Dashed Investment-Backed Expectations: Will the Constitution Protect Property Owners from Excesses in Implementation of the Growth Management Act?

Section I briefly discusses the basic principles of takings law as enunciated by prior cases, as well as the United States Supreme Court\u27s recent decision in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, and the Washington Supreme Court\u27s recent decisions in Sintra, Inc. v. Seattle and Robinson v. Seattle. Although the Lucas decision has received considerable publicity, it advanced the state of the law rather little. The real guidance for future decisions arising out of the GMA will come from earlier United States Supreme Court decisions and the Washington Supreme Court\u27s decisions in Sintra, Robinson, and Lutheran Day Care v. Snohomish County. Section II introduces several hypothetical situations based on actual property owners with whom the Author is familiar. It examines how those hypothetical situations would be treated under an application of the law as it exists today. The Article concludes that although many truly injured parties will themselves be exhausted by the duty to exhaust administrative remedies, the law will protect the reasonable investment-backed expectations of those landowners who survive the administrative hurdles. It further concludes that public interest would be better served by a greater recognition of property rights at the stage of ordinance development and permitting, as well as by legislation, to both reduce the burden of exhausting adminstrative remedies and the potential size of damage awards where a taking or a violation of substantive due process rights has occurred

Dashed Investment-Backed Expectations: Will the Constitution Protect Property Owners from Excesses in Implementation of the Growth Management Act?

Section I briefly discusses the basic principles of takings law as enunciated by prior cases, as well as the United States Supreme Court\u27s recent decision in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, and the Washington Supreme Court\u27s recent decisions in Sintra, Inc. v. Seattle and Robinson v. Seattle. Although the Lucas decision has received considerable publicity, it advanced the state of the law rather little. The real guidance for future decisions arising out of the GMA will come from earlier United States Supreme Court decisions and the Washington Supreme Court\u27s decisions in Sintra, Robinson, and Lutheran Day Care v. Snohomish County. Section II introduces several hypothetical situations based on actual property owners with whom the Author is familiar. It examines how those hypothetical situations would be treated under an application of the law as it exists today. The Article concludes that although many truly injured parties will themselves be exhausted by the duty to exhaust administrative remedies, the law will protect the reasonable investment-backed expectations of those landowners who survive the administrative hurdles. It further concludes that public interest would be better served by a greater recognition of property rights at the stage of ordinance development and permitting, as well as by legislation, to both reduce the burden of exhausting adminstrative remedies and the potential size of damage awards where a taking or a violation of substantive due process rights has occurred

Readers\u27 Speakout

Dear Editors: The article in the Summer 1980 Women\u27s Studies Newsletter (vol. 8, no. 3), Building Coalitions between Women\u27s Studies and Black Studies: What Are the Realities?, by Ann Cathey Carver, is to my mind excellent. The understanding by this professor of the very real social realities that make for problems between Women\u27s Studies and Black Studies—and between Black and white women—reflects a tremendous sensitivity which has obviously grown out of extended acquaintance with the Black experience. As a Black woman, concerned with both racism and sexism in the society, I think such perceptive analysis is invaluable. I hope that this piece will be read and understood by many, many others. On such a basis, it is possible to develop strong coalitions, stronger interrelationships and trust, and more intimate one-to-one relationships between faculty and students of both programs and between Black and white women

Using a complexity-based perspective to better understand the relationships among mentoring, school conflicts, and novice retention

In this study I used complexity-thinking, ecologically-based sustainable capacity-building, narrative methodology, and pragmatism to explore the relationships among mentoring, conflict, and novice retention. In order to explore these relationships, I constructed stories from my interviews with six mentor-novice dyads in a southeastern 9-12 high school that was struggling with teacher retention. I analyzed these stories that addressed the nature of the mentor-novice dyad in light of eight primary indicators of complex systems as defined by Davis and Sumara (2006). I also found examples of teacher conflicts with administrators, students, and other categories. I noted how the mentor-novice dyad's complex nature and its use of ecologically-based sustainable capacity building helped mentors and novices handle those conflicts and barriers to conflict resolution. The findings from this study suggest that the mentor-novice relationships were distinctly different from other helping relationships at my research site; however, the relationship between novice retention and the ways mentor-novice relationships handled school conflicts and barriers to conflict resolution were inconclusive

So Far So Good: Building the Evidence Base to Promote a Successful Future for the Curriculum for Wales

This Executive Summary presents high level messages which emerge from the analysis and synthesis of the findings of surveys and interviews with members of every Area of Learning Experience Group (Section 1) and interviews with senior policy makers (Section 2). Section 3 of this report (using evidence to promote a Successful Future for the Curriculum for Wales) provides more detail on ideas that are important for The Curriculum for Wales to be successful in future. In the spirit of co-construction, all readers are invited to consider this Section 3 and to discuss within their own communities possible implications for sustainable long term change: • what contributions they might make to ensure that currently successful aspects within an existing programme are sustained and • how participants might work collaboratively to address areas likely to raise the level of risk to programme success. Findings The worldwide COVID pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels of change in education systems internationally. However, the purposes-led approach that Curriculum for Wales seeks to build has never seemed more relevant. These purposes are relevant not only for learners but for everyone involved in the Curriculum for Wales. Building a successful future for a Curriculum for Wales: so far so good • There is much that is positive in the findings that emerge from this report. • There remains strong commitment to critical engagement with Curriculum for Wales amongst all communities What is it crucial to sustain in the next phase of development? • A clear focus on the purposes • The use of evidence from policy, practice and research to inform thinking • A focus on learning with curriculum, pedagogy and assessment promoting and supporting progression in learning • All programme participants as learners • Co-construction and subsidiarity as the modus operandi of Curriculum for Wales. What might need further thinking or greater emphasis? The authors of this report acknowledge that the research focus may have led to a concentration on particular aspects of the programme. However, six themes emerged for either further thinking or greater emphasis • Shared understanding of key ideas • Progression • Assessment • Co-construction and subsidiarity • Coherence, policy and systemic integrity • Professional learning. Given its potential impact on education in Wales, it can be argued that the Curriculum for Wales represents exceptional value for money

The Iowa Homemaker vol.3, no.7

Table of Contents Home Economics Cleans House – Division Ready for New Year by Anna E. Richardson, page 1 Storing the Winter’s Supply of Vitamines by C. L. Fitch, page 2 First Hand Acquaintance With Tokyo’s Earthquake by Katherine Cranor, page 3 Hurrah for the Pumpkin Pie by Ruth Elaine Wilson, page 4 Choosing the Fall Hat by Florence Faust, page 5 Who is Responsible for the Child? by An “Old – Maid Aunt”, page 6 A Review of Farm Meats by Viola M. Bell, page 6 Color Hints From Gay October by Ruth Spencer, page 7 Paying Homage to the King of Fruits by Jeanette Beyer, page 8 Sheppard-Towner Bill by Lois Miller Herd, page 9 Buttons and _______ Buttons by Esther Ellen Rayburn, page 9 Candy Popularity by Esther Ellen Rayburn, page 13 Before the Bar of Science by Eda Lord Murphy, page 15 Gingered Pears by Elizabeth Storm, page 1

Bilateral Assessment of Functional Tasks for Robot-assisted Therapy Applications

This article presents a novel evaluation system along with methods to evaluate bilateral coordination of arm function on activities of daily living tasks before and after robot-assisted therapy. An affordable bilateral assessment system (BiAS) consisting of two mini-passive measuring units modeled as three degree of freedom robots is described. The process for evaluating functional tasks using the BiAS is presented and we demonstrate its ability to measure wrist kinematic trajectories. Three metrics, phase difference, movement overlap, and task completion time, are used to evaluate the BiAS system on a bilateral symmetric (bi-drink) and a bilateral asymmetric (bi-pour) functional task. Wrist position and velocity trajectories are evaluated using these metrics to provide insight into temporal and spatial bilateral deficits after stroke. The BiAS system quantified movements of the wrists during functional tasks and detected differences in impaired and unimpaired arm movements. Case studies showed that stroke patients compared to healthy subjects move slower and are less likely to use their arm simultaneously even when the functional task requires simultaneous movement. After robot-assisted therapy, interlimb coordination spatial deficits moved toward normal coordination on functional tasks