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In most leagues, having a game stopped because the balls being used were inferior would be embarrassing enough.
In the independent North American League, that little episode over the weekend will hardly be noticed after a brawl Monday resulted in the Yuma (Ariz.) Scorpions -- managed by Jose Canseco -- forfeiting their game against the Chico (Calif.) Outlaws.
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And don't think this is a bunch of guys you've never heard of. Former Dodgers outfielder Mike Marshall, the Chico manager, came out of the fray shaken up, according to the Chico Enterprise Record after he was tackled and punched by 52-year-old former major league infielder Tony Phillips, the Yuma third baseman.
The trouble began with the Chico bench yelling at Phillips for calling time out while batting. Before the next half-inning, Phillips was at his defensive position and exchanged words with Marshall, who was in coaches box. As the two approached each other, Phillips tackled Marshall and got in a punch.
But Yuma general manager Jose Melendez told the Yuma Sun that Marshall swung at Phillips first and missed, "But Tony did not and it got pretty brutal from there."
Chico players began approaching the Yuma bench and, according to the Sun, Canseco attempted to act as a peacemaker.
KRCR-TV of Redding, Calif., reported Marshall is considering pursuing battery charges against Phillips.
After the resulting ejections, Yuma did not have enough players to field a full team and forfeited. The teams are scheduled to play three more games at Chico, beginning tonight.
"It's crazy," Melendez. "This summer sure has been a ride out there."
The entire league might say that.
The problem with the balls occurred when a pitcher for the Calgary Vipers complained to umpires during a game at the Lake County (Zion, Ill.) Fielders. The umpires agreed and suspended the game in the second inning.
Fielders owner Richard Ehrenreich told the Daily Herald the dispute was "childish nonsense." He said the balls were purchased at a local sporting goods store after the team did not order the league-mandated balls in bulk because of financial problems.
The Fielders also are involved in legal disputes over money the city says the team owes.
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Pansy had been leaning against the ivy-tangled wall for hours, wishing it would just pull her inside its leafy curtain and hide her. She closed her plain brown eyes and breathed in heavily. It was the very last day of school before holidays. Summer was almost there and the ivy smelled like sunlight, tangy nectar and buzzing insects. Pansy placed a long tendril of ivy around her neck and shoulders. The warm, natural arm of the ivy felt like home.
Students passed by occasionally, but she stayed unnoticed where she sat in the courtyard. Her legs were splayed out in front of her; one of her shoes was untied. She didnt care. All she wanted was for the year to be over. It was only a matter of finishing out this last day. One more stone-corridor day.
She had warned herself long ago, since nobody else took the time, that Draco was not a nice person. Not at all. There was an unforgiving malice in his pale eyes that ripped and tore at her like scissors to a butterfly. But Pansy wasnt a butterflyshe wasnt pretty enough. Her name meant flower, but she wasnt pretty enough.
At least that was what Draco kept insisting.
He had insisted in front of the rest of Slytherin that she was lucky to be a friend of the familys and that he would hardly give her the time of day otherwise, had he not his fathers best interests in mind. He had told her to go away; she was irritating him. And she had. She listened.
So there Pansy sat, feeling sorry for herself and unbuttoning her collar lower and lower to defy the burning heat. Or maybe she didnt want to escape it. Let it burn, let it distort, let it simmer on her flawed features. Sweat collected in the dip of her throat. Her heavy head leaned back, hair tangling in the ivy, becoming part of it.
And then along came Seamus Finnigan.
He strolled into the courtyard, whistling, his long gait and swinging arms catching her eye. Pansy backed further into the wall, wishing the ivy would just cover her completely. Maybe she would become a statue. She knew she would never be a marble Aphrodite, a Herabut at least that way she would never be studied closely. Hogwarts students didnt give second glances to the history around them: the statues, the paintings.
Seamus Finnigan, however, gave a second glance over his shoulder. And he saw Pansy. He stopped.
Go away, she said immediately. Her legs curled away like snakes and she pulled her stockings higher, ashamed to be seen, to be studied.
What are you doing? he said curiously, Irish rolling off his tongue like a wave to the shoreline.
Pansy looked away.
Are you crying?
No, she said, and was surprised that when she blinked a tear fell onto her cheek, easily as a raindrop. She hadnt even known. Im not, she said again regardless.
Seamus put his hands in his pockets and shifted. Oh, he said in playfully disbelieving tones.
There was a long while of silence and he took a step closer. Pansy flinched and recoiled like a wild thing, ducking her head. When she looked up again he was extending a handkerchief. He had an imp-like, half smile on his boyish face. Me mum keeps telling me to keep these at hand. Finally got to use one.
Pansy looked at him for a long time and finally extended her hand. But instead of giving her the kerchief, Seamus reached and she had no time to pull away before he helped her to her feet. The sun-warmed ivy slipped off her shoulders. She felt bare before him.
Pansy stepped back, folding her arms. And why are you suddenly helping me? It didnt come out as unfriendly as shed hoped.
Because youre a girl and youre crying, Slytherin or not.
Oh, thats chivalrous, she scoffed. How very Gryffindor of you.
Seamus grinned again. I try. Those penetrating blue eyes. Imp eyes.
Pansy flicked her own brown eyes to his hand, still holding the handkerchief, before taking it from him. She held it awkwardly, not sure of what to do, before finally dabbing at her eyes.
You can leave now, she muttered.
Youre welcome. Seamus folded his arms cockily. Did he ever stop grinning?
Pansy rolled her wet eyes. Good, she murmured before thrusting the handkerchief back at him. Seamus shook his head.
Keep it. Me mums got plenty for me at home, trust me.
She looked at the handkerchief in her small hands. Plain and white. Simple. The silence stretched and she shifted, wishing she hadnt unbuttoned her shirt so low, hadnt worn a skirt, hadnt been seen at all.
You know, youre much prettier when youre not crying, he said as if there wasnt a trouble in the world. Pansy nearly dropped the handkerchief.
He shrugged. News to you?
Pansy stared at him for a long time. His grin broke out again, and when it did the day was brighter. She at last looked away, unable to hold his gaze. And he laughed. It rose from deep inside his chest, spread its wings and lifted into the air as he leaned back. He was shouting to the gods and Pansy was staring.
Seamus looked back at her and said between heaving mirthful breaths, Just because Malfoys a prat doesnt mean all boys are, you know.
She opened her mouth several times but no words came out. Pansy twisted the handkerchief in her hands, shifting her weight from foot to foot. At last she managed, Thanks. The corner of her mouth twitched.
He was always smiling. Thats all I wanted.
She lifted her eyes up to his. He was starting to walk away backwards, hands in his pockets, tie undone and hanging around his shoulders as always.
All you wanted? she murmured.
He shrugged easily. Life was a game to Seamus. Stepping into a patch of sunlight and gleaming, he explained, Just a smile.
Seamus turned and walked away, his broad shoulders slowly disappearing from her view, out of the courtyard. To wherever the wind and sun carried him. Pansy looked down at the handkerchief, still knotted in her hands, then over her shoulder, at the ivy that had confined her minutes earlier.
Everything suddenly felt so fleeting A game. She had the strange urge to smile more, to laugh the weight from her chest.
It was the last day of school. People were reckless. It was allowed.
FinniganI mean, Seamus! she called.
When she caught up to him he released another booming laugh that made her knees tremble. A strong arm was slung around her shoulder.
Let me teach you the art of smiling, he said.
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Fabregas scored 42 goals in 151 games for Barcelona in his three years at club, winning La Liga and a Copa del Rey before this summer's move to Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, but had been accused this campaign of fading towards its conclusion.
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Unlike that older model, the Cruiser now also supports AVCP on Bluetooth for controlling the playback of music tracks. The font face of the device has a play/pause button along with two track skip buttons. As long as your phone supports the Bluetooth AVCP protocol (the iPhone doesn't because its Bluetooth support is one-step up from useless) you should be able to use them to control music playback from your handset. It certainly worked without any problems with a Nokia XpressMusic 5730.
The right hand side of the Cruiser is where you'll find the easy to use volume rocker switch along with the mini-USB port that's used for charging the device. Jabra includes a car power adaptor in the box, but you can also charge the device from a PC or laptop via USB. It takes around two hours to fully charge the speakerphone and once it's full of juice you'll get around 14 hours of talk time or 13 days on standby, which is similar to the previous S700 model.
Jabra has also added a few status indicator lights to the front of the unit to provide quick visual feedback on the device's status. There's a battery indicator, call status light, Bluetooth activity LED and indicator to show when the FM transmitter is active.
How well will the FM transmitter work in an urban environment where the FM frequencies are often full with all manners of transmissions? In-car FM transmiters for MP3 players never worked too well for me - I live in London.
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Did you mean AVRCP and the front face?
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On stage at a recent concert in Jersey, Foxy Brown revealed a bit of trivia for hip hop fans: the Brooklyn rapper and Mary J. Blige once recorded five songs for a joint album to be called The Best of Both Girls.
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(1) Yes, there's a great game underneath there, no doubt about it. If you liked Gothic 1 and 2, you'll feel right at home with 3.
(2) Yes, it's still very rough around the edges. I get intermittent freezes -- just infrequent enough that I forget to save, but not so infrequent that I can safely ignore them, as well as stuff that appear to be scripting issues (e.g. I'm pretty certain I completed a fairly straightforward "kill some monsters" quest objective, but the game didn't register it).
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I have a 22 year old daughter that's always drempt of owning a home. Let's waste billions more artificially keeping the price up.
Forget the humanity.
We made mistakes. We spent bailout money non-prudently.
Let prices come down. Let the flush happen.
Let people buy into the lower prices.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
The more money they throw at things, the more deflation the elite champagne economists throw out there to convince people your tax dollars really can keep that anvil up in the air, the more we're gonna be stuck in the mud for years and year and years.
Bravo sir.
Re-inflating the real estate bubble won't help, and sector specific deflation would be a healthy thing long term.
Cashing out homeowners who bought at the top using steroid-ish government stimulus programs won't solve the long term illness caused by the credit bubble where the economy ran at 120% of normal capacity.
Nor will historic new lows in mortgage interest rates because mortgage rates do not matter when potential buyers fear losing their jobs and filing for unemployment.
Real estate has been a charade for a while now. Among other affects, the policies that created the bubble in the first place covered up the fact that income disparity has been increasing since the early 1980s. The bubble allowed average Americans to believe that they too would be or could become wealthy. The gig is up on that ruse, but the government refuses to accept the new realities. The government still thinks that real estate is the key to a blissful and wealthy society. Let the price-setting of markets take a bigger role, have a cleansing and probably overshooting decline in the real estate market, maybe cushion the affects on the real economy, and then regroup to start another boom. Haven't such declines been the start of something big over and over again in economic history?
Well said. I think it's the "decline" that most in government fear, because periods of economic turmoil have nasty correlations with signaling the fall of great civilizations. Whether or not that fear is legit, or falsely perceived, is the grounds for debate among economists.
As for me, personally, I believe the government really doesn't care if you become wealthy through real estate, but as long as you take on some form of debt, they have you where they want you.
When you're in debt, and especially secured debt where you're going to lose shelter and transportation if you don't pay up, you have a lower likelihood of causing "trouble".
There is an old macroeconomic belief that, post World War II, an indebted citizenry is less likely to go on strike (refuse to be productive citizens), and that's why the US Government promotes home ownership above and beyond other nation states, and even dangles a mortgage deduction on your taxes. Don't know if it's true, but it sounds plausible.
I think it's important not to be too optimistic about the housing market or the stock market. But it's also important to recognize where self interest leads us astray. Clearly Matt you would like to buy and would like real estate to continue to drop even more to help that. Same with the man with the 20 something year old daughter. Since when should a 20 something year old in an early career job necessarily be able to afford a home? I don't expect prices to go up anytime soon but I hope people will realize that because it's in their self interest for it to go down might mean they'll be hyper aware for the pieces of evidence supporting that and overlook a lot of the more moderate estimations.


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Hi Thoku, You were able to more concisely represent my intentions (and their reasoning) in this thread than I was able to do so myself. Thanks! On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Thoku Hansen <email@example.com> wrote: > I think that Les's question was reasonable. Why *not* ask the community for > the 'gotchas'? > > Whether the info is already documented or not, it could be an opportunity > to improve the documentation based on users' perception. > > The "you just have to learn" responses are fair also, but that reminds me > of the days when running Oracle was a black art, and accumulated wisdom made > DBAs irreplaceable. > Yes, this was my initial concern. I know that Cassandra is still young, and I expect this to be the norm for a while, but I was hoping to make that process a bit easier (for me and anyone else reading this thread in the future). Some recommendations *are* documented, but they are dispersed / stale / > contradictory / or counter-intuitive. > > Others have not been documented in the wiki nor in DataStax's doco, and are > instead learned anecdotally or The Hard Way. > > For example, whether documented or not, some of the 'gotchas' that I > encountered when I first started working with Cassandra were: > > * Don't use OpenJDK. Prefer the Sun JDK. (Wiki says this<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted> > , Jira says that <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2441>). > * Its not viable to run without JNA installed. > * Disable swap memory. > * Need to run nodetool repair on a regular basis. > > I'm looking forward to Edward Capriolo's Cassandra book<https://www.packtpub.com/cassandra-apache-high-performance-cookbook/book> which > Les will probably find helpful. > Thanks for linking to this. I'm pre-ordering right away. And thanks for the pointers, they are exactly the kind of enumerated things I was looking to elicit. These are the kinds of things that are hard to track down in a single place. I think it'd be nice for the community to contribute this stuff to a single page ('best practices', 'checklist', whatever you want to call it). It would certainly make things easier when getting started. Thanks again, Les
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The latest Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, is about to hit theaters and while we have the official Star Trek app, we also have the Star Trek Almanac. The Star Trek Almanac is from the same developers of the Star Wars Almanac and contains enough Star Trek knowledge to satisfy a horde of tribbles in heat.
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Bobletekno (bugge wesseltoft Versions)
Label: Horisontal Mambo
12" Germany
- Electro / Electronic
Bringing a thoroughly contemporary sound to the piano and keyboards, Bugge Wesseltoft made a huge impact in his homeland during the '90s. After that, he toured internationally, working in both jazz and rock contexts. In the early '90s he was a member of Arild Andersen's band, and played on Jan Garbarek's Molde Canticle, a commission from the Molde Jazz Festival. With both of these artists, he blended in well with the postmodern concepts of ECM Records. Other artists with whom he worked during these years were guitarists Terje Rypdal and Jon Eberson, and singer Sidsel Endresen. With the latter, he was on her commissioned project for the Molde Jazz Festival, which was recorded for ECM. His own commissioned work, A Little War Story, was performed at the 1993 Vossa Jazz Festival. In 1995, Wesseltoft formed his own band, New Conception of Jazz, and the Jazzland record label, the first album from which was awarded a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy) in the following year. In the mid-'90s he toured and recorded with Billy Cobham, Endresen, and Garbarek again, appearing on the latter's Rites. During these years and on to the end of the decade, his music found an audience among those who inhabited Norway's techno and dance music scenes. This connection with the club world led to the 2000 release of Jazzland Remixed, which enhanced his reputation even more with that audience. Firmly committed to electronic music, Wesseltoft completely eschewed acoustic forms and was just as adamant that he would not be tied by genre boundaries, bringing hip-hop and other contemporary dance music forms into his concept of contemporary jazz. On 1998's Sharing, he raised some eyebrows by his extensive use of club DJs and scratchers.
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Bobletekno (bugge wesseltoft Versions)
VÖ-Datum: 06.05.2016
Label: Horisontal Mambo
various jazzclub
electric jazz lounge (back in)
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Label: boutique
bugge wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz & Dan B
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Label: sunday music
bugge wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz & Dan B
Trialogue Sunday Music (Incl. Tour)
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Label: sunday music
Sidsel Endresen & bugge wesseltoft
Duplex Ride The Remixes
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America's mysteriously unchanging national debt: $16,699,396,000,000
posted at 11:09 am on August 15, 2013 by Guy Benson
Even as the Treasury was running up the $98-billion deficit it reported in the July Monthly Treasury Statement, every one of the 22 Daily Treasury Statements published for July said the Treasury had closed out the previous business day with exactly $16,699,396,000,000 in debt. The Daily Treasury Statement for Aug. 12, released Tuesday afternoon, says the debt remained stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000 during the first 12 days of this month, too. On May 17, the first day the Treasury reported that the debt had hit exactly $16,699,396,000,000–and was thus just $25 million below the legal limit — Treasury Secretary Lew sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner saying he was beginning to implement what he called "the standard set of extraordinary measures" to prevent the Treasury from exceeding the legal limit on the federal debt. Since Lew sent that letter–announcing that he would use "extraordinary measures"– the debt has remained stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000 for 87 straight days.
"Extraordinary measures," indeed. In a recent speech, President Obama touted the falling deficit, which is projected to drop to "only" $759 billion this year. President Bush's average annual deficit was $250 billion. Obama blew past the six trillion dollar debt milepost months ago. Candidate Obama excoriated Bush for his "unpatriotic" additions to the national debt back in 2008; in less than five years, President Obama has matched Bush's total over two full terms — and surpassed it by $2 trillion. As soon as Sec. Lew's manipulation expires, we'll hit the $17 trillion mark overall. Reminder: America's true national debt is closer to $90 trillion than it is to the official number
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text: NWA TNA Impact! Results - 9/10/04 (Jeff Hardy & Styles take on The Naturals) Reported by Ryan Droste of WrestleView.com On Saturday, September 11, 2004 at 4:13 AM EST NWA TNA Impact! Results - 9/10/04Taped From: Orlando, FloridaCommentators: Mike Tenay, Jeff Hammond & Don WestReport by: Ryan Droste of WrestleView.com- The opening promo for Impact! hits and we are taken to Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios for the show. Pyro display goes off in the entranceway and above the ring.-The show opened with Mike Tenay and Don West in the middle of the ring recapping last Wednesday's PPV, specifically mentioning Jeff Jarrett is still the World Champion.-Highlights were shown of the AJ Styles vs. Kid Kash tables match from Wednesday.AJ Styles & Jeff Hardy vs. The NaturalsThis match started off, and went on for quite a while, with Styles taking a beating from the Naturals for the most part. The Naturals eventually went to set up the Natural Disaster, but Styles reversed the move and Jeff Hardy got tagged in. Hardy went to work, eventually hitting the Swanton Bomb on Andy Douglas for the pinfall. Winners: AJ Styles & Jeff Hardy-In the back, Shane Douglas interviewed Dusty Rhodes. Dusty said that he would be in favor of Jeff Hardy receiving a rematch for the World Title.Monty Brown vs. Vordell WalkerThis should be quick. And yes, yes it was. Brown got in most of the offense, eventually connecting with The Pounce to get the win.Winner: Monty BrownMikey Batts & Jerrelle Clark vs. Kazarian & Michael Shane w/ TraciLots of fast paced action in this one. Too much to keep up with and give you a good summary of everything that happened, so I'll just give you the big moments which lead to the finish. Michael Shane was distracted by kissing Traci, and Mikey Batts came in to the match. Batts tried to use Shane's distraction to his advantage, but to no avail. Michael Shane eventually hit uncle Shawn's super kick for the victory.Winners: Mikey Batts & Jerrelle Clark-Shane Douglas next was seen interviewing Vince Russo in the back. Russo said it was Dusty Rhodes' fault that Hardy lost the match to Jarrett Wednesday. Russo said he was going search for a number one contender for Jarrett's World Title, even if that means looking outside of TNA.-Footage is shown of Abyss turning on Goldylocks and slamming her.Abyss vs. Brian OwenYet another squash match. Not much to speak of here. Abyss got in basically all of the offense before hitting the Black Hole Slam for the win.Winner: Abyss-Next was Jeff Hammond's "6 Points of Impact." Hammond talked about Jeff Jarrett retaining his TNA World Title on PPV against Jeff Hardy. -Jeff Jarrett came out to the middle of the ring. He was bandaged up after the match with Hardy this past Wednesday. He basically just talked about how he would take on all comers to defend his title, whether they are TNA wrestlers or not. Jarrett said he would take on all challengers.Team Canada w/ Scott D'Amore vs. Chris Harris and Prime TimeThis match featuring the TNA Tag Team Champions Harris and Prime Time is a non title match. Team Canada had the early advantage. They worked over Prime Time in their corner. Eventually Harris was tagged in, and he cleared the ring. Harris and Prime time later on were ready to set up a double team move on Scott Devine, but Scott D'Amore got involved and interfered. Chris Harris became distracted, and Scott D'Amore hit him in the back of the head. Bobby Roode then clotheslined Harris in the back of the head. Scott Devine went for the cover and got the pin.Winners: Team Canada-After the match, Petey Williams and Eric Young came out to continue to beat down Prime Time and Harris. "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels and James Storm ran out to help Prime Time and Harris fight off Team Canada. It was then an all out brawl between everyone until the Naturals came out to help Team Canada. 3 Live Kru then came down to the ring to even things up and a giant brawl ensued as Impact went off the air.


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Hollywood actors weigh in on Oscar race with SAG Awards
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actors name their picks for the best performances of 2012 in film and television at the annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday in a ceremony that will likely define some of the top Oscar races in four weeks time.
"Lincoln," about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's battle to end slavery, French revolution musical "Les Miserables," and comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," about a bipolar man's unlikely romance, head into Sunday's show with four nominations apiece, including the top prize of best ensemble cast.
Joining them with two nominations each are the cast of Iranian hostage drama "Argo" and British comedy "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" about a group of seniors who retire to a ramshackle hotel in India and featuring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nighy.
The Screen Actors Guild ceremony is among the most-watched during Hollywood's awards season because actors make up the largest voting group when the Oscars come around on February 24.
Briton Daniel Day-Lewis is seen as a shoo-in for SAG's best actor prize after picking up a slew of awards already for his towering performance as Lincoln. Day-Lewis is also seen as a front-runner for a record third Oscar statuette next month.
But on Sunday, all eyes will be on the lead actress and supporting actor race, awards-watchers say. The SAG honors are chosen by some 100,000 actors working in the United States
"I am looking to SAG this weekend to give me a clearer idea of who might win Oscars. In the best actress category, it's a very, very close race between Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence," said Dave Karger, chief movie correspondent at Fandango.com.
Chastain won a Golden Globe earlier this month for her role as a feisty CIA agent credited with tracking down Osama bin Laden in thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." Continued...


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Personhood Crazies to Put Issue on Colorado Ballot, Again
November 21, 2011 at 3:04 PM Leave a comment
Well, it looks like the folks who think this
is person, are going to put the "personhood" amendment back on the ballot in Colorado next year for the (get this) third time.
Coloradoans voted the amendment down in 2008 and again in 2010. In 2010, the margin against was 2-1.
Heck, just a few weeks ago Mississippi — Mississippi! — rejected a personhood amendment by a margin of 59%.
I guess their goal is to wear us down.
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The Balkanization of the Metro Transit System is a barrier to use and probably was intended as an instrument to curtail viable transit in the Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area. In 1986 the cities in the Metropolitan Council region were give an option to "Opt Out" of Metro Transit and provide their own transit systems, a half dozen or so Opt Out systems exist, only two actually provide very much service, in the South and SouthWest suburbs. The University of Minnesota also provides a bus system, but was not an "Opt Out" system. The systems outside of Metro Transit provide about 10% of transit services in the Metropolitan Council region, (Minneapolis - St. Paul and "metropolitan" counties.)
Metro Transit cut a lot of service to the suburbs in the 1980's and did not have any interest in inside the suburb service or suburb to suburb service. Suburbs still paid for service but got little, this created pressure in the state legislature to create the "Opt Out" law as suburban cities wanted to use the money to have transit services in their own area. There of course was another reason to create Opt Out transit systems, that was to nibble away at the Metro Transit system, and possibly curtail its growth as the suburban sprawl cities may have been an area of transit growth and income and a larger more powerful Metro Transit system. The larger Opt Out systems were in the areas of larger suburban growth.
Lack of any service is of course unusable. But a bunch of little transit services also present usability problems. Fare systems, fare sale and collection, vehicles, vehicle colors (livery), signage, route designation, schedules, stations, wayfinding, maps, web sites, telephone information, etc., all can be different and many time are different. Different is not good for the user, especially when going to a place that is not familiar. I recently noticed just how many "opt out" systems there are, and I do not really recall the exact names of the opt out systems to find schedules and routes. These little systems are just more friction in the "fog of transit" to paraphrase Clauswitz.
There are fare agreements that I have seen between some of the "opt out" systems and Metro Transit but the new RFID cards may or may not be accepted by the smaller transit systems, and the rest of the differences violate so many system usability issues and the resulting negotiations of standards and reciprocity and the rest of it throws up many barriers. The rest of the standards in signage, maps, wayfinding, stops, etc., could be tested and compared, they are probably also a mess.
Many negotiations of standards between "equals" tend to move to a "lowest common denominator", in other words, the crappiest standard of any of the transit systems negotiating becomes the regional standard. This is also not a good thing for usability of the transportation system. It will drive standards down, delay improvements and make things even more unusable as new technology (like the RFID fare card fiasco) or commuter rail, BRT or other systems come into play with the Balkanization strategy of hobbling the Metro Transit system.
As commuter rail comes into play there will be a push to make it separate, with a separate fare system, separate uncoordinated schedule, separate signage, stations, maps, uncoordinated routing, even organized as a separate system altogether. This is, of course, the old divide and conquer strategy by the anti-public infrastructure politics. The stupidity of not having the LRT system accept the magnetic strip pre-paid fare cards and instead accept the still non-working RFID cards is already beyond belief. I cannot believe that in the future Metro Transit or its anti-transit masters will not monkey with any coordinated effort to add services in the future.
Standards are one way to help usability problems. Signage, fares, infrastructure, wayfinding, maps, schedules, printed materials, and other things should be standard across the region. But there must be a legislative financial incentive for standards to make them actually happen. The main standards that operate seem to be the fare agreements, this shows that cash is a powerful incentive to standardize practices and policy. The rest of the items above do not have much of a money push and there the standards lack.
Another path to usability is the reabsorption of Opt Out transit systems.