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Team Kiwi Racing development driver Andre Heimgartner's impressive performance in last weekend's round of the Carrera Cup at Surfer's Paradise has earned him the chance to compete for a partly-funded Porsche factory drive in the 2013 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.
It is run as a support category to the Formula One championship, and the opportunity continues a quick rise for the 17-year-old student at St Kentigern High School in Auckland who took the opportunity to drive the Team Kiwi Racing Porsche 997 earlier this year.
Finishing with two fifths and a fourth at the Gold Coast street circuit last weekend was enough for Porsche Cars Australia to seal his nomination as the driver they felt would best represent the Australasian region. Heimgartner will travel to Italy for this coming weekend's test programme, to challenge for the opportunity to win the partly-funded Porsche drive in the 2013 Supercup series.
"When I offered Andre the opportunity early this season to race the TKR all black Porsche in Australia, it was with the view it would give him the international experience and exposure needed to make a fulltime career of racing, just as we have provided a number of Kiwi drivers with similar opportunities over the years," Team Kiwi Racing boss David John said.
"His consistent performance right from the first round proved that, as a team, we could have a successful season. The Porsche Cars Australia nomination is the icing on the cake and great recognition that all the hard work put in by the team's supporters, sponsors and TKR staff and crew is worth it.
"As the youngest competitor in the field, he's continually performed well beyond his years and done better at the new events than many others with years of experience. But this next test will be the toughest and most rewarding of his short career to date."
Heimgartner will be pitted against Carrera Cup representatives from Great Britain, France, Asia, Japan, Scandinavia and Italy all vying for the international position to race the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car in the 2013 Mobil 1 Supercup series. In the meantime, John will meet with potential new sponsors in the hope of raising 600,000 needed to compete should Heimgartner win.
Heimgartner is sixth in the title standings and the leading rookie with one round left in the Carrera Cup.
"I'm really honoured to win the award," he said. "I'll do my best to represent Carrera Cup Australia and Team Kiwi Racing.
"Since the phone call from TKR boss David John earlier this year things have just gotten better and better. The chance to race in Australia in the TKR Porsche was a big step - a dream come true.
"I've gone from having a collection of die-cast TKR models on my desk featuring well-known drivers like Jason Richards, Angus Fogg, John McIntyre, Craig Baird, Paul Radisich and Shane van Gisbergen to actually racing the real thing. And thanks to the team and our results the next die cast model will be of the TKR Porsche - with my name on it."


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Vogt's Notes: Look beyond first impressions
The Newlyweds.
Katy Perry.
The Cousins.
This is how my family characterized several different people we recently crossed paths with while on vacation. Here's a brief description of each.
The Newlyweds: Without going into too much graphic detail, this young couple basically couldn't keep their hands off each other or their faces far apart. They gave the impression they were on their honeymoon.
Our first impression of the Newlyweds was that they had no time for anyone but each other.
Katy Perry: This beautiful young woman looks like a less voluptuous Katy Perry, the "California Gurls" and "Firework" pop singer. She's tall, confident and willowy, with jet black hair and big, round eyes — just like Katy Perry.
We noticed that Katy Perry was traveling with an older man and wondered if they were a couple (surely she was in it for the money, our devious minds figured) or a father and daughter.
The Cousins: These five little boys are ages 4 and 5 with lots of energy.
The Cousins appeared to be traveling with their grandparents.
On the second day of our vacation, I found myself next to the Newlyweds. So I asked if that, indeed, is what they were.
Turns out they are not married and were not on their honeymoon. But the man, Adam, had recently proposed to the woman, Jennifer. (She said yes!)
It also turns out they were quite nice and friendly, and they did have time for and enjoyed talking to others. They even offered to lend my husband a pair of Adam's pants for a fancy dinner if need be since my husband hadn't packed nice pants.
We crossed paths with the Newlyweds several times and always had pleasant conversations and enjoyed learning about their backgrounds.
While I was trading introductions with the Newlyweds that first time, I was pleasantly surprised to look up at one point and see that Katy Perry had engaged my shy, younger daughter in conversation.
Turns out she wasn't a pop singer, but rather a Mankato State University student who was vacationing with her dad. She was fun and energetic and often took my daughters under her wing and encouraged them to participate in different activities. We learned this wasn't the first time someone told her she looked like Katy Perry.
We even had a bit of interaction with the Cousins. When asked, Grandma confirmed that the young boys were, indeed, cousins and not quintuplets. A few of them came up to me one day, somewhat shyly, and said "hi." They actually said quite a bit more, but in a language I didn't understand.
They entertained us as they darted about and sneakily crept up to me to try to converse, and we admired the grandparents for taking the five boys on vacation.
One of the most fun aspects of this vacation was the people watching we did. Even better were the people we met who became friends for the week, including the Newlyweds, Katy Perry and many others.
These were people we attached a label and story to based on their looks. We were lucky enough to get to know them a bit to go beyond the label.
First impressions — we learned it's worth looking deeper and is worth the time and effort to go beyond the first impression.

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"The will to prepare to win is what makes you a winner, whether it's
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The only thing I hate is how boring it is. The job security is great though and thats really why I wanted to go into it.
In my day you collage wasn't stressed as much as it is today...many of my age group got through high school and went to work in a factory/construction or whatever there was plenty work out there... The last job I held was in a shipyard it was ok in the beginning pay was good and such but I just didn't like it ...And before I finally walked I hated it ..I was miserable...I've been self employed ever since "over 25 years now " as a building contractor...Like anything it has its pros and cons , but I like building..Bottom line I wish I had gone into it right out high school ....instead of wasting 10 years of my life doing **** I didn't like doing....find something you like to do and go for it
Let's hope this forecast changes...
Sun Oct 7
Chance of rain: 60%
Wind: NNW at 6 mph
Someone may want to explain to Ramses Barden that wrapping your arms around the body and head of the defended is never NOT offensive pass interference. Did he actually do that and think it wasn't getting called?
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..


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I cleaned the stitch length regulator slide and arm.
but it really made it look funny with the rest of the feed mechanism..
Here begins the slippery slope of restoration...
I decided to remove and clean the feed system, I am glad I did..
here is my favorite part of the feed mechanism. I just like twisted steel.
and that lead me to decide to remove the bobbin holder
and that lead me to decide to remove rotating hook mechanism ...
THIS required a certain sequence of removal to accomplish. I figure most folks will not want to see the whole step by step tear down, i'll just show the results of removing the whole feed dog mechanism and rotary hook assembly.
Here is the collection of parts prior to cleaning. (minus the regulator arm cleaned earlier)
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Would you risk your life for a country that considered you a second-class citizen? Would you join a military that asked you to risk sacrificing your life but separated you from other soldiers because of the color of your skin? That is precisely what the Tuskegee Airmen did. They were brave, intelligent, African-American men and women who fought for the United States in World War II.
World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. In 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to allow African Americans to fly airplanes in the military. Before this, African Americans could only enlist in the Armed Forces as part of the ground troops. The first African American Airmen reported for duty in 1941. They began their training outside of Tuskegee, Alabama. The soldiers were completely separated by race and the two races could not communicate. About 450 African American pilots finished the training. These men were the original Tuskegee Airmen. There were to be many more Tuskegee Airmen in the years to come.
The Tuskegee Airmen had an amazing track record. They did not lose any of the bombers they were escorting. When the war was over in 1945, the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes. But when they returned to America, they were appalled to find out that they were still treated like second-class citizens. They faced the same segregation and discrimination as they had before they began their training. One thing did change, however. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order prohibiting segregation in the military.
Eventually, the Tuskegee Airmen were officially thanked for their amazing efforts in the war. Approximately 450 Tuskegee Airmen received 850 medals between 1943 and 1945. They also received 95 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Meet Frederick Henry
One of the original Tuskegee Airmen lives in Detroit, Michigan. Frederick Henry was a Military Policeman and chef. Because he was from Mount Clemens, Michigan, which was in the North, he would often forget the segregation rules of the South. Once, Henry was on a bus alone with a white bus driver. Soon, after the two had talked for a while, a wave of other passengers came on the bus. A problem arose when some white passengers were still standing, which was against the rules. Henry was put off the bus, even though he was the first person to board the bus and had paid his fare.
The Tuskegee Airmen are often invited to functions across the country. Most of the remaining Tuskegee Airmen are between 80 and 90 years old. "Several Tuskegee Airmen have died. Many of my good friends have passed away," says Henry. It has been tough for him to attend these events and functions without his dear friends.
Henry radiates a strong sense of pride in being one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. But he didn't realize what a great honor it would become. "At the time that I went in, it was just great being in the military," he says. "I didn't know that after sixty years that we would be famous." President Barack Obama personally invited all of the original Tuskegee Airmen to his Inauguration. Henry attended the Inauguration and was surprised when people asked him for his autograph.
The Tuskegee Airmen and women opened doors for everyone. "When I was in the service, we only had one black general," remembers Henry. "Now, there are countless African American leaders in the military. The Tuskegee Airmen opened up the military for integration."
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In some districts dog registration can be a significant expense. Many farmers feel their district council is scooping up money for dog registration fees when it is in fact incredibly rare for a farm working dog to cause problems requiring the attention of a dog control officer or the pound.
Federated Farmers is trying to get consistency into dog registration fees. We acknowledge a number of district councils have established fee categories for working or rural dogs, offering reduced fees or price breaks for dog teams. We want to encourage this nationwide.
Gore District Council is an example of a good policy with an annual fee of $16 for rural dogs, compared to urban dogs at $112.50, with discounts for good behaviour. Thames Coromandel District Council's fee is $60 for urban and working farm dogs, but there is no extra charge when there are more than three dogs. Western Bay of Plenty District Council charges $67 per working dog.
Surely Gore's farm dogs are not kinder or more responsible than those further north? We think councils at the higher end of the fee scale need to better acknowledge farmers' good track record of dog management and training. Fees should be targeted at the real source of their costs.
This was shown back in 2003 by Federated Farmers research while trying to get working dogs exempted from compulsory micro-chipping. The Federation succeeded, partly because there was strong evidence of the effective and professional management of working farm dogs. There was no evidence of dog attacks or that problems arose from working farm dogs.
This is also the basis for the Federation's case on fees. At annual plan time, when fees, charges and rates are set, Federated Farmers tries to establish the factual sources of councils' dog control expenses.


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Today would have been my due date. Our little man decided to come into the world a little early. I was at 38 weeks and 4 days when Pete and I went into the hospital on Thursday, March 6 around 1 p.m.
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i think we need to deport the communist back to mexico!
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i think we need to deport the communist back to mexico!
Its happening everywhere. Had a Californian move to NC and get a job at the local Kangaroo (gas and snack store) she pitched a fit to the police because the manager threw away a couple of burned out bulbs. She called the cops to charge him because apparently its illegal to throw @ bulbs in the trash in California. Then she pitched a fit to the cops because it wasnt a law.
I asjed her why she moved here a week later. "California got so crazy with all the laws and taxes".
Here's your sign.
Just why was this pharquknuckle still working there a week later? Masnager drive the short bus?
Nah he quit. After coming home from Vietnam and working there since then. Couldnt take it. His boss was affirmative action and CLEARLY hired the same.
At one time this was a wonderful place to live. But, it does have ONE major flaw! It is right next to the most Nazified state in America-the Soviet Socialist Republik of Kalifornia. And, it is like living next to a huge sewer. The stench floats across the border!
I have known many people who moved here from Kalifornia (to get away from the "rat race") and immediately start to complain that "when I lived in California we had ....., Why not here? In other words, they wanted to bring the "rat race" with them so that they could live here and still have what they had in California! I always tell them that "if you don't like it here, go back home! Nobody here will miss you.
I will say that the rural areas of Oregon (and most other states including New York) tend to be conservative pro gun areas. But, we get squished by the liberal trash in the big cities.
I don't know if there is really a state where the HELL of liberalism doesn't reach, so, I'm going to spend the rest of my days here in Oregon.
You are absolutely right, imho. I know someone who says people who move to big cities get concrete disease,when they move to big cities you can see a change in the way they think.
"Birds of a feather flock together." For some reasons, liberals like mass together in large cities. I guess they think that work is harder when you live in rural areas. I don't know for sure, but cities are generally socialistic and country is generally for freedom.


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ABAG and Dense Housing in PA
Original post made by Paul Losch, Community Center, on Feb 26, 2012
ABAG is trying at a policy level to encourage cities to develop housing that are closer to the jobs.
I still am not entirely clear what City Council is attempting.
There certainly are implications for the schools, and traffic, that would need to be thought through.
But the general idea of having housing available close to where people work makes sense to me.
Palo Alto, Mtn View, Redwood City and San Mateo, among others, are not merely bedroom communities. Thousands of people clog our roads every morning and afternoon driving to and from home to work. Would it be better if they could take a shuttle or bike or walk to their jobs? Or even just drive less distance?
Let's face it, there already are dense community housing projects here recently in PA, ranging from the JCC to Edgewood to Alma Plaza to the Elks Club property.
May I suggest we think of ourselves as a City, not a suburb, or a rarefied enclave?
Comments (14)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
So what exactly are you trying to say?
Should we or should we not build more housing? If we should, what should we do about schools and traffic? If we should not, what should we do about getting workers into town?
We may be one city, but we are part of an urban region. What should we do?
Are you planning to run for City Council?
a resident of Community Center
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Paul Losch is a registered user.
Please cease questions and invectives about me. I don't know who you are, but it gets in the way of the substance I tee up.
My point that did not appear to come across to you is that I actually think that dense housing, as ABAG policy has indicated, is the right policy.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Paul - I think most of Palo Alto, including the City Council disagrees with you. Some dense housing is fine, the quantity that the ABAG suggests is far too much.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:28 pm
You are sounding like a politician, but thank you for clearing and stating your position clearly.
I will now cease as you have cleared that up.
a resident of Community Center
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Paul Losch is a registered user.
This ia a complex issue and will be a subject of discussion for years.
I just view thw matter as something that goes beyond Palo Alto, and our Council is not viewing it that way.
a resident of College Terrace
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Creating jobs in the city without housing puts massive amounts of new traffic on our streets, along with pollution, congestion, noise, and fatalities.
Yes, the city can limit the need for new housing by forcing major employers out of town (ie Facebook), but I think most residents do want some amount of job growth. Allowing a similar amount of housing growth is smart planning. Yes, we do need public services to go along with new housing, but we also need new public services to go along with new jobs. Traffic is caused by jobs, not by housing.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 26, 2012 at 1:21 pm
When someone writes that we forced Facebook out of town, I recognize someone who is willing to fudge, in order to promote his agenda, more housing.
Facebook moved because it needed huge acreage that we don't have. Menlo Park had the huge area available. Please stop making up stuff and pretending you know what you are talking about.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 26, 2012 at 2:45 pm
To actually comment on the subject at hand, I think it is important to start looking at the region as a whole rather than as lots of separate cities with no interaction.
We may have a regional housing issue for the number of jobs in our region. We can take the big picture region and talk about the SF Bay area, or we can take a smaller picture and talk about the Peninsula as a region, or even as Silicon Valley as a region with fuzzy borders, but talking about one city v another city when it comes to the housing/jobs balance makes little sense.
The urban sprawl which stretches further south and east shows that the region is growing, and that growth is spreading geographically in square mileage. Looking at our highway system, people are willing to drive quite a distance to get from home to job, and are willing to trade this commute with what they get in homelife on the perimeters. What we are doing is widening highways and introducing toll lanes as measures to deal with these longer commutes. ABAG is trying to address this issue with (un)realistic housing quotas. But, the question is whether someone who is happy with a 45 minute (or longer) commute to enable them to live in a 4 bedroom single family home with a self contained yard really wants to move into a legostyle condo with a few yards of outside private patio a bike ride away from where they work?
Perhaps really the better way to look at the problem is to find better ways to get the people from the outer perimeters of the Valley to where the jobs are?
I have no object to building more homes in areas of the Valley where there is space. I just ask myself whether or not we are putting the cart before the horse. The amount of building in our foothills and those in Milpitas, are providing one side of the equation. The improvements in localized transportation is the side that is lacking.
For us in Palo Alto, people may be willing to live here in rabbit hutches not because it is close to where they work, but because of the schools. The same is not going to be true for our neighboring communities of Mountain View and Redwood City.
We need to stop looking at this at a city by city problem and start looking at the region as a whole. We need to also start looking at transportation improvements as a solution also.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 26, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I object to this, which reflects the addition of invented government agencies, in this case attempting to dictate what a particular city should do in terms of planning and policies. I'm not actually certain whether I favor ABAG dictates or not, that isn't the point.
Cooperation/information sharing between cities on a voluntary level -- perhaps at an annual summit cities can choose to attend or not -- should be encouraged, but giving or withholding funds gives way too much power to these oddball regional agencies. Such agencies are too subject to the influence of POLITICAL view points, rather than substantive goals, IMO.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 27, 2012 at 11:55 am
I don't think we truly know if Palo Altans are in favor of 12,000 new housing units to minimize regional GHG or not. The Council is clearly opposed, but 2007 survey research showed a majority on the other side.
This is a tricky question to ask. Media coverage oversimplifies the discussion. Council comments deny the validity of the 3rd grade geometry that regional smart growth is founded upon. Steve Levy patiently explains regional planning, withstanding name-calling and character assassination by anonymous posters.
Cities21 and The Alliance for a Livable Palo Alto conducted a Fall 2007 web survey to probe Palo Alto attitudes towards the "inconvenience" created by the "regional land use => climate link" versus anti-growth sentiment. 221 residents from 25 Palo Alto neighborhoods responded to the survey. A no growth scenario with deleterious regional impacts scored poorly. A "super smart growth" scenario (meeting the Regional Housing Needs Allocation target) attracted a solid majority. The survey resulted in more balanced newspaper coverage (and more coverage in general), with local press explaining regional objectives.
Survey intro:
By September 25, Palo Alto and all the cities in the Bay Area will be giving feedback to the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) about the number of homes that each city is expected to build in the next eight years. Palo Alto's allocation (3,505) has been raised substantially from the last round (1999-2006), because the new allocation criteria stress job levels, job growth and transit access. This is a very controversial subject. This survey was designed to gather data on attitudes and ideas about this issue facing Palo Alto.
The State Housing and Community Development (HCD) Department requires regions to forecast future population growth. HCD approves each regional forecast and then requires regions to allocate the growth among individual cities. ABAG pursues relatively laudable goals in their allocation such as minimizing traffic congestion, pollution, and global warming. ABAG creates a rational, impartial procedure for their allocation. ABAG is an organization that represents Bay Area city governments, so it is not valid to argue that ABAG is out to harm individual Bay Area cities. The fact that most Bay Area cities are unhappy with ABAG's allocation supports the idea that ABAG has a fair, if unpopular, process. The conflict is much more basic: the region is growing but most cities do not want to grow as fast as the region. It's hard to find a villain in this conflict.
The state Climate Action Team sets statewide climate protection policy and has influenced the allocations. For Palo Alto, the Climate Action Team's "smart growth" policy can be summarized as: "build lots of dense housing for Palo Alto workers by the Caltrain stations." Compared to the 1999-2006 allocation, Palo Alto may have been given the largest percentage increase of any city.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 27, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Steve Raney thinks that his biased organization survey results mean anything is pathetic or.. worse. He reports that
>221 residents from 25 Palo Alto neighborhoods responded to the survey
Those voluntary respondents could easily be the developers and their employees, plus 2 or 3 League of Women Voters housing advocates.
To cite this biased, dishonest result as having any meaning at all reflects Mr. Raney's lack of education or blind bias.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 27, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Dear "Please stick to the truth,"
I'm confident the 221 survey respondents represented an unbiased sample. It would be terrific to run the survey over the entire Palo Alto population, as it could lead to the Council adopting a pro climate stance on SB375 and the housing allocation. Too often in public discourse, people just object to things without solving long-range problems. A more productive discourse has voters making trade-offs.
Techniques like the survey can overcome the "Tragedy of the Commons." Given sufficient information, humans CAN CHOOSE for the long-range good of future generations, rather than short-term personal optimization.
FYI: here is the survey report: Web Link
Question 12's SCENARIO 1:
By 2014, Palo Alto stays pretty much the same as in 2007. The 3,505 new homes are built in Manteca, Modesto, and Merced, not in Palo Alto. Cities such as Menlo Park, Atherton, and Cupertino also avoid their unpopular housing allocations. Palo Alto traffic levels stay the same, but regional auto usage increases. By year 2020, California GHG (greenhouse gas) levels are 33% more than 1990 levels.
<The trade-off that respondents have to face is that the no-growth scenario hurts the climate. This survey avoids ignoring the no-growth consequences. >
Question 14's SCENARIO 2:
Palo Alto adds 3,505 new "innovative growth" homes by 2014.
In the past, Palo Alto City Council helped pioneer green, traffic-reducing policies on Stanford and Stanford West Apartments. Stanford West residents produce 75% less GHG (greenhouse gas) than the average Palo Alto resident, primarily because they drive much less. As a condition of adding the new homes, Palo Alto imposes similar traffic reducing policies on the new housing. (Palo Alto also ensures that energy-saving "green building" best practices are followed.) New housing is created especially for deserving local workers, such as Stanford Hospital nurses. Palo Alto also implements further traffic reducing policies for Palo Alto workers, shoppers, and residents. As a result, traffic and total auto trips remain at 2007 levels, despite increased population.
Because of Palo Alto's inspired model, cities such as Menlo Park, Atherton, and Cupertino follow Palo Alto's lead. By year 2020, despite large population growth, California GHG levels are back to 1990 levels. Even though significant new housing is added in the Bay Area, the foothills remain preserved.
In order to balance the city's budget, Palo Alto copies recent suburban Bay Area funding innovations to ensure that city services, parks, infrastructure, and high quality education are fully funded.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 27, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Reducing GHG levels is an admirable goal, but where in Palo Alto is there room for 3500 more houses/housing units? Without taking some existing land by Eminent Domain, it would be difficult, if not impossible. Where would this proposed housing be built? El Camino ? Taking land from Stanford? Razing University?
I would like to see a truly regional approach to this problem - including dense housing in towns like Atherton which is on the Caltrain route. Los
In reality, a majority of new residents move to Palo Alto for the schools (why else pay such a premium for housing?) 3500 new housing units would add somewhere between 3500-7000 students to PAUSD, an impossible addition without allocating some of the land needed for housing for additional elementary, middle and high schools.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 28, 2012 at 8:42 am
> For us in Palo Alto, people may be willing to live here in
> rabbit hutches not because it is close to where they work,
> but because of the schools.
Palo Alto was built in three separate growth "spurts"—before 1950. 1950-1970, and the Barron Park annex in 1976. Most people didn't move to Palo Alto in those days because of "the schools".
> The same is not going to be true for our neighboring communities of
> Mountain View and Redwood City
Maybe, but this is a hard point to make, particularly if the schools in California were to undergo some fundamental transformation. However, it patently clear that school performance is more a function of the parents than the schools/teachers--so people who don't value education are not likely to spend a lot of money on homes in towns where people do.
> We need to stop looking at this at a city by city problem and
> start looking at the region as a whole
Yes..we are well past the day when people can look with pride at: "this Island, Palo Alto".
Paul Losch likes to bring poorly focused topics to these blogs. For instance, "real cities" have a lot of crime, they have entrenched municipal bureaucracies with a lot of corruption, they have blight, traffic problems that are difficult to deal with, and are now finding bankruptcy as the only way to deal with their problems.
Is this what Paul Losch is proposing for Palo Alto? Probably not, but that what "real cities" are all about these days.
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Over the weekend i was out and about
checking my hives for winter food stores and etc. .
i noticed that one hive has both deeps completly filled with honey for winter food stores allready , and i got too thinking what i be doing more harm than good
if i was to pull half of the frames out and extract the honey then feed a while
to replenish the honey i have taken out
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When I first got my hands on a Nintendo 3DS XL, one of the most pressing questions was its battery life. This resulted in a family project with the kids to set up a 3DS XL battery test time-lapse video. We had a great time mucking around with cameras, tripods and various iPhone time-lapse applications.
Then the video hit the internet, and my kids could hardly believe that our little weekend project had 60,000 people watching it. With all those people came all sorts of comments, and the children got into a habit of answering them each day after school.
Lots of the commenters, who I have to say have been cordial and engaging in the main, asked why we didn't include the Game Boy Color and original Game Boy Advance. So when we came across these two consoles in a second-hand store in town the children were eager to buy them — the implication being we would create a bigger, better battery test that included all the different Nintendo consoles.
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The Ross Valley Sanitary District will not seek a legal claim against a contract attorney who allegedly didn't provide the sewer board with information about a loan made without collateral to former general manager Brett Richards.
In April, Richards, 45, was charged by the Marin County district attorney with nine felony counts including misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement and money-laundering in connection with his failure to repay the $350,000 housing loan. His whereabouts are unknown.
The affidavit for a warrant for his arrest recounted that the sanitary district's interim legal counsel at the time, Sanford Skaggs, noticed that the contract granting Richards the loan lacked a requirement for a deed of trust. On Nov. 2, 2010, the attorney prepared a memorandum to the board's president and secretary addressing the issue.
According to the affidavit, however, instead of sending the memorandum directly to district board members, the attorney sent it to Richards. Board members told Marin district attorney investigators they were not provided a copy of the memorandum.
When the board met last week it considered legal action, but ultimately decided against seeking a claim against the attorney, said Frank Egger, board president.
"The chances of us collecting are almost nil," said Egger, who said the board consulted legal malpractice experts. "And it would have cost a lot of money to pursue it."
Skaggs, an attorney based in Walnut Creek, could not be reached for comment.
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Is it too early for Dems to panic?
posted at 12:41 pm on June 22, 2012 by Karl
The always sharp Sean Trende (have you read The Lost Majority yet?) says the latest pessimism from the Washington press is overblown. I agree with him, but have a few nits to pick with his analysis.
Sean's first point is that Romney still trails Obama narrowly in the RCP Average, putting Obama is a better position than Gore, Clinton, and Bush 41 at similar points in the 2000, 1992, and 1988 cycles. Aside from the general problem with head-to-head polls at this point in the cycle, I would note that Clinton was a challenger running against a bad economy. Gore and Bush 41 were quasi-incumbents running with a good economy (although Gore ran a "people vs the powerful" campaign in reaction to Edwards and Nader). Plus, a "third term" candidate may be different from an true incumbent seeking reelection.
Second, Sean argues the president's job approval is holding up fairly well, currently sporting a 47.9% rating in the RCP Average. Fair enough, although Sean himself has noted that Obama has tended to run less than a point ahead of his job approval (even less if you discount the Pew poll). Moreover, Sean adds the caveat that "most of the job approval numbers right now are of adults, not likely voters, which will skew them somewhat toward Democrats vis-à-vis the electorate." Indeed… so what happens if we go back to the horse race polls and account for different samples. Harry J. Enten did this on June 12:
President Obama maintains a lead of about 4 percentage points in all registered voter polls taken since 15 April, while his lead is a slightly smaller 3.3 percentage points in registered voter polls since 10 May. That's little, if any, movement. The reason why Obama's lead may seem a little high compared to some aggregates is that Gallup only gives Obama a 0.5 percentage edge since 15 April. I control for what has become Gallup's constant Republican tilt since 2010.
You might think therefore that Obama is leading right now. I'm not so sure.
The same average of likely voter polls since 15 April and 10 May actually has Romney ahead by 1.3 percentage points. The problem with concluding anything too firm from these numbers is that, besides Rasmussen, there have only been seven likely voter polls conducted since 15 April. Still, Rasmussen's average Romney lead of 1.5 percentage points is very close to the average of the other pollsters' 1.3 percentage points. In other words, Rasmussen is not driving the likely voter average.
Obviously, 1.3%-1.5% is not a lead Romney would want to bank on, but it is bad news for Obama.
Sean's third point addresses the economic fundamentals. He thinks the Eurozone will not explode before the election (which I think is anyone's guess). He also claims that, "most importantly, people don't blame the president for the state of the economy." Although I agree that Obama taking office in the wake of the sharpest downturn since the Great Depression may make the election unique, most people do in fact blame Obama for his performance viz the economy. More still blame Dubya more, but Dubya will not be on the ballot.
Moreover, as the frequently Obama-friendly Pew poll recently found, in contrast to 2008, that Republicans hold the edge on several turnout measures. Harry J. Enten noted on Twitter that of all of the likely voter proxies, the one which came closest to the final results for the elections between 1992-2008 gives the GOP an 8-point edge in enthusiasm.
Those nits picked, my assessment of the campaign today is basically the same as Sean's — the Dems should be concerned, but not panicked. Conversely, to paraphrase Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and Han Solo: "Great, Mitt… don't get cocky."


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Folks I am sorry I said anything about where the boxes were made, it has upset some.
Folks I am sorry I said anything about where the boxes were made, it has upset some.
Ed, KA9CTT profanity is IGNORANCE made audible
you can`t fix stupid not even with duct tape
american made clothing is the best in the world if you can find it.. your going to pay a little more but we get better value for our dollar. that stuff you buy from china wont last as long. I agree our corporations pay a very high corporate tax in the states. our corporations go overseas to get cheaper labor so they can turn around and sell their product for a big profit in the states while the company ceo gets 30 million in bonus for doing nothing. You call this the new world economy. i'm waiting for the next great depression to hit us again. I hope you are ready. The system is broke.
I picked up my nuc in one of these. They're fairly sturdy and the frames fit just fine in the one I have. The ventilation holes at the top were big enough that bees could get out. Typically not a huge deal unless they are riding inside a van for a long roadtrip!
Seems it'll hold up for awhile, but I've also made up some wooden nucs. I'll use this for short term stuff, but I don't want to have it fall apart with bees in it.
Has anyone noticed a problem with the amount of light that shines through these boxes? Don't the bees like it darker inside? I have few of them and am considering paint or some other covering to make them darker inside. My primary use is for swarm traps or to put swarms I capture in them. Any thoughts on the light issue?
We have 300 of Jesters EZ nucs and we love them. Use them for alot.
Cam Bishop
Does anyone know a maker of a 4-frame nuc box similar to this? Nobody sells 5-frame nucs around here, so I'm looking for something which is a bit more standard locally, and liked how durable these looked as opposed to the cardboard ones.
I own 5 and if you need a nuc box to buy they are the way to go.
I like the ones I make best but they do work very well considering the weight and all.
to bad they aren't USA made though
where is that guy that advertises his wood working? He is in the US - He could make them... and we could buy them direct from him. 3 year old labor in China cut out, USA product in.
If you're using them for bait hives, tape over the holes on the side so less sunlight gets into the nuc. Bees are reported to like dark better. In this climate, if the bees are going to be in them for any length of time I've had better luck putting tape over the holes on the side. Brood stays warmer.
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This was my third year of releasing Osmia lignaria and Osmia californica bees and it was to be the first year to set-up a sustaining lineage by not purchasing natal tubes from a vendor. I was satisfied with the results of the past two years. The bees seemed to like the location where I had put the tubes and had in prior years successfully repopulated clean tubes in that spot. This year I had 33 natal tubes set from 2011. I decided to let them stay outdoors in the habitat in which the females had populated them and not bring them in to hibernate in the refrigerator. The sad story is that all the bees succumbed to something. I did see one male in the spring but no other activity. I just finished investigating the cocoons and the majority seemed to have desiccated. When I open the cocoons the bodies fall out in pieces. It appears that a few did get out of their cocoons but could not make their way out of the tube and therefore died in the tube. In some cases it's clear that large pollen plugs (unsuccessful larvae? and they were still moist) were in the way. Most died in their cocoons. The soil around here has a lot of clay though my garden soil is quite loamy from composting and general vegetable gardening. What happened?
My thinking is that the winter was too warm and the bees simply dried out. Is that what others may be experiencing? Is there a species that should be able to overwinter successfully outdoors in the Los Angeles area?
Another thought is that the clay in the soil caused the plugs and partitions in the natal tube to be too hard to break through. It's a thought anyway.
Thanks so much for feedback. I'll be purchasing natal tubes again this year to start over.


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We're invested in guys like him.
Did we want Douglas for returns or something? I didnt see much of him. games 2 and 3, i was on vacation so i was constantly up and down, not staring at the screen. Who is on returns?
Laron Scott made the final roster?!? ಠ_ಠ
Was it that pass he was thrown the other day that they counted as an INT? lol
Douglas can/could have returned kicks for the team....last game they had Scott returning kicks.... Idk JP.....good chance Hixon will be returning kicks....
it's harder for me to be patient with the hixon situation because we've been waiting YEARS. lol
As far as I'm concerned, the moment we drafted Nicks was Hixon's demise. Then once he missed 2 seasons, it's like he doesnt even exist to me anymore....lol
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The 1980s race to create an affordable and reliable home computer was the subject of BBC4's 'Micro Men' shown last night (and still on iPlayer). Chris Curry, co-founder of Acorn computers, and Sir Clive Sinclair were competitors but they were also close friends and they both did an enormous amount to bring the creativity of computing into British homes.
Our computing collections represent the incredible diversity of British machines at this time, from familiar computers such as the Dragon 32, ZX81 and the Oric 1, to unique computers such as our gold BBC Micro.
In March last year we invited the creators of the BBC Micro computer to the museum for a reunion to celebrate the team's contribution to computing in Britain today. It was attended by 'Micro Men' producer Andrea Cornwall and some of the fantastic stories about Acorn that came out that day inspired the programme and the writer Tony Saint.
The legacy of the BBC Micro in developing the UK's games development industry and the adoption of ICT in British schools and colleges is enormous. Technologically the BBC Micro also led to Acorn developing the ARM microprocessor. Benefiting from high performance and low power, ARM microprocessors are likely to be found in your mobile phone or ipod, and have been shipped in over 10 billion devices; more than one for each person on earth.
But we mustn't forget the contribution of Sir Clive Sinclair, who created the first home computer under £100 and sold millions of machines into British homes.


text: Howdy I am using duragilt and have had the bees now for 24 days or so, pretty neat! anyway, there is one frame that is doubled with comb (#4 from the end), and this double comb which is two layers of comb on one side of the frame, sticks into the next frame space (#3 from the end). #3 has partial comb on it, but not in the area of the "doubled" comb on #4. I was thinking of reversing (rotating 180) #3 so as to "make" the bees use the frames "correctly", and cutting the double comb off. does this make sense? will the bees follow my lead and make comb in the frames without trying to make ""natural" comb?


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I was wondering if anyone knows if bees like the nectar from thornless Honeylocust trees? Are there any flowering trees that reach 30-50 feet tall that bees like? We are getting ready to do a major landscaping. Thanks for any input!!
I was wondering if anyone knows if bees like the nectar from thornless Honeylocust trees? Are there any flowering trees that reach 30-50 feet tall that bees like? We are getting ready to do a major landscaping. Thanks for any input!!
I am not sure about thornless honeylocust trees, but I have seen American linden and little leaf linden trees just full of bees in June, here in Colorado. Also Northern catalpa, one of my favorites.
Tulip poplar get large and grow fairly fast and are our number one honey plant. Black locust produces honey but honey locust do not. Black locust have small thorns. Black Gum is another good bee plant but not as dependable as the first two mentioned. Of course fruiting pears get large and are a good build up tree. Maples are all good for spring build up. Red, Silver, and Sugar maples bloom in that order. Another great bee plant is french pus sy willows. They are great pollen for very early spring to get your brood cycle started. A plant that is not a tree but hedge is privet. it has very small white blooms that bees love. It bloom alot stronger than hollies. I prefer hollies to privet in looks and use as a yard plant. You have to watch which Hollies you buy as some do not bloom well/much. I can help if you come across any plant as I was a nurseryman before my back injury.
Yeah HBM I've got a huge tulilp poplar in my back yard so I'm dying to get a hive in my back yard. I'm going to plant a few of the tulip poplars out on my 5 acres next year, they are CHEAP.
I like them for shade trees as well. If you would like alot of them let me know. I get the liners for around 50 cents each when buying 100 or more. Fall is almost here as well which is digging and planting time. They make good investments as they grow fairly fast and make a good lumber. So a few rows about 6 feet square planting makes a great wind break and gives you a return of lumber and nector. Of all the honey trees they are my favorite for the yard. Locust(black) would be my second because of how much nector it can make on good years as it does not hit every year and the tree is slower growing and not as good for shade.
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What's your thoughts on female Ginko Biloba (besides they stink ?)
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They are a great herb. Have no idea about honey. I have cleaned and sold alot of seed off them(that is a smelly job). they take years apon years to grow.
My inlaws have a thornless honeylocust tree in there backyard. I love the tree. It provides alot of shade and looks unique. I have not seen any bees working it. Alot of moths do seem to like it though.
Hey Hillbilly,
I would be interested in about 15 of the Tulip poplar trees. I have 5.5 acres of pretty open land in the country that I think the trees would do great on. If you can sell them to me great, if not, do you know where I can get them for a fair price?
I could collect a few liners from the edge of the woods easy. If someone wanted 100 or more liners I would point them to one of 4 nurseries. Won't be long until frost them I can dig them. I would do it for the shipping cost. As I did with several other people last year from here with cuttings. That goes for everyone but supplies will be somewhat limited to what I can find. I ship bare root wrapped with wet paper towels.
Sounds great Hillbilly!! Let me know when they will be ready and how you would like payment?(Check, Credit card). You can contact me by email at email@example.com
Thanks a bunch!!


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Everything the waterfront, the city center, the historic center and pedestrian area have to offer is at your doorstep! Whether you are looking for a beach to walk on the beach, cultural visits, typical or modern restaurants, shopping or nightlife, everything is in walking distance!
The apartment was renovated in 2013 with new materials and furniture. It is very well equipped, bright, elegant, clean, has a nice bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen, high ceilings and can accommodate up to 4 people. Linen, towels, water, electricity and heating included in the price.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Hoping that our apartment allows you to make the most of our beautiful city of Nice, see you soon!
How to reach the apartment:
The apartment is located above Rue Alexandre Mari on a 3rd floor with elevator. It is easily accessible by most forms of transport. By car, take the exit for Acropolis from the fast lane. By train, we are two tram stops. By plane, take bus 98. Then, either by car, tram, bus or on foot, it very easy for you to go around Nice as the area is well served. Visit Nice and all its magnificent surroundings (Monaco, Cannes, Antibes, Italy etc.) is a breeze!
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Was a wonderfull, good located Location to Stay and the Host was very friendly !
I am happy to stay in your apartment. I did not have any problems. Very good contact with Salvadore and Stefan. Excellent cooperation with Wimdu. Regards, Iwona
I Wish all flats would be like this one
and every owner would be like Salvatore.:)
Charming apartment, great design, you feel like being home.
Everything you can imagine is there, all the facilities.
The location is great, you have old town with all
Beautiful streets and restaurants all over,
You have a flower market and fruits just in front of the house,
Beach is 5 minute walk.
The best flat I have ever had.
Salvatore is so polite and helpful, answers all the questions
Within minutes.
The only bad thing you have to leave for home.
Thank you so much, Salvatore
Great apartment with the best view of the ocean and a friendly staff welcoming their guests. The only downside was that they don't have a system to take care of guests luggage after checkout time at 10am. If your flight is later but still want to have a relaxed day before the flight, you must find lockers for a fee in the city or the airport (14 euros per bag in Terminal 2 or 1 euro per hour in the city). It should be included for the money spent. Other than that, great place.
Nice place for a family witht 4 people
Salvatore an his cousin Stefano are very friendli. We liked them and appreciated their helpfulness really!
I have to say, the appartment was not that clean, what did not was a big problem for us. But therefore it was equipped nicely and well done up!
We liked the location because it was right at the main street!
Thank you and best regards :)
We (3 girl friends) spent a very pleasant weekend in the appartment. The terrace is spacious, the appartment in a very good condition. Everything was clean, incl. towels and bed covers.
The host couldn't meet us but his helpful and very friendly cousin. He let us in earlier so that we could leave the luggage- a big help!
The location is good, the bus from the airport stops close by and if you want to take a bus to the center it is quick and easy.
We would come back any time and recommend the appartment.
The apartment was clean and in a great location. It was close to the airport, and just a short walk to the train station, the tram, and excellent shopping and dining. We arrived late to the airport (around 2130) so transportation to the apartment was a challenge. Salvatore suggested 2 busses, both of which didn't run after 2100. He also said that if we took a cab, we should contact his friend. Unfortunately, the friend didn't respond to our call. When we arrived at the apartment, the gentleman who greeted us with the key, Stefan, was very pleasant and helpful. Water pressure was great in the shower and we never ran out of hot water. Unfortunately, there were two aspects of the apartment stay that were not great. One was that we had a problem with the clothes washer. The problem was of our making. It was necessary for me to contact Salvatore a few times before the problem was addressed. The other problem which was very concerning is that the apartment had roaches. We would also note that the loft bedroom had a very low ceiling that we could not stand upright in. Not a huge problem but noteworthy. Overall, we enjoyed our stay but wouldn't stay in this apartment again because of the roaches.
The apartment is very good located, infront of the main entrance is a tramstation. You are on a main street filled with bakery, boutiques and stores, but you dont hear anything when you're inside the flat. we had at the start problem with the door, but salvatore took care right away, so when we came back from exploring nice, the door was working. I really can recommend the apartment!
we had a wonderful time at the cote d'azur :)
Apartment complety new, very nice, warm and comfortable, bigger than pictures.Excellent location, 1 minute to old Nice, tram stops in front of the door. Salvatore helps a lot answering very quickly and keeping the luggage last day. In the same street, avenue de la Republique, you can find bakery, supermarket,..Garibaldi place is closed the apparment. The only thing it can be improved is the light in the dinner room that the room needs a stronger light during the night.
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Tibetan / Vajrayana
Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
[Note: The tags for the various schools are not definitive as many books span multiple traditions, etc. They are meant to use as a starting point for exploring this collection.]
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This unique book-and-audio program brings together some of the country's most beloved meditation teachers. Each contributor presents a short written teaching along with an audio recording of a guided practice. Quiet Mind features:Sakyong Mipham on shamatha, the practice of tranquillityLarry Rosenberg on vipassana, the practice of clear seeingEdward Espe Brown on zazen, the practice of freedomSharon Salzberg on metta, the practice of lovingkindnessJudith Lief on tonglen, the practice of transformationTulku… Read More
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text: Most people will set goals to live healthier, save money or get rid of clutter. Garland's annual Healthy Living Expo can help you achieve those goals with exhibits, demonstrations and information sharing about healthy, safe and efficient lifestyles. This year's event will include a new attraction, the H20 5K is sponsored by the City of Garland's Water and Stormwater Management departments to raise awareness about conserving and protecting water resources while encouraging physical fitness. The Expo is set for Saturday, Sept. 22, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Curtis Culwell Center, 4999 Naaman Forest Blvd. "This event is full of resources and ideas for our residents and neighbors who want to learn more about personal health, environmental health and safety issues that impact the entire family," says Garland Mayor Ronald E. Jones. "I hope everyone will mark their calendars for this truly valuable opportunity." Healthy You exhibitors will offer screenings for bone density, blood pressure, and cholesterol, along with helpful insights for nutrition, exercise and more. Flu shots also will be available for a cost. Healthy Earth exhibitors will feature landscaping information, energy-saving advice, recycling information and much more. You will have the opportunity to recycle or donate a multitude of items. The event will also include adoptable pets from the Garland Animal Shelter, electronics recycling, paper shredding, a drop-off for expired or unwanted medications, and donation drop-offs for shoes and discarded eyeglasses. Flu shots will be available through the City of Garland Health Departments. Please bring your insurance card for BCBS, Medicaid or CHIP and Medicare "Part B". For a complete list of available vaccines and costs, please visit the event website or call 972-205-3370. The H20 5K will begin at 8:30 a.m. Advance registration is $10 or $15 day of the event. Online registration will be available on the Healthy Living Expo website at GarlandGoesGreen.org. First 300 registered runners will receive a race t-shirt, as well as a bag filled with goodies regarding water conservation and protection. Admission to the Expo is free. The first 500 patrons who visit the Expo will receive a free sports bag, courtesy of RBC Capital Markets. Only one bag per family, please. The Healthy Living Expo is presented by Baylor Medical Center at Garland, the City of Garland Water Utilities, Environmental Waste Services, and Stormwater Management, Garland Power & Light, Garland Independent School District, and the Garland Chamber of Commerce with Fox4 as broadcast media sponsor. For more details about Healthy Living Expo activities, visit www.garlandgoesgreen.org.


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text: A yawner after halftime. CB and Rip as well as the bench gave us some good minutes in the first half which was enough to have a 11 pt halftime lead. The starters extended that lead to 31 before we hit the end of the third quarter. CWebb and Tay led the third quarter assault. My only issue was that despite the huge lead, Flip didn't substitute in the third until 2 mins were left in the quarter. So even though the Pistons played last night, CB and Rip both logged 41 minutes and Tay 39! Sheed was the only player that did not score .shooting 0-7. But he did grab 6 boards and had 4 assists and a block. Even the forgotten Pistons Flip jr and Nazr (sporting an-end-of-the-bench beard) got in the scoring column, but just barely with 2 pts apiece. Both contributed their usual turnover and Narz ruined a near perfect night for the Pistons at the charity stripe by missing 4 straight FT's. The Pistons hit their first 27 FT's setting a franchise record before CWebb missed the second of two freebie. After that miss they hit six more straight before Nazr missed the last four attempts. So 33-38 for the night. The Brahma was in full affect showing that he didn't deserve the All-Star snub for super sophs. 5-8 shooting from the floor and the 52% FT shooter went 6-6 from the stripe. Team wise, we shot 55.2% from the field almost 89% from the FT line and grabbed 45 boards to the Nets 32. As for the Nets, they never looked like they were ever in it. Visanity missed his first 9 shots and Jason Kidd was 5-6 from the beyond the Arc and 0-7 from inside it?? Mikki Moore scored 18 points in the first quarter and 2 the rest of the game. If not for the Nets eleven 3 pointers, the final score of 113-89 would not have been that close.


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A year ago the future of her softball playing
days was in doubt. Today, Hope College sophomore catcher Carrie
Scott is an NCAA Division III softball All-American.
Scott was named to the All-American third team by the
National Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association Wednesday night
during a banquet preceding the NCAA Division III championship
tournament in Eau Claire, Wisc.
Early during the 1998 season Scott suffered a knee injury
that abbreviated her freshman year and put into jeopardy her
playing future. She underwent surgery and a rigorous pre-season
rehabilitation regime. On opening day of the 1999 season she was
back behind the plate for the Flying Dutch.
Scott started in all 34 of the team's games and, amazingly,
put together a 24-game hitting streak to begin the season.
Before she was injured in 1998 she had a five-game hitting
streak. The combined 29-game hitting streak is the fourth
longest in NCAA Division III softball history.
Scott posted a .448 batting average behind a .657 slugging
average. Her school-record 47 hits included six doubles, two
triples and four homeruns. She had the game-winning hit in seven
games and finished with 27 RBIs. She did not commit a fielding
error in 186 chances.
Voted to the first all-conference team in Michigan
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
(MIAA) games, she batted .480 in league games.
A 1997 graduate of Centreville High School, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randy (Ann) Scott of Three Rivers.
Scott becomes the eighth Hope softball player to achieve
All-America distinction and the third catcher. Other Hope
catchers who received the honor were Deb Vashaw (1992 and 1993)
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Around 37 percent of the nation's people with disabilities are employed, while the same is true for 80 percent of their peers without disabilities (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005). This is in spite of the fact that, according to recent Harris Polls, almost 70 percent of adults with disabilities who are not currently working say they would like to be employed.
Much research has been done on ways to improve employment approaches and options for people with disabilities. Many of these studies focus on the work of the local and federal programs whose mandate it is to help youths and adults with disabilities find jobs. A great deal less research has emphasized the family's role and influence in the job-acquisition process. This research brief highlights studies that speak to the role of the family and addresses employment-related topics given priority by family members and the individuals they are supporting.
Families strive to find work environments and opportunities that are in their loved one's best interests. However, they often feel overwhelmed by the multiple service providers they must access and the various qualifications they must meet even to begin the employment-seeking process. This brief will summarize studies that provide suggestions of ways families can navigate the system and utilize the resources available to them through state entities such as Vocational Rehabilitation (VR). It ends with additional resources and suggestions to VR counselors of ways to make the best possible allies of families when working with their clients to develop career paths. The information provided here aims to serve as a thread that unites these key players—individuals, their families, and VR counselors—because this connection is critical if people with disabilities are to succeed in developing positive professional lives.
Scouting the Research Landscape
This document draws its information from studies done at universities, institutes, and technical assistance (TA) centers and reported on in the published and grey literatures.
Research that specifically focuses on family members' roles in job definition and acquisition is limited other than a well-known study done in 2000 by a Prime Study Group for the 26th Institute on Rehabilitation Issues (IRI): The Family as a Critical Partner in the Achievement of a Successful Employment Outcome. The fact that this study continues to be cited although it was done based on 1990s information shows that there is a need for current research to further explore the roles families can play in career development.
The 2000 IRI document gives a detailed examination of the family and VR interaction using a broad definition of the term "family." It states the importance of understanding how systems and cultures work so as to reach employment goals. It identifies the benefits of a partnering approach and lists specific gains to program administrators, the VR professional, the individual "consumer," and the employer. It points out that the professional tools counselors already have in hand, such as their knowledge about how to coordinate among systems, is an important skill they can share with families. Finally, this in-depth study offers training options, case studies, and specific tools that emphasize a person-centered planning concept that involves families.
Although current studies that deal more indirectly with the family and VR interaction comment on the importance of the role of families, the 2000 IRI study is unique in that it also describes some of the downsides of having families involved. Some VR clients do not have positive (and may even have had abusive) relationships with their families. Others seeking employment may have achieved more self-sufficiency than their families feel comfortable with, while the individuals feel that maintaining this independence is key. Some families even have lower expectations than the VR counselor, with this "low bar" sometimes stemming from a lack of knowledge about training options, successful models of disability leaders, or supportive laws and programs. Finally, and most importantly, many families fear the loss of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, which they think may well occur when wages are earned. The negative impact of such legitimate concerns on career planning is upheld in many VR studies; for example, the Rehabilitation Services Administration's (RSA's) report, An Assessment of Transition Policies and Practices in State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies, cited this fear as one of the most significant barriers to achieving family involvement in career planning efforts (The Study Group, Inc., 2007). By understanding these potential "downsides," the VR counselor can find ways still to bring families constructively to the table. The Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) will also provide valuable resources in this area when it concludes in 2012; that study will generate, based on both process and random-assignment evaluations, empirical evidence on the impacts of SSI work incentive waivers and on the enhanced transition services for youths with disabilities including family supports and access to VR services (Luecking and Wittenburg, 2009).
… The medical model of disability has been in good part replaced by a social model, which recognizes disability as a natural characteristic in one's life.
In the latter part of the 20th century a shift occurred in perceptions of disabilities, and the medical model of disability has since been in good part replaced by a social model that recognizes disability as a natural part of a person's life. The social model embraces the concept of interdependence—a recognition of the benefit to be gained by team effort and an approach through which families and individuals alike have the ability to work with service providers as team players.
Family and Community Players.
When it comes to individuals with disabilities making career decisions, family members are influential forces, both directly and indirectly. The following sections of the brief emphasize family assumptions as well as actions that may help—or hinder—their family member's efforts to find employment.
The study "Transition to Employment: Role of the Family in Career Development" (Lindstrom, Doren, Metheny, Johnson, and Zane, 2007) points out that most families say that they want their children to "live outside of the home, work in the community, and earn at least minimum wage—yet significantly fewer of the families studied imagine that these outcomes [will] actually occur." Less than two-thirds of the parents in this study expected that their children would transition into postsecondary education.
… Preparation for and expectation of postsecondary education and career planning must begin early in the lives of young people with disabilities .…
Obviously, preparation for and expectation of postsecondary education and career planning must begin early in the lives of young people with disabilities. Through Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Individualized Plans for Employment (IPEs), specific strategies can be adopted as early as middle school to help young people and their families begin to explore the career world through volunteering, interning, and job shadowing.
It is of utmost importance to emphasize that studies in this field consistently report that parents' general attitudes toward their children's capabilities are greatly influential. Parents' attitudes "influence adolescent vocational identity development, which includes interests, goals, and values related to career planning" (Lindstrom et al., 2007). Such a position is also upheld in the National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition's (NASET's) 2005 literature review, National Standards and Quality Indicators: Transition Toolkit for Systems Improvement, and so much so that "family involvement" is designated as one of that study's five key areas.
It is also important to note that most parents are first exposed to the medical model of disability, because their child's disability most often was first addressed by working with physicians. As often as not, a child with a disability has grown up without his or her family making connections with the disability community, and therefore without being exposed to the broad opportunities that community makes available. The 2007 Lindstrom study quotes one mother who confessed her view of her daughter's limitations: "She talked about going to college, but I didn't think it was going to be feasible for her because I knew she had a disability." These limitations could have been diminished or eradicated if that mother had known the options available to her and her daughter.
Though the Institute of Education Science's (IES's) The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, a study that will offer the first national picture of the involvement of families in the educational development of their secondary-age children with disabilities, has not yet been completed, already its raw data supports the central message of this brief: family members and community allies are vital to employment planning. They bring resourcefulness, creativity, motivation, and advocacy skills to the table. The studies described in the following section of this brief focus on person-centered planning, "customized employment," and youth transitions, all of which—as basic assumptions—include family and community members as active members in both planning and action.
Hasnain and colleagues' publication "Person-Centered Planning: A Gateway to Improving Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Culturally Diverse Individuals with Disabilities" and Griffin and colleagues' "Customized Employment: Where We Are; Where We're Headed" both assume the importance of families in the definition of career paths.
Planning for one's future is like putting together a puzzle: there are several pieces and all of them have to fit together in order for the final picture to be complete. Person-centered planning gets to the core of an individual's goals and how community, state, and federal resources can be pulled together to empower an individual to make choices about his or her life. This approach to planning puts to work the concept of interdependence. Team members from all realms of a person's life, including family and community members, become equally contributing partners as the individual crafts goals around career, community participation, leisure interests, independent living arrangements, personal relationships, and more. Hasnain and colleagues' study points out that VR offers a variety of employment services and supports: vocational evaluation, preliminary vocational training, postsecondary education, transportation, interpreters, adaptive equipment, "on-the-job training, supported employment, adjustment counseling, independent living skills development, job exploration, and placement services" (Hasnain, Sotnik, and Ghiloni, 2003). However, choosing which of these supports work for an individual is more easily achieved with the insight of family and friends.
Person-centered planning includes the option of "customized employment." Customized employment (CE), an approach being tested and researched since 2001 through the Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), focuses on individualization and negotiation to address the needs both of the job seeker and the employer. The CE process begins with an "exploration" phase during which the job seeker invites family, friends, and colleagues to share their perspectives and connections about potential employment opportunities. CE focuses this broad group on the creation of a "blueprint" for that person's job search by linking services from Workforce Investment Centers (One-Stops or Career Centers), VR, Medicaid, Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs), Schools, Social Security, families, and friends. Bringing together the services and supports provided by multiple state agencies is a feat unto itself. The support VR counselors provide may be exactly what an individual and a family is looking for.
What Families Need to Know About Federal and State Options
When people with disabilities set career goals, VR professionals play the roles of facilitators, resource consultants, expert witnesses, and individual allies. The following study focuses on ways in which VR counselors can most strategically unite key players to assure successful employment and career outcomes, while figuring out "the system."
StateData: The National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes (Butterworth, Smith, Hall, Migliore, and Winsor, 2008) argues that setting a "simple" career goal usually requires services and supports that stem from multiple state and federal providers. Therefore, a VR counselor's understanding of services offered by various departments is essential. For example, the SSA offers:
special provisions that limit the impact of work on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. These financially oriented work incentives include the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS), Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE), and Blind Work Expenses (BWE). PASS, IRWE, and BWE allow individuals to set aside money, resources, and expenses to be excluded from total earned income calculations (Butterworth, et al., 2008).
Helping individuals and families understand how benefits and earnings interact most constructively is a critical element in creating a successful career development plan for any individual.
Of course, as is highlighted in the National Council on Disability's (NCD) 2008 study, The Rehabilitation Act: Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth, VR practitioners encounter many disincentives to applying best practices in serving transition-age youths. VR counselors are currently not able to report and "capture" as service units their attendance at IEP meetings, career exploration activities with students prior to eligibility, meeting with family members to explain VR services, or consultations with teachers and other IEP team members. The NCD study authors recommend that RSA and state VR agencies recognize such transition services provided by VR counselors and, in addition, allocate additional staff resources to meet the needs of transition-age youths, which would include working with families. As it is reported in An Assessment of Transition Policies and Practices in State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies, the integration of VR and transition services can be confusing; practitioners need to start career planning and partnering with families early. Projects in SSA's Youth Transition Demonstration, which began evaluation in 2003 and will continue through 2012, build on the findings in the previously referenced National Standards and Quality Indicators report and do what practitioners find so difficult: connect youths to VR while including family supports.
Everyone—family members, friends, community supports, and service providers at private, state, and federal levels—has a portion of the responsibility when exploring the role that employment will have in a person's life
At the heart of the VR process is the individual. Having the person with a disability provide him- or herself with information, support, choice, decision making, and empowerment is key to employment-related planning. Everyone—family members, friends, community supports, and service providers at private, state, and federal levels—has a portion of the responsibility when exploring the role that employment will have in a person's life. This interdependence requires individuals "to act themselves and also to inform, guide, and manage the actions of supportive others" (Powers, 2005). Therefore, the final section of this research summary emphasizes the maxim of self-determination.
L.E. Powers' publication "Self-Determination by Individuals with Severe Disabilities: Limitations or Excuses?" and Lindstrom and colleagues' publication "Transition to Employment: Role of the Family in Career Development" explore the centrality of the individual in this concept of interdependence further. "Self-determination is owned by an individual; it is not a program, and strategies such as person-centered planning" (Powers, 2005) make personal successes possible. Studies show that progress begins by "infusing self-determination opportunities within transition preparation, particularly for employment" (Powers, 2005). The Powers study consisted of 400 students with disabilities who reportedly had transition plans included in their IEPs, yet "only 40 percent of students with intellectual disabilities were present for their IEP meeting. Only 10.4 percent of students with intellectual disabilities had employment goal(s) listed on their transition plan." Of these employment goals, many individuals end up being "limited to disability stereotypic areas such as food service, maintenance, landscaping, and stocking, to name a few."
A child's capability is largely dependent on what a parent teaches. This includes believing in oneself, respecting oneself, and setting goals that do not have to parallel social presumptions. "Parents of children in special education generally reported allowing their children fewer opportunities for participation in activities and daily decision making, and these parents express greater intent to control their children's future careers" (Powers, 2005). For some parents, seeking broad horizons for their child may seem risky, but self-advocates attest to the fact that it is a risk worth taking. Family members serve as role models, and it is up to them to reserve a "place at the table" for the person they are representing. Parents may have doubts, but providing an individual with an opportunity to contribute to his or her own life is imperative. VR counselors can play a crucial role in helping families' views of what is possible expand.
"Led by people with disabilities and their family members and professional allies, advocacy efforts for advancing self-determination remain strong.[…] Further attention also is needed on the social marketing of self-determination as not only a revered value, but also a vehicle for individuals to advance their quality of life and effectively use supports and services" (Powers, 2005). This process can begin by espousing a team approach when working toward self-determination in such a basic life decision as employment.
Recommendations for Practitioners
The following recommendations may serve as general guidelines for service providers working with youths with disabilities to set career development goals:
- Involve Individuals and Families. Include individuals and families in school-to-work transition planning beginning in middle school. Encourage families, even then, to begin exposing their youths to career options through volunteering, internships, and job shadowing.
- Define "Family" Broadly. Recognize that many people (neighbors, a friend, a teacher) can provide different contributions to individuals' career planning, thus expanding both the VR counselor's and the family's reach.
- Consider Cultural Attitudes. Look for cultural attitudes that might help or hinder a family's willingness or ability to work in partnership with counselors. Involve good language translators and cultural interpreters.
- Recognize That Unfamiliarity with Disability Models and Program Systems Can Limit Family Expectations. Help expand family members' view of possibilities by exposing them to models of people with disabilities who are successfully employed. Educate them about rights, program options, and service systems as a way of expanding their view of what is possible in terms of jobs and careers.
- Recognize That Families May Be Protective. They may under- or over-estimate their relative's capabilities. They may also have fears stemming from prior interactions with government agencies. For families to become partners, these concerns must be identified and addressed.
- Be Aware That the Fear of Losing Benefits Can Be a Career-limiting Factor. Help family members understand how best to work with SSA and its waivers and programs to limit the effect of wages on benefits so as to retain the maximum supports, both financial and medical, that the individual and family need to make everyday life possible.
- Help Families Understand What Professional-level Training Is Available. Provide information about professional-level jobs for people with disabilities so that they gain the skills to work at their most productive level.
- Utilize Person-centered Planning Practices, Including Customized Employment. These strategies bring together teams of people, including members of the broader family and community who know the individual, to set goals based on the individual's interests, capabilities, and cultural identities.
- Help Families Navigate Among Federal and State Agencies. Help families connect programs and resources that support career planning, job retention, and the ability to maintain supports while working.
- Understand That Self-Determination Is a Key Element in Successful Career Exploration and Job Acquisition. This is most easily achieved when interdependence among multiple players—the individual, their support people (family included), and the VR and other systems—is the chosen route.
Both the RSA and the Office of Special Education (OSEP) fund training programs offering parents technical assistance to aid them in encouraging their children with disabilities to plan for careers and independent adulthoods. The RSA currently funds seven Parent Information and Training Programs serving 10 states. These programs help parents better understand VR and independent living programs and services, communicate more effectively with transition and rehabilitation personnel and other relevant professionals, develop an individualized plan for employment, and understand relevant sections of the Rehabilitation Act. The OSEP Parent Training and Information (PTI) Centers offer IDEA-focused training on transition planning in over 100 Parent Centers throughout the United States, with at least one in each state. Each VR agency is required to have a PTI representative on their State Rehabilitation Councils. Information on the RSA programs can be found at this link: http://www.pacer.org/tatra/rsa.asp; information on the OSEP Parent Centers can be found here: http://www.taalliance.org/.
The National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) has also compiled an annotated bibliography of studies focusing on what families need to know about transition, as well as what the professionals who work with them need to know and do to work effectively with families. That bibliography can be accessed at the following website: http://www.nsttac.org/products_and_resources/ParentInvolvementAnnotatedBibliography.aspx
New Editions wishes to thank Deborah Leuchovius of the PACER Center for her review of and contributions to this brief.
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This report has been funded at least in part with federal funds from the United States Department of Education under contract number ED060062/003. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the policies of, nor imply endorsement by, the United States Government.


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With the way the words arm flailing are being thrown around here, if some people call Plushenko an arm flailer, then Lambiel must be one of the top arm flailers.
And for me, I certainly dont consider Lambiel an arm flailer, and neither is Plushenko. There are many arm flailers out there, but Evgeni is not IMO. Both Lambiels and Plushenkos arm movements are well balanced, energetic, and fit with the music.
And pose is part of artistry, like form, position, body line and stretch. I was watching Skate Canada 2006 recently and thought Tomas Verner s FP in it was not so different from Tomas this seasons FP. Less choreography, and almost just crossing over around the rink except for straight line step sequence. And his PCS at that time was 60. Now this season he was getting 76 ( ? ) at COR with almost similar choreography. I think its because of reputation.
I think Plushenkos PCS had reputation, and so do many other top skaters get reputation eventually, after they achieve a certain amount of success.
Its just a matter of agreeing with the judges or not. IMO.