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- Kilbride Home Owner
- October 28, 2010 - 13:01
It seems that the people that don't live in the area have gotten the wrong message. There are a multitude of reasons for not rezoning the property, but I will focus on one. Call the proposed building what you may, but why rezone to allow a commercial enterprise to set up a three story building in your backyard. I don't think there are many home owners in St. John's who would like that to happen to them. There is enough properly zoned property elsewhere in the city to find a location for this business.
- Neil
- October 27, 2010 - 12:24
I'd be interested to see how many in the neighourhood who didn't turn out for the meeting actually like the idea. I'm sure there are more than 75 people living up there. Most of these 75 were husband/wife so you're really only looking at 30+ households that disapprove. Sad really.
- Brad Bowdoinham
- October 27, 2010 - 12:10
Wow, and I thought Newfoundlanders were nice people and I see this? Jeeze, that's really encouraging to see from a new resident of the province...
- Kent
- October 27, 2010 - 10:47
Listen up Kilbride, traffic and cars are an inevtiability. It's called progress. These people amusing; they get all their big houses built and then when someone else wants to move in, they're suddenly concerned about traffic flow blah, blah, blah...Funny, they weren't too worried about traffic or its impact on existing residents when they were building their big homes.
- NLNSCouple
- October 27, 2010 - 10:19
My wife and I are currently reviewing plans to open a seniors retirement home back on the Avalon ourselves. Its very interesting/surprising to see peoples reactions of such developments in their area. People complaining about the increase of traffic and worrying about their daughter who is a new driver, having to navigate through this increase is pathetic. Cities grow and expand, these facilities are a normal part of this growth. The population is getting older and in the next 10-15 years the increase need for retirement homes is going to be booming as our "baby boomers' are going to need more of these facilities. The people who are currently complaining about this development will be the same people who are complaining to government about not being able to find affordable retirement living within province in 10 years. Another note on this, is there are seniors currently taking up beds in hospitals around the province, while awaiting for placement in nursing home. I assure you these seniors would much rather be in a retirement home then a hospital, when they are ready to do so. The people complaining about this development, are probably the same people complaining about hospital overcrowding and wait times.
- Chris
- October 27, 2010 - 09:51
The people in that picture look like they should be moving in to the senior's complex not lobbying against it. Besides how often do seniors drive? Two or three days a week at most. This hardly supports grounds for a future traffic problem.
- Chuck to Donny Dooley from Dildo
- October 27, 2010 - 09:45
Donny should be made apolozie to the people of Kilbride for the comments. thatt he made. For his information, there are fine homes in kilbride and fine people. Why not stay in Dildo Donny and keep your sarcasm to your self.
- Trudy
- October 27, 2010 - 09:28
I am with Darl S on this one, where do families bring their kids when they want a night out ... to the grandparents... funny they are useful then but not now. Let the seniors get a chance to be able to live by themselves and not stuck in some home when the son or daughter might visit them maybe every other Sunday. Don't forget people if it wasn't for the seniors you wouldn't be here, they are someone's mom and dad too.
- Schwenk
- October 27, 2010 - 09:17
Newfoundlanders are kind, generous, friendly people. Now, keep repeating that to yourself until you believe it.
- California Pete
- October 27, 2010 - 12:13
Right on SCHWENK it is the truth
- SanTo
- October 27, 2010 - 09:03
I think it would be less likely to have more traffic with an assisted living facility as most of those living there will not be driving cars! If they need assistance with day to day living, they certainly won't be driving. I am from Kilbride also, I know the area well, and it is a very bad intersection, that is the city's concern. There is room for developement, and if 50 new homes went up, than you are looking at that many new drivers at least, 2 car family, then 100 cars. If traffic is the issue, then the senior complex would be the better option. But think of the potential plus. You would probably have better snow plowing in the winter, as there would alway have to have emergency access. And you'd probably get that intersection fixed up. You might get a couple of walking trails up that hill too, as the seniors would require some kind of outdoor area.
- darls
- October 27, 2010 - 08:07
Snob Hill is really living up to it's name.....remember people one day you will be old yourselves and where do you want to be living??? Grow up and show some respect to these people who helped make our fine province the place is is today.....
- Mark
- October 27, 2010 - 07:01
Next thing they will be complaining that the seniors are up at all hours of the night partying and keeping them awake...or the sounds of their harleys are disturbing...get real, it's a 69 unit complex, not a 400 room hotel.
- October 27, 2010 - 06:55
Kilbride has to be the most run-down, dilapidated area of the city. I have no problem putting a modern building there to spruce it up a little. It would be nice to see a building in that neighbourhood that doesn't have a satellite dish stuck off the eve.


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I might be in the minority here but I really like the uniform look of the gray salt and pepper granite. I think it works really well with the clean, modern look. I've looked and looked and have not been able to find anybody on this board that have a kitchen with this granite. I know it's one of the least expensive granites available (but gorgeous nonetheless) and I'm surprised that not many people use it. Didn't have much luck with google search either. If you use salt and pepper granite in your kitchen or bath, do you mind sharing picture? Also, is there another name for this color? Is this the same as lunar peal? Thanks in advance! |
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I do not know about salt and pepper granite, but I do know that luna pearl is universally disliked by every buyer that has seen it in the last 10 years (maybe longer) with me. As soon as that is spotted, they start to talk about "updating" and taking it out. It was probably the most popular granite in the late 80s and early 90s around here and yet I can't recall a single newer kitchen that has it. I almost always say to "do what you love" but this time, I do have to warn you that if resale anytime in the near future is possible, this will be a clear selling detriment. |
- Posted by debrak_2008 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 8:07
I think salt and pepper and luna pearl are the same. They look the same to me. I love this granite but I don't think I've actually seen it, in person, in a kitchen or bath. Always see it as a top of a portable island in stores. Do what makes you happy unless you are selling soon. Why don't people like this granite? To me its a modern clean look, and I like the contrast of black and white with out being too busy. |
Here is a link that might be useful: luna pearl kitchen
- Posted by brianadarnell (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 8:11
I don't think this looks dated. I'm getting ready to do it in my kids bathroom with white subway tile. I think it has a very clean look. I don't have a picture yet- sorry! |
I looked at the pic posted, and the granite doesn't look dated to me, either. I think it would read "dated" if you had things in the kitchen with it that really were dated, like the appliances in that pic! But in the right installation, I think it would be gorgeous. It kind of looks like quartz to me. |
- Posted by writersblock (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 11:20
>It was probably the most popular granite in the late 80s and early 90s around here I guess it depends on where you are. Around here that would be uba tuba, which everyone in the world did with those alder-stained cabinets. To me, if any granite says "older builders special" that would be the one. I've hardly ever seen salt and pepper until quite recently. |
I think, like writersblock says, it depends on where you are. Where we are, the homes are all older, so no builder's granite---but lots of flips, so anything that you could buy cheaply in Chinatown (of which this is one) has the danger of reading "boom-time flip," but usually those were also specific types of cabinets too. It's not that people don't like those granites so much as that they were just really, really overused where I live at a certain period of time (here, early-to-mid 2000s) so a lot of people associate them with that era and those types of remodels. I tend to think less dated and more "put in to sell" when I see them, though---mostly because that was really common here. (That said, we bought a house with a similar rose granite that had, indeed, been put in to sell, so it's not a deal breaker!) This might not be true where you live, and more importantly, if you're not selling any time soon, it probably doesn't matter too much. |
The link below is to the version that I see in homes with kitchens from the 80s to early 90s. It usually had a pink or peachy tone along with the black, white and gray. I guess it went with the mauve, peach and seafoam green colors that were popular then. When I googled it, some did not look like the old style luna pearl, so perhaps what you are seeing in person is nicer than the ones I associate with the name. |
Here is a link that might be useful: luna pearl
- Posted by debrak_2008 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 16:41
I see alot of the pink "luna pearl" style granite (slabs and tile) on craigslist in our area. As mentioned above, too many put in this and other lower cost granite just to say the "g" word when selling. nguyendtt, I googled "luna pearl granite" and found several photos so you might want to try again. I never see my bathroom granite here either, its steel grey. If it works with the rest of your kitchen, do it. |
- Posted by ashleymking (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 18:47
Some friends of mine recently did a low-end remodel (spent approx. $13,000 and did most of the work themselves), and she used lunar pearl granite. IMHO, I think it looks really nice, especially when paired with a warm colored cabinet. |
I had that granite in my previous home. The cabinets were natural maple, the backsplash was a tumbled white/gray marble and the cabinet pulls were black. I really liked it. Like the above picture, I think this granite looks good on light-medium warm wood. My granite had lots of ivory in it, so it looked great with the light maple cabinets. I think where it could look dated is with the white laminate cabinets. If you do it right, it can look great; I think it is a classic granite. |
I adore Luna Pearl and wanted it as a tabletop in my kitchen. When they were loading the truck, it fell and absolutely cracked! I had to pick a different stone--which I am not crazy about. I often think that the Luna Pearl would have been so perfect. It is totally classic IMHO. |
Here are some links to the Crown Point website depicting a "salt & pepper" granite. http://www.crown-point.com/styles/ea/earlyamerican4-5.html http://www.crown-point.com/styles/ea/earlyamerican4-4.html As you can see, it can go modern or traditional. I don't know what it's called though. Hope this helps. |
Thank you all for your responses, especially ashleymking, gwgin and debrak_2008 for the pictures of actual kitchens. I do love the lunar pearl with no (or very minimal) pink in it, mainly white, black, gray and some speckles. I've read somewhere that people don't like it because it reminds me of tombstones. I disagree but just want to see what everyone else on this board thinks. Please continue to post pictures if you have it in your kitchen. |
Wow,I think the granite in all the kitchens are beautiful! I think any of these would do as they are similar and are uniform in pattern. I might have to look at imperial white. Somehow I thought it would have a lot more gray than that. I love how it's whiter than the other colors. |
- Posted by laurie_2008 (My Page) on Thu, May 5, 11 at 11:27
Pepper - that's a beautiful granite (Imperial White)!! nguyendtt - I have Luna Pearl in my kitchen. It does have another name : Bianco Sardo. When looking in granite yards, I noticed some slabs that had pink in them and some without. Dh and I picked without pink. The colors in our granite are white, black, gray, & taupe (grayish tan). It's been almost 3 years and I still love our choice. I agree with you that it's hard to find pics. I see that boxerpups posted a close up of my granite. I'll post some more here. |
I also have Luna Pearl granite. Here in Spain it is known as Blanco Perla. The stone is cheap here because it is mined in the north of Spain, so less transportation costs. Some stones have a pinkish cast, but pure white ones are also available. I like the stone because it is quiet and interesting at the same time. More from my kitchen can be seen in the added link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: White kitchen in southern Spain
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from Canada. I am using a rogers cellphone...(but its UNLOCKED)
now can I (when I) travel to disney.... take my same cellphone to disney, buy a sim card (to stick into my cellphone )and prepaid card from an americancompany (verizon, cingular, etc..) and used it that way ? I thought it would be cheaper as the sim card never expires so, i can use it in the states.... what do you think , would this work ? |
You will still have to pay roaming fees...and they are EXPENSIVE!!!
I bought a US calling package for the month when I went last...well worth every penny. You get 100 minutes for US calling, to and from, and well worth it. I wasn't planning on using my phone very much, but did a couple times just to touch base on some topics that email couldn't handle. I think I paid $30 extra dollars, but it I am planning on doing it again this year when I go....that way, people can still get a hold of me and I don't have to worry about getting a RIDICULOUS phone bill. I don't know how the Sim card would work - I only thought that Sim cards stored the information on your phone so that you can transfer that to a new phone when you upgrade (corret me if I'm wrong???). Jo |
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I don't believe Rogers charges roaming fees anymore.
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We have rogers and paid a arm and a leg to call home while in WDW to wish DBIL Happy Birthday. Also the service was not that great. DH and I were in two diffrent parks calling each other and could barely hear each other through all the static.
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so if i understand correctly : 1. my scenario would work if I just made local calls within disney ?? that would work out ok if i was just calling among ourselves in disney BUT 2. still charge roaming calling to canada.. |
We bought and sold a house (in Ontario) while at WDW this past March and are with Rogers. Roger's charged us a per minute rate (.99/minute) but the roaming charges were $3.00-$4.00 a minute and were charged by either Singular or T-mobile (whoever picked up our signal, I guess :confused3 ). At the time, we didn't care what the roaming charges were (we sold our house!! :banana: ) but when the $365.00 bill came, we cared. :goodvibes
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What if you bought one of the pay as u go cheapies from Wal-Mart in the U.S. for 9.99 and bought a sim card up here would it work( hhhhmmmm might have to go the U.S. this weekend and test my theroy). Bottom line maybe call Rodgers and ask what if.... Have fun. Fuzzy164:yay: |
hmmmmmmmmm ok. ... I hear y'all
I thought: my sim card carried all my personal data...so in this case, my canadian info.. so I would take it out.... BUT buy a new sim card in disney and just plug it into my current phone to use...as if I was a disney residence.. am I losing it now ??? |
Your best bet if you really want to do this is to do a google search on cell phone unlocking there are tonnes of sites and they will actually list how you go about this and there are tonnes of places in the Disney area that sell sim cards for unlocked phones then you buy the card pop it in and away you go. A friend of mine has an unlocked phone and has Rogers and Fido on one phone she just swappes out the sim card and she is good to go the phone uses the data stores on the sim it is not stored in the phone.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3504_7-6625604-1.html http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roa...lockingfaq.htm http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ |
my phone is already UNLOCKED.... |
After an almost $400 bill for roaming if I were you I would check with Rogers. Get the information from them and note who you talked to and when.
I was given incorrect information by others. No one on this board, but people I thought knew how roaming worked. |
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291Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Evan Halper writes in the LA Times that with efforts to reduce carbon emissions lagging, researchers, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, are looking for ways to protect key industries from the impact of climate change by racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming. ""We are dealing with the challenge of difficult weather conditions at the same time we have to massively increase food production" to accommodate larger populations and a growing demand for meat, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. For example a team of researchers is trying to map the genetic code of bizarre-looking African naked-neck chickens to see if their ability to withstand heat can be bred into flocks of US broilers. "The game is changing since the climate is changing," says Carl Schmidt. "We have to start now to anticipate what changes we have to make in order to feed 9 billion people," citing global-population estimates for 2050." (More below.)"Warmer temperatures can create huge problems for animals farmed for food. Turkeys are vulnerable to a condition that makes their breast meat mushy and unappetizing. Disease rips through chicken coops. Brutal weather can claim entire cattle herds. Some climate experts, however, question the federal government's emphasis on keeping pace with a projected growing global appetite for meat. Because raising animals demands so many resources, the only viable way to hit global targets for greenhouse gas reduction may be to encourage people to eat less meat and point to an approach backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates that takes animals out the process altogether. "There's no way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people," says Bill Gates. "Yet we can't ask everyone to become vegetarians. We need more options for producing meat without depleting our resources.""


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Feb 8th 2009 2:00PM I'm not positive on expertise for tanks.
However, for DPS, expertise is a much larger return per point than AP pre-cap. I believe (and this is pure memeory) EJ has AP with a 1.0 stat value, Str with a 2.4 stat value and Expt before cap as a 2.8 value
Though that's also pre hitcap, as not being hitcapped gives a bigger return on expt. If I remember right it's 2.4 hitcapped.
So, 50 AP translates into 50.0
15 Expt = 36 (42 if not hit capped)
However, this is all in theory, in practice getting a dodge at JUST the wrong time lowers your DPS a lot more than 50 AP would ever increase it.
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Jan 30th 2009 1:03PM Wait, no more posting first thing in the morning, I can't believe I missed that.
WoW Moviewatch: Wrath Shorts 11 - Rather Be Playing DS {WoW}
Jan 30th 2009 1:01PM You might want to add on there that these are the same guys that do/are from the "Dude Where's My Mount?" series on youtube.
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Aug 30th 2008 10:55AM That is a tauren, not undead, as said above.
Otherwise, nifty screen, I miss nef.
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Jul 28th 2008 4:27AM Guys, jeez, chill out would you?
Not ALL classes are getting "uber cool 1337 talents".
Hunters have (while very strong talents overall) very lackluster 51-pointers. The coolest IMO being the 51 pt survival talent. And survival takes a good amount of end-game gear to support (700+ agil).
Mages... well... mages just got shafted. Very sad, too bad I don't play a mage.
I played a Rogue from early 06 to late 07, and it's not that bad. In PvP you will still be fine, no, you'll be better. Those of you griping about riposte need to calm down and read what info is out there from the beta.
You have a new skill (trainable) I believe at 80. This skill is basically riposte 2.0. You don't need to parry, you don't need to do anything. You just use it. It's got a 1 min CD. IT REMOVES ALL WEAPONS, SHIELDS, AND ANYTHING IN THOSE SLOTS. Many speculate it will also work with ranged weapons, say, hunters.
You're also, and will likely remain, one of the best classes in PvP. Sure, a warlock can now time a Chaos Bolt to kill you when you CoS. It's not going to end up as that big of a deal.
Not to mention those going deep Assassination will get the ability to remove bleed effects at no cost. No more guaranteed deaths against Warriors.
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This is fit is specifically designed to run LVL4s for Fed Def Union. For those who are unfamiliar with Faction warfare, all FW missions are in lowsec and are VERY profitable. The average lvl4 mission, with security connections trained to lvl5 (everyone should have it lvl5), will pay off 25,000 - 30,000 LP and 2 - 3 million ISK - takes usually less than 10 minutes to complete. A navy domi costs 150,000LP and sells fro aboout 310million ISK these days (shitty, i know they used to sell for close to 500mil). So clearly, after running just a few missions, this fit has more than paid for itself. Some people use the Ishtar, or some other HAC to run these, or even T3s, but I feel it's not worth risking a 150million HAC or a potentially billion ISK faction fit t3 just to run lvl4s. This is cheap (50million ISK) and effective and minimalizes the chance of ship loss. read on The Fit: It's a tight one and IMO optimal for the purpose. HMLs + Drones give about 400dps, which isn't a lot but for most missions you're only killing a single commander NPC or a few industrials - average 5-10 minutes Cloak because you're in lowsec and will run into Pie or FW gate camps. Use the MWD cloak trick (youtube it for a tutorial) and you will skate past 99% of gate camps. The only thing you need to watch out for are ceptors such as a Taranis which may burn towards you and decloak you before you are fully aligned... I've personally run into gate camps with ceptors and they've NEVER caught me. Cloaky drakes usually catch them off guard haha and by the time they try to burn for you, you're already aligned and ready to warp off. ECCM. Well this one is obvious. Gallente FDU lvl4 missions face a TON of ECM from the NPC. without two ECCM you will be PERMA JAMMED. you will still occasionally get jammed with 2 eccm running but it's much less likely. I will usually get jammed once maybe twice during a mission with 2 ECCM. Tank. kin resist (duh, caldari shoot kin dmg type) This will tank most lvl4s quite well but DO NOT accept the mission where you need to blow up a gate. incoming DPS is too heavy and takes too long. The missions where you have to kill a single commander or a few industrials are ideal. The rigs are pretty self explanatory , PDSII and co processor are needed to make this fit work. No damage control, you can drop a ballistic control for a DCUII if you really want but you will lose dps and not gain that much extra resist. It tanks fine without the DCU. Flying. Pretty easy, I orbit at around 50km with MWD ON, you will still get hit by missles but not railguns. Do not get close to the BS rats, some will neut you, and some frigs will scram you. Start throwing missiles at the target. Keep your 360 degree directional scan going, if you spot incoming ships, align to a celestial with MWD OFF. warp out, safe up and cloak if someone comes into your mission (they're obviously going to be hostile). Wait for them to get bored and leave system. then go back in and finish it. (this rarely happens) Well thats pretty much it. If you're not familiar with the MWD cloak trick, i suggest you practice it. I've been using this fit with huge success and have only lost it once (pie camped a rapier IN THE MISSION) lol but by then i had used this fit to sell a billion in navy domis already so it paid for itsself many times already. Suggestions are welcome but like i said, this is pretty much optimised already. Rate and thumbs up :) EDIT: REplaced T2 ECCM with best named. They are cheaper, use less CPU, less cap, and still same ECCM.... Replaced one LSEII with best named so that CPU would fit, Added NanofiberII for more speed, faster align |
Seems to fit its purpose very nicely, and it's a drake that isn't completely identical to one I've seen before. There should be a FW tag so that the people who want to see this can find it easy (who all in gal militia is like man I need a ship to fly for L4s in FW where everyone says to use frigs I'll go to Battleclinic and check drake loadouts for some advice) AND we here at battleclinic should put together an FW training manual because the game sure as hell doesn't explain how it works unless someone around here has already done that.
Seems to fit its purpose very nicely, and it's a drake that isn't completely identical to one I've seen before. There should be a FW tag so that the people who want to see this can find it easy (who all in gal militia is like man I need a ship to fly for L4s in FW where everyone says to use frigs I'll go to Battleclinic and check drake loadouts for some advice) AND we here at battleclinic should put together an FW training manual because the game sure as hell doesn't explain how it works unless someone around here has already done that.
I love FW, great pewpew and very profitable missions. But for newer FW members, a tutorial would definitely help.
Im sure there are articles that players have wrote about FW and the eve forums are always great for getting general help or advice.
just use a stealth bomber like everyone else.
I didn't think ECCM worked against NPC, it certainly never used to.yeah it was patched in tyranis i think. ECCM definately works against NPC now
-1. ICD II on a drake?? And I'd drop the nanofiber. Just align earlier... I always keep myself aligned in missions, just in case. I'd possibly drop ECCM's too, I've been doing the same missions and I just blow up the rats that are causing the problem. Never stayed jammed. That way, you can use the slots to get more useful things in. I'd stay away from the PDSII if you can help it. I'm sure you'll be able to fit a better mission runner without the PDS.


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GUWAHATI: The CID on Tuesday registered a case where one Dulal Bora alleged that he was threatened with dire consequences after he approached chief minister Tarun Gogoi to complain about a financial scam in the state's social welfare department.
On December 19, Bora, in a written complaint to the chief minister, had accused Dispur Block Congress Committee treasurer Bijoy Saikia, a close aide of social welfare minister Akon Bora, of collecting huge sums of money on the pretext of work allotments.
"Bijoy Saikia took Rs 25 lakh from me on June 2, 2011 and assured me that I will get the supply work for Special Nutrition Programme (SNP) and construction of 100 Anganwadi schools. Later, when I did not get the work, I asked him to return the money. He returned Rs 3 lakh but is yet to refund the rest," said Bora.
Bora allegedly started receiving death threats on the phone after he lodged a complaint against Saikia with the CM. " The person has threatened to kill me and my family. I am scared and I filed an FIR with the CID ," he added.
A CID official said, "We have registered the case and will do the needful. We have already traced the phone number from which the threat calls were made."
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Monday, May 18, 2009
words to live by
I hope your weekend was all you hoped for! It was gloriously summery here; we enjoyed some time at our neighborhood pool for the first time this year, and playing at the beach, among other things.
Recently Abbott's first grade class came up with these goals for their PE class; to me, they seem like great goals for life:
1. Play fairly and by the rules.
2. Be nice to each other.
3. Solve problems with words, and using nice voices.
4. Worry about YOU--not everyone else. It takes a lot of negative energy to worry about everyone else.
5. Don't make assumptions - talk to the person before assuming the worst when you don't know the whole story.
I hope your week's off to a great start!
18 comments:
- Frau said...
Those are great life rules! Love the pictures looks like a wonderful weekend.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 2:08:00 AM PDT
- Jeannette said...
Great pictures. And I agree totally...those goals would be great for all of us!
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 2:53:00 AM PDT
- Debra said...
That's a great list. I'm going to copy it down. Thanks.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 3:34:00 AM PDT
- Kwana said...
We should all post these around our homes. Just perfect.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 6:29:00 AM PDT
- Deidra said...
Oh boy! Numbers three and five! Yes!
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 6:56:00 AM PDT
- nicola said...
so true! lovely photos!
http:whichname.blogspot.com - Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:23:00 AM PDT
- KPiep said...
Gillian's kindergarten clase developed their own set of rules at the beginning of the year...and they've used them every since! The two lists are remarkably similar, which leads me to believe that children are pretty smart when you let them work things out on their own.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:26:00 AM PDT
- Ina in Alaska said...
Much truth in the list. We all could use this information. Great pictures. I would enjoy walking along the beach! xoxo
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:42:00 AM PDT
- Sal said...
Words to live by indeed! Such wisdom, and I LOVE that these were created by the kids themselves.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:42:00 AM PDT
The Professor (in my life) has taught PE at the college level as his profession and am anxious to show him what Physical Education teachers are asking of their students - he will be SO proud!!!
CHE - Monday, May 18, 2009 at 8:09:00 AM PDT
- Francesca said...
It's good to stress the "talking" part, especially in this day and age: I see lots of kids my in country going through media to communicate and relate to others (text messaging, emailing or chatting etc)
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 8:09:00 AM PDT
- Mixing Bowl Mama said...
Amazing how young children can come up with these relatively simple thoughts and yet us adults can often have a difficult time remembering them....what a lovely list of words.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 8:30:00 AM PDT
- vanessa aka Nessie Noodle said...
fantastic goals indeed.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 8:45:00 AM PDT
- Becky said...
Boy oh boy, if only we all lived by those rules! Looks like it was kid paradise on the beach there.
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10:11:00 AM PDT
- Anna said...
aw pretty. we can all learn from that. (especially the worry about you part for me!)
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:08:00 PM PDT
- LENORENEVERMORE said...
Wisdom at such an early age! ~Blessings*
- Monday, May 18, 2009 at 8:47:00 PM PDT
- martha - ca knitter said...
Those are great goals. I'm going to make sure to keep them in mind and pass them along. Thank you for sharing.
Love the pictures. :-) - Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10:27:00 PM PDT
- C.T. said...
Ooohh...lovely pictures and wise words to live by.
- Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 1:50:00 AM PDT


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This peer interview is with Melonie Fullick. You can follow her on Twitter @qui_oui. All links open in new windows. If you read this interview and find it interesting or useful, please take a moment to share it on your networks. Thank you.
Ernesto Priego: Can you describe who you are and what you do?
Melonie Fullick: Generally I'm a researcher and a writer, and I do some teaching and communications work (mostly in universities, though I've done some political communication as well). At the moment those things are happening in the context of me working on my Ph.D. in Education, so I'm also a full-time graduate student. My undergraduate degree was in Communication Studies (with a focus on mass media), after which I did an MA in Linguistics.
My area of research is post-secondary education (PSE) policy and governance, specifically the ways that changes are implemented in universities in "response" to larger socio-economic trends such as loss of government funding and the introduction of market mechanisms. I'm looking at Canadian universities, because I've been in Canada since the age of 14 (I was born and grew up in New Zealand). I attended high school and university here in Canada, so I've had the chance to observe the education systems first-hand and get a sense of which issues seem most relevant and pressing. Ultimately (eventually!) I'd like to go back to New Zealand and do some work looking at the education systems and their context there.
A couple of years ago I started my research blog, Speculative Diction, as a personal blog where I was commenting on issues relating to my field. Because higher education is in the news a lot, I found there was a lot to talk about. After about a year, I got an invitation to move the blog to the University Affairs web site. UA is a Canadian magazine targeted at audiences such as faculty and administrators, and they have a lively website with an expanding group of blogs. Since then I've also been doing fairly regular guest posts and articles for various other publications.
EP: How do you insert blogging in your academic workflow?
MF: I don't know if I have a "workflow"–I might get more work done if I did. The way blogging fits in with all the other things I'm working on has changed since the blog moved to University Affairs. Before, I just wrote posts whenever the spirit moved me, as it were. So there are months where I did 2 posts, and other months where there were 10 posts. Now I do about three or four posts a month, it's supposed to be one per week but I had some trouble making the posts shorter and more frequent.
Blogging ends up being fitted in around other things I'm working on. I try to set aside time, but I'm not good at working to deadlines; sometimes I just don't have a good idea until the last minute (or, I get "blocked" somehow). And that might be a Friday morning, so sometimes the post gets pushed forward to Monday. So I think the biggest challenge has been trying to take my "usual" way of writing, which is not very efficient, and fit it in with this kind of schedule of posting regularly. I've taken on more writing commitments in the past year as well, so the challenge has only increased, but at the same time I'm learning how to write differently (in terms of the process) and it's helping with my dissertation and academic work.
Reading this post by Pat Thomson, I realise I do have a definite set of practices that I engage in, which are designed to facilitate blogging. For example, I don't tend to randomly surf the web; I use Google Reader to funnel relevant news to one "place" where I can scan it and comment on it (or tweet it). I have a good Twitter network and a lot of excellent news and articles come to me in that way as well. Each time I see something interesting, especially if it relates to a "theme" I've noted previously or something I'm following, I bookmark it with Diigo or tag it in Reader; if I have a blog idea immediately, I start a new Google Doc and come back to it later. If I see other articles also relevant to the post, I put them into the Google Doc as well (I tend to have a lot of little scraps of drafts sitting around). I think all those things make it a lot easier to keep good ideas going.
EP: Your work interrogates some deeply-rooted cultural and institutional types of behaviour that have allowed privilege to be one of the main modus operandi of Higher Education. Please tell us a bit about this; in your experience, are blogging and tweeting good strategies to promote transformations not being more widely discussed elsewhere?
MF: I think they are, but I also feel–often–as if I'm operating in two very different worlds. One where there is all this discussion about things that are very much at the edge of what's possible in the current system; and one wherein there are very few changes and/or, if change happens, it's viewed as a degradation. Now in the first case, there is this maelstrom of opinion and commentary and critique and I definitely don't agree with all of it. But in the second case, there are familiar tracks of critique or none at all, and that isn't necessarily going to help us either.
Somewhere in the middle of those two spaces (as if there are clear boundaries!) are the people trying to find their way in this system, "the university" and the institutional formations that frame it. It's a system that's clearly making some kinds of changes much more quickly than others. That's part of my interest in graduate education; it's a process of socialization, so how are grad students learning about the future of the university and their role in it?
A lot of the "messy" (and interesting) debate about this seems to be happening online, rather than in the hallways. Again, this is quite possibly just a very skewed perspective–I can't speak from beyond my own viewpoint there. On Twitter and in blogs, people are discussing a broader range of issues than in the academic settings I've experienced. So in that way it feels like a different space, and I would like to be able to bridge the gap in some meaningful way, particularly given that it's the everyday academic life where changes are unfolding in ways that are not necessarily visible because of their incremental nature, the limited period that students spend in each institution, and so on.
That's why, in my research, I'm also speaking to tenured faculty who have spent long periods in a single institution. They're keepers of institutional memory, or in some cases (as I'm discovering), memories the institution might prefer to forget. Most of them aren't using social media, which is a shame because they have so much to contribute to the discussions going on there. This is one of the limitations we encounter with social media.
Not by coincidence, one of those "worlds" I described is primarily oriented to the current academic system, and one of them isn't; the participants are different in each case as well, as are the relations between them. That's part of what newly available technologies enable, and the university is having trouble dealing with those effects.
I know we hear an awful lot of punditry on the "disruptions" immanent, and though it's tempting to dismiss the whole idea as rhetorical excess, I think that as usual, the extremes (and their proponents) are taking up a lot of room in the debate and making it harder for us to have a nuanced discussion about possibilities and limitations.
Too often faculty, for example, are reactionary because technology is brought to them as "yet another thing" that must be attended to, another box to check off, the latest fad that will keep the students (and governments, and administrators) happy. It's also something they've never needed to get their work done in the past, so why should they start now? In other words it is a burden, a distraction. This has been pretty far from my experience with technology, and in researching how organizational communication works in the university, I'd say faculty need more space for a deeper and more inclusive discussion, and that discussion actually can't happen only in online spaces.
EP: Those who haven't been in scholarly social media for long or who have not joined yet might feel excluded from it all, and even base their opinions on a lack of direct experience with the platforms and their participants. How can we scholars who also use social media to interrogate structural privilege converse with them? Can we?
MF: I think your question is very kind–I've heard some extreme opinions from professors who have no idea what social media use looks like, but who were perfectly happy to pronounce it "useless"! But once again, they're the extremes. Journeys are made from a thousand footsteps. With Twitter in particular, I've found it's actually a challenge to convey its usefulness to anyone who's never used it, including undergrads. What's most interesting about it is that one hears the same complaints and dismissals from old and young alike: "I don't care what you had for lunch", "nothing of substance could be shared in that way", and so on.
The emphasis on triviality and superficiality is no accident. Academic work is valued for rigour and depth, and I think most people associate those things at least to some extent with the amount of time spent on something, and of course–in academe–whether it has been vetted by peers. So often, texts produced outside these circuits of recognition are seen as less trustworthy. Short statements such as tweets are treated with suspicion because brevity, like rapidity, is seen as "leaving out" the complexity that we strive to work with as academics; and it forces us to rely on the credibility of the speaker rather than on the text. Worse, what if this new territory should begin to generate value of its own? What if these inferior texts should gain credibility and be recognised as part of academic discourse? I think this is part of the reaction we see from some academics; I think any kind of expansion of the sphere of (what's perceived as) legitimate discussion is going to cause discomfort, and it's going to be dismissed first, then contested.
So given that context, I think your question is very important because it gets at the heart of the issue: can we have this debate, if it's happening in two different communicative "worlds"? Right now, the flow of debate is (I think) from traditional academic spaces to online ones; we bring to Twitter and blogs our commentary about what's happening around us in higher education institutions, but I don't think this goes much in the other direction at this stage (even Brian Leiter can only diss Twitter online because he has a blog). It's still the case that academics can avoid having to "deal with" social media, because it hasn't been a necessary part of the traditional scholarly career. This is how the avoidance of the discussion is directly linked to the ways that capital is attached to some forms and not others: some kinds of professional engagement are clearly and directly linked to advancement, and right now, this one is not. So there is not much professional incentive to join in.
I think this could change, which is something I was hinting at towards the end of my blog post about the debate on academic tweeting. Already, social media use has shifted from being an eccentricity, to being considered at least a "frill" that can set one apart from the crowd; and in a growing number of cases now, it's seen as something integral to doing certain kinds of academic work, or disseminating that work to non-traditional publics. As this shifts over time, I think it will become easier to have the discussion that we want to have, both offline and online.
EP: Finally, what kind of changes would you like to see in Higher Education or in academic culture in general, and do you think social media could play or is playing a role (if so, which one?) towards achieving those changes?
MF: When I think about the university I would like to see, it's basically very selfish thinking because I tend tend up asking, "what kind of university would I, personally, would want to work in?". Bearing that in mind, what I would like to see would be the loosening of the strictures that currently define who gets to teach, who gets to research, who gets to be a part of the university in an ongoing way, and who gets compensated for their work in sustaining the institution and fulfilling its purpose. I'd like to see the necessary broadening of the idea of an "academic" that comes from this. And I think this is also going to mean changes to the way the university builds relationships beyond its walls.
There are more Ph.D. graduates, for example, who are having to leave the system or take up the least-compensated positions within it, because there is no room for them and because the "traditional" positions were so resource-dependent that few can be supported in the way they were in the past. This is an issue not only with the academic career but also with academic knowledge itself, which is intimately linked to the system of professionalization that produces tenured faculty. At the moment there is a hierarchy of prestige in this system that places tenured (research) professors at the top, and everyone else below, in service to, and/or in orbit around them. There is also a rigid structure of "production" that legitimises research work, a structure with which academic careers are tightly–but not inextricably–intertwined. This is accompanied by, for example, the belief that research produced outside this system cannot be credible or "objective" (since its authors didn't have academic freedom, or were not subject to the right kind of peer review).
But within the current climate of (policy) discussion, it's tricky to make suggestions about change and "openness" because others with louder voices have already made plenty of them, while espousing solutions I personally wouldn't agree with. To me that looks like the biggest challenge: to have a debate where we have real choice about what options are on the table, not just "here are the three ideas we've decided are worth consideration".
This is where the nature of our communication about these issues is of vital importance. Will it be monologic or dialogic? Will we have our "options" imposed on us by those with the most political and financial resources? Will we really be considering the university as a knowledge institution, as an historical institution, rather than as primarily an economic and technocratic one? I don't know if social media can have a role in this, but I hope so; I think we can already see the beginnings of it in people's activism around various issues like adjunct labour in the U.S., and open access to academic research. It's going to require broad participation, but I don't think such efforts are unheard of, and they are enabled by many of the same technologies described as "disruptive".