Monthly Archives: February 2008

More equalizations

Having discussed the first three equalizations in an earlier post, we continue…. 4.  After three equalizations, the gap is 2.0007.  The fourth  equalization equalizes Western & Middle Europe and Eurasia by bring the four nations of Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary from the Eurasian section to the West & Middle Europe section, which […]

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Redistricting Events

There is a proposal in the Ohio state legislature to amend the Ohio constitution to change the procedure for redistricting, making the committee that does the redistricting more bipartisan.   I’d provide a link to the legislation, but they are currently in the process of throwing amendments back and forth.   As a citizen of the […]

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Listmeister Awards: Most Representative of its Time

One of my favorite Listmeister Awards is given to the movie that best depicts the year in which it was made, in terms of look, feel, attitude.  If you want to know what 1961, say, was like, see Breakfast at Tiffany’s. 1902-1935  Little Caesar (1930) 1936-1940  Philadelphia Story (1940) 1941-1945  Stage Door Canteen (1943) 1946-1950  […]

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ClustrMaps

This is a service that monitors people viewing the Blog, and gives me a map showing where they are.

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The Best Movies to Watch on a Big Screen (or, the Eye Candy Awards)

I got a big screen TV last week (just in time for the SuperBowl(TM)), and I thought about what movies would look great on a huge TV, as opposed to the smaller one I had watched them on previously. I had a list all ready. I worked third shift in the late 90’s, and discovered […]

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A map of recent changes

Here is a map of changes described in the last post.Changes after three equalizations.

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After 3 Equalizations

After Bisegmentation, the World was split into 12 sections, described here. At the starting point, the largest section was West India (Including the provinces West and South of Bihar and Chhattisgarh), Maldives and Sri Lanka, with a population of 835,525,239. The smallest section was West & Middle Europe 20 (Including all European countries west of […]

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Testing the Objective Redistricting Procedure

I am going to make public the testing of the objective redistricting procedure as I go. Having gone through phase I (Make a list), Phase II (Biunication), and Phase III, (Bisegmentation), we proceed to Phase IV. Equalization Here is the starting point. After Bisegmentation, the next step is the Border Analysis Table. While it is […]

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