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Using crowdsourcing and technology to empower underprivileged talent with fair and flexible work opportunities - China
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With a highly scalable model, we seek to connect businesses with untapped talents across geographic boundaries and create a fundamental shift in the way work is done in developing countries, providing the greatest degree of flexibility, transparency and fairness in a work space.
We have empowered over 1000 young people to work for themselves, gain experience and earn additional income that would lift them from a life of distress to a life with choices. The majority of our workers are located in second- and third-tier cities, where jobs are hard to secure and labor law is weakly enforced, and 86% of them are female.
Through a powerful technological solution and a persistent emphasis on humanity, we provide masses of underprivileged talent an alternative to work with dignity and fair pay.
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Using crowdsourcing and technology to empower underprivileged talent with fair and flexible work opportunities - China
What change do you want to bring to the world?
With a highly scalable model, we seek to connect businesses with untapped talents across geographic boundaries and create a fundamental shift in the way work is done in developing countries, providing the greatest degree of flexibility, transparency and fairness in a work space.
We have empowered over 1000 young people to work for themselves, gain experience and earn additional income that would lift them from a life of distress to a life with choices. The majority of our workers are located in second- and third-tier cities, where jobs are hard to secure and labor law is weakly enforced, and 86% of them are female.
Through a powerful technological solution and a persistent emphasis on humanity, we provide masses of underprivileged talent an alternative to work with dignity and fair pay.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Zuodao is an online collaborative platform that provides cloud-based labor for businesses and organizations, leveraging the spare time of young people and underserved population to work on business processes such as data entry, translation, and inquiry processing.
Our primary activities are:
1. Getting work assignments from customers and delivering with speed and quality.
After we make a sale, the digital assignment from our customer/client is submitted to our system. Our system breaks the assignment up into thousands of mini-tasks and distributes them to hundreds of workers. Once a user (worker) completes his/her piece, the system runs a quality check then recombines the high quality pieces. The final project is reviewed and submitted to our customer.
2. Building our user/worker base into a community and serving its needs.
We identify skilled talents in need of part-time jobs through targeted advertising, partnership with non-profits, as well as word-of-mouth. We screen their applications and accept them in small increments. After examining workers' online behavior and performance, we upgrade them to paid jobs and arrange payments via Paypal and Alipay. Various mechanisms, such as a levelling system and competitions, motivate our workers and build their skills at the same time.
3. Ceaselessly improving the underlying technology that makes our platform possible.
To ensure quality of deliverables, a significant amount of our efforts are invested in improving the technology and developing new functionalities to enhance the online collaborative work process.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
Crowdsourcing has started to revolutionize a fundamental aspect of human life – work. The functional improvements we are making enable our initiative to be a lot more effective in developing countries.
On Zuodao, large assignments are broken up into small pieces, which are allocated to different users according to their capabilities, interests and availability. Therefore, as long as there is Internet, our users can determine where to work, when to work, how much and what to work on completely out of their own choices. This is especially helpful in developing countries where people have less choice in their work schedule.
Because our powerful technological platform replaces redundant middle management typically required in traditional outsourcers, we are able to pass down a substantial amount of revenue to our workers and increase their earnings per hour by a large margin.
All our workers are evaluated solely based on their performance and effective contribution. They can track their work approval history and challenge its results at any time. Thus they are paid for what their work is actually worth, without dealing with office politics or being implicitly or explicitly discriminated against any social, gender, physical or religious factors.
Unlike many outsourcing enterprises that turn workers into a mindless assembly line, our priority is to create a community that enhances mutual learning. On our platform, they can review each other's work and also invite friends from across the world and help each other do better.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for less than a year
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
In China, 8.5 million people graduate from college every year. According to the 2010 Employment Report on Chinese College Graduates, nearly 1 million of them cannot find jobs; for those who do, 40% quit within the first six months due to low pay, unsatisfactory work environment, and glass ceiling barriers. The average salary for a college graduate, around 2100 RMB per month is barely enough to cover high rent and food costs. On top of that, it is common for employers to exploit them with unfair compensation practices, such as so-called "training" that takes advantage of their free labor or extended probation periods without pay.
Though not traditionally considered to be the target of poverty alleviation efforts, this demographic is close to the Base of the Pyramid. They face tremendous difficulties in finding jobs, struggling to make ends meet, and often having multiple family members to support. Despite the country's seeming prosperity, many young people hold pessimistic views toward adult life and lack career motivations. However, their happiness is the keystone to a healthy, prosperous society.
This demographic makes up the vast majority of users on our site. Most of them are from Central, West and Northeast China, such as Hunan, Sha'anxi and Liaoning Province, outside the centers of economic prosperity. 86% of them are female.
Within two weeks after launching the beta in mid-May, we received over 4000 applications to join our platform, confirming our initial assessment of demand. By the time of entry submission, we have approved over 1000 users and the number continues to grow every day. We estimate 5000 people will have registered to work on our platform by the end of August. Users typically sign in once every two days, indicating strong engagement and a constant demand for the platform.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Having grown up in both the US and China, we (Eric Liu and Sam Li) had the opportunity to compare, first-hand, the state of work in China to that of a developed economy. Seeing many of our peers and friends from childhood here get stuck in stressful and unproductive work environments, we realized that the combination of modern office culture and a rapidly developing society in China has caused a myriad of serious work-related issues.
We have observed, in disbelief, hardworking people being arbitrarily deprived of opportunities due to social bias, coworkers spending extraordinary amounts of energy engaged in office politics, women being discriminated against, and job promotions often based on favors rather than performance. Inexperienced workers become poorly motivated and unproductive at work. Furthermore, many young white-collar workers receive little or no respect; they suffer through lengthy and extremely congested commutes, have no choice in what they do, and are susceptible to abuse in the absence of strong labor law enforcement. Many of them are also paid barely enough to cover their living costs.
We realized that these problems can be alleviated or even eliminated if we can create an online work "utopia" based upon meritocracy and self-improvement (and we know we can). Sam left his job as a software engineer at a Silicon Valley powerhouse and Eric quit his management position at an entertainment and talent management firm in Beijing. Together, with the help of many friends who share our beliefs and with our savings, we have built our company and our platform.
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Transparency and merit-based evaluation: We track every task a user has done and allow them to view which part of their work is approved or rejected with just one click. We also give users a clear idea of how their pay is calculated, so they would not worry about their efforts and contribution not being compensated. So far the number of users that have challenged any rejection of their work is less than 0.5% of registered users.
Income raised: Working effectively on our platform can earn a user 14-28 RMB per hour on average (depending on experience). Our top 1% users currently earn 300-700 RMB per week by utilizing their spare time. Since they were initially at subsistence level, this additional income can make a substantial difference to their life.
Worker satisfaction: Many users have expressed appreciation and gratitude to us in writing. They are happy to be able to work from home, apply their knowledge and improve their skills, and be part of this community. Many pledge to work harder and some have even started to work on a nearly full time basis.
Skills improved: All users are building their work experience over time and are climbing up the performance charts. We also design and offer tips and guides on our site to help them learn and grow. This enables our users to become more effective workers not only on our platform, but also in their day jobs.
Project quality and efficiency of delivery: So far all our customers have commended on our fast turn-around and professional standards and are recommending our service to others.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Our roadmap for the next three years:
1. Expand to other service sectors. The beginning phase of our project focuses on limited types of business processes. Once we are technologically and financially ready, we will add other service lines.
2. Diversify worker demographics and skill sets. Besides students and young office workers, we will leverage new partnerships to engage more women and disabled workers.
3. Increase marketing and build partnerships with a variety of organizations.
4. Ceaselessly improve the supporting technology, making our platform more effective and more robust.
With our scalable model, we also aim to expand globally, in terms of both users and customers, to provide an alternative way of working to millions of young people.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Cloud-based labor force is a new concept and many enterprises have yet to realize its value. Since outsourced tasks are not core functions of their business, enterprises may stick to the convention and use companies with existing working relationships. We will start by working with forward-looking customers one-on-one to enhance the quality of our service. We will work on educating our customers with regards to our model and methodologies and highlight the significant cost and efficiency advantages our solution represents when it comes to large-volume projects.
The balance of work supply and demand is another major challenge. Since some of our workers may depend on us for the extra income, it is essential that we maintain a stable supply of work and avoid significant fluctuations so as to make a sustained impact over time. We plan to solve this issue in two ways: first, focus on securing long-term contracts with large customers; second, allocate a portion of our billings as well as fundraising for a reserve in case work supply is low. When that happens, we will take on more NGO work for free and use our reserve to pay our workers.
Since we are quite new, there may be credibility issues from both users and customers. We will do our best to serve the users, inform them of our mission, and make our process as transparent as possible. We will continue to build on our momentum, educate the public and enhance our brand by launching social media campaigns and receiving recognition and support from prestigious personae and institutions (e.g. Ashoka and the eBay Foundation).
Tell us about your partnerships
To benefit those who are most in need of our service, online service must be coupled with offline recruitments and training. We are working to partner with a number of local NGOs focusing on youth, women and marginalized population to increase the number of users and provide them with appropriate training. Some of them may already have programs that enable their target beneficiaries to do digital work for large corporations. Our system can easily integrate these efforts and maximize their impact.
Our business partners include international and local organizations that endorse our mission and have substantial task needs, typically large volume projects that require relatively quick turn-around.
We are also working with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to study user behavior, improve system efficiency and design better metrics to measure both quantitative and qualitative impacts.
Last but not least, we partner with our users, whose feedback is a constant source of encouragement and inspiration. We make improvements to our platform and develop an ever-increasing set of features that better help our users work, learn and grow . Annie, a 19-year-old girl studying at Nanchang University, wrote to us saying "Thank you! I really love this place and I will work very hard." Ellen, 21, from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, said in her message "Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, to work on a part-time job outside my studies. I can not only apply knowledge I learned in school, but also improve my skills. This is a magical website."
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
Explain your selections
Clients pay at market rates. Due to our low-cost model and strong technological solution, a majority of the fee we charge is allocated for the workers based on their effective contribution, at a ratio significantly higher than conventional outsourcers.
Our budget covers operational and developmental expenses including staff's living costs, server hosting, office supplies and sales efforts. We have a team of software engineers working to respond to feedback from users.
The initial launch of the platform was financed through the founders' own savings, with in-kind support from friends in law, consulting, IT and media. With Zuodao now ready to scale, we aim to secure additional funds to expand. We are applying for government funding that supports entrepreneurship and also talking to investors and venture philanthropists.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
Our strategy is tied to the three core priorities: users, customers and technology.
Zuodao's unique model will be strengthened through scale. Once we have more users, we will have more capacity to serve more customers who can offer a wider variety of work types, thus giving users more choices. With more users, a sustainable community can then form. To achieve this, we plan to gain a diverse range of workers and expand our service offerings by deepening existing partnerships and sourcing new opportunities with a long-term prospect.
Once our domestic platform is robust enough, we can scale to other countries. After all, the problems that we are tackling exist in many other transitioning economies, and we want to explore ways in which our technology and approach can benefit the younger generation across the world.
In terms of technology, our platform will become more effective and robust as we continue to improve its features and iterate on existing functionalities. We also plan to develop mobile applications as an extension to our online platform. This will significantly enhance our model, enabling users to truly work anywhere and anytime. We will also work with experts on human-computer interaction to design and implement sustainable community-building strategies.
Which barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
Lack of efficiency
Inadequate transparency
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
Many people in developing countries have a hard time finding jobs due to shortage of local employment, lack of mobility or poor working environment. Zuodao connects workers to a cloud center of tasks, enabling them to work from home and get paid online.
This method also provides efficiency advantages – each worker gets to work on what they want to do and are capable of, and all this is arranged by technology, replacing human management that is often ineffective.
Many are unmotivated and frustrated at work because of poor performance metrics and overly subjective management decisions. Our platform offers incentives on a structured pay scale based purely on various performance indicators. It also provides comprehensive tracking and a summary of all evaluations easily accessible by users.
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
Grown geographic reach: Multi-country
Repurposed your model for other sectors/development needs
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
For the next six months, our growth activities will include:
1. Engage and partner with targeted customers, such as large international NGOs and medium to large size corporations with ongoing labor outsourcing needs.
2. Market our platform through online advertisement, social media campaigns and offline events to potential users in and outside China and continue to expand our community.
3. Integrate our service into existing government and NGO programs focusing on labor training.
4. Continued iteration on the features and functionalities of our platform.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
We have provided service for some customers, including local for-profit enterprises as well as international NGOs, such as the World Food Programme and Junior Achievement. They help us grow our business, engage and excite users, as well as testing and strengthening our project management.
We also collaborate with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and California Polytechnic State University to collect and analyze data from our system. They have helped us better understand user behavior, identify loopholes and bugs in the system, and design overarching as well as specific mechanisms to better serve our workers.
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State, National Cheese Production Increased During November
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Wisconsin's total cheese production for November was higher compared to year-ago levels. The USDA reports that the state's dairy plants produced 235.5 million pounds of cheese during the month--which was up 4.7 percent from this time last year, and 0.2 percent more compared to October 2012.
Nationally, 912 million pounds of cheese was produced--up 1.8 percent from November 2011, but 1.8 percent below the previous month's production totals (mainly because November has less days on the calendar).
Wisconsin's production of American cheese increased as the state produced 68.7 million pounds, about 4.6 percent more than last year, and 0.1 percent above last month's production. Cheddar output fell by a slight 0.7 percent compared to 2011 to total 45.5 million pounds, and was 1.7 percent lower than the month earlier. Italian production was at 117.2 million pounds, up two percent above last year, but 0.7 percent lower for the month. And Mozzarella cheese in Wisconsin totaled 78.9 million pounds--about 3.6 percent more than November 2011, and 0.5 percent above October 2012.
Dry Whey output in Wisconsin was recorded at 21.3 million pounds, which was down 10.7 percent from last year, and 4.7 percent less than last month.
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Help! Cat Peeing Everywhere Because of Bladder Infection
Hello All,
I wonder if any of you have experience with this. My kitty has a bladder infection. He was straining the urinate in the box so I took him to the vet and they said he had blood in his urine, but no stones and no crystals, but they put him on antibiotics. However, it may take a few days for them to take effect. In the meantime though in addition to continually going to his box to strain to pee he has also started peeing in the bathroom sink and in a corner of one room on the carpet. I know he can't help it, but does anyone know how to prevent him from peeing everywhere until he heals?
Also, does anyone have advice about how to prevent future infections? At the moment he has a high quality diet. He is fed a mix of Wellness Core dry and Wellness Wet Healthy Indulgence.
Any advice welcome! Thank you!
Sometimes they associate the pain of going with the actual litter box which will bring about inappropriate peeing in the house. The carpet has to be cleaned with an enzyme cleaner designed to eliminate urine odor. If it's not, he'll keep being drawn to that area. Have you tried placing a different litter box close to the carpet where he's chosen to pee? That might encourage him to go there instead until this is over. I wouldn't discourage the sink peeing if this issue is going to be very short-termed. That's so easily disinfected and it won't damage your house.
You could also try putting some old towels or a blanket on to off some plastic and putting it on the carpet after cleaning it with enzyme cleaner. That works for our cat who has bouts of feline cystitis. She prefers soft things to pee on and instead of stressing her more out by trying to get her to use the litter box I just let her go on that and wash them.
As soon as she feels better she is back in the box.
Thanks for the tips! My kitty is doing much better now. I did end up putting a litter box in the spot where he inappropriately urinated and he is being good and cooperating by going in the box instead of on the floor. Thank goodness! Also, I heard from a friend that mixing in a little water with his wet food is good to help hydrate him and that seems to be helping a lot as well.
Thanks for keeping us updated. It's good to read he's starting to feel better!! One of our members gave me this link about canned food when I thought I was having trouble with crystals in my cat. It was a great wealth of reliable information for me. It took me a long time to find a canned my cat would eat (and it's junk canned that she settled on) but the article said that even junk canned is better than dry food. I still leave dry food out as a back-up but my indoor cats primarily eat the wet as the main source of their diet. Here's the link below that you might want to read for further information.
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Posted by i love polka on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 9:52pm.
8x = 5(26-x)
solve for x
a thief steals a number of rare plants from a nursery, on the way out the thief meets three security guards, one after another, to each security guard, the thief is forced to give one-half the plants that he still has, plus 2 more, the theif is left with one plant, how many plants were originally stolen?
so this is how i set it up:
and i get zero which is wrong
Your equation makes no sense to me
Look at it this way :
suppose he stole x plants
after passing the first guard he has left:
.5x - 2
after passing the second guard he has left:
after passing the third guard he has left:
.5[.5(.5x-2)-2] - 2
but this equals 1, so
.5[.5(.5x-2)-2] - 2 = 1
solving this I got x=36
to the first guard he gives 18+2, leaving him with 16
to the second guard he gives 8+2, leaving him with 6
to the third guard he gives 3+2, leaving with with 1
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so my bcs 460 arrived on friday and i've been trying to figure out how to mount this thing on the backplane. It didn't come with any kind of clips or anything. suggestions???
I mounted mine with good velcro that I picked up from mcmaster.
Radioshack has some heavy duty velcro as well. Thats what i used
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I did the same thing. Home Depot had some industrial strength Velcro. Probably way overkill.


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The Spokane Transit Authority board Wednesday night unanimously approved moving forward with plans for a three-mile long Electric Trolleybus line in downtown Spokane.
The Electric Trolleybus line would cost taxpayers $36 million dollars, some of which would have to be paid for by a sales tax increase in Spokane.
The City of Spokane and Spokane Transit Authority have unanimously decided to move forward with plans for an electric trolleybus in Downtown Spokane. The decision, after more than a year of deliberation and input from a community Sounding Board, eliminated both a most expensive and least expensive option.
Government officials in the City of Spokane are asking for more taxes and broken promises in order to balance the city's budget.
Mayor Mary Verner announced her budget this week. It would raise taxes and fees by $1.4 million on the citizens of Spokane. More than $400,000 of new revenue would come from red light camera fines, showing the cameras are not for public safety but are a mechanism to collect more money from citizens. Mayor Verner proposes diverting those dollars into the general fund.
Spokane Public School officials sent out 238 layoff notices to school district employees this week. District officials feel they don't have enough state funding, despite the fact their budget is higher than it has ever been before, and they are educating 3,000 fewer students than they did just 10 years ago.
Among those who have been told they might be terminated:
Late last month, WPC submitted a column to the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane regarding Spokane's Central City Alternatives Analysis project. Spokane Transit Authority CEO Susan Meyer has graciously clarified some of the points made in that column. Her thoughts are bolded below.
Chris Cargill: Efficiency should guide choice of downtown transit planThe Spokesman-Review - April 24, 2011
An assistant superintendent for Spokane Public Schools made a surprising comment last night when addressing the district's budget woes. Staci Vesneske, in an interview with KXLY4 News, said "what has happened is, as costs for education have risen, the state funding has not."
Fewer students are dropping out of Spokane-area schools, and taxpayers didn't have to spend an extra $30 million to make it happen.
Spokane Public Schools says its on-time graduation rate improved by almost 8% in 2010.That means the district's graduation rate increased to 70%.
Other Spokane-area school districts saw similar improvements, including East Valley, which saw its graduation rate improve an astounding 27%.
Anyone looking for an example of the transparency games being played in Olympia needs look no further than what is happening today. A Senate Ways and Means hearing is scheduled for 1:30pm today, and at 12:09pm Senate Bill 5754 was added to the agenda. SB 5754 concerns publication of tax data to ensure the transparency of Washington's tax preferences.
The less than 90 minutes notice gives people from Eastern Washington no opportunity to go to Olympia to testify on the bill. In fact, it barely gives them time to phone or email their Senator with questions.
Government officials in the City of Spokane have apparently decided voters did not know what they were doing when they voted to limit the price of vehicle registrations.
The City Council on Monday night voted 4-3 to impose a city-wide car tab fee of $20, without asking voters for approval. And there's a good chance most of the money won't be used to fix the streets.
Two Spokane-area school district bonds were rejected by voters on Tuesday, prompting a local school district official to make a disappointing assertion.
Voters in the Mead School District said no to a $49 million bond by a 48-52% margin.
The Central Valley School District put a $69 million bond before voters to build a new school and renovate aging schools, but it also failed, by a 46-54% margin.
Just when we thought Washington's east against west mindset was starting to settle down, it has boiled back up. Several Western Washington legislators have introduced bills that would allow the legislature to dissolve counties that don't generate enough state tax revenue--and most of the targets are in Eastern Washington.
Washington Policy Center's analysis on the Children's Investment Fund initiative in Spokane has prompted a false assertion in a September 30th article written by Jody Lawrence-Turner in The Spokesman-Review newspaper.
On August 17th, Washington Policy Center environmental director Todd Myers and Eastern Washington office director Chris Cargill, toured the Hanford Nuclear site. This is the area where emergency crews practice their response to any eventuality.
City officials in Spokane, facing a $12 million budget shortfall, are now considering a potpourri of new taxes and fees to fill the gap.
In addition to asking for a 1% hike in property taxes, Mayor Mary Verner is supporting a new vehicle tab fee in Spokane. The $20 fee would boost the cost of vehicle licensing for Spokane residents to $63.75 per year. It was just 11 years ago that Washington voters approved I-695, capping licensing fees at $30 per year. Cities in Washington are allowed to add vehicle licensing fees on top of the state fees.
The Mayor says the city will use the money for street maintenance, despite proclamations from council members that it would be used elsewhere to fill budget holes.
Meantime, Spokane City Councilmember Richard Rush wants to impose another new tax on pay parking lots, to the tune of $75 per space. The money will be passed on to shoppers and workers who use those spaces in downtown Spokane.
If all of these are passed, the average Spokane resident is likely to pay more than $200 a year in additional taxes- just to the city of Spokane. That doesn't include the more than $800 million in new taxes passed by the legislature in Olympia in the last session.
The $12 million shortfall is not because Spokane residents are not generous in paying their taxes. Rather, it is because the city overspends the money it already has in the bank. It needs look no further than union worker contracts. In 2011, the city of Spokane's police union is getting another week and a half of paid vacation and a 4% salary raise. Private sector workers in Spokane are struggling through the recession and not getting extra vacation time and pay increases.
During an economic downtown, government officials have to get creative. Raising taxes and fees on voters to fill a budget gap and increase union contracts is not creative. It will only hurt the local economy in the short and long term.
While cutting back core public services, Spokane County Commissioners voted 2-1 this week to spend another $588,000 taxpayer dollars to make upgrades to Spokane Raceway Park. Commissioners Todd Mielke and Mark Richard voted in favor, Commissioner Bonnie Mager voted against.
The Raceway Park was purchased by the county for $4.3 million in a controversial move several years ago. Since then, the county has spent $1.1 million on repairs. Meanwhile, most county departments are still trying to figure out how to cut 12.5% from their budgets. The park was purchased under the assumption it could lead to economic development. It hasn't yet. Even if it eventually does, government does not have a responsibility to own and operate raceway facilities.
Next year, Spokane County Commissioners plan to ask voters to raise property taxes even higher to build a new jail. Money spent on the raceway could and should have been used on essential government services, such as the jail. The purchase and subsequent managing of the raceway is yet another example of the struggles government faces when it gets involved in running a business that can be better-served in private hands.


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Hi guys :) I am considering getting this 19 inch monitor to replace my tired old 15inch LCD screen: http://www.amazon.co.uk/HW191D-Widescreen-Monitor-1440x900-Speakers/dp/B000GYHS6Y/ref=dpcpobcomputerstitle_1 It will be running off of my oldish desktop which is running Win XP with what Device manager is calling a Radeon 9200 Pro Sec Family display adapter. It has both a D-Sub and DVI-D outputs. I just wanted to make sure form you guys that this graphics card is ok to run this monitor, and that the cable I should use could be this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/DVI-cable-Male-1-8-metre/dp/B000MMLOLA .... it is not DUAL-link DVI-D cable, but only SINGLE link DVI-D cable.
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When you drop someone's good dishes and you BEG to clean it up ~~
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1. You know more about the products and tools in Home Depot and
where they are located than your husband.
2. 99% of your shopping trips involve things having to do with mosaics and the other 1% is food.
3. You have a bandaid on more than one finger
When you're eat in a nice restuarant and your Hubby tells you, "No you can't take the dishes home!"
This actually happened to me yesterday when my Hubby took me to Red Lobster for our belated Valentines dinner. They were using Beautiful bright multi-colored crockery!!
Tasy- I LOVE those Red Lobster plates
Lets see, when
you look at ANY plate and try to figure how you'd break it
when every surface in you house looks like it needs
glass or broken dishes on it
when I hate to drive 10 min to the grocery store but think nothing of planning on a 1 hr drive to the glass store
1- when you have mosaic WIP projects throughout the house. (I have one on my coffe table in the living room, a birdbath in the family room and finished projects on a table in the family room - besides I have a glass shop in the shed.)
2- You'd rather shop for glass and dishes than food, clothes, and basic needs.
3 - When you can't sleep because all you can think of is your next project.
Let's make a book! This is good.
I accidently broke a Fiesta coffee mug last night. My daughter (13) was at my mothers, I was telling her on the phone and replied "Dont make anthing with it, until I see it."
She loves our Fiesta, so much she buys it herself. I think she did not quite belive that i did not do it on purpose!
When you stay up all night because YOU JUST HAD TO SEE IT GROUTED!
When you look at every item at the thrift/auction/yard sale deciding whether an item can be mosaiked or broken.
When you stop lusting after jewelry to wear and only dream of glueing it to something.
When you order a mannequin.
when you have your Dh calling from Lowes to verify, if you wanted sanded or unsanded.
when caring for your family's needs is just something to get over with so you can go back to glueing.
when everytime your friend calls and asks what you're doing, you keep giving her the same answer, she even answers for you now... I'm glueing... you say in unison!
your hairdresser has to cut glass and glue out of your hair....your friends think you had to much to drink at the last party when you started covering someones bald head with broken china...little did they know!
If the only thing you break is a plate when your best friend says 'You're an uncontrollable crack addict, sniffing too much glue and buying too much alcohol.'
You have irresistible urges to leave or lurk by back doors of restaurants using expensive dinnerware.
The temptation of 'nudging' a table heavily laden with Bridal gifts has you climbing walls muttering something about mosaics-in-law.
When your surfing son suddenly figures why mom was so excited about 'those really great breakers'.
As he stares in wonder at his newly decorated board.
When the sales clerk at the local china store is always out on the side walk with Windex at the ready when she wasn't there a few minutes before when you drove into town.
When the silicone fumes from one project cause your nose to run, you use your black grout-covered fingers from another project to wipe it.... then walk outside and have a nice long convo with the neighbor who is giving you weird side-glances all the while.
When you've finished cooking your hurridly-made grilled cheese sandwich, you reach for a plate, but discover you have no more clean plates... so you grab one off of the stack of smasher plates. And you don't care that it's not washed until well after the fact.
Your nose thing MAD is too funny!!! Hubby and I were sanding our walls........new drywall...and the new neighbor came over......Hubby chatted with him for a while...and when he came back in I noticed his nostrils were full of white dust! the new neighbor told the other neighbors, we
may have a COKE problem!!! it infuriated me! so they are not our friends...and we feel we have to prove to the old neighbors we are not drug addicts!.....doesn't help that I'm up late working in my studio at all hours!!hahah
Just one of those things!!
Oh, I forgot one - along w/the "can't sleep for thinking up next project".
When you're sitting in church disecting people's faces thinking "that would be an easy shape to cut".
And talk about the dirty, grout/adhesive covered work clothes, AND BLACK UNDER THE NAILS. Oh, man - not a pretty sight.
Oh Hazie that happened to my hub and I also,
We were building our house and were sanding and took a break
some one brought powder donuts from Dunkins and here were are with dust in our hair, it was up hubs nose, everywhere and I had chunks of Powder down my shirt from the donut
yeah we have a "crack" problem, some one finally pointed out what we looked like Laughingly!!
W Went to the grange hall in town yesterday and they have Vintage plates , alot of pinks with little flowers and I so wanted to "drop" a few!!
...when your loved ones plan a "mosaic intervention"
....when the best way to make you lose it is to hide your tools...
....being told by your DH..ya know were gonna have to put you on "MOSAIC" restriction...
...trying to pay your boss to lay you off so you have "more time" to mosaic!!
...when you hear of someone breaking an entering on the news you wonder if they put good alarms at the glass store/2nd hand store!
...you start calling neighbors looking for "usable" household items and dishes to donate to your "cause"
...you wonder how long your family would stop talking to you if you broke ALL the family china that was handed down for generations!!
......When you 'accidently' break a family heirloom on purpose (it was just a coffee cup and I have another like it, Im only waiting for that one to break)
......when your DH has to bribe you w/a trip to the glass store just to get you to stop gluing and take a shower.
......when you get excited at the sound of crashing glass at the resteraunt.
......when your six year old finds a broken beer bottle in the park and begs DH to take it home to mom.
.......when your b/f skips calling you for coffee cause she knows what your up to.
1. When your husband goes out and buys a set of glasses and tells you they are NOT to be used by you because of all the adhesive stuck on the old ones.
2. Assuring even strangers that the black under your nails isn't dirt, but grout....somehow that seems like it would be more socially acceptable in your own mind.
3. You come home from work and your drive way is lined with bowling balls from complete strangers...by your door is boxes of broken dishes, junk jewelry, etc. left by friends.
4. You walk everywhere with your head down thinking you might find a "treasure" to pick up to use for mosaicing...parking lots especially!
5. Buying grout and junk is more important than perfume and lipstick! (and that's a biggie for me)
When you nearly hyperventilate when you find a great sale on your favorite grout. (Or any grout!);.)
When your DD just says "Mom, I really love you...but you are very strange." when you share your excitement over your latest "find"!
When the people at the local Thrift Shops are starting to know you by name, and wonder just what you DO with all those dishes???
I love this...I can relate to everyone!!
...when you warn your husband if he goes barefoot around the mosaic area, its at his own risk!
...when your piles of plates get so high that you have to periodically go thru them to remember what you have and find the perfect plate to finish a project on the bottom!
...when you realize everything in your house and garden would look better mosaicked and start doing it!
...when you can always find another time to do housework but theres never enough time to mosaic!!
I have to add one more. Its kinda funny but also crazey and it happend today ....
......when you cry while looking at Skylab website. I seriously almost CRIED Dh laughed at me so hard and said "looks like youll be placing another order for glass then"
when today, I was in a ts and found the most beautiful set of dishes..the saucers were completely covered with print..the dishes were around the edges but they didn't accept debit cards..
so, after I left..I called to have them hold them (instead of having them hold them before I left)
they asked me to describe them...one of 3 sets there..
the really striking pretty ones..the blues, lavenders and the pale peachy color apples....
and she says they were being wrapped up as we were speaking..someone had just bought them!!!!!
I think I was more sad than when a family pet died.
--When you keep a special pair of flip-flops by the door of your hobby room to prevent cuts on your bare feet
--when your DH tries to explain to the clerk what you are going to do with all those odd diahes
--when your DH starts picking up old beer and liquor bottles for you to break (he got me a great blue bottle)
When you have that gritty feeling between your teeth.
When your hubby asks "what's for dinner?" You say, "nothing."
When your hubby runs to Lowes to get your more grout. When asked why he is so nice about it, he replies, "I like watching you smile while you work."
My rule #5432: Never work after dark. I know I am addicted to mosaics when I can't wait for, and anticipate what I will do when, it is morning.
When my mosaic is equal to that which was magneted to the fridge, when I was 5.
When you see the Terminix truck with the bug on top, and think "MAN! I would love to have one of those to mosaic!"
Here is a link that might be useful: Terminix Truck for Referance
*Most women's husbands dread them going to the mall, my husband dreads me going to Lowe's, thrift stores and the tile warehouse my friend has (he let's me sift through all the leftovers from jobs he does).
*When you look forward to doing laundry cause it gives a legitimate reason for going into the basement, to work on mosaics in between loads.
You know you're addicted when you keep asking your Doctor to break her beautiful coffee mug and matching saucer instead of telling her why you have come to consult with her.
BTW On Mosaic addicts Yahoo Group someone came up with an alternative for WIP's
Call the PHd's instead. (Project half done)
You can say that you are working on a couple of PHd's (sounds sooooooooooo intelligent and academic eh??)
Cheers Beth
clicking cat and PHD....OMG!....
I thought I would fall out of this broken chair...lol
my poor 3 year old grandson is here, next to me..asking what's so funny!!!
he keeps saying..."gramma..I'm hungry"
ok, just a second...just one more to read!
bad..this is so bad!...lol
Becky .(*_*).
and I know the printer is low on ink but just gotta print these out..
When your husband wonders if the only way to get your attention is for him to wear a glass/tile thong :-)
When you find yourself hurridly burning the last of the candle because your want the container it's in to mosaic (Circle E Candles are PERFECT for GOG - check them out!)
You may have a problem with mosaics when you begin coveting your neighbors un-mosiac'd stepping stones.
Oh, yuk, you two!!!
Newbie checking in:
When you work F/T and find any excuse (lunch, break, bank run) to stop at the new SA store down the street to check out what's new & exciting- and come away with a pile of SC dishes for a project that's just "on the list" but nowhere near being started yet.
NEWBIE here...I am laughing so hard I can hardly stand it!!!
You guys are TOO funny! This would make a GREAT book!
Being a newbie and wanting so desperately to get started I guess I could add....
You start knipping up your collection of glass blobs (cause you haven't been able to buy stained glass yet) and glueing them to little wooden objects you have had in your craft stash for years...just to make SOMETHING!
Here is a link that might be useful: my first
Fiddlekate...THANKS! the apple is actually one piece of wood...an apple cutout...I did both sides...one red and the other side green. I didn't grout the apple...wasn't sure if I should...to grout or not to grout...:)
I so appreciate all of the nice comments on my humble beginnings...
CANT wait to do more!!! I'm hooked!
Went to the TS Saturday....oh boy!!!...now I just need to get the nerve up to start breaking and knipping things!
Such a newbie!
On a day out shopping with my girls, I promise our next stop is for groceries then we're home bound. Yet suddenly you're pulling off the road and telling them to sit tight for a sec.... while mommy goes back to the street to pick up all that beautiful mirror broken at the curb. (Oh yeah, I need to get that out the car!) LOL
Now that's what I call ingenuity, LIVN - Never would have thought of using half globs entirely on a piece. BEAUTIFUL. Oh, where was I - the game. Mosaicing addict - when you rush your family out the door and even though you say "come back soon", you know your lying cuz you hope they don't come back for a loooooooooooooooong time so you can get back to mosaicing.
When everytime you mention Jane Hell, you mean: Day 36 of Jane can't go to her fav thrift store cuz she can't get thru the aisles in her wheel chair!!!
When during your remodel you build your new craft room in line-of-sight to the store, so you can play while you watch for customers to come in (and you built the laundry room cleeeeeaaar on the other side of the house! I just realized how fortuitous that was! : D)
You know you're a mosaicin' maniac when ......
Working on a project right up to the minute I had to leave, and then realizing OH NO I'm late, I grabbed my keys and dashed out the door to meet a best friend at Home Depot to help her pick out crown molding, not seeing her car (she's late also) I sit down on a bench outside the store to wait, and in passing, a little girl with her mommy hands me a dollar. I'm shocked and speechless...in a panic, I go back to my car, assess myself, and realize I too hadn't showered, brushed my hair (much less my teeth), was wearing my worst stained, siliconed, and ripped jeans and t-shirt, had BLACK stained HANDS and finger nails, AND to top it off, I had painted my laundry room that morning and some white paint must have dripped on the top of my head which, to a little girl, must have looked like bird doo doo...IÂm sure the little girl thought I was HOMELESS! I was mortified, determined I wasn't getting out of my car again except to go in to my house...I called my friend and told her I couldn't make it..sorry, something had came up. It was several weeks before I could tell her what REALLY happened. We laughed so hard I almost wet my pants....but I wasn't laughing when it happened.
you know you're a mosaicing maniac when...
i was meeting a friends mother for the first time and when she walked up she handed me a gift box, which i thought was a little strange, but i thanked her politely and apologized for not getting her anything. she started laughing and told me to open the box. inside was several broken plates and tiles. my friend was horrified that her mother had given me a "broken" gift, and started apologizing. she had forgotten that she told her mom i did mosaics. i thought it was like christmas.
Remember when I broke my leg and posted that picture of my cast and everybody took turns virtually "mosaicing" it?! That was sooo funny! I think a Mosaic tribute would be to mosaic a "clacking cat" to give to each other....like the frying pan mosaic exchange we did!ha!We could call it :Ode to Mosaicing
OMG --- this post is still here !!!! I ROFL at all the replies - this was the best post -- ever :)
I remember how we laughed at your cast ,Jane - it was just soooo bare -You're lucky you weren't forcibly kidnapped and held down while a group of rogue crafters mosaiced it !!!! Nothing is safe . Even those clacking cats !


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I have a 5' Tolson's weeping Juniper, that has had it's leader broken. Can I get the tree to continue growing by tieing up a strong branch near the top to re-establish the leader, as I would with an upright tree?
I just planted 1 of those myself a few weeks ago. I love that thing! Mine still has a central leader, but droops way over. I was wondering if I had to stake mine taller as well. In all the research I have done on this tree, not one article said anything about staking it at all. Mine is a monrovia purchase & is already staked to 5' & have another 1 1/2' not staked & that is the part that is curving. Please advise as well.
HI tony I use a lot of weeping junipers in my pond designs. If you got a potted plant from Monrovia it is probably very spindely the B and B are usually alot fuller. I have never staked one because it tends to keep the tree from developing a strong leader. You might try using a large bonsai wire to re-direct a new leader.


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More spring Hoya blooms
I have a bunch of Hoyas in bloom or bud right now with one first time bloomer I am very impressed with. There is lots of new growth so hopefully I will see a bunch more first time bloomers by early summer.
Hoya patella IML 1096 has been a slow grower and is blooming for the first time with a single 1.25" flower.
The plant is small with pubescent leaves around 3" long and 1.25" wide and a thin wiry stem. My plant is two years old and still in a 2.5" pot although I think I will pot it up to a 4" pot this summer.
My Hoya blashernazii is blooming again with a beautiful bunch of flowers so I couldn't resist taking some photos.
A closer look up at the flowers.
A little closer.
I will add more photos when the other plants flower later this week.
Beautiful shots Mike! I love your Hoya blashernazii - the flower has such a long stem! What is the fragrance like? It also looks like a very healthy plant with very nice shiny leaves! Anyways thanks for sharing and keep the photos coming!
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. :)
Golden the long peduncle was one of the reasons I got this species, really shows off the flowers well. Hoya patella's bloom opened last night and I thought I could detect a faint sweet scent but nothing pronounced, Hoya blashernazii has no scent.
Kelly you will love both of these plants, hopefully your blashernazii performs as well as mine has because mine has been blooming frequently.
The other Hoyas that have buds right now are Hoya lambii and Hoya pubicalax, both ones that I have posted numerous times. I will try to get some photos when the buds open.
Kelly that is a new leaf that has just matured but the older leaves are more matte than shiny. I did use the flash for that photo as well so there is some reflection.
My plant struggled when it was small but once it developed a good root system it grew well. This plant is also about two years old now and it is still in a shallow 4" pot that is just crammed with roots. I will pot this one up some time this summer so that it has more room to grow.
Denise according to my book Hoyas of North Eastern New Guinea Hoya patella is classified in the Physostemla section of the genus. Hoya patella is found in New Guinea which is thought to be the center of distribution for Physostemla section species. Other species in the section include Hoya megalaster, Hoya campanulata, Hoya cystiantha and Hoya subcalva with a total of at least 17 species in the section.
Hoya patella to me looks very delicate but because it grows at 300- 400 meters altitude it is not bothered by hot summer temperatures.
Here is a link that might be useful: This photo is what convinced me to get this species. Swedish Hoya Society


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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Arkansas State was down to an interim coach, a backup quarterback and less than a minute remaining in the game.
None of it fazed the Red Wolves, who are used to a little bit of postseason adversity.
Allen Muse caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Fredi Knighten with 32 seconds remaining to lift Arkansas State past Ball State 23-20 at the GoDaddy Bowl on Sunday night.
Ball State had a chance to tie at the end of regulation, but Scott Secor's 38-yard field-goal attempt was blocked by Ryan Carrethers as time expired.
For a second straight season, Arkansas State shrugged off a coaching change to win the GoDaddy Bowl.
Arkansas State lost coach Bryan Harsin to Boise State in December. He's the latest in a string of three ASU coaches, including Hugh Freeze (Mississippi) and Gus Malzahn (Auburn), who have left the program for a more high-profile job.
John Thompson was the team's interim coach for a second straight season, and the veteran defensive coordinator led a staff that managed to cobble together a workable offense with Knighten, who replaced injured starter Adam Kennedy in the second quarter.
Thompson was not retained by new coach Blake Anderson — the former North Carolina offensive coordinator who is Arkansas State's fifth head coach in five seasons — but is confident he left the program in good hands.
Despite all the coaching changes, Arkansas State has won 28 games over the past three seasons, turning into one of the Sun Belt Conference's best programs.
"Arkansas State is not just that little football team up there in northeast Arkansas," Thompson said. "Arkansas State should now have a national brand. I don't think there were many other football games going on tonight. There are a lot of good things about (this win)."
Knighten rescued Arkansas State's offense on Sunday after Kennedy left the game in the second quarter with a knee injury, finishing with 115 yards passing and 97 yards rushing. Muse, who considered quitting football following his father's suicide three years ago, wound up with the biggest catch of the night just five plays after Ball State scored what appeared to be the decisive touchdown.
"I'm extremely blessed," Muse said. "It's really hard to put into words what this means."
Ball State (10-3) went ahead 20-16 with 1:33 remaining on a 1-yard touchdown run by Jahwan Edwards, but couldn't hold the lead. Edwards finished with a game-high 146 yards rushing, but had to watch as Arkansas State rallied for the win.
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My DH had the opportunity to join at work -- he needs to lose about 60lbs.
I could stand to lose 10lbs so I told him I'd help him and do it with him (without joining myself).
He tried about five years ago and instantly lost 10lbs -- then he just quit. The problem was I was doing all the point counting for him and making him special meals and I found it to be a real burden.
He thinks WW is too geared to women. If he joins, I really need him to learn the program and to live it -- not dump it on me to tell him what he can eat and how much. I have two young kids that I have to feed as well.
I agree with you. It will never work until he takes ownership of it himself. Maybe he will be like me and wait until he develops diabetes or even something worse. I hope he's smarter than that.
He's lucky to have someone like you who cares.
I have no experience with Weight Watchers. I'm just doing it on my own. If he just needs a program to follow there are plenty of them on the internet. I would suggest he go to the USDA Mypyramid website and register, then start a daily journal. That would be a starting point.
Here is a link that might be useful: mypyramid
There were men in all my WW groups I have been in. They seemed to enjoy themselves, moreso if they went as couples (we had a few couples join together, too).
And if it's motivation, their metabolism seemed to take to the WW eating plan better than mine did, losing weight way more rapidly than I did, for sure.
There's a man in our church who lost well over a hundred pounds on WW and has kept it off for several years. He bikes like madman now that he's thin, though, but he still eats very carefully according to plan. But yes, he has to be ready to really do it for it to be successful. Are there other men at work with him who might do it to help encourage him along?
We have a few men in our WW group - one just celebrated his 100 pound loss.
One good thing about signing up on the Monthly Pass (where the membership is automatically deducted from your checking account each month until you decide to cancel, is that you have free access to all of the WW stuff online, including tracking your foods and exercise, finding recipes, etc. That might be another way to keep your husband encouraged. Plus there are message boards where he can ask questions of other members or experts.
Well, he joined. It took him a few days to get excited about it. Once he saw he can still eat somewhat "normal" food (just less of it) I think it helped.
I have been doing nothing but planning, shopping and cooking all week. I do now understand the convenience of "Nutrisystem" type plans where they prepare the food for you. I have spent a small fortune on groceries this week.
I really, really hope this works for him. I think it is a great program but I have heard that results can be slow because it is not a "diet" but a lifestyle change.
stir fryi, congratulations to your husband for deciding to do something about his health. Men do seem to lose quicker than us - darn it - but that's a good thing for him. It does seem like the healthier one eats, the more expensive the groceries are! If we can help you with ideas on recipes or foods to prepare, let us know. It will get easier as time goes on.