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District One Natural Resources Assistance Council
Round Three Project Descriptions
Bedford Riparian Corridor Enhancement Project
Total Project Cost: $237,000
Clean Ohio Request: $117,750
Acquisition: less than 1 acre
The Bedford Riparian Corridor Enhancement Project will acquire 185 square feet of land that will be a conservation easement and is located near downtown Bedford and along a tributary of Tinker's Creek.
The land is now used primarily for stormwater retention of the city hall complex and the project aims to reforest the area, create a wetlands, allow access to a riparian corridor, utilize the "grow no mow" concept, and enhance stormwater management. The project also includes a foot trail and a looped nature trail.
Coe Lake Riparian Restoration Project
Total Project Cost: $294,000
Clean Ohio Request: $184,000
Acquisition: None
The Coe Lake Riparian Restoration Project is not an acquisition, but a restoration of the area surrounding Coe Lake in Berea. The land is already owned by the city and is protected for conservation and open space purposes.
The project will utilize bioengineering techniques to stabilize over 2000 lineal feet of eroding shoreline around Coe Lake and plant native vegetation to filter urban runoff. The project will also construct wetland pools to restore a 5 acre forested wetland area enhance water quality and 2 acres of aquatic habitat and provide public access to a 6.5 acre natural area by initiating the first phase of a recreational loop trail.
Chippewa Creek Headwaters Stream and Wetland Protection Program
Total Project Cost: $315,468
Clean Ohio Request: $222,531
Acquisition: 25.15 acres
The Chippewa Creek Program plans to purchase 25.15 acres of high quality forested green space that protects a headwater stream of the Chippewa Creek Watershed in Broadview Heights.
The city will preserve two identified wetlands and natural areas that provide habitats for forest and aquatic wildlife. The project also includes water quality improvement, streamside erosion control and opportunities for conservation, recreation, education and preservation.
Canal Basin Park
Total Project Cost: $944,200
Clean Ohio Request: $434,200
Acquisition: 0.5 acres
The City of Cleveland seeks to purchase a half an acre of industrial land near the flats for a future park. This acquisition will set the boundary for the Canal Basin Park.
The purchase is part of a larger plan to create a major visitor gateway park called the Canal Basin Park. The park has not yet been designed, but the park will be tied directly into the developing Towpath Trail system, the existing Canal Way Ohio National Scenic Byway and the future extension of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
The project supports comprehensive open space planning, provides multiple recreational, economic and aesthetic preservation benefits and enhances economic development that relies on recreational and ecotourism in areas of relatively high unemployment and lower incomes.
Beecher's Brook Forest: North Chagrin Reservation
Total Project Cost: $1,340,000
Clean Ohio Request: $1,005,000
Acquisition Amount: 17.4 acres
The Cleveland Metroparks will purchase 17.4 acres of an old growth beech and maple forest as part of a 27.7 acre total acquisition and protection initiative for North Chagrin Reservation. The forest links the bottomland hardwood forests and emergent wetlands of the Chagrin River Valley to upland hardwood forests.
The project will preserve and protect wildlife habitats and water quality, preserve flood plain and stream side forest functions and natural stream channels.
This land was approved for lot subdivision on February 2, 2004, but development is being held off because the Metroparks, several municipalities and other agencies authorized the Trust for Public Land to acquire the parcel. Consequently, if the Metroparks is unable to purchase the land, the forests will be cleared, resulting in destruction of habitat, increased water runoff, increased stream sedimentation and urban intrusion into the forest.
Rocky River West Branch Riparian Corridor
Total Project Cost: $435,000
Clean Ohio Request: $326,250
Acquisition Amount: 20 acres
The Rocky River West Branch Riparian Corridor acquisition is part of the West Branch of the Rocky River riparian corridor preservation initiative, which is a preservation area for a greenway connector between the mainstem of the Rocky River, the East Branch of the Rocky River, and the West Branch of the Rocky River, all part of or connecting to the 2,552 acre Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks.
This riparian corridor will protect about 20 acres of open space in the floodplain of the Rocky River and includes both forested areas and open files and meadows. The Metroparks will preserve and enhance the land and wildlife habitats and restore the degraded landscape. The program also offers multiple recreational, economic and aesthetic preservation benefits.
Euclid Railroad Greenway and Multi-purpose Trail Project
Total Project Cost: $572,200
Clean Ohio Request: $411,150
Acquisition Amount: None
The Euclid Railroad Greenway and Multi-purpose Trail Project is a collaboration between Euclid and South Euclid and seeks to acquire the vacant former Euclid Railroad right-of-way and to provide transportation enhancements along Euclid Avenue for the development of a 5 mile, multipurpose trail loop, providing linkages between Euclid and South Euclid, and the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation.
The project emphasizes the preservation, protection, and enhancement of greenspace, and provides public access for appreciation, recreation, and education.
Beecher's Brook - Hemlock Ravine and South Ridge
Total Project Cost: $660,000
Clean Ohio Request: $495,000
Acquisition Amount: 10.3 acres
This acquisition is part of a 27.7 acre total acquisition and protection initiative for North Chagrin Reservation. The project would ensure the protection of water quality in Beecher's Brook Stream, ravine slopes, old-growth hemlock forests and mature upland woods in the Chagrin River watershed. It also protects wildlife habitats and rare, threatened and endangered species.
New hiking and walking trails will also be built as the Cleveland Metroparks has committed that Park District personnel, volunteers, and/or retained contractors in coordination with Gates Mills Conservancy, may be utilize to create the trails.
Chagrin River Corridor Acquisition
Total Project Cost: $5,103,417
Clean Ohio Request: $950,000
Acquisition: 54 acres
The Chagrin River Corridor Acquisition project is located on Chagrin River Road in Hunting Valley. The project is the first phase of a larger project aiming to acquire a total of 76 acres of open space and riparian corridor.
The project emphasizes protection of habitats for rare, threatened and endangered species, preservation of high quality, viable wildlife habitat, and preservation and restoration of floodplain and streamside forest functions.
Beecher's Brook Stream Restoration and Parkland Acquisition Project, Phase III
Total Project Cost: $150,000
Clean Ohio Request: $50,000
Acquisition Amount: 1.12 acres
This project is the final phase of a plan to acquire 4.3 acres of land surrounding Beecher's Brook, a tributary of the Chagrin River. The project links the S.O.M Center Road Project and the Wilson Mills Road, Beta Drive S.O.M Center Road Multipurpose Path Project.
The land acquired will become a public park and the total 4.3 acre area will be vegetated to stabilize the streambed and provide for improved filtration of ground water. The project increases habitat protection, preserves the land and woods, and offers opportunities for education. This project is also a component of the Multi Purpose Trail Plans.
West Creek Greenway: Linking the Neighborhoods
Total Project Cost: $961,180
Clean Ohio Request: $716,797
Acquisition Amount: 47.51 acres
The West Creek Greenway project finances the acquisition of property in the West Creek Watershed in order to create a continuous public accessible riparian corridor and to protect open space and endangered wetlands.
The project is part of a larger multi-community effort to preserve a 500 plus acre preserve and greenway. So far, this effort has yielded the dedication of 252 acres to the West Creek Preserve; the lands acquired in this project will also be integrated into the West Creek Preserve and Greenway.
The project emphasizes habitat protection, inclusion as part of a stream corridor-wide or watershed-wide plan, provision of multiple recreational, economic, and aesthetic preservation benefits, preservation of floodplain and streamside forest functions, preservation of headwater streams, and the restoration and preservation of aquatic biological communities


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January 15, 2014 07:00 AM by Lisa Princ
They say karma will eventually come back to bite those who deserve it, and though it has taken nearly a year, it looks like Octomom, Nadya Suleman, may finally be getting what she deserves. That's right folks, nearly a year after the investigation began into claims that Octomom was defrauding welfare, she has been charged with 3 counts of felony welfare fraud!
Last year, Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom was accused of committing welfare fraud, as she collected welfare without reporting certain income that she received such as that from her various porn gigs. Well, it looks like it may be coming back to bite her, as Octo has been charged with 3 felony counts of welfare fraud, according to a new report by TMZ.
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January 15th, 2014 at 5:00 pm
For true Karma the judge will mete out that five years as a house arrest sentence. Jail would be like a spa compared to doing what she should have been doing all along instead of abandoning these kids who have been raised primarily by "nannies" she's hired off the street and by her parents. She's been around her own kids less than most people are around their christmas trees.
She also needs to be declared financially incompetnent and an on-site guardian provided for her expenditures — down to the last penny.


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Job or Vacancy Description:
The Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (UKPSC) invites applications for following posts of Safai evam Khadya Nirikshak (Sanitary and Food Inspector) posts in Urban Development Departments of Government of Uttarakhand :
Safai evam Khadya Nirikshak (Sanitary and Food Inspector) : 65 posts, (UR-38, SC-15, ST-3, OBC-9), Pay Scale : Rs.4000-6000 (old, to be revised), Age : 21-40 years, relaxation in age as per rules.
Application Form : OMR application forms can be had from all Head Post offices/ Sub Post offices in the districts of Uttarakhand at cost of Rs.220 (Rs.130/- for SC/ST/PWD of Uttarakhand)
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General Instructions:
1. on any claim for the award of a pension in respect of injuries sustained by a person while serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, and any question as tothe amount of any such award, and it shall be the duty of a Public Service Commission
2.to advise on any matters so referred to them and on any other matter which the President, or, as the case may be the Governor of the State, may refer to them ;
3. a member of a Public Service Commission may, by writing under his hand addressed in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission, to the President, and in the case of a State Commission, to the Governor of the State, resign his office.
4. Subject to the provisions of clause(3), the Chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission shall only be removed from his office by order of the president on the ground of misbehavior after the Supreme Court, on reference being made to it by the President, has, on inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed in that behalf under Article 145,
5. If the Chairman or any other Member of a Public Service Commission is or becomes in any way concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the Government of India or the Government of a State or participates in any way in the profit thereof or in any benefit or emolument arising there from otherwise than as a Member and in common with the other Members of an incorporated company,
Tentative Last Date :21-12-2012
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The State of Uttarakhand came into existence on 09 th November, 2000under the Reorganization of Uttar Pradesh Act 2000. The Uttarakhand Public Service Commission was Constituted under the provisions of the Article 315 of the Constitution ofIndia by the Governor of Uttarakhand vide Notification No. 247/1Karmik2001dated 14 th March,2001(Annexure1).At present the strength of the Commission is the Chairman & the four Members(Annexure2).The working of Uttarakhand Public Service Commission is regulated by the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Procedure and Conduct of Business Rule2007{Framed by the Lok sewa Ayog Uttarakhand under section 11 of U.P. State Lok sewa Ayog(Prakriya ka viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 1985Uttarakhand Anukulan awam Upantaran Adesh, 2002.}1Thefollowing are the Constitutional powers of Constitution of India of the Commission:Article relating to Public Service Commission 315PublicServiceCommission for the Union and for the State(Subject to the provisions of this Article, there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each State.Commission for that group of States and if a resolution to that effect is where there are two Houses, by each House of the Legislature of each of those States,
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The World Bank consists of four closely associated institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment Guaranty Agency (MIGA). The World Bank supports development projects and sector investment programs to rebuild capital infrastructure such as transportation and communication, improve education, expand economic opportunities and strengthen population planning, health, and nutrition services. The IFC in particular is an important source of financing for private investment in developing countries.
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landing spot. will be interesting to see how he does.
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|1 year 24 weeks ago
|A good (but long) read for
A good (but long) read for anyone interested in this case
"This could explain, perhaps, why Adnan's defense counsel was so unconcerned by Asia's supposed alibi for Adnan, even though Asia placed Adnan in the library at 2:30 p.m. — because throughout all of the pre-trial investigation, and throughout at least Jay's first two interviews, everyone was working under the theory that the murder occurred just before 3:40 p.m., and a 2:30 p.m. alibi would be meaningless.)"
|1 year 33 weeks ago
|"a mat with each 11 jersey
"a mat with each 11 jersey numbers on it"
At the Rutgers game, they had a mat with the numbers 1-10 and an M on it. I wondered if it was for this kind of purpose. But then the team never actually seemed to use it, so I have no idea what it was there for.
|1 year 51 weeks ago
|I'm down, but it's not up to
I'm down, but it's not up to Celtic to get to decide which league they get to join. The Premier League has no interest in seeing how Celtic could do with real money.
|1 year 51 weeks ago
|"the Nigerian defense
"the Nigerian defense includes two local players, a couple of guys in the English second tier, and just one player at anything resembling a big club: left back Eldereson Echiejile plays for French runners-up Monaco"
And Efe Ambrose. As a Celtic fan, I swear, we're still a big club. No, really.
|2 years 18 weeks ago
|But the role of college is to
But the role of college is to prepare you for the real world in a lot more facets than just education. Stauskas is going to "further" his "career" (your words) by preparing for the NBA while at Michigan. Now, that's true for a very small percentage of even NCAA athletes, so the eggs should be put in different baskets, so to speak, and a Michigan degree is still worth a hell of a lot for many people. It's just that in this specific instance, Stauskas preparing for the NBA is worth a lot more, at this moment in time, than an education from Michigan. If some whiz kid programmer developed some great piece of software that required his undevoted attention to put out in the marketplace, would anyone bemoan the fact that he didn't finish school? Of course not. And of course, Stauskas can always come back and finish his degree when the time better suits him.
|2 years 25 weeks ago
|Brazil's ranking was really
Brazil's ranking was really hurt as they didn't have to qualify, and qualifying games count more in FIFA ranking than friendlies.
|2 years 33 weeks ago
|No, I completely get your
No, I completely get your point, but you're missing mine while you bluster about the good ol' days. You think that because some kids can't handle both parts of "student-athlete", then all of them should have to sit out a year. But this completely misses that all of these kids are different, some can handle both, some can handle only one, and some can't handle either part. There are kids that can handle both as a freshman, and all you're doing is cutting out a great opportunity for them.
You seem to think that if we incentivize the kids who are primarily thinking of going pro in a sport from going to college, then college sports will become pure and clean. I can't help but think how laughably naive that is.
|2 years 33 weeks ago
|No, you're just taking the
No, you're just taking the "athlete" out. If a kid still has to figure out the "student" part, then set up something specific to him to help him out, don't pass an across-the-board decision that hurts the kids who can handle both.
|2 years 33 weeks ago
|And all the kids who want to
And all the kids who want to enjoy going to a college and are good enough to play as a freshman? Just too bad for them?
|2 years 36 weeks ago
|Stave shouldn't hand the ball
Stave shouldn't hand the ball to the ref, and wait for him to spot it. The clock is still running. He should have left it exactly where it was, so that his team could lineup immediately so they could stop the clock.
|3 years 6 weeks ago
|But a number of high
But a number of high schoolers are good enough to go make a NBA roster, a lot more than could go make a NFL roster. Sure, its a risk for NBA teams, but they're more than willing to take that risk, as it pays off often enough, so let them.
|3 years 9 weeks ago
|Stauskas has to be 7' to be
Stauskas has to be 7' to be able to get to the NBA early? Huh? He's going to have to put on some muscle, but 6'6" is plenty tall enough to be a shooter off someone's bench.
|3 years 11 weeks ago
|Sure, if we recruit enough
Sure, if we recruit enough talent that we can tell the opponent what we're going to do and they still can't stop us, then we should mimic Alabama. But when we play teams that we can't clearly out-talent, we should have some alternate strategies.
|3 years 26 weeks ago
|To both of you, I understand
To both of you, I understand that this is a bit different, and a Kent St win would make them more likely to move up than TCU being idle, just that the voters have already seen that the lower end of the poll matters and somewhat made a statement last year.
|3 years 26 weeks ago
|They saw this just last year.
They saw this just last year. TCU was ranked 18 heading to the conf championship games, behind Georgia and Michigan St. They figured that with both teams losing, they would get bumped up the two spots necessary. They didn't.
|3 years 27 weeks ago
|Because, rightfully so, some
Because, rightfully so, some people don't think that you order best teams solely by fewest losses.
|3 years 28 weeks ago
|A big reason that Cabrera had
A big reason that Cabrera had better numbers was because of the park that each guy had to play in.
|3 years 28 weeks ago
|Actually Triple Crown doesn't
Actually Triple Crown doesn't equal MVP. Not only, obviously, are they two different measures, but we have precedent that a Triple Crown winner can also not be the MVP. In 1947, the best hitter in the game, and a meh defender in a corner position came in second to a centerfielder who was pretty great with the bat too, and would have won gold gloves if they had existed.
|3 years 28 weeks ago
|In the play, the three
In the play, the three releasing lineman only hit two guys. Whether it was a miscommunication or whatever, the RG hits no one. If they each hit a guy, then either Demens or Kovacs are blocked, and Colter just has to guess properly on which one it will be and give or pitch accordingly.
It's a great play in that it forces the o-line to be perfect in figuring out their assignments, still leaves guys to make a play on each part of the option, and forces Colter to make a decision before he can probably figure out the defense, but it was really helped by a NW o-lineman doing nothing on the play.
|3 years 28 weeks ago
|You can have your magazine
You can have your magazine sent to our troops. I'm not exactly sure how it works so that you can still get your code for insider, but I think you just have to call ESPN Magazine and they'll handle just about everything.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|This is accurate. In just
This is accurate. In just about every measure used in the BCS, Michigan's win over UMass is worth more than the loss to Alabama. No one gets credit for scheduling up and losing, and I'm not seeing how that will change.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|Assuming Bama stays at #1,
Assuming Bama stays at #1, I'd say close to 50-50, but I'll lean no. Sugar will get to pick an at-large team before the Rose will, so they'll take either ND or the top SEC team left.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|Same network doesn't mean
Same network doesn't mean everyone has the same opinion
And again, and much more importantly, these are completely unrelated. Guesswork for "fun" before a game is even played is different than understanding how the polls work in the majority of circumstances and then explaining that.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|I didn't see who said the
I didn't see who said the Irish wouldn't pass an undefeated Bama or Oregon, but I would bet my bottom dollar that it was different from those who made those NC predictions.
And those two are completely different kinds of analyses. Not comparable in any way.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|And they beat better
And they beat better opponents than us.
A big problem for Michigan in the computer polls is that UMass is dead last, and dragging down their strength of schedule. the Colley Rankings have a tool to add/remove games. Replace UMass with Bowling Green (still a blowout, but ranked #72 there instead of Umass' #138) and Michigan moves up to #27 from #38. This is the same exact problem that the basketball team had last year.
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|Fine, completely ignore any
Fine, completely ignore any thoughts you have about what Alabama and Notre Dame's defense would do to Ohio, or what Denard would be able to do against New Mexico St, Marshall, Norfolk St and Buffalo. But you have to find something more nuanced than "win is good, loss is bad".
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|The Big Ten has no big wins
The Big Ten has no big wins is the actual problem. I count 13 OOC losses, but five were to now top 10 teams, Alabama, Oregon St and ND x3. And Illinois, Iowa and Penn St lost to now a combination of Iowa St, LA Tech, Arizona St, and Ohio, all borderline top 25 teams, and it's not like anyone was expecting that former group to carry the banner for the Big Ten to begin with. Indiana has always been bad, leaving us with C Michigan over Iowa, UCLA over Nebraska and Virginia over Penn St. Not good, but Sagarin has the Big Ten as his 4th best conference, and that sounds about right.
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|Fine, compare the resumes.
Fine, compare the resumes. Ohio's best win has come against a before-they-got-it-together Penn St, and in the only similar opponent to Michigan had to come from behind in the 4th Q to beat UMass. Ohio would have (at least) two losses with Michigan's schedule, and Michigan would be undefeated against Ohio's schedule.
|3 years 34 weeks ago
|But you haven't teased out
But you haven't teased out how many of those runs have to do with the guys hitting around those two. Put Trout in the middle of the lineup, but still ahead of a big bopper, and his % here will go up.
|3 years 34 weeks ago
|I'm not sure you have any
I'm not sure you have any idea what youre talking about. Sorry to sound so blunt. The "philosophy" of sabermetrics is nothing more than the desire to understand the game at a deeper level. That is, we know that AVG/HR/RBI isn't good enough by itself, and there is more to know. Sabermetricians has been trying to evaluate defense, and has so far determined that it is quite difficult, but certainly not unimportant. And they also say that it's not SBs that are not valuable, but the guys who get thrown out so many times while trying to steal bases that neutralize any return (Trout's SB% is fantastic though).
This is the biggest source of strife between the groups - not understanding what the others are saying.


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'They just hated'
The high-school massacre in Colorado marks the latest-and most vicious and deadly-student attack in the public schools since the December 1997 murders in Paducah, Ky. With a dark sense of humor and no sense of mercy, two teenagers moved through Columbine High School and cut down classmate after classmate with bullets and bombs. As one mother put it, "You just want to hear, 'it's over.'"
Columbine High School student Caleb Newberry knew Eric Harris hated athletes. He just didn't know how much. Caleb, a 16-year-old sophomore who survived last week's massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., had a gym class with Harris last semester. During a brief confrontation between the boys, Eric told Caleb: "Someday, all you jocks are gonna die."
On Tuesday, April 20, Eric Harris evidently tried to make good on his word. Armed with shotguns and at least one pistol, he and fellow Columbine junior Dylan Klebold entered the school parking lot about 11:30 a.m. and opened fire. The boys, members of a dark clique called the Trenchcoat Mafia, were acknowledged social outcasts. Witnesses say the boys in their black trenchcoats moved methodically through the cafeteria and up to the library, laughing as they randomly murdered terrified students and teachers along the way.
The massacre at Columbine was the eighth school shooting in the United States in a horrific chain that began in 1997. It was by far the deadliest. Before they were finished, the boys had killed 13 people and wounded 16 others. Then they shot themselves. One girl was treated for nine shrapnel wounds, apparently from one of two grenade-like devices detonated during the rampage. In all, police found more than 30 explosive devices on the school grounds, in cars parked outside, at the homes of the killers, and on the killers' dead bodies.
Caleb Newberry was sitting in math class when the killing began, his mother Paulette told WORLD. Since last week was Senior Prank Week, "when someone came to the classroom door and told the teacher to get everyone out, they first thought it was a joke," she said. But a clanging fire alarm convinced Caleb's teacher that something was seriously wrong. Then, as Caleb's entire math class fled down a hallway, their bid for escape turned desperate. Explosions rang out and a girl running next to Caleb crumpled to the floor, wounded in the leg by shrapnel. Caleb stopped to help her, but his teacher urged Caleb to keep running, then dragged the girl to safety himself. Everyone in Caleb's math class reached safety outside the school.
But his friend Isaiah Shoels did not make it. When Caleb arrived home, he learned from TV news coverage that Isaiah had been among the first slain. "He broke down right there," said Mrs. Newberry. "He said he felt like he should have gone back in and tried to save his friends. I told him there was nothing he could have done to fight against guns and bombs."
Indeed, for kids in the path of such firepower, fighting wasn't an option. Instead, they hid-and prayed. In ones, twos, and larger groups, terrified students barricaded themselves in offices, huddled under desks, even curled up inside overhead air ducts.
"I saw them shoot a girl because she was praying to God," 15-year-old Evan Todd told the Denver Post.
Byron Kirkland, a 15-year-old sophomore, described another scene to the Denver Post: "There was a girl crouched beneath a desk in the library, and the guy came up and said, 'peekaboo,' and shot her in the neck. They were hooting and hollering and getting a big joy out of this."
Beth Lagerborg's 17-year-old son Andrew was among those who hid in fear from Eric and Dylan. "Andrew was in a chemistry classroom," said Mrs. Lagerborg. "The kids heard an explosion and ran to the door, but the kids at the front said, 'Oh, no, no, it's a gunman!' So they ran through an adjoining classroom and barricaded themselves in an office. They laid there on the floor for three hours, afraid even to talk."
At about 2:30 p.m., a SWAT team conducting room-to-room clearing operations found the group and led them out of the school via a route that circumvented much of the carnage. "I feel blessed that my son was spared so much," said Mrs. Lagerborg, who attends Cherry Hills Community Church.
"A lot of the other kids saw some grisly, awful things."
Like the 16-year-old son of a family that attends Bruce Porter's Littleton church. Mr. Porter, pastor of Celebration Christian Fellowship, reported comforting the boy as he sobbed out his survival story: Feigning death, he lay still on the floor in the blood of his dying friends, while the killers moved on in search of other victims. The boy, whose name was not released, eventually made it out of Columbine. His 17-year-old sister didn't.
"My heart is breaking for the mom and dad and her brother and her family," said Mr. Porter. "We sat in a staging area at Leawood Elementary School for hours awaiting word of her. None came."
Hundreds of parents waited for word of their children at Leawood; others paced the floors at a nearby public library, hoping that their kids were safe. "You're praying," said Paulette Newberry, who waited at the school with her husband for two hours before learning that Caleb was OK. "Praying with a little bit of pride and guilt-pride because you're praying that your child is safe, and guilt because you know somebody else's child isn't."
Mrs. Lagerborg waited three hours for Andrew at Leawood while her husband stood vigil at the public library. She described tearful reunions between teens and parents: One mother, listening to her teen daughter's graphic descriptions of the violence she had witnessed, screamed and held her daughter tightly. "I could just see in the mother's eyes that she knew, even if her daughter didn't, that this would be with her daughter for the rest of her life."
Mrs. Lagerborg also described the grinding tension felt by those still left waiting for news of their kids: "You're waiting and waiting, and you just want to hear: 'It's over.'"
For many students, even when it was over, it wasn't over. Mike Lawrie, youth pastor at Deer Creek Community Church, said scores of kids showed up at his church Tuesday night "just looking for a safe place to be and to pray."
Mr. Lawrie said that while none of the 18 to 20 kids from his youth group who go to school at Columbine was injured, many are emotionally scarred. "They just don't have the life experience to know how to process this at all."
Like other area churches that opened their doors for services and memorials, Deer Park held a meeting Tuesday night. Most of the hundred or so who attended were church members, but Mr. Lawrie said there were a handful of kids he didn't know. Many, he said, were "looking for God in all this. There was a lot of discussion about the uncertainty of life, and some kids came to the realization that they're really not in control."
Which is a frightening feeling for kids growing up in "Anytown, USA," as many residents describe Littleton, a town of 35,000. Mr. Lawrie called the town "a very simple and basic and productive community. I don't think these kids ever would have thought it would happen in this community."
Some residents want to communicate to those outside Littleton that Eric and Dylan do not reflect the spirit of Littleton, or of Columbine High School's 1,800 students. But maybe they reflected a coarsening youth subculture that glorifies violence and hatred (see sidebar).
"They didn't just hate athletes and black people and Hispanics," said Mrs. Newberry: "They just hated."


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3 Valentines Day Gift Ideas You Should Avoid If Your Valentine Is PregnantRebecca Odes
Valentine's Day can be a beautiful time to be pregnant. What could be more loving? But a pregnant Valentine is not just any Valentine. Your beloved gestating woman needs a certain amount of special consideration from you this February 14th.
Here are some things you might want to avoid when choosing a Valentine's Day gift for your pregnant partner.
1. A Smelly Bouquet
Strong-scented flowers may offend your lady's supersensory perception: Pregnancy amplifies the sense of smell, and sometimes alters it, too. If you want to buy flowers, you might want to stick with something milder, like roses. Or do some research first to see what's grossing your girl out aromawise.
2. A Fancy Dinner Out..During The First Trimester
There's little I enjoy more than a perfectly orchestrated meal at a great restaurant. What better way to reconnect with your partner and enjoy the finer things in life? But in the queasy first trimester, even a fantasy dinner out can be kind of a nightmare. A candelit dinner becomes a lot less romantic when the candle is being used to inspect the chicken.
3. Anything That Implies She is Required To Have Sex With you, right now
Yes, I know Valentine's day is the holiday of love and all that. And perhaps you have a long established tradition of exchanging naughty gifts on this celebration of consummation. I'm not saying you should abandon any enjoyable habits, but do realize that when your woman is pregnant, she may not react in the same way. What was once felt as fun might feel a little pressure-y if her hormones or pregnancy side effects are interfering with her desire. So if you do go with something racy, make sure you deliver the gift with an open mind about how and when you'll get to see your present in action!


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Hot on the heels of our previous post about her new novel The Kid, Sapphire sat down for a revealing conversation with NPR, which may give a hint as to whether the book will see a transition to the big screen anytime soon.
We've questioned whether The Kid will itself be adapted for film as its prequel Push, which made for a raw account of abuse and despair in Lee Daniels' Precious. But if movie audiences were disturbed to see the life of Claireece "Precious" Jones portrayed on screen, they may be in for an even bigger shock with the story of her son Abdul in The Kid.
In the interview, Sapphire explains that part of what makes the novel so graphic is the character's facility with language - the fact that Abdul is able to read, write, and express himself better than his mother could in Push. But the other challenge presented by The Kid is that unlike his mother, Abdul eventually succumbs to the cycle of his abuse and becomes a victimizer himself, leading to scenes of brutality that will be difficult for readers, and possibly viewers, to digest.
When asked why she chose to use such graphic realism with the abuse in the novel, Sapphire says, "Part of the reason why it's happening is because we don't want to go there... being unable to even handle this, being unable to even look at the fact that children who have been drawn into certain cycles of abuse are capable of really horrendous things."
She adds, "I wanted to show the horror of what this is, but I also wanted to show this beautiful little boy who is basically an innocent, and how he is transformed by the horror of his experiences."
Such horror could be an obstacle for any screenwriter tasked with adapting the story, since the hallmark of a good drama is a sympathetic main character that the audience can root for, and I'm hard-pressed to think of any recent films where a sexual predator is still regarded as the hero.
Still, considering the frenzy that surrounded Precious, whether this novel will make it to film is anybody's guess. We're keeping our ears to the ground.
For the full NPR interview, click here.


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A couple of years ago, Intuit introduced a new subscription based add-on to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, Advanced Inventory. In its initial year this new feature provided "multi-site" capabilities, allowing users to track inventory quantities for each item by specific physical locations. This gave users the ability to create up to 200 Inventory Sites such as Warehouse locations, Shipping/Receiving facilities and Drop-ship. All of this sounds very good if you need "multi-site tracking", right?
Update 10/25/2012: A fix for the data corruption issue outlined here has been found, see our followup article at http://www.sleeter.com/blog/2012/10/quickbooks-advanced-inventory-error-identified-repair-now-possible/
As more users have 'turned-on' this feature, we have seen significant changes in the database that appear to be overburdening the capabilities of the QuickBooks database, and which may pose additional risks of database corruption. Let's look at some of the problems that I'm seeing.
With the release of QuickBooks Enterprise 2012, users of Advanced Inventory were treated to a group of additional features they could turn on. One of these was the ability to track serial or lot numbers. Intuit advertises this feature as
"Enter serial numbers and lots at the time of purchase, transfer, or sale for more reliable tracking. You can track defective lots through assemblies and subassemblies, in stock on shelves, and customer purchases with new reports."
If you need to track "serial or lot numbers" it sounds like the perfect option to preclude you from needing to add a 3rd-party inventory management solution.
While not specifically an Advanced Inventory function, another new capability released in QuickBooks Enterprise for 2012 was Enhanced Inventory Receiving. This effectively separates the receiving (voucher) function from the vendor bill function. The result is creation of both a voucher and a bill, rather than the voucher simply being converted to the bill by use of a feature flag as in other QuickBooks versions.
All of these new features share several RISKS in common.
- They significantly expand the size of the QuickBooks database.
- They pose, and in fact have caused, a variety of new forms of data corruption associated with their complex data structure.
- They stress the abilities of the QuickBooks Database Server to perform within the RAM limitations Intuit has posed.
As future releases of Advanced Inventory features continue to expand capabilities, these problems can only become worse if not addressed by Intuit.
Understanding the QuickBooks Database Engine
Everyone is aware that the performance of QuickBooks becomes worse as the database increases in size. Usually Pro/Premier files show significant declines as file size approaches 250MB, and Enterprise shows degradation starting around 500MB. All of the various table sizes, including the internal link table, impact this performance, but the built-in RAM limitations of QuickBooks also contribute greatly to this.
The more new features, tables and data created within the database, the greater the potential for performance degradation due to the limitations Intuit has posed in the use of RAM. In order to understand the effects of these Advanced Inventory features on your QuickBooks, we need to take a closer look at how Intuit's RAM limitations impact this.
Databases such as Microsoft SQL or Oracle, and even Sybase, allow for reallocation of RAM by increasing cache size as the database grows. Even though Intuit uses the Sybase database for QuickBooks they have not chosen not to take this approach; rather they limit the use of RAM by setting specific cache sizes for their two levels of product, Pro/Premier and Enterprise. Settings within the products limit how much of the computer's RAM is used. For Pro/Premier the maximum is 256MB, and for Enterprise the maximum is 512MB. While these numbers are 'the maximums' by default there are situations in which QuickBooks will make use of significantly less RAM.
In order to make your data rapidly accessible, each computer application uses "cache", which stores the data temporarily in the computer's RAM memory. In the case of Enterprise the database server will begin loading file data into cache until it reaches the maximum permitted, when data needs to be accessed that is not already in cache, cached data must be written back to the disk, and data on the disk must then be loaded into cache. The more a QuickBooks file exceeds the RAM use limitations, the greater the effect of these limitations upon performance.
Because of the extra amount of data created by all these new Advanced Inventory features and the RAM limitations of QuickBooks, we can start to see a significant impact on performance as you start to use the features.
While some ProAdvisors and Computer Professionals have learned ways to adjust system settings so that QuickBooks can use more RAM than the limit imposed by Intuit's restrictions, these "tricks of the trade" would not be necessary if QuickBooks simply allocated RAM on the basis of total file size.
How Advanced Inventory Affects Database Size
Let's examine the multi-site feature of Advanced Inventory and how this feature may be impacting your QuickBooks database.
Adding a few fields to a database generally does not represent a significant increase in size, but when features are added that create entirely new tables, especially tables that act as multipliers of existing tables like the Item Site table, the potential for phenomenal growth of the database becomes a distinct probability.
When multi-site is enabled you enter your various "sites" into a new table, the Inventory Site table. Data such as site name, site location, and other generic information is captured. Currently (up through Enterprise V12) there is a limitation of 200 sites that Enterprise supports, so this is not a significant change in the database by itself.
An additional table, the Item Site table, records the allocation of your inventory items to every site. Every quantity transaction for every item for every site is recorded to a site. Not only is the transaction recorded to the appropriate transaction but it is also written to the linked record within the Item Site table, and the Item Site table is linked to the appropriate item in the Item table.
To illustrate this, I set-up a brand new company file and created 10 inventory items, as shown below.
I enabled Advanced Inventory and set-up an "Initial" site to which the feature assigned all of the existing inventory. This feature also by default creates a "Drop Ship" site. I then added 4 sites (Sites A through D), making a total of 6 sites in the Inventory Site list, shown below.
The following Quantity on Hand by Site report shows all of my Inventory items assigned to the "Initial site" since I hadn't yet transferred any inventory to any other site.
If you examine the List Information window in the Product Information screen (press F2), the Inventory Sites and Item Site entries are listed, as shown below. Note that there are 6 Inventory Sites and 10 Item Site listings already.
I then entered a single 'inventory transfer' to take 1/5th the total quantity for each of the ten items and allocate that quantity to "Site-A" as shown.
If we again look at the List Information window, you can now see that the number of entries in the Item Site list has grown from 10 to 20.
To continue this process I entered three additional inventory transfers to allocate 1/5 of the total inventory to each of the other three sites I had set up (Site-B, C and D). The Quantity on Hand by Site report below shows the results.
So let's examine the effect upon the Inventory Site table shown in the List Information. There are 50 site entries. Fifty records have been entered in this Advanced Inventory table to allocate 10 items to each of 5 sites.
Now instead of my extremely limited example, imagine if you had 1,000 inventory items. As the Multi-site feature begins to work, it immediately posts 1,000 entries to the Item Site Table allocating existing item inventory to your default site location. If you then transfer that inventory to each of your sites, so that items are recorded to just 20 (of the 200 possible) sites, the number of records in the Item Site table has grown to 20,000 records. Just 20 Inventory transfer transactions have created 20,000 records within a single database table.
If we take this a step further and assume you have 10,000 inventory items, and just 50 sites, you are talking about 500,000 records created within this table. Of course on the 'back-end' the database server is also creating data-objects to track the relationships between the various site, inventory site and item tables as well as the transactions related to each. All of this means that the Advanced Inventory feature is expanding you QuickBooks file size very quickly, so that less and less of the file can be loaded in cache because of the RAM limitations Intuit has established.
Multi-site Related Corruption
As if the growth in file size created by the Advanced Inventory Item Site table is not enough of a compromise on the ability of QuickBooks to perform, a whole new set of database corruptions have come to light associated with the Multi-site feature. Below is an excerpt from a QBWin.log file showing several examples of one such error.
The error mixed sites in targets which verify/rebuild cannot fix is exclusively associated with this Advanced Inventory feature. These errors compromise the Verify utility, and prevent QuickBooks from backing-up unless you don't select full verification.
What is worse, from my perspective, these errors seem to be getting more common. In my own QuickBooks ProAdvisor practice I have encountered this error six or more times in the last 20 months since the Advanced Inventory feature was first offered. Twice in the 2011 version of Enterprise; and several more times in the 2012 version. Neither myself, nor Shannon Tucker (of AccountingUsers, Inc.) were able to resolve these issues.
Even though this type of error clearly reads "Please contact support", I am aware of at least one client who subsequently sent their file to Intuit only to be told days later that there was no fix for this type of error. They were advised that the best solution would be to start a new file with an inception date subsequent to the error. It therefore appears that some Advanced Inventory corruptions cannot be resolved even by Intuit.
Editors Note: We are working with Intuit staff to investigate this error further.
How Other Tables are Over-Growing Your QuickBooks
Serial Numbers
The Advanced Inventory function also offers the ability to track serial numbers for your inventory items. This feature adds a significant number of new tables. Each type of transaction you would expect to see serial numbers recorded on (invoices, vendor bills, inventory transfers, assembly builds, etc.) has new companion tables to track the serial numbers. Since the serial numbers are stored in fields within each of these new tables, rather than the actual transaction tables, a field recording the 'target' (related) transaction is also posted to this table, so that the serial numbers can be linked back to the record with which they are associated.
If you are adding hundreds of serial numbers for each of thousands of inventory items, which are used on purchasing, inventory control and sales type transactions, the number of records will grow substantially over time. That growth will significantly increase the overall size of your QuickBooks file and tax the ability of the database server to provide timely access.
You can implement lot numbers instead of serial numbers, and that will have a similar impact (although the volume may be smaller).
Enhanced Inventory Receiving
Prior to this feature, QuickBooks recorded Item receipts and Vendor bills for those items using one set of forms, the "Bill Header" [the Master Record] and the "Bill Detail" [the Target Record(s)] transactions. Essentially a flag within the record differentiated it as either an item receipt or a vendor bill. Because they are one transaction a number of issues were common with respect to inventory items recorded in this manner.
For years, many problems associated with QuickBooks average cost have been tracked back to negative inventory resulting from sales occurring between the time that inventory was received and when the bill was subsequently posted. Upon receipt of inventory and the posting of an item receipt the inventory quantity was increased as of the receiving date. Later, when the bill was posted, the date of the item receipt (now a bill) changed and the previously received inventory was post-dated. If intervening sales relied on the previously received inventory to have positive inventory on hand, those inventory sales were subsequently turned into transactions which caused inventory to 'go negative'.
In order to give users, with significant inventory, the option of segregating the receiving function from the vendor bill function, QuickBooks introduced the Enhanced Inventory Receiving (EIR) feature. Now the receiving voucher is recorded as an entirely unique transaction impacting on-hand inventory, separate from the bill. In order to accomplish this two new tables are added to the database in order to record the header and details of each of these transactions. This in effect doubles the total number of records required to record both receiving voucher and vendor bill.
An additional "behind the scenes" issue should be mentioned here. Since either the Purchase Order and Receiving Voucher, or Receiving Voucher and Vendor Bill, are 'linked' to each other, the database server appends this information to the QuickBooks link table. This is one of the largest tables in the database. Because most QuickBooks users with "large files" were advised to not to turn on the Enhanced Inventory Receiving feature unless they started new Company files, I have not been able to determine how significantly this feature maybe increasing the size of the link-table.
Lastly, because both site information (if that option is turned on) and serial or lot numbers information (if that option has been chosen) are recorded on inventory item transactions, the QuickBooks file can grow quickly as a result of the extra records created with the EIR feature.
There have been several articles about the drawbacks of Enhanced Inventory Receiving in this blog. One in particular relates to the problems I'm outlining here, QuickBooks Enhanced Inventory Receiving – Bill Linking Problems. To summarize, in cases where purchase orders have been created, those purchase orders are subsequently "linked" to the receiving voucher. However, in those cases the receiving voucher is NOT linked to the vendor bill when posted. In transactions not involving purchase orders, links are created between the receiving voucher and vendor bill. This approach can cause confusion at the very least.
What about the Future of Advanced Inventory?
There are many third party add-on products that provide features like multiple-preferred vendors and prices, duplicate parts (differentiated by class or some other characteristics or attribute), barcode enabling scanner interfaces, rack/shelf/bin locations for pick/pack/ship control, and many more. Because of the growing popularity of the Advanced Inventory features, there is every reason to believe that Intuit will be expanding this to include similar features and options.
While there are advantages to having an "all-in-one" solution, as opposed to having to use a companion product that takes over parts of what QuickBooks normally does, there can be substantial disadvantages as well. When a 3rd party product is performing the complex tasks for inventory, an entirely separate database and database server is being used. The developers of those products have designed their applications to maximize available RAM for greater performance, particularly when compared to how Intuit has implemented the QuickBooks database.
When everything for effective inventory control is dumped into the QuickBooks company file database it significantly adds to the number of tables, substantially growing those tables as data is appended to each. This greatly increases the size of the overall QuickBooks database. Given the RAM limitations Intuit has imposed on the Enterprise product, and the new forms of database corruption arising out of these new features, one can only ask, "Is Advanced Inventory Crippling QuickBooks?"


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Schedule of Opening Day events:
Reeve Memorial Union
8 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9 a.m. Faculty & Staff Assembly
This assembly welcomes and celebrates the outstanding faculty and staff that make up the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. University-wide awards including the Endowment for Excellence Professorships, John McN Rosebush Professorship, Distinguished Teaching Awards, Outstanding Service Awards,
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zedd. so its all right for kimi to use an everyday word, but not for seb to do so? who are you to decide who is mature and who isnt?
and as for your comment that alonso has his character under control? i dont see that!
looking at some of these self righteous posts makes me wonder if they were written by tose who were not around in the 60 and 70s. never hear of james hunt? he swore like a trooper, and smoked. and there were others who were not averse to drugs.
all drivers swear over the radio, but these are not aired. the probem is that the interviews are done when adrenalin is still high.
i dont find it neccessary to use bad language, but neither do i take offense when someone uses it in the heat of the moment. maybe i am getting too old to care?
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Underfoot conditions are a great leveller at this time of the year
Published 06/11/2012 | 19:07
HAVING WATCHED last Sunday's Leinster Club game, I came away thinking that if you were to judge on hurling ability, Oulart-The Ballagh are a long way ahead of their Dublin counterparts and thoroughly deserved their victory despite leaving their supporters in a bit of a sweat coming near the end.
However, the fact that only one point separated the sides at the end further emphasises for me the different qualities that are necessary for success in this competition. In summer time (well, most summers), hurling is played at speed, with skill on the ball generally being the requisite requirement to succeed.
At this time of year, however, the balance shifts to a certain extent to physical strength and a team's ability to grind out results. This was particularly the case on Sunday as the conditions and the pitch were dreadful, offering little or no opportunity for good hurling, and as a result a very physical Dublin side almost stole a victory that their talents scarcely deserved.
Oulart-The Ballagh contributed to their own problems to an extent, sitting on a comfortable lead ten minutes into the second-half and possibly believing the game to be over, but in fairness to them they dug deep to struggle over the line when things seemed to be getting desperate near the end.
The first-half was even enough and Oulart-The Ballagh were given a huge boost going into half-time when they were awarded a dubious penalty which Nicky Kirwan expertly dispatched to the net. Referee Tony Carroll from Offaly seemed to spend a certain percentage of the second-half making amends to the Dublin men for that decision, but overall his performance couldn't be faulted as the conditions deteriorated so dramatically that it wasn't an easy game to handle.
Darren Stamp all through and Keith Rossiter up to an uneasy last ten minutes were dictating trends, and up front where it definitely wasn't a day for forwards, Garrett Sinnott was causing problems for the Dubs' defence. Young Conor O'Leary for me was hugely impressive with excellent long-range striking, and the decision to withdraw him (just after scoring an inspirational point) completely baffled me and led Oulart-The Ballagh into a very uncomfortable closing period.
Overall, however, the men in red and black will be happy to have come away from Parnell Park with a victory as it's never an easy place to go to. From a Wexford point of view it also reassures us that Dublin club hurling is not at a higher level than Wexford's as some of their inter-county stars would have us believe. Pat Herbert and his team will need no reminding that improvement will be needed in a couple of weeks' time if they are to lower the Kilkenny colours, but what a game to look forward to whether it be Dicksboro or Ballyhale who come visiting.
Congratulations to our six camogie All Stars and J.J. Doyle who picked up a hugely-deserved second manager of the year award on Saturday night last. Well done in particular to Deirdre Codd who received her first trophy after a particularly outstanding display in the final.
I have some issues with the selection process in both hurling and camogie and feel that there is too much emphasis on the All-Ireland final when picking the teams, but that has been the trend since the inception and probably won't change now.
Liam Watson for example gave the greatest display ever in an AllIreland Club final and this was never going to be recognised, while we have seen a lot of political selections over the years. Mary Leacy's omission from the nominations in the ladies' game was mind-boggling, and this year I fail to see why Cork who were clearly outclassed in the final secured the same amount of positions as ourselves.
My last issue is in relation to Noeleen Lambert who, despite being one of the finest defenders in the country since we first made the breakthrough in 2007, has yet to receive an award, and I feel she should have secured one this year. Her consistency levels in the purple and gold jersey have been phenomenal and she never fails to deliver on the big day.
Overall the awards are a fantastic recognition of players but sadly Noeleen's case is one of the little flaws that I hope will be rectified over the coming years.


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India has witnessed an unprecedented set of elections. We can torture the statistics till they confess, we can be ingenious in our interpretations, but it would be churlish to deny some broad trends. The first is the triumph of democracy. In response to worries about institutions and cynicism about politics, Indian democracy widened participation and emerged stronger. This is also a riposte to all those who have exaggerated fears about authoritarianism running triumphant over India; unmeaning phrases like emerging middle-class fascism were being dropped far too freely to do justice to Indian democracy. Does this look like a country that will easily give up democracy? Despite occasional ups and downs, in the end, this is a democracy that will make everyone dance to its tune rather than be railroaded by anyone.
But the great churning is now producing stunning new possibilities. There is no question that an anti-Congress wave is gathering momentum. The Congress is identified with a tottering, corrupt and incompetent old order. Incumbent Congress governments not just lost, but lost heavily. It bears reminding Sheila Dikshit and Ashok Gehlot are not disastrous performers in comparative terms. There is something new emerging in how voters judge governance that is hard to describe in simple terms. One element of a post-identity formula was to concentrate on delivering a few schemes well. This is what many successful chief ministers had done well, Dikshit and Gehlot included. But there is also something more ineffable required: the projection of overall being-in-charge and general trustworthiness, and the ability to respond to crises. There is a trigger that is a tipping point in that loss of credibility. Looking back, all the chief ministers who lost will identify such moments, where, despite the good they did, they projected a loss of control. No amount of schemes can overcome the overall loss of credibility.
The Aam Aadmi Partys absolutely spectacular political debut is a reminder that Indias progressive moment is ripe for being seized through political creativity and imagination. There will be new experiments with ideas, people and organisational forms. There is now a search for a new politics at many different levels. There is the search for a post-identity politics, which the AAP exemplified. Not only was its vote share spectacular, its cross class and caste basis was also impressive. In a paradoxical turn, the party that was accused of being anti-politics has rejuvenated politics to a degree