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Apartment Breda Ljubljana
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Phone: +38614342660 Fax: +38614342664This homey apartment is located on Dolenjska Street in a private house, 1 km away from the historical city center, close to Botanical garden and to promenades on Golovec hill.
- Price from 59 EUR / Day / Per unit
- Capacity up to 3 people
- 1 bedroom & 1 bathroom
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Last updated: 01/11/2010
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The 3 star quality apartment has a separate bedroom with twin bed, living room with a writing desk and comfortable sofa (to sleep 2 further persons), a dining corner and kitchen with stove, oven, microwave and refrigerator, bathroom with a shower and washing machine. It is fully equipped with cooking utensils, cutlery, towels, linen, iron, ironing board, hair dryer, CTV and it has its own garage. There are also four bicycles available for the guests. The bus station is a step away from the apartment and the bus is running directly to the center.
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Apartment is located on Dolenjska street in a private house, 1km away from the historical center, near bcafes and restaurants, supermarkets, close to Botanical garden and promenades on Golovec hill.
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Special services can be offered against additional payment: airport transfer, Rent a car, parking lot or garage for your car, daily trips to Slovenian Alpine, Karst and Coast region, individual trips, sightseeing tours of Ljubljana (guided tours on request, tours on foot and by tourist train, boat tour along Ljubljanica river, cycling tour around Ljubljana, boat tour through Ljubljana by night, hot air balloon ride over the city), self service breakfast in a nearby hotel, baby sitting, baby bed, free internet access in our agency.
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Oracle vs. open source challengers
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Open source databases place pressure on Oracle, SQL Server
By MiMi Yeh, Assistant Editor
PostgreSQL and MySQL are making significant inroads into businesses' software portfolios, say the authors of Apress' Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL. When the costs of licensing and maintenance are compared to that of big name vendors, the savings become significant.
In this tip, Neil Matthew and Richard Stones explain where PostgreSQL is best put to use and why businesses more likely to choose a big name product. They also describe administration tools available for PostgreSQL.
When should PostgreSQL be used in business settings?
Neil Matthew: In most companies of a significant size, there will be a need for a number of different database products. For example, in some applications you may need a low-cost implementation with a small memory footprint. That sort of implementation may be installed on mobile users' laptops.
You might also need excellent performance scalability, for example, in building a data warehouse. The diversity of database applications and attitude to risk naturally leads to tactical "mix-and-match" solutions from a range of vendors.
Richard Stones: For high-end, mission-critical applications, businesses will most likely choose a big name product from a large established vendor if they can afford it. It makes for comfortable support -- they have someone with large financial resources to 'blame' -- should the product not behave as expected.
The reality is that database products work pretty much as specified. Nevertheless, the comfort factor for executives in large organizations, when dealing with a "Tier 1" vendor for important systems, is not to be underestimated.
What are some areas where PostgreSQL might be deployed?
Stones: Things are a little different when you need to deploy a large number of databases, and the failure of any individual database isn't threatening to the company's overall operations or financial results. One example would be a point-of-sale (POS) application that needs to be deployed in a large number of retail outlets.
The bottom line is that the costs of licensing and maintenance become much more significant when set against the comfort factor of big name vendor support. This is one area in which PostgreSQL and MySQL are rightly making significant inroads into businesses' software portfolios.
Matthew: A second example can found in small, tactical applications with a marginal financial justification. Anything that can be done to reduce cost, such as using a free database, may help make the IT investment case.
The launch of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, plus Oracle's acquisition of Innobase and Sleepycat, are a clear indication that the big vendors are under pressure from open source database offerings. The hope for PostgreSQL is that after using it as a tactical, lower-end solution, companies will realize that it is a very capable, scalable and stable product, and they really can safely use it in a much wider context than their initial deployments.
How common is it for IT managers to know enough about PostgreSQL to use it? What are the training options?
Matthew: In my experience, IT managers know nothing at all about PostgreSQL. Typically, it is enthusiastic developers that introduce PostgreSQL into an organization. Perhaps a quick fix project will use PostgreSQL. Then, when it is seen as successful, it will lead to PostgreSQL being considered for more mainstream applications.
Stones: PostgreSQL is a standards-compliant database, and because the quality of available documentation is so high, we have never needed to use external training resources.
What are some tools that are available for administration of PostgreSQL?
Stones: The best known administration tool is probably pgAdmin. This is a very capable and easy-to-use GUI tool for managing PostgreSQL installations. For normal, day-to-day use, pgAdmin has it covered.
One thing it doesn't provide is a Web interface. If you need Web-based administration take a look at phpPgAdmin.
How strong is the documentation for PostgreSQL? What sort of support options exist?
Matthew: The standard documentation is very impressive, particularly for an open source product. It's well written and comprehensive. There are also a good range of books - including our own, Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL, Second Edition. (Apress)
If you really get stuck, there is always the ultimate low-level documentation available; the source code.
Stones: There are also various FAQs and the PostgreSQL mailing lists, which are archived on the PostgreSQL site and contain the answers to a huge number of questions.
If you want commercial support, then the PostgreSQL site has a list at of commercial support companies. At the time of writing, North America alone had around 30 companies offering support, and even more are listed for Europe, so there are plenty of choices.
Can you suggest a workaround for the lack of support for inheritance in PostgreSQL?
Stones: Generally, the data and usually its database implementation, long outlive any application written to use it. Consequently, the database designs tend to be conventional, normalized databases that could be implemented in any of a variety of SQL92-compliant databases including PostgreSQL.
Therefore, I don't find that the table inheritance feature is useful, and its limitations have no real impact.
Do you think PostgreSQL can compete with SQL Server or Oracle? Tell us why or why not in an email.
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Repairs Force Seattle Data Center Offline for 5 Days
August 27th, 2012 By: Rich Miller
The city of Seattle will turn off many public services for five days over Labor Day weekend so it can repair the power system supporting its primary data center, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn said Thursday. The shutdown will allow the city to replace a faulty bus bar providing power to the city data center on the 26th floor of the Seattle Metro Tower.
During the shutdown, which begins Friday and runs through Tuesday, city residents will be unable to conduct many services they would normally access online, including paying bills and applying for licenses. Critical operations, including 911 and other public safety systems, will remain online.
"The city will certainly be open for business, but it won't be quite as convenient as it is normally," said Seattle Administrative Services Director Fred Podesta. "But this is a short-term event, and it's a holiday weekend."
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The repairs were prompted by overheating of the primary bus bar, which McGinn described as "a big beam that brings electricity from the street up to the data center."
"The temperature of the bus had gone up because it wasn't conducting electricity properly at a joint where two pieces come together," said McGinn in a news conference. "The temperature was going up, and that's not good. It could have led to a failure, and some sort of arcing or short. Upon learning this, we immediately began shutting down servers and moving systems and reducing the load on the bus, and that brought the temperature back down to a safe and stable temperature. But we knew we would need to replace the bus and take care of that bad joint."
For a lesson in the hazards of a bus failure, McGinn won't have to look far. In July 2009 an electrical fire at Seattle's Fisher Plaza disrupted Internet commerce and caused $6.8 million in damages to the building, a major communications hub housing data centers. The fire was caused by a failure of two bus ducts – enclosures housing copper bars to conduct electricity – in a basement power room of Fisher Plaza. The incident caused extended downtime for the payment portal Authorize.net, which left thousands of merchants unable to process credit card payments through their web sites.
Crippled in Calgary
Last month the city of Calgary was hit by a data center fire that crippled city services and delayed hundreds of surgeries at local hospitals. The incident serves as a wake-up call for government agencies to ensure that the data centers that manage emergency services have recovery and failover systems that can survive as series of adversities.
In March the city launched an analysis of its data center operations, which will assess whether Seattle should build more data center space, use a third-party provider or move services to a public cloud.
"When we put the data center on the 26th floor (in 2000), we didn't anticipate the explosion of data and the number of servers we would be using," said McGinn. "We need greater redundancy in that system. We need to upgrade our center. This is not the most reliable way for us to support the city's operations."
Erin Devoto, the Deputy Director of Information Technology for Seattle, says a study of the city's data center options is underway and will take about a year.
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Posted August 27th, 2012I was reading this and the post about the datacenter fire. I can't imagine what would happen if we turned off the power for 5 days ? Out of business ?
Does anyone know how large the fire was ?
Posted August 27th, 2012kind of ironic that a (the?) banner ad at the bottom of the article is for Internap – one of the main providers in Fisher plaza
Posted August 27th, 2012This points to the differences in the relative value of downtime across the datacenter world. Some orgs just don't feel it that bad when the outage is managed properly (like in this case, scheduling it for a low traffic period.) Orgs that require higher availability even in circumstances like this should already be running a remote DR site with the ability to take over all workload in the event of the main site needing to go completely down.
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Stretching some 10 mi along a narrow barrier island off Maryland's Atlantic coast, Worcester County's Ocean City draws millions from neighboring states (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Delaware) and the District of Columbia virtually year-round to its broad beaches and the innumerable activities and amenities that cling to them, as well as to the quiet bay side between the island and the mainland. "O.C." is a premier mid-Atlantic leisure travel destination, at once big and small, sprawling and congested, old and new, historic and hip, noisy and quiet, sophisticated and tacky, expensive and not, and everything in between.
The town grew into a city south to north. On the older, southern end of the island a restored 19th-century carousel and other traditional amusement park rides churn near a long fishing pier along the inlet connecting the Atlantic and Assawoman Bay. On the opposite side of the inlet is the northern tip of the pristine 37-mi-long Assateague Island, federally and state-protected lands devoid of man-made elements beyond the most rudimentary.
From this southern end, O.C.'s renowned and brilliantly maintained 3-mi-long boardwalk reaches northward as far as 27th Street, nothing but sand to one side, everything else—hotels and eateries and shops—crowding every available square inch lining the other. Beyond 27th Street, the cross streets climb to 145th at the Delaware state line. High-rise condominium complexes prevail farther to the north, interspersed with more hotels and shopping complexes. While it seems a little less hectic toward O.C.'s northern end, beaches are not necessarily less crowded, depending on the season and on the presence of condominium residents. The western side, along the Bay, tends to be made up of smaller enterprises, including cruise and fishing-boat firms.
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It's a popular saying for many: "Tax cuts don't create jobs." Google it, and there are more than 100,000 results for that specific claim.
At this point, it is a truism for liberal politicians and commentators that tax cuts are ineffective.
In 2010, Gov. Snyder ran a campaign around getting rid of the hated Michigan Business Tax, which was one of the first things accomplished by the new Legislature. The change overwhelmingly helped small businesses while shifting larger corporations to a much less complicated 6 percent flat tax; the result was a $1.7 billion tax cut.
Here are some of the responses in the years since:
Ignoring the debate over how much those specific tax changes helped the economy, the focus of this article is on one simple truth: Despite the rhetoric, virtually everyone agrees that tax cuts create jobs.
When businesses and individuals have capital, they spend it in areas that require workers. The two main ways policymakers can ensure these groups receive extra cash is through a tax cut (which allows them to keep more of their own money) or a subsidy from the state (where the government takes money via taxes and redistributes it).
So if left-leaning groups and liberal Democrats do not believe that tax cuts create jobs, why do they overwhelmingly approve of corporate welfare programs? (A lot of Republicans approve of selective subsidies as well, but at least they tend to believe — and say — that lower taxes on businesses are good.)
For example, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. gives selective tax abatements and direct subsidies to businesses in the state. The largest program of the MEDC is the 21st Century Jobs Fund, which passed 92-13 in the House and 35-3 in the Senate — with every Democrat voting in support. Michigan's corporate welfare arm also administers the state's film subsidy: The original bill creating the program passed a combined 145-1, with every Democrat voting "yes."
At the national level, Democrats voted overwhelmingly for the federal "stimulus" program, which was sold as giving selective tax abatements to individuals and companies. And there is a fierce debate in this country over specific tax breaks and outright subsidies for "green" energy companies — for example A123, which brought President Obama, Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Debbie Stabenow and former Gov. Granholm together for the ground-breaking.
Left-leaning advocacy groups in Michigan also support these corporatist programs: Progress Michigan praised stimulus spending on A123, Johnson Controls, Compact Power and Dow Kokam (this was back in 2010 before most of these companies went bankrupt). And Michigan Liberal loved the MEDC — at least when administered by a Democratic governor.
So if lower taxes and more money for businesses to spend doesn't create jobs, how can the left support these tax breaks and subsidies?
Because the crux of this debate is not over whether an infusion of money creates jobs — it's over centralized planning.
The difference between the left (and far too many "conservatives") and those who favor the free-market is that one side believes that tax breaks and subsidies create jobs when the government gives them to favored companies while the other side believes it is more efficient to have a level playing field, with lower overall tax rates for everyone.
My colleague Michael LaFaive refers to these selective subsidies as "feeding the sparrows through the horse":
Imagine that a central planner wanted to help sparrows grow and prosper. The central planner can dump feed on the ground evenly and let sparrows partake of it directly, or he can run the feed through a horse first, and let the sparrows pick through the pile that the horse leaves behind. The horse in our example represents the government bureaucracy created to maintain economic development programs. The bottom line is that it costs money to pay bureaucrats to take your money and redistribute it to someone else. Spending millions to support these programs just deprives entrepreneurs of the resources they could be using to create more jobs on their own accord.
Many on the left demonstrate an understanding of how business investment creates jobs. But they should explain why reallocating capital through bureaucrats and politicians for the purpose of creating jobs is superior to allowing all businesses to keep more of their own money and produce the same effect.
Jarrett Skorup is a research associate with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think thank located in Midland, Michigan. Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo.
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Very unhappy with this experience. For Priceline to sell this as a 4 star in push marketing giving a 'discount', is not fair maybe they should credit my account in all fairness. What does a 2 star cost compared to this decaying relic? Mostly Priceline is okay but this time they messed up. :( Damn you Shatner!!!
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Room service..Hate the prices. Staff was verynice and friendly...Hotel and pool very clean. Enough places to park for free..and location was very nice.
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This is my second stay and the same room noise conditions were present. I have stopped bidding on SD four star hotels because I don't want to risk staying at the Crown Plaza again. It is a shame because the staff are terrific.
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Wait until the property is renovated, if ever. DON'T STAY!
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Do not sell me this hotel as a 4 star hotel ever again or I'll never use Priceline again. It's nothing more than 3 stars on its best day. It's freaking being remodeled including the pool. If I hadn't bid on a 4 star room I wouldn't be complaining but this place won't be 4 star until they've remodeled it all. MAYBE. It is a 10 min walk from the Cinema and Tony Roma's is only 2 min by car. ...
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This hotel was a good value for it's location and basic amenities. It's a good place to stay if you are here for business, not the most ideal for a family vacation. The parking is a plus, the pool is nice and private, and the ocean views are great. The walk along the area is nice and there is much activity that will make it interesting.
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If you're going to explore the country, this is not the place to stay, I just always felt unsafe, even standing out on the hotel lobby outside people come after you for this or that. I had been traveling in P Rico for two months, solo and it was great but this is really hell, scary place. The hotel itself was not what the regular Intercontinental hotel is like. No luxury here. The staff were pleasant. ...
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South Africa are the new ICC U-19 World Cup champions, beating Pakistan Under-19 by six wickets in the final played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Brief scores: Pakistan U-19: 131 (44.3 overs) lost to South Africa U-19: 134/4 (42.1 overs)
Just a week from today citizens of Kolkata will have a unique opportunity knocking at their doorstep.
World Football's governing body FIFA's decision to hand out seedings ahead of the draw for the 2014 World Cup on the basis of world rankings rather than reputation has been a subject of much controversy.
Dhoni said that India are shaping up nicely and are on course to become the third nation after Australia and the West Indies to win back-to-back World Cups.
Legendary Brazilian Zico says he is worried about Lionel Messi's Argentina but makes his own nation favourites to lift FIFA World Cup on home soil in July.
On performance front, it was the junior women's team that stole the limelight by bagging a historic bronze medal in the World Cup held at Monchengladbach.
Not only did records take a tumble & big names bid adieu in 2013, the year also saw numerous scandals and fixing episodes across sports.
Bayern's Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger has said he has no fear of missing the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, despite his on-going ankle problems.
Former Oz captain Bob Simpson and Debbie Hockley were inducted in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame at a special function on Thursday.
England U-19 beat World u-19 Champions - the India U-19 side by three wickets at Dubai International Cricket Stadium to progress to the last four of the U-19 World Cup. Brief Scores: India Under-19s: 221/8 (50 overs) lost to England Under-19s: 222/7 (49.1 overs)
India register a five-wicket win over Scotland in the Under-19 ICC World Cup Cricket tournament at International Cricket Stadium, Dubai. Brief scores: Scotland Under-19: 88 (29.4 overs) lost to India Under-19: 92/5 (22.3 overs)
India, who defeated Pakistan in the ICC U-19 World Cup opener on Saturday, will take on Scotland on Monday in Dubai
Sarfaraz Khan (74) and Sanju Samson (68) slammed half centuries as India, after electing to bat, posted 262 runs for seven wickets in the allotted 50 overs
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Monaco's Colombian striker Radamel Falcao's requires surgery on the left knee injury he picked up in Wednesday's French Cup tie casting doubt on his participation at the World Cup.
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The Qualifier for the 2015 WC will see 10 Associate and Affiliate sides participating. They are 2009 finalists Canada, Hong Kong, two-time finalists Kenya, Namibia, Nepal, 2001 champions Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, 2005 winners Scotland, 1994 champions UAE and Uganda. 48 matches will be played over three weeks, and finalists will join the 10 Full Members as well as Afghanistan and Ireland in the 2015 tournament.
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Please see the "condensed time line" section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so. Personally, I think this is important. I will post updates and links to the relevant blog posts in there in order not to make total crap out of this article's outline. In this way, I keep this article up-to-date for future visitors and also write new blog posts on the topic for RSS users.
In this article I present in which way scanners / copiers of the Xerox WorkCentre Line randomly alter written numbers in pages that are scanned. This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse – patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way: The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect. Without a fuss, this may cause scenarios like:
To make things even more worse: The copiers in question are the common Xerox WorkCentres, and Xerox seemed to be unaware of the issue until we found out about it last Wednesday. Whats more, not only one different WorkCentre model seems to be affected, as we tested at least two with this issue (Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556). Additionally, the current software release, as installed by xerox support, did not solve the issue, thus, the issue existed on the very old release we had installed, as well as on a very new one. The error has been confirmed by a xerox rental firm in the meantime, and Xerox is investigating as well, so it does not seem to be some dumb handling error or something similar (if I was thinking this, I of course would not publish it here).
As a result, anyone using those WorkCentres has to ask himself:
Even though Xerox seems eager to solve the issue, because of the possible dangers an immediate publication of the issue is advisable. This is what I want to do with this article.
The rest of the article is organized as follows.
Due to the mass of the blog articles, I keep getting asked for a comprehensive time line. Here it is. The relevant blog posts are linked (barely visible, though, hm). This list will be updated as used, the current status is always marked with a .
Date | What happened |
July 24th | Number mangling discovered |
July 25th | Told Xerox about number mangling in pixel data. During the next days, neither the Xerox support levels we had phoned, nor the Xerox helpdesks visiting, did know that character substitutions could occur at all and were amazed to see this. The Xerox helpdesk guys even set out replicating the "bug" at their devices and managed to do so. I think this is important as it depicts that I first went to Xerox and gave them about a week of time, before I posted it on my blog. Later I was to learn that the number mangling was known to Xerox. |
August 1 | No solution from Xerox yet, nearly one week, across all support levels. They either do not believe us or look amazed. I think this is scary and write this blog post. |
August 2 | The blog post goes around the planet. From now on, I get emails of people being able to replicate the "bug" around the world, as well as informations that JBIG2 compression can cause this. I update this blog post a lot. |
August 6, morning | A reader tells me there is a small notice in his copier's admin panel about character substitution. On his device, the "bug" can be avoided by setting compression from "normal" to higher. As a consequence, the issue must have been known by Xerox – so why was nobody telling us? As the notice only occurs when adjusting the setting in the admin panel, the implications, however, stay the same. People may create false figures without knowing. Anyway, I write a blog post presenting this workaround. |
August 6, afternoon | Conference call with Rick Dastin and Francis Tse. Rick Dastin, Vice President at Xerox, is the first one actually working at Xerox being able to tell me that character substitutions actually can occur and Xerox knows (in contrast to their support). They also tell me that this is wanted. I criticize that this compression mode is called "normal". I also learn that there are two notices in the (300 page) manuals also, telling about character substitution, also with respect to "normal". |
during the conference call | Xerox publishes their first press statement. "For data integrity purposes, we recommend the use of the factory defaults with a quality level set to "higher."" Aside from this, they confirm the work around and tell the customers about the small notice. |
August 7 | Second Statement, Software patch announced, reads like the "normal" setting will be entirely eliminated by the patch. Xerox states most clearly: "You will not see a character substitution issue when scanning with the factory default settings." In a further document, these factory settings are defined: Compression "higher", at least 200 DPI. |
August 9 | With Compression "higher" (even advised in the Xerox press statements) and an even more generous resolution 300 DPI I reproduced number mangling on a Xerox device. As I think this is a big deal as anyone could be affected, I told Xerox and wait until they confirmed to see number mangling with the same settings, too. They confirm, and after that I wrote a detailed blog post about this. |
August 11 | On a Xerox WorkCentre 7545, all three compression modes seem to be affected. A user reports the same using a WC 7655. In these cases, numbers seem to be mangled independently from the compression mode, which makes the issue hard to avoid. See blog post. |
August 12 | Xerox scanning issue fully confirmed. They indeed implemented a software bug, eight years ago, and indeed, numbers could be mangled across all compression modes. They have to roll out a patch for hundreds of thousands of devices world-wide. On one hand, the implications might be of vital significance for Xerox now. On the other hand, I am glad not to go down in history as the guy too dumb to read the manual. Here is their press statement. |
August 19 | Pretested the Xerox number mangling patch today. Looks good. Pattern matching completely eliminated, hundreds of thousands of devices affected. |
August 22 | First patches for Xerox scanning bug releasted. Because of the large number of affected device types, the patches are going to be released in several waves. |
Sept 11 | I keep getting asked why I did not demand money from Xerox: There are reasons for this way of proceeding. Click here for a blog post on this. |
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We got aware of the problem by scanning some construction plan last Wednesday and printing it again. Construction problems contain a boxed square meter number per room. Now in some rooms, we found beautifully lay-outed, but utterly wrong square meter numbers. You really have to read the numbers to find out; this is why it is so hard to find out. In the present case, we found out because one room in the construction plan was – as the copy told us – about 22 square meters large, whereas the next room, a lot larger, was assigned a label with 14 square meters.
Firstly, I present to you a complete original version of the affected construction plan part. After this, the wrong numbers will be presented. Click to enlarge. I added the yellow marks myself to show you where the errors will occur. Let us name the upper one "place 1", the lower left "place 2" and the lower right "place 3".
Now, let us scan the construction plan and get a PDF file from it. No OCR, just plain image. Then, we get wrong square meter numbers at the three places (Yeah, couldn't believe it, too). The screen shots of the erroneous places are organized in the below table. There is one additional line in the table for the original patches. The Xerox WorkCentre 7535 always produced the same errors; this is why we only need one line for it in the table. In contrast, the WorkCentre 7556 randomly produced different numbers, this is why I present three lines for three runs with different errors.
Run / Machine | Place 1 | Place 2 | Place 3 |
Original, aus einem Tif-Scan entnommen, Korrektheit verifiziert | |||
Xerox WorkCentre 7535 | |||
Xerox WorkCentre 7556, Run 1 | |||
Xerox WorkCentre 7556, Run 2 | |||
Xerox WorkCentre 7556, Run 3 |
I know that the resolution is not too fine, but the numbers are clearly readable. Additionally, obviously, these are no simple wrong pixels, but whole image patches are mixed up or copied. I repeat: This is not an OCR problem, but of course, I can't have a look into the software itself, maybe OCR is still fiddling with the data even though we switched it off.
Next example: Some cost table, scanned on the WorkCentre 7535. As we are used to, a correct-looking scan at the first glance, but take a closer look. This error was found because usually, in such cost tables, the numbers are sorted ascending.
Before | After |
The 65 became an 85 (second column, third line). Edit: I'm getting emails telling me that also a 60 in the upper right region of the image became a 80. Thanks! This is not a simple pixel error either, one can clearly see the characteristic dent the 8 has on the left side in contrast to a 6. This scan is several weeks old – no one can say how many wrong documents have been produced by the Xerox machines in the mean time.
Here some tech detail in order to enable you reproduce the errors:
Note that I did not reproduce the Error on all of these myself, so except for the 7535 and 7556, take the information as hearsay.
After the cost table, I printed some numbers, scanned them, OCRed them and compared them to the original ones. As the OCR produces errors, by itself, one obviously has to check by hand for false positives when performing this. I took Arial, 7pt as a test font, and the WorkCentre 7535 with the newer of the aboved named Software version as a test machine. The scan settings were like above. And again, a lot of sixes were replaced by eights: (only a few of the errors are marked yellow for the sake for laziness):
Before | After |
Observe how the sixes around the false eights look correct. Also the false eights contain the characteristic dent again, so whole image patches have been replaced again.
In case you want to have a look for yourself:
The error does not occur if PDFs are scanned with OCR, or TIFs are scanned (the latter seems plausible, as the pure image data should be saved into the TIF). Additionally, there seems to be a correlation between font size, scan dpi used. I was able to reliably reproduce the error for 200 DPI PDF scans w/o OCR, of sheets with Arial 7pt and 8pt numbers. Overall it looks like some sort of compression algorithm using patches more than once (I think I could even identify some equally-pixeled eights).
Edit: It seems that the above thought was not that wrong at all. Several mails I got suggest that the xerox machines use JBIG2 for compression. Even though the specification only cover the JBIG2 decompression, in reality, there is often created a dictionary of image patches found to be "similar". Those patches then get reused instead of the original image data, as long as the error generated by them is not "too high". In this case, the pattern matching procedure for finding "similar" image patches seems to do its work too sloppy, which then seems to cause the classification of characters at similar, that actually are not the same. Makes sense.
While JGIB2 is a powerful (de) compression standard, Xerox seemed to neglect has to be most aware of the following important aspect: If using pattern matching upon compression there is no guarantee that parts of the scanned image actually come from the corresponding place on the paper. What comes out if pattern matching based compression is used at the wrong place, as it obviously is the case in business scan copiers, are documents that look perfectly right, but are incorrect in a subtle and dangerous way. For this reason, no JBIG2 document encoded by such pattern matching techniques can ever provide legal certainty. Is someone was to sue me given such documents, I would state "the document might be incorrect and you can't prove me wrong". The issue gets even more dangerous if life-important documents are scanned, like medical prescriptions.
Of course, if Xerox would have chosen the patch size in a way enabling whole, readable letters to fit into the patches, this would be grossly negligent. Also, it would shed light on how these machines are tested, as when using some patch-based compression algorithm, it kind of suggests itself to test it with low-resolution, albeit still readable letters.
This is another thing I keep getting asked all the time. I'm not quite sure. JBIG2 is a powerful compression standard, but it can be pretty dangerous when misused, as we see. The misusing, in particular using pattern matching techniques for compression at all in the first place, and the bug disabling the ability to turn it off, seems to be a Xerox individual "feature".
The big deal is that users are unable to see that's something wrong, for the outcoming documents look perfectly fine. Using a non-pattern matching based compression, one might recognize badly scanned numbers by for example black spots or other artifacts on them, but here, they are replaced by incorrect, despite nice-looking numbers. This makes the error almost impossible to detect. The issue has existed for eight years in Xerox machines, and *now* that people are aware, they all of a sudden are replicating it across the planet.
I am not familiar with the specifics of the Xerox copiers or with the JBIG2 standard. However, I am familiar with some data compression standards. One family of such algorithms compresses a string of data by building up a "glossary" of strings that are labeled and re-used later.
So if the string AABBCC occurs once and is given a label xyx, the next time that AABBCC occurs it is just replaced in the compressed string by xyx. So what is transmitted is the compressed string xyx; this is supposed to be re-mapped back to AABBCC at the received end (or, in the case of the Xerox copier, printed).
Obviously, the re-mapping is supposed to give you back the original string. But if something has gone wrong with the glossary-building process, the label will be mis-interpreted. (Looking at the JBIG2 wikipedia article, I imagine that the system could decide too quickly that a new block of data is identical to an earlier block; and give it the same label.)
It is of course unacceptable that what are supposed to be photocopies be distorted in this way: It shows that Xerox is doing the image-compression first and then decompression and printing second. I guess there are architectural reasons for doing this, but it does have this fatal flaw ..
Copiers have become nightmares but this really takes the cake!
It's not just photocopies. These days there are archives of old and historic technical manuals. Frequently the old manuals are scanned by people who really don't care about the quality of the result, but they do try to minimize file size.
Some of the results are truly horrible, and this patch substitution problem is very commonly present in an extreme form. Here's one example I've written up: http://everist.org/NobLog/20131122_an_actual_knob.htm#jbig2
I work for Xerox and I had to hear this from outside sources like this one. We have a Workcentre 3545 and I must say I haven't noticied the issue there, but then I haven't tried scanning documents with it. I have a desktop scanner for that. I did tell our techs about it and they hadn't heard anything. And that's the scary part.


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Opponents of the Planned Unit Development zoning change planned for Royal Poinciana Way say they'll do whatever they can to stop it. That includes filing a challenge with the state and launching a petition drive to put the PUD on the ballot so voters could overturn Town Council approval of it.
"We would do whatever we need to do to keep this from happening," Susan Markin, a leader of the Neighborhood Alliance of Palm Beach and a former councilwoman, said Wednesday. She also was a member of the Royal Poinciana Way Committee that, despite her objections, conceived and approved the PUD.
The PUD would ease off-street parking requirements and allow more intensive residential development than is now allowed in exchange for owner concessions, including following architectural design guidelines set by town, and putting parking to the rear of buildings or underground. Existing buildings deemed as contributing to the character of the street couldn't be razed under the PUD, which would offer owners a voluntary alternative to existing zoning rules.
Markin and other opponents say the plan is contrary to the wishes of residents — and the stated goal of the town's comprehensive plan — to reduce density and traffic.
"We're against bad development and overdevelopment," she said. "We're not concerning ourselves with owners' profitability. It's really about what the residents want."
The petitioners would have to gather more than 800 signatures from registered town voters to get a measure on the ballot. But all of that would have to wait until after a judge resolves an administrative challenge the PUD opponents say they plan to file with the state in an effort to block changes to the town's comprehensive plan. The plan must be amended before the council can legally adopt it into ordinance form and have it take effect, Town Attorney John Randolph said.
The battle over the plan amendments would be ruled upon by an administrative law judge, who could hear testimony through depositions and at a hearing. The losing side could appeal the judge's decision in the courts, Randolph said.
On June 12, the council approved the comprehensive plan amendments and PUD ordinance on the first of two required votes. The amendments were sent to Tallahassee on June 20 for review by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which determines if they conflict with state law. It has 30 days to respond to the town.
If the state clears the way, the council would be able to hold the second and final vote on the plan amendments. Upon council approval, opponents could file the administrative challenge. It is not clear how long it might take for the hearing to be held and the administrative judge to rule.
If the judge decides in favor of the town, the council would then be free to hold a second and final vote on the PUD ordinance, Randolph said. The procedure for a voter referendum would follow that.
'The end of Palm Beach'
Opponent William Cooley, a former member of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said a voter referendum would be appropriate because the town's way of life is at stake.
"When they start tinkering with the comprehensive plan, that is the end of Palm Beach," he said. "You might as well live in West Palm Beach or Delray Beach. That is what it is going to look like."
Town law lays out a procedure for a referendum. A zoning ordinance doesn't take effect until 31 days after being enacted by the council on the final vote. That delay gives petitioners 30 days to gather signatures from 10 percent of the registered voters in the town and submit them to the town clerk. According to Town Clerk Susan Owens' office, there were, as of January, 8,007 registered voters in Palm Beach. By that count, 801 signatures would be needed.
Once the clerk receives them, her office has 10 days to verify that the signatures are valid. The ordinance is then prevented from taking effect, Randolph said. The council is required to consider the referendum petition within 60 days of receiving it, and to decide whether to repeal the ordinance. If there is no repeal, the referendum then goes before the voters between 60 and 90 days from the date when the council voted to enact the ordinance.
But the process isn't necessarily that cut and dry. The last time a voter referendum was attempted, the town sued the petitioner, the Preserve Palm Beach political action committee, and blocked it. In the suit, the town challenged the constitutionality of the ballot measure, which would have required voter approval before the Royal Poinciana Playhouse and other public-access landmarked structures could be demolished. In 2009, Palm Beach Circuit Judge David Crow ruled in favor of the town. The suit was settled in 2011 after the PAC failed to get Crow's decision overturned.
Preparing for a fight
Markin said the neighborhood alliance expects the council to do everything in its power to try and stop the PUD from going on the ballot, and that it will be prepared for the fight. It has hired Nancy Stroud, a land-use attorney in Boca Raton, to advise and represent it on the administrative challenge and referendum. That includes making sure the proposed ballot language can withstand any legal challenge the council musters, Markin said.
Cooley said he is not a member of the neighborhood alliance and has retained his own attorney to represent him. He wouldn't identify the lawyer.
"If the council had any guts, they would put this on as a referendum," Cooley said. "But they are afraid to let the public express their opinion on it."
'A one-sided act'
Town Council President David Rosow, who voted in support of the council's 3-1 decision in favor of the PUD, said Thursday that decisions should be made by the town's elected representatives, not through "government by referendum."
The problem with referendums is that voters can be misled, or simply don't understand what they're voting on, he said.
"The state doesn't allow the council or any elected body to speak about any issue undergoing a referendum," Rosow said. "It becomes a one-sided act. As I saw with the referendum for the [Royal Poinciana] Playhouse, people signed the petition without understanding what the objectives were. [The petitioners] can misrepresent the facts and affect the outcome. They will do so with impunity. Nobody will be able to challenge them."
Opponents of the PUD already are misleading the public by falsely claiming it will lead to a massive CityPlace-type development on Royal Poinciana Way, Rosow said.
The future of Royal Poinciana Way has been debated since 2006, when the Testa family first proposed zoning changes to revitalize the street, and said off-street parking requirements and density restrictions are a major obstacle to redevelopment. The PUD was recommended by a study committee in February after nearly a year of meetings that were open to the public. Markin cast the only dissenting vote in the committee's 6-1 decision.
The PUD "was very well thought out," Rosow said of the committee's work. "There was tremendous citizen input."
The neighborhood alliance doesn't have membership per se, but has a mailing list with a few hundred people, Markin said. Citing what they claim is widespread public opposition to the PUD, Markin and Cooley both predicted there will be no problem gathering a sufficient number of signatures for the referendum.
"I'm not afraid of this thing because, if it ever gets before the public, it's going to be soundly defeated," Cooley said.
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We're spending more time planning design changes for our homes, so we're more actively "curating," a new survey by Better Homes and Gardens shows.
Curating means finding, organizing and taking care of stuff. I looked it up.
Anyway, the survey released last month shows that:
• We're willing to spend more time looking for deals to get the most value for our money.
• We like multipurpose rooms and are losing interest in specialty spaces such as media rooms.
• When it comes to remodeling, we're more taken with bathrooms than kitchens.
• Style is more important than storage. Interest in upgrades like countertops, flooring and faucets is up, while interest in more and better storage is flat.
• We'd rather get rid of excess stuff than spend more for a larger house with additional storage.
• Consumers surveyed by the magazine wished for a median house size of 1,791 square feet, down from 1,846 square feet the year before. "There's more attention given towards the aesthetic and function of a space, rather than the amount of space," the magazine's Jill Waage said in a release.
Some parts of the survey ring true. Lots of us are spending time on networks such as Pinterest, daydreaming about new backsplashes. We're all interested in stretching our budgets. Other parts? Well ...
If you put your home on the market, I guarantee that the first prospective buyer will ask about storage – because stuffing stuff into the attic or three-car garage is way easier than curating.
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A reader asks a simple question: Does the wood hardener from Minwax really work? Here's a simple answer: Yes.
I've used it over the years to restore rotten spots in window sills and the like. Just remove all the rotten wood you can manage. Rot usually means moisture in the wood, so you have to make sure the spot has dried. Coat the spot thoroughly with hardener – a disposable brush is a good idea – and let that dry.
Now you can fill the cavity with quality filler, sand, prime and paint. I've used the Minwax filler, but you don't have to. (There's a reason your home center stocks Bondo auto body filler in its house paint section.)
The longer answer to this question is a lot less simple. Others recommend alternatives to the Minwax hardener, including water-based and two-part products. Brand names include CPES, or Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer, and PC-Petrifier.
I don't have any experience with those products or others, but will be glad to share advice from anyone who has. If you've used them, drop me an email.
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OVERVIEWTIAA-CREF is a Fortune 100 financial services company and the leading provider of retirement plans to people working in academic, research, medical, and cultural institutions in the United States.Although TIAA-CREF touts its commitment to socially responsible investing, funds invested with TIAA-CREF actively support Israeli apartheid, violations of international law, and human rights abuses. For example, it invests in Caterpillar, Northrop Grumman, Motorola Solutions, Elbit Systems, and Veolia. These companies provide Israel with the products and services it uses to demolish Palestinian homes, construct and maintain the settlements and wall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem), and kill Palestinian civilians.See Complete Campaign Document >>>
On Day of Shareholders Meeting, Protests Held in 12 Cities Against TIAA-CREF Investments in Israeli Military Occupation FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 17, Oakland, CA – On Tuesday, July 16th at TIAA-CREF offices in over a dozen cities nationwide, human rights advocates protested the retirement giant's investments in Israeli military occupation, on the same day that TIAA-CREF held its annual shareholders meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protesters sang, chanted, handed out thousands of flyers, and performed street theater, also signaling their displeasure with TIAA-CREF's refusal to allow investors to vote to vote on a shareholder resolution, which calls on TIAA-CREF to divest from companies such as Veolia, Caterpillar, and Northrup Grumman which profit from segregated services, home demolitions, militarized violence, and other human rights abuses.Read more >>
Join the Anti-Apartheid Mime Troupe to demand TIAA-CREF divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine!More On This Event >>> For the second time, pension-fund giant TIAA-CREF, which claims to be "for the greater good," has barred shareholders from voting on whether they want their retirement money invested in human rights violations. TIAA-CREF has made it clear that when it comes to discussing the Israeli occupation of Palestine, they prefer to "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil." But we'll continue to see and speak about Israel's violations of Palestinian rights—and to demand to be heard.
Flier, Calls to Conscience: Prison Resistance in Palestine, Guantánamo, the U.S. and IranView Resource >>>
The Future Divests! Take Part in the Student Day of ActionMore On This Event >>> Adalah-NY is a member of the We Divest coalition, which is calling for a national day of action. Join us in midtown Manhattan for The Future Divests!Facebook event
TIAA-CREF Shareholders Filed Resolutions Asking for Divestment from Israel's Occupation NEW YORK - Fifty New Yorkers gathered in the cold in front of TIAA-CREF national headquarters to show support for a shareholder resolution asking trustees to end investments in companies that contribute to or enable serious human rights violations, including companies whose products support Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.CREF shareholders, including a professor of peace and conflict studies, addressed the crowd, emphasizing that it is crucial that the retirement company let shareholders have a conversation about the human rights abuses their investments are supporting. Also present was Omar Barghouti, one of the founders and leaders of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee. Barghouti's evening talk with Judith Butler at Brooklyn College this evening has been the object of much recent controversy among local city officials and in the national media. Read more >>
Stand with TIAA-CREF shareholders as they file resolutions demanding divestment.More On This Event >>> Where: TIAA-CREF headquarters, 730 Third Ave (at 45th St.), NYCWhen: Thursday February 7, 2013, 8:30 AM to 9:30 AMWhat: Demand that TIAA-CREF addresses the concerns of shareholders who have submitted a resolution calling on CREF to divest from Veolia and other companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine. Allow the resolution to go forward and be on the ballot.Why: This year's resolution calling for divestment is the next step in the We Divest campaign. Over 100 CREF shareholders have filed a resolution calling on the pension giant to divest from companies profiting from the illegal Israeli occupation and to end their complicity in the violation of Palestinian human rights.Join Omar Barghouti, of the BDS National Committee, and other activists, academics, and cultural workers to show your support for this campaign at TIAA-CREF's national headquarters on the eve of the deadline for filing resolutions.If you are a CREF shareholder and would like to join in filing the resolution, click here.Signs and hot cocoa will be provided. Dress warmly!


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Once an empire, Britain faces big military cuts
Afghanistan operations in the future could be affected.
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"Given this, the US 'surge' into Helmand and Kandahar provinces could be used to relieve the pressure for further increases in the UK's own forces," said its report, "Preparing for the Lean Years," which said that serious savings could be made by "a radical scaling down" of UK forces there.
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Report author Malcolm Chalmers said that Britain was now moving beyond liberal interventionism toward a more discretionary use of force, "because the two big operations we have been involved in, Iraq and Afghanistan, have been much bigger than we expected."
As was the case in Iraq, a climbing fatality rate is blamed by many on poor resources. Two soldiers, including one who was the most senior officer to be killed in action since the Falklands War in 1982, died earlier this month when an explosive device shattered a Viking, a type of armored tracked vehicle which has proven to be vulnerable to landmines.
At a gathering of defense experts and military figures in London this week, organized by RUSI, one of the Army's most senior former officers was highly critical of the military's limited resources.
"You have to just look at the casualty list to work out that if the equipment was better then you would not be looking at that casualty list," argued Lt. Gen. Sir John Kiszely.
He added that more helicopters were available to support the British Army's past fight in just one small part of Northern Ireland than there are currently in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the same gathering, James Arbuthnot, the chair of the House of Commons Defense Committee, struck a note of caution.
"We have to be ready to fight things which we cannot predict," said the Conservative Party member of Parliament, who raised the possibility of terrorists or rogue states using electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons capable of disabling electronic circuits.
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Controversy flourishes at Toronto film fest
Michael Moore's latest, along with a spotlight on films from Tel Aviv, brings out the protesters, while others swoon over Clooney.
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Of course, controversy, real or manufactured, can also help sell tickets. Even "Creation" got into the act. According to its producer, the film has so far failed to find a US distributor because the theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences. Maybe the lesson to be learned here is that if you're going to make a movie about the struggle between faith and reason, it shouldn't be as dull as "Creation."
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And then there is George Clooney, who was in Toronto with two films, the mostly marvelous "Up in the Air," directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno"), where he plays a "career transition consultant" – i.e., he fires people for a living – and "The Men Who Stare at Goats," partially based on fact, where he is part of a top-secret "psychic" military unit in the wake of Vietnam which trains to be invisible, walk through walls, and kill goats by, well, staring at them. Your tax dollars at work, folks.
Clooney, who is often referred to in the local press as "Cary Grant 2.0," is a perennial festival favorite. Asked at a press conference when did he first know he was famous, he answers, "Very early on. My parents told me." Speaking of "Goats," he says, "I have done a couple of war satire films before, 'Batman and Robin' obviously being the first." What does he have in common with the "consultant" in "Up in the Air"? "Well, we're the same height."
Michael Caine was in town in connection with "Harry Brown," where he plays a pensioner who goes on a "Death Wish"-style rampage in his gang-infested neighborhood. (It was filmed in the same south London slum where Caine, and much earlier, Charlie Chaplin grew up.) It's a dreadful movie – who wants to see Michael Caine in a Charles Bronson vehicle? But the good news is that Caine, who seven years ago in Toronto said he had just six more movies left in him – that was about 20 movies ago – now says, "I won't retire. I'll keep going as long as the scripts keep coming and someone will back the movie."
One of the biggest festival hits is Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," which, aside from that mouthful of a title, which Herzog detests, is a cop thriller of surpassing oddness. (In one scene an iguana appears from out of nowhere to sing "Release Me.") It features Nicolas Cage in one of his most outré performances – not since he actually ate a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss" has he seemed so entertainingly over the top. "I've always been labeled 'that obsessive Teutonic filmmaker,' " says Herzog, obsessively. "But wrong. I've always been hilarious," he adds, grim-faced.


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property owners to agree to an LHD is a daunting challenge, no doubt.
Culturally, we're programmed to resist and question any infringement of our
rights by government, especially the suggestion of someone telling us what we
can or cannot do with our property. And
HDCs are government entities telling people what they can and cannot do with
their properties. We cannot ignore that
fact—it must be dealt with head on.
There is a statement that could be made to the building owners within
proposed LHDs everywhere: "This
isn't about you—we know you'll do the right thing—it's about what someone else might
do some day." This appeals to the
building owner because you're assuaging any concern that the purpose of the LHD is to tell him what he can or can't do.
And you're
planting the seed of concern: "What happens when the people next door sell
some day and the new owner wants to do something hideous to the façade of the
house?" Or, what happens when the new owner of the charming block of
stores next to your business wants to knock it down and build a new Dunkin'
Donuts? Isn't that the purpose anyway, to prevent the wrong thing from
happening in the future, not correcting or changing existing conditions? Theoretically, the building and home owners
in these areas like old houses and structures and appreciate the charm and
character that they possess. Hopefully
they also understand and appreciate the economic value this adds to properties in their
neighborhood. Build on that.
perception of historic districts and commissions appears to be the greatest
hurdle preservation planners have to overcome when creating and overseeing
LHDs. How often have we heard the rally
cry, "Nobody is telling me what color I can paint my house!" yet HDCs don't
dictate color choices. The best way to counter such myths and misconceptions is
through transparency of actions and clear, wide-reaching communication to the public. The internet is the perfect vehicle for that
process. Every LHD needs design
guidelines and the Town of Brookline has an exemplar:
The Historical
Commission in the Town of Ipswich has a website that should be closely studied:
The home page
of the Ipswich website is a one-stop directory to all of the resources and information that home and
building owners need to access. It is
also an engaging site that pulls the viewer in with great pictures and
wonderful local history and pertinent, contemporary information. The charm and value of antiquity is present
here and viewers are compelled to buy into it.
Increasing public awareness of historic preservation is the best way to increase public appreciation of historic preservation. Click HERE for an article on this very subject. Selling people on the importance of historic preservation is
critical, as even old home enthusiasts can occasionally be recalcitrant in their
Our society
is pretty good at accepting the need for zoning laws, permits and building
code, but somehow restrictions due to historic preservation concerns send folks
over the edge. Why? Once a building is protected within an LHD it
can't be inappropriately altered or demolished.
That's the law. Period. Don't
like it? Sell it and move on. The mindset that an owner should be able to do
whatever he wants with a building simply because "he owns it" is ridiculous. Should he be able to hire an unlicensed, uninsured contractor to throw together a set of ramshackle stairs without a permit? Why not? He owns it. Should he be able to make changes and alterations that violate code? Why not? He owns it. Should he be able to dump toxic waste in the basement? Why not? He owns it. Can he pile as many tenants inside as he wants, and provide one crummy toilet and no fire protection? Why not? He owns it.
Just because
you own a house or other building doesn't mean the law be damned, like it or
not. Saying a building owner should be
able to do whatever they want with their building is tantamount to saying that
one should be able to mistreat a pet--because they own it--or burn money
because they can. Anyone who thinks that way shouldn't be allowed to have a pet
or doesn't deserve to be rich. Same goes for historically significant
buildings. The fact that one fails to recognize, appreciate and respect that
significance is neither here nor there. It is illegal to abuse your dog or
destroy US currency. And it's illegal to alter or demolish a building in an LHD
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ianbrooks asked: Do you even believe that platypusseses exist? I partly expect the entire Internet to jump out of the closet one day and be like: "LOL APRIL FOOLS MOTHERFUCKER" and reveal that was just a huge joke this whole time to see if people would believe it because come on how is that thing real
I don't know why the internet would be the one to give up on one of the world's longest running jokes. I mean, I personally have known about platypuses a lot longer than I've known about the internet (ie. Prodigy and CompuServe).
If anything, some lonely old fart is gonna end up ordering a brand new edition of Encyclopedia Britannica off the home-shopping network or something. Then, after years of reading, they'll finally get to the section on platypuses and it's just gonna read:
Platypus (n): GOTCHA SUCKERS!
They probably won't get the joke and then they'll die alone.
The set of encyclopedias will just sit there, collecting dust, only to realize that they maybe waited just a little too long.