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Hesper Black was an early member of the House of Black. She was a pure-blood witch, and it is possible that Licorus, Alexia Walkin, Phoebe and Eduardus Limette were her siblings. She never married or had any children.
Hesper traces back to Hesperia, which means "sunset". Sunsets and the night that follows it are often considered evil, like the colour black. It could also refer to the "setting of her bloodline" since she didn't have children.
Black can be considered a colour, and is the result of the absence of, or complete absorption of, light. In Western culture, the colour black has typically been associated with evil, darkness, and witchcraft, but also with prestige and sophistication — appropriate for the House of Black. Black has also been associated with life and prosperity by other cultures. In ancient China, black was the symbol of the element of water, which also corresponds to Slytherin, the Hogwarts house of almost all members of the Black family. In English heraldry, black represents darkness and ignorance; a possible allusion to the prejudice common to members of the House of Black.
However, the English word black is derived from either the Old English blœc, meaning "black", or blac, meaning "pale". Pallor is associated with sickness and the colour white, which is usually held to symbolise purity in Western and Indian culture, and death in East Asian cultures. This mirrors the typical colouring of members of the House of Black — dark hair and pale skin.
Behind the scenes
- Based on a statement by Horace Slughorn, this character may have been a member of Slytherin house.[1] However, she attended Hogwarts in the 1830s, when Slughorn wasn't even born.
- This character appears only on the version of the Black family tree shown in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She was not included on the version of the tree which J. K. Rowling gave to a charity auction in 2006[2]. However, according to director David Yates, Rowling provided the film-makers with a copy of the Black family tree going back eight generations[3]. The film makers presumably received a more complete version of the tree than the one auctioned off, which only goes back six generations.
- On the Black Family tree depicted on the 2nd DVD of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hesper's picture is depicted as a skull. Regulus Black is also depicted in the same way, and it is unknown why some people have skulls instead of pictures. It is possible that the skull denotes those Blacks who have died violent deaths, as opposed to natural causes.[4]
- The skull bears a striking resemblance to the Death's Heads worn by the Nazis SS troopers during the Second World War. This may simply be coincidence or it could be done to emphasise the support for repression of certain groups of people exhibited by several prominent Blacks (support of Muggle-hunting, et cetera).
- It is interesting to note that there are no dates on the scroll of Hesper, where only her first name is written: it is possible that she was a stillborn child, as there would be no need for dates.
- She shared her first name with Sirius Black II's wife Hesper Black née Gamp.
- She is one of the only Blacks not to bear the name of a star. However, a variant of her name, Hesperus, was the Greek name for the divine personification of planet Venus in the evening.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Seen on Black family tree tapestry)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ "Black Family Tree" on The Harry Potter Lexicon
- ↑ "'Empire' Magazine Feature on OotP" from The Leaky Cauldron
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)


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Ello, first time linux user ere
I have a laptop and computer, both have a version of bios which lacks USB Boot support, so after looking around i found WAKEPUP to be the solution.
So i downloaded it, set up the floppy disk, put the appropriate PUPXUSB file in the ipod (Which has the 3 required puppy files on the top level) and rebooted as normal
Wakepup pops up, selected the USB option and it starts scanning cdrom drives and usb ports as normal. Everything seems to go according to plan until it comes to finishing the usb scanning. It detects and lists my ipod and then nothing seems to happen when "...Scanning USB Devices..." Disappears, it just sits there, frozen.
I tried on both the laptop and computer, and what seemed stranged is that on the computer, the floppy drive light just stayed lit, so i waited for 10-20 minutes to see if it was just slow on loading, nope nothing.
I looked everywhere for possible answers, no solution found, so if anyone knows what maybe going on, please help.
My iPod is an iPod Mini 6GB model (Fat32)
Both computers have pentium 3 and USB 2.0 slots (However none of them are "High-Speed", possible problem? Doubt it) and around 128mb of ram.
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Hi Gnu32 (can I call you GNU for short?)
It may be that no one has your configuration or setup and therefore has no support to offer. I know an iPod as a music player but little else. I do not recall this situation coming up before so you are a pioneer.
Not even sure where to start with this . . . anyone?
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Send me the iPod all your computer hardware and a bottle of Jack Daniels and I might be inclined to drink the...eeer I mean fix the porblem...hic
And if you do that I have a large bridge, tower and a big white house on a harbour that has roofs that look like sails that I could sell to you at a reasonable price or at least lease\rent to you.........
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Thats great =D But unfortantly i only have a bottle of ice tea over here
As for the iPod problem,i guess the iPod only works as a bootable hard drive when it's been completly formatted into a new filesystem (As found with certain experiments involving booting into native osx x86 *cough*) which i refuse to if i want to keep my music. I guess i'll stick to iPod linux =P
Unless the puppy comes to the iPod? Hmm, do puppies eat apples anyway?
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Someone else tried this a while ago but as he could not find a computer that supported booting from USB there was no follow-up reported so we have nothing to work from.
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Gnu32 wrote:
Wakepup pops up, selected the USB option and it starts scanning cdrom drives and usb ports as normal. Everything seems to go according to plan until it comes to finishing the usb scanning. It detects and lists my ipod and then nothing seems to happen when "...Scanning USB Devices..." Disappears, it just sits there, frozen.
The problem is with the Panasonic USB driver that wakepup uses. It's the best DOS USB driver around, handles USB 1.1 & 2.0, but unfortunately doesn't always work.
Gnu32 wrote:
Both computers have pentium 3 and USB 2.0 slots (However none of them are "High-Speed", possible problem? Doubt it)
If the slots are not High-Speed, then they are USB 1.1, not USB 2.0. When I was testing wakepup on an old laptop with USB 1.1, I ran into a similar problem with a PNY USB stick. It wasn't detected by wakepup when connected to the built-in USB 1.1 port, but when I connected it via a USB 2.0 PCMCIA adapter card (with external power adapter), wakepup had no problem with it! Might be worth a try if you can get hold of an adapter.
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In addition to what Pakt said, you might try plugging it into the rear USB ports to see if that makes any difference. I saw something somewhere which suggested that at least some USB controllers (on the motherboard) treat the front USB ports different from the rear ones.
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 19:01
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On the computer, all ports including the rear ones, windows pops up a balloon saying the ipod is plugged into a non-highspeed 2.0 port, and when i used the live cd version, puppy recognized and was able to mount my ipod from those same ports.
Not sure about the laptop, since it just says "not plugged into a highspeed port" without a version number, but heck the live cd doesnt even boot on this shoddy laptop (When forcefully booted by wakepup, comes up with all sorts of errors).
The only thing left is to find an alternative usb dos driver or try the ipod when i get home to my computer which boots from usb and has usb 2.0 (Although that would defeat the purpouse of downloading puppy, using it abroad)
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Please be advised that the event organization at Mont Tremblant has requested the downgrade of the Canada Cup cross-country event on June 7th. The event was originally sanctioned as E1 class, but will now offer points and prize list as an E2 class event.
Wachovia Liberty Classic National Squad - Women
Canada is sending four riders to the event: Julie Hutsebaut, Julie Belanger, Genevieve Gagnon and Caroline Leroux.
Photos from Canada Cup #2
Pictures taken by Spectrum Imaging at the Gears Racing Canada Cup are now available on their website and can be searched by Race and Plate Number.
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On June 15, Vancouver will get the fun we've all been waiting for with the first annual Stanley Park Bike Festival, a day of cycling activities for all ages, fitness levels and backgrounds.
The Stanley Park Bike Festival celebrates cycling for sport, fun and fitness, while promoting cycling as an alternative transportation option, and addressing public concerns around pollution and global warming. The event is also home to the Brockton Criterium bike race.
"Vancouver has never had a festival devoted exclusively to cycling and people-powered transportation, and so we're delighted to be the first," said Alistair Barrett, event founder and co-organizer. "The Stanley Park Bike Festival brings athletes, cycling advocates and families together for some great two-wheeled fun."
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Bernard Gantner (16 August 1928 1 June 2018) was born in Belfort, in 1928, into a family from the Alsace region of France. At the age of nine years old his talent emerged; his propensity for drawing was remarkable. His grandfather, who was a teacher, was able to nurture and encourage Gantner's gift, and taught him to appreciate the wonders of nature.
During World War II, Gantner was fortunate in that the curator from the museum in Belfort became his mentor, and initiated him into the world of oil painting. The museum was closed to the public because of the war, and so Gantner practically had the museum to himself. Gantner was able to admire and study the medieval works, and art by such renowned artists as Delacroix, Courbet and Jongkind.
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At the end of the 1950's, Gantner was noticed by the great art critic Claude Roger Mars. Shortly after that, he won the Critic's Prize in 1961 and since that time Gantner's reputation never ceased to grow. Also renowned for his remarkable work in lithography,Gantner has illustrated several De Luxe collector's editions. There have been more than 60 exhibitions devoted to his work in France and abroad. ...(PLease Login to see the complete biography.)
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STAB alum Frischkorn strong in Tour de France
It may not be the Tour de Lance anymore, but Americans still have a reason to pay attention to this year's Tour de France. After the first three stages of cycling's premiere event, St. Anne's Belfield alum William Frischkorn is in third place, only a minute and 42 seconds off the leader's pace headed into tomorrow's racing.
Entering today's stage from Saint-Malo to Nantes, Frischkorn was 122nd out of a field of 178 cyclists. But this morning the 27-year-old quickly muscled toward the front of the pack, and at the end of the 208km stretch, he was a split-second away from besting France's Samuel Dumoulin for the fastest time of the day, and had jumped 119 spots in the overall standings. Now, the 1999 STAB grad is the top American in the field and trails only France's Romain Feillu, and Italy's Paolo Longo Borghini in his quest for le maillot jaune.
Of today's near-capture of a stage win, Frischkorn said in the post-race press conference, "I felt pretty darn good. I'm ecstatic to have done this. It's weird to feel a little bit disappointed right now, actually."
According to Bob Troy, Frischkorn's academic advisor and physics teacher while at St. Anne's, this day has been long in the making. "He was never one to boast," says Troy, "but he always had that quiet confidence about him, and he always said he wanted to ride at the highest level."
However, Frischkorn's cycling prowess was only part of what impressed Troy about his student. "At that point, he was racing 12 months a year, he'd be gone for days, even a week at a time," says Troy. "And yet, he would always come back, was on top of his work, contributed to the class, and graduated with high honors. He was the model college prep student."
Frischkorn, who is the son of PBS gardening host Rebecca, will try to maintain his high position tomorrow when he gets back on the bike in Cholet, near the Atlantic coast, for a 29km time trial– the first of this year's Tour– and then it's 232km to Chateauroux on Thursday. Live coverage of tomorrow's stage can be seen on Versus (DirecTV channel 603, Dish Network channel 131) beginning at 7:30am and then on tape delay replay throughout the afternoon starting at 2:30pm and ending at 7pm.
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St Anne's sport prowess is surprising but welcome. First Chris Long and now this. Who would have thunk it?
Great article. Wonderful to see cycling getting the attention it deserves. These athletes work to amazing physical limits.


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This works on ALL Nexus S variants and Nexus S 4G, this root method basically installs Clockwork Recovery then you flash Super User files, which works on all Nexus S variants.
Rooting your Nexus S will make you lose your contacts and apps so be sure to back them up (at least your contacts) using apps on the market.
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1) First, you will need to turn your Nexus S off.
2) Then, power up your Nexus S by doing this: while holding down the Volume Up Button, hit the Power button until you see the bootloader menu come up.
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For Windows, you will need to install ADB drivers, instructions are in the video and the driver files are in the zip file (under folder usb_driver)you will download next.
For Mac and Linux, you will not need any drivers, it should be recognized automatically.
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What is the Definition of Elegant Code?
I always try to write elegant code, but what does that mean exactly? Up until now, it was always a "I knows it when I sees it" kind of thing, but I believe I have captured the key points that define elegant code for myself.
In commenting an algorithm I wrote recently in theHeron interpreterfor resolving types,I felt an apology was in order to the reader. The algorithm I used for resolving types didn't feel very elegant, but I couldn't think of anything better. The problem I had at first was that I wasn't sure what made the algorithm inelegant.
In short the algorithm is this: when creating the abstract syntax tree (AST) I create place-holders of type "UnresolvedType" which contain the type name as a string. These are then replaced with the concrete type during a second pass over the AST. This is because the necessary information to create a proper HeronType is not available until the AST is fully constructed.
In forcing myself to try and write the comment, I realize that the source of inelegance was that it was too easy for a programmer to forget to resolve a type afterwards (which I had in fact done, and am currently correcting!).
However, I also realized that some of the other criteria I have for elegance were satisfied. This prompted me to summarize herewhat my criteria for elegant code:
- It is succinct
- It is easy to understand
- Each function does one well-defined task
- It conveys the programmer's intent
- It reflects the problem domain
- It is easy to modify and reuse
- If it fails, it is easy to identify that it is has failed, where it has failed, and why it has failed.
- Its behavior (in good and bad conditions) is easy to predict
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Oh, I'm sorry, did I accidentally sleepwalk through a tesseract last night and wake up in a universe where scare pieces about "pre-funking" aren't older and hoarier than Father Time's mustache? NO? Then why have the newsies delivered this scandal to me in today's gazette!?
"Pre-drinking" or "pre-funking" common among young alcohol users
The horrors of "pre-funking" have been scandalizing biddies since I was in college, and that is a long time because I am one million (okay, I am a coelacanth). Pre-funking, to me, is akin to panic about "hookup culture"—it's not not happening, exactly, but it's also not not bullshit.
Look. Drinking until you die is bad. Self-destructive behavior is bad. Hazing is bad. Beer bongs filled with vodka are bad. But young people have been doing this for-fucking-ever, and, I'm sorry, but if one of your bogeymen is that students are using alcohol for the purposes of "becoming intoxicated and socializing with friends or facilitating contacts with potential sexual partners," then I'm going to have to give you an F+ in DUH SCHOOL. I don't want students to die or drive drunk and I want them to learn to manage alcohol and drugs responsibly, but I also think that a certain amount of reckless behavior and hungover Sundays is part of youth. I certainly don't regret mine, and we drank HELLA wine in the dorms before Toga or whatever.
But anyway, here's what this Swiss study says:
This increased drinking was associated with a greater likelihood of blackouts, hangovers, absences from work or school or alcohol poisoning. Pre-drinkers were also found to engage more often in unintended drug use, unsafe sex, drunken driving or violent behavior.
The study found that while students who drank only at a bar or club stood an 18% chance of experiencing negative consequences, students who drank beforehand stood a 24% chance of seeing their evening end in mishap.
Study authors cited several motivations for pre-drinking, which practitioners also called "pre-gaming," "pre-loading" or "frontloading."
Um, also, if pre-drinking involves drinking, then I'm pretty sure "pre-drinking" is the same as "drinking." The correct term for "pre-drinking" would be "sitting around doing nothing."
Or, alternatively, I actually like to refer to drinking as "post-napping." (This one is convenient because you can call drinking "pre-napping" too.)
Other popular names for pre-funking include:
War on Chugs
Monsters, Drinc.
The Journey of Natty Cann
The Beerhunter
I'm sure I missed some! Leave yours in the comments so we can keep an eye out for this terrifying scourge.
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Sitting at an elevation of more than 5,000 feet, Elko is known as "Nevada with Altitude," a moniker to which it truly lives up. The thriving northeastern, Nevada city is bordered by the towering, snow-capped Ruby Mountains, often called the Alps of Nevada, and the lush, glacier-carved Lamoille Canyon. And that means there's no shortage of outdoor activities to enjoy, everything from down-and-dirty ATVing to out-of-this-world heli-skiing. Within minutes of downtown Elko, visitors can enjoy rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, hunting, fishing or backpacking– and that's just the start. Elko's humble beginning came in 1869, when it was established as a railroad site town. It quickly became home to rail workers and their families., Nevada's first high school opened in Elko in 1885, and the University of, Nevada welcomed its first students there in 1874 before moving to Reno 11 years later.
Elko is where Nevada's real cowboys work and play, and the Wild West spirit is catching...even the folks at True West have taken notice of Elko's authentic western heritage and ranked the town as one of the Top True Western Towns. Cowboys from across the nation flock to Elko every January for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, a celebration of the cowboy lifestyle and the rural West. But the events in Elko go beyond its Western roots. Every July is the annual National Basque Festival, a nod to the rich Basque history and culture both in, Nevada and across the country. The festival is a raucous family event with traditional food and wine, dancing and even a ceremonial running of the bulls. And for Basque food anytime, Elko's authentic Basque restaurants always hit the spot. Other much-anticipated events in Elko include the Silver State Stampede, Motorcycle Jamboree and the county fair.
Today, visitors to Elko can explore, Nevada's roots in mining, ranching and native culture with a stop at the Northeastern, Nevada Museum, the Western Folklife Center or the Sherman Station Visitor's Center. And for a real treat, check out Capriola's. It's one the most famous saddle-making companies in the world, and visitors can browse the array of rich leather goods and even watch saddle-makers at work.
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Prior to SQL Server 2012, Microsoft DW & BI solutions relied on a combination of tools and techniques within and without the Microsoft stack to provide the basics of enterprise information management (EIM). EIM is a term that encompasses the area of data & knowledge management and is a very important of a successful large data warehouse and BI implementation. Typically, EIM is meant to include data management capabilities like data integration, data cleansing, master data management and data profiling. Without cleansing data, profiling and insuring data integrity during integration to a data warehouse, your business intelligence solutions are exposed to the rules of garbage-in, garbage-out and a lack of adoption or trust from your users.
SQL Server has long had strengths in data integration from the old DTS days through to the newest advances in SSIS in SQL Server 2012 (the new deployment model and CDC integration being 2 of my favorites in 2012). Data Profiling came along in SQL Server 2008 as part of SSIS and does key actions for you as an ETL developer to profile the data sources before you make decisions on key attributes, source fields, transformations, patterns, etc:
There has been a form of data quality in SSIS that you could use with the SSIS Fuzzy Lookup tasks that use the SQL Server data mining engine to produce an effective data integration flow that included the ability to match data and fields based on lookup algorithms with a nice set of controllable parameters:
What was missing was a data cleansing and master data management solution that provides data quality throughout the process and throughout an organization that can be governed and owned by the business community. That is, people in your company that are closer to the actual data and don't have to express the business entities to BI developers, typically losing context and meaning through translation.
This is where the EIM stack now included in SQL Server 2012 complete this picture. Master Data Services (MDS) came to us in SQL Server 2008 R2 and the SQL Server 2012 MDS version is much more complete and improved. And MDS continues the Microsoft march toward Excel as the primary BI consumer model tool which now enables the master data management (MDM) community's role for business and data analysts: the data steward. This role within your business can now use Excel or a much-improved browser-based UI to govern the business data assets.
Data Quality Services (DQS) is a brand new addition to the stack that takes the idea of fuzzy matching and marries it together with the idea of master data management by making data quality a first-class citizen in your BI project. Microsoft has made this possible by including the software that was purchased from Zoomix a few years back and now bundling that into the SQL Server 2012 media. DQS, therefore, is an established tool for data quality that allows data domain experts to interact with a client tool (see screen capture below) instead of needing to go through
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The terminology and configuration of DQS is geared toward ideas like data domains, knowledge base and projects, which allows BI developers to offload the data management piece to data experts. Data quality and matching projects end up looking something like what you see below, which enables the data to be cleansed before you need to rely on fuzzy lookups, thereby increasing the quality and success rate of your business intelligence solution, which of course will benefit your company's bottom line and top line.
The final mile of a Microsoft BI project in SQL Server 2012 with these EIM tools is integrating the data quality project work from the data stewards and data experts into your ETL workflow in SSIS. SSIS 2012 includes a transformation that integrates those data quality domains into your data warehouse. Below is a screenshot of a configuration for the DQS Transformation Editor. It is very straightforward and essentially creates a connection into the knowledge base that the domain experts have built up around the data sources:
One more thing I'd like to mention from DQS that is really nice: it comes fully ready to integrate with 3rd party reference data providers through the Azure Data Marketplace where you can use data from providers like Melissa and Infogroup to add additional quality checks against business names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. from data syndicators.


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It's been a year today.
I got up on the morning of 25 April 2011, and went to work at Marshall Space Flight Center for the last time. The day was spent out-processing, and shortly after lunch time, I had the surreal experience of driving out the gate without my badge, knowing that I wouldn't be able to get back in. To be sure, after weeks of uncertainty about the future and dread, there was a bit of relief in having it be done, and, at the time, optimism over what I thought the future was going to hold, but, even so, it was one of the saddest moments of my life.
It's been an interesting year since. When I left, I believed I was going to go back to school to get my master's degree, and was within a week of starting that, but then changes in my personal life scuttled that plan. At that point, the real process of figuring out what the future looks like began.
Initially, I had hoped a new career would be quick coming, but eventually I realized I needed to invest in the here-and-now in the meantime.
I began working as a substitute for the Madison City Schools in October, as a tour guide and children's programs leader for the Historic Huntsville Depot museum in November and as a sub in the Huntsville City Schools in January. Theoretically, I'm still doing all three; in reality, Madison and I haven't called each other since Christmas break since the other two jobs keep my schedule pretty full.
And, you know, while the place I'm in right now is not anywhere I set out to be, and isn't necessarily where I would choose to be, I'm still having fun.
Subbing has its moments. There are, to be sure, bad days, the rare days by the end of which I'm just counting the time until I can escape. (I've got a full post about subbing coming, so I'll spare the explanation until then.) But there are a lot of good days, and there are transcendent moments. The times when I help kids learn something they didn't know are good times indeed. I can't tell you how awesome it was the day I was teaching, and one of the kids told a classmate that came in late, "Man, you missed it! We were talking about metaphors and similes!"
And the Depot — shortly before I started working there, I was having lunch with other subs in one of the Madison schools, and they were lamenting how they'd never been picked to sub on a day the kids were going on a field trip, 'cause that would be fun. And the Depot? It's like permanent field trip. Well, almost at least. The kids' programs days are, at least, and they're the fun part of the field trip, without the riding around in the bus part. The other days, the tour guide days — I've worked as a tour guide at the Space & Rocket Center as a volunteer, and at the Depot I get paid for something I would do for free. That's kinda cool. Plus, there's the occasional random moment of awesomeness, like the day last week on which I followed up being filmed for a commercial by operating a forklift.
Really, if either (or both together) of those would pay the bills, I would be very content where I am. But, unfortunately, they don't, and so the quest for real work continues. I wouldn't have thought it would take this long, and, on some days, that can be a little frustrating. But in the meantime, I'm enjoying myself, so, ultimately, I'm blessed.
That said, if you know someone who is looking for — or needs and doesn't know it yet — a writer or communications professional, please feel more than free to pass my name along.
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Colorado Moving to Google's Cloud-Based Email
All 26,000 of Colorado's state government employees -- excluding public colleges and universities, as well as the state legislature -- will be migrated to the system this year.
By the Government Technology News Staff
Colorado is the newest state to move its enterprise email to Google.
The state's 15 siloed email systems will be consolidated into the company's Apps for Government productivity suite, a cloud-based platform that's gaining market share in the public sector.
All 26,000 of Colorado's state government employees — excluding public colleges and universities, as well as the state legislature — will be migrated to the system this year, according to a statement Thursday, March 8, from the Governor's Office of Information Technology.
"We based this decision on the evaluation of cost, security and functionality, as well as an alignment to the administration's overarching goals and our technology road map," said Kristin Russell, Colorado's secretary of technology and chief information officer, in a statement.
The move will save the state approximately $2 million per year, officials said. Colorado currently spends $5.2 million annually for on-premise email used by state employees. Outsourcing email to Google will reduce maintenance costs, the state said. The Office for Information Technology chose Google after testing several products and Google's email offering has been making further inroads among government customers in recent months because more agencies have decided to move their data into a cloud environment. Google, Microsoft and other email providers are competing fiercely for big government customers as the cloud computing market continues to mature.
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'Not my responsibility' No-plow-zone finally gets plowed
The cul-de-sac that Charlottesville city crews won't plow because of a dispute with the developer got mechanically scraped for the first time this season, but negotiations to get the neighborhood off the city's no-plow list remain at a stalemate.
"I'm going to move the snow tomorrow," says developer Bobby Banks on February 12. "Not to say I'm responsible. The people there deserve better."
The residents discovered their legal limbo during the December 18-19 Snowpocalypse when the city said its crews wouldn't plow Roy's Place because the developer had not properly finished building the infrastructure.
Banks, however, says he never received the April 8 letter in which Charlottesville planning director Jim Tolbert demanded a fix to sidewalks and curbs. Nor, says Banks, did he get the letter sent earlier this year warning that the city would call Banks' $250K bond if the work weren't completed by February 1.
"It has become very obvious that you have no intention to complete these required improvements in your development," writes Tolbert on January 13. "Your residents are having to deal with this untenable situation."
Banks met with Tolbert and assistant city attorney Rich Harris February 11.
"He basically said he had no intention of doing anything else," says Tolbert. "We're assessing our options."
"This is going to have some litigation," says Banks. "This is going to court."
In the meantime, Banks delivered a Bobcat mini-bulldozer to Roy's Place (where a Hook staffer lives) and February 13, a crew scraped the street .
"It's not my responsibility," insists Banks. "But because it's in my father's name, I'm going to do it."
–last updated 1:06pm, Tuesday, February 16
–original headline: Roy's Place: 'Not my responsibility,' says developer
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I think both the city and the developer are at fault for not resolving this one way or the other. If the project started in 2005 there is no excuse for whatever needed to be done to get the city to accept it or reject it.
Might point out that there are private developments in the county that are not plowed by VDOT. The homeowners association is responsible for it, just as they are for trash removal.
It is true a few seconds can make a difference in am emergency situation. But the 45 seconds in the case of a thug kicking in the back door calls to mind another number-44. As in .44 caliber!
So agarn, penelope and J. seinfeld are all the same person. Hilarious! The only thing more hilarious in all of his/her comments is the idea that I work for the lousy local government.
I can read though. I've read this website where TSA outlines its policies. The TSA employee in Philadelphia caused needless anger and his actions could still lead to a lawsuit because he chose to deviate from the written policy. That's why those policies are in place and thank god the city has done something right for a change, like obey its own laws in the case of Roy's Place. Its obvious they have learned from some of their past mistakes.
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CC the "driveways" you refer to are not roads they are usually farm names. They are not roads that were built with a permit to build a road to state maintainance standards with the intent of turning over to the state. These farmers did niot put up 250k bonds to guarantee the completion. The city or county is not sending them letters requesting compliance.
You are obviously a government worker who lacks the ability to understand anything beyond what you an read in black and white.
This is not about black and white this about right wrong and common sense. I notice that you proclaim explanations but ignore examples that change the players but not the point.
A person like you working for homeland security made a four year old whos father is a COP take off the metal braces he needs to walk to make him walk thru the metal scanner in Philly.
I am sure this idiot can find something in writing to support his case also.
Charlottesville government SUX
Like I have said the city is letting down the residents who paid taxes in good faith. If we added up the cost of Tolberts and the City attorneys time they could have plowed the street until 2020.
Plowing the road does not weaken the citys leverage and it takes care of innoncent people who were let down by the the city.
Regardless of the isses regarding completing the road
it was STUPID for the city to not plow the road.
Thats right STUPID. Typical government worker mentality. So long as someone can cover their a$$ with a piece of paper it doesn't matter if people suffer.
I hope he prevails in court so the city will have to explain to the residents why it didn't look out for them.
"sounds like agarn penolpe and jerry seinfeld were right after all"Š."
"Council has decided it's going to change the city's policy to allow for the acceptance of streets when they are paved rather than when the project is done."
Sounds much more like they were dead wrong. There still won't be any maintenance until the street is accepted. What's going to change is the acceptance procedure.
J. seinfeld, I think you ought to go to Council's meeting Tuesday evening at 7 PM and give them a piece of your mind. Maybe, the, they will see the light and start doing the right thing. You just need to bring it their attention. I'll be tuning in. Give 'em hell!
@hahahahahahahahaha, No, obviously they weren't right all along. That's why Council has asked staff staff to change the law.
They changed the POLICY not the law. Why did they change it? Oh thats right.. they realized that they were not serving the people responsibly.
They had to change the policy because the idiots that run the show were making idiotic decisions and needed to be reined in to protect the public.
Sounds like the council is looking out for the people. Good for them.
sounds like agarn penolpe and jerry seinfeld were right after all....
Maybe CC should go to a public hearing and complain that they are not following the written rules....
Also be thankful that Mr. Banks cleaned your street, Guest. It's now the cleanest street in town! Wait until the city cleans it. Yo'l have to really dig your car that's parked on the street out. Sometimes you really have to watch what you ask for. My street still doesn't have on-street parking. And, yes, I'm saying this with a smirk, hahahahahahahahaha
@hahahahahahahahaha, No, obviously they weren't right all along. That's why Council has asked staff staff to change the law.
@Guest, "Do you have a life outside of posting obnoxious comments in The Hook? Apparently not" I see you've answered your own question. Maybe (a) - (f), but mostly likely not. Snow removal w, in particular, wasn't discussed. Roy's Place wasn't named.
sounds to me like the TSA agent would fall back on the written documents if they tried to disipline him for it.
Which is exactly the point of this entire situation.
Inept government workers potentially put lives and taxpayer liability at riak because they were either:
a) on a power trip
b) too stupid to make a decent decison to look out for all of the residents (the people may have gotten their street plowed but the city also would have been protected from a potential lawsuit)
c)not smart enough to pass the buck upstairs and make the mayor take the heat. (elected officals should ALWAYS be the where the buck stops because they are the only ones the people can FIRE!)
Contrary to CCs opion the Mayor has a duty to keep things runnibg smoothly and get involved. His most important job is to protect the residents from the Government.
I guess he was too busy watering the plants on a green roof.
quote: "(elected officals should ALWAYS be the where the buck stops because they are the only ones the people can FIRE!)"
Sounds nice, but you can't fire or vote out a Democrat in Charlottesville. Even if you do, all you get is another Democrat. :)
No, Gasbag Self Ordained Expert, as commented by one of the resients in the previous story, the issue is not getting the street scraped of ice, it's getting the city to use Bobby Banks' $250k bond to finish the infrastructure work. I had noticed that on the TV news story that the resident interviewed by the press didn't seem to have any difficulty in driving on the street. http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/no-plow-zone-the-st...
@Clear the air, your statements are right on the dollar. However, "...if you want to get something done in this city all you have to do is cry enough in front of city council." won't be true for long. Council is proposing to hire a "Neighborhood Advocate" who's job is to keep you away from the microphone in front of Council. Instead the Neighborhood Advocate will act as a go-between. That way fewer issues will be aired publicly and the current regime will have less bad press. It's called using taxpayers' money to stay elected.
"That is what the permit fee and bond were for." - Permit fees are to cover the administrative costs of reviewing the site plans and issuing the permit. The bond is to ensure that the work be completed.
"This is supposed to be a small town. Is the Mayor too big to help out these people?" - The Mayor is too small to help people. He is only a Council Member appointed as Mayor by fellow council members. A ribbon cutter, a figure head, not unlike the Queen of England these days.
Would this discussion be happening if "a hook staffer" didn't own one of the properties on this street?
CC the TSA agent WAS following the WRITTEN rules... that was the problem...lack of god judgment...
and that is the problem here,
I suppose if you were a Doctor and went in to an operating room and saw a mangled left leg you would go ahead and amputate the RIGHT leg because the piece of paper said so?
THe Mayor may not have the authority to tell tolbert what to do
but he has an OBLIGATION to look out for the residents and be a mouthpiece for his constituents.
quote from your piece "Subject to general control by the council"
This means that the city manager workes for the council, this means the Mayor has a right to call him and ask him what the hell is wrong with his people that makes them do such stupid things.
The Mayor can move to have him fired at any time. that is what accountability is all about.
You are obviuosly a Government wonk who will hopefully be laid off along with the rest of the idiots that cannot manage money worth a crap in this town.
The government is there to serve the people. The residents of Roys place paid their taxes and had legal representation at settlement.It was the CITY that did not do its JOB. Not the residents. The CITY should have stepped up to the plate.
You can quote all the code you want but the FACT is the Mayor is supposed to step up and defend the people from lousy government.
I suppose you defended the police when they ran over the poor soul in the wheelchair too?
"I certainly believe that if the mayor had stepped in and said ââ?¬Å?why are we not just plowing this and dealing with the legal issue later" a lot of ill will could have been avoided."
Well, what about the ill will of every other person who lives on unaccepted streets that then wants to be included in the next round of plowing?
That street is only slightly different than a shared driveway. Rather than being for the exclusive use of a few people, it has been dedicated as a right of way for the general public. Since it hasn't been accepted, technicality or not, it is PRIVATE property despite being dedicated to the public right of way. Since it's a cul de sac, it doesn't really serve the public's need to get anywhere but to those houses. Really then it's a shared driveway with public right of access granted to it. There are many shared driveways in the city too. I can think of several in my neighborhood alone and several others that I know of across town.
If that shared driveway gets cleared at public expense, then what about all of the other shared driveways in town like my own. I want it plowed if someone else's driveway gets plowed by the city.
Unfortunately for some, Councilors have sworn to uphold the laws and not do special favors.
Anton, the city is appraising the homes and collecting taxes on them! That's how they are the bad guys!! Taxation without representation ring a bell here? Representation being their not getting the same services everybody else gets for their tax dollar.
ââ?¬Å?It's not my responsibility," insists Banks. ââ?¬Å?But because it's in my father's name, I'm going to do it."
It's a good thing that the street doesn't have a usual generic subdivision name, then.
This is why the city requires developers to post bonds!
What failure of our educational system was that kept so many people from knowing the difference between fact and opinion? The mayor has no more powers and virtually no more responsibility than any other councilor. That's clearly spelled out in the City Charter and the rest of City Code. It is very straightforward. No wonder we used to have literacy tests for voters. The inability of the poster above to comprehend that the TSA agent was going against TSA policy is just sad, sad, sad.
Sec. 5. Elective officers; qualifications and terms of certain officers; form of government; corporate powers vested in city council; salaries of councilmen and mayor; city manager; director of finance.
(a) The municipal authorities of the said city shall consist of a council of five members, one of whom shall be mayor,
(f) Subject to general control by the council as provided in subsection (b) hereof, the city manager shall have full executive and administrative authority and shall have the right to employ and discharge all employees under his control. All departments of city government, including the fire department and police department, shall be under the general supervision of the city manager.
Sec. 2-39. Election, terms and general powers and duties of mayor, vice-mayor and mayor pro tempore; mayor's veto.
(a) The city council shall, at its first meeting in July after the regular biennial election of council members or as soon thereafter as practicable, elect one (1) of its members mayor. The mayor shall continue in office two (2) years. If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor before the end of the term, such vacancy shall be filled as provided by section 8 of the Charter. The mayor shall have no veto power.
(b) At the same time, the city council shall elect one (1) of its members to be vice-mayor, who shall continue in office two (2) years. If a vacancy occurs in the office before the end of his term, such vacancy shall be filled as provided by section 8 of the Charter.
(c) The mayor shall preside at the meetings of the city council and when, from any cause, he shall be absent, the vice-mayor shall preside. In the absence of both, a mayor pro tempore may be elected.
(d) The vice-mayor, in the absence of the mayor and while acting as mayor, shall be vested with all the rights and duties of the mayor.
(Code 1976, § 2-7)
State law references: Election of mayor by council, Code of Virginia, § 15.1-925.
Yep, that's about it, the mayor of Charlottesville presides at meetings. He doesn't do much more than that.
seriously? racism is the reason they're threatening to pull his bond?
wow. I think the tea-party crowd that is so vociferously attacking the city and supporting the developer on this topic is suddenly going to be stumped as to how to respond.
"The city does not call it a shared driveway they call it ââ?¬Å?roys place" which is a ROAD."
Practically every driveway in Albemarle County has a name on it. So what, does that mean the county is now obliged to clear every driveway?
The answer to your question "why not just plow the road" has been answered in full time and time again., but you clearly have no understanding of or respect for the law, public processes, facts regarding property ownership, or the rights and responsibilities that come with it. If you took a few minutes to read the law that governs these things, you would know all you need to know and could stop with that foolishness.
Google Charlottesville City Code and you will find the whole thing. All the relevant sections I could find have already been selected for you here. http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/no-plow-zone-the-st... Read up and come back with some real understanding of the situation or you're just farting on screen.
It's all George Bush's fault
The idea that you think that plowing the roads would have saved the taxpayer lawsuits eats at any credibility you have on a legitimate argument. Yeah, the city dragged its feet. I wonder hw many residents got off their duffs and did anything last fall abut the dragging feet, or like so many people, ignored it until it becomes a crisis that affects them directly. I am willing to bet most of them did nothing until the plows didn't show up in December. Then it was scream scream I bet.
I am nt cutting the city slack on not pressuring the developer mre quickly, he is obviously the typical take the money and run developer, but I am also not willing to cut the residents much slack either. Once they knew the status was in limbo, they should have hired a contractor to plow the area until it was resolved if it was that important.
Remember, many of us never got our streets plowed in December either even though our streets aren't n plow.
I don't drink tea.
I suppose that maybe this issue is so STUPID that the race card was the only one left in the pile.
I am not supporting the developer I am calling out the city for not doing the right thing.
I would bet if the road conncetted two arteries and traffic flow was an issue for Mr. Tolbert to get to work it would have been plowed.
Thye city has wasted presious tax dollars on this already. I am sure the School children won't mind.
quote: "...plowing is not widely considered to be a basic entitlement."
IMHO, it should be. It's a public safety issue.
This little pissing contest between the city and the developer is putting all Roy's Place residents at risk as far as the cop shoppe, fire department and rescue squad being able to respond in a timely fashion. When ye ole Christmas tree goes up in flames, a 45 second delay can make all the difference in the world. It can also make all the differnce when a thug is kicking in your back door as well. The rescue squad, well, they do such a great job they will jog through 24" of snow barefooted to get to the patient.
The article makes some pretty clear points: it's a private street that has not yet been deeded to the city, the city doesn't think it meets standards, and the developer doesn't want to do anything else. How is the city the bad guy here? Because they don't plow private roads?
Gasbag - since when does collecting taxes on private property - something the city does to every property owner - have to do with scraping a private street? don't people do a title search when they buy their houses? do they look at what the search says?
Not that the tea-partiers who want to bash on the city no matter what will care, but clearly this policy (having a no-plow list for streets that are still legally privately owned) is not unique to Charlottesville. It seems to be a standard thing across the United States: localities are not obligated to plow streets that are still owned by the developer. Even within Charlottesville, there are apparently other streets that do not get plowed, apparently with none of this controversy. So despite what the taxation-without-representation hysterics say, it appears that snow plowing is not widely considered to be a basic entitlement.
Funny how someone can rant on about all he KNOWS about what the city has to do, the precarious legal situation it MUST have put itself in, and blah,blah,blah, but not know something as basic about local government as the fact that the mayor is no different than any other councilor and has no special powers. It's having to deal with idiots like that which keeps good people from taking government jobs.
So is the street passable now? Did the resident do what a lot of other residents in the city and eleswhere have done? Shoveled themselves out?
If "they are not part of the solution to the immediate problem (getting the street cleared) then they are part of the problem"
If someone wants to dedicate their street then they have the option of approaching the city like Mr. Banks did.
If the city agrees and issues a permit and takes a bond then perhaps the city should consider plowing it in a GD blizzard. That would be good public policy.
If someone has an "unaccepted" street that is in TRANSITION that the PROPERTY OWNERS have no control over then the city should consider plowing it in a GD blizzard.
This storm was a safety issue not kool aid at a picnic.
If someone has an "unaccepted" road because they have not even applied then I doubt they would be slighted.
The city does not call it a shared driveway they call it "roys place" which is a ROAD. CCs opinion to the contrary does not make him right.
Your inability to distinguish between a driveway and a road built to state standards, named accordingly, bonded and in the process of becoming a road does not mean you are entitled to have your DRIVEWAY plowed.
You still miss the point that the city has wasted taxpayer dollars, inconvienced taxpayers and theoretically put peoples safety at risk because some government worker made a decision that benefited no one at others expense.
Why NOT just plow the road? Snow removal is not filling pot holes or installing stop signs.
J. seinfeld has selected a perfect example of why the rules OUGHT to be followed to link to. That article refers to the troubles a police officer who is the father of a small child with special needs faced when a security officer deviated from policy to do things his own way. The child was forced to remove the leg braces and then forced to walk on his own through a screening machine. His father, Bob Thomas was understandably quite upset.
quote from the article linked to above:
By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.
"I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' "
The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said...
...Back home in Glassboro a week later, Bob Thomas called the airport manager and left her what he calls a terse message.
He was still angry enough last week to call me after I'd written a couple of columns about travelers' complaints of mistreatment by screeners at the airport.
"This was just stupid," he told me.
At the very least, it was not standard procedure.
On Friday, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said the boy never should have been told to remove his braces.
TSA policy should have allowed the parents to help the boy to a private screening area where he could have been swabbed for traces of explosive materials.
She said she wished Thomas had reported the matter to TSA immediately. "If screening is not properly done, we need to go back to that officer and offer retraining so it's corrected."
All the father wants now is to make sure that correct procedures are followed in the future.
Afterward, Thomas said he appreciated Ellis' call. He said he had no interest in pursuing the matter further or in filing a lawsuit.
"I'm just looking for things to be done right," he said. "And I just want to make sure this isn't done to anyone else. Just abide by your standard operating procedures."
quote: "Council has decided it's going to change the city's policy to allow for the acceptance of streets when they are paved rather than when the project is done."
If they are collecting TAXES from the residents in these projects, this is they way it should have been all along.
I wish the plow drivers luck on St Charles Court though. It is so narrow now that residents have to park on the sidewalks. I wonder where the plows would even push the snow to.
they changed the policy because they are afraid of a few crying voices that make them look bad. if you want to get something done in this city all you have to do is cry enough in front of city council.
C-ville Eye,
Do you have a life outside of posting obnoxious comments in The Hook? Apparently not.
Maybe no one showed up to the public meeting (a) because the developer finally agreed to plow the street; (b) because city officials finally admitted that the situation is "untenable;" (c) because the developer and the city attorney have met to discuss the situation, meaning that there's movement on this front; (d) because citizens can call and write to their elected officials and don't need to show up in person to meetings; (e) because they were working late; (f) because they're not pathetic cranks like you.
She's probably already on the phone complaining. :)
Council has decided it's going to change the city's policy to allow for the acceptance of streets when they are paved rather than when the project is done. This is because of emails recieeved from several unfinished projects such as Village Place, Cherry Hill and St. Charles Place or Court (six developments in all). This was proposed by staff after consultation with several of the developers. They will still hesitate to use the bonds (there are currently about 85 in the city) to finish the infrastructure before all of the houses are built, preferring that as a last resort. I'm so glad that Roy's Place residents were so instrumental in this decision-making process. I hope they will have the video of tonight's metting up tomorrow so that I can watch the end of the first session of Matters by the Public. I did listen to the last Matters by the Public and no one spoke about the snow issue. The restaurant owners/musicians seem to be success in raising the noise levels permitted in restaurants being raised from 55 db to 60 db. Citizen participation is a wonder isn't it. That was arrived at before Mayor Norris was in attendance.
Quote: 'A person like you working for homeland security made a four year old whos father is a COP take off the metal braces he needs to walk to make him walk thru the metal scanner in Philly."
Absolutely amazing!
Osama Bin Laden succeeded. He has everybody in this country scared to death. A bunch of pansies living in fear.
"the fact that the mayor is no different than any other councilor and has no special powers"
It seems to me this is not about special powers this is about doing the right thing.
If a student was suppposed to get a free lunch and his parents had turned in the paperwork but somone at ther city didn't followup with the vendor, (even if the vendor was at fault) should the city not give the kid lunch?
I certainly believe that if the mayor had stepped in and said "why are we not just plowing this and dealing with the legal issue later" a lot of ill will could have been avoided.
A Mayor is supposed to be someone worthy of respect who looks out for the citizens.
quote: "So is the street passable now?"
As a matter of fact, it looks better than the the rest of the one lane roadways the city called themselves plowing in that neighborhood.
I thought the city had done a good job during this last snow, but the streets in that particular section of town are terrible as far as being one lane only.
the "developer" appeared shady when he was interviewed by CBS 19.
The city has agreed in theory to accept the road upon infrastucture completion. The city could have resolves this situation by DOING THEIR JOB.
The residents did their job when they paid their real estate taxes and put faith in the city to do its share. Why should they have to picket the city to do its job?
Even if Mr. Banks is in the wrong it is the cities responsibility to deal with it on behalf of the residents. That is what the permit fee and bond were for.
I stand by my previous assertions that for 50 bucks worth of plowing the city could have avoided namounts worth of bad publicity and possibly exposing the taxpayers to a huge payout if something bad were to happen while they are wasing taxpayer dollars discussing this in heated offices.
The "no plow" list id there for "private" roads like town houses and hoas. This is a road in tansition because the city didn't do its job.
This is supposed to be a small town. Is the Mayor too big to help out these people?
No, Gasbag Self Ordained Expert, as commented by one of the resients in the previous story, the issue is not getting the street scraped of ice, it's getting the city to use Bobby Banks' $250k bond to finish the infrastructure work. I had noticed that on the TV news story that the resident interviewed by the press didn't seem to have any difficulty in driving on the street.
Even if the city were to use the bond, it is still under no obligation to accept the street for maintenance.
Charlottesville City Code
Sec. 29-260. Satisfactory completion of site-related improvements required.
(e) .... Nothing in this chapter, including the approval of a final plat, shall obligate the city to accept and take over for operation and maintenance any improvements completed by a subdivider as required by this chapter.
The guy shows up at city hall yelling that the city is racist, and he will now be the second person in history to have his bond pulled...
Please. Pull the race card in a city with an acting city manager that is black, with black city council members, one who is white with an adopted mixed child.
@Caesonia, I'm beginning to think J. seinfeld = Bobby Banks.
So did everyone who moved to Roy's Place lose their right to vote? No wonder they're pissed off.
Clearly the mayor was terrified of the brow-beating he was sure to suffer.
Funny how the people making too much noise in Belmont decide to make their case by making too much noise at a council meeting. Maybe someone who lives at Roy's Place ought to learn from that and haul a few wheel barrows of snow in and have a baby in the middle of it. That'll show that lazy mayor someone means business.
Unfortunately I did not hear the end of Matters by the Public; I was called away until ater it was over. However, there were not brave souls for the first half hour. I plan to check when the video is posted online and I will check. The Mayor wan't supposed to arrive before 9 PM, as Holly Edwards ran the meeting. Maybe they decided not to speak because the Mayor wasn't there or maybe he wasn't there because he didn't want to be dressed down in public. It's 9 PM and Council has gone into recess after a contingent of people opposed to lowering the decibel levels from restaurants in downtown Belmont started getting kind of roudy. They're not enduring their displeasure quietly even though nobody's having a baby and may need an ambulance. Ah, the priorites.
C'ville Eye, did any of our experts on government affairs take your suggestion and speak up at the council meeting? You know all those lazy by the book people needed to spur them into action was to be called out for their lack of "god judgement."
You still have time to get down to the Council meeting to give them a piece of your mind. Speak who do not speak up should suffer bad government in silence.
Actually, Speak who do not speak up WILL suffer bad government in silence. You need to speak during the section call Matters by the Public. It's at the beginning and end of the meeting so Council gives plenty of opportunity for you to speak.
"Contrary to CCs opion the Mayor has a duty to keep things runnibg smoothly and get involved. His most important job is to protect the residents from the Government."
-- Sorry, I couldn't resist.
"c)not smart enough to pass the buck upstairs and make the mayor take the heat. (elected officals should ALWAYS be the where the buck stops..." I think you need to go to the Counci meeting tonight in City Hall at 7 PM and tell them just that. Trust me, you'll feel better.
So CC, what you are saying is the TSA agent was on a power trip until he finally screwed up and got caught?
Sounds familiar. :)
Even Marion barry was smart enough to plow snow...
CC, You're so right. I wonder if anyone will go to Council's next meeting and espouse his position on the actions of the Mayor? Probably not for I'm sure they will be afraid of losing their food stamps or some other government handout. Maybe their down payment/closing costs assistance.


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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, Sept. 2
Today's recommended picks
Joey Votto, 1B, Reds
.636 AVG (7-for-11) lifetime vs. Pirates starter Zach Duke
Brad Hawpe, OF, Rockies
.500 AVG (7-for-14) lifetime vs. Mets starter Tim Redding
Kendry Morales, 1B, Angels
.409 AVG (9-for-22) lifetime vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Todd Helton was the hitter of choice for many of the BTS leaders yesterday, and the veteran first baseman came through with a 2-for-4 day to keep several lengthy streaks alive.
Among the recipients was leader phadrus74, who became the sixth contestant this season to reach the 40-game plateau. mlbuser864 and thebcjman used Helton to take over a share of third place, at 33 games, while chuppie21 and roxandrays17 went with the pride of the Rockies to claim a share of fifth place, at 32 games.
Second-place fan tshalterman was the lone member of the Top 5 to go with a different player, but the result was the same, as Jacoby Ellsbury produced two hits to boost tshalterman's run to 35 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 11.0%, 0-for-4
2. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 6.7%, 2-for-4
3. Derek Jeter (NYY): 6.2%, 1-for-4
4. Derrek Lee (CHC): 5.2%, 1-for-4
5. Joe Mauer (MIN): 4.5%, 1-for-4
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I just wanted to highlight a few things that I think some BTS users may have overlooked as I just stumbled upon them last night and their implementation (did these just get added?) may explain why there was no post for yesterday on this blog.
1) BTS: September Edition: Your BTS pick covers both contests, but apparently there is now a separate September version. I believe there will be no leaderboard for this contest, since everything is in one place, but perhaps a new tab will open for it tomorrow.
However, since you need a 30-game streak with 33-36 days left to play, you mostly need to just worry about yourself.
The prize is pretty weak though, so it is clear that our suggestions have not gotten through to those making the rules.
2) The News/Info tab contains links to 2 important sources of information: All-time streak leaders and 2009 streak leaders. The all-time streak leaders' page shows the longest streaks in MLB history and BTS history, whereas the 2009 streak leaders' page shows the longest MLB streaks this season and the longest active MLB streaks.
3) Trophy Room: The ability to earn trophies, based on hitting certain milestones throughout the year.
Cano got two hits so far – great pick and a big thank you to hammanm!
On to Thursday 9/3
I like Pujols v. Parra(L) MIL – Parra gives up mega hits, Pujols hits lefties well, game in St. Louis and Pujols is 6 – 18 v. Parra. I like him to HR too. Pujols hitting .347 in day games.
Matt Diaz ALT is on fire! Batting .418 for past 30 days, leads off, 6 – 11 v. Nalasco(R) of FLA, game at FLA, Diaz hitting only .275 v. Righties though.
What are your opinions on these two or others?
Tomorrow is the hardest day to pick in a long time. I am thinking about Ichie magic for now.
Pujols is a black sink hole. I don't think I have used him once this year. I try my best to avoid him. So tempting but so bad for you. So many get sucked in until you're sitting on front of the computer and sighing when they walk him for the nth time. Pujol looks good against anyone if they actually pitch to him.
Is Diaz even playing tomorrow? They have like 5 outfielders.
I think I'm going with Grady Sizemore vs. Nate Robertson.
btsplayer – Your comments about Pujols are very accurate.
He could go 4 – 4 v. Parra with 3 HR's or he could walk 3 times and hit a sac fly and end my streak – I'm off Pujols.
The Pujols v. Parra matchup looks too good to be true.
hammanm – Grady Sizemore is a well thought out pick.
It is a lefty v. lefty matchup but Sizemore hit Robertson well in the past and lefty hitters are hitting over .320 v. Robertson. Sizemore looks good to me as he is hitting over .300 the past month.
Matt Diaz is playing alot in Braves OF as a result of his hot streak.


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nietzsche wrote:Phatscotty wrote:nietzsche wrote:Dude, if that's the logic you use in all of your posts/threads/discussions... lol
There's no way to defend what you said.
One could just shut up had that been said by someone else, but the way you push you agenda and claim knowledge of the world and the economy and stuff, I had to say something.
It shows how little your perspective is, and your intent to further defend it shows also how you would go to inexplicable lengths in order not to lose a point.
I'm going to quote you here again, because knowing you, you will go and edit the post so that I end up like a fool:
It's not logic...it's a source. It's not my credibility, it's the Library of Congress's.
My opinion has nothing to do with anything, I have not offered any opinion, or perspective, nor any intent. There are no points to be made or lost, it was just a simple statement.
You can ignore it if you want, but trolling the messenger won't accomplish anything.
I can find 12309899802019380123088012 such misleading statements online, even by sources with alleged good reputation. Your quote says that it was a "survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club", not a public statement by say, the president of the Library of Congress, and even if it was said by the president of the Library of Congress a he was and scholar, even then it wouldn't mean much.
But you didn't quote anything in your OP, you stated it as if it was very well common sense and a widely accepted belief that Atlas Shruged was the second most influential book in the west world. (And of course, a cherry on top "only second to .. wait.. wait The Holy Bible".
You didn't offer an opinion? It's a lame tactic you use, you push your points thru videos and links and BIG WORDS IN ITALICS AND BOLD WITH A LINK because deep down you know that you've been proven wrong so many times you can't handle it to happen again.
And I was trolling your OP because it's ridiculous and it bothers me that you would go ahead and post such a statement as if we were all idiots here, and were to take you word and the word of a "survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club" (which you are, by some leap of awesome logic attributing to the Library of Congress) as truth, only because you say so next to 2 videos.
That's what the survey found, Neitze. I will just remind you I did not do the survey, I did not ask the people the questions or insert my opinions about what the most influential book to them was or should be...I just shared the results from the survey, which was done by the Library of Congress, and surveyed people who are in the "Book of the Month Club" IE avid readers.
Nothing about it is "my word"
You say you don't have an ounce of respect for the Library of Congress, the biggest library in the world, because you only trust the president of he Library of Congress? Okay, here ya go, you get exactly what you asked for, but you did not asked to be proven wrong. I mean, what is the big deal anyways, Atlas Shrugged is a severely influential book. Why don't you just call the Bible being #1 BS while you are at it, because that is how far you are taking this.
On Friday, the Library of Congress released its list of the "books that shaped America." There are 88 books on the list, and there will be an exhibit in Washington that opens Monday.
According to the AP, Librarian of Congress James Billington said that these books are not meant to be the "best" books. Rather, the library hopes to ignite conversation around the books that influenced the nation.
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DETROIT (AP) -- Don't want to hear a ringing phone? There's an app for that. But it may not help you win a lawsuit.
A Detroit federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman who says she was called 85 times in a six-week period and illegally harassed by a debt collector. Yolanda Riggs accused I.C. System of violating a law called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Riggs used an app that notified her of certain calls without having the phone actually ring. She says she suffered emotional distress.
Judge Bernard Friedman wasn't swayed last Thursday, saying Riggs turned off the calls at a time when her husband owed money. The judge says it's one of those cases that make people wonder why it's in federal court.
Published: Mon, Mar 11, 2013