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The president of Imagine Schools Inc. sent his employees a memo last fall outlining how he thinks his schools should operate.
In Dennis Bakke's opinion, it shouldn't be local people making decisions about how local tax dollars should be spent; it should be the Imagine executives employed by the for-profit educational management company based in Arlington, Va.
"In none of these cases did the board have a major role in 'starting' the school. They didn't write the charter. They didn't finance the start up of the school or the building. They didn't find the principal or any of the teachers and staff. They didn't design the curriculum. In some cases, they did help recruit students," Bakke wrote. "I do not mind them being grateful to us for starting the school (our school, not theirs), but the gratitude and the humility that goes with it, needs to extend to the operation of the school."
In fact, one Imagine executive said local school boards should be nothing but figureheads.
Paul Faber, an Imagine Schools Inc. regional executive director, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week boards are needed only to hold the charter.
"Ultimately, do you really need a board to run a school?" he asked the newspaper. "No. You really don't."
Bakke's ideas for who should be making the decisions concerning Imagine's 73 charter schools across the country go against the spirit of the charter school movement, which calls for independence and innovation in return for greater accountability.
Bakke's memo, written in September 2008 and obtained several weeks ago by The Journal Gazette, says it is Imagine, which is hired to run the day-to-day operations at the schools, that creates, owns and runs its charter schools, not local boards. The memo has been widely published since it appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Oct. 25.
The memo, which warns against letting local board members think they are in control, says it is not a policy pronouncement and is just a draft for discussion purposes only but was sent to all Imagine executives and appears to be a national blueprint for how the company operates.
That blueprint is being copied in Fort Wayne, where copies of Bakke's book, "Joy at Work," are for sale at the school office.
Not only do Imagine's local boards not vote on anything of significance – busing, curriculum, employees – but since their inception, the boards' involvement in the schools have been minimal.
The problem with local boards, Bakke opined in the memo, is that members sometimes think they should have the right to make decisions.
"Whether or not a person has been on a board or not…most people believe that boards are 'governance' boards. In other words, they are 'in charge' of the school," Bakke wrote. "Without you saying anything to them, they will believe that they are responsible for making big decisions about budget matters, school policies, hiring of the principal and dozens of other matters. This is the way most non-profit boards work, so no one should be surprised by the assumptions held by the board members you select for an Imagine School."
State law requires charter schools to have tax-exempt status from the IRS. IRS guidelines for determining whether a charter school qualifies as tax-exempt hinge on whether the school operates solely for charitable purposes or whether an individual or a taxable company benefits.
"The board may not delegate its responsibility and ultimate accountability for the school's operations to a for-profit management company without raising the issue of whether the organization is operating for the private benefit of that company," an IRS publication says.
But Bakke says in his memo the schools don't belong to the local boards. Bakke's vision of a board as a body only there to give advice – rather than the independent, ultimate authority described by the IRS – is echoed on the company's Web site, which says local school boards are "an advisory body that works together with Imagine's leaders, teachers, and staff."
Whose school is it?
In Fort Wayne, Imagine's charter schools were formed by local businessman Don Willis. But Imagine was on the scene setting up Imagine MASTer Academy before any parents group was organized. Imagine officials incorporated the non-profit entity and applied for tax-exempt status for it, and the contract with Imagine for the first school was signed five months before the local board held its first meeting.
Their first attempt to open a school was rejected by Ball State University because it gave even more control to Imagine than the current setup.
In that proposal, Bakke incorporated a local company that was owned by Imagine Schools Non-Profit Inc., Imagine officials appointed board members and the company's vice president was to be a board member. Ball State called that a conflict of interest.
But even with the current setup, which Ball State approved, it was Imagine officials who decided to open Imagine Schools on Broadway, and it was Imagine officials who have been working to open a third school, Imagine Bridge Academy.
For all three schools, no local board has ever taken bids from other management companies, publicly debated Imagine's contract or publicly voted on approving it. Imagine officials filed the incorporation papers for each, applied for tax-exempt status for each and applied for the charter for each.
Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Chicago, said it appears Ball State, which granted Imagine's charters in Fort Wayne, failed in its duty to ensure local control.
"That is absolutely unacceptable," Richmond said. "If the governing board is compromised, from that point on everything else has the potential to be compromised."
Larry Gabbert, director of Ball State's Office of Charter Schools, said attorneys looked over Imagine's governance structure before the charter was issued, and everything passed the legal test.
IRS rules forbid vendors to have control over the non-profits that hire them. But the best way to keep control of a local board, Bakke wrote, is for Imagine executives to select the board members themselves.
Willis – who acknowledged completing a handshake deal with Bakke months before a local board was even formed – agrees the board should be hands-off.
"Our role is to look Imagine in the eye and say, 'here's what we want to achieve,'" Willis said. "I should not be telling Imagine how they must operate to execute the goals I set for them."
Bakke did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment.
'Not there to make decisions'
Troy Bell knows exactly how Imagine Schools Inc. operates.
Bell used to be the director of development and new school concepts for Imagine Schools in Indianapolis but was laid off after what he calls a "power struggle" between him and Guy Platter, Imagine executive and former principal of Fort Wayne's Imagine MASTer Academy.
Imagine executives in Virginia look for cities in which to begin charter schools, pinpointing areas with poor test scores that are not meeting federal accountability standards, cities with low property values and states with solid charter school laws, Bell said. They then solicit community members in those cities to "start" the charter schools and become members of the board, he said.
It's not people self-organizing, it's a corporation encouraging the structure, Bell said.
"That initial stuff is what places the whole charter concept into a realm of potential misuse," Bell said.
In theory, Imagine Schools facilitates the charter application process, but in reality, an Imagine official completes the entire application and local people sign it, Bell said. The board then enters into a contract with Imagine Schools to manage the operations of the school.
At any time, the board can cancel that relationship, but then it's left with nothing: Imagine employs the teachers, administrators, usually owns the buildings and often owns the curriculum.
"Even though (Imagine) formally doesn't control the charter or the charter board, the school would really not exist if Imagine doesn't stay, and that's the leverage Imagine has over a board," Bell said. "That's basically the same model Imagine uses everywhere."
If Imagine – Fort Wayne Charter School were to break ties with Imagine Schools, for example, it would have to find a new campus after its lease expires, would have no Web site and would have to change its name. Teacher contracts would transfer to it, but those teachers would have no health insurance or other benefits until the school board bought them.
Bell confirmed the message in Bakke's memo is company policy.
"The attitude that Mr. Bakke has is the boards are there to support the efforts of the company, they're not there to run the school," Bell said. "They're there to provide us with the flavor and the culture of the community that we as outsiders of the community might not be privy to. They are not there to make decisions. They are there to help build relationships. That's the general attitude I was privy to when I was with the company."
It's a message that's getting through: In the 2 1/2 years the Imagine – Fort Wayne Charter School board has been meeting, not a single "no" vote has been recorded at its meetings, documents show.
None has been recorded for the two other Imagine school boards here, either.
"We have a real, meaningful board," Willis said. "We have some clout."
'We control who stays'
Heather Presley joined the Imagine – Fort Wayne Charter School board in the fall of 2006, thinking it was a good way for a parent to be involved in her children's education.
And she wasn't worried that the board didn't meet for six months after she joined, because the school was just getting started and everything was in the formative stages. She was told it was not board members' role to oversee the process of creating the school.
"The actual organization of everything, my understanding was that that was already taken care of, or already decided," Presley said.
Presley, the city of Fort Wayne's director of Housing and Neighborhood Services, said board members had no role in negotiating the contract with Imagine, a deal that gave the company 12 percent of the school's total revenue and gave it almost all decision-making power. Documents released Friday show the contract with Imagine for the MASTer Academy was approved by board members signing a resolution five months before they held their first meeting.
Presley also said – and board meeting minutes show – board members never discussed curriculum, policy, enrollment, discipline, goals or operations, although they were all spelled out in the application for a charter.
She attended two meetings – both of which were extremely informal, she said – missed two meetings and then resigned from the board because she didn't have time to commit. Now, she's glad she left.
"When you sit around a table with people you know and trust from the community, you assume things are on the up and up," Presley said.
Bakke's memo details his ideas for keeping boards under control – make members feel wanted by approaching them not for decisions, but for advice.
"The best way to acknowledge your need for a board member is to keep them informed of what is happening and ask them their advice on ALL significant decisions before the school, including hiring and firing decisions," Bakke wrote. "I believe that most of the problems we have with boards are caused not from taking decision making away from them, but not involving them in the advice process."
And when board members do become a problem by thinking they are in charge, Bakke has an easy answer: Get rid of them.
"Sometimes you can protect yourself from board members that you chose, by getting undated letters of resignation from the start that can be acted on by us at any time would also help," Bakke wrote. "Some states allow 'founding' boards that can be changed once the school starts. That is a good idea if we can control who stays and who goes."
Controlling who stays and who goes is exactly the technique Imagine Schools used to rein in a board for a proposed school in Texas that was asking too many questions about Imagine's contract and Imagine's decision-making power.
And the tool Imagine Schools Inc. used to exert that control was its school in Fort Wayne and the power the board members here unknowingly gave away.


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Pet Talk: Benefits of prosthetic limbs for dogs
From College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University
Prosthetic intervention has been used for many years in human rehabilitation to achieve mechanical and rehabilitative goals, that is, to stand up and walk again. The use of these prosthetic devices has been limited in veterinary medicine, although published case reports have existed for more than 40 years.
"The use of prosthetic devices in veterinary medicine is in its infancy," said Dr. Jacqueline Davidson, clinical professor at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. "Usually, most dogs and cats do really well with three legs and so, in the past, veterinarians just amputated the affected leg."
For most of these injuries, even those that require the amputation of more than one leg, there are other devices, such as wheeled carts that can do the job. "In the last 10 years, people started to do more prosthetics," Davidson says. "Lately, we are seeing more small animals with prosthetics."
This surgery is not a cheap one, and normally it is the owner who requests it.
"There are different types of surgeries that involve prosthetic limbs. One surgery involves fitting a prosthesis over the skin on the stump of the leg, and the other one is more involved as the prosthesis is implanted into the bone," Davidson said.
According to Davidson, this kind of surgery, though promising, will still need some time to be more cost-effective. "Right now, you have to work with a prosthetist and you have to order the materials specifically for each animal," Davidson said. "It can be very expensive."
Just like humans do, pets that undergo this kind of surgery and get a prosthesis implanted need to go through a rehabilitation process. "Sometimes, getting the pet to adapt depends on the personality of the animal, on the circumstances, or their age. But after some time, they start to adjust and live a fairly normal life," Davidson said.
It's important to remember that, after a successful prosthetic implant, pets are not the only ones who recover several degrees of freedom. Their owners feel a sense of freedom because they are able to sit on the porch or sofa again and watch their cats and dogs run around the house.
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Good news may be coming if you're an Allentown resident who owns a recreational vehicle or truck camper.
On Wednesday night, City Council may do away with a requirement that you need to get a permit to load or unload your vehicle on a city street.
You're probably not alone if you're now thinking: "What permit?"
City Council vice president Ray O'Connell said the Allentown Parking Authority, which issues those permits, "only has three or four regular customers. People really don't care about getting a permit to load and unload."
"So you need a permit and nobody's getting a permit?" asked council member Jeanette Eichenwald during a council committee meeting earlier this week.
Council also may vote to allow RVs and campers to be parked on streets for 48 hours to load and unload, rather than the current 24-hour limit. But people who keep them on the street longer can be fined.
However, life may become more complicated for RV and camper owners if a majority of City Council members agree with council president Julio Guridy next week. He thinks the city should start fining people who don't get permits to load and unload.
Right now there are no fees to obtain such permits and no penalties if people do not get permits, said O'Connell.
"The permit makes absolutely no sense," said Eichenwald. "There's no fine involved. It's a hassle for people. It doesn't enhance the quality of anybody's life. And it's unenforceable."
An ordinance proposed for council's consideration originally would have changed the existing law to allow owners to get 48-hour permits, rather than 24-hour permits. That proposal was initiated by RV owners, said O'Connell.
But that proposal was changed during a lengthy discussion at Wednesday night's meeting of council's public works committee, which O'Connell chairs.
He and Eichenwald voted to recommend that City Council do away with permits and simply allow residents 48 hours to have RVs and campers parked on streets.
However, the three-member committee's recommendation to council was not unanimous.
Council member Joe Davis, the third committee member, said 24 hours is enough time to load and unload. "I wouldn't be in favor of extending it to 48 hours."
Davis said there have been problems in the past with people sleeping in RVs parked on streets and RVs sticking too far out into narrow streets. He said if an RV is parked for 48 hours in a neighborhood with a narrow street, 20 or 30 residents soon may be complaining to the city.
He also noted allowing such vehicles to remain on a street for 48 hours could constitute an entire weekend.
Eichenwald initially agreed with Davis to maintain the 24-hour limit. But after listening to residents, she said: "I'm in favor of no permit, 48 hours."
However, she wants the city to retain the ability to fine people who abuse that 48-hour privilege.
The city's original 24-hour limit was imposed on RV/camper parking to stop people from keeping such vehicles in front of their homes for a long time, explained City Clerk Michael Hanlon. He said before that law existed, the city got calls from residents complaining about RVs parked on streets, but it receives few such complaints since the law was passed.
"There's a huge difference between having an RV always parked in front of your property versus loading and unloading an RV," said Eichenwald. "It seems to me you shouldn't require a permit to load and unload an RV."
Addressing his colleagues on the issue, Guridy said: "I advocate we make people get a permit."
"How do you make everyone get a permit –if they play by all the rules except getting the permit?" asked O'Connell.
Said Guridy: "They should get a fine if they don't have a permit and you catch them, because you have no way to know when they parked there."
He continued: "If we have something on the books, we should be able to enforce it. If people are supposed to get a permit and they're not getting a permit, that's a problem. So why have it on the books? I have a big problem with putting laws on the books that we cannot enforce or we do not enforce."
O'Connell said there was an incorrect misunderstanding that RV and camper owners have to pay $50 for a permit: $25 to load to go on vacation and another $25 to unload when they return home.
But he noted the city does have fines for those who violate the current 24-hour limit. Those fines begin at $50 and climb to $100, depending on how quickly they are paid.
O'Connell and Eichenwald want to keep those fines for those who violate their proposed 48-hour limit.
Guridy said the advantage of permits is the city knows when people will park to load or unload. "If you don't have a permit, you should get a fine," he said.
But O'Connell said residents may not want to get permits for home security reasons: they don't want anybody, including people working at the parking authority, to know they are going out of town.
Said Eichenwald: "I wouldn't go get a permit to tell people I'm going on vacation."
Resident Ken Laudenslager, who helped create the original load/unload ordinance several years ago, told the committee its intent was simple: "Without the permit, they're not allowed to be parked on the street."
Laudenslager implored council members to keep the 24-hour time limit. He said there is no reason an RV or camper can't be loaded or unloaded in 24 hours. He also said there's no way he wants someone to park their RV in front of his house for an entire weekend.
But resident Harvey Stahler said housecleaning an RV can't be done in 24 hours.
Stahler, who provided estimates that suggest there may be about 600 RV owners in Allentown, said most owners don't park them in the city because there is no space to store them and too much vandalism.
Resident Tom Hahn also advocated a 48-hour limit, indicating that much time is needed to unload, especially if people return home from a trip on a Sunday night and have to go to work Monday morning.
"We've been camping since 1968 with no ordinance, no permit, no complaints – unless a jealous neighbor or a nosy busybody wants to know your business," said Hahn. "When the rest of the world wants to go on vacation, they don't have to get a permit."
Changes coming soon for Allentown RV and camper owners
Good news may be coming if you're an Allentown resident who owns a recreational vehicle or truck camper.
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1946 cj2A Willys Jeep Project with Clean Ohio title. Brand new Omix Ada replacement body tub. Original grill, front fenders and hood. nos M38 windshield frame (may still have cj3A vent for it). Two "willys" tailgates. No rust except for the tailgates, I was going to use both of them to make one good one. Brand new plastic racing ...
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1946 Willys Jeep for sale in our Detroit showroom! This Jeep is a blast from the past! This Jeep for sale is an attention grabber! You will get looks ...the legendary G.I. workhorse of World War ii was introduced in 1945. The Farm Jeep came complete with a power take-off unit for operating various farm implements. This ...
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Upper Sandusky 43351, OH, United States1 month ago on craigslist.org
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Www.wmsohio.com This '46 Jeep Willys cj2 runs and operates great ! No mechanical issues at all. Recent frame off restoration and looks great. Miles are actual on title. Please call or email with any questions you have prior to buying online, thanks.
Carlsbad 92008, CA, United States1 week ago on americanlisted.com
For sale $20,500jeep willys blue 1946 convertible gasoline
Condition: Used. Exterior color: Blue. Interior color: blue with black seats. Transmission: Manual. Fule type: Gasoline. Engine: 4. Drivetrain: U/K. Vehicle title: Clear. Body type: Convertible. Warra
Cherry Hill 08003, NJ, United States2 weeks ago on autoshopper.com
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Boston 02115, MA, United States1 week ago on sellswell.us
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1946 cj2A Willys Jeep, Good condition, painted for pow mia and veterans parades. runs well. 44k origional miles.Started off new at Squantum Air Base, Quincy, Ma. 11,000.
Stockton 95297, CA, United States3 weeks ago on craigslist.org
For sale $6,800willys red 1946 4x4
1946 willys jeep - $6800 (lodi California) ( google map ) ( yahoo map ) 1946 willys jeep paint color : red drive : 4wd fuel : gas transmission : manual title status : clean cylinders : 4 cylinders 4X4 1946 willys jeep for sale. Looks good runs great original engine has an over drive no rust. Real head turner.
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2012 De Ponte Cellars D.F.B. Dundee Hills Willamette Valley Melon de Bourgogne
13.0% alc., $25. Old vines planted almost 40 years ago. D.F.B. = D. Fred Baldwin. · Very light pale yellow and clear. The nose is pleasing with aromas of citrus including pineapple, and hints of marzipan and banana cream. Crisp, bright and juicy, with flavors of citrus, apple and peach backed by lively acidity, carrying over to the tight finish. Score: 88. Reviewed June 18, 2014 WINERY » ARTICLE »
2011 De Ponte Cellars Estate Dundee Hills Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
13.5% alc., $55. · Moderately light garnet color in the glass. Nicely perfumed with bright aromas of strawberry, cherry and raspberry coulis. Lighter in color than the 2010 vintage Estate bottling, but brighter and more tantalizing with a crisp expression of red fruit. The tannins are nicely integrated, the oak is complimentary, and the finish is refreshingly crisp. A wine of great finesse, charm and harmony. Score: 94. Reviewed June 18, 2014 WINERY » ARTICLE »
2011 De Ponte Cellars Baldwin Family Reserve Dundee Hills Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
13.4% alc., $70. A winemaker selection of full-bodied and complex barrels in the cellar. Limited production. · Moderately light garnet color in the glass. The nose envelopes your senses with aromas of red cherry, raspberry and exotic spices that reveal themselves gradually in the glass over time. Superlatives can hardly due justice to this wine which is extraordinary in every way. It is polished, balanced, elegant and hi-collared, with a delicious core of vivid cherry, raspberry and spice flavors, a caressing texture, and remarkable persistence on the finish. This wine seduces with charm, not power. A connoisseur's wine that will age beautifully. Score: 96. Reviewed June 18, 2014 WINERY » ARTICLE »
2010 De Ponte Cellars Estate Dundee Hills Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
13.5% alc., $55. Sourced from the best blocks in the vineyard. · Medium reddish purple color in the glass. An elegant wine with soft tannins, offering aromas and flavors of red cherry, cranberry, baking spice, sarsasparilla and oak. There is a generous oak sheen expressed as notes of toast and espresso. Juicy with a good grip of backing acidity. Score: 90. Reviewed June 18, 2014 WINERY » ARTICLE »
2009 De Ponte Cellars Dundee Hills Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
14.1% alc., 1,881 cases, $38. From the De Ponte estate vineyard. French oak aged for 12 months in 20% new and 80% 2 to 5 year-old barrels. · Moderately light reddish-purple color in the glass. Full-on perfume of fresh boysenberries, potpourri, incense, and Moroccan spices. Lip smacking black cherry and boysenberry essence with subtle oak, musk and spice undertones. Everything you want in a Pinot Noir: mouthwatering attack, bright acidity, ripe tannins, a lingering finish and impeccable balance. A stylish and sensual pleasure. Reviewed November 2, 2011 WINERY » ARTICLE »
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I made this luxurious faux fur scarf and cape combo for my little sister up in Canada who loves hunting and plaid, but isn't such a big fashionista. When she saw the outfit, she said that it was "very Mrs. Howell" (anybody watch Gilligan's Island?), but I think she liked it anyways.
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The Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), which is not administered by Employees' Retirement System (ERS) but as a separate state entity, is the largest of the state's retirement systems.
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PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — If your disgust over America's crushing debt and the irresponsible leaders who refuse to reduce unnecessary spending has reached the fed-up point, there is an easy solution beyond whatever compromise might be reached in the current standoff between President Obama and congressional Republicans. Vote Republican in 2012.
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It's official: You can now legally carrier-unlock your mobile in the US
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It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
Unfortunately the US is probably the only country where this is possible, since there are braindead international contracts which are used by other countries to argue against abolishing their local DMCA versions. In the US nobody cares about international law.
Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
You are fking joking right? The US originally pushed DMCA variants onto the rest of the world via trade agreements (AKA "agree to trade with us or else").
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I think the threat's starting to lose its bite. Some countries seem to be threatening to take the "or else" and close relations with the US, meaning they don't care anymore.
Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
'Only in the US.....'. Tosh.
In the UK there are shops on the high street who will unlock your phone for a tenner. I think every one of the high street mobile phone retailers sells unlocked versions of popular phones (possibly not every phone nor every shop: I cannot check everything). I have bought nothing but unlocked phones for 10 years now.
In curtailing personal freedoms, the US is turning into the world leader,
Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
Well of course the US pushed the DMCA. However if you go to a politician outside of the UK, they will always refer to the international agreements.
For an US politician international agreements are not an argument, they just want them to make life in other places worth and just ignore them when they become problematic.
Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
International Law?
As with all Despotic Democracies they choose what to follow and what to ignore.
Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA
"In curtailing personal freedoms, the US is turning into the world leader,"
That's all an extension of a Bush policy based on the "they hate our freedom" theory.
If we eliminate all our freedom, then nobody will hate us anymore, and we'll all be safe from terrorists!
Bush and company were very enthusiastic about eliminating freedom in the US and had made a pretty good start on it. Some of us had hoped that Obama would reverse course on that plan, but we've been sadly disappointed. Progress towards freedom-elimination may have slowed a little at best...
A glimmer of hope
Now, if the US could simply pass legislation making it illegal to produce non-user-serviceable products. As it currently stands, it seems that Apple is turning MacBook Pro laptops into non-upgradeable devices and that's a bad precedent.
Re: A glimmer of hope
How about one that guarantees the right of exhaustion in regards to virtual (download-only) software? And prevents software from being leased without a formal written contract (to keep business software leases OK)?
Re: A glimmer of hope
If Apple want to sell a Macbook that's a single lump of cast plastic: that's their business.
If you buy it; that's your choice.
For the love of God, don't encourage "da gubbermint" to legislate screw sizes , access panel arrangements and all that jazz.
Next you'll be asking "Why is my Tablet expensive, thick and not waterproof like the ones they sell in Japan"?
Re: A glimmer of hope
I tend to follow that simple in appearance (but very useful piece of advice) rather than just buy things that "Look nice".
""If you do not like a certain aspect of a product, or the product contains draconian measures to prevent you using it in any way you see fit, do not buy it.""
I know it is a new concept, and takes a while to sink in, but hey we're IT people, we can cope with complexity.
Re: A glimmer of hope
Da gubbermint legislated GSM, that didn't turn out too badly.
No need to legislate screw sizes though. If some mass produced item with a large impact on the environment like the MacBook can't be easily repaired or dismantled for recycling then I honestly think it should be taxed accordingly. That'll focus Apple's brilliant marketing mind (because it's marketing which has driven extremely thin designs with glued-on screens and batteries).
Re: A glimmer of hope
GSM was developed by a non-governmental standards body.
Re: A glimmer of hope
> don't encourage "da gubbermint" to legislate screw sizes
Guess what, Einstein: screw sizes are regulated. ANSI, ISO, DIN, etc. So are power outlets, plastic cups, toilet paper roll dimensions, etc.
if these items weren't regulated, you wouldn't be able to find a replacement screw for your skateboard at the hardware store. You'd only be able to buy it from the manufacturer, who would have a patent on it, and would charge you USD $150 retail for it.
Re: A glimmer of hope
That's not what's stopping a skateboard maker from doing that. Apple does it now to some degree; it just suffers from "if man can make it, man can make it again" and "patents aren't enforceable across borders". Sometimes, standard screws are just a ton cheaper to use. Other times, it's demanded of the customer. Take the skateboard again. Above a certain level of skill, skateboarders start customizing their boards, which means they will be demanding parts that can be swapped out easily or they won't be buying.
Re: A glimmer of hope
ANSI, DIN and ISO are not legislative bodies. They are standards bodies. They don't regulate. The government doesn't generally regulate or specify which standards are to be used - industry cooperates to produce standards that then become the norm.
There's no legislation or national regulation regarding screw sizes, plugs or skateboards. Phone chargers are a good example: governments required that a standard must exist. They didn't legislate what that standard should contain.
Try again.
Re: A glimmer of hope
> Guess what, Einstein: screw sizes are regulated. ANSI, ISO, DIN, etc.
Guess what, idiot: ANSI, ISO, DIN etc aren't regulations. They are standards.
You are free to use any non standard screw size you wish to. Since it is non standard you will have to pay a manufacturer to make it and it will cost you more than using a standard screw.
Re: A glimmer of hope
"can't be easily repaired or dismantled for recycling"
I'd go along with you on repair but when it comes to dismantling for recycling I'd guess a hammer might be sufficient.
Re: A glimmer of hope
apple make skateboards?
Re: A glimmer of hope
Now, if the US could simply pass legislation making it illegal to produce non-user-serviceable products. As it currently stands, it seems that Apple is turning MacBook Pro laptops into non-upgradeable devices and that's a bad precedent.
Some things really shouldn't be user serviceable because most users are completely clueless. Capacitors in PSUs spring to mind; anyone who doesn't know what they're doing could give themselves a nasty injury. I realise that some people here may have adequate skills to service a power supply but if you can do that safely you can also probably figure out how to get past funny shaped proprietary screws.
Re: A glimmer of hope
The current glued-together iPad/iPhone/MacBooks are far easier to recycle than the equivalent products held together with screws. Pop up 'em in an oven, the glue melts and they fall apart. Turn up the oven a bit and all the SMD components fall off the PCB too.
Re: A glimmer of hope
> governments required that a standard must exist.
Guess what: a government requiring that something exists means it's a statutory requirement.
It doesn't matter WHO develops the standard, or what's in it. What matters is that the existence of said Standard is a statutory requirement.
Try again.
Re: A glimmer of hope
> Guess what, idiot: ANSI, ISO, DIN etc aren't regulations. They are standards.
Why don't you look up the definition of a Standard, Genius.
Re: A glimmer of hope
Da gubbermint legislated GSM, that didn't turn out too badly.
Not in the US where this law applies. The transition from analog saw several different technologies being used and at one point it wouldn't matter if you could unlock your phone since it would only work on a single carrier. It's gotten better over here but that's only because smaller players got gobbled by the bigger ones who weren't interested in having six different systems in their network.
Now let's look at something the US gub't did legislate for a long time. Automotive sealed beam headlamps hamstrung automotive design in the US for quite some time but certainly made it simple to replace as you had a choice of manufacturers of your 7" hi/lo round lamps up until 1957 when 5-3/4" lamps were allowed which were available in hi/lo and hi only. Then in 1974 Uncle Sam authorized the unthinkable - rectangular lamps! I wonder what cars could have looked like if folks could have designed lighting systems to a functional requirement rather than being forced to use one of A, B, C or D.
Re: Apple make skateboards!
Of course they do. They brand them as MacBook Air but are bugger all use in computing contexts, so people fix wheels to them :-P
Re: A glimmer of hope
GSM was developed by a non-governmental standards body.
Which was a working body set up by the CEPT (part of the then EC). GSM was later ratified by national governments in the Bonn declaration.
I wonder what cars could have looked like if folks could have designed lighting systems to a functional requirement rather than being forced to use one of A, B, C or D.
The mobile phone equivalent of that would be the GSM working body setting up a standard for how mobile phones should look, which would also be silly.
Wow, the Apple hating trolls manage to bring them in any thread
If you claim you're not trolling, then please provide me a list of laptops that have a socketed CPU. Nevermind, I guess I already have that list, because there are none.
I suppose you'd say you're talking about stuff like RAM, not CPUs. If so, who gets to decide what parts need to be upgradeable and what parts are OK to be built in? Who decides what categories of products it applies to, since you can't upgrade RAM in any phone or tablet? Better write your law carefully, otherwise Surface might count as a laptop if it ships with a keyboard, and Microsoft would be unable to sell it lest they run afoul of your stupid law.
Re: Wow, the Apple hating trolls manage to bring them in any thread
I may be out of context, but I had to jump in and point out my HP laptop (and the one I had before it) has socketed RAM, socketed CPU and socketed GPU. I have upgraded the CPU on more than one occasion. Sadly GPU upgrades are limited to one or two whitelisted by the BIOS, which rather defeats the purpose.
I am all for laptopts being as modular and upgradable as possible. Some vendors have been quite good at this at times.
Re: A glimmer of hope
Standard. Any norm, convention or requirement
Technical standard, an established norm or requirement about technical systems
International standard, standards suitable for worldwide use
Standards organization, an entity primarily concerned with maintaining standards
Standardization, the process of establishing technical standards
Re: A glimmer of hope
> Which was a working body set up by the CEPT (part of the then EC). GSM was later ratified by national governments in the Bonn declaration.
It is completely pointless to try arguing facts with the Tea Party crowd. Their motto is "Get the Gubmint's hands off Medicare".
Fact: Medicare - in the USA - is a Federal Government health insurance program.
They perceive the idea of a light bulb's specifications being regulated by a government as an offensive trampling on their imaginary liberties.
In a truly Free Society, according to these Freedom Thinkers, light bulbs would come in all shapes, sizes, wattage, etc, and none of them would fit their light bulb sockets at home. But that doesn't matter, because the light bulbs would be Free.
Re: A glimmer of hope
American National standard screw threads of the Sellers form were standardized by an act of Congress back in the late 1800's. In 1949 the Unified system which is based on a modified Sellers thread was adopted by the english-speaking world due to small but expensive incompatibilities which came to light during the War production.
In fact yes, I am a pro mechanic/millwright.
Re: A glimmer of hope
The sheer volume of assumptions, logical fallacies and strawmen in your post is staggering, anon.
Re: A glimmer of hope
You may want a job where highly explosive lithium/poly batteries are baked out for recycling, but I think the rest of us will pass.....
Re: A glimmer of hope
Heck I'd love to encourage the use of standard closures for power supplies, CRT's, and such. The id10ts that fry themselves will generate a net improvement to the species.
[Having discharged a .1 Fd,, yes 1/10th of a Farad, capacitor charged to 25 kV, yeah I've felt the power.]
Re: Wow, the Apple hating trolls manage to bring them in any thread
Funny since I have accumulated a nice collection of processors recovered from socketed laptops from everyone BUT Apple.
Doubly surprised.
I don't know what's more astonishing.
a) That the US allowed the telcos to successfully lobby for the original move to make unlocking a crime.
b) That the legislature eventually responded to people's outrage about the above travesty.
The lesson (I guess) is that big business will push us around as far as it can until they go just that bit too far.
Locking quite unnecessary anyway if the customer is locked into a 24 month contract.
In the case of pre-pay (Pay As You Go) the telcos could just drop the subsidies on those phones.
Probably, the real solution is to uncouple the telcos from the selling of phones -- let them sell connections and regular electronics chains sell phones. Chances are both connection deals and phone prices would be cheaper with more competition.
Re: Doubly surprised.
The telcos didn't lobby to make unlocking a crime. It was the music and film industry that did all the lobbying for the DMCA. They wanted to make it illegal to circumvent DRM on their content.
As usual though the enacted law hit a wider target and it has been used for everything from preventing cryptographic research to stopping the manufacture of certain universal garage door openers to stopping you unlocking your mobile phone.
Over here in France, it is possible to unlock a subsidised phone after about three months. Used to be complicated, but now (Orange & Bouygues, assume SFR is similar) it is just a web form and the code is sent by mail or SMS.
I unlock my phones the moment the period expires so if my mother needs a phone and her one is acting up (it is ancient), I can swap SIMs. As far as Orange is concerned, it is no loss to them. All of my calls are included within my contact, and I'm still tied to my XX month contract, with a pretty hefty penalty payment is I want to quit early.
Re: Bizarre...
The big advantage is that if you go abroad, you can buy a local SIM and avoid roaming charges.
Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act?
I thought these days USian legislation titles were supposed to be witty, or at least half-witty, backronyms.
Re: Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act?
They only use the backronyms when they're trying to sell the public something they wouldn't want if it was called out in the name, like PATRIOT ACT. When they're trying to give us something we actually do want (it happens a few times a year, believe it or not) the name much better reflects the actual content of the law.
that the reason why most people want to unlock their phone (read Jailbreak) is to play pirated content and games...
That is STILL illegal, so really you got nothing....
Re: Ironic
"....why most people want to unlock their phone (read Jailbreak) is to play pirated content and games."
I rather doubt that.
I'm sure the major incentive is to switch to a better value provider.
Probably also to enable a newer version of Android than has been released by the telco -- or to rid the phone of branded cruft.
Re: Ironic
Or to be able to use the phone while overseas without the extortionate roaming charges (especially for data).
Even if they do want to root their phone, why is that a problem? The vendor can refuse a warranty claim if the problem can be shown to be caused by the rooting process. Piracy is a problem with or without this law. The piracy problem was not solved for the 18 months when it was banned so why would it be solved if the ban remained in place.
Re: Ironic
Jailbreaking and carrier unlocking are 2 completely separate things. The former involves hacking the OS - one reason being to allow pirated content to be played, but there are many other reasons.
Carrier unlocking is what is under discussion here, and that simply allows mobile phones to be used on networks other than the one on which they were originally purchased. Carrier locking of phones has been going on since the early days of GSM. It has always been possible to buy (carrier) unlocked phones - that doesn't mean you can play pirated content on them.
Legally untidy.
The user is now legally entitled to try to unlock their phone, but the manufacturer is not restricted from installing hardware locks to prevent them.
So what we have now is a situation where your ability to exercise your consumer right is dependent upon a Battle of Engineering between the phone manufacturer trying to lock it down and the semi-underground hacker community trying to find new ways to defeat the locks.
I find this legally disturbing.
Re: Legally untidy.
Where do you see the ability for phone makers to install locks beyond the carrier lock to make it difficult to unlock the carrier lock?
The law requires that consumers be able to unlock their phones, if they put in an extra layer of software that said "please provide password to authenticate this unlock" as the last step and didn't tell anyone what that was, they'd be in violation of the law just passed.
Re: Legally untidy.
And it runs out in a year, because y'know, consumer rights are more dangerous than mass surveillance so it must be renewed more often.
UCCWCA - Poor choice of acronym
What's that supposed to spell huh?
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The Buechner Institute mourns the loss of its director, W. Dale Brown. This year's programming will continue as scheduled to honor Dale's important vision.
What's next? Our 2014-2015 programming aims to address just that question.
The tension between hope and fear is at the heart of Frederick Buechner's writings. In his powerful and overlooked novel, On the Road with the Archangel, for example, he features a cast of characters surprisingly familiar in these days of anxiety and uncertainty. They wonder if there is a God "who looked after the world after all." Buechner's narrator, an angel of all things, concludes "by and large the world believes in him [the Holy One] for all the wrong reasons." And "it disbelieves in him for all the wrong reasons too."
There it is, that hard place between faith and doubt, between joyful anticipation and dreary dread, the territory we need help to navigate. Such is the tension that sends us to the couch bewildered and bone tired. Perhaps, among the words of our speakers and the songs of our singers, we can find encouragement to face what's next with confidence.
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Many early bird shoppers broke out the holiday gift wrap this past weekend during the Holiday Open House in downtown Wapakoneta.
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The open house was sponsored by Wapakoneta Antique and Specialty Shops (WASS), a 19-year-old partnership of shop owners in Wapakoneta.
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Auglaize County Agricultural Society members swept in new rules and regulations for the organizationÔÇÖs by-laws and re-elected an entire slate of incumbent directors running for re-election to the board.
Forty-two people cast ballots in the Junior Fair Building at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds and passed four changes to sections of the Fair BoardÔÇÖs Constitution with the most significant change affecting when annual memberships can be sold.
Jack L. Binkley, 57, of Wapakoneta, died at 6:44 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at his home.
He was born Oct. 8, 1956, in Lima to Robert L. Binkley & Rosemary (Binkley) Steinke who preceded him in death.
On Dec. 3, 1974, he married JoAnn Fugatt, and she survives in Wapakoneta.
Survivors include a son and daughter, Toby (Tara) Binkley, of St. Johns, Season (Scott) Hurley of Tipp City; five grandchildren, Kaleb, Mackenzie, Michala, Trenton and Spencer; a brother, Bill Binkley, of Dayton.
Twila A. Stevens, 79, of Cridersville, died 9:35 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31 at Lima Memorial Health Systems. Twila was formerly of Wapakoneta. She was born April 29, 1934 in Ada to Lloyd and Bessie Mull Candler. She married Richard E. ÔÇťDickÔÇŁ Stevens Jan. 12, 1951, and he preceded her in death June 18, 2010.
Mrs. Stevens had been a homemaker and enjoyed antiques, baking, gardening, garage sales, playing cards and camping. She was a former girl scout leader.
Brooklynn Ann Brown was stillborn at 11:51 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at the St. RitaÔÇÖs Medical Center. She is the daughter of Cory D. and Jennifer ÔÇśJenniÔÇÖ L. (Haehn) Brown, and they survive in Wapakoneta.
Other survivors include, sister, Abigail Brown, at home; maternal grandparents, Sue and Kendall Krites, of Wapakoneta, and Jack and Barb Haehn, of Wapakoneta; paternal grandparents, Bill and Cathy Brown, of Wapakoneta; maternal great grandparents, Mary Ann Bell, of Coldwater, Don and Pauline Krites, of Wapakoneta, and John and Helen Haehn, of Wapakoneta,
Joseph E. Elkins, Sr., 92, of Wapakoneta, died at 10:55 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at Auglaize Acres. He was born Feb. 19, 1921, in Bourbon, Ind., the son of Charles Edward and Mary (Corl) Elkins, who preceded him in death. On May 17, 1947, he married Phyllis C. Keyser, and she survives.
Glenna Mae Meckstroth, 83, of rural New Knoxville, died peacefully at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at her residence. She was born April 22, 1930 to (Omen) Bernard and Lena (Briggs) Davenport. Her mother died when she was 7 months old. Her father took her and her brother, Donald (Mary) Davenport, of Kossuth, to move with her fatherÔÇÖs parents, Frank and Nora Davenport.
On June 24, 1950, she married William A. Meckstroth, who preceded her in death.
From staff reports
The Wapakoneta Redskins officially clinched a playoff berth Sunday as the Ohio High School Athletic Association released the final computer ratings of the season, which determine playoff qualifiers and regional pairings.
Wapakoneta (9-1) will play the Springfield Shawnee Braves (9-1) at 7:30 p.m. Friday in a Division III, Region 10 quarterfinal at Harmon Field in Wapakoneta.
The Flora twins, sophomores representing Botkins High School, competed in their first state cross country championships Saturday at National Trail Raceway in Hebron.
Chloe Flora, with a time of 20 minutes, 13.84 seconds, was the 51st finisher Saturday in a field of 142 runners in the Division III girls race.
She was 28th after the first mile and 30th after the second mile Saturday.
Flora concluded her season with a third-place finish at both the Shelby County Athletic League meet and at the district race in Clayton.