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Inaction Figure show at Clutter Gallery, Beacon, NY
In-Action Figure Show @ clutter Gallery, Beacon NY
Near downtown Victoria a new, wider sidewalk has since been completed to serve a busy walking environment near the city's downtown ferry terminals and connecting to a pathway that meanders off just to the right of the larger buildings in the background.
The pathway access will be improved and bike lanes added to the roadway for some length courtesy of an arrangement negotiated with a developer who will build a new multi-unit residential complex replacing the aging hotel property that is shown with an ersatz tower. The contribution to the public realm is worth several hundred thousands dollars and provides some relief from the increased density by giving new residents an opportunity to walk or bicycle for more of their trips. With downtown and other neighbourhood destinations close by, active transportation options will be more appealing.
Development exchanges that provide local amenities are not uncommon in Victoria and other cities. Increased density or intensification of uses demands local improvements to mitigate the impacts of increased populations or trip generation from other uses, so the provision of more appealing walking facilities and improvements to bicycle infrastructure are a necessary and appropriate use of the city's leverage in trading density for those amenities.
Inaction Figure show at Clutter Gallery, Beacon, NY
In-Action Figure Show @ clutter Gallery, Beacon NY
Covered head to toe, as she watches some guy paste a nude woman. Street art creates a dialogue, almost instantly.
Photo by morac19
KONICA MINOLTA DYNAX 5D
After a few years of inaction, I installed a new Li-ion NP-400 battery in my 2005 Konica Minolta DSLR Dynax 5D to replace the dead original one, and I did a small series of pictures with the two KM zoom lenses to re-evaluate the small Sony 6 MP CCD (still not a CMOS) sensor and optics.
The KM Dynax 5D was the latest DSLR body released by Konica Minolta before to be sold to SONY Corp.
Processing of the native RAW files using Lightroom/Luminar 2018.
Genay, Rhône, France.
Elementary School #24 Now Apartments
Old schools. Consolidating schools.
In 1926, the city opened a new elementary school at 10th and Market streets, called Corrine Scott Elementary for a beloved teacher at Kirby Smith Junior High School.
A few other schools were closed and consolidated at the time.
Fast forward 63 years to 1989. Corrine Scott was rundown, paint peeling from the hallways. PTA President Ed Griggs, frustrated at the school district’s inaction, contacted the Times-Union.
Griggs had a daughter in fifth-grade, so she would not benefit from improvements to the school, but he felt a responsibility to do something.
He brought to mind a quote from Robert Kennedy: “Each time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others … he sends forth a ripple of hope.”
Hope turned to action.
“The news media came out and the next day, before I knew it, here were the workmen,” Griggs told the Times-Union. “I said to myself, ‘Hey, it works.’”
The news story by Times-Union reporter Michael Anderson described longtime safety inspection records over a decade. Termites were so bad, they infested the classrooms, the principal reported.
“They annoy students and teachers by flying around, getting into books, anything made of wood, and there was a case where a termite flew into a teacher’s mouth while she was talking.”
How bad was it? School officials couldn’t say because they didn’t keep track of maintenance records.
Thanks to a bond issue approved by the voters in 1987, there was $9.3 million available for repairs.
Now let’s put this perspective. This was only about 20 years after a federal court order forced Duval County to integrate its schools.
Reading between the lines, there was no way a school would be allowed to get into this condition if it were located in a wealthier neighborhood.
So the School Board decided to close Corrine Scott and build a new school in the neighborhood, a large elementary school that could hold about 1,000 students, the kind typically found in Mandarin. In 1999, after sitting idle for nearly a decade, Corrine Scott was sold and turned into apartments.
In 1991 Andrew Robinson Elementary School was opened, named for the beloved former principal of Raines High School. There was great enthusiasm about this new school, even if it was located across Main Street from Corrine Scott Elementary.
So three elementary schools were closed: Corrine Scott, Beulah Beal and Mattie Rutherford.
At the same time, court-ordered busing was ending, replaced by magnet programs designed to attract a diverse group of students.
Andrew Robinson was a shining beacon of hope. Located not far from the city’s public hospital, now UF Health Jacksonville, it included a University of Florida pediatric health center in 1996, funded with a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. It wasn’t doing enough business to break even. It's no longer there.
Andrew Robinson is at about 75 percent capacity, suffering from some of the same issues as the rest of the district, said Superintendent Diana Greene during a visit with the Editorial Board.
Since the school opened almost 28 years ago, it’s a far different world for public education, she said. There is much more competition given all the choices. Charter schools are booming.
And parents often are moving so that it’s difficult even for a good elementary school to keep students for five years.
At 28 years old, Andrew Robinson is one of the newest schools in Northwest Jacksonville. Think about that.
Now the district faces similar issues but on a broader scale. The School Board will be considering a consultant’s report that proposed consolidating about 42 schools into 17 schools. About 30 new schools would be built.
Costly maintenance would be reduced with new, upgraded and smaller buildings.
Superintendent Diana Greene has listened and has scrapped the idea of locating a grade six through 12 school at both Raines and Ribault. An evaluation of future enrollment predicts over 2,000 students at those sites; too many, she said.
But let’s hope she also was listening to the concerns of the neighbors in those areas who opposed the consolidations.
Proposed is a referendum on a half-cent sales tax to fund the nearly $2 billion in school improvements.
Greene said she will be giving the board three options: a best-case scenario and two less costly options.
City Council, which has the power to approve a special election in November, seems unlikely to do so, in part for cost reasons and a likely low turnout.
More important, in our view, is that the public has not had enough time to be informed. Doing this in a rush is likely to give people an excuse to vote no.
It’s clear that many of the older schools need to be consolidated and replaced. Just like Corrine Scott and Andrew Robinson years ago.
Sinn Féin activists in Ballincollig, Cork, protesting against soaring unemployment and Government inaction.
Elementary School #24 Now Apartments
Old schools. Consolidating schools.
In 1926, the city opened a new elementary school at 10th and Market streets, called Corrine Scott Elementary for a beloved teacher at Kirby Smith Junior High School.
A few other schools were closed and consolidated at the time.
Fast forward 63 years to 1989. Corrine Scott was rundown, paint peeling from the hallways. PTA President Ed Griggs, frustrated at the school district’s inaction, contacted the Times-Union.
Griggs had a daughter in fifth-grade, so she would not benefit from improvements to the school, but he felt a responsibility to do something.
He brought to mind a quote from Robert Kennedy: “Each time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others … he sends forth a ripple of hope.”
Hope turned to action.
“The news media came out and the next day, before I knew it, here were the workmen,” Griggs told the Times-Union. “I said to myself, ‘Hey, it works.’”
The news story by Times-Union reporter Michael Anderson described longtime safety inspection records over a decade. Termites were so bad, they infested the classrooms, the principal reported.
“They annoy students and teachers by flying around, getting into books, anything made of wood, and there was a case where a termite flew into a teacher’s mouth while she was talking.”
How bad was it? School officials couldn’t say because they didn’t keep track of maintenance records.
Thanks to a bond issue approved by the voters in 1987, there was $9.3 million available for repairs.
Now let’s put this perspective. This was only about 20 years after a federal court order forced Duval County to integrate its schools.
Reading between the lines, there was no way a school would be allowed to get into this condition if it were located in a wealthier neighborhood.
So the School Board decided to close Corrine Scott and build a new school in the neighborhood, a large elementary school that could hold about 1,000 students, the kind typically found in Mandarin. In 1999, after sitting idle for nearly a decade, Corrine Scott was sold and turned into apartments.
In 1991 Andrew Robinson Elementary School was opened, named for the beloved former principal of Raines High School. There was great enthusiasm about this new school, even if it was located across Main Street from Corrine Scott Elementary.
So three elementary schools were closed: Corrine Scott, Beulah Beal and Mattie Rutherford.
At the same time, court-ordered busing was ending, replaced by magnet programs designed to attract a diverse group of students.
Andrew Robinson was a shining beacon of hope. Located not far from the city’s public hospital, now UF Health Jacksonville, it included a University of Florida pediatric health center in 1996, funded with a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. It wasn’t doing enough business to break even. It's no longer there.
Andrew Robinson is at about 75 percent capacity, suffering from some of the same issues as the rest of the district, said Superintendent Diana Greene during a visit with the Editorial Board.
Since the school opened almost 28 years ago, it’s a far different world for public education, she said. There is much more competition given all the choices. Charter schools are booming.
And parents often are moving so that it’s difficult even for a good elementary school to keep students for five years.
At 28 years old, Andrew Robinson is one of the newest schools in Northwest Jacksonville. Think about that.
Now the district faces similar issues but on a broader scale. The School Board will be considering a consultant’s report that proposed consolidating about 42 schools into 17 schools. About 30 new schools would be built.
Costly maintenance would be reduced with new, upgraded and smaller buildings.
Superintendent Diana Greene has listened and has scrapped the idea of locating a grade six through 12 school at both Raines and Ribault. An evaluation of future enrollment predicts over 2,000 students at those sites; too many, she said.
But let’s hope she also was listening to the concerns of the neighbors in those areas who opposed the consolidations.
Proposed is a referendum on a half-cent sales tax to fund the nearly $2 billion in school improvements.
Greene said she will be giving the board three options: a best-case scenario and two less costly options.
City Council, which has the power to approve a special election in November, seems unlikely to do so, in part for cost reasons and a likely low turnout.
More important, in our view, is that the public has not had enough time to be informed. Doing this in a rush is likely to give people an excuse to vote no.
It’s clear that many of the older schools need to be consolidated and replaced. Just like Corrine Scott and Andrew Robinson years ago.
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA
After a few years of inaction, I installed a new Li-ion NP-400 battery in my 2005 Konica Minolta DSLR Dynax 5D to replace the dead original one, and I did a small series of pictures with the two KM zoom lenses to re-evaluate the small Sony 6 MP CCD (still not a CMOS) sensor and optics.
The KM Dynax 5D was the latest DSLR body released by Konica Minolta before to be sold to SONY Corp.
Processing of the native RAW files using Lightroom/Luminar 2018.
Vienne, Isère, France
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4.12.09 by the Llberhan Report -such as Shankersingh Vaghela -have now switched sides and found a place in the Congress. Another Sangh product and former SJP leader, Babula!.
On the eve of the anniversary of the .
Marandi is now a coveted 'secular' ally of the Congress indemolition of the Babri Masjid .
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Let us Raise our Voice to Warn the UPA Government: .
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The Llberhan episode once again highlights the Congress' .
Inaction in the name of 'ATR' on Liberhan Report will not do-characteristic complicity and collusion with communal forces Punish the Perpetrators of the Sabri Masjid Demolition! and trivlalization of the entire agenda of secularism and jus-Expose the Sangh Parivar's Terror Network! tice. Exonerating and emboldening the communal fascists is of course nothing new for the Congress: even way back in Join Protest March 1963, the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited the 5 December 12 pm from Mandi House RSS (in spite of the taint of its linkages with Gandhi's mur-.
Assemble at ganga Bus Stop at 1Oam der) to participate in the Republic Day Parade. The Liberhan Report establishes what is a self-evident.
6 December 1992 was a day of shame for our democ-Iracy: when in full view of the nation, communal mobs, pre-truth, recognized by the people of India: that the BJP and armed with implements, and egged on by triumphant and Sangh leadership perpetrated the demolition of the Sabri gleefully grinning BJP leaders, laid siege to the historical Masjid. After such an indictment, is it not a shame if the Sabri Masjid. The Congress Government at the Centre, no-culprits get away scot-free? .
toriously, turned a blind eye to the full-blown preparations for The collusion of the powers-that-be with the Sabri Masjid I .
the demolition and allowed the saffron mobs to gather at demolition and the repeated reluctance to punish the perpe-.
Masjid, thus facilitating the demolition. The demolition of the trators has ensured that such communally-motivated cam-.
Masjid was preceded and followed by bloody communal vio-paigns continue. In the years that have passed since the .
lence that claimed the lives of innocent Muslims. .
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demolition, we have witnessed the horrific genocide .
History will hold the Sangh-SJP leadership responsible in Gujarat in 2002, and mass murder of minorities in .
for the fascist act of demolition of the Sabri Masjid and the Kandhamal and elsewhere. Time and again, the inci-.
communal trail of blood that preceded and followed it. His-dents in Nanded, Kanpur, Malegaon, and now Goa have .
tory will also not forgive the Congress Government at the revealed the latest strategy of the Sangh Parivar -per-.
Centre for its culpability -through criminal inaction -for the petrate the worst of crimes in a manner so as to delib-.
demolition. erately implicate the Muslim communit y. Despite evi-.
dence, the UPA refuses to institute a thorough investi-.
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17 y~rs after the demolition of the Sabri Masjid, the .
gation into the Sangh Parivar's terror network, thus.
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Liberhan Commission's findings are finally in the public do-main and have been tabled in Parliament. emboldening the communal fascist forces in the coun-try..
The report states the facts that are not new to the Indian On 6 December this year, as we remember that day of.
people: the demolition of the Sabri Masjid was a pre-medi-shame in 1992, secular and democratic forces all over the.
tated crime -masterminded by the RSS and the SJP, in-country must demand real action against the culprits in the.
cluding L KAdvani, who fanned up communal flames for po-light of the findings of the Liberhan Report. It is high t1me that.
litical gain. .
perpetrators of violence and communal hate mongering are .
But the questions remain: clearly identified and brought to book. .
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Why did the Commission take 17 long years and no less .
On the eve of 6 December this year, we appeal to youthan 48 extensions to arrive at the truth? .
to join a Protest March from Mandi House (12 pm, 5 .
Why does the report stop short of recommending any sp~-Dec) to tell the Congress-led UPA Government : cific punishment for the perpetrators of the demolition? .
Inaction in the name of 'ATR' will not do -Punish .
Why does the Commission absolve the Narasimha Rao the Perpetrators of the Babri Masjid Demolition! r.
government at the Centre of failure to prevent the demolition, .
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on the flimsy and unconvincing ground that the Centre could .
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not act without a recommendation from the UP Governor? .
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Why was the report 'ieaked' to the media? Why did the .
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Congress Government at the Centre not table the report .
months ago, when it was first submitted? It is now just more than ten days since the campus was witness to .
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Why, in spite of its so-called 'Action Taken Report,' has an unprecedented lathi charge and tear gassing by the Delhi Police if and the Rapid Action Force on common students. The events dur-.
the UPA Government taken no action against those guilty of if.
ing these ten days have once again revealed the biased, anti-"tl1e demolition? .
student nature of the JNU administration. On November 22nd,.
In other words, the UPA Government is playing politics lfi.
when four lumpens entered the campus and tried to vitiate the atmo-.
with the Liberhan Report, showing scant concern for or com--te.
sphere in JI~U, the administration was conspicuous by its absence.
mitment to secularism and justice. Its 'Action Taken Report' IC.
and active intervention. It was left largely to the student community to.
is shamefully lacking in any action taken or even intended to be taken against the culprits of the demolition. In other words, handle the diff:cult situation-the only person on behalf of the admin-the 'action taken' by the Manmohan Singh Government istration was the Associate Dean, even the Registrar reached the ne scene very late, no other higher officials of the administration both-ar.
against the perpetrators of the demolition is exactly of the .
same character as the 'action taken' by the Rao government ered to come to take charge and prevent further precipitation when .
to prevent the demolition-in both cases, the Congress con-the events were unfolding. Even when the Delhi Police and the Rapid fined its role to some public hand-wringing and lip service, Action For~e started brutally beating up JNU students without any D while choosing to take no action against the communal fas-warning, the response of the administration was muted, to .
cists. Interestingly, some of the communal leaders indicted the extent that the Chief Security Officer did not even bother P.T.O~ .
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Photo by Israel Sun 19-03-2010
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KONICA MINOLTA DYNAX 5D
After a few years of inaction, I installed a new Li-ion NP-400 battery in my 2005 Konica Minolta DSLR Dynax 5D to replace the dead original one, and I did a small series of pictures with the two KM zoom lenses to re-evaluate the small Sony 6 MP CCD (still not a CMOS) sensor and optics.
The KM Dynax 5D was the latest DSLR body released by Konica Minolta before to be sold to SONY Corp.
Processing of the native RAW files using Lightroom/Luminar 2018.
Genay, Rhône, France.
Elementary School #24 Now Apartments
Old schools. Consolidating schools.
In 1926, the city opened a new elementary school at 10th and Market streets, called Corrine Scott Elementary for a beloved teacher at Kirby Smith Junior High School.
A few other schools were closed and consolidated at the time.
Fast forward 63 years to 1989. Corrine Scott was rundown, paint peeling from the hallways. PTA President Ed Griggs, frustrated at the school district’s inaction, contacted the Times-Union.
Griggs had a daughter in fifth-grade, so she would not benefit from improvements to the school, but he felt a responsibility to do something.
He brought to mind a quote from Robert Kennedy: “Each time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others … he sends forth a ripple of hope.”
Hope turned to action.
“The news media came out and the next day, before I knew it, here were the workmen,” Griggs told the Times-Union. “I said to myself, ‘Hey, it works.’”
The news story by Times-Union reporter Michael Anderson described longtime safety inspection records over a decade. Termites were so bad, they infested the classrooms, the principal reported.
“They annoy students and teachers by flying around, getting into books, anything made of wood, and there was a case where a termite flew into a teacher’s mouth while she was talking.”
How bad was it? School officials couldn’t say because they didn’t keep track of maintenance records.
Thanks to a bond issue approved by the voters in 1987, there was $9.3 million available for repairs.
Now let’s put this perspective. This was only about 20 years after a federal court order forced Duval County to integrate its schools.
Reading between the lines, there was no way a school would be allowed to get into this condition if it were located in a wealthier neighborhood.
So the School Board decided to close Corrine Scott and build a new school in the neighborhood, a large elementary school that could hold about 1,000 students, the kind typically found in Mandarin. In 1999, after sitting idle for nearly a decade, Corrine Scott was sold and turned into apartments.
In 1991 Andrew Robinson Elementary School was opened, named for the beloved former principal of Raines High School. There was great enthusiasm about this new school, even if it was located across Main Street from Corrine Scott Elementary.
So three elementary schools were closed: Corrine Scott, Beulah Beal and Mattie Rutherford.
At the same time, court-ordered busing was ending, replaced by magnet programs designed to attract a diverse group of students.
Andrew Robinson was a shining beacon of hope. Located not far from the city’s public hospital, now UF Health Jacksonville, it included a University of Florida pediatric health center in 1996, funded with a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. It wasn’t doing enough business to break even. It's no longer there.
Andrew Robinson is at about 75 percent capacity, suffering from some of the same issues as the rest of the district, said Superintendent Diana Greene during a visit with the Editorial Board.
Since the school opened almost 28 years ago, it’s a far different world for public education, she said. There is much more competition given all the choices. Charter schools are booming.
And parents often are moving so that it’s difficult even for a good elementary school to keep students for five years.
At 28 years old, Andrew Robinson is one of the newest schools in Northwest Jacksonville. Think about that.
Now the district faces similar issues but on a broader scale. The School Board will be considering a consultant’s report that proposed consolidating about 42 schools into 17 schools. About 30 new schools would be built.
Costly maintenance would be reduced with new, upgraded and smaller buildings.
Superintendent Diana Greene has listened and has scrapped the idea of locating a grade six through 12 school at both Raines and Ribault. An evaluation of future enrollment predicts over 2,000 students at those sites; too many, she said.
But let’s hope she also was listening to the concerns of the neighbors in those areas who opposed the consolidations.
Proposed is a referendum on a half-cent sales tax to fund the nearly $2 billion in school improvements.
Greene said she will be giving the board three options: a best-case scenario and two less costly options.
City Council, which has the power to approve a special election in November, seems unlikely to do so, in part for cost reasons and a likely low turnout.
More important, in our view, is that the public has not had enough time to be informed. Doing this in a rush is likely to give people an excuse to vote no.
It’s clear that many of the older schools need to be consolidated and replaced. Just like Corrine Scott and Andrew Robinson years ago.