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By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
One of the great myths spread by opponents of suburban development is that the land-use patterns we have today are the result of free-market forces, greedy developers, and unregulated property rights. Contrary to urban legend, gaudy strip malls and tacky subdivisions are more often a consequence of over half a century of zoning and land-use planning conducted under the guidance of professional planners in cooperation with elected officials. What repel us today are not the unintended consequences of free enterprise, but planning concepts from the 1960s that have dropped out of fashion.
Having failed us once, planners are asking for a second chance-along with more regulatory power than ever before-to impose their aesthetic sensibilities on the rest of us, the philistine masses. Instead of letting the planners have their way, communities should work to restore and strengthen individual property rights. Part of this is giving property owners and builders the freedom to construct housing that people want, not what the planners want to impose on them.
Until the 1920s, property rights in America were seen to be nearly inviolable. The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "nor shall property be taken for public use without just compensation." This was considered the literal law of the land. (The Fourteenth Amendment extended the Fifth's protection to actions by the states.) Property rights advocates argue that the Takings Clause also covers "regulatory takings" that limit the property's use (and thus diminish its value), such as zoning restrictions. If so, either regulatory takings would be prohibited or, at the very least, the government would have to compensate property owners for land-use regulations that reduce the value of their holdings.
The courts, however, have not held this view. Their rejection of the idea of regulatory takings can be traced back to several decisions early in the 20th century. One of the most notable, or infamous, is the Supreme Court's 1926 decision in Village of Euclid v. Amber Realty Co., which upheld comprehensive zoning and laid the foundation for many of today's limitations on individual property rights by sanctioning restrictions on land use.
At around the same time, the executive branch of the federal government was working to undermine property rights. During the Harding and Coolidge Administrations, the federal government became an active proponent of zoning and land-use planning. Under the direction of its Secretary, Herbert Hoover, the Department of Commerce created federal advisory committees on zoning in 1921 and published A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act in 1924, followed by A Standard City Planning Enabling Act in 1927. These model laws helped states and cities to create their own planning regimes.
The Smart Growth Movement
Despite the rapid spread of zoning in the 20th century, local officials and zoning boards still tended to respect the rights of landowners, often granting reasonable requests for variances from master plans. This careful balance between freedom and regulation began to tilt away from property owners in the 1990s, when the Smart Growth and New Urbanism movements rose to prominence. The activist wings of these movements gained traction by vilifying the suburbs and their residents. In response, many communities altered their zoning laws to slow the pace of suburbanization. The consequence has been to encourage leapfrog development-in what we now call exurbs-and even more sprawl.
It is revealing to look at the list of model communities that advocates of smart growth hold out as worthy of emulation. The Sierra Club conducts anti-sprawl tours in the Washington, D.C., area, and its guides highlight the beautiful neighborhoods of Old Town Alexandria in Virginia and Georgetown and Capitol Hill in Washington. Elsewhere in the country, anti-sprawl activists hold up Charleston and Savannah, both elegant cities, as role models, along with Society Hill in Philadelphia, Oakleigh in Mobile, the Garden District in New Orleans, and Beacon Hill in Boston.
These communities share a common trait besides their exquisite beauty and historical status: All were built before the advent of zoning, government planning, building codes, building inspections, building permits, and restrictive covenants governing the color of downspouts and window shutters. In short, they represent the spontaneous order of a cowboy capitalism long since regulated out of existence. Indeed, no enterprising developer could construct any of these communities today; the zoning ordinances of most of America's counties and towns would stop him flat. Typical zoning provisions establish minimum lot sizes, minimum front and side setbacks, and minimum street widths. They make driveways and garages mandatory and prohibit mixed commercial and residential development. The lauded neighborhoods of the past, held up as examples of an ideal, wouldn't measure up to today's zoning. Building a neighborhood like that today requires local zoning and planning boards to grant a myriad of variances from existing rules. The boards, however, are seldom willing, in large part because citizens oppose higher density housing and the congestion it creates.
That zoning and planning laws effectively prohibit the construction of "ideal" neighborhoods reveals one of the ironies of the current debate on suburban land use: Advocates of smart growth and new urbanism are among the major casualties of land-use regulations that diminish property rights, despite their large role in encouraging such regulation.
Criticizing typical suburban developments with single-family detached houses on quarter-acre lots, smart growth advocates encourage higher-density development (smaller lot sizes) to conserve land and other resources; increased "walkability" and transit use to discourage auto use; greater social interaction among neighbors; and a mix of commercial and residential establishments. While some in the smart growth movement consider these high-density developments a lifestyle choice that should compete with typical suburban subdivisions for buyers, the movement's activist wing would mandate high-density living. The activists would prohibit new lower-density suburbs because of the social costs that the activists say they impose on society.
These more extreme elements of the smart growth movement rely on harsh criticisms of suburban subdivisions to promote their alternative. In the process, they level many outlandish charges against suburbs and suburbanites-a sort-of national vilification. Typical of the abuse heaped on the inhabitants of cul-de-sacs is a recent Atlantic article by new urbanist James Howard Kunstler:
When we drive around and look at all this cartoon architecture and other junk that we've smeared all over the landscape, we register it as ugliness. This ugliness is the surface expression of deeper problems-problems that relate to the issue of our national character.
Not to be outdone, former National Governors Association executive Joel Hirshhorn argues that sprawl kills:
Know this: Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns, and much more. The pursuit of happiness by the few profiting from sprawl land development is killing the future pursuit of happiness by the many. Spread this idea virus: sprawl kills.
Movement Hijacked by the NIMBYs
But these efforts to shame American consumers into high-density living have badly backfired. The campaign was cleverly hijacked by the suburban-based Not-In-My-Back-Yard, or NIMBY, anti-growth movement. Posing as believers in the lofty goals of new urbanism and environmental conservation, the NIMBYs are working hard to further diminish property rights with even more restrictive land use regulations in thousands of communities. As one planner puts it:
If a community or region refuses to grow, the result may be higher prices, economic displacement and hardship, and dangerous crowded housing in exchange for keeping a desirable quality of life for the "already landed" middle and upper income groups. If the local voters are willing to pay this price, why should planners try to prevent it?
One of NIMBYs' major tools to deter growth and exclude less affluent residents is changing zoning to reduce densities and raise housing costs. Among the more common measures is "down zoning," by which raw land previously zoned for, say, five houses per acre is rezoned to allow only one house per acre-or even one house per five, 10, or 20 acres in some communities. Additional regulations may require greenbelts and mandatory set-asides for conservation and prohibit building homes on land currently zoned for agriculture. Such rezoning also precludes, or greatly limits, the construction of apartments, townhouses, small-lot, cluster-type developments, and other high-density arrangements. In contrast to the country's average lot size of about one-third of an acre, today's growth control strategies require minimum lot sizes of five, 10, or 20 acres-beyond what many homebuyers want or can afford.
The consequence is more sprawl-sprawl that has little to do with the free market. Larger lots lead to fewer houses (and people) per square mile, which means that more space is needed to house a given population. This spreading out, in turn, leads to traffic congestion from more long-distance commuters, more expensive housing, and a diminished quality of life as commuters exchange leisure time for more affordable housing and longer commutes. The biggest losers under today's restrictive land-use regulations, aside from moderate-income households who find themselves priced out of the market, are new urbanists, whose developments have become nearly impossible to build.
These costs and inconveniences are burdensome enough that well-organized resistance to today's restrictive zoning practices is beginning to form. This resistance is coming from all points of the political spectrum, including some new urbanists and particularly planners and architects who consider current zoning practices to be one of the greatest obstacles to the development of their ideal communities. If it continues to grow, this resistance may have the potential to reverse the trend toward greater land regulation.
Further fueling the resistance is resentment of the growing abuse of eminent domain for purposes of "economic development." Like anti-sprawl measures, the government's power to force the sale of land with eminent domain is increasingly being used to displace the poor and replace them with richer people who pay higher taxes and need fewer services.
Is the tide turning? Perhaps so. In 2004, Oregon voters endorsed a referendum to hobble the state's world-renowned "growth boundary" experiment, which prohibits development outside of specially zoned areas. The referendum requires Oregon municipalities to compensate those who own land outside of the boundaries or let them develop their land as they see fit, boundaries notwithstanding. In effect, Oregon law now makes no distinction between a regulatory taking and an eminent domain taking, and the citizens of the state have had some of their lost property rights restored.
More states and municipalities may follow suit, but their efforts are no substitute for action by the U.S. Congress to clarify and strengthen property rights in federal law. With property rights enshrined in the Constitution and explicitly imposed on the states, it is incumbent upon Congress to ensure that the courts-both federal and state-uphold them.
Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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My name is Akram. I am 13. My father's name is Salamkhan. My father is from Jalalabad and my mother is from Karabakh. There are nine of us in the family, one sister and five brothers, my father and my mother. I lost my both of my hands in Pakistan. I went to Pakistan during civil war. My family was not well off and it was hard to live in Afghanistan during winter so we moved to Pakistan. Because we are poor we needed to collect wood for winter and once when I was collecting wood, there was a cable under woods, I did not notice it and when I touched it shocked me. When I was shocked by electricity, I was thrown 20 or 25 meters away. There was an old restaurant there and some guy had come to eat lunch there and finally he saw me and took me and put me in the car and took me to the hospital. The hospital would not accept me because I was afghan. The guy had an ID and he was helping to put me in the hospital with his ID. After a month, when I woke up and when I saw my hands were cut I was crying, my family was crying. There was no chance, there was only hope and I could not do anything. After three months my family and I returned back to Kabul. Seven years ago I returned from Pakistan and I am living in an IDP camp in front of Dalaman. My job is to collect money, be a beggar, asking money from people. I am responsible for the nine members of the family and I am going to collect money by begging for money and go back and help the family. And my father is little bit crazy and he can not work and only I am responsible to go and collect money and help my members of family. I am the eldest son of Salam Khan. I really like to study and I also like to play computer games, play on the cellphone, like to ply football and other things.
For seven years I have not received any support from the government. My name is Alareza and I am Akram's uncle's son. I am 11 years old. Akram has a lot of problems because he lost his cat and he can not play, go to work, he's very sad. There are a lot of tents in front of me. There are a lot of kids playing. They are in very bad condition. Akram is living under the tent. There is a pace 100x200m place, different families put a tent and there is no place for kids to play, there are no schools, there is no water, conditions are very bad. - Taliban will come and the war will start and no one will help us. One of his brothers' name is Ikramila his sister's name is Simogol, his father's name is Salamkhan, other bother's name is Bilal, another brother's name is Didar, another brother's name is Satar, little brother's name Ghafar, mother's name is Zarmina.
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My name is Fardin Waezi and I was born in Kart-e-Now in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Although I am only young, I have been taking photographs for 22 years. I took my first photo with an old snapshot camera when I was seven years old in my father's commercial portrait studio. I knew then I wanted to become a photographer because I adored my father's profession.
There were no photo schools or colleges so over several years, with a little help from my father, I taught myself photojournalism. During the Taliban regime, a dark and stressful period for anybody trying to work as a photographer, I worked on the street outside the Ministry of the Interior making official portraits using a wooden box camera. These ID card pictures were almost the only photography that the Taliban allowed. Even then I was sometimes beaten and arrested.
I was in Kabul during the American bombing, but soon after the Taliban's collapse in 2001, I was one of the first in the queue when I heard there would be a photojournalism course offered at 'AINA,' the Afghan Media and Culture Center.
Today, I am working in AINA This is a rare privilege that allows me to travel far and wide around the country and gain a unique overview of the economic, political and social changes in Afghanistan. Whilst it is true that my country is a place of war and terrorism, and this is what the foreign press always concentrate on when they photograph Afghanistan; it is also a place where 30 million people like me live their lives, bring up their families and have hopes and dreams.
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Caption: My name is Akram. I am 13 years old and I am the eldest son of Salam Khan. He is from Jalalabad and my mother is from Karabakh
Akram Kahn's Story
I went to Pakistan with my family during civil war. We were not well off and it was hard to live in Afghanistan during winter. Because we are poor we needed to collect wood for winter. Once when I was out collecting wood, there was a cable in the forest. I did not notice it and when I touched it, it shocked me and threw me 25 meters away.
After a month in the hospital I woke up and when I saw my hands were cut off I was crying, my family was crying. There was no chance, there was only hope and I could not do anything. After three months my family and I returned to Kabul and I am now living in an IDP camp in front of Dalaman. My job is to collect money, be a beggar, asking money from people. I am responsible for the nine members of the family.
I really like to study and I also like to play computer games, play on the cellphone, like to play football and other things.
My name is Akram. I am 13 years old and I am the eldest son of Salam Khan. He is from Jalalabad and my mother is from Karabakh
There are nine of us in my family --one sister and five brothers, and my father and my mother.
I lost both of my hands in Pakistan. I was there with my family. We moved there during the Afghan civil war as my family was not well off and it was hard to make a living during the winter. Because we were poor, we needed firewood to stay warm during the winter in Pakistan. One day, when I was collecting wood, I did not notice a cable under some pieces of wood and accidentally touched it.
The cable was electrified and the shock threw me 25 metres away, near an old restaurant. A diner there saw what happened, stopped eating his lunch and carried me to his car and drove me to a hospital. I was later told that the hospital would not accept me because I was Afghan, but the diner had used his own national ID card and insisted that I be given medical treatment. After a month, I woke up. When I saw that my hands had been cut off, I started crying. My family were there and they were also crying.
After three months, my family and I returned to Kabul, where we lived in a tent in an empty area in the front of the ruins of the Darul Aman Palace, on the city's outskirts, for a long time.
That was seven years ago. I am still living with my family in a tent in a camp with other displaced persons in front of the former palace, with no support from the authorities.
My father is unwell; he has mental problems. He cannot work and as I am the oldest son it is up to me to work and provide for the members of my family.
So my job is to beg.
Every day I go out on the streets and ask strangers for money.
When I am not working, I like to to play computer games, use a cellphone and do other things that children my age do.
I really like playing football.
I also like playing with my friends, like my cousin Alareza. He is 11 years old.
My friends and family help me to do things that I cannot do alone, like holding a mobile telephone to my ear or putting sunglasses on.
If I did not have to work, I would really like to study.
The first day I met Akram, he asked me for money. I asked him about his life and I was intrigued and touched by what had happened to him - but also at his determination to support his family," Mr. Wazei said. And yet, at the same time, I was surprised and impressed to see that despite living in such tough surroundings and with such personal obstacles, Akram was just like any other 13-year-old boy," Mr. Waezi added.


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If you don't mind running another test, you could do so using your times and process that are known to work. But AndreasT and you have already reported upswept curves, so maybe we already know what the result of another test would be...


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Gerald G. Brown is Distinguished Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he has taught and conducted basic and applied research in optimization theory and optimization-based decision support since 1973, earning awards for both outstanding teaching and research. His military research has been applied by every uniformed service, in areas ranging from strategic nuclear targeting to capital planning. Professor Brown has been awarded the Rist Prize for military operations research and has been credited with guiding investments of more than a trillion dollars. He has designed and implemented decision support software currently used by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 companies, in areas ranging from vehicle routing to supply-chain optimization. His research appears in scores of open-literature publications and classified reports, many of which are seminal references in the field. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science and is a founding director of Insight, Inc., the leading provider of strategic supply-chain optimization-based decision support tools to the private sector. He is a retired naval officer and was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Anthony Cox, Jr., is president of Cox Associates, an independent, Denver-based applied research and consulting company specializing in wireless and optical network design and optimization software tools, customer data mining and predictive modeling, and decision and risk analysis technologies. Dr. Cox has a Ph.D. in risk analysis and an S.M. in operations research, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and an A.B. from Harvard University. Prior to starting Cox Associates in 1986, he consulted in risk analysis, economics and statistics, operations research, and artificial intelligence at Arthur D. Little, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1987 to 1996, he managed applied research and high-technology product development efforts for US WEST Advanced Technologies in Boulder, Colorado. He was senior director of advanced communications research, business and engineering modeling, and network architectures. He is currently an honorary full professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he lectures on topics in biomathematics, health risk modeling, computational statistics, and machine learning. Dr. Cox is on the faculties of the Center for Computational Mathematics and the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Colorado at Denver and is clinical professor of preventive medicine and biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he teaches and guides graduate research on uncertainty analysis and causation in epidemiological studies. He is on the editorial board of Risk Analysis: An International Journal and is co-editor of the Journal of Heuristics. He is a full member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the American Statistical Association. He has chaired numerous conference sessions on various aspects of risk, uncertainty, network design, and optimization. Dr. Cox was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992 and was made a lifetime fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis in 1993. In 1994, he was a recipient of the Operations Research Society of America's prestigious ORSA prize for the best real-world applications of operations research having profound business impact. In addition to hands-on experience and professional activities in telecommunications decision and risk analysis, operations research, artificial intelligence, and applied statistics, Dr. Cox has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters on advanced aspects of these fields. He holds more than a dozen U.S. and international patents on applications of network optimization, speech recognition, and signal processing technologies in telecommunications.
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Aviation security is big business.
Manufacturers are good at lobbying government to introduce new legislation that does little to enhance security in order to support sales. And politicians are reluctant to act rationally, since any security failure can be damaging to their careers.
There is even legislation today that requires screening machines for liquids and gels (LAGs) and the LAGs requirements (everything inside a zip lock) to be eliminated in two years time; ironically, no equipment exists yet to determine whether liquids and gels are safe or not.
It is foolish legislation driven by a greedy industry.
A devout muslim has to forego his drink, has to take off his headwear and slips off his shoes before entering the places of worship. At the places of air travel worldwide, what do we have to do??? - Have those security zealots never noticed this irony? They do nothing but make us all abide by the very rules fanatic Islamists want to impose onto the entire world - together they've won the game already!
Even though I love travelling by plane, I have to admit that I do not feel a bit safer passing through all those checks at airports. It is quite incomprehensible and beyond common sense to see different security measures in each country. For example in Turkey, you have to pass through a check prior to entering the airport which I consider quite reasonable. But taking off shoes, putting laptops in separate boxes or so called random checks??? There are way too many people working at the airports as security personnel not just in the USA but all around the world, and they don't make for safer travel nor some of the security measures we, travelers, unfortunately have to put up with.
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The people, whoever they are, who arrange Fake Terror "Incidents", were clearly reading this page and immediately presented another hamfisted and juvenile scare on Friday 29th October. Expect a couple of "foiled" plots during December.
I keep hearing how easy it is for a terroist to do this or do to that. I pose the question if it was so easy why don't they? They did it to the Madrid Train station. I don't know does any one? Really security is designed to be a show of force if you make a would be bad guy second guess then you win period. The reason why we don't see these agencies securing the areas even before the check point is because the governement is reactive not proactive. I would bet a $1,000,000 that if the goverment of any country started randomling spot checking people in the non secure area of the airport most people that are making these comments would cry Bloody Murder. We don't like our government to be intrusive without cause.
I keep hearing how easy it is for a terroist to do this or do to that. I pose the question if it was so easy why don't they? They did it to the Madrid Train station. I don't know does any one? Really security is designed to be a show of force if you make a would be bad guy second guess then you win period. The reason why we don't see these agencies securing the areas even before the check point is because the governement is reactive not proactive. I would bet a $1,000,000 that if the goverment of any country started randomling spot checking people in the non secure area of the airport most people that are making these comments would cry Bloody Murder. We don't like our government to be intrusive without cause.
Make everyone fly nude...and refuse to carry passengers holding passports issued by suspect states.
Hurrah for those (at last!) speaking up against this farce.
Many travellers board, unchecked, with two wonderfully legal and lethal weapons - a stainless steel, sharp pointed object suitable for stabbing - called a "pen" and a steel wire almost purpose designed for strangling - called a Kensington Laptop security cable!
Google Bruce Schneier - a worldwide and justified expert on security and check out his views on what he calls "the theatre of security".
We need to roll back this resource and time wasting industry now - tough, as it is already out of control, but very necessary.
We also need to educate people to understand and accept risk more rationally - another big challenge, but one worth going for in many aspects of UK (and EU?) life where the "Safety 'elf" wanders about with a reality distortion field turned on, scaring people for no real reason.
Let's see some politicians with guts talking honestly about this and perhaps admitting that they have been guilty of the oldest political trick in the book - scare the populous and then "save" them.
I have been based in Paris for several years and was very grateful when easyjet opened a direct flight to Newcastle, so I could visit my wife and sons more affordably. For the longest time, it was similar to taking a train. Then the liquid scare erupted on the day I was making one of my trips. The authorities required everything (e.g., wallet & keys) to be checked, except passport and boarding pass. I surrendered everything, and the lady asked for my folded over Economist. Risking getting on the flight at all, I explained that if I could do any harm with my trusty magazine (reader since 1989), I'd likely be doing it at that moment.
Airport security is big business and feeds the fear factor. The fact that 100 or 1000 times more people are hurt or die out of other preventable causes, which could be achieved for less money doesn't seem to figure in any calculations. If it was only about money, that would be a choice we make as a society, however this "security industry" makes air travel into a total pain. Here are the most ridiculous items of "security risks":
1. Shoes being taken off
2. Water and drink bottles
3. 250ml medicine and cosmetics (rule is 200ml)
4. Raisor blades, nail scissors
5. Ipads and laptops needing to be taken out of bags
6. Baby milk cartons
Not only is it impossible RATIONALLY explain to how any of above are more of risk than items that are allowed, but any debate is a taboo. Any discussion with the staff or management about these things is always met with an attitude that you are a trouble maker or even helping terrorists.
The rules and the security procedures are stupid and made up by people who are only trying to cover their backs. The rules are irrational and create far more pain and suffering than they theoretically save. Body scanners are offensive and yet an other massive investment with non existent returns.
Airport security is not about protecting people its about protecting the airplane. Its an expensive asset to build and maintain.
I'd prefer body scanners to all those lines any day.
Having worked in the Airline Industry for about a decade, I can say this; the average airport suffers from systemic inefficiencies in considerable need of a rapid overhaul. However, affecting change in the midst of this highly dynamic environment that struggles with the most impossible of conditions between the usual 3 stakeholders (airport admin, airlines and governance) might be compared to ballet dancing in a puddle of oil..!
While governance has a priority in setting security protocols, the system has also become highly sensitive to flux. The slightest changes anywhere in security levels generate global compliance justifications. Bear in mind that right after 9/11, people found relief in the heightened security measures. Doing away with physical security protocols, is a risky bet; the numbers just dont support it.
Perhaps, its best to expect that these security protocols are here to stay, atleast for now and certainly for good reason. We can only hope that the processes will evolve fairly soon, before systemic dissatisfaction begins to curb air travel..
I am not advocating for the removal of all security at airports, but airport security is about bureaucracy feeding at the trough and politicians afraid of the electorate while simultaneously trying to scare them.
I came back from Las Vegas this spring. The security checkpoint at McCarren for my terminal was at the end of a corridor. The metal detectors and TSA personnel at one end, unrelieved concrete block walls flanking. Several hundred people wound back and forth waiting their turn. Packed in like sardines blocked from going forward and unable to move right or left. One or more terrorists with guns or bombs could block the open end and kill far more people than if they brought down an airliner. Remember, prior to the checkpoint there is no security, you can have whatever you want on your person or in your luggage. This is not the only choke point I've seen in airports, but those two concrete walls made that one particularly inviting to anyone with a gun and a martyr complex.
As for bringing down an airliner, anyone with a chemical or engineering background knows it is a simple puzzle. What can you legally take through security and how could you combine it once on the other side. The terrorists know this. So they either 1) aren't as concerned as we think about blowing up planes or 2) they have no engineers or chemists in their ranks.
Personally, I consider terrorist organizations to be political groups with violent tendencies. Their goals are local and local generally means somewhere not in North America or Europe. They demonize the West because you have to be against something. They attack the West in a competition for scarce resources, namely funding and membership. If their attacks succeed, they increase recruitment and funding. They also move to the top of the CIA's list and can expect a rain of drone-fired-missiles. If their attack fails, but gains publicity, they increase recruitment and funding. They also move up the CIA's list, but not all the way to the top. So while I believe they will launch attacks in the future, and some will succeed especially from smaller groups trying to move up, I question their attention to detail and believe we should fashion our response, as in pointless and coffer draining security, accordingly. Because if their only aim in life was bringing death to the West, they are incredibly bad at it.
Having just yesterday completed a journey from Heathrow to the west coast of North America, I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Broughton. The checks and restrictions present mindless bureaucracy at it's most odious. At one point we were required to once again go through the scanner process in the destination airport, even though we had never been beyond the security barrier. The excuse - we had touched our stowed luggage under the eyes of customs examiners. We were asked to show our passports innumerable times. Perhaps they thought we had lost them in the last few hundred yards!
Mr Broughton's right. Much of airport security appears to have become an end in itself.
Terminal 5 this morning, no sign of ANY security anywhere.
Why would terrorists go to all the bother of trying to board a 'plane, when leaving a suitcase at Costa Coffee and wandering outside to catch a taxi home is so much less hassle? Saves all that martyrdom nonsense. It's the same at our main railway stations, wide open.
Millions spent on 'security'? There is none. In some countries you have to pass through a scanner to enter a terminal building. And why no spot checks by plain clothes?
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On the eve of the 2012 London Olympics, an Italian historian has recalled the involvement of Pope Pius X in helping to arrange the 1908 Olympics in London.
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Promo Year in Review, Part Three: Celebrity Appearances
Minor League ballparks are hospitable places, rolling out the red carpet for sitcom stars, sexagenarian wrestlers and eccentric hurlers alike.
Today's edition of "Promo Year in Review" features my top six celebrity appearances of the year, highlighting a half-dozen bold-faced names who graced the ballpark with their presence. But, as always, I need YOU to tell me who I've missed. Get in touch via email or Twitter and let me know, as suggestions for this and previous categories will be accepted through 10 a.m. Monday.
My six nominees, in ever-so-sensible alphabetical order. Click on each individual's name to see how his ballpark visit was originally covered (and, yes, they are all men. Don't shoot the messenger).
Fresno Grizzlies — Alfonso "Carlton" Ribiero (as part of "Mad Tight '90s Night")
Lakewood BlueClaws — Jeff "Chunk" Cohen (as part of "Goonies Night")
Oklahoma City RedHawks — Peter Mayhew (aka "Chewbacca")
Reading Phillies — Dennis "Mr. Belding" Haskins
Round Rock Express — Rojo Johnson (aka Will Ferrell)
Vermont Lake Monsters — Bill "Spaceman" Lee/Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd (on the same night!)
I don't have a picture from this picture, but here are their respective Wikipedia photos:
Duty compels me to once again mention that I need your input. What celebrities caused a sensation at YOUR Minor League ballpark this year. And — hey! — I know you're reading. There's no escape. Get in touch. Are you going to let my complete neglect of sexagenarian wrestlers go uncriticized?
Promo Year in Review, Part Two: Theme Nights
The Promo Year In Review train is rolling along right on schedule, making a stop today at teeming "Theme Night" station.
It was very difficult for me to narrow this category down to a Top Six, as there were a lot of great contenders. As always, I tried to put a premium on originality, and ample photo and video documentation certainly influenced the decision-making process as well.
Two more finalists will be added to this list based on reader suggestions, so get in touch via email or Twitter regarding YOUR favorite Minor League theme night of the year. Suggestions for all categories will be accepted through 10 a.m. on Monday, September 27.
My six nominees, in sweet, sweet alphabetical order. Click on the Promo name to see how it was originally covered.
Brooklyn Cyclones — Jersey? Sure! Night
Fresno Grizzlies — Twilight Night
Lake County Captains — Please Stay LeBron Night
Reading Phillies — Salute to the Crazy Hot Dog Vendor
Trenton Thunder — World Cup Night (with on-field baby race)
Promo Review: Desperate Househusbands Night in Huntsville
The season is underway, meaning that my "Promo Preview" and "Promo Review" columns will be appearing on MiLB.com on a regular basis. And, of course, additional previews and reviews will regularly appear on this blog as well.
Today, I am pleased to provide a recap of the Huntsville Stars' "Desperate Househusbands" night, which took place on April 11. For those needing a refresher regarding what this night was all about, here's an excerpt from the "Promo Preview" write-up:
If your marriage is like the "Lockhorns" comic come to life, then the
Stars have a promotion for you. Men who bring their "Honey Do" list of
chores to the game will receive a half-price ticket, and these
emasculating missives will be read over the PA. Whoever submits the
best "Honey Do" list receives an excellent prize — Stars' staff will
do the chores instead.
Now, allow me to concede the floor to Stars GM Buck Rogers, who sent an email explaining how this all went down:
In the Desperate Househusbands Contest, four
finalists' lists were read off after the game. A few of the lists were
your run-of-the-mill git'er-done Honey-Do lists. However, the crowd voted Steve
Tofflemire as the winner. Here is Steve's list:
1-Clean my wife's
Tinkerbell collection (his wife, Allison has the entire home decorated in
Disney's Tinkerbells)
2-Pick up her 'delicates' from the dry cleaners;
3-Attend my best friend's wedding
4-Give my Mother-in-Law a foot massage
5-Cut the grass in my yard to look like Joe Davis Stadium's field.
Here's what Steve has won:
1-On a
date to be determined between the staff and Steve, we will shut the Stars
office down and take the staff over to Steve's house an execute this list;
also won a $50 gift card from Conner's Steakhouse at Bridge Street. We'd
like to thank Conner's for the donation.
3-Steve will
look like a hero in the yes of his wife (and let's not forget his
Mother-in-Law). That #4 above is going to be a tough one, Steve, and I'm
sure the interns are going to be finding all kinds of excuses.
This one is far from over, and I will make sure to get an update from Buck regarding the specifics of the mother-in-law foot massage. Remember, readers, you can not get this sort of information anywhere else!
Buck, being a loquacious individual, has more to say. I, being an accommodating individual, am going to let him say it:
The odd thing was that Steve tried
to slide this thru with his
wife in attendance. Most of the crowd knows Allison, who
is one of the Stars' top fans, so they stuck around to root for Steve just
to have this promo backfire on him. Naturally, Allison didn't know about
the list until we read it off on top of the dugouts after the game, and she was
a bit embarrassed. Steve was going to take a butt-kickin' when he got
home, but they were cool enough to pose for a picture…The Mother-in-Law crack got the most laughs,
but Steve's Father-in-Law just happened to attend the game, so he's probably in
hot water over that one as well.
So there you have it, folks. I will provide more on this story as it develops. Many thanks to Buck Rogers for taking the time to fill us in on this most ridiculous of promotions.
And, it should go without saying at this point, but I'm going to keep saying it: GET IN TOUCH with promo news, tips and recaps.


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'Van Helsing' Critic Reviews
MovieWeb: 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes: 217 reviews
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)25A long, kinetic, yet dreary mess.Full Review » 11 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)40Despite the rococo obsessiveness of its special effects and its voracious sampling of past horror movies, Van Helsing is mostly content to offer warmed-over allusions and secondhand thrills.Full Review » 11 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)50The dashing Jackman plays his part well enough, but the script doesn't provide sufficient Indiana Jones-style bons mots to win us over.Full Review » 11 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.Full Review » 11 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)There's never a dull moment, but there's also never a moment. It never stops. It's a perpetual-motion machine.Full Review » 11 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)38Van Helsing is one excruciatingly loud set piece of CGI hooey after another, and when a character or a plot twist does manage to make you laugh, you're not sure whether it's camp or ineptitude.Full Review » 11 years ago
Ed Park Village Voice (Top Critic)The orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.Full Review » 11 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)50Old monster movies were thrilling in a way that mingled terror, sexuality and a real preference for the monsters over their tormentors. Van Helsing is a kiddie adventure on an endless, meaningless loop.Full Review » 11 years ago
Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)0We've seen worse movies -- I'm sure of it -- but this opening salvo of the summer season is so extravagantly, off-the-wall bad it pushes the others from memory.Full Review » 11 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)34The film is an unending cavalcade of razzle-dazzle that becomes continuously less dazzling.Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)Enjoying the overblown but well-intentioned Van Helsing requires the campy mind-set of that TV show, not the spooky gravity of classic monster flicks.Full Review » 11 years ago
Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)The horror flick, at its height, was a lyrical caressing of our fears; by the end of this nonsense, you fear for the well-being of the genre. 'It's dead!'Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)60Silly and spectacular, and fun.Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)75A movie that's underwritten, overdirected, overproduced and almost constantly over-the-top. But it's also, at its best, a big tongue-in-cheek extravaganza.Full Review » 11 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)38A noisy, 19th-century fantasy adventure that goes nowhere.Full Review » 11 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)13More and more summer movies depend on relentless action sequences at the expense of coherent narrative, but Van Helsing might be the first whose overkill reaches nuclear capacity.Full Review » 11 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)59No one's going to argue that Van Helsing is a great movie, but it's just the sort of loud, splashy, silly, summer fun flick we've come to expect.Full Review » 11 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)40Looks like a movie assembled by a room full of computer geeks munching Doritos and playing Wolfenstein in between stints of designing Dracula's fangs.Full Review » 11 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)This moronic abomination is not a movie. It's just a noisy, nasty and repulsive video game-slash- theme-park haunted-house ride designed to appeal to the offspring of warlocks and trolls.Full Review » 11 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)The concoction seems far more contrived than plausible, but the sense of evil overkill is entirely representative of the picture itself, which repeatedly looks ready to blow all its fuses due to sensory overload.Full Review » 11 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)63Van Helsing is more amusing and exciting than frightening.Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)40A turbo-charged retelling of the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man sagas, this extravagant creature-feature crams everything in but Abbott and Costello.Full Review » 11 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)20A junk-food feast for the eyes and utterly thought-cleansing fast for the intellect.Full Review » 11 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)25The idea is every bit as dumb as the execution.Full Review » 11 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)This is what happens when you spend pots of money on special effects but don't give a fig about storytelling.Full Review » 11 years ago
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An Israeli-Arab couple can live in a Jewish town in the Galilee after being rejected by its admissions committee, Israel's Supreme Court ruled. The young couple had been denied admission to Rakefet four years ago after the committee said they were socially incompatible with the community. The decision issued Tuesday comes after the Israel Land Authority earlier this month made a plot of land available in Rakefet for the couple, who are living in the Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin, in the lower Galilee near Acre. The Knesset passed a law earlier this year that made admissions committees in small communities legal and allowed them to reject applicants they deemed incompatible with the character of the community. Human rights groups have questioned the new law in the High Court. |
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Pardew Good Enough For The Job? You Vote!
Is Alan Pardew "accepted" by the Toon fans? Is Alan Pardew winning over the Toon fans? PLEASE VOTE: http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/interactive/loadpoll.asp Alan Pardew : "I don't like 'accepted' or 'not accepted'. I hope the fans understand that I have tried to be honest and I am working as hard as I can. "As a football manager, especially at a club where football is almost like a religion, you would expect that from your manager, and that's what I am offering." "It's one of those periods of the season where because of the results last week, it has brought us all together and it's now, 'What's going to happen?' "The next two or three games, you are either going to get away from it and get yourselves maybe fighting for Europe, or you are going to find yourselves in a real dogfight, which I think it is going to be. "It's probably very dangerous to put a figure on that because it looks like being a bit of a freak season. "I wouldn't like to put a figure on that. What is important, though, is that we stay where we are and not get involved in that. "The next four or five games are very important."


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The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: March 22 to 24
Plenty of dining options abound this weekend from barbecue and Baconfest to classes on fruit trees and baked sweets. Eat to support a special cause or to support art. Take your pick -- just click through the jump for Gut Check's full list of recommendations.Black Bear Bakery special Sunday brunch - Sunday, Mar. 24
Friday (Mar. 22):
Lenten Fish Fries @ Participating area establishments
Fish fry season continues on. Check out Gut Check's handy fish fry guide, complete with a handy map, to find your neighborhood's nearby fix.
33March show @ The Old Orchard Gallery
Check out an art opening featuring work by 33 artists along with a special demo, food from Crabcakes Creative and drinks including Schlafly goods. 5:30 to 10 p.m.
Saturday (Mar. 23):
Taste of North County @ participating restaurants
North county restaurants offer sample-sized servings of food from vendor booths. The cost is $5 per adult and $2 per child 12 and under. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Baconfest @ Kiener Plaza
Hide yo' wife. Hide yo' pigs. The first annual Baconfest features a 500-pound "hog log", plenty of sample-sized bacon inspired bites to buy and live music from Steve Ewing and Cherry Hill. Admission is free. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Fruit Tree Seminar @ Eckert's Country Store & Farms
Get a crash course in fruit tree planting and caring for homegrown orchards. No regisstration required. Free. 12 to 2 p.m.
Bounce and BBQ for the Planet @ Whole Foods Market - Town and Country
Kids of all ages can enjoy a romp in a bounce house for only $2, with proceeds to benefit the Whole Planet Foundation. Barbecue will also be available for sale, with a portion of proceeds for the same cause. 12 to 3 p.m.
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Sunday Brunch @ Black Bear Bakery
Black Bear Bakery hosts a special Sunday buffet to promote its Indiegogo campaign. The menu includes options such as blueberry and potato leek pancakes, tempeh scramble, candied beet kale and more. $10 for the buffet; $12 with coffee or tea. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Irish Brunch @ Bixby's
If you missed out on a corned beef fix last weekend, here's another chance to get it before it's gone! Look for traditional Irish menu items like soda bread and corned beef and cabbage, along with an assortment of desserts and champagne. The cost is $24.75 per adult, $13.50 for children 12-and-under, and free for children three and under. Call 314-575-5658 for reservations.
Home Sweet Home @ Kitchen Conservatory
Make spring chick vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting, coconut "feathers" and nutty beaks, a berry tart with vanilla pastry cream and more. The class costs $55 per person. Register online through the Kitchen Conservatory website. 12:30 to 3 p.m.
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The surname VELTIN is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, Veltin ranked #76,592 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 1990", US Census Bureau.
Histopolis currently has 0 grave(s) with the surname Veltin.
The surname Veltin has a Soundex code of V435. The following 39 surname(s) may sound similar to Veltin since they share the same Soundex code.


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Definition of Blood-thinner
Blood-thinner: A common name for an anticoagulant agent used to prevent the formation of blood clots. Blood-thinners do not really thin the blood. They prevent it from clotting.
Blood-thinners (anticoagulants) have various uses. Some are used for the prophylaxis (prevention) of thromboembolic disorders; others are used for the treatment of thromboembolism. (Thrombi are clots. Emboli are clots that break free, travel through the bloodstream, and lodge in a vessel.) The anticoagulant drugs used for these clinical purposes include:
- Intravenous heparin -- which acts by inactivating thrombin and several other clotting factors required for a clot to form;
- Oral anticoagulants such as warfarin and dicumarol -- which act by inhibiting the liver's production of vitamin K dependent factors crucial to clotting.
Anticoagulant solutions are also used for the preservation of stored whole blood and blood fractions. These anticoagulants include heparin and acid citrate dextrose (commonly called ACD).
Anticoagulants are also used to keep laboratory blood specimens from clotting. These agents include not only heparin but also several agents that make calcium ions unavailable to the clotting process and so prevent the formation of clots; these agents include ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (commonly called EDTA), citrate, oxalate and fluoride.
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