In 8-11 December 2008 the delegation of the Department of Statistics of the Republic of Georgia is on a study visit in the CSB under the leadership of Mrs. Ekaterine Jojishvili, Deputy Chairperson. In order to get acquainted with the work of the CSB 13 middle-level statistical managers have come to Latvia including heads of regional statistical divisions, heads of units and chief specialists of macroeconomic, agricultural, business, price, labour statistics.
Georgian statistical experts get acquainted with the organisation and management of statistics in Latvia that is just the responsibility of the CSB, as well as with the national statistical system, reorganization of regional statistical offices. Directors and specialists of the Agricultural and Environment Statistics department, Information, Publishing and Printing department, Macroeconomic Statistics department, Business Statistics department, Social Statistics department and Price Statistics department acquaint the visitors with the organizational structure and activity of their departments.
Members of the delegation visit also just on location the respective departments and sections of the CSB to get acquainted with their work more closely.
This visit follows the visit of the top-level managers of the Department of Statistics of the Republic of Georgia in August this year.


In his 2003 novel, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson explores the potential for humanizing change in the post-9/11, globalized world. This thesis will first argue that Pattern Recognition depicts a dehumanizing version of Jean Baudrillard's "hyperreal" where people are reduced either to workers or consumers as their bodies integrate with mass-produced machinery and simulated, commodity-based identities. The culmination of this dehumanization can be seen in events like those of September 11, 2001 (9/11) where people are killed for symbolic effect. Pattern Recognition imagines how the outcomes of violence could provoke a response against dehumanizing global capitalism. I will then argue that Pattern Recognition's fictional phenomenon "the footage" is a conceptualization of 9/11 as a moment of dissensus. Gibson uses religious language to describe both the footage and its followers, suggesting that the footage has spiritual power in Pattern Recognition's technologized and globalized landscape. This thesis will use this idea of "sacred humanism" to explain how Pattern Recognition imagines that the novel's political moment (2002-2003) could spark a humanizing change in contemporary culture.


Making the most of the wonderful toddler years!
The next two years are going to be an amazing time, as your toddler grows an average of 1cm every month, and puts on around 40% in weight!
As they start to get up on their feet, a whole new world opens up for them to explore, and you'll love watching them develop and shape their own distinctive personality. This stage will of course bring its own questions, so do give us a call if you have anything you want to chat through. You can also find lots of information in this section on the importance of a balanced diet for toddlers, so you can make sure your little one is getting the unique mix of nutrients such as vitamins and iron that they need to thrive.
Walking, talking, understanding, exploring, eating…find out how your toddler is developing both mentally and physically, whether it's their speech, co-ordination or their changing nutritional needs.
Even though your toddler might seem like a mini-adult their nutritional needs are still different to yours. Find out about the diet they need to keep up with all the growing and exploring they have to do!
They may be getting bigger and bouncier by the minute, but looking after your toddler's health is still as important to keep them developing healthily and happily. Read about why a healthy sleeping and feeding routine is important.


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Federal Office of Financial Research Violates Privacy, Produces Little of Value
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On November 6th, Director of the Office of Financial Research Richard Berner announced his resignation. He will step down from the agency at the end of the year, prior to the end of his term in 2019. His departure launches Treasury Secretary Steven...
Is Using Pesticides an Act of Chemical Warfare?
FDA Issues Commonsense Federal Guidance on Nutrition Labeling
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This Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance to help chain restaurants and groceries comply with a little-known provision within the Affordable Care Act that requires chain food locations to post calorie counts for all their...
Pennsylvania Becomes the Fourth State to Legalize Online Gambling
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This past Monday, October 30, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a bill legalizing Internet gambling throughout the state. The move makes the Keystone State the fourth in the nation to allow online betting, and may end the regulatory catalepsy the rest of the states seem to have fallen into over...
New York's Anti-Science Vape Ban Will Not Reduce Smoking Rates or Save Lives
Thanks to the education efforts of public health activists, today few Americans are now unaware of the dangers of smoking. As a result, cigarette use dropped sharply throughout the 1980s and 1990s. But despite taxes, limitations on where tobacco users can smoke, and other public policies aimed at making the habit more expensive and difficult to engage in, a stubborn portion of adults continues to smoke and nearly half a million of them still die each year from smoking-related illnesses.
Thankfully, a new generation of devices promises to provide both these smokers who have trouble quitting and public health professionals with what they want: a safe and satisfying way to consume nicotine that drastically reduces the risks associated with smoking. Why, then, are states like New York...
The Importance of an Under-the-Radar Supreme Court Case on Sports Betting
New Jersey tried to repeal its own law against sports gambling, but a federal law banning sports gambling was used to stop New Jersey's voters from deciding on their own state laws. Now the Supreme Court is set to weigh in. As I note in a new CEI paper out today, there is much at stake in this case, from the right of state voters to decide their own laws, to consumer protection from fraud, to states' ability to meet the needs of their citizens.
On the surface, New Jersey merely wants the ability to repeal its own state laws prohibiting sports gambling, which would make the activity legal at casinos and racetracks in the state. At its heart, however, the Court's decision on the matter could impact every other state's ability to set their own policies—regardless of the federal government's wishes—on a...
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In the comments, we address four topics on which the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have requested public comment:
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Beverly Hills: That's Where I Want a Freeway To Be?
Even the band Weezer probably couldn't make a hit song out of that…..
For some odd reason, a lot of "disaster" movies take place in Los Angeles, California. Why is that? Does it have to do with the city's warm and sometimes unpredictable climate? Does the huge sprawling landscape of land and people of the area create a sense that bad things are more likely to happen there? Or is it because that Hollywood and the film studios are there, and therefore it's probably more convenient and less costly to shoot on location? Who knows?
The transportation system of Los Angeles, while certainly not a disaster, can lend itself to a certain level of madness and chaos at times. Negotiating the thoroughfares of the L.A. area must feel like trying to find your way through a giant maze: according to L.A. Almanac, the California megalopolis has over 300 miles of federal Interstate highways, 200 miles of other freeways/expressways, and 2000 miles of principal arterial roadways. Even all that isn't enough to deal with the crazy backups and congestion! What people who live in the City of Angels may not realize, however, is that L.A. doesn't even crack the "Top Ten" of cities with the longest commute times. People in New York City, Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, and Atlanta actually take longer to get to work. Cold comfort (or, since we're in California, warm comfort?) to the residents of the second -largest city in the United States.
Designing a transport system for 18 million people is no small feat, especially when those 18 million likely have 18 million different destinations to get to! As a result, Los Angeles is fairly unique in that it has several spots where multiple freeways come together, including the "East L.A. Interchange" just southeast of downtown, where the I-5, I-10, U.S. 101, and State Route 60 freeways all come together in a rather dizzying manner.
Make sure you're in the correct lane!
A bit of clarification is in order here. Why is it that, here in the United States, certain freeways have a Federal Interstate designation, others have a U.S. Highway designation, and yet others have a State Route designation? Hopefully I can get into more detail in a future post, but the answer primarily revolves around funding and maintenance — U.S. highways are primarily funded by Congress, and state routes are primarily funded by the state legislatures. More on that later…..
Anyhow, as impressive as all this is, it might be interesting to point out how much more grandiose the expressway system might have turned out for Los Angeles if the planners of the 1950s and 1960s had turned their California dreamin' into reality. The L.A. Times has a neat interactive graphic that shows the freeways that were planned but never built, shaded in red:
Lookie, lookie, what do we have here?
A freeway running through Beverly Hills, California? Say it ain't so! (with apologies again to Weezer….) The story of the Beverly Hills Freeway actually goes back a few years earlier, as this map from 1943 shows:
As you can see from the above, the freeway that was to run through Beverly Hills (the "Santa Monica Parkway") would have connected the 405 ( then proposed as the "Sepulveda Parkway") with U.S. 101 (then proposed as the "Hollywood Parkway"). Beginning at its western terminus from the edge of the Pacific Coast, the freeway was to run northeast, parallel with Santa Monica Boulevard, crossing over Wilshire Boulevard, and then turning east, straddling a path between Beverly and Wilshire before reaching its eastern terminus just east of the 101.
Why Beverly Hills, though, of all places? As we've seen with the Clark Freeway in Cleveland, it wasn't just low-income communities that were affected by the interstate highway craze of the 1950s and 1960s — affluent neighborhoods also discovered that their prized homes were in line for the bulldozer as well. There actually was a certain logic to the highway also, which would have connected the Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach on the coast with the Hollywood district. Last but not least, it is important to remember that back in the 1940s, Beverly Hills was actually a well-off but sleepy "bedroom community" of Los Angeles — it would be a couple decades before it became associated as the place of lavish wealth that people know it as today.
The same fate awaited the Beverly Hills Freeway as countless other highway projects during the 1960s, with local opposition stopping the plan in its tracks. Also of note is that since the freeway was a state route instead of a Federal Interstate, the city of Los Angeles was unable to access federal funds in order to complete the project, which had a projected price tag of $300 million. By 1975 the freeway through Beverly Hills was no longer on the drawing board.
Currently there are no signs of what was to become the proposed Beverly Hills Freeway, save for one: for travelers on the 101, there is a stretch between Melrose Avenue and Silver Lake Boulevard where the freeway has an inexplicably wide median. That's no mistake: the median was built that way to accommodate what would have been on-ramps and off-ramps to the canceled freeway. There are no longer any plans for an "express way" to Beverly Hills — you might as well take Melrose or Wilshire and enjoy the scenery, even if it takes you longer to get there!
U.S. 101 near Vermont Avenue, where the Beverly Hills Freeway would likely have intersected.
http://www.laalmanac.com/transport/tr01.php
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/why-isnt-there-a-freeway-to-beverly-hills
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-forgotten-freeways-20141028-htmlstory.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aa2-snapshot-failed-freeways-20141029-story.html
https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/average-commute-time-by-city-and-state/
https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/guide-los-angeles-freeways
http://maps.google.com
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	Leave a comment August 16, 2018 August 18, 2018 4 Minutes
See You In Court: Memphis and the Fight Over Interstate 40
The beautiful city of Memphis, Tennessee is known for many things: stronghold of the Civil Right Movement. Home to Elvis Presley and Graceland. A rich artistic culture that helped launch the careers of many musicians, including B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. And who can say "no" to Memphis's world-famous barbecue?
Memphis is also known for something else: an ugly and drawn-out battle over one of the most controversial highway projects in United States history, which would eventually wind up at the United States Supreme Court in the case of Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe. How could an argument over a highway wind up being debated at the highest court in the nation?
In order to answer that question, let's turn to the freeway plans for the city, which date back to the early 1960s. Compared to a lot of other cities its size, Memphis seemed pretty cut-and-dry. Interstate 55 would skirt the southwestern part of the city., Interstate 240 would be the primary by-pass around the area. The only other major highway planned was Interstate 40, which would neatly cut a straightforward east-west path through the city proper. Pretty simple, right?
Zoom in a little closer, however, and you realize that a potential headache is brewing:
Yup, that's I-40 planning to cut right through Overton Park. For those of you unfamiliar with the Memphis area, Overton Park is one of the scenic jewels of the city, consisting of over 340 acres that includes a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis Zoo, the Memphis College of Arts, a 126-acre nature preserve area, and the Levitt Shell amphitheater.
View of The Links at Overton Park, the main golf course
Another view of the park, this time from the historic Greensward area
So how did this all come about? To find out, let's go back a few years. The plan to build Interstate 40 through Overton Park began in 1956, at the suggestion of Memphis city officials and the Federal Highway Administration. One year later, a group of dedicated city residents decided to form the "Citizens to Preserve Overton Park," and a years-long battle ensued. Why were government officials so keen on routing high-speed expressways through tranquil park lands? On the surface, the idea might sound ludicrous, but according to Josh Whitehead at Creme de Memphis, the reason was actually pretty simple:
"Parks were viewed by the federal and state highway agencies as ideal locations for interstate highways through urban areas in the 1950s and 60s because no condemnation was required. This changed when Congress passed the Department of Transportation Act of 1966, which contained Section 4(f) requiring a finding by the highway agencies that there was no reasonable and prudent alignment outside of the public park or land."
Of course, it wasn't lost on the Citizens to Preserve Overton Park (CPOP) that there would be significant environmental consequences to the freeway– *ahem*– I mean, expressway project (I just found out that Tennessee refers to all "freeways" as "expressways" due to the fact that there are no Interstate toll roads in the state). The list of possible negative effects included destruction of Rainbow Lake and some of the old forest area within the park, alongside the fact that I-40 would split the entire park in half, making it more cumbersome for pedestrians to get around:
During the 1960s alternatives were proposed, including routing I-40 north of the park, but this proved costly and redundant since the northerly route brought the highway within a couple miles of the I-240 bypass. Tensions within Memphis reached a new high on April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing outside at the city's Lorraine Motel. Interestingly enough on that same day, the city council voted and gave the green light to allow the construction of I-40 through Overton Park. In 1969 CPOP lost a lawsuit filed against the city to halt construction. In 1970 an appeal was made to the 6th Circuit Court, where CPOP lost again. Finally, in 1971, CPOP won the right to have their case heard at the U.S. Supreme Court.
With CPOP bringing their case to the highest court in the country, John Volpe, who at the time was Secretary of Transportation under President Richard Nixon, represented the respondent in the case. CPOP's main argument to the court was summarized thus:
"Under § 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 and § 138 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968, the Secretary of Transportation may not authorize use of federal funds to finance construction of highways through public parks if a 'feasible and prudent' alternative route exists. If no such route is available, he may approve construction only if there has been 'all possible planning to minimize harm' to the park. Petitioners contend that the Secretary has violated these statutes by authorizing a six-lane interstate highway through a Memphis public park. In April 1968 the Secretary announced that he agreed with the local officials that the highway go through the park; in September 1969 the State acquired the right-of-way inside the park; and in November 1969 the Secretary announced final approval, including the design, of the road. Neither announcement of the Secretary was accompanied by factual findings."
For their part, Volpe and his allies made the following counter-arguments:
"[T]he requirement that there be no other 'prudent' route requires the Secretary to engage in a wide-ranging balancing of competing interests. They contend that the Secretary should weigh the detriment resulting from the destruction of parkland against the cost of other routes, safety considerations, and other factors, and determine on the basis of the importance that he attaches to these other factors whether, on balance, alternative feasible routes would be 'prudent.'
But no such wide-ranging endeavor was intended. It is obvious that in most cases considerations of cost, directness of route, and community disruption will indicate that parkland should be used for highway construction whenever possible. Although it may be necessary to transfer funds from one jurisdiction to another, 25 there will always be a smaller outlay required from the public purse 26 when parkland is used since the public already owns the land and there will be no need to pay for right-of-way. And since people do not live or work in parks, if a highway is built on parkland no one will have to leave his home or give up his business. Such factors are common to substantially all highway construction."
The Supreme Court decided in favor of CPOP, but that didn't end the saga. Throughout the 1970s, plans were discussed to route I-40 underground through the park, but again, cost considerations prevented this idea from gaining traction. Finally, in 1981, the Department of Transportation removed the I-40 designation from the "orphaned" section of I-40 that had already been completed inside the I-240 beltway. This part was re-named as Sam Cooper Boulevard.
Sam Cooper Boulevard, facing west near East Parkway, with Overton Park in the distance.
Further changes were made to Memphis's interstate system in the years following Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe. I-40 was officially routed on the northern section of the I-240 bypass, and the I-240 designation was eventually removed. The southwestern part of I-240 has also been re-designated as I-69 — known by its nickname as "The NAFTA Superhighway" — which has also generated a large amount of controversy in its own right to the present day. And then there is the current construction of the I-269 outerbelt in the suburban Memphis area, which has raised environmental concerns as well. The battles continue….
Map of Memphis Interstates and other major highways, as of June 2018
http://cremedememph.blogspot.com/2016/04/overton-park-exwy.html
https://www.overtonpark.org/
http://www.overtonparkforever.org/2011/03/forty-years-ago.html
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/401/402
https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/bumps-in-the-road/Content?oid=3326638
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	Leave a comment June 13, 2018 July 2, 2018 5 Minutes
Cleveland's Clark Freeway: The Mistake on the Shaker Lakes?
Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Cleveland, Ohio was one of the largest cities in the entire United States. According to the 1920 census, Cleveland was ranked number 5 in population, right behind New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit. By 1970 it had slipped in rankings to number 10, but by that point in time it still had 750,000 people living in the city proper. Today, in 2018, the city is home to only 388,000, though the metropolitan area still boasts a fairly sizable 2 million.
It comes as no surprise, then, that during the mid-20th century, when the area was a lot more crowded, that there were plans for numerous expressways to cross the area. Contrast with what Cleveland's freeway system looks like today:
with the original plans from 1944:
During the 1950s and 1960s, the freeway plan for Cleveland underwent numerous revisions. One plan from the mid 1960s was considerably more ambitious in scope:
The "freeway revolts" that had begun out west during the late 1950s and early 1960s — including the fight against San Francisco's Embarcadero freeway — eventually spread to the eastern cities a few years later. As a result, Cleveland's freeway system sat with multiple gaps and pieces marking uncompleted highways. Until the mid-1980s, traffic traveling on I-480 had to make use of Brookpark Road between much of the area between I-71 and I-77. The Jennings Freeway (Ohio State Route 176 between I-71 and I-480) sat in limbo for many years before being finished in 1998. The only segment of the Parma Freeway to see completion was the northbound exit off I-71 to Denison Avenue.
The saga over the Clark Freeway played out throughout the 1960s. The original plan for the Clark was to connect I-90 and I-71 near downtown with I-271 ("The Outerbelt") in the eastern suburbs. The proposed freeway, which was originally to be designated as I-290, was to run in a straight east-west line through the eastern part of the city and the suburbs of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights, as the above map shows with the black line. Many residents of the two suburbs were particularly aghast at the prospect of having their communities carved up not only by the Clark but also the proposed Heights and Lee Freeways, which were later canceled. Of particular concern was the probability that the elevated 8-lane Clark would have a negative environmental impact on the Shaker Lakes Nature Preserve, which included Horseshoe Lake:
The fight against the Clark reached a peak in 1969. Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, known for his pro-highway stance and lack of interest in environmental issues, had been pushing for construction of the Clark, fearing the loss of federal funding for the state. Residents of Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights, who had already formed committees to block the highway, found an ally in Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes. If there was one concern that the city shared with the eastern inner suburbs, it was the potential loss of residents and economic activity to Cleveland's more distant suburbs. Rhodes, who was planning to run for the U.S. Senate, realized that he needed the support of Cleveland's inner suburbs if we was to achieve victory. An additional factor that played a major role in stopping the Clark was local newspaper editor Harry Volk, who kept the issue alive every week in the area papers, discussing the negative impacts future freeway construction would cause. By 1970, the plan to construct the Clark through Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights was pretty much dead.
That, however, was not the final end of the story. Years later, a portion of the Clark Freeway WAS completed and opened to traffic in 1990, with the designation of Interstate 490. The 2 1/2 mile highway runs from its western terminus at its intersection with I-90, I-71, and the Jennings Freeway to its eastern terminus at East 55th Street.
Near the western terminus of I-490/Clark Freeway, facing west.
At the eastern terminus of I-490 and East 55th Street. As of 2018 there are no plans to extend the freeway further east.
http://www.gcbl.org/blog/2015/02/clevelands-1969-highway-revolt-sheds-light-on-opportunity-corridor
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/freeways/index.html
https://www.interstate-guide.com/i-490_oh.html
http://chuh.net/chhistory/features/freeways.html
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	2 Comments May 13, 2018 May 27, 2018 3 Minutes
St. Paul, Minnesota: The Curious Case of Ayd Mill Road
The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota have enough examples of canceled and altered highway projects that it would be enough to merit a whole series in its own right. Yet one in particular stands out: the anomaly known as Ayd Mill Road in St. Paul, which meanders through the west-central part of the city, from Selby Avenue near Concordia University to its southern terminus at I-35E near Jefferson Avenue. One might ask if Ayd Mill is a standard road, a parkway, or a freeway? The correct answer might be that it's a little of all of these, and the debate rages on over what it should be for the future.
Traveling east on Selby Ave. in St. Paul, one is greeted by the northern end of Ayd Mill with an on-ramp and a small sign at the split-off. Easy to miss if you're not really paying attention to your surroundings:
From there Ayd Mill travels at ground level through several St. Paul neighborhoods. The speed limit on the highway is 45mph. What's unusual about this road is the weird mixture of off-ramps and stoplights that juxtapose its various intersections.
Ayd Mill near Hamline Avenue. Southbound traffic exits to Hamline via the off-ramp, while northbound traffic waits at the stoplight to turn.
Traveling southbound, near the southern terminus. Right lane exits off to Jefferson Avenue, with left lanes eventually merging onto I-35E southbound.
So what is the history behind Ayd Mill Road? In the 1880s, Ayd Mill was originally a stream bed before Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad bought up the right-of-way. Commuter trains used the route to ferry passengers back and forth between St. Paul Union Depot and the Milwaukee Road Depot in St. Paul's twin city of Minneapolis.
After the railway fell into disuse, the city of St. Paul began construction on the Short Line Road (the original name of Ayd Mill) in the 1960s in an attempt to link I-35E with I-94. The route was to allow easy travel from commuters in the south suburbs of St. Paul to reach Minneapolis without having to go through downtown St. Paul. However, opposition to the proposed plan in the Summit Hill and Merriam Park neighborhoods kept this dream from becoming a reality. It wasn't until 2004 that Ayd Mill was extended south to make a connection to I-35E. To this day, Ayd Mill continues to generate discussion and arguments in the Twin Cities. Should the road be extended further north to link to I-94? Should it be upgraded to a full expressway? Should it be converted to a "linear park" with fuller access for bicycles and pedestrians? The debate continues….
http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/other_rtes.htm
https://www.smart-trips.org/brief-history-ayd-mill-road/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayd_Mill_Road
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	1 Comment April 1, 2018 2 Minutes
Just a Little Bit: Milwaukee's Park Freeway
San Francisco is not the only city in the United States to have ever torn down a freeway. Milwaukee would follow in its footsteps a few years later. During the mid-20th century, Milwaukee also had its plans for a sprawling expressway network, linking the city with its disparate suburban communities.
The original plan from 1949 looked a little different compared to the system Milwaukeeans know today:
The 1965 plan from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Committee, which was considerably more ambitious, shows just how much more might I have been done to the area:
One of these crucial highway links in this sprawling system was known as the Park Freeway. The Park Freeway's eastern terminus was to start in downtown by splitting off from the Lake Freeway (I-794) near Clybourn and Van Buren Streets, traveling north before turning west and running more-or-less concurrent with Juneau Avenue before making a northwest turn along State Route 145 near the Lake Freeway (I-43). From there the freeway was to turn west near West North Avenue and 21st Street before reaching its western terminus at what was to be the north end of the Stadium Freeway near North and Lisbon.
Opposition to the Park was almost immediate. During the mid to late 1960s, community meetings throughout Milwaukee had many residents from the city's north side neighborhoods speaking out against the construction of the freeway, though a few spoke out in favor. Also of concern was the environmental impact the freeway would have on Juneau Park downtown, where the merger with the Lake Freeway was planned. Complicating matters was the fact that the right-of-way for the entire freeway had been purchased by the city, with many homes and commercial businesses already having been demolished to make way for the new highway. Residents on the city's north side complained of being mistreated while they were being evicted from their soon-to-be-razed homes, which included the substandard conditions of the replacement housing they were being offered.
View of the cleared right-of-way on the north side of Milwaukee
Opponents of the freeway successfully utilized the newly-enacted National Environmental Protection Act to halt construction of the freeway in 1972. By that time, only 0.8 miles of the freeway had actually been completed, the segment from the I-43 junction east to Jefferson Avenue. A referendum was put on the ballot in 1974 to "close the loop" of the Park with a northern-extended Lake Freeway, along with several other highway projects in the city.
Although the referendum passed, freeway opponents were successful in stalling construction through a series of political maneuvers, and by 1980 the plan to continue construction of the Park was more or less dead. For the next 20 years, the constructed part of the Park East sat in limbo. The only completed and opened segment of the freeway was underutilized and did little to bring traffic into the downtown area.
One of the most consequential figures in Milwaukee's political scene took the stage as the city's mayor in 1988. John O. Norquist came to power on a strong anti-freeway platform. Norquist was successful in his efforts not only in halting any additional construction to the city's freeway system, but was eventually able to have the Park East torn down, which began in 2001:
View of downtown looking west after demolition of the Park East Freeway.
Since demolition was completed in 2002, the of rebuilding and revitalization of downtown Milwaukee left empty by the tearing down of the Park has been an ongoing process. Today, many new housing and commercial projects have taken the place where the freeway once stood:
http://www.wikipedia.org
http://www.preservenet.com
http://www.wisconsinhighways.org
http://www.onmilwaukee.com
http://city.milwaukee.gov
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	Leave a comment March 14, 2018 April 1, 2018 2 Minutes
Against All Odds: San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway
Few highway projects in the United States have inflamed as many passions and resulted in as volatile a politics as much as San Francisco's much-hated Embarcadero Freeway — and yet, for 35 years, the freeway stood in spite of the opposition that dominated throughout its history.
Construction of the Embarcadero Freeway, circa 1956. Note the clock tower on the World Trade Ferry Building in the background.
First, a little historical background: in the immediate period following World War II, every major American city was focused on the future, which included construction of a series of high-speed expressways to connect different parts of the city, so that traveling across a major metropolitan area could be accomplished in minutes instead of the hours it could sometimes take. San Francisco, like every other city, had plans for a sprawling freeway system that would connect multiple areas of the city together in a web of arterials and interchanges. One of these links was to construct a freeway that would link the Bay Bridge on the city's east side with the Golden Gate Bridge in the northwest. The proposed highway, Interstate 480 (later downgraded to State Route 480 after 1965), was to run along the Embarcadero up until Bay Street (the "Embarcadero Freeway"), at which point the freeway was to turn west, running parallel to Lombard Street before turning northwest to Doyle Drive as it approached the Presidio and the Golden Gate Bridge (the "Golden Gate Freeway").
From the beginning the project was mired in controversy and dissent. Opponents harshly criticized the double-decker freeway for obstructing the view of the San Francisco Bay and the World Trade Ferry Building, one of only a few historical buildings to have survived the city's 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. Also of concern was the probability that the freeway would wreck the natural beauty of the Telegraph Hill neighborhood. The San Francisco Chronicle took a particularly harsh tone in one of their 1959 editorials:
"We oppose and have consistently opposed the hideous monstrosity which the State Highway Commission built along the Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building, obscuring the tower and the World Trade Center from view. … Such an evil is the Embarcadero Freeway, which as we said last Friday and here repeat, should be demolished."
Although initial construction happened at a rapid pace during the mid-1950s, opposition to the Embarcadero Freeway grew strong enough that further construction was halted in January 1959. Although there were plans to resume construction in 1964, a major protest attended by 200,000 people in Golden Gate Park to protest further freeway construction within the city dissuaded California transportation officials from embarking any further on the project.
View of "The Stub", the point at which construction of the freeway was halted, near Broadway. Note the metal barriers to prevent errant cars from diving over the edge.
In the following years, calls were made to tear down the portion of the Embarcadero Freeway that had already been constructed. In 1987, a citywide referendum to tear the freeway down was defeated by a nearly 2-1 margin. Interestingly enough, the greatest opposition to demolishing the freeway came from the city's Chinatown neighborhood, who feared the loss of an easy-access corridor between the Bay Bridge and their district would have a severely negative effect on business.
Another view of the freeway, facing north near Howard Street.
All this changed on October 17, 1989. The Loma Prieta earthquake did significant damage to the transport system of the Bay Area, including 42 fatalities as a result of the collapse of the double-decker I-880/Cypress Viaduct in Oakland. While the Embarcadero Freeway did not collapse, the structural damage was enough for the city to close the freeway due to safety concerns. Discussion began as to what to do next.
Embarcadero Freeway in 1990, closed after sustaining damage from the Loma Prieta earthquake. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice
One proposal was to re-build the freeway with stronger supports in order to withstand a higher-magnitude earthquake, but this soon proved impractical as the projected price tag for such a project rapidly escalated. Art Agnos, the mayor of San Francisco at the time, sensed the city shouldn't squander "the opportunity of a lifetime," and campaigned to tear down the freeway. The Board of Supervisors eventually voted to tear down the freeway by a vote of 6-5, and demolition commenced in February, 1991.
Today, the Embarcadero is open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic, with a ground-level boulevard for cars to pass through. Many visitors to the area may find it hard to believe that a freeway ever existed there at all.
James Leo Halley, who was once asked about his career on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors during the 1950s and 1960s, was blunt in his assessment: "I made one mistake. I voted for the Embarcadero Freeway."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/An-ode-to-the-Embarcadero-Freeway-the-blight-by-11543621.php
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/features/2010/unbuilt_highways/san_francisco_the_embarcadero_freeway.html
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~dlkriske/highway/480/
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	Leave a comment February 5, 2018 March 24, 2019 3 Minutes
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicago's Never-Built Crosstown Freeway
Commuters on Chicago's I-90/I-94 Dan Ryan Expressway know what the term "sitting in traffic" means. According to ABC Channel 7, Jason Knowles reports that several of the worst bottlenecks in Chicago traffic are all on the Dan Ryan, including one at Canalport Avenue and another at 18th Street. The Dan Ryan has seven lanes in each direction, with four serving as "express lanes" and the remaining three serving local on and off-ramps. That doesn't stop traffic from slowing to a crawl at certain times of day, however:
One of the reasons traffic in Chicago is so bad are the limited number of directions you can travel in: since the entire city sits on the western shores of Lake Michigan, there is simply no way to go "northeast" or "east" or "southeast" from downtown (unless you have a boat in port!) Thus, auto traffic out of downtown is limited to due north, due south, and westward.
Also complicating matters is the fact that the Dan Ryan is the only north-south arterial through much of the city proper. That doesn't mean there weren't any plans for another freeway to be built. In 1967 there was a proposal made by the federal government to build the "Crosstown Expressway", which would have been designated as I-494.
The freeway was originally planned to split off the Dan Ryan between 75th and 87th Streets (near the existing I-90 Chicago Skyway), traveling west before turning north at Cicero Avenue and continuing up through the west side of the city before merging with the I-90/I-94 split north of downtown. One particular advantage of this path would have allowed easier access from the south side of the city to Midway Airport.
An artistic model of the proposed Crosstown Expressway, with Midway Airport on the left. In this concept the freeway lanes were split in order to minimize displacement of people and the tearing down of buildings.
A view of Cicero Avenue at Belmont, part of a stretch where the Crosstown would have been built.
A political tussle ensued between then-Mayor Richard Daly and the governor of Illnois, Dan Walker, with Daly being a strong advocate for the Crosstown with Walker staunchly opposed. Plans for the Crosstown were finally canceled in 1979, with the designated funds going for other transportation purposes, though there have been minor rumblings in the years since about reviving the highway.
One particular note of interest in regards to the proposed Crosstown is that the route would have taken it through the Garfield and Humboldt Park neighborhoods of Chicago as well as the nearby suburb of Oak Park — places where the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright had designed and built many residential houses and other buildings, an idea that wasn't lost on the residents who opposed construction of the highway. The Crosstown Expressway serves as another prime example in the United States of the continuing fight between developers and preservationists.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/features/2010/unbuilt_highways/chicago_the_crosstown_expressway.html
americascanceledhighways	Uncategorized	Leave a comment January 15, 2018 November 19, 2018 2 Minutes


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import { Indicator, IndicatorInput } from '../indicator/indicator';
export declare class BollingerBandsInput extends IndicatorInput {
    period: number;
    stdDev: number;
    values: number[];
}
export declare class BollingerBandsOutput extends IndicatorInput {
    middle: number;
    upper: number;
    lower: number;
    pb: number;
}
export declare class BollingerBands extends Indicator {
    generator: IterableIterator<BollingerBandsOutput | undefined>;
    constructor(input: BollingerBandsInput);
    static calculate: typeof bollingerbands;
    nextValue(price: number): BollingerBandsOutput | undefined;
}
export declare function bollingerbands(input: BollingerBandsInput): BollingerBandsOutput[];

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I have 290 qsl labels ready to print via label in Log4Om, but I want to export this file to BV7.
I don't see anything in the manual.
You cant do that! the only way would be to sort and select in the QSO manager and export an ADIF.


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The Impressment Cocktail
Impressment, or colloquially, "the Press" (or sometimes called the "Press Gang"), refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force – with or without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, primarily during wartime, as a means of crewing British warships. The Royal Navy impressed many British merchant sailors, as well as sailors from many other nations, the nascent US included. People open to impressment were "eligible men of seafaring habits between the ages of 18 and 45 years". Non-seamen were impressed as well, though very rarely.
Impressment was strongly criticized by those who believed it to be contrary to the British constitution; at the time, unlike many of its continental rivals, Britain did not conscript its subjects for any other military service, aside from a brief experiment with army impressment in 1778 to 1780. Though the public opposed conscription in general, impressment was repeatedly upheld by the courts, as it was deemed vital to the strength of the navy and, by extension, to the survival of the empire.
Impressment was essentially a Royal Navy practice, reflecting the size of the British fleet and its substantial manpower demands. While other European navies applied forced recruitment in time of war this was generally as an extension of the practice of formal conscription applied to most European armies from the Napoleonic Wars on. The U.S. Continental Navy also applied a form of impressment during the American War of Independence.
In actuality, it was the impressment of seamen from American ships that caused serious tensions between Britain and the United States in the years leading up to the War of 1812. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the practice of impressment ended and was never resumed it.
After a long day in the hot sun, I was given to thinking about how miserable it must have been, toiling under an Equatorial sun, swabbing the deck of a British Man O'War… Given that Grog was part of the ration (not being suspended until the early 1970's), Rum was plentiful on board ship… What libation can we create to slake our thirst and pay homage to those poor souls, hijacked in a drunken stupor from their favorite tavern and put under the lash aboard a Royal Navy frigate? Well, why not an Impressment Cocktail!
Ladies and Gentlemen, here you are… One too many and you may find yourself a victim of impressment!
2oz. Spiced Rum
1oz. Sorel Artisanal Liqueur
1oz. Glayva
1/2oz. Lime Juice
5 dashes Bittermens Elemakule Tiki Bitters
Shake the ingredients with crushed ice, vigorously. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lime.


The Colorado range of products are made by Indian artisans from hand-crafted solid mango wood from sustainable forests. Once the trees have finished producing mangoes they are felled and replaced by new saplings. The finished items are then painted in french grey with the tops left in natural finish as a contrast to give a real farmhouse style. A good, chunky lamp table finished with brass accessories that can also be used as a bedside table. Endlessly versatile, this table makes a perfect stand for nibbles, drinks or a lamp and you could even use it as a bedside table. It will prove handy all over your home and is made with a hand grey painted finish, chunky oak top and farm house feet. Also there is useful storage space with a small drawer that comes with a shiny brass handle, and a handy shelf at the bottom.


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Best Country To Study Masters In Pharmacy
As a student, are you interested in finding out about where to do your masters in pharmacy and you don't know how to go about it? Has this question been on your mind about best country to study pharmacy for some time? If you have been browsing the which country is best for pharmacy for a while without a great response, then you're getting one. This website provides answers to all your questions about best university to study pharmacy, so you no longer need to participate in an inaccessible hunt. I would suggest that you save time and effort by visiting the site as soon as possible for related answers best country to study masters in pharmacy.
Best country To Study Pharmacy
Medical developments have made our lives better and longer, and pharmaceutical drugs play an important part in this story. That's why we study degrees in Pharmacy.
But while a Bachelor's in Pharmacy is enough to land you a stable job, a Master's in Pharmacy abroad is the way to go if you want to do research or develop a career in the pharmaceutical industry. And what can be more rewarding than helping the world get out of bed, stop focusing on the past and turn its life around?
If you are looking to become an international student by pursuing a Master's in Pharmacy abroad, we are here to guide you in your application process.
Pick the right university for your Pharmacy degree
If you want to study a Pharmacy Master's abroad, you'll soon discover that there are thousands of universities worldwide that could become your alma mater. When choosing a university, you should consider the quality of the Pharmacy programmes, but also if the country and city fit your style and budget.
You should also consider how accessible they are: Do they have open applications now? Is the application process easy? Are there any scholarship programmes available?
1. Harvard University, US
No big surprises here – Harvard is well known for its leadership in life sciences, and also ranks as the world's number one for medicine, biological sciences and psychology.
While the university doesn't have a pharmacy department, pharmacology features in many of the courses offered at Harvard Medical School. Key areas of research include systems pharmacology, molecular pharmacology, and translational pharmacology.
2. University of Cambridge, UK
As you may expect of Cambridge, research is particularly strong – the university outscores even Harvard on this measure. Major research interests at the Department of Pharmacology include cellular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, cell signalling and ion and drug transport mechanisms. At undergraduate level, the department teaches courses for undergraduates studying natural sciences, medicine and veterinary science.
3. National University of Singapore, Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) ranks well across all life sciences, but particularly so in pharmacy and pharmacology – both of which have dedicated departments offering a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Pharmacy research focuses on areas such as medicinal chemistry, analytical methods, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, while key pharmacology research topics include neuropharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, preclinical toxicology, and pharmacology of inflammation.
4. University of Oxford, UK
As ever, Cambridge's historic rival is not far behind. Oxford's Department of Pharmacology offers taught and research-based master's programs, and four-year DPhil courses. Major research areas include molecular pharmacology, cardiac pharmacology, neuropharmacology, cell signalling, and pharmacogenetics.
5. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
One of the world's most prestigious medical universities, Sweden's Karolinska Institute ranks well across the life sciences, but especially for pharmacology. Its Department of Physiology and Pharmacology teaches at both undergraduate and graduate level, with key research areas including electrophysiological neuropharmacology, pharmacogenetics, pharmacological neurochemistry and pharmacological pain research.
Most teaching is in Swedish, but the university does offer English-taught master's programs, in fields such as global health, biomedicine and health informatics.
6. Monash University, Australia
Monash University has emerged as one of Australia's top destinations for life sciences subjects. Its Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences offers a wide selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses – including combinations such as pharmacy and commerce, or pharmaceutical science with chemical engineering. Key research areas include drug candidate optimization, drug delivery systems, medicinal chemistry and medicine use and safety.
7. Imperial College London, UK
Back in the UK again, at first glance you may not think Imperial is especially active in the pharmacy and pharmacology field – in its prospectus the only direct mention of the subjects is in the MSc in Infection Management for Pharmacists.
But in fact, pharmacy and pharmacology are central subjects in many of the taught- and research-based programs within Imperial's renowned medical and life sciences faculties, including a number of research projects in collaboration with fellow London-based university, UCL.
8. University of Tokyo, Japan
Like all of these pharmacy and pharmacology top ten, the University of Tokyo has strong scores across all indicators used in the QS Rankings by Subject, but especially for employer reputation. This seems to reflect a strong focus on practical training and career preparation at the universities' Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy – courses include elements such as six-month hospital placements and training in pharmaceutical business management.
9. University of Melbourne, Australia
Not far behind its neighbor, Monash, the University of Melbourne is also well reputed in this field. While it doesn't have a school of pharmacy, its Department of Pharmacology offers majors at undergraduate level, as well as a two-year research training master's program, two-year MPhil and three-year PhD programs.
10. University of Michigan, US
The University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy offers programs from bachelor's up to PhD and PharmD level. It also co-runs several interdisciplinary courses, including an MEng in Pharmaceutical Engineering and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry.
Cost Of Undergraduate Degree In USA For International Students
University Of Pittsburgh School Of Pharmacy Acceptance Rate


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require 'test_helper'
require 'json'

class JigModelTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

  test "Unique Name" do
    Jig.create! :name=>"nodups", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig", :description=>"unit tests"
    e = assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid, ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique) { Jig.create!(:name => "nodups") }
    assert_equal "Validation failed: Name Item must be un...", e.message.truncate(42)
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid, ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique) { b = Node.create! :name => "nodups" }
  end

  test "Naming Conventions" do
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>"1123", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>"1foo", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>"Ille!gal", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>" nospaces", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>"no spaces", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
    assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Jig.create!(:name=>"nospacesatall ", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig")}
  end

  test "Must have override object-missing" do
     Jig.create!(:name=>"foo", :type=>"JigFoo")
     e = assert_raise(ActiveRecord::SubclassNotFound) { Jig.find_by_name "foo" }
     assert_equal "The single-table inheritance mechanism failed...", e.message.truncate(48)
  end

  test "Must have override object - present" do
     c = Jig.create! :name=>"subclass", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig"
     assert_equal false, c.nil?
     assert_equal c.name, "subclass"
     assert_equal c.type, "BarclampCrowbar::Jig"
  end

  test "Returns correct objective type" do
    c = Jig.create! :name=>"type_test", :type=>"BarclampCrowbar::Jig"
    t = Jig.find_by_name "type_test"
    assert_equal c.type, t.type
    assert_equal t.type, "BarclampCrowbar::Jig"
    assert_kind_of Jig, c
  end

end


and feel so much better.
and found lightweight joy at every step?
nods sleepily in the afternoon breeze.
if they let me sit up today.
on a terminally ill hospital bed.
Vinita Agrawal has been a freelance writer and researcher for the past 15 years. Her articles, stories, poems and features have been published in academic journals, casebooks, newspapers, magazines and websites. Some of the prominent publications featuring her work are Femina, The Free Press Journal, Savvy, Marwar, Hobson's Review, IRMA and ICPI journals, Sulekha, Babel, Kritya, Muse India, and indianwildlife, indianwriters and more.
Born in Bikaner, India she was educated in Kolkata and did her Masters in political science from Vadodara where she was awarded the UGC scholarship. She is a life member of the Indore Intach Chapter. She believes that writing is the best form of creative expression. She resides in Indore, India with her husband and son.


CEF has a scholarship program in the mountains of Quang Nam province near the Vietnam-Laos border in Phuoc Son district.
Trafficking takes place in Vietnam mainly in the mountains and along the borders where there is poor literacy, with many parents and grandparents having had little or no education, and school attendance is poor there. Our goal is to keep girls from these communities in high school by providing a scholarship for each of them.
We plan to gradually develop this program each year to include more support. This year we have added extra tuition sessions for the ethnic girls from these communities who are in our scholarship program. Our goal is to help them receive that little extra educational support to lift their school grades. If they can increase them enough they will be eligible for a university education and this will truly change their lives.
Each year we give scholarships to 30-35 hard-working high school students from these very poor families who live in this border region. Poverty here is mainly due to the terrain being hard to work, and the isolation of these communities and lack of work opportunities anywhere near by. Most families here struggle to make ends meet as they are subsistence farmers and often suffer from poor weather conditions which destroys their crops. For many families this year was a bad one as their farming land up in the mountains was washed away.
Most families farm way up in the mountains and they have to trek for 2-4 hours to reach it. They camp there for several days until the work required at the time is complete. It is a hard life.
A scholarship is just US$200 a year and scholarship donors will receive annual photos and an update on the program and child. Donations for the 'Extra Tuition Support' is appreciated. This program costs US$1,200 a year to provide extra tuition in three subjects each, English, literature and math.


This is a basic tutorial on how a person can play Melty Blood: Act Cadenza over the internet.
Note: I know that some people prefer using mIRC for matchups, but I thought Hamachi would be a little easier to use for a beginning netplayer.
Now that you've downloaded MBCaster, extract it and copy the contents (three files) of the "exe" folder to your MBAC root directory (the folder with mbacPC.exe in it). It may ask to overwrite the old 'info' file, this is okay, if not, don't worry about it.
-Make sure you have your gamepad buttons mapped in the game's initial config menu.
-Open the newly copied config_caster file in the MBAC directory and scroll down until you see a value for 'inputDevice'. Change it so it reads, "inputDevice=255" without the quotes. This will make it so you can use the keyboard for the controls.
-Scroll down a little further and you will see where the keyboard buttons are mapped. You will need to change these hex codes to the corresponding values found in the 'keycodes.txt' file in the original extracted MBCaster folder. For example, to have the A button bound to the left arrow key, you would make it so 'kA' reads "kA=0xCB" without the quotes.
-Once you've bound all of your controls, you should be set!
When you are done configuring your controls, I'd recommend changing MBAC to run in windowed mode. This makes managing the several windows that you'll have open later much easier. Next, go ahead and start the game, go into the options menu, and set "StageBgType" to SIMPLE. Not changing the stage backgrounds to simple is a very bad thing, as it will sometimes result in high lag, creating a fun experience for neither you nor your opponent. If this should happen, the only way for you to regain your honor is by commiting seppuku.
Once that's done, go ahead and exit out of the game and run mbcaster.exe.
Once this window pops up, press 9 and hit Enter to select the Debug option. If it brings you to the character select screen, you're in business! If it fails to do so, there is a chance that something has gone wrong. Read back through the guide and make sure you're following all of the steps (or try reading through http://www.meltybread.com/forums/index.php?topic=541.0 for troubleshooting). When you've reached the character select via the debug option, rejoice, and exit MBAC for now, for we're done with this part.
Next, I'll show you how to configure Hamachi.
Run the Hamachi Setup executable. It's a fairly standard install process; make sure that you select the basic version to install. Once setup is done, check the option to immediately launch Hamachi. Hamachi will walk you through the configuration process with a brief mini-guide. When it completes, you should be staring at a blank Hamachi window.
You can now do two things: make your own Hamachi server, or join someone else's. In order to show how it's done, I'll go ahead and make an example Hamachi server.
Oh, he's going to get it.
On my end I choose 2. Try access, and type in his hamachi address, and hit enter.
The host receives the info about the connecting client, and sets the Input Delay. I generally use whatever mbcaster recommends: 1-3 means your connection is decent; 5 or higher, you start running into some lag; 10 is nearly unplayable.
Okay did anyone seriously not see this coming.
From here on, we can Once Again, change characters and stages, or hit Esc and exit out!
That's all. Most of this guide is my work, so parts are bound to be horribly inaccurate; I did take a few bits and pieces from the mbcaster readme. If anyone has any questions or problems feel free to ask; hopefully either myself or someone else who also has netplay experience will be able to help.
Thanks a bunch, I found your guide very helpful. Great for newbies like me trying to get into MB for the first time.
Now I know what to do, thanks!
This thing should be stickied.
Sheesh... I tried to put this guide to good use but no one seems to want to play against some noob like me!
Besides the Hamachi Melty Bread networks, are there other ones?
Unfortunately, the melty bread thread is the only one that I know of that has a list of hamachi networks. If you're confident or daring enough, you could try joining an IRC channel (again, melty bread is the only one I know of off-hand) and play against someone without going through hamachi, just by using your IP address.


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Occasional paper (3)
(-) Inequality (2)
Changing the world (29)
Private sector (3)
Water and sanitation (3)
Gilead Sciences partnered for better health in Nigeria
Precedo Healthcare
Precedo Healthcare partnered with us to deliver a healthier and fairer future
Christian Aid Ethiopia Annual Report 2017/18
Christian Aid has been working in Ethiopia for more than 30 years, initially responding to emergencies, but gradually building a long-term development programme. Our work has focused on food security, resilient livelihoods, health, accountable governance, economic justice, energy and climate change. Christian Aid Ethiopia has substantial experience and a strong reputation for working in remote locations, particular with vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral communities. Currently we operate in 39 districts in four regions – Oromia, Gambella, Benishangul-Gumuz, and Southern Nation, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR).
Working effectively with faith leaders - harmful traditional practices
In 2016, the United Kingdom's (UK) Department for International Development released a call for proposals for a study entitled "Working effectively with faith leaders to challenge harmful traditional practices." A Consortium of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, an international alliance examining the contribution of faith groups to community health and wellbeing, undertook this study to investigate best practices around engaging with faith leaders on harmful traditional practices (HTPs). This study is currently on-going and will continue until 2018.
Case study - community health and HIV response Nigeria
Through the Strengthening Community Health and HIV project, Community Health Agents (CHAs) were established in project communities to educate community members on health issues and support them to adopt health seeking behaviour.
Community Health for All: case studies from around the world
Poor and marginalised people are most vulnerable to the risk of ill health, and least able to face its costs and impacts.
Resilience case studies
The following nine case studies illustrate how we interpret resilience – as a means of putting communities and individuals at the centre of their own development.
Case study - an all-encompassing 'fruitbowl' approach in Nigeria
Providing health education to communities and households on various issues including family planning, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health (MCH), and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
The forgotten smile: stories of courage and resilience in Bangladesh
Stories, photos and case studies from those we work with in Bangladesh, bringing Christian Aid's work to life and showing the human face behind the figures.


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module Api
  class BaseController < ActionController::Base
    include NotifyConcern
    include CurrentTeamAbilityConcern

    protect_from_forgery with: :null_session

    before_action :require_api_token
    before_action :set_current_team

    set_current_tenant_through_filter

    private

    def serialize_collection(scope)
      scope.map { |obj| ActiveModelSerializers::SerializableResource.new(obj, root: :root_key_name).serializable_hash[:root_key_name] }
    end

    def render_errors(object)
      errors = object.errors.messages.map do |field, error_messages|
        {field: field, errors: error_messages}
      end

      render json: {message: "Validation Failed", errors: errors}, status: 422
    end

    def require_api_token
      request_http_token_authentication unless current_token
    end

    def current_token
      @current_token ||=
        authenticate_with_http_token do |token, _options|
          ApiToken.find_by(token: token)
        end
    end

    def current_user
      @current_user ||= current_token.try(:user)
    end
    helper_method :current_user

    def current_team
      @current_team ||= current_token.try(:team)
    end
    helper_method :current_team

    def set_current_team
      set_current_tenant(current_team)
    end
  end
end


Efficient government and savings for the taxpayers are driving Representative Dennis Keene (D-Wilder) to co-sponsor legislation known as Kentucky House Bill 150. HB 150 will allow merged city entities the ability to purchase health insurance from an outside source while keeping their state pension account in tact. Currently, local government police and fire departments that have merged are prohibited from purchasing health insurance from outside sources in order to remain in the Kentucky Retirement System (KRS).
The bill will affect at least two Campbell County cities that merged their police departments. The cities of Highland Heights and Southgate merged their police departments in 2008 to form the Highland Heights Southgate Police Authority. "The passage of this bill will help Highland Heights and Southgate save the taxpayers money and might help open the door to other city services being merged," added Keene.
To read the Enquirer article, click here.


In Car Advancements are always one step ahead of the car thieves. With so many keyless cars being targeted by the '' Relay Attack '' it is now very important to think about adding ADR security onto your vehicle. ( The '' Relay Attack '' Is where a thief holds up a range extender to your front door and extends the range of your keyless smart key. Your vehicle thinks your standing next to it ) this type of simple attack is NOT possible with the Gemini ADR system. The system comes with an ADR tag that sits on the vehicles keyring. Unlike your standard vehicle smart key that transmits every 1 second the Gemini tag goes to sleep after 10 mins of no movement meaning the range can't be extended or cloned in any way.
What does the Gemini ADR system offer?
Why choose this system over any other systems on the market? The Gemini is the next generation of ADR technology that goes to sleep when its not being used, this puts a full stop on key cloning, grabbing and range extending. This system can be programmed for the most common stolen vehicles on the market such as Ford Fiesta Zetec / ST & Ford Focus ST / RS and many other vehicles.
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Jeremy Corbyn Accuses David Cameron Of Showing 'Contempt For Human Rights'
PERTH, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 30: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses delegates at the Scottish Labour Party Conference at the Perth Concert Hall on October 30, 2015 in Perth, Scotland. Mr Corbyn addressed the conference shortly after delegates had agreed to discuss a motion opposing the renewal of Trident at its conference in Perth on Sunday, Mr Corbyn told delegates they would be taking a decision for the good of the people of Scotland, and for the good of our party. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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Jeremy Corbyn has accused David Cameron of showing "contempt for human and democratic rights" and threatening national security by inviting the Egyptian president to Britain.
In a statement issued moments before prime minister's questions began on Wednesday, the Labour leader said the prime minister should also suspend arms exports to Egypt until "democratic and civil rights are restored".
David Cameron meeting President Sisi in New York
Corbyn said today: "David Cameron's invitation to Britain today of the Egyptian president and coup leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi shows contempt for human and democratic rights and threatens, rather than protects, Britain's national security."
"Support for dialogue and negotiated conflict resolution in the Middle East is vital to us all. But to welcome and bolster with military support the coup leader who overthrew a democratically elected president in 2013 and has presided over the killing and jailing of many thousands since makes a mockery of government claims to be promoting peace and justice in the region.
"Support for dictatorial regimes in the Middle East has been a key factor fuelling the spread of terrorism. Rather than rolling out the red carpet to President Sisi, the prime minister should suspend arms exports to Egypt until democratic and civil rights are restored."
Corbyn's attack on Cameron for making a decision that threatens national security will be seen as a direct response to Tory attempts to paint the Labour leader as weak on security.
Shortly after Corbyn was elected leader, Cameron said the Labour Party was "now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security".
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