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Monthly newsletter: June 2019
Message from Keith
Hong Kong on June 4 just saw one of the largest crowds ever gather to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the massacre of pro-democracy students and protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Attendance had started to drop off in recent years for the annual candlelight vigil. The massive turnout this time was no doubt helped by mounting public opposition to the Hong Kong government's proposed new extradition bill, which would allow the transfer of criminal suspects to mainland China, where the legal system is subservient to the ruling Communist Party.
The press—local and foreign—did a commendable job covering the weeks leading up to this year's anniversary of the massacre. There were retrospectives, opinion pieces by Tiananmen survivors, previously unseen photographs and interviews with eyewitnesses providing new details on what took place the night of June 3 and 4 in Beijing.
And of course, as usual, all of the reporting and even mere mentions of June 4 were heavily censored inside of China.
Some have asked why the press still continues to mark the events of 30 years ago with such intense coverage. How, they ask, is a tragic episode of three decades ago relevant to modern China today, with its booming economy and growing global clout.
My answer is simple: we continue to cover what happened on June 4, 1989, precisely because China's government wants us to forget. As long as the current rulers—the same party in charge of the massacre—tries to cover up what happened, suppress the memory and refuses to make a true public reckoning, journalists have an obligation to keep that memory alive.
And precisely because the Chinese government has been so effective at trying to whitewash the memory of how its army slaughtered innocent people in Tiananmen Square, journalists—many, like me, who were around 30 years ago and remember—must make sure the official erasure never succeeds.
To me, that is simply what journalists do. I always recall the old adage: news is what someone else does not want you to print; everything else is just propaganda.
A NOTE: As we enter the scorching summer months, and with classes now over for the 2018-19 school year, this newsletter will take a short hiatus until September, when our new term begins. Then we will be welcoming back our returning undergraduates, and welcoming in a new cohort of freshmen and Master of Journalism students.
But we also want to take a moment to say goodbye to two long-time instructors who are moving on after a combined two decades with us. Kees Metselaar has been our photojournalism teacher for as long as most of us can remember, and Nancy Tong has been a stalwart helming the documentary video production and documentary film appreciation classes. Please join me in wishing them a fond farewell.
Keith Richburg
Director of the JMSC
Farewell JMSC
Back in the late 1970s I had to teach chemistry in a Dutch high school, as part of my chemistry and microbiology degree studies of almost eight long years. I never imagined that decades later, I would be teaching news photography to bright young students on the other side of the world.
It's also surprising that, except for Americans, most journalists and photographers my age were never formally trained as such. We did degrees in all kinds of academic subjects, or sometimes we just started as apprentices, before going out and discovering the world. I taught myself photography, although undoubtedly the strong science background was a great help.
Since the arrival of the internet, it is becoming increasingly impossible to make a living as a photojournalist. Gone are the days when news organisations would pay high day-rates to a photographer in a strange place, waiting for that one original image that no one else would have. Now we all see everything from everywhere, and it is hard to be surprised anymore.
So what is still important in photography? It matters that the craft is well-honed, that the product is as good as it can be, and that the relationship between the person taking an image, and the subject of that image are cause no harm.
There is not one way to teach photography. Everyone is doing their own picture-making these days with phones and other devices. But as my students can tell you, I am of the firm view that some basics are still very important. It is not enough just to do photos (or indeed anything) on 'automatic'. It is better for all of us to understand what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we can change an outcome through our own understanding and actions.
After ten years of teaching at HKU, I have learned as much as I have taught. It's a cliché, but absolutely true. I've learned from the enthusiasm of students and the new ways of looking at things, and from the different kinds of problems that crop up with new technologies. And I have learned from my best-ever teaching assistants—AJ Libunao, Foon Lee and Li Chen—that a good class is never done alone. It takes great colleagues.
Greetings and see you all around in Hong Kong.
Kees Metselaar
Honorary Lecturer
JMSC hosted the inaugural group of JNI/HKU Fellows on a reporting trip to Hong Kong. We partnered with the newly established Judith Nielson Institute for Journalism and Ideas to bring 12 Australian journalists to Hong Kong for a deep dive into
China and Hong Kong stories that are making headlines around the world. Their two-week visit to Hong Kong has been filled with seminars and meetings with experts, journalists and politicians, newsroom tours, the SOPA Awards Gala Dinner, AAJA-Asia's N3Con
media conference, and covering the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown and debate over the proposed extradition bill among other news stories in the region.
The annual SOPA Awards for Editorial Excellence were announced at a gala dinner on 29 May. JMSC has been the awards administrator since 2011. As in years past, a number of JMSC alumni were honoured across a wide variety of categories. Here is the full list of winners. (Photo: Keith Richburg with the JNI/HKU Fellows)
JMSC hosted AAJA-Asia's annual media conference, N3Con, at HKU from 30 May to 2 June. This year we also co-organized the Journalism and Media Job Fair on 31 May, in which 14 companies participated. Our students volunteered at the event and a number of staff and alumni took part as panellists and moderators, including Keith Richburg, Ross Settles, Zela Chin, Tom Grundy, and Jarrod Watt.
Master of Journalism candidate David Missal was the winner in the Student Video & Audio (English) category at this year's Human Rights Press Awards. His documentary, "Lawyer Lin" for Hong Kong Free Press, is about Chinese human rights lawyer Lin Qilei, who represented activist and religious practitioners on the Mainland.
A group of our Master of Journalism alumni hosted a welcome reception for incoming students in Shanghai on 3 June. Big thanks to Peggy Shen (MJ 2011) for taking the lead in organizing this get-together and to her fellow alumni Han Wei (MJ 2009), Lorrin Shao (MJ 2014), Elaine Wang (MJ 2015), and Janie Yin (MJ 2016). They shared their experiences during their time at JMSC as well as the ups and downs of their careers since graduating. We look forward to welcoming our next class of MJ's this fall.
Faculty & Staff News
Ruby Yang, project director of the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative (HKDI), was named Artist of the Year for Film at the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. This is the first time documentary filmmakers have been honoured by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in the film category for both Artist of the Year and Award for Young Artist.
Carol Lai, Adjunct Associate Professor at JMSC, and Ching Cheong, JMSC writer-in-residence, both contributed essays to a new book about the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. I am a journalist, My June 4 story, which was released in Hong Kong on 4 June 2019, is a compilation of essays by 60 journalists to commemorate the 30th anniversary of June 4th. Thirty of the contributors also contributed to the accompanying video series.
Ruby was in San Francisco in May to attend the world premiere of the documentaries The Last Stitch, directed by HKDI seed grant recipient Alfred Sung and produced by Ruby, and M for Malaysia, supported by HKDI with Ruby as creative producer, at CAAM Fest 2019. She was also a panellist on "Spotlight on Hong Kong Cinema: Women On The Rise" at the festival.
JMSC in the news
15 May – AFP Fact Check: No, this photo does not show Trump has started special flights between New York and Mumbai so Indians can vote for Modi, by Supriya Batra (MJ 2019)
22 May – Reuters: Hong Kong activists get asylum in Germany; denounce extradition law, by Jessie Pang (MJ 2019)
29 May – Nikkei Asian Review: Asia should not bet on Democrats on trade, by Keith B. Richburg
30 May – U.S. News & World Report: Across China, Who Remembers Tiananmen?, by Keith B. Richburg
June – Buses: Old Warhorses: What is the future of Hong Kong's minibuses?, by Dennis Huang (MJ 2020)
Keith Richburg will be moderating a conversation with journalists who witnessed the events at Tiananmen at the opening reception on 6 June for the Images of Tiananmen and Beyond: Twelve Photojournalists Tell The Story exhibition at the Foreign Correspondents' Club.
From 10-11 June, he will be at the Guangzhou American Center taking part in two events organized by the U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou--"The History of Volunteerism in America" and "Media Communication".
On 23 July, Keith will give a talk on "Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Media in China & Southeast Asia" to students in the 3 Campus East Asia programme, a study abroad programme held on the campuses of HKU, Keio University in Japan, and Yonsei University in South Korea.
Dr. King-wa Fu, Associate Professor, will be presenting a paper at a two-day workshop on "Digital Governance in China: Towards a Chinese Model of Digital Governance?" at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin from 28-29 June.
From 31 July - 2 August, King-wa will take part in the Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, which will be held at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Masato Kajimoto, who leads our news literacy initiative, will be speaking at the Asia Media Summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia (10-14 June), and the International Conference on Fake News in Bangkok, Thailand (17 June). Eric Wishart, Honorary Lecturer, will be on the same panel with Masato in Bangkok, "International Best Practice on how to handle Fake News". Masato will also be attending the Facebook APAC News Literacy Conference in Taipei (June 19-20) and the Google Trusted Media Summit in Singapore (July 12-14).


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TOKUGAWA Tsunayoshi: 17th century Japanese ruler with the ethics of the future
TOKUGAWA Tsunayoshi was an iconic ruler of Japan during the age of the samurais. Nicknamed Dog King, he is remembered as a maker of laws that beheaded people for killing or straying puppies, and was criticized for devaluing human lives.
But recent studies have reevaluated Tsunayoshi's policies as perhaps a major contributor to developing Japanese people's ethical values now.
Show host Kyota Ko narrates a story for all canine- and humanity-lovers.
Hello world, you are listening to the Metro-classic Japanese. My name is Kyota Ko. Today, I'd like to bring to you a story that's perhaps a bit famous among canine lovers – there was a set of laws in Japan between the years 1685 and 1809 that administered corporate punishment if you deliberately murdered a dog.
The "Dog King" and the mixed reviews of his Mercy on Lifeforms Act
The laws were passed by a dictator, the 5th Shogun TOKUGAWA Tsunayoshi, or in other words the 5th ruler of Japan under a 250-year long regime of peace called the Edo Period. These laws are called 生類憐みの令 in Japanese and I think everyone in Japan grew up learning about it in school.
I looked up on Google for a good English translation of these laws and it only gave me very descriptive translations like "edict forbidding cruelties to living things" or "law to protect animals."
I didn't like the sound of any of these, so I'll just name it the Mercy on Lifeforms Act. It was a set of laws that aimed to protect not only dogs but all lifeforms including cats, horses, turtles, birds, and also human beings. But TOKUGAWA Tsunayoshi was nicknamed Dog Shogun for some reason, and that's how he's remembered today, but it wasn't like he was crazy about dogs.
To our more modern-day minds, trying to spare lives sounds very ethical, but in late 17th century Japan, the Mercy on Lifeforms Act was badly criticized as an unpractical policy. However historians nowadays praise the Shogun Tsunoyoshi for perhaps laying the foundation of Japan becoming as ethical and peaceful as it is now.
So why the mixed reviews? Let's find out today.
The setting: 17th century Japan
First of all, let's put you in the picture. What was Japan like in the late 17th century? People were wearing kimono, the traditional Japanese outfit, men had man-buns and it looked like they had a hot dog on their heads. Samurais walked around with two swords on their waists – that made it clear to everyone that they were the ruling class because civilians were not allowed to be armed.
Japan used to be divided into several dozen regions each governed by a samurai lord. And each samurai lord led a group of samurais and a fleet of soldiers to fight over territory against other samurai lords for over a hundred years. This went on pretty much throughout the 16th century. So samurais had all been living bloodthirsty lives for a long time.
They would practice their combatting skills with spear, bow and arrow, doing all those on horseback, and study warfare so that they could increase their chances of survival and making major accomplishments in battle. That's how they made a name for themselves and got raises.
But Japan was united under one samurai lord called TOKUGAWA Ieyasu in the early 17th century. He was the first Shogun of the TOKUGAWA Shogunate so he was the great grandfather of Tsunayoshi, the Dog Shogun. This marked the beginning of what we call the Edo Period. Edo was the name of Tokyo at this time and Edo became the center of politics because that's where the Tokugawa family lived.
The Tokugawa Shogunate was a dictatorship ruled by the most powerful samurai family, the Tokugawa family, and the government was run by other lesser samurai families working under the Tokugawa Shogun. These lesser samurai families each governed a particular region of Japan, so the Tokugawa family was like the White House and each other samurai family was like the governor of a state.
They had been kept under control by means of power during the first 50 years of the Shogunate.
Transitioning from the age of swords to the age of ethics
So every time a lesser samurai family caused even a minor problem, the government took that as an opportunity to axe the whole family, thereby showing who was the boss. This was important because, for the lack of a better analogy, each samurai family was like a Marvel comics villain and the Tokugawa family was like Thanos, the most powerful villain ever.
So all the other villains had to serve for Thanos, but not because they're motivated to. If they saw a chance, they might try to overthrow Thanos.
So the early Tokugawa Shogunate deliberately tried to fire off samurai families that were not related to them. In fact in the first 50 years of the Shogunate, 131 samurai families were axed. The region they governed were given to samurai families with blood ties with Tokugawa or to more obedient samurai families.
But that approach led to generating many unemployed samurais, who were called Ronin. That is to say there were many unemployed men who were really skilled in killing people roaming around looking for ways to feed themselves all over the country. Some actually turned into bandits and safety became a major concern.
So by the 4th Shogun in the latter half of the 1600s, the Shogunate began transitioning from a militaristic government to a more civil one. They realized samurais were no longer looking to overthrow them anymore, so the Shogunate gradually switched to gaining support not by means of power, but through re-education, or in other words mind control.
They promoted Confucianist values, which encourages courtesy of children towards parents, youngsters towards elders, friends towards friends and also workers towards their bosses. So you know, obey your bosses not because they're stronger than you but because that's manners. That's virtuous.
This is exactly where the modern day Japanese values come from. We feel it is common sense to try to always be polite to others. We look down on people who fail to do this. Our minds are still controlled by Confucianism which came into Japanese people's lives all the way back in the Edo Period.
So Tsunayoshi took over as Shogun in 1680. He was very different from the stereotypical alpha samurai. He loved Confucianism, especially one of its ideals about not taking lives of other living things.
This idea had been around in Japan for a long time because it agrees with Buddhism which was the official religion for a good chunk of time in Japanese history. There's even a subcategory of Japanese cuisine called Shojin Ryouri which is a group of totally vegeterian dishes Buddhist temples devised a long time ago.
So the idea itself was nothing new and it was practiced among certain groups of people in Japan.
Brutality towards animals and children
But really only certain groups held that as a value. Most people prioritized being pragmatic over being humane.
Cattle and horses were often disowned when they got sick to save maintenance costs. Inns would throw out their customers if they got sick because they didn't want the disease, whatever it was, to spread to the other customers. A part of the leg muscles of horses were often sliced because that apparently made the ride smoother.
Kids back then had only like a 50% chance of growing up to be an adult, mostly because they got sick and there was no cure, but there were also a lot of abandoned children. Families who couldn't afford their children anymore would abandon them.
There were even a lot of homicides of newborns. Of course there were no contraceptives back then and when women in poor families became pregnant especially during a famine, they would kill the newborn right after birth by means I don't wish to talk about here. It's really upsetting just to think about it.
The political commentator Ben Shapiro is against abortion and he argues very well against abortion, but you wouldn't need Shapiro's help to have strong reservations against what used to be done in Japan.
Nowadays we castrate cats and dogs, we clip the wings of pet birds so that they won't fly away, and abortion is a choice. We still do these things for convenience's sake, but things were significantly worse in the Edo Period.
Tsunayoshi rises to correct things
There were lots of cruelty back then. Cattle and horses were often disowned when they got sick to save maintenance costs. Inns would throw out their customers if they got sick because they didn't want the disease, whatever it was, to spread to the other customers. A part of the leg muscles of horses were often sliced because that apparently made the ride smoother.
Kids back then had only like a 50% chance of growing up to be an adult, mostly because they got sick and there was no cure, but there were also a lot of abandoned children. Families that couldn't afford their children anymore would abandon them.
There were even a lot of homicides of newborns. Of course there were no contraceptives back then and whenever women in poor families became pregnant especially during a famine, they would kill the newborn right after birth by means I don't wish to talk about here. It's really upsetting just to think about it.
The political commentator Ben Shapiro is against abortion and he argues very well against abortion, but you wouldn't need Shapiro's help to have strong reservations about what used to be done in Japan.
Nowadays we castrate cats and dogs, we clip the wings of pet birds so that they won't fly away, and abortion is a choice. We still do these things for the sake of convenience, but things were significantly worse in the Edo Period.
So our hero TOKUGAWA Tsunayoshi was not happy at all about how his people were treating other life forms. He had a son who unfortunately passed away at age 5, and it's said that it was his son's death that motivated him to try to save vulnerable lives.
He issued several new laws and guidelines to the public during his reign, and I'll give you a shortlist in a minute, but you'll see an active effort to save lives.
So for example, he banned killing and abandoning of children. He banned abandoning of animals. So you can't just throw your dependents out every time you're financially challenged. Take responsibility, was the message. He encouraged better treatment of prisoners and the ill. They are still human beings, was the message.
He told people not to kill animals without a dire reason. You're a terrible person if you cause the death of other people, dogs, cats, chicken, turtles, fish or insects. That was the message.
Most people tried to conform with the new set of principles, but what Tsunayoshi faced was the kind of problem parents face all the time. Some kids try to test your sanity every time you give them a new house rule.
You know, you tell them they can't eat snacks after 8, and then when you see them in the kitchen in front of a pack of chocolate, you ask them "What are you doing?" And they answer "I'm not eating. I'm just looking at it." Or you see them licking chocolate and you ask them "What are you doing?" And they answer "I'm not eating. I'm just licking."
So just like that, some total dickheads only technically conformed to the principles. Probably for example people claimed that the baby "accidentally" died or their children "mysteriously" disappeared.
So Tsunayoshi starts losing it, like any parent would. He added statements about punishments and he also had to be more specific with his words, like "If you brutally murder a dog, you shall be sentenced to death" or "If you kill any life form when you had the choice of not to, you shall be sentenced to death." So guidelines became laws.
And there were a couple of cases where a samurai got his head chopped off because he killed a dog with his sword. Many samurais probably felt humiliated by this, because one, their lives were being seen no greater than dogs, and two, taking lives were a part of their identity as the ruling class since forever.
So samurais certainly didn't like the Mercy on Lifeforms Act, and it was the samurais who were the majority of people who got punished for disobeying the Act.
The criticizing starts
Another huge problem was that after Tsunayoshi prohibited people from killing dogs, they multiplied like crazy. It's said that there were around 100,000 dogs walking around the city of Edo at one point.
Dogs used to be fed leftovers. There were no fridges back then so it was better to consume everything within that day.
*Nishina, Kunio; Iseya Inarini Inunokuso; Soushisha; 2016.
But people stopped feeding them, because if you were seen as an owner of a bunch of dogs, you might get punished if you stopped taking care of them. You can also be punished for abandoning them. As a result, there were many hungry dogs roaming around town and safety became a concern. And many dogs starved, too, which kind of defeated the purpose of the Mercy on Lifeforms Act.
So Tsunayoshi decides to build a huge dog shelter as big as 138 football fields in Edo City and put all the 100,000 or so stray dogs in there. As a result, the number of dogs in Edo is said to have gone down to just 500 dogs and it prevented people from getting assaulted by wild dogs and also rabies from spreading.
But these dogs were fed white polished rice and fish everyday at a time when peasants couldn't afford to eat white rice, so it got a lot of criticism, for valuing the lives of dogs over people. Tsunayoshi got to be nicknamed the Dog King.
And guess who got to run around to capture those dogs? Samurais. Because basically they were public officers and workers. So you could imagine how embarrassed they must've felt. Their ancestors were fighting bravely in important battles while they are running around town chasing dogs and puppies.
There was also an incident where a samurai abandoned a puppy one night. He got arrested and was pulled around the entire city of Edo being publicly announced what outrageous deed he had done, and then got his head chopped off, and then his head was put on display for three days for the public to see.
It was intended to be a message to everyone about what would happen if you disobey the dictator, but it was taken as more like "This is what will happen to you if you mess with a puppy." And fellow samurais probably felt that sense of frustration and discrimination when a video of a puppy rolling around in bed gets a million likes on Instagram while a video of yourself rolling around in bed gets like two.
So Japanese historians now think that perhaps the samurais who kept record of events related to the Mercy on Lifeforms Act really despised Tsunayoshi and therefore deliberately wrote ill about the policy.
Tsunayoshi had been remembered as an incompetent dictator who enforced his Confucianist ideals and his love for dogs onto his people, but this is most likely untrue because he was initially just issuing guidelines about being ethical but some assholes ignored them so he had to make additional laws and introduce punishment as countermeasures.
It's also not true that he was crazy about dogs. His ideal to value life extended to all live forms, not just dogs.
The effects of Tsunayoshi's policies
So Tsunayoshi was in his death bed in 1709, and with his last breath told his successor "Keep the Mercy Act going." And all his staffers were like. "Yes, yes. We will." But then in the same year he died, the dog shelter was torn down and most of the laws prohibiting the killing of animals were taken back. T
sunayoshi's policies started out as ethical guidelines but eventually ended up being unpractical laws because he pushed his Confucianist values to an extreme.
But it's thought that it is from Tsunayoshi's time that people may have started to think twice before handling a form of life in any way. The spirit of the Mercy on Lifeforms Act stayed. And laws banning the killing and abandoning of children were kept after Tsunayoshi's death.
The Tokugawa government gave out subsidies to people who fostered abandoned children. However *studies claim that the laws themselves didn't have a real impact on saving children because the reason they were abandoned or killed was poverty. It was more of a financial problem than an ethical issue.
*Kitou, Hiroshi; Bunmei to shiteno Edo system Nihon no rekishi 19; Kodansha; 2010.
But these studies also say that there was a shift in the sense of guilty people held towards straying a child before and after the Mercy on Lifeforms Act. Even in the 1800s, the number of orphans increased every time there was a famine, but the letters from the anonymous parents of the abandoned children would say things that suggest the parents felt gravely sorry for not having the guts and benevolence to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of their own child.
Politics is really difficult. There's no silver bullet to social problems because things are never simple. There are supposedly bad political decisions made all the time that don't result in bettering the country immediately, but if there were good intentions behind them, I feel we need to recognize them and the few good things they do, and then it's our job to think of ways to do a better job.
I think any political measure is more likely to fail in more aspects than it will succeed in. And the leader who had the guts to take the plunge and the blame for everything that would go wrong and to take the risk of being remembered as a poor ruler on Wikipedia or nicknamed the Dog King should receive some recognition. He or she took the first step to put an ideal into shape.
I believe Tsunayoshi's drastic measures had some impact on how Japanese people are now. Castrating dogs and disciplining them, which Japanese people especially do a lot of, are, yes, not the most natural of ways to cohabitate with canines, but otherwise they'll be reproducing and behaving out of control and if so we'll eventually have to get rid of them. Just being super nice to them won't necessarily save their lives.
You'll notice that in Japan, there are no stray dogs, and for pet dogs, not many of them bark because the social norm is to discipline them not to.
So pet owners with dogs that misbehave are passive-aggressively shunned in many places in Tokyo, at least where I live. I have a feeling the Mercy on Lifeforms Act Tsunayoshi issued 3 centuries ago has a bit to do with how Japanese society loves dogs but is careful not to let them do anything they please.
It's perhaps thanks to Tsunayoshi I have lived a peaceful life without any neighbor problems about dogs.
Anyway, thank you so much for listening. And if you liked this podcast and you would like to know more about Japanese culture and its historical background, please follow this channel on Spotify or wherever you're listening. Also please follow the Metro-classic Japanese Facebook page or Instagram account for updates on my blog and podcasts. それでは、またお会いしましょう。
By Kyota Ko|2020-09-19T11:27:37+00:00September 17th, 2020|Categories: Japanese history, Podcast|Tags: Japanese history, Japanese philosophy, Japanese society, Japanese thought|
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Parking and Suburbanization Downtown
The solution for an ailing downtown is to become denser and more urban.
By Trey Shaughnessy
Suburbanization is the biggest threat to cities in North America. If you don't believe me, ask Paul Bedford, Toronto's chief urban planner (now retired), who said that in a speech to Chicago city planners. Of course, that is like preaching to the converted anyway; Chicago is a beautiful, dense city.
King Street, Dundas: Density, mixed uses, and people create an urban space (RTH file photo)
Bedford is not only referring to the low-density, unsustainable sprawl that surrounds cities - which RTH has explored in the Suburbia project - but also the suburbanization of urban cores and urban neighbourhoods.
As far as Hamilton is concerned, this represents a bigger threat than the sprawl. Why? Simply because we aren't capable of building the way we did in the past.
Take, for example, the Lister Block, Birks Building, Bank of Montreal, and Piggott Building: is anything being built with the same quality materials, craftsmanship and ability to gracefully endure time like these buildings?
Paul Wilson's recent article about gas stations downtown was written as if it were something to be proud of. These suburban-style 'gas 'n' sips' shouldn't be anywhere near our downtown, let alone something to write home about.
That is the type of suburbanization that threatens to destroy any potential that Hamilton has to regain its greatness and the suburbanization to which Paul Bedford refers.
However, there remains a large misconception that downtown needs more parking lots. Kathy Drewitt, the Downtown BIA director, suggested that the south leg of King by Gore Park be turned into a parking lot to attract more patrons. Let's go back to when suburbs were being developed and sold.
Suburbs were pitched to middle-class America and Canada as an ideal to raise a family. It started in the early 20th century with the invention of the railway or streetcar suburb. The Aberdeen, Durand and St. Clair neighbourhoods were rail suburbs. Today these are considered 'downtown', but the current idea of a suburb really didn't happen until post-war and when automobiles became affordable for the typical middle-class family.
Those postwar suburbs extended past the rail and streetcar lines and were dependent on automobiles. (This dependency has increased with every passing decade of sprawl development in the post-war era.)
The pitch was simple, and focused on what downtown wasn't or couldn't deliver the post-war family: a backyard, a front yard (rarely used for anything other than an ersatz piece country with cedar shrubbery and boxwood hedging to define property lines), three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, and most importantly, a place to store the automobile.
This became the unique selling proposition (USP) of suburban development - lots of 'free' parking for automobiles. It also became the USP for suburban shopping centres. This was the 'meaningful point of difference' as it is called in marketing, sometimes called 'the angle' to which it was pitched against downtown and urban living and shopping.
It also became a necessity and will ultimately be its downfall. Automobiles take up lots of room. They require quantity where pedestrians require quality (Dan Burden, 2001). I would even add that pedestrians require quantity as well, but quantity within an acceptable walkable distance.
Downtowns
Downtowns exist because of the concentration (density) of destinations and residents. An agglomeration of housing, retail, residential, entertainment and offices, this creates what is called the 24 hour city.
People who live in and/or patronize the 24 hour city have little need for a car and thus no need for a parking space. Concentrating activities, buildings, and services in a small space increases efficiency and maximizes economic health, largely by drawing large numbers of people together and minimizing the distance they must travel in order to interact (or spend money).
This is downtown's USP.
Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy, internationally acclaimed transportation and livable cities experts, surveyed 32 cities around the world. They sought to compare the amount of lane mileage and parking provided in the downtowns, then look for correlations between these factors and gasoline consumption and the livability of the city.
Based on this analysis, they came up with a rule of thumb for a downtown, based on the ratio of parking to employment. Their conclusion was that beyond 200 parking spaces per 1,000 jobs, a city becomes noticeably ugly, polluted, auto dependent, energy intensive and deteriorated.
Here are the numbers for well-known American cities (note that the totals are from 1990):
Parking/1000 Jobs
Phoenix 1,033
Los Angeles 524
Washington, D.C. 264
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Q: issue dynamically checking password Here is my scenario, I present the user with a table of tests, which I have retrieved from my database in a loop and created a form for each test(row of table). So each has a submit button to execute that particular test.
basics of my loop:
while ($ts = mysql_fetch_assoc($test_info))
{
 //PRESENT VALUES $ts['name'] in table within a unique form etc.
}

What I am trying to do and failing is, on clicking a particular submit button for a test, to run a JS function which checks; if the test has a password attached, if it does, present a popup form for password input, and on submitting that small form check if password is correct, if it is submit the original test form.
My problem is that I cannot parse the password value attached to that form to my javascript.
so ideally i want to do this:
<input id='submit' type='button' onclick='JSfunction(test_password)' value='execute test' >

So I can somehow parse a value from that particular form to a javascript function without actually submitting the form.
and I believe I know how to do the rest in my JSfunction.
I hope somebody can follow my poor explanation and point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,

A: When a form should have a password associated with it, add the following:
<input type="hidden" name="has_password" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="" />

Then, in your check triggered by the submit button (assuming the button itself is the this context):
if ($(this).parent().find(':input:hidden[name=has_password]').val() == 'yes') {
    // pop password request
    return false;
}

You'll need a way to store the context of the current form, and I can suggest a few if you like, but you can then populate the password into the hidden field for it and submit as normal.  By the way, you might want to consider onSubmit instead of the submit button's onClick, as onSubmit will catch attempts by scripts to perform a submit.  If you do this, just remove the .parent() portion of the above, as the <form> element should be the this context.

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Historic Scott County bridge to be repaired
By Ryne Turke on January 16, 2016 at 10:56am
A Scott County bridge with historic significance is set to be replaced in the near future.
Morgan/Scott County Highway engineer Matt Coultas says the bridge, located on Roodhouse Springs Road between Glasgow and Alsey, was seriously damaged during the flooding that occurred last summer. Coultas says there are multiple stress fractures in the foundation and the bridge has been deemed unusable.
Coultas says the bridge was given a historic label because it was built in the early 1900s and is a strong representation of the construction of the time.
According to Coultas, the bridge is mostly used by farmers as a rural passage way.
A pre-bid meeting is taking place this Friday. The bridge construction is projected to be completed by March 31st.


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NEW ORLEANS — In partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education, Children's Hospital New Orleans announced on Tuesday plans to serve as a resource for schools across Louisiana and to provide guidance on best practices, procedures, resources, and robust testing for COVID-19 as part of Children's ThriveKids Student Wellness Project.
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Recent Books on Music Recommended for Holiday Giving
Posted on December 1, 2016 by aaamc
Following are recently published books in the genres of jazz, soul, R&B, and rap music that made our short list.
Title: A Life in Jazz
Author: Danny Barker; Alyn Shipton, editor; new introduction by Gwen Thompkins
Publisher: The Historic New Orleans Collection
Format: Hardcover (254 pages, 8 x 10)
Just in time for the holidays, this new illustrated edition of the 1986 biography of New Orleans musician Danny Barker would make a wonderful gift for any jazz fan. Published as volume three in the Louisiana Musicians Biography Series from The Historic New Orleans Collection, this new edition is supplemented with 115 images that illuminate Barker's story, plus a complete discography and a never-before-published song catalog. As one of the elder statesman of jazz, Danny Barker (1909-1994) appeared on more than a thousand recordings and wrote dozens of original songs including his biggest hit, "Don't You Make Me Feel High [Don't You Feel My Leg]," sung by his wife, Blue Lu Barker. He was also the first to record classic Mardi Gras Indian songs and chants, writing his own adaptations of "My Indian Red," "Corinne Died on the Battlefield," and "Chocko Mo Feendo Hey." Barker's bio is chock full of stories harkening back to the roots of jazz in New Orleans, as he reflects on "the freedom, complexity, and beauty of this thoroughly American, black music tradition." A truly inspirational story, and a wonderful follow-up to Vol. 2 in the series, Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans.
Title: Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield
Authors: Todd Mayfield and Travis Atria
Formats: Hardcover (368 pages), eBook (Kindle ed.)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Perhaps one of the most highly anticipated music books of the year, this new biography of soul music icon Curtis Mayfield is told from the perspective of his second-oldest son, Todd Mayfield, with assistance from noted music writer Travis Atria. They certainly don't disappoint. Far from the typical tell-all, the authors offer a well-crafted, in-depth and extremely compelling account of the singer-songwriter that reads more like a novel. Chapter titles often reference Mayfield's songs, providing insight into the source of his lyrics. For example chapter two, "My Mama Borned Me in a Ghetto," includes lines from his autobiographical song "Kung Fu": "My mama borned me in a ghetto / There was no mattress for my head / But, no, she couldn`t call me Jesus / I wasn`t white enough, she said." In this manner, Mayfield's life is traced from the streets of Chicago to the formation of the Impressions and his label Curtom Records. Later chapters cover his political activism and socially conscious songs that became forever linked to the Civil Rights Movement. But with the good comes the bad, and the authors don't shy away from addressing the more volatile aspects of Mayfield's personality, or describing the pain and suffering that followed the tragic accident in 1990 that left him paralyzed. A must read for any fan of soul music.
Title: My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
Author: Maurice White with Herb Powell
Publisher: Amistad
Formats: Hardcover (400 pages), Paperback, eBook
Maurice White, who founded Earth, Wind & Fire in 1970 with his brother Verdine White and Philip Bailey, sadly passed away on February 3, 2016, just as his autobiography was completed. Peppered with personal stories, Maurice also sheds light on production details while providing an overview of the band's albums and singles. Known for his spirituality as well as his musicianship, Maurice addresses both the sacred and the secular, providing a full account of his influences. The gifted singer-songwriter, producer, arranger and bandleader left an indelible mark on American music, and thankfully decided to share with us the final chapter in his remarkable life.
Title: Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Author: Ben Westhoff
Publisher: Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover (432 pages)
Award-winning journalist Ben Westhoff, author of the 2011 book Dirty South on southern hip hop, now turns his attention to the West Coast for a definitive history of California's hip hop pioneers. Released on the 20th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death, Westhoff traces the rise of N.W.A. as the voice of disenfranchised African Americans, the formation of Death Row Records, the rise to superstardom of Snoop and Tupac, and the rivalries between East Coast and West Coast factions. Of equal importance, he delves into changes in the music industry and music consumption in general, which brought gangsta rap into the mainstream. Based on extensive interviews with 112 different sources, Westhoff's latest effort is essential reading for those interested in the history of the genre.
Title: Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Author: Greg Tate
Publisher: Duke University Press
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Village Voice writer Greg Tate is widely recognized as one of the premiere voices on contemporary Black music, arts and culture. Not only is he a writer and "prose stylist" extraordinaire, but Tate actively performs as a guitarist/conductor with the New York based collective known as Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber. Like Tate's Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992), this volume is a collection of his writings, divided into 5 sections: "The Black Male Show" which focuses primarily on musicians ranging from Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis to Ice Cube and Lonnie Holley; "She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too" covering Sade and Azealia Banks as well as Black feminists, writers and poets; "Hello Darkness My Old Meme" offering wide ranging essays on hip-hop, jazz, and Black culture; "Screenings" focused on the films of Spike Lee and John Singleton, among others; and "Race, Sex, Politricks, and Belles Lettres" which is something of a catch-all for other works. An enjoyable read that you can digest as a whole or in parts, while marveling at Tate's ability to turn a phrase while dissecting race, class and gender in America
Title: UP From Where We've Come
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: www.expressyourself.net
Formats: Paperback (246 pages), eBook
Release date: February 2016
Mississippi born singer/songwriter Charles Wright has been a fixture in the music business for over fifty years. As leader of the Los Angeles based Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Wright penned the band's mega hit song, "Express Yourself," that is still frequently heard today. His new book is described as part autobiography and part novel, with each of the 59 chapters offering a short vignette drawn from life stories. Beginning with his family's trials and tribulations as sharecroppers on a cotton plantation where, by the age of eight Wright was forced to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day, the book traces the family's relocation to California; but unfortunately the "sharecropper mentality" follows. Those who want to learn more about Wright's music career will be disappointed. But if you want to be inspired by Wright's struggles to succeed in the face of adversity, he offers a powerful, first person narrative focusing primarily on how "the machinations of capitalism and personal vendettas unified to entrap the working class, and their families, into an endless cycle of debt and destitution."
Reviewed by Brenda Nelson-Strauss
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Q: Connecting 2 1W speakers I am trying to connect together 2 1W speakers and mount them inside some ear defenders. I am a complete novice and am following an instructable tutorial. The tutorial is a bit light on the basics and I have been unable to find any answers to my questions online. Here is a picture of the materials I am using...
3.5mm headphone jack socket, 2 1W speakers, audio wire, ear defenders.
Here is a close up of the speaker...

Question1: Points A and B are copper and points 1 and 2 are something else. So my first question is do I solder the audio wire to A and B or 1 and 2 or doesn't it matter?
Here is a close up of the headphone socket and wire ends...

Question 2: Do I poke the wires through the holes and solder there? Is it white wire on one and red on the other?
Question 3: Do the red and white wires have any significance?
Here is a link to the instructable tutorial I am using.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Ear-Defender-Headphones/
I am happy with the circuit that needs to be created just not sure where to connect everything. I tried holding wires against the contacts on the speaker and on the headphone socket with sound plugged into the socket and nothing happened with the speakers. Sorry for the long question but I am completely lost. Any guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

A: *

*Points 1 & 2 are the soldering points for the speaker voice coil. Do not solder connecting wires on 1 & 2 as the voice coil wires may get disturbed and cause damage to the speaker.

*Points A & B are the copper pads where the wires are to be soldered.

*Soldering slender wires will avoid overheating and damage to the speaker.

*The wires are to be held in the headphone jack lug holes and soldered.

*Wire colours are only to identify 'left channel', 'right channel' and 'common'.

*Wire as shown below.

Since you are using 8Ω 1W speakers, take care to ensure that the headphones are not plugged into a high power amplifier output which may cause hearing damage.
A power input of 10mW to the headphones may be adequate for comfortable listening. Standard headphone impedances are 32Ω and 300Ω.

A: First off, your ears will be happier with a lighter wire than shown.  Something in the 26-30 gauge range, maybe.
The wires solder to the tinned pads 1 and 2.  You want to do this quickly, so another reason to use smaller wire.
On the jack, the bare wires go through the holes and are folded over flat to make a good mechanical support before soldering.

A: Question1: Points A and B are copper and points 1 and 2 are something else. So my first question is do I solder the audio wire to A and B or 1 and 2 or doesn't it matter?
Ans : No, it's just the copper pad and soldering lead
Question 2: Do I poke the wires through the holes and solder there? Is it white wire on one and red on the other?
Ans : Yes, separate it in to 2 black line, poke it. Note speak have polarity not in term of electronic but in term of sound you need to wire the same way like signal on left and ground on right
Question 3: Do the red and white wires have any significance?
Ans : It's just convention. Red for right channel and white for left channel.


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Jaipur & its surroundings are rather like an endless museum. The city also offers an endless variety of crafts. Jewellers here still fashion the beautiful enamel-on-gold pendants, studded on the reverse with precious stones or pearls & turquoise that one sees in miniature paintings. Jaipur's lacquer bangles are famous all over the world.
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A pride of peacocks adorn an ornate doorway in Jaipur's City Palace. Palace retainers stand at attention as in the past when Jaipur Court was headquartered here. The palace is now a fine museum. It houses a remarkable collection of textiles, paintings, manuscripts, and extraordinary weapons. On display there are two huge urns of silver, said to be the largest silver vessels in the world. Nakkarkhana-ka-Darwaza, the imposing gateway of the City Palace guarded by stone elephants, is monumental.
The architectural astronomical instruments of 18th century Rajasthani king named Jai Singh contained in an amazing, three-storey-high complex known as Jantar Mantar.
The western skyline is dominated by the extensive walls, watch towers and gateways of Jaigarh built by Jai Singh in 1726. It is one of the few military structures of medevial India preserved almost intact, containing palaces , gardens, open and covered reservoirs, a granary, an armoury, a canon foundary and several temples. It is the royal treasury for several years. The world's largest cannon on wheels is to be found here. The fort has its own museum and provide an excellent view of Amer Palace.
A picturesque palace admist the Man Sagar Lake. It is Jaipur's lake palace surrounded with water. It is built for royal duck shooting parties.
Built in 1734, the Nahargarh Fort lies north-west of City Palace and provides some stunning views of the city down below both during daytime and night.
Has beautiful gardens, fountains, pools & some magnificent pieces of sculpture.
Air : There are flight connections to Delhi, Kota, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Aurangabad, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Rail: An excellent connection from Delhi is Shatabdi Express which provides a fast, air-conditioned rail service. Other connections to Jaipur are from Bikaner, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Secunderabad, Agra, Lucknow, Mumbai and Calcutta.
Road: A convenient mode of travel to Jaipur is by road, through a network of comfortable tourist buses. Rajasthan Roadways runs excellent regular service of AC and Deluxe Coaches from Delhi (From Bikaner House, Pandara road and ISBT, Kashmeri Gate) Some Road distances are Delhi 259 km, Udaipur 405 km, Jodhpur 336 km, Ahmedabad 657 km.
An Amazing art work done by our artists( team of The Ranthambhore school of Art) at Nahargarh Biological park, Jaipur.
Located in district of Amer, a district which has 4 sq kilometre area, and is in close proximity to Jaipur (11 kilometres), in Rajasthan state, Amer Palace is a popular tourist destination. Amer, the district stands high on one hill and is acknowledged to be frequently visited by the tourists every year. This region Amer was initially constructed by Meenas while later it was governed by Raja Man Singh.
The fort of Amer is also well known for its Hindu architecture style and different elements. Through its cobbled paths, series of gates, and large ramparts, this fort overlooks the popular Maota Lake.
The fort has aesthetic ambience which is much prominent within its walls only. Built of marble and red sand stone, the magnetic and opulent palace has foundation on 4 levels and each of this has a courtyard. The palace has Diwan-e-Aam also called Hall of Public Audience, Sukh Niwas (having cool climate, artificially built by winds which blow over the water cascade in this palace), Jai Mandir, Sheesh Mahal (mirror palace), and Hall of Private Audience also called Diwan-e-Khaas. This palace was once the home of kings of Rajputs and their respective families. Just at the palace's entrance there is a gate called Ganesh Gate which has a temple next to it devoted to Sila Devi, goddess that belonged to Chaitanya cult. This idol of Sila Devi was given to King Man Singh when he conquered victory over Raja of Jessore of Bengal in 1604. Jessore at present is in Bangladesh.
Amer Fort together with Jaigarh Fort is situated just above the Cheel ka Tall (acknowledged as Hill of Eagles) at the Aravalli hill range. The Jaigarh fort and the Amer Palace are at times considered as one complex since the two are linked to each other via subterranean passage. The passage was actually an escape route during war times for enabling the royal members of the family and others to relocate to more redoubtable place – Jaigarh fort.
Annually the number of tourists that visit this fort was reported as five thousand visitors every day with 1.4 million being during the year 2007 itself. This was mentioned by Department of Archaeology and Museum's superintendent.
During the 37th summit of World Heritage Committee hosted at Phnom Penh, Cambodia in year 2013, Amer Fort together with other 5 forts in Rajasthan was announced as a heritage site by UNESCO as significant part of group of Hill forts of Rajasthan.
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[VIDEO] Would You Draw Or Shoot?
Our friends at TTAG recently shared a video of an armed security guard drawing his gun on a person who was videotaping whatever was going on.
The problem here is that we don't have a whole lot to go on as far as the events leading up to this but assuming that nothing wrong was done by the man being drawn upon, what would you have done? Watch the video above and share your thoughts.