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Montifiore Hall, Exeter University 1981
The dormitory that I lived in while attending Exeter University in England was called Montefiore Hall. Monty, for short. It wasn't really a dormitory per se. It was more like a big English country house with lots of spacious rooms big enough to acommodate two beds/two desks/two dressers, etc. It was a great dorm, and I made the right decision to live "in hall" and take my chances with a British room mate, rather than live in a flat with one of my classmates from Kenyon. Nothing against my Kenyon classmates on the Exeter program… it's just that none of them were in the position to take me home for the weekend to a new town I'd never visited before. None of them could explain all the arcane British lingo I heard on a daily basis (for example, there was no need to worry, I soon learned, if Pete, my room mate from Cardiff, had: a) gone to the bog for a slash or b) nipped round the back for a puff on a fag). More importantly, none of the Kenyonites could share their wealth of popular British culture at 2am while laying on the floor of their dorm room, drunk out of their minds, while the stereo played.
Thursday nights were special in Monty for several reasons. First, every Thursday the dining hall served fish n' chips with mushy peas — easily one of my favorite meals. My British friends would always give me a hard time because simple courtesies with an American accent went a long way with the ladies in the kitchen. In other words, I always got extra portions of chips just for saying "thank you" with that "luvley yankee accent." Besides fish n' chips with mushy peas, Thursday was also the night Top of the Pops aired on BBC television. So after dinner we would walk down the hall from the dining room to the tv lounge and join 20-30 other students in the throes of procrastination lounging about in front of the telly. Now I had heard Top of the Pops referenced many times before traveling to England. For many British bands, the opportunity to play on TOTP really signified that you had finally hit the Big Time. Top of the Pops was essentially a country-wide countdown show. It mixed music videos with "live" studio performances in front of a dancing audience, by bands whose songs were either firmly entrenched in the charts or had just entered the charts. The "just entered" category could be anybody in the top twenty, I believe, and that's where you saw the most week-to-week fluctuation and diversity. The top ten, however, could remain static for weeks — subjecting viewers and listeners to the same top songs — show after show, week after week. This could be both extremely annoying as well as downright hilarious. Needless to say, despite all the hype that I had built up in my mind about the show, it was utter crap. Whatsmore, all the Brits in the TV lounge every Thursday night at 8pm knew and understood this fact. "And that, my fine American friend, is what makes the show so brilliant." Ahh, now I understood… Every Thursday night we'd gather together in a noisy, smokey, stale beer smelling tv lounge to watch a show that was so bad, it was brilliant. Sometimes the videos—by bands I had never heard of before—were very cool and interesting to watch. Sometimes the band themselves would be the studio guest and you could see what they looked like and imagine how great they'd be in concert — especially if they didn't have to lip synch. Other times, if the country had inexplicably embraced some no-name schmuck with a new record and catapulted him to stardom via absurdly high record sales, you got to make fun (or take the piss out of — see, I was a quick study!) some of the most dreadful pop entertainers England had to offer. On any given week the show would reflect this bizarre amalgamation of ecelectic musical tastes, trendy new discoveries and commercial record sales. That's what made the 30-minute show so damn much fun to watch. My school mates would actually get all worked up over the evening's TOTP outcome. "There's no way that song should be number one!" "I can't believe so-and-so is back. I thought he had OD'd." etc., etc.
To be honest, I'll never forget certain things I saw on TOTP while sitting in that TV lounge. The beautiful black and white video for the song "Vienna" by Ultravox. The Who performing "You Better You Bet" after having dropped off the planet for five years following the death of drummer Keith Moon. Bryan Ferry's homage to John Lennon after he was murdered, covering "Jealous Guy" at number 2 and John Lennon's "Imagine" at number 1 the same week. U2 performing "I Will Follow." To name a few.
Today's song is inspired by one of those unforgettable TOTP performances. In 1980, angular, staccato guitar, heavy reverb, primal drumming, percolating synthesizers and often dark imagery was all the rage. So you can imagine my curiosity and surprise when the lead riff from this song blasted from the tiny speaker on the tv set and it seemed to come from a trumpet, not a guitar. Combine that with the opening line: "bless my cotton socks I'm in the news," the name of the band: The Teardrop Explodes, and the insane pop genius of front man Julian Cope, and you have The Happy Medium Song of the Day: "Reward." (Please use the comments box to share your thoughts.)


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Another "deep dive" interview! This episode we chat with Chris Ducker the author of Virtual Freedom. How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business. Chris certainly "walks his talk". Of his own "virtual freedom", he says, "I now work an average of 6-hours a day, my workweek no longer includes Friday and I get to spend lots of time with my wife and three awesome children."
During this wide-ranging interview, you'll discover..
Why going with a smaller publishing company might be the best idea for your book. ([04:00])
How a near-death experience led to Chris's greatest business epiphany. ([05:00])
How and why Chris started blogging. ([06:00])
The all-important concept of the "Virtual CEO", and what it means to you. ([06:38])
How Chris completely replaced himself so his business could run without him. ([07:00])
The secret advice Jay Baer gave Chris (that you can use) that caused Chris's blog numbers to skyrocket. ([09:15])
Should everyone use Periscope? And what are the secrets of successful "scoping"? ([11:00])
The truth about "personal brand" vs. "company brand" – which is best? ([14:42])
Why you should never worry about other people "stealing your ideas" online. ([15:30])
Chris and I share our respect for the warrior-philosopher, Bruce Lee. ([27:00])
The book by Bruce Lee (that's not about kung fu). ([28:00])
The little-known "origin story" of Youpreneur.com ([29:00])
How Chris managed to get a great domain name (Youpreneur.com) that was already taken. ([33:00])
Why Chris's podcast is one of my few essential listens. ([37:00]).
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The hilarious conversation Chris had with Lewis Howes. ([42:00])
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Chris reveals the bizarre talent he possesses that you'll be shocked to learn about. ([47:00]).
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NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Results (5/4): Okada's First Defense, Ishii vs Evil
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Results
Welcome to live coverage of the second and final night of NJPW Wrestling Dontaku! To watch the show subscribe to NJPW World where the event is being broadcast live with English commentary!
(1) SHOTA UMINO & REN NARITA def. YOTA TSUJI & YUYA EUMURA
From what I saw this was a hard-hitting opening match between the four best Young Lions in the promotion right now. Tsuji stomped down Eumura after the match. I'm going to go back and update this later. I was a bit distracted by the Portland/Denver game going into QUADRUPLE OVERTIME. Sorry…
(2) TAICHI, MINORU SUZUKI, DESPERADO, YOSHINOBU KANEMARU & TAKA MICHINOKU def. JEFF COBB, TIGER MASK, HENARE, YOSHI-HASHI & RYUSUKE TAGUCHI
Some comedy early on with Coach Taguchi running a train on Taka, and forcing Yoshi-Hashi to wear his rugby helmet, completely against his protests. Things slowed down with Suzuki-Gun working over Yoshi-Hashi with quick alternating tags for several minutes. The whole match built up to Jeff Cobb getting the hot tag and running wild on all of Suzuuki-Gun, clearing the apron, suplexing Desperado and Kanemaru at the same time, before getting his revenge on Taichi after losing the title to him last night. All ten guys brawled and Cobb hit Tour of the Islands on Taka, but Taichi took him out from behind, then destroyed Henare with a superkick to score the win. The reign of terror continues.
(3) TORU YANO, JUSHIN THUNDER LIGER & TOGI MAKABE def. TAMA TONGA, TANGA LOA & JADO
(4) JUICE ROBINSON, TOMOAKI HONMA, MIKEY NICHOLLS & HIROOKI GOTO def. JAY WHITE, CHASE OWENS, BAD LUCK FALE & HIKULEO
This was fairly procedural for the first half with Honma getting the early advantage, missing Kokeshi, and being worked over by all of Bullet Club for several minutes. There were a few threads including Juice and Nicholls working really well together, and Hikuleo got a ton of time to show off. He's really improved. He actually single-handedly took out the whole opposing team and it took Goto trying to take his head off with a nasty lariat to finally take him down. The dude is HUGE. He even got some good shots in on the champ, before Juice finally put him away with the Right Hand of God, and Pulp Friction.
(5) EL PHANTASMO & TAIJI ISHIMORI def. WILL OSPREAY & DRAGON LEE
It's official, mystery wrestler "X" and the new member of Bullet Club is indeed El Phantasmo! I didn't even try to do live coverage as it was basically ten minutes of non-stop tornado tag action with ridiculous moves that I couldn't keep up with if I tried. This was a showcase for Phantasmo's debut to get everyone familiar with how incredible he is, and he absolutely tore the house down. When you're the stand-out in a match with Ospreay and Dragon Lee, you've done something very, very right. Just go watch this match — it's pure adrenalin. Phantasmo actually pinned Ospreay with an arm-trap facebuster.
(6) TETSUYA NAITO, SHINGO TAKAGI & BUSHI def. KOTA IBUSHI & ROPPONGI 3K
It was clear the focus here was on Ibushi and Naito who got a ton of time to work with one another, but the others had a job to sell the Super Juniors and definitely delivered. Everyone got time and looked incredible. This made me really want to see Ibushi and Shingo Takagi have a singles match. Naito seemed to have the champion's number getting the better of all their exchanges, including a few incredibly close nearfalls including an absolutely sick Gloria that dropped him on his neck. In the end Naito pinned Sho with the Destino for the win.
After the match Naito got on the mic and said the crowd wanted to see an IWGP Intercontinental Championship match here tonight, but that didn't happen. He demanded an answer from Ibushi, as well as a time and a place. Ibushi returned to the ring and said the challenge has been accepted! The match is on, June 9th at Dominion!
Hiroshi Tanahashi made a surprise return for the first time since having elbow surgery following the G1 Supercard. He said that he felt like he was at the lowest of his lows right now, not being able to wrestle, but he was certain he would be back by June 5th for the Best of Super Juniors Finals at Ryugoku, and would work his way back, up and up and up, until he was at the top of New Japan once again.
Jay White and Gedo came to the ring and stopped Tanahashi from leaving. White asked him if he really thought he deserved the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, stating that the line starts behind him. He is the real champion and he is next in line, no matter who wins tonight. Gedo took a cheap shot, and the two beat down the Ace.
(7) TOMOHIRO ISHII def. EVIL
They started with about a hundred back-and-forth forearm strikes that went for so long that the crowd started clapping for each one. They eventually graduated to shoulder tackle attempts, ramming into each other until both guys collapsed. After a quick brawl on the outside the went back to trading, this time with big open-palm chops. EVIL didn't like getting slapped in the face and had to walk away for a second to maintain control, then basically told Ishii to hit him harder, which the Stone Pitbull did with a hard series of strikes and a thudding suplex, before going to work with short-arm lariats in the corner. EVIL found his second wind and blasted his opponent's back, stomping away at him over and over again doing some serious damage. The punishment continued on the outside with a Hangman's DDT off the barricade, then wrapped a chair around Ishii's throat. The referee tried to get involved but was shoved away, and EVIL took a second chair and swung for the fences, damn near hitting a home run with the Pitbull's head. He applied a Sharpshooter in the ring, working the back and knee set up earlier, sitting down on the hold as Ishii screamed out in pain, but refused to give up for an eternity. Ishii somehow powered his way out with a big back suplex, taking both guys down for a good beat. After connecting with a huge lariat he applied a Sharpshooter of his own, screaming at each other as they fell into the ropes. EVIL get trying to throw punches but Ishii absorbed each of them before killing him with another lariat; EVIL popped right back up though and dropped him with a back suplex, followed by another lariat for a close nearfall. Both of them absolutely refused to stay down. At one point EVIL kicked out of a lariat at ONE, the two collided in the center of the ring, and they just collapsed. They continued to ram into one another with simultaneous lariats until they could barely stand, at which point they countered each other's finishers multiple times and traded half-and-half suplexes. Unbelievable. Ishii hit another running lariat that literally turned him upside down, but it wasn't enough. He hit him with the Brainbuster, and finally got the win in one of the hardest fought matches I have ever witnessed.
(8) KAZUCHIKA OKADA (c) def. SANADA TO RETAIN THE IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Sanada's has shaved the goat beard! This started with a slow exchange, both guys countering move–for-move in a tremendous feeling out process. The challenger even got a smile out of Okada after going several minutes chain grappling with him, reversing everything but the kitchen sink. Things slowed down as Okada slapped on a few holds. Eventually Sanada broke free, trying to weaken his opponent's knee with Dragon Screws, even managing to trap the champ in the Paradise Lock, before slowing things right back down with his own holds. That was essentially the theme of the match — both guys being perfectly even, Okada unable to gain any longterm advantage, and Sanada having the fight of his life trying to break his 0-5 record against Okada in singles matches. A very slow, but incredibly well-worked match. At the 30-minute mark, they were still trading finisher attempts with Okada unable to hit the Rainmaker or the Tombstone over and over again. At the 35-minute mark Sanada reversed the Tombstone twice more, and hit a Rainmaker of his own for the closest nearfall ever, then tried to put him away with Cold Skull, but Okada rolled through and finally hit the Rainmaker to win in a nearly 39-minute battle of attrition.
Okada cut his show-closing promo saying that he would work hard to make sure everyone around the world loves professional wrestling. He asked who would be his challenger at Dominion for the IWGP title… The lights went out, and some creepy imagery appeared on the screen with a figure in the shows. CHRIS JERICHO appeared in the shadows and introduced himself, laying claim to the title at Dominion. Back in the arena Okada laughed, accepted the challenge, making it official, and celebrated with the fans to end the night.
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Black money case: Narendra Modi-led govt claims all information can't be disclosed
Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | Updated: Oct 18 2014, 06:56am hrs
Government, led by BJP, which had promised bringing back black money if it came to power, now claims that not all information could be disclosed.
Black money: You can name names once probe over, Law tells Govt
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Narendra Modi-led NDA government on Friday urged the Supreme Court to modify its order in the black money case on absolute disclosure of information pertaining to people who stashed tainted money abroad.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the fresh application before a bench led by Chief Justice H L Dattu, which put it for hearing on October 28.
The application cited the double taxation avoidance agreement to state information relating to account holders in foreign banks could not be put in public domain by virtue of the treaty.
The government, led by BJP which had promised bringing back black money if it came to power, however now claimed that not all information could be disclosed. It also said that information can be provided only about the accounts after the treaty came to fore and not about past transactions.
However appearing as petitioner in person in the PIL on the issue, senior advocate Ram Jethmalani strongly opposed the plea, saying the government sought to protect the "culprits" and this application seemed to be moved on their behalf.
He sought dismissal of the application at threshold, calling it a very serious attempt by the government to circumvent the court orders on disclosing in national interst all information on black money account holders.
The court however said it would need to at least peruse the application before it passes any order.


lake tour of Bhimtal, Sattal, Naukuchiatal. Drive back to Hotel, Take Dinner & Overnight stay at Hotel.
After breakfast go on a Local sightseeing tour, beginning with boating on the famous Naini Lake (at your own cost) and visit to the holy Naina Devi Temple. After that, visit famous tourist spots like china Peak, Tibetan Market ,Lover point and. In the evening, enjoy shopping at the Mall Road. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.
After breakfast check out to hotel and depart to Kausani .
After breakfast check out to hotel and depart to Corbett .
Check in at evening in hotel. after refreshing enjoy Resort Indoor / Outdoor Activity / Swimming Pool. In Evening enjoy bonfire & light Music / DJ (At own Cost) after that take dinner and overnight stay at hotel.
to corbett sightseeing Garjiya devi temple / Corbett Museum Etc. Check in at evening in Rishikesh hotel. after refreshing Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel .
After having the breakfast in the morning, check out to hotel . En -route visit to River Rafting adventure activity.( At own Cost) than visit to Ram Jhula, laxman jhula etc. & get ready fo the mussoorie and check in hotel Have your dinner and Stay overnight in the hotel.
After having the breakfast in the morning visit to mussoorie local sightseeng Deodar and Pine Trees, beautiful valleys, and famous Kemtey fall etc , evening enjoy at mall road, back to the hotel. Overnight stay at Mussoorie.
Morning drive to Delhi Arrive Delhi airport in time Board Flight / Train for onward..
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Inclusive of toll, parking, driver charges, fuel charges, state taxes, transfers and s/seeing as per the program .


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EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for Friday, April 26, 2019 with a £14million jackpot
Will you join the list of big money winners in EuroMillions, National Lottery Lotto draws and Thunderball?
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What would be first on your shopping list if you won the EuroMillions tonight?
Would your thoughts turn to yachts and houses and foreign holidays?
Maybe you would first think of friends and family you could help out?
With £14m to your name, the world would be your oyster and you could make a real difference to those you love - and have a terrific time as well.
Top EuroMillions winners
Top UK EuroMillions winners
1. Colin and Chris Weir (pictured): £161,653,000 (July 2011)
2. Adrian and Gillian Bayford: £148,656,000 (August 2012)
3. Unknown: £123m (June 2019)
4. Unknown: £121,328,187 (April 2018)
5. Frances and Patrick Connolly, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland (£115m)
6. Anonymous (winner decided not to go public): £113,019,926 (October 2010)
7. Neil Trotter: £107,932,603 (March 2014)
Tonight's winning numbers: 14, 33, 35, 47, 50. Lucky stars: 9, 11
Playing EuroMillions also means automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker.
Players of the game choose five numbers from 1 to 50 and two lucky stars from 1 to 12.
You can also do a lucky dip.
EuroMillions is played in nine European countries and has two draws a week - one on Tuesday and one on Friday - with jackpots sometimes reaching into the hundreds of millions of pounds in the event of a multiple-rollover.
Prize table for EuroMillions
5 Main Numbers + 2 Lucky Stars Jackpot
5 Main Numbers + 1 Lucky Star £227,848.80
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3 Main Numbers + 2 Lucky Stars £78.00
4 Main Numbers £43.30
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3 Main Numbers £9.00
1 Main Number + 2 Lucky Stars £7.60
2 Main Numbers + 1 Lucky Star £6.00
Euromillions was first drawn in February 2004 and initially only included the UK, France and Spain – before lottery organisers Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal joined in October that year.
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Tonight's numbers: 14, 33, 35, 47, 50. Lucky stars: 9, 11


Barcelona's Clínic hospital has become the first in Spain to adopt 5G technology so that surgeons can carry out operations at a distance in real time.
The low latency of 5G communications networks means that operations can take place remotely without any delays.
The aim of the project is to connect surgeons from around the world without them needing to be present in the operating theater.
Presented on Tuesday, the 'Remote surgery' project will have to wait until 5G technology becomes widely available, which is scheduled from 2020.
Meanwhile, as part of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, surgeons from the Clínic hospital will remotely carry out an operation that will be streamed on 5G.


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Q: DataFormatString in C# Rounding Issues I have an issue that is currently causing the currency in my program to round. If it is a 7 digit number it automatically rounds it up and I can't understand the issue.
For example:
100000.99 will automatically round up to 100001.00 when it is stored in the DB.
However, if I have anything under six digits it is stored correctly.
[Display(Name = "PO Value")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:C}")]
public float POValue { get; set; }

Any suggestion?
The application was built in Visual Studio 2010 using C# and the MVC4 engine.

A: Thanks to Michael Coxon I have solved the issue!  Within the DB the column POValue was setup with a DataType as real.  Therefore the precision is only 7 which accounts my issues.  I am having it modified to the DataType float.

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The state of Lebanon
February 5, 20170181 Neville Teller
Uniquely among the 50 Muslim-majority nations of the world, Lebanon has a Christian president. The inauguration of Michel Aoun on 1 November 2016 ended a 29-month power vacuum and a political stalemate that had frozen the country's constitutional processes.
"Not before time" would be a natural reaction, considering the length of the presidential inter-regnum. The truth, however, is that the absence of a largely figurehead president over that period, while politically inconvenient and somewhat of an embarrassment, made little difference to Lebanon as it ambled along under the guidance of prime minister Tammam Salam.
Along the way, Lebanon's relations with Saudi Arabia plummeted as Hezbollah, an integral part of Lebanon's body politic, plunged into the Syrian conflict together with Iran's Revolutionary Guards in support of President Bashar Assad. Aoun took early steps to repair fences by visiting Saudi Arabia in January 2017. He could do little domestically to mitigate the result of an influx of more than a million refugees fleeing the horrors of the civil war that raged in Syria. Lebanon's population of less than 4 million in 2000 had, by the end of 2016, swollen to more than 6 million, most of the addition being Sunni Muslim refugees.
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was born in London and is a graduate of Oxford University.He has been commenting on the Middle East scene for over thirty years.He is Middle East correspondent for the Eurasia Review and his articles also appear regularly in other publications and in his blog "A Mid-East Journal".His books include "One Man's Israel" (2008), "One Year in the History of Israel and Palestine" (2011) and "The Search for Détente" (2014).A past chairman of the Society of Authors' Broadcasting Committee, he is a veteran radio and audio dramatist and abridger.In the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2006 he was awarded the MBE for services to broadcasting and drama.
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In theory Lebanon should be a template for a future peaceful Middle East. It is the only Middle East country which, by its very constitution, shares power between Sunni and Sh'ite Muslims and Christians. Theory, however, has had to bow to practical reality. In fact, Lebanon has been highly unstable for much of its existence, and its unique constitution has tended to exacerbate, rather than eliminate, sectarian conflict.
Modern Lebanon was established in 1944 on the basis of an agreed "National Pact", with the top three positions in the state allocated so that the president is always a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of the Parliament a Shi'a Muslim.
Theoretically no system could seem more just, more designed to satisfy all parties in a multi-sectarian society. In practical terms, it has proved a constant irritant, and efforts to alter or abolish it have been at the centre of Lebanese politics for decades.
The Taif agreement which ended the Lebanese civil war in 1989 incorporated a deal with the Christian community designed to buy their acceptance of their defeat in the conflict. Based on the fiction that Christians made up half the population of Lebanon, Taif reserved half the seats in parliament for them. Everyone knew that the parliamentary allocation was unfair. A recent analysis of voter registration lists by The Economist revealed that only 37% of Lebanese voters are Christian; Shias are 29 percent; Sunnis, 28 percent. Yet the Christians get 64 of parliament's 128 seats, whereas the Sunnis and Shias get only 27 each, the rest going to the Druze and Alawites. Meanwhile, not only the Syrian refugees, but also the half-million Palestinians, most of them Sunnis, who have arrived in Lebanon since 1948, have never been granted citizenship and are debarred from voting..
This mismatch between demography and political power partly explains the presence of Hezbollah in the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah, an extremist Shia Islamist group, emerged in the early 1980s as an Iranian-sponsored movement aimed at resisting the presence of Western and Israeli forces. Responsible for a string of notorious terrorist actions, such as the suicide car bombing of the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983, and the blowing up of the United States Marine barracks six months later, Hezbollah was born in blood, fire and explosion.
It can scarcely be said to have become respectable, but Hezbollah achieved a certain acceptability in Lebanese society following Israel's withdrawal in May 2000 from the buffer zone it had established along the border. In the election that followed Hezbollah, in alliance with Amal, took all 23 South Lebanon seats out of a total 128 parliamentary seats. Since then Hezbollah has participated in Lebanon's parliamentary process and been able to claim a proportion of cabinet posts in each government. As a result it has achieved substantial power within Lebanon's body politic – far too much, according to the March 14 Alliance, an organization dedicated to overthrowing this "state within a state". Now, although the new prime minister, Saeed Hariri, is a long-time opponent of Hezbollah, it has secured two ministerial posts.
Liberating Lebanon from the influence of Hezbollah and Syria was the aim of Saeed's father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in February 2005. When then UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, sent a fact-finding mission to Beirut to discover who was responsible, he was certainly unaware that he was giving birth to what might be termed a new judicial industry – the Lebanon Inquiry process. Now in its twelfth year it is being conducted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) which, if its elaborate website is anything to go by, is comparable to some thriving commercial enterprise.
The STL court, consisting of 11 judges, sits in The Hague. So far no less than 236 witnesses have provided testimony, 113 of them in person. Hearings are broadcast through the STL website. The tribunal runs its own public affairs office, which arranges briefings and interviews for journalists, and a media center whose facilities include Wi-Fi internet access, television screens to follow the hearings, and recording facilities in Arabic, English and French.
Ever since Hariri's assassination, Hezbollah and the Syrian régime have sought to disrupt the UN investigation. As a result the five identified defendants have not been apprehended, and the trial of Ayyash et al. is being held in absentia. When it began on 16 January 2014, after years of pre-trial hearings, the prosecution carefully steered clear of accusations against Syria. Latterly it has become clear that the prosecution believes President Bashar Assad wanted Rafik Hariri killed, and used Hezbollah and his own security apparatus to achieve his objective. Hearings are scheduled to continue well into 2017, and possibly beyond, but Assad and Hezbollah face an increasingly probable verdict of having planned and executed the murder of Rafik Hariri.
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Q: Mapping two classes in c# I have two classes
public class foo1
{
  public int id;
  public string image_link;
  public string sale_price;
}

and
public class foo2
{
 public int Id;
 public string ImageLink;
 public string SalePrice
}

The property values differ only by underscore and cases. I need to map these two classes.
For now I am trying something like this and its working:
//var b = object of foo2
var a = new foo1{
 a.id = b.Id,
 a.image_link = b.ImageLink,
 a.sale_price = b.SalePrice
}

I heard of AutoMapper, but I din't have clear idea of how i am going to use that or where is the option of ignoring cases or underscores in it. or is there any better solution to it?

A: Your code is fine and works as expected.
I would personally advise you to not use automapper. There are plenty explanations about why on the Internet, here's for example one: http://www.uglybugger.org/software/post/friends_dont_let_friends_use_automapper
Basically the major issue is that your code will silently fail at runtime if you rename some property on your foo1 object without modifying your foo2 object.

A: As @ken2k answer, I suggest you to don't use an object mapper.
If you want to save code you can just create a new method (or directly in the constructor) for the mapping.
public class foo1
{
  public int id;
  public string image_link;
  public string sale_price;

  public void map(foo2 obj)
  {
    this.id = obj.Id;
    this.image_link = obj.ImageLink;
    this.sale_price = obj.SalePrice;
  }
}

Then
//var b = object of foo2
var a = new foo1();
a.map(b);


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Alan Prendergast
Can Denver's Billion-Dollar Stock Show Plan Save Neglected Neighborhoods?
Alan Prendergast | June 10, 2015 | 11:44am
Kelly Leid does not favor snap-button shirts, Wranglers and Tony Lamas. He's more of a polo-shirt-and-khakis guy. The headgear on display in his office includes hard hats but no cowboy hats, ten-gallon or otherwise.
Yet Leid, a Colorado native, has a soft spot for the state's Western heritage, and he's betting that most Denver residents do, too. If there was a slogan for his current mission, a modest little effort to spend more than a billion dollars redeveloping the dilapidated facilities now used primarily to host the city's century-old stock show, it would be this: Embrace the Cow.
"We've spent the last thirty years running away from our cowtown roots," Leid says. "Now we're rediscovering the importance of those roots. It's part of who we are."
Leid has made a career out of, as he puts it, "working on really complicated projects that require the creation of collaborative partnerships." He's been involved in planning major amphitheaters and stadiums, including the financing and construction of Sports Authority Field at Mile High and the University of Phoenix stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals. He's also overseen operations for Denver Public Schools. Thirty months ago, Mayor Michael Hancock appointed him project manager of the newly formed North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative, charged with coordinating six related planning projects on Denver's north side, including the expansion of I-70, the arrival of two RTD rail lines, and
"We've spent the last thirty years running away from our cowtown roots."
the redevelopment of Brighton Boulevard. But the greatest challenge facing Leid's team is how to transform the homely stock show grounds into a year-round complex of event venues and other regional attractions — without a substantial tax hike, and without ripping apart the surrounding neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea.
Leid says that what the city has in mind for rejuvenating the stock show, now known as the National Western Center, will be a boon to its long-suffering neighbors, too. "We're talking about three historic neighborhoods that have seen little or no public infrastructure investment for over three decades," he notes. "They've been very disconnected and very disenfranchised from the rest of the city. There's no way the city can fund everything that needs to be done, so how do we create partnerships to rebuild this part of the city?"
The city's solution? Embrace the cow, podner.
A few weeks ago, the administration unveiled its master plan for the National Western Center, a garrulous, bombastic document teeming with big ideas and bold declarations about the marvels in store for us all. It proposes the creation of new roads, a new arena and exhibition hall, public plazas and more, not just to beef up the stock show but to deliver what Hancock calls "a dynamic year-round tourist destination and agribusiness incubator." It envisions a Colorado State University mini-campus, focused on equine medicine and related studies; farmers' markets and art studios; and partnerships with History Colorado and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science that will bring schoolchildren to the area to learn about agriculture, the environment and "the importance of this site to human beings for the last 10,000 years."
All of this hubbub, Leid explains, will benefit nearby communities in many ways. New infrastructure — including bridges across the South Platte River, walkways through the National Western campus, train stations — will help to connect underserved neighborhoods that currently lack decent bus shelters and, in some areas, even sidewalks. Consolidating existing rail lines and reconfiguring roads will open up access to the South Platte River and provide new recreational opportunities. The "agribusiness incubator" component, while a bit murkier at this stage, will provide employment possibilities —up to 10,000 "indirect" new jobs, Leid says.
By the city's calculations, the price tag for the project comes to $856 million. But that figure includes only the initial stages of the National Western makeover; implementing the latter stages of the plan, including building a new arena and figuring out what to do with the aging Denver Coliseum, will certainly push the overall cost past the billion mark.
The Western Stock Show Association, the nonprofit that runs the stock show and owns most of the land apart from the Coliseum and nearby parking lots, has pledged to put up $50 million in cash, as well as property and naming rights valued at $75 million.
The city has also applied to the Colorado Department of Economic Development for $116 million in Regional Tourism Act sales-tax financing over thirty years. Last month, Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill authorizing up to $250 million in state funds over twenty years to fund CSU-related construction at the site. But the state's contributions are contingent on Denver voters approving an extension of certain lodging and car-rental taxes — the chief mechanism by which the city hopes to raise the bulk of the money for the project, close to $500 million.
A privately funded campaign is already under way to put the issue on the ballot this fall. City officials believe they have a winning argument; the tax in question impacts tourists much more than residents, and the ballot question will essentially ask voters to make permanent some excise-tax revenue bonds, originally intended to fund expansion of the downtown Colorado Convention Center and set to be retired in 2023. (A portion of the money raised by extending the bonds, about $100 million, will go to add additional meeting and ballroom space at the convention center.) "We don't need any new taxes," says Cary Kennedy, the city's chief financial officer. "All we'll do is ask voters to leave the existing taxes in place."
Yet several aspects of the plan could give voters pause. Even if the ballot issue passes, there's still a substantial funding gap in the current proposals, references to private investments not yet identified — and, of course, the unknown amount of the final price tag. A host of other questions have been raised in the communities next door to the site, where the prospect of such a staggering transformation has triggered a range of emotions, from wary optimism to bewilderment and fear of rampant gentrification.
Hancock, Leid and other city leaders have stressed that the master plan is a collaborative effort, with several residents and business owners of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea serving on a citizen advisory committee (CAC) that had substantial input in the process. But even members of that committee acknowledge that they can't speak for all the stakeholders in their diverse neighborhoods, which are among the last bastions of affordable housing for lower-income families within Denver city limits. They also note that the promised community benefits from the project are still being defined.
"My fear is the city is using this project as a catalyst for the future development of Globeville and Elyria," says Drew Dutcher, an Elyria resident and CAC member who works in architecture and planning. "The client for the master plan is the National Western Center, not the neighborhoods. I've been frustrated from the beginning with the lack of integration and vision in overall planning for these neighborhoods. These are huge forces — the Colorado Department of Transportation, the city, National Western, RTD, the major industries — that are acting without regard for each other, and we can't stand up against that. People feel overwhelmed."
Some residents say the positives of the project, including repairs to decrepit streets and gaining access to the river, outweigh the potential negatives. Others grumble about rising housing prices, a lack of basic services and being trapped between the Brighton Boulevard and National Western construction zones and the even more ominous I-70 expansion — which calls for taking out dozens of homes, adding toll lanes and putting the highway below grade. Owners of property within the 270-acre National Western Center target area fret that the entire scheme is just another land grab by the historically less-than-neighborly stock show operators, and that they may lose their homes or businesses.
"The city and the stock show are like twins," says Salvador Arrieta, who's lived in Elyria for 45 years. "They're connected, and they're going to do what they want to do. No matter what you say or do, these guys have the power."
Leid says he's conducted "listening tours" around the neighborhoods and heard plenty of locals' questions and concerns about the project. "One of the things I learned early on is that there's an enormous amount of distrust — of the city, in particular," he says. "Over the course of the last hundred years, a lot of promises have been made and not kept. There are also really fractured relationships between the neighborhoods themselves."
Just figuring out who speaks for Globeville or Elyria or Swansea, he adds, can be a challenge. Different neighborhood associations have come and gone, casualties of disinterest or internal dissension. "The physical improvements, as complicated as they are, are the easy part of this work," Leid declares. "The hard part is how you make the soft infrastructure, the social infrastructure, strong enough to accept all these improvements. These neighborhoods have been disconnected for so long. We run the risk of having them be overrun and not reap the benefits of the investment."
Arrieta, who has worked as a drywall finisher on construction projects all over town, is skeptical of the city's sudden interest in reviving his community. "The city isn't interested in this neighborhood at all, unless developers start buying land," he says. "Then they get involved. These people are working from the top down. If you build a house from the top down, it isn't going to work."
The three neighborhoods huddled around the National Western Center are among Denver's oldest, a crazy quilt of industrial and residential zones not seen elsewhere in the city. In the course of researching property titles for land acquisition and rezoning the area, Leid's planning team has come across baffling boundary descriptions going back more than 120 years, including a reference to a rock marked with an X that seems to have departed its original location long ago.
Swansea dates back to 1870. In the 1880s, ore smelters in the vicinity attracted a steady stream of Eastern European immigrants and created a demand for housing in what would become Globeville and Elyria. The proximity to rail lines and the South Platte also made the site a logical place for the Denver Union Stock Yard Company to set up shop. Several meatpacking plants launched operations nearby, and the stockyards quickly became the center of the region's cattle industry.
In 1898, a consortium of stockmen decided to host a barbecue at the stockyards, with enough venison, beef, possum, lamb and bear to feed 3,000 people. Unfortunately, the organizers gave away 12,000 tickets. The affair turned into a human stampede, complete with pickpockets, fistfights and ravenous hobos, who overwhelmed the police and devoured huge slabs of beef. The Denver Post denounced the melee as "barbarism" and urged the citizens of Denver to develop a more respectable stock show.
The respectable version arrived eight years later. The Western Livestock Show, later known as the National Western Stock Show, was inaugurated in a circus tent provided by Post owners Frederick G. Bonfils and Harry H. Tammen. The event was a huge hit, leading to the creation of a permanent arena, the National Amphitheater, in 1909.
For decades, the stock show and the modest neighborhoods around it thrived together. Many of the locals worked in the yards, in the packing plants, or for the railroad or the smelters. But then things began to head south. The construction of I-25 in the 1950s, followed by I-70 in the 1960s, bifurcated the neighborhoods and effectively cut them off from the rest of the city. Over the next couple of decades, the smelters and packing plants closed or relocated, and many related jobs went away as well. Blocks of stable blue-collar households devolved into blocks of shabby rentals and Section 8 housing, their affordability a reflection of the area's proximity to the clamor and odors of a dog-food factory, a wastewater treatment plant, an oil refinery, gravel pits and other attractions.
"When the packing houses closed down, it really changed the neighborhood," says Bettie Cram, a 92-year-old Swansea resident who's lived in the area since 1942. "But we still had the stock show. When they started talking about moving the stock show, then a lot of us got concerned."
"It's a very expensive project, but some day Denver is going to be very proud of it."
With attendance on a steady upward rise, the stock show had, in fact, made noises about pulling up stakes on many occasions. When it outgrew its original arena, the city responded by putting up the Denver Coliseum, completed in 1952. In 1971 the National Western threatened to move to Houston, Fort Worth or Las Vegas. Plans were quickly drawn up for a million-dollar Hall of Education and other improvements, financed by private sources. The latest fit of pique came in 2011, when the National Western announced that it was considering relocating to the proposed Gaylord development in Aurora. Michael Hancock, then Denver's newly elected mayor, vowed to keep that from happening, setting in motion the creation of the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative and the grand plan to keep the stock show viable in north Denver for another century.
Cram worked for many years in the venerable Livestock Exchange Building, the oldest building on the National Western site. She's been a strong supporter of keeping the stock show where it is, saying it's part of the identity of the neighborhood. One of the new roads in the master plan is slated to be named Bettie Cram Drive. While she's a bit flummoxed by the honor — "I never dreamed that would happen," she says — she's particularly pleased that the plan calls for preserving the Western atmosphere of the show as well as keeping it in Denver. The stock show lasts less than three weeks of the year, but its economic benefits to the region have been pegged at $115 million annually, and the proposed improvements are projected to double the attendance and nearly double that economic impact while making the facilities available to host up to a hundred new events each year — from trade shows to Riot Fest, which is booked for the National Western later this summer.
"I think it's going to be positive for the neighborhood," Cram says. "It's a very expensive project, but some day Denver is going to be very proud of it."
But some of Cram's neighbors — even some who, like her, have served on the citizen advisory committee — aren't quite as bullish on the stock show itself. In their view, the National Western has an uneasy, sometimes antagonistic relationship with the neighborhoods. Old-timers grouse about how the operation has privatized what they consider to be a public throughway and jams the surrounding streets with traffic. For many years, one of the few direct benefits to the neighbors was the opportunity to charge a few bucks for stock show visitors to park in private driveways or on vacant lots, but the show now offers free parking and shuttles, undercutting local entrepreneurs.
"The current relationship between the stock show and the neighborhoods is almost medieval," says CAC member Dutcher. "It might as well be a walled-in city. If this was just about the stock show, I don't think it could get off the ground. They have one foot in the nineteenth century; we have to come up with something for the 21st century."
But Dutcher is encouraged by the involvement of CSU and the history and science museums; their presence, he says, is a "game changer" that could transform the site into a more welcoming educational and cultural center. "There are elements in the plan that do try to provide for a public realm, open space and amenities like farmers' markets," he notes. "But there are some things I think we're going to have to fight for every step of the way."
"The City of Denver has not really done well by this part of this town."
One of the most tangible benefits to the neighborhood offered by the plan is the promise of "connectivity." By building new east-west spans across the Platte at 49th and 51st avenues, lowering 46th Avenue under the 1-70 viaduct to make it easier to move between the National Western facilities and the Coliseum to the south, and providing various pedestrian and bike routes through the site, the plan hopes to simplify travel between the neighborhoods and the rest of the city. The prospect is an inviting one, particularly in Elyria, which is hemmed in on all sides by the highway, Brighton Boulevard and industrial zones.
But skeptics point out that the plan doesn't address one of the major bottlenecks in Elyria: the Union Pacific tracks that cross York Street, bringing north-south traffic to a standstill several times a day. The pedestrian walkway through the stock show site, from the river to an RTD train station, has been dubbed a lonely "Grand Canyon" of dubious utility. And some question whether the new connectivity and infrastructure will benefit the stock show at the expense of the neighborhood. It's fine and dandy to talk about connecting his neighborhood to the stock show site, says Globeville resident Vernon Hill, as long as the infrastructure improvements extend to his side of the river, too.
Hill has worked in Globeville since 1984. He helped to convert one of the old packing plants into warehouses and is now the managing partner of JJJ Properties, overseeing a 150,000-square-foot facility at 50th and Washington that hosts several small businesses. "I've watched this place go through substantial changes," Hill says. "For a while we had all these vacant buildings and people coming off the river and homesteading in these places. I've seen the area begin to come back."
As a member of the advisory committee, Hill has seen the discussion about upgrading the stock show site largely skirt the need for additional upgrades in the arterials that feed into the area. "It was clear they had an agenda of their own," Hill says of the city's planning effort. "As we started looking at the maps, I noticed that Globeville wasn't their focal point."
He wonders how making new links between Washington and Brighton Boulevard will affect traffic in his neighborhood. Washington is in desperate need of repair and expansion, he says, and should be included in the road improvements targeted in the master plan. The area also needs more retail to attract businesses and new residents. "If we had a grocery store around here, it would make so much difference," he says.
Hill firmly believes the stock show makeover will attract more jobs and businesses to the area, and he's encouraged by his ongoing conversations with Leid's team. Leid acknowledges that he's working on what he calls a "community benefits memorandum" to try to formalize the sort of commitments the city is willing to make to the neighborhoods.
"I feel they're beginning to listen to us," Hill says. "This is a great first step. But we do have a level of apprehension. The city of Denver has not really done well by this part of this town."
As Tom Anthony sees it, his battered neighborhood has three vital needs if city planners want to revive some sense of north-side community and pride. A recreation center to replace the one that the city decided to close a few years ago, in a supposed cost-cutting move, even as it was opening new rec centers in communities that have far fewer children. A grocery store, since the only source of basic provisions in the food desert of Elyria is a pricey 7-Eleven. And a school to provide an alternative to Garden Place Academy, which is situated practically in the shadow — and the exhaust fumes — of the I-70/I-25 interchange.
All three were frequent topics of discussion when Anthony was on the citizen advisory committee for the stock show master plan. For various reasons, none of those items receive any attention in the plan itself, and none are slated to receive even a driblet of the money that the city hopes to spend transforming the National Western into a year-round tourist magnet and agribusiness incubator.
An environmental activist and furniture-maker, Anthony moved to Elyria seventeen years ago, in search of an inexpensive fixer-upper he could convert into offices and residential space. He set about rehabbing the former Armour packing-plant office on National Western Drive, a lofty two-story, 15,000-square-foot historic building that came with its own water tower — as well as "32 broken windows and all kinds of leaky steam pipes and sewer problems," he says.
Over the years, Anthony has clashed repeatedly with city officials, including city councilmember Judy Montero, over the cleanup of the former Asarco smelter, the closing of the Anne Louise Johnson Recreation Center and other community issues. (As a result of redistricting, the area is now represented on council by Albus Brooks.) At one point, he headed one of Elyria's short-lived neighborhood associations. He believes his pointed questions at CAC meetings about the master plan and the salaries of stock show executives prompted the city to retaliate against him, coming down on him for alleged zoning violations at his building. After city inspectors claimed he had too many unrelated adults using the art studios he leased, forcing him to lose tenants and income, he resigned from the CAC. And, he suggests, the whole episode has had a chilling effect on locals' ability to challenge the stock show plan.
"It's been kind of a whirlwind," Anthony says. "Everybody's afraid they'll be targeted like I was. They put a sign on my house that says it's an unsafe building; no one can be here but the owner. I'm still making furniture, but mostly I'm selling my raw materials."
In guest columns and at public meetings, Anthony has inveighed against many aspects of the stock show plan. He questions whether there's adequate parking for all the uses the plan anticipates, and he doesn't think it will do much to connect the neighborhoods. He pushed hard for an open-air market that would help bring the community together, quite different in scale, location and orientation from the "food and western artisan market" referenced in the plan as a possible use for the historic, 106-year-old arena. He's questioned whether any of the profits from this tourism magnet will find their way back to local residents. But most of all, he's taken issue with the city's assertions that the plan is the result of a deep collaboration with the neighborhood.
Anthony says it's tough to get a dozen people from Elyria — the minimum the city requires to qualify as a neighborhood organization — in one room at the same time. Many don't have e-mail accounts, are in short-term living situations, or don't want to get involved. "I've been a community organizer for many, many years," he says. "But up here, nobody's got e-mail addresses. There's like five people from the neighborhood on the stock show advisory committee, and they've been appointed until 2022, but they don't have to report to anybody in the neighborhood."
Leid points out that many members of the CAC were recruited from steering committees that helped develop neighborhood plans for Globeville and Elyria-Swansea. "We used a lot of information from those two neighborhood plans to inform the National Western plan," he says. "The mayor has been very clear about this: We are going to meet the residents where they are, and they're going to help define what they want for their neighborhoods."
"Over the past year, we've been able to turn some of the challenges into opportunities."
Anthony counters that among the key elements sought in the Elyria 2020 Vision Plan, prepared years earlier than the latest round of neighborhood and stock show plans, were a new school and a rec center. He says he did his own informal survey of neighbors shortly after the National Western plan was released, knocking on the doors of dozens of houses. "Almost nobody I talked to knew that we had a plan," he says. "No one was at the meetings."
At one point threatened with foreclosure after being cited for zoning infractions, Anthony is now in negotiations to sell his building to the city. The historic building, practically in the center of the new campus, is cited in the master plan for its "reuse potential," but Leid denies that there was any concerted effort to pry it from Anthony's grasp. "We were planning that Tom wasn't going anywhere," he says. "We were going to design around it. But because of some challenges he's had with the city, he's put it up for sale. We want to restore it."
Anthony's building is far from the only private property within the National Western "study area" that the city has a hankering for. At present, the city and the Western Stock Show Association own close to two-thirds of the projected 270-acre campus. But that still leaves around eighty acres in the hands of three dozen property owners. The National Western footprint may slightly contract depending on circumstances, Leid says, but most of those properties will have to be acquired by the city to make the plan work — a process the NDCC has already begun. City officials haven't ruled out the possibility of using eminent domain to buy up the private acreage, but right now they're focused on what they describe as "opportunistic land acquisition."
"We have been really transparent from day one with all the property owners that, as the plan evolves, there's going to have to be some land acquisition," Leid says. "Anything within the boundary has to be acquired to make the full vision of the Center a reality."
That kind of talk makes Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer nervous. For the past thirteen years, the husband-and-wife artists have owned the Blue Silo, just a short distance from Anthony's place on National Western Drive. The nearly 20,000-square-foot property had housed a creamery, a furniture factory and a janitorial supply company in the past, but had become a forlorn hulk with a rotting roof when Romeo and Weimer took it over in 2002. It now contains fifteen artist studios, shared by thirty artists.
Before finding the Blue Silo, the pair had attempted a similar venture at a warehouse in the RiNo district — back when the area was still known as the River North neighborhood. But the area was gentrifying so quickly, with rents soaring, that Romeo and Weimer decided to sell and look elsewhere. The stock show area seemed to be the last frontier for affordable studio space for artists, and the Blue Silo turned out to be the ideal location — right up until last fall, when the owners received a form letter from the city offering "to provide key updates and solicit your input" about the National Western plan.
They met with Leid, who presented a PowerPoint version of the draft plan but didn't provide any details about the fate of their building. One map showed Blue Silo's location as open space; in another, it was designated as part of the livestock pens. "I followed up with an e-mail trying to get specifics, and I really didn't get any answers," Romeo says.
Romeo and Weimer say they were never asked to be on the citizen advisory committee, never consulted about the project until last fall. Romeo has since attended one of the CAC meetings, which are open to the public, but says there was no opportunity to ask questions. "I'm confused about what they consider a stakeholder," Weimer says.
The experience was in sharp contrast with the public meetings they'd attended in River North, at which RTD and other public agencies sought property owners' input at every stage of major projects. "We had the opportunity to weigh in," Romeo says. "We had a place at the table. This time around, we were told we could sign up to get e-mails."
They're not sure what plans the city has for Blue Silo or what to tell their tenants. "I wish we had more information," Romeo says. "I'm hopeful we can be included. It's part of their mission to have the arts included."
Indeed, the National Western plan makes references to "shared art studio space between partners, Coors Western Art, and community groups, perhaps including the nearby RiNo Arts District." It would be counterproductive, Romeo suggests, for the city to attempt to encourage the arts at the National Western Center by giving the heave-ho to a thriving artists' den.
"We would have a hard time repeating what we did here," she adds, noting that many of her tenants require large spaces to work on their pieces but can't pay downtown loft prices. "If the Blue Silo closes down, some of these people are going to be out of business."
Leid says it's too early to know what private businesses might be able to survive the National Western makeover. The master plan is more of a "vision document" than a blueprint; detailed designs won't be drawn up until after the election has secured funding for the project. "Art is a big part of our goal for this campus," he adds. "Maybe there's an opportunity to partner with them, I don't know. We're simply not at a place yet where I can tell you."
City planners have their own version of the English language, an obscurantist dialect brimming with buzzwords and jargon that seeks to strike all the right notes but rarely breaks into song. Amid all the elaborate gab of the National Western master plan — burbling blather about synergies, cultural tourism, cowboy wisdom, an ethic of regeneration, farm-to-table, "blurring the lines between entertainment, competition, education, and industry," yada yada — perhaps the most startling is the stated goal of creating a "net zero" system for energy, waste and water at the site.
Net zero is the idea of recycling, sequestering or otherwise replacing the power, water and waste consumed by an enterprise so that the activity has, in effect, zero negative impact on energy supplies, the environment or landfills. That's a high aspiration for any human undertaking, but particularly for one involving trainloads of livestock and hundreds of thousands of two-legged visitors. Imagine a team of highly trained technicians with pooper scoopers, tracking every cow and cowpoke throughout their visit, prepared to convert all half-gnawed turkey legs, horse apples and other leavings into biomass energy.
If the National Western Center can achieve such a thing, it will be a remarkable change for the Globeville-Elyria area — a major new industry that isn't founded on the principle of fouling the air and water and dumping on its neighbors. Mickey Zeppelin, whose innovative, "new economy" redevelopment projects have fueled the rebirth of RiNo, points out that northeast Denver has long been a sacrifice zone for heavy industry, recycling and sewer plants, and any other business that more affluent neighborhoods don't want. But his time on the advisory committee has Zeppelin feeling encouraged about where the National Western is headed.
"I view it as a catalytic element, a bit of catch-up for the neighborhoods after all these years of neglect," Zeppelin says. "Those areas have had an awakening. I think what the neighbors are looking for is that they get the real benefits of the project, that the focus will not be entirely on creating a tourist destination. I'm hoping the benefits won't be confined just to the site. But without major neighborhood input, it's going to get lost."
If the vision behind the National Western's "vision document" seems a bit cloudy, it may be because the project is trying to appeal to so many different interests, not all of them compatible. There's a mushy, something-for-everybody tone to the master plan that makes it seem more like a grab bag than a solid proposal. The North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative has a similar catch-all quality, the notion that lumping together several different but somewhat related building projects will somehow soften the blow — even the massive disruption of the I-70 expansion — and magically change the construction zone into what the mayor likes to call the Corridor of Opportunity.
City planners know that part of the alchemy of planning is to find ways to present problems as opportunities. But in the case of the National Western project, Leid insists, the opportunities for the neighborhood are real. "The list of challenges was a lot longer than the list of opportunities," he says. "But over the past year, we've been able to turn some of the challenges into opportunities."
Leid is in the process of assembling an executive oversight committee to steer the project for the next few months. If the lodging-tax extension passes, he expects that the National Western Center will ultimately be overseen by a special authority appointed by the mayor. At present, though, he's asked the citizen advisory committee to select one member to serve on the oversight committee alongside representatives of the city, the stock show, CSU and other investors in the project. The citizen member will have one vote out of nine, one voice out of nine.
Will it be enough? That could depend on how effectively one advocate of the neighborhoods can turn problems into opportunities. The National Western backers surely have enough cowboy wisdom among them to know that if your bronc is riled, it's tough to stay in the saddle.


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Candlewicking is a traditional American form of embroidery that is usually done in a whitework (all white floss) style. Stitch it on unbleached muslin for a white on cream effect. This type of embroidery was first done with cotton thread used to make candle wicks, hence the name, Candlewicking. It is typically done with a colonial knot, a surface knot that sits high on the fabric. The patterns typically are Dutch or Colonial style, but there are many modern patterns out there as well.
Candlewicking is not a hard craft to learn. It is best to start out with a scrap piece of fabric and practice the colonial knots before starting a project. You can use any floss you have, although to really get the feel of the knots it is best to use thread specific for candlewicking. Remember that you are creating a picture by connecting the dots. The knots will form lines and the design.
Begin by laundering your piece of muslin, especially if it 100 percent cotton. Doing this step first ensures that your piece will stay the size that you intended. If you wait to do this as a last step, you may distort the final project and stitches.
Cut a piece of the muslin large enough to accommodate your selected design. For the muslin, choose any color, but traditionally the fabric is unbleached white or cream. If you are just beginning, use a contrasting color to the floss. This way you can see exactly what you knots look like and it is easier to perfect the stitch.
Lay the muslin on top of the pattern. If you have a light-box to put under this it will help with tracing, do so. If not, make sure you are under a strong light or darken the pattern beforehand.
Secure the fabric to the pattern with pins to keep it from sliding as you trace the pattern. Many dots make up the Candlewick pattern. You will be transferring dots to the pattern, not lines.
Use the washable marker to make small dots to show placement of the colonial knots and any other embroidery stitches used in the design.
Check carefully that you have transferred the entire Candlewicking pattern to the muslin.
Check again to make sure that you have transferred the entire Candlewicking pattern to the muslin, then remove the pins and set the pattern aside.
If you do not have way of tracing with a light box, you can also use graphite paper. Lay the graphite paper on top of the muslin and the pattern on top of the graphite paper. Daw over the picture on to the muslin.
Thread the needle with 4 strands of Candlewicking thread or 6-12 strands of embroidery floss or perle cotton floss. The amount of floss you use depends on how large you want your colonial knots to be. The more strands you use, the thicker and larger your knot will be.
Tie a knot in the thread or floss and stitch your first colonial knot.
Work the design in a systematic method from left-to-right and top-to-bottom. As you stitch, be sure to leave plenty of thread or floss to secure under the backs of stitches when you need to change threads or strands of floss.
When the design is complete, launder it to remove the marker residue. There should not be any shrinkage of the fabric if you prewashed and dried it before stitching. Lay the piece face down on a clean, white towel and iron. You may want to place an extra piece of muslin on top to use as a pressing cloth. Use an up and-down motion when ironing to avoid damaging the colonial knots.
Depending on the size of the design, finish it as a pillow, a wall-hanging, as part of a quilt-top, a bell-pull, apron bib, or ornament.


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Our beloved housecat died last week. Marvin the Cat was a mere 6 years old and in his prime. We heard a crash in one of the bedrooms and there he was, on the floor, taking his last breath. His death is a mystery. Maybe he fell and hit his head, or maybe it was a heart attack. We will probably never know.
Although my wife and I aren't "cat people," we came to love Marvin and accept him as part of our family. Once again, we have loved and lost. To love a person or a pet is to risk feeling the pain of separation. In fact, it's more than a risk. It's a certainty.
Therein lies the trap that so many of us fall into. The safety of isolation—of being a "rock" or an "island" as described by Simon and Garfunkel—also means that we will not know love.
Protecting our fragile hearts by keeping others at bay also means that we will not be truly known for who we are. The wounds of past relationships remind us to keep up the walls in order to stay safe and hidden.
So many horrible beliefs seem true when we live in loneliness and isolation. As a client of mine recently exclaimed, "If you really knew me, you would not like me." But the opposite is actually true; the more someone knows you, the more they can genuinely love you.
In all my years of being a psychotherapist (nearly 30!), there have been very few times when I found a person to be evil when they revealed themselves to me. Yes, everyone sins and falls short of perfection, but Satan has a way of magnifying those imperfections to create self-loathing and self-condemnation. The lie is clear: Isolation makes us weak, not strong. Our hearts become hardened, like a rock, and just as senseless.
As Alfred Lord Tennyson said, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." This is especially true if you buy into the idea that earthly love eventually ends in separation. The only love that never fails, that goes on forever, is godly love. There's no hiding from it either. God knows everything about you, and yet He loves you even though the imperfections are many.
Maybe the truth is that God loves you because you have no secrets from Him. Maybe God's love is so deep because He does understand your pain and suffering. The One who loves us cannot be taken from us. There is no need to fear separation or loss of love.
— by Daniel Jenkins, Ph.D.
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Trump Administration Moves to Subvert National Monuments
The higher elevations of Sand to Snow National Monument offer views of Mt. San Gorgonio.
Throwing all environmental law and conservation policy norms out the window, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the Interior Department to conduct a "review" of the establishment of all National Monuments going back to 1996, with the clear intent of undoing or shrinking some or all of these federally-protected areas.
As we've been expecting, it is the most full-fledged, naked assault on conservation policy in modern U.S. history, and another attempt by the GOP to ultimately privatize public land that belongs to you and I. The established National Monuments being subjected to "review" include:
Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah (1996)
Grand Canyon-Parashant, Arizona (2000)
California Coast, California (2000, exp. 2016)
Giant Sequoia, California (2000)
Canyon of the Ancients, Colorado (2000)
Cascade-Siskiyou, California and Oregon (2000, exp. 2017)
Hanford Reach, Washington (2000)
Ironwood Forest, Arizona (2000)
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, California (2000)
Vermillion Cliffs, Arizona (2000)
Carrizo Plain, California (2001)
Sonoran Desert, Arizona (2001)
Upper Missouri River Breaks, Missouri (2001)
Papahānaumokuākea, Midway Atoll (2006)
Marianas Trench, Mariana Islands (2009)
Rose Atoll, Samoa (2009)
Pacific Remote Islands, Hawaii (2009)
Rio Grande del Norte, New Mexico (2013)
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, New Mexico (2014)
San Gabriel Mountains, California (2014)
Berryessa Snow Mountain, California (2015)
Basin and Range, Nevada (2015)
Mojave Trails, California (2016)
Sand to Snow, California (2016)
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, Georges Bank (2016)
Bear Ears, Utah (2016)
Gold Butte, Nevada (2016)
As if Donald Trump hasn't already done enough to ensure his place as the most anti-environmental, anti-conservation president in U.S. history, all within a matter of weeks, he's now seeing fit to appease the Cliven Bundy fringe of Republican party extremism – the most reactionary wing of his constituency.
Almost all of the National Monuments listed above came together according to the guidelines set down by the landmark Antiquities Act of 1906. Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, one of our nation's greatest conservationists, the Antiquities Act is one of the most powerful pieces of policymaking available to the President of the United States. Along with preserving dozens of other sites under the policy, President Roosevelt used the Antiquities Act to preserve what is now Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Olympic National Park in Washington as National Monuments in 1908 and 1909, respectively.
Theodore Roosevelt also established Pinnacles National Monument here in California in 1908, which became a National Park in 2013. Death Valley and Joshua Tree were both established as National Monuments by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 and 1936, and both became National Parks in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act, which also established Mojave National Preserve.
While National Monuments can be passed as legislation by Congress in the same manner as a National Park, the Antiquities Act gives the president the ability to immediately designate an area of federal land as a National Monument with the stroke of a pen. The idea is to quickly protect any area that may be threatened, or designate an area of importance if Congress is moving too slow on National Park or Wilderness legislation, or if Congress shows little interest in advancing a conservation option for the area at all.
While Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego won't be affected by the Interior Department review (it was established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913), it's no accident the National Monuments called into question by the Trump executive order stretch back to 1996, the year President Bill Clinton protected what is now Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which lies adjacent to Bryce National Park in Utah. The "cutoff" date on the executive order is a clear indication of the lobbying and influence of far-right and anti-conservation groups within the Trump administration and western counties in Utah, Nevada and elsewhere.
As today's Republican-controlled Congress moves further to the right and away from the political center of the American mainstream, conservation initiatives and protecting clean air, water, wildlife habitat, open space and our country's natural heritage have become another matter of kneejerk partisanship for Republicans – even in districts where many of our nation's natural wonders can be found, despite the fact many of those monuments have become economic engines by way of eco-tourism and park visitation.
In his remarks, President Trump specifically referred to Bear Ears National Monument in Utah, which was established as a National Monument by President Obama in December. Located along the borders of Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Bear Ears also surrounds Natural Bridges National Monument, and had been the subject of a lengthy, grassroots effort to protect its sage and oak woodland habitat going back to the 1980s, as well as areas within the monument sacred to the Navajo, Hopi, Ute, Uintah, Ouray and Pueblo people.
Trump referred to the Bear Ears designation as a "land grab," parroting earlier and equally absurd charges made by anti-conservation extremists. It's anything but a land grab – and demonstrates the president's complete ignorance on the subject. Bear Ears has been managed by the federal government as public land since Utah was a territory. Declaring Bear Ears to be a "land grab" implies that the land was sitting around with no owner, or was seized (!) as part of the Obama designation in December.
Trump is too stupid to know better, but those who make the "land grab" charge are yelling fire in a crowded theater in a manner to incite fools like the Bundy clan, who conducted an armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, in late 2015, citing the "tyranny" of federal land control – apparently without noticing the Malheur has been a National Wildlife Refuge since 1908 (!) and is a center of jobs and economic activity for Harney County. Some tyranny.
Any and all land designated as National Monuments are already on federal land, there's no practice of seizing or taking land from others – unlike the kind of eminent domain laws Mr. Trump benefits from in order to build his buildings. The only thing that changes with the National Monument designation is the understanding that the area will be managed for long-term conservation, not for short-term gain. It is to be managed for all Americans to enjoy and revel in, not for a few to profit from at the expense of habitats and our environment. As a result, use of recreational machines may be curtailed and resource extraction may no longer be allowed, but hiking and hunting are prime activities.
The likelihood that the executive order's Interior Department "review" will ever lead to the undoing of an actual National Monument is dubious, as is the chance that it would survive any kind of court challenge, but it is the beginning of a larger assault on our public lands. Even though the Antiquities Act is 111 years old and has been used by over a dozen administrations to protect cultural or environmentally-valuable areas, no president has ever tried to undo a National Monument that was established by a previous administration or an Act of Congress. It's unheard of.
Typically a National Monument is managed by the National Park Service, which falls under the auspices of the Department of the Interior. However, since 1980, it has become more common for the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage areas designated as National Monuments. The new(er) Sand to Snow and Mojave Trails National Monuments in California are good examples of monuments managed by the BLM.
The mammoth 2017 springtime bloom at Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County.


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This week Scotusblog is running a series of essays, "The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act." Contributors so far are Dawn Johnson (Indiana U.), Bradley Joondeph (Santa Clara U., and manager of a very useful blog on the ACA litigation), Bob Levy (Cato), Charles Fried (Harvard), and me. There are many more essays still to come, that will be posted throughout the week. My essay examines some of the questions that the Court will face in granting cert., the tax issue, and the issue of the state coercion in Obamacare's new Medicaid mandates. Conspirators Adler, Kerr, and Somin are among some other scholars who have essays that should be posted soon.


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Path of the Cross through the Cloud of Unknowing
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The Lady in Blue
This is a mystical rendering of the "Lady in Blue", Abbess Venerable Maria of Agreda, a Conceptionist nun, who lived in 17th C. Spain. She never left her convent but was a mentor to King Philip IV for his entire reign. She mystically bi-located to New Spain, current-day Texas/New Mexico, and taught several tribes of Native Americans the gospel of Christ. Among her writings of 12 books, the most famous was the "The Mystical City of God", which among other things is an autobiographical account of the life of The Blessed Mother Mary.
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Rose for the Most High, symbolizes the offering of the soul to God, as exemplified by the Holy Family.
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Masterclass Series: Lead a Winning Team! – 9 March 2022
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The pandemic has undoubtedly changed the way we work. The complexity of teamwork has increased as teams are more global, virtual and project-driven.
Dr Carl Gavin, Senior Lecturer in Project Management at AMBS, UOM travelled to Singapore to lecture in this 'Leading and Managing in a Global Environment' Masterclass Series. The 'Leading a Winning Team!' Masterclass took place on 9 March 2022 at our centre. Dr Carl shared insights from his experience directing and managing large-scale projects for a diverse range of organisations. He also gave participants strategies to manage effective and dynamic working relationships within an organisational group.
Students and alumni participated enthusiastically in this hands-on, face-to-face Masterclass as they weighed the advantages and disadvantages of decision-making in groups and teams. They also further analysed the working relationship in a group setting. Group discussions were engaging, even while maintaining the safe distance of one metre apart.
It was a fruitful Masterclass, all thanks to Dr Carl's sharing of his extensive knowledge and for the students and alumni in making the effort to participate wholeheartedly. Teamwork thrived!
Dr Carl Gavin
Alliance Manchester Business School
Carl is a Senior Lecturer in Project Management at AMBS, UOM, with a focus on executive education. He is also the Programme Director of three executive education programmes for BAE Systems and BP.
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