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City Councillor Jonathan Cote has been busy this past little while up at SFU learning about Urban Studies. He's recently completed a report on rental housing, and it's an interesting read. Although I have owned a home for about a decade now, I was a tenant for a long time, and the availability and pricingRead More
City Councillor Jonathan Cote has been busy this past little while up at SFU learning about Urban Studies. He's recently completed a report on rental housing, and it's an interesting read. Although I have owned a home for about a decade now, I was a tenant for a long time, and the availability and pricing of rental housing in the 90s is what drew me to New West when I left Vancouver Island in the first place.
I asked Cote how he chose to write a term paper about saving purpose built rental housing.
"Finding inspiration for my term paper on housing was not a difficult task," he said.
"All I needed to do was look out my living room window to see a purpose built rental building being torn down on Royal Avenue. I am not trying to single out the developer on this project; given the economic situation, the property owner made a very rational development decision. The existing rental building was aging and facing expensive maintenance issues and the market was ready for a condo project in this neighbourhood."
I lived in the very apartment Cote refers to. In its place a six storey wood frame building has been approved for construction. This is significant for a few reasons – six storey wood frame buildings were previously not permitted within the BC Building Code, but the code was altered in 2009 to allow for it after studies demonstrated they were safe in earthquakes. Secondly, this is the first one to be approved for construction in New Westminster and I think it is a sign of things to come.
New Westminster is such a tight, dense, and compact city. This is great for walkability (except someone really needs to do something about the hills) and for getting around without a car. We have lots of transit access points with five Skytrain stations in the city. But we're out of land, and if you can't build out, the only place to build is up.
By comparison, I visited Calgary about five years ago, and my brother and I checked out a new housing subdivision on the very outskirts of town. I went back only few years later, and discovered the City of Calgary had crept another 100 kilometers from the centre of the city with another 20 new subdivisions with made up names and cookie cutter houses. What had been sold as "on the edge of it all" was now billed as "easy commute to downtown".
I don't recall how many units exactly were in the now-demolished Royal Avenue apartments. I want to say about 40-50 altogether. The new building is approved for 118 units, which no matter how poorly I've estimated, is at least double. But here's the big difference – these units will be individually owned as a strata building, and although the strata bylaws will likely allow for owners to rent out some of the units, this still represents a loss of rental housing.
Councillor Cote says this is a concern. "As I began to research the challenges facing purpose built rental units it became very clear that market rental developments cannot compete with market condo projects. Given the important role rental housing plays in housing low and moderate income earners in our region, this should be cause for concern. Our rental stock is aging and the economics simply do not work for the development of new purpose built rental buildings."
With the recent news that New Westminster has been selected as a community the provincial government with pilot a poverty reduction program, Cote's report is timely.
"As I continued my research I realized that there was no easy solution and a variety of policy tools would need to be implemented to change the economics of rental housing."
So what does Cote suggest?
"We need to create incentives for developers to consider rental housing as a sound investment, and parallel that with more restrictive land use policies. We need to create an entirely separate housing market for rental housing. Only by addressing this issue will the region be able to ensure that low and moderate income earners have a place in Metro Vancouver's housing system."
Cote plans to present his term paper to City Council and also other municipalities. You can read the full report here.
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I completely agree, we need to protect rental stock in the city (and around Metro Vancouver), some municipalities have put in place strata conversion by-laws, preventing existing buildings to be stratafied (yes, I know, that word is completely incorrect in that context, you know that I mean… 😉 but they don't protect existing rental units from being converted to condos via a rebuild like this project.
What is desperately needed, and something I've advocated for in every single election I've ever run in, is for the province to allow municipalities to designate "rental" zoning. We have residential, commercial, industrial, municipalities can even designate the size and type of buildings, and to some degree the type of usage for various commercial purposes, what they desperately need the power to do is zone sections of multi-family residential land to be exclusively used for rental property. And we need this soon before more rental stock gets rebuilt as strata. We think we have a housing crisis and a lack of affordability for the working class now? Just wait until all those who are already on the margins of society can't afford somewhere to live in Metro Vancouver.
Unfortunately when you have a provincial government led for a decade by a former developer… you know where their priorities will be. Big new roads to the valley, sprawling sub-divisions on prime agricultural land, towers to the stars affordable only to the rich, not a government that stands up for the average citizen or that makes issues such as sustainability a priority.
Interesting idea, Matt. The province doesn't matter, Cities have a huge amount of freedom under the LGA to create any type of zoning they wish. It is really their only unlimited power. I suspect, however, that desingating "rental zoning" or even a form of higher-density residential that requires some % designated as rental will have to come with a reduction in property tax revenue.
I think Matt's idea is a sound one. Although I understand the financial impetus for a developer to go with what will be profitable, that is (as history has proven) is not the whole picture when you're creating a healthy community. The community itself needs checks and balances in place to keep that in proportion to other important aspects of modern living; accessibility, affordability, and even a bit of visual and stylistic variation that makes a community look like a place you'd like to spend your life.
Besides all that, I'm a supporter of mixed zoning in any case. In our 21st century, where the need to live closer to the things we need will become more and more evident, I think we need to think about planning for density, as Jen suggested in the article. In addition to sustainable and affordable rental properties, I think walkability, carless lifestyles, and a fight against sprawl, which is just one of the ways we've decided to create isolated existences in suburban locations, are going to be vital to healthy living in cities and suburbs. To me, it's a question of what we as a civilization will be able to afford as our century progresses in all kinds of ways. And building condos while not replenishing rental properties will eventually turn sour in terms of profitability as well in any case. We all need to think long-term, developers included.
Thanks for the article! I look forward to more discussion!
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Well, since I never really liked how the game treated Isara, I was hoping that the anime team can come up with something better. As for Rosie, they already gave her Cornelia's voice. I don't expect her subplot in the game to be carried over here.
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Im very interested in this past concerning the Darcsen calamity. The whole valkyrur and Darcsen and the discrepancies that seem to be appearing in history is very interesting to me. I loved seeing the other side of Welkin and Faldio as well. Alicia has started to get Welkins habits down to an art form lol. They knew exactly where to find him and what he would be doing.
Alicia really has not done anything lately but bring out her Tsundere roll more and more. I love her facial expressions and every now and then she does something funny im hoping that her character actually has some real depth to it or i will be sorely disappointed. Her character can be so dynamic oh and she bakes bread lol thats a WIN for me. I like her character and the relationship she has with Welkin i think her character will be brought out more as the series continues. Im just hoping they dont abandon her character growth half way through that would be disappointing. I actually found Ramal's excessive whining annoying as hell. I understand what his character is all about but it seemed very over the top to me especially the way he talked to Isara. Yet he went back to guard the area claiming he was not worried about her:rolleyes. But as it turns out hes another TsunTsun in making and it turns out he actually has an interest in her. I like Isara and i love how mechanical she is i love seeing female characters who aren't afraid to get down and dirty with machines and its not just the tank she has shown she mechanical across the board. As soon as Welkin, Faldio and Alicia entered the ruins it was easy enough to tell who they would run into. Selvaria is freakin Gar and hot which makes her all the more dangerous. I like how they display her as a warrior first not a women because it seems her whole life has been about war and serving the empire. These characters are kind of rare usually they change somewhere along with the story to make them seem more human but i want her to stay the same as she is. Also, Maxamillion exudes royalty and presence he is a man not be trifled with and one can tell that he has Selvaria's complete loyalty. Now my questions is what is so special about her blood cant wait to find out The next episode look quite interesting. Enjoying the series over all some disappointments here and there but over all its satisfying.
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Things don't always go smoothly when four work colleagues decide to start a company. That's why those colleagues should hire a lawyer to hammer out an agreement that will describe clear steps for resolving conflicts that might arise. That's no fun at all -- except when you compare it to the alternative.
This comes to mind in considering the response to my July 6 post on The Levo League -- a website to help young women advance in their careers and also a ForbesWoman blog operating now under a different name.
That post ignited a comment storm that opened my eyes to a vicious corporate power play.
Simply put, the participants were fighting with the ferocity of bottled scorpions over the spoils of their year-old startup despite the complete absence of any spoils -- except for the possibility of avoiding lawsuits financed by the offspring of one of the world's leading automobile executives.
These young women faced numerous professional challenges as they contemplated launching PYP. Here are some of the challenges they encountered:
- Should they leave the security of McKinsey to work on it full-time or just build PYP on nights and weekends?
- What jobs needed to get done and who would do them?
- Should they operate together on the assumption that everything would work out or should they immediately formalize the way they would operate the business?
- Who should own what share of the company and how would they decide on a fair way to divvy it up?
- How would they resolve any disagreements on strategy, people, or operations?
All these issues burned brightly for the co-founders of PYP. To understand how things ended so badly, it helps to think of PYP's brief corporate life as a four act play:
- Act I: In which four McKinsey friends form PYP;
- Act II: In which One Goes Full-Time, Others Not So Much;
- Act III: In which Full-Time CEO offends a co-Founder; and
- Act IV: In which said offended co-Founder Teams up with Wealthy co-Founder To Toss out CEO.
Before describing the acts of this drama, here are the players:
- Kathryn Minshew, a Duke (08) graduate who spent about 20 months as an analyst in McKinsey's New York office before jumping to PYP in September 2010, becoming full time Editor in Chief in December 2010 -- and CEO in May 2011.
- Amanda Pouchot, a U. Cal. Berkeley (08) graduate who joined McKinsey's organizational practice as a researcher working in the New York office. Pouchot originally suggested the idea of a career-focused content site for young women in March 2010.
- Caroline Ghosn, a Stanford (08) graduate - and daughter of Nissan and Renault Chairman and CEO, Carlos Ghosn - who spent two years as an analyst in McKinsey's New York office before joining PYP full time on June 20, 2011.
- Alex Cavoulacos, a Yale (08) graduate who joined McKinsey's New York office and worked as an analyst there until transitioning into a professional development advisor role there. She was involved with PYP on a part-time basis to help with building the PYP site and hiring staff.
Act I. Four McKinsey friends form PYP
The idea for PYP was Pouchot's and she discussed it with Minshew, Ghosn, and Cavoulacos. The initial idea for PYP was to do a magazine. But they decided that an e-mail newsletter would be more successful than a print magazine.
The initial PYP web site consisted of a pink background, a stiletto logo, and some content that contained typographical errors. Minshew and Cavoulacos thought the site was a good start but needed work. Minshew, who had left McKinsey in June 2010, had spent the summer in Rwanda working on a project for The Clinton Foundation.
As Minshew told me in an August 8 email, "The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in."
Act II. One Goes Full-Time, Others Not So Much
In December 2010, Minshew agreed to work full time on PYP as editor in chief. She described her motivation as follows: "There is huge potential in providing useful, empowering content to young professional women. Smart women have a dearth of smart content choices."


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Maybe those swing changes are paying off for Tiger Woods.
Woods moved into contention with a 3-under 69 Friday after three birdies over five holes on the back nine in the second round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, finishing two shots behind leader Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark (67).
"I've grown to understand what Sean (Foley) wants me to do and how my body is going to do those things and produce the numbers he wants me to produce," Woods said.
Olesen made seven birdies in his first 12 holes for a one-shot lead over 18-year-old Gareth Maybin of Northern Ireland (70) and Matteo Mannasero of Italy (65).
"For me it's very special. It's not many years ago I was watching them on TV," Olesen said of the world's best golfers. "I know it's tough, but I'm trying to keep playing my own game and do my best."
Rory McIlroy finished with a 72 after a two-stroke penalty for brushing away sand in front of his ball on the fringe at the ninth hole.
The 22-year-old U.S. Open champion, playing again with Woods and top-ranked Luke Donald (72), opened with a bogey and double bogey on the third after an errant drive and some shaky putting.
He rallied with three birdies before a double bogey on the ninth. That's when Donald spotted the sand infraction and called him on it.
Players are allowed to brush away sand on the green but not on the fringe.
"Wasn't thinking clearly and a penalty there," McIlroy said. "My ball was just maybe six feet off the green and there was a lot of sand in between my ball and the hole."
McIlroy, the co-leader after the first round with a 67, managed two birdies on the next three holes after the infraction.
Woods started slowly with two birdies and a bogey on the front nine. He warmed up with birdies on the 11th, 12th and 15th before dropping a shot on No. 16 after an errant drive landed in deep rough.
"I thought I played well today," Woods said. "I made a couple putts here and there, but it was tough out there. The greens got a little quicker, a little bit drier and the rough is certainly getting deeper and more lush."
The best score of the day came from Manassero, who made seven birdies in a bogey-free round.
Woods is tied for fourth in a group that includes McIlroy and Robert Karlsson of Sweden (72).
Spain's Sergio Garcia (69), Ireland's Padraig Harrington (69) and South Africa's Charl Schwartzel (70) are another shot back at 140.
Fourth-ranked Martin Kaymer (73) failed to make the cut in a tournament he has won three times.
Much of the attention was on Woods, who is trying to follow up his season-ending victory last month at the Chevron World Challenge with another win. That ended a two-year run without a victory, a period in which the 14-time major winner endured a series of injuries and turmoil in his personal life.
Woods had a bogey-free first round but admitted the greens fooled him much of the day. He seemed to figure them out Friday, making several key putts including a 10-footer for his birdie on the 15th.
Woods said he's adapting to the new system under Foley.
"If you would have asked me (six to eight months ago) if I would understand the system as well as I do and the numbers I'm producing, I probably would have said no," he said. "Now I do and when we talk, it's very simple."
McIlroy said he saw signs of the old Woods during the past two days, which featured a strong short game and ability to shape the most difficult shots.
"He's definitely got the ball under control. He seems comfortable. He's only had a couple bogeys in two days," McIlroy said. "He's not making many mistakes and he's very consistent, his ball flight looks good. Really looking forward to battling over the weekend."
Donald struggled with his drives much of the day, finishing six shots back. Third-ranked Lee Westwood (72) was another stroke back.
British Open winner Darren Clark missed the cut after shooting a 9-over 153. Others failing to qualify for play on the weekend included Colin Montgomerie of Scotland (147), Edoardo Molinari of Italy (149), Todd Hamilton of the United States (149) and Michael Campbell of New Zealand (149).
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S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) component L-3 Communications (NYSE:LLL) will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, July 26, 2012. L-3 Communications is a system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, serving customers in commercial telecommunications and government.
L-3 Communications Earnings Preview Cheat Sheet
Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The average estimate of analysts is for net income of $2.03 per share, a decline of 5.6% from the company's actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago. During the past three months, the average estimate has moved down from $2.08. Between one and three months ago, the average estimate moved down. It also has dropped from $2.06 during the last month. Analysts are projecting profit to rise by 4.1% versus last year to $8.49.
Past Earnings Performance: The company has beaten estimates the last four quarters and is coming off a quarter where it topped forecasts by 13 cents, reporting profit of $2.01 per share against a mean estimate of net income of $1.88 per share.
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Wall St. Revenue Expectations: On average, analysts predict $3.2 billion in revenue this quarter, a decline of 15.1% from the year-ago quarter. Analysts are forecasting total revenue of $13.05 billion for the year, a decline of 14% from last year's revenue of $15.17 billion.
Stock Price Performance: Between May 23, 2012 and July 20, 2012, the stock price had risen $2.66 (3.9%), from $67.98 to $70.64. The stock price saw one of its best stretches over the last year between March 6, 2012 and March 16, 2012, when shares rose for nine straight days, increasing 4.9% (+$3.30) over that span. It saw one of its worst periods between November 11, 2011 and November 23, 2011 when shares fell for nine straight days, dropping 10.1% (-$7.03) over that span.
Analyst Ratings: There are mostly holds on the stock with 10 of 13 analysts surveyed giving that rating.
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On the top line, the company is hoping to use this earnings announcement to snap a string of four-straight quarters of revenue decreases. Revenue fell 5% in the second quarter of the last fiscal year, 1.3% in third quarter of the last fiscal year and 5.6% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year and then fell again in the first quarter.
The company is hoping to rebound with this earnings release after a net income drop last quarter. Net income rose 2.2% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year before dropping in the first quarter.
A Look Back: In the first quarter, profit fell 1.5% to $201 million ($2.01 a share) from $204 million ($1.85 a share) the year earlier, but exceeded analyst expectations. Revenue fell 0.4% to $3.59 billion from $3.6 billion.
Balance Sheet Analysis: The company's current ratio of assets to liabilities came in at 1.89 last quarter. The current ratio is an indication of a firm's liquidity and ability to meet creditor demands and generally, for every dollar the company owes in the short term, it has that figure available in assets that can be converted to cash in the short term. The company regressed in this liquidity measure from 1.95 in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year to the last quarter driven in part by an increase in liabilities. Current liabilities increased 2.9% to $2.77 billion while assets decreased 0.1% to $5.24 billion.
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A few days ago my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Harold Jarche, shared this article, written by Deb Lavoy, with me: Social Business Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0. The first few paragraphs say it all!
"Social Business" is not about technology, or about "corporate culture." It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating.
A new perspective is changing how we think about society, politics, interpersonal relationships, science, government and business. New approaches are emerging. Learning and self-expression are exploding. Values are changing. Leadership is changing. The economy is changing. Change itself is changing — it is accelerating and becoming the norm."
The changes we are seeing in Workplace Learning are of course just one part of the changes we are seeing in businesses as whole. Simply replace the word "business" in the quote above with the word "learning" and it still makes sense. So, for instance the first paragraph would now read:
"Social Learning " is not about technology, or about "corporate culture". It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating."
In other words those who think "social learning" is just about a new training trend, or about adding social media into the "blend", or that it is about acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System are missing the big picture.
Harold Jarche makes this point succinctly himself in Social Learning: the freedom to act and cooperate with others
"One current theme in the workplace and education circles is to "blend" social with the formal and structured. But social learning is not a bolted-on component of our formal educational and training programs. It is a sea change. It will disrupt institutions built upon the technology of the printing press – all communication enterprises, including education. Yes, we have always learned and worked socially, but we have never had the power of ridiculously easy group-forming or almost zero-cost duplication of our words and images."
So to paraphrase the title of Deb Lavoy's article – "Social Learning doesn't mean what you think it does."
So what is the "big picture"? Deb puts her finger on it in the third paragraph of her article:
"Business structures founded on command and control, automation and process are giving way to structures that are less hierarchical and more dynamic, designed to engage people's hearts and minds to make a difference in the world. "
This is, of course, a fundamental change in how businesses operate – and consequently means a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. So in order to stay in tune with the new ways of working and learning, how does the L&D function need to change? The clue is in the paragraph above. It needs to move from a "Command and Control" approach to one that I call "Encourage and Engage".
So what does this "Encourage and Engage" approach look like?
During the summer I wrote a series of postings highlighting 8 features how Smart Workers are working and learning today. For each of these features, I've now compared the "Command and Control" response with the new "Encourage & Engage" response to highlight the different approaches. I've summarized them here below, but if you want more detail you can follow the links to the complete articles.
1 – The Smart Worker : recognises that she learns continuously as she does her job
Command and Control | Encourage & Engage |
2 – The Smart Worker wants immediate access to solutions to his performance problems
Command and Control | Encourage & Engage |
3 – The Smart Worker is happy to share what she knows
Command and Control | Encourage & Engage |
4 – The Smart Worker relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues
Command & Control | Encourage & Engage |
5 – The Smart Worker learns best with and from others
Command & Control | Encourage & Engage |
6 – The Smart Worker keeps up to date with what is happening in his profession and industry
Command & Control | Encourage & Engage |
7 -The Smart Worker: constantly strives to improve her productivity
Command and Control | Encourage & Engage |
8 – The Smart Worker thrives on autonomy
Command & Control | Encourage & Engage |
Although a number of forward-thinking organisations have already shifted away from a command and control approach, it goes without saying that many others will resist making changes to long-held views of doing things. But if you and your organisation are ready to make the move, then one way to start is to work through each of these features, and build a Plan of Action (as I help organisations to do in my Workshop).
Clearly, one of the important questions that people have about this new approach to Workplace Learning, is how do you measure employee "learning" as well as L&D's involvement? So I'll talk about that in my next post.
UPDATE: Presentation slides available in the third posting.


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HYDE PARK, Thursday—Those of us who live in the country are far along with our canning for the year, but there is still some canning to be done.
A long while ago I was sent, on behalf of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, their community canning program for war relief. I meant to tell you about it because I thought many more people might cooperate than those mentioned on the pamphlet—which states that the program is being carried on in association with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Foods Distribution Programs Branch of Production and Marketing Administration; Federal and State Extension Services, Nutrition Programs Branch; U. S. Office of Education, including Camp Fire Girls, Inc. and Girl Scouts. I am sure, though they are not listed, that the 4-H Clubs, through the Department of Agriculture, have cooperated.
Through the program, all users of community canning centers have been asked to can 10 percent over their own local requirements and to give this surplus for overseas relief. Contributions will be shipped abroad by UNRRA.
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I feel that many individuals who do not can in community centers, or in cooperation with any of the groups mentioned, may have products that they have canned and will still can, which they could spare and send to the headquarters of one of these groups in their communities to swell the amount that goes overseas. It is hard for us here to realize what the needs will be in almost every country outside of North and South America.
I have been hoping that some arrangements would be arrived at whereby one administrator would be appointed for the distribution of coal and the rehabilitation of transportation throughout Europe. It seems to me until that is done, it is going to be extremely difficult to start people over there on an upward trend, and it is going to be extremely difficult to distribute properly what relief is sent abroad.
There is food in certain parts of Europe. For instance, certain parts of France even now could send food to other parts if their transportation were not completely ruined, and coal were not completely impossible to obtain. Denmark was not ruined as a food-producing country by the Germans because Allied airplanes disrupted the German transportation system.
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I wonder if this is about her Tmobile man??? lol-
Hey Sassybear…I love this song too and the lyrics. The track actually samples the 1985 hit song "Nightshift" from the Commodores which pays tribute to legends to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson. I thought it was a Marvin Gaye song too! I had to watch the video to catch the beat again – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkEDe6Ljqs
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Rosemary Harris to Star in Old Globe's Oscar and the Pink Lady
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How can I show that if P = (x, 0) is a point on an elliptic curve, then 2P = inf ?
Try to think of this geometrically.
Say you have a typical elliptic curve over .
Now visualize it.
By you mean the point with cross the x-axis.
The thing is when we add the point to itself we need to draw the tangent line and find intersection point with the line on the curve (which is then reflected through the x-axis by Weierstrass group law definitions).
However, this tangent line is vertical and it never cross over.
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