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The Borg transwarp network was a vast series of transwarp conduits spanning the entire galaxy. The conduits were connected by several transwarp hubs, and were supported by a series of interspatial manifolds, which were protected by shielding regulated from the central nexus by the Borg Queen herself.
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Unbeaten Big Brown and the filly Eight Belles were among a full field of 20 horses entered for the Kentucky Derby.
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Cellette owned and operated Minnesota Print Services, Inc. out of his home in Andover, Minn., falsely claiming he had large printing contracts with major corporations and seeking investors for fake printing projects with the promise of 10 to 15 percent returns on investments, according to a statement from the Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA).
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Who's the gangster here? I guess you can trash whoever you want if you're a member of the Nobility.
businesses run our government, not the other way around.
Blackwater will need a new war soon.
Hasn't Dick Cheney been going around lately saying wee need to deal with Iran.
They make too much money. get rid of em.
Blackwater did an awesome job in Iraq. They were hired to provide security for the state dept personnel, and they did. The state dept isn't complaining about . Only the dens are because they were successful. War is war. Politicians shouldn't be involved, they cause our people to die.
Erik Prince and Blackwater are all war Heros, God Bless you guys.
The men and women of Blackwater were predominantly military veterans, like myself, or law enforcement veterans. As such, we were all used to complying with very strict Rules of Engagement regarding Use of Force. There has been no proof that Blackwater's contractors were at fault in the 2007 shootings in Baghdad. I am proud of my service as a Navy SEAL and proud of my service as a government contractor under Blackwater. BTW I never made that much money and actually lost money relative to my civilian career, had I stayed out of the war. High taxes, no retirement, no health care benefits all factor into the equation. I continue to serve because my country is under attack. The freedoms of my children and grandchildren are worth the dangers and hardships of war.
I find it musing that the "Honorable" Member of Congress hides on the floor while making defamatory statements. If She had ANY INTEGRITY, she would make her statements using a Media Outlet and let the chips fall where they may. She is a COWARD. Erik Prince, has put his money where his mouth is!
Blackwater are the only ones who had the authority and balls to do their jobs. Kill people, that is what SEALS and special forces do. Praise God we have them. Just ask a democrat who they prefer protecting them over seas.
I have been employed with BW, Xe, and USTC for the last 5 years. I have never been involved with such a professional, and skilled organization. This is after 20 plus years of law enforcement. Private contractors provide a need, and at a cost so much lower than government employee's. Rep. Schakowsky is typical of the democratic party. As for Rep Sanders, he must just be an idiot. I thank every contractor and Military personnel, for putting their lives on the line every day in the name of Freedom. Lets all support whoever runs against Sanders, and Schakowsky. I hope that everyone contacts anyone that they know in Ill and Vt. to make sure this happens.
My son fought with Blackwater, and as far as I am concerned they are all heroes. Rep Schakowsky is typical democrat liberal, they all need to be purged and replaced with men as able as Erik Prince
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the nation deserves better than Rep Schakowsky lets help it happen vote them out send checks to Republican side of the house
The unholy union of Jan Schakowsky ( a politician who is married to a criminal and someone who considers the killing of bin Laden by Devgru "a crime scene"and one trick pony Blackwater author Scahill who is desperately trying to make more money off insulting former vets and cops seems to be crumbling. Schakowsky, as usual is more interested in seeing her name in the media than than telling the truth. When was the last time either one of them put their life on the line for someone else?
It's funny, this old bag says using private contractors is a bad idea, but then offers no solutions to fill the void. It's not a good idea for politicians to also play the part of military strategist.
Jan Schakowsky is the example of why we need protection from tyrannical leadership. It is clear that "Jan" is guilty of Mr. Princes allegations if she has to run to the floor to protect herself and incriminate herself further by incorporating the very abuse of congressional power she is accused of.
Way to go Mr. Prince, fight the good fight!
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I find it interesting that a woman like Schakowsky - married to a convicted felon, delivers a eulogy for the leader of the Communist Party, and attends Socialist party events would disparage an honorable patriot like Eric Prince. If I were Eric I'd wear it like a badge of honor.
I don't think I'd call Blackwater (Xe or whatever) war heros. They are mercaneries. Nothing more.
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Just over a year into her tenure as FTC chief, Ramirez has given the agency a renewed focus on consumer-privacy protection. She led the FTC as it took action against Amazon and Snapchat — and she could have another major company to deal with in the near future, as some lawmakers are calling on the commission to target Facebook for manipulating its users' news feeds.
Eshoo, who represents parts of Silicon Valley, is the House Democrats' leader on many technology issues. As the ranking member on the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, she successfully fought to ensure that valuable wireless frequencies would be set aside to boost Wi-Fi networks. She is also a champion of net neutrality. An ally of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Eshoo could become even more influential if she defeats Rep. Frank Pallone in the race for the top Democratic spot on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
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AIA headlines this week include: Pursuing Regional Sustainability in Stanwood, Washington; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seeking Architects' Input; Controversial Maryland Plan Uses Incentives to Encourage Local Land-Use Policy; and House Committee Approves SBA Size Standard Bill.
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AIA headlines this week include: Taking Revitalization to Scale in Augusta, Georgia; AIA Joins with Architecture for Humanity To Launch Disaster Plan Grant Program; AIA Calls on House to Pass Senate Transportation Legislation; EPA Challenges Architects to Achieve Energy Star Certification; Report Finds Huge Potential in Energy Efficiency; and R/UDAT Launched 'Snowball Effect' in San Angelo, Texas.
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AIA headlines this week include: AIA Members Ready, Able to Help Following Outbreak of Midwest Tornados; Inspiring a Special Waterfront: The Philadelphia Experience; Tax Reform: What Does it Mean for You?; AIA Working with Partners to Improve CBECs Tool; and Pivotal Week for Protecting Preservation Programs.
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AIA headlines this week include: Port Angeles, Washington, Inspires a Region; New ADA Guidelines to Become Effective in March; How Architects Shaped the SBA Size Standard through Grassroots; AIA's Advocacy Efforts Help States Prepare for Disaster; and Congress Reaches Payroll Tax Cut Deal.
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A club owner in Auburn says he's had enough of young college students simulating sex on his dance floor.
Pat Grider, co-owner of The Blue Room, once a popular nightspot in Auburn, said he shut the establishment down because he was tired of provocative dancing and worried about the more intimate contact it can lead to.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Grider said the Blue Room's crowd has been getting increasingly younger since the city banned alcohol sales after 2 a.m. two years ago.
He said the change in the city law hurt business, but it was the hip hop dancing that convinced him to close: Young women in very short dresses grinding their bodies against young men, and vice versa.
The Blue Room closed last Thursday. Grider said he will not reopen until after he comes up with a new idea for a nightspot. Until then, he and his brother will concentrate on their other bar, The Highlands.
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Gannett Wisconsin Media confirmed in March that at least 29 state circuit court judges signed recall petitions against Gov. Scott Walker.
The recall signatures were posted at www.iVerifyTheRecall.com. Gannett Wisconsin searched the database for the approximately 250 circuit court judges, 16 appeals court judges and seven state Supreme Court judges now on the bench.
Apparent matches were confirmed by comparing the address on the petition to the address each judge listed in campaign paperwork filed with the GAB. All 29 judges were then contacted to give them an opportunity to comment or assert they were not responsible for placing their name on the petition. No judges denied having signed the petition.
The Wisconsin Judicial Commission is expected to decide Friday in Madison whether to take action against Dane County Judge David Flanagan and 28 other circuit court judges who signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
But because judicial discipline in Wisconsin is highly secretive, the public may never know whether the judges are investigated and what results from any investigation, said Jim Alexander, the commissions executive director. The commission can release information in some cases but is under no obligation to do so.
There are certain things we can say (under) our confidentiality statutes, and whether the commission chooses to do that is not something I can tell you right now because its not my decision, Alexander said. (The commission) does have discretion in some cases, but we would exercise that discretion with a great deal of care if a judge made it clear to us they didnt want anything released.
A Gannett Wisconsin Media investigation in mid-March found at least 29 judges signed the Walker recall about 12 percent of the states county-level judiciary. That prompted the Landmark Legal Foundation to file a complaint against the judges.
Though Alexander would not confirm receiving the complaint, a foundation spokesman said it received a confirmation letter from the commission.
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Alexander has said the commission received more than a dozen requests to investigate Flanagan, who issued a March 6 temporary injunction against the Walker-backed voter ID law, without disclosing he had signed the recall.
The voter ID law requires some of the nations strictest qualifications for voting, but is in limbo because a second judge who did not sign the recall petition invalidated the law for violating the state constitution. That decision is under appeal.
Flanagan has declined comment, but other judges who signed the petition defend their action as a constitutional right not explicitly addressed by the Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct, which bars judges from supporting political parties or candidates but does not specifically mention recall petitions.
The Landmark complaint called signing the recall inherently political activity, noting the judicial code requires that judges avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all the judges activities.
The nine-member judicial commission includes two judges and two lawyers appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and five people outside the legal field appointed by the governor.
Three of Walkers appointees have made donations to the governors campaign or Republican candidates.
Since January, Walker has appointed Saied Assef, Mark Barrette, Eileen Burnett, William E. Cullinan and Lynn M. Leazer to the commission. Campaign finance records digitized by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign show Barrette donated $1,300 to Walker in 2010 and Burnett donated $4,430 from 2009 to 2011. Assef has donated more than $10,000 to Republicans since 2004, but nothing to Walker.
The other commission members are attorneys Michael J. Aprahamian and John R. Dawson, and judges Emily S. Mueller and Paul F. Reilly.
Three of the four have not donated to any partisan races, though some donated to judicial campaigns. Reilly gave a total of $900 to several state Republican candidates from 2000 to 2003.
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Alexander said in March the complaints would be taken up at the next meeting, but he declined this week to confirm the recall issue is on the agenda.
Given the time that that stuff came in, I suppose one could assume that, but I cant tell you what our closed meeting agenda is, he said.
The agenda for the open portion of the meeting makes no mention of the recall issue or any other judicial discipline. It notes the commission does not expect to issue a statement or to release any material concerning matters discussed during the closed session.
Alexander said investigations typically take several months to complete, though the timeframe has grown because more complaints are being filed.
Our caseload has become a bit overwhelming, he said. Generally we try to get them done in a couple of months, but lately that hasnt been possible.
If the commission investigates the judges who signed the recall, it could hire an investigator or have Alexander conduct the investigation. Alexander has served as the commission's executive director since 1990.
That could put Alexander in an awkward position because at least one judge Monroe County Judge J. David Rice said he called Alexander for input prior to signing the recall and was told it was OK to do so.
Alexander has not acknowledged giving that advice but noted Monday that whatever I would tell somebody is not binding on the commission.
The judicial commission has regularly scheduled meetings every other month, Alexander said. The meetings typically last most of the day and cover 15 to 20 complaints. Some cases involve simply deciding whether to investigate as would be the case with the recall issue but the commission will also receive updates on pending investigations and call in judges to discuss finished investigations, Alexander said.
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The UN Human Rights Council releases its report on the flotilla raid.
1:45 PM, Sep 29, 2010 • By MICHAEL WEISS
Moving on from these bankrupt starting points, the reader is then treated to serious flaws in the mission's recounting of the history of the Gaza naval blockade. For instance, Israel is judged to have implemented it "to punish the people of the Gaza Strip for having elected Hamas." If that were the case, then why was it established on January 3, 2009, coinciding with Operation Cast Lead, two years after Hamas's victory in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary election, and a year after Israel and Egypt jointly instituted the land blockade of Gaza? In the intervening period, Hamas, an internationally designated terrorist organization, engaged in a bloody civil war with its chief secular rival Fatah, resulting in the former's coup and unilateral takeover of Gaza at around the time it began indiscriminately firing rockets and mortar bomb into southern Israel. In 2007 alone, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Hamas fired 1,115 rockets and 1,435 mortar bombs at cities such as Sderot and Ashkelon, the majority of which armaments fell on civilian sites such as playgrounds and schools.
Moreover, as the mission does indeed indicate, in mid-2008 Israel undertook a series of preventive measures prior to implementing a full maritime closure of Gaza in order to hamper Hamas's ability to import weapons. These included posting notices to mariners that informed all seagoing vessels of Israel's intent to inspect their cargos. The report even cites one such notice posted in August 2008, which read: "In accordance with the agreements between Israel and the PA, entry by foreign vessels to this zone is prohibited." According to this declaration, the Palestinian Authority under the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas was equally responsible for Israel's regulation of the Gaza seaways in 2008. And yet, the UNHRC Mission reserves no censure for that government or the "illegality" of its decision.
Nor does it employ an especially impartial reading of the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. The mission claims Israel violated this relevant covenant because, according to the language of the Manual, a naval blockade is unjustifiable when:
So far as (a) is concerned, the people of Gaza are not "starving" by any credible metric thanks to the importation of over half a million tons of food annually by Israel – another fact breezily elided in this report. Indeed, according to the CIA World Factbook, in 2010, the population of Gaza grew by about 3.5 percent: hardly an indicator of mass famine. Infant mortality is lower and life expectancy is higher there than in Turkey. Various accounts, based on first-hand investigation from Time magazine to the New York Times to Slate, have similarly failed to uncover starvation in Gaza.
As to point (b), the mission's analysis is extremely debatable. Consider the following. In 2008, Hamas fired 1,750 rockets and 1,528 mortar bombs into southern Israel. As of 2010, those numbers have reduced by 95.2 percent and 95.7 percent, respectively: 83 rockets and 65 mortar bombs. Might this not constitute a reasonable definition of a "direct military advantage"?
The San Remo Manual stipulates the right of a belligerent nation to "visit, inspect and control the destinations of neutral vessels on the high seas" if there is reasonable suspicion that those vessels are "engaged in activities which support the enemy." From this, the report takes the fatuous view that the Mavi Marmara engaged in no such activity, scanting on abundantly well-attested information that connects I.H.H., the Turkish organization that owned and convened the ship, to the Hamas government in Gaza. Given the mission's sometime reliance on "the internet and other sources," one wonders how it failed to come across this revealing statement made by Mehmet Kaya, IHH's Gaza representative, in the course of an interview with the New York Times granted after the flotilla raid: "We only work through Hamas, although we don't limit our aid to its followers… We consider Israel and the United Nations to be the terrorists, not Hamas."
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This school is awful!!! I had one child in the preschool and 1 child in the academy and I would of been better off going to public school then to have wasted my money at this school. The teachers are lazy and the curriculm is behind all other private schools. They are only concerned with how much money you have and give to the school. The school is one big clique including the parents, teachers and principals. Its unfortunate the childrens education has to suffer because the teachers are to preoccupied with whos who and not the importance of caring for the children. There are many people who agree so do your research on this school before you throw your money away and jepordize your childs well being and education at this place they call a school!
This is a fabulous school! My kids have gone there for 6 years and loved it. The teachers are wonderful and have been there for a long time. They enjoy teaching and seem to enjoy the kids. The rules are there and inforced.... should be a little more and some of the assist teachers are a little bossy - but all in all they got a great education. They have small class room sizes (24 students - no more ever!) and are a very small village feeling.
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Oxfam Dalston Winter Chic shopping event
Oxfam Dalston Winter Chic
Sunday 2 December 12pm-5pm
Tons of awesome clothes. Mince pies. Christmas tunes.
The last time we did an Oxfam Chic event there was a forty-strong queue of people outside as we opened the doors at 6pm. This special Sunday opening will maybe be a bit more chilled, but early attendance is advised to pick up the best designer bargains! Doors open at 12pm this time!
Oxjam 2012
This time next week, we'll be getting ready to host Graham Coxon in our shop! What's this all about? Oxjam!
Oxjam is Oxfam's month-long music festival. It runs all through October (though there are tons of things around all-year!) with hundreds of events around the UK, all organised by volunteers who know and love their local music scene, all raising money to save lives around the world. You can find other Oxjam events near you here — we know of Oxjam teams based in Stoke Newington just as a hyper-local start…
The very first Oxjam was launched in our shop back in 2007, but that was a very different affair – it was not long after the shop had opened as a bookshop (the old shop was still open up the road) and the gigs were held downstairs. For the last two years, the shop has been turned by Festival Republic and the Oxjam Team into a professional gig venue — there's a little disruption to our normal way of working, obviously, with some restricted opening hours expected next week, but we think it's worth it to a) get Oxjam some press attention b) give the shop another unusual function.
Tickets are available for some of the launch gigs here, and keep an eye on our Twitter/Facebook page for info on an in-store raffle we're going to run to offer tickets to each of the gigs.
UPDATE: Details on our raffle running in-store:
Oxfam Chic – Late Night Opening, 3 August 2012
A special evening dedicated to the incredible amount of designer clothing we get donated to us by the residents of Hackney! Tons of bargains, drinks and nibbles, free entry.
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July News!
Sorry for the lack of blog posts recently! Summer has been busy with lots of new volunteers and our now-annual batch of French business interns arriving in the shop.
Things are tickling along nicely at the moment, and we're still receiving some great donations from our local residents — recent highlights include a stash of great art books on artists from Monet to Chagall to Hockney, hundreds of old Ordnance Survey maps, a bizarre set of thirty brogues painted blue for a fashion shoot, and a complete set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs.
A quick bit of news: Time Out have listed us as the best charity shop in London for books/music! http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2012/07/14/bargain-hunt-londons-10-best-charity-shops/ This is a lovely thing as it's a tribute to the quality of donations that we get from our local donors, and it also means we're doing a good job of sorting and organising this stock to make the most out of it. Everyone wins!
A final piece — we're planning a late-night shopping event for August 3 — we've been saving some designer goodies up for a few weeks to show off the incredible range of clothing we get. The plan is to open the shop from 6 til about 9, have some drinks and nibbles, and people can browse the shop in a more leisurely environ. Volunteer models will be wearing some clothes that you can buy off their backs, and we may or may not be in 'negotiations' about a vintage Yves Saint Laurent wool cape that we're looking to auction off…keep checking here and our Twitter/Facebook pages for details!
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How shift debriefings can improve officer safety
We must become more deliberate, more disciplined, and more thorough in our approach to learning and teaching
As cops, we often cry loudly about the lack of training in our profession. I am guilty of it myself.
However, while we whine about the seemingly lack of interest in ongoing training, we also miss the opportunities to train and learn from the everyday lessons available to us.
Those lessons that come from every call we respond to and every shift we work.
There's No Magic Here
We should be doing more to harness the wisdom of the street cop and what he learns from each and every day on each and every shift. The shift debriefing is a training tool we can and should utilize to develop full spectrum cops capable of making sound decisions and employing sound tactics to resolve crisis situations and record and report them accurately in the aftermath.
"Only those who have challenged themselves with countless tactical situations in peacetime, only those who have refined their ability to make decisions and communicate clearly with subordinates, are prepared to command in war."
Police departments by their very nature are learning organizations and eventful or not, every shift yields fruit in the form of lessons learned. Hence, some effort needs to be made to "harvest" knowledge that can be used in bettering future shifts.
While methods may vary, they usually take the form of a debriefing. A debriefing is a facilitated discussion focused on gaining understanding and insight regarding specific actions, taken on shift and involving those people who were personally involved.
Because lessons learned by police personnel play such an important role, it is necessary that a system be in place to insure that such lessons are properly and correctly recorded.
Experience is a powerful teacher, but experience by itself is not the most efficient way to learn. The process can often be painful and time-consuming.
To learn as quickly as possible, we must be more deliberate, more disciplined, and more thorough in our approach in order to squeeze as much as possible from each experience.
As with everything else about better execution, there is no magic here.
The Shift Debriefing System
While there are no rules for conducting debriefings, the focus of a shift debriefing is on fact-finding, not fault-finding. Open discussion facilitated by the supervisor is nearly unlimited in scope as long as the focus remains on the shifts operations.
Consequently, any person is allowed to introduce any subject for discussion and recommendations.
Shift debriefs are an opportunity to discuss incidents that took place on shift and the tactics, techniques and procedures, utilized as well, as, the need for ongoing investigations and to ensure evidence and information have been gathered and reported and acted upon.
The shift debrief allows for early resolution of incidents where mistakes may have been made and an early identification of officer safety, work practices, policies and procedures and other issues that arise on shift and effect department wide execution.
• Was there a sound tactical response and approach to an incident?
Shift supervisors should facilitate shift debriefs to ensure tasks have been completed and updated with the outcome of each task.
The examples listed above are just some of what may be covered in a shift debrief and are normally associated with tactical responses and safety related issues. But those things so crucial to a successful operation such as the dreaded but all important paperwork process needs to be included in the debriefs as well.
Supervisors should meet with their personnel prior to the end of the shift for a debriefing, where the shift's events and reports will be reviewed. The shift debriefing should ideally occur at the end of a tour of duty although this may not always be practical.
Supervisors should view debriefing as an ongoing process that should take place at the first available opportunity. If we take an interest and make a habit of doing them daily, much like roll call, the shift debriefing process will become a routine and essential part of everyday policing.
The shift debriefing is one of the ways through which shifts and individual officers will know how successful they have been and a way in which all will learn from specific planning, tactics, techniques and procedures as well as the decision making process utilized.
The shift debriefs also enable supervisors to properly access assigned tasks, which evolved during their shifts, and to see whether they have been completed and processed properly in accordance with the department's overall mission and intent.
Item, Discussion, Recommendation
1.) The item, issue or idea step identifies the particular subject and provides a brief but precise description of the concern. It also serves as the title of the subject and as such is normally just a few words and never longer than a single sentence.
2.) The discussion is the second step and is a short summary explaining why the concern is relevant. It provides sufficient information to convince an uninformed reader of how the problem was manifested and in what circumstances and context.
3.) The recommendation is the last step and is a short statement suggesting a corrective course of action, countermeasure or remedy.
As described above, shift debriefs are normally informal discussions. However, at times the problems identified and their solutions require documentation and follow-up on lessons learned.
Follow-up can include policy and procedure review and/or revisions, training and equipment needs assessments. Either in discussion or written form, the IDR format is a great tool to facilitate the, debrief and document lessons learned.
We must be more deliberate, more disciplined, and more thorough in our approach in order to squeeze as much as possible from each experience.
If our goal is to be better than good, we must focus our efforts to get there. The shift debrief is one way of doing just that!
I adapted much of this piece on shift debriefings from two sources: Sid Heals' Field Command and Don Vandergriff's Raising The Bar: Creating and Nurturing Adaptability To deal With The Changing Face of War.
Both are great books and a must read for any cop.
Stay Oriented!
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Belfair Elementary Fifth-Graders' Camp Gets Financial Boost
BELFAIR - Belfair Elementary School's fifth-graders will continue a longtime tradition of spending a few days at YMCA's Camp Seymour this summer, thanks to community support. The school's Parent Teacher Association raised nearly $8,000 for the activity so far, and fundraising efforts continue.
The camp, which has been a tradition for more than 20 years, has been funded in the past primarily by the school district. However, new interpretations of the law has deemed it a nonschool activity and made it ineligible for district funding, according to Bill Green, a member of the PTA.
"A group of PTA and other parents got together and decided it was extremely important to have a camp," Green said. The group had to raise the bulk of the money by mid-February to have the activity approved by the school district, he said.
With the PTA donating $1,500, the organizers kicked off a campaign in November. In addition to the $7,800 minimum needed to pay for 80 students to attend the three-day camp, they are hoping to raise another $5,000 to pay for the meals. Their main fundraiser was a spaghetti feed at the Mary E. Theler Community Center in February. Lennard K's restaurant in Allyn donated food for the event and fifth-grade teachers provided desserts for a dessert auction.
"The Belfair-Allyn community really supported the spaghetti feed. It's phenomenal, the amount of support the community has shown," Green said.
YMCA's Camp Seymour, located on the Key Peninsula, about 30 minutes from Belfair, offers outdoor and environmentally-related activities all year round. Students get the opportunity to kayak, climb a rockwall, play team-building-games and more. The camp is a popular destination for many area school districts' fifth graders.
With the spaghetti feed bringing in $3,000, plus a $3,200 anonymous donation, a dance/auction and other activities, the PTA met its initial $7,800 goal for the camp. Parents would still have to pay $56 per student for meals, and Green said the hope is to raise additional funds to help those families who cannot afford that cost.
The PTA also wants to get a head start on next year's camp, so this year's fourth-graders get a boost. A barbecue and car wash as well as possibly a poker tournament are being planned for this spring, with dates to be announced.
For information about the Belfair Elementary PTA's fundraising efforts or to contribute, contact Bill Green at (360) 731-1024.
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In her argument against the use of automated traffic enforcement cameras, Iowa City resident Caroline Dieterle called upon the recent story of a young couple speeding toward the hospital. A police officer pulled them over and ended up helping deliver their baby.
"You're not going to get a camera helping deliver a baby, you're just going to get a bunch of tickets a few weeks later," said Dieterle, an activist with the Iowa City organization Stop Big Brother.
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South Park Bridge farewell, report #3: More photosJuly 1, 2010 at 2:52 am | In South Park, Transportation, West Seattle news | 4 Comments
(Photo by Kevin McClintic)
Around 8 o'clock Wednesday night, the South Park Bridge's final opening was also a severing of the physical tie to the other side of the Duwamish. "Half of Boeing came here for lunch," Boeing employee Michael told WSB contributor Keri DeTore; Georgetown Community Council Chair Holly Krejci said: "Georgetown will miss the connection and solidarity with South Park." SP resident John added, "Life just got a lot harder — we as a community can't sustain these businesses. We have to make this (neighborhood) a destination — this is the best neighborhood I've ever lived in."
(Photo by Christopher Boffoli)
But at least for the night, the concern about the years ahead without a bridge – even with funding for a new one starting to build up, it wouldn't be done for at least three years – was eclipsed by the party atmosphere of the bridge wake, on the bridge and alongside it:
(Photos by Christopher Boffoli)
Classic old transit buses were the final vehicles to cross. Earlier – perhaps in homage to the bridge's age (70) – other classic vehicles were seen:
(Photo by Kevin McClintic)
Meantime, more than a few elected officials came to South Park for the bridge sendoff, including Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, photographed talking with King County Transportation Director Harold Taniguchi:
(Photo by Keri DeTore)
The mayor told Keri: "We've worked to provide support to the local businesses and will work with the community. We have an interdepartmental team of police, fire, SDOT, neighborhood and economic groups to provide services to the broader community. We will do our share to work on the bridge replacement." Similar vows have come from county elected officials like Councilmember Jan Drago, decked in a pink hat and pink boa – same color on the tulle that fluttered from the bridge as it went up:
(Photo by Tracy Record)
Though $80 million has been raised toward funding a new bridge, many are concerned about where the remaining $50 million will be found. South Park resident Betty had an idea: "Put single moms in charge of the funding — they'll get it done!" Speaking of done, the end of bridge operations means the end of the line for bridge tenders here:
(Photo by Kevin McClintic)
One last round of photos – this is a Flickr grouping from the occasional contributor we refer to as Junior Member of the Team – he was part of the five-member WSB team covering the historic occasion:
And we also have a shot to add from the Feedback Lounge (WSB sponsor) bridge memorial – customers were invited to help build a bridge:
The Feedback, of course, created what was pretty much the official shirt of the wake – everywhere you turned, someone was wearing the distinctive white-on-black shirt (as you can see in many of our photos).
Ahead: A video collection of highlights, plus "what's next" for the bridge-replacement project and its neighbors.
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The historic buses are part of MEHVA's (Metro Employees Historic Vehicle Association), an all volunteer group dedicated to preserving our region's Transit History.
In a nutshell, with Metro Transit's co-operation, they have saved One Representative Coach of each make/model operated by Metro, and it's pre-merger predecessors Seattle Transit and King County's Metropolitan Transit Corp.
Six times a year, Mehva offers Excursions on some of it's historic coaches, two trolley bus trips (the first of this year's was a few weeks ago), and four motor bus trips.
Being a long time Metro rider, and a bit of a bus geek, I've enjoyed going on some of these trips over the last few years, not only for the enjoyment of going on a scenic trip, and getting to parts of King County that I may not get to on a regular basis, (or even the town of Snohomish during it's yearly Kla Ha Ya Days celebration and car show coming up July 18th), but it's fun to ride buses that I rode many years ago, when they were in regular service.
Late last Summer, after intending to do so for years, I finally joined up as an Associate Member. Any current or retired Metro employees can join up, and non-employees can join as well, with limited privileges.
Because of that, I was able to attend a "coach cleaning party" at Metro's South Base last December, to help clean up the interiors of the coaches in preparation for the Santa's Lights Tour. :cool: Had a lot of fun, although I didn't make it on the bus excursion itself.
Please note, that I'm not posting this as a spokesperson for MEHVA in any manner, just as a fan! :)
Comment by miws — 8:22 am July 1, 2010 #
that sounds like a story unto itself. we certainly have TONS of photos of the buses from last night. Thanks, Mike! The "red" one reminded me in particular of the models that were predominant in LA during the six years I lived there as a kid, late '60s-early '70s. By the time I was old enough to ride the bus by myself, we'd moved on to Honolulu, which had an incredible bus system and a mix of coach types, including some of the rounded-top models (also seen last night) which were particularly popular for getting up steep hills. Memories! – TR
The red one is a General Motors "New Look" that debuted around 1959. Seattle Transit acquired theirs in 1968.
I don't remember all of the details off the top of my head, but the US Govt subsidized, or at least urged bus manufacturers to come up with a more inviting design to encourage people to ride public transit, hence the sleeker, more streamlined coach design, and larger windows. (Though those windows are much smaller by the standards of the transit coaches built in the last 35 years or so! ;) )
The other prominent New Look coachmaker was Flxible out of Loudonville Ohio. Seattle Transit acqired 100 of those in 1963.
But, yeah, the New Looks form both builders were pretty prominent in municipal transit systems for decades. I believe they are also amongst the most popular from many bus drivers' standpoint, being considered more dependable than coaches built before or after.
One note I forgot to mention in my OP, regarding the colors of the coaches; MEHVA has, for the most part, restored each coach to it's color scheme, or "livery", that was original to it in the Seattle Transit System.
Two exceptions that I know of, are the rounded top bus pictured, (a GMC "Old Look") and the Flxible New Look. Thes coaches were originally green and white, and then painted the red color after the GM New Looks were acquired. IIRC, the reason MEHVA chose the red over the green for the Flxible, is becasue they were mostly remembered for being that color, while being owned by Seattle Transit.
The GM Old Look, is in the "Sunrise" livery, that Metro chose as it's color scheme when they took over the system in 1973. I don't recall the reason for MEHVA not repainting the GM Old Look red. It may be as simple as cost.
Did I mention I'm a bit of a bus geek? :P
Comment by miws — 11:10 am July 1, 2010 #
WONDERFUL photos!! I'm just sad for the reason to post them in the first place. Hopefully, Seattle will step up to the plate and replace this bridge so the community of Southpark isn't cut off forever from the Boeing/SoDo area.
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Like "cloud", "big data" and many other buzz-phrases that predate it, DevOps is the new flavour of the month. You've probably heard of it by now - according to figures released recently by Rackspace, 84 per cent of IT decision-makers now say they are familiar with the phrase, while 71 per cent say they even know exactly what it is.
But many IT managers still seem reluctant to let developers run their own operations, and take ownership of their own projects during and, especially, after launch. Computing talked to some DevOps experts about how development, operations and management can work in harmony.
Chris Jackson, CTO of DevOps for EMEA at Rackspace, believes the ultimate aim for everybody should be "to increase the flow of business value, getting to a point where you can release business value to your customers whether internally or externally, more frequently and with higher velocity".
Achieving this goal, Jackson says, hinges on how people work, collaborate and share. Unfortunately, he adds, too many IT leaders base their approach on ITIL – the Information Technology Information Library – a set of best practice frameworks first laid out in 1988. ITIL, Jackson says, is "easy to shoehorn into a business, but it's not always as simple to understand, or to extract value from".
Stephen Thair, co-founder of managed support firm DevOpsGuys, also believes ITIL's legacy can hinder DevOps practice.
"The problem with ITIL is it that it was interpreted as a series of job descriptions," he says.
"You do have to do all the things in there, but they don't have to be job roles. In a meeting, a techie will come in, probably tap away on a laptop until their [development] change gets discussed, then four or five management people will talk among themselves with absolutely no understanding of IT, technology, and marketing. So there's no value added. You've spent tens of thousands pounds to have all these people in a room, for nothing."
Thair sees DevOps as "an alternative model" to this, while making it clear that it does not necessarily negate all aspects of a typical ITIL culture.
He feels many people mistakenly believe that "DevOps means we don't need operations anymore, and that developers are going to take over the running of production environments.
"I think from an operations perspective that's a significant misunderstanding of what operations really is, and the role of operations. Operations is a discipline in the same way that software development is.
"I think the difference is that operations needs to stop trying to resist change and going 'Oh, this production environment is a thing we must protect at all costs' and to start asking 'how can we embrace change and make it so you can push as much change into the environment as you can?' And that's the challenge."
Matthew Skelton of Skelton Thatcher Consulting goes so far as to say many general industry methodologies based on ITIL are "fundamentally broken".
"It's presumed we design, we specify and we put software into operation, and that's it," he says.
"But that means once the software is in production, it starts to decay - becomes less loved - and it's very difficult to learn how to improve it. If you look at ITIL, and certainly in DevOps, there's scope in both those things for learning."
Rackspace's Jackson believes DevOps has to have "strong leadership" in order to succeed, while Thair says a key to this is to stop talking in terms of "the business" and "IT".
"When did it suddenly become that 'the business' is over here, and separate to the IT department? We talk like we're the high priests of IT, guarding this scarce resource. IT is not a scarce resource anymore - it's for everyone," he says.
And with the rise of the cloud meaning that "large companies will be challenged by startups", Thair urges the largest companies to give developers more control over their workflow. To back up his point, he cites retailer John Lewis, which recently spoke of a Windows XP migration to Windows 7.
"John Lewis didn't know what software it was running. It found 700 programs that didn't run on Windows 7 - and they only worked that out as they went. Rewrite, rewrite.
"It's the typical 'I'm not touching it and it's scary and the guy who wrote it left' [issue]. Why wasn't XP phased out years ago? And they're patting themselves on the back when they spent millions of pounds, but they should have been spending tens or thousands over time."
While DevOps knows what DevOps is, there's still enough passion among its followers to suggest that - just perhaps - the message still isn't getting through to the top. Perhaps it's time to pull up a chair.


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The two-part annual winter session of the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) was held on 3-4 December 2013 and 14-16 January 2014.
New JIU Chair and Vice-Chair elected for 2014
During the session, the eleven JIU inspectors elected Inspector Cihan TERZI (Turkey) as Chair and Inspector Jorge Flores Callejas (Honduras) as Vice-Chair for the year 2014.
Inspector TERZI has been with the JIU since 2006 and has worked on over 15 reports as coordinator and co-author; covering different areas including, inter alia, procurement, risk management, offshoring and human resources issues. He is a former inspector and head of department in the Ministry of Finance of Turkey, and a certified public accountant. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Illinois.
Inspector Flores Callejas, since joining the JIU in 2012, has undertaken two reports, two feasibility studies and one note as coordinator and co-author. He has close to 20 years of professional experience with the United Nations through various positions. He was a member for six years of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) and former Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations. He holds a Masters in Economics from Long Island University.
2014 Programme of Work
Other major outcomes of the session included the adoption of the JIU Programme of Work for 2014. The latter includes the inspection and evaluation of a variety of strategic topics that are expected to improve management and operations of the organizations. It was designed with an objective to address critical system-wide risks and reform issues. It includes both administrative and programmatic as well as development oriented inspections and evaluations, such as a review of safety and security of UN personnel and premises world-wide; a review of UN system-wide implementation of policies regarding productive employment and decent work; and a system-wide review of contract management and administration.
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