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Today in the London Plan Examination in Public (EiP) was the discussion on density policy.
Here I'm capturing my personal reactions – largely from memory – before they fade. I'll later merge them with other people's more balanced and complete notes and with Gabi Abadi's notes on the morning session. They will then appear on the blog at JustSpace.org.uk
The GLA proposes to dispense with the 'density matrix', and thus with any upper or lower limits on housing density, replacing it with a site-by-site setting of densities to be conducted by Boroughs.
I appeared in my own right (not as Just Space); Caroline Shah from Kingston appeared for Just Space, Pat Turnbull on her own account (not at LTF), Peter Eversden and Michael Bach for London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies, Kate Gordon for FoE and Neil Sinden for CPRE. Ian Gordon from LSE London, who had written 2 of the research papers commissioned by the GLA and had a big influence on the policy was there. The amazing James Stephens appeared for the Home Builders Federation but had to leave before the end. Duncan Bowie appeared for the Highbury Group on Housing Delivery. London First and some developer interests. London Councils and just one borough (Bromley!). Nicky Gavron for the London Assembly.
There was a great deal of criticism of the GLA new approach – an approach so new that it was still being re-written, with a lot of further proposed changes at the end of their statement for the day.
In essence there seem to have been the following issues:
What was wrong with the old system? Nobody thought it was perfect. Just Space had been criticising it for years for over-reliance on PTAL and ignoring social infrastructure capacity and social impact, especially in inner areas. Others had other criticisms but wanted to see an evolution through improvements designed to make a transparent quantified basis for policy. Ian Gordon and the GLA wanted to scrap it. Ian's position is that it has had no detectable impact on the actual densities of what has been built, is therefore a failed policy which existed for symbolic purposes only so it would be hypocritical to have it in the plan. He considers that "…we were also arguing that, since the negative effects of height/over development or whatever were essentially local in their incidence (unlike most of the expected benefits), it was appropriate for individual boroughs to set and police upper limits in whatever terms/ways were most appropriate [as the GLA could not be trusted to do this or need to be involved ]- which we thought unlikely to be via some mechanically derived number for a broad class of area.…" I had counter-argued that the need to slow down or reverse the escalation of residential land prices was a London-wide and strategic need which would & should justify a London-wide set of limits binding on Boroughs.
Would the boroughs have the capacity (skills, staff levels) to develop these site-by-site density settings? Widespread doubts about this, though GLA defended themselves stoutly, referring to Practice Public and other upskilling initiatives.
What if boroughs set densities which, in the out-turn, meant they would not attain their total output targets? I don't recall an answer being offered on this.
How democratic is all this? Caroline Shah and Pat Turnbull both spoke strongly against the shifting of these crucial decisions out of the sphere of public debate (on London Plan and Borough Plan policies) and into the closed world of developer/council pre-application discussions in which deals are virtually done before "applications" reach committees. Caroline illustrated this concern from Kingston and Pat Turnbull from Hackney.
My argument that the enforcement of clear, upper limits on density would help discourage over-bidding by developers when they are buying sites and thus help damp land price escalation – to the benefit of social housing providers as well as private developers and ultimately households. (Many GLA statements favour discouraging such over-bidding in other contexts.) GLA mounted what I thought was a rather lame defence that recent changes in national and GLA Viability guidance make it harder for developers to argue that the price they have paid for land should be taken into account in 'viability' calculations and used to justify social housing reductions. They brought in their new head of Viability, Robert Wacher, who argued that this can be really effective in ensuring that schemes are evaluated in the light of truly policy-compliant valuations, citing the Islington Parkhurst Road case. This was a brave effort but I countered by saying that, under the new GLA policy, there would be no policy on density, and thus no concept of policy compliance. Thus the reforms they were relying on would not work. (If there was time I should have added that Islington was a council with strong and embedded policy requirements. But imagine trying to do that in Redbridge or Bromley.)
Is all this compatible with national policy? James Stephens in the morning had argued that the GLA's design policies did not accord with the NPPF requirement that applicants need clear enough guidance on what will be permitted to make compliant applications. He didn't actually say this again on the density issue but it was in his written statement and is just the kind of issue the Inspectors have to look out for.
So what will happen? Many voices (including the London Assembly) were calling for the existing matrix or something like it, to be retained, or retained until better quantified arrangements were developed by the GLA or by each borough. I thought a map would be better than a (necessarily crude) matrix. The logic of the debate should persuade the panel to recommend something like this. But will they have the nerve?
I'm getting tired now. May add more to this tomorrow. Meanwhile here are the last 2 paragraphs of James Stephens' written statement (HBF) which many of us have enjoyed:
"Once all this work has been completed for London several years from now, then we may eventually discover that the capacity for new housing within the developed area of London is much less than has been estimated by the Mayor through his SHLAA back in 2017. But by then it will be too late to stop the London Plan juggernaut continuing on its course of failure.
Of course, we appreciate why the Mayor would wish to dispense with the Density Matrix. This is because, if it had been retained, it would have had to be amended to indicate that much higher densities were to be tolerated in traditional suburban locations (characterised typically by low-density housing of about 20-30 dwellings per hectare). This would have attracted the ire of the residents of outer London. The London boroughs, however, know that this is what they will have to contend with."
Later: 22 May 2019
Today in the final session of the Examination, Robert Wacher (see above) said very firmly that, in their 'viability' testing they had estimated land costs for residential development per completed dwelling unit, e.g. £30,000 per dwelling, stressing that the value of sites depends on how much can be built there. This helps support our argument.
Ian Gordon at the LSE has published his own blog post on this density issue, and I have been able to reply to his criticism on the comments section of his post. It is at http://lselondonhousing.org/2019/03/london-plan-eip-day16-m39
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Firstly, Romania were robbed. Their entry (Klaus Nomi Dracula doing giallo eurodance with a dubstep breakdown) was, in my opinion, by far the best of the night, and barely ended up in the first half of the chart. It ended up considerably behind Moldovan Volcano Dress Lady (whose sets were impressive, though) and Belgian Justin Bieber (who was pretty weak tea).
It's amazing how Russia can manage to make a saccharine song about world peace sound vaguely threatening.
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The intro video for the show showed a caterpillar travelling from Baku to Malmö, hitching rides on hot-air balloons (the dominant form of transport in Azerbaijan, not counting bleak Soviet-era trains or oligarchs' limousines), boats, mopeds and trains. The winner this year was Denmark, with a polished but conventional number. Which means that the intro video for next year's one will be a lot shorter, involving only a crossing of the Öresund Bridge.
The bits between the songs, laid on by the Swedish hosts, were quite entertaining; at about half time, they had a local comedienne playing what is apparently a popular Swedish TV character, Ebulliently Clueless British Lady. After the songs, there was a humorously self-deprecating musical number about Swedish culture, which was quite entertaining. Coupled with the video "postcards" introducing songs being about the entrants' countries, not the many glorious facets of the host country, the overall effect was a lot different from the meticulously polished and vaguely authoritarian spectacles presented by ex-Soviet host nations. A lot more lågom and less arriviste.
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Q: Why does .currentFrame not find frames within movie clip? my button is not hiding. Flash AS3 I'm creating a "simple" slideshow for my sister using Flash CS5 AS3. I'm using the flash presentation template. I currently have the existing functional buttons that navigate any direction through the presentation. The only thing is that on the cover page, I just want to have an "Enter" button that hides when you move to frames > 1. I currently have the buttons all on one layer, the movieclip (slides_mc) on a separate layer, and the actions on it's own layer. All consisting of just one frame across on the main timeline. Within slides_mc there is no actionscript, and consists of 4 frames.
I'm getting no errors whatsoever when I run a test, but it's simply not finding specific frames within the movie clip. OR it's finding the frames but not executing .visible=false.
If I use the following:
if(slides_mc.currentFrame>1) enter_btn.visible=false;

It the button is visible on all four frames.
If I use the following:
if(slides_mc.currentFrame==1) enter_btn.visible=false;

The button disappears on frame 1, but never becomes visible again on any of the other frames.
If use the following:
if(slides_mc.currentFrame==2) enter_btn.visible=false;

The button is visible on all four frames.
Do I need to put this code within a function to call this and make it work?? Thanks in advance. This button hide issue is driving me nuts. I really need to go back to multimedia school.
If I forgot to mention crucial info or if you need to see any of the other code that may be affecting the outcome please let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated.

A: You probably put code in 1st frame , "if" is checked once and when You move to next frame this code is not executed . If You dont like to extend MovieClip for external .as file , You should simply put code visible = false on frames You need to hide it , or simply remove object from timeline .

A: You could also do:
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, doThis);

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Then the function would be checking for the currentFrame all the time.

A: stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, doThis);

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Q: Display an array item's data based on the radio button that's being selected I am trying to display the shoe array item's data if the color property matches the radio button color that is clicked. If the black radio button is selected, the array item with the black color property value should show.
(Note: How can I display or render the shoe data)
Thanks in advance!
App.js
import React, { Component } from "react";

class CheckColor extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
      color: '',
      shoes: [
        {name: 'Black Shoe', color: 'Black', price: 180},
        {name: 'Red Shoe', color: 'Red', price: 120},
        {name: 'White Shoe', color: 'White', price: 100}
      ]
    }

    this.handleColorChange = this.handleColorChange.bind(this)
  }

  handleColorChange(e) {
    const color = e.target.value
    this.setState({ color: color })
  }

  render() {
    const colors = ['Black', 'Red', 'White']
    return(
      <form>
        {colors.map((color, index) =>

            {color}
            <input
            value={color}
            checked={this.state.color === color}
            onChange={this.handleColorChange}
            type="radio"
            />

        )}
      </form>
    )
  }
}

export default class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (

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  }
}

A: You can filter the colors based on the selected color values and then just use a map for showing the filtered shoes.
import React, { Component } from "react";

class CheckColor extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      color: "",
      shoes: [
        { name: "Black Shoe", color: "Black", price: 180 },
        { name: "Red Shoe", color: "Red", price: 120 },
        { name: "White Shoe", color: "White", price: 100 }
      ]
    };

    this.handleColorChange = this.handleColorChange.bind(this);
  }

  handleColorChange(e) {
    const color = e.target.value;
    console.log(color);
    this.setState({ color: color });
  }

  render() {
    const colors = ["Black", "Red", "White"];
    const shoesToShow = this.state.shoes.filter(item => ( item.color === this.state.color));
    console.log(shoesToShow);
    return (
      <>
        <form>
          {colors.map((color, index) => (

              {color}
              <input
                value={color}
                checked={this.state.color === color}
                onChange={this.handleColorChange}
                type="radio"
              />

          ))}
        </form>
        {shoesToShow.map(shoe => (

{shoe.name}

        ))}
      </>
    );
  }
}

A: Four Steps to display object as input radio dynamically
// 1.  obj data
   const phoneNums = {
        jim: {
            type: "Mobile",
            value: 4153662323
        },
        tim: {
            type: "Business",
            value: 4153662323
        },

    }
    //2. convert obj to array
    const radioNumArr = Object.keys(phoneNums).map(i => phoneNums[i]);

    // 3. Set data to User State via Hook
    setRadioData(radioNumArr );

   // 4.set hook and loop on radiodata
   const [radioData, setRadioData] = useState([]);

                    {radioData.map((option) => (

                            <input
                                type="radio"
                                name="dynamic-radio"
                                value={option.value}

                            />
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Blacklisted the book is out.
Repost from the new project I'm involved in: UndercoverResearch.net
The book Blacklisted, the secret war between big business and union activists finally hit the shelves this week. Authored by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain, Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies used to keep union activists away from work. We have the honour to publish an extract, and we selected something from chapter 9, Under constant watch. Dealing with spying on activists it ties in with the work of the Undercover Research Group.
This particular piece shows how the authors found out that information gathered by undercover officers ended up in the files of the Consultancy Association, the secret blacklisting service set up by the large building companies. It was a matter of meticulously going through files, after campaigning to get access to the material seized by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), who in turn had acted upon an article in the Guardian written by Phil Chamberlain. Interviews with those blacklisted, with whistle blowers and people professionally involved in blacklisting added a further layer of understanding.
The story published here adds some interesting detail to our profile of Mark Jenner spying on the Colin Roach Centre in Stoke Newington, London, in the mid 1990s, the same time as his former colleague and now whistleblower Peter Francis was also infiltrating left wing and anti-racism groups in London.
The files of Frank Smith, a brick layer by trade who was also active at the Colin Roach Centre, included elements that could only have come from people very close to him, and that had nothing to do with union work. This case study also shows how the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), the secret Special Branch spying unit, opened a file on his girlfriend who was American, just because she was an active member of Youth against Racism Europe. Her testimony on how Special Branch tried to deport her back to the United States, and the Home Office seizing her passport when she refused and appealed, making it impossible for her to visit her family and friends for seven years, chimes in with current testimonies of MI5 harassing targets – allegedly or not – involved in jihadist circles.
A first bit of evidence on collaboration between police and security services was revealed at Dave Smith's Employment Tribunal against Carillon. David Clancy, an ex-police officer now working for ICO testified that in the files of the Consultancy Association, 'There is some information that could only have come from the police or security services.' Here the authors explain what happened next.
It took a stroke of luck and some careful digging to develop a much fuller picture. Dave Smith was granted a third-part disclosure order against ICO that obliged them to disclose all the files that related to him or to the companies in his Employment Tribunal.
It was only because the ICO had a lack of staff that they suggested his solicitor, Declan Owens, could look at the files to identify the relevant ones. As Owens was doing this work pro bono, he didn't go up but suggested that Smith went instead. When Smith read the files of Dan Gilman, Frank Smith and Lisa Teuscher, he realized that they contained information that only the police could know. It was pure fluke that it was Smith who looked at the files, because anyone else would not have realized the significance.
Two files which raised particular suspicions are held on Frank Smith and his girlfriend Lisa Teuscher. Frank, a bricklayer by trade, was a long-time political activist who had been involved in a number of actions on building sites across London calling for better wages and conditions. It was the late 1990s and London was experiencing a building boom but the stocky Liverpudlian had started to find work hard to get. He said:
I was in poverty — the only jobs I could get were working on little crap jobs. As a bricklayer, you always wanted to get in with a subbie [subcontractor] or a big job that had continuity, that had a decent run of work. You never start a long job in November to January. So you were always aiming for a job that you could get the turkey out of. For me it just became harder and harder to get onto any job where there was any decent run of work — I could only get little tiny jobs. On one occasion, money was quite bad, Lisa couldn't understand it and she took a day driving me around different sites looking for a start. It'd be try that one, that's a big job — I'd go in one after another — nothing. After seeing this and seeing my name on the blacklist, I think my name must have been getting checked out.
Frank Smith's name certainly was being checked out – and not just by the construction companies – but evidence for state surveillance is now emerging.
The authors continue with some more interesting details about cooperation between the police and the Consultancy Association, and point out how the Special Branch remained outside democratic control, escaping any effective form of oversight. The expansion of who might be considered a subversive and therefore a legitimate target continued to increase. The catch-all phrase was 'domestic extremism', which has no legal definition and was used as a vague catch-all term to justify monitoring of campaigners, as Undercover Research explained on the history of Domestic Extremism and the police units involved.
Domestic extremists, the police decided, were those who wanted to "prevent something happening or to change legislation or domestic policy", often doing so "outside normal democratic process". [this definition can still be found at the website of MI5.]
The groups at the Colin Roach Centre, which was as much a trade-union resource centre as anything else, clearly met this definition and so it was little wonder the SDS would try to insert someone into this nexus of dissent. Jenner's cover story of working as a joiner proved ideal not just for making connections with other builders but also in that he could justify his peripatetic lifestyle. During his time there, he ferried construction union activists to demonstrations and attended picket lines over unpaid wages and victimization.
Jenner also spied on anti-racist campaigners and the efforts by anti-fascist activists to aggressively confront the British National Party and the paramilitary fascist group Combat 18. And some of this information appears to have made its way on to the blacklist files held by The Consulting Association. Three separate trade unionists who were in contact with Jenner had details on how they were 'observed' or 'apprehended' while protesting against fascists laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in commemoration of Britain's war dead on Remembrance Sunday in 1999.
The files on two trade unionists record a piece of information that they say was known to only a handful of members involved in anti-fascist activity during the 1990s. The three were part of a loose grouping of activists, known colloquially as the 'Away Team', who protected labour movement and anti-racist demonstrations from physical attacks by far-right activists. Only around 50 people in the entire country would have known what the 'Away Team' referred to, as it was a private joke relating to football rather than a term ever recorded in the press. The information on their membership was gathered by SDS officer Peter Francis, who served for years undercover. All three activists believe this information that ended up on their TCA files could only have originated from undercover police officers.
One of the members of the Away Team who came into contact with the police at the anti-BNP event in November 1999 was Frank Smith. He said:
'I was stopped, searched and spoken to. I wasn't arrested, so there would be nothing in my arrest file. Definitely no press reports about it.
Now what has that got to do with me being a builder? How would a building company know anything about that? It could only come from the police.'
Yet the incident is recorded in his Consulting Association file.
Also in his blacklist file is a line saying:
'Under constant watch (officially) and seen as politically dangerous.'
His blacklist file starts in 1992 and records his involvement with the Vascroft dispute and the Joint Sites Committee. Special Branch also opened a file on him and the officer who opened that file was Peter Francis. The officer recalls:
'The file was created some time around 1995. I knew Frank was involved in Militant but it was primarily his role within the Away Team that I was interested in. So I opened what we call an RF – a registry file.
Then, every time I saw him on a demo or I had a drink with him, that would go on the file. "Seen as politically dangerous" is the assessment I would have had of him. In order for me to create a file on him I need to say something like that because he was regarded as being a subversive.'
Francis, who subsequently blew the whistle on SDS activities, including spying on the family of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, was not tasked to monitor Smith because of his union activities but because of his involvement in the Away Team. Yet Smith's blacklist file also describes him as a 'leading light' in the Away Team. Quite how a manager on a building site would know this is difficult to explain.
There was more to Smith's blacklist file than just his union and political activities, though – and it extended to his girlfriend at the time, Lisa Teuscher. One part of his file talks about Teuscher, an American citizen, being involved in 'several marriages of convenience'. This was untrue. It turned out that she also had her own blacklisting file and the only thing on it is that she is the 'girlfriend of Frank Smith'. And, by coincidence, Francis had also opened the Special Branch file on Teuscher. At one stage Francis recalls being asked, via his superior, to supply information to the Home Office on her marital status. Teuscher was not involved in the construction industry but was actively involved in anti-racist campaigning. Francis told the authors that a file was opened on her because she was identified as an important member of the far-left group Militant and, in particular, Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE). Following the Special Branch intervention, Teuscher was refused leave to remain in the UK and the Home Office tried to deport her. When she appealed the decision, the British government seized her passport for seven years meaning that the young American could not visit her family. Teuscher has now returned to the US but remembers how her treatment by the British state affected her:
'Traumatic because they held my passport for seven years. I loved my family. It was so hard not seeing them for so many years. They tried to deport me; I got a lawyer and fought it. I tried to do everything legally but the British government seized my passport. I couldn't go anywhere. It was very stressful. They accused me of stuff that basically is untrue.'
Teuscher is particularly upset that her political campaigning was undoubtedly the reason for her battle against deportation.
'I am outraged. I came to London and was proud to be a member of the YRE. Happy to be spending time usefully fighting racism, especially when we drove the BNP [British National Party] off of Brick Lane. I find it disturbing that throughout my genuine interest to improve society, there was an unknown force in the British government tracking me.'
The authors informed Teuscher that she was on The Consulting Association blacklist and she has now received a copy of her file from the ICO:
'I was shocked when I first read my file, it made me feel physically sick. It's absurd. I don't see any reason why my name should be linked with the building industry. I had no professional involvement whatsoever. The only reason I am on the list is because of Frank. And that is not a legitimate reason for the police following me or anybody else making notes on me.'
Teuscher eventually won her appeal against deportation but after seven years of constant struggle says that she was worn down and she eventually returned to the US when her passport was returned to her, saying 'they won in the end'.
It seems implausible that these very specific, virtually unknown pieces of private information about Smith and Teuscher could have appeared on their blacklist files without first having originated from a state source.
[all quotes are from interviews by the authors]
Blacklisted chronicles of yet another series of examples of how corporate and police spying destroys lives – an episode insufficiently highlighted in the undercover scandal until now. And it's not over yet. It was not just the SDS: spying to undermine dissent was standard practice across the Special Branch units that dealt with Domestic Extremism since. Many of the police officers involved in undercover operations have subsequently moved on, now selling their services to corporate clients, while still making use of their former networks. The symptomatic abuse of people is still going on today, harassing suspected jihadists – as mentioned above, but also in modern vetting done in the name of resilience and counter-terrorism.
Blacklisted by Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith is out now, available direct from New Internationalist Books for £7.99, printed or ebooked. Currently the authors are doing a tour talking about the book and experiences of being blacklisted.Twitter @BlacklistedBook
Dave Smith is a blacklisted union activist from the construction industry, and an award-winning campaigner on human rights, health and safety, anti-fascism and employment rights issues. He currently works as a trade union education tutor.
Phil Chamberlain is an experienced investigative journalist who has written for the Guardian, Observer and the Independent amongst others. He is also a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
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The average YEARLY income in China in 2006 was about $2000 USD.
Average disposable family income was $477.50/yr in the same period.
If it were USD $10,000 and they wanted to sell it into the Chinese market, they would have to save every penny of their disposable income for 21 years. Which means if they offered it for sale today, they'd have their first sale in 2030.


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I returned to Keyport to paint again in Renee's garden.
The absence of rain has taken its toll on the flowers. The gladioli had just bloomed and were the only hydrated flowers in sight. The blossoms were fresh, full of life and absolutely gorgeous. They bent at odd angles, giving them the look of being blown in a gentle breeze in spite of the still air.
The drawing was complicated and demanded an enormous amount of concentration to capture the character of each petal without getting too stiff. I wanted the drawing to look as alive and fresh as the flowers. I'm pleased with the result.
Last night, as the sun headed toward the horizon, the clouds contrasted sharply with the blue sky. Hmmmm. How dark a value would I have to mix my blue to get that breathtaking pop-up book look of the clouds? A bit to the left the shadow side of the maple tree contrasted sharply with the blue sky. Hmmmmmm, the sky only a mid-value, much lighter than I would have guessed.
I thought of the tree, sky and clouds this morning as I sketched and painted the hollyhocks.
I hesitated before painting in the blue shapes behind the flowers, but not for long. I wanted to see if I could create a bit of excitement inspired by the drama of the evening sky.
I'm glad I tried it. I think I like it. The blue is Joe's Blue (Cheap Joe's pthalo blue) with a touch of French Ultramarine. The only other colors I used are Alizarin Crimson and Gamboge, a very limited palette.
Sketchbook painting: drawn first in pencil, followed by watercolor.
When I arrived at 68 Jackson Street on Sunday morning, Renee invited me into her home to show me her father's artwork. She is the daughter of Tom Dunn, a well-respected illustrator who worked as a courtroom artist, illustrator/journalist during World War II, and a cover artist for Pocket Book Publishing among others.
At the top of the stair hangs a breathtaking painting of a fish painted in reverse on glass. On the walls of the dining room hang half a dozen framed, illustrated love letters written to Renee's mother during World War II. Tom illustrated their courtship as well as his experiences as a soldier. What treasures!
At one point in his career he was asked to paint a portrait of Liberace. Without asking what the compensation might be, he proceeded to work on the portrait. Hundreds of photographs and sketches produced dozens of paintings until he was satisfied with the portrait. He called the agent to let him know the portrait was completed and to inform him of the price for the finished art. The agent informed him that Liberace never pays for portraits …. the payment is the honor of being allowed to paint the portrait! Bah! I was happy to hear that Tom refused to give the portrait to Liberace.
After my tour, I set up in the backyard garden and painted several quick sketches of the various hydrangea blossoms before beginning birdhouse painting that I posted yesterday.
The tiny spots revealed themselves after the painting dried. I think this is a sign of mold.
I enjoyed having several painting styles available for the garden visitors to view. The variety appeared to stimulate more questions about art and techniques.
You can view the other two styles in my previous posts.
Paintings: drawn first with dip pen and ink, followed by watercolor. Painted during the Keyport Garden Walk sponsored by the Keyport Garden Club in New Jersey.
What a joy to sit on my front step and draw the Spiderwort (Tradescantia) that Alexis planted by the front door, many years ago.
I was counting on it storming all day, both today and tomorrow. Instead, it was a gorgeous. The sun shone brightly and a cool breeze kept the air fresh while I sorted boxes and piles in the basement, years of unsorted, need-to-be-thrown-out stuff. It it emotionally wrenching to be smacked in the face with flashbacks every two minutes.
Before the sun had dipped too low in the sky, I treated myself to drawing the blossoms that had been battered by last night's powerful storm….. the one that was supposed to have arrived today. It's so much easier to be stuck in the house cleaning when it is pouring rain outside.
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day I thought I would paint today's trumpet parts drawing as a monochromatic green color scheme.
I only got as far as yellow/green for the table and blue/green for the shadows on the table. The thought of painting the daffodil green made my stomach turn. I simply couldn't do it. The first daffodil from the garden insists on a bit of dignity and wants to remain yellow. I was then left with the dilemma of the napkin. I could have painted it a rich, dark green that would contrast nicely with the yellow blossom. The truth is that I made the drawing in the early morning. I didn't have a chance to get back to it until this evening. We threw a St. Patrick's Day party for Tom's family. Everything was green, the tablecloth, napkins, three pots of green oxalis as a centerpiece, decorations as well as all of the guests who arrived in bright green clothing with green hats and green beaded necklaces with green pots of gold hanging from them. We all had a delightful time playing in the yard, eating yummy food, drinking ale and ending the festivities by eating green cookies. I had spent the day in a monochromatic color scheme of green. A purple napkin felt like a better choice.
Sketchbook drawing: drawn first with fountain pen filled with black ink followed by watercolor.
At 4pm on March 8th flowers arrived at Kathleen's door.
Smart florist. Carl, Kathleen's son, received an email from the florist reminding him that it was his mother's birthday and that he sent her flowers last year …. would he like to do that again? Of course! and thank you for reminding me!
Ahhh….. the simple things in life.
Painting of birthday bouquet: Drawn first with fountain pen filled wit black ink, followed by watercolor. I'm sure the iris is in full bloom right now. It must be gorgeous.


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I went to my third likemind a couple weeks ago (and, yes, I plan to continue mentioning likemind each month because I think it's a wonderful concept, and because I continue to enjoy it). I was chatting with somebody there who expressed the opinion that he couldn't start a blog because he wouldn't be able to post at least once a day, and that's now the expectation. As a blogger who posts at wildly erratic intervals, I thought that was interesting. I tried to express the idea that blogging could be used purely for expressing one's own ideas and not to satisfy an audience, but he didn't really accept that.
After thinking about it some more, I think this is part of a wider trend in our society. Because of media and Internet saturation, we are now exposed to the best talent in any field in a way that can be overwhelming. Taking the example of blogging, it seems pointless to try to blog when there are sites like BoingBoing or individual bloggers like Henry Jenkins or Kathy Sierra generating fantastic thoughtful content on a daily basis. Why should I even try to compete with those people?
The same extends to almost any field. When I read the brilliant writing of David Foster Wallace or Malcolm Gladwell, I sometimes find it frustrating rather than inspiring. When I watch the fantastic exploits of professional athletes, I am in awe rather than enthused to try to imitate them. I wonder if this exposure to world-class talent in every possible field is leading to the decline of the amateur practitioner, as people give up before they even start, or are told they should give up. The media often reinforces this viewpoint by telling the story with hindsight such that it seems inevitable that the star ended up as a star. They rarely tell the story of the almost-star who did everything the same way and yet failed to be successful.
Another side of this is that the world-class practitioners didn't get that way overnight. They were not born brilliant. David Shenk, as part of his new project The Genius in All of Us, makes the observation that "We see people being good at stuff — we don't see them becoming good." He also points out that the main differentiator of musical talent is deliberate practice, not innate ability.
The one exception to this trend away from the amateur seems to be that of bands. There are an insane number of people who play in bands. American Idol will never run out of singers who think they are good enough to make the show. I'm not sure why this particular arena seems to be more resistant to giving up.
I think they have the right idea, though. Doing something for the sheer joy of it, for the sense of achievement and improvement, seems far more healthy to me than constantly comparing oneself to the elite in a field. I'm never going to be a great essayist like Christopher Hitchens or a prolific blogger like Scoble, but the process of writing these posts has made me a better writer and continues to give me practice in the craft of expressing my ideas clearly and concisely. And occasionally I can sound clever in conversation because I have already worked out my thoughts in writing a post here. I enjoy playing sports for the same reason. And I need to remember this attitude when I'm starting a new endeavor – measure my own progress and don't get discouraged by comparing myself directly to the best in the world.
I think you're flatly wrong about this being a burgeoning trend in society.
While *you* may feel that sense of 'I'm nowhere near as good as the people who do it for real,' and in fact many other people do as well, (it's so common that there's a psychiatric name for it, Impostor Syndrome), it's by no mean dominating the culture – well, that, or MySpace and YouTube are figments of our collective imagination.
Let me amend that though – it's clearly a strong trend among populations who believe that you either are or aren't good enough to do something. People who were taught that talent mattered more than practice are having a very bad day in the new world, because, as you say, they can see people who are very good at things that they are very bad at up close and very personal, and they may or may not be able to see those people talking about how they got from being bad at what they do to where they are now.
Wow, I was going to comment, but Richard said it so eloquently, I'm not sure I have much to add.
I don't think there's any decline in athletic participation — certainly as far as I can tell, the gym and the golf course are still full of amateurs. There are tons of people who are blogging just for their friends of course, just to keep them informed. A lot of my friends draw and paint, but with no professional ambitions. People watch the poker on TV, and also play with their friends.
On the other hand, I do find myself a bit susceptible to the "Things are only worth doing if you do them excellently" syndrome. Which I consider in some ways a personal character flaw.
There's a strong argument in favor of a resurgence of the amateur, at least in some parts of the DIY space. Case in point: Instructables.
I agree that you just hang out with easily dissuaded perfectionists. Move back here and I'll peel the wallpaper off another one of your bathrooms.
One thing I have noticed is that you make most progress at the very beginning of the learning curve. I find that this is a very handy thing to keep at the top of one's midn when attempting something new: you may not be as good as Expert X, but you are gaining on him or her at a truly prodigious velocity.


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Ulica Henryka Sienkiewicza w Tarnowskich Górach – jedna z głównych ulic Tarnowskich Gór. Łączy północną część dzielnicy Śródmieście-Centrum z południową częścią Sowic. Stanowi fragment drogi powiatowej klasy Z nr 3290S powiatu tarnogórskiego.

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Ulica rozpoczyna się na Rondzie ppłk. pil. inż. Karola Gustawa Ranoszka, kierując się dalej na północ. Krzyżuje się z innymi drogami powiatowymi: ulicą Powstańców Śląskich, ulicą Jana Styczyńskiego i ulicą Tadeusza Kościuszki. Na granicy dzielnic Śródmieście-Centrum i Sowice przebiega pod wiaduktem kolejowym linii nr 144. Swój bieg kończy na skrzyżowaniu z ulicą Fabryczną w Sowicach, a jej kontynuacją jest ulica Czarnohucka.

Ulica Sienkiewicza na odcinku od ronda Ranoszka do skrzyżowania z ulicami Styczyńskiego i Powstańców Śląskich posiada cztery pasy ruchu: dwa w stronę północną i dwa w południową.

Historia
Po wojnie francusko-pruskiej (1870-1871) w Tarnowskich Górach rozpoczęto wytyczanie nowych ulic, wzdłuż których budowano wille z ogrodami oraz kamienice o wysokim jak na tamte czasy standardzie przeznaczone dla powracających żołnierzy. Jedną z nich była ulica Sienkiewicza, która do 1925 oraz w latach 1939–1945 ulica nosiła nazwę Hugostraße upamiętniającą hrabiego Hugona I Henckla von Donnersmarck – założyciela huty w pobliskich Sowicach.

Jednym z pierwszych budynków wytyczonych przy tej ulicy była siedziba starostwa powstałego w 1873 roku powiatu tarnogórskiego (niem. Kreis Tarnowitz). Od 1975 w budynku mieści się Urząd Miejski w Tarnowskich Górach.

Ówczesna Hugostraße została wybrukowana w latach 1898–1912, zaś w latach 1871–1905 znajdowała się przy niej jedna z rogatek miejskich.

W 1907 powstała urzędnicza spółdzielnia mieszkaniowa (Beamtenwohnungs- und Sparverein), która m.in. przy ulicy Sienkiewicza, a także przy obecnych ulicach Nakielskiej, Kościuszki i Powstańców Śląskich, wybudowała z pomocą państwowych funduszy domy o 153 mieszkaniach.

Jeszcze przed I wojną światową ulica została przedłużona poza znajdujący się nieopodal skrzyżowania Hugostraße z Lukaschikstraße oraz Georgstraße Park Strzelecki bractwa kurkowego i zabudowana domami dla urzędników.

Jeszcze w latach międzywojennych u zbiegu ulic Sienkiewicza oraz Bohaterów Monte Cassino stał krzyż upamiętniający cmentarz, na którym chowani byli dziesiątkowani przez zarazę przechodzący przez miasto w 1813 i 1814 w ślad za wojskami Napoleona rosyjscy oraz pruscy żołnierze.

W latach II wojny światowej (1939–1945) niemieckie władze okupacyjne zmieniły nazwę ulicy na General-Hülsen-Strasse.

13 lipca 2016 i 30 lipca 2017 ulicą Sienkiewicza przebiegała trasa wyścigu kolarskiego Tour de Pologne.

Na początku lutego 2021 roku skrzyżowanie ulicy Sienkiewicza z ulicami Powstańców Śląskich i Styczyńskiego zostało zamknięte z powodu budowy w tym miejscu ronda, natomiast znajdujący się przy ul. Sienkiewicza przystanek autobusowy przeniesiony został na ulicę Bohaterów Monte Cassino.

Budynki

Przy ulicy Henryka Sienkiewicza mieści się szereg budynków użyteczności publicznej; często są to też obiekty zabytkowe wpisane do Gminnej Ewidencji Zabytków:
 tzw. Willa Leschnitzera, ul. Sienkiewicza 1 – zabytkowy budynek w stylu baroku francuskiego według projektu Louisa Ehrlicha wybudowany w 1874 na terenie tartaku należącego do Simona Leschnitzera; posiada boniowany parter, piętro zaś ozdobione korynckimi pilastrami i kolumienkami, dach mansardowy; kolejnymi właścicielami Richard Linke, Max Moeller, po II wojnie światowej mieszkania komunalne, obecnie mieści m.in. aptekę, kancelarie radców prawnych oraz biuro poselskie,
 Budynek Urzędu Miejskiego, ul. Sienkiewicza 2 – neorenesansowy budynek z cegły klinkierowej, zwieńczony kamienną balustradą według projektu Heintzego, budowa rozpoczęła się w 1875, oddany do użytku 1 kwietnia 1877, siedziba starostwa tarnogórskiego do 1975,
 budynek z 1876 roku, ul. Sienkiewicza 3 – postawiony na zlecenie Simona Leschnitzera na terenie tartaku, którego Leschnitzer był właścicielem. Mieściła się w nim administracja. Obecnie agencja PZU,
 neobarokowa kamienica z 1905 roku przy ul. Sienkiewicza 4, zaprojektowana przez Hugona Streckera, który w niej zamieszkał. Na fasadzie znajdują się przedstawienia narzędzi murarskich, które przez długie lata uważano za symbole masońskie; Strecker faktycznie należał do tarnogórskiej loży masońskiej Silberfels,
 ul. Sienkiewicza 5 – wczesnomodernistyczna willa stolarza Karla Müllera z 1910 roku; pod spadzistym dachem widoczna wypukła rzeźba siedzącego atlety z piłą na tle wici i liści irysa; obecnie mieści Przedszkole Publiczne nr 4,
 ul. Sienkiewicza 6 – budynek szkoły z 1927 roku o formie pałacu, przed wejściem portyk z trzema filarami, początkowo Prywatna Średnia Szkoła Męska i Żeńska mniejszości niemieckiej, obecnie mieści Wieloprofilowy Zespół Szkół, Technikum nr 5, Zasadniczą Szkołę Zawodową nr 5, Centrum Kształcenia Ustawicznego i Wydział Nauk Społecznych Wyższej Szkoły Zarządzania i Administracji w Opolu,
 ul. Sienkiewicza 8 – obecnie Młodzieżowy Dom Kultury, przed 1945 rokiem ewangelicki dom parafialny, zbudowany w l. 1889-1890, rozbudowany w 1901 roku,
 kamienice i wille z końca XIX i początku XX wieku pod numerami: 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 41, 43, 45,
 budynek nastawni TGA7.
Na liście zabytków nie znajdują się:
 Powiatowe Centrum Pomocy Rodzinie, ul. Sienkiewicza 16 – budynek wzniesiony pod koniec lat 60. XX wieku na terenie dawniej należącym do strzeleckiego bractwa kurkowego. Początkowo mieścił internat dla uczniów szkoły przysposabiającej do zawodów w przemyśle (tzw. "Dom Młodego Robotnika"), a następnie przedszkole i Dom Kultury Zakładów Aparatury Chemicznej "Chemet",
 budynek szkoły – ZSTiO "Mechanik", ul. Sienkiewicza 23,
 Chemet S.A. Zakłady Aparatury Chemicznej, ul. Sienkiewicza 47,
 Dom dla Bezdomnych Mężczyzn, ul. Sienkiewicza 48.

Komunikacja

Według stanu z grudnia 2022 roku ulicą Sienkiewicza kursują autobusy organizowane przez Zarząd Transportu Metropolitalnego, obsługujące następujące linie:
 174 (Bobrowniki Śląskie – Sowice Czarna Huta),
 189 (Tarnowskie Góry Dworzec – Strzybnica Kościelna),
 671 i 736 (Tarnowskie Góry Dworzec – Pniowiec Pętla),
 744 (Tarnowskie Góry Dworzec – Tarnowskie Góry Towarowa – Tarnowskie Góry Dworzec),
 746 (Tarnowskie Góry Dworzec – Sowice Czarna Huta).
Przy ulicy zlokalizowany jest przystanek autobusowy Tarnowskie Góry Sienkiewicza (nieobsługiwany przez autobusy linii 744).

Mieszkalnictwo
Według danych Urzędu Stanu Cywilnego na dzień 31 grudnia 2022 roku przy ulicy Sienkiewicza zameldowane na pobyt stały były 342 osoby.

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Anorak's Almanac 241:87 – I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right – including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release value provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would ever have mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.
My review of Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway is up at Strange Horizons.
I thought The Gone-Away World was fantastically exciting and fantastically flawed. Angelmaker does something similar and, although it is less flawed, it is also less exciting. I want a bit more from Harkaway.
So, has the reader been sold a pup? Yes but, as I said, lots of people like puppies. I ended my review of The Gone-Away World — since it wasn't clear from the preceding criticism — with the summation: "By the way, I liked it a lot and I'm looking forward to his next novel." I'm tempted to say something similar now (yes, this is one of those irritating more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger reviews). I will continue to buy and read Harkaway's work because there are sentences, paragraphs and pages of knock your socks off brilliance here. But there are many more paragraphs of prose porridge and, when it is plain that he is such an obviously gifted writer, that makes me feel cheated.
In the fraction of a second between the telepaths' awareness of a hostile something out in the black, hollow nothingness of space and the impact of a ferocious, ruinous psychic blow against all living things within the ship, the telepaths had sensed entities something like the Dragons of ancient human lore, beasts more clever than beasts, demons more tangible than demon, hungry vortices of aliveness and hate compounded by unknown means out of the thin, tenuous matter between the stars.
These hungry vortices of hate can be destroyed by light and the game of rat and dragon is therefore the escalating battle between them and the bomber-telepaths for the souls of the passengers of the "planoforming" ships. "Dragon" because that is how humans perceive them, "rat" because that is how humanities much swifter Partners perceive them. Yes, the Partners are cats. Hartwell and Cramer let the, er cat out of the bag in their introduction and the story is famous enough that you probably knew that anyway. Still, as an avowed hater of hater of cats and a double hater of cats in SF, I was impressed by Smith's skill revealing and then depicting this alliance. This is particularly true of the central pseudo-sexual relationship between the protagonist and his Partner, the Lady May: "O warm, O generous, O gigantic man! O brave, O friendly, O tender and huge Partner. O wonderful with you, with you so good, good, good, warm, warm, now to fight, now to go, good with you…" Towards the end the emotional register becomes a little extreme and the point belaboured but it is sharp little story.
'The Game Of Rat And Dragon' is part of Smith's Instrumentality of Man universe, collected in The Rediscovery Of Man. I failed to finish that collection last time I read it but perhaps I should try again.
For reasons know only to themselves, the editors have included a page-long joke that originally appeared in a fanzine and was written by someone who only published two other stories. It is nicely tongue in check but doesn't add anything to the anthology (it is firmly in the sword and sorcery tradition). It is also the last story the editors select from the period. Pickings were obviously slim? Did EE "Doc" Smith not write anything short enough?
At least one? Who? Googling reveals that it was Jacques Van Herp and 'Le Space Opera et L'Heroic Fantasy' was a chapter in Panorama de la science fiction (1973). I found that information in Peter Fitting's Science Fiction Studies review of the book and that is obviously where the editors found the information too since they have lifted the above quote verbatim from his review. This is lazy scholarship, at best.
Regardless of all that, the story itself contains nothing of interest.
As an aside, of Brackett's script for The Empire Strikes Back the editors say: "The connection between Brackett, the queen of space opera, and Star Wars, the biggest SF film of its day, was very potent in establishing a link between space opera and commercial success." No matter how many of these nonsensical sentences from Cramer and Hartwell I come across, they still have the power to surprise and perplex.


Do you delight in the security of being known by God?
Our newly adopted daughter is full of energy and life. Since she has only been with us for three months, we do not yet feel comfortable placing her in the church nursery. Therefore, we gather up three kids for church, and Chad and I swap back and forth taking our youngest out of our Sunday School class or church service when she gets too rowdy.
A couple of weeks ago, Chad took her out during Sunday School so it was my turn to take her out during the church service. As she toddled around, I watched. As she climbed the stairs, I followed ready to catch. As she explored every inch of space, she babbled.
After church that day, Chad asked, "Did you have her on the stairs that lead up to the balcony?" I said, "Yes, I figured those few steps should be okay since there was a landing between those stairs and more stairs. Why?" Chad replied, "Because I heard her. I noticed a babble coming from upstairs and thought, "Yep, she's mine!" I giggled and yet pondered the amazing truth that a parent knows his or child simply by the sound of a little child's babble. Even after a mere twelve weeks, our little one's sounds are engraved in our hearts. Secure in our arms as we now know her.
Today I read Galatians 4:9 and here Paul says, "But now that you know God – or rather are known by God…" I stopped reading and reflected on the amazing truth, satisfying comfort and thought-provoking discomfort this small phrase invoked in me. I invite you into the journey I experienced this morning – with one simple phrase.
Recognize the amazing Truth. Just as we can pick out both the voices and cries of our little ones from a crowd, so God knows us. Sometimes I just chuckle when I hear my kids' sounds – my 7 year old's strong voice as she plays or helps the other kids, my five year old's excitement as he shares a new idea, or my 18 month old's babbles and gurgles as she tries to communicate. What does my voice sound like to God? Does my voice sound of strength and help, excitement, or delightful determination? God can pick my voice out of a crowded world because God knows me.
But God does not just know my voice; He knows my thoughts, my patterns, my hidden gifts, my budding talents, how my personality operates, my weaknesses, my everything. I do not know any of my children like this, and yet in the way I do, they can experience security. How much more can I delight in the security of being known by God!
Oh, Lord, help me recognize the truth of my security in being known by You!
Rest in the satisfying comfort. The world is a pretty scary place. The rampant evil and the terrifying news reminds us of the "powers of this dark world" (Eph. 6:12). But in the midst of this epic battle between the Kingdom of God (light) and the kingdom of the Enemy (darkness), Jesus Christ WINS and we play on the winning team! God sees, hears, and remembers. He promises that He will never forsake His own. Jesus promises, "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matt. 28:20).
When I pick them my older kids up from an activity, I notice their eyes make connection to mine. As I hug them, I feel them lean in to me. It's like when they are finally with me, they fully relax. I can peer at them from my rear-view mirror and whether talking or quiet, they look at rest.
In a much more profound way, Jesus promises to never leave us. At any point of any day, I can seek to make connection with him and lean into him. Jesus simply and profoundly knows me and in that place, there is satisfying comfort.
Lord, please help me consistently connect to you, depend on you, and lean into your ever-abiding presence.
Engage in the thought-provoking discomfort. Have you ever realized that God's Word has this ability to both comfort and challenge simultaneously? Don't you love/hate that? I will be reading along and think, "Oh, yes!, thank you, thank you, wonderful…. uh, ouch… ooh… goodness….ugh. thank you, oh yes!, oh my!" Yeah, you've probably experienced that too!
This thought, "known by God" caused that double whammy of "This is amazing!" to "Oh my! What does He see?" And my spirit with dread said, "Shine your light Jesus on my inner heart." But in the silence of inviting God to shine His holy light on my heart, He helped me to know myself more but also the person I can be with his consistent pruning and molding. And I must say it delights me that He desires to spend the time shaping me so that I can better reflect His image in this world.
Lord, help me welcome discomfort as you shape me to look more like you.
I looked at my kids' hands last night and said, "If I saw 100 kids' hands, I believe I could pick out your hands. If I heard 100 kids' voice, I believe I could choose yours." God too can pick out our hands and voices as individuals in this world that holds over seven billion people.
Join in the Conversation: Today, do you find yourself delighting in the security of being known by God? Do you find yourself hungry to really know God as well?