This page of frequently asked questions (FAQs) has been compiled from all of the questions that we have been asked at our monthly information meetings. These usually take place on the first Wednesday of every month in Wandsworth, where you will have the opportunity to meet our social workers and foster carers and ask questions related to your personal circumstances. Introductory FAQs How do you match children to carers? We always match children with carers in a way that best meets the child's needs. This means that we aim to provide a cultural match that reflects the child's background and heritage. We take lots of factors into account, and location is always important because we always keep children in their own schools - it's often the one constant in a child's life amongst the disruption that coming into care entails. It's not always an easy task, which is why we need to recruit more carers to enable us to have a choice of placements. Currently we need foster carers for brothers and sisters, troubled children and young people over 11 years old. We are also looking for more families for white children and children of dual heritage. How many children does Wandsworth foster? At the moment, we have around 200 looked-after children. Around 120 carers in and around Wandsworth borough foster them. Do I have to live in Wandsworth to foster for Wandsworth? No, but you'll need to be close, especially if you want to care for children of primary school age who you'll need to take, and pick up from school each day. Obviously there is more flexibility with older children, but living in, or close to Wandsworth means you can take full advantage of the support we offer. Does the birth family have the right to know where the child is? Yes, but not always the specific address because sometimes we have to protect looked-after children from unannounced or unwelcome contact with birth parents or relatives. When we place a child with you, we'll discuss with you how to manage this, as appropriate to each situation. We always take care that both the children and our foster carers are safe.
2 Miscellaneous Do I have to have a spare room? Yes, you ll need a spare bedroom to offer a child. Sometimes siblings being placed together can share a bedroom depending upon their age and gender. We do not allow foster children to share a room with your own children, and we will not accept your children sharing with you or someone sleeping in the living room in order to free up a bedroom for a foster child. If you are fostering a baby or child less than two years of age, they can sometimes share your bedroom. But in almost all circumstances you cannot apply to become a foster carer for Wandsworth without a spare room to offer. Do I need to have children of my own to qualify to foster? Not at all. Whilst it s true that raising children of your own is very valuable experience, you do not need to have children of your own in order to foster. Carers sometimes work with children and that is also good experience. Your supervising social worker, who will take you through the assessment process, will explore with you your experience of children and this will be taken into account as part of your assessment. What age range would I be allowed to foster? Can I choose to foster boys or girls? Boys and girls of all ages need foster care, and the age and gender of children placed with you would be something we d explore during your assessment. Sometimes carers feel they can only foster boys, or girls, or a certain age group but almost always they find that they are capable of offering much more! If you would like to look after babies and young children you need to be available during the working day. For primary age children you would need to take them to their school in Wandsworth. Many young people in need have a lot of school related problems and may even be out of school so if you work outside the home you will need to have flexibility around your working hours. At the moment we need more carers for young people aged 11+ so if you are happy to consider this age group then we can offer you more consistent placements with fewer interruptions of your fees. Are all your looked-after children schooled in Wandsworth? Most are, but not all. But in any case, you will experience a variety of placements where foster children go to different schools around the borough. Do you have children that have arrived in the country unaccompanied that need foster care? There are some unaccompanied children that need foster care, although there are not many such children in Wandsworth. They can come from quite a diverse range of backgrounds and so we are interested in hearing from people from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds who would like to become foster carers. We do not have any carers who are only approved to take unaccompanied children and we would expect all of our carers to be prepared to try to be flexible enough to meet the needs of any child from any culture.
5 that it gives children to want to smoke themselves if they see their role models smoking. We will help people who want to foster give up smoking. If the panel doesn't approve me, will they tell me why? You have the right to be told why your assessment is terminated and the reasons for any panel decisions. There is a review process that you can request if you think that the decision is not fair or that you have been misrepresented.
7 children have contact with their families. It is almost always better for the child when that happens. If a child tells me about abuse they've suffered, should I tell my supervising social worker about it? We will help you to learn about safe caring and how to manage situations like this. It is vital that you share all such information with either your supervising social worker or the child s social worker. We will also help you to learn how to talk to the child about such things and in a way that is appropriate. How will fostering affect my own children? Having a new child come to live in your home will affect your own children in different ways. If they still live with you they will have to learn to share their home. In any situation, they will have to learn to share you with the foster children. They may have to learn to manage their own feelings if you and the foster child have disagreements or arguments. It is very important that your children are fully prepared and support you in your decision to foster. In a way, they will be fostering too, which is why we include them in our assessment. Who makes the decisions regarding health issues? Legally, only a person with parental responsibility for a child can consent to their health care. Unless a child is adopted in court proceedings, their birth parent will usually keep parental responsibility for their child. Where a court has made a care order for the child, the Council also has parental responsibility. When children become looked after, we ask their parents to sign an agreement that foster carers can agree to and sign for emergency medical treatment. For planned medical things, the child s social worker will usually be the person who ensures the right people have been asked for permission as long as that won t cause a delay that is harmful to the child. If a child is sick and goes to hospital, who's responsible for looking after them? The Council places a child in your care and it is a foster carer s responsibility to ensure that either they are exercising the same level of care that they would for their own child, or that a responsible person from the Council has made other arrangements on the foster carer s behalf. What if a foster child breaks something in my home? As part of approving you as a foster carer, we will ensure that you have appropriate buildings and contents insurance. For small things, you would be expected to replace them from the allowance you are paid to foster the child. For bigger things we would want you to claim from your insurance company if at all possible. What do I do if I discover my foster child is taking drugs? As with all such things, we would want you to tell your supervising social worker as soon as possible. We have specialist staff in our Placement Support Team who will work with you and the child to help them to stop taking drugs.
8 Who has the last say in who looks after the child? The decision to place a child is taken jointly between a foster carer and the Council. Our Placements staff will share as much information as we have with you to help you to make your decision, and will work with you to see what extra support you may need. But ultimately the foster carer(s) will decide whether they will take a placement. In a situation where a parent may disagree with the Council about who should look after their child, a court will decide whether they should be in care or not. Once that is decided, the Council s social workers and managers decide where the child should live. If a placement doesn't work out, what happens? This situation is always a last resort. It doesn t usually help a child to be moved around especially as they have already often experienced rejection in their lives. So we will always work hard to support placements to work through hard times and to try to overcome difficulties. However, if it is clearly right for a placement to end, plans will be made to find another, more suitable placement for the child and for a planned move to take place.
11 the level of concern. What we don t do is pre-judge the situation our role is to protect the child and the carer and ensure that all relevant information is gathered before decisions are made. Part of our investigation would be about determining if the placement should continue or not. Very occasionally a child may be moved out of the placement, for example if an allegation is very serious, and consideration will also be given to the safety of other children living in your home. Your supervising social worker will be on hand to support and advise you throughout the process, and if necessary we will arrange for an independent person to advise and support you.
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Foster/Adoptive Parent INFORMATIONAL BOOKLET TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome 3 The Need for Foster Care and Adoption 4 Who are the Children? 6 Requirements 7 Am I ready? 10 Can relatives and friends do this?
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