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14m. Excellent climbing up the middle of the face, steep and stretchy and with plenty of buckets to swing about on. The finish feels a bit bolder and a long way off the ground and sadly the crucial runner placement is now very worn.
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Large for grit. I wouldn't like to peel off the top on the lead.
Good fun, gear placements getting a bit crumbly. Not quite 3 stars.
aq 1 move wonder route but really good.the top is big holds.
Very worthwhile despite the crumbly rock and brevity of the crux....which happens to be an awesome technical move. Finish is nice though. Reasonably protected with a diverse rack, although best to be careful and climb it sooner rather than later.
I don't get it... Why does everyone complain about the protection on this route? I thought it was like climbing on bolts!
Because the rock is poor in the slot by the crux. I think it would be rather hard to not notice that.
Um, use a bigger cam? Yes the front of the slot's only 2cm thick rock, but the gap behind it is still good enough to hold a large cam... Say 3.5?
Visited last night and the crux protection is looking extremely worn - no nut protection now available in the slot, and the expansion of the crumbly cam placement makes it dubious.
Backed off this April 2010 as gear slots at the ledge are now sandy holes - very sad to see. Big enough cam might still make it safe but will obviously increase the damage.
Did this on the 13th April. A Large cam (Camelot 4) goes nicely in the pocket and can be backed up by another large can just below (my Friend 4 was a little small for the placement), though the quality of the rock is poor in the pocket I am sure that it will still hold a few falls BUT this is not a route to throw yourself at and fall off repeatedly as it will destroy the protection - one to be left for when you are proficient at the grade and it hopefully will remain a classic at the grade for a number of years.


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Lourdes Leon appeared with her famous parent last night in New York to celebrate the launch of their joint Material Girl line, and the celebuspawn had plenty to say about the mother-daughter dynamic…
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When the Yankees first baseman dropped off his bags Tuesday in a familiar corner of George M. Steinbrenner Field, Teixeira said that the championship ride has come to an end. It is time to get ready to defend that title, and Teixeira said that it will not be an issue for this team.
"Because we're the Yankees," Teixeira said. "If you get complacent, it's going to be a tough year for you. Once you taste a championship and taste that victory, it just makes you want it even more. You realize it's everything you've ever hoped for."
Teixeira made a major impact in his first season with the Yankees, arriving with all the requisite expectations of an eight-year contract. He delivered, batting .292 with 39 home runs and an American League-leading 122 RBIs while winning the AL Gold Glove Award.
Some of the faces have changed from the championship group that rolled down the Canyon of Heroes, including the departures of two major lineup contributors -- Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui, who have landed with the Tigers and Angels, respectively.
Teixeira checked that off as "part of the game" and predicted, "I don't think we're going to skip a beat," calling the Yankees the favorites to win another World Series.
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The $180 million deal sitting in Teixeira's back pocket finally gave him the security to know he'll be spending a considerable chunk of his future in Tampa with the Yankees, having spent previous springs in camp with the Rangers and the Braves before locking in with New York. It makes this experience even more pleasant for him.
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"This year, it was really, 'What restaurant are we going to go to? Where are we going to take the kids? What shows are we going to watch?' I think that was a nice change for my family."
Now a second-year Bomber along with roster companions CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Nick Swisher, Teixeira can offer some perspective to newcomers like Curtis Granderson on how the New York glare can change the experience. His advice? Just be yourself.
"Everyone kind of tries to tell you ... 'You have to change something, but be yourself,'" Teixeira said. "Whoever it is, they're in this room for a reason. You have talent, they've performed on the highest levels. When you come to the Yankees, there's more eyes watching, more people that care -- which is great. You go out and play the game the way it's supposed to be played."
Teixeira jumped in the batting cage on his first day back at the spring office before heading off for the afternoon. The Yankees will regroup as a full squad for the first time on Wednesday, taking the field after a short speech from manager Joe Girardi -- one that Teixeira can probably already guess the most important messages of.
"For us, I think it's 'Let's keep doing what we're doing,'" Teixeira said. "That was our motto last year during the playoffs -- 'Keep up the good work and let's keep working hard and playing good baseball.' That's what we're going to try to do this year."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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My daughter is living in Mississippi with joint legal and sole physical custody of her 2 year old daughter. She is harrassed by the father every other visitation weekend and threats but the police are unable or unwilling to do anything about it. He lives with his parents and leaves the babysitting to a 12 year old neighbor. He also is a heavy dope smoker. She is willing to move with us to Texas, do you foresee any legal issues with this move?
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Suburban sprawl, the pattern of low density, separated-use development which fosters an overreliance upon automobile use, is a relatively new phenomenon. Historically, development has been focused around main streets, transit centers and downtown areas. It was only after World War II that sprawling development patterns began to appear throughout the country, spurred forward by cheap oil, increased availability of automobiles and auto-centric planning like new highway infrastructure development and cheap parking. Long Island, with the creation of the first Levittown, was a model for this development pattern, which quickly spread across the region and throughout the country.
Over the years, we have seen suburban sprawl cause severe environmental damage and hinder economic development by increasing traffic congestion, destroying green space, increasing social inequity and creating a car-dominant society that leaves no place for alternative transportation systems such as mass transit, bicycling and walking. More recently we have learned that suburban sprawl often causes the destruction of the historic centers of communities by encouraging growth further and further from preexisting downtowns, thereby drawing business and needed economic dollars away from main streets.
However, over the past two decades, a burgeoning movement to reclaim community streets from this auto-centric development has emerged. Incorporated into this movement is the desire to redevelop communities to better reflect pre-war development patterns. This new movement, labeled 'smart growth,' calls for a return to walk-able and bike-friendly town centers. And, although it is rooted in the past, it is not stuck there. Smart growth also calls for focused development around the modern transit hubs that will be the important transportation infrastructure in the 21 st century and beyond.
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We had already known that T-Mobile was planning to launch their 4G LTE network this month, however it looks like they have quietly flipped the switch in select cities. What we have seen is all unofficial at the moment and is said to have come by way of OpenSignal. For those not familiar with the name, OpenSignal is a Wi-Fi and signal-finder app for Android that uses crowdsourced data.
Perhaps more important here — where is that T-Mobile LTE. Well, so far it has been spotted in eight cities. They include Denver, Las Vegas, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York, San Diego, San Jose, and Seattle. The speeds look to be averaging 25Mbps down and 8Mbps up with a 40ms latency.
Touching on those speeds. While they are both really nice to see, we do have to remember that this is based on testing of a network that is not yet saturated with customers. In other words, they will likely be slower when the network is open and being used by the masses. OpenSignal is also reporting that T-Mobile has been doing testing with the Galaxy Note II as well as the yet-to-be released GALAXY S 4.
Coincidentally, OpenSignal has also made mention of the GALAXY S 4 having a Snapdragon S4 (MSM8960) processor. But nothing all that surprising there as we have heard that in the past. While we wait for the official launch in these cities, the carrier has previously announced plans to have LTE available for 100 million people by mid-2013 and a total of 200 million by years-end 2014.
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TWO RIVERS - It was a wild and wooly kick-off to the summer festival season in Two Rivers Sunday.
LondonDairy Alpacas hosted the 14th annual Alpaca Odyssey and Farm Fest.
Visitors could get up close with the animals. There was also food, live music and spinning demonstrations.
Organizers say it's a way for people to cure their curiosity about alpaca farms.
"Many people drive by that they don't know what we do. So it's a huge educational day. And, it's also helping the non-profits that are our friends," said LondonDairy Alpacas co-owner Wade Gease.
The event raised money and donations for Wildlife for Wisconsin and the Two Rivers/Mishicot food pantry.


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Dick is right- my time & resources are limited. If someone has an idea for their own test design & they are inclined to build a mechanized variable depth panel KF step wing & test it, by all means go right ahead! (I don't see myself personally having time & resources for that type of experiment anytime too soon- there are already many other projects & commitments.)
For me, finding time to build, and then taking some time to do some flying when air conditions are good is sometimes a bit of a challenge, as I'm typically backed up a couple of weeks on my business commitments.
Up here above 10,000 feet, winter is already settling in... snow is forecast for the next couple of days, with more by the middle of next week. I'll just have to see how much accumulates & stays. We may still see a few 'Indian Summer' days, but there may not be too many of them.
The snow surface typically becomes very wind-carved & irregular fairly rapidly here in South Park, so flying from it & landing on it out on Antelope Flats is seldom an option with most aircraft. I have a couple of fun fliers that deal with rough snow surface OK, but they are not designs which lend themselves to the wing design testing that I've been doing for the last couple of months.
A lot of the aircraft designing, building, & testing I already have in mind may be delayed unpredictably, and much of it will need to simply be spread out over time reaching into next year. For right now, the simplicity of simply taping an assortment of filler panels in place is serving my purposes very well- it's a very light weight & direct approach that costs next to nothing, and the changes can be implemented quickly between flights. Some days, keeping it simple is fine, too.
I'm sure that many of you also have time, resource, and commitment constraints that make it very unpredictable as to when you actually can complete a project of this nature. I wish each of you the best of success in your efforts!!
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Yes, Richard, that's a good approach. I was thinking more along the lines of a multi-axis, multi-planar approach, where both the step height and its position along the upper surface of the wing could vary. There might be some sliding, overlapping surfaces, just like on the real deal. The hinging mechanics involved would be considerably more complex, of course, but the controlling mechanism need not be too outrageous.
Multi-axis, multi-planar and multi-trouble . Issue is objective judging of effects and flight performance. Ideal would be onboard camera with OSD display like FPV guys use. You know - speed, altitude, vario, artifical horizon... But I guess that keychain camera shooting cotton strands taped to the wing will be used
Richard, Using an OSD is a terrific idea. Eagle tree has an OSD that would work, but I do not have it as I don't have the necessary FPV equipment (Camera, transmitter, and receiving hardware). If anyone has the hardware they would like to loan (I need 900Mhz as my receiver is on 2.4 Ghz), I will gladly try to get EagleTree to loan us the OSD hardware.
This is science on a budget. Neither money, supplies, or time is in abundance. We are doing the best with what we have. So if no one is willing to loan the hardware for the cause, my $10 keychain camera photographing the wool tufts and the FDR data readouts are what we will have to live with.
I was looking at your eLogger data files and trying to figure out what you would have to do to get some meaningful data out of the logging. Unless I've missed something, the data you have available are:
So that folks can see it, I have attached a captured image of about three minutes of the SS1-3.FDR file that Roger posted in that archive.
That starts right after launch and goes on from there for about three minutes. Maybe someone will spot a meaningful process in there and point it out?
Not sure why you have a negative altitude at the start and a couple of times during the flight either. Maybe you fly over declining terrain?
As with nearly any data stream like that, if you zoom in and look at the details it gives rise to a lot of questions. Some of it will go to vagaries in the data collection and recording equipment and other things too.
I have altitude, RPM, and temperature sensors (two of them) available for my eLogger V3 and find their use entertaining. I've started messing around with rewinding motors and the eLogger is really valuable there.
Anyone can download and install the Eagle Tree Data Recorder Windows application software but I'm not sure that you can see all the data displayed right or the same as Roger would if you do not have an eLogger. I say that because you select a model name at start up and that controls a bunch of settings as far as what it displayed and how it is displayed.
Eagle Tree has a Vendor's Forum here and does respond to questions and discussions there.
I have a feeling that part of the learning curve here is going to be that of figuring out what data to collect, how to collect it, and how to use the collected data.
Jack, I don't exactly know why the altitude starts out negative. I connected the plane's battery on a table about 3 feet off the ground. On when the FDR powered up the altitude records -4 feet. When placed on the ground before powering up the motor, the altitude shows -7 feet. I think it is all in the "acceptable limits of the altimeter.
I just counted and the SS1-3 file has 57 different "events" in the data. Over half are zero because there is no device attached to the FDR to record the data. For example there are four different RPMs recorded, the data from 4 servos, two temperatures, four G force readings, etc. The data also includes time from power up in 100 milisecond increments (1/10s of a second), event data, event error data, and a whole host of other things that we are not interested in.
In addition to what you displayed on your chart the GPS data including: GPSLat GPSLon GPSAlt GPSSpeed GPSCourse GPSDist could be of interest. The GPS altitude is MSL and is spot on. GPS Speed is of course ground speed. I will vary depending on the direction of the airplane relative to the wind.
I also just realized that I can collect throttle position information by connecting the ESC through one of the FDR servo data ports. That might be useful.
You wrote before of comparing watts of input power required to fly a level course cruising at a specific selected airspeed with a variety of wing configurations. Getting a different readout of power requirement (watts) could then be attributed to that change in wing configuration (increase or decrease in total drag = increase or decrease in power required to cruise at the specific selected speed.)
That particular data collection & evaluation methodology seems very relevant and informative from my perspective. I haven't quite got to figuring out how all of the rest of the wide range of possible collectible data can be used in evaluating the aerodynamic affects of changes in KF step height & positioning on identical test wings (or on the same re-configurable test wing.)
Keeping the wing span, chord, and loading identical through all of the tests, as well as keeping the rest of the aircraft (motor, prop, battery, etc.) in a uniform configuration is a given. It also seems to me that if the fuselage has a lot of drag (stuff hangout in the air instead of being enclosed within a clean fuselage), then the slight changes in the wing configuration's drag contribution relative to the entire aircraft's drag will be a much smaller percentage, and therefore more difficult to evaluate.
Viking, the watts and airspeed are the primary source of information. Other data help to level the playing field. As you know the airplane can maintain a given airspeed at different attitudes provided the correct power input. The altitude reading, for example, will tell us if we are in level flight, climbing or descending. For the relative drag equation we want to be in level flight. It may be level flight at very low alpha, or level flight at very high alpha. Both will be of interest. The GPS data help to keep the barometric data "honest". Keeping in mind that the GPS airspeed is in fact ground speed.
Yes, a high drag airframe will contribute a lot to the drag equation, but our wings are a major drag contributor as well. It is the nature of wings built from foam be they flat plate, or KF variants. This is one reason I plan to test with a "clean" airfoil wing. One that has our standard KF profile, but continues the curve to the trailing edge of the wing. This wing in theory will have considerably less drag, than any KF variant outside of what you are currently testing. Your test wing is fast approximating my clean wing.
It would be so nice if we only had a wind tunnel. Even a smoke tunnel would tell us a lot. Imagine being able to vary the KF geometry in a smoke tunnel while recording the info on video, or being able to get constant lift, drag, and moment data while varying the AoA and the geometry. All those wonderful numbers. It makes an ole engineer like me drool.
Come Spring we can start serious testing. Between now and then, we can sort out what the test rigs will have to be, and how the tests need to be performed. Sound reasonable?
I've found that the placement of the step for optimum performance varies when it comes to exhilatation in the speed department with flying wings on the slope.
You can't ramp up the speed as fast, but with the KF you can hover it on the edge, unlike a curved fancy dancy airfoil.
..........results from a natural wind tunnel...............free to!
So, factor step placement into the equation.
I'm brewing my own telemetry system around FrSky modules, so I hope to find something more usable.
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I think that acceleration and 'ramping up the speed' have a lot to do mostly with wing loading, and also some to do with minimizing drag. And I also agree that placement of KF steps can become even more critical as flight speed increases. I'm also finding recently that shallower steps still provide the circulating vortex-trapping benefits, but with noticeably reduced drag = increased glide efficiency.
I'm tempted to build out my next prototype of the Me163-e as a pure slope ship, and build it as a fairly thin (~8% thick) KF3P build, possibly based on the RG14 or RG15 airfoil profile, but with a slightly reflexed trailing edge since this is more or less a flying wing. I'll start with the 48" panel size of the Bluecor PP as my starting wingspan, and shape out the up-swept extended wing tips which have been working so well on the original Komet. The upper wqing surface layers will be thinned to zero just into the base of those up-swept wing tips; they seem to have far less drag when they are a thin single layer with extensively thinned tip edges and trailing edges.
Since I want it to handle the heavy winds we sometimes see here high in the Colorado Rockies, I'll likely beef up the wing's spar structure, and also make provisions for carrying a variable ballast load centered on the CG which can be quickly adjusted to vary the wing loading from under 6 ounces per square foot up to about 15 ounces per square foot. I'll be flying totally with the elevons, no rudder on this build. I'll likely bury the servos & shroud the exposed elevon end of the linkages, and may even add the aileron gap cover strips to eliminate the elevon hinge line gap's drag contribution.
Why bother with all of this? I simply want to see just how 'slippery' of a KF variant wing I can really build. Flying 40 MPH+ winds with only a modest amount of ballast should be a fair confirmation of how cleanly a low depth stepped KF3P wing can be built & flown.
More soon!
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What you have quickly summarized doesn't tell the whole story, and I'm sure we wouldn't want anyone to misunderstand, so I want to offer some qualification and additional information as 'food for thought'.
The affects of varying the placement of an added second flat layer of foam with a KF step at it's rear edge may not be as noticeable on a nutball, pizza box flier, or other very low aspect ratio fun flier design.
I want to add some extra information about aerodynamic factors that I've observed coming into play on some other types of aircraft with a higher aspect ratio wing. On some of these types of aircraft which I've built with KF stepped discontinuities added, it becomes very obvious that varying the positions (or adding extra material to change and extend the position of the primary KF step) does change the center of lift of the wing.
The reason for this is the underlying aerodynamic concept of a wing's "Camber Line". This is a line which originates at the center / entry point of the wing's leading edge, runs half way between the wings lower surface and it's upper surface, and extends to the center of the wing's trailing edge. A wing's camber is expressed as a percentage of chord; for a flat plate wing, it has a value of zero. The wing's 'chord line is a straight line which runs from the center of the leading edge's entry point to the center of the wing's trailing edge. But once you add a second layer of foam, etc. to a flat plate wing, and you add a KF step at it's rear edge, you shift the camber line.
Another significant aspect about a wing's camber is the % of cord at which the camber is at maximum. On a conventional airfoil, while the point of an airfoil's maximum thickness may generally be at roughly 30% of chord, the maximum airfoil camber is generally at closer to 40% of chord. [This can, of course, vary extensively, but these numbers are a good generalization for the purposes of this discussion.]
As you add camber to a wing, and a resulting point of maximum camber, you create a very significant influence on the resulting wing's Center Of Lift. On a flat plate wing to which a doubler layer has been added, terminating in a KF step, the point of maximum camber will be right at the KF step. And the location of the maximum camber will directly relate to the center of lift of the wing. If you change the point of maximum camber, you also change the center of lift.
An example: An RG14 airfoil wing of conventional built-up construction & covering displays optimum glide capabilities when the balance is at about 30% of chord. The early 2007 Dancer KFm variant wing was built to have a forward half profile similar to the RG14, with a step at 50% of chord. the resulting KF2 variant wing reached optimum glide performance with the CG adjusted to 39% of chord on this wing.
Understanding how shifts in a wing's maximum camber affect the wing's optimum center of lift is an important aspect of getting the most out of our KF variant aircraft designing & building projects; the results are reflected in how well these aircraft can fly.
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Next May we will vote in a citywide referendum on whether to pay the Dallas City Council its first full-time salary in half a century. The people who oppose council pay say they don't want us to have a city council of full-time "professional politicians."
Here's my question. What do you think we get out of the system now, with a council full of unprofessional politicians?
Let me offer what I think may be the absolute pluperfect best example ever: the water main break that flooded 30 townhouses near White Rock Lake last February 8.
Right after it happened, Mayor Ron Kirk, City Manager Ted Benavides, and City Councilwoman Mary Poss rushed to the site and, while the TV cameras shone brightly on them, made all kinds of pledges about how the city was going to help the people whose homes had been flooded by millions of gallons of water from a broken city water main.
So last week, as if it were a big surprise to them and a terribly sad thing, these same city officials announced that even if the water main break turns out to be the city's fault, the city will not be paying anybody any money.
No money, no way.
Why? If the city's so sorry, and if the mayor of the city and the city manager and the council member from that district all swear they're going to help on television, how come they're not going to help? Help me with this.
So here is the official answer: It appears the city discovered, after much legal research, that a special exception in state law says cities are not liable for damage from water main breaks. They are liable for all kinds of other things. But state law says specifically they're not liable for water pipes, even if the pipes are bad, even if the city knew the pipes were bad, even if they knew they needed to fix the pipes, even if they didn't fix the pipes, sorry: not liable for pipes.
Wow, what a strange law. What a coincidence!
But you can see the city's dilemma. It says it would like to help, of course. But if the law says it's not liable, it's not liable. And it can't just give the money away.
But this is what you also need to know: While they were crying crocodile tears about not being able to help the people in the townhouses, the same city officials forgot to mention that the city of Dallas spent taxpayer money--money from those people in the townhouses, for example--lobbying in Austin four years ago to get the exception added to the law that exempts cities from liability for water main breaks.
I came across the city's lobbying efforts last summer while working on a story about Melton and Cora Barnes, a couple in their 70s whose home, high on a bluff over Woody Branch Creek in southern Dallas County, is in danger of tumbling 35 feet over the precipice with them in it ("Tribal Vengeance," July 20, 2000).
One of the Barnes' most heart-rending complaints was that the city staff had aimed a big storm-sewer pipe right at the creek bank beneath their home. When heavy rains swelled the storm-sewer system in a new subdivision across the creek from them, the city's new pipe turned into a water cannon, severely eroding the creek bank beneath the Barnes' property.
I called several lawyers who are experts in municipal law to see if the Barneses could sue the city for the damage to their property caused by the city's sewer pipe. One of the lawyers with whom I spoke, himself a former member of the Dallas city attorney's staff, told me about the exception protecting municipalities from lawsuits for damage caused by water pipes. He knew about it because he had been on the lobbying team that went to Austin in the pay of Dallas and some other cities to get it passed.
"It may not be very fair," he said, "but cities are a pretty powerful force in the Legislature."
I don't know what it cost the city to pay the lobbying team to get the law changed, but I would be willing to bet the farm on one thing: It was way cheaper than fixing the pipes.
I am not saying that Kirk, Benavides, and Poss went out to the neighborhood where the water main broke and lied through their teeth about their intentions. Poss and Kirk probably had no idea what the law provided or forbade. Benavides certainly would have known about the exception for water main breaks, but what was he supposed to do with the mayor and a council member walking around like the Red Cross promising everybody help? Obviously, he's going to wait until they're all back safely at City Hall before he gives Kirk and Poss the wake-up call.
Bottom of the page: The people whose homes were ruined by the city's bad water main will get nothing from the city. Many do not have insurance. Of those who do, several already have been told by their insurance companies that the damage is not covered. And you watch: None of those people at City Hall will ever say another word about this.
Day in and day out, the issue at Dallas City Hall is much less about chicanery or duplicity than about the simple element of will. What is the real will of Dallas City Hall to help people in the position of those whose homes were flooded?
If City Hall had an absolute determination to devote its energy and assets to community-building and to the nurturing of neighborhoods, that water main would have been fixed with the money we gave away instead to Ross Perot Jr. and Tom Hicks for a sports arena. We wouldn't have a City Hall that's run like a sharp loan company. We would have a mayor who told the staff, "Don't go lobby in Austin for a special law letting you out of your responsibilities to the citizens of my city. Go fix those damned pipes!"
You have to juxtapose this kind of thing with the massive moving of heaven and earth that Dallas City Hall will do for people such as Hicks and Perot when they want to build some kind of neon casino downtown. Or what they will do for Tom Luce when he wants to bring the Olympics to town and run roughshod over historic Fair Park in the course of getting it done.
It's really a question of will. What do we have to do to instill in our City Hall a real will to serve citizens, to serve neighborhoods, to help build real communities inside the city?
The unpaid volunteer council system is only half of that picture, maybe the less important half. The other piece of the puzzle is the city manager system, a holdover from an earlier era when the city was run by a small group of businessmen who saw themselves as a benevolent oligarchy. The city manager was a tool of top-down control, set up specifically to make sure none of those ward-heeling rowdies out in the neighborhoods ever got any power.
The ward-heeling rowdies are all long gone. They moved to Mesquite 50 years ago. The oligarchs are either dead or living in Forney (same thing).
And the city manager system has been taken over by diamond-toothed river-boat gamblers--rich hoods who want what they want and couldn't care less about broken water mains.
In spite of all that, these could be promising times for the city. The old racial bigotries and fears that drove white people out to the far suburbs or into the monoracial enclaves of Highland Park and University Park are softening. Close-in neighborhoods are swelling with prodigals who have come back in order to be near the action. The coming round of redistricting based on the 2000 census will be shaped by a raft of new Supreme Court rulings since the last redistricting.
What bodes well for city neighborhoods is that the racial quota system on which current districts were based has been materially disassembled by the high court. What we have seen under the existing system is that cutting the city into racial enclaves has tended to defeat the process of community-building.
What we need are districts built on true communities of interest. People in Oak Cliff--white, brown, and black--need to come to City Hall for Oak Cliff reasons, with their Oak-Cliffness in common, having overcome all of their other differences before coming downtown. City Hall can't do anything about whiteness, brownness, or blackness. City Hall can do something about Oak Cliff.
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Some of that is going to happen in the next redistricting. For Dallas to pass muster under the new rules, the city must come up with a city council that reflects true communities of interest: a very important first for the city.
We need to seize this moment, and paying the council a real-life salary is only step one. It's an essential step. We can't get around it or do without it. But it's only step one. Step two is either ditching or very seriously reforming the city manager system.
We need a no-excuses system. We need to be able to look those folks in the eye and say, "Find a way to help the people whose homes were flooded. Find a way to fix the pipes so there won't be any more homes flooded. Don't talk to us about any more casinos until you get the streets fixed. And take off those damned sunglasses."
That's what council pay is all about. It's step one in the creation of a political system that cares about the city. If we care, we have to make them care.


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In Reply to: Such is life posted by Victoria Mathis on January 05, 2011 at 14:25:
: The phrase, "Such is life" is intresting. I've read it orgionated in France, that it comes from Ned Kelly's last words in Australila and that it's part of a saying from London's war years. Recently, I've seen it on Victorian wax impression rings with a ship. It's also found on what resemble/are religous medals also with a ship in the center of the words. My question is, What is the connection between the ship and the words, "Such is Life"?
It certainly wasn't coined by Ned Kelly, (though for all I know he may have said it), let alone in WWII (though no doubt people said it then too). It was already a standard phrase in the 18th century, when Joseph Baretti in his 1762 Grammar of the Italian Language translated "Cosi va'l mondo!" (literally "That's the way the world goes") as "Such is life". The French "C'est la vie" (literally "That's life") is a parallel phrase, but there's no reason to suppose that either is derived from the other. It's just as likely that the French, Italians and British each came up with the reflection independently.
As for the phrase as a motto on a ring or charm showing a ship at sea, surely that means that everyone's life is like a frail ship on the sea, subject to storms, calms and all kinds of weather which we cannot evade but have somehow to endure. Something like that, anyway.


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The fire, which the National Fire Service said began Tuesday, has consumed 11 square miles of the forest. More than 500 homes northwest of Prescott have been evacuated.
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The information management team manages the technical aspects of NCPTT's grants and projects, website, in-office computer systems and publications distribution.
NCPTT Website
The NCPTT website has been established as an authority for preservation technology research and training. The online product catalog serves as the primary vehicle for disseminating electronic versions of our products to preservation professionals quickly and inexpensively. Our online presence also promotes NCPTT preservation training.
Website Statistics April 1-Oct. 1, 2007
Between April 1 and Oct. 1, NCPTT served 3,553,023 web pages to 60,977 unique visitors. This represents an increase of 7.2 percent in pages served and 53.9 percent in unique visitors.
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In August 2007, Northwestern State University substantially increased the bandwidth available both campus-wide and to NCPTT. While the lack of adequate bandwidth has negatively impacted the apparent end-user speed of our site and limited our ability to stream video, this upgrade has been substantially beneficial.
Shortly after the network upgrade we performed aggressive cuts to the size of the HTML pages output by the server, cutting the size of pages served by over 85 percent. This has resulted in a substantial increase in apparent speed for our visitors.
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Since the last PTT Board meeting, NCPTT has re-engineered the website to make it more navigable, removing the drop-down menus and adding sidebar navigation, breadcrumb trails, and a new search engine. Throughout this process, search engine optimization techniques have been used to ensure page names and titles are both descriptive and keyword heavy. Feedback from visitors has been very positive, particularly since the increase in bandwidth and HTML optimization.
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While the NCPTT website continuously evolves to service the needs of our visitors, we are focusing our efforts in five main areas:
- Expanding available bandwidth to support more traffic.
- Frequent addition of content, both new content and conversion of all print product catalog items to HTML.
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The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Network is the mechanism whereby thousands of National Park Service employees receive competency-based training at or near their work site at little or no cost to them. The Network has over 230 receiving stations across the Service spanning five time zones. The highly interactive training allows students immediate access to their instructor. This interactivity is the key component to the success of the broad and varied training opportunities.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
since I'm still stuck at home without a manuscript
Not only is he a horrible role model and a cheating philanderer, Mr. Rodriguez made the unfortunate decision a couple of months ago to woo the animosity of the entire Toronto team by fudging a game-determining play (ARod, who was approaching third, called "Mine!" on a pop fly headed in his direction, thereby screwing up the thirdbaseman, who let the ball drop). Commentators universally agree it was a bush league play (the rally monkey tells me "bush league" means "uncivilized").
I was very pleased last night to see the BlueJays pitcher (Josh Towers, the rally monkey tells me he's called) very purposefully pitch a fastball directly into ARod's ribcage. There was nearly a brawl. Both benches emptied onto the field in what the rally monkey calls a melee.
The best part is that Towers is this adorable geeky twerp and ARod is huge. The rally
monkey assures me that there was a big angry Canadian named Matt Stairs who would have killed ARod (he needed to be physically restrained). He was followed by the 6'8'' 280-pound Frank Thomas, known in the league as "The Big Hurt." I would have LOVED to see someone get it.
THIS, my friends, is the reason to watch baseball.
4 comments:
- angelle said...
i didnt kno you were a bball fan. im not either, but if i were to be, id be a yankees fan. and being a would-be yankees fan, i'm a would-be arod fan. (500 baby! and plus he's kinda cute). but since it's just would-be, i don't really care either way, though i might defend him and them just to get a rise out of people and just for the hell of it.
- Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:26:00 PM
- angelle said...
dude.. you're home so now there's no one to talk to online. boohoo.
- Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:43:00 PM
- Space Alien said...
Hmmm... it seems as if the rally monkey is more prevelant in recent posts.
I am guessing RaMo/the voice behind him supports the Mets?
Too bad I'm a Red Sox fan [if I were to ever watch]. And you should be, too, you're from Northern Connecticut! haha
- Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:30:00 PM
- moonrat said...
the rally monkey wants you to know that hating the yankees is the same as being a red sox fan.
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