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Editor's note: This op-ed is by Brian Tokar, the director of the Plainfield-based Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at UVM. He lives in East Montpelier.
On Town Meeting Day, March 5, voters in some 25 Vermont towns, including Burlington and Montpelier, will have an opportunity to vote to challenge proposed changes to an aging Northeast Kingdom oil pipeline that could have a serious impact on Vermont and our entire region. Recent visits to Montpelier by the CEO of the pipeline company — owned by ExxonMobil's Canadian subsidiary — along with environmental officials from Alberta, highlight the importance of this issue for our future.
The Portland-Montreal Pipeline was built more than 50 years ago and now pumps up to 400,000 barrels of oil a day from the port of Portland, Maine, to customers in Montreal and beyond, passing through 10 Northeast Kingdom towns. It is connected to a vast oil pipeline network across Canada, and companies like Enbridge – a partial owner of Green Mountain Power – have applied to reverse the flow of a now-unused section of pipeline so they can transport highly corrosive and toxic material from the Alberta Tar Sands across Canada and northern New England.
Why is there so much opposition to getting oil from the tar sands? Tar sands mining is a massively destructive business, and has been called the most environmentally damaging project on earth.
Company officials continue to equivocate about their plans to reverse the pipeline through Vermont, but the evidence suggests such a plan is in process, including efforts to build a new pumping station in Dunham, Quebec, just across the border. With people across the U.S. and Canada challenging proposed projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and the proposed Northern Gateway through British Columbia, this "Plan C" option could become the path of least resistance for getting tar sands to the coast for export.
Why is there so much opposition to getting oil from the tar sands? Tar sands mining is a massively destructive business, and has been called the most environmentally damaging project on earth. Tens of thousands of acres of Alberta's northern forest are leveled in the extraction process, which puts three to five times as much carbon pollution into the atmosphere as conventional oil drilling. Dr. James Hansen, one of our most respected climate scientists, says that if oil from the tar sands is added to the effects of burning coal, it is "essentially game over" for the earth's climate system.
The material that is mined from the tar sands is nothing like liquid crude oil: it is highly acidic, corrosive, and 40 to 70 times thicker. To transport it through a pipeline requires dilution with toxic chemicals such as n-hexane and benzene that damage the human nervous system and can cause cancer.
In 2010, a tar sands pipeline in southwestern Michigan ruptured, dumping more than a million gallons of tar sands residues into the Kalamazoo River and forcing the relocation of 150 families. The cleanup, still unfinished, is the most expensive inland oil cleanup in history, costing nearly $800 million so far. The old pipeline to Portland has already experienced leaks, just transporting crude oil, including one in 1977 that contaminated the Black River and Lake Memphremagog.
On Town Meeting Day, 23 towns will have a warned item on this issue, and others will bring it up under new business. This is an important opportunity to challenge plans to pump this toxic material through our region. The resolutions voice the town's opposition to transporting tar sands through Vermont, and call for a thorough environmental review of any tar sands pipeline proposal. In most cases, they also ask our towns to help investigate where our own fuel supplies come from, with a goal of phasing out purchases from refineries that use tar sands-derived oil. Larger cities and towns like Burlington will do most of the lifting here, with support from allies across New England. There is an effort in the Legislature to get the state of Vermont to do the same.
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LOS ALAMITOS - Damien High and St. Lucy's lost their final appeal cases Wednesday concerning area placement in a session before the CIF executive committee Wednesday. That means instead of the private schools staying in the Mt. SAC area, they are forced to switch to the parochial area for the four-year cycle beginning in 2014-15.
Damien, an all-boys school, and St. Lucy's, an all-girls school, no longer will be part of the Sierra League after next spring. Where they will wind up will not be decided until a future re-leaguing meeting.
Robert Prata, a private attorney, represented both schools in a crowded boardroom at the Southern Section offices. Damien was out-voted 14-6 by the panel and
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By the time Prata took the podium late in the afternoon, Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure had lost similar appeals, so the odds were stacked against him. He first pointed out the CIF by-laws always had stated a school must first make an initial request to be moved but the rules had changed this past year, when the section ruled Damien and St. Lucy's would be moved to the parochial area, resulting in significantly more travel time for student-athletes to compete against schools farther away than before.
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St. Lucy's are the only private Catholic schools in the Sierra League and perhaps were being discriminated against.
"We really need to look at the CIF blue book and to follow it to a `T,' " Prata said. "What's going on is why are they targeting the only two Catholic schools? I guess some people think that being a private school is an unfair advantage, but if you look at these two schools on an empirical basis that's just not true.
"These schools are about academics, not athletics."
Prata added: "This decision weakens the school, weakens the community, weakens the country.
"Academics should be the No. 1 priority."
Prata later said he was "disappointed" and added history has proved both schools are not overly dominant in sports.
Damien's football team, for instance, has not won a CIF-Southern Section section football championship since 1982.
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Programming communities and corporate culture naturally encourages the development of peculiar nomenclatures and in-the-know jargon. As a demonstration, here's several expressions and terms used only — or primarily — by people who work at Microsoft... and not used, really, by anybody else.
I've given more thought to my blog post from last week about the architecture of programming communities. Although that post emitted a warning, I don't want to give the impression that it's a Bad Thing for people to create workable teams. I just want to highlight the ways in which the walls we build to help ourselves can sometimes block others out.
When people work together regularly, they naturally create shortcut expressions based on common experiences — and not just in programming. When I worked for a compiler optimization company, my boss and most of my dozen coworkers were also fans of Arlo Guthrie's ballad, Alice's Restaurant. It was a function of our hippie background and the high per-capita Folk Musician population of Deer Isle Maine, I guess, but certainly we all knew most of the lyrics.
I'm not sure who started it, but as a conversational shortcut in meetings, company employees summarized, "I explained to the user all of the details that we have discussed at great length before, including bla-bla-bla..." (you know how those explanations can drone on) as, "I showed her the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was, to be used as evidence against us." Which itself was soon shortened to "circles and arrows." Thus, to this day, I'm apt to say (to those who'll understand, including that old boss who continues to be a friend), "When the client asked why his site had crashed, I gave him circles and arrows." When someone outside the circle (heh) understands that expression without me explaining it, I feel as though I've found a friend.
I've come to refer to these as "married-people macros;" I'm sure you and your spouse have a few of your own. But in our professional lives, it's those shortcut expressions that help us create communities with in-the-know jargon... and maybe (to a small but usually harmless degree) exclude those who aren't sure what the specialized term means.
And sometimes it's just a mark of corporate culture.
For example, Microsoft folks use "rich" more often than anybody else I've seen, from "a rich user interface" to "rich text format." I don't think I've seen a single Microsoft press release or tech presentation that missed out on the opportunity to use the rich term even when it adds no actual meaning. In fact, I've sometimes amused myself by substituting "high-cholesterol" or "with extra butter" while reading their press releases.
Some terms, I suspect, were either generated first at Microsoft or were made popular within the company... and then escaped. One of these may be the term "decks" for a collection of PowerPoint slides. I'm sure that I heard it first from Microsoft people, but now the expression has escaped into the wild. (I wish it'd escape back, but I do admit that presentations no longer uses actual overhead projectors. On the other hand, someone referring to a "deck" in a painful PowerPoint presentation suggests to me, "I could deck him..." which is a dangerous temptation I'd like to avoid.)
However, there are also some Microsoft terms are that linguistic curiosities. While nobody seems to imagine that Microsoft was the first to use the expression "eat our own dogfood" (i.e. use and rely on the technology we develop), as far as I know Microsofties (by which I mean company employees and those closely allied with them, such as business partners and MVPs) are the only ones I've encountered who use "dogfooding" as a verb. Similarly, others might use the expression "go down a rathole" (that is, "to digress in an extensive way") but, I am told, people at Microsoft use "rathole" as a verb.
In fact, one Microsoft employee confided, the Microsofties "verb" almost everything. There's also lots of words for shipping software, as you can imagine, many of which are verbed. For instance, I'm told, there's a large meeting towards the end of a product's release called "shiproom." "So we'll say something like 'Take this to shiproom and tell them we're not the long pole any more,'" my friend explained. "Long pole, by the way, is the team, group, or feature that will take the longest." Me, I thought it was what you were up the creek without. Or "on the critical path," in old-style project management lingo.
These are only a smidgen of Microsoft terms. One kind soul pointed me at The Microsoft Lexicon, in case you want to put together your own trivia quiz.
I confess that I'm intrigued by this behavior largely because I love language and how it intersects with community. (How else could I use my most-of-a-Linguistics degree?) So I find it fascinating to watch how groups share knowledge, invent expressions, and then summarize them... not the least of which is a tendency to "verb the nouns" (even if specific examples irritate me) and to turn expressions into community macros. There's a master's thesis in this for someone, I betcha.
Last week, I pointed out that communities rarely take the time to gaze into their own navels to observe the effect of their behavior. I picked on Microsoft here, but not because there's anything specific to the company. I think most companies have their own expressions, and most programming communities develop their own jargon. What are some that you've encountered, in your own organizations?


text: Samantha CritchellAssociated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) When children are on their summer break, the last thing on their minds is learning.Books can hardly compete with swimming pools and Shrek. And museum exhibits? Say those words as youre planning a vacation and most youngsters will tell you theyd rather stay home and watch paint dry (especially if theyve been decorating some unauthorized space).But what if Clifford the Big Red Dog, Horton (of Horton Hatches the Egg) and Ms. Frizzle (from The Magic School Bus) were going to be at the museum, too?That could be enticing.The interactive Clifford exhibit at the Minnesota Childrens Museum in St. Paul, Minn., has proven very popular, with attendance up about 25 percent over last year, says Mary Weiland, exhibit developer at the museum.All of the stations, including a 9-foot Clifford-tail slide, a musical marina and Samuel and Charlies fish-and-chip shack, are meant to reinforce Cliffords big ideas: sharing, playing, being fair, having respect, being responsible and helping others.Some of the young museumgoers favorite activities are driving the ferry boat to Birdwell Island, putting on a show using costumes and musical instruments, and role-playing, especially in the fish-and-chip shack, where the menus provide lessons in literacy and early math, Weiland says.Were offering an informal, playful learning environment, she says. And music, dance and movement are important theyre forms of learning, too and theyre as important as literacy and math.The environments of the exhibit is influenced by Norman Bridwells books and the animated series but its the museums job to decide what transfers to a three-dimensional, often-interactive display, Weiland says.Children and adults get more out of experience when using all their senses, she says. We wrap our visitors in the experience.Children learn in so many ways, its important to expand beyond pens, papers and desks, says Leslie Bushara, deputy director of education and guest services at the Childrens Museum of Manhattan. On July 2, the museum opens the 4,000-square-foot Oh Seuss! Off to Great Places based on the books of Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Ted Geisel.Its crucial for learning not to be flat. ... Some kids need a physical environment, some prefer to learn through fine motor skills or dress-up, some through computer games. Weve tried to build the exhibit to accommodate all these learning strategies, she says.Plus, by having words rain upon visitors in the If I Ran the Circus section and allowing children to charter the Green Eggs and Ham train and car, novice museumgoers usually are put at ease in a matter of moments, Bushara says.Silliness takes away the intimidating museum factor. If a kid climbs up in Hortons nest (from Horton Hatches the Egg), the child becomes engaged immediately, and when children are comfortable, the parents are comfortable, and play deepens and the level of learning deepens.She adds: Remember grandparents and parents have their own fond memories of Seuss.Literacy and learning tips also are woven into the fabric of the exhibit, she says, so parents can continue the experience at home, curled up with their children and a book.We encourage parents to think in new ways and be imaginative its what Seuss did, Bushara says.Ted never wanted his books forced on children as school work or homework assignments, says Geisels widow, Audrey. He wanted children to discover a love of learning on their own, to find joy in reading for themselves. He said, Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted.The fact that CMOM can create an exhibit that will educate and entertain is exactly what a Seuss exhibit should be, she says.Weiland acknowledges, though, that some purists might prefer museums not to embrace commercial characters but its much more important to get as many children into museums as possible.The same developmentally appropriate content might not have the same appeal and attract the huge audience and the huge variety of audience if the messages werent being delivered by these characters that children love, says Cheryl Gotthelf, vice president for marketing and television broadcast relations at Scholastic Entertainment. Were trying to make things accessible to children.Scholastic produces the Clifford and Magic School Bus shows. An exhibit with the likely title of Joshuas Journey, based on The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Dear America Book, will debut at the Fort Worth (Texas) Museum of Science and History in the fall.Other exhibits driven by familiar characters include Arthurs World, created by the Childrens Museum of Boston, and The Magic of Jim Henson and Mister Rogers Neighborhood, both at the Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh.Childrens museums have very high standards, which is what makes them good educational partners, Gotthelf says. The museum community is really reaching out to at-risk populations, households that dont put an emphasis on reading or culture, she notes.And they know how to put on a good, entertaining show.Because they (the museums) understand children, they understand what the characters mean to children. Since they want to create most valuable experience to children, they understand how to use something like The Magic School Bus as a vehicle to entertain and learn, according to Gotthelf.Museum outings also allows parents to get involved in the fun part of learning, instead of just being the homework police, adds Bushara of the Manhattan museum.This is a chance for parents to observe how their children learn, she says. This will help parents teach kids at home. Does your kid prefer puzzles or running around? This makes the museum a learning experience for parents, too, she says.


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Created attachment 368918 [details] Testcase Testcase attached. There should be no outset borders around the cells... This is a modified version of the testcase from bug 156888 which is not dynamic. I have no idea yet what's going on here. Bernd, do you?
Comment 1•
9 years ago
Oh, hmm. This seems to be a regression from fx3. I'll dig into that.
Comment 2•
9 years ago
Regressed between 2008-12-23 (rev b2479ac7eab7) and 2008-12-24 (rev df94feb90a4f). Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=b2479ac7eab7&tochange=df94feb90a4f I'm guessing one of dbaron's changes in that range is the issue here.
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Comment 3•
9 years ago
hg bisect pins the regression on bug 468473. Commenting out the code added to nsFrame::DidSetStyleContext fixes the bug. Leaving the GetStyleBorder() call but commenting out everything else makes the bug reappear. So the issue is the GetStyleBorder() call. Presumably we're somehow managing to end up with a struct cached in the ruletree and applying to various style contexts it shouldn't apply to. Or something.
Comment 4•
8 years ago
Hmm. So the issue is pretty clearly that the MapAttributesIntoRule in nsHTMLTableElement.cpp treats this case as the "non-cell" case and calls MapTableBorderInto. See bug 211636. The reason dynamically toggling display from cell to block doesn't show the problem is that in that case we first compute the border using the cell display type and cache it in the ruletree. Then we toggle, and when resolving style find the cached data in the ruletree and use it. The reason this used to work before the GetStyleBorder() call was added to DidSetStyleContext() likely has to do with the precise order in which the GetStyleBorder() calls happened on the ruletree or something. Testcase coming up that shows the problem in Fx3 as well.
Comment 5•
8 years ago
Created attachment 369086 [details]
Shows issue in Fx2 and Fx3
This is fixed in tryserver builds for bug 43178 https://build.mozilla.org/tryserver-builds/2009-03-07_13:email@example.com/
Comment 7•
8 years ago
Hmm. I read that patch, and it didn't look like it should affect the codepath that causes this bug, since we still do weird mapping for @border... So sounds like it changes the ordering on the testcases somehow or something.
-// XXX The two callsites care about the two different halves of this -// function, so split it, probably by just putting it in inline at the -// callsites. -static void -MapTableBorderInto(const nsMappedAttributes* aAttributes, - nsRuleData* aData, PRUint8 aBorderStyle) -{ - const nsAttrValue* borderValue = aAttributes->GetAttr(nsGkAtoms::border); - if (!borderValue && !aAttributes->GetAttr(nsGkAtoms::frame)) - return; - - // the absence of "border" with the presence of "frame" implies - // border = 1 pixel - PRInt32 borderThickness = 1; - - if (borderValue && borderValue->Type() == nsAttrValue::eInteger) - borderThickness = borderValue->GetIntegerValue(); - - if (aData->mTableData) { - if (0 != borderThickness) { - // border != 0 implies rules=all and frame=border - aData->mTableData->mRules.SetIntValue(NS_STYLE_TABLE_RULES_ALL, eCSSUnit_Enumerated); - aData->mTableData->mFrame.SetIntValue(NS_STYLE_TABLE_FRAME_BORDER, eCSSUnit_Enumerated); - } - else { - // border = 0 implies rules=none and frame=void - aData->mTableData->mRules.SetIntValue(NS_STYLE_TABLE_RULES_NONE, eCSSUnit_Enumerated); - aData->mTableData->mFrame.SetIntValue(NS_STYLE_TABLE_FRAME_NONE, eCSSUnit_Enumerated); - } - } - - if (aData->mMarginData) { - // by default, set all border sides to the specified width - if (aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mLeft.GetUnit() == eCSSUnit_Null) - aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mLeft.SetFloatValue((float)borderThickness, eCSSUnit_Pixel); - if (aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mRight.GetUnit() == eCSSUnit_Null) - aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mRight.SetFloatValue((float)borderThickness, eCSSUnit_Pixel); - if (aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mTop.GetUnit() == eCSSUnit_Null) - aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mTop .SetFloatValue((float)borderThickness, eCSSUnit_Pixel); - if (aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mBottom.GetUnit() == eCSSUnit_Null) - aData->mMarginData->mBorderWidth.mBottom.SetFloatValue((float)borderThickness, eCSSUnit_Pixel); - - // now account for the frame attribute - MapTableFrameInto(aAttributes, aData, aBorderStyle); - } -} Might be responsible ?
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8 years ago
But the code is just moved, not removed, no?
Comment 10•
8 years ago
Most parts are removed, thats the whole point of the exercise, especially the mapping of border values to rules all which creates a border for the table cell, which plays a key role in this bug. OK its a cheap shot to kill this bug in this way, but I can't miss any opportunity to get bug 43178 reviewed, David ;-))
Comment 11•
8 years ago
But the relevant code is the code that sets the border width and style, no? And with that patch applied, the code for the width is still there in the "else { // table" branch in MapAttributesIntoRule: + // by default, set all border sides to the specified width etc. I guess the code for the border-style is gone because MapTableFrameInto went away? If you set "border-style: solid" on that <td> in the testcase, does it get a 5px wide border?
Comment 12•
8 years ago
the border style code has been replaced by the style rules in html.css the relevant section is: +/* Internal Table Borders */ + + /* 'border' cell borders first */ +table[border]:not([border="0"])> tr > td, +table[border]:not([border="0"])> * > tr > td, +table[border]:not([border="0"])> tr > th, +table[border]:not([border="0"])> * > tr > th, +table[border]:not([border="0"]) > td, +table[border]:not([border="0"])> th, +table[border]:not([border="0"])> * > td, +table[border]:not([border="0"]) > * > th { + border: thin inset; +}
Comment 13•
8 years ago
>If you set "border-style: solid" on that <td> in the testcase, does
>it get a 5px wide border?
yes its gets a 5px wide solid black border, there is no difference to the current trunk behavior (alhtough no other browser does that - IE,webkit,opera)
Comment 14•
8 years ago
the borders on the td are now inset but the missing border-spacing on the last td remains.
Comment 15•
6 years ago
the fix for bug 211636 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4738b38a2f3c makes the inner borders as they are in other browsers this fixes comment 13 but the cellspacing remains.
Comment 16•
6 years ago
How is the new behavior incorrect?
Comment 17•
6 years ago
Created attachment 554867 [details]
I believe the testcase and the reference should render identical but they differ below the last row, the testcase eats the cellspacing
Comment 18•
6 years ago
I think that difference is correct behavior, because borders on inlines don't take up space in the inline box model -- the things that determine the height of the line are the font metrics and the 'line-height', not the borders. If you change 'display:inline' to 'display:block' it does match the reference, which is as I'd expect. So I claim this bug is fixed by bug 211636. (Thanks for finishing that up and landing it, by the way.)
Comment 19•
6 years ago
>So I claim this bug is fixed by bug 211636.
thats fine with me, I looked up how it reflows and it happens as you said.
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Regular reader and DJ Big Clive asks: "Having trouble with laptop noise through my speakers when my power supply is plugged into my laptop. Thing is, if it's on battery there is no noise. Can you help?"
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Here are two things that helped for us when we had a similar problem two laptops ago, and a suggestion that we didn't try but that may solve the issue. These ideas come in cost order, cheapest first!
- Try putting the power supply as far away from the laptop as you can - It's probably the transformer that's causing this, so if you keep the distance between that and the laptop big, it may reduce or even cure the problem. That includes keeping it away from other messy AC cables
- Try an alternative power supply - In my experience, power supplies can vary a lot, and a different one may not give you this problem. Worth trying out the replacement first though - you don't want it to make things worse
- Try an external audio interface - I am assuming you're using your laptop's internal sound card for your music at the moment. Instead, you could invest in an external audio interface. This is a good investment anyway for sound quality purposes, and I'd be surprised if you had the same problem when using a sound device that isn't actually part of your computer
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It would seem, in this age of instant and saturated media, that anyone, anywhere, with any brains whatsoever, would know that anything they do that merits attention – whether good or bad – is going to get it. More, likely, than they might even want.
Which leads one to ponder what the Harvard men involved were thinking when they slipped sealed envelopes under the dorm room doors of select students being recruited to their new club, the "Pigeon." It's not the invitation that invites incredulity; it's the content. As reported by the Huffington Post:
At the top of the pamphlet, three virtues: Inclusion, Diversity, Love were listed with three respective footnotes at the bottom of the page. Inclusion's was "Jews need not apply." Diversity's was "Seriously, no f***ing Jews. Coloreds OK," and Love's was "Rophynol" — probably a misspelling of the date-rape drug rohypnol.
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As I've noted before in this column, our biggest challenge is communicating effectively with our citizens.
Citizens receive the preponderance of city-related information via the media, and we appreciate their commitment to important civic issues. However, since reporters must balance the decision to cover news and information from the city with other news from across the community, they aren't able to cover even half of the news sent from press releases we issue.
So how do we get the word out directly to citizens? And how do we best explain the details of confusing ballot initiatives such as the upcoming smoking ban repeal vote?
Well, we start by explaining. For instance, the communication in the June "smoking ban repeal" election is that "yes" means "no," and "no" means "yes."
You see, those of you who voted "yes" for the smoking ban back in April 2011, will now need to vote "no" in June if you want to retain the ban and reject the repeal initiative petition. And those of you who voted "no" against the smoking ban back in April 2011, will now need to vote "yes" if in June if you want to repeal the voter-approved smoking ban. Confused? Welcome to my world.
But wait, didn't City Council recently amend the smoking ban ordinance to allow a few exemptions? Yup. And I've heard from quite a few of you stating that you're so glad council did that so that we now don't need to have an election in June. Oops. Wrong. The smoking ban repeal came to council as an initiative petition, and council members elected to send it to the voters. Thus, there will be a June election regardless of council's recent amendments. However, now you, the voter, understand your choices when you (hopefully) vote in June – the amended smoking ban vs. a total repeal of the smoking ban. You get to decide – again.
I've also heard from a number of you, saying things such as, "Didn't my vote in April mean anything?" Well, it did, but this is the way our existing initiative petition process works. It promotes pingpong.
I predict that if the existing smoking ban is repealed in the June election, the proponents of the smoking ban will begin collecting signatures within a few days. And if the smoking ban is upheld, opponents of the ban may begin collecting signatures again. And the pingpong game continues.
Want to stop the pingpong game and the associated election costs – between $80,000 and $100,000 per ballot initiative? Council is placing a set of initiatives on the August ballot that would make significant changes to our initiative petition process. Otherwise, I can go out and collect signatures to ban all blue cars from Springfield, and if I get only 2,100 signatures, I can put City Council in a box. The only two choices, per city charter, would be to pass the "blue car ban" or place it on a ballot and charge the citizens for an additional election, whether my petition is legal or not. I'll bet if I gave away a few slices of pizza, some Skittles or just shouted "the government is keeping me down" on a downtown street corner, I could collect 2,100 signatures in two evenings.
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Rear diff and ccc radio
Hey guys, i got 2 questions for u guys and was wondering if you can provide me with some answer. I have 04 E64 and planning to change it to a M6 diff, aside from the diff, what other components do i need to complete the installation?
Also, my audio system was not mp3 enabled, and i recently changed the unit to a newer version which mp3 is enabled, but i lost my radio and voice command. Any suggestions in what i can do to have everything working again? Or just install my old unit back?
Thanks in advance
You will need to talk to someone who has actually done the M6 to 650i diff install and I've not seen someone try this. I would guess it will bolt right on. That is an excellent idea though, since you get limited slip plus 3.62 vs 3.46. Let us know how it goes.
Check out this thread. I would bet if you call Jim at Performance Gearing he will know off the top of his head what is required.
The new CCC unit needs programming to get it to work with the car. The dealer will have to do it unless you know a good indie mechanic that can do programming.
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Domino's Pizza (NYSE:DPZ[1]) rolled out a new pan-style pizza for delivery on Monday at almost 5,000 stores. In a press release, the company said its new product — "Handmade Pan Pizza" — is made from handmade, never-frozen dough.
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EXPECT UB'S involvement in international business to grow. That was the message from Management Dean Frederick W. Winter to members of the local business community.
Winter spoke Nov. 30 at UB at Sunrise, UB's community breakfast series sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations. "It's ironic, but to a certain extent our reputation is better when we go outside Buffalo," said Winter. "We take some criticism for it, but you can't be a strong business school without being a strong international business school as well."
UB is building its international ties, and soon expects to reestablish its connection with China, where the university first opened an M.B.A. program in Beijing in 1986. The program was discontinued after the student uprising at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
"We want to have a very, very big footprint across the globe and in particular in the exploding Asian economy," Winter said. "We really see a first-mover advantage in Asia. We'd like to jump in there, be the first in Beijing and have the others go elsewhere. It's very much a part of our strategy."
UB also has strong management programs in countries that include Latvia, Hungary and Singapore, and has received an endowment to support the Center for International Leadership.
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This article was produced by the United MEC Central Schedule Committee
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Section 18 of our Contract governs the annual vacation bidding process and outlines the procedures and timeline for the awarding of vacations. If you participated in the Partnership Program, Refer to the Partnership Agreement Section I - Vacation.
Review: 2017 Reserve Lists
The first step in the annual vacation bidding process is the assignment of Reserve letters. Section 10.A. of our Contract requires that 2016 Reserve letters be assigned and posted in domiciles in September, the month prior to the start of vacation bidding. The list establishes the top 25% of the domicile who are exempt from Reserve rotation and assigns "A" or "B" Reserve Letters to all Flight Attendants with more than five years seniority. You will obtain important information by checking the domicile seniority list known as the Reserve Letter List containing the 2016 Lineholder status and Reserve letters. We remind you that the 2017 Reserve letters are effective in February 2017 through January 2018.
Quarter Order
Schedule Months (defined in Section 18.B.2)
*Start and End Dates for 2016
September - November
August 30, 2015 - November 29, 2015
December - February
November 30, 2015 - February 29, 2016
March - May
March 1,2016 - May 31, 2016
June - August
June 1, 2016 - August 29, 2016
The number of vacation days accrued and your vacation bidding seniority are based on Company seniority, which may differ from your Flight Attendant seniority. When vacation bids open, a seniority list for vacation bidding will be available in your domicile. The list will show your seniority for vacation bidding and the total number of days you have accrued. Vacation accrual is based on completion of years of service. Flight Attendants hired before the 15th of the month accrue 1 day each month for years 1-4 for use in the following year. Flight Attendants in year 5 and beyond accrue vacation in the current year for use in the following year based on the accrual schedule.The number of vacation days you have accrued will be included in your VACBID screen.
The number of vacation days increases as you reach specific seniority levels as provided in Section 18.B of the Contract with a maximum accrual of 40 days.
Section 18.B.2 of our Contract provides for a reduction in vacation accrual. A Flight Attendant will receive full vacation accrual after having completed a minimum of 97 hours and 30 minutes of paid activity in each quarter of the rolling twelve month period ending in the August schedule month prior to the vacation year. If you have less than 16 hours and 15 minutes (16:15) of paid activity for that period no vacation is accrued. You will accrue 1/24 of the vacation accrual for the calendar quarter for every 16 hours and 15 minutes of paid activity in that quarter. For the purpose of calculating vacation accrual, hours paid for publicity and training shall have the same value as credited flight time. If training is paid under Section 15.G, the greater of the training hours or the flight time credit for the scheduled flight hours missed shall be used. Designated quarters are the bid months of September through November, December through February, March through May and June through August. (Note: Start and end dates for some bid months for 2016 have been changed as provided in Section 2.W. of the Contract. See table above.)
Section18.C covers other reductions in vacation accrual. The Company will reduce your accrued vacation days if you have been on Leave of Absence (LOA); if you have been on furlough status, voluntary or involuntary, or if you have been on suspension for 30 days or more. The only exception to this list is Occupational Leave status (occupational sickness or injury on the job), which will not impact vacation accrual. If you are affected by a reduction in your vacation, your vacation accrual will be reduced by 1/12 for each 30 days of leave or major portion, on a prorated basis (Section 18.C). In addition, the Partnership Program Letter of Agreement also provides for a reduced accrual (see below).
Newly employed Flight Attendants shall accrue one (1) day of vacation for each full month of continuous employment with the company during the remainder of the calendar year after date of their initial employment. If employed prior to the fifteenth (15th) of a month, vacation credit shall be given for the full month. The first vacation shall be given during the following calendar year. This initial vacation is not subject to the vacation reduction provisions of Section 18.B.2. but shall be reduced for Leaves of Absence or furlough or a suspension of 30 days or more as outlined in Section 18.C.
DAT Reduction Period: DAT vacation taken November 1, 2015 - August 29, 2016 will reduce your 2017 vacation.
Flight Attendants participating in the Partnership Program will accrue vacation at one half (1/2) of the vacation accrual schedule outlined in Section 18.B. of the Contract during the period of the partnership. For example, Flight Attendants with less than five (5) years of service normally accrue one day of vacation for each month of continuous service. While participating in the Partnership Program, she/he will accrue ½ day of vacation for each month in which she/he participates in a partnership. Should the Partnership Program be terminated, the vacation accrual rate will revert to the full accrual rate set forth in our Contract as of the date of termination. This change in accrual is effective with the first schedule month of the partnership. In addition, Flight Attendants in the Partnership Program will receive the full vacation accrual provided she/he has a minimum of 97:30 of paid activity in each quarter of the twelve month period ending in the August schedule month prior to the vacation year and shall accrue no vacation in a calendar quarter if she/he has less than 16:15 of paid activity for that time period.
Some vacations have been adjusted to include days and hours (partial days). A partial day should be used as a full day only when counting the days on the Flight Attendant schedule calendar. Remember that all hours must be bid in the same phase. A partial day is always the last day of the vacation. It should not be assumed that the entire day is a vacation day. A partial day begins at 0000 and ends on the hour. Availability following partial vacation days applies as follows:
If the check-in for an ID begins at the exact same hour (time) as when the partial day ends or after, the Flight Attendant is responsible for the ID. For example, a partial vacation day (1/2 day) ends at 12:00 Noon. In a situation where the check in time for the Flight Attendant's next ID is 12:00 Noon, the Flight Attendant is responsible to fly the ID.
Where a Flight Attendant on Ready Reserve status ends vacation with a partial day, she/he may not be contacted for assignment until after the time the vacation ends, and may not be required to report for duty until six hours after the time the vacation ends. For example, A Ready Reserve with a partial day vacation (1/2 day) which ends at 12:00 Noon may not be contacted by the company until after the time vacation ends and may not be required to report for duty until six (6) hours after the vacation ends or 1800.
A Call-in Reserve must call the assignment tape the day before coming off vacation but is not to be assigned to report for duty until at least six (6) hours following the final hour of the vacation.
A lineholder whose vacation ends on the last day of the month and who is going on Ready Reserve status in the new month is not available for call until 0001 of the new month and is eligible for assignment at 0500 or later.
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In all cases you are encouraged to bid the vacation period you want to hold.
Throughout the year, you can significantly increase your income by scheduling yourself to fly holidays. Keep this in mind when planning your vacation bidding. You may want to avoid bidding a vacation period that will encompass a holiday, thereby precluding you from receiving any holiday pay. There are five (5) contractually paid holidays each year, one of which is your birthday. The remaining four (4) paid holidays are specific for the domicile's country (Section 2.Q).
Some Flight Attendants prefer to bid vacation during a reserve month in order to minimize her/his reserve availability. Yet others prefer to bid vacation during a lineholder month, on days off, in order to maximize her/his pay. Still others prefer to bid vacation in a manner that provides the maximum time off. If you reach the five-year Reserve cap during 2017, you will not know whether you will be an "A" or "B" until approximately the 10th day of your 5th year anniversary month. This means, unfortunately, you will bid your vacation without knowing your respective Lineholder and Reserve months. Keep in mind, however, the Contract provides each Flight Attendant the ability to trade her/his reserve letter at least once during the year. (See Reserve Considerations Section of this article.)
Flight Attendants participating in the Partnership Program should be aware that the reduced accrual of vacation days may result in not being able to split vacation into multiple vacation periods. Keep in mind the following 'split' rules:
One of the most common vacation bidding errors involves the bidding of vacation that spans two calendar months. Again this year, it is critical that you review the start and end dates for the newly defined schedule months. By doing so, you can ensure that you have the correct number of days in each month based on the vacation period being bid. When applying vacation slide rules, your initial vacation bid must be legal. If not, vacation slide will not correct an invalid bid.
You may span two calendar months using 14, 15 or 16 vacation days, provided you have at least four (4) full vacation days in each month.
If you bid to span two months using 17 or more days, you must have a minimum of seven (7) full vacation days in each month.
If more than seven (7) vacation days fall into your Reserve month, you will not be eligible for a move-up line until after the period of vacation has passed as set forth in Section 10.B.4. of the Contract.
Days off preceding and following a scheduled vacation are considered part of your vacation and are "sacred" days (Section 18.M.). The Company cannot assign training or meetings on those days unless you have specifically bid for them. Reassignments under Section 8.J of the Contract may not infringe on these sacred days. Flight Attendants may not be drafted while on vacation under any circumstances.
Lineholders are paid the same number of hours for each full day of vacation - 3:15 hours per vacation day, prorated for any partial day. Premium pay for vacation applies as provided in Sections 5.B.3.b. and c. and 12.D.4.e. Additionally, if a Flight Attendant's vacation period results in her/him being projected under her/his minimum guarantee for the month due to the elimination of trips that fall in the vacation period, her/his guarantee shall be adjusted. The new projection will equal vacation pay plus trips scheduled and this may be below 71 hours.
As provided in Section 12.B.1., vacation pay will be 3:15 per vacation day prorated for any partial day.
Reserves are paid 3:15 hours per vacation day, prorated for any partial day. Reserves awarded a full month Reserve schedule and who have vacation are protected by the language in Section 5.D. of our Contract and will be paid the Reserve minimum guarantee of 78 hours.
Section 18.M. of the Contract provides that if a vacation starts or ends between a scheduled outbound and return flight, a Flight Attendant may, at her/his option, move the vacation period forward or backward in order to fly the scheduled ID. Contact your Schedule Planner immediately after monthly schedules are released should you opt to fly your trip. Should you wish to fly an ID in the "old" month that would be dropped as a result of a vacation period in the new month, you must contact Advance Schedule Planning before schedule bidding for the new month closes in order to ensure the vacation slide is applied before the award of monthly bids. Refer to your monthly bid package Cover Letter for additional information.
The Company shall provide, on written request, a partial advance up to sixty (60%) of pay to a Flight Attendant for the purpose of vacation. This advance must be requested at least seven (7) days prior to the beginning of the vacation period. See Section 18.P. for more details. Contact the Flight Attendant Support Team (FAST) at option 4, then 8 for assistance.
Each Flight Attendant may take up to ten (10) vacation days a year separate from her/his awarded vacation period(s), as provided by our Contract in Section 18.U. These days will be deducted, day for day, from the Flight Attendant's allotment for the following year's vacation.
After the award of relief lines and prior to the beginning of the month, day at a time (DAT) vacation days will be awarded in seniority order. Throughout the month, DAT will be available only to the extent that regular ANP is available. DAT days have equal priority with ANP. DAT days will be paid at a rate of 3.00 hours (3 hours) per day, the same as the daily vacation rate for a Lineholder. DAT cannot be made up. If awarded DAT, a Flight Attendant shall have her/his minimum monthly guarantee and/or line guarantee reduced accordingly. For example, if you were to use 2 DAT days for a 10-hour trip with a 79-hour line guarantee and a 71-hour minimum, you would be paid 6 hours for the two DAT days and your line guarantee would be reduced by 4 hours to 75 hours and your minimum to 67 hours (Section 18.R.). A Flight Attendant on reserve using DAT is also paid 3 hours per day and her/his Reserve minimum is reduced from 78 hours. (This is the only time when the application of vacation reduces the reserve minimum from 78 hours.)
Lineholders, as provided in Section 10.A.1.e. of the Contract, may bid Reserve lines.
If you are a rotating Reserve, consider your Reserve letter prior to bidding your vacation. 2017 Reserve letters are effective February 2017 – January 2018. One Reserve letter trade is allowed each year. You will be eligible to serve Reserve based on the following (Section 10.A.1.b.):
Keep in mind, Section 10.B.4. of the Contract provides that a Reserve on vacation or ANP for seven (7) days or more in the remaining part of the month will not be awarded a move-up line until after the 7 day period of vacation has passed. So, if you bid an end of month vacation of seven days or more as a Reserve, you will be by-passed for a move-up line on the Reserve in this instance until the period of availability has passed.
Note: Section 2.W. of our Contract provides that schedule months can be changed annually with appropriate notice to the Union. The company has changed the start and end dates for some of the Flight Attendant schedule months for 2017. The 2017 Schedule months are as follows:
Note: The January 2017 schedule month begins on 12/30/16.
If you do not bid enough to cover your seniority (insufficient bid), you will be assigned a vacation in one of the two following ways:
If you fail to submit a vacation bid, you will be assigned a vacation period as follows:
Phase I
Not assigned until Phase II
Phase II
If you have less than 30 days of vacation, you will be assigned in Phase II as follows:
Phase III
If you have 30 days or more, you will be assigned in Phase III as follows:
You are allowed two vacation trades per year with another Flight Attendant (Section 18.S.). All vacation trades must be completed two months before the first vacation. As an example, if you have a September vacation, you must submit your vacation trade request in July or earlier. There are two exceptions:
Trades between Flight Attendants involving vacation days awarded during the primary vacation award must be for the total number of primary vacation days awarded. In other words, the vacation periods traded must be of identical length. (Section 18.S.)
When trading secondary or tertiary vacation periods, the trade does not need to involve an equal number of days. Trading one of these vacation periods with another Flight Attendant having fewer days will reduce your vacation. For example, Mary has ten days of vacation and would like to trade with Eric, who has eight days. If the trade is awarded, Mary will lose 2 days of vacation. To avoid loss of vacation, we encourage you to trade the same number of days with your flying partners or use the interim vacation bidding process.
Transfers with effective dates between October 29th and December 30th, 2016:
Transfers with effective dates after December 31, 2016:
Our Contract provides for the trading of Reserve Letters. For 2017 and different from previous years, the company will require all Reserve Letters Trade Requests to be entered via Flying Together. The historical Unimatic DIS page will remain available to refer Flight Attendants to the resource on Flying Together but will not be used for submitting Reserve Letter trades.
You can find the new, A/B letter trade request form on the Crew Scheduling page on Flying Together and replaces the old Unimatic request page.
Section 18.G of our Contract requires that all un-awarded or vacated primary vacation days will be posted for interim vacation bids. Flight Attendants are allowed unlimited interim vacation bids.
You may split your vacation through the interim bid process as long as it does not give you more splits than you are allowed. For example, if you have a total of 16 days vacation, 10/1-10/16, you may submit an interim bid vacating 10/1-10/7 for 5/1-5/7.
Interim Vacation Bidding opens on the first business day (weekday) of the schedule month and remains open for seven (7) consecutive days.
Section 18.H. of the Contract requires "a Flight Attendant shall be notified of the date of her/his vacation as far in advance as is practicable and such notice shall be furnished not less than four (4) weeks before the beginning of each Flight Attendant's vacation period except for those Flight Attendants who have vacations scheduled for the first half of January, in which case such notice shall be furnished not less than three (3) weeks before the beginning of their vacation period. A Flight Attendant shall not be required to take a vacation unless such notice is given."
The same two-month advance restriction applies to interim bidding as in vacation trading. The Company can waive this restriction based on the needs of service. You can interim bid a February vacation for alternate days in February during the December interim bid process if there are available days posted.
Section 18.R of our Contract provides should you be hospitalized, on jury duty or on an occupational illness/ absence for a major portion of your vacation, you may attempt to bid a later vacation using the interim bid process. Contact the Flight Attendant Support Team (FAST) to submit bids for these situations.
Section 23.M.2 of our Contract provides that the Company shall not require Flight Attendants to use vacation time for Family Medical Leave.
Transferring Flight Attendants must interim bid when arriving at their new domicile unless otherwise advised by the Company. Interim vacation bids are now submitted via FlyingTogether. If you are at a layover location that is not FlyingTogether accessible, contact the Flight Attendant Support Team (FAST) for assistance in submitting the bid.
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