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Bryan neighborhoods can now petition the city to reduce the number of unrelated people that can live in a single family house.
This comes after the second reading of a much-debated ordinance which was unanimously approved by the council Tuesday evening.
Currently, four unrelated persons can live together, but the new law allows for two-thirds of a neighborhood to ask for a change to two unrelated persons.
During the council meeting, around a dozen people spoke before the vote. More than half were students, saying the change would hurt them the most.
The student turnout was a stark contrast to the council meeting where the first reading of the ordinance took place. At that meeting, nearly every speaker was in favor of the change.
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Ting begins supporting iPhone 4 and 4S, iPhone 5 support 'soon'
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iPhone support still largely quiet
Ting -- an MNVO carrier launched just last year, and based on the Sprint network -- is now supporting the iPhone 4 and 4S, a report claims. Ting, Apple, and Sprint are said to have signed a deal for the arrangement, which is described as a "beta" in which Ting has to prove that it can support iPhone customers, and hold up Apple's brand reputation, partly through screening for lost or stolen devices showing up on its network. Sources say that Ting is "scared to make Sprint nervous," and that "Sprint is terrified to make Apple nervous," given that Sprint has a deal to sell the iPhone while Ting doesn't. Being able to sell the iPhone often involves strict demands from Apple, including minimum marketing budgets and unit purchases.
The prepaid carrier requires people to either buy one of several Android phones or bring over an unlocked Sprint-capable device. The sources add that apart from the 4 and 4S, Ting expects to get iPhone 5 support "soon;" Sprint, though, is allegedly holding up that deal, since it normally keeps the most popular devices from its partners. One exception is the US branch of Virgin Mobile, which is already selling the iPhone 5s and 5c.


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That's for a refurbished Roamio, but it's still by far the best TiVo deal, well, ever.
The new Humble Bundle ranks up there with the best of them, offering two Batman games, two F.E.A.R. games, and other good stuff.
Microsoft's newest OS, not a fast starter out of the blocks, now holds third place among all operating systems.
The Caped Crusader's super-funky ride from 1966 broke auction records and is now in the hands of a new owner.
SQL Server and enterprise products more than hold Microsoft over ahead of the Windows 8 launch as company delivers strong third quarter.
While many are focusing on Microsoft's strong Windows client performance, let's not overlook the not-so-great quarter turned in by the company's Entertainment and Devices unit.
New IBM CEO Ginni Rometty sticks with Big Blue's outlook for 2012... and 2015.
Surveying several analysts, Bloomberg says that RIM may have sold just 490,000 PlayBooks during the company's fiscal second quarter, leading them to lower their full-year forecasts.
At its CES press conference this afternoon, Motorola revealed the complete specification on its new Atrix 4G for AT&T and introduced a laptop dock accessory.
Highlights of BlackBerry makers' second-quarter earnings report include 12 million devices shipped and higher-than-expected revenue of $4.62 billion.


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Prisons, the judge says, are not places where people get better.
Surbeck is quick to point out that he's not criticizing corrections officials when he says that. A prison's first responsibility, he argues, is to make sure that people who have done horrible things stay isolated from the rest of us so that we're protected from them. He says that Indiana's corrections system does a great job at that. ...


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Astonishing Science. Spectacular museum.
The Science Museum is working with CERN in Geneva to create a temporary exhibition that will allow visitors to experience what it feels like to operate the biggest scientific experiment on the planet, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
New details of the exhibit, which is scheduled for Autumn 2013 and will run for six months, were revealed last night by Prof Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN at the Science Museum's annual dinner, a major event attended by leaders of science, industry, politics and the media. Guests included Prof Stephen Hawking, David Willetts and Janet Street-Porter.
"The Science Museum is among the world's leading centres for public engagement with science," said Heuer, "and I'm very pleased for CERN to be working with the museum on this important new touring exhibition about the LHC. CERN is enjoying unprecedented public attention, and initiatives like this help turn that into the sustained public engagement with science that is so vital in our science dominated age."
In the Large Hadron Collider, a giant particle collider, scientists and engineers work at the extremes of temperature, vacuum and energy to recreate conditions not seen since just after the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago.
The museum will be collaborating with theatre and digital producers to create an immersive experience so visitors can participate in the greatest intellectual adventure on the planet.
The exhibition, which is being devised to tour museums worldwide, will provide visitors with access to members of the vast team of 10,000 scientists and engineers who work with CERN to reveal what motivates them, said Heuer.
The exhibition will give visitors a close-up look at remarkable examples of CERN engineering, from the bottle of hydrogen gas that feeds the great machine to the vast dipole magnets. There will be many historic objects from the museum's world leading collections, including JJ Thomson's apparatus which led to the discovery of the electron, and the accelerator Cockcroft and Walton used to first split the atom.
At the dinner, attended by the great and the good of the UK science establishment, pieces of the great machine (beam screens) were used as 'table centrepiece' objects.
"The Science Museum is privileged to be holding this exhibition. It is a unique opportunity to inspire young people and to remind all our audiences that Britain is a major player in the frontiers of physics," commented Ian Blatchford, Director of the museum.
Interactive exhibits, which rely on push-buttons and displays, were part of the South Kensington experience from the 1850s; our Children's Gallery of 1931 was revolutionary, as Henry Lyons made a radical departure from the didactic 'technical education' approach of science museums to put what he termed 'the ordinary visitor' at the heart of the museum experience..
The museum had the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Science (with Imperial College), and with its sister museums, the Science Museum Group has the world's most important collection of iconic scientific objects.
The project team for the CERN exhibit includes Harry Cliff, the first Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science, who divides his time between the museum and the University of Cambridge team working on the LHCb experiment at CERN.
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The Science Museum annual dinner was attended by over 400 of the worlds leading Scientists, Nobel Prize winners, Industrialists, Politicians and members of the media. They included Dame Susan Greenfield, Sir Peter Knight, Sir Michael Pepper, Sir Tim Hunt, Sir Ralph Kohn, Hermann Hauser, Andreas Goss, Sir Adrian Smith, Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko, Charles Jencks, Mariella Frostrup and John Sessions (confirm at event)
The Science Museum's world class collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past 400 years. The physics collections range from the early 20th century and include models illustrating the Rutherford-Bohr theory of the atom, made by William Bragg, c. 1911 and paraffin absorbers used by James Chadwick to capture neutrons in 1930s. More recent acquisitions are a prototype superconducting cavity from CERN's Large Electron Positron, LEP collider (the forerunner to the LHC) in the 1980s and the Central Tracking Detector from the ZEUS experiment at the DESY particle accelerator in Hamburg, 1990s
Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science, engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise.
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I finished Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests (GOOS) this afternoon. It' a book that I sincerely hope I would have had the patience to read years ago. It answers one deceivingly simple question in software development that has bothered me for a long time: How to practice TDD (Test Driven Development)?
When I first heard about the Golden Rule of TDD – "Never write new functionality without a failing test", I was quite skeptical about it. But after several years building software a big company, I completely recognized why TDD was so appealing. My company has very strict software development procedures that require lots of meetings and documents before really writing a single line of code. But there wasn't even one project that I worked on finally proved these times were not absolutely wasted. This kind deep frustration made me I realise that it was the effort to try to put the behavior of software completely in documents before writing any code is simply hopeless when it comes to thousands of hours of programming. We simply couldn't image exactly how the software with size actually works.
TDD has a different view of software development. Instead of building software with a rigid, predefined blueprint, it thinks software as a plant that could grow big in a naturally, just like a tiny seed could sprout and become a huge tree. We know it's going to be tall, strong and beautiful, but we can't really predicate how exactly it looks like.
I like this idea so much that I more or less tried it in all my following projects, even my ex-girlfriend's homework, after I finished the classical TDD book, Test Driven by Example. TDD did help, but I still felt uncomfortable about the final result from time to time. And I couldn't really convince my colleagues that it was necessary to write test before writing code. As I became a senior engineer, I enforced TDD in my team. However, as soon as I left the company 3 years ago, my former colleagues immediately dropped all those TDD rules and went back to the "write code – manual test" cycle. But I don't blame them. To really benefit from TDD, there are a lot of difficulties to overcome. However, I couldn't see how to address these problems properly at that time.
TDD was difficult because:
- The test code often become messy after a while
- Testing with 3rd party code, like persistence layer, is slow and
- Refactoring code without certain design principles in mind often lead to chaos even if the size of code
- Mocking objects are really tedious to
- Asynchronous code are hard to
- Tests are too fragile, simple change in requirements could break many test cases
- Testing straight forward code make programmers feels they are wasting time
- Direct dependencies (new objects everywhere) makes mocking difficult
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These problems are why like the book, GOOS, so much. It's full of real experiences of TDD accumulated in the battlefield. In my work, I've met almost all the difficulties this book covers. And I have to admit that the approaches the author took to deal those problems are indeed better than my rushed solutions.
However the most important thing this book taught me is that while TDD could make better software, that doesn't come free. It requires very careful consideration of how to refactoring, great patience to make test code readable and maintainable, and experience to decide what and how to test. It's not a magic that could summon beautiful codes from the emptiness. It's a skill and an art like painting that must be learned by hardworking and practicing.
Yes, TDD is hard. But as far as I can see, it's still of best choice to coup the monstrous complicity in modern software systems. If you have strong desire to write clean code as I do, I highly recommend you have a look of the book, Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests.


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Tracking auction prices on Freightliner FLD 120 trucks
A quick update.
Three weeks back I mentioned the 1968 model Allis Chalmers D21 tractor with 3,600 hours up for sale on a small auction in north-central Pennsylvania. A caller wondered what it was worth, and what it would possibly sell for. The D21 being somewhat of a rare model, I skimmed through our historical sale price data and made my best guess.
Wow, was I off.
The tractor sold for $19,000, much higher than I had guessed. The bidding started at $7,000 and didn't look back. The tractor had some recent work done to it, with 50 hours on it since a complete overhaul. It featured a very nice paint job.
I talked with the auctioneer, Bob Shaylor, after the sale. Bob said he got a number of calls after the sale from guys wondering what it sold for. One call was from a young farmer whose father was after him to figure out what their very nice condition AC D21 was worth. He was hoping it was worth $10,000.
Uh, yeah, I think it's safe to say it's worth at least $10,000 if it's in great shape.
That small auction in north-central Pennsylvania also featured a 1993 Freightliner FLD 120 truck with 142,000-plus miles.
Click here to download a PDF to see what it and 102 other FLD 120s have sold for at auctions around the country the past few years.
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To collect up to a final limit is not simply to own or to control the items one finds; it is to exercise control over existence itself through possessing every sample, every specimen, every instance of an unrepeatable and nowhere duplicated series.
—Roger Cardinal and John Elsner, The Cultures of Collecting
col·lec·ta·ne·a 1.) Passages, remarks, etc., collected from various sources; (as collect. sing.) a collection of passages, a miscellany. 2.) A selection of passages from one or more authors; an anthology.
This exhibition illuminates the broader social history of the Hood by exploring the diverse "authors" of its collection history and will look at how the museum's collection has been developed and (re)defined over time. Uniting traditional with contemporary and Western with non-Western art via pottery, sculpture, utilitarian objects, textiles, photographs, and prints, col·lec·ta·ne·a explores different collecting practices and ideologies that reflect the museum's unique identity as a hunter and gatherer of material culture. Topics addressed in the exhibition include the role of private collectors in developing museum collections; the continuation of older cultural traditions in newer forms; the relation between museum collections and teaching at Dartmouth; changing perspectives of "art" versus "artifact"; the value of "hybridized" art versus "authentic" art; and the continued development of the Hood's collections in new and interesting ways.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and supported in part by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Its presentation at the Hood Museum of Art is generously supported by the Bernard R. Siskind 1955 Fund and the Hansen Family Fund.
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The Mentalist Season 4 Episode 17
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-Matilda Cruz is killed by someone she met in a Shakespearean chat room. Jane believes Gary, her arrogant boss who claims to know no Shakespeare is the killer.
-FBI Agent Susan Darcy requests Jane's help her on a murder case. She claims the Lt. Governor specifically asked for Jane.
-The murder victim, Kati Bauer is found stabbed to death in a park. Her lover, James is found in the woods with a knife and covered with her blood. James blacked out and doesn't remember what happened.
-Jane doesn't believe James is guilty. He plants the thought that the police need DNA evidence to convict James with Kati's husband and in laws. Later, the in laws are caught trying to plant hairs from Kati's brush. They drugged the wine Kati brought with her to meet James, then the mother-in-law stabbed her to death and planted the knife on James.
-Jane tells Darcy he doesn't believe the Lt. Governer asked for him. She admits she thinks Jane is a Red John disciple. Jane scoffs at the thought but later Darcy goes to Wainwright to warn him that the FBI is investigating Patrick Jane.
-Now back at the CBI, Jane trips up Gary into admitting he knows Shakespeare after swearing he didn't. The CBI haul him back in for questioning.
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I love this show, yeah Patty, I know where you are coming from. I show my age too sometimes, Simon Baker is a good actor...I look for him on other things sometimes too. Wish I could do the things he does and 'Mentalist'people.
Who played the mother? Was it Sissy Spacek?
Oh yes perry king !!! The beard threw me
Tha father is Bruce boxlietner and I'm thinking the guy at podium is Craig Schaffer from some kind of wonderful or Stephen dorpff
I think the actor at the podium is Craig Sheffer... A River Runs Through It, That Was Then This is Now (I'm showing my age)...
Guy at podium is Craig Sheffer. Father is Perry King
is the father richard chamberlain
i think it good to watch and it keeps you thinking who done it.i have watch every serie from 1-3 its getting good about knowing red john will be caught in the end.it is funny sometimes and serious too.
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"Downsized" Daughters
WE tv's critically-acclaimed original series, " Downsized," looks at what happens when a large blended family's life is turned upside down by financial disaster. Season one showcased the Bruce family in the midst of a financial nightmare as they watched their extravagant lifestyle of vacations, expensive dinners and a flush savings account evaporate, as their free spending ways collided with the economic reality of the recession. The family moved to a smaller home, signed up for food stamps, and traded in the kids' coveted sporting activities for jobs.
Season Two revisits the family as they continue to dig their way out of debt. Despite small strides toward success, the Bruces are hit with unforeseen events that set them on a course toward further financial ruin, leaving viewers to question - is it bad luck or just bad choices?
Two of their daughters, Heather Bruce and Bailey Rumsey, joined us to talk about the lessons their family has learned that could help others struggling financially.
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Former Newcomb Hospital in Vineland. / Staff photo/Craig Matthews
VINELAND — Parts of the original, 91-year-old Newcomb Hospital will be incorporated into two new buildings to be constructed in its place early next year.
The Planning Board Wednesday night approved an application by the Newcomb Medical Alliance to construct two new three-story structures at the Howard Street location, turning the property into a multi-complex that would serve the areas need for assisted and independent living care.
After being pressured by the board to preserve a historical element of the property, an attorney on behalf of developer The Danza Group presented a revised site plan that included a selective demolition of the original 1922 hospital building.
Parts of the building, including the original cast stone facade and its original bricks, would be used in the creation of the entrance way of the new assisted-living complex, attorney Michael Gruccio attested.
The building would also contain an outdoor porch assembled with a preserved railing from the hospital, which closed in 2004.
Gruccio brought three consultants to the board meeting to lend their professional testimony to the project.
What were taking down is the old historical building, Bill Petrauskas, an architect involved with the design, said. But the idea is to get as much of it as back as possible.
Petrauskas also testified that maintaining the original burial site for Leverett Newcomb, the former hospitals original benefactor, meets the boards requirement to maintain historical aspects.
Newcombs ashes were buried in an urn at the site in 1926. Petrauskas said that site will be preserved in a hard-stone plaza area in a courtyard between the two new facilities.
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Board member John Casadia stated his objections early in the public hearing to tearing the building down.
The building was built in 1922 its historical and youre going to demolish it? OK, he said.
Casadia, along with board member David Mazur, eventually voted against approving the project, both objecting to the demolition of the original wing of the building.
The board voted 7-2 to approve the project.
Board members were not the only ones upset with the planned demolition.
Patricia Knobloch, who lives down the road from the site on Howard Street, said in the public portion of the meeting that while she was excited to see the years-in-the-making project finally progress, she was upset to see that the original building would be demolished.
I think its a shame we have to knock down the nicest building on that lot, Knobloch said. Its been a very long process, and I hope the project can move forward, but saving some of the bricks does not do enough to honor what that facility meant to the city of Vineland.
Board chairman David Manders Jr. later agreed with Knobloch.
I think its a shame we throw away old buildings so easily, not just in Vineland but all over the nation, Manders said.
However, he continued, theres a lot more pluses than minuses in this application.
Board member Maria Perez, who voted for the project, said she felt the areas need for assisted living was met with the prospective complex.
I think its needed in this city, Perez said. Theres too many elderly people waiting years and years to get subsidized housing. Im all for it.
Other topics in the meeting included discussions of the route for delivery trucks dropping off groceries and food to the new assisted living building, as well as parking for the site and a commitment from the facilitys developers to work with the city to provide affordable housing in its new independent building.
The development plan ultimately calls for one 46,748-square-foot building consisting of 69 rooms and a 1,937-square-foot canopy that would serve as an assisted-living facility.
A proposed second building would serve as an independent-living facility, which would serve residents who dont completely require the level of assisted living of a nursing home but still need some help.
At 60,555 square feet, that building would contain 74 units 62 of them being one bedroom, and 12 containing two bedrooms along with a 2,074-square-foot canopy.
In the project, which will begin construction in 120 days, according to developer Tony Danza, the two new three-story buildings will join four other buildings on the site to make up the massive new complex.
Presently at the site, there are two lots that share five buildings that once made up the Newcomb Hospital, which was for decades the countys major medical facility.
The Danza Group purchased the hospital site in 2009 from the city for $6 million. The redevelopment cost is now about $30 million, Danza said.
The remaining two wings of the former hospital will not be demolished, according Gruccio.
One of the four remaining properties is currently operated by Inspira Health Network and will not be utilized in the newer facility.


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Book Signing with Carla Hall: Meet-and-greet celebrity chef Carla Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Wegmans, 724 Route 202 in Bridgewater. Hall is best known for her appearance on Bravo's "Top Chef" and ABC's "The Chew." She will sign copies of her latest cookbook, "Carla's Comfort Foods," which is on sale at Wegmans for $23.99. Pick up a free ticket at any Wegmans service desk to reserve a space. A copy of the book must be purchased at Wegmans to attend. Books may be purchased in advance or on the day of the event. For information, call 908-243-9600.
Fords Middle School Carnival: Enjoy the return of spring at the Fords Middle School Carnival, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Fords Middle School, 100 Fanning St. in Fords. The carnival features inflatable rides and slides, bouncy boxing and jousting, a mechanical bull, a rock wall, carnival games and prizes. There will be classic carnival foods such as snow cones, hot dogs, popcorn, nachos and soft pretzels for purchase. The gift auction offers a chance to win themed baskets fully stocked with gift cards and treasures. All-day ride bracelet including admission: $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Pre-sale forms are available at Fords Middle School. Admission without bracelet: $3 per person. For information, call 732-596-4200.
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Politics of Khuzestan Province
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This article focuses on the politics of Khuzestan Province, a petroleum-rich and ethnically diverse province of southwestern Iran.
- 1 Background
- 2 Prominent Khuzestani politicians
- 3 Local grievances
- 4 Foreign influence
- 5 Arab politics and separatism
- 6 Media
- 7 Election results
- 8 See also
- 9 References
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Khuzestan is inhabited by many different ethnic groups,[1] the population of Khuzestan consists of Lurs (including Bakhtiari people), Iranian Arabs, Qashqai people, Afshar tribe (subgroups of Azeris), indigenous Persians and Armenians.[1] Half of Khuzestan is mostly inhabited by Arabs, the other half of Khuzestan is mostly inhabited by Luri people.[2] Khuzestan's ethnic diversity has a bearing on Khuzestan's electoral politics, with ethnic minority rights playing a significant role in the province's political culture. The province's geographical location bordering Iraq and its oil resources also make it a politically sensitive region, particularly given its history of foreign intervention, notably the Iraqi invasion of 1980. At the same time, there are ethnic grievances among the province's population, mostly from some Arab groups.
Some ethnic groups complain over the distribution of the revenue generated by oil resources with claims that the central government is failing to invest profits from the oil industry in employment generation, post-war reconstruction and welfare projects. Low human development indicators among local Khuzestanis are contrasted with the wealth generation of the local oil industry. Minority rights are frequently identified with strategic concerns, with ethnic unrest perceived by the Iranian government as being generated by foreign governments to undermine the country's oil industry and its internal stability. The politics of Khuzestan therefore have international significance and go beyond the realm of electoral politics.
According to Jane's Information Group, "Most Iranian Arabs seek their constitutionally guaranteed rights and do not have a separatist agenda ... While it may be true that some Arab activists are separatists, most see themselves as Iranians first and declare their commitment to the state's territorial integrity."[3]
Prominent Khuzestani politicians[edit]
Khuzestan has produced many prominent politicians. Iran's former Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Reza Eskandari, Mohsen Rezaee (secretary of Iran's powerful Expediency Discernment Council) and some parliamentary committee chairs have been from Khuzestan.
Ali Shamkhani, an Arab from Ahvaz, held Iran's sensitive top military post of Minister of Defense from 1997 to 2005, in President Khatami's government.
The Iraqi-born Ayatollah Mohsen Araki served as a Khuzestan representative in the Assembly of Experts, was the personal representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) in London and headed the Islamic Centre of England until 2004.
Local grievances[edit]
Endemic poverty in Khuzestan is contrasted with the wealth generated by the province, particularly from oil, petrochemicals and agriculture. This poverty, however, is a fact of life throughout Iran for all ethnic groups.
Khuzestan is inhabited by many different ethnic groups,[1] the population of Khuzestan consists of Lurs (including Bakhtiari people), Iranian Arabs, Qashqai people, Afshar tribe, indigenous Persians and Armenians.[1] Half of Khuzestan is inhabited by Arabs, the other half of Khuzestan is inhabited by Luri people.[2] Iranian Arabs in particular have experienced racial discrimination. Articles 15, 19 and 48 of the Iranian Constitution establish the basis for ethnic, linguistic and cultural minority rights in the fields of education, employment and the distribution of resources. However, human rights groups have claimed that Iranian minorities often face discrimination and estrictions on social, cultural, linguistic and religious freedoms (see Ethnic minorities in Iran). Minority issues are therefore a major feature of political debate in Khuzestan.
Human rights[edit]
Khuzestan has been a focus of criticism by human rights groups. Amnesty International routinely raises human rights concerns relating to Khuzestan's Arabs through linking with separatists websites who provide information, in particular the arrest and detention of political activists, torture and executions. While Khuzestan is not unique in terms of its human rights record, Amnesty notes that often these abuses are related to institutional discrimination. In its report entitled New government fails to address dire human rights situation published in February 2006, Amnesty states:
Even where the majority of the local population is Arab, schools are reportedly not allowed to teach through the medium of Arabic; illiteracy rates are reportedly high, especially among Iranian Arab women in rural areas ... land expropriation by the Iranian authorities is reportedly so widespread that it appears to amount to a policy aimed at dispossessing Arabs of their traditional lands. This is apparently part of a strategy aimed at the forcible relocation of Arabs to other areas while facilitating the transfer of non-Arabs into Khuzestan and is linked to economic policies such as zero interest loans which are not available to local Arabs.— [4]
In 1997, Human Rights Watch reported that "Iranian Arabs, an ethnic minority centered in southwest Iran, have cited significant restrictions on their language and culture, and on their right to participate effectively in decisions affecting the area in which they live."[5] According to another report in the same year, "Arabic is not taught in elementary schools, and the Arabic teaching in secondary schools focuses exclusively on religious texts. The governor of Khuzestan is not an Arab" while "Arabs make up 35-45 percent of the three million inhabitants of Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran."[6] In 2005, separatist groups claimed that there was "inadequate attention to their culture and language by state media, facing discrimination in getting jobs, unfair distribution of Khuzestan's oil wealth."
Joe Stork, the director of HRW's Middle East division, said: "The Iranian authorities have again displayed their readiness to silence those who denounce human rights violations. We have serious allegations the government used excessive lethal force, arbitrary arrests and torture in Khuzistan."[7]
The claims made by human rights groups have been strongly contested by the Iranian government, which claims that efforts to disproportionately accentuate the problems in Khuzestan are being led by foreign media or political groups, particularly those based in the UK.[8] The governor's office of Khuzestan claims the provincial GDP to rank 3rd in the nation, yet to what extent the local population benefits from these fruits remains unclear.
It is also contended[weasel words] that the rights of Iranian groups of Khuzestan, such as the nomadic Bakhtiari and Lur tribes, are often overlooked due to the publicity surrounding Khuzestani Arabs.
Alleged forced displacement[edit]
The problem was highlighted by the UN Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, following a visit to Khuzestan in July 2005. He claimed that industrial and agricultural development projects had displaced Arabs from their land, who received compensation that amounted to a fraction of the market value. He also claimed that new housing developments, such as the one new town in Shirinshah, were being created for non-Arab workers brought in from Yazd, while local people continued to suffer joblessness and poor housing.
Kothari also drew attention to the situation facing the Laks, who are an Iranian people indigenous to Khuzestan. He called them "... a very deprived group ... living in conditions of high density, again without access to adequate sanitation and water. And just nearby, you see other neighbourhoods with much better services."
Kothari's description of the position of the Laks suggests that economic marginalisation in Khuzestan is not only experienced by Khuzestani Arabs, but also other ethnic groups who are indigenous to the area.
Kothari's findings led to condemnation of forced displacement of Khuzestani Arabs in a European Parliament resolution, passed in October 2005. The resolution, sponsored by all the European Parliament's political groups,
condemns the treatment of minorities such as ... the inhabitants of the area around Ahwaz city, the provincial capital of the ethnic Arab dominated Khuzestan province, who are being displaced from their villages according to statements by Miloon Kothari, UN Rapporteur on Adequate Housing.— [9]
The European Parliament unanimously passed a resolution in November 2006 which repeated its condemnation of forced displacement in Khuzestan, based on Kothari's findings.[10]
Religious minorities[edit]
Although the majority of the population of Khuzestan is Shia, there are other religious groups in the province. The 5-10,000 Mandeans, a unique religious group that is neither Muslim nor Christian, living in Khuzestan claim to have second-class status due to both Iranisation and Persianisation. Their places of worship have reportedly been closed down and their cemeteries. However, they lack any support group to lobby on their behalf and their plight is often overlooked by human rights organisations. Their small numbers also mean they are politically marginalised.[11]
Foreign influence[edit]
Some Iranian opposition parties operating abroad launched a campaign to stop the American Enterprise Institute hosting a conference entitled "The Unknown Iran: Another Case for Federalism?" in October 2005.[12] A petition to stop the event attracted more than 1,000 signatures from members of the Iranian diaspora.[citation needed] Some added that the meeting indicated a new alliance between US neo-conservatives and Iranian separatists, ahead of a possible invasion of Iran by the US and its allies. Dr Ali Al-Taie, a member of the Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz which upholds a federalist agenda for Iran, said at the debate: "When it comes to ethnic rights, Persian opposition groups are on the same side as the terrorist Islamic Republic. If this continues, we will see the Balkanization of Iran." But he added that: "Despite the long history of persecution, the Arabs of Khuzestan/al-Ahwaz are Iranian. There will never be, nor should there be, disintegration or separatism in Iran. Rather, all Iranian people, regardless of their ethnic background, should live under a pluralistic, tolerant, and federal society."[13]
Arab politics and separatism [edit]
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Iranian Khuzestan has been a troublesome province of Iran since the ascent of the Pahlavi rule in the 1920s. In the two decades prior to 1925, although nominally part of Persian territory, the western area functioned for many years effectively as an autonomous emirate known as "Arabistan" or the "Emirate of Muhammerah" (the eastern part of the province was governed by Bakhtiari Khans). The emirate was dissolved by Reza Shah government in 1925, along with other autonomous regions of Persia, in a bid to centralize the state. In response Sheikh Khaz'al of Muhammerah initiated a rebellion, which was quickly crushed by the newly installed Pahlavy dynasty with minimal casualties. A low level conflict between the central Iranian government and the Arab nationalists of the province continued since.
The name Khuzistan came to be applied once again to the entire territory by 1936.[14] Sporadic Arab insurgency in Khuzestan continued through the 1930s and emerged again in 1950s, but reduced in the final decade of Pahlavi rule (1970s).
With the change of regime, the 1979 Khuzestan uprising became one of the nationwide uprisings, which erupted in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. The unrest was fed by Arab demands for autonomy.[15] The Arab uprising was effectively quelled by Iranian security forces, resulting in more than a hundred people on both sides killed combined.[15]
There are a number of Iranian Arab political parties operating in exile, but no known political party representing other ethnic groups in Iranian Khuzestan. The ideology of Arab parties varies, although most are secular in their political outlook. Ideology, tactics, tribal loyalties and personal ambition have prevented these parties from forming a united front. Some advocate armed resistance, while others believe in non-violent action. Most refer to the entire province of Khuzestan as al-Ahwaz (which only refers to a region in the southwest portion) or Arabistan, although some define Arabistan as also including territory along the Persian Gulf coast to the Strait of Hormuz. Whether these views are popular or even accepted amongst most Iranian Arabs is uncertain. Khuzestan's deputy governor Rahim Fazilatpur claimed that the Arab Martyrs of Khuzestan, the Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front (AADPF) and the Ahwaz Arab Renaissance Party (AARP) were given support by the British and US governments to carry out the bomb attacks of June 2005.
The Arab political parties are divided into two camps: those seeking a separate state and those seeking regional autonomy within a federal Iran. Critics of these parties claim that separatism has no support among Arabs, pointing to the decision by many Iranian Arabs to defend Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. The support shown by Iranian Arabs may have been a result of the knowledge of Shiite Muslims in Saddam's Iraq. They also contend that separatism has always been instigated by foreign governments – particularly the British – to weaken Iran in order to control the country's natural resources and extend their influence over the Middle East.[16] Many make no distinction between separatists and federalists, claiming that those seeking federalism have a separatist agenda and that the devolution of power to regional ethnic groups would lead to the break-up of Iran.
Islamic Reconciliation Party[edit]
The Islamic Reconciliation Party (Hezb al-Wefagh), also known as the Reconciliation Committee (Lejnat al-Wefagh), was the only known Arab group to have been tolerated by the Iranian government. Jasem Shadidzadeh Al-Tamimi was the party's secretary general. He was a member of the Sixth Majlis (2000–04), representing Ahwaz as a member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, but was barred from standing for election in 2004. Following the unrest in Khuzestan in April 2005, Al-Tamimi wrote to the then President Khotami calling on him to remove the "wall of mistrust between the proud Iranian ethnicities, so that the infected wounds of the Arab people of Ahwaz may heal." He added that "our wishful thinking about reforms in Arab affairs by the Reformists has been only a mirage", indicating that he no longer had faith in the Participation Front. He listed a number of grievances, including:
- violence against Arab demonstrators by security forces
- land confiscation
- the destruction of Arab residential compounds
- the high level of drug abuse among Iranian Arabs, which he claims is rooted in poverty
- racial discrimination and the official view of Arabs as a security threat
- the government's failure to issue activity permits for the Islamic Wefagh Party and affiliated non-governmental organisations
He indicates that he opposes separatism and the ideology of "extreme Persian nationalism" he associates with the previous monarchist government. The Islamic Wefagh Party claims to have an "extensive" base of support in Khuzestan. The group was banned in November 2006 and labelled a "subversive organisation trying to unseat the current system by spreading racial hatred and provoking ethnic clashes." At the same time, three of its leading members were arrested.
Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front[edit]
The Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front (AADPF) is based in London and is led by Mahmud Ahmad Al-Ahwazi, aka Abu Bashar. The group calls for human rights and democracy for Iranian Arabs and believes that Al-Ahwaz was occupied by Iran in 1925. The ADPF has a number of activists in Iranian custody. Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Minister of Defense and Logistic Affairs of the Armed Forces, accused Mahmud Ahmad Al-Ahwazi of involvement in the April 2005 unrest, while simultaneously claiming that his group had "zero popularity" amongst Arabs in Khuzestan. The ADPF has also claimed it led what it calls an "intifada" in Khuzestan. Shamkhani also claimed that Mahmud Ahmad Al-Ahwazi was a former member of the SAVAK (the Shah's secret police) before the revolution who defected to Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. It is not known how much, if any, of Shamkhani's claims are true.
Ahwaz Arab Renaissance Party[edit]
The AARP is another separatist group advocating armed resistance to the Iranian government. It was originally set up in the 1990s by the Syrian government, but has since moved its leadership to Canada. In April 2005, it claimed on a pro-Iraqi Ba'athist website that it had exploded a bomb on the Ahwaz-Tehran pipeline. It also claimed responsibility for the June 2005 bombings in Ahwaz City. Two other groups also separately claimed responsibility for the attacks. It is led by Sabah al-Musawi, a Canadian resident.
Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz[edit]
The Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz (DSPA), based in the US and the UK,claiming to represent the Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan. The DSPA's ideology is different from the separatists in that it explicitly rejects the use of violence[citation needed] and advocates what it calls "internal self-determination". It also limits its territorial focus on Khuzestan, making no stand on Arab-populated living outside the province.
The DSPA claims that Khuzestan has a historical Arab identity and this means that the province should be given autonomy within a federal political system, but it says it respects Iran's territorial integrity. To achieve its ends, it has formed a coalition with like-minded parties representing Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, Turkmen, Bakhtiaris and Lurs, some of which have been in armed conflict with the Iranian state. Formed in London in March 2005, the Congress of Iranian Nationalities for a Federal Iran (CINFI) brought together the DSPA, the Baluchistan United Front, Federal Democratic Movement of Azarbaijan, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Baluchistan People's Party, Organization for Defense of the Rights of Turkmen People and Komalah, a militant Kurdish opposition party.
Ahwaz Liberation Organisation[edit]
The Ahwaz Liberation Organisation (ALO), based in Maastricht in the Netherlands, was formed out of the remnants of three Iraqi-backed groups – the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan (DRFLA), People's Front for Liberation of Arabistan (PFLA) and the Arab Front for the Liberation of Al-Ahwaz (AFLA). It is a secular pan-Arabist group seeking independence from Iran. The DRFLA was the most notorious, having been sponsored by Saddam Hussein.[17]
It was founded after the newly installed Islamic government fired on Arab demonstrators in Khorramshahr, killing many of them. The DRFLA was behind the May 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege in London, taking a number of hostages in an effort to draw attention to its demands for the self-determination of the Arab population of Khuzestan. The British Special Air Service (SAS) stormed the building and freed the hostages.Fowzi Badavi Nejad,the only survivor of that group,had survived only because some of the embassy hostages had put themselves between him and the SAS soldiers.Some evidences indicated the Iraqi intelligence services had duped Nejad into taking part in the siege. The evidence showed that once he knew the true nature of the group's plans, he only continued because he feared that his family, who had fled from Iran to Iraq, would suffer if he tried to withdraw the last hostage.[18]
The ALO's constituent groups operated as a mercenary force on behalf of Saddam's regime during the Iran–Iraq War, carrying out assassinations and attacking oil facilities. Bomb attacks on oil and power facilities have continued since the end of the Iraq War, although the ALO has not formally claimed responsibility. The ALO's leader, the self-styled "President of Al-Ahwaz" Faleh Abdallah Al-Mansouri, was living in exile in the Netherlands since 1989, shortly after the end of the Iran–Iraq War, gaining Dutch nationality. He declared himself to be the "President" of Al-Ahwaz, which he claims extends beyond Khuzestan, including much of the coast of Iran. However, during a visit to Syria in May 2006, he was arrested in Syria in May 2006 along with Iranian Arabs who were registered as refugees by the UNHCR.[19] Although the Iranian government did not name the men who were taken into custody, officials said that the men arrested in Syria were Salafists who they accused of involvement in bomb attacks. However, the ALO's website makes no indication that it is motivated by a religious cause, but rather has stayed within the ideology of secular Arab nationalism.
The editor of Ahvaz's Persian language Hamsayeha newspaper, Mohammad Hezbawi (also known as Hezbaee Zadeh), was arrested in September 2005 but later released.[20] The newspaper was banned by the Justice Department in February 2006 under clauses four and five of Article 6 of Iran's Press law.[21]
Television broadcasting in Arabic language in Khuzestan is state-owned (e.g. Al Alam) as is the case in other parts of the country, but many inhabitants also watch foreign Arabic language satellite channels. The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel was blamed by the Iranian government for its coverage of anti-government protests by Arabs in April 2005. It was also angered by Al-Jazeera's interview with a member of the separatist Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front (ADPF) who spoke of "80 years of Iranian occupation in Khuzestan". The International Federation of Journalists claimed the government was scapegoating the media for civil unrest in the province.[22]
In recent years, Iranian Arab groups have attempted to broadcast to Khuzestan. However, their attempts have been frustrated partly due to satellite dish confiscation in Khuzestan. Different political factions have run short weekly or daily television broadcasts to Iran, but these have closed down.
Election results[edit]
Khuzestan has tended to elect reformists to power, particularly those campaigning on a pro-minorities platform. However, bomb attacks in the region have led to a polarisation of opinion, with some Khuzestan representatives such as Ahwaz City representative Nasser Soudani calling for hardline measures against Arab dissent, which the government believes is being encouraged by British spies.[23]
Presidential elections[edit]
|Votes Khuzestan
|% of votes Khuzestan
|Votes Nationally
|% of votes nationally
|Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
|Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|Mehdi Karroubi
|Mostafa Moeen
|Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
|Ali Larijani
|Mohsen Mehralizadeh
|Total (national turnout 62.66%, Khuzestan turnout 56%)
In the first round of the presidential election, Khuzestani voters favoured reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who is a strong critic of the Guardian Council, who only achieved third place nationally. Karroubi's share of the vote in Khuzestan was twice the national average. Former president Rafsanjani came second in Khuzestan, although he achieved the highest number of votes nationally, followed by conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was the overall winner of the second round of the presidential election.
Elections to Parliament[edit]
Shabib Jouijari won a by-election for the Ahvaz parliamentary seat in December 2006, with 17.9% of the 406,808 votes cast.
Elections to the Assembly of Experts[edit]
Khuzestan has six directly elected representatives in the 86-member Assembly of Experts, which is normally elected every eight years and has the power the select and supervise the Supreme Leader. The most recent elections were held in December 2006, with members appointed for 10-year terms
Summary of the December 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election results for Khuzestan province[25]
|% of electorate
|Sayad Mohammad Ali Mosawi*
|Abbas Ka'abi Nasab*
|Sayad Ali Shafiee*
|Ali Falahian*
|Mohammed Hussein Ahmadi
|Mohsen Haydari al-Kasiri
|Total (Khuzestan turnout 54%)
|Note: percentages do not add up to 100% as voters are given more than one vote
|* = members who have been re-elected
Municipal elections[edit]
|Dariush Mombaini
|Arezo Bababi
|Qasem Jamadi
|Sayed Mehdi Albu Shokeh
|Sayed Reza Falahi Moghadam
|Skander Zanganeh
|Ramadan Monjezi
|Sayed Mohammed Hassan Zadeh
|Gholam Reza Sabze Ali
|Total turn-out
The 2006 Ahwaz City elections were won by reformist and conservative candidates. The previous elections to the municipality were won by the Reconciliation Committee (Lejnat Al-Wefaq), which won all but one of the seats. It appealed to the city's Arab population and their grievances. However, it was barred from registering and was outlawed by the government, which alleged that it was a threat to national security. Candidates for the 2006 elections were subject to a heavy vetting procedure before they were allowed to stand.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d Province of Khuzestan
- ^ a b Languages of Khuzestan
- ^ "Anger among Iran's Arabs". Janes Information Group. Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Iran: New government fails to address dire human rights situation". Amnesty International. 2006-02-16. Archived from the original on 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2009-04-11.[dead link]
- ^ "Human Rights Watch Urges Government to End Persecution and Official Discrimination Against Religious and Ethnic Minorities". Human Rights Watch. 1997-09-24. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "ETHNIC MINORITIES". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Iran: Reports of Ethnic Violence Suppressed". Human Rights Watch. 2005-05-09. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Britain-Iran Tensions Escalate Over Bombing Accusations". CNSNews.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "European Parliament resolution on Iran". European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "European Parliament resolution on Iran". European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ Julie A.J. Ebadirad. "Information on the Mandaeans in Iran in Regards to Human Rights" (PDF). ASUTA: The Journal for the Study and Research into the Mandaean Culture, Religion, and Language. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "The Unknown Iran: Another Case for Federalism?". American Enterprise Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "The Unknown Iran: Another Case for Federalism?". American Enterprise Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ Journal of Middle Eastern studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (August , 1993), pp. 541-543
- ^ a b Ward, p.231-4
- ^ Mahan Abedin and Kaveh Farrokh (2005-11-03). "British Arabism and the bombings in Iran". Asia Times. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ Martin Arostegui. Twilight Warriors: Inside the World's Special Forces,. p. 78. ISBN 0-312-30471-4.
- ^ James, Erwin (2006-05-25). "The last hostage". London: Guardian (UK). Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Syria: Fear of forcible return". Amnesty International. 2006-05-14. Archived from the original on 2006-12-02. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Iran: Incommunicado detention/Fear of torture or ill-treatment". Amnesty International. 2005-09-22. Retrieved 2009-04-11.[dead link]
- ^ "Press Board Ban Denounced". Iran Daily. 2006-03-05. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "IFJ Condemns Iranian Ban on Al-Jazeera as "Spiteful Act of Censorship"". International Federation of Journalists. 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Iran: Bombings In Southwest Blamed On Usual Suspect". Radio Free Europe. 2005-10-17. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Election results for Khuzestan". British Ahwazi Friendship Society. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "پورتال وزارت کشور – انتخابات خبرگان". MOI. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "پورتال وزارت کشور – انتخابات خبرگان". Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- Tarikh-e Pahnsad Saal-e Khuzestan (Five Hundred Year History of Khuzestan) by Ahmad Kasravi
- Jang-e Iran va Britannia dar Muhammereh (The Iran-British War in Muhammereh) by Ahmad Kasravi
- Tarikh-e Bist Saal-e Iran (Twenty Year History of Iran) by Hossein Maki (Tehran, 1945–47)
- Hayat-e Yahya (The Life of Yahya) by Yahya Dolatabadi (Tehran, 1948–52)
- Tarikh-e Ejtemai va Edari Doreieh Qajarieh (The Administrative and Social History of the Qajar Era) by Abdollah Mostofi (Tehran, 1945–49) ISBN 1-56859-041-5 (for the English translation)
- Mosha'sha'iyan, by Muhammad Ali Ranjbar. ISBN 964-329-068-9
External links[edit]
- Democracy, Ethnicity and Repression in Iran: The Plight of the Ahwazi Arabs – by Daniel Brett, Henry Jackson Society
- Domestic Threats to Iranian Stability: Khuzistan and Baluchistan by Michael Rubin, JCPA Jerusalem Issue Brief
- New government fails to address dire human rights situation – Amnesty International report[dead link]
- Election report from Khuzestan[dead link]
- Amnesty International Maastricht: "We want to see Al-Mansouri", by Danya Chaikel, Crossroads, 8 December 2006
- Khuzestan: The First Front in the War on Iran? by Zoltan Grossman
Arab political groups[edit]
- ALO "Ahwaz Liberation Organisation" – ARC "Al-Ahwaz Revolutionary Council"
- Ahwaz Studies Center
- British Ahwazi Friendship Society – Advocacy group for Iran's Arab minority
- Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz
- Ahwaz Media
- Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front
- Ahwazi Arab Renaissance Party (Hizb al-Nahda al-Arabi al-Ahwazi) (in Arabic)


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The Board of Water Supply wants a 70 percent increase over 5 years to keep pace with improvements
POSTED: 1:30 a.m. HST, Jul 21, 2011
LAST UPDATED: 1:33 a.m. HST, Jul 21, 2011
The monthly bill for a typical single-family home that uses 13,000 gallons of water would increase by $27.53, or 70 percent, by mid-2015 if the Honolulu Board of Water Supply gets its way.
On Wednesday, the city's water agency announced its proposal to raise rates by 9.65 percent in each of the next five fiscal years. The first increase would occur in January, when residents would pay an additional 27 cents for every 1,000 gallons of water used.
Here are the proposed water rates per 1,000 gallons:
Now: $2.79
Source:Honolulu Board of Water Supply
BE HEARD>> A public hearing on proposed water rates will be held at 2 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Board of Water Supply's board room at 630 S. Beretania St. Public comments are being accepted before that date as well.
"Deferring a rate increase will only result in higher costs down the road," said Kurt Tsue, spokesman for the board. "Our current water rate will not allow us to keep pace with the needed infrastructure improvements. Without a rate increase, our water system and facilities will continue to age, resulting in additional water disruptions."
The Board of Water Supply is a semi-autonomous, self-supporting city agency that has to raise its own operating revenue.
Duane Medeiros, who lives with his family in Aina Haina, said the increase along with the mounting costs of living will hurt his pocketbook further.
"It's hard to really determine who's at fault, but it's just poor management," he said. "They knew (the system) was aging."
The proposed increase will be up for a public hearing next month. The Board of Water Supply's board of directors will then decide on whether to approve the plan.
The board last raised rates in 2006, after approving a similar five-year rate schedule that ended last month. Before the 2006 increase, the last water rate increase had been in 1995.
With the new proposed rates, officials hope to gain an additional $203 million over five years for capital improvements. The agency has about $345 million worth of capital improvement projects in its queue, said acting board manager Dean Nakano.
Nakano said there has been a 40 percent increase in water main breaks in the past three years.
Out of almost 2,100 miles of pipeline across the island, about 47 percent are more than 40 years old, the board said.
"We have roughly 21,000 hydrants, 38,000 valves … all of which need to be repaired and maintained," Nakano said.
Aiea resident Reece Fuse said the financial burden of upgrading infrastructure should not be borne entirely by consumers.
"All I can say is, I better not hear of any more water main breaks or sewage spills four years from now" if the rates increase, Fuse said in an email to the Star-Advertiser.
"I am in awe of the Board of Water Supply's audacity to propose such a large rate increase over just 4 years during this tough times," Fuse wrote. "Daily expenses for Hawaii residents keep going up and wages are not. How is one to make ends meet when there seems to be no end to these rising costs?"
The board said its fixed operating costs, which include electricity, fuel and construction materials, have increased over the years while revenue has remained flat.
"Any rate increase we're facing is going to affect all of us. We're all consumers," Nakano said.
The current rate for 13,000 gallons of water per month is $39.19, including billing charges, a sum that would rise to $66.72 under the five-year rate schedule, an increase of 70 percent.
The agency's board of directors has the final say on the increase. City Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi said she has talked to the board about the increase.
"They said they're going to be very open and transparent, going to the various neighborhood boards," Kobayashi said. "When you look at it, it doesn't amount to that much. People spend more on bottled water I think."
But Kobayashi said what is more frightening is the water increases coupled with other hikes, including gas, sewage fees and electricity.
She suggested that to curb the water rate increases, the Board of Water Supply move out of its aging Beretania Street location and lease the land for other uses. The parking area could be used for the Queen's Medical Center, she said.
"They don't have to keep going to the ratepayer," Kobayashi said.


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We're still in the dark over high-speed rail
Another day, another voice criticising the government's plans for high-speed rail. This time it's the National Audit Office, which argues the business case and the strategic reasons for developing HS2 haven't been made clear enough.
Yesterday's report concluded that the Department for Transport has put a high emphasis on the journey-time savings without clearly showing how this will benefit the economy, particularly outside of London.
The NAO also says it isn't clear whether the business case presented so far includes the second phase of the scheme connecting Birmingham with Manchester and Leeds, which has a stronger but less certain economic case because designs are less well developed.
You don't need to convince The Engineer that the plans for HS2 and the reasons for building it haven't been laid out clearly enough – we've been saying so for a year. The NAO report really just underlines the point that what's needed is more information.
Despite presenting itself in a defensive way (such is politics), the government in a sense agrees with this point. Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin released a statement saying the NAO's argument 'depends too much on out of date analysis and does not give due weight to the good progress that has been made since last year'.
The DfT told The Engineer a more advanced business case was already underway and would be finalised later this year. And it claimed the NAO had largely overlooked the case for the second phase of the project (it seems like everyone's doing this).
In response, the NAO said its report was based on the latest available data, and at this point the whole thing threatened to descend into political squabbling.
The difficulty is that a project as huge, costly and time-consuming as HS2 is very difficult to effectively analyse. The latest consultations on the scheme will likely conclude before we're able to see the latest data – which might help convince people of HS2's benefits – but even once we have it, how much faith can we really place in it?
Take the argument that the construction of a high-speed rail network will reduce carbon emissions by encouraging people to take the train rather than fly or drive. As the IET's transport policy adviser, Chris Richards, pointed out to me (and, indeed, people have been saying for years), it's not actually clear high-speed rail travel would make substantial carbon savings.
Even if we shift to low-carbon electricity generation, HS2 trains will need much more energy than current ones to reach their high speeds. Plus, we don't even know HS2 will encourage a significant number of people to drive or fly less given how much more expensive train travel already is and our inability to reliably predict future oil prices.
Similarly with the business case, conflicting information abounds on whether effectively bringing Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London closer together will help regenerate the North of England or suck more wealth and talent into the South, pulling investment away from smaller towns in the process.
Chris Richards, who added that the IET has long been highlighting the flaws in the government's analysis, said the new report raised memories of a previous NAO study of HS1 (the Channel Tunnel rail link).
'The original business case for HS1 included things like journey time savings but the report found the project cost exceeded the value of these time savings. Unfortunately for HS2, they've used exactly the same rationale. In 2026 we could suddenly turn around and find the project costs completely outweigh the benefits.'
The thing is we don't now see HS1 as having been a big waste of money. Even if the line hasn't lived up to all its expectations, we generally view the benefits of a direct high-speed connection to Europe as worthwhile.
So perhaps we need to start stripping away the tangential arguments and looking simply at what is the best way to match rail capacity to demand. We need to see HS2 as what it is: not a way to shave 20 minutes off a trip from London to Birmingham or a carbon-cutting measure but an attempt to improve the wider rail network and inject some international prestige into our infrastructure.
Many people, including the NAO, say the arguments for alternative options (another upgrade of the West Coast Mainline, for example) haven't been properly explored. Engineers at the IET, IMechE and other organisations disagree. Ultimately it becomes a political decision based on how much the British public and business community want a big upgrade of the railways at a cost of £30bn.
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Terence Mair and Jim White are quite right. May I add that it only needs a few corporate decisions in mainland Europe and London could be relegated to the backwater of the financial world. That would scupper once and for all the desire to go there.
A fair chunk of the infrastructure cost could be available if the MoD shut down Vickers in Barrow and put the money to use for the British good.
It is sad to see a nation which pioneered trains and built them worldwide now struggling to copy the Japanese
As already mentioned it is better to examine alternative transport. It would also be quicker. AGV's could be on the market quite soon if HMG; Branson etc were sidelined.
Another point regarding the design is that it is driven by the 'business case'. If the project is now deemed 'strategic national interest' (and let's face it the only money ever being made was in developments around stations) then 400kph can become the standard 300kph and the line can dodge a few ancient woods or even follow the M40 or M1
Terence Mair's proposal should be given a thorough evaluation; perhaps a few percent of the money spent on HS2 would be sufficient to make a case for parliament! His argument is very persuasive to a non-railway engineer. In comparison to a road, most of the time any section of track is not being used - a gross underutilisation of a vast national asset. Light trains, using appropriate technology from the car, bus, aviation & mobile communication industries, could increase the utilisation considerably. Such trains could operate on more flexible schedules to suit demand. The need to change trains could be reduced significantly, or in many cases eliminated, inherently reducing the total time taken. From the point of view of a passenger, the service would also be inherently more reliable than a 2000 seater train. A broken down vehicle with only 8 or 12 passengers could be moved by the nearest vehicle available, all other vehicles would not be affected. The railway network could be opened up to genuinely competing operators. The method of operation could shift from what are in most case quasi monopolies to one focussed on customers. Taxpayers would not have to find £30BN, the operators would invest in relatively small & cheap vehicles which could be deployed & redeployed wherever the demand was greatest. It's time for the government to create the environment to let these ideas and business models compete instead of tying up customers & taxpayers with the consequences of mismanaged franchises.
The only money to be made with HS2 was always in the developments around the stations - taxpayer builds a nice railway, private interests make the profits, such is life. However the important thing to remember is that the design of this railway has been driven by the (bogus) business case, hence we get 400kph, minimal stations, unachievable tph. If despite all the evidence that we should spend the money on something else the government insists on having the big shiny thing, they should at least reappraise this back to the 300kph so that it can follow a transport corridor and dodge around the ancient woods.
I agree some of the comments here which indicate new technology is literally around the corner and this new line could be as relevant as a canal in 50 years time, however we are not Clairvoyant! It is clear to me the key criteria British Railways fall behind on (besides the absolutely shocking lack of responsibility shown by rail workers and contractors for basic housekeeping) is our inability to move ISO 6346 standard Intermodal containers due to platform width and bridge height restrictions. This has hamstrung British exports since the '60s (around the time the Beeching report shut all important branch lines instead of reversing state ownership). We need fast, links between our major hubs for exporting goods. HS2 is needed and I'm afraid the NIMBYs will have to make a sacrifice for the success of our country.
Terence, it is obvious that no one has told you about the unions. We all know that trains could be split up into little units and run and two, three, four times the frequency if there were no drivers and also that driverless technology is well established, tried and tested in other countries. Train frequency is very important in overall journey times. I saw one of the railways programmes recently and noted with no surprise that the drivers are laughing their heads off.
If there is an economic benefit wouldn't it be far better to start in the middle of the country and work out, to connect Glasgow or Edinburgh to Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham then continue to London as the later phase. Or perhaps we should all move to London then won't need any trains.
Anyone Intelligent would always have a 'B' Plan, which might be just upgrading the old line, or a New Motorway?
You state that "HS2 trains will need much more energy than current ones to reach their high speed" but total energy use is what matters. The X2000 tilting train set use 28% less energy per seat.km, while needing 32% less time despite an additional stop than conventional trains on the same Swedish line. In Spain, the Alvia and Talgo 200 increased average speed by 64% and 78% and reduced pantograph energy intake by 16 and 8% respectively when they switched from the old route to the new high speed one. Shorter use of auxiliaries such as air conditioning, less friction in curves and less braking on the new line more than compensated the aerodynamic drag. See "High speed, energy consumption and emissions" report on the UIC website.
Virgin's Pendolinos could run faster while saving energy by switching from the curvy and congested WCML to a dedicated high speed line. The engineering challenge with 400 km/h HS2 operations will be noise, track and wire damage instead of energy consumption.
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Anita Weston, 69, listens to speakers during Burlington High School's graduation ceremony Friday morning. Weston has been working for 20 years to receive her high school diploma. / ELLIOT deBRUYN/Free Press
Students followed many different paths to the commencement ceremony at Burlington High School, some more arduous than others. Anita Westons was unquestionably the longest.
She had to leave school at age 14, she said, so she could help her mother. She only spent six weeks in high school, but her educational career didnt end there.
Weston, 69, has spent the last 20 years studying with Vermont Adult Learning, hoping eventually to earn her degree. Friday, her labors were rewarded with a high school diploma. Hers was the first bestowed by superintendent Jeanne Collins in the schools annual exercises. Rolling up to the dais in a wheelchair, Weston got a warm burst of applause.
She was one of 295 graduates honored at the morning ceremony in the Burlington High School gym. After Weston, they filed across the dais in alphabetical order to receive their diplomas, and congratulations, from Collins and School Board Chairman Keith Pillsbury.
Celebration, reflection
The overall mood of the gathering was cheerful, celebratory.
Before the ceremony started, Cathy Cain sat in a first-row seat. Her son Austin, 18, would soon be filing in with other members of the Class of 2012.
Its exciting, she said. To see your son go from kindergarten all the way up. Hes an amazing kid.
Its hard to believe its already here, said Milford Knight, who sat in the bleachers with wife Laurie. Theyre parents of Brandon, 18. He enjoyed his four years here, Knight said. Im very proud.
Cormac Chesbrough, the first of two student speakers, extolled the school as one of acceptance and fairness.
I feel so lucky to have grown up in this wonderful town and to have gone to this wonderful school, he said.
He acknowledged that BHS had recently hit a few speed bumps an apparent reference to complaints and protests of refugee students but asserted that We have always been on the road to good, and added, It gets better.
Claude Mumbere, the second student speaker, expressed gratitude to his father, a writer who wound up in Burlington after having been driven into exile from the Congo. Mumbere urged his fellow graduates to thank their parents for their help.
Make sure you let them know how much they mean to you, he said.
Mumbere concluded with a recitation of Carl Sandburgs Chicago a reprise of his performances before City Council and at a national poetry-reading competition, in which he finished second.
More ways to measure success
Marcel Girouard, speaking for the faculty, recalled his experience teaching math to a group of Somali refugees six years ago. They began by learning to count to 10, and by years end many had progressed to knowing fractions and the use of geometric formulas.
Many of these students ended up graduating with algebra or even geometry within four years, Girouard said. Did they pass the NECAP standardized exams? Of course not. But was there significant academic growth in their time at BHS? Absolutely.
Grace Morse, the third and closing student speaker, urged her colleagues not to shy away from struggle.
Struggle is not a sign of failure, she said. It means youre fighting.
Outside, after the ceremony, Fardowsa Mohamed posed for photos. Her feeling?
Awesome, she said. After three years at BHS, she plans to attend Castleton State College.
Elsewhere in the throng, David K. Justice stood with his mother, Katrina Graham, and friends. Hed moved to Burlington from Brooklyn, N.Y., four years ago.
I did it, he exclaimed. Im proud of myself.
Im very proud of my son, Graham said.
Weston, for her part, was surrounded by a proud entourage that included family members Ricky and Pamela Weston, Kimberly Ploof and Kelly Larrabee.
Geometry was a little hard for me, she said, but the rest wasnt so bad.
She was recently was diagnosed with lung cancer and has begun radiation therapy. She remains optimistic. She turns 70 next month.
I enjoyed math and English, Weston said.
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Windows Phone 7 is expected to launch in October and will have some level of customization of the UI by carriers, but the company is imposing tight limits on carriers and hardware designers for what's possible for the actual interface, even if it will allow home screen ads. [via SeattlePI]


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|Kevin Durant
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|Awesome fast breaks
|The two best fastbreaking teams in the league both put up nominees for "Fast break oop of the night." The Heat's (above) included a Dwyane Wade no-look lob to a flying LeBron. The Thunder's featured a no-dribble break that went Durant-Westbrook-Durant for a soaring finish. Take your pick. Both were awesome.
|Steve Nash
|The ageless one piled up 17 assists to go with 13 points as the Suns took down Minnesota. Oh, and if that wasn't enough, how about eight rebounds too. I really don't know how Nash is doing it. At this point, if you told me he'd be averaging a double-double when he's 58, I'd believe you.
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|The Kings lost, but there were small flashes of brilliance from Jimmer. It's March, so it might be Jimmer Time. He scored only 11 points, but hit 3-of-4 from 3 and started to play with a little of that BYU swag that made him such a scoring machine.
|Dwight Howard
|Howard finished with 33 points on 20 shots, but was a non-factor as the Orlando offense sputtered to a halt late in the game. Howard only got a couple of baskets -- a lob, a putback dunk, another cutting dunk and a couple free throws. He wants to be a part of the late game offense, but it's really hard to see how he can be. The Thunder used Kendrick Perkins on Howard one-on-one in the post and Perkins basically stopped him.
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