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Among premium luxury sedans, the 2013 Infiniti M distinguishes itself with higher levels of athleticism, but they come at the price of a stiffer-than-normal ride quality.
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For 2013, the Infiniti M Sport package is now available on all-wheel-drive models. Newly standard features for all models include auto-dimming outside mirrors and a power soft-close trunk lid. Some optional features have also been shuffled as well.
Automakers throw the word "sport" around as much as teenage girls use the word "like." After a certain point, your mind filters out those overused words and discards them as filler. It is refreshing when a word is used appropriately, and in the case of the 2013 Infiniti M, "sport" is certainly fitting.
Among luxury sedans, the Infiniti M is a definite draw for drivers who enjoy a healthy dose of athleticism with their creature comforts. In terms of power and acceleration, the V6-powered M37 and V8-powered M56 will keep up with their German counterparts in a straight line. It's when the road begins to bend, however, that the Infiniti M pulls away. This level of road-holding prowess does come with a compromise in ride quality, as the M will transmit a few more road imperfections into the otherwise calm cabin.
Stiffer ride notwithstanding, the Infiniti M lineup compares favorably with its more established rivals. The interior boasts top-notch materials and a long list of standard and optional electronic features, all of which are thoughtfully placed and expertly executed. Besides the conventionally powered models, there's also an M35h hybrid, which gets up to speed right with the M56, yet bests the M37 in terms of fuel economy. Its price premium isn't all that substantial either, making it the most appealing model here in our opinion.
All things considered, we'd have no qualms pitting any of the Infiniti M models against their well-established German counterparts. Yes, the 2013 BMW 5 Series and 2013 Mercedes-Benz E-Class glide over roadways with more refinement, but we doubt anyone would ever consider the Infiniti uncivilized. Two other intriguing choices, the 2013 Audi A6 and Lexus GS 350, may represent an agreeable middle ground, too. In terms of providing real sport and real luxury, the 2013 Infiniti M stands as the real deal.
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Classified as a midsize luxury sedan, the 2013 Infiniti M is available in three trim levels that correspond to engine choices: M37, M35h and M56.
Standard on the M37 are 18-inch alloy wheels, automatic bi-xenon headlights, foglights, power-folding heated and auto-dimming mirrors, automatic wipers, a sunroof, a power soft-closing trunk lid, keyless ignition/entry, dual-zone automatic climate control, leather upholstery, heated eight-way power front seats with power lumbar support, driver memory functions and a power tilt-and-telescoping steering column. Also standard are a rearview camera, Bluetooth and a six-speaker stereo with a CD player, auxiliary/USB/iPod inputs, an audio/visual jack and satellite radio.
With the M35h you get all the standard features offered with the M37, along with a hybrid powertrain and unique instruments and display screens.
The M56 adds rear parking sensors, a navigation system, real-time traffic and weather updates, voice recognition, heated and cooled front seats, a heated steering wheel and a Bose 10-speaker premium audio system with digital music storage. All of these additions are available on other trims as part of the optional Premium package.
Most options are bundled in packages that add to the Premium package, and are not compatible with all other options. The Deluxe Touring package is offered on all trims and adds a power rear sunshade, an air purifier, upgraded leather upholstery and interior trim, and a 16-speaker Bose audio system. Also available is the Technology package, which adds adaptive cruise control, a lane departure warning and prevention system, a blind-spot warning system, a forward collision warning system, adaptive headlights and the "eco pedal" that provides feedback to the driver to encourage fuel-efficient driving.
The M37 and M56 each offer a Sport package, although the content varies between trims. The M37 package includes 20-inch wheels, summer tires (all-season performance tires for AWD models), sport-tuned suspension and brakes, four-wheel active steering (rear-drive models only), sport seats and steering wheel, and unique exterior styling elements.
Stand-alone options are few and include a rear deck lid spoiler and an aerodynamic body kit.
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Powering the 2013 Infiniti M37 is a 3.7-liter V6 that produces 330 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque. As with all M models, a seven-speed automatic transmission with four different shift modes (Standard, Sport, Snow or Eco) is standard. Rear-wheel drive is also standard, with all-wheel drive available on M37 and M56 versions (designated by an "x" after the model names).
The M56 receives a 5.6-liter V8 that produces 420 hp and 417 lb-ft of torque, while the M35h runs on a hybrid powertrain and offers a combined 360 hp from its gas-fueled 3.5-liter V6 and electric motor.
In Edmunds performance testing, the M37 went from zero to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds, while both the M56 and M35h made the same sprint in a very impressive 5.2 seconds. With rear-wheel drive, the M37's EPA-estimated fuel economy is 18 mpg city/26 mpg highway and 21 mpg combined. The M37x drops slightly to 17/24/20 mpg. The M56 is rated at 16/24/19 mpg and the M56x turns in a comparable 16/23/18 mpg. Estimated mileage for the M35h is an impressive 27/32/29.
Standard safety features for all 2013 Infiniti M models include antilock disc brakes, stability and traction control, front side airbags, side curtain airbags, active head restraints and a rearview camera. Included in the Technology package are a lane-departure warning and prevention system, blind-spot warning system and a forward collision warning system with intelligent brake assist.
All three M models did very well in Edmunds 60-0 brake testing. The M37 stopped in 115 feet, the M35h in 119 feet and the M56 in 112 feet.
In government crash testing, the M models earned an overall rating of five out of five stars, with four stars for overall frontal crash protection and five stars for overall side crash protection. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave both the M37 and M56 the best possible of rating of "Good" in the frontal-offset, side-impact and roof strength tests.
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Infiniti has given the M top-notch cabin design and high-quality materials. As with the car's exterior styling, the cabin's powerful lines call to mind the muscular curves of a bodybuilder flexing on the stage. Opting for the Deluxe Touring package adds diamond-quilted leather seats with contrasting piping, unique "silver-powdered" wood trim, a faux-suede headliner and enhanced materials on most primary touch points. In total, the M's interior challenges those of its established European rivals for refinement.
It also has the space and technology to compete with the Europeans as well. The cabin is quite roomy, offering generous space for occupants and a relatively tall greenhouse that provides good outward visibility. As for technology, it's hard to think of a rival that betters the M for all the available entertainment, comfort and safety technologies that can be had once you check all the options boxes. In particular, Infiniti's navigation and audio interfaces are some of the most user-friendly in the business. In terms of storage, the M has a 14.9-cubic-foot trunk; that drops to 11.3 cubic feet for the M35h.
Driving Impressions
The 2013 Infiniti M is a big car, but drives smaller than you might think. Its steering effort weights up less abruptly than that of other Infiniti and Nissan sedans, and it exhibits a downright feline willingness to change direction. All three powertrains offer the sort of abundant power and acceleration that makes them fully competitive with the M's BMW and Mercedes rivals.
Those wishing for an even more sharply tuned luxury sedan can select the Sport package with its various performance upgrades. The combination of a firmed-up sport suspension and 20-inch wheels, however, results in a stiffer ride that likely won't suit many buyers in the luxury segment.
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It raised eyebrows when Russia seemed to seize the communications initiative on Syria, picking up on a stray comment by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to call for a diplomatic solution to the mess. But it's downright
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It is in Putin's final paragraph that the former KGB strongman really lets loose and shows his communications chops. In what seems a direct response to President Obama's Tuesday address, he challenges the concept of American exceptionalism. Pushing back against Obama's earlier reference to what makes our nation different, Putin warns that it is "extremely dangerous" to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional and reminds us that "we are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal."
Astonishing, considering the source: A man whose government has taken a shellacking in recent months over a highly restrictive anti-gay law and for
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The U.S. response to the editorial has been cynical, but from a communications perspective, the piece is very instructive. Putin and his PR handlers have done several things that can be very effective when making a case in public.
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The Russian president opens by reminding us of historic bonds between our two nations and our many shared accomplishments. He even tries to soften us up by mentioning the Nazis.
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Bypass intermediaries.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. - An Iraq war veteran from Bethesda who fired a high-powered rifle at his ex-girlfriend in September 2010 has been found guilty of attempted first degree murder.
Joshua Prince also was convicted of assault, carrying a dangerous weapon, and failing to comply with a protective order, after a four-day trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
Prince faces life in prison for the attempted murder conviction, when he's sentenced July 6.
Prince fired at his ex-girlfriend as she got into her car in her parking garage. She was unhurt.
Thirty minutes after the shooting, Prince texted the woman, saying "I pictured my life without you and you with another man and I snapped."
Minutes later, he texted, "I know I can't take this back," and "I know I just threw away my life."
The shooting prompted a regional manhunt, which shut down ramps on Interstate 270 and caused nearby schools to go on lockdown.
Prince surrendered later that day in Montoursville, Pa.
Prince's first attorney claimed the Gulf War veteran was suffering a post-traumatic stress disorder flashback during the shooting.
In October 2011, prosecutors withdrew a plea deal, that would have allowed Prince to plead guilty to first degree assault, rather than stand trial for attempted murder.
At the time of his arrest, Prince was employed as a cardiologist's sonographer at Georgetown University Hospital.
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Why Is the U.S. Share of World Merchandise Exports Shrinking? As the U.S. share of the world goods trade slips from its level in the 1980s and 1990s, concerns have arisen that the productivity of U.S. exporters has not been growing as fast as that of foreign firms selling similar products. However, an analysis of industry-level trade data suggests that two other factors explain much of the drop in export share: the changing composition of the products traded internationally and the diminished share of U.S. GDP in global output. Declining relative productivity may have played a role in the early 2000s, but it has not been a large factor across industries over the longer term. Overall, there is little evidence of a broad-based decline in the nation's ability to compete in global markets. by Benjamin R. Mandel, Current Issues in Economics and Finance (18) 1, February 2012 |
Monetary Policy Implementation: Common Goals but Different Practices While the goals that guide monetary policy in different countries are very similar, central banks diverge in their methods of implementing policy. This study of the policy frameworks of four central banks—the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank—focuses on two notable areas of difference. The first is the choice of an interest rate target, a standard feature of conventional monetary policy. The second is the choice of instruments for managing the central banks' expanded balance sheets—a decision made necessary by the banks' unconventional practice of acquiring large quantities of assets during the financial crisis. by Marlene Amstad and Antoine Martin, Current Issues in Economics and Finance (17) 7, November 2011 |
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2000iFairground is an interactive site using the theme of a fairground to educate students about history, science, safety, and business. The site also experiments new ways of teaching math and physics problems and encouraging art and creative writing not only in the classroom but on the internet as well.About this site
2000"The Learning Curve" explores one of mankind''s fundamental processes: learning. No matter what age, race, gender, or nationality, everyone learns. Learning is topic that affects us every second of every day from the moment we are born onward. Our site is divided into six main sections: How We Learn, Learning Theories, Teaching, Learning Ability, the History of Learning, and Exceptional Learning. Other features include a learning simulation, an effective learning tutorial, a memory game, quizzes, a forum, and surveys.About this site
2009We are creating this project to research how schools have been diferent through time and to form a hypothesis about how schools will be in the future.About this site
2009 This project proposes to use the intelligence, the capacity to create, imagination of the inventive students and teachers to invent original didactic games which makes easy the learning, the evaluation and the autoevaluation, depending on the style learning, the subject of learning, on the level of the students and the analysis of different opinions, the different atitudes of the students and teachers, referently of the active methods of learning type game. About this site
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2008Our website explores the impact that inclusion has had on education for both special education students and general education students. We wanted to know if placing students with disabilities in general education classes led to increased success for the special education students, and if it was beneficial for the general education students as well.About this site
2006Kodaly-method. This webpage describes the method which is actually used for music teaching purposes all over the world.About this site
2003A site about the differences between visual spatial and auditory sequential learning.About this site
2003What is English as a Second Language or ESL? This project will include a brief history of ESL in the United States, methods on how to teach English to students, language acquisition theories, frequently asked questions, and quizzes, along with links to other useful ESL sites.About this site
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2003Welcome to our ThinkQuest Project about Role-Playing Games and Education. Learn about the history of role playing games and the educational benefits of using them to teach about events in history.About this site
2003Our website was created by students at OLQH School to help people know what their learning style is and how they can learn best. This site will help you identify whether your style of learning is auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), or kinesthetic(hands-on).About this site
2002In this site, you can discover your personality, learning style, IQ, and other amazing facts about yourself. This information can help you explore the various ways you learn best. It can also help you understand some of the unique things about you.About this site
2002This website is designed to bring the middle school curriculum alive for students by linking learning standards in math, science, language arts and social studies with the fun of amusement parks.About this site
2001It's about how to further develop your child's abilities right from the very start. It tells you how to develop your child's linguistic and mathematical intelligences as well as how to start right from when they are in their mother's womb.About this site
2001It's time to manage yourself, your schoolwork, and your busy after school activities. This site includes tips and tools from teachers and students. They will help you with your studies and help you to make the most of your time. Play some games to help you understand the meaning of this site. You will find stickers to put in your planner, bookmarks that have tips to help you with your everyday life and an averaging sheet to help you track your grades. If you are overwhelmed by schoolwork and after school activities, this site is for you!About this site
1999Our entry is desgined to provide information about the Outdoor Education Program at Camp Grady Spruce. This information will help future students, parents, and teachers who will attend the camp.About this site
1999The web site is intended to be a record of a year long peer tutoring project the team members participated in during the school day. The students share the insights they have had as they tutored younger students in reading, record the best teaching practices they developed for teaching reading, interview teachers to provide resources for other school staffs that might be interested in starting a peer tutoring project and posted sites of other elementary school so that other may contact the fellow peer tutors. The students encourage other to email them information about their peer teaching experience and will post it to the site.About this site
1998Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to school in another country? Would it be harder or easier? This site takes an in-depth look into the educational systems of Egypt, Germany, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and Spain. When you are done, take a quiz and test your knowledge of school systems around the world. About this site
1998Hello everyone! Our school uses a really fun way of learning which lets us use our Multiple Intelligences (MI). At Grahamwood Elementary we are not just "book smart," we're smart in eight different ways. Link off to find your special intelligences. We use a fun topic, chocolate, to tell you about MI. About this site
1997Welcome to the Learning Place!!!! Pages to help develop superb study skills, for students by students. About this site
1997Why are some people leaders and others followers? Understand how others think, learn, and work by understanding more about yourself at this site. Take a work styles test find your predominant work style. A multiple intelligence test lets you find out the style in which you solve problems (interpersonal, logical, visual, verbal etc.) and a description of each intelligence is given. Links to other work styles and multiple intelligence sites are included. About this site
1996The key that will help you improve your grades is here! The Ultimate Online Review Book is a tool that students from all over the world can use. Actual New York State Regents Exams are available to help you study for that big standardized test you've been cramming for!About this site


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There have been a lot of posts from my favorite genealogy blogs about a new version of The Master Genealogist recently being released. I have always heard that the TMG is the best genealogy program available for the serious genealogist. Well, I consider myself pretty serious. Over the past 4 years I have spent countless hours researching using the Internet and my local library, I have acquired 3 flash drives full of data, I have a website and this blog dedicated to my family history, and have even dragged my young granddaughter through a cemetery or two!
I have been using Family Tree Maker for about 3 years, but have never been satisfied with the reports and graphs it produces, and I really dislike the way it documents sources. I had hoped that the new version of FTM would be an improvement and I had planned to upgrade, but I have read some not good stuff about it, so I have decided not to upgrade, at least not now.
To make a long story short, I am in the process of downloading a 30-day free trial of The Master Genealogist, Version 7. It is more expensive than most other programs I have looked at, but if I like what I see, I may change over to it.
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Good luck with TMG. I got it for Christmas '06 but never really got the hang of it and admittedly I didn't work as hard as I should have at learning how to use it. One of the things I should add to my to-do list this year I guess. I know several people who love the program. Let us know what you think after you've used it for awhile.


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Paced by a three-touchdown performance from sophomore wide receiver Donte Moncrief, Ole Miss defeated its intrastate rival Mississippi State 41-24 on a beautiful Saturday night in front of 61,005 fans at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
For Ole Miss, Saturday's win is extra special. Over the last two seasons, the Rebels had won just six games combined. Saturday's win over MSU gives the Rebels' their sixth win this season, and propels the young team to a bowl game to be determined in the coming weeks.
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Board Meeting 108
- Vote to waive $100 initiation fee for Matt Bells
- Consider guidelines for waiver of fee for future re-applicants.
- Offering to reimburse members who previously paid the $100 fee on re-joining.
- Motion (Doug Moen): All effective and currently active board procedures *must* be documented in the Board Procedures web page located at http://www.kwartzlab.ca/corporation-procedure/. Board procedures not documented on this page are not effective. It is the responsibility of the Secretary to update the board procedure web page after a board meeting when new procedures are added, or existing ones are modified (including the new board procedure which is the subject of this motion). The board should also designate a process by which undocumented board procedures that we currently rely on are documented, so that the board procedure web page is brought up to date.
- James said: "The board can approve any amount via email as long as it's unanimous." Doug would like to vote on this and make it official. Darcy posted a long email about this.
- Request permission to submit a $3000 grant application: Agnes. Requesting permission to apply to the KW Arts Fund Grant on behalf of kwartzlab Society Inc. The application is due by September 6th, 2013. I will be requesting funding in the amount of $3000. Public event is called "Handmade Holiday".
- Public event: Repair Cafe, Saturday October 12, 10am to 4pm. Co-presented by Kwartzlab and Transition KW.
- Reimbursement: Catherine Holloway, $10, thread
Board Meeting 108 | |
Address | 33 Kent Ave., Kitchener, ON |
Date | 2013/08/07 |
Time | 19:30 |
Meeting Type | Board Meeting |
Minutes | [[Media:]] |
Financial Report | [[Media:]] |
- Doug
- James
- Mark
- Ben
- Jaymis
- Darcy
(Jonathan absent)
Call to Order
- Called to order at 19:32
Approval of the Agenda
- Approved
Report from the President
- We're awesome.
Report from the Treasurer
- Financial Report, August 2013
- Total income $2,550
- Account balances: $13,670.58 total
- etc, see attachment
- Budget
- net monthly surplus $155 (as of August). 49 members minimum. This assumes we switch to new, more expensive internet, and $200/month to build up the Audit fund
- Capital Fund is not part of the presented budget, but it will be the money we have available for discretionary spending on supplies, tools, infrastructure. For August, $13670.58 - $6588.30 - $6195.
Vote to approve budget: unanimous.
Rules for Spending on Consumables
New Board Procedure:
Rules for a member to spend <$50 to replace some consumables at the lab. Up to $200 slush fund for immediate reimbursement, without a board meeting, periodically topped up at the board's discretion. Mailing list must be notified if you want reimbursement. Receipts are required. Payment in cash from board filing cabinet (by any board member), or by cheque signed by 2 signing authorities. If the reimbursement is given (assuming funds are available), we'll post a message to the list, with itemized list and cost, and to indicate how much money is left.
Darcy moved, Jaymis seconded, unanimous.
Reimbursement/Purchase Procedure
Old board procedure text:
- Be it resolved that the board requires members to clear all purchases with the Treasurer or the other two signing authorities (both, not just one) before a purchase is made.
- Be it resolved that reimbursement of Kwartzlab purchases can be made by the board with a majority vote using the Kwartzlab Admin mailing list. Reimbursement is only possible if the purchaser provides the treasurer receipts. Reimbursements approved through the mailing list must be ratified at a future board meeting.
Darcy moves to strike this text, James seconds, unamimous vote in favour.
- In principle, any motion we can have in a board meeting we can do on the mailing list via unanimous vote. Although if it is a contentious issue, then the discussion can go awry, so it's not appropriate for every issue.
- Subject line of email needs to contain [Vote] -- contentious. Vote goes on admin? Also contentious. Darcy withdraws suggestion.
- Reimbursements, purchase preapprovals, or anything else decided on the mailing list, these decisions should be recorded in the next board meeting minutes.
Be it resolved that any motion that we can make in a board meeting, we can do on the mailing list via unanimous vote. Any resolutions need to be recorded in the minutes of the next board meeting.
Darcy moves, Jaymis seconds, the vote was unanimous (5 people; by this point Mark Pitcher had left)
Initiation Fee for Returning Members
Be it resolved that the $100 initiation fee for returning members in good standing be waived retroactively. Moved by Ben, seconded by Jaymis, vote: unanimous
Note: this affects Matt Bell (who was just readmitted, and hasn't been asked to pay yet), and we'll offer a refund to Jon and Kyle Spaans.
Documentation of Board Procedures
All effective and currently active board procedures *must* be documented in the Board Procedures web page located at http://www.kwartzlab.ca/corporation-procedure/. Board procedures not documented on this page are not effective. It is the responsibility of the Secretary to update the board procedure web page after a board meeting when new procedures are added, or existing ones are modified (including the new board procedure which is the subject of this motion). Each board procedure should be marked with the date on which it is enacted.
moved by Doug, seconded by Jaymis, vote: unanimous
Discussion: maybe this motion is illegal according to ONCA?
James moves to strike this motion, Jaymis seconds: 4 in favour, Doug abstains
Action Item: To Do a Mailing List motion to approve the all of the board meeting minutes (since meeting #89)
Agnes: Request for approval to submit grant application
Recurring Business
Membership Changes Logging
- The following new members have been added to the admin and members mailing lists:
- Gillian Gutenberg
- Brett Shellhammer
- The following new members have been added to the admin and members mailing lists:
Membership Dues Owed Follow Up
- Action Item: Ben to follow up with this
- If dues are done in cash, they're to be done in exact change.
- Action Item: Darcy to start mailing list tread about cash and non-electrionic payments.
- Action Item: Mark to look into CRMs.
- Reimbursement for James (pre-approved on mailing list).
New Business
- Our budget and where money goes & should go.
- Budget for The Shed
- With the new members, we can probably approve up to $500 for the shed.
- Combine slush & supply funds into consumable fund (~$200-ish).
- Rename general operating fund to better reflect its purpose.
- Status and purpose of the emergency fund
- Budget for The Shed
- Set money aside for audit?
- Action Item: Ben to create a treasurer manual.
- Action Item: Ben to update the budget.
- Our budget and where money goes & should go.
Tree Removal
- Christian is ok with it.
- The fence is not ours.
Urban Fungus (Donation Bin)
- Motion by Jaymis: decline request to have a donation bin on our property.
- Seconded: James
- Approved unanimously.
- Motion by Jaymis: decline request to have a donation bin on our property.
- Increase to liability?
- Probably not.
- Improvements to the space.
- Who takes responsibility for art work in the lab?
- Action Item: Ben to talk to Christian to find out what his insurance covers.
- Action Item: James to update asset list on wiki with tool values.
- Motoin by Darcy to increase the contents insurance to $100,000 and follow up with Christian
- Seconded by: Jaymis
- Approved unanimously.
- Action Item: Ben to draw up waivers for members and non-members with property in the space.
- Increase to liability?
Mailing Lists
- Never use BoD unless it's confidential.
- Use admin for spam-collecting inbound traffic.
- Use members list for all else.
- Use discuss for upcoming events.
Good Governance
- We are a public benefit organization.
- The board is responsible for keeping its promises.
- The board can still delegate to non-board members.
- If a member fails to complete a task, the board is responsible for seeing it through.
- There will be a party.
Old Business
Board hand-over
- Action Item: Jaymis and Jonathan need to fill out paperwork for the change of directors.
New member application process
- Action Item: Online form for member application - Ben
- Action Item: Member welcoming information/page - Doug
Hacky Hallowe'en 2013
- We should get moving on this.
- Funding?
- Action Item: Jaymis to figure out whether we or THEMUSEUM will head up the K-W Community Foundation grant.
Cleaning schedule
- Action Item: Darcy to start mailing list discussoin about what needs to be done for cleaning.
Buildout / Prep
- Action Item: Ben to update wiki for buildout.
Trillium Grants
- Action Item: Darcy to do press release and blog posting - Press advisory instead of a release - paused for now
- Action Item: Need to pick a day for the party (TBD related to move) - Not done yet, need to give dignitaries 3-4 weeks lead time - paused for now
- Action Item: Ben to follow up on the chairs order - chairs are on their way
- Action Item: James to follow up on router and other items
Action item review
- Reviewed.
- Adjourned at 21:17.


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Scoring over 40 hits in the R&B Top 40 charts, the Miracles started out as the Five Chimes in the mid-'50s while the members were still in high school. The Detroit vocal group consisted of William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Clarence "Humble" Dawson, Donald Wicker, and James "Rat" Grice. Not too long after the group formed, Wicker and Grice left and were replaced by cousins Emerson "Sonny" Rogers and Bobby Rogers, who both sang tenor, and baritonist Ronnie White was in Dawson's place. The vocal quintet then changed their name to the Matadors, and in 1956 Claudette Rogers joined the band after her brother Sonny Rogers was drafted. The Matadors auditioned for Jackie Wilson's manager, Nat Tarnapol, in 1956. Although Tarnapol wasn't interested, finding the group too similar to the Platters, Jackie Wilson's songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. was, and he soon began producing the band, who now went by the name the Miracles. Gordy produced their first single, "Get a Job," which was issued by the N.Y. label End Records in 1958.
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Once you decide to move your home office to an external location, you must decide whether to lease or buy. Generally speaking, the biggest consideration between the two is the cash flow situation. Normally, leasing requires less money upfront. (a fact that tends to appeal to folks just starting out, with perhaps less capital on hand than more established businesspeople). Other factors in the decision-making process include:
- Permanence. For more established businesspersons, buying becomes a viable option if the plan is to stay in one location for at least several years, particularly if the neighborhood is one well-suited to the business (e.g. fine jewelry in an upper middle class area.)
- Affordability. Business owners looking to buy typically are willing and able to make a substantial real estate investment. By the same token, buying property usually assures a fairly predictable annual costs. (an attractive benefit even for someone just starting out.)
Buying Benefits
- Fixed costs. Besides locking in a long-term commercial mortgage, you won't be dealing with rent increase.
- Tax deductions. Owners can usually deduct the full amount of mortgage payments, with repairs written off immediately. However, improvements to commercial properties have to be deducted over 39 years. Depreciation on commercial buildings likewise is taken over a 39-year period.
- Extra income. You may be able to lease out a portion of the building if you determine that you have excess space.
- Control. If you need to make substantial changes to the building to accommodate your business, you own those changes, not your landlord. Business hours are up to you, and you can remain in your location indefinitely.
- Future Sale. You'll benefit financially if you sell in a good real estate market.
Buying Drawbacks
- Up front costs. Buying commercial space will initially cost far more up front. Property, appraisal and maintenance costs, along with a large down payment and potential property improvement costs, also are concerns.
- Lack of flexibility. You may outgrow your space and be forced to sell.
Leasing Benefits
- Prime Property. A leasing office space option provides a business with the chance to rent in an area with a good location and high image. If your small business is dependent on location and image, such as retail or restaurants, the leasing option is much more affordable.
- Free-up Working Capital. With your money not tied up in real estate your business can respond to opportunities in the market. In addition, your ability to borrow funds will not be as limited as with buying office space.
- Easier to qualify. A strong credit rating will not be quite as critical for leasing as it would be for buying. This may be a big concern for start-ups and small businesses.
- Tax deductions. Your monthly lease payment is tax deductible because it's a business expense.
- Freedom. You'll be able to sublet and move to another location if you need or want to, with no hassle of selling before you can move and no loss from owning a building in a bad real estate market.
- More time and money. You'll be free from the headaches and cost of maintaining your own building, with more time to focus on running your business.
Leasing Drawbacks
- Variable costs. You may be subject to annual rent increases and higher costs at the time when your lease expires.
- Non-renewal. When leasing property, one can fall prey to a variable market when the contract expires.
- Broken lease. It's usually possible to break a lease if the landlord and tenant both agree in writing. Still, a standard agreement means either party can terminate lease by giving notice within a set period of time. As a tenant breaking an agreement, you can be made liable for rental costs for a prescribed time period (e.g. six months, a year). In addition, the landlord may hold you responsible for any advertising fees incurred in the search for new tenants.
- Lack of Equity. You will be funding someone else's retirement with your lease payments.
- Lack of Control. You may not be able to make space modifications you would like and may have the headache of dealing with a troublesome landlord.


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"'Is this new BMW-designed sled the ultimate sledding machine for Langdon and Holcomb?' Leigh Diffey asked before the pair cruised to victory. I dont know, but I know that sled is the ultimate Olympic Games product placement.." -- Jen Chaney
True. Perhaps this seems like more of an issue now because of a certain skater who skating under the current system.
I'm not saying we should go back to factored placements. I am saying that there are definitely things that need to be worked on in the current judging system. The current judging system may not have caused the decline in viewership and shows in the US. However, there are some things (like cookie cutter programs and programs that work great at presenting parts but not a coherent whole) that probably won't help to bring American fans back either. There are other issues too that have nothing to do with any judging system (like lack of a US ladies star). I guess I'm just saying it's a complex issue (it would be nice to have stats about fans so the ISU, skaters and fans knew what to do to make skating more appealing). I don't think 6.0 will make the sport popular in the US again. However, I don't think we should overlook some weaknesses in the system either. Reading this discussion, it just feels as if there two camps (6.0 and CoP) and neither wants to admits that maybe the other side has some legitimate points.Now the boring programs? That makes sense to me. The criteria pretty much demands that skaters all aim for the same things. So many programs are similar. And that won't change much under IJS.
But that has nothing to do with this fondness for factored placements.
"If people are looking for guarantees, they should buy appliances at Sears and stay away from human relationships."~Prancer
I don't know of anyone who doesn't think COP has flaws. I don't know whether it has been a factor in decline of interest in skating, but I certainly think that the system needs to be changed in any number of ways to improve skating for the skaters and the existing fans, both in terms of content and in terms of people feeling the results fully reflect what happened on the ice.
I don't even know why 6.0 is being discussed since it is dead and buried and never coming back. Certainly some folks who favored the system over the IJS like to argue about why it was better and IJS was a big mistake, just like some folks like to re-argue the results of past competitions. That's what discussion boards are for but it doesn't have much to do with the future of the sport, except insofar as people may look at what was lost when we changed to IJS and perhaps try to re-design aspects of the system to try to regain those aspects.
I am happy that its over. Happy that I did well. Yu Na Kim
I wonder how much the same people would complain if the skater(s) who most often won with messy performances were more to their taste artistically or in off-ice personality.
I think there are three things that could be done within a code-of-points environment to decrease the cookie-cutter-ness.However, there are some things (like cookie cutter programs and programs that work great at presenting parts but not a coherent whole) that probably won't help to bring American fans back either.
1) Jigger the scale of values for non-jump elements such that it is always more valuable to earn higher GOE than to earn a higher level, and encourage judges to award positive GOEs, especially to simple elements with no flaws. (For spins, for example, another positive bullet point could be "consistent speed [or centering] throughout")
2) Add even more level features and even more kinds of elements, and allow some flexibility in the number of each kind of element, so that skaters will have more individual choice about what skills to showcase to earn points based on their own strengths.
A lot of the cookie-cutterness comes in elements where there are 4 possible features to earn level 4, so anyone who can tries to do all of them. If there were 8 possible features, then even if all skaters aim for level 4 (which suggestion 1 above would cut down on), they wouldn't all be choosing the same features.
Also for some features that are on the books but are rarely seen, it may be because they're much harder to do at all or much harder to do in ways that tech panels are willing to call. So if the rules could be changed to make those features worth more, or if the minimum threshold for getting credit for that feature were relaxed, then we'd see more skaters trying those features instead of the already-popular ones.
3) Use different rules in the technical program and free program so that one program rewards difficulty as defined by levels and the other ignores the levels and rewards quality only. It could be argued either way which program should be which:
*Technical program requires simple basic elements to be compared apples to apples, no reward for variations and variations that compromise the basicness of the element are not allowed. Free program gives skaters the freedom to showcase whatever variations and adornments they can achieve and rewards the difficult ones with higher levels/base marks.
*Technical program rewards technical difficulty, encouraging as many different skills within each element as possible. Free program rewards quality -- skaters are free to use whatever variations they're good at, but in this program they're only rewarded for the quality.
The ISU has taken a small step in that last direction with the introduction of the choreo sequence. Would we like to see that approach go further in the free program and keep the short program as the place to showcase the multiple variations?
By making emphases of the two programs that different, it would also push individual skaters to develop different kinds of skills for each.
I'm in the camp that believes it would be futile to try to go back. But I do think there is room for some significant steps forward in the current context to try to achieve goals (e.g., variety between skaters) that are currently lacking.Reading this discussion, it just feels as if there two camps (6.0 and CoP) and neither wants to admits that maybe the other side has some legitimate points.
One thing they could do to get on the road to improving things would be to hire gkelly as a consultant.
I am happy that its over. Happy that I did well. Yu Na Kim
CoP has its flaws and so did 6.0. And people have a right to talk about them unless the mods say otherwise.
As Christine Brennan points out in her article, popular reality shows like Dancing with the Stars use a similar numerical ranking (greatly simplified, of course)--a system that figure skating invented! Everyone knew that 6.0 was a perfect score. No one had to bring a calculator to figure out how much a skater needed to go ahead. No one is holding up placards that say 150 during Yu Na's long program. It was part of the fun of being a fan--sort of like the baseball fans who bring "K" placards for pitchers known for striking out a lot of batters.
I am happy that its over. Happy that I did well. Yu Na Kim
With 6.0 we had:
1) Cookie cutter programs - some skaters had the same jump layout year after year and the only thing that changed was the music. A particular move got popular and it seemed like every skater did it. A particular piece of music was in the media and that year every discipline had at least 1 skater using it (way more at the lower levels).
2) Boring programs because the skaters weren't artists and the same 10 pieces of music were used over and over (okay it's more than 10 but it seemed like only 10) and the skaters didn't really do much with their programs and choreography but get the job done and put their elements out on the ice
3) The occasional artistic masterpiece that we all remember even 20-30 years later.
4) Messy programs with falls winning over clean programs and people screaming (but he fell twice!)
5) Safe but clean programs winning over programs with hard content with falls and mistake and people screaming (but he tried a quad and didn't win!)
6) People having brilliant free skates but can't win because of what happened in the short (which the viewing audience may or may not have seen or remembered)
7) People have not so brilliant free skates but still win because of what happened in the short (which the viewing audience may or may not have seen or remembered)
8) Viewership started to decline
That's right. Absolutely NONE of these things that people are blaming on CoP are CoP problems. Every single one of them happened under 6.0.
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That shows how useless Christine Brennan's voice has become. I don't think the idea is ever going to fly that DWTS should be an international Olympic sport with multiple countries' celebrities facing off . She might as well write endless articles about how soccer is dying because Americans don't get how boring it is.
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The point is not that DWTS is or should be an international sport (and I know you were joking). It's that it copied figure skating's numerical ranking system to draw in fans--a system that figure skating invented and then threw away! I'm not a huge Brennan fan, but her article, linked at the first post, makes some very good observations.
And even said from a skater, "I can only milk this story so much".