Indigo has a long history of extensibility - AppleScript Attachment scripts were available from the start. Later, the Indigo Web Server was added along with the IWS plugin and the ability to add custom images.
With Indigo 5.0, we wanted to add a new server plugin API that would allow 3rd party developers to more natively add devices, triggers, and actions to Indigo. This new server API would allow users and 3rd party vendors to implement their own functionality in Python with full access to all the objects and events that Indigo understands (referred to as the Indigo Object Model, or IOM). Finally, users wouldn't have to wait for us to add support for, say, the Global Caché IR devices, the THUM devices from Practical Design, etc. Someone with sufficient skills could implement support for those devices, have them integrated into the Indigo UI as first-class citizens. No strange variable state hacks, fake X10 devices, etc. - these new devices are actually recognized as real devices in Indigo.
What's more, we wanted to ensure that Python programmers have complete access to everything that AppleScript scripts have access to. While AppleScript is a good language for a lot of things (and we aren't dropping support for it) we believe that using a more modern, standard, capable, and platform agnostic scripting language is much better for our users in the long run.
To deliver this additional functionality, we've introduced a new concept: the Indigo plugin bundle. First, let's look at the new Application Support folder structure.
Notice are the two new folders: Plugins and Plugins (Disabled). These two folders are where the new plugin bundles are stored (see the next section for details). Plugins that are enabled from the UI are located in the Plugins folder and when a user disables a plugin it's moved to the Plugins (Disabled) folder.
The first thing you'll notice is that this is actually a real Finder bundle - so it appears to be a single file called Example.indigoPlugin. It's moved around and treated as a single file, and all the user has to do to install your solution is to drag the plugin file (bundle) to the Plugins folder.
First, though, you can see that there is only one top-level folder in the bundle - Contents. All other files/folders are inside that folder. This is the standard Mac OS bundle construction, so we decided to follow the pattern.
So, why did we go to the trouble of using the bundle format when there's just a file and a couple of folders? Because in future versions, we're going to add capabilities to the plugin bundle (AppleScript Attachments, AppleScript background scripts, shared images, IWS plugins, etc). We didn't quite get to them for 5.0, but expect them to follow very soon after the 5.0 release.
PluginVersion - this is the version number for your plugin - it's shown to the user in the UI and will help you when supporting your plugin users. This key is required.
ServerApiVersion - this is the version of the server plugin API as defined by us - for Indigo 5.0, it is 1.0.0. While we hope to keep API changes to a minimum, it's prudent to version the server API used. This key is only required if your plugin implements a server plugin.
Bundle display name (CFBundleDisplayName) - this is a standard Mac OS X key, and its value represents the name of your plugin. It's used in a bunch of places in the UI, so make sure that it appropriately identifies your plugin. This key is required.
Bundle identifier (CFBundleIdentifier) - this is another standard Mac OS X key, and it represents a unique string that represents your plugin. This is used for namespacing where necessary in the code, so it is critical that it is unique. The standard reverse DNS naming scheme is what should be used, although if you aren't a company you'll need to figure something out (maybe your blog, etc.). You should limit your bundle id to standard alphanumerics as special/extended characters may cause problems. This key is required.
Bundle version (CFBundleVersion) - another standard Mac OS X key, and it represents the layout of the bundle. This is controlled by us, and for Indigo 5.0 it will be 1.0.0. This key is required.
URL types (CFBundleURLTypes) - you must specify one URL that represents a web page where your user can get support. Your plugin will have a menu item called "About [PLUGIN NAME]" - when the user selects this menu item, the default browser will open to this URL. Note - this can be a forum topic in the "User Contributions" section of our user forums if you don't have any other place to host the support page. This key is required.
We want the user experience to be very similar for plugins, at least until it comes to configuration and use of the plugin, so you should be careful to get the Info.plist correct. Use the IndigoPluginTester Mac application to do error checking on your Info.plist and bundle construction as well as other formatting checks.
You can drop Python scripts and AppleScripts into this folder and they will show up in your plugin's sub-menu on the new "Plugins" menu. When the user selects the menu item, the script is executed. This is a really simple way of giving your plugin some visible UI. In Indigo 4, if you had loose scripts in the "Scripts" folder, they showed up under the "Scripts" menu item in the Indigo Mac Client. This is no longer the case - if you want scripts to show up in a menu somewhere, you'll need to create a plugin bundle with the scripts you want in the "Menu Items" folder. You don't need to implement a Server Plugin to do this - only have a valid Info.plist file and a Menu Items folder with your scripts.
The IOM is used for two similar purposes: scripting Indigo and building Server Plugins. They aren't mutually exclusive, but they serve different needs. For instance, you may just want to write an embedded Python script action vs building a full Server Plugin. Likewise, you may be interested in building a Server Plugin that doesn't actually create any new device types, but simply adds events, actions, and menus to Indigo. This is fundamentally different from how AppleScript works with the IndigoServer.
here, we need to describe the old AppleScript embedded vs File concept and how it's no longer necessary for IOM since IOM scripts will be run in a different process anyhow and the fact that Python scripts have to be executed within a specific environment to get access to IOM.
defaultValue No You can enter a default value here.
enabledBindingId No If you want to conditionally enable/disable this field based on the value of a checkbox, set this value to the id of that field.
hidden No If this attribute is set to true then the field will never be displayed regardless of what other options you have set for it. It's useful if you need to contain some kind of state variables for the dialog that are controlled by button presses rather than controlled directly by the user.
id Yes This is a unique identifier for this Field within the context of this ConfigUI element.
readonly No This attribute will make the field readonly - useful to show the user data that changes in some other way rather than being manipulated directly by the user - in the example above clicking the Find Node ID button will populate the ID field.
tooltip No Unfortunately, enabled text fields won't show tooltips (Cocoa limitation), so your tooltip should probably tell the user why it's disabled (since that's the only time it'll show) if the field is ever disabled.
type Yes This must be textfield.
visibleBindingValue No If you specify a visibleBindingId, you must specify the value(s) here. For instance, if you are binding to a checkbox, setting this to false will mean the text field is visible only when the checkbox is unchecked, and a true means the opposite. To make the field dependent on a list or menu, set this value to a comma separated list of option values (item1, item2). You can even bind it to the value in another text field, but that's probably of limited use.
defaultValue No You can enter a default value here. The value must be one of the values from the List element described below.
hidden No If this attribute is set to "true" then the field will never be displayed regardless of what other options you have set for it. It's useful if you need to contain some kind of state variables for the dialog that are controlled by button presses rather than controlled directly by the user.
readonly No This attribute will make the field readonly - useful to show the user data that changes in some other way rather than being manipulated directly by the user.
tooltip No Unfortunately, enabled menus won't show tooltips (Cocoa limitation), so your tooltip should probably tell the user why it's disabled (since that's the only time it'll show) if the field is ever disabled.
type Yes This must be "menu".
visibleBindingValue No If you specify a visibleBindingId, you must specify the value(s) here. For instance, if you are binding to a checkbox, setting this to false will mean the menu field is visible only when the checkbox is unchecked, and a true means the opposite. To make the field dependent on a list or another menu, set this value to a comma separated list of option values ("item1, item2"). You can even bind it to the value in a text field, but that's probably of limited use.
defaultValue No You can enter a default value here. The value must be a comma separated list of values, each value must be listed as an option in the List element.
tooltip No The tooltip will be shown when you hover over the actual list control.
type Yes This must be list.
visibleBindingValue No If you specify a visibleBindingId, you must specify the value(s) here. For instance, if you are binding to a checkbox, setting this to false will mean the menu field is visible only when the checkbox is unchecked, and a true means the opposite. To make the field dependent on another list or menu, set this value to a comma separated list of Option values (item1, item2). You can even bind it to the value in a text field, but that's probably of limited use.
Static list fields are constructed almost identically to static popup menu fields - with a Label element and a List element which contains multiple Option elements. Each Option element must have a value attribute and that attribute is what is what will be passed back to your plugin when the dialog is validated; it may not contain comma characters. The text inside the Option element is what is displayed for each line in the user interface.
type Yes This must be "checkbox".
defaultValue No You can enter a default value here. The value must be either true or false.
type Yes This must be label.
type Yes This must be separator.
type Yes This must be button.
An error dictionary. The keys will be the fieldId and the value will be the error string. When the dialog receives this return, it will turn each field with an error red and add a tooltip to the label part of the field so the user can mouse over the label to see what's wrong.
type Attribute Yes This must be one of: relay, dimmer, or custom. We'll discuss each below.
States Element No This element is only used for custom device types. It describes all the possible states for the device. See the description below for more details.
In this first iteration of our plugin API, we are going to allow you to define three types of devices: relay, dimmer, and custom. Relay and dimmer devices will share the common UI, states, actions that the corresponding INSTEON and X10 devices do.
When the user selects "Plugin" from the "Type:" menu, the "Plugin" and "Device" popups will be shown. When the user selects your plugin from the "Plugin" popup, a list of all the device types you've defined will be populated in the "Device" popup. The string in the <Name> element (see above) is what's used for the menu items.
Like a relay device, a dimmer device type will inherit the UI, actions, etc. that all other dimmer type devices have. They have two states: on state and brightness level. They also have a status query action. The XML for a dimmer device would look exactly the same as the XML for a relay except that the id attribute would be dimmer.
Note: To increase the value of your plugin, you should ensure that you test and document the necessary information so that Python scripters can script your plugin's actions - for instance, a scripter can tell the iTunes to pause playback. You can provide that information in a relatively straight-forward way in your plugin's documentation as we've done with our plugins (check the Airfoil and iTunes docs for examples). You shouldn't really have to do much - but you should test each action. Sometimes you can make assumptions about the data that you get from your action's ConfigUI that you may want to change - for instance you may expect data when it would be advantageous to not include it (optional data) from a scripters perspective.
CallbackMethod Element No 1.0 This is the name of the method defined in your plugin that will be called when your user selects this menu item.
ConfigUI Element No 1.1 If you want a menu to open an associated dialog, you can include a standard ConfigUI element (see Configuration Dialogs above for details).
No This method is called in a newly created thread after the Start method finishes executing. It's expected that it should run a loop continuously until asked to shutdown.
No This method will get called whenever a new device defined by your plugin is created. In many circumstances, you won't need to implement this method since the default behavior (which is to call the deviceStartComm() method if it's your device and it's enabled) is what you want anyway (see the deviceStartComm() method above for details). However, if for some reason you need to know when a device is created, but before your plugin is asked to start communicating with the device, this method can provide that hook. If you implement this method, you'll need to either call deviceStartComm() or duplicate the functionality here.
You can also have this method called for devices that don't belong to your plugin. If, for instance, you want to know when all devices are created (and updated/deleted), you can call the indigo.devices.subscribeToChanges() method to have the IndigoServer send all device creation/update/deletion notifications. Why? Maybe you're logging all device changes - or maybe you're managing a scene and need to know when the devices in your scene change. Subscribing to changes should be used very sparingly since it's a lot of overhead both for your plugin and, more importantly, for the IndigoServer.
msg - the string to insert into the event log None If, at any point in your plugin, you set self.debug = True, then any time debugLog is called the string will get inserted into Indigo's event log. If self.debug = False (the default) any call to debugLog does nothing.
msg - the string to insert into the event log None If you want an error to show up in the event log (in red text), use this log method rather than indigo.server.log().
should discuss the plugin flow for several types of plugins: with devices, events, actions - and plugins that use runConcurrentThread and plugins that start up threads, etc., so that it'll be easier to try and envision how to approach thinking about a plugin.
PySerial v2.5 - just "import serial" at the top of your script. PySerial allows your plugins/scripts to access any serial ports on your Mac. The EasyDAQ plugin uses PySerial for it's serial communication so you may find it useful to look at the code for that plugin for examples.
py-appscript v1.0.0 - "import appscript" at the top of your script. Appscript allows you to use apple events to control other applications. Apple events are what AppleScript uses - py-appscript uses the same underlying events. The syntax is obviously Python but it requires a little getting used to. The Airfoil plugin uses py-appscript so you may find it useful to look at the code for that plugin for examples.
simplejson v2.2.1 - simplejson is included in Python v2.6 and higher - but since we're using 2.5 we've included it in the install. Just "import simplejson".


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KARL RENNER IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL D...
KARL RENNER IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION
Oleh Stijn Cornelis van Huis
Karl Renner (1870-1950), was both a politician and a scholar. He was prime-minister of the first government of first Austrian Republic in 1920 and in 1945 became President of the Austrian Republic after World War II. As a scholar Karl Renner made important contributions to the development of the sociology of law. In his socio-legal analysis, Karl Renner separated legal concepts (form) from their social functions. He stated: "We can only develop a complete theory of the law if we supplement positive, legal analysis with an investigation of the two adjoining provinces, the origin and the social function of the law. These three, together, form the whole of legal science."
Renner made the observation that social change often does not (immediately) lead to the adoption of new legal concepts. Much more often, the form of the legal concept remains the same, while changes occur pertaining to the concept's meaning. When courts, institutions, or individuals apply an old concept to new circumstances, the functions of the legal concept will be broadened, or, if new legal conditions are introduced, narrowed down. The new social functions may change the legal consequences of the legal concept. The legal concept is maintained, but its meaning may change.
Karl Renner thus pointed at the question of how it was possible that despite profound social changes, the concept of property in 1900 was still regulated by pre-capitalist laws: The Code Civil, the Prussian Land Law, the Austrian Civil Code, etc. How is it possible that 18th century laws are still functioning after capitalist industrialization had changed society – including property relations – so fundamentally? How it is possible that the legal concept "property," can mean the same thing in 1750 as it does in 1900, and yet, in 1900 can produce economic and social effects almost opposite to those it did back in 1750?
The answer is that under influence of rapid societal changes legal change takes place even when the laws don't change: "legal norms are only apparently unchanged; at some time, they must either be interpreted in terms of purposes their makers never foresaw, still less desired, or they are overturned by those who can no longer accept what the original purposes do to the citizens of a society" (Laski 1950: 390). The meaning of the laws changes so that it can function in the new social circumstances. According to Renner: "a legal institution is a composite of norms. If in the change of economic system, it has remained constant, but its functions have increased, diminished, changed, or disappeared, then we speak of a change in the functions."
One of the subjects of Karl Renner's sociolegal analysis was the legal concepts of property. Karl Renner explained how the meanings of property was broadened under the influence of the development of capitalism in Western Societies. For example, the rise of the stock market meant that significant changes took place in the relationship between ownership and production. Shareholders of a company own a company not individually but collectively. Individual shareholders are not involved in daily decisions about how production is organized. In the stock market ownership of a company is separated from the power to make daily decisions about the property's management. Another example is the privatization of railways. While privatized railway companies are owned by private parties, they are bound by contract with the government and must continue the public function of the railways. Owners of railway companies are not allowed to use their property as they wish, and, for instance, cease operations one-sidedly on Thursdays. In modern society the boundaries between private and public law have become blurred. While the old laws governing property were maintained, the classic relationship between private property, private ownership, and the basic rights of the owner to exclude, enjoy, use and transfer private property had changed profoundly.
A similar situation happens today in the context of a digital economy. When someone takes property that someone else owns without permission or legal mandate to do so, this constitutes theft. When someone misappropriates and misuses someone's copyright this formally an infringement of copyright laws. The boundaries seem to be clear. Yet, in a digital context misappropriation often takes a form of copying rather than stealing, and therefore does not comply with the classic definition of theft. For instance, England's basic definition of theft in the Theft Act 1968 is as follows: "A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and "thief" and "steal" shall be construed accordingly." "Theft" in this definition requires that the victim is deprived of property. In a digital age, boundaries between theft and illegal copying are not always as clear. In case of illegal downloading, the loss for the producer is not a real loss, since he is not deprived of the product and can use it as before. The damage is potential damage: the loss of a potential buyer or potential buyers of the product. When intellectual property is stolen through hacking, the owner is neither deprived of its property, and while future economic damage can be enormous, the loss does not immediately occur upon the act of misappropriation.
The old copyrights regimes in the world were written for analogue products and did no longer do their job in the digital age and therefore have been changed. Traditional copyright entailed the following: when a work is sold, the copyright holder relinquishes "exclusive" rights, yet retains "limited" rights of restricting copying or public performance. For instance, after buying a book, the owner of the book was allowed to lend it to someone, make copies of parts of the books for private, non-commercial use, and was allowed to resell the book to a third party. In a digital age, buying a digital book means that you have access to a digital copy of a book, of which you may store many copies on many devices. Reselling of a digital book would mean selling of a digital copy to someone while keeping the original copy. Lending of a book means giving friends or colleagues a digital copy of the book, also without losing possession of the book yourself. Having access rights to a digital library through a subscription means access to hundreds of digital copies of books without the requirement to return digital copies to the library, after having downloaded them to your computer. In a digital age the lines between owning, selling, lending, borrowing, having access to, and copying of a digital product have become blurred.
Meanwhile, the increased technical possibilities governments have to monitor and control what happens on the internet, means new opportunities for the government to police the internet. Only a few decades ago, governments could not do much against digital sharing on the internet, but that has changed. In the context of these new technical capabilities of the legal system, many countries have enacted stringent intellectual property and copy rights laws. The result is that in several ways copyright has become even more powerful than ownership: often after a purchase of a digital product, for instance software, the owner is not free to lend, share or resell it: copy rights owners have more control over their sold items than producers of traditional products have.
The example above shows how in a digital age, governments grapple with the old legal concepts of copy rights, property and theft and that the boundaries between the legal concepts have become blurred. Is "theft" broadened to include the making of illegal copies? If you purchase a digital software product, you are not allowed to resell it – and therefore, one may argue, you do not enjoy one of the basic ownership rights. Is it then still ownership? All over the world legislators have chosen to continue to work with the old concepts of "property" and attached "ownership", and "copyrights" in a digital context. The result is that social functions of the legal concepts have changed far beyond their original meanings. This causes social and legal confusion sowing the seeds of the new-born concept of digital disruption (***).
Drew, Joseph (2014) "Karl Renner on Stability, Change, and Service in Entire Legal Systems," Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 70 : No. 70 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol70/iss70/8
Larsson, Stefan. 2014. "Karl Renner and (Intellectual) Property-How Cognitive Theory Can Enrich a Sociolegal Analysis of Contemporary Copyright". Law & Society Review. 48 (1): 3-33.
Treviño, A. Javier. 2017. "On Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions". N: Alexander, Edward. 2017. Classic Writings in Law and Society: Contemporary Comments and Criticisms.London: Routledge. Pp. 227-244.
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Alabama debt collection questions - part 17 - what do you do now?
Alabama Debt Collection Lawsuit Questions — Part Seventeen — What Do You Do Now?
Our topic today is similar to a "so what?" question. You now know more about debt collection lawsuits in Alabama than almost anyone else — so what? What will you do with that information? Let's dive right in.
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So talk to your lawyer about this concern – paying the fee and a judgment if you lose.
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You made it through this long series of articles –– I hope it was helpful to you and I wish you only the best!!!
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Nauru Island I.
Nauru is small Pacific Island state, most suitable place for ideal holiday rest.
Nauru Island is placed in south-west part of Pacific Ocean, 41 kms distant from meridian, between Kiribati and Solomon Islands. The country is a member of Commonwealth.
Nauru Island is situated quite far from other island-states of the region. So, its nearest neighbours are Banaba Island and Kiribati group of islands, Nukumanu atol (Papua-New Guinea, approx. distance 1300 kms) and Ontong Java atol (Solomon Islands, approx. distance 1500 kms) on south-west, further, Kapingamarangi atol (USA, Caroline Islands, approx.distance 1900 kms) on north-west and Ebon atol (Marshall Islands, approx.distance 1600 kms) in north. Nearly 4000 kms of open water space, sometimes cut with coral atols, divi des Nauru Island from nearest Australian town of Brisbane.
The surface of this country makes 21,2 square kilometres only. The island does not have its capital, nevertheless, all authorities and offices are concentrated in Yaren area. Nauru Island is situated practically on the equator. The average month temperatures move from + 28°C up to + 34°C, and it is changing very little in the course of the year. So, daily hot could reach, owing to vegetace absence and very strong warming of rock basement from glowing rays, even + 38 - 41 °C, whereas in the course of the night it is a bit colder. During time period, from March up to October, when north-east winds (monsoons) are blowing, the air temperature drops to 3-4° C, but at the coast only.
Yearly precipitation makes 2500 mm approx. However, since November till February, cyclone periode prevails, the weather is very wet (humid) and the island is nearly sunk in rain. On the other hand, the rest of the year, dry periods prevail, owing to lack of vegetace and soil character.
Total population number of Nauru Island makes 14019 persons (2009, estimate). Prevailing part of population is formed by Nauru (58%), the rest are Melanesians (26%), Chinese (8%) and Europeans (8%).
Nauru (Nauru Republic) is an independent Parliament Republic. President is a Head of state and government, elected from Parliament Deputies lines, for a period of three years. Government members are nominated by Presidentm from Parliament members. Actual President of Nauru Republic, elected in December 2007, is Marcus Stephen, great sportsman. One-Chamber Parliament is a legislative authority (18 deputies are elected in all districts, during general elections, for time period of three years). From formal point of view, political parties are missing in the country. All deputies are elected as independent ones, but all associations are formed on base of family or sects traditions. Since 1992, Nauri Island Council (NIC) is acting in the country, which has its advisory status, looking after traditions´maintaining. From administrative point of view, the island is divided in 14 districts. Nauru language and English are the official languages in the island.
Text: Maxim Kucer
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Do You Know That? The Smallest Exotic Statest Of The World II.
Nauru: it is an island which could be be hardly found on world map. Nevertheless, even such small states have their importance, and, no doubt, they cannot be missed in our survey of smallest exotic countries of the world.


Afghanistan competed in their first notable ICC tournament in 2010 when they qualified for the ICC World Twenty20 hosted in the Caribbean. Since then the Asian nation has improved, and raised it's game to a level that no team can consider them minnows in major competitions.
The International Cricket Council awarded the Blue Tigers for its achievements in the global field in 2017 when they rewarded Afghanistan with the Test stature along with Ireland. In June 2018 Afghanistan played their first Test match against India in Bengaluru although in a losing effort.
Afghanistan made it to the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup ahead of the much stable and experienced teams of Zimbabwe and Ireland, who used to be present at the sport's grandest carnival. The team not only booked its place for the mega event in the UK next year but won the ICC CWC 2019 Qualifiers by blowing away former World Cup champions Windies in the decisive finale.
The Afghan team won their first ever World Cup match in 2015 when they conquered Scotland in a nail-biting thriller. They would be keen to add some more victories to their kitty and here are the 3 teams whom they can defeat.
The team who once won the World Cup and recently also won the ICC WT20, Sri Lanka is running through a never ending bad dream. With all senior players retiring together at almost the same period, the Islanders have been unable to find their replacements. To fill the boots of Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara is a tough job but the cricket fans saw Dinesh Chandimal, Thisara Perera and Angelo Mathews as the rising stars.
Somehow, the Sri Lankan team could not recover from the blows that they were dealt with and they may also take the wooden spoon by finishing last at the ICC Cricket World Cup. Afghanistan thrashed the Lankan Lions in a group match of Asia Cup and would like to repeat the same in England next year.


Near Colborne Lodge, the 1837 home of John George Howard who originally owned the estate that is today's High Park, there is a large tomb.
The tomb was designed and erected by Howard in 1875 two years before his wife Jemima Frances died and 15 years before his own demise at age 87. The vault, carved from Vermont marble, was surrounded with granite boulders piled up to create a huge cairn topped with a Maltese cross.
Howard, an early architect and engineer in Toronto learned from his brother-in-law in London England that the courtyard railing from Saint Paul's Cathedral was being torn down. The next day Howard wired his brother-in-law to purchase the railing, which had been designed by the cathedral's architect Sir Christopher Wren in 1714.
So, as the poem states, after having stood in London for 160 years, the heavy railing was transported across the Atlantic. All went well until the ship sank in the St. Lawrence River. Howard, not to be deterred, and after two years of preparation, had a portion of it raised from the river bottom at an expense greater than shipping it from London. Sadly, some of it was lost, with only enough for one side of the tomb being preserved and installed on November 18, 1875.
Today, 297 years after it was created and 136 years after it was installed in High Park, all we have to tell the remarkable story of the fence and possibly lament the irretrievable loss of a portion of it, is an enigmatic poem probably composed by Howard himself and barely visible to park visitors.


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Lately the deaths of some wonderful people in the Fox family has made me think about mortality the past and the future. I didn't like Allen and I was happy when he left the Hannity show. But learning that he had lymphoma and myself having a disease that cant be cured and struggled with my whole life I have empathy for him.
Allen Combs, Brenda Butner all dead in their 50's i have known to many that have died in their 50's. My dad died in his 40's that was a short life back then i thought he was old. Now I'm hitting my mid 50's and reading all these people dying at my age. You start to take stock and question your mortality. It seems that if you make it past your 50's there's a good chance you make 70 plus. But if your sick and have a disease that cant be cured it takes its tool. You take drugs your whole life including some that were pulled from the shelves that screw your immune system, liver, kidney you wonder why some one that didn't have all that ends up dying so young.
Economically this will put a huge strain on the system. As these people get older and require much more health care for much longer periods. The bill will go up real fast ! The social security system was based on people only living 50 years or so. So they collected and hoped you didn't get to sick or live long. Our kids are going to have to pay this large bill that we are running up. Can you imagine the life expectancy by the 2050's is going to be 130-150 they believe. By 3000 it might make 170 plus we will be encroaching on the bible lengths of the Methuselah, Noah's, and Moses characters.
Early earth Environment gives life spans double to triple then todays.
Now we don't have that environment any more but the earth is getting cleaner. Hopefully in the future we will be able to actively terraform the earth adjusting the CO, Ozone, Oxygen levels as we need. Living to be 100 or 150 is great if your healthy and in shape. Scientist find the kill switch that turns the aging process on.


If the past couple of weeks were all about Windows 10, this one slowed things down on that front. Instead, Microsoft unleashed their first wearable device, going by the name of Microsoft Band. Other than that it was business as usual for the company, including a layoff of another 3,000 employees.
Years after we first heard that Microsoft is working on a wearable device, the company launched Band, which is a cross between a fitness band and a proper smartwatch. Early reception seems to be positive, and the device does tick all the right checkboxes in terms of features, design and performance.
Unconfirmed, but it appears that Intel has budged, and opted to delay its upcoming line of Skylake processors by a few months. Reportedly, this is to help OEMs and hardware vendors better adjust their Broadwell inventory, but a move like this is sure to impact the notebook market in some capacity.
The Chinese government has been on the offensive against Microsoft for a while now, and the country now plans to switch around 15% of government PCs to a custom variant of Linux every year. Nothing from Redmond on these reports, but what can a company do in situations like this, right?
Office 16, the next version of Microsoft's popular productivity suite has been in the news these past few months, and now we have a time frame to look forward to. It is being reported that the company is gearing up for launch in the second half of 2015. Ties in with the naming scheme, a little, this.
The start of this week brought along the two year anniversary of Windows 8, Microsoft's modern operating platform. And boy, what a ride it has been! The company tread a lot of new territory with Windows 8, and only have things stabilized a little in terms of perception and market share.


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Portland Region 2040 Vision–What's Next?
"How do you think Metro should respond to the key issues and trends affecting the region's ability to realize the vision of the 2040 Growth Concept?"
I was asked this question recently and here's what I said. . .
Since its inception in 1995, the 2040 Growth Concept has promoted compact, mixed-use, transit-oriented development in centers and corridors. This has been central to shaping regional growth patterns, limiting sprawl and creating livable communities. In fact, directing growth into centers & corridors has been the region's primary strategy for preserving farms, forests and natural areas outside the Urban Growth Boundary. Metro policymakers (and I myself) believe that compact development is the premier tool to address climate change, ensure equity, create jobs and protect the region's quality of life.
I see three key trends that have only gotten stronger since 1995:
Trend 1: Walkable Urbanism Preference
Most cities in the region know that they must promote walkable urbanism–but sometimes their policymakers forget. This image is from Beaverton's Civic Plan.
Boomers and Millenials both show a strong preference for "Walkable Urbanism." Some suburban policymakers responses to Metro's Climate Smart Communities (CSC) project shows that many of them are not aware that this first trend means that they should be focusing more of their infrastructure dollars towards "retrofitting suburbia" rather than building and widening roads. I worked hard to see that urban form/urban design was in the strategies tested in the CSC project (and indeed it tested at the top!), but many suburban policymakers would rather focus on electric vehicles and other technology for lowering tail pipe emissions. More needs to be done to alert them that their present course will potentially lead to stranded assets where there is little market left for suburban single-family homes that don't provide the opportunity to walk to needed services and amenities.
Trend 2: Recognition That Inequality Hurts Us
There is a growing recognition of the unacceptable impacts of inequality (racial, social, financial). Inequality impacts such issues as housing affordability, homelessness, displacement and even sprawl as people seek more affordable housing in towns outside the Metro Urban Growth Boundary. Thanks to Bernie Sanders, financial inequality (the widening income gap) has become a chief topic of presidential debates and led to more discussion of the role that the Federal government should play. Meanwhile, Metro has attempted to address several aspects of inequality.
This report mentions Community Land Trust as a strategy. But it needs to become THE major strategy if we are to address housing costs for a 2040 workforce.
Regarding Metro's Strategic Plan to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Metro's COO Martha Bennett said "the priorities are to learn more about best practices, apply equity plans to its service-delivery areas, improve community engagement and use equity as a measure of decision-making in spending money." Any build out of the 2040 Growth Plan will need to address gentrification, displacement and contracting opportunities in an equity strategy that focuses on communities of color.
Metro has pursued affordable housing strategies for many years—the latest effort being the Equitable Housing Initiative headed up by Councilor Sam Chase. From Metro's web site: The Initiative's Report discusses a variety of tools that could help, including financial assistance for residents, renter protections against evictions and nonprofit community land trusts. . .
I agree that Metro should utilize the Community Land Trust model, but not just for the involuntarily low-income. I would like to see governments in the region, including Metro, promoting the CLT for ALL OF US. The original impetus behind the CLT movement was to create a new institution to keep housing permanently affordable. The first people I ever met living in a CLT were NOT low-income, rather middle-income people who saw it as a better way. Probably the local government that best understood its potential was Burlington, VT under then-mayor Bernie Sanders. The City of Burlington under Sanders helped to support the formation of the Burlington Community Land Trust. It's now the Champlain Housing Trust, the largest CLT in the US and a model for local governments looking for systemic solutions.
Champlain Housing Trust is the largest Community Land Trust in the nation. It enables housing to be kept permanently affordable by holding title to the land under both multifamily and single family homes–both rented and owned. Image from CHT 2014 Annual Report: http://www.getahome.org/learn-more/publications.
I believe the CLT is the best tool for transforming our housing system. By taking the land under housing off the private, commodity, speculative market, it helps to change the concept of housing from a commodity to be bought and sold for a profit. Instead it encourages us to see it as a social good that everyone needs and deserves.
"By looking at housing as a fundamental human right rather than a market good that goes to the highest bidder, and with shrewd political organizing in a hostile environment, housing advocates in Burlington have created a sustainable model for affordable housing that deserves to be emulated across the country" says Daniel Fireside in Burlington Busts the Affordable Housing Debate.
The Portland region has a Community Land Trust, Proud Ground (formerly Portland Community Land Trust and Clackamas Community Land Trust). Personally, I feel that it is far too focused on home ownership rather than a mix of ownership and rental. Nonetheless, Metro should explore developing a relationship with it similar to that of Burlington and CHT.
Woolsey Corner in the New Columbia community of Portland was developed as a Community Land Trust by Proud Ground utilizing Orange Splott as its developer. Photo courtesy of Orange Splott.
For the shorter term, it should work with innovative housing developer Orange Splott, LLC and its network of other small incremental developers in promoting more alternatives to conventional home ownership. Let me repeat, these alternatives should be marketed not just to "the poor" but to ALL OF US! For Metro, this work could come under the banner of the Equitable Housing Initiative, but it needs to be larger than "affordable housing." Rather it needs to focus on housing affordability involving ALL income levels. In the long run, hopefully before 2040, such efforts by Metro will help to change the concept of housing from a commodity to a social good.
Trend 3: Need for Excellent Urban Design
Residents of existing neighborhoods will be far more supportive of new development when it includes excellent urban design encompassing:
appropriately scaled buildings
streets designed for walking, biking, pushing baby strollers. . .and even cars
neighborhoods with diverse uses
people of diverse incomes, class and ethnicity
sufficient parks and natural areas, protected streams, wetlands, and steep slopes
infrastructure for arts and culture
Metro might look into working with the Regional Arts and Culture Council to produce a toolkit to encourage every community in the region to integrate arts and culture. Transportation for America has produced a Creative Placemaking Handbook that could provide a good start.
Tigard Mayor welcomes New Urbanist Jeff Speck for two days of talks and workshops on making Tigard, a suburban community in the Portland Metro area, more walkable. Photo by PlanGreen.
Members of the Congress for the New Urbanism have a great deal of expertise in excellent urban design. Metro should continue to develop a partnership with the Portland-based non-profit National Charrette Institute, a leading affiliate and powerful voice within CNU. As presented at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference by Council Member Craig Dirksen, the Investment Areas Approach with its Shared Investments Strategy highlighted both the City of Tigard and the Tigard Triangle in the SW Corridor Investment Area. New Urbanists are having strong influence over Tigard's redevelopment and this trend should be encouraged.
Metro is connecting its natural area at Canemah Bluff with a riverwalk along the Willamette River. This will make Oregon City even more appealing as a place to live and work. Photo by PlanGreen.
Metro should continue its long-standing relationship with The Intertwine regarding the integration of parks and natural areas into developing centers and corridors. This coalitions of organizations have long been involved with implementation of Titles 3 and 13 of the 2040 Concept. It should consider expanding relationships with environmentally oriented organizations that represent communities of color (some of whom are in The Intertwine). As mentioned above in the inequality trend, any urban design efforts must take into account gentrification and displacement. They must also take into account inequitable air quality impacts.
What do you think about my three key trends re: implementing the 2040 Growth Concept–and my ideas on what Metro should do about them? What are your ideas?
This entry was posted in 2040 Growth Concept, Centers & Corridors, Climate Change, Community Land Trust Model, Design Matters, Housing Affordability, New Urbanism, Sprawl Repair, Sustainability, Trends, Urban Design, Walkable Urbanism and tagged Bernie Sanders, Burlington Community Land Trust, Champlain Housing Trust, Clackamas Community Land Trust, Climate Smart Communities, Co-Housing, Community Land Trusts, Congress for the New Urbanism, Craig Dirksen, Creative Placemaking Handbook, Daniel Fireside, Gentrification, inequality, Jeff Speck, Martha Bennett, Metro, National Charrette Institute, new urbanism, Orange Splott, Portland Community Land Trust, Proud Ground, Sam Chase, The Intertwine, Transportation 4 America on April 4, 2016 by Mary Vogel.
Occupy Sprawl
Occupy Sprawl – by Galina Tachieva as posted to a Pro-Urb Listserv
Inspired by the recent popular discontent expressed so colorfully on Wall Street, I offer this proposal: Occupy Sprawl!
People are not happy with the economy, with politics, with the government. Consider the physical surrounding of the protesters: the streets and squares in lower Manhattan where there are plenty of places to gather. Good urbanism provides good spaces for assembling and protesting. Our sprawling suburbs are devoid of such places. Where can people get together to show frustration (or to celebrate)? Are people happy with their physical environment in sprawl? Why not revolt against the system of sprawl, which is responsible for some of the most serious environmental, economic, social and health problems in recent history? Sprawl has been central to our economic troubles: the mortgage meltdown, dependence on cars and oil, pollution and waste of resources to mention just a few. Sprawl has even been blamed for the death of the American dream itself.
How about taking on sprawl in the passionate way the protesters are taking on Wall Street? The metaphor of occupation can serve us well in the quest to reform sprawl because we will need a dramatic overhaul of the physical pattern, of the law, of the financing mechanism that created, supported and encouraged sprawl for decades. The whole system must be shaken from its foundations, in the same way the occupiers demand systemic changes on Wall Street.
There is so much to occupy in sprawl! People should reclaim the empty, unproductive, wasteful spaces: over-scaled parking lots, empty big boxes, dead malls, vast front lawns, foreclosed McMansions, massive cul-de-sacs, underperforming golf courses, etc. Suburban strip corridors can become main streets and boulevards, malls can incubate much-needed town centers, deserted McMansions can house students and seniors, and parking lots can be transformed into productive community gardens.
There is a direct connection between Wall Street and the future redevelopment of sprawl. A few years ago Christopher Leinberger identified 19 real estate categories or standard product types preferred by Wall Street and showed the need to provide new alternatives that are walkable, diverse, more resilient. The redeveloped sprawl types will be the new products in the Wall Street toolbox.
Leinberger put it succinctly and unambiguously: We can stay outside the world of Wall Street-dominated real estate finance, discuss, and (occasionally) design and build precious, expensive alternatives. Or we can work hard to develop new product types that the mainstream can understand, accept, and prosper by developing and owning.
The good news is that things are already moving. The New Urbanists have been building numerous projects redeveloping sprawl, piling up experience and success. Sprawl is under attack from many sides ≠ from the grassroots as well as from the private and the public sectors. The market is shifting towards more intelligent, human-scale urban patterns and Wall Street is paying attention. Adam Ducker of RCLCO pointed out in his CNU presentation on the economic context of sprawl repair, that Walkscore is becoming a Wall Street underwriting tool.
But more voices and hands are needed for this Herculean effort. The resources are here and plentiful; just help yourself. Use the strategies from Retrofitting Suburbia, the toolkit of the Sprawl Repair Manual, the maneuvers of the Tactical Urbanists, the interventions of Incremental Sprawl Repair and Planned Densification, the common sense of the Original Green, the sustainability of Rainwater-In-Context and Light Imprint, the techniques for re-zoning sprawl of CATS and get support from the many minds of the CNU Sprawl Retrofit Initiative.
Get out and Occupy Sprawl!
This entry was posted in New Urbanism, Sprawl Repair, Walkability and tagged new urbanism, redevelopment, sprawl, sprawl repair, Wall Street on November 3, 2011 by Mary Vogel.
The Unbearable Costs Of Sprawl
On top of the soaring costs of crumbling infrastructure, health impacts and ecological damage, we must now add the global economic crisis itself – triggered by the unsustainable economic patterns of sprawling American suburbs. But new solutions are emerging to re-structure a generation of vibrant, successful neighborhoods.
A Policy White Paper by:
Michael Mehaffy , Sustasis Foundation, Portland, OR[1]
Galina Tachieva, Congress for the New Urbanism "Sprawl Retrofit Initiative"[2]
Laurence Qamar, DPZ Cascadia Group[3]
Mary Vogel, PlanGreen, Portland, OR[4]
John Holtzclaw, The Sierra Club[5]
Christopher Leinberger, The Brookings Institution[6]
Introduction: Converging forces and the end of "Business as Usual"
History records that the sprawling American suburbs were Ground Zero of the global financial crisis of 2008-2010. It was here that millions of American homebuyers used unsustainable financial means to buy far-out homes in artificially cheap, "drive 'til you qualify" suburbs. Buyers drove increasingly farther away from jobs and services, to increasingly remote, car-dependent enclaves that offered apparently cheaper homes – at least, until the true costs of transportation, furnishing and home heating and cooling were factored in. This set the stage for financial disaster.
Many of these homes were bought with adjustable-rate mortgages, artificially lowered for an initial period after sales (and with hefty commissions for agents and brokers). Homebuyers had to wager that their incomes would rise, or they would be able to sell their homes for more money later, to cover any shortfall. Worse, many of these same homeowners took out second mortgages, sometimes on top of car loans for low fuel efficiency cars, high-interest credit card balances, and other mounting debts.
Adding to this precarious situation, in 2007, a convergence of rising energy prices, mortgage interest re-adjustments, and a normal cyclical recession, triggered a wave of mortgage defaults. Because these instruments were no less highly leveraged, the defaults quickly cascaded into a wider series of defaults by mortgage companies, banks — and ultimately, governments around the world.
It's clear in retrospect that we had built a global financial house of cards. And this "house" was much like the American suburban domicile: over-reliant on high consumption, artificially low initial costs, heavily leveraged with staggering debt — and therefore, unable to withstand relatively ordinary economic shocks. In the parlance of systems theory, this was not, to say the least, a resilient system.
As Christopher Leinberger of the Brookings Institution reports, "what we face today is not just a cyclical housing problem, but a structural one as well." Over the past decade, he writes in The Atlantic (June 2010), most house building occurred in the heavily auto-dependent suburban fringe, "in large part because that's where houses could be built most easily and quickly. But now that the bubble has popped, we can clearly see that underlying demand in these areas is extremely weak, and oversupply is massive."
This was the acute crisis of 2008-2010. But it was, in a sense, the "warning shot" of a much broader convergence of forces that is likely to cause even deeper damage to the world's economy in the future, if the underlying problems are not addressed. We can describe these converging forces as follows:
Continued precipitous rises in energy costs. The fuel of suburban expansion, and of other forms of rapid and non-resilient growth, has been historically cheap energy fueled by abundant petroleum – an era that is coming to an end. As demand continually exceeds remaining supplies, the price of oil – and of other fuels traded within global energy markets – is likely to continue to increase, sometimes dramatically. This is likely to place even more financial stress on outer, car-dependent suburbs with large, energy-demanding homes – and on the economies that continue to rely upon this suburban pattern of consumption to fuel economic growth.
Declining revenues available for continued infrastructure operation and maintenance. Local governments have been able to sustain the increasing cost of operating and maintaining sprawling infrastructure with higher system development charges on new development – but that "pyramid" scheme has shown its vulnerability in the current recession, as the funding from new development has dried up. The result, combined with other financial stresses from lost revenues and investments, has been financially catastrophic for many local governments.
Restricted credit markets. The easy credit that made this scheme possible has given way to a new era of tight credit, making it all the more difficult to sustain existing sprawl developments and mitigate their negative impacts — and that puts new developments in an even more precarious situation.
THE CHALLENGE: Rising costs of obsolete sprawl
Added to these external converging forces, we can expect the internal costs of sprawl to continue to grow, placing even further stresses on the finances of governments and homeowners alike. They can be summarized:
Infrastructure and maintenance. Many older sprawling subdivisions are now entering critical periods of infrastructure maintenance, at a time when governments are even less able to cope with these soaring costs. As energy prices rise, so to do operating and maintenance costs – placing even more stresses on financially strapped governments.
Physical health and its associated costs. Soaring rates of obesity and diabetes have been linked by the US Centers for Disease Control and other researchers to a car-dependent, "drive-through" suburban lifestyle – one that affords little opportunity for walking or other forms of healthy living. Suburban environments have also been linked to rising rates of asthma and other respiratory disease. All of these increased rates of disease translate into higher health costs, at a time when the cost of health care is already a serious strain on recovering economies.
Environmental damage, including climate change. The long-term economic impacts of environmental damage caused by sprawling, high-emissions development, including climate change, have been assessed by many entities including insurance company research departments and others. The loss of so-called "ecosystem services" – such as purification of water and air – could total many billions of dollars. The impact of climate change on agriculture alone, in the form of droughts, heat waves and the like, could be globally catastrophic, both economically and socially. Other well-understood impacts include loss of arable land, destruction of important species habitats, and loss of regional quality of life amenities.
THE OPPORTUNITY: Recycling a readily available resource
These impacts illustrate that sprawling suburban developments at present carry unacceptable costs – yet it would be equally unacceptable, from a resource efficiency point of view, to abandon these regions altogether. A more desirable outcome would be to find ways to re-structure these regions into denser, more walkable, more vibrant neighborhoods, using a series of infill and re-structuring techniques. This is of course only consistent with the principle of recycling resources that are readily available for re-use, instead of perpetuating a "throwaway" approach.
It should be stressed that these strategies must not come at the expense of revitalizing inner-city areas, which often hold out the best opportunity for more sustainable urban development. Rather, this is a "both-and" approach that sees opportunities to do both as part of a combined strategy for more sustainable regional development.
Fortunately, just such strategies and tools are indeed emerging – and they hold great promise for a "new beginning" for sprawling suburban neighborhoods.
We can summarize the key principles of such approaches as follows:
Principle 1: Many of the ingredients are there, but in the wrong place. Sprawling suburbs often have jobs, housing, recreation, and talented and able populations – all the ingredients of a sustainable urban environment – but they are poorly organized, and often in the wrong numbers.
Principle 2: The wasted space is a resource. Under-used right of way is available for transit. Over-large lots can allow accessory dwellings or live-work facilities. Excessive parking lots often make excellent infill sites. Reconfigurations of poorly organized, car-dependent commercial developments can often produce surprisingly elegant plans (see illustration).
Principle 3: Make it pay (by adding customers). Many suburban sites suffer from the diseconomies of low-density development. Put simply, they lack the customer base to support quality development. By adding customers for vibrant, well-designed new centers, suburbs can support more attractive commercial and civic amenities. If managed correctly, the process can become a "virtuous circle" – the additional customers support higher-quality development, which attracts additional customers, and so on.
Before-and-after of a typical retrofit for a sprawling "strip mall" district into a vibrant mixed-use town center. (Galina Tachieva, from The Sprawl Repair Manual)
THE ROADBLOCKS: Some misconceptions about urban and suburban development.
Effective policy reform on suburban redevelopment is often obstructed by well-meaning residents who fear the negative consequences of new development. This is not irrational: so much new development has in fact been chaotic, poorly organized, and downright ugly, that residents have good reason to be concerned. But these same residents are vulnerable to several key myths about suburban development
Myth 1: More density is always unpleasant. On the contrary, less density can be quite unpleasant, because it can mean less economic support for desirable services and businesses, less ability to walk, and a more open, fragmented environment. Often a low-density development can mean less privacy than a well-designed development at a higher density.
Myth 2: The suburbs are about getting out of congestion, and into the open, quieter countryside. In fact, history has demonstrated that the suburbs are about bringing congestion and noise with you – and indeed, increasing congestion, as a consequence of increased dependence on cars for increasingly long trips, and channeling them onto a few highways. A rural lifestyle is the right one for some Americans – but too many Americans thought they were getting a rural lifestyle in the suburbs, when what they got was the worst of both worlds: isolation, and traffic jams.
Myth 3: New infill development is always ugly, and degrades the quality of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, this can be true – but it need not be. If citizens become pro-active stewards of development, and hold policy leaders, architects and developers accountable for the livable quality of development, then history shows that such infill development can add enormously neighborhood quality. Indeed, the greatest cities in the world were built from just such well-planned, beautifully designed infill development.
THE MEANS: Tools and policy recommendations
As noted above, an exciting array of policy tools and strategies is coming to the fore today. An exhaustive account of these is beyond the scope of this paper, but more information can be found in the references below. But we can summarize the strategies as follows:
Add new design tools and strategies. A growing toolkit of design types and strategies is becoming available in both "proprietary" and "shareware" formats. New "sprawl retrofit" strategies are emerging, and offering elegant new ideas for turning ugly, poorly used suburban sites into vibrant, successful centers. Public, private and NGO entities are working together to pioneer new mechanisms and tools, like tax-increment financing, community land trusts, and many others.
Remove the old codes and barriers; add new code tools. Many of the most beautiful, sustainable neighborhoods in human history would be illegal under today's common zoning codes. They need to be scrapped, and replaced with a new generation of codes that allow much more flexible development, in a way that supports walking, transit, and a good distribution of amenities.
Add new incentives and funding mechanisms. The mantra of sustainable development advocates today is, "make it pencil." Good development will not happen if it cannot be supported economically. Sometimes, that means adding customers. Sometimes that means "priming the pump" by creating incentives and financial tools that can support good development through the early periods, when the economic return is most challenging. And sometimes, that means making unsustainable development pay its true cost, so that it does not have an artificial competitive advantage over good-quality sustainable development.
Today, the voices of "business as usual" continue to sing an old song. The sprawling suburbs are the American dream; the American way of life is "non-negotiable;" we can go back to the vision of the 1950s and 1960s, and all glide around effortlessly in gleaming automobiles, in a drive-through utopia. Our economy, too, can go back to what it was. We now see that illusion for what it was, and we are now facing the unbearable costs.
But the future need not be a grim time of sacrifice. Most of us are aware that we were not getting very much for our prodigious (and wasteful) expenditures of money and resources, and we are eager to return to the pleasures of life that are still everywhere around us – and do not cost the Earth in the bargain. We can see ready examples from urban environments where a lower-carbon way of life, for example, certainly does not translate into a lower quality of life. On the contrary, the evidence shows that a higher quality of life can be had in the bargain – one with more diversity of options, more urbanity, richer experiences.
Our economy, too, might benefit by focusing more upon those things that renew and sustain rather than those that destroy and extinguish. It does seem that we have little choice: for the present crisis reminds us that we simply can no longer afford to go on in the old sprawling ways.
From Sprawl to Complete Communities
From Galina Tachieva, the Sprawl Repair Manual
Sprawl is a pattern of growth characterized by an abundance of congested highways, strip shopping centers, big boxes, office parks, and gated cul-de-sac subdivisions – all separated from each other in isolated, single-use pods (figure 1-1). This land-use pattern is typically found in suburban areas, but also affects our cities, and is central to our wasteful use of water, energy, land, and time spent in traffic. Sprawl has been linked to increased air and water pollution,
greenhouse gas emissions, loss of open space and natural habitat, and the exponential increase in new infrastructure costs. Social problems related to the lack of diversity have been attributed to sprawl, and health problems such as obesity to its auto-dependence.
In contrast, complete communities have a mix of uses and are walkable, with many of a person's daily needs – shops, offices, transit, civic and recreational places – within a short distance of home. They are compact, so they consume less open space and enable multiple modes of transportation, including bicycles, cars, and mass transit. A wide variety of building types provides options to residents and businesses, encouraging diversity in population. This mix of uses, public spaces, transportation, and population makes complete communities economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable.
SprawlRetrofitImages
Left, a heavily car-dependent area of sprawl, with many fragmented street segments. Right, a neighborhood with a street grid pattern, which is much more walkable. Uses are distributed throughout the neighborhood.
Left, images from a mixed-use, walkable, transit-oriented neighborhood of San Francisco. Right, images from a neighborhood across the bay, with the same climate, economy, government and other factors. Studies show that the energy use and carbon emissions per capita in such neighborhoods is dramatically higher. (From Mehaffy et al., "The Factors of Urban Morphology in Greenhouse Gas Emissions.")
The promise of suburbia has been eroding for decades, but reached a critical point with the mortgage meltdown of 2008. A record number of homes went into foreclosure and entire subdivisions and commercial developments began to fail. Yet the expanse of sprawl represents a vast investment, and cannot be simply abandoned or demolished. Pragmatism demands the reclamation of sprawl through redevelopment that introduces mixed uses and transportation options. It must be acknowledged, however, that portions of sprawl may remain in their current state, while others may devolve, reverting to agriculture or nature. The design and regulatory strategies and incentives shown here are intended for the places that are best suited to be urbanized because of location or existing investment.
The history and consequences of suburban development, specifically sprawl, are well documented. Numerous books articulate the trajectory of sprawl within its historical context – from the Federal Housing Administration's mortgages for new construction, the subsidies of the interstate highway system, and the tax laws allowing accelerated depreciation of commercial development, to the evolution of Euclidean zoning's separation of uses and the cultural mandate for separation by race. Recent publications put forward the need to redevelop sprawl and what specifically should be repaired; among these are Greyfields into Gold‑ elds and Malls into Main Streets, reports by the Congress for the New Urbanism. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, explains why we need to retrofit sprawl and documents successful examples of retrofits through illuminating and comprehensive analysis.
The Sprawl Repair Manual seeks to expand the literature as a guide that illustrates how to repair the full range of suburban conditions, demonstrating a step-by-step design process for the creation of more sustainable communities. This is a framework for designing the interventions, incorporating them into the regulatory system, and implementing them with permitting strategies and financial incentives.
The proposed approach addresses a range of scales from the region down to the community, street, block, and building. The method identifies deficiencies in typical elements of sprawl, and determines the best remedial techniques for those deficiencies. Also included are recommendations for regulatory and economic incentives.
Lessons learned from history guide this methodology. Rather than the instant and total overhaul of communities, as promoted so destructively in American cities half a century ago, this is a guide for incremental and opportunistic improvement.
"Here comes the neighborhood"
Excerpt from Atlantic Monthly, June 2010
By Christopher Leinberger
As Zillow's satellite maps begin to indicate, what we face today is not just a cyclical
housing problem, but a structural one as well navigate here. Over the past decade, most house building occurred on the suburban fringe, in large part because that's where houses could be built most
easily and quickly. But now that the bubble has popped, we can clearly see that underlying demand in these areas is extremely weak, and oversupply is massive.
Nationwide, houses on the exurban fringes are now generally priced below the cost of the materials that went into building them. That's usually the first step in the creation of a slum. Owners have no financial incentive to invest in their houses if they will not get that investment back upon resale. Developers have no financial incentive to build in those areas either….
Yet the creation of new, attractive urban spaces is slow and difficult, and becomes all but impossible without substantial new infrastructure. Most of all, it relies on good transit options— especially rail links—around which walkable neighborhoods can develop. Rail, biking, and walking infrastructure is the backbone of urban development, and as a country we've for the most part neglected to build it in recent decades, in favor of new roads for new suburbs farther and farther away from metropolitan hubs. To support growth in the next decade, we need to change that dynamic—and nourish our walkable urban spaces and neighborhoods. Complicating matters, in these cash-strapped times we need to find a way to do so on the cheap.
Read the full article at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/here-comes-the-neighborhood/8093
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I've been suffering from back pain for as long as I can remember. It started with high school sports and progressed with time, being reignited by manual labor, sedentary desk jobs and everyday life with small children. When I talk with others I realize that I am not alone – at least half of my friends suffer from back pain, too.
I have tried practically every kind of mainstream treatment available and nothing has worked. I went to physical therapy, a chiropractor, a pain management clinic, a nutritionist and several other alternative disciplines to try to diagnose and alleviate the pain. I've tried transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) treatment. TENS is when they send electric shocks to your spine (sounds like interrogation tactics) causing your muscle to contract and relax in hopes that it will lessen your back pain. While in physical therapy I tried this bizarre torso pulling machine (picture a device resembling ancient torture methods)—while laying on my back my upper body was harnessed and tied in a stationary position while another harness pulled from my waist down in the hopes of creating more space between my discs. Sounds like it would work in theory but in reality it felt incredibly unnatural and did not lead to any lasting relief. My doctor even tried me on anti-depressants, various painkillers, and still all this did, at best, was mask the pain. I was told that I had a herniated disc and that the only solution after years of ineffective treatments was to have surgery. I was at times bed-ridden and in excruciating pain with nowhere to turn and desperate to get my life back, reluctant to have surgery but feeling like it might be my only option.
In the center of the store was an inversion table (the L3-Contour made by Teeter) that grabbed my attention. I'd heard of inversion tables before but never knew how they worked or what they did. The salesperson approached and asked me if I wanted to try it out. I jumped at the opportunity. He explained that the device locks your ankles in place while you lie back on the table that slowly causes you to recline backward to an upside down position (a full 90 degrees). He suggested I start off slowly at 60 degrees and once he adjusted it for my height I strapped my ankles in and lifted my hands up, which controlled how fast and how far I leaned back. The device was well balanced and my descent was surprisingly controlled. All the blood rushed to my head at first but within a minute or two I got used to it and the relief was amazing. Essentially it allows your body to negate gravity or use it to naturally decompress your spine. I was amazed! No fancy gimmicks, medications, or nutrition plan (which doesn't hurt anyway), just a simple inversion allowing your spine to use gravity to create space. After five minutes, I dropped my hands and came back up to the upright position. I felt immediate relief and wanted more. After my friend bought what he needed I asked the salesperson if I could try it again. He agreed and I was hooked! I ended up taking a huge leap and buying the table for about $450 (it seemed minor compared to the pain I was enduring and the potential cost, stress, etc, of the seemingly inevitable surgery ahead of me). Turns out it was the best investment I've ever made.
After using it for about a month, just twice a day, morning and evening for 5-10 minutes, I no longer had any back pain. I didn't follow-up with any of the care I had been suggested (not recommending you do that) because I was so pissed off that none of the providers from my previous treatments, over my many years of suffering, had ever suggested that I at least try this. The concept is so simple and the results are incredible. I started to wonder if the reason most professionals didn't mention it was because it wasn't profitable for them. I did not have surgery but did eventually call to let the doctor's office know what had helped me, with the hope that they would consider recommending it to others like me.
In my mind the inversion table has been a godsend and I feel that it literally saved my quality of life. At this point I would give up most of the extras in my life before giving up my table. You can find cheaper models but there are two things you want to look out for before buying. First, the ankle lock needs to be comfortable and easy to engage so that you don't have to bend completely forward to lock it in to place (remember, your back already hurts). Secondly, don't buy a cheap imitation that has a foam backboard. The hard plastic back contoured for your spine lets your back slide slowly down the table allowing your spine to expand. I no longer have to use it every day, since the pain is gone, but I still get on there every so often because it's relaxing. I've also discovered new stretches and exercises I can do to help with my upper body flexibility. Make sure you read and follow the precautions and instructions before using an inversion table. And you should probably check with your doctor before buying one in case you have a medical condition that would be worsened by the use of the table. Though it takes a little time to get used to and might not work for everyone, I think your bodies will thank you for taking a break from the effects of gravity!


Iran's subterranean labs have made news lately, but it's China's bunkers and reinforced underground hangars that have been on the minds of Western military planners for generations.
Sean O'Connor and Dr. Carlo Kopp from Air Power Australia published a monograph on China's underground air bases, and what it would take to bring them down may surprise you.
China began construction of its 40 or so hidden bases in the 1950s and though some have fallen out of military use and are open the public as museums, many are harboring China's newest air fleet.
Coming at the bunkers with bombs aimed at "the front door" likely won't do much to take structures like this out.
The Germans were the first to bring their military underground during World War II. In response, the British were the first to experiment with "Earthquake Bombs"
The "Wallis" approach is actually what's recommended to take out bunkers like this. The bomb falls away from the structure into the softer ground and shakes the entire area.
But there's no guarantee. And the US has only a handful of MOP bombs. If it uses them it won't likely be on Chinese hangars.


DHL Express, the world's leading international express service provider, is set to launch its global campaign 'Where Everything Clicks' in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, to guide online merchants to navigate and access the booming and lucrative global e-commerce marketplace.
DHL Express aims for the campaign to reach companies ranging from start-ups to large enterprises, advising merchants on how to optimize their websites for international sales and to create a competitive advantage via shipping options offered.
DHL helps sellers traverse an increasingly global landscape, in which buyers progressively make purchases from international websites.
The campaign reveals purchasing habits of online shoppers, including always important delivery preferences, and shows merchants how to use this information to increase sales.
A 2017 study by KPMG reports that consumers across Middle East and Africa were the most likely to import consumer products bought online, almost 50 percent of purchases, showcasing the rise in cross-border shopping that is driving international retail trade.
The survey also revealed 'Enhanced Delivery Options' as one of the key company attributes that contribute to deciding where shoppers choose to buy online.
The study findings illustrate that companies must continually innovate to improve and shorten delivery times, to satisfy increasingly demanding consumer expectations.
DHL has developed services that enhance customer experience and support web merchants as they access new markets. Using advanced market intelligence tools, DHL can quickly identify shopping sites that receive traffic from international locations, identifying potential sales outside of the seller's core market. DHL can compare website engagement metrics and suggest service enhancement via addition of a cross-border express delivery option.
With DHL's On Demand Delivery, buyers are notified proactively via email or SMS about a shipment's progress. Receivers can schedule delivery for another day, arrange delivery to a nearby DHL Service Point or an alternate address, and even request that a shipment is held during vacation. DHL Express offers On Demand Delivery in over 100 countries, with about 50 more coming this year.


HSU is home to more than 100 international students flowing from more than 40 countries. Our campus offers a safe, family-like environment and plenty of opportunities to grow professionally and spiritually, all while experiencing a new, welcoming culture. Our hometown of Abilene, Texas, is a great place to get to know the United States. It's not too big and not too small.
We are happy that you are interested in studying in the United States and at Hardin-Simmons University. We understand that moving to a new culture can be both exciting and challenging. That is why we will be here to help you learn western culture and become successful in your college journey. We look forward to meeting you, hearing your story, and welcoming you to the HSU Family!
Meet Michelle Chahyadi from Bandung, Indonesia.
Our international admissions and student services team members are here to help you every step of the way, from application to arrival.
Hardin-Simmons has a number of graduate level degrees that are interesting for international students. Some can be taken completely online, while others are available on campus or as hybrid programs.
At HSU, we are passionate about taking care of our students! Before you arrive in Abilene, our staff is hard at work to provide the best educational experience we can offer.


Welcome to the first in our next blog series, focusing on the magic of editing. We at SGR-P are both providers of editorial services and accepters of it. For the next few weeks, we'll talk about different editorial topics, from self-editing to finding your betas. We hope that it helps shine some light on this subject, and convinces you why editing for self-published authors isn't something to be ignored.
Let's start at the beginning (the very best place to start…). When we talk about editing, we are talking about a multitude of different steps in the publication process.
Content editing is the process of looking at your story from a 10,000 foot view, and providing feedback. Generally, your content editor doesn't help with typos or line edits (although they can point out clunky phrases). They will point out inconsistencies in characters and plotholes.
Line editing takes your 10,000 foot view and drops it down to a 100 foot view. Your line editor may blend with a copy editor to find typos and grammatical errors.
Quality Assurance (QA) editing is the final review for typos and errors that the previous three editing processes missed.
Depending on your drafting style, it can happen as you write, or it can happen in one big chunk (or both). Where and when you need to outsource depends on your own comfort zone.
Step 1: Finish a "first draft." Sush likes to self-edit along the way, so it takes her a little longer to get those first 75,000 words down. Generally 3ish months.
Step 2: Let it sit for a week, then read on the Kindle. This is another self-edit, where she rips her manuscript apart with the ferocity of the most persnickety reader, versus the persnickety eye of a writer.
Step 3: After repeating Step 2 once or twice, the manuscript is released to her beta readers. These lovely loves are readers and other authors who provide an outside perspective to the story. After incorporating those edits once more, it gets another view on the Kindle.
Step 5: The manuscript gets shipped off to the incredible Danielle Fine, who has been our go-to external editor for 11 of our 13 books. She rips it apart, as she does.
Step 6: Once Dani's edits are incorporated, it's time for the first printed proof. One more read with an actual red pen.
Step 7: The final step is to ship the nearly-complete manuscript to our bevy of QA readers, who have a keen eye for typos and formatting errors.
Step 8: The book is ready for preorder!
You might be asking yourself why should you go through all this trouble. You're a pretty godo editor, your good at finding typos and whatnot.
One sentence is easy. A 400 page book is another story. Even our QA readers end up finding different things in the book, although there is a lot of overlap. No one person is infallible, and you shouldn't have to be.
Besides that, editing isn't just finding typos, as we said above. A good content editor can take your book from okay to fantastic by helping you clarify your thoughts. A line editor will give you a punch list of issues in your book to knock out. While you may be able to find some great beta readers out there, a paid editor is a contracted resource. They will take the time to make sure your book is the best it can possibly be.
All of this boils down to one basic idea: You need a paid editor if you want to pursue a career (or even moderate success) as an author.
For authors, you're expected to do a whole lot of stuff. Build an audience. Grow your social media. Develop marketing campaigns with blogs and Instagram posts and whatnot. And keep writing more books, of course.
We also like to use this scenario: An editor will run you around $400 (depending on word count). If you publish your book on Amazon, you'll have to sell 197 books at $2.99 (with a profit of $2.04) to break even on that edit job. If you don't use an editor… you may not sell any books at all. And no authors wants their debut novel littered with one-star reviews about poor editing.
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SBCC can't recover from sloppy start
September 5, 2015 by Presidio Sports
SBCC was unable to overcome four first-half turnovers and fell to San Bernardino Valley Colllege, 45-34, in season-opening college football game on Saturday in San Bernardino.
San Bernadino scored four touchdowns off the Vaquero mistakes and built a 35-7 lead by halftime.
SBCC worked its way back into the game and cut the deficit to 38-27 on a 70-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Alexander Cuevas to wide receiver Elijah King with 12:09 left in the fourth quarter.
But the Wolverines responded behind quarterback Daniel Epperson. He broke off a 34-yard run on a second and 4 at the SBCC 41, and then hit Brandy Holmes for a 7-yard touchdown, giving the Wolverines a 45-27 lead with 9:32 to go.
The Vaqueros struck back as Elijah Cunningham returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown to make it 45-34.
SBCC's defense gave the offense a couple more chances to score but the Vaqueros couldn't sustain a drive. The first drive started at 7:12 and ended with a punt. They got the ball back with 4:41 left, but that drive ended after three straight sacks of Cuevas.
In his SBCC debut, Cuevas completed 13 of 27 passes for 207 and a touchdown. He was intercepted once. He also ran for two scores. Chad Woolsey was the Vaqueros' leading rusher with 82 yards on 15 carries.
The game got off to a bad start for SBCC. On the opening kickoff, the ball bounced off the Vaquero returner's shoulder pads and San Bernardino recovered at the 7. Kevin Dyer ran for the touchdown on the first play from scrimmage.
A pass interception led to the Wolverines' second touchdown, an 11-yard pass from Epperson to Samuel Rodriguez.
Cuevas fumbled in the end zone and San Bernardino recovered for a touchdown to make it 21-0 at 12:35 of the second quarter.
Cuevas cut the deficit to 21-7 with a 1-yard run. But the Wolverines countered with a couple of Epperson TD passes. The second one was set up by a SBCC fumble.
The Vaqueros got a field goal on the last play of the quarter as Blake Levin converted from 37 yards.
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Jyothi Basu's art has always been deeply influenced by his home state of Kerala, with its dense palm tree jungles and aquatic horizons where back-water canals meet the sea. After a few years of living in the megalopolis of Mumbai, Jyothi Basu has imbibed the language of forms and patterns of chaos endemic to the city to come up with yet another synthesis of opposites, now the urban and the rural. Both are grist for his mill that pictures vegetation as an electronic grid, roadways as jungle vines, trees as concrete towers, and night skies as syncopated lighting.
In large-scale oil paintings and a wide variety of works on paper, Jyothi Basu wills into being a universe of his own making: hallucinatory and timeless yet grounded in astute observations of the world in which we live. His art playfully synthesizes profound conflagrations, sees delight inextricably bound to terror. Symbolism combines with landscape in ways that reaffirm the essential independence of Basu's vision, which idiosyncratically accommodates many different kinds of thinking, in both a visual and a thematic sense.


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"Zen? Zen?" She can't have gone far; she's almost twenty-one years old, and "running" isn't in her repertoire anymore.
I reach the top of the stairs but she is not in sight, so I walk down the hall into the bedroom. No, nothing in here. I walk back out and she is standing at the top of the stairs, gazing down.
I scoop her up and carefully descend. She'll settle again for a little while, until a chill or the wind or a bad dream or existential dread will rouse her from twitch-ridden sleep. Like she is mourning an old friend, Zen's cries will rise and slide up the wooden bannister until I, bleary with my own bad dreams, will go and find her again.
Writing from: a quiet study in Portland, Oregon. Listening to: the low hum of the space-heater. Welcome to Holidailies, a free community writing project that promotes sharing your writing and other online creative endeavors during the winter holiday season.
Zen sounds like my 96 year old mother these days!
It is very much caring for an old, close relative who is both infirm and suffering from dementia.
'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' St. Francis simply extended this admonition to all creatures great and small which is why he is my favorite saint.