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São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 Tasks and Methodoloties of Sustainability in Smart Sustainable Cities Dr. Ziqin SANG, Technical Director, Fiberhome Technologies Group Zqsang@wri.com.cn ITU Workshop on “Smart Sustainable Cities in Latin America” (São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013)
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 2 Outline Definition of SSC Tasks of Sustainability Methodologies of E&E Sustainability A case study Economic sustainability Urban development & sustainability
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 3 Definition of SSC Five elements of definition of SSC ICT, including infrastructures and acquirement, transmission and processing of information. Municipal administration and public service Citizen livelihood Industrial development and innovation Environmental and ecological sustainability A smart city is mainly based on the information and communication technologies. Through the transparent and full access to information, the extensive and secure transmission of information, and the efficient and scientific utilization of information, it increases the urban operational and administrative efficiency, improves the urban public service level, forms the low-carbon urban ecological circle, and constructs a new formation of urban development.
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 4 Definition of SSC Architectural Framework of SSC
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 5 Tasks of Sustainability Environmental and ecological sustainability sensor network + transmission network : obtain environment index in realtime information + application platform: forcasting & alert, decision-making environmental information service: public information, risk management...... Industrial development and innovation economic sustainability smart design and manufacturing......
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 6 Methodologies of E&E Sustainability polution source on-line monitoring ambient air quality monitoring in city 356 monitoring centers, 13000 factories, in China 260 urban monitoring network, 1500 monitoring stations, in China
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 7 Methodologies of E&E Sustainability water resource quality monitoring in city eco-environment monitoring in city 88 water resource risk management and alert platform, in China eco fragile area, biologic diversity area, wetland area, farmland monitoring, by 2015
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 8 Methodologies of E&E Sustainability solid waste monitoring and tracing in city environmental satellite & airbone remote sensing Hazardous waste, clinical waste, dangerous chemicals climate change, vegetation cover, coast monitoring
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 9 A case study: standing water management in Wuhan City Wuhan, a city on Changjing river, has a humid tropical climate with annual rainfalls over 1100 mm. When continuous stormy weather occurs, water could not be drained immediately. The result is serious traffic jams and power outages. water flow sensor 3D electronic map management platform drainage system forcasting and analysis simulation system digital valve and pipe standing water management system Through the realtime data collecting and analysing of drainage system, the refining solution can be given out and work status of the drainage system can be monitored. It will provide information and suggestion for traffic management. solution function issues
São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 10 A case study: assistant decision- making hall in Wuhan City water resource management public transport system decision-making system smart tourism platform e-government & e-commerce smart community ICT infrastructures assistant decision-making hall assistant decision-making hall provides fusion of various application of smart city.
11 Economic sustainability - smart design and manufacturing Smart Factories: Goal: More automation, better control & optimisation of factory processes Means: Software, lasers & intelligent devices embedded in machines & factory infrastructure Virtual Factories: Goal: To manage supply chains; to create value by integrating products ε t services Means: Software to holistically interconnect ε t manage distributed factory assets; new business models ε t value propositions Digital Factories: Goal: To “see” the product before it is produced Means: Software for the digital representation ε t test of products ε t processes prior to their manufacture ε t use Less waste Less energy use Faster time-to-market Better quality Factory productivity High-value products Keep jobs Process transparency IPR security Lower CO 2 footprint Supply-chain productivity Design productivity Reduce design errors Better ε t efficient products Less waster + rework Faster time-to-market São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013
12 Economic sustainability - coordinate with green São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 Technology （ Engineering Technology / Management Technology ） industrial structure / economies cultural / political / social Industrialization informatization Service- oriented Urbanization Green Constraints of smart city: resources environment new opportunity: technology industrial structure / economies cultural / political / social industrial intelligence
13 urban development and sustainability - an iterative optimization process São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 Overall solutions of modeling and optimization decisions for urban development and operation Key Indicators of urban development and operation prediction model GDP prediction model Revenue prediction model Energy consumption prediction model Ecological environment prediction model Infrastructure prediction model … Optimization decisions for urban development and operation Urban development and operation ‘ s main decision variables Urban development and operation indicators ’ predictive value Optimization decisions for urban development and operation Iterative optimization process
Conclusions Definition and framework of SSC 3E ( environmental, ecological, economic ) sustainability ICT aspects of 3E model of urban development and sustainability - an iterative optimization process São Paulo, Brazil, 30 July 2013 14
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Rainwater harvesting itself means storage of the rainwater for future use. This storage of water can be used for a variety of purposes. Even the process of recharging of the groundwater is done by the rainwater harvesting, but this recharge of groundwater is the natural process. The rainwater harvesting is one of the most efficient ways of utilization of water with least cost and natural process. Rainwater harvest increases the availability of the groundwater, improves the quality of the groundwater and increases the fertility of the soil. It has been practised by the people over a long period of time and through different methods.
Rainwater harvesting is practised in different forms by the different states in India. They are:
• The rainwater harvesting in Rajasthan is locally known as kund or tanka. This is a process in the underground tank is dug near the house (kund or tanka) and the rainwater is stored in that kund or tanka. The programme of Arvary Pani Sansad was introduced in Rajasthan and most of the homes were helped to construct the tanks.
• In the Tamil Nadu, the government has made mandatory to harvest the rainwater. The government has helped to construct the necessary requirements for rainwater harvesting.
• Haryali (the watershed management project) project was developed by the central government to help the poor people to conserve the water. This project was mainly focused on the rural population to conserve the water for drinking, irrigation, fisheries and afforestation purposes.
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With the growing popularity of hybrid cars, Good Works Auto Repair in Tempe has moved into a niche those car owners were not finding at their dealers — battery conditioning. “There’s no incentive for the dealer to do this,” explains Nathan Merrill, co-owner of the car repair business, noting the dealer would see more profit in replacing the battery and that maintenance is generally not covered under a warranty. A low-performing battery can be “conditioned,” which will increase the car’s fuel mileage and pep.
While batteries are the focal point, joining the Hybrid Shop Network and using its proprietary equipment “opened the door to all hybrid service,” says Merrill, adding that previous to this, he didn’t feel he could give hybrids full bumper-to-bumper care. The Hybrid Shop Network is a fractional franchise, and Good Works is currently its only franchisee in the state.
After seeing the process presented at the annual conference of the Automotive Training Institute earlier this year by Mark Quarto, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and whose 28 years at General Motors included work on the pilot hybrid and the Volt, Merrill says he and partner Glen Hayward “took the opportunity to be leaders in our area in hybrid repair.” The scientific approach impressed him, he says, sharing that training previously available had centered on “how not to kill myself” handling hybrids’ electrical current that is five times greater than what is considered “high voltage.” The Hybrid Shop Network equipment enables them to test the battery’s energy and evaluate the condition of its capacity to deliver electricity, rather than just looking at whether individual cells are bad, and, after servicing, compare its condition to a new battery and show its state of health.

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As the US undergoes a shale energy revolution, Canada is looking to China as an alternate market for exports, just as Russia looks to China as the EU diversifies its supplies and does its own shale development. If both the US and the EU move away from Canada and Russia respectively as an energy supplier, then China becomes Canada’s and Russia’s replacement market. Yet, according to the International Energy Agency, as foretold by Li Guo Yu, China’s venerable elder statesman, pioneer and geographer of energy, China has more shale potential than either the US or the EU! If China is smart, it should push for low prices (ideally zero profit) for Russia in natural gas negotiations and develop its own domestic resources instead. Indeed, making China more energy independent is in both China’s and the world’s interest, since it would increase overall supply and lower prices.
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dikir barat verse remix i guess? ;D this is not really an original dikir barat because it mixed with many music. SuJu songs Sorry sorry, ABC songs from one of this Hindi movie, Aankhe Khuli Ho Ya from Mohabbatein hindi movie, Hatin on the club by Rihanna, songs by Ogy Ahmad. this performance is only for fun before we finished our fisrt sem. enjoy it. =)


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The following is a transcript of a session from the 2023 Socialism Conference, which put Paul Le Blanc, author of Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution, in conversation with Promise Li and Cliff Connolly about the legacy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
Paul Le Blanc: Lenin’s actual name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. What sort of person was he? The free-spirited revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg, once said of Lenin, I enjoy talking with him. He’s clever and well educated and has such an ugly mug, the kind I like to look at. Angelica Balabanof, who worked closely with Lenin, was able to specify that from his youth, Lenin was convinced that most of human suffering and most of moral, legal, and social deficiencies were caused by class distinctions. She explained that Lenin was also convinced that class struggle alone could put an end to exploiters and exploited and create a society of the free and equal.
Lenin gave himself entirely to this end, and he used every means in his power to achieve it. Speaking from the right end of the political spectrum, Winston Churchill saw Lenin as his mortal enemy. Churchill hated what Lenin represented and even hailed Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship in Italy for its triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. Yet he wrote of Lenin, “His mind was a remarkable instrument. When its light shone, it revealed the whole world: its history, its sorrows, its stupidities, its shams, and above all its wrongs. It was capable of universal comprehension in a degree rarely reached among men.”
It is worth adding an insight from Max Eastman, who suggested that one of Lenin’s contributions in the theory and practice of Marxism was a rejection of people who talk revolution and like to think about it, but do not mean business–the people who talked revolution but did not intend to produce it. Animated by such convictions, Lenin helped build a powerful revolutionary movement in his native Russia, culminating in the Russian Revolution of 1917, which he and his comrades believed was the beginning of a global wave of socialist revolution.
Lenin was a key architect of modern communism, designed to bring about such an outcome. But does Lenin’s project offer anything useful for us in our own time, years after he died? This book, Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution suggests an affirmative answer to that question and dispenses with six historiographical myths:
- One, Lenin favored dictatorship over democracy.
- Two, his so-called Marxism was a cover for his own totalitarian views.
- Three, he favored a super-centralized political party of a new type with power concentrated at the top himself as party dictator.
- Four, he favored rigid political controls over culture, art, and literature.
- Five, he believed that through such authoritarian methods a socialist utopia could be imposed on backward Russia.
- And six, flowing naturally from all of this, he became one of history’s foremost mass murderers.
This book rejects all such false characterizations while at the same time seeking to identify actual negatives, which inevitably can be found in Lenin and the tradition to which he was sent from. Faced with the complex swirl of Lenin’s life, times, and ideas, one can focus on matters and select ideas, adding up to a so-called Leninism, from which decent people must turn away. This book’s approach is different.
In her critique of the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg emphasized her determination to distinguish the essential from the non-essential and critique the non-essential in a way designed to help advance the triumph of what was essential in Lenin’s revolutionary Bolshevism.
In this brief study, the focus is on what seems to me to be those essential qualities. Without the accumulation of experience, cadres, relationships, and authority within the working class, a would-be revolutionary organization cannot actually become a revolutionary organization. This can only be achieved through practical activism.
In some would-be revolutionary organizations, members seem to feel that it is sufficient to develop and express revolutionary thoughts and revolutionary positions. These can be developed through discussions and study groups. But defining and expressing politically correct positions becomes primary for some would-be revolutionary groups. This may take the form of arguing against the capitalist ruling class or against non-revolutionary groups, or against other would-be revolutionary groups.
It is certainly the case that Lenin was fully prepared to engage in polemics and arguments, but what was primary for him was helping to mobilize practical struggles capable of materially defending and advancing the urgent needs of workers and the oppressed; struggles that not only make sense to people in the here and now, but also tilt toward mass revolutionary consciousness. If fought for effectively, Lenin argued, insurgency and power shift can ultimately bring about revolution. For Lenin, theory, education, and the articulation of principled positions were inseparable from such practical work.
The Bolsheviks engaged in practical campaigns that helped to define them and created a practical framework of struggle in which they might form united fronts–and in some cases converge with other groups prepared to fight the good fight–and push toward victory. Only in that way could an organization of would-be revolutionaries become a revolutionary organization.
This approach was simply expressed in the explanation, quoted by Paul, of V. R. Dunne, leader of the militant and victorious Minneapolis Teamster Strikes of 1934: “Our policy was to organize and build strong unions, so workers could have something to say about their own lives, and assist in changing the present order into a socialist society.”
One key revolutionary principle of Lenin and the Bolsheviks involves the political independence of the working class and the refusal to subordinate the struggles of the working class to the leadership of pro-capitalist parties. “No democracy in the world puts aside the class struggle and the ubiquitous power of money,” Lenin noted, adding that while countries such as the United States held that capitalists and workers had equal political rights, in fact, they are not equal in class status. One class, capitalists, owns the means of production and lives on the unearned product of the labor of the workers. The other, the class of wage workers, owns no means of production and lives by selling their labor power in the market. Lenin warned that the so-called bipartisan system of the pro-capitalist parties, Democrats and Republicans, had been one of the most powerful means of preventing the rise of an independent working-class, genuinely socialist party.
Another of Lenin’s principles involves opposition to all forms of racism, ethnic bigotry, and oppression based on gender or sexuality. A third involves opposition to imperialism and war. A fourth, becoming increasingly urgent in our time, is uncompromising opposition to the destruction of a livable environment. A fifth principle is a commitment to genuine democracy, ruled by the people, as essential both to our future world and within the movement to create that better future. A sixth principle involves an internationalist orientation: solidarity across borders and a commitment to global collaboration among the workers and oppressed of all countries.
The process of testing different perspectives and learning from actual struggles, accompanied by debates and sometimes even splits (and sometimes fusions), will be necessary on the way to creating a revolutionary party worthy of the name. Lenin insisted that we must at all costs set out first to learn, secondly to learn, and thirdly to learn, and then see to it that learning shall really become part of our very being, that it shall actually and fully become a constituent element of our social life. But he insisted that we must learn through doing.
Lenin stressed that this learning takes place through actual struggles against oppression and exploitation, collectively evaluating that experience, and thinking through what to do next.
Promise Li:Thanks, Paul for the invitation to be in conversation about this work. I encourage everyone to purchase the book too, and I am excited to be in conversation with Linda, Paul, and Cliff too.
“We were mistaken,” Lenin said to a room of hundreds of party cadres in October 1921. The mistake he referred to was the massive effort to requisition surplus grain from peasants with little in return to aid the Bolsheviks’ civil war efforts. This error ultimately contributed to later food shortages. Lenin said that the Bolsheviks understood “the necessity for a prolonged, complex transition through socialist accounting and control from capitalist society to the masses.”
This jump to certain policies of war communism, as he reflected, violated this order. But as Lenin also said in 1917, “The fighting party of the advanced class need not fear mistakes. What it should fear is persistence in a mistake, refusal to admit and correct a mistake out of a false sense of shame.” I begin with this example not to relitigate war communism today, but to highlight an under-discussed aspect of Lenin’s political life, relevant for organizers today who are navigating a new age of crisis and catastrophe.
Indeed, as Paul reminds us, a cohesive understanding of Lenin’s work does not reveal a conspiratorial authoritarian. It also does not reveal a prophet capable of discerning correct solutions to every emergency. A quote from Lenin’s comrade, Lev Kamenev, illustrates this clearly. He said, “Every attempt to create any kind of handbook of Leninism, a collection of formulas applicable to all questions at any time, will certainly fail as we can only approach the real science of Lenin through a consideration of his complete works in the light of contemporary events.” To go further, I argue that there is much to learn not only from Lenin’s errors but also from the method of how he approached them and from the mistakes that he was unable to reckon with.
This approach underscores a central tenet of Marxist practice: a will to remain ruthlessly critical of our own political work and the traditions we inherit to rebuild the socialist movement at a time when it is sorely needed. Reflecting on the defeat of the 1905 revolution, a key prelude to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Lenin commented that to the proletariat, the study and critical assimilation of the experience of the revolution means learning to apply the methods of struggle of that time more effectually next time.
Errors undoubtedly have consequences, and in the work of revolution, these slips can mean fatalities and world historical setbacks. At the same time, they can allow movements to intervene more effectively in the next iteration of struggle. For Lenin, the reflection on errors is a necessary component of socialist organization, which gathers the masses around common political principles, analyses, and strategic orientations that advance the socialist program.
The point is to articulate different economic and social struggles in the sphere of politics itself. As the Marxist Daniel Bensaïd once said, “The ideal of a revolutionary militant is not the trade unionist with a narrow horizon, but the tribune of the people who fans the embers of subversion in all spheres of society.”
Vanguard parties, far from being instruments of bureaucracy, are meant to provide the most democratic means. They are tempered through struggle and experimentation for militants to congeal the lessons of different struggles into a revolutionary program. Programs and strategies are not static and must be calibrated to effectively respond to shifting political conditions.
Moreover, socialist organization, Bensaïd says, “makes it possible to test the validity of opposing positions” under consideration in practice. To test political strategies is to accept the possibility of error. We need organizational mechanisms that can maximize space for critical reflection and maintain the will to try things out in practice.
In a speech in 1922, Lenin noted that the Bolsheviks would certainly make a number of mistakes. He urged members to dispassionately examine where such mistakes have been made and show that we are not bound by prejudice. As Ernest Mandel emphasizes, this is the heart of Leninist organizational practice, not centralism for the sake of bureaucratism, but to maximize space for internal democracy.
Maximizing internal democracy requires respecting the rights of internal factions, ensuring complete freedom of speech for minority positions, and building rigorous processes to sort through collective mistakes and disagreements that are not afforded by the institutions of bourgeois civil society. The possibility of bureaucratization of the party, as Mandel and Bensaïd argue, underscores the role of independent social movements outside of the party as counterweights to check the authority of the party and expose its mistakes when this isn’t possible within it.
More importantly, reflecting on errors within an organization is key because no one person can solve everything. Lenin himself made a number of errors, some of which he never accounted for, and some of which he sought to combat and failed to do so. One can understand the atrocities of Kronstadt or other excesses of the Red Terror in the context of immense pressures, but should unyieldingly condemn them nonetheless.
Lenin was attuned to other growing errors, like of the party’s growing bureaucratism and erosion of inner-party democracy that quickened mass depoliticization. As Mandel notes, Lenin was unable to articulate a clear counter position to this. As Paul notes in a section of his book, Lenin was unable to solve some of the problems he confronted. The Bolsheviks and many other communist parties’ bureaucratism, and later totalitarianism, proved to be a catastrophe on a world historical scale for social movements.
The strangulation by Western imperialists’ encirclement, at different scales, certainly accelerated this regression, but it is undeniable that these regimes’ endogenous errors played a significant role. In The Revolution Betrayed, Leon Trotsky argued that the “struggle of living social forces” needed to correct bureaucracy were meticulously crushed by different communist parties around the world in the 20th century.
The effect is a mass discrediting of communism among movements today in many regions–a disaster that bourgeois forces gleefully weaponize and fuel. Bensaïd puts the problem aptly:
We have to think about what happened to communism in the 20th century. The word and the object cannot be grasped outside of the times and the historical ordeals they were forced to endure. For most people, the massive use of the communist label to characterize, for one, free market authoritarian state in China will weigh much more heavily and for a far longer time than the fragile theoretical and experimental sprouts of the communist hypothesis there.
Bensaïd’s invocation of China is particularly relevant for me, growing up in Hong Kong and witnessing the absolute state of confusion about even basic political concepts like the left-right spectrum, thanks to the Chinese state, which has, in the minds of many people, identified socialism with the ideals of bureaucratic capitalism and the practice of it.
Such confusion informs the misguided popularity behind many non ideological and leaderless movements in recent global uprisings. The problems that Lenin began to note but failed to address in his last days have helped contribute to this unprecedented discrediting of the banner of socialism among certain masses that he, along with the First and Second International, did not fully anticipate or address in their programs and strategies.
The best method for accounting for these errors lies not in seeing Leninism as scripture but in considering, critically considering, his approach toward mistakes. Winning back the confidence of the working class towards a socialist horizon must build from an honest assessment of both errors and successes of the past that still structure a political terrain.
We cannot rigidly recover the socialist programs of the past without adjustments, without considering innovations from new social movements since then. We must attend to new objective conditions, evidenced by the rise of new capitalist states outside of the traditional Western imperialist bloc. We need to think carefully about how to articulate effective alternatives to reformism and spontaneity, for whom the legacy of socialist organization represents nothing more than totalitarianism or bureaucratism.
It is far easier to demonize the Bolsheviks’ experience wholesale as the ventures of ill-intentioned authoritarianism than to grapple with an uncomfortable truth: that while Lenin and his comrades were just as genuine communists as we are today in this room, they can also be responsible for the most catastrophic kinds of political errors alongside world historical successes. No one, including Lenin, can model the right path forward at all times. The capacity for victory comes with the capacity for error. But as Lenin says, “by analyzing the errors of yesterday, we learn to avoid errors today and tomorrow.”
Cliff Connolly: Very happy to be here. Thank you to Paul, Promise, and Linda for having me.
In my reading, the central thesis that I saw in Comrade LeBlanc’s new book is the well-documented and ever-relevant fact that Lenin, at every point of his political career, was a thoroughgoing champion of democracy.
This could not be a more timely or relevant intervention in the contemporary North American socialist movement. This phenomenon has been distorted by decades of Cold War propaganda and sect dogma. In other words, those who hate Lenin and those who love him have both misrepresented history in order to paint him as an autocrat who saw communism as separate from and superior to democracy.
In contrast to many sympathetic historians, comrade LeBlanc concedes and contextualizes the actions of Lenin and his party that may seem strikingly undemocratic at face value: suppression of the bourgeois press, political police, summary executions and more. This flows from a clear definition of Lenin’s conception of democracy and its differences from the commonsense definition propagated by bourgeois idealism. I quote here from Lenin in State and Revolution, “The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will, for the first time, create democracy for the people, the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, the minority.”
Bourgeois republics, the typical state form of capitalist oligarchy, must suppress the working class majority through institutions like police militarization, mass incarceration, voter roll purges, gerrymandering, the legalized political bribery that we call lobbying, constitutional checks on democracy like the electoral college, upper legislative houses, judicial review, and more, in order to prevent majority rule and maintain the tyranny of the capitalist minority.
In contrast, democratic republics, the only state form through which socialism can be established according to Marx and Engels, must suppress the capitalist minority through various means in order to make majority rule possible. Thus, suppression of counter-revolutionary elements must be pursued not in order to do away with democracy but in order to defend it.
Comrade LeBlanc’s book demonstrates the democratic nature of both Lenin’s political thought and the Bolshevik party structure. Two examples in particular I think are worth highlighting. The idea of the vanguard party and democratic centralism are as historically misunderstood as Lenin himself, and LeBlanc provides poignant clarification on both concepts.
The vanguard party is often explained by adherents and detractors as a party consisting of elite full-time socialists who plan out the revolution and direct their minions and the working class from the comfort of their party headquarters. This could not be any further from what Lenin described in his writings or what the Bolsheviks practiced in their daily routine.
This is obvious from the origin of the term “vanguard party.” It’s a military metaphor in which the vanguard is the unit at the front of the battle line, making first contact with the enemy forces and leading the rear guard into the fray. Confused historians and activists employ this term to describe the opposite behavior: officers studying maps and relaying orders from the command center.
This organizing model would be better termed the general staff party, in keeping with the wartime metaphor.
Democratic centralism is similarly misconstrued by friends and enemies of the socialist movement alike. According to contemporary conventional wisdom, it’s a method of decision making in which party leaders describe what each party member should believe and how they should behave, with members expected to obediently follow orders.
But LeBlanc describes the actual mechanisms of democratic centralism as they were practiced in the Bolshevik party. I quote from the book briefly:
The highest decision making body in the party was not a central committee or political committee, but rather the party congress or convention. The central committee was elected by and answerable to the party Congress.The Congress was held every year or two consisting of elected delegates from every local branch of the party. These elections were to take place after a period of written and oral discussion and debate on the issues facing the party, and the decisions considered binding on the members and lower level organizations were made by the party congress.
Clearly the Bolsheviks were not the conspiratorial band of elite autocrats that they’re so often painted as. With Lenin leading the way, they forged a democratic mandate for power and conducted the world’s greatest experiment in proletarian democracy in the early Soviet Union. For those of us looking to build on their foundations for a just and livable future, there are several important lessons to be found in their successes and mistakes, as we’ve all noted so far.
Since we can only interact with Lenin as a historical figure, it’s important to look at how he was influenced by his own historical forebears. He saw the Narodniks, a group of Russian agrarian populists who predated his generation of socialists, as flawed but irreplaceable forebears of Russian social democracy.
According to Lenin, their sacrifices demanded not only high praise but also sharp criticism. Their mistakes would be in vain if future generations refused to learn from them. We should adopt a similar attitude to the forebears of American Socialism, the revolutionary abolitionists and militant trade unionists of the 19th century.
Both groups won historic victories in their respective struggles, and both groups were ultimately crushed before achieving their aims in the same year, 1877. The defeat of 1877 was twofold. Reconstruction ended with the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the rise of Jim Crow, and those same federal troops were deployed the same year to crush the Great Railroad Strike that had galvanized workers in the North.
Marx had insisted years prior in Das Kapital that Black liberation and proletarian emancipation were inexorably intertwined in North America, and he was proven correct here in the most tragic manner possible. Had the revolutionary abolitionists and radical trade unionists united in a common organization with a common plan of action, each could have found success in support of the other.
The economic demands of the labor movement would only have been possible to realize under the thoroughly democratic political regime that the abolitionists fought for. The democratic state that the abolitionists intended to create could only be built with the support of the militant mass organizations of the working class. Yet both groups refused one another to their mutual destruction. Learning from our ideological ancestors’ mistakes and applying them to our organizing today is crucial.
We cannot hope to transform society without the advanced elements of the working class, the militant trade unionists, on our side. Neither can we hope to win material gains for the working class without a change in the political structure that we live under. Socialism and the labor movement must merge into one fighting organization, which cannot be achieved by either ignoring or tailing the organic demands of the proletariat. In practice, this means we have to win the working class over to the demand for a new constitution, one which operates on a genuinely democratic basis and enshrines socialism in law.
The idea that a revolutionary constitution is necessary for any meaningful transformation of American society is not new, and it is not my idea. It comes directly from the abolitionists responsible for the first great liberatory change in our country’s political economy. When John Brown forged his plan to march south and strike the slave power’s heart in Virginia, he worked hard to ensure that this plan had the backing of the whole abolitionist movement.
It caught on fast, and a convention was called in Chatham, Ontario to chart a thorough plan for revolution. The majority Black delegation not only adopted Brown’s battle plan but elected a government in waiting and ratified a draft of Brown’s provisional constitution, which would radically reorganize society. Loyalty that abolitionists later went on to show to the federal government in the wake of the Civil War was eventually rewarded with the total abandonment of Reconstruction. The earlier revolutionary wing of the abolitionist movement was vindicated, and their assertion that their goals were only attainable when the slaver’s constitution was defeated was proved correct.
This is as true today as it was then, and we as socialists have a responsibility to carry the spirit of the Chatham Convention into the 21st century. A revolutionary movement for a new constitution is not only possible but also necessary for the construction of socialism in North America. Foremost among those calling for this course of action is Marxist Unity Group, a faction within the Democratic Socialists of America, of which I am a member.
So allow me to close with a quote from our Points of Unity:
No one can truly be free if they are forced to bow to a reactionary constitution written by the dead. We want socialist leaders to erode the popular legitimacy of the U. S. Constitution through combative political agitation, never bowing to the old order, and always acknowledging the need for a working class revolution in the United States. The revolution will not base its legitimacy on the laws of the slaveholder constitution. We will base it on a democratic majority mandate for socialism. To win, millions of working people must be mobilized in their workplaces, at the ballot box, and in the street. We fight the constitution to win a democratic socialist republic in North America. Forged in revolution, this continental republic will strive for the global liberation of all working and oppressed people.
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Paul Le Blanc is the author of Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution. He is also a longtime activist and professor of history at the Roche College in Pittsburgh and the author of more than 30 books. Including a number of widely read studies such as Lenin and the Revolution, From Marx to Gramsci, Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience, and many others.
Promise Li is a socialist activist from Hong Kong and Los Angeles. He is a member of the Tempest Collective and Solidarity here in the United States. He is active in international solidarity movements from Hong Kong and China, tenant and anti-gentrification organizing in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and rank and file graduate organizing
Cliff Connolly is a contributor to Cosmonaut Magazine and a member of the Marxist Unity Group, which is a faction within the Democratic Socialists of America. He is also the author of Fight the Constitution for a Democratic Socialist Republic, Selected Writings for Marxist Unity Group.

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F2 Beauty Gets Into Web Series
Mehreen Pirzada is one of the popular heroines of Tollywood. She has got some good hits like 'F2' in her career. But she has been going through a dull phase in her career for quite sometime. She has continuously suffered half a dozen flops before 'F2'.
When everybody thought that she got back her rhythm with 'F2', she suffered two back to back flops like 'Entha Manchivadavura'.. and 'Ashwathama'. Now, taking a break from routine, Mehreen is said to have decided to venture into new horizons like web series.
Actually, Mehreen's brother Gurfateh Pirzada has recently appeared in a web series titled 'Guilty' that also featured Kiara Advani. The web series had went on to become a huge success and it brought recognition to Mehreen's brother. Gurfateh is said to have advised his sister to to perform in web series. He reportedly recommended her to the production house of web series.
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SAN ANTONIO — UTSA head women’s golf coach Summer Batiste announced Wednesday that the program has signed Sydney Bisgrove to a National Letter of Intent. The Calgary, Alberta, native will join the Roadrunners beginning with the 2024-25 season.
“We are very excited to officially welcome Sydney to the Roadrunner Family,” Batiste said. “She brings a true love for the game and work ethic that will fit seamlessly into our culture. She’ll be a player that builds an outstanding resume throughout her career at UTSA and in The American.”
Sydney Bisgrove (Calgary, Alberta/All Saints HS)
Standout golfer for head coach Kevin MacLellan at All Saints High School in Calgary, Alberta … two-time Alberta High School Provincial Individual Champion, capturing crowns in 2021-22 and again in 2023-24 … helped lead the Legends to the 2023-24 provincial team title … fired a 64 to break the McKenzie Meadows Golf Course record … made the cut at the 2023 Canadian Women’s Amateur … qualified for the 2023 IMG Junior Worlds at Torrey Pines, where she fired a 1-under 71 … finished third at the 2022 Alberta U17 Provincial Championship … won the 2022 MJT Edge School Summer Classic with a 67-73-75—215 … placed fifth at the 2022 MJT National Championship … competed internationally for Team Alberta … also an excellent student with a 3.93 GPA.


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Former President Donald Trump recently received great news regarding his social media platform Truth Social. A shareholder vote of the “blank check” company trying to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group just gave the entities more time to finalize a merger.
Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) is attempting to merge with Trump’s company in order to take Truth Social public. According to an Axios article, Trump would have to seek alternative funding sources if the vote failed. Fortunately, the deadline has been extended another 12 months thanks to the vote.
“Had the shareholder vote failed, DWAC would have liquidated and Trump would have needed to find another deep pocket,” Axios stated. “DWAC had launched a major lobbying effort in recent weeks to secure the vote, including sending emails to all Truth Social users (even if they weren’t shareholders).”
“This doesn’t necessarily mean the merger will close — providing Truth Social with hundreds of millions of dollars — but it’s much more likely now than it was just 24 hours ago,” Axios wrote.
Since its launch, Truth Social has had a tumultuous relationship with the legacy media. For example, the platform filed a massive defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post in May.
Truth Social is seeking over $3.7 billion from the newspaper over allegations of money laundering and alleged acceptance of money from “Russian ties”. The lawsuit states:
“On March 15, 2023, the Guardian published an online article entitled “Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say”. (the “Guardian Article”). The Guardian Article contained false statements and defamatory implications, including that Federal investigators had examined TMTG “for possible money laundering”; that “New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties”; and that “Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s social media company last year started examining whether it violated money laundering statutes in connection with the acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties”.”
According to the lawsuit, the alleged source of the claims against Truth Social was a former employee who had been terminated. Apparently, this individual was motivated to peddle these fake claims to leftist media outlets seeking to run headlines attacking Trump’s platform.
“The source of the Guardian’s false and defamatory “money laundering” charges was a former employee of TMTG, Will Wilkerson (“Wilkerson”), who was terminated for cause. Beginning in 2022, separate and apart from any purported disclosures he may have made to the government, Wilkerson began to concoct and publicly shop false stories about TMTG to numerous media outlets.”
The lawsuit further claims that Wilkerson also made false allegations that Trump Media & Technology Group regarding relationships with a “porn-friendly” bank and securities fraud.
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New book on Mormon-led massacre opens old wounds
On Sept. 11, 1857, Mormon militiamen led the slaughter of 120 men, women and children on a wagon train bound for California in an incident known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Chief among the instigators was Isaac Haight, a local militia and church leader. Several generations later, Karen Maxwell would come to know of him as her grandfather's grandfather.
For years, Mormon church officials downplayed the role Mormons played in the mass killing, first blaming Indians and then finding a scapegoat in church member John D. Lee, the only man executed for his role.
Now, a new book drawing on existing material and documents previously unavailable to scholars lays the blame largely on southern Utah church and militia leaders. They were otherwise good people, the authors say, who were caught up in the frenzy of the times and took up guns to try to cover up terrible mistakes.
The long-awaited release of"Massacre at Mountain Meadows" forces a reexamination of a dark episode for a faith community that puts families first. Mormons believe the family unit lasts for eternity, dutifully practice genealogy and cherish their pioneer past. So for descendants of massacre perpetrators, the book's gritty detail and naming of names can bring a painful reckoning....
The new volume is the work not of Mormon critics but former or current employees of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon church. Among them is assistant church historian Richard Turley, who said church leaders fully endorsed the"no-holds-barred, let-the-chips-fall as they may" approach.
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Thanks to this technology, the transaction was conducted instantaneously and without other intermediaries
Two farmers from Ontario, in Canada, made the first sale of corn through blockchain technology, according to what local media reported in late January.
Larry Reynolds and Lloyd Crowe are the farmers who decided to make this first transaction through a Canadian blockchain platform called Grain Discovery, which these field workers managed to get a buyer through a bidding system, in order to end the sale almost instantaneously.
Grain Discovery is a startup of Canadian origin which operates in the agricultural sector. It seeks to guide the potential of new technologies to the agroindustrial sector and promote direct, safe and instantaneous trade. The system works through a platform that becomes the place where users can advertise the product, which must be ready for sale and receive an offer in real time.
This allows sellers to carry out the commercial negotiation instantaneously and receive the payment in a short time. One of the advantages offered by this new platform is to reduce the time to market the product, speed up the shipping processes and keep the product fresher.
At the end of last year, farmers lost the sale of two shipments of corn because they were contaminated with a toxin that generates a type of Fusarium fungus. This happened because the sale took too much time to be fulfilled and said fact prevented the purchase from materializing. The product had to be discarded.
According to the farmers, this fact hindered a second sales process. Now, both must get a new buyer, verify the quality of the product and conduct negotiations for their purchase and sale. Noticing the time that some sales take, a representative of the Grain Discovery approached Larry and Lloyd to propose them to use this platform in order to get a new buyer and make the sale in a short time.
The farmers decided to use the service and quickly got a buyer, with whom they could make the transaction instantly. “By using Grain Discovery we were not only able to avoid hours of searching for a new buyer, but we found one right at the end of the route, at a better price than the original agreement, and they paid us instantly”, Larry Reynolds told to various media local.
On the other hand, the CEO of the startup company Grain Discovery, Rory O’Sullivan, commented this sale was a historical transaction, since it is the first purchase and sale of corn that was made between farmer and buyer using only blockchain technology as an intermediary.
O’Sullivan stressed that the technology platform of Grain Discovery allows consumers to be able to see the way by which the product will be transported and even be able to verify the levels of carbon present, among other endless possibilities.
“We are participating in a number of other pilot projects this year, which include the traceability of Canadian soybeans for Japan’s export market and Columbia coffee to its sale in Canadian coffee shops”, Rory concluded enthusiastically.
Certainly, there are many possibilities to adapt blockchain technology to the various facets of social, personal and commercial life, in order to facilitate those processes that some time ago took much longer to materialize, inter alia, the purchase and sale in the field of agriculture.
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Commissioning& Quality Assurance
At the onset of a project, our Automation team will start with a definition of what functions a new system or component are to perform. This is defined in a Process Control Narrative, Shutdown Key (cause and effect) and Process & Instrument diagrams.
The programming team will take these documents to write the PLC code that will execute the commands of the system. Defined at the beginning of the project, these documents are part of the technical specification used during commissioning to verify the systems. Project sequences are planned in advance to accommodate hardware and software design. It is important that the clients programming standards are aligned with ours and signed off on prior to implementation. Using our suite of tools we can bulk build logic based on engineered documents to save the development time and the customer money.
Factory Acceptance Testing
The factory acceptance test will include verification of the hardware with regards to electrical inspection of the equipment as per the engineered drawings, pull tests conformance to technical requirements, verification of robust design and installation so that the hardware is visually inspected and confirmed to meet contract requirements in the factory.
Once we have confirmed the system IO and communications are functioning to the field device or spare terminals, we will test the functionality of the HMI. If required, we will have the operating personnel review and test functionality of the HMI screens as well. Once hardware and software are both verified and documented, and all deficiencies are cleared up, the test setup can be disassembled, and the panels shipped to site.
DCS system testing specifications range from full facility controls testing with IO and communications using simulation for process to hardware testing only depending on customers’ requirements. DCS is a large system that can control multiple areas in the plant, and it can be brought online in stages for different areas as well as communicating to third party PLCs, RTUs and analyzers. Our commissioning team will define this for the construction team in advance, so they know which equipment to install and in what order.
Development of the commissioning process should be done early in the project in order that all participants are aware of the deadlines they are working towards to achieve the project and start-up date.
Red Lines & Markups
An important deliverable for automation systems are the red line drawings. Our commissioning team will use the drawings to make any additional changes that may have been made during commissioning mechanical completion. If MOCs are required, we follow the customers MOC process to ensure engineered safe process.
Pre-commissioning mainly consists of verifying there are no installation errors, consisting of applying first power to the UPS and check power levels, then power PLC or DCS cubicles to confirm all voltage supplies are functioning correctly, communication checks to confirm cubicles can communicate amongst each other, as well as back to the control room. Loop checks verify the electrical circuit from the automation panel to each end device, and confirm that the device can successfully communicate with the PLC cubicle and that alarms function correctly. This is done by stimulating the end device, confirming alarm set points are triggered correctly on the HMI that ranges, and set points have been applied correctly by viewing the outputs on the HMI, and that all cabling is installed with no wiring errors, no backward signals.
Interlock testing is also completed to verify hardware and software interlock functions correctly.
Pre-commissioning confirms that each electrical and automation component functions correctly prior to system or process automation testing. Following pre-commissioning, commissioning of the automation systems can take place. A test methodology will be implemented to ensure plant operators can use the DCS to control any type of plant process from the central control room.
Control Narrative & Shutdown Key Testing
n advance of commissioning, procedures are prepared and identify each test configuration to be tested. This includes all normal operating scenarios, and all failure scenarios with procedures written in advance. The team can best prepare for each scenario, and how the system needs to be configured in advance of testing. Procedures are written to cover all test scenarios that need to be verified since FAT to confirm proper execution of the permanent installation.
The start-up phase will always be specific to your project dependent on the plant process. Once all the processes are started, the system undergoes performance verification. The system is monitored for a period of time with uninterrupted operation, so the performance verification period could be a series of days or up to a month (for large facilities) of uninterrupted operation. Should operation be interrupted during that time such as a priority one alarm or whatever is defined in the contract as indicating an upset, the performance verification period restarts until the duration of uninterrupted operation is achieved. Once the performance verification period is achieved, the system can be finely tuned based on trends and operating parameters to ensure it runs efficiently. During this time our team ensures alarm rationalization is achieved to increase runtimes and lower operational fatigue.
Operational readiness is an important aspect of your project, particularly for automation systems. Operators will become familiar with HMI screens, and how to operate the plant processes ongoing maintenance. This is a critical process that is supported by our Automation / Commissioning team to ensure proper utilization of the system and complete understanding of the operation capabilities of it. Operation training is a key component to our hand over process. This starts at FAT and prior to start up from which we provide start-up support to boost operations confidence in the system.


UAFS Academy of the Arts Music & Theatre Camps and Lessons
Sweet, summertime music
Local students will have the chance to make lots of sweet, summertime music. Special classes, private lessons, theater training and a number of band camps are offered for musicians of all ages.
UAFS Academy of the Arts
UAFS Academy Camps Academy of the Arts Music Lessons
Who: Ages 3 and up
What: Private music lessons available in piano, wind, brass, percussion and string instruments, as well as voice lessons. Five- and 10-week options are available for 30-, 45- or 60-minute weekly lessons. Fees vary by length of session. Lesson times are scheduled at student’s convenience.
When: Through Aug. 5
Who: Ages birth to 5
What: The camp is an introduction to music for children with developmentally appropriate activities for each age group. Classes include "My Musical World" for birth to age 2; "Cycle of Seasons – Summertime" for ages 3-4; and "All Together Now" for birth to age 4. Caregiver must attend each class with student. Fee is $75.
Wednesdays June 1-29 10-10:40 a.m. – My Musical World
10:45-11:25 a.m. – Cycle of Seasons: Summertime
4:30-5:15 p.m. – All Together Now
Where: UAFS Echols, Room 115, 504 North Waldron Road, Fort Smith
Musical Theater Performance Camp Broadway Bootcamp
Who: Grades 7-12
What: An intensive week of musical theater featuring students performing their favorite Broadway musicals. Every student will receive one-on-one lessons from faculty and have the chance to participate in a masterclass with a guest instructor. A final performance will take place at 6 p.m. June 24. Cost is $200 and includes a T-shirt. When: 1-5 p.m. June 20-24
Where: UAFS Blue Lion, 101 North 2nd Street, Fort Smith
Who: Grades 3-9 What: Explore tunes from some of Broadway's most popular shows. Instructors will introduce students to a wide variety of musical theater elements, including singing technique, acting & character development, showmanship, dance & choreography and more. Tuition is $250 and includes a T-shirt. Participants will meet daily at UAFS, and the camp will finish with a finale performance at 1 p.m. July 23. When: July 18-22, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: UAFS, Breedlove Auditorium, 5120 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith
Who: Grades 1-2
What: An introductory musical theater camp that explores a number of popular stage tunes. Fee is $175 and includes a free T-shirt. A finale performance will be 1 p.m. July 16.
When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. July 11-15 Where: UAFS Blue Lion, 101 North 2nd Street, Fort Smith
For more information on all academy camps, call Dr. Rosilee Walker Russell at 479-788-7546. Registration forms are available at uafs.edu/academy.
UAFS Band Camps
High School Band Camp
Who: Wind, symphonic and percussion musicians, grades 8-12
What: Dr. Alexandra Zacharella will serve as conductor at the UAFS Band Camp for musicians of wind, symphonic and percussion band instruments. Students must provide their own instruments, except percussion. The fee is $190 (includes lunch) for commuters and $385 for residents. The final concert will 6 p.m. July 1.
When: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday June 27-July 1
Where: UAFS, Breedlove Building, Room 114, Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, 479-788-7972
High School Jazz Band Camp
Who: Musicians of all instruments, grades 9-12
What: Open to musicians of all instruments, students will spend a week in jazz orchestra rehearsals, playing in jazz improv sessions and taking classes in music theory, listening skills, and songwriting. Students must provide their own instruments (excluding piano and drums). Cost is $190, includes lunch and T-shirt, for commuters and $385 for residents.
When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 13-17. Final concert will be 6 p.m. June 17.
Where: UAFS, Breedlove Building, Room 114, 5210 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, 479-788-7547
This article appears in the June 2016 issue of Entertainment Fort Smith Magazine.


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Strengthens cooperation in the field of Chinese medicine.
Secretary for Food and Health, Dr Ko Wing-man yesterday signed a renewed cooperation agreement on Chinese medicine with the visiting Commissioner of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Prof Wang Guoqiang.
The agreement reaffirms and strengthens exchange and cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong in Chinese medicine, and promotes Chinese medicine development in Hong Kong and China.
Dr Ko said under the new agreement, the two parties will exchange the latest information on Chinese medicine development, including the formulation of relevant strategies, planning, policies and regulations.
The two parties will also initiate exchanges on the use of Chinese medicine in public health and Chinese medical services, with the aim of strengthening cooperation on aspects such as the mode of medical services, specialties development, and collaboration between Western and Chinese medicine and hospital management. Communication on the information technology management of Chinese medical services will also be established.
As regards Chinese medicine, the two parties will work together to promote the harmonization of standards of Chinese medicines between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
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Duncan Smith: It’s time to get serious about the idea of free public transport
Ensuring decent and reliable public transport is key to reducing carbon emissions, and free fares is one way to encourage people to use it
Commuting wasn’t working for workers before Covid-19. One in ten of them spent an over an hour travelling to work daily, with commuters losing on average five hours every week stuck in traffic. Dublin was the third worst city in the world for congestion, which was not only bad for our economy and workers mental health, but also the environment. Transport in Ireland remains a significant contributor to carbon emissions, the second largest emitter behind agriculture at 19.8 per cent of the national total emissions in 2017.
That was before Covid and the advent of social distancing. Double-decker buses that once carried 95 people pre-pandemic can only bring 48 if it is safe to operate at half capacity. Intercity trains which once carried 660 people will now only be able to bring 330.
Ensuring decent and reliable public transport has to be at the heart of any serious attempt to reduce carbon emissions, but with research from Trinity College Dublin in 2020 showing that 75 per cent of workers fear contracting Covid if they use public transport to get to work then these fears must be addressed, and not added to.
The car companies already know this and are playing on commuters’ Covid anxieties. Nissan Ireland led a campaign last year targeting commuters’ concerns in advertising their car scrappage scheme with its chief executive James McCarthy saying: “Covid-19 has changed attitudes to public transport in favour of private car use.”
If we’re serious about lowering our emissions and meeting our climate targets, Government needs to challenge this and reorient public behaviour as a matter of priority. We need to encourage workers back onto the bus.
While developing cycling and walking infrastructure would be an obvious way to address commuter concerns, for many commuters this does not make practical sense. From 2012 to 2019, the number of people using Dublin bus increased incrementally before the fall off in people using public transport last March. Now, investment in our bus, Dart, Luas and rail network needs to be prioritised by Government.
That’s why we now need to have a discussion about zero-fare public transport, following the lead of Luxembourg.
Like Ireland, Luxembourg’s high housing costs drove its workforce to commute from a distance which, like Ireland, led to congestion problems.
To encourage people to ditch the car, Luxembourg made the momentous decision to make public transport free.
We should discuss the possibility of doing the same. As well as encouraging people back onto public transport and tackling pollution, this would also have the effect of supporting low earners in our economy.
If we’re serious about a behavioural change and a cultural shift we can’t be afraid of radical thinking.
Government is keen to invest in electric car grants and charging points, but perhaps buying back public transport would represent better value for money. Pre-Covid, we had a capacity problem on public transport in Dublin. Ensuring ample capacity for social distancing and demand will encourage commuters to choose the bus over the car, improve air quality, reduce emissions and give back time spent in the car to reading, calling friends or just taking a break.
It’s going to take a radical rethink of how we charge for public transport to encourage commuters back on the bus. In its submission on reimagining bus services, Dublin Bus proposed a number of costing measures that would increase revenue while not risking pricing commuters out of public transport including a range of dynamic pricing measures to encourage off peak travel. Perhaps this could lead to even greater flexibility in workplaces, doing away with the archaic concept of workplaces opening at 9am.
We know that investment in public transport has a direct impact on creating jobs and bettering our economy which can also lead to better communities, better livelihoods. As more and more people return to work, we need to encourage people back on the bus and prevent workers losing precious family time by being stuck in traffic.
We can reduce congestion in our cities, shorten commute time and actually improve our climate outcomes, but that will require the courage to let our minds travel.
Duncan Smith is a Labour TD for Dublin Fingal


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last Friday I paid a little visit to Goddamn Media in Brighton. The person responsible for owning it and making it work as a local independent film company, community Arts Venue
and Radio Station
is the one and only Pasha Du Valentine Countess of Brighton and Hackney, yes you heard right. On the night we spoke about her charity event. Here’s a few still shots from the video.
Goddamn Media is committed to building archives about the world we live in from a creative perspective.
”We are not interested in agendas that revolve around money making, corruptive interests or similar dubious practices”
Goddamn Media also produce photographic images and films. Films can be seen on YouTube and other similar streaming sites.
”We already have a massive photographic database……mostly unedited capturing ordinariness that makes life more interesting than the highly polished, post edited ‘truth’ that we are confronted with daily”.

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Located in downtown Cleveland
Splashes of colors have been added to the downtown area now that the City of Cleveland has opened up the permitting process for murals throughout the community. What began as a winning project by public vote during a Team Cleveland Main Street promotion sparked years of work from multiple entities to create a system that would ensure longevity and proper installation of large-scale art work throughout Cleveland.
“The downtown mural was the winning project from Restaurant Week back in 2020,” said Cade Holder, former director of Team Cleveland Main Street. “Then, the pandemic happened and shut everything down. By the time the Chamber offices picked the work back up, there were more factors that needed addressing for installing painted artwork on buildings located downtown to be in compliance with standards of historic preservation, which is managed by the Heritage Commission.”
“Since most of the downtown area is in the Crosstie Historic District, [the mural project] was brought to the attention of the Heritage Commission. The Heritage Commission is the governing body that approves any changes to buildings in the area to meet the requirements of the Secretary of the Interior’s Rehabilitation Standards,” said Lynn Shurden, chair of the Heritage Commission.
Representatives from the Heritage Commission at the City of Cleveland began researching mural and public art guidelines in 2021.
“Myrtis Tabb, Nan Sanders, Chet Oguz and I formed a volunteer group and wrote guidelines for murals, not only in the Historic District, but anywhere throughout the City. Once these were written and approved by the City, a Public Arts Committee was appointed to oversee any applications for murals,” said Shurden.
The Public Arts Committee (PAC) serves as a resource for property owners and artists who hope to install larger-scale murals on buildings and property to ensure longevity and upkeep of the artworks. The committee meets as-needed to review public art installation applications.
“Art is an inspiration for all of us, and we should not be shy about using its magic in public spaces. I am very excited for Cleveland for its first downtown mural and feel that more people will be inspired, and new mural applications will follow,” said Chet Oguz, DSU Art Department Chair and member of the Public Arts Committee. “A lot of work goes into designing and completing a public project, and murals are no exception. The location, theme, design, and timely execution of a mural are important and must be done properly, aiming to serve the greater good of local communities.”
To begin a mural project, citizens must first fill out the application online at the City of Cleveland’s website, which requires letters and contracts from property owners and artists to outline the scale, timeline, and proposed design and color scheme for the project. All murals within the City of Cleveland must be approved by the PAC. If the mural is located within the Crosstie Historic District, it must also be approved by the Heritage Commission once it has passed review from the PAC. Upon passage from both groups, the Community Development office will issue a formal permit upon application, which means the project can proceed.
The first mural went through several drafts and proposed locations as guidelines from the Heritage Commission at the City were developed. The final draft was designed by Tasha Huerta and painted by Lawson King. Team Cleveland Main Street sponsored the mural and underwent the application and presentation process, with additional assistance from Robinson Electric Company and the City of Cleveland’s Public Works department. Building owner Raymond Huerta and tenants Craig and Hadonica Murphy of Delta Escape offered their building as the location for the first installation.
For those who are interested in the mural process, the application can be found online at the City of Cleveland’s website under the “Community” tab. Organizations like the Delta State Art department and Delta Arts Alliance have relationships and connections with artists qualified to install a mural and can be a resource for community members.