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This week is Teacher Appreciation Week.
The students and the PTA have been sHoWeRiNg us with gifts, treats and goodies all week long.
Yesterday was AWESOME!
The PTA provided the staff with a HUGE smorgasbord (I had to look up the spelling on that) of desserts.
I feasted on a variety of sugary treats ... all ... day ... long.
I'm not kidding.
Last night I barely ate (because I could NEVER officially skip a meal altogether) any dinner because all I could think about was my caloric intake for the day.
For the entire day, I ended up eating:
1 brownie
1 chocolate/peanut butter bar
7 ... yes 7 sugar cookies with frosting.
Allow me to sum up the gravity of my food choices yesterday: I ate NINE dessert items!
I had to wear my 'fat pants' today.
I'm walking on the treadmill when I get home.
Thank you PTA! Thank you students!
You are loved.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Nothing In Moderation
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- Jodie Howerton said...
Ooooo...sugar cookies with frosting are my FAVORITE!
- May 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM
- Linda Vujnov said...
When I was teaching full-time I would clean out my cupboards of things that my own kids would no longer eat. I would take the boxes and bags of goodies to the teachers lounge and watch everything disappear. Free food is divine!
- May 10, 2008 at 8:14 AM
- Ashley Julian said...
oh man, that is something I would do. I have no control when it comes to sweets!
- May 10, 2008 at 9:34 PM
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PEOPLE swapped Christmas dinner at home for a feast in the pub, boosting sales at brewer Marston's.
The Midlands-based group said sales rose by a tenth on Christmas Day as diners flocked to its restaurant pubs.
Marston's said a 3.5 per cent rise in food sales drove a 2.1 per cent rise in total like-for-like sales in the 15 weeks to January 12.
Drinkers celebrating in the run-up to Christmas helped boost trading by 5.8 per cent in the three weeks to January 5.
It attributed the upbeat performance to the success of its "F-Plan" focus on food, families, females and 40/50-somethings, including building more individually branded pub restaurants.
Chief executive Ralph Findlay said: "We expect economic pressures to continue." Marston's, which also owns the Pitcher & Piano chain, opened 25 restaurants last year and expects to launch a similar number this year. It employs about 13,000 people at 2,150 pubs nationwide.
Hobgoblin was the top performer among its beers, which also include the Pedigree, Banks's, Jennings, Wychwood, Ringwood, Brakspear and Mansfield brands.


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|A psychiatrist escorts a patient to Riverview's Crease Clinic in a staged photo taken in the 1950s by the hospital's photography and film department.
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Produced by Douglas Criminology instructor Heidi Currie and Anna Tremere of the Riverview Hospital Historical Society, and directed by local filmmaker lisa g, Consciousness tells the story of Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith, a mid-20th century psychiatrist with a life-long connection to Coquitlam's Riverview Hospital, a mental institution that opened in 1913 and closed last summer.
Heidi says that while popular impressions about asylums are overblown, asylums could be, in fact, terrifying places.
"People like it to be scary. And it is kind of scary. In this film we have this loving, wonderful, even endearing psychiatrist who tells his story, but underneath, as he describes his years at the hospital, are jolting examples of what sometimes made it a terrifying place."
Dr. Arrowsmith, who was passionate about the psychiatric movement and deeply committed to his patients, recounts his years of practice with frank discussions of the treatment and perception of the mentally ill at the iconic mental hospital, from the peak of the institutional movement through deinstitutionalization.
"To hear from somebody who spent his professional life at Riverview and became medical director there is fascinating, because the asylum system no longer exists," says Heidi. "This film gives us insight into the real hospital, that goes beyond stereotypes."
Featuring archival film and photography combined with re-creation footage, Consciousness is part three of the Riverview Hospital Story Project. Watch the first part, Asylum, and the second part, Bedlam, on Vimeo.
The film runs 25 minutes. A Q+A and refreshments will follow. Heidi is hosting the event, with lisa g, Anna Tremere and Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith in attendance.


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Almost five years ago to the day, Charlie Naimo and the New Jersey Wildcats won the 2005 USL W-League Championship. As is the case with every Naimo-led team, the rosters he compiled for the Wildcat teams during that era were what would eventually be a who's who of women's soccer. In light of the anniversary of that title run, I asked Charlie if he would reflect back on that time, and the end product was another fantastic post from the three-time W-League champion.
John asked me to write about the 2005 Wildcats championship, but as I thought about looking back, most of the memories directed me to the team of 04. Both teams were amazing in their own right, but the 04 side was what started it all and was PKs away from a perfect season. That team never trailed in a game the entire year, breaking every W-League scoring title at the time. I believe we scored 80-plus goals.
That was a year I would say we were untouchable when we had the first choice players available. We had the best player I have ever seen (Kelly Smith), the most professional player (Anne Makinen), the best finisher (Marinette Pichon) and the best up-and-coming American star/winner (Heather O'Reilly). On top of that, there were so many other players that did amazing things. As I said in previous posts, it was always great to plug my top youth players in with this mix. They knew the style. They were good enough and very disciplined.
This team wasn't just a special team on the field. We were very close off as well. Led by great ownership, Vince and Ciro Baldino (04 only), there was always something going on. Even the bus trips were fun. Unfortunately, we had our share of bad luck, starting with the loss of Kelly Smith midseason as a result of the worst challenge I have ever witnessed in women's soccer. The memory/nightmare will forever stay in my mind. Kelly was and remains a treasure for women's soccer, and all she ever got was kicked. Referees never learned to protect her… and I can go on and on.
The team pulled it together, and we managed to beat Ottawa (the host) in the semi and had to turn right around less than 24 hours to play the final... dumb scheduling the more I think about it now. We were already down Heather , Carli Lloyd (National Team), Manya Makoski (MCL sprain in semi), Kelly Hammond and Jen Redmond ( had to report early for UVA preseason) AND the best player in the world. We were overmatched with the crew we had that day, especially since Marinette and Anne were on the more senior side of their career and needed a day to recover ;-) We needed a great plan and full commitment, and we got it. I have never been more proud of a team. We knew we had to steal that game, 1-0, and we almost did. It remained 0-0 through 120 minutes of play, with us missing a few of the game's rare chances. Oh, one more thing- this was the game that Tobin Heath made her W-League postseason debut at 15 years old.
I have this habit of looking back to that team, especially during years like this. It was my first major league group, and I learned how to adapt from elite youth to pro very quickly because I learned how to listen and trust my players. I owe that crew a lot. They started it all. The Wildcats went on to win it all in 05 and had a 41-1 regular season record from 04 to 06.
After a brief stint with Sky Blue, off to Cali with Pali, and the rest is history or a work in progress - depending on how you look at it.
Thank you Kelly, Heather, Anne, Manya, Beth, Lara, Baldinos, Mansouris, PDA and so many others for a great career so far.
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We started the year with our friend Anna still working with our family, but she has since moved to Cambodia to care for missionary kids there. After a long time by ourselves we decided to employ another carer a few days a week, and the kids have all enjoyed the company of Rachel.
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Our little school has grown a bit this year, with Thomas beginning to do school work. We have all thoroughly enjoyed The Story Of The World: Middle Ages. History really comes alive in our house, with plays, toys retelling the story, food and working out where we fit in the story. We bought a microscope to encourage us in scientific endeavours, and there has been no end to the things the kids want to look at (and be grossed out by). We love working through the books in the Sonlight Curriculum, which as usual has caused the buying of more books. As we read through "Little House In The Big Wood" the kids were so enthralled they insisted we get the rest of the "Little House" series, which are full of old time stories and ways of doing things.
This year, since the wonderful gift of a sewing machine from Christian, I have been sewing regularly.
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I've really been encouraged spiritually by listening to Mark Driscoll sermons. I love his down to earth way of putting things. We've listened to his sermons on Marriage, Ephesians, Acts and also the Ten Commandments. Together, Christian and I have been reading Beautiful Outlaw by John Eldridge. We have both found him to be very encouraging.
We have enjoyed watching the house that Mum and Dad are building called Geebung Flat, down near Inverell. During our last visit the kitchen benches went in and we can't wait to have electricity throughout the house. We are also looking forward to my folks moving from Wagga Wagga to Inverell, where hopefully we will see them more often in the New Year.
We would like to add our thanks to our wonderful photographer Kirsty. For three years she has taken our family photos, she even came to Joybug's baptisms and took photos unannounced. We love her work. She may not yet be a professional, but her ability to get some great shots of our kids is our delight! Thank you SO much!


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Part One of this article was published in the Thursday, Jan. 11 Democrat and related the problems and recommended solutions of two of the four important priorities for the Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC). Every year this group looks at issues from the past year as well as the concerns of residents of Iowa. They then develop legislative priorities to bring before the Iowa House of Representatives and the Iowa Senate.
Part one looked at problems and recommended solutions for Iowa's Mental Health and Disability Services and Secondary Roads. In Part two looks at the last two issues, Tax Reform and Water Quality Management.
In 2013, Property Tax reform legislation has been providing property tax relief for several classifications and subsets of property; however, changing the assessment procedure for certain property has unduly reduced the future revenue of local governments. While the new business property tax credit and legislatively imposed rollbacks are funded in large part by state dollars, changes to the taxable value of multi-residential and telecommunications property will have a negative effect on future property tax revenues. Additionally, capping backfill funding and reducing the assessment growth limitation percentage will only further threaten the future revenue of local governments, and by extension, the services they provide to the taxpayers. In the absence of true reform, Iowa's property tax system is still in need of equity among classes and stability for local governments.
ISAC's solution is that comprehensive tax reform should continue to be a primary goal of the Legislature in 2018 and the years ahead. This legislation should include property tax reform that stabilizes the tax base, resolves unfair discrepancies within the current tax base, improves accountability in the budgeting process of local governments, and imposes a reasonable limitation on city and county property taxes while maintaining local control for citizens and their elected representatives. The legislation should fully fund the property tax credits and rollback replacement claims, and should consider an appropriation to help local governments deal with the reduction in revenue due to the changes to the assessment methodology for multi-residential and telecommunications property.
Numerous sources have well documented that there is a need to provide adequate, sustainable, dedicated state financial resources to address the statewide concerns related to Iowa's water quality management issues. Specific concerns relate to the unacceptable high level of nitrates and phosphorus that are entering our water system. Additionally, there are on-going issues that must be addressed in our efforts to minimize future losses caused by flooding through effective flood mitigation programs.
ISAC recommends the following:
1) The passage of a statewide sales tax increase of at least 3/8s of a penny in support of the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund also known as I-WILL.
2) The maintaining of the distribution formula found in Iowa Code Chapter 461, outlined by the Iowa Legislature in support of the 2010 vote by Iowans on the Constitutional Amendment.
a) 23% allocated to a Natural Resources account, created in the Trust Fund to be used by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
b) 20% to go to a soul conservation and protection account created in the Trust Fund to be used by the Department of Agriculture and Stewardship for soil conservation and water protection
c) 14% to be used for watershed protection
d) 13% to fund the Iowa Resources Enhancement and Protection (REAP) fund
e) 13% to be used for local conservation partnerships
f) 10% to be used for land-based trails
g) 7% to be used for lake restoration
3) The identification of additional financial resources to be used to address the water quality management issues. Specifically, ISAC would:
a) Encourage significant funding for, and, the aggressive implementation of a revolving loan program so that critical funds could be used for multiple projects throughout the years ahead
b) Encourage a significant amount of funding be utilized to assist cities and towns in their effort to upgrade their water treatment facilities.
4) The implementation of, and funding for, a network of statewide watershed authorities, through the effective use of 28E agreements. These watershed authorities could provide coordination of efforts in specific areas/regions of the state.
5) The passage of legislation that would support and encourage public sector entities, such as counties, to be directly involved in water mitigation projects that could involve county conservation boards, etc.
These two subjects including the two subjects from the Thursday, Jan. 11, Democrat show what counties and residents of Iowa find important. If you would like further information on ISAC you can go to their website at www.iowacounties.org.


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Wolverton Folk & Blues Fair 2016Saturday 14th May 2016
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Wolverton Manor, Shorwell provides the backdrop to the Wolverton Folk & Blues Fair featuring bands/artists each year along with locally produced food, children's activities, tea tent and not forgetting the Real Ale tent.
The event returns for a fifth year on Saturday 14th May 2016, raising money for Leukaemia Research and Brighstone School.
Eugene Hideaway Bridges Band, The Sail Pattern, Cajundaze, MoonShiners, Spike Oatley, Damien Paul Band, Holly Kirby, The Dollymopps, Wight Ukers, Figjam, and Anna Rice. Plus many more to be announced..
£6 in advance or £9 entry on gate. Children aged under 12 free. Advance tickets available from: The Village Shop, Brighstone, Shorwell Shop, Briddlesford Farm Shop, and Waterstone's bookshop, Newport.
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The family friendly event will include tented cafes, serving an interesting variety of freshly cooked local produce.
With an IW real ale beer tent, BBQ, Tea Tent, childrens activities, craft stalls, Circus Skills and Morris Dancing, The Wolverton Folk & Blues Fair looks set to be a great opportunity to enjoy top live music and great festival food, set against the backdrop of the beautiful West Wight scenery.
In aid of Leukaemia Research and Brighstone School.
For those travelling to the island, there are various ferry options available, see Red Funnel or Wight Link for details.
This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses on the island.
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There Is not Definitely A Set Business Analyst Profession Path
I feel I really should point this out up front. There is not seriously a set path to becoming a business analyst. There are not any (that I know of) degrees in becoming a business analyst. Sure, there could possibly be junior
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For those who speak to business analysts you realize through perform or other connections, you will possibly find that they began in one particular of two strategies:
· Started in a technical role (e.g. development) and moved into company analysis
· Began inside a company role (e.g. a organization user or manager) and moved into organization evaluation
When I began enterprise analysis, I was initially a application developer that moved into a a lot more evaluation role. This does not often will need to become the case - you might operate in networking or testing and make a related move. I would believe that the majority of my readers, who are IT experts, would make the move from technical to BA, as opposed to from organization user to BA.
The best way to Move From Improvement Into Business Analyst
Ok, so assuming you're in a software program improvement position (or a equivalent IT part, for example testing, networking, help, etc), and you desire to move into enterprise evaluation. What do you need to understand? What are your biggest concerns and what should really you do 1st?
Properly, the part of a business analyst, as pointed out within a current post, is to establish enterprise specifications to resolve a company need to have, and translate them into technical particulars that the IT teams can work with. You may happen to be involved within this prior to, in the IT side, or you could not have. No issue when you have not.
It is best to aim to develop the capabilities you will need in for any enterprise analysis role, for example:
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In 1971, when Abdul Sajid embarked on his career as a medical educator, international collaboration in the field was a relatively primitive enterprise. By the time of his tragic death in 1992 he had played a major role in shaping this growing movement and was admired throughout the world for his thoughtful, constructive, and always sensitive contributions. The International Handbook of Medical Education is a fitting tribute to his initiative, as well as a reminder of how much remains still to be done to assure a more appropriate fit between health professions education and the health needs of both developed and developing nations.
An early effort to promote international dialogue was the 1953 First World Conference on Medical Education, held in London under the sponsorship of the World Medical Association. It attracted some 600 participants representing 127 Faculties of Medicine in 62 countries. In his opening address Sir Lionel Whitby, President of the Conference, noted: "The world . . . has become so shrunken . . . that we can no longer take a parochial view of our problems." During the ensuing days, 91 formal papers were delivered, and innumerable commentators shared information about the ways in which their institutions and nations were coping with such common problems as student selection, curriculum development, and instructional and evaluation procedures. Chicago was the venue for the 1959 Second World Conference, which was organized and conducted in a similar manner.
Seven years later, reflecting on these two events, Dr. Raymond B. Allen, President of the 1959 assembly, summarized in these words the central theme of both meetings: "The ideals of excellence--the philosophy of the first-rate end of lifelong learning--epitomized the concern of medical Faculties throughout the world. The clear call was to adapt medical education to the mounting challenge of the twentieth-century revolution in science and technology.
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Salvage-Title Corvette Z06 to Be Raced at Pikes Peak
Damaged Corvette ranks among the best C7 online discoveries to date.
Every Corvette restoration project typically comes with some kind of challenge.
Then, there are the occasional others that come with a few welcomed surprises as well.
Take, for example, the wild undertaking of turning this salvage 2017 Corvette Z06 into a racer ready to tackle the legendary Pikes Peak. The mission is being orchestrated by Robb Holland, an experienced racer, who placed fourth in the Pikes Time Attack 1 Division race last year driving a Rotek Racing TTRS, as reported by Jalopnik.
Holland said the plan was to take another run at the Pikes Peak race this year with a few major mods to the TT. But instead, he's opted for the Z06 to give him more edge in the race where a car's ability to handle monstrous climbs and altitudes can prove to be the deciding factor between merely finishing Peaks or needing a tow back to home base. Why a Z06? Well, Holland narrows it down to a few things. They center on power, weight, aerodynamics, handling and suspension and ease to upgrade.
That said, Holland explains that there were several other cars being initially considered as a replacement for his TTRS in the race including the Dodge Viper ACR, Porsche Turbo GT2/GTS, Ford Mustang GT350R, and a BMW M2. Eventually, the experienced racer decided on the Corvette Z06 of the five sports cars after stumbling on the car searching the salvage title car auction site, CoPart.
The thing that piqued Holland's interest most in the Z06 was the fact that it only had nine miles on the odometer, which would likely prompt a lot of people to take a deeper look into the car.
So, what's the catch? Well, apparently, the Corvette has a bent cross brace, a damaged lower transmission cooler, a few scrapes to the underbody and a blown airbag. And yet, during an outing at a track in the car, Holland learned just how good of a deal he's landed for his Pikes Peak challenge before he even begins working on the car for the race.
"My first laps in the car confirmed it: The Z06 is a beast. Straight out of the (slightly damaged) box, this car is one of the fastest, most capable street cars I have ever driven. I was easily running sub-two-minute laps around a track that only sees those kind of times with track-prepped race cars," says Holland.
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I'm still feeling the effects of Saturday's climb, especially in my calf muscles.
We had our fortnightly "big team" meeting today. It took a surprise turn when all the managers left to enable everybody else to talk about them. "He's a great manager but a poor leader." That kind of thing. One woman who attended the meeting is some sort of management guru. She was writing frantically during the meeting. She splits her life evenly between Sydney and Wellington, crossing the Tasman every other week. For some reason I got chatting to her. She said she once had a mild heart attack and her blood pressure was found to be 230/130. Whoa. At that point her commutes between Australia and NZ became fortnightly instead of weekly. (Talking of Australia, after last week's budget - where in my opinion they made the right amount of cuts in all the wrong places - I'm glad I don't live there.)
After work today I went to the Malaysian place in the Left Bank arcade and had a nasi kampung with an omelette on top. That filled me up. On the TV they were showing an athletics meeting from Shanghai. While the 5000 metres was taking place, an enormous Russian bloke threw his last attempt at the javelin. It soared out to 82½ metres, only enough for fifth place, but he was clearly enjoying just being there. I could have sat there watching the athletics all evening, but instead I attended the autism group. I don't know how much longer I'll keep that up.
I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this blog up either. I've run out of things to say and ways to say them and I'm tired.
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It occurred to me while I was going about my blocking this morning that there's a nice rhythm to it.
However, you have to have the right tools. I used all 18 of my blocking squares, put together with the rough side up to hold knitted fabric where I put it. Cladonia is a half-circle shawl, so I started by running two long blocking wires through the straight top of the shawl. Look at the bottom of the photo -- see the wire through the purl bumps? And how the wire is held in place by t-pins?
Cladonia's hem edge is picot points, each with a bead in the center. All will be pinned. I begin by pulling and pinning the center point of each section.
Then pull and pin the center points between those points.
Until the pinned points are in a nice easy crescent shape.
Every pin in the shawl -- and there are 77 beaded picots -- is angled this way:
Those talented picots can't climb the pin to escape. They're stuck until I'm ready, which will be after the ceiling fan does its drying thing.
LZ blocking rules:
1. the right tools for the job;
2. know what the fiber wants to do;
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A collection of James City County residents shuffled into a community room in the county Rec Center Monday night, prepared to discuss the county's fiscal year 2018 budget.
It was the fourth of five public meetings, hosted by each county Board of Supervisors member. Monday night was Powhatan representative Michael Hipple's turn. County administrator Bryan Hill joined him.
About 15 residents joined county and schools staff and school board members Monday. Supervisors Ruth Larson (Berkeley) and John McGlennon (Roberts) also attended.
Revealed March 31, the county's proposed 2018 budget calls for a bump in sewer and water rates, but holds steady real estate and personal property tax rates — something Hill was quick to mention.
"This is a no tax-increase budget," Hill said. "We're doing what we can with what we have."
Paid quarterly, residents will see their water rate increase from $8.19 to $9.30 and their sewer rate bump to $5.89, a 12-cent change. Hill mentioned the extra $225,000 allotted for public safety services including fire, police, EMS and animal control.
"Everyone who comes to us needs something," Hipple said. "And all of it's important; it's what makes this community great."
Hipple acknowledged that though $2.1 million of the county's $2.8 million increase is going to Williamsburg-James City County Schools, that funding doesn't match their request — it's about $650,000 short. Hill said 54 percent of the budget goes to the schools.
"Basically 54 percent of the budget you don't have control over," JCC resident Gail Miller said. "You're doing an outstanding job, it's like we put you in a straitjacket and you're pulling rabbits out of your hat."
Miller followed up with concern that taxes would be necessary in the near future to make up for cost increases around the county. This is already the third year water and sewer rates have increased, she pointed out.
But Hill said no, with his plan to continually pay down the county's debt tax increases may not be not be required. He aims to drop it to $100 million by 2023, down from $234 million in 2014.
David Jarmin, who has attended all four budget meetings and plans to be at Sue Sadler's (Stonehouse) on Wednesday, questioned whether the debt capacity the county is building, which enables the county to borrow more money, would just have to go to a water desalinization plant.
With James City County's growth, administrators are starting to look into additional water sources ahead of 2027, the end of the county's current state Department of Environmental Quality ground water permit. He quizzed Hill and Hipple on what their long-range plans are.
"I was just curious about the process and the timing and how we're going to get from where we are today to where we're ultimately going to get," Jarmin said. "The big uncertainty seems to be what's the rate of residential population growth in this county because that tends to drive a lot of the costs."
Hill replied that they haven't finished collecting information and exploring all possible water sources, nothing is certain yet, he said.
Sue Sadler (Stonehouse) will finish the budget series 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the James City County Library. The county is slated to vote on the $228 million budget April 25.
Williams can be reached by phone at 757-345-2341.
Budget at a glance
2017 budget / 2018 proposed / change
Total spending: $225,076,270/ $228,221,821/ 1.4 percent
Real estate revenue: $95,000,000/ $96,500,000/ 1.6 percent
Personal property revenue: $20,893,500/ $21,950,000/ 5 percent
Total personnel: 730/ 742/ 1.6 percent


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How much might a vote in the Karnataka Elections be worth?A rough guesstimate and how you can overcome the buying of votes.
- Total Karnataka Budget > 1 Lakh Crore
- Assume our politicians eat up at least 2% of it (Conservative)
- Total Population of Karnataka: 4.2 Crorer
- Registered Voters: 70% (assumption) = 3Cr
- Voting % in the past: 50%
- Assume 2 serious candidates and 10% serious (non-bought) voters
- Total Votes Bought: 40% of 3Cr = 1.2Cr
How much is going into our politician's fat pockets?One vote should actually get paid Rs. 1700 (assuming 2% goes into politician's pockets). And what I last heard is that the rate has gone up to about 4000 this election (per one of the maids in my friend's house). They surely wouldn't be paying 4000 OR 800/year to just make a 2x return over 5 years considering that there is a 50% chance of them losing all that money. No stupid investor would do that, leave alone our smart businessman politicians. That must mean that 2% assumption was grossly incorrect assuming the politicians need to make a profit if they have to invest (most of them are pukka businessmen). Probably more like 10+% of the budget is going into our politician's pockets.
How much are you losing every year, you stupid tax-payer?Just imagine how much your taxes will come down by considering the tax-paying population is a small % of the total citizens of Karnataka if you just go out and VOTE and get a clean government in place. Should definitely be worth spending 30 mins going to a booth if you can recover upto 40K every year in reduced taxes or increased facilities (assuming 10% cut and 25Lakh Tax Paying population) by just voting in a clean government. Good return for your time? Be a good investor and invest your time suitably. Don't fall for the "My one vote won't count" ... do the opposite you also vote and make sure every one of you and your friends vote.
What can we do now?Having said that, we can still beat this system of buying votes. All we need to do is vote for serious citizen candidates like Yogesh Devaraj (More at www.facebook.com/YogeshDevarajForMLA) instead of saying sab chor hai and the good guys won't win and sitting at home. In a typical constituency, it only requires about 10-15K additional people to come out and vote and the non-serious good candidates who have a decent base and will get between 15-20K votes will soon become a viable good candidate and possibly the MLA who will work to meet your needs and transform your constituency. And considering all the voter drives that have happened in companies, apartments and elsewhere thanks to Smartvote.in ... this is definitely in the realm of possibility. It's your choice ... want to try and save that 30mins of your time OR have a chance at saving 30-40K per year and of course doing your duty to saving your country?
All we need to do is just increase the voting % from 50% to 70% and most of the increase should be in the educated urban youth and I am positive none of the educated urban youth will vote for any of the mainstream political parties (viz. Con'gress, BJP, JD-S) after all the ghotalas in the Center by Congress and in the State by the BJP and JD-S. That will mean that we get rid of the mainstream parties once and for all atleast from the major cities (Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore). That would be a start, wouldn't it?
Will put together a list of my preferred candidates and the reasons soon. Still trying to figure out a good candidate in my constituency #BTM Layout. Anyone you know?


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As the closest lodging to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, this newly rehabilitated historic boutique hotel will provide unparalleled views of the Bridge, the park's lush 300-acre forest, San Francisco Bay, and the iconic city skyline. It will be the starting point for recreational and leisure activities in the 1,500-acre Presidio, the crown jewel of the 80,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the most visited national park in the United States. The lodge will begin taking reservations in January 2018.
"The new lodge at the Presidio is a great reason for visitors to come back to San Francisco, and for first-time visitors to vacation here," said Jean Fraser, CEO of the Presidio Trust. "Where else can you stay in a national park with extensive walking and biking trails while also being minutes from the amazing restaurants, nightlife, and museums of a major city like San Francisco."
Troops assemble at the Presidio on the day U.S. entered World War I in 1917
The 42-room Lodge at the Presidio will be housed in the iconic Montgomery Street Barracks, built between 1895-97 by the US Army to house six artillery companies, a cavalry troop, and two infantry companies. The historic streetscape was later dubbed "Infantry Row."
The building is undergoing a complete historic rehabilitation in the category of adaptive reuse, which involves updating a historic building for contemporary use while honoring its character. The Presidio is a National Historic Landmark District and one of the most ambitious historic preservation projects underway in the United States because it has six million square feet of built space for which nearly 3.3. million square feet have been rehabilitated to date. As a result, Presidio building projects like the Lodge adhere to the highest standards or historic rehabilitation set by the Secretary of the Interior. It will also adhere to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
The lodge's three-story interior celebrates the Presidio's past with artisan details and memorabilia, complemented by comfortable, modern finishes and furnishings. Art and design elements will "bring the outdoors in" by reflecting the beauty of the Presidio's national park setting, including its forest and bay views. Social areas will include a courtyard garden with fire pit, front porches with rocking chairs, lobby reception, and a large dining room lounge. A concierge service will help active travelers discover the national park and its environs.
Centrally located, the lodge will be steps from the seven-acre Main Post public greens and the new Presidio Visitor Center that opened in February 2017. It is also near a transit center that offers a 30-minute free shuttle rides to downtown San Francisco, making the lodge a home base both for natural and urban adventures.
A Successor to the Park's First Success - Inn at the Presidio
In 2012 the Presidio Trust opened the park's first hotel, the Inn at the Presidio. The inn, a sister property to the new Lodge at the Presidio, is an intimate retreat nestled in the Presidio's historic forest featuring primarily two-room suites with fireplaces. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America and received their Award of Excellence for Best Small Historic Hotel in 2012 and 2016. It was recognized by Conde Nast Traveler as one of the top five hotels in San Francisco, Readers' Choice Awards (2015); one of Fodor's 100 Best Hotels (2012) and named as a "World's Greatest Hotels" in Travel and Leisure (2012) among other awards. The Inn is LEED Gold certified and has received accolades for its sustainability in adaptive reuse.
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The Presidio is not far from neighborhood shopping districts and only a short distance from the Golden Gate Bridge, downtown San Francisco, North Beach, Union Square, Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, the Ferry Building, and Golden Gate Park. Marin County and the Wine Country are a quick trip north across the Golden Gate Bridge. The national park features 24 miles of hiking trails, 25 miles of biking trails, the 18-hole Presidio Golf Course, cultural and recreation tenants such as the Walt Disney Family Museum and a trampoline park, restaurants, venues for hosting celebrations and meetings, and free public events. The park is home to the Presidio Officers' Club, an award-winning museum and cultural center.
"The Presidio of San Francisco has a rich history dating from 1776. The origins of our city can be traced to this remarkable site. It also made history by transitioning from a military post to a self-sustaining national park," says Joe D'Alessandro, president and CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association. "The addition of the Lodge will give our visitors the opportunity to experience this fascinating and unique part of San Francisco."
About the Presidio Trust
In partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and at no cost to taxpayers, the Presidio Trust brings alive the unique historic, natural, and recreational assets of the Presidio for the inspiration, education, health, and enjoyment of all people. The park is home to a community of residents and organizations, and offers unique recreation, hospitality, and educational programs to people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the world.
Editor's note: If you're planning a visit to San Francisco, first check out Taste California Travel's Resource Directory. There you will find links to the websites of hundreds of Lodging and Dining options, as well as links to Craft Beer purveyors and nearby Wineries.


text: My neuropathy pricks have changed from sharp intense pain in my hands to wider spread much smaller sensations that are not painful. I have had 14 weeks of injections (cyanocobalam - 1000MCG). Also, I have had three weeks of a genetric drug - Metanx (prescription vitamin). My white matter on my brain has demylation so I will have another MRI and a spinal tap in tne next week. I have regained a TON more energy which I think is a result of the folate in the Metanx. My brain fog is less, but still present. Dizzy moments throughout tne day. I am hoping that prehaps some neurological improvement is occuring. My new MRI will be compared to the early October one. Any feed back on changing prick sensations? When I was startled driving yesterday when a car cut in front of me I felt tiny pricks run down my arms into my hands and in a hot bath tonight I felt them as well. Heat never brought on pricks before only handling extreme cold items and daily hand use.


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Prior to the telecast Sunday of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks on CITY in Canada, the NHL Network in the United States will televise the "Rogers Hometown Hockey" broadcast at 6 p.m. ET. This week's location is Kingston, Ontario, to celebrate the city's iconic hockey story.
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* Doug Gilmour enjoyed a career that earned him a spot in the Hockey Hall of Fame. When he was done as a player he returned to Kingston, his hometown, to coach the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League.
* The second-ranked University of Minnesota women's hockey team is led in the crease by goaltender Amanda Leveille. The Kingston native could be Canada's next big goalie.
* Kirk Muller was the second pick of the 1984 NHL Draft and won a Stanley Cup playing for the Montreal Canadiens. But before all that, he grew up in Kingston.


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Follow the link to read the owner of Crickey.com, Eric Beecher's comments in relation bigoted comments left on Crickey. Click here
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The Dark and Ugly Recesses of the Internet
Mr DANBY (Melbourne Ports) (9.01 am)- Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, offered the following comment in response to a recent speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad:
There can be no doubt as to the most tenacious ideology of modern times. German fascism came and went. Soviet Communism came and went. Anti-Semitism came and stayed.
Rabbi Sacks went on to note that the re-emergence of anti-Semitism is one of the most frightening phenomena of his lifetime because it is happening after 60 years of education about the Second World War, anti-racist legislation and interfaith dialogue. As a member of parliament in this great democratic country of Australia, I am saddened to have to agree with the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth. Indeed, there is a modern resurgence of anti-Semitism, although Australia, with its unofficial doctrine of a fair go, is perhaps the most tolerant and pluralist of all global societies. Constituent communities contribute to the success of pluralism.
Eric Beecher, owner of Crickey.com
The Australian Jewish community has made a substantial and durable contribution to this country, offering a distinct culture that nonetheless furthers cohesion and the national interest by its commitment to core democratic values, secularist laws and the constraints of our parliamentary system.
As members will no doubt know, the Jewish presence in Australia began with the First Fleet and has grown to some 120,000, according to the authoritative Jewish population survey just published by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Recent generations of Australian Jews have never forgotten the debt to the Australian people who provided refuge to our parents and grandparents, the remnants of European Jewry, during and before the darkest period of Jewish history, the Nazi genocide of the Second World War.
Within this history and context of Australian tolerance and pluralism, I recently spoke of the bigotry that has attended the exponential rise and proliferation of the internet. In particular, I focused on two Australian online magazines, Newmatilda and Crikey, with their slanted commentary on the Middle East which has been used as a cover for unmoderated, unleashed and unhinged comments on their websites.
My analysis prompted an exchange of letters between well-known civil rights organisation the Anti-Defamation Commission and Newmatilda's editor, Marni Cordell. In April of this year the Anti-Defamation Commission sent Cordell a sober, detailed and careful analysis of the magazines' contents for the first three months of 2009, highlighting ADC's concerns over not its partisan opinion but the broad slabs of hate speak published in the comments section following each article. En passant, Cordell virtually agreed that her online publication presented no semblance of fairness, asserting her publication's role was as a counterweight to the biased, pro-Israel media. One wonders what planet she lived on during the war in Gaza.
Marni Cordell – New Matilda
Cordell fudged why Newmatilda publishes blatantly bigoted commentary, even though the magazine explicitly reserves the right to moderate that commentary if it is abusive or promotes hate. Only since being exposed has Newmatilda stopped publishing race hate in its comment columns. I seek leave to table some of the comments that followed articles in these two publications during the first three months of 2009:
Comments from Crikey.com and New Matilda.com
"61% of Jews don't live in Israel and they are perfectly safe as they would be if the stupid place ceased to exist tomorrow." –blogger maryj commenting on David Hollier's article 'Obama can Convince Israel', 25/03/2009 New Matilda
"The racist Zionist(s) are not simply un-Australian in their lying, bigotry, psychotic injustice and racism – they are also anti-Australian and pose a huge threat to not only Australia but the whole World." Blogger DrGideonPolya commenting on Michael Brull's article 'If Israel Does It Then It Can't be Wrong' 13/1/09 New Matilda
"Nazi German and Israeli policy will herd people into concentration camps, ghettos and other forms of imprisonment whilst simultaneously embarking on a policy of genocide, infanticide, theft of lebensraum, eradication and ethnic cleansing". Blogger Rockjaw commenting on Roland Boer's article 'The Myth of the Holy Land' 2/2/09 New Matilda
"Only fascist states like Israel today, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and countless non-democratic, tyrannical, thug states like Israel do this in this day and age." Blogger RosRoss commenting on Bruce Riedal's article 'Palestine: The Ultimate Franchise', 5/2/09 New Matilda
"The greatest difficulty is the level of denial with which most Israelis and all of their supporters live which ranges from delusional dysfunction to the criminally psychotic." Blogger RosRoss commenting on Antony Lowenstein's article 'An Israel of the Mind', 19/2/09 New Matilda
"Most people find it an increasingly inescapable conclusion that Zionism and Nazism are fundamentally of the same genus: to whit, an attempt to glorify a largely imagined nation-race (a "superior" race to boot) by somehow resurrecting its semi-mythological past in the form of a modern and expansionist nation-state, which in both cases only leads to mass murder." -blogger Rockjaw commenting on the article 'The Things You Don't Want to See', By Michael Brull 4/2/09 New Matilda
"Society will have to become aware of the structures used by our zionists to effect this dark control over our cultures and to intervene on behalf of both Jew and gentile to free Jews from that inner darkness and Palestinians from racist murdering zionist genocidalism." Blogger Rockjaw commenting on Antony Loewnstein article 'An Israel of the Mind' 19/2/09 New Matilda
'The Gaza Ghetto-like shooting fish in a barrel. Don't it make you feel proud?'- blogger Tim commenting on 'The Gaza Strip: A Crikey ceasefire wrap' compiled by Eleri Harris 8/1/09 Crikey.com
"tell us your last name..or are you just another Zionist coward, barracking from behind your nom de plume for the killing of innocent civilians …..you are full of shit……..but of course the Crikey readership had made up its mind in that regard long before this issue arose……ZIONIST COWARD." Blogger Kevin Charles Herbet commenting on Guy Rundle's article "The comic tragedy of Gaza" 13/1/09 Crikey.com
"Sadly the power base of modern Judaism/Zionism, not to mention fundamentalist Jewish Orthodoxy, is a racist, xenophobic group of "Australian Jews," nearly all males, nearly all completely racist in that they view everything in life through the prism of race and tribalism."Blogger Hugh commenting on Greg Barns' article "It's ok to be racist, just not about Israelis" 2/2/09 Crikey.com
"The Zionists exploit the massive racist discrimination and genocide exercised by the Nazis against Jews in general as a means of deflecting criticism from their own racist policies which they pursue with vigour." Blogger Greg Angelo commenting on Greg Barns' article "It's ok to be racist, just not about Israelis" 2/2/09 Crikey.com
"Like any other reasonable person, I know full well that millions of gypsies, disabled, homosexuals, Jews and members of many other minorities were murdered in "The Holocaust", but still, isn't freedom of speech more important? It's also worrying that nobody seems to be speaking for the millions of people other than Jews killed during this time. Are their voices being drowned out by the Jewish and Jewish influenced, media? blogger Bill Malkin commenting on Antony Loewenstein article -"Palestine, Israel and the need for freedom of speech" 18/5/09 Crikey.com
"Zionism and the Zionists which it breeds is a sickness. Zionism is a debilitating fatal disease which has infected this planet for too long and it is encumbent upon mankind to rid ourselves of this disease before it reaches a terminal stage and consumes us all." – blogger Rockjaw commenting on Israelis following Jim Alexander's article 'Peeking into Gaza'-22/1/09
'Why does history have to repeat itself? Why does humanity have to go through the pain of having to rid itself of yet another group of sick psychopathic savages hell bent on genocide or suicide?
Clearly this is a disease, an incurable malady. Does the world really want a state set aside exclusively for a nation of psychopaths, pathological liars, genocidaires, killers and empty, backward, soulless non-productive parasites with nothing to contribute to humanity but deceit, suspicion, greed and malice.'-blogger Rockjaw commenting on Israelis following Jim Alexander's article 'Peeking into Gaza'-22/1/09
"These intellectually & morally corrupt Israeli fascists don't care what the world thinks of their atrocities…just like the Nazis didn't. They expect to get away with it…and why wouldn't they given their jackbooting of the past 41 years. Mugabe has more credibility than these bastards." Blogger Kevin Charles Herbert commenting on Greg Barns' article ' Backman column: Israeli lobby censorship', 23/1/09 Crikey.com
"The Zionists exploit the massive racist discrimination and genocide exercised by the Nazis against Jews in general as a means of deflecting criticism from their own racist policies which they pursue with vigour." Blogger Greg Angelo commenting on Greg Barns article 'It's ok to be racist, just not about Israeli's' 2/2/09 Crieky.com
Crikey and its editor, Jonathan Green, have made no explanation or issued no apology. Eric Beecher, the owner of Crikey, who hails from a similar ethnic cultural background to me, owes an explanation for Crikey's publication of these hate filled comments. Such comments would be suited for publication in Julius
Streicher's Der Sturmer.
I take as my guide the definition suggested by former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Natan Sharansky in addressing these issues in total. Mr Sharansky distinguishes the anti-Jewish hatred and legitimate criticism of Israel by his 3D principles. He warns to look for three things: demonisation, delegitimisation and double standards.
Looking at the coverage in Crikey and Newmatilda we see a tiny country of seven million people portrayed as a manipulator of world events, a state engaged in ethnic separation-without any mention of the thousands of civilians murdered by homicide bombers- and an initiator of wars that have no strategic or defensive codex. That is demonisation.
Of course people can be fairly critical of any state in the world and critical of particular actions of any state, but, following the Sharansky model, anyone who looks at Cordell's Newmatilda or Green's Crikey during this period could only conclude that Israel was a country deserving of rocket attacks on its citizens and not entitled to defend its sovereignty. That is delegitimisation. Scant attention is given in the same publications to Burma, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Tibet, North Korea, Chechnya, Eastern Turkistan or any other place witnessing gross abuse of human rights. That is a double standard.
I was particularly outraged, however, by the tenor of some readers' comments which followed these articles and contained repeated examples of bigotry. I have tabled a small percentage of these verbatim comments from the Newmatilda and Crikey websites from the first three months of this year. Of course, all members will find these comments as abhorrent as I do. No doubt some members will ask the obvious question: how does this kind of vile commentary following the articles-I am not talking about the actual articles; people are entitled to have different
views on these kinds of things-find its way onto a site that reserves the right to censor such comments?
The editors of Newmatilda were not moved to address this issue until I publicly intervened. Thereafter, on 7 July, they responded by way of an editorial that began:
Regular readers will notice that we have turned off all comments on articles about Israel/Palestine. Predictably, what followed was a long self-justification, which read in part:
Historically, we have erred on the side of free speech-we did not pre-moderate comments on the site, which is rare in this litigious age, because we wanted to promote open and diverse debate. Open and diverse debate is different from publishing unregulated, vile racism.
Again, I repeat that the Newmatilda decision to moderate their own site happened not out of consistency or out of some sense of decency but because the searchlight of public opinion was shone on these dark and ugly recesses of the internet.
Two regular contributors to Crikey and Newmatilda-Antony Loewenstein and his Sancho Panza, Michael Brull-also responded tomy speech in a jointly authored article stating that my criticism could be condensed into the following:
Michael Danby erodes his credibility by accusing two Jews of anti-Semitism because they don't agree with him …
I am certainly content to reiterate here that, in relation to their commentary of the conflict, the two individuals are guilty of double standards, demonisation and delegitimisation. However, contrary to their response, their ethnicity was not addressed in my speech at all because it was clearly not my principal concern.
Their writing and the editorial bias of the online publications for which they write clearly puts them on the fringe of Australian politics. If one compares the things that they wrote with, say, Labor Party discussions at the recent national conference, one would see that they are completely outside the mainstream of the centre-left party in this country, for instance. For those writers to seek refuge behind their ethnicity is particularly craven. It is dishonest.
The thrust of my previous speech and tonight's lies with the creepier bigotry that their articles and other articles unleashed in these two online publications, which apparently had no problem with publishing them.
I agree with Thomas Friedman, who wrote:
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction- out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East-is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
In examining the evidence of lopsided coverage of these two internet publications, our toughest critique must be of their unadulterated racism: the perverse nature of their criticisms and the vitriol that is not present in the appraisal of other conflicts; the use of terms such as 'ethnic cleansing' and 'Nazi'; and the dropping of all pretence of anti-Zionism by openly discussing Jews and so-called Jewish proclivities.
George Orwell wrote: To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
Perhaps-but my fear is that the internet is now so pervaded by such views that they can attain a patina of truth and respectability. In many of the articles in both magazines, the ability to link and cross-reference to other sites and commentaries apparently bolsters and legitimises the views of the authors in circumstances where readers cannot vouch for the credibility of the concurring opinion. Opinions and commentary are therefore expressed in an ethical vacuum absent of the strictures which we have come to accept as inherent in the profession of journalism, such as fact checking and peer review.
It is clear in my view that Newmatilda.com and Crikey.com disgraced themselves and the wider circle of Australian journalism-and the tolerant ethos that characterises Australia-by publishing clearly bigoted comments in
the comments sections of their publications in the first three months of this year.


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Miley Cyrus Shows Mom Tish Her Latest Wacky Fashion Purchases
Miley Cyrus works a colorful getup on Monday (February 29) in New York City.
The 23-year-old singer ended the day with her mom Tish by putting a fashion show of all of her newly purchased outfits.
"Mommy and me day in matching jacketzzzzz obvi," Miley captioned a selfie of the two early in the day.
Later that night, she posted a series of Instagram photos showing off her recent fashion buys in a one-woman runway show for Tish.
"My newest purcha$e #12dollamakeyaholla," she captioned one photo.
Also pictured: Miley sending a text on her broken iPhone in New York City the next day.
FYI: Miley is wearing Sunday Somewhere sunglasses.
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It wasn't surprising that Damn Yankees were a huge draw in the early '90s-their members included Ted Nugent, Styx's Tommy Shaw and Night Ranger's Jack Blades! This 1992 Warner Bros. LP was their second and final album, a polished piece of pop-metal featuring the #20 hit Where You Goin' Now plus Dirty Dog; Mister Please; This Side of Hell; Uprising, and more!
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A man will face court charged with stealing money from over 30 vending machines across Sydney.
Police say the 39-year-old used stolen keys to break into 36 machines installed in shopping centres and businesses.
It's alleged he removed the coin boxes and stole cash.
Police searched a home at Werrington, in Sydney's west where they allegedly found mobile phones, documents, company uniforms, laptop computers, cannabis and drug paraphernalia.
The man was arrested and charged on Wednesday with 32 offences, including stealing.
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April 13, 2010
Aside from that whole, first-man-to-walk-on-the-moon thing, he also decided to vocalize his thoughts on Obama's new space plans. Oh, and did I mention that his thoughts are that Obama's space plan sucks serious fucking dick? (I'm, uh, slightly paraphrasing that ...)
Canceling Constellation could lead to thousands of layoffs at some of America's biggest aerospace contractors, including Lockheed Martin, the Boeing Co. and ATK. Such job losses are among the factors behind congressional opposition to the cancellation. Armstrong and his fellow astronauts emphasize the bigger implications, however, and say in their letter that the decision would put the nation on a "long downhill slide to mediocrity."
The letter notes that the U.S. space effort will be dependent for years to come on the Russians for transport to the International Space Station, at a cost of more than $50 million per seat.
NASA is budgeting billions of dollars to support the development of U.S. commercial spaceships that could help fill the gap. The beneficiaries of those billions would include smaller aerospace ventures, such as California-based SpaceX and Virginia-based Orbital Sciences. In their letter, the astronauts say that the availability of such craft "cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope."
Armstrong and his colleagues complained that the cancellation would amount to wasting the roughly $10 billion that has been allocated to Constellation over the past five years. "Equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to re-create the equivalent of what we will have discarded," they wrote.
"For the United States, the leading spacefaring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature," they said in the letter.
One giant leap for awesomeness, sir. I salute you.
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Cosmetic & Plastic Surgeon Dr Rohit Krishna.
The plastic surgery also known as cosmetic surgery in general offers wide spectrum of treatments to correct the faults at particular body area. It covers almost all the body parts that value in personality creation or may create discomfort.


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King Courtnie shares her 'Heart's Desire' in '70s inspired visual
"I really don't know how to express…the way I want to make YOU feel…" the opening lyrics from Courtnie's latest song "Heart's Desire" describes the butterflies and mystery one feels for someone that they're crushing on. The song is reminiscent of youth when love is fun, free and limitless. The actions in the video describes the time when you called your crush to get to know them versus texting them "wyd" and hoping it becomes something grand. You and your friends just hung outside on a sunny day and had fun--that sort of fun before watching internet fights was a hobby. Your homies call you from the window to come outside and you're allowed to go because your mama determined this group of girls are suitable to hang out with.
The guy Courtnie is interested in is who we'll call "Future Bae". Future Bae is so lighthearted and excited and is en route to see the girl he's been on the phone with.
In the beginning of the visual Courtnie is on the phone with "Future Bae" and her girls are on their way to pick her up. They pull up in front of the fence by a park where they bust out their dance routine immediately! (Because it's only right, right?!) The scene gives teen vibes, back in the day when I was young I'm not a kid anymore vibes, runnin' to the corner store for snacks and to meet your friend sort of vibe with how they are perform for all to see. It reminds you of when you try to impress the boy you like so you and your home girls come killing it with cute outfits and fly dances in tow. Whether at lunch period in the cafeteria or passing notes in algebra class, Future Baes all over the world knew when a girl was crushing on them because we made sure they knew just...how..we...felt. Courtnie and her girls then get on the train on the way to the turn up where she's going to perform and show Future Bae what she's really feeling inside. The crowd looks on and her guy of interest is watching her intently. At the end of the performance he gives her a single rose. How sweet, right? Don't forget the whole time via the chorus she told us, "tonight's the night that I show you just how I really feel". She got her man and winks at the viewer to let us know that she DID. JUST. THAT. The song evokes nostalgia of young love and lyrics that are relatable to anyone who's ever had a crush--especially an old school, around the way sort of crush. Make sure to take a listen.
Courtnie is an Alternative R&B artist whose music can be found on SaintHeron.com in addition to Soundcloud, Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal. Follow her on Instagram @kingcourtnie for updates!


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- Present: Anna Golden, DO-IT; Terrill Thompson, DO-IT; Katherine Turner; UW Marketing; Joel Walters, Admissions; Dan Druliner, Facilities; Kyle Russell, Education; Heather Wozniak, A&S; Conrad Kuehn, Rehab Medicine; Krista Greear, Disabilities Resources for Students; Melinda McRae, Social Work; Amanda Paye, ADA coordinator; Char Easter, HCD alumni
- Announcements
- The D-Center will open in December; will centralize services related to disabilities
- Kyle Russell, a grad student in Education is looking for people "willing to help me by being participants in my dissertation project focusing on how accessibilty is considered as part of Web development." If you are interested in volunteering, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com .
- Given the growing interest in accessible Web design, how can we work together to improve our websites?
- An Accessibility Intiative is being planned. First steps are
- Enhancement of online resources, including the Accessible Technology at the UW site
- Promotion of Accessible IT, including AccessibleWeb@U speakers and events
- Exploration of policies and processes to develop an approach appropriate to the UW
- How many UW sites are there?
- 720 sites are using the URL forwarding service offered by UW-IT. Many other sites exist that do not use that service
- A wild estimate is that we are dealing with approximately 2500 official UW sites
- How many are on the "critical path" for our faculty, staff, and students with disabilities?
- Needs
- New technologies keep coming; whatever approach we use needs to accommodate constant change
- ARIA is important as interfaces are given more features that respond to user behaviors
- With increasing use of scripting and AJAX, ARIA is critical to making things accessible
- Economical captioning is an important need as more classes use video
- Giving support people resources they can use to explain the need for accessible design and to explain how to do it.
- Having campus-wide policies are helpful to support people
- Accessible templates that people can use in their sites and CMSs
- Procurement process should effectively include accessibility considerations
- Give preference to products that produce accessible documents and sites right out of the box.
- Mobile devices are big. We need to understand accessible mobile design.
- If a site works with Apple VoiceOver, can it be considered accessible?
- How should we begin?
- We should begin our accessibility initiative by evaluating where we are:
- In the real world, what are people experiencing as they try to use our sites and services
- The SiteImprove scanner only gives you information on explicit criteria. What problems are people actually having?
- We could systematically interview people working with and supporting people with disabilities. The results could help us plan.
- Rules, process and structure can help us make progress, but they should not be too confining; they could squelch progress without improving the situation
- We need to define what is good enough; What are the standards we work to, which are primary, which are secondary?
- Accessibility requirements are not as intuitive as safety requirements
- Easy to ask compliance for safety; "Wear a helmet"
- Standards are changing; older standards were prescriptive
- Technologies are changing rapidly
- What can we actually achieve?
- We should begin our accessibility initiative by evaluating where we are:
- Role of the "Accessible Web Design Community of Practice"
- Helping communities form and interconnect
- Presentation about what people are experiencing at the UW
- Organize accessibility testing sessions
- In usability testing, watching somebody struggle with your design can be very educational
- How can we do that kind of thing for accessibility
- In usability testing, watching somebody struggle with your design can be very educational
- We could connect with UW departments interested in accessibility
- Human Centered Design & Engineering (http://www.hcde.washington.edu/)
- iSchool (http://ischool.uw.edu/)
- College of Education (http://education.washington.edu/)
- Computer Science & Engineering (http://www.cs.washington.edu/)
- Richard Ladner is conducting an Accessibility Research seminar this quarter
- We could host speakers on accessibility related projects at the UW
- Serve as a place to encourage careful planning and effective actions to address accessibility issues
- Shared designs give leverage
- UW Marketing Web team is developing a Wordpress template that is being carefully designed to be accessible. Many central sites can/will be moved into this system.
- The same design is being converted into a Drupal theme
- Parts of the design will also be available in the Header/Footer wizard for those maintaining static or hand-coded sites.
- The result is that a large number of key sites will be using the same carefully vetted design
- What other opportunities for shared designs are there?
Buzz, thoughts, and observations on the ongoing efforts to build information technologies that work for all people at the University of Washington. A blog of the AccessibleWeb@U interest group.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Creating an Accessible Web Design Community of Practice
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Web Accessibility Policy and the Penn State Experience
Terrill Thompson – Technology Accessibility Specialist
Web and IT Accessibility Policy in Higher Education
· Discussion
- National Federation of the Blind is actively suing universities. One of their goals, apparently, is to use universities (which must address accessibility) to pressure vendors (which are not included in accessibility laws) to improve accessibility in their products
- Generally, NFB will not sue an institution that has a plan for addressing accessibility and is working on it. They are more likely to focus on institutions that have drifted toward environments that are inaccessible through lack of policy and planning.
Rick Ells – UW-IT Web Guy
The Penn State Experience
· Discussion
- Viewpoints expressed
- It would be good to avoid a lawsuit.
- We need top down push that accessibility is important, everyone is expected to comply with standards
- Much work on accessibility is already going on at many levels. Much could be achieved by making people aware of each other's good work
- We need to decide what standard we are shooting for: WCAG 2 Level AA, updated 508, or what?
- There needs to be a Web site people can go to that says how to test your site's accessibility and how to fix its problems.
- How about some events? Perhaps some coding competitions to address puzzles, or a un-conference of Web developers addressing accessibility
- How can we do this that we do not over specify and thus squish innovation and creative designs?
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Accessibility of Mobile Devices and Accessible Mobile Web Site Design
AccessibleWeb@U Meeting Notes
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
- VoiceOver Basics - Rick Ells (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- The VoiceOver voice browser is on Apple iPhones, iPads, and OSX laptop and desktop computers
- On iPhones and iPads, go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver
- On OSX laptops and desktops, go to Finder -> Go -> Applications -> Utilities -> VoiceOver Utility
- VoiceOver is highly respected by people with disabilities and is a mature, polished product. It is also free (or at least it comes at no extra cost with many Apple products, which are not free).
- Using VoiceOver to interact with your site will give you an understanding of how usable your site is to a person using assistive technology.
- Exploring your pages with VoiceOver can give you a basic evaluation of how useful it will be to people who use assistive technologies.
- Many developers only think visually as they design the user interface (UI) and user interaction. A sighted person can see and use any part of the display directly. A person using assistive technology probably has to explore the interface linearly, item by item, one item at a time.
- Good UI design can provide both a good visual experience and a good linear (audio) experience.
- Turning on / turning off VoiceOver on iPhones and iPads
- Turning on VoiceOver
- Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver
- Once VoiceOver is on you are in a different interaction mode: First you find an item, then you double-tap anywhere on the screen to evoke it.
- You move to items by sliding your finger around on the screen. As your finger goes over items, VoiceOver will speak their name or description.
- You can also navigate among items with left, right, up, and down flicks.
- Turning off VoiceOver
- Double-tap the Settings icon on your homepage.
- Use three fingers to scroll down to the General menu, and double-click on it. Click for image.
- Use three fingers to scroll down to the Accessibility menu, and double-click on it. Click for image.
- Double-tap on the VoiceOver menu item. Click for image.
- Turn VoiceOver off
- Mute and un-mute
- Three finger double-tap mutes or unmutes the sound
- Using a bluetooth keyboard
- Entering text or numbers can be tedious. For each character to find the character then double tap.
- If you have a bluetooth keyboard, you can directly enter characters as you normally would
- Apple manual on VoiceOver for OSX devices is at http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/downloads.html
- Getting Started with VoiceOver on iOS devices is at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3598
- Mobile Design Examples - Terrill Thompson (email@example.com)
- Test site with four annotated example mobile page designs - http://terrillthompson.com/tests/mobile
- These are tests, you are welcome to visit them, but they will change
- The examples are in HTML5
- How well is HTML5 supported by assistive technology?
- JAWS 13 supports HTML5 elements as landmarks
- You can skip among landmarks
- Do not need to use "skip to content"
- VoiceOver does not recognize HTML5 elements as landmarks
- VoiceOver does support ARIA landmarks
- You can use ARIA to mark up areas of page with "roles" (banner, main, navigation, etc.) (http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq)
- Use your smartphone to try out these examples. To better understand how they work, view them with a laptop/desktop browser and view their source code.
- Example 1
- Demonstrates width and font-size change when you double tap on a block of text.
- The recommendation is to set column widths between 30-60% to get a reasonable enlargement effect
- Example 2
- Demonstrates the effect of constraining width with absolute units.
- The recommendation is to use relative widths ( percents or ems)
- Example 3
- Demonstrates supplementing HTML5 with ARIA roles
- Each element that has an ARIA landmark role also needs an aria-label attribute
- Example 4
- Demonstrates problems with dropdown items evoked by image icons in the header
- "search image" "menu image" - a visitor might not recognize that they are clickable
- In this example, they are simple images with javascript
- Could add "role=button" ARIA
- Pop-ups can be given an ARIA role of alert, will be announced by screenreaders
- Focus stays where the pop-up was evoked
- Text is read
- role="alert"
- Go to more accessible version at bottom of page
- Uses the ARIA button role; announces as "show search"
- When the user evokes search, button becomes "hide search"
- Better to use ARIA button instead of link, which people might assume goes to a different page
- Android Assistive Technologies - Dan Comden (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Android Accessibility
- Major problem is the variety of forms and manufacturers
- Physical buttons
- Physical keyboards
- http://weba.im/droids has list of Android phones that work best http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documentation/android_access/phones.html
- Talkback, Soundback, and Kickback - developed by Google for Android
- Talkback - talks as you click on things
- soundback - makes a noise whe you click on something
- kickback - vibrates when you press something
- Eyes-Free Shell (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-eyes-free-shell-for-android.html)
- Talking Dialer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.marvin.talkingdialer&hl=en)
- Walky Talky - Periodically announces your current location (http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/travel_and_local/walkytalky_lrri.html)
- Rock Lock - Simple, eyes-free music player (http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/media_and_video/rock-lock_hdhk.html)
- Magnifier Camera - make your Android into a magnifying glass (http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/camera+magnifier)
- Eyes-Free Talking Compass - Speaks your current heading (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.marvin.compass&hl=en)
- The vOICe for Android (http://www.artificialvision.com/android.htm)
- Augmented reality viewer
- Audio describing visual
- Pay options
- Mobile Accessibility US (https://play.google.com/store/apps and search for Mobile Accessibility by Code Factory)
- Costs $99
- Mobile Web experience
- Flash is supported
- Double tap to zoom
- Multiple windows
- Browser alternatives
- Chrome for Android 4 in beta
- Opera mini, Dolphin, and more
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Access Technology and the Web
AccessibleWeb@U Meeting Notes
March 22, 2012
Dan Comden
Access Technology Center
Mary Gates Hall 064
Access Technology Center
Mary Gates Hall 064
Presentation Slide Deck
Products Demonstrated
- ZoomText screen enlarger (free 60 day demo) for
- Free Text-To-Speech - NaturalReader
- Paid Text-To-Speech - ClaroRead (15 day demo)
- NVDA - Free Screen Reader for Windows
- Color Contrast Analyzer
More Information
- Windows Accessibility
- Apple Accessibility
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Accessibility Lessons Learned in the Kuali Rice Project
February 23, 2012 Meeting Notes
February 23, 2012 Meeting Notes
- Meetings will continue to be on the fourth Thursday of each month
- Is meeting on the same day as the Web Council a problem?
- Since most of the meetings are during lunch hour, continuing to meet on the same day is not a big burden for people on campus
- Having both meetings on the same day is helpful to people coming from off-campus (from Tacoma or Bothell)
- Guest Speaker: Candace Soderston, a User Experience Architect for the Kuali Rice Project
- The Kuali Rice wiki is at https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULRICE/Home
- "The Kuali Rice effort will provide an enterprise class middleware suite of integrated products that will allow both Kuali and non-Kuali applications to be built in an agile fashion, such that developers will be able to react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner, so that they can produce high quality business applications."
- Information on the Kuali Rice approach to accessibility, maintained by Candace, is located at https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULRICE/Rice+Accessibility
- Candace's Powerpoint slide deck is at http://uw.edu/accessibility/accessibleweb/minutes/Accessibility_lessons_Kuali.pdf
- The slides are very clear and detailed – take a look!
- Many thanks to Candace for her presentation.
- Next Meeting: Thursday, March 22 in Allen Auditorium (as usual)
- Dan Comden, Access Technology Consultant of the Access Technology Center will talk on "Assistive Technologies in Use at the UW"
Remember you can always send your questions about accessible design to the AccessibleWeb@U email list (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Minutes from meetings are also posted on our blog at http://accesswebu.blogspot.com/. An more comprehensive archive of past minutes (going back to 2003) is located at http://uw.edu/accessibility/accessibleweb/minutes/
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Cloud Computing
Event Processing in the Cloud – DataSift is a Big Proof Point
Twitter is probably the closest thing that we have that embodies the event cloud
By: Colin Clark
Aug. 30, 2010 07:15 AM
In the past year or so, I've heard from many skeptics – people who didn't believe that Event Processing could be successfully deployed in the cloud. Granted, most of these folks represented firms actively engaged in providing the High Frequency Trading (Algo Trading) industry with tools. And in that arena, cloud deployment probably doesn't make sense. Yet.
Close to Home Though
So What?
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The Singularity Is Approaching
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