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Do You Think Your Vote in November Will Restore Freedom?
Thursday, September 23, 2010 Thursday, September 23, 2010
HOW MANY ARE PREPARED TO WALK THE LONG ROAD BACK?
by Ron Ewart
Is each vote actually counted? Are voting machines constitutional?
(Sept. 23, 2010) — "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." – Thomas Jefferson
Way too many Americans dwell in la-la land, on either side of the political spectrum. Naiveté is the rule rather than the exception. Truth is all but obscured by lies and propaganda from both parties.
It took over 100 years to destroy freedom, from "carry a big stick" Roosevelt, to "16th Amendment" Wilson, to the "New Deal" FDR, to the "Great Society" Johnson, to the "inept and outright mentally challenged" Carter, to the "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton and now to the "Great Socialist Transformation of America" Obama. Does anyone think that one vote in one election cycle can restore liberty? If they do, naive isn't a strong enough word to define their mental state. It's a start, but it is a long road back to freedom.
Even if the Republicans take back the House and the Senate in November, what will that change? The lust for power in a Republican is just as strong as the lust for power in a Democrat. That's human nature. The only thing that can offset the lust for power in a politician is the greater power of the "Consent of the Governed" who demand freedom.
How many unconstitutional laws that have been passed in the last 100 years, will be repealed in the next session of the Congress, if the Republicans do take back both Houses? And can they override a presidential veto? Probably not. Obama won't stand for wiping out his socialist agenda and legacy, while he remains president.
How many U. S. Supreme Court decisions in the last 100 years can be overturned, decisions that acted contrary to literal constitutional interpretation? Will the decision in the 1880's by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Dean of the Harvard Law School, that changed constitutional adjudication from strict interpretation of the Constitution, to adjudication by evolving case law and court precedent, be overturned? A draconian decision, in-aptly named "Positivism", that turned the Constitution into a "living document" instead of a fixed set of principles for the foundation of liberty.
Will the Republicans be able to repeal or de-fund Obama care? Will they open up America's energy resources to truly get us off foreign oil? How many bloated bureaucracies will they disband? Will they kill, repeal or dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency that has designated CO2 a pollutant, or the Occupational Safety and Health Act that takes 30 pages to define a ladder, or the Endangered Species Act that has decimated private property rights, or UN Agenda 21 policies that have sent freedom into the scrap heap, or the Department of Energy that has a $24 billion annual budget and 16,000 employees, or the Department of Education that has taken public education out of the hands of local jurisdictions and placed it squarely in that seed of corruption, Washington, DC? Will they repeal treaties that act contrary to the Constitution? Can the Republicans restore freedom with legislation? Hardly!
But the bigger question is, can any politician or group of politicians be able to break apart the structures of industrial and financial power that have been built up around a powerful government? Can they for example, limit the power of corporations and the giant industrial complex? Can they roll back the power of the unions? Can they ward off the power of the national and international money changers and power brokers that influence government decisions? The answer of course, is no. Only the people, en masse, can undo that power, if they are of one mind.
The road back to freedom can only be taken by those Americans who demand freedom, no matter what the cost. If elections won't restore freedom, are there other peaceful ways to reclaim our Constitutional Republic, when the nation is so divided between the millions who want something FROM government and those other millions who want to be left ALONE by government? Can freedom be restored without violence? We teeter on the brink of enslavement and revolution. An ill wind could determine which way the teeter totter will fall.
And even more complicated than the method to restore American freedom, is to define what freedom really means in the year 2010, when over 300,000,000 Americans now reside in the 50 states. In our first revolution to establish freedom, there were only about 3,000,000 people in 13 loosely-knit colonies who claimed to be Americans and wanted to BE Americans, not British subjects. And even just a small portion of those 3,000,000 were willing to take up the sword and the gun against the dictatorial rule of King George III. That small portion won liberty for all Americans. Will a small portion of our 300,000,000 people again be required to restore freedom? And will that small portion be enough to override the power of the masses that now demand all kinds of goodies FROM government, paid for by the fruits of production and those that are responsible for that production?
It must be realized that our enemy is not so much the tyranny of government, as it is the scourge of dependence on government. With dependence comes strings. With strings comes enslavement. To be free of government tyranny we must be independent, self-reliant, self-sufficient and responsible for our actions. Secondly, if we want to be able to trust government, we must become trust worthy ourselves. History has proven, time and time again, that a people and a government devoid of honor, will fail.
So no! One election victory this November will not restore freedom. Only a collective realization by millions of Americans that freedom has evaporated and must now be reclaimed by whatever means, will start us on the road to freedom. The damage that has been wrought against freedom must be unraveled. The mindset of those Americans who find themselves dependent on government and are satisfied with that dependence, must be altered. To be free of government, we must be stronger than government and we must be of one mind in our determination to break the shackles that government has placed upon us. Freedom is a powerful stimulus and it can be infectious, if freedom is the engine that drives our souls.
Yes, we encourage all freedom-loving individuals to vote this November, but that one vote will mean nothing unless those individuals then make a parallel commitment to continue the battle to restore our Constitutional Republic and regain the great spirit that thrives under the umbrella of American freedom and exceptionalism. The fate of a free America is in the hands of those who cherish freedom and are willing to go the extra mile to secure it.
Ron Ewart is President of the National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO)
Tagged: 16th Amendment, Bill Clinton, Carry a big stick, CO2, Endangered Species Act, EPA, Harvard Law School, King George III, Obama, Oliver Wendell Holmes, OSHA, The Great Society, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Supreme Court
Robert Laity says:
Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 6:26 AM
We still HAVE a "Constitution". Technically,it is blueprint on paper. One must be proactive with regard to making sure the blueprint is followed. This involves dying for the cause,if necessary,in order to secure the blessings of liberty for those who come after us. As our ancestors did for us.We must do for our kids.
It's a tough concept but freedom has never BEEN "Free".
GMScott says:
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM
ABSOLUTELY AGREE with NutN2Say's 9/24 6:23 pm statement!
Until and only until this issue is resolved, nothing else matters or makes a difference.
The U.S.A. is NO more without the U.S. Constitution, and everybody seems to just want to go on & on with all the diversionary issues.
Is our U.S. Constitution, including Art II, Sec. 1, the Rule of Law for this nation or not!?
NUTN2SAY says:
Thank You GM Scott,
You have said it (the American #1 problem of them all)…..IS OUR AMERICAN CONSTITUTION'S Article 2 Section 1 the RULE of LAW FOR THIS NATION OR NOT!
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 7:01 AM
I'd like to restore the Federation created by the Articles of Confederation, rather than the monolithic Nation/State created by the Constitution. The Federalists were, in fact, Nationalists, and the Anti-Federalists were, in fact, the true Federalists. Practically everything the Anti-Federalists feared as a result of the Constitution and National government, has come to pass.
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 2:39 PM
is this a joke,, vote for what the same party in play….. the organic constitution has been suspended….has voting really mattered… is obama a bush.. but worse .. there is your hope and change.. the fix is in the 13th .. 14th.. and 17th amendment must be abolished.. the ACTS.. THE TREATIES ..THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS MUST GO.. and FORE MOST.. THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT vote ………..do dead people vote… or thumb drives in TENN…?PERHAPS illegal aliens
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 11:28 AM
We had a state representative give a speech at a tea party meeting. He pointed out that it will take at least three elections to turn the country around: 2010, 2012, and 2014. That's a lot of work ahead, so we cannot get tired or discouraged, or beaten down. Stay the course, and demand more than the GOP has said in its Contract with America. They need to reduce spending way beyond that of 2008 spending–not enough GOP. We need more than that.
HighlanderJuan says:
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 7:16 AM
Ron,
Excellent article.
The people are ignored by Washington because the federal government, the political parties, and the unelected ruling elite do not represent the interests of the people, and even worse, the federal government hardly represents the interests of the states.
Note that the lawlessness and corruption we see rampant in both of our major political parties and in the federal government is often overshadowed by the lawlessness and corruption within our own state governments, and that must be fixed as well – maybe before we are able to fix problems in the federal government.
The state governments also have much more power and control over the federal government than the individual voter, and I'm waiting for the Tea Party folks to march on their own state capitals and demand that the sovereign state governments perform according to their own constitutions, and to exert the necessary control to correct their own federal government.
These problems of unlawful actions by the feds will be best fixed by the states as Arizona is now doing, although, in my opinion, Arizona could be taking a much harder stance on its issues with the feds.
This article discusses the issue of state sovereignty from an historical perspective and in greater detail.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/08/12/state-sovereignty/
Rachelle Hamlin says:
Absolutely right on. Each person has to become totally committed to freedom of their own soul, and the souls of their children.
"Naive" to think that "one vote…can restore liberty"? Not in the least "Naive".
One vote by one SCOTUS Justice could change a 4 to 5 ruling heading left to a 5 to 4 ruling going right.
You know something Mr. Laity, you just touched upon one of my many pet peeves! When a SCOTUS makes a split decision, how do I know if it is Constitutional or not? Everyone knows these days that split decisions are based on political party lines and not based on the Constitution as it should be. I don't know who made the SCOTUS rule that split decisions are acceptable but in my opinion they are not! When we Patriots take back America from this current group of thieves, thugs and heathens one of the changes to be made high on my priority list is to change that stupid rule. I would prefer a unanimous decision but will settle for a majority if other people see things different. But split decisions from the SCOTUS most certainly have got to go!
In a group of nine justices,five IS a "majority". The Supreme court is vested with the Judicial power of the United States. It was Marbury v. Madison that set the precedent that SCOTUS had the power to interpret the Constitution. The entire set up of our Constitutional Democratic Republic was a compromise. In a representative government the majority does not always rule and thank God. Minoritues would be relegated to being second class citizens bullied by the majority.
In the case of the Justices, there are currently nine individuals who are entrusted by our government to interpret the Constitution and see to it that the line that separates tyrrany from freedom is not crossed.
Sometimes, a SCOTUS ruling does not sit well with many people. I have always criticized the (7) Justices who ruled that it was OK to murder a baby in the womb,at the whim of others. Certainly a rulling that is "Repugnant to the Constitution" as outlined in Marbury.
One of the "Blessings of Liberty" IS "Life"…"for ourselves AND our POSTERITY". Our posterity means our kids. They have the RIGHT TO LIFE.
In any event,it may be unrealistic that nine people anywhere gathered will come to a unanimous consensus. Our system is not perfect. But it IS extraordinary.
The court system starts with lower courts,usually having one judge presiding. Appeal courts are available also.At one point the number of Judges presiding go up to (3) or more.
The process becomes exponential ending with SCOTUS having nine Justices.
There was a point in History when it was suggested that the number of SCOTUS Justices be increased to (15). It is always an odd number,for a reason. While there have been several unanimous SCOTUS decisions,it is not the norm.
If a unanimous decision was required EVERY time,we would have a situation in which the interpretation of the laws enacted by Congress would be subjected to "hung" SCOTUS
deliberations.
the scotus is formed under an illegal 17th amendment….. the scotus is approved by the ceo and the executive chosen senators.. read up
The Supreme Court was established by Article 3,Section 1 of the Constitution:
The "five" is a split decision! The rule needs to be changed to be either a six/three or a unanimous. We are talking about the U.S. Constitution and I think the Constitution should have more consideration then it gets now. Isn't the general rule for a first degree murder conviction that the jury must be unanimous in their decision? Well I think the Constitution should get that kind of consideration and more so.
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 6:38 PM
NO!… JUST TO BE CLEAR I WILL SAY IT AGAIN! NO! NO! NO! UNTIL EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA FULLY COMPREHENDS WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS MEANT BY NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IN ORDER TO BE A U.S. PRESIDENT ………..ALL FREEDOM IS ON HOLD!
@Nutin2say, I'd be happy if 51% understood, but sadly only about 10% 'get it' now. But, you know, the more we discuss the issue, the more educated the citizens will become.
I have followed the issue of Obama's ineligibility for two years, primarily on Alipac.us, and I see a decided improvement in the knowledge level of many people, and that's a good thing.
We'll get there – it's just a matter of time.
In America, at this time, there should only be one discussion! ARTICLE 2 SECTION 1! For the moment the subject of immigration along with some other problematic social issues America is having must be temporarily set aside! When Obama came along bringing with him this deliberate unanswered interpretation of Natural Born Citizen (of which there are many examples on the U.S. historical record that say mother and father both must be U.S. citizens), he superseded all other issues of the day! When Obama became a candidate for the presidency, he along with the democrats, republicans and the MSM because of their defaulting on the vetting process that wasn't, but should have been….A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS WAS BORN! To this day this Constitutional Crisis goes deliberately ignored by those who have sworn oath to serve and protect the U.S. Constitution! Until this Constitutional Crisis is properly addressed, resolved and the people of America have been educated to the fact that Barack Obama was a Constitutional mistake and should have never been allowed to be a presidential candidate…THERE IS NO U.S. CONSTITUTION AND WHEN THERE IS NO U.S. CONSTITUTION…..THERE IS NO FREEDOM!
Yes, education IS the answer. Currently,there are battles in several states regarding the inappropriate revisionist attempts to "Change" the history books and indoctrinate our kids.
Obama DID,after all, promise "Change". He just failed to elaborate on just what he had in mind.
Many people DO "Comprehend" the meaning of "Natural-Born". Many have consiously decided to ignore that comprehension.


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A toss of the hair, a gesture with the chin, a purse of the lips – these will suffice to change a person utterly from one thing to the other. From a shy, timid, slightly awkward person will emerge an attitude, a style, a replica of the actor onscreen. Confidence has nothing to do with it at that point – once someone changes, they're in the moment and no matter what happens, the attitude will remain, the stance will stay upright and the chin raised.
Such small things, such subtle mind-shifts and twists – on such things hangs the balance of a show. But once a person is out of self, succumbing to that infamous of Greek gods, Dionysus, and loses the identity of the self, then there is no pause, no doubt, no fear. Nonexistent wine gives the head its buzz and the body its confidence; nonexistent masks take over the face and expression; nonexistent muses come and spark drama or comedy at the needed times.
Being other is liberating. The fear before succumbing to that loss of self is overwhelming, almost paralyzing. The moment the threshold is crossed, however, the fear evaporates like a magician's rabbit – instantly, utterly, although still biding its time somewhere hidden where the audience can't see it.
Being other is mastering fear. Being other is being free.
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Breaking Bad series 5, episode 9: Ordinary, decent lives
The beginning of the end for Walter White, and Breaking Bad, is here.
By Philip Maughan
WARNING: This blog is for people currently watching Breaking Bad series 5, part 2. It contains spoilers.
Near the beginning of the fifth and final series of AMC's Breaking Bad, Mike Ehrmantraut, a one-time "cleaner" and PI, refuses the offer of a partnership in the soon-to-be-resurrected methamphetamine business of a former high school chemistry teacher turned pathological monster. "You are a time bomb – tick, tick, ticking," he tells Walter White, who has just become the last meth cook standing in an open market. "And I have no intention of being around for the boom."
The second half of the final series has just kicked off on Netflix, lighting the charges that will lead us to the programme's conclusion. In eight weeks' time we will have witnessed a 46 and a half hour moral drama set to join the pay-per-view television hall of fame alongside the Sopranos, The Wire and a handful of others. Watching the show produces a unique, churning discomfort, as we try to reconcile our feelings for the pitiable Walter White (and even our attraction to his sublime alter ego "Heisenberg"), with the acts he goes on to commit. Audiences often comment on shifting the red line beyond which Walter ceases to be a loveable, if pathetic, science geek and family man, and becomes a megalomaniacal drug lord in a pork pie hat and sunglasses.
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Walter outside his house in the episode prologue. Photograph: AMC.
"Blood Money" begins in the same chronological moment as the series overall. It is Walter's 52nd birthday and he has just bought himself a machine gun. He has also let his hair grow back. After retrieving the talismanic ricin vial from behind the socket in his now derelict home, he is spotted by his next-door neighbour. "Hi Carol," Walt says. Carol shrieks and drops her groceries, confirming what we had already fairly assumed: Walter is now a fugitive, with no alternative to work with but a hail of bullets. Creator Vincent Gilligan did promise "Mr Chips to Scarface" after all.
After the credits we are back to where episode 8 left off, as Hank (Dean Norris) finally emerges from the longest crap in television history. He emerges into the full horror of his oversight. The DEA's finest is now aware that his brother-in-law is the legendary meth cook Heisenberg, though it takes for him to accept it. He painstakingly lines up Gale Boetticher's handwriting in the copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass from Walter's bathroom with the lab notes taken from Gale's flat. After another appearance from Carol ("Hi Carol!") Hank has a panic attack and crashes into somebody's painted wooden fence. It's all a bit much for the poor guy.
Meanwhile Skyler (Anna Gunn) and Walt have made a full-time occupation of laundering the many millions Walt earned from his über-pure crystale. Repeatedly in this episode Walt attempts to assert the normality of his affairs – "Have an A1 day" he chirps at customers in the car wash where he once earned extra cash after school – but past darknesses refuse to stay in the past. Into the car wash walks Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser), to whom Walt bestowed the business after his wife convinced him it was time to quit. She complains that the product's quality has dropped to 60 per cent, but is chased off the property by a ferocious Skyler White – showing a little Heisenberg of her own. Let's hope there's more of that to come.
Hank provides us with a handy little montage of misdemeanours as he collates the evidence against Walt in his garage: Tuco's body, lab equipment, CCTV footage, photographs of Hector Salamanca and Chow. While our (anti) hero goes about his life, his former partner and surrogate son Jesse (Aaron Paul) tells crooked lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) that he wants to give away his "blood money". He is, as before, wracked with guilt. After the inane ramblings of former slinger Badger drive him from his house, he tells Saul to give $2million to the parents of the Drew Sharp (the boy who died after the methylamine train heist) and $2million to Mike's granddaughter Kaylee Ehrmantraut.
Better call Saul – or, this time, maybe not. Barn door open! Photograph: AMC.
When Walt hears about this, the camera pulls back to reveal that he is having chemotherapy. The cancer is back. Last week Breaking Bad enthusiasts at the Telegraph published their predictions for the second half of the final series of the show. One of the ideas that intrigued me most was Benjamin Secher's suggestion that "there are only two reasons to give a character the exact same name as his father: one is to suggest that the boy will inevitably following his dad's footsteps (and if the series had a softer centre, it would end with junior taking the helm of Walter's crystal meth empire); the other is to set-up a scene of mistaken identity." Could Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) suffer for the sins of his father? The old familiar sickness in my guts returned on reading Catherine Gee's litany of possible deaths:
Three things will happen. Walter's cancer will return, baby Holly will die and Hank will kill Walter. Unless Walter kills Hank. Or unless Jesse kills Hank to protect Walter. Or maybe Junior will kill Hank AND Jesse to protect Walter. Or Ted Beneke will make a dramatic return to become Hank's star witness – and then will kill Walter.
Half of these ideas seem unlikely, but none are impossible. Ever since the pilot I had been convinced that the cancer would kill Walt, and that his actions would have been in vain – that is what a tragedy requires. But then his crimes escalated beyond anything I had imagined. The point at which Walter watched Jesse's girlfriend choke to death on her own vomit was probably the point at which I decided a splutter and fall would be too good for Walt. Gilligan has spoken of his desire for judgement, for cosmic realignment, in making the series. The fear now is that Walter has tainted the family he claimed to be acting to save, and that they too must pay the price.
Walt is back in chemotherapy. Photograph: AMC.
In a throwback to episode 8, but also to the first series, Walt throws up in the toilet as a result of his cancer treatment. He notices his Leaves of Grass is gone. Walter has always been an incredible liar – he lies so well he can convince himself of almost anything. To begin with he lies to inflate the demon Heisenberg, to scare off the competition and satisfy his ego. Later he lies to deny it. He tells Jesse that they are both "out" (sound familiar Mr Corleone?) and that they can "try to live ordinary, decent lives", before lying through his teeth, again and again, about his not having killed Mike.
Still, Jesse goes on a philanthropic spree, throwing large bundles of cash into front gardens, cacti and down drains, trying to atone like a junkie Lady Macbeth. This creeping episode reaches its crescendo when Walter, paranoid about his lost Whitman, finds a tracking device stuck to the bottom of his car. The next day he drives to Hank's, is alarmed by his suspicious behaviour, and confronts him about it. Hank lowers the garage door and clocks Walter, splitting his temple wide open.
At first Walter seems to concede his guilt, not begging, but negotiating with Hank: "You and I both know I would never see the inside of a jail cell. I am a dying man who runs a car wash. My right hand to God that is all that I am. What's the point?" But this, as was the case at the end of series 3, is a perfect collision of the two Walters: Mr White and Heisenberg. Even though he has, after 55 episodes, finally been rumbled, it is Hank who looks truly washed out, shocked and afraid. He asks Walter to bring over Skyler and the kids, so they can "talk" – which Walter refuses. They are now his hostages.
"I don't know who you are," Hank whispers at the end of the episode. "I don't even know who I'm talking to."
Heisenberg responds: "If that's true, if you don't know who I am, maybe your best course would be to tread lightly."
I'll be blogging after each of the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. If you want to follow the series, bookmark this page.
Philip Maughan
Philip Maughan is an editor at 032c magazine and former assistant editor at the New Statesman.
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Jordan Behrle has certainly made a name for himself with Century Air! He is one of the youngest students ever to graduate the private pilot program. Jordan (right) is seen here with his father, Keith, upon returning from his first flight as a newly certificated private pilot – and his dad was his first passenger.
Just two years ago, Jordan and his father walked through the doors of Century Air on Jordan's 15th birthday and enrolled him in the private pilot program. A year later, at just 16 years old, he celebrated his first solo flight and then earned his private pilot certificate on his 17th birthday. That's the youngest you can do it! While most kids at this age are pondering what to do with their future, Jordan has clear direction for his. He knew he wanted to be a pilot as early as the 3rd grade when he was invited to go on a flight in a privately owned airplane. He recalls it as "the greatest day of my life". Considering his recent achievements, he has likely surpassed that day and is well on his way to many more in his future.
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The current top-of-the-line wireless technology, called 4G (for 4th generation cellular technology) ushered in an era of smartphone apps and capabilities like none before. It also ushered in an estimated $125 billion in revenue for U.S. companies who had the leadership and foresight to embrace it. AT&T and Verizon were two such leaders, and having this sort of technology available enabled everything from fast video downloads to the advent of Snapchat – simply because the app makers had the network technology to experiment with.
5G promises to deliver much, much more. And more than ever, to the technology leaders will go the spoils.
5G is what will make the future possible, and will be even more transformative that prior iterations. From self-driving cars to movies that download to your phone in seconds… not to mention true virtual reality and long-distance (remote) medical operations… all will be made possible by the embrace of 5G.
Consumers will only notice once they've upgraded to 5G compatible phones, which won't become widely available until 2019 or 2020, but when they can, they'll enjoy nearly instantaneous data travel nearly "fast enough to mimic human reflexes" (to help self-driving cars avoid accidents).
Telecommunication firms could be impacted too when download speeds are so fast that they can legitimately compete with wired systems like cable and internet providers that need to plug wires into homes.
The key to all this lies with which countries and companies get there first. According to the Journal's Stu Woo, the leaders today include the U.S., China, South Korea and Japan. AT&T and Verizon plan city-by-city 5G launches later this year. China predicts national coverage by 2020.
In the end, the patent holders may be the biggest winners of all. Qualcomm, InterDigital, Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson are all major players. Each represents a different nation, and all are vying for dominance. But it's safe to say that in the end, all consumers will be winners too. The pace of change today isn't just getting arithmetically faster, it seems – it's getting logarithmically faster.
As the editors note, "5G has the potential to dramatically reshape our lives." Following then are some of the impacts they see coming to all of us, thanks to the impending 5G network upgrades that will be coming to a town near you – and sooner than you think!
5G gives everything from cars and homes to drones and medical equipment instant access to the internet. This will extend wireless technology beyond our phones and "radically enhance machine-to-machine connections." 5G will be available in dozens of U.S. cities by 2018, and is slated to roll out nationwide by 2020.
Want to watch a movie? Today it takes about four minutes to download a move on a 4G network. With 5G, you'll have it on your tablet, phone or smart TV in six seconds. And those 5G speeds will also allow theme-park visitors with connected headsets to stream hi-def virtual reality experiences while on a speeding roller coaster. You go first.
5G makes self-driving cars a practical reality, with safety. 5G-equipped cars will see, know and understand their surroundings instantly, alerting their vehicles to, say, accidents ahead and perhaps even averting those dreaded pile-ups. An ambulance can signal those cars to pull over long before a human driver could react to its siren, say the editors.
The combination of cloud with real-time video and analytics will allow cities to better manage everything from power grids to traffic patterns. Sensors in water systems could detect and fix leaks before a break occurs, and smart streetlights could direct cars to parking spaces. Energy monitoring will lead to reduced power usage and improved air quality.
But as the Journal's editors warn in their concluding comments, resources will be called for to make it all happen. Governments manage spectrum, and there simply isn't enough high-powered spectrum allocations currently to bring 5G everywhere it should be. Without bandwidth, "we'll be bottlenecking 5G's game-changing speed and capping its potential." Governments need to allocate that spectrum ASAP, so industry can begin new network deployments, and make universal 5G services a reality.
Somehow, it always comes back to the government, doesn't it?


VOORHEES, N.J. — The headliners in this three-day Philadelphia Flyers rookie camp figure to be defenseman Ivan Provorov and forward Travis Konecny.
But one other prospect — albeit a 24-year-old one — might be worth paying attention to in terms of newcomers making the team's opening night roster.
That would be Russian center Roman Lyubimov, who signed as a free agent during the offseason.
Scouting reports say Lyubimov is a good two-way player and somewhat of a defensive specialist who just might give veteran fourth-line wing Chris VandeVelde a run for his money in the upcoming training camp, which opens Friday at the Skate Zone.
Lyubimov spent the past six seasons playing for CSKA Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League. He scored only a grand total of 15 goals in his last 171 games.
But the Flyers seem to think he can bring responsible two-way play to the NHL, just as French forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare has done the past couple years.
"I'm not looking at him as someone who's going to generate a lot of points,'' coach Dave Hakstol said after Tuesday's session. "I think he has to be a real strong powerful two-way forward.
"I think that's the mind-set I would like to see develop for him in camp. It's not going to be about the points necessarily. You see today in practice — he's a guy who skates very well. He's got real good pace, he's got a lot of power. He just has to show us an adjustment to the NHL-size arena, the North American game can be made.
With seven Flyers (Claude Giroux, Shayne Gostisbehere, Sean Couturier, Mark Streit, Bellemare, Jake Voracek and Michal Neuvirth) away at the World Cup, hopefuls like the 6-foot-2, 207-pound Lyubimov might get a little more exposure in the preseason.
"There's more opportunity for guys to get some game action or possibly some extra action in the preseason that maybe wouldn't have been afforded to them,'' Hakstol said.
Lyubimov doesn't speak too much English but Hakstol doesn't seem to have a problem with communication.
Lyubimov understands what his role here will be.
Lyubimov's wife (Katrina) and one-year-old daughter (Alexa) are on their way over to live here so things seem to be falling into place.
He's signed to a one-year, $925,000 contract but if he plays well, he might earn himself a longer deal.
Provorov in Gostisbehere's footsteps? Some believe the 19-year-old Provorov will make the Flyers' roster and is drawing comparisons to the situation of second-year defenseman Gostisbehere, who finished runner-up for the Calder Trophy (rookie of the year) last year.
Of course, the situations are a bit different because last year Gostisbehere was 22 years old and though he didn't make the opening night roster, he returned after the season began when veteran Mark Streit was injured.
This year, Provorov either makes the roster or goes back to his Brandon Wheat King junior team for the rest of the year.
"It was an ideal opportunity for Shayne at the time,'' Hakstol explained. "We had Streit out with the injury so the role he stepped into [such as quarterbacking the power play] was a role he was well suited for.
Perhaps Provorov can do the same.


One-Stop Health Shop to Prepare Patients for Surgery!
A COMPREHENSIVE health and wellbeing programme for patients due to have major surgery has been made a reality thanks to a £75,000 grant from the Health Foundation.
The PREPWELL programme is being launched at Middlesbrough's Live Well Centre thanks to a unique partnership between South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Public Health (Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland) and South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group, who have all contributed additional funds to the project.
Believed to be the first collaborative venture of its kind, a team of doctors, physiotherapists, exercise scientists, public health specialists and Allied Healthcare Professionals will be working together in a bid to improve patient health and wellbeing prior to surgery.
This community-based programme will enable patients to undertake pre-operative fitness training in addition to receiving other lifestyle support in a supervised environment for six weeks prior to surgery. All services will be available in one facility, creating a one-stop environment to support patients.
Project Lead Professor Gerard Danjoux, a Consultant Anaesthetist at The James Cook University Hospital, said: "The aim of the PREPWELL project is designed to get patients fitter for surgery through supported lifestyle changes and early identification and treatment of chronic health conditions.
"This should lead to patients being better prepared for surgery, leading to a lower risk of complications and quicker recovery.
"A number of factors can increase patient risks with surgery including inactivity, smoking, excess alcohol consumption, malnourishment, anaemia, frailty and obstructive sleep apnoea.
"The present surgical pathway often allows insufficient time for these problems to be identified and treated before surgery. PREPWELL provides an opportunity for risk factors to be managed earlier in the pathway in addition to providing tailored support and self-help opportunities for patients.
"Better health before surgery is a major component of a quick and complete recovery for patients. This in turn enables patients to regain their independence and activities of daily living at an earlier stage.
Esther Carr, PREPWELL Project Manager, said: "If your surgeon, anaesthetist or GP feels that there are things that can be done to improve how well you can recover from your operation they can refer you to the PREPWELL programme.
South Tees was selected by the Health Foundation, an independent health and health care charity, to be part of its £1.5 million innovation programme Innovating for Improvement. The programme is supporting 21 health care projects across the UK with the aim of improving health care delivery and the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services.


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Joseph Spires is an owner of the law firm of Ward and Spires, LLC which has operated in Augusta, Georgia for the last 15 years. He has practice law in the State of Georgia since 1997 focusing primarily on bankruptcy, personal injury, workers' compensation and Social Security law. He has filed thousands of bankruptcy Chapter 13 and Chapter 7 cases helping Augusta families through stressful and difficult times.
Mr. Spires has litigated numerous personal injury claims and workers' compensation claims in the Superior Courts of our counties and within the State Board of Workers' Compensation. His 18 years of experience in personal injury and workers' compensation have resulted in millions of dollars for his clients.
Mr. Spires also works in the area of Social Security Disability law as it is necessary to understand Social Security Disability while handling bankruptcy, personal injury and workers' compensation law as these areas of practice go hand-in-hand. Mr. Spires has 18 years experience litigating Social Security claims for his clients which includes trial work before administrative law judges and appeals to the Review Council in Virginia.
Mr. Spires is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys as well as a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia and The Court of Appeals of theState of Georgia. Mr. Spires is a member of the bar for the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.
Mr. Spires attended Richmond Academy and then attended Augusta College obtaining a Mathematics and Physics degree while playing soccer for Augusta College from 1988 through 1992. Mr. Spires attended John Marshall Law School and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1996.
Mr. Spires has coached soccer in Augusta, North Augusta, and Aiken for the last 20 years with numerous high schools and traveling soccer programs. He has developed children's youth skills from the age of 12 through 18 with many of his players receiving soccer scholarships to various Georgia and South Carolina Colleges.
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Pen-y-Holt Farm
Pen-y-holt farm was a working farm built in the 19th Century. It was converted in the late 1970s into individual properties. Many of the original features in both The Granary and The Byre have been retained yet with all modern conveniences. Pen-y-holt Farm is located at the end of the village of Castlemartin in Southern Pembrokeshire, just 8 miles from Pembroke town. Castlemartin with a population of around 200 people has the 13th Century medieval Church of St Michael and All Angels which is definitely worth a visit, this can be seen in the picture below. Recently the villagers have opened a cafe in the village hall selling locally produced food and displaying work by local artists, it is normally open most weekends. The village hall benefited recently from a donation by Universal Pictures who filmed part of the Robin Hood film starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett on Freshwater West beach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was also in part filmed on Freshwater West in 2009.
The Granary and The Byre share a large open garden with views over farmland towards the sea. Each spacious cottages has their own private garden and patio area with garden furniture and BBQ. This is perfect for summer BBQs and alfresco dining. Dogs are welcome but not allowed on the shared large garden area.
The local beach Freshwater West is roughly 1 mile away and has been voted one of Wales' best Surfing Beaches, it was featured on BBC's Coast recently. Barafundle Bay which is also close by is regularly voted as Britain's best beach. The surrounding coastal area of Castlemartin has stunning scenery, for example the Stack Rocks, the Green Bridge of Wales, St Govan's Chapel and the Bosherton Lily Ponds which all attract many visitors. There is also an abundance of wildlife in Pembrokeshire, from the seals and puffins on Skomer Island to the whales and dolphins which can be seen at Cardigan Bay.
Pembrokeshire produces many varied fresh and delicious foods, for example Welsh cheeses, freshly caught fish and world renowned Welsh beef, just to name a few. Mott the butchers on Pembroke Main Street sell a variety of delicious homemade sausages. There is an excellent cheese shop & delicatessen in Narbeth with a restaurant at the back of the shop. Cafe Môr, the seafood mobile cafe at Freshwater West serve a variety of delicious Seashore wraps. They also use fresh seaweeds collected from Freshwater West. The award winning Coast Restaurant is situated on the beautiful beachside location of Coppet Hall near Saundersfoot. They use whenever possible locally sourced Pembrokeshire ingredients and also have a nice selection of cocktails. Wavecrest Cafe is now open at West Angle Bay it is the sister cafe to the award winning Quayside Cafe at Lawrenny.
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The issue is not whether it should be stopped, because usage is growing.
Using neuroscience and artificial intelligence to recruit job candidates, 60 companies use (them) in hiring, including Unilever, Hyatt, and Accenture. Top performers in a position a company is hiring for play games to track their performance and responses in different scenarios and gauge the traits associated with that job. Candidates are compared to these results. Since people already hired may come from a homogenous group, a bias detection tool prevents results that reinforce existing bias. In some instances, companies have seen a 20% increase in diversity and a 65% increase in retention rates.
Pymetrics today announced it has raised $40 million to expand its work with companies using a combination of neuroscience and artificial intelligence to recruit job candidates. The funding will allow Pymetrics to continue its product development and expansion to markets outside the United States.
More than 60 companies use Pymetrics in their hiring practices today, including Unilever, Hyatt, and Accenture. In some instances, companies using Pymetrics have seen a 20 percent increase in the diversity of hires and a 65 percent increase in retention rates.
The $40 million funding round was led by General Atlantic, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures, as well as existing investors Jazz Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.
More than 1 million job candidates around the world have played Pymetrics games using the company's Android and iOS apps.
Pymetrics begins by asking the top performers in a position a company is hiring for to play a series of games in order to track their performance and responses in different scenarios and gauge the specific traits associated with that job. Candidates are then compared to these results.
Recruitment and the use of AI to match companies with candidates have been on the rise with solutions from companies like Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Vervoe, and Plum, but concern with bias being baked into the process has also increased.
Last week, senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) members asking questions about how the EEOC assesses claims of discrimination based on algorithmic bias and the use of facial recognition software in the hiring process.
Since people already hired for positions within a company may come from a single, homogenous group, Pymetrics augments its service with a bias detection tool developed internally to prevent results that simply reinforce existing bias. In May, Pymetrics open-sourced a tool named Audit-AI.
In addition to helping companies find new employees, Pymetrics is also used to help companies target existing employees for new positions and to identify potential areas for improvement.


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Phulmania (2019) is an Indian, Nagpuri & Hindi film directed and produced by Lal Vijay Shahdeo and produced by Lal Vijay Shahdeo, Nitu Agarwal and Amrita Shahdeo. The film feature Komal Singh in female lead role. The story of the film has based on practice of witch hunting. The film was premiered at Jharkhand International Film Festival Awards (JIFFA) 2019 and the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in France. This film also shot in Hindi and released on ShemarooMe, Jio TV, Airtel, VI etc.

Plot
The film is based on true incident happened in Jharia.
The story of the film is on issue of witch hunting, gender discrimination and female infertility.

Cast
Komal Singh
Hansraj Jagtap
Vineet Kumar
Nitu Pande
Khusboo Sharma
Ravi Bhatia
Rina Sahay
Monika Mundu

Sound Tracks
The music has composed by Nandlal Nayak. Jyoti Sahu has given her voice in two songs and Mukund Nayak in one.

Controversy
The film ran into trouble due to its poster.

Release
The film released on 6 September 2019 in state capital Ranchi. The censor board issued the release certificate without any cuts. This is the first Nagpuri film released at a Multiplex.

Reception
The film mostly received positive reviews.

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My philosophy when it comes to setting a weight loss goal is simple: any statistically relevant movement in the right direction is cause for celebration, represents success, and will ultimately get you to where you want to be.
By "statistically relevant movement", I mean that you shouldn't pay attention to weight loss (or gain) over a small period of time (e.g. a week), when such changes could be down to any number of short-term, irrelevant factors (such as water weight). I'm far more interested in the trend of your weight loss or gain over a statistically relevant period of time (say four weeks) than what's happening to your weight from one day or week to the next. That's where you'll find a real picture of the effects of your diet and exercise regime.
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When you reach your weight goal, you'll know you've 'arrived' by how you look in the mirror, how your clothes fit, and how you feel. Your weight will just be a number. (That's another reason why setting an arbitrary number for weight loss can be meaningless, incidentally.) And once you're there, you can then set a target range to stick within. For example, today I weigh 176lbs. My target range is 175–180lbs, so things are in order. If I find myself getting close to 180lbs, I'll start thinking about what I need to do in terms of adjusting my eating and exercise habits. Otherwise, I can trust my established diet and exercise habits to take care of things.
In conclusion, if you're serious about losing weight and keeping it off without putting undue pressure on yourself, forget about setting a time-sensitive weight loss goal. Instead, set a simple goal to lose weight – at any rate. Any statistically relevant movement towards that goal represents success.
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Lewis Capaldi Net Worth, Height, Age
Lewis Capaldi is a young music star from UK but what is Lewis Capaldi net worth?
Lewis Capaldi is a young rising star in music industry. His song "Someone You Loved" became viral first on SoundCloud, later on Youtube after the offical video was released. To get to know more about him, other facts about Lewis Capaldi you may be interested in are below.
How Much Money Does Lewis Capaldi Make?
Lewis Capaldi started his music path in 2017 but has been involved in music since the childhood. That year he released the song "Bruises" that had almost 35 million views on Youtube, and a few other less successful singles such as "Fade" and "Lost On You". Besides, Lewis Capaldi cooperated with Canadian singer Jessie Reyez, together they presented the song "Rush" at the beginning of 2018.
2018 was full of new songs that were later incuded in his debut album with the two beforementioned ones. The album titled "Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent and Bloom" was extremely longed by Capaldi's fans. The songs "Tough" and "Grace" were added to the debut album that was released in May 2019. However, as of now, the most popular song of his remains to be "Someone You Loved".
In 2018 he released the hit song "Someone You Loved" which helped him to get worldwide recognition. The song peaked at the 1st position of The UK, Irish, and Scottish Singles Charts, and was certified Gold by GLF and IFPI NOR, and Platinum by BPI. The offical video "Someone You Loved" has been watched more than 15 million times since February 2019.
Currently Lewis Capaldi is signed to two labels, American Capitol Records and British Virgin EMI Records.
It is also worth mentioning that before not having even an album, Lewis Capaldi was nominated for the Critics Choice Award.
Lewis Capaldi Net Worth: $2.5 Million
Lewis Capaldi is considered to have net worth of 2.5 million dollars.There is no way to know the actual wealth of Lewis Capaldi, WealthyLeo focuses on her estimated net worth.
How old is Lewis Capaldi?
Lewis Capaldi was born on born 7 October, 1996, in Bathgate, Scotland. He is currently 22 years old.
Chinese zodiac sign: Rat
Lewis Capaldi's Height and Weight
Let's discover Lewis Capaldi's height, weight and other body statistics.
How tall is Lewis Capaldi?
How much is Lewis Capaldi's weight?
Eye color: Gray
The full name of the artist is Lewis Marc Capaldi who was born on the 7th of October in 1996. The birthplace is Bathgate, Scotland, UK. He began playing guitar at the age of 9 and writing own songs. His unofficial career is believed to get started when he was 12 years old, that time he was singing in pubs. Being a child, he listened to Queen and Genesis.
Lewis is not revealed to be in relationship, it seems he decided to focus on his music career.
He is popular in the UK but has 1.3 million Instagram followers from all over the world.
Now Lewis Capaldi is on his great tour; so if you want to listen to him live, buy tickets on his official website.
Real Name Lewis Marc Capaldi
Birthday October 7, 1996
Birthplace Bathgate, Scotland, UK
Net worth 2.5 Million
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In line with its commitment to supporting Nigerian musicians by providing alternative platforms through which they can receive lucrative value for their intellectual property, MTN has announced brand ambassadors for 2016-2017.
According to MTN's General Manager Consumer Marketing, Richard Iweanoge, this is designed to enable the company continue to support the development of the entertainment industry by financially empowering Nigerian artistes and musicians through the promotion and monetisation of content on its various digital platforms – MTN Music+, Caller Ring Back Tunes (CRBT) and Value Added Services (VAS).
Music ambassadors for 2016-2017are: Praiz(Praise Adejo); Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk); Chidinma(Chidinma Ekile); Falz(Folarin Falana);Tekno Miles(Augustine Kelechi) and Skales(Raoul Njeng-Njeng). Four other ambassadors are – Saka(Hafiz Oyetoro); Nedu (Steve Onu); Osuofia(NkemOwoh) and Adamu Zango.
Speaking on this, MTN Executive, Amina Oyagbola said: "MTN remains proud to be associated with the growth and development of the careers of all our ambassadors, past and present.
Iweanoge again said, "With the significant investment made so far in Nigeria's music industry, MTN remains and will continue to beone of the biggest supporters of the music industry. We have a track record of consistently providing the stage for some of Nigeria's biggest artistes to shine and express themselves".
He stated that through its Caller Ring Back Tunes (CRBT), MTN is the largest music distributor in Africa.
Iweanoge, however, posited that for the purpose of keeping alive the original concept of music brand ambassadorship, MTN decided to retain the services of past winners and participants of its Project Fame music reality TV show, which include Inyanya, Chidinma and Praiz.
Beyond the Project Fame alumni, Iweanoge also saidthat in order to nurture other artistes so that they too could attain greater heights, MTN wouldstill retain the services of some of its newly-signed brand ambassadors like Falz, Skales and Tekno who are the faces of its youth segment proposition – MTN Pulse.
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Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (initially called 'het Collectiegebouw' (Collection Building), popularly called 'The Pot') is an art depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It is the first publicly accessible art depot in the world.

It is a 39.5 meter high, bowl-shaped building that is covered with reflective plates, so that a more or less contiguous, reduced mirror image of the environment can be seen, whereby one can look over the surrounding buildings. To guarantee the privacy of patients of the adjacent Erasmus MC, a number of plates have been made matt on that side. Some rooms where daylight is needed are also fitted with normal glass. An aluminum-coloured IKEA bowl served as inspiration for the shape of the building. The 'Blanda Blank', a slightly shiny serving dish made of stainless steel for 3.99 euros, happened to be on the table as a sugar bowl during preliminary discussions about the design for the building.

The first pile went into the ground on March 17, 2017. The building has seven floors. On the roof is a restaurant with 120 seats. The building contains 1 664 mirror panels with a combined surface of 6 609 m². In addition, there are four restoration studios. Inside, part of the collection is displayed in thirteen display cases. In October 2021, the costs for the building were estimated at over ninety million euros.

On November 5, 2015, the Rotterdam city council approved the change to the zoning plan in the Museum Park, allowing the plans for a special art depot to be realised. There used to be 255 Acacias trees on the site of the building. According to some experts, they were in a bad condition and could only survive if they were moved to the municipal tree depot. Others disagreed with that view, saying that the new building is destroying the park.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen was designed by the Dutch architectural firm MVRDV. The entire deposit collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (more than 151,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates) is stored here and is publicly accessible, on a total floor area of 15,541 m². Financially, the realization was made possible in part by the 'De Verre Bergen foundation' with a donation of €17 million and a loan of approximately €35 million during the construction phase.

The intention is that the exploitation will be paid for from entrance fees and from income from the rental of depot space to private art collectors; 15 percent of the floor space intended for art is reserved for this purpose.

On April 29, 2022, the Depot app received a Webby Award in the category Apps and Software, Art, Culture, and Events 2022. On 12 May 2022, the Depot received the Best Building award in the 'Stimulating Environments' category by the Dutch Architectural Firms Association (BNA).

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'ADDING MARCUSE' TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: COMBATTING INDIRECT DISPLACEMENT
Figure 1: Khalil, a 25 year-old South Parkdale resident, locates his daily social experiences as part of a cognitive mapping exercise. Photo credit: Emma Clayton Jones.
On November 26, Toronto's South Parkdale neighbourhood lost a McDonald's. It only took a few minutes for a crane to uproot the golden arches that brought 24-hour light to the southwest corner of King and Dufferin for years. Khalil couldn't believe it. For the 25 year-old, who has lived in South Parkdale for his entire life, McDonald's felt like home. "Everybody has been there," Khalil said. "So much laughter, so many negative times, so many fun times. I feel like it's more than just McDonald's." The site will soon hold XO Condos, a controversial development containing 300 residential units and upscale retail. XO is just the latest of a wave of residential and commercial investments to hit the neighbourhood. Amidst rapid gentrification, South Parkdale remains home to residents with mental health and addiction experiences, refugees and recent immigrants: 90% of South Parkdale residents are renters, and 34% live in poverty.
Figure 2: Site of the former McDonald's at King & Dufferin
Khalil lives in subsidized—or Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI)—housing with his family, so he is not concerned that the ongoing gentrification will price them out of their homes. But for Khalil and his closest people, the loss of McDonald's threatens their ability to feel at home in the neighbourhood. "It's sad to see that it moved because when you go in there, you get the feeling like 'this is like home.' Usually, when things are there for a long time, they're like home. These are the places that bring people joy. When you take away things like that, it's like 'What's my joy now?' What's the alternative?" In his "Missing Marcuse" article, Tom Slater highlighted how studies of gentrification-induced displacement in the early 2000s—which tended to minimize displacement effects—were missing Peter Marcuse's conceptualizations of displacement. This essay discusses how we can add and expand on Marcuse's theorizations to strengthen equitable development approaches by developing alternatives that address the indirect displacement experienced and expressed by Khalil to protect the 'places that bring people joy'.
Equitable planning initiatives, such as 'development without displacement', tend to focus on mitigating direct displacement and often overlook indirect forms of displacement. This shortcoming in many equitable development approaches represents an under-theorization of displacement processes.
Some scholars—such as Mark Davidson—argue that displacement processes are still not well understood. He notes that common conceptualizations of displacement understand it as forced relocation or physical dislocation, for example due to sub-standard maintenance or rising rents. However, Davidson argues that reducing displacement to a simple spatial moment in time strips out the social relations that produce that space. Peter Marcuse's definitional framework of displacement goes beyond spatial understandings to also include indirect forms, such as displacement pressure. So, even if lower-income residents manage to 'stay put' in gentrifying areas, they may still experience displacement pressure. This occurs when the stores and restaurants they once frequented slowly disappear or change to cater to the tastes of more affluent newcomers. For example, the local affordable coffee place–where residents would gather and socialize–becomes a Starbucks or another specialty coffee shop selling organic beans, or the local diner becomes a fashionable vegan restaurant selling craft beers and boutique wines.
Davidson builds on Marcuse's framework by reasserting the importance of place in a way that "emphasizes the lived experience of space". Other scholars have also expanded upon Marcuse's typology with additional forms such as cultural and political displacement. For example, Caitlin Cahill defines cultural displacement as occurring when a neighborhood is changed to such a degree that the social norms and values of newcomers take precedence over the tastes of existing households in such a way that older less affluent residents may no longer identify with their neighbourhood. Cultural displacement then is experienced as a form of neighborhood effacement as the physical signs and cultural symbols of a community are erased (e.g. a local community center is sold for private development or murals commemorating Puerto Rican and Black history are removed). All of these experiences of indirect displacement can lead to a loss of sense of place, as long-time residents no longer feel that they belong in their own neighborhood.
The contentious public debate around gentrification often focuses on whether the process is 'good' or 'bad'. However, the more important question is not one of simplistic value judgement; it is a question of 'who benefits?', which should be a central concern for planners. Without some kind of planning intervention, disadvantaged groups tend not to reap the benefits of gentrification; instead, they tend to bear the brunt of the negative impacts—such as rising rents, increased housing cost burdens, and direct displacement, which contributes to growing socio-spatial inequality and polarization. Of equal importance is the question of 'where do you feel most at home in the community?' This question can serve to re-frame community engagement, allowing both planners and residents to perceive the spatial components of social connection and care through the identification of sites that feel 'like home' and 'bring people joy', and as a result, to operationalize alternatives to the loss of these sites. In the words of Khalil: "The alternative is [...] having the community involved in the decision-making before you're going to make any decision. Obviously, I know Parkdale doesn't own the McDonald's, but when it comes to major changes, I think people from the community should be at the table."
Khalil's comments demonstrate that indirect displacement holds serious implications for equitable planning initiatives, and they raise important issues for planners working to create a more socially cohesive and just city. Planning is not just about land use; it is also about fostering a sense of belonging. As redevelopment and neighborhood upgrading occur, the inclusion of marginalized voices is important in addressing racial and income divisions as well as social exclusion. By documenting the lived experiences of tenants living in a gentrifying neighborhood, we can obtain a better understanding of tenant perspectives, which can help inform more effective social planning interventions that mitigate the impacts of gentrification. In so doing, we can design and help retain more affordable spaces (e.g. grocery stores) and inclusive sites that encourage and preserve a sense of belonging in addition to facilitating interaction and mutual learning between different groups. To achieve this, one suggestion that a community worker had in Detroit was to create a tenant advisory board that would liaise with relevant city departments and provide valuable input regarding tenants' everyday experiences and needs as they inhabit a rapidly gentrifying downtown.
Figure 3: Map of Parkdale, Toronto. Map sketched by Emma Clayton Jones
In Toronto, Khalil's experience was part of a master's paper exploring the complex ties between gentrification and social relationships for residents of rooming houses, subsidized apartments, market rate rental apartments, and owner-occupied houses on Cowan Avenue and Dunn Avenue, two gentrifying streets in South Parkdale. Using the tool of cognitive mapping, one of the co-authors, Emma Clayton Jones, worked with participants to geolocate their daily experiences in the neighbourhood, focusing on spaces where they feel a sense of belonging, social connection and care. She paired the mapping exercise with a series of open questions, asking participants what changes they have noticed in Parkdale, how they view and value their local social networks, whether they hope to stay in the neighbourhood, and what it means—and what it takes—to feel truly at home in the community. What has come from this process is a collection of personal stories, each painting a different picture of the changing neighbourhood. The research does not present one consistent narrative. It does, however, surface an important thread: while many participants describe Parkdale as unified and socially cohesive, Clayton Jones' research suggests perceptual divisions along income lines. All participants expressed value in social relationships that are rooted in place. Higher-income participants perceived local relationships as pleasant, but for the most part, non-essential; while lower-income participants described the ability to form relationships with other neighbours as a means of survival. They expressed that care-based relationships with neighbours create essential safety nets and sources of information about the services and resources they need to survive. Resources such as: informal systems of childcare, tips about healthcare and legal aid, resistance to social isolation, sharing money or food in times of emergency, and information about gentrification and potential displacement. "I feel like it's a support team," one resident shared about her all-female neighbourhood 'crew'. "Also, financial support or physical support, you know what I mean? I remember one time I twist my ankle, and I remember Cheryl and Sonia was literally lifting me to put me in my son's car to take me to the hospital."
And like Khalil, lower-income residents located these crucial relationships in sites outside the home, in spaces including McDonald's, Coffee Time, the public library and public park. They perceived these sites, and their networks more broadly, as under threat—threat of disappearing (as both McDonald's and Coffee Time recently have) or shifting to serve the neighbourhood's more affluent newcomers.
Equitable development approaches typically work to prevent direct displacement, and in cases where relocation is unavoidable, fair monetary compensation for tenants is viewed as an important part of an equitable policy. However, this view conceives of housing merely as a commodity or as a place of shelter so compensation can be offered as a fair exchange for the loss of shelter. This conceptualization does not consider the consequent loss of community and social networks of support that have been built up over years, sometimes decades. It does not take into account the social relations that produced and were produced by that space and ignores the sites of belonging that contribute to a strong sense of community. Locating the experiences and relationships of connection and care on a map reveals why understanding the emotional and social attachments to place ought to be an important consideration for planners.
Value capture tools, such as inclusionary zoning, which are often used to enable more equitable development, tend to also facilitate luxury residential development, as Fei Li notes in her article on inclusionary housing in London. She illustrates that affordable units are typically embedded in private market, often luxury condo developments, and the level of affordability tends not to be accessible to those households most in need. Samuel Stein, in his article on market-driven planning in New York City, also illustrates how massive upzonings and luxury residential developments, which were heralded as the solution to the affordable housing crisis, helped to create new affordable units but also resulted in "dramatic increases in luxury apartments" and rising rents.
This is not to say that inclusionary housing is not a useful tool when designed properly, but it can also serve to dilute political resistance to gentrification (see Filip Stabrowski's work), as the promise of some additional affordable housing often forestalls opposition. The key questions, though, are: how affordable are the units and for how long? In the end, as Humphrey Carver noted decades ago, those making very low incomes generate a social need for housing but not market demand. Fei Li's and Samuel Stein's work illustrates that housing policies are now embedded in market logics and tend not to help those who demonstrate a social need for housing. While developers reap substantial profits and the city's brand and status gain in prestige, what do low-income and disadvantaged residents gain in return for significant tax incentives to facilitate market-rate developments?
One way planners can help ensure that low-income households benefit from growth-related initiatives and help mitigate indirect displacement is to leverage new development and capture benefits to protect and enhance these spaces of belonging through the use of planning tools, such as community benefits agreements (CBA). Toronto's Parkdale People's Economy (PPE) has worked with community members to create a framework for community benefits, one of a number of collaborative projects to ensure that the neighbourhood's diverse members can shape decisions about the place they call home. The People's Economy—a network of over 30 community-based organizations and hundreds of community residents—infuses this ethos into a number of projects, including a participatory community planning process, a community land trust model, a local currency program, and a community-based food distribution and procurement initiative. In addition to advocating for measures to prevent the direct displacement of low-income residents—including decent work, shared wealth, and equitable development—PPE is piloting community-led initiatives to tackle indirect displacement. In 2018, the group partnered with The Public Studio to launch the Parkdale Leadership Training Series, a paid program for racialized women, trans, and nonbinary residents to build capacity around community building and neighbourhood resilience. This program led to the creation of the Parkdale Women's Leadership Group, which has launched the Parkdale Wellness Drop-In, a peer-directed mental health support program for Parkdale residents. Edward Soja once argued that there is a dialectical relationship between social processes and the built landscape. He wrote that "not only does the social comprise the spatial, it is also comprised by it". In other words, social processes are shaping spatiality at the same time spatiality is shaping social processes. Thus, space is not just a neutral container or background, but the geographies in which we live are socially produced and can be enabling or oppressive, just or unjust. And if unjust space is socially produced then that space can be remade into a just space through human agency—this is where we believe that planning and planners can play an important role.
Planners have been complicit in helping to facilitate gentrification in mundane, everyday ways, such as recommending the approval of property tax abatements. However, given the central role of planners in shaping development patterns and socio-spatial landscapes, we are also uniquely positioned to address this problem. This places a burden on planners to act with more agency than they perhaps possess within a capitalist urban development system. Though, as Norman Krumholz once said, planners are not powerless to act and "even when severely constrained by relations of power, the planning questions remain: What can and should be done?" How will this affect our disadvantaged residents? As this essay has argued, planners should also ask: how will redevelopment change the neighborhood context in terms of retail and services composition and what are potential conflicts over the use of public space? Where and what is home for low-income residents? By asking these simple questions, progressive planners can work to recommend and implement alternatives wherever possible, even if it is only in small incremental ways that will help advance equitable development and achieve social justice.
Julie Mah recently received a Ph.D. in Planning from the University of Toronto. Her research examines the impacts of gentrification on the housing affordability landscape and explores tenant experiences with direct and indirect displacement.
Emma Clayton Jones is a Toronto-based settler, currently living in South Parkdale. She is a Master's of Urban Planning candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in social planning and policy, and a multimedia journalist with national bylines. She is passionate about co-creating equitable communities and cities. Twitter: @emma_cjones
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Juwan Howard Officially Hired as Michigan's New Mens Basketball Coach
The Michigan Wolverines hired former Fab Member and Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard on a 5 year deal worth $2 million per year
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The Michigan Wolverines hired former Fab Member and Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard on a 5 year deal worth $2 million per year. It seems like it came down between him and Providence coach Ed Cooley (who also got a raise and extension from this). No other names were really put out there as being interviewed by the Wolverines, although I'm sure they explored some other options.
So this is an interesting hire. John Beilein turned Michigan into one of the top tier jobs in the country. Michigan is unique in that its known as a "football school" but the basketball team has been much more successful since Beilein has been coaching. That creates an atmosphere where the pressure isn't on the basketball team to achieve greatness like the football team. The football story-lines will always take precedent over basketball. Beilein though, was slowly changing that.
So in reality Michigan could have had their pick of coaches, yet it seems they went with Ed Cooley and Juwan Howard as their top two choices. Ed Cooley would have been a great hire for Michigan, what he's done at Providence is remarkable and he's a great recruiter. The resources at Michigan for him would have only made his job easier and made him better. Somehow I get the feeling he was using this to just get more money from Providence.
I don't want to say settled because that word can be taken in a negative way, but Michigan settled on Juwan Howard. Howard has ZERO head coaching experience, and ZERO recruiting experience. For one, I am not concerned at all about his recruiting. I think Howard is going to get some big names to come to Michigan and Jalen Rose, another former member of the Fab Five, noted this as well.
"The one thing he did not do, and it was a different style of recruiting, is recruit McDonald's All-Americans," Rose said. "In his entire tenure there, we had a grand total of zero get recruited to the University of Michigan."
Jalen Rose on recruiting from the South Florida Sun Sentinel
First of all, I'm not sure how this is a bad thing? Michigan has been to two National Championship since 2013 under Beilein and have put numerous guys in the NBA. Beilein didn't need two or three five star recruits to get to the top. Since 2013 guess what programs have been to two national championship games? Villanova. UNC. Michigan. UNC is really the only school that will get multiple McDonald's All Americans in one recruiting class. You know who else gets multiple, schools like Duke, Kentucky, Michigan St., and Kansas. Those teams since 2013 have a combined 1 appearance in a National Championship Game. I understand McDonald's All-Americans are nice, but I don't get the criticism here from Rose. Honestly, it makes no sense.
So will Howard get good recruits? Yes. I believe he'll be a great recruiter and he has the connections from being in the NBA so long for the big times players. For example, I am not sure what LeBron or Dwayne Wades kids will be like as ball players but if those two are highly rated, Michigan is going to have a great chance at getting them.
This hire to me is really a home run swing. Michigan could have gone a safer route and gotten an established college coach but instead went with the hometown kid. As Rose noted in that same article, Howard was the first of the Fab Five to sign onto Michigan, he helped recruit all those guys to Michigan, he was always professional and disciplined, and this hire will help heal any wounds still left over between the Fab Five and Michigan.
That's a great story and all. But this isn't about what happened in the early 90's. This is about what happens with Michigan going forward. John Beilein built Michigan into one of the premier college basketball programs in the country, lets hope that Howard can take that final step and bring a National Championship to Ann Arbor.
Go Blue.
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