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How Standing With Rand Has Broadened The Liberty Movement
Published on June 5, 2014 September 1, 2016 in Politics by Rocco Lucente
Recently Steve Deace, a man for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration, had some very poignant questions as to Rand Paul's commitment to upholding liberty principles. As a person in the liberty movement who supported Ron Paul and now Stands with Rand with conviction that runs just as deep, I had some immediate thoughts on how to answer the questions posed.
Deace asks of the liberty movement "Is it a movement to advance a slate of issues/principles, or is it a movement intended to get Rand Paul elected the next president of the United States? The truth is if it's the latter, that's precisely how Rand will never win—as the civil rights and Religious Right movements of yesteryear can now attest. Once the acquisition of power replaces the mission the vision becomes compromised, and so does the movement."
I would start by stating, unequivocally, that the liberty movement is not about one man nor has it ever been, despite how the media attempted to portray us as the "cult of Ron Paul" for so long. That being said, the greater point here is that advancing our most prominent champions political chances does not have to come at the expense of principle. There will always be the question of how much progress is enough, and that is a hotly debated topic in the liberty movement, but in every policy initiative Rand Paul has put forth he has called for a gain in liberty and not a reduction. The minute that changes, I am off board and so are most other libertarians. Does he moderate his rhetoric? Yes, but has he moderated his positions? No. The moderation of rhetoric gives me hope that Rand can broaden our reach, which brings us to Steve's second question.
"While the movement is making inroads with younger voters, it has also shown it has electoral limitations in its current form. So how do you cast a wider net without betraying your first principles? What are the right hills to die on? Is this about building on Ron Paul's legacy to expand it, or do you have to diminish Ron Paul's legacy in order to mainstream it?"
I think this is the most important question for the liberty movement to answer, and I think that Rand's responses to this have been nothing short of brilliant in 2013. For example, in the case of Rand Paul's March filibuster we saw a bold, principled maneuver which caused a massive shift in public opinion and launched Rand to the national prominence he enjoys today. In a more recent example of this, Rand Paul's economic freedom zone act (which include a 5 percent flat tax and suspension of Davis-Bacon wages among other things) has even won the support of the man Steve so appropriately refers to as Ditch McConnell. This has not been nearly as prominent in the eyes of the public as the filibuster, but it does represent a very important part of Rand Paul's strategy, which is making liberty ideas attractive to opportunist politicians. I think anybody who looks at his record knows McConnell is not conservative enough to push for a plan as principled as Paul's free market stimulus on its merits, so why does he do it? He does it because it is a huge success with the Republican base.
By using rhetoric that appeals to a wider audience Rand is actually making libertarian policy popular to non-libertarian politicians and voters. In Rand Paul's crusade against NSA spying he has taken a program which once had overwhelming Republican support and (along with the fact that we have a Democrat president) turned it into something Republicans overwhelmingly oppose. This culminated in a vote to stop NSA spying that got the support of 94 Republicans and lost by only 12 votes. Almost everything Rand has done in the past year has made the libertarian position more attractive to Republicans, which will continue to grow our movement.
On the flip side, Rand has avoided some serious landmines that appeared tempting to engage in, but ultimately would not have benefited the movement. Though his voting record and public statements have consistently demonstrated he is personally in favor of defunding Obamacare, Rand consistently voiced that he did not want to shut down the government, which had major public opposition. Seeing the outcome of this shutdown deliver a major hit to the popularity of both the GOP and Ted Cruz made me glad that this was not the hill Rand chose to die on, as there are several examples of liberty issues (such as Audit the Fed) that have a high level of support and will broaden our movement. Picking our battles is indeed a huge question, and I would argue it's the one Rand has done best with, of all the questions Steve asks.
Steve goes on to ask "Who are the movement's shepherds? Is it a grassroots-led effort that speaks for itself, or is it in the name of "Paul" the movement lives and breathes? Since you need champions to advance your cause in our representative republic, and the movement really had no modern champion before Ron Paul, does the movement now take its cues top-down from his son as successor, or does the movement anoint and select its own champions? Is it an aristocracy or a meritocracy?"
I don't think this is a situation where either Rand Paul is the successor to Ron Paul or the liberty movement anoints its own champions. The truth is that the liberty movement has anointed its own champions, and the leader of them is Rand Paul. I am not so naive as to believe that this has nothing to do with his last name, but being the only libertarian senator also makes Rand the most nationally recognizable libertarian in the country right now. He has used this influence to push a budget that balances in 5 years, cuts 4 departments, literally cuts the EPA in half, cuts corporate and personal income taxes to a 17 percent flat rate, repeals Obamacare and repeals Dodd-Frank. If that does not make you a champion of liberty, I do not know what does. The liberty movement is a meritocracy, and Rand Paul has demonstrated tremendous merit in his time as a senator.
Steve's final question posed was "As a successor to his father's throne, is Rand Paul another Reheboam or another Solomon?". Now, I am not a Christian, so I am not too familiar with the bible, but the way I understand this is that Solomon was the son of King David who built the first temple in Jerusalem and Reheboam was the son of Solomon who caused a civil war between Israel and Judah. So the fundamental question behind the metaphor is "is Rand Paul building up the liberty movement, or is he splitting it apart?" I think that the answer to that question can be found in the explosive growth of Young Americans for Liberty (or YAL) and Campaign for Liberty, groups founded by Ron Paul and supported heavily by Rand Paul. YAL now has over 500 chapters on college campuses all over the country (compared to just 150 before Rand was elected), and has utilized Rand heavily as an instrument to promote their organization.
At CPAC 2013, Young Americans for Liberty may have been the most visible organization in attendance, handing out "Stand with Rand" signs and T-shirts for hours leading up to Rand's speech. They were instrumental in his straw poll victory. Rand has also sent fundraising letters for YAL, spoken at their national convention twice and been at the heart of their organization for a long time. The relationship of Rand Paul and a pro-liberty group helping each other rise in stature has also existed with Campaign for Liberty, who have used Rand as a major source of funds on a myriad of issues. Rand has written enough emails for Campaign for Liberty to fill my inbox 10 times. In return, Campaign for Liberty uses their resources to advocate for many of the bills Rand has proposed.
Through this emphasis on movement building via promotion of these organizations, Rand Paul's legacy is cemented. He could leave politics tomorrow forever and still have made a major impact on the liberty movement by helping these organizations grow into the large, well funded pro liberty groups they are today. Young Americans for Liberty has trained literally thousands of activists at becoming effective advocates for our ideas, and Campaign for Liberty is the major pro liberty group lobbying for our ideas in DC. Having them both grow as much as they have is nothing short of critical for our movement.
Have there been times when Rand has said something that I do not agree with? Yes. Has he misphrased things in interviews and caused it to appear he has contradicted himself? No doubt. Do these things concern me as someone who wants to see a united liberty movement defeat the establishment? Undoubtedly. But when you look at the things Rand has been questioned on, the common theme that arises is that he is always advocating a pro liberty position, even if he is taking a pragmatic approach towards advancing that issue. When the Snowden "few years in jail" controversy arose, it was in the midst of his NSA lawsuit. When the "thousands of exceptions" misstatement was made, it was because he was introducing the Life at Conception Act. When he said that an attack on Israel should be treated as an attack on the United States, he did so in a trip where he openly called to end foreign aid to Israel in Israel.
The point here is that Rand may have used moderate rhetoric at times, but at the end of the day the issues he is advocating for clearly demonstrate that his cause is liberty, and so long as that is the case, I will continue to Stand with Rand.
Read more at SteaveDeace.com
Rocco Lucente
Rocco Lucente is the Editor-at-Large of The Liberty Conservative as well as the chairman of the Town of Ulysses GOP and a county coordinator of Campaign For Liberty in New York.
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Mellon awards Ivan Allen College $1 million grant
Tristen Allen on March 4, 2016 in News
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Tech was recently given a $1 million grant by the Mellon Foundation towards the creation of a new learning center within the Ivan Allen College of
Liberal Arts (IAC).
The learning center, called the Digital Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Center, will offer resources for group and project based learning within liberal arts curricula.
The center will also expand the digital areas of current programs within IAC and within the IAC's School of Literature, Media and Communication (LMC).
The Mellon Foundation is a group that promotes higher education, the liberal arts and the contributions of the humanities and higher education to society.
They regularly give money to institutes of higher education in order to promote these goals.
The foundation has an endowment of approximately $6 billion.The Mellon Foundation has previously awarded grants to Tech, in the years 1998, 1999 and 2006 in amounts of $183,000, $240,000 and $282,000, respectively.
The Foundation has given a total of 64 grants in the Atlanta area to various organizations, totaling $25.5 million. These grants have been given to Emory, Agnes Scott, Oglethorpe, Morehouse and numerous others.
The grant to Tech is the largest the Mellon Foundation has given in the Atlanta area since 2013, when $1.5 million was given to LYRASIS in support of an open source collections management system for museums.
The Digital Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Center will include a number of offices within the
center itself.
Dean Jacqueline J. Royster of the IAC and Professors Lauren Klein and Carl DiSalvo will create a Digital Humanities Studio to allow for practice-based research.
They will also develop a Civic Engagement Laboratory in order to allow outreach and application-based learning in the humanities.
This new project hopes to create more opportunities for IAC students and will allow them to engage in more project-based learning experiences.
Royster also thanked the Mellon Foundation in an official statement released through Communications.
"Mellon has our deepest gratitude for believing in our capacities to achieve, to produce and to make a meaningful difference both in facing global challenges."
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This was the first time hearing your interview! What a great job. I found myself getting emotional as well. I think you are doing wonderful things in our community and your leadership continues to touch many around you.
Best wishes in Sept 2010…I know you can do it!!!


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Another attempt to bulldoze the Carlton Tavern pub in York has been foiled, thanks to a national planning inspector.
The pub on Acomb Road was first threatened by plans to demolish it last year, in order to make way for a modern luxury care home.
But after a huge public outcry, protests by national heritage groups – and two fraught council meetings – that proposal was thrown out by a single vote of the planning committee in December.
The owner of the Victorian building, pub chain Marston's, had agreed to sell the site to Crown Care.
When its plan for a three and four-storey, 74 bedroom care home was rejected, Crown Care appealed the decision.
If it had won, the Carlton would have been a goner.
But that appeal has been thrown out – as has their claim for costs.
It is clear from the large number of letters from third parties that the Carlton Tavern is a place that a significant number of local residents clearly value as a family friendly place to meet socially, and have meals as well as a drink.
The value the community place on the facility is also reflected in its listing as an Asset of Community Value.
Whilst I understand that the brewery that owns the public house does not see it as part of their long term business plan, there is no indication that the public house, which is still trading, is not a viable business.
Nor is there any evidence to indicate that the public house has undergone any form of marketing exercise.
As such, there is insufficient evidence to show that the property could not continue to trade profitably as a public house, and thus that the loss of the public house can be considered to be necessary in this respect.
However, she accepted that there were other pubs offering the same service in the area and so considered "that the proposal would not result in the unacceptable loss of an asset of community value".
Later in her ruling she said the Victorian villa was a heritage asset and "the demolition of the building would harm the character and appearance of the area". She also ruled that the development would "potentially have an adverse impact on protected trees".
The decision to reject Crown Care's appeal was warmly welcomed in York.
said independent York councillor Mark Warters.
As York Camra's pub protection officer Nick Love submitted a detailed submission to planners on why it should be saved.
It's a massive boost for local campaigners who fought tooth and nail to preserve this heritage asset for future generations.
It shows how out of touch Marstons have been with the local community who opposed their scheme from the start. They should do the right thing and sell the pub to the local community at market value.
Marstons said they wouldn't negotiate with other parties until the planning process was over. Now it is.


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The Story Of How Nine Hikers Died Remains Unsolved
What happened at that campsite in 1959?
Posted on April 15, 2016, 22:01 GMT
By Ryan Bergara (BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Staff) Kirsten King (BuzzFeed Staff) Brent Bennett (BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Staff) Mariana Uribe (BuzzFeed Staff)
On Feb. 2, 1959, nine skiers were found dead near their campsite next to Otorten Mountain, Russia. This is the chilling story of their deaths:
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On Feb. 26, 1959, the group's campsite was discovered by a rescue team. The condition of the campsite and the skiers' bodies was so unsettling it led to several theories on how they could have died.
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The group of nine was led by Igor Dyatlov, who was also found dead among them.
Two of the nine bodies were found by the tree line, about a mile away from camp. The oddest part? Despite the freezing temperatures, the bodies were wearing nothing but underwear.
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Three more bodies were found between the campsite and the tree line. One of the bodies had a fractured skull, but doctors ultimately determined all five deaths were due to hypothermia.
The remaining four bodies were not found until two months later. One body had a fractured skull, one had crushed ribs, and one had both crushed ribs and a missing tongue...
...and perhaps the oddest part? The four bodies that were found later were discovered wearing the clothes of the bodies found near the tree line.
To top it all off, when the clothes were tested, there were traces of radiation found on them, as well as all around the campsite.
Oddly enough, there was no outward trauma to the bodies. The trauma was caused by what experts at the time said was a force too strong for a human to cause.
There was also no evidence of an outsider entering the tent, and the tent was ripped from the inside.
So, what happened to the nine hikers? One theory says an avalanche buried the tent. This would explain the tent's damage as well as the death from hypothermia.
And the undressed hikers? This could be explained by a phenomenon called "paradoxical undressing," in which disoriented hypothermia victims remove their clothes because they feel like their bodies are burning.
What the avalanche theory does NOT explain is the radioactivity detected and why one woman was found with a missing tongue.
Theory #2 explores the possibility that a Soviet test missile caused the deaths, which would explain some of the injuries found on the bodies.
However, no evidence of an explosion was found, and there were no records of a missile launch.
Also, now's a good time to tell you the expedition originally had 10 skiers. But one of them, Yuri Yudin, left early due to an illness. This made Yudin the lone survivor of the trip.
Yudin helped identify items found at the campsite. But there were a few items he could not explain...including a piece of cloth that he said looked like it had military origin.
This led him to believe that maybe the military found the bodies of his friends before the rescuers did...suggesting that maybe they were trying to cover something up.
The third theory (stay with us) was that a yeti killed the skiers. This theory even led to a two-hour Discovery Channel special. Butttt, there was no real evidence of a yeti at the campsite.
Theory #4, and perhaps the most interesting one, is that aliens played a part in the deaths of the skiers.
This could be supported by the reports that there were spheres seen in the air in February and March.
Lead investigator Lev Ivanov even said he thought there was a connection between the flying spheres and the group's death. However, he was ordered by Soviet officials to close the case.
The alien theory could explain the radioactivity and inhuman trauma the bodies underwent. But would we really know what to look for when looking for presence of an outside life form?
Regardless of all the theories brought forward, authorities determined the deaths were caused by an "unknown compelling force," leaving the crime unsolved.
What truly happened to the skiers? Well, the world may never know.
Which theory do YOU believe?
Obviously it was the avalanche.
It was a military cover-up, for sure.
IT WAS A MUTHAFUCKIN' YETI.
Definitely aliens. There's no way we're alone.
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I am extremely humbled that today, on the sixth anniversary of my living with CBD and the third anniversary of blogging, the number of hits on this site has exceeded the 50 000 mark!
My sincerest thanks to all my followers for reading this site, for returning to it to read even more and for the valued comments they make and emails they send me.
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Before we left on our holiday to Thailand, we did a lot of research, homework and preparation. We read books, searched the internet and chatted to people who had been there before.
We packed appropriately, got our documentation in order and ensured that we had the correct currency.
In short, we ensured that we were well-prepared for the trip.
We knew we had limited time and that the trip would end. So we ensured that we used every available moment at our disposal. Time spent sleeping or in hotel rooms was wasted, so we did as much as we possibly could in the days available to us.
Time not utilised was lost to us – we would not pass that way again and would not be able to recoup the moments lost.
We had to live in each and every moment, enjoy the moment, savour the moment, relish the moment, delight in the moment, take pleasure in the moment, appreciate the moment and value the moment.
Sometimes, one is so busy taking photographs in order to save the moment for future memories that you are unable to take the pleasure in the fullness of that very moment.
There would be no time for regrets, no going back and no doing it over again.
And even when we realised that our time was running out fast, that we only had so "many sleeps" left and that the end was certain, it didn't help to lament about it – we just had to keep on going and do as much as possible.
Along the way, we appreciated everything we saw. We marvelled at the world around us. Despite the weather sometimes being good and sometimes bad, we had to make do with what came our way. Despite the heat, the humidity and conditions far from ideal, we persevered. Despite heavy monsoon rains, we made alternative plans to lying on the beach – we hired scooters and bought rain ponchos and continued to explore the island of Phuket and enjoy ourselves.
It didn't help blaming the fact that we hadn't always made sufficient preparations to cover all eventualities. We had to make decisions on the fly.
And, yes, before we knew it, it was over – as we say here in South Africa: finished and klaar!
The question is how did the experience change us and what will we remember; and what did we do to make a difference to the lives of those we met along the way? Will they and how will they remember us?
In our formative years, we prepare with the help of others, at home and at school, for the journey that lies ahead of us. It is essential that we are well-prepared.
We know that our time is limited on this earth so we should not procrastinate, not delay, but make the most of every moment of our life. We should not waste – not even a single moment.
Time not utilised is lost to us – we will not pass this way again and we will not be able to recoup a single moment lost.
We have to live in each and every moment, enjoy the moment, savour the moment, relish the moment, delight in the moment, take pleasure in the moment, appreciate the moment and value the moment.
Somehow, it is so difficult to do that. We are often so busy blaming our past and preparing for our future that we lose our present, and that particular moment that we are living in.
But there is no time for regrets, no going back and no doing it over again. An unutilised moment passed is a moment lost!
And when our time runs out, when we only have so "many sleeps" left and the end becomes certain, it won't help to lament about our life – we just have to keep on going and do as much as is possible in the time we have left.
Along the way, we must appreciate everything we see. We can only marvel at the world around us.
Despite the odds, we have to make do with what comes our way. When we have excellent conditions, we must make the most of them. Despite adverse conditions, we must persevere and make alternative plans and continue to enjoy ourselves.
And before we know it, when it is all finished and klaar, the question will be: "How did the experience of life change us and what will we take with us. What did we do to make a difference to the lives of those we met along the way? Will they remember us and how will they remember us?
After all, life should be a holiday!
After packing and saying goodbye to our flat and The Strand, we left, as scheduled, at 08h30 and headed through Stellenbosch, Paarl, the N1 north through the Huguenot Tunnel and on to our first stop in the Slanghoek Valley outside Rawsonville.
Rawsonville has special memories for me. I visited the Moolmans often there (and at their caravan in Gordons Bay when they camped during the summer holidays). I also spoke at Thomas and Marzeth's wedding in the church hall in 1983 and it was the town where my very first brand new car was written off on a trip back home from Infantry School in Oudtshoorn when I was doing my military service.
But I had not yet visited Opstal.
So we stopped over for breakfast – a big farm one! – and our first wine tasting of the day. Unfortunately, Stanley was in Worcester and we did not get to see him. However, in the midst of preparing for a weekend Slanghoek Valley Wine Festival, we were graciously hosted by Ria.
Our next stop was the Klipdrift Brandy distillers in Robertson – "met ys!"- and then on to the wine farms along the Breede River valley between Robertson and Bonnivale.
Farm after farm, wine after wine, sip after sip and taste after taste, we moved through the valley and through the wines – the dry and the semi-sweet whites through the rosés and the red Cabernets and Pinotages, and all the other special wines and the cheeses, too, where available!
We visited Bon Courage, Van Loeveren, Excelsior. I'm not sure if it's the wine or the CBD that makes the names fade into oblivion now.
Each farm has something special – that little extra thing to make it unique – whether it be a cheese platter, a snack, a river cruise, or a donkey cart.
Sean, Phill and I especially enjoyed the opportunity at Excelsior to blend and bottle our own wine – Excelsior Our Own Creation! The challenge now is do we keep it or drink it!
Bacchus would have been proud of us. The day moved into a haze of splendour and by late afternoon, it was time to head off to the Spar in Montagu and stock up on provisions for our braai at our overnight weekend guest house in the Koo Valley, north of Montagu.
What a spectacular valley that has escaped me, and I guess many others, all these years.
Most of us, I would imagine, are familiar with the name Koo and Langeberg – being the brand names of canned fruit and vegetables that have graced our kitchens over the years and that we all have eaten somewhere along the line.
Langeberg, of course, means "long mountain". It's the range that runs parallel to the Indian Ocean coast all the way from Robertson to Swellendam and beyond. The Koo (Khoisan for "cold") is a valley between these mountains and the next range that forms the border with the Great Karoo. The road that runs through it links the R62 at Montagu with the N1 at Touws River. It is in this valley that we find the fruit and vegetables that go into those cans!
The scenery is magnificent, and would become even more clear to us on the following day when we ascended the mountain.
In the meantime, in the quietness of the setting sun and the darkening sky, we braaied in front of our cottage at Oak Guest Cottages, and called it an early evening! Saturday belonged to Protea Farm.
This has arguably been the saddest weekend of my entire life.
Over the last two years, I have written a great deal about the wonderful days spent at St Francis Bay. Yesterday morning, we were headed there again for the weekend.
After the recent rains, the world was green and clean. Coming over the rise just before the descent into the Gamtoos River valley one gets to see Jefferys Bay in the distance, and because it is so clear today, beyond the Bay of J is the beauty of Paradise Beach, Aston Bay, St Francis Bay and, at the farthermost point, the peninsula of Cape St Francis. What a splendid sight on this magnificent warm winter's day!
In the car there was silence. Behind us, you could hear the hum of the wheels of the Venter trailer that we were towing. It was empty because the purpose of the trip was to collect the last of our belongings from our house in St Francis.
Our holiday house has become the latest casualty of my illness.
Like a thief in the night, the CBD has slowly been taking away from me. First it was the use of my left hand. Then it took my job and my ability to work, to earn an income and to make a contribution to society.
Slowly it has taken not only my physical and mental abilities, but also my independence, my self-worth and my self-esteem.
It reminds me of the total lunar eclipse that we had witnessed on Wednesday night. On a clear dark cloudless night, we had slowly seen the fullness of the bright moon disappear as the shadow of the earth moved across the face of the moon. After about an hour it became totally black!
Be that as it may, it was the longest total lunar eclipse seen in the last one hundred years. At the slowest of paces, the darkness crept across the moon until eventually there was a total blackout.
It is just like my CBD – at the slowest of paces, it is stealthily and silently taking more and more.
And now, it has started taking our possessions.
As the disease has progressed, it has become increasingly difficult for me to keep maintaining two homes – from a practical operational point of view but also from a financial perspective. And so, on the Easter weekend at the end of April we decided to put the house up for sale.
I don't think any of us were prepared for what happened next. Bearing in mind the economic situation right now, and the fact that almost every second house in St Francis is "For Sale", we did not know what to expect.
But early on Wednesday morning, Freedom Day, we had two prospective buyers view the house, and by lunch time the second viewer had made an offer to buy, which we accepted!
Tears rolled freely then. The paperwork was signed, but it would take a while for the transfer to go through, so the reality of the decision didn't really hit home.
Not until this weekend. As the transfer is imminent, we needed to move. Suddenly, reality set in.
The weather was perfect. Those warm, windless picture-perfect days in St Francis when the reflection of the houses in the canals results in one not knowing which the top is and which the bottom is of the photos that you have taken! It made our decision to sell and the packing-up process so much more difficult to accept.
I have kept blaming myself. I have let down my family because I did not adequately prepare for an eventuality such as the CBD. I had always hoped that the boys would have continued with the traditions of No 6.
We have so many happy memories from our years of visiting here: from the first red and black blow-up boat with the plastic oars, through Rusk with its 15HP Johnson engine to Rolls with the 125HP Mercury; from the paddling through the ski-ing and wake-boarding, from the canals through the river to the sea, from the skottels through the braais, from the fishing through the tanning and beach walks, from the empty house in winter through the "House (and garage) Full" at Christmas and New Year!
As a family, we have been so privileged by the experience and have been even more privileged to have been able to share it with so many of our family, friends and neighbours. They are too many to mention here (I will include my nephew-in-law Sebastian, only because he asked me to), but hopefully most have signed the Visitors' Book that we have kept over the years.
In amongst the packing, it was a special treat on Saturday evening, and we really value the kindness, when our neighbours supplied a pork "skottel – braai" dinner to celebrate the "Last Supper" at No 6. Mike and Jenny Rishworth (from No 4) and Brett and Jenny Parker from across the canal arranged the evening and joined us (and Pera's brother Paul and his wife Debbie). Thanks so much for the evening, but even more, thanks for your friendship and the many happy memories. We know you will keep an eye on No 6 for us.
I did not sleep much on Saturday night. There were too many thoughts going through my diseased mind and too many tears sliding over my cheeks. Sunday, Father's Day, was not much better. Seeing the boys walking around taking their last pictures and posting them as their profiles on Facebook , made it even more difficult for me.
I had never imagined that one could become so attached to a place and to a house, and that it would be so difficult to say goodbye to a memory and a thousand dreams.
To all our immediate neighbours, the Macs, the Fishers, the Kemps, the Fouches, the Nortjes, and to the numerous others who crossed our path, our grateful thanks are extended for so many good times and for being part of the tapestry of our St Francis Bay experience. We eagerly anticipate being your "day visitors" in the future!
We, too, must now look forward to the next exciting era in our lives that begins today.
This is the story of Belinda Walton's courageous ten-year journey back to life, following a horrific car accident in 1996.
Just eight weeks short of her wedding day, Belinda was savagely cut down when a truck ran a red light, and nearly ended her life.
While doctors expressed little hope that she would survive, and even less of any sort of long-term recovery, they weren't counting on Belinda's inner strength, and the defiant resolve of determined parents!
This is her own story, told through the pages of the diary entries of Belinda herself, as she began and fought and struggled to overcome, and come to terms with, her severe disabilities.
Her story gives unique insight into the maelstrom of frustration, desperation and moments of inspiration, that haunt and reward one who is faced with such disability.
It is a highly personal , raw account of an amazing journey that continues to this day.


Googler Gregor Hohpe is convinced a grassroots revolution is happening among the millions of application developers whose work powers the internet - and he's not about to get in their way.
Googler Gregor Hohpe is convinced a grassroots revolution is happening among the millions of application developers whose work powers the internet - and he's not about to get in their way. As one of the internet giant's leading software engineers and developer advocates, Mr Hohpe used a speech at the JAOO conference in Sydney to spell out much of the reasoning behind how Google sees software being delivered across the web using a concept known as cloud computing.
Delivery of applications over the internet is an area of keen interest to businesses because it offers the potential to reduce costs dramatically by circumventing the need for big capital commitments such as buying hardware and up-front software licensing and maintenance fees.
One trend Mr Hohpe is backing is the so-called copy-and-paste development, whereby thousands of smaller developers upload their creations to the equivalent of social networking websites so they can then be downloaded by interested parties who use them to construct their own customised applications.
Even though many developers have sought to protect the copyright on their creations, Mr Hohpe said that people were now willing to openly publish the internal workings of their creations (called source code) so they could be widely cloned.
One reason for the shift is that developers can gain much faster access to a far broader audience willing to try out their creations, a process that quickly establishes what the merits of, and real demand for, software features and functions could be.
"How many clones you have [is] a measure of the quality and popularity of your code; it's [both] a marketplace of source code and a social network, which is really, really cool," Mr Hohpe said.
Another test that online businesses face is that websites built on user-generated content or information (such as Flickr, Facebook and MySpace) are being challenged by consumers who push their own innovations and improvements back onto service providers.
Users are also shying away from putting applications on their own machines, preferring to keep their programs as a simple internet address.
"If you have to install it or download it, it's already yesteryear," Mr Hohpe said.
One user-generated application, or mash-up, which Mr Hohpe said took him about 30 minutes to construct was an RSS alert feed that scoured Amazon.com for comments posted by shoppers about his book.
"It means I don't have to go there all the time. When it happens, I get it," he said.
But the outbreak of democratic-style citizen developers appears unlikely to overthrow established business-software stalwarts like IBM, Oracle or SAP in the near future.
Most businesses will not allow such new web applications to harvest their internal data to make them work.
Another issue is that citizen-coding remains largely unregulated because is not maintained, standardised, secure or auditable - factors Mr Hohpe said meant it was regarded somewhere between ad hoc or opportunistic to toy-like.
"If the tools are simple enough, there is a payback," Mr Hohpe said. "There is return on investment on a [micro-economic] level."


A recently-issued building permit on 26th Street just east of King Drive in the Prairie Shores neighborhood of the Near South Side community area (near Bronzeville) caught my eye.
Carnotite wasn't a word I've heard before, and "Carnotite Reduction Company" isn't a business I've heard of before, either.
I searched Bing and found that 4 of the 5 results were about cleaning up a contaminated site, and one of the results was a letter in PDF form hosted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website prepared by a scientist at the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The letter is 11 pages long and tells the story about Carnotite Reduction Company, which had a factory in 1915 on what's now known as the Michael Reese Hospital site, the buildings of which have all been demolished.
The Carnotite Co. mainly produced radium, along with some uranium and vanadium as byproducts.
The Carnotite Co. owned and operated mines in Colorado and Utah. In 1919, it was one of four companies that mined 95% of the carnotite ore produced in Colorado. The U.S. dominated the world radium market until 1922, when Belgium began using pitchblende ore from the Belgian Congo. The pitchblende was 40 to 100 times more pure than carnotite, and by 1923, Belgian competition ended carnotite ore processing in the U.S.
This article from the "Chicago Chemical Bulletin" publication in 1917 linked on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's website about the cleanup project describes carnotite ore and mining process. They've cataloged this site as EPA ID# ILN000510371.
The letter describes where radioactive, contaminated soil was found during boring tests made within the last three years, and how it potentially got there. The factory was extracting radium there, for an exploding cancer research trend, until 1920.
The company, the EPA believes, may have disposed its waste into public infrastructure.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) suspects that the Carnotite Co. may have sent this liquid waste into the sewer, floor drains, or reintroduced it into the process for further refining. Because streets in the area, including Inglehart Court, were abandoned during the redevelopment in the 1950s and 1960s, sewers running along those abandoned streets likely also were abandoned. Other options for liquid waste disposal commonly used at the time included streams or ditches (with Lake Michigan in the vicinity), waste ponds, dug wells, and dumping wastes on porous ground (such as the sand on-site).
When the City of Chicago was preparing the site in 2009 for a potential Olympic Village for its 2016 Olympic Games bid – buying the property for an insane amount of cash and then razing it all, while eventually losing the bid to Rio de Janeiro – conducted "Phase I and Phase II environmental investigations" but didn't survey for radiological contamination and didn't uncover an important survey from 30 years prior.
The Illinois Department of Public Health found radioactive contamination after a "radiological surface survey" of the Michael Reese hospital site in 1979.
The IDPH Division of Radiological Health concluded that the contamination did not pose an immediate health threat, but should be taken into account before any future construction. In 1979, IDPH did not notify USEPA about the contamination they found.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency surveyed the site in August 2009 and found the contamination, alerted the EPA, and met with the City of Chicago to discuss remediation.
The letter details further testing by AECOM, a global transportation, infrastructure, and engineering company, the levels of contamination, and risk assessment. It appears that the contamination won't be a danger to most people.
The Illinois Department of Public Health concludes that exposure at the Carnotite Co. site to the area with the greatest surface radium and uranium concentration for 20 minutes per day, five days per week, 250 days per week, for 50 years is not expected to harm people's health. IDPH considers this to be a maximum likely exposure scenario, given current conditions at the site.
It notes that a change in land use – the site is currently occupied by vacant hardscape, tennis courts, a park, sidewalks, and grassy areas – "could increase exposure duration", especially if housing was built here.
The City of Chicago applied for a license in 2013 to temporarily store radioactive material on site before shipping it to a disposal facility. The EPA last updated its website in April 2014 to say that it was considering this application.
A screenshot of the GM Chevy Volt ad I saw on Hulu.
If you're like me and most Americans, you probably see an advertisement for a car at least once a day. In an ad I watched on Hulu tonight, it appears GM filmed someone who takes buses and trains (or rides her bike) to sell people on the Chevy Volt.
The woman (the ad's overlay text makes it seem like she's a real owner) says, "I don't event know what it's like to stop and get gas" and "I am probably going to the gas station about once a month, probably less".
With a car that only gets 35 MPG city, 40 MPG highway,* and has a range of 379 miles, she must be taking the bus for all those other trips she has to make each month! Or she walks to work each day and bikes to the grocery store on weekends. Or she just rarely leaves the house. But I don't think the ad implies any of these things: instead it's telling viewers that this automobile has amazing gas mileage (the ad never mentions it has an electric motor component).
The "average American" makes 3.79 trips per day with an average trip length of 9.75 miles. If this Volt driver was that average person, she would be driving 1,108.58 miles every 30 days. And her car doesn't have that much range. It has a third of that.
She might have bad memory, though, about visiting gas stations.
The Toyota Prius, for comparison, gets 51 MPG city, 48 MPG highway,* and starts at $7,000 less.
* These are only estimates. The Chevy Volt gets 94 MPGe when running on purely the electric motors.
N.B. The Chevy Volt website shows a photo of the car in the position where it will spend most of the time: parked. I appreciate that accuracy!
Bicycling in Chicago is as much about having cheap transportation* as a thing to build new and maintain existing social relationships. And sometimes everything can come together in such an awesome way that you build a freakin' business on the back of a bicycle.
I also posted about this on Grid Chicago.
Such is the case with many of my friends, including Jana Kinsman and Brandon Gobel. Jana created Bike-A-Bike and got several thousands of "startup" dollars via her Kickstarter. Brandon uses his sweet Bullitt to deliver odds and ends around town. And on April 3, 2012 (and other days), Brandon got to help Jana deliver beehives. They were empty that day but they went out on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, with real, live bees in his Bullitt's aluminum box.
Here's a 22 photo slideshow of the April 3 trip. Brandon sent me a bunch of photos from the April 18 trip and I'll add those to the slideshow soon. Just come back in a day and they will be on this page, and on my Flickr.
You'll find the bees buzzing in East Garfield Park and at The "Awesome" Plant (er, just The Plant) in Back of the Yards.
* I've seen a lot of polls ask, "Why do you bike?" and they always have answers I don't care about. Like, "for fun", or "for the environment". Yeah, right. The most significant motivator for why people do anything is how much it costs them. Bicycling is cheap, nearly free. The bus is downright expensive compared to it, and driving a car everywhere (like 60 miles round trip to work) is personal economic suicide.
Updated September 30, 2011: The ordinance never got on the Committee on Health and Environmental Protection's agenda for September. So my fingers are crossed for the October meeting.
Clean power advocates march in Pilsen on Saturday, September 24, 2011. Photo by Ryan Williams.
Instead of voting on the Clean Power Ordinance on September 8, 2011, the Committee on Committees, Ethics and Rules "re-referred" it to the Committee on Health and Environmental Protection. This is a companion post to Rollin' beyond coal, on Grid Chicago.
It sets emissions standards for coal-powered plants in Chicago. It applies modern standards about air pollution, as they apply to coal and natural gas power plants, to any coal-powered plant in Chicago.
The Chicago Clean Power Coalition has a summary of the ordinance.
Residents of Pilsen, Little Village, Bridgeport and other communities (pollution has no boundary) have suffered for decades from the release of carbon dioxide, mercury, lead, hydrochloric acid and other chemicals into the air. Read the Toxics Release Inventory for the Fisk Generating Station.
A large portion of the population is 18 and younger; this portion is growing. Pollution has a greater negative effect on young people.
The Fisk and Crawford power plants, owned by Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of Edison International, were grandfathered in to the Clean Air Act of 1970. That means the standards imposed by that legislation don't apply.
The ordinance's "Whereas" clause lists six studies that define the effects of certain levels of particulate matter (better known as soot) on human disease, mortality, and life expectancy. A 2002 Harvard study (PDF) that found the power plants combined caused 41 premature deaths per year.
It appears that Alderman JoAnn Thompson, 16th Ward, is no longer a co-sponsor. The Chicago Clean Power Coalition lists her as a co-sponsor as of August 12, 2011, but on the ordinance document (ordinance number O2011-6489) published on the City Clerk's website, her name is missing.
Alderman Solis (25th Ward) joined Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward) during the election time this year as a lead sponsor, to help save his seat on the council in a fight with Cuahetemoc "Témoc" Morfin.
Since the Committee on Committees, Ethics and Rules (CCER) "re-referred" it to the Committee on Health and Environmental Protection (CHEP), the members of CHEP, 18 of which are also on CCER, must discuss the ordinance. Oddly, CHEP did not place on its agenda for their Tuesday, September 27, 2011, meeting a consideration of the ordinance. After discussion, the committee can recommend that the full council vote on it. If the council passes it, Mayor Emanuel can sign or veto it.
In July, Mayor Emanuel talked about his support for the ordinance but didn't go so far as to endorse it.
Read the companion article on Grid Chicago.
My friend Bill Vassilakis, and his partner Jeff Munie, won the 2011 Design Makes Change competition, The Air We Breathe.
What is the Community Voicebox?
The "Voice Box" project claims that local environmental health issues are not solely a result of point source emissions, but a combination of political, economic and environmental issues, which combine to create overall inequalities in environmental health and morbidity.
The Voice Box project is focused around a mobile community forum where information is recorded and exchanged. The local knowledge of the community would be recorded and shared with others in the community, the general public and decision makers via a real time online outlet. This online website will serve as the 'voice' of the community and as a record of local knowledge. The Voice Box would be a built upon a mobile trailer with a combination of indoor and outdoor spaces, which open to create an inviting area for residents to relax, respond and exchange.
Two major components of Community Voicebox are the four-wheel, pedal-powered vehicle (acquired in July). The second part is recording audio and video and sharing it on their website. Bill and Jeff were able to purchase these things with a grant from the competition.
What are the environmental health issues?
In as few words as possible, ancient coal power plants in Chicago, namely Fisk and Crawford generating stations, owned by Midwest Generation. I've written before about these major pollution sources on Steven Can Plan where I cited a 2002 Harvard study (PDF) that found the power plants combined caused 41 premature deaths per year.
Did anyone else think that smokestacks created clouds?
I wrote about the Community Voicebox quadricycle on Grid Chicago – here I talk to Bill about the community and environmental aspects of the project.
How did you find out about The Air We Breathe (TAWB) competition?
The quality of air in Pilsen has been a topic of conversation among my friends and roommates as long as I've lived in the neighborhood (about 5 years). I was excited to hear about The Air We Breathe competition as a chance to bring everyday quality of life issues into focus in front of anyone walking down Halsted Street.
Did you have your idea for the entry (Community Voicebox) before or after knowing about the competition?
Although we developed our proposal specifically for the contest, we included elements we are familiar with and interested in. We wanted it to be pedal powered, to directly engage the neighborhood and to present the community's situation to the world via the internet.
Why did you create the Community Voicebox? What do you want to accomplish with the final product?
We created the voicebox because we wanted to bring the issue to everyone in the community, regardless of whether or not it is a priority for them, and document what they have to say about it. Ultimately, we hope to use this documentation of the community's various experiences and perspectives to inform local policy and to serve as a conduit for sharing solutions with other places that are similarly situated, in terms of environmental health issues.
We're designing the Voicebox to be as adaptable as possible so that when we turn it over to student organizations or community groups, it can be modified to serve as many purposes as possible. That said, the primary goal we hope to accomplish is to create a fun, comfortable space in which to offer an opportunity for anyone and everyone to tell their stories through whatever means they wish. This will happen on and around a four-wheel pedal car.
Aside from education, awareness, and exchanging information with the community, do you think Community Voicebox will help bring about a more visible and tangible change when it comes to pollution in Chicago?
Absolutely! At minimum I hope that making the Voicebox a visible presence at Pilsen's many community events (as big as Fiesta Del Sol and small as block parties on Miller Street) will help keep air quality on the local policy agenda. The ideal outcome would be the a leveling of the playing field, in terms of environmental health. Residents of Pilsen are exposed to levels of pollution that would never be tolerated in any other parts of the city. Basically we want to foster dialogue between the many communities of the neighborhood about pressing local issues. Environmental health seems like a good place to start.
The Community Voicebox will be interviewing residents, and recording stories, in these parks and neighborhoods in the Lower West Side.
A page from the project overview document showing a sample of the project's research materials, mostly centered around the evidence of pollution in the Pilsen and surrounding neighborhoods.
Did you know Chicago has a full-size wind turbine?
I bet you didn't know that a produce distribution company in a tiny warehouse in Pilsen (eh, Blue Island Avenue and 14th Street) moved to a huge, sustainable warehouse in Back of the Yards with a wind turbine and big solar panels.
Epstein provided architectural design, civil engineering and LEED consulting services for the new 91,300 square foot headquarters and produce distribution facility for Testa Produce, Inc. located in the old Union Stockyards complex in Chicago, Illinois. The 12.86-acre project includes 20,000 square feet of Class A office space and a distribution center containing a 7,600 square foot 0° freezer, 24,700 square feet of cooler space, approximately 39,000 square feet of dry warehouse and 40 truck dock positions on two refrigerated cross docks.
The building aims to achieve LEED Platinum, but is not yet certified.
Then take a look at this diagram showing the streetscape design on Blue Island between Wood and Ashland (still under construction).
Hat tip to The Car Whisperer – "Chicago may stop paving streets altogether in ten years".
Tomorrow, Friday, May 13, 2011, is the final day to email comments to Bridget Stalla, project manager for the Damen-Elston-Fullerton reconfiguration.
Think about posting your comments here.
Bike lane on Damen – There should be a bike lane on Damen connecting the two ends north and south of Fullerton. Additionally, the bike lane should go THROUGH both intersections. See an example of a "through bike lane" in this photo. Too often bicyclists in Chicago are "dropped off" at intersections, left to fend for themselves and get caught in the same problems as automobiles. But automobiles and bicycles are different kinds of vehicles and need different treatments and direction.
Roundabout – Was a roundabout considered for any of the three intersections? What were the results of this analysis? A modern, turbo roundabout should be given serious consideration for at least one of the three intersections.
Curve and wide road on New Elston Avenue – On "New Elston Avenue" between Fullerton and Damen, there are two regular lanes and one bike lane in each direction. The widening of Elston was not justified. The high radius curve on New Elston Avenue on the east side of the project, and two regular lanes in each direction, will likely cause higher-speed traffic than bicyclists are used to on many roads on which they travel in great numbers. Automobile drivers speeding around the curve may enter the bike lanes. This is a good case for protected bike lanes at least on this part of the roadway.
Removing the center island – Was removing the center island an alternative the project team considered?
Queue backups caused by Fullerton-highway ramp intersection – The project area should be expanded to include the intersection to the west of the project area, at Fullerton/Kennedy ramp. Westbound drivers constantly and consistently block the Fullerton intersections with Damen and Elston while waiting to go through the signal at the highway ramp.
A bird's eye view of the new configuration.
This is a testament to the destructive power of urban highways, be they tunneled, trenched, or elevated.
There used to be homes on the other side of the street.
Indeed, there were homes across from the homes, like a typical neighborhood in any city. Or something useful and interesting for the neighborhood across the street that wasn't 12 lanes of fast-moving automobiles and a rapid transit line, with all the noise, pollution, and crashes that comes with it.
Let's not ever let this happen again; no more highways through neighborhoods.
Note: I originally posted this entry immediately after writing the notes from Aaron's keynote at the UIC Urban Innovation Symposium, put on by the graduate students in the Urban Planning and Policy Student Assocation or UPPSA. Aaron Renn writes The Urbanophile and works for a management consulting firm.
The ideas in and of itself don't make things happens.There are enormous structural barriers to innovate in the world. Most of you inspire not just to have innovative ideas, but to actually change for the better the places you live and work.
Why do people and companies really hire consultants?
First off, there's the tyranny of the organization chart. Everyone is in a box. Everything you do is seen in the box you occupy. What are the odds you will get an audience with the CEO, and then take your idea?
The reason people hire consultants is because they exist outside the organization chart. Innovation occurs in the bottom 95% of the organization chart pyramid. There's no mechanism to have those ideas bubble up.
If something is untried, unproven, people are afraid to do it cuz they think their career's on the line. So they bring in the biggest consultant they can find (meaning they have the biggest reputation).
Only after I won the innovation challenge about the CTA would they start quoting me.
"I think building on assets is a trap. It's the stuff we did yesterday." Having a lot of assets to focus on may blind you to the ways you need to think about in order to innovate.
I see cities all the time defending the past. Cities are about people, not buildings. We always talk about building and form, but we don't think about the people.
It's very clear they're talking about the buildings in that neighborhood – you can't love the neighborhood if you hate the neighbors. Think about the actual human beings your project affects.
I like to travel. I like to meet the local bloggers and have them take me around. If I didn't know [which city I was in], nothing about that building would tell me where I was. I don't get a strong sense of the place. I think we have to think deeper about our cities. Think about the unique chartacter, history, and vlues of the cities we're in. A lot of our cities seem kind of the same, and they don't have that quaint Euro charm.


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The Hertfordshire/Middlesex Merit Tables were created in 2002 to provide all those rugby sides from the Hertfordshire, Middlesex and adjacent County Unions, which were not playing in the Rugby Football Union National Leagues or other merit tables, an opportunity to play in a competitive structured competition. The clubs are generally located in an area within 20 miles of the triangle formed by the A1/M1/A505.
The teams participating are normally the 2nd, 3rd and 4th XVs of clubs, although several smaller clubs have entered their 1st XVs, this year we have seven 1st XVs spread across the tables. The Merit Tables are also used as a starting point for newly formed clubs to demonstrate their playing and administrative abilities before being accepted into the RFU League Structure. In 2019-20, the tables have grown to accommodate 68 sides, a far cry from the 12 sides that took the plunge in 2002, although down on our peak of 78 teams in 2013-14.
This season we have consolidated our teams into seven tables, so that each table consists of nine or ten sides with two tables at level 4 to assist in reducing travelling.
In addition to the Merit Tables, in 2019-20 we have introduced "Cluster Rugby", to provide games for those players unable to get into sides or whose games are cancelled.
Under the scheme, clubs across the Counties act as hosts, on a rotational and regional basis, for all those players seeking a game, who cannot be accommodated by their own clubs. Depending upon the numbers attending, they will arrange some form of rugby between all the players for that afternoon. The aim is to keep players interested and offer a starting point for new players. The support of the clubs in our counties will be vital to moving this project to fruition.
Fred McCarthy receiving an award for his support to Hertfordshire and Middlesex Rugby,
being presented by Hertfordshire R.F.U. President, John Gregory
Fred began playing rugby in Hertfordshire in 1959 for the the English Electric Club, which then became Bacavians RFC in the mid-sixties, before merging with Stevenage RFC to form Stevenage Town in the early nineties. He was a Hertfordshire referee from 1977 until 2002 and a was member of the Hertfordshire RFU Marketing and Communications and the Competition Committees for many years. Upon his retirement from employment in 2002, he took on the task of setting up the Hertfordshire/Middlesex Merit Tables, because he had spotted a coverage gap between The Greene King and Middlesex Merit Tables. As Fixture Secretary for Bacavians and then Stevenage for 33 years, coupled with his refereeing experience around the Hertfordshire area, he had a good working knowledge of all the clubs, which helped in developing the Merit Tables.
Fred is now standing down from his major roles with the Hertfordshire/Middlesex Merit Tables, after 17 years at the helm, passing the ball on to Ian "Foggy" Atkinson and Bob Moore. Apart from their many other tasks in keeping the Tables running, "Foggy's" prime role is interfacing with all the competing clubs, while Bob is now the keeper of all fixtures and results' He has the responsibility for the accuracy and compilation of all Herts/Middx Merit Table data on the RFU website. Bob has also picked up the task of promoting and developing the "Cluster Rugby" project, detailed above.
Both of them are ex-players and active Hertfordshire Referees, so have been in charge of many Merit Table games and know all answers!
Fred continues to run the Herts/Middx website at www.hmmt.co.uk which includes the Fixture Exchange and he now acts as advisor to "Foggy" and Bob, while they continue to take full control of the Tables. One of the last roles he has yet to hand over will be the Knock-Out Competition and for this year only will be leading this project. Then he can really retire, but has he told you about his bowls activities in Biggleswade for older rugby players?


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In Chapter 3 of OCaml from the very beginning, I learned about pattern matching. It can replace the 'if … then … else …' construct, and can be easier to read. It also has the advantage that if you haven't considered all cases in the pattern matching, OCaml will warn you so. Just for this reason, I don't see why you would ever want to use the 'if … then … else …' construct instead of pattern matching.
if (expression) = (pattern 1) then (value 1) else if (expression) = (pattern 2) then (value 2) and so on.
Make sure to separate each pattern with '|'. The values the patterns matched to must be of the same type.


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Guilford Co. Passes $627M Budget, Leaves It To Community To Get Creative With Funding For School Repairs
Guilford County Commissioners passed the $627 million budget Thursday night and schools will get some of it but not all of what they asked for.
Author: Alma McCarty
Published: 11:33 PM EDT June 20, 2019
Updated: 11:33 PM EDT June 20, 2019
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — It's Guilford County's biggest decision of the year: how to spend your tax dollars. Thursday night, they approved the $627 million budget.
Half of the budget goes towards education, that's more than $312 million to public education, including community colleges. Break it down further, and $206 million will go to Guilford County Schools. That's $6 million dollars less than the district asked for to pay for pay increases, teacher supplements, and maintenance of school buildings, but it's still more than they got last year.
Commissioners said public education is crucially important, and decisions like this are very tough. They did mention a report released earlier this year that said Guilford County Schools needed more than a billion and a half dollars for repairs and improvements.
RELATED: Guilford County Schools' Superintendent Unveils 2019-2020 Budget Recommendations
Chairman Alan Branson says, he hates the board can't do more.
"In the school system is always extremely difficult to fully fund. However, since I have been on the board in 2012, we have continued to increase the funds every year per pupil," he said.
He said, when it comes to additional funding to the schools, the community will have to get creative with how to raise money to repair buildings. Commissioners believe voters should decide on additional funding, like bond referendums or a sales tax increase.
RELATED: Is There Enough to Go Around? Guilford County Budget Battle Begins
Some other big takeaways from this budget include no tax increase for the upcoming year, and the addition of several positions - EMS workers, health inspectors, and two new animal shelter workers. The Commission also gave the green light to moving around money at the Sheriff's Office to continue a re-entry program already in place.
As for the new animal shelter, commissioners postponed that decision to a meeting next month, saying they need another look at the redesign of the facility.


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by Jaime Skelton
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NCSOFT® and Carbine Studios™ are excited to announce that WildStar, one of the most critically-acclaimed MMOs of 2014, will become free-to-play this fall. As this transition takes place, Carbine is committed to ensuring that WildStar will remain AAA, offering polished regular updates and a high-quality experience.
"At the beginning of 2015, we outlined key points of focus for WildStar to help make this great game even better, focusing heavily on player feedback and bringing meaningful changes," said Mike Donatelli, product director, Carbine Studios. "We continue to deliver on those points and feel strongly that removing the subscription cost will give everyone who loves MMOs, or just wants to have an incredible gaming experience, a chance to try WildStar."
Following the transition this fall, all players will be able to level to 50, acquire all Amps and abilities, and participate in all dungeons, raids, adventures, shiphands, and PvP. The entirety of the game will be open for players to explore for free.
Players may also purchase an optional membership for a monthly fee that will provide various convenience bonuses and enhancements to XP, crafting, currency, item drops and reputation. Members will gain additional character, costume, bank, supply, and décor items.
For the in-game store, NCoin will enable players to buy convenience or cosmetic items. In almost every case, items that are available for purchase via NCoin will have equivalent items available for players that want to invest time rather than money. One thing that will not be available for purchase is power – progression will continue to require both skill and effort.
This fall, in addition to going free-to-play, Carbine will be working to make even more quality of life and content changes within WildStar:
• Streamlining player and item stats to be much more intuitive while adding high-level options to give players more flexibility.
• Making the Amp system easier to use by unlocking all Amp slots.
• Reviewing dungeons and open world content so that the experience is challenging, but not brutal.
• Changing the tutorial and early game experience to provide a better and quicker introduction.
Over the next several months, the studio will share more details about how this transition will impact current and future players along with more detail on the significant improvements coming to the game. Players who maintain a subscription from June 15, 2015 through the free-to-play transition will receive exclusive items and rewards. Additionally, those players who have supported the game since launch, and maintain their subscription through transition, will receive even more. For former players, Carbine will outline a comprehensive loyalty program that rewards players for time and effort invested in the game, even if they are not current subscribers. Additional detail about all of these rewards can be found at http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-05-28-player-appreciation-rewards.
"Over the last year, hundreds of thousands of amazing players have shared feedback and logged in to check out WildStar," said Chad Moore, creative director for Carbine Studios. "Whether you are a current player, or someone who played in the past, as part of this transition we want to make sure that we are recognizing and rewarding you for being an essential part of this great game."
The studio will continue to provide regular content updates, delivering exciting additions to the game's stories, systems, and landscape. The transition to free-to-play is only the beginning of what is to come for WildStar. For more information, please tune in to our announcement livestream at 10:00 am PDT on Friday, May 29 at http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar.
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On Our Hearts: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all our faithful blog readers. I can truly say that Chris and I are hoping and praying more than ever that this is the year our baby comes home.
Just a minute ago I checked out Chris' facebook. On it he had posted: "2010 should prove to be a great year as I look forward to welcoming my new baby home.". It brought tears to my eyes as I know how badly we both want that and are hoping and praying that this is the year.
We spent some time last night talking together about this past year and about our upcoming year. The thing we kept saying over and over is that we pray we don't have to wait much longer. For we never thought that we would be waiting this long in the first place.
So Happy New Year and may this be the year in which we have joyous news for you all!
Prayers and blessings on you all!


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Jessica Sanchez not winning American Idol caused a stir in the Filipino community in the United States and back home in the Philippines when her rendition of The Prayer, I Have Nothing, and Change Nothing did not give her the top spot.
The 17-year-old Sanchez is a California native born to a Filipino mother from Bataan and a Mexican American father. Although raised in the United States, Sanchez claims that she could eat pancit and lumpia –traditional Philippine dishes- everyday because her mother Editha cooks these dishes a lot. Because of her talent and her Filipino blood, the young singer is held close in the hearts of the Filipino community in America and even to those who religiously watch American Idol in the Philippines.
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Saint Peter Catholic School aims to honor and celebrate the good in each child. The monthly Virtue Awards are one vehicle to do that. Each week, teachers in Kindergarten through 5th grade introduce a new virtue, along with its biblical reference.
During the all-school Mass on the last Friday of the month, Virtue Awards are presented to students who exhibited the virtues they learned about in the recent weeks. Parents can help reinforce the virtue lessons at home, too! Here is the virtue list and schedule for the 2018-2019 school year.


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Figlia unica di genitori immigrati, il padre Bernard Leo dalla Russia e la madre Anna Wodzislawska dalla Polonia, sebbene avesse due fratellastri. Dopo il diploma alla Hunter College High School nel 1916, si iscrisse al Barnard College dove si laureò nel 1920. Quindi, riuscì ad entrare alla New York School of Social Work dove incontrò lo psicologo Bernard Glueck che lavorava all'Istituto Penitenziario di Sing Sing specializzandosi in assistenza sociale e criminologia. Bernard, di cui sposò il fratello Sheldon, l'aiutò a diventare coordinatore capo al Dorchester Community Center di Boston nel 1921 dove lavorò per un anno.

Nel 1922 Eleanor ricominciò a studiare presso la Harvard Graduate School of Education dove si laureò nel 1925 con una tesi su The Community Use of Schools. Eleanor lavorò alla Harvard Graduate School of Education dal 1928 al 1953, mentre il marito assunse la cattedra alla stessa scuola.

Eleanor e Sheldon collaborarono insieme alla redazione di oltre 250 pubblicazioni sulla delinquenza minorile che li resero famosi per aver per primi utilizzato le statistiche per predire il comportamento criminale e per esaminare gli effetti della psicopatia sui recidivi. I loro studi dimostrarono che questo problema era diffuso fino a 20 volte del normale presso gli adolescenti.

Nel 1950 pubblicarono la "Social Prediction Tables" che mostrava gli indici di prevedibilità della tendenza a delinquere dei giovani delinquenti basato su parametri legati alla ciclicità dello sviluppo. Nel 1953, Eleanor diventò ricercatrice associata alla Harvard Law School Research Project, dove approfondì le cause, la terapia e la prevenzione della delinquenza minorile. Sua figlia Anita Joyce Glueck, che pubblicò diverse poesie, morì nel 1956..

Nel 1947 vinse il Parsons Memorial Award dal United Prison Association of Massachusetts. Sebbene Eleanor non subì alcun miglioramento sul salario, entrambi i coniugi Glueck vinsero una laurea ad honorem ad Harvard nel 1958, mentre Eleanor vinse il Distinguished Alumni Award dal Barnard College nel 1969. In seguito divenne perito al Judge Baker Guidance Center e membro della International Society of Criminologists e dell'American Association for the Advancement of Science..

Opere
Five Hundred Criminal Careers (1930)
Five Hundred Delinquent Women (1934)
One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents (1934)
Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950)

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Off-topic Sam, but I think you might forgive me for not apologising on this one limited occasion since I know you've had this on your Tweeting mind in recent days.
People – it would appear – are now 'rescued' from France. I recall once upon a time that it was a tourist destination and allegedly a bedrock of liberty and rights. Now apparently it's a hellhole from which people need to be snatched for their own safety? Hope the Government is considering ending Diplomatic Relations with France in order for them to clean up their act?
Option" so that red-blooded Independence campaigners came to accept his position and to believe it was really a sneaky way to keep us in the EU but " without influence" .
Much of the sound and fury of the Hard Brexit/Soft Brexit antithesis arises from this perception. As one who has deeply detested and opposed our membership of the European project since 1972, I can understand how this has arisen.
there was no possible economic advantage for us in that – just a belief that European integration in itself was a " Good Thing" ( to borrow from " 1066 and All That".) The result of this earlier decision came back to bite the Major government. The high interest rates, destroyed businesses and jobs, home repossessions etc and thoroughly destroyed the Conservatives' reputation for economic competence and ushered n the Age of Blair.
going in the opposite direction. The effects of a botched Brexit could do for the cause of independence what the ERM did to our economy and the Consevative party. Their slogan " Yes it hurt. Yes it worked" did not convince people then.
tariffs are the only obstruction to buccaneering British industrialists, liberated from EU regulation and able to offer cheaper goods to lower standards, which will be gratefully accepted by natives in distant climes.
The growing network of global,regulation ( of which the EU is part) and the need for participation in it seem to be right off their radar.


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Stitch Heads & Raw Fury Unveil Superfuse, a Superhero Action RPG
By Nick | March 30, 2022
Centuries ago, humanity escaped the dying Earth with technology funded by the corporate elite. As humans spread across the solar system, the wealthy lived in luxury, extending their lives and augmenting themselves with superpowers, becoming gods while the rest of humanity barely clung to life.
Dissent grew but a new threat emerged in the form of shambling monsters called The Corruption. And so the corporate gods created the Enforcers to patrol the solar system and deal with the danger posed by the Corruption.
Superfuse features dynamic skill trees that let you choose a class and augment abilities to customize your Enforcer, with tons of loot to make exploring procedurally generated levels worth your while.
Travel the solar system to futuristic cities, corrupted lands, and treacherous dungeons packed with lore, secrets, and treasures. Play solo or in an online drop-in/drop-out co-op for up to four players against hordes of abominations and powerful bosses, with a fully voiced campaign brought to life by talented voice actors like Eli Harris.
The game is scheduled for Steam Early Access this year with a full release date in 2023. For more information, visit www.superfusegame.com.
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Chaning completed a Postdoc at Princeton University in Psychology and Public Affairs, holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawai'i with specialization in Behavioral Economics and Development, and a bachelors in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis. He is also a CFA level II holder.
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