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I mean, seriously?

The tags all fall squarely into 'nice to have', as opposed to 'necessary' territory.
Or maybe I've become a grognard.
Well they are only a proposal at the moment. By the time they become a standard all the computers currently in use would have been scrapped.
I agree with you, Michael. Loading a JS shim in order to use tags that, for the moment, don't provide any benefit seems like a silly thing to do.
When I started web design, I got entranced by the standardistas telling me that you start with code that all browsers understand, and progressively enhance for browsers that can handle it ... So I'm a bit shocked now to find the same voices recommending that I build sites that only work for older browsers that have JS turned on. :-/
I've yet to see any good reason to use the new elements. Any semantic benefits they are supposed to carry haven't yet been realized yet, as I understand it. So I can appreciate that it's fun to experiment with this stuff, but to be building real-world sites with it—when it's still being written and changes a lot—makes no sense to me. Sounds like the same mistake that was made in the early days of CSS, when browser makers jumped the gun and got some of it wrong.
I recently read some girl's tech blog where she was pointing out reasons to still make sure your page still actually worked at some basic level without JS.
Most of the comments (after the first few) there were bordering hateful. Not towards her, but towards the idea that any web dev should have to lift a finger (oh and it's not lifting a finger, it's freaking sysiphus rolling giant boulders up a nearly vertical mountain) to even consider the idea that anything at all should work in any way without Javascript.
Yup, anyone blocking JS is equivalent to using a commodore 64...
Because anyone with it off is either a tinfoil-hat-wearing idiot who deserves to die- or they're using such ancient technology that they deserve to die- or that their coporate firewall policy is ancient and/or tinfoil-hat-wearing and deserves to die- or their mobile is clearly not Android (latest versions only) or iSomething and who the hell uses a Blackberry/Palm/Nokia anymore anyway? They should buy a new phone or just die (since js runs so well on them...)- or their mobile is indeed brand new but they live in sh*tty data-plan-land (which, by the way, is mythical according to developers-- after all, where THEY live, data plans are cheap and internet access is ALWAYS available, so who the hell are these so-called "people" claiming there are areas with such "bad reception" of intertubes that they can't easily download 500k of Javascript to make a button wiggle around when they mouse over it (whoops, wait, they don't have a mouse... I meant "swipe"!)), and need to either move to a Big City or die- and besides, there's no such thing as HTML web pages anymore anyway, get with the future, every page is another Twitter and relies on massive amounts of jQuery and Ajax to even have the slightest use- because all data belongs in "the cloud" anyway, who the hell is using their own servers? What is this one-client-one-server HTTP thing anyway? Something ancient from the 90's that deserves to die-and besides that, writing HTML that works is hard.
I don't think I finished reading the comments, as the whining of webweenies and so-called developers was deafening.
There you have it, folks. "Real" web developers build absolutely everything in Javascript, because this is the future and if you're not Javascripting every last span, you're not modern and deserve to die (or go back to Land of Borat where you belong).
Le sigh. So let's add tags with almost-zero semantic value and javash*t the hell out of them. It'll keep us hip and modern. Like using "cloud" in our company's name.
(it's kinda too bad, that my above rant unfairly hits the real twitters out there, but honestly, most websites I visit, and my family visits, are not twitter or facebook and indeed work just fine with HTML+HTTP and a server. Really. Honest.
just kidding, those sites don't exist anymore except as relics on the wayback machine, lawlz)
*as a note, anyone who can't see any hyperbole at all in my above post, not even one little bit, needs to go get gene therapy cause they lost their humour-recognition system. Most developers won't bother making anything work without Javascript, but I'll admit they're not actually Javascripting everything. Except when they're using JS to fill in an empty  tag. Okay that's evil...
[ot]You implying I've been 3 crates short of a shipment recently??
Those chocolate-chip cookies you were going to send me in payment for rants had better be on their damn way, or I'm going to have to send you-know-who to your house again to break your you-know-whats and feed them to your you-know-what...[/ot]
No, just ... well, not here ...
Those chocolate-chip cookies you were going to send me in payment for rants had better be on their damn way, or I'm going to have to send you-know-who to your house again to break your you-know-whats and feed them to your you-know-what...No, I don't know what ... what?[/ot]
Those chocolate-chip cookies you were going to send me in payment for rants had better be on their damn way, or I'm going to have to send you-know-who to your house again to break your you-know-whats and feed them to your you-know-what...No, I don't know what ... what?
I would have said 4 or 5, but meh ...
Those chocolate-chip cookies you were going to send me ...
I could never send anything like that. Any such thing I buy I must eat—compulsively—straight away ...[/ot]
Did I ever mention I have a reputation locally as a great baker? Chocolate chip cookies, brownies, whatever* - just let me know when you're coming to visit.
*But not scones. My scones are passable, but nothing to write home about. Even bears can't be good at everything.[/ot]
Did I ever mention I have a reputation locally as a great baker? Chocolate chip cookies, brownies, whatever* - just let me know when you're coming to visit.
*But not scones. My scones are passable, but nothing to write home about. Even bears can't be good at everything.[/ot]
I absolutely couldn't care any less if someone using IE7 or lower is trying to browse my site.
You don't have to worry as much about older versions of Chrome, Firefox, etc, because as far as I know they update automatically.
Other technology doesn't wait for people to catch up, so why should our code?
Now I'm perfectly fine with designing for lower resolutions, because not everyone can afford a giant monitor. But updating your web browser is free and easy, and with over 80% of people using Windows XP or higher, there isn't much of an excuse to still be using IE6, IE7, or some older version of another browser.
I disagree with those who completely lock IE6 and IE7 users out of their sites---that's bad practice. Nobody should be barred from viewing your content because of the browser they're using. I'm just saying it shouldn't have to look pretty.
Granted, this would all be different if we were talking about a site that a lot of people NEED to visit, like .gov or .edu sites. But I'm talking about my personal portfolio and blog here. I design for the future so I won't have to change my entire markup later on.
I think this was the initial attraction to most developers with the new HTML5 tags: we felt we were coding for the future.
Well that, and we were promised more semantics. We were promised many things, and they were shiny and attractive. I don't blame anyone for salivating even a little over some of these tags. <hgroup>, not so much. Thank the gods they're taking that one out (again. maybe).
Thing is, whenever a site gets renewed for any reason, the markup usually gets rewritten anyway. Usually because either someone is introducing or changing frameworks/CMSes/etc and of course the content. The sites where the markup doesn't get changed later on are generally those ones who haven't had an update from the authors in a long while.
I blame CSS Zen Garden for this idea. It made us think we'd just leave the markup and change the whole site design with CSS. We didn't, though. And our CSS wasn't really all that future-proof either: every time we look at those vendor-prefixes for border-radius, we itch to just remove them and leave the cleaner-looking original "border-radius" declaration. And when we stopped supporting IE6, all those * html hacks could go. And when we stopped supporting IE7, all those *+html ones too.
How's that for semantics? Scripting is for behavior.
Except hyperlinks and forms. But even then, we've blurred it more with modern code: Paul Irish is even recommending people rely on CSS transforms, transitions and animations instead of Javascript for moving stuff around, because making those fat lazy GPUs finally do some of the work is more appealing. It will get more appealing to more devs as support grows.
I just wish that Facebook and Twitter would do the same thing so I could have a follow button or like box on my page without loading an extra 50kb.
It's probably more likely those 4th-party calls than anything else. The amount of tracking and advertising and data-gathering code attached to a single Like button can be amazing. Like watching a wasp eaten alive by newly-hatched little parasites. Narrated by David Attenborough. "Extraordinary!" he'd exclaim.
I'm just saying it shouldn't have to look pretty.
I think if you are building your site's main blocks out of new elements, it goes a bit beyond whether it looks pretty or not.
When I was testing my createElement() code, I checked in IE7 with the inspector.When I wrote this:

a heading

 text text text...

...rinse, lather, repeat...
What IE (7, 8) got (until I figured how to properly write the JS) was
 (unknown tags get ignored)

a heading

 text text text...

...rinse, lather, repeat... (treated like a whitespace text node)
The content inside the tags were still on the page, but since I had afloated left and an  floated right and both cleared by a , this really lead to a jumble. That's a bit further than I'd go for "pretty" vs "usable". Except with my current job, where I just don't care what they do anyway. They use placeholders for labels there, so, meh.
I have very particular views on minorities, I admit. In fact, I would even say that I have rather obvious biases, regarding minorities and minority groups.
Whether developers support the users of older browsers, is up to each developer and (hopefully) based on actual user stats, and what the site is created to do anyway.


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There are stories of people behaving like characters from Shaw Bros movies and challenging instructors in their own gyms and some of these are from reputable sources.
However, three things worry me about this vid
1. Why not tell him to come back when he's sober
2. He may not have been drunk or drugged up but may have been in that state as a result of a medical condition
3. When he was KO'd he looked like he might be dead and no one seemed to give a shit
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The willingness of the guy to hurt someone who posed no threat was shocking and says a lot about him. Plus as John says - no-one appeared to care. Like the way one fella tried to revive him, it didn't work so he gives up. Fuck it.
I agree with jay that it is rightfully a dangerous business to go wandering into a fighting gym gobbing off. But it is also important that skilled fighters know how repel an unrealistic challenge without sending anyone to the dentist. That said if people are experienced combatants or built like a brick shithouse - they gonna take a kicking lol
This street fight was about as competitive as a leeroid barnes fight


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FOX News Channel host and radio host Bill O'Reilly remarked about lawsuits filed in connection with an allegation of sexual harassment against him on the October 14 edition of The Radio Factor:
O'REILLY: We're also on a scandal watch here because of me; I'm a scandal guy now. We're going to play you a clip of me on Regis and Kelly this morning talking about the scandal of my life. It is the worst day of my life, and to make it better, I have persuaded E.D. Hill to join us.
E.D. HILL (co-host): Well, I'm glad to --
O'REILLY: You know, one of these things on this scandal watch that I gotta deal with is, you know, these people, you know we filed a lawsuit yesterday, an extortion, as probably everybody knows now. Well, as soon as they got served, they went out and did exactly what they threatened to do, smear me. You know, throw anything up against the wall. You know the papers are going to print it --
HILL: Oh, sure. They're just dyin' for some scandal.
O'REILLY: -- and just try to destroy him, put him on the defensive so he's got so many charges to answer he couldn't possibly answer 'em.
HILL: You handled it well. You came out swinging.
O'REILLY: Well, it's the same thing in the debate. You have to anticipate exactly what they're gonna do and preempt it. Now our preemption was, somebody walks into the FOX News Channel and says, "I want 60 million dollars, or I'm going to punish you and O'Reilly." And you look at 'em and go, well, is somebody dead? You know, is there somebody killed? Uh, is there, you know, a house burnt down, children hurt?
No. And then there's nothing else that's defined. I still don't know what they're talking about, to tell you the truth. I haven't been served with anything. And then you say, well, wait a minute; this is just purely designed to hurt you. And you have to take action.
So what we did was we did -- we took legal action to make these people accountable for what they're doing. But, that's what Bush should have done. He should have said, Bush advisers should have, look, you can say the war in Iraq is worthy, and you're gonna win it. You have to do that. Okay, you're the commander; you can't send mixed signals to your troops. But you have to acknowledge that it hadn't gone the way we all planned it. And if you do that you can get off the defensive and say, "We're gonna win it. We have a strategy to win it, and my opponent has nothing but criticism."
See, nothing but criticism gets us nowhere, nowhere. And that's the mistake that Bush made in the first debate, and subsequently didn't do that. So Bush spent far too much time on the defensive, whereas you look at Kerry's record, you can put him on the defensive all day long -- all day long. So that, of the three, was the big mistake the Bush administration made, is they didn't allow the president to admit there had been screw-ups in Iraq.
Now, I gotta do this now, I want to get it out of the way, and you know, as I told you, it's the worst day of my life. I'm getting through it, though. But I wish I was like Rip Van Winkle, you know, you can just like go to sleep, and then wake up, maybe a year from now, and uh, this'll be all gone.
So we had to file a lawsuit, as you know, against these people. And I knew as soon as we did that they would say vile things about me, and which they have. And I knew the vile things would be printed by the newspapers, which they were. Each paper spinning in its own way; probably the Los Angeles Times the worst. But I, you know, I give them jazz, they're gon -- course they're gonna do this. I mean, I live in the real world.
So I'm on the book tour for Bill O'Reilly, The Factor For Kids, The O'Reilly Factor For Kids book, just doing very, very well. And we really appreciate it. So I'm gonna honor my obligations. You know, I'm gonna go and I'm chat with these people because, you know, they invited me and I'm not to cancel and run away. That's just; I'm not the kind of guy that does that. So I went on Regis and Kelly this morning and uh, here's how it went down. Roll it.
REGIS PHILBIN (ABC's Live with Regis and Kelly co-host): "You're pretty much in the news today too. What's going on?
O'REILLY: I gotta say this is the worst day of my life, uh. Really, it is, it is. And I'm, I, only because I have respect for you two, I would come on and do this. But I had to make a decision, and I knew by filing this lawsuit, I was going to perhaps ruin my career.
And I knew I was -- the vile stuff was going to be in the papers, because the papers love that. You know how it goes? But all of us are targets, you know. You know that. We're all targets; every famous person in this country is a target, and for the last five years I've had threats, almost on a daily basis; we're gonna kill you, we're gonna get your family, we're, you know, I'm gonna sue you for this or that, every other thing, and a short time ago this came into FOX and they want 60 million dollars.
Now, just think about that. The 9-11 families didn't get anywhere near that. But 60 million dollars because O'Reilly did X, Y, and Z. And I'm lookin' at this and I'm going, "Enough, enough." Now, if I have to go down, I'm willing to do it. But I gotta make a stand.
I'm a big mouth on the air; I'm a big mouth on the air. I'm a big Irish guy, you know, the Regis knows what I am. But I am a person who will say, "Enough."
PHILBIN: Right. And so you said it?
O'REILLY: And I said it, and we've filed the lawsuit yesterday morning. And the lawyers said to me, they said, "This could be it for you." And I said, 'Okay. I'm willing to take it,' because I've got to send the message that this kind of stuff, I'm not gonna sit with it."
O'REILLY: Okay, so there you go. And that's pretty much it. Nothing more I can say at this juncture, and we're praying that things work out. Obviously, I feel terribly guilty because people around me get hurt, you know, I can handle this stuff. It's been coming my way in private for so long that I'm almost numb to it. And now of course it goes public.
But, you know, there are people around me that are, ah, hurt by it. And I know some of you will be stunned, but there are people who love me, and you know, they don't want to see me go through this, but I feel terrible because it's, you know, I am in the firestorm every day. But I put myself in the firestorm by being who I am, by talking my mind, and by going up against the establishment, and you know, when the establishment gets something they're going to come back hard at you.
So I think we all know what it is. I think everybody knows, and then you got to make your decision whether O'Reilly's the bad guy, or O'Reilly standing up for something that's worth standing up for here. Extortion is terrible; it's awful. I hope you never ever get exposed to it. But I'm just not the kind of guy that's gonna do it, you know, I'm not that kind of guy. You're going to come after me, okay. We'll see how it plays out. I think that's the fair way to do it.
And again, I'm sorry I have to burden you with this, but I figure you know about it, you've seen it all over the place, and I owe it to my listeners and viewers to explain as best I can without getting into detail because, you know, the lawyers have asked me not to do that, and of course I'm gonna respect their wishes. You know, this is in the hands of the justice system now, and we hope there is justice in the justice system.
Any questions there, Miss Hill?
HILL: None.
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At twelve, I was convinced that at twenty-six I'd be a successful veterinarian on my way to opening my own practice. But life had other plans for me - and if there's one thing my years in Girl Scouts taught me, it was to be open to other ideas and to be flexible in my planning.
It is that combination of intellectual flexibility and openness that allows me now to deviate from the rigid path I had imagined for myself. Instead, I found myself venturing down a new road that fits my personality and talents in a much more unique and exciting way: I decided to enter the field of theatre management.
Given the current job market and a public education system that, for better or worse, has largely been refocused on "essential" subjects only, with music and arts programs dwindling or disappearing altogether, I know students today often feel like they are being forced into choosing from a very narrow range of possibilities. This pressure can indeed be overwhelming and discouraging. I am here to tell you that, as a Girl Scout, you are not only prepared to handle that pressure, but you have opportunities and skills that will help you resist it – that expand your career choices, and that will ultimately get you to where you want to be.
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- No combination is too bizarre – My college major and minor were Animal Science and Astronomy, respectively. I was also a rower and member of the Women's Chorus. Today, I pull my skills from all of those activities - being well-rounded (a phrase we hear so often!) really is the best way to go.
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- Don't be afraid to ask for help – It doesn't make you weaker; if anything, it makes you stronger! Forming bonds with those you find inspirational will not only increase your knowledge -- it will give you the confidence you need to succeed. The world is rougher than you expect, but not rough enough for you to back down from a challenge!
I am still a Girl Scout (as I have been since age 4!), and I'm so glad that I have something that I love so much supporting me. Remember, you don't have to stop benefiting from the Girl Scouts just because you've graduated from high school. Growing up allows you to give back in your own way to the organization that gave you so much. You can teach classes and even volunteer with a troop. Maintaining a connection to Girl Scouting will help you stay focused and motivated to follow your dreams, whatever they may be. You're never too old to learn something new; don't be afraid to try!


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Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough near the crater rims; around larger craters, long rays or chains of secondary craters radiate away from the crater rims. Some Martian craters are similar to these craters, but Mars also has a high proportion of craters with forms not found on the moon or Mercury: rampart craters.
Rampart craters, also called fluidized-ejecta craters, have ejecta blankets that appear lobate, or rounded, in plan view, and end in low ridges or ramparts. An example of a such a rampart is the ridge in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Here you see the rampart at the edge of an ejecta blanket that comes from an approximately 16-kilometer-diameter (10-mile-diameter) crater, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) to the east.
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A drug law conviction can result in the loss of employment, property, financial aid for college, the right to vote and more.
65 million people with criminal records are potentially barred from employment in the U.S.
Incarcerating people for nonviolent drug offenses destroys lives, because with a criminal conviction under your belt, it isn't easy to get a job, and you're not eligible for student loans, which doesn't leave a lot of legal options open for a productive life. Even if someone was never incarcerated, the "criminal" or "felon" label can follow a person convicted of a drug law violation for this rest of his or her life.
A drug arrest (let alone conviction) may result in even a legal resident's deportation. Policies that exclude and discriminate against people with a conviction are so numerous and varied that they have effectively created a permanent second-class status for millions of Americans. Often the only difference between a person with a drug law conviction and one without is that the former was unlucky enough to have been caught doing what half of American adults openly admit to having done: trying an illicit substance. Given the systemic racism inherent in the drug war, these life-long exclusions inequitably affect individuals and communities of color.
Punishment for a drug law violation is not only meted out by the criminal justice system, but is perpetuated by policies denying child custody, voting rights, employment, business loans, trade licensing, student aid and even public housing and other public assistance. Criminal records are also cited as reason to deport immigrants and bar other noncitizens from visiting the United States. These barriers, like drug war enforcement itself, fall disproportionately on individuals and communities of color. Relative to the crime being committed, the punishments for drug law violations are unjustifiably harsh and cause more harm than the drug itself.
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SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court today struck down a requirement for a two-thirds majority vote in the Legislature to pass a tax increase.
A divided high court ruled 6-3 that an initiative requiring a two-thirds vote was in conflict with the state constitution and enabled a "tyranny of the minority" to govern.
"Our holding today is not a judgment on the wisdom of requiring a supermajority for the passage of tax legislation," Justice Susan Owens wrote for the majority. "Such judgment is left to the legislative branch of our government.
"Should the people and the Legislature still wish to require a supermajority vote for tax legislation, they must do so through constitutional amendment, not through legislation," she wrote.
A coalition of lawmakers and education groups sued the state over requirements in Initiative 1053 passed by voters in 2010. A King County judge decided last spring that the state constitution requires only a simple majority to pass tax proposals.
In a blistering dissent, Justice James Johnson called the majority opinion an act of tyranny.
"There is considerable irony in today's decision given the majority's claimed fear of tyrannical minority control. Through a single decision, a court of nine people (actually only six votes) is imposing their policy preference over that of the 1,575,655 voters who passed Initiative 1053 (I-1053) and the millions who qualified and passed similar tax protections," he wrote.
"I regretfully observe that this court has become the tyrannous minority it purports to guard against. This violation of our constitution can only detract from public respect for this court and its decisions. I therefore dissent," he wrote.
Today's decision ignited debate on whether Democratic lawmakers would forge ahead quickly to enact new or higher taxes, or extend existing ones. Republican lawmakers said they intend to uphold the will of the people by opposing efforts to pass taxes with anything less than a supermajority.
"There is not going to be a jump to raise taxes," House Majority Leader Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, told reporters less than an hour after release of the decision.
But he and Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, made clear the ruling opens a pathway to options such as closing tax loopholes and extending existing taxes blocked by the two-thirds rule.
"There are now a broader set of tools on the table," said Hunter, the chief budget writer for House Democrats.
In the Senate, power rests in the hands of a Republican-dominated coalition.
"I am sure Democratic members of the House are excited about this but the members of the Senate Majority Coalition will stay the course," said Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, the Republican leader in the chamber.
Sen. Nick Harper, D-Everett, said the decision didn't change the majority.
"The opinion wasn't a surprise. I thought the constitutional question was clear," he said. "The bigger political question is how people will respond."
Chris Korsmo, CEO of the League of Education Voters, one of the lead plaintiffs called the ruling a "a huge win for kids and schools."
"Washington schools need to be fully funded in order to ensure that all kids reach their potential. This ruling, combined with the recent McCleary decision, will help ensure that our kids have all the resources they need to get an excellent education," she said.
Most people agree the state needs about $4 billion to fulfill its constitutional promise to fully pay for basic education by 2018.
The two-thirds majority rule has been approved in a series of initiatives pushed by activist Tim Eyman. Voters most recently approved the supermajority rule last November.
The majority opinion, written by Justice Susan Owens, states that under a commonsense understanding, any bill receiving a simple majority vote will become law. No language in the provision qualifies that requirement by stating a bill needs "at least a majority vote."
They wrote that without the simple majority rule in the constitution, the people or the Legislature could require particular bills to receive 90 percent approval rather than just a two-thirds approval, thus essentially ensuring that those types of bills would never pass.
"Such a result is antithetical to the notion of a functioning government and should be rejected as such," the justices wrote.
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Jan. 28, 2013 -- Parking Services and ticket collections
It's my understanding that parking services will be sending employees to collections for parking tickets. It's also my understanding that payroll deductions are no longer an option.
My questions are:
- Am I to understand that my employer will be affecting my credit score over parking tickets?
- How does collections work with the appeal process?
- Does it cost the university more money to use collections than self-administering? What is the breakdown?
- Why was the decision to use collections made?
- Why are payroll deductions no longer an option? It seems like parking services has made it harder for people to pay citations.
- Will students also be sent to collections? Are we, as a university, going to be affecting students credit history over something like parking tickets?
From Martin Klein, Business Manager, Auxiliary and Contract Services
UAF is moving toward a single stop payment point through the Business Office for all fees owed. Parking Services now transfers charges on unpaid tickets more than 60 days old to the UAF Business Office. Processing tickets through payroll deductions was very time consuming and frequently offensive to employees. Students, faculty and staff can easily pay these charges in the same manner they would pay any other UAF charges on their account. Options include by web, mail, phone, in person or by wire transfer. Complete details on payment options, fees and collections actions taken by the Business Office can be found online.
Tickets that have been appealed are not transferred unless they remain unpaid 60 days past the resolution of the appeal.
Questions may be addressed to Parking Services or the Business Office.
Jan. 28, 2013 -- Booting vehicles during finals
I suggest that UAF have a policy of not booting vehicles during finals week.
Why is this the current policy?
I feel we do not need to add additional stress and financial hardship to students during finals week. Could we please just add an additional ticket to the students account?
From Martin Klein, Business Manager, Auxiliary and Contract ServicesParking Services boots less than one-tenth of of 1 percent of UAF students' vehicles on campus. Before a student's car is booted he or she must receive multiple parking tickets and then neglect paying those tickets. Students with a concern regarding being booted should contact parking services to make arrangements for settling their account.
Jan. 28, 2013 -- Cost transfer requests process
Rumor has it that now ALL cost transfer requests (JVs, Labor Redistributions, JPays) that will affect a restricted fund must be approved/initialed by the appropriate grant tech at OGCA before Financial Services will key it. (Previous information suggested that only those with a 60-day memo would need extra approval.)
If that's the case, then should we send such cost transfer paperwork straight to OGCA, or are we still to send it to Financial Services (per OGCA manual p62) and let them decide if it needs OGCA approval first? If OGCA is always in the approval line-up now, what are they checking for and/or what kind of errors are they hoping to prevent by checking charges before they are keyed?
From Teri Langton, OGCA
All Journal Vouchers (JV), Labor Redistribution (LR) and JPays should be sent directly to Office of Finance and Accounting (formerly Financial Services). If the JV, LR or JPay has a 60 day cost memo attached the Office of Finance and Accounting sends it to Office of Grants and Contracts Administration (OGCA). If there is no 60 day cost memo attached and one is required or if office of Finance and Accounting has any questions the cost transfer is sent to OGCA.
OGCA reviews JV's, LR's and JPay's to make sure the charges are reasonable, allocable, consistent and applicable to the sponsored project. All necessary backup or explanation should accompany the JV, LR or JPay. If the explanation or back up is unclear or incomplete then OGCA will contact the department for additional details. OGCA also checks to make sure the debits and credits are correct and that the account codes are allowable on the sponsored project. Once the reviewing process is complete the JV, LR or JPay is approved or disapproved by the senior accountant. If it is approved OGCA will send the document to the office of Finance and Accounting and they will enter it into Banner. If the document is disapproved it will be sent back to the department.
There is a designated courier that goes to both OGCA and Financial services on a daily basis. This was established when OGCA moved to the West Ridge Research Building and has minimized delays due to OGCA and Office of Finance and Accounting being in different locations.
With the advent of Web Time Entry and the new Effort Certification Statement system, it's anticipated that the number of cost transfer requests are expected to drop dramatically.
If there are questions regarding JV's, LR's or JPays, please contact the senior accountant at OGCA.
Jan. 25, 2013 -- Head-bolt heaters in Nanana lot
Are there any plans for additional outlets to be installed in the Nenana parking lot? There are so many times that I cannot plug in if I have to leave and come back during the middle of the day.
From Debbie Hansen-Hill, Parking Services
At this time there is no plan for adding additional outlets in the Nenana lot. If you can not find a parking space with an outlet, in the lot of your choice, please park in another lot and use the shuttle transportation to your location.
The Blue Route, which travels in a clockwise circle of campus, is also an option, it can be requested (by calling 474-RIDE(7433).
You'll find more information on the shuttle schedules, routes and online tracker online.
Jan. 23, 2013 -- Green route shuttle at the Patty
Could the Green route shuttle stop at the Patty Center/SRC during non-peak parking lot shuttle hours or on request? It is not much, if at all, a detour of the Green route.
From Sarah Mousseau, Transportation Services
The Green Route is our most popular route, due to the short amount of wait time, which is approximately 5-7 minutes for a complete loop.
Although, the actual distance of this requested detour is small, the amount of traffic in the area of the Nenana Parking lot, the Patty Center parking lot and Tanana Loop, is often fairly heavy, and maneuvering a 31 foot bus through heavy traffic could very easily double the route time. Due to the nature of the traffic, we have attempted to have the routes make only right turns and as few left turns as possible for safety purposes.
Yes, there are a few times when both passenger and vehicle traffic is low enough that Green Route could drop off at the Patty/SRC by request, and the driver may be able to drop passengers at the Patty Center steps.
The Blue Route, which travels in a clockwise circle of campus, is also an option, it can be requested (by calling 474-RIDE(7433) to pick up at the Eielson/Signers' bus stop, and stops at the Patty Center steps every loop.
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Jan. 14, 2013 -- Stay on Track change in focus
Is it true that UAF tossed out the conveyer-belt, "get 'em in, get 'em out" 'plan' to push 18 credits or more/semester and instead adopt a realistic model of "finish in your own time"? I'm still a bit mad about that stupid idea and the offensive false logic & "fuzzy math" imposed upon us during the marketing campaign, during which our classes were interrupted by people coming in to share the spiel.
From Mary Gower, Enrollment Services Director
The Stay on TRACK campaign changed from a "Finish in Four" motto to "Finish in Your Time" for the Fall 2012 kick off. This was in response to student feedback and survey data. The campaign originally encouraged students to take at least fifteen credits each semester, which will both save them money and increase their likelihood of graduating. Realizing that not every student can take a 15+ credit load, students are now encouraged to take at least one additional course to progress on their path to graduation. Students are still encouraged to take 30 credits a year to graduate in four years.
All students are encouraged to:
- Register early to get the classes they need.
- See an academic advisor and use DegreeWorks.
- Choose a major and stick with it.
- Keep up their grades.
For more information visit www.alaska.edu/stayontrack/
Jan. 14, 2013 -- Donating leave time
Why does the university not allow a woman going on maternity leave to accept donated sick leave? The state allows it why doesn't the university and if I'm able to use my own sick leave during this time what's the difference between my own sick leave and accepted sick leave?
From Erika Van Flein, UA Human Resources
The leave share program is governed by university regulation and is designed to help an employee suffering a catastrophic medical event. Normal pregnancy and delivery is not a catastrophic medical event. However, complications such as required bed rest and recovery from cesarean section surgery could qualify if the patient's physical certifies a medical incapacity for the condition and recovery.
R04.06.130. Sick Leave.
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1. Purpose: The leave share program is established to allow employees to voluntarily transfer hours from their unused sick leave balance to the sick leave balance of an employee with a catastrophic medical event.
Jan. 14, 2013 -- Bear sculpture at Alumni Drive
Why is there no nanook ice sculpture at the time and temp sign? Last year it attracted a lot of publicity during cold weather. I saw time lapse videos and pictures posted on Facebook and YouTube. I thought this was great that the University was getting so much publicity, as many wanted to take a photo or video of themselves near or on the bear with the temp in the background. I miss seeing it! I hope that it will return next winter.
RESPONSEFacillities Sevices has contracted out the bear ice sculpture and it should be completed and put in place soon.
Jan. 14, 2013 -- Paychecks and direct deposit
Why is it not allowed for an employee to pick up their check? Every other place I've worked, if you receive a paper check, they hand it to you They do not make you wait for it in the mail.
More than one "new" employee in our area has had problems with their direct deposit. I put new in quotes because they each have been here for 2-6 months. When payroll is questioned, they say they've never received the paperwork. Where is the disconnect?
From Michelle Pope, director, Payroll and Benefit Accounting
Paychecks for the entire system are centrally generated at the Butrovich Building on the Fairbanks campus. These checks must be distributed throughout the system in a manner that will not be administratively burdensome, be consistent, and safeguard against loss, theft and fraud. UA administration has determined, wih the help of SW Internal Audit, that delivery by the U.S, Postal Service meets these requirements. Years ago checks were distributed manually for the entire system. The university moved away from this manual distribution because of the administrative problems and internal control issues.
Direct deposit is the safest and most efficient method of distributing pay. Currently, the university requires that manual request forms be submitted in order to set up direct deposit for payroll checks. It is always good for employees to follow up with the HR office to confirm that the paperwork has been received and properly entered.
We have been looking into a way to make direct deposit election available through employee self-service through UAOnline. This would allow employees to enter the banking information directly into the payroll system and would be implemented with the next pay period. There would no longer be an issue of lost direct deposit requests.Your MAU HR office will communicate these changes to employees as they occur.
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Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 9:48 a.m.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Police fatally shot man following a 90-minute standoff at a Jacksonville mobile home park.
Authorities say the man came running out of a home at the Countryside Villages mobile home park Tuesday night.
The Florida Times-Union reports the man started firing a weapon as he ran, hollering hysterically. Officers opened fire on him and he fell to the ground.
Before the man ran out of the house, officers had been talking to him on a loud speaker, trying to get him to surrender.
The man's name hasn't been released. Neighbors told the newspaper a man and his stepfather live in the mobile home.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:56 am
Post subject: 2012 Offseason: Your thoughts?
Since I've been gone for quite some time, I'd like to catch up with my boys here in the Bills forum. The question here is regarding our 2012 offseason, which has been quite unusual in comparison to the offseasons we've gotten used to.
If you just want to share your general thoughts on what we've done this year, this is the place to do it.
What do you think our best move was (if it's not obvious lol)? What was our worst move? What would you have liked to see get done that wasn't done this offseason?
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I love it ... We helped out our D so much by adding Mario and Anderson. Adding a good QB coach in David Lee, is a good move, he is already helping Fitzy out and i believe it will pay huge dividends. Also switching Dcoords and switching back to the 4-3 will be a very easy transition. I also liked the back up QB competition between VY and Thigpen (I believe VY will win that battle)
I loved our draft too, Idk about you guys but this was the first draft in a while that I was actully happy with most of the picks, wasnt too sure about the Kicker in round 7, but hell its the 7th round lol.
The only thing I didnt like was not addressing our pressing need for a #2 WR. I feel like Graham could be a solid #2 but not early on, and I wasnt overly impressed with Donald Jones last year. Hopefully one of these guys can step up and take pressure off of Stevie.
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Overall this offseason was amazing. We took care of our biggest need, with the best available FA at that position. We spent some money, and I think our FO showed everyone that they want - and are willing to do what it takes - to win now. I think our franchise as a whole, from former players to current players and FO personnel (except Gailey, who seemed strangely absent) deserve a ton of credit for landing Mario Williams, our biggest FA signing ever.
Signing Mark Anderson went largely under the radar, but I think that will prove to be a very good signing as well, as he will add a good pass rush across from Mario.
Switching back to the 4-3, and making Wanny the DC will prove to be great moves as well.
The draft went very well for us as well, and I think we had the best days 2 and 3 of any team. I like the Gilmore pick, and I think he'll be a very good CB in the NFL, but I would like the pick more if Floyd had been off the board. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I think Floyd would have been more of an upgrade to our team overall. I think our CB's will look like a completely different group with our new pass rush, and a combo of Floyd and a 3rd round CB (Jamell Fleming, Jayron Hosely) would have had a bigger impact than Gilmore and Graham. Again, I like Gilmore, just not more than Floyd.
This may sound strange, but I think our best offseason move overall may have been grabbing Cordy Glenn in the 2nd round of the draft. Before you say I've lost it, hear me out. I can see Glenn stepping in right away at any of 3 spots on the OL (both G spots and RT) from day 1, and if he can slim down some and learn the LT spot, he could become a very good LT, making him valuable at 4 OL spots. I think in 4 or 5 years, he could very well become our most valuable commodity. Obviously Mario will probably have the biggest impact for the upcoming season, and probably for the next couple, but down the line, if we continue to build our OL, Glenn could be our most impactful player.
I think our worst move was signing Vince Young. I din't see any positives in the signing at all. I don't see him adding anything positive to the team, but I can see him bringing negativity. He's an immature head case, and I just hope he doesn't come in and cause any issues. I think we've built up a solid core group of guys, guys who all seem to be supportive of one another, and I don't see VY adding to that. If he can keep his ego in check, and his head on straight, he may be slightly better than Thigpen. Not worth the risk IMO.
Overall I'd give our offseason a solid B/B+. it would be an A, but we didn't add a true #2 WR (I know we tried with Meachem), and we signed VY, which drops it down a bit as well.
I don't think we are playoff bound yet, but I do think we'll finish 2nd in the East, and I'm pretty excited for our future.
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The general consensus seems to be that our offseason was about as solid as we could ask for, minus the lack of attention we showed the WR position. Here are some of my thoughts on the offseason.
Firstly, the free agency period we just had was probably the best we've ever seen for the Bills. In the past, we've made attempts to spend money, but usually the big contracts we hand out don't really work out all that well, because we usually spend the money on mediocre players (see Dockery). This year however, we FINALLY made the splash we have all been waiting for. With the way things have been going in recent years, if someone had posted a "mock offseason" of this caliber, said poster would probably have been laughed off the site. We literally got THE best defensive free agent on the market, and to add to that (in agreement with BBF13), the Anderson signing is not being talked about much outside of Buffalo, but is pretty huge. We didn't just address our lack of a pass rush, but we put our pass rush on steroids (no Merriman joke here). With the signing of Anderson, we acquired the Patriots top sack leader from last season, despite the fact that he only played about half of their snaps. The only thing that worries me to a degree with him are the questions that remain in my head: Why did the Patriots let their top sack leader go? What do they know that we don't?
One of the best aspects of our offseason was our ability to FINALLY retain our own. The resignings of Steve, Chandler, and others, have really given me hope that we might finally be committed to building up our franchise. In the past, it's been extremely frustrating for us all to see this team build up players, only to let them walk, as if we are some sort of NFL farm team.
As for the draft, I think it was very solid. What we did in the offseason (prior to the draft) made things much more flexible for us come draft day. I think Gilmore is going to be a stud, but like BBF13 said, I would have really liked to see us take Floyd. I wanted us to take Floyd in the months leading up to the draft, so was a bit disappointed to see we didn't grab him, but I'm not going to complain about Gilmore. On top of that, getting Glenn in the second round was a steal for us, and early on, it appears he's been lining up at the starting LT, with Hairston on the right side. I think we also have a couple of nice sleepers in the mix from this draft class as well, specifically Bradham, who I think could be quite a beast.
Now in closing, I don't think we are as bad at WR as some may feel (I know, go ahead, kill me for this). The biggest issue we had was depth last year, and that especially showed with injury. When Donald was healthy early on, we were winning games, and our passing game was extremely effective. He made some big plays for us on occasion, specifically late in the Patriots W. If not for his play in the second half of that game, we would have lost that game, no doubts about it. If you look at what we have, and the promise some of these guys showed last season, I think we can end up with a solid 6 by the end of camp. I like how Hagan finished the year, and Donald seems to be on a mission to prove all the doubters wrong. Steve, Donald, David, TJ, Hagan, Brad Smith, etc.....not the greatest, but not as bad as some may think if you ask me.
You know what would REALLY make this offseason epic? If we could somehow finagle a trade for Percy Harvin, who has requested a trade. I think Chan would have ALOT of fun with Percy. Could you imagine that?
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:33 pm
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^^^ I completely forgot to address something that you (BM23RB) pointed out. Resigning our own guys was huge! Obviously resigning Stevie was the biggest, but getting most of the rest of our guys signed as well will help these guys to see that we are looking keep our key guys, rather than let them walk like our previous regime did. I think it adds to the overall morale as well, which is definitely a big factor in keeping our guys motivated.
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It was an awesome offseason. It is good to be a Bills fan
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Let's make a deal for Percy Harvin and make this the GOAT offseason.
I'd give a 1st...
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This may sound strange, but I think our best offseason move overall may have been grabbing Cordy Glenn in the 2nd round of the draft. Before you say I've lost it, hear me out. I can see Glenn stepping in right away at any of 3 spots on the OL (both G spots and RT) from day 1, and if he can slim down some and learn the LT spot, he could become a very good LT, making him valuable at 4 OL spots. I think in 4 or 5 years, he could very well become our most valuable commodity.
Yeah as a Dolphin fan I hated the fact that Glenn ended up in Buffalo. Great pick up IMHO.
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Let's make a deal for Percy Harvin and make this the GOAT offseason.
I'd give a 1st...
with all the baggage i would only give a 2nd.
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How do I build a bond between a father and new born when they are miles apart?
How do I build a bond between a father and new born when they are miles apart? My friend just had a baby and her husband is over seas. The baby is only two months old and her dad is over seas for nine months. What can we do to build a bond between the two of them?
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The bond needs to be focused on father's need for bonding more than baby's because the baby will not have any bonding at all at 11 or 12 months of age. Even a father who is with their child for a year, and then goes away for a few weeks will find the child quite distant and "clingy" to mum because their memory hasn't developed to that point yet.
But, of course, Daddy knows that he has a child, and the bonding needs to be established if possible. Likely, daddy will fall in love with his baby when he gets home, but if you want to try to create and strengthen a bond before the, pictures and video are the absolute best way to do this. If they can do skype calls or send pictures to daddy, that would help with the bonding. The more frequent and consistent, the better. This way daddy will feel like he's watching his little one grow over the next 9 months in a natural way.
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15th December 2013 07:09 AM #3
That's really difficult dwright7799.
I agree that skype, photos and video are the best way to stay in touch. Babies grow, change and develop so much at this age this will help the dad to feel involved in this process. I also have friends who have family overseas and their toddlers like to interact with their family members by skype.
Mum could keep a daily diary (it doesn't have to be long or arduous) with a photo and a few sentences that capture what the baby was doing that day. I would also encourage the mum to keep talking about daddy to the baby; telling her stories about him and reinforcing how much he loves her.
It's certainly not going to be easy for anyone. It's good news that mum has you as a friend to help support her. I think a gentle approach will be needed once dad comes back as the baby will not be used to having him around.
Thinking of your friend,