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Meanwhile a brand new survey putting the theory that the United States right now as a nation -- -- to shame.
93% of renters aged eighteen to thirty forced say that they do plan to buy their own home Monday.
But of course purchasing a house can be overwhelming so how can a first time buyer make sure they're getting a good deal.
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You can actually get a lot more.
Here in New York City for a 100000 dollars you can buy it parking space right but first look at -- shoe box and that's you write -- a hundred -- dollars a pair shoes that she -- -- close to that.
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But the most intriguing qualifier of all is junior Jared Page, who made the cut in both the 110-meter high hurdles and 300 hurdles along with the 4x400 relay. The latter relay is his forte and he will be gunning for Garden City's Jonathan Duvall, his 6A rival. Duvall won the gold in front of Page last May and is again seeded one spot - and more than one second - ahead of him. The Hutch High girls have eight entries and freshman Tyjai Adams could make a splash in the 100 hurdles. Class 4A Buhler: The defending 4A champion boys return to Cessna Stadium without the senior star power that keyed their title run last year but they have one of the state's best sprinters in Riley Allen. The junior football star was the only runner in 4A to clock a sub-11-second 100 dash (10.85) at regionals, putting him atop the sprinting heap. His 200 (21.89) also warranted top-seeding at state and he will anchor the Crusaders' dangerous 4x100 with Denton Branscom, Cole Younger and Henry Hickert. Distance runner Trent Horton and javelin thrower Steven Wiebe are looking to cap solid senior years. Sophomore Alex Keller is making her second straight state appearance for the Buhler girls. Class 3A Haven: All 10 of the Wildcats' entries are on the girls' side, giving the squad a chance to place in 3A a year after finishing last in 4A. Miranda Ostlund will compete in discus, javelin and shot put in her senior finale. Distance runs are this team's best events, with seniors Madison Caffrey and Hailey Davis headlining the bunch. Trinity Catholic: The Celtic boys will lean on seniors as they vie for another top-10 finish. Cordell Goering could be a part of three gold medals. He enters state as the second-seeded 300 hurdler in 3A and is on the No. 1 seed 4x400 relay with Nathan Eisenbarth, Tommy Fink and Chad Pauly. The third-seeded 4x800 (Eisenbarth, Goering, Pauly and Edgar Gutierrez) is trying to defend its gold medal from last year. Don't sleep on Trinity's girls. Even though they only have three entries, each are quality with top-eight seedings. Class 1A Central Christian: Zac Krehbiel is 1A's version of Riley Allen. The junior is likewise seeded first in both the 100 (11.06) and 200 (22.54) dashes with similarly potent seed times. The Cougar girls have five entries. Senior Sarah Hagen, who signed with Tabor College for track, is in two and Rachel Hagen three, including her fifth-seeded 100 dash. Fairfield: Brandy Burns looks like a legitimate threat to reach the awards podium. The senior is among the best girls' hurdlers in 1A, ranking second in the 300 and third in the 100. She is also a contender to make the finals in the 100 dash. The Falcon boys have four entries in field events. Austin Smith, a junior, will compete in long jump and triple jump. Pretty Prairie: With its talented senior class, the Bulldog boys have a shot at scoring some points. All three of their relay teams made it and the 4x800 of Justin Haflich, Alex Mains, Trey Tallant and Jacob Welker is the No. 2 seed. Haflich joins Stetson Broce, Keifer George and Copper Willhaus on the fourth-seeded 4x100. George is back for the second year in a row for triple jump. Pretty Prairie girls' pole vaulter Shaylee Wewe was the only Reno County athlete to make it to state in the event.
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09/05/2012 1:25 pm
What is the best practice approach for development of Resident Scrutiny Reports?
Is it right for senior management teams to have final editorial rights?
Should senior management teams re-write and reformat reports before they go to the decision-makers, or should these report formats be agreed ahead of the Scrutiny Project?
What can Resident Scrutiny groups do when they find that their reports have been amended by senior officers?
To what extent can residents push for publication of their reports on websites and to be provided on request?
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09/05/2012 4:19 pm
A scrutiny panel's report is a summary of their findings and recommendations.
You may wish to discuss with senior managers the findings in your report and ascertain which of the recommendations are deliverable. In some instances, your recommendations may not be realistic due to operational functions and structures. If senior management is asking you to remove a recommendation, be sure that you are confident that the reason behind it is valid and not simply because the idea is not liked.
With regard to formatting I would suggest that you find out what the preferred format for board reports is and ensure that your report is formatted in the agreed way. Board papers are often presented in a uniform way as it is easier for the board to read and digest especially when there are a lot of papers for discussion.
Do you need to a report or could you do a presentation straight to the board?
I would also suggest that once the report has been to the board and either approved or commented on that it is published even in summary form. Publishing your reports not only helps the wider tenant population see that you as a group are open to scrutiny, its a great way to encourage people to get involved especially if they can see that the work you are doing is having an impact. You might want to consider publishing your findings alongside comments from the board and the senior managers, highlighting which recommendations are to implemented.
I suggest that you speak to your senior managers in the first instance about why they feel that the report needs rewriting. Do you have a mentor? They may be able to help you in preparing your report or working with senior managers.
Hope that helps
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09/05/2012 8:22 pm
Resident Led Scrutiny?? are you having a laugh? Senior management will only sanction stooge led scrutiny- to be fair to management do you really expect them to allow non staff members access to confidential material, what is the benefit to the organisation to allow inconvenient truths to reach the public domain
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09/05/2012 11:31 pm
TSA was never more than a paper tiger- tenants are generally regarded by many housing professionals as scroungers and work shy- frequently belittle those residents who engage in "participation" with thier landlord as "the usual suspects"
co-regulation will involve a hand picked group of unaccountable stooges and lackies-rip off procurement deals will continue service charges and rents will increase inversley proportional to service delivery and the cowboy contractors will continue laughing all the way to the bank
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10/05/2012 12:56 pm
Bit harsh on a number of housing professionals raindrop, no doubt there are a few like that but a lot want to do the best for their tenants. The sector has been badly let down by the TSA with the new framework and a number of poor quality consultants who have seized on the introduction of scrutiny panels as a means of making money. At this moment a lot of the panels neither help the tenants or the business. There is a significant waste of resource going on and there are not many winners here.
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10/05/2012 2:01 pm
It is as wrong to label all social housing staff members as you have Raindrop as it is for anyone to label all social housing tenants as work shy scroungers. No doubt in both groups there are a few like that, but the majority just want to do the best that they can - a little mutual respect goes a long way.
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10/05/2012 4:19 pm
Usual Suspect "a lot want to do the best for their tenants." !! how nauseatingly patronising is that for an attitude amongst housing professionals- some of whom wouldn't last a week in a real competitive job where if you piss off your customers they vote with thier feet-tenants are stuck more often then not with thier landlord. There are good housing professionals no doubt but they know which side thier bread is buttered- what housing professional is going to put thier job on the line and put the tenant's interest before senior managements?
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11/05/2012 1:20 pm
their tenants is like saying their customers or their family . not patronising at all. most people want tp do a good job regardless of what they do . And why is the tenants interest different from the senior manangements ?
I would hope both (in decent organisations) want to see effecient business delivering high quality service , home and communities.
Every trade and sector has its share of poor quality staff why should housing be any different.
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11/05/2012 1:24 pm
@Omega 3:
1. Why is the term 'their' in this context patronising? What term would you have used? I interpret the use of the term 'their' in this context as 'taking some responsibility' rather than patronising.
2. When you say housing staff 'wouldn't last a week in a real competitive job', which job do you have in mind? I used to work in sales before housing and I'd happily bring in some of the 'private sector' principles to housing - but don't then come crying to me when I start looking out for the needs of the business, and I start getting MUCH harder on rent arrears, and I start looking for REAL efficiencies in services. If you want to start treating social housing like the private sector then fine - but I'll start giving you a service that is comparable to the service a private landlord / letting agent would give you for the rent you pay. You wanna play hardball? Bring it on, sunshine...
3. ...Or perhaps you could just accept, as hard as it might be for you, that social housing is a different beast to the private sector - 'the real world'. Like or not plenty of us actually do have passionate debates and discussion with colleagues and management about putting the interests of tenants first. Just because we can't respond or act on the every whim of every tenant, that doesn't mean tenants are getting a bad deal from us.
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11/05/2012 8:58 pm
Response to Anonymous Calm down dear, to answer your points 1- "thier customers" is ok-slightly patronising although I can accept that treating tenants as customers is positive-obvious point is if I dont like Tesco, I wave bye bye and go to Sainsbury etc- but if Mr Tesco is the only shop in town he becomes like my landlord-i'm stuck with him. I am a tenant of a RSL- but I am not a tenant of any of thier staff and if they referred to me as " thier tenant" I would feel insulted- thats my point of you - tough if you dont like it
your point 2- I have had numerous jobs in the private and a few in the public sector. in the private sector if you mess up, 9 times out of 10 you get given your p45 and walk
I know for a fact that more than a few housing professionals ( especially at senior management level) messes up and gets promoted3- you say tenants of your organistaion get a good deal- if so I would consider doing a mutual transfer - who is it pls
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12/05/2012 11:16 am
Omega - I'd be very happy to treat housing staff as though we worked for a private sector company. But in return I'd want to run the association like a private business.
I'd be delighted to give you a service that was eqaul to the social rent you pay. I'd save millions following private sector principles. No need for resident involvement any more - money saved for starters. I'd re-negotiate repairs contracts and save millions by giving you the service that a social rent would pay for in 'the real world'.
My staff would be strictly performance managed - but their targets would be set around income collection ahead of all else. Dealing with ASB? Where's the money in that for me? No, what I'll do is put resources into inspecting properties on a regular basis and making sure tenants are protecting my asset. I'll only be doing the bare minimum repairs, sticking to the tenancy agreement to the letter, regardless of someone's age or ability.
You want private sector values in social housing? Fine by me.
But I suspect what you really want is champagne services on lemonade money. That cake of yours - you can either keep it or eat it.
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12/05/2012 1:51 pm
12/05/2012 11:16 am if you giving all this. Tell us all whom our you and let us come and see if what you our saying is true or not.
Well I know being a foot soldiers does happen with our Housing Association.
Champagne service no that what officer get and we all see the benefit and rewards your getting.
No most of you would last in the real world jobs
Well I not getting value for money, right first time repairs and we have recall going back over six months (remember that what our rents pay for the structure, communal areas and some repairs within our home). I also not getting a Service for the staff and nor our my neighbours and they do not adhering to any form of policy & Procedures and we have no Scrunity group, or Tenant Complaint Panel.
Go tell me what portion of my rent goes towards this cost along with Management Services
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12/05/2012 2:49 pm
Anon @ 1:51pm on 12/05/12:
What I was talking about (at 11:16am) isn't happening now. I was responding to Omega 3's wish to have private sector values within housing associations.What I was talking about (at 11:16am) was the likely scenario if you start treating social housing like the private sector.
There seems to be an assumption that treating housing associations like a private business will lead to better services for residents. It wont, in my view. It'll lead to more profitable businesses, and staff would be targeted to collect income and do the minimum of repairs as a priority.
As for value... Well, I work in social housing but have to rent privately in the same area as the houses I manage. I pay around double in rent as one of our tenants pays for the same size property in the same area, and I can assure you I get nowhere near the service from my letting agent as our tenants get from us as a social landlord.
Is our service perfect? No. But is it value for money, compared to what is available locally in the private rented sector? Absolutely.
And just to be clear, I don't think that's a bad thing. I'm not resentful of that. What I would like is for the quality and service of all rented housing in the UK (social or private) to be driven up. I'm not in favour of some 'race to the bottom' here. But I do think social housing tenants need a little bit of perspective sometimes.
I actually wish we could pay for some of our tenants to go and live in a local private rental property for a period of time - I'd happily swap places with them for a few months. We could then have a very honest, informed discussion about the pros / cons of each, and I'm fairly confident the social tenant would be desperate to get back to their own home rather than stick with the private rented sector.
One last thing... The term 'housing professional' is a bit of a misnomer I think. Unlike teaching or other 'professions' you don't need a certain level of qualification in order to 'practice' within housing. I'd be happy for such a system to be brought in - it would (or should) guarantee a level of quality in the staff that associations employ.
But on the other hand - if that's the level of quality you would want to ensure in housing staff, and you want to make them true 'professionals' - well guess what? You're going to have to pay for it.
It's all very well having a go at housing staff, but how much does your average housing officer get paid? How many hours above their contracted hours are they putting in each week? How much annual leave do they get?
So yeah, let's make housing officers 'professional' and drive the standard up. But be prepared for rents to go up.
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12/05/2012 4:51 pm
Anon at 12/05/2012 11:16 am
pity you have declined to state which RSL you work for -why not create a name for yourself on this forum for ease of access? Mr Self righteous maybe?
you are showing classic signs of housing professional delusion in that just because RSL rent ( which increases above inflation every year) is not rip off market rent somehow it's cheap and consequently residents should be happy with thier lot- just like Oliver Twist in the workhouse. Fact is estate where i live was built 92 years ago and the bricks and mortar subsidy has been repaid hand over fist. Current revenues are not being reinvested in the stock but elsewhere in the empire building organisation.
Scrap resident involvement by all means - its a sham-many social providers have staff that are surplus to requirements
I bet my life your schedule of rates is way above what a self employed contractor faced with real competition charges- tenants generally are not getting a good deal from the big procurement contracts signed with big PLC outfits who more often than not sub the wotk out down the line to pissed off badly paid white van man who thibnks soicial housing tenants are all scroungers and does his job accordingly
Housing professionals are not doing tenants any favours- if anything it's vice versa -tenants who are keeping them in a relatively safe and well paid jobs- you need us more than we need you
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22/05/2012 9:28 am
There is not a right or wrong way to do Resident Scrutiny Reports. The key issue is what will best lead to outcomes that bring improvements for tenants and prospective tenants. If a key reason to involve tenants in involvement activities, including scrutiny exercises, is so that they can constructively challenge how the landlord operates so that services, value for money or other aspects of the business can be improved, then not allowing tenants to raise the points they wish to raise would seem to be counter productive and not using the potential business advantages that tenant involvement can bring. Certainly if a landlord has asked tenants to carry out a scrutiny exercise then it would be expected that their final report is agreed with the tenants involved.
But it is the job of senior management to manage the information that decision makers receive. It is important that tenants understand the perspective of senior management - eg. are the challenges made in the scrutiny report constructive and designed to improve services or the business? Are conclusions made balanced, objective and based on evidence, particularly of the views of a cross section of tenants? Has the scrutiny report taken into account the views of staff and other stakeholders? Are the recommendations made coherent and practical? Is the report well written, to the point and easily understandable? If the answer to these questions is yes, then it would be concerning if senior management felt that they needed to change reports. It is the job of senior management to advise and assist tenants on these matters so that they can produce effective reports, and in most cases, it is to be hoped that scrutiny work will be done in a spirit of partnership between tenants and landlord. In a well run scrutiny exercise, it would be expected that tenants and senior management are in agreement about the conclusions of a scrutiny exercise before the report reaches the decision-makers. If this is not the case - then there could be faults on either or both sides.
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09/06/2012 9:16 am
Resident Scrutiny can rightly take many forms as ultimately it is for the residents and their landlord to work together to determine how they want scrutiny to work. There are however a number of critical principles that should be considered absolutes when designing and applying resident scrutiny that are simply not up for negotiation.
Key amongst these is the notion that resident scrutiny should be resident (or tenant) led and independent. What this boils down to is that, in whatever guise it takes, the form, function, operation and outcomes of the scrutiny function should be led by residents and that they should be free to follow their own direction without being influenced by members of the landlord's staff or governing body. This of course includes compilation of their findings and recommendations into scrutiny reports and I can conceive of no circumstances under which it would be justifiable for senior managers or any staff for that matter to have final editorial rights, re-write or otherwise amend these reports. They are the resident's reports and should be held sacrosanct.
I should think governing bodies would be very interested if anyone were trying to adulterate the findings of resident scrutiny on route to them and I suggest that they should be notified directly should this be suspected.
Deep down I think we all know resident scrutiny is inherently a good thing for landlords. If done properly it will make them more accountable, perform better, and be more efficient. But simply knowing this rarely makes it any less scary for some executive teams who may ultimately find themselves having a critical eye focused on them by their governing body. I find that the best approach is to allow senior managers to negotiate a jointly agreed improvement plan with resident scrutineers before their findings are presented to the governing body. It's so much easier for officers to say 'things aren't as good as we thought' when they can immediately follow it with 'but we've already agreed a plan to improve them'. Same outcome but with far less loss of face.
Of course it may not be a case of trying to unduly influence resident's findings. It may simply be that managers are trying to help should residents appear to be struggling to write their reports. However the correct response is always to refocus on resident training, confidence and support needs and never, however tempting, to get involved in rewriting or modifying residents reports. If it helps, and it generally does, residents could devise a standard report format into which their evidence, findings and if appropriate, recommendations can be slotted without having to engage in a complete rewrite. Every little helps.
One of those other critical principles I mentioned earlier is based on the idea that resident scrutiny can't operate in a vacuum and must have regular communication with the wider resident body. There is no hard and fast rule so involved residents should determine the best and most accessible medium for this information such as whether it is the scrutiny report, improvement plan or possibly a combination or summary of both that is most effective. Whatever it is, the wider resident body must know about the results of scrutiny as only in this way can they hope to challenge its effectiveness and to hold their landlord to account for its commitments to improve. Surely this is one of the cornerstones of consumer regulation?
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11/06/2012 10:06 am
Resident scrutiny is inherently a good thing for landlords. If done properly it will make them more accountable, perform better, and be more efficient.
However, the devil is as they say in the detail or in the case the how!
It would be a brave landlord that would build the capability of residents to undertake this task, it would be an even braver landlord to give direct funding to a tenant/resident group to appoint their own advisor to build that capabability to an extent where vested interests and self interest only applies to tenants identified needs. Such a brave landlord would need to be accountable - sacked no hand shakes or access to pensions - stand and deliver or fall on your sword.
Power and finance needs to be in the hands of the tenants - they are the major stakeholder; and as the major stakeholder dshould have the power to say enough is enough.
Big Bear
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His people call him by the same name his predecessors have borne for a thousand years. Each month, when he gathers with the 49 other chiefs from the six Haudenosaunee nations, he stands to speak in the language of his ancestors. And when the 50 come to a decision, they don't take a majority vote. Instead, as it has for a millennium, the leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy decide by consensus.
Today Thompson awaits the start of a meeting of the Haudenosaunee Peace and Trade Committee, where tradition will grapple with the outside world. The issue is passports.
Last month, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team missed their world championship in Britain rather than travel overseas under U.S. or Canadian passports. Their Haudenosaunee passports were deemed inadequate in a post-9/11 world - partly handwritten, lacking in high-tech security features.
Haudenosaunee Documentation Committee chairman Karl Hill peers fiercely from behind wire-rimmed glasses as he explains how the confederacy has spent upward of $1 million to bring their identification into line with the U.S. government's new standards. For now, the handwritten Haudenosaunee passports can still be easily counterfeited, he says.
But, he adds, that would never be reason enough for the lacrosse players to travel on another nation's document. Such a choice would be a betrayal of their national identity - an identity he says is as valid as ever, even though his people shop in American malls and watch American television and study at American colleges.
We are a nation, he insists, and it matters.
"It means that we've survived," he says.
"The fact that we're still here is a testament to our survival. Now why on earth would we give that up and call ourselves U.S. citizens?"
Unless someone told you, you might not even know you'd driven into Onondaga Nation.
On this dusty, four-lane road, the border is invisible. There's no fence, no painted line and no one to stop and ask you for ID.
But while the gas station accepts only U.S. currency, children in language classes here are taught a different name for the man featured on the dollar bill. In the Onondaga tongue, George Washington is still called the "Town Destroyer."
For many Americans, the brutal past has become little more than a historical footnote covered briefly in school. But no one here has forgotten the killings, the disease and the forced marches that scholars believe reduced the native population in what came to be the United States from more than 4 million in 1492 to just a quarter million 400 years later.
There are no fences marking the borders, residents say, because they are a people that does not believe in fences. Any built by outsiders serve only as a reminder of internment camps.
Today, the question of identity for the estimated 5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives within U.S. borders is complicated. About one-third identify themselves as being more than one race. Some serve in the U.S. military. Whether you use the word integrated or assimilated, many have blended into American life.
And while all Native American tribes defend their right to independence, many see that autonomy as limited, their role akin to that of a U.S. state.
But here in Onondaga Nation, many feel deeply that this place is in no way a part of the United States of America.
Residents still talk about the tour bus that pulled up to the longhouse, its occupants asking, "Where are the teepees?" But it's rare for outsiders to venture past the smoke shop, drive the unmarked roads, be invited into people's homes.
Conversations with leaders and residents quickly reveal that many believe they have the same central concerns their ancestors did. There are those here who remain uneasy when they head out into the world built by the people some here still call "the Europeans."
When Audrey Shenandoah says the word "contact," it sounds like an epithet. The 84-year-old faithkeeper sits on a knitted blanket in her wooden cottage on the nation, speaking of the moment her ancestors encountered the Europeans.
"They were invaders," she says. "They still are."
In her eyes, those aliens who fill the land outside of the roughly 7,300 acres that remain to the Onondaga are peculiar - perhaps even stunted.
"We have a totally different understanding of life and being human and how we act to one another," she says.
She can see it, she says, in her trips off the nation to go out to dinner, or to buy groceries: How people speak. How they treat each other. How they move. And of course, what feels like another attack against her people and their ways: how they treat the Earth.
"There's no kind of humanity or togetherness or connectiveness," she says. "Look at what being American is doing to its own people."
As clan mother, Shenandoah is responsible for the education of the nation's children (not to mention her own bevy of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren). She would like today's scene at the longhouse - the center of civic, religious and social life for the Onondaga.
A children's summer program focusing on the nation's language and culture has let out for the day, but the kids have headed back inside for more. With the feathered headpieces of the chiefs hanging along the wall next to a few modern-day windbreakers, a young man sings a haunting melody and the group dances to the beat of a drum.
One slender-legged girl steps to the music in short pink plaid shorts, with a matching cell phone case sticking out of her pocket.
The tension of being both apart from and a part of the outside world is tangible here.
Outside of the longhouse between prayer songs, 12-year-old Robyn Johnson says that unlike many here she probably would vote in U.S. elections, although she wouldn't want to leave the nation. While she loves the Haudenosaunee ways and considers them her religion, she says being American is her citizenship.
It's a view that would likely dismay her great-grandmother - Audrey Shenandoah. But, the girl says: "There's a lot of people that are good. ... If you don't get to vote for them, then they probably wouldn't have a chance."
Nearby, there's a field where the boys can play lacrosse. The sport played on American school fields is but a cousin to the medicine games played here on the nation. No outsider has ever been allowed to see those, says Gewas Schindler, a member of the Iroquois Nationals team, ranked No. 4 in the world.
That secret game, their sacred game, was once used to fight off the diseases of the white invaders. It is still considered a gift from their Creator, and still used to ward off illness.
Schindler, 34, says that when he plays that game, he feels different, stronger. He never gets tired.
For the nine years he's been a professional, Schindler says he's felt guilty about taking money for something that feels like so much more.
But it's the way of the world, he says. So it's the way he's gone.
Ask people here if they're angry about the past, and most everyone will deny it.
But even after he is warned that the wood in his toddler son's new lacrosse stick is easily broken, John Parsons pounds the handmade stick rhythmically against the ground as he lists the ways in which the U.S. government is still wronging him and his people: It imprisons Indians for breaking the rules of the outside world. It asserts "the European mindset, where the king or whoever can tax you, and own you."
On the other hand, the Carousel Center Mall and its nearly 200 stores are just 20 minutes away, in Syracuse.
"The mall is there," says LeeAnne Cornfield, Parson's wife. "I'm up there every weekend."
Like everyone else on American Indian lands, they must straddle two worlds. To buy most things, they must leave their trailer, with its broken window and wobbling front step, and spend their money outside the nation.
It's not simple, being a nation within a nation.
Onondaga Nation leaders say they don't directly accept federal funds, although nation members are eligible for U.S.-funded medical care. In many American Indian nations, state and federal money pays for health clinics, for education and for poverty assistance. On the other hand, the nations pay fees to states to open casinos.
Some nation residents willingly carry both American and Haudenosaunee passports. And some see the nation's government as an unwelcome buffer separating them from public services.
But others are angry at what they see as encroachments on their nation's authority. Earlier this month, someone tried to derail an Amtrak passenger train traveling through the Haudenosaunee's Cattaraugus Indian Reservation. Investigators noted a sign left nearby, apparently protesting a federal law that threatens to limit American Indian cigarette sales.
U.S. law is very clear on the topic of sovereignty: The Native American nations are defined as "domestic dependent nations," and the Supreme Court has always affirmed Congress' right to make decisions for the nations - and to break treaties when doing so is in the interest of the U.S., says professor Eric Cheyfitz, director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
The nations "are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States," said Nedra Darling, spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. While Indian tribes retain rights including those to "self-determination and self-governance," she said, "tribes do not retain certain sovereign authorities, such as to engage in war or foreign relations with foreign states."
(In April, the U.S. announced it would review its opposition to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which calls on nations to prevent or redress the forced migration of indigenous peoples, the seizure of their land or their forced integration into other cultures. The U.S. is the only remaining nation to stand against the declaration, and has argued the agreement is incompatible with its existing laws.)
Meanwhile, Cheyfitz says, the American Indian nations consider themselves to be preexisting entities not subject to the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"It's a completely accurate perspective historically," he says. "But we're talking about who has the power."
Centuries ago, that balance was decided by who had the guns, he said. Now, however, it's determined in many ways by financial power: In 2000, American Indians on reservations within the borders of the U.S. had an average per capita income that was about one-third that of the rest of the country.
When the historical cards are stacked against you, how do you keep a nation alive?
For the Haudenosaunee, the answer may lie in the long view.
Jeremy Thompson, one of the Iroquois Nationals players, cites a phrase that's repeated often here on the nation: "seven generations." All decisions are made keeping in mind the impact on distant descendants
Audrey Shenandoah says the phrase is actually the puny English translation for an ever-present saying in the old tongue - one that has appeared, she says, on all the Haudenosaunee treaties but whose scope doesn't carry over as well into English.
But she can give the rough translation: The Haudenosaunee guard the future for "as long as the grass grows green and as long as the water flows."
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3Here are some practical tips for getting XAMPP running on your Windows 7 machine. I use this for getting my Hudson / Maven / Sonar demonstation environment. There are two issues that can save you a lot of time when you know how to solve them.
My configuration:
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- Xampp 1.7.4 with Tomcat 7 included. (install via windows installer, nexted through install menu, no special things)
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- Tomcat will only run command line and not as a Windows service.
The XAMPP control panel does nog give any feedback and command line : apache_start.cmd gives the following error:
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The Buzz About Marijuana Allergy
There have long been tales of marijuana causing reactions. Now a Canadian allergist has confirmed that the week is indeed an allergen.
After one of his patients broke out in hives and had trouble breathing after drinking marijuana tea, Dr. Gordon Sussman began asking his patients about their marijuana use, and recruited 17 people for a study. Sussman, acting division director of allergy and immunology at the University of Toronto, tested each patient with a skin-prick test using marijuana extracts.
All 17 developed skin reactions and other allergy symptoms; 15 experienced rhinitis and wheezing and 13 developed hives. "People have thought reactions were due to contaminants like mold, but I think marijuana itself is an allergen," says Sussman.
He is writing up his study for publication; next, he'll head to the lab in the hopes of isolating the allergen in the plant.
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VIA Labs, Inc., a leading supplier of USB 3.0 integrated chip controllers, today announced the VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 Host Controller. Adding to the industry's leading line-up of USB 3.0 products, the VL800 is a single chip solution that allows a PCI Express-equipped platform to interface with up to four SuperSpeed USB peripheral devices simultaneously - double the capability of any currently available USB 3.0 host controller. USB 3.0 (also known as SuperSpeed USB) allows for a maximum data transfer rate of up to 5Gbps, or ten times the throughput available to USB 2.0 based devices. Other enhancements provide for improved interaction between device and host controller, including important advancements in power management. The tremendous increase in throughput allows for the quick and easy transfer of large-volume data and will hasten the development of a new generation of high-performance consumer electronic products. Not only will desktop PC systems featuring the new VL800 host controller be able to transfer huge amounts of data back and forth from several devices simultaneously, but with support for the USB Battery Charging Specification the PC's USB ports can also be used to power and charge peripheral devices such as flash drives, hard drives, video cameras and mobile phones. "VIA Labs is currently the only company in the world to offer a USB 3.0 host controller with support for four downstream ports," said David Hsu, Associate Vice President, VIA Labs, Inc. "The VL800 is an easy and cost effective way for motherboard manufacturers to bring additional USB 3.0 performance to their product lines, it means increased design opportunities for system integrators, and of course it means consumers can use more of their USB 3.0 devices at the same time." The host controller's four downstream facing ports support not just SuperSpeed transfer, but are also backwards compatible with previous USB specifications and offer support for Hi-Speed (480Mbps), Full-Speed (12Mbps), and Low-Speed (1.5Mbps) traffic ensuring seamless connectivity of legacy USB devices. For more information about the VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 Host Controller please visit this page.
Didnt usb 2.0 just fill up the market instantly when it arrived ? I get this feeling all the tech is just designed to endlessly drain cash from us. I mean I remember the times when I was dreaming "oh when will I be able to watch a movie from a tiny flash memory". Ok it arrived but untill it did the industry shifted to HDTV/mkv and again its not very comfy to copy 10GB mkv over a pendrive with usb2.0. Here we go again usb 3.0 on its way to our homes to satisfy our HD needs. Im just wondering what will change untill this "standard" becomes a standard and it will loop again.
It won't become a standard until it's built into chipsets and that my friends is a thing that's in the hands of Intel, as they're controlling that part of the xHCI spec and until Intel moves that to version 1.0, no chipsets will have integrated USB 3.0 support.
Light Peak offers 2x the bandwidth of USB3 (and possibly up to 20x). Given that, I'm going to wait until Intel decides which technology ends up in their chipsets, rather than buy something that might be useless in 6 months' time. And I'm not too impressed with this card... 1 USB3 port == 1 PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot, so this 4-port card is never going to be able to supply enough bandwidth to the ports. But that also brings up an interesting question... considering that most motherboards today supply 12+ USB2 ports, does that mean future boards will have to dedicate 12 PCI-e lanes to USB3? If that's the case then PCI-e could be obsolete if version 3 doesn't arrive soon.
USB3 is backwards compatible, so it's very unlikely that it'll disappear anytime soon. As for the bandwidth, you won't get 100% of the bandwidth anyway, and you won't use all ports at full bandwidth at the same time. If you do so, you should not be using USB in the first place.
The reason Intel isn't going to adopt USB 3.0 any time soon is because of DMI. Future processors, especially Sandy Bridge LGA1155 successor continue to use DMI as the connection to the PCH. DMI is physically a PCI-Express 1.1 x4 link with a different link-layer software protocol than PCI-E. Its bandwidth is 1 GB/s per direction, 2 GB/s total. When you take into account protocol overhead, the actual bandwidth available to the system is lower. So you can imagine why Intel can't choke the PCH with too many bandwidth-heavy things. Sure the PCH has its own 8-lane PCI-E hub, but even with those ports, Intel expects motherboard vendors to use for lightweight onboard devices such as legacy IDE controllers (PCI-E x1 lets IDE controllers have fewer pins), GbE controllers, 1394, and so on. Most PCI-E x1 cards these days such as sound cards and don't even use 20% of PCI-E 1.1 x1 bandwidth. Now if they had a 6-port SATA 3 Gb/s (forget 6 Gb/s for a moment) RAID controller and a USB 3.0 controller, it would be totally crippled with the chipset bus. Instead, if it just let them use 3rd party USB 3.0 controllers, it can conveniently cover up lack of performance and features (number of ports) to the fact that they just have 2 ports per controller, cost a few dollars to add to your design, and could be bottlenecked by the x1 Gen2 interface (500 MB/s /direction for two 480 MB/s ports), and in the process cover up its own deficiencies with chipset bus features. AMD on the other hand, expanded its chipset bus with 8-series chipsets. The new A-Link III is a PCI-Express 2.0 x4 physical link, which gives it 2 GB/s per direction, 4 GB/s total. So the 6-port SATA 6 Gb/s controller won't be starved of bandwidth, especially in heavyweight RAID modes.
Actually, you are pretty correct, assuming you actually want to use more than 1 port at a time. The controller is PCI-E 2.0, so 500MB/s Full-Duplex, while each port is 400MB/s Full-Dublex. So one port can be used at full speed at a time, so having 4 over 2 is really only a matter of convenience if you have more than 2 USB 3.0 devices, so you don't have to keep swapping them. If you are using a PCI-E 1.0/1.1 port, and it is possible, then the situation is even worse, as even a single USB 3.0 port would saturate the slot. With that being the case, I'm sure that it would be pretty easy for card makers to just use the old 2-port controller, and rig up 4 or even 8 ports pretty easily and cheaply, thanks to the easy expandability of the USB standard.
Agreed, I wish someone would just hurry up and make a 12-port USB 3.0 to PCI-E x4 chip and throw it on some motherboards, let's face it, you only ever use max USB bandwidth on 1 or maybe 2 ports at once (and then probably only if you're transferring between 2 USB hard drives). Then I don't have to worry about which USB port I'm plugging my device into.
The thing is, VIA already has the VL810, which converts one USB 3.0 port into four. So with a three chip setup, you can have one cheaper 2-port USB3.0 controller, and two VL810 chips, and have 8 useable ports. I don't know how costly a set-up like this would be, but I think it would be sweet for a motherboard maker to do it. So, 6 ports in the back of the board, and two internal headers from the front of the case(or just 8 ports on the back of the board).


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Perhaps Petraeus and his former colleague Gen. John Allen were addicted to e-mails on some level, but in jobs like theirs, sloppiness can be fatal. In the digital age where everything seems to have a trail, there is really no escape, no appeal and no cover-up.
There's been a lot of talk from Petraeus' supporters that he did the honorable thing by quitting. The truth is, given his job and the digital world we live in, he had no choice.
William Doyle is author of "A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq" (Penguin) and co-author of "A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America" (Simon & Schuster).
Noel M. Tichy and Chris DeRose: Resignation was honorable, necessary
David Petraeus is by equal account an honorable man, a great patriot and one of the most important generals in recent U.S. history. So was it really necessary for our country to lose one of its brightest intellects in the top spy job just because he had an affair? Can't you hear the laughter coming from France or Italy, where the reaction to discovery of a mistress or even a child out of wedlock is blasé?
Petraeus' resignation was as honorable as it was necessary. He didn't lose his job over infidelity. He had to either resign or be fired because he exercised poor judgment. It's that simple.
Petraeus' surreptitious extramarital affair was investigated for fear he might have been the target of blackmail or revealed national secrets. As a long-time Washington insider, Petraeus was no naif about the consequences if the affair became public.
The moment the man in charge of the world's most powerful spy agency engaged in the affair, he took a risk that had repercussions well beyond his personal life. His self-indulgence invited an inevitable media circus that has undermined his credibility and distracted his organization at the critical moment it faces an inquiry into the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Petraeus knew that his ability to stand tall before his co-workers at the CIA, the Congress or the American people had been compromised. To enable the CIA to get on with its business, he accepted the need to step aside so that his personal life didn't become the focus.
Organizations are built on trust and shared values. When leaders exercise bad judgment and take actions that risk the well-being of their constituents -- even if it happens in their personal life and is not criminal -- they compromise that trust and have to go.
In the business world, CEOs or top leaders at Best Buy, Stryker, Highmark and Lockheed Martin have lost their jobs in recent months because of sexual affairs. Most companies have explicit rules or require disclosure of relationships within a company. These policies are to protect employees from managers who might leverage their power to sexually harass subordinates or engage in favoritism, creating intolerable work environments. Such rules apply to all employees, but these business leaders failed to acknowledge their affairs. Some simply kept secrets from their boards of directors, while others took deliberate steps to conceal them, no doubt to protect their reputations and marriages.
To Petraeus' credit, he reportedly never asked for special treatment and knew that public knowledge of his lapse in judgment would inevitably lead to his removal. Let's applaud Petraeus and thank him for his invaluable service to our country.
As Americans, we seem to love redemption stories and have been so often willing to give our leaders a second chance after they demonstrate their fallibility. Petraeus will no doubt resurface in coming years and, we hope, continue to contribute to our nation's welfare. It just won't be at the CIA.
Noel M. Tichy and Chris DeRose are co-authors of "Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win By Trusting Their People." The have advised CEOs around the world and worked with Royal Dutch/Shell, Ford Motor Company, 3M and HP.
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toofab caught up with one of the new Breaking Dawn Part 2 vamps, Amadou Ly (aka Henri from the French coven), this weekend at a Playboy/"True Blood" party in San Diego — where he revealed what it was like joining the close-knit cast.
"You walk on set and you don't know what to expect," Amadou Ly told us. "I was nervous but the cast and director, everyone welcomed me. It became fun and working on set was a great experience for me, it was lovely."
Ly plays Henri, a member of the French coven who was not in the books — but he's not worried about Twi-hards reacting negatively to his addition.
"I think the fans are really going to fall in love with him," Ly said. "There's a lovely scene with Michael Sheen that the fans are really going to love. There's also a scene where you might see me throw your favorite vampire around."
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Superior's City Council is keeping its options open when it comes to the size of a new animal shelter in Superior.
Superior's City Council is keeping its options open when it comes to the size of a new animal shelter in Superior.
The council held in committee discussion of the shelter to explore its options in terms of the size and costs for an animal shelter that would include taking animals currently served by the Humane Society of Douglas County.
The organization serves animals that require shelter services in rural communities of the county.
Mayor Bruce Hagen withdrew a recommendation made almost two months ago to build a smaller shelter to serve the animal control needs in for the city.
However, the mayor advised the council to focus on a gap in funding for a larger shelter that would serve all of Douglas County.
Hagen said he doesn't believe the cost of running a shelter that serves all of Douglas County should be borne solely by city taxpayers.
Currently, the city is looking at an $828,358 gap in funding for construction and $59,000 annually operating expenses if plans to proceed for a larger animal shelter that would consolidate animal control efforts under one roof.
Still, Hagen said there isn't anyone who doesn't agree that one shelter would better serve the community.
The council opted to hold the issue in committee until options can be explored in terms of the size of the shelter needed and closing the gap in funding without asking city taxpayers to foot the entire bill.
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By Jane Han NEW YORK -- The latest mad cow disease outbreak in the United States is making headlines worldwide, but Cynthia Hufty piles four packs of T-bone steak into her shopping cart Friday afternoon. ``It's steak night at my house tonight. Mad cow? I'm not worried,'' says the homemaker, 43, shopping at a grocery store in lower Manhattan. ``I'm not going to turn into a vegetarian all of a sudden out of fear. That's ridiculous.'' The newest case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which goes by the street name mad cow disease, was confirmed in a California dairy cow, Tuesday, setting off international concerns over the safety of U.S. beef. Indonesia and Thailand suspended imports of American beef following the news, while South Korean authorities immediately stepped up inspection. Consumers in South Korea showed fear and reluctance to buying U.S. beef, which prompted the nation's top retailers to remove American meat from store shelves. Some civic groups are even planning candlelight protests against U.S. beef imports. All this heat and noise across the ocean, but it's business as usual right here in the United States. ``We're not seeing any less people shopping in the meat section,'' says a butcher at Big Y Supermarket, a grocery chain in North Haven, Connecticut. ``Really, it's just like any other typical day.'' John Atwood, manager at a local grocery store in New Jersey, said sales have even gone up this week. ``Grilling season is here so we're actually seeing more people than before,'' he said, adding that some shoppers are probably not even aware of the news. American consumers have a record of showing a muted response to mad cow disease. When the first case of the brain-wasting disease was reported in the U.S. in 2003, few Americans changed their eating habits. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest farm group, surveyed 1,000 consumers immediately after the outbreak and found that 74 percent continued to eat beef despite discovery of the fatal disease. The latest infection is the fourth case of mad cow found in the United States and the first outbreak in six years. ``A case of a single cow with BSE is not a reason for significant concern on the part of consumers, and there is no reason to believe the beef or milk supply is unsafe,'' Sarah Klein, food safety attorney at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group, said in a statement. Many experts are echoing the same opinion, further dampening lingering public concerns. ``Driving a car also carries the risk of a car crash, but that does not mean I'll stop using cars altogether,'' a user named David wrote on an online forum discussing mad cow disease. ``It's really not worth all this fuss.'' |


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Train etiquette is super simple stuff - so simple in fact that it's like a children's book. The campaign uses illustrations to demonstrate the simplicity of train etiquette and to reinforce appropriate behaviour.
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WASHINGTON, DC - With the nation's coal-burning utilities facing the prospect of first-time control on mercury emissions, the Department of Energy has selected eight new projects to test mercury control technologies at coal-fired power plants. The selections build on past DOE research and focus on longer-term, large-scale tests of the most promising mercury control technologies at a broader range of utility field-test sites - specifically those burning lignite, and those with smaller electrostatic precipitators. "A part of President Bush's Clear Skies Initiative proposes to reduce mercury emissions by 69 percent by 2018. Success of the Clear Skies Initiative will be directly dependent on both the technical availability and cost-effectiveness of control technologies applicable to a diverse fleet of coal-fired electric utility boilers," Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said. These pre-commercial demonstration tests will be conducted at commercial coal-fired power plants and will produce important information on mercury removal effectiveness and cost, and the potential impacts on plant operations. The eight projects were selected by DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory from the first of two rounds of competition that DOE began in February 2003. The second round of applications will be due by the end of January 2004.
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