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Recent graduates from UTSC's Department of Management—Michelle Lung, Yi Siang Tai and Paras Rambhiya—made the 2012 Uniform Evaluation (UFE) National Honour Roll, administered by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO).
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In addition to the success of its graduates, UTSC's Department of Management is celebrating another recent achievement. The Bachelor of Business Administration (regular and co-op) program has received accreditation from the ICAO, which measures the quality of faculty, students, research and curriculum at institutions to help promote excellence and critical mass in university accounting and business programs in the province.
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Tallahassee, FL – The Penn Relays is in its 112th running this season at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Penn. and this year looks to be one of the biggest and best in the last decade. The meet, which began on Tuesday, runs through Saturday, April 28, and has brought in over 20,000 entries this season and hopes to see over 100,000 spectators over the five-day period.
The Seminoles have competed at the Penn Relays for over 25 years and the women's team has taken four Championships in the relays while the men look to claim their first this season. The national-leading 4x100m relay team of Greg Bolden, Walter Dix, Michael Ray Garvin, and Charles Clark are up for the challenge as they head to Philadelphia on Thursday.
Starting off the meet for Florida State was the women's 4×100 meter relay in which seniors Alyce Williams, Kamilah Salaam, India Pettus, and Alycia Williams competed in heat one. The women battled a less than ideal climate to finish fourth in their heat with a time of 46.61.
Later in the day, the women's 4×400 relay took on teams from LSU, Texas A&M, and ACC Champion Virginia Tech, to name a few. The ladies of FSU finished third in 3:40.88 and were able to secure the eighth spot in the Championship of America finals at 5:35 pm on Saturday.
Closing out the evening for the track events was the women's Championship 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs.
Junior Debbie Huss finished fifth in the 3,000 with a lifetime best time of 9:39.23. Fellow junior Audrey Hand's time of 9:51.61, also a lifetime best, was good for ninth and sophomore Lydia Willemse finished in the top 15 with her mark of 9:58.33.
Running solo in the 5,000 meters was junior Laura Bowerman who posted a season-best 17:12.02, just shy of a regional qualifying mark.
"Debbie Huss and Audrey Hand's performances tonight were really solid," head coach Bob Braman said. "They both posted lifetime bests which is always good at a meet like the Penn Relays. Laura Bowerman's season-best time in the 5,000 meters and of course the 4×400 team advancing to the Championship of America finals was also a highlight for us today."
The Seminoles jump back into competition at the Penn Relays on Friday with the men's 400 meter hurdles as the first event on the track at 9:00 am. For complete event information, visit ThePennRelays.com and for updated results, log onto FlashResults.com.


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Product spoilage extends well beyond the food industry. Think about how quickly technology becomes outdated. That stack of VHS training videos in your company warehouse is definitely spoiled. In our business, spoilage is a broad term. It means discontinued products, outdated brochures, technology that is outmoded, parts for machines that are no longer manufactured. These "spoiled" products don't get smelly, but they do cost you money. That pallet of parts for a discontinued printer takes up space in the warehouse, and that space costs you money.
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Woolloongabba is in the midst of an identity crisis. The stores filled with teacups, lampshades and ornate vases have shut up shop. The cul-de-sac best known for its antique shopping is all out of teak chests.
While a rotation of excellent restaurants, cafes and boutiques have slowly filled the empty tenancies, the Gabba Fiveways still lacks an all-rounder, a place to boogie.
"I want to light up the street again," says Daniel Rodriguez, whose four-year dream to build Electric Avenue – a tribute to the precinct – is nearly complete.
"For the last six months I've been trawling Gumtree, eBay, going to the antique centres in Paddington and Woolloongabba, collecting stuff. We've got this old violin from Ilja [Grawert]. He's our neighbour at Canvas. Then you'll see old clocks all over the place," Rodriguez explains.
"People might think it's too much, but I really want to incorporate [that idea] that [you're walking] an into antique store and it's Woolloongabba."
Part bistro, part wine bar, part secret whisky den, Electric Avenue will be a space where people can drop in for a drink before dinner, come for a nightcap and a toe tap, or settle in and stay all night.
Late last year, Rodriguez and fellow Canvas co-owner Bodie Schofield, along with partners Nick Royds, a long-time Canvas bartender, and carpenter Adam Pykett commenced renovations to flip the old two-storey Crosstown Public House on its head. "I come up with crazy ideas and Adam tells me, yeah we can do that, no we can't do that," Rodriguez says. "It already has great bones – so we've just rejigged the space."
A 50-seat bistro will sit on one side with table service and a refined menu designed by chef Will Quartel, formerly of Sourced Grocer. On the other side, the bar has been opened up completely and will offer five classic cocktails with simple quirky twists, plus a list of 75 wines.
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That you'll be able to do from Monday week.
Electric Avenue intends to open to the public on Monday 17 April.
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Unfortunately, supersize is now what we've come to expect. How many people do you know that would buy a 6.5 ounce bottle of soda, or sit down to a 3-4 ounce serving of steak, a baked potato the size of a small fist and 1/2 a cup of ice cream for dessert and be satisfied? We are a nation of excess for sure. This month's version of The Nutrition Action Healthletter highlights the Supersized Phenomenon, and based on current trends like the Burger King Pizza Burger, Friendly's Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt, and Denny's Fried Cheese Melt. Things have definitely gotten a little out of hand...
The take home message here is - just because it's the amount you are served or that comes in the package doesn't mean you should eat or drink it all at one time. This is true for 'healthy' and paleo foods too. A six ounce sirloin steak is great - a 16-24 ounce on the other hand may be bit much. The same is true with fats, nuts and fruit - sure it's all good for you, but it is possible to get too much of a good thing! Keep this in mind every time you sit down to eat. Consider your goals, listen to your hunger/fullness cues, enjoy your food and remember -this is not your last meal, you will eat again...
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") recently released An Update on Implementation of the Single Security and the Common Securitization Platform ("CSP"). The Update details the timeline of key achievements to date and describes the expected milestones that government sponsored enterprises ("GSEs") Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Common Securitization Solutions ("CSS") expect to meet to achieve the stated goals for these projects.
Specifically, the FHFA's 18-page report lists two milestones – a.k.a. releases – that would facilitate both GSEs' implementation of the Single Security and Common Securitization Platform for the purpose of protecting consumers. Release 1 – the first milestone – simply introduces the use of the CSP as a vehicle for enhancing liquidity. Release 1 is limited to Freddie Mac. Release 2, whereby "Data Acceptance, Issuance Support, Disclosure, and Bond Administration" is mentioned, applies to both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The FHFA's process for testing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's CSP and CSS systems is pending completion, but the agency expects to finish both GSEs' Release stages this year.


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The following article was originally published on Revava.org:
A Happy Man
By: David J. Heimowitz
It's true, I am a very happy man. First of all, I was born a Jew. I was born into G-d's chosen people and I am smart enough to be proud of it and never to deny it. I remember how old Jewish women on the lower east side of Manhattan loved to say with their eastern European accents "every body is de same". Well every body is not the same. We Jews are better. We are chosen.
Next, I live where I am supposed to be living, in Israel. G-d, in His infinite wisdom, gave the Jewish people a special land in which to dwell. G-d, the Creator of the universe and all that is therein, decided to remove the peoples who dwelled within His special land and to give it to us. He was certainly entitled to do so, after all, everything belongs to Him. I do not apologize for displacing others, I am proud that G-d desired that I do so. Because of the sins of our ancestors we were punished and sent into a very long and bitter exile from our home. Then G-d decided that enough is enough and allowed us to return home from our punishment. I am very happy that G-d allowed me to understand the necessity of returning home, which is something that the vast majority of my brethren, religious and non-religious alike, fail to understand.
Lastly, I am very happy that I chose to make aliyah out of the desire to do so, and not out of the necessity of running for my life. In so doing I proved my love for G-d. He gave me a present and I said thank you and took full advantage of it. Of course, all of my brethren in the exile should follow my example, but alas, they look for reasons not to do so. Sadly, it is anything but difficult to come up with excuses not to make aliyah.
My brethren in the exile say that our leadership in Israel is below contempt. Of course this is true, but why punish G-d because of the sins of our so-called leadership? We make aliyah for G-d, not for corrupt politicians, not for hypocritical jurists and not for the self-hating media. Granted, we are in dire need of new institutions of government, but why wait in the exile until G-d provides us with proper leaders who are worthy of our respect? Our very act of making a massive aliyah may well force G-d's hand and obligate Him to give us proper leadership. Even if not, by making aliyah we will truly be worshipping G-d, not through meaningless acts of ritual, not by tucking our pants into our socks, but by showing G-d that we have true faith in Him and that we unequivocally believe what He wrote in the Bible, especially in the fifth book, Dvarim.
Not only are one hundred percent of the Jewish people meant to live together in Israel, we are meant to do so by ourselves, with no foreigners influencing us. Similarly, we are meant to observe all of the mitzvoth within Israel. The mitzvoth have no place in the exile, just as the Jew has no place in the exile. Be happy men, women and children like me, come home while you can still do so by choice, while you can still show G-d that what you do, you do out of love for Him and not out of necessity.
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Correct adjective endings seem like small details, but they are critical to your overall German fluency.
Not knowing them could mean losing a potential job, romantic prospect, or worst of all, a German placement test. Imagine that you are speaking German, hoping to impress a client with your expertise, when your potential client finds your incorrect adjective endings so jarring that they have to interrupt and correct you in a besserwisserische (know-it-all) tone:
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- the noun's case
So, the magic formula's two ingredients are both famous oh-my-god-I-can-never-learn-German aspects of the language – like German word order. The gender of the noun is something you'll have to memorize or look up in the dictionary every time – just be glad that with the LEO dictionary it only takes a few seconds.
The case of the noun can be nominative, accusative, dative or genitive. Generally, nominative is the subject of the sentence, accusative the object, dative the indirect object and genitive just adds an "of." There are some verbs or situations in which the apparent subject is actually in dative, like "Mir ist warm" (I am warm) or "Mir hat es gefallen" (It pleased me), and some verbs that have a dative object instead of an accusative object. Though this might seem daunting at first, it's such an integral part of understanding the meaning of a sentence that you'll get better at it very quickly.
Once you know the gender and the case, just take a look at these tables and voila: you've got the correct form of the article!
The definite article der, and similar article-like words dieser, jener, jeder, mancher, welcher and solcher all decline according to the following table.
. Masc. Fem. Neut. Plur.
Nom. Der Die Das Die
Acc. Den Die Das Die
Dat. Dem Der Dem Den
Gen. Des Der Des Der
The indefinite article ein, the possessive pronouns (mein, dein, usw.), and the negation pronoun kein all decline according to the following table:
. Masc. Fem. Neut.
Nom. Ein Eine Ein
Acc. Einen Eine Ein
Dat. Einem Einer Einem
Gen. Eines Einer Eines
Step 2: Find the correct adjective ending
There are two kinds of adjective endings, the strong ending and the weak ending, which roughly correspond to the two tables above. Whether you use a strong ending or a weak ending depends on which article (der, ein) is used.
After an indefinite article, use the strong ending. After a definite article, use the weak ending.
Basically, the form of the direct article, which distinguishes between the sex of nouns, like der or das, needs to be used at least once when describing a noun, either in the article or in the adjective ending.
Strong Ending Rules
In any of the following four cases, the adjectives take what is called the strong ending:
- Indefinite articles
- Possessives
- kein/keinen/keine
Strong Ending Table
. Masc. Fem. Neut.
Nom -er -e -es
Akk -en -e -es
Dat -en -en -en
Gen -en -en -en
Mein biologischer Vater war ein grosser Mann
. (Nom., Possessive, der Vater) (Nom., indefinite article, der Mann)
. (Nom., Possessive, der Vater) (Nom., indefinite article, der Mann)
Meine neue Freundin trägt keine blauen Jeans, nur Kleider
. (Nom., Possessive, die Freundin) (Acc., kein, die Jeans)
. (Nom., Possessive, die Freundin) (Acc., kein, die Jeans)
Höllandisches Bier hat einfach keinen guten Geschmack
. (Nom., no article, das Bier) (Acc., kein, der Geschmack)
. (Nom., no article, das Bier) (Acc., kein, der Geschmack)
Sie traf einen netten Amerikaner an der Bushaltestelle
. (Acc., indefinite article, der Amerikaner)
. (Acc., indefinite article, der Amerikaner)
Er trank ein kleines Bier
. (Acc., indefinite article, das Bier)
. (Acc., indefinite article, das Bier)
Weak Ending Table
Masc. Fem. Neut.
Nom -e -e -e
Akk -en -e -e
Dat -en -en -en
Gen -en -en -en
There are many more article-like words in the German language that take an ending similar to the definite article. Adjectives that come after this ending all take the weak ending.
One way of understanding the weak ending is thinking about it as the determiner of the noun. Instead of DER weiße Schnee, you haveein WEIßER Schnee, where the same information (-er) that was emphasized on der is now added to the adjective Weißer.
Ich habe noch nie einen Abend verbracht mit solchen witzigen Typen.
. [dative plural] . (I've never spent an evening with such funny guys.)
. [dative plural] . (I've never spent an evening with such funny guys.)
Ich brauche deine Hilfe mit diesem chinesischen Rezept.
. [dative, das Rezept] . (I need your help with this Chinese recipe.)
. [dative, das Rezept] . (I need your help with this Chinese recipe.)
Welcher Mitarbeiter ist für dieses Projekt zuständig?
. [der Mitarbeiter, nominative; das Projekt, accusative] . (Which employee is responsible for this project?)
. [der Mitarbeiter, nominative; das Projekt, accusative] . (Which employee is responsible for this project?)


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EU pulls plug on safe harbor agreement
The Safe Harbor agreement was a crock. It's time to start taking privacy seriously!
So, the European Court of Justice has ruled, at the end of a case that had been ongoing for two years, that the 15 years old 'safe harbor' agreement with the United States, which was meant to protect the privacy of European citizen data when transferred to the US, is not valid.
This is, on the face of it, a big deal. After all, the whole point of having such an agreement in the first place was to ensure that online business between Europe and the US could go ahead with minimal interruption while at the same time safeguarding the privacy rights of EU citizens. However, many people (including us here at IT Security Thing) have been saying that Safe Harbor was a crock for the longest time, and did nothing to provide the 'adequate privacy in line with EU privacy laws' that needed to be in place if a legal transfer of data outside of EU boundaries is to take place.
The problem being that US companies may well have promised, via Safe Harbor, to protect EU citizens' data when transferred out of Europe, but that didn't mean the US government and its law enforcement or intelligence agencies necessarily agreed. It's one thing for the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to self-certify on data protection under Safe Harbor, but quite another to deliver upon those privacy promises when government agencies required them to hand over data stored within US-based data centres as part of an investigation.
What Safe Harbor actually provided was something that made life easier for the businesses concerned, who didn't have to jump through data privacy hoops (asking for consent, entering into bilateral agreements and so on) time after time after time when doing business with Europe. Ultimately, it didn't really provide much in the way of real protection for European citizens which, as far as European citizens were concerned anyway, was meant to be the whole bloody point.
That there has been much complaining about the ECJ ruling that it will stop business between Europe and the US, or at the very least increase the costs of doing so considerably. Of course, these costs will be passed on to the customer. Equally of course, these complaints have largely come from those people whose interest is purely commercial.
Speaking as someone whose interest is wholly from the security and privacy perspective, I am not losing any sleep over this. I imagine that, not naming names, many large multinationals could use some of that money left over from not paying taxes in the UK to subsidise the additional cost of actually ensuring that customer data privacy is protected rather than just mouthing the words and not really giving two shits as long as the paperwork is stamped and approved.
Turning a blind eye to what everyone knows is the reality of a situation does not justify what is happening
Indeed, if these businesses don't already have model clauses drawn up to enable contracts to be changed, and processes in place to enable that change to be implemented then that's pretty short-sighted of them.
The ECJ ruling hardly came as a surprise, after all. For those who were surprised by it, then they may have to stop transferring data to the US until they get it sorted. That's the price they will have to pay for not taking privacy matters seriously enough as far as I am concerned; get the paperwork sorted, and get back to business.
Business should, if they have any sense, include options to geo-fence data according to the wishes of the customer. Many US companies have already got EU-based data centres up and running, many others are building them. Those that are being left behind, either through short-sightedness or arrogance, deserve to be left behind. Simples.
Surely it has to be a good thing if this decision forces the hand of business to start dealing with the undoubted privacy problems that can occur when moving data around as we do? Surely it has to be a good thing if this decision forces the US powers that be to pull their collective fingers out and bring in some Federal data protection legislation with teeth? Surely nobody thinks that companies self-certifying is what we needed here in the first place? That was always going to be a recipe for disaster, for the customer that is. Now business may cry that it wasn't their fault that US agencies could access the data without due process, but I respond to that with one word: bullshit. Turning a blind eye to what everyone knows is the reality of a situation does not justify what is happening.
That some businesses may go under as a result of this ruling also does not figure in my personal sleep pattern predictions. Being less technologically able, or not having enough money to invest in such things, are again no justification for not taking data privacy seriously enough. If a company that was playing fast and loose with my data, because there was a self-certification process that enabled them to do that, can no longer afford to operate if it has to start caring about data privacy then I for one am glad it's going down.
I take my hat off to the Austrian law student, Max Schrems, who took on Facebook in the case that led to this ruling. Safe Harbor was no data privacy treaty, no European data protection pact with the US; it was a loophole that enabled US business to bypass perfectly reasonable European privacy laws. It was driven by the dollar, it dropped on bended knee and kissed the hand of state surveillance. We are better off without this crock, good riddance I say. But don't just take my word for it, here's what others are saying.
Danny O'Brien, International Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says "Countries have to make clear that mass surveillance of innocent citizens is a violation of human rights law, whether it is conducted inside their borders or outside, upon foreigners or residents. They have to bring their surveillance programs, foreign and domestic, back under control. For the United States, that means reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, and re-formulating Executive Order 12333. These are the secretive and overbroad regulations that permit NSA to use PRISM and a raft of other programs to spy on Europe and beyond. Equally important, the United States must revisit the laws, regulations, and institutional processes that allow these programs to fester in the dark, largely unaccountable to the public."
The ruling is a positive as the more distributed the data – the higher the chance of a breach
Ryan O'Leary, Senior Director of the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security, says "As a user, I can tell you that companies saying they take security seriously often have no such security policies in place. There is absolutely no guarantee that these companies are protecting your data and adhering to their own stated policies. In addition, as Edward Snowden revealed, the US has developed many programs to access such protected data in the name of national security with the companies' assistance. Instead of creating a self-certifying security system, the US needs to adopt a more robust individual data protection policy that assures users of even a basic level of data security. This will also make it much easier for EU companies to do business with the US as they will have similar security measures in place."
Pravin Kothari, CEO and founder of US cloud security firm, CipherCloud says "At the heart of the Safe Harbor ruling is the inherent conflict between regional data privacy laws and the global nature of the Internet. This is not the first time that Europeans have faulted the agreement for being weak, and as a self-certification process it certainly leaves room for improvement. The lesson for enterprises caught in the middle is that they can't rely on third parties or the legal system for data protection. The best option before a new agreement is reached is for enterprises to proactively protect their sensitive data, regardless of where it resides. A measure that comes to mind is encryption, of which Edward Snowden said 'trust the math.'"
Bharat Mistry, Cyber Security Consultant with Trend Micro says "Now that Safe Harbor has been invalidated, it means US companies must look at local operations to process data. This is a good thing as it restricts data flow to within the EU or local country borders. Therefore – tighter control and enforcement by the EU and additional investment into Europe in the form of extra jobs in data processing. However, it will be very challenging to get a replacement to Safe Harbor off the ground – because individuals are much more savvy to data protection and will want to challenge it and understand the implications of the who, why, when and where. Overall, the ruling is a positive as the more distributed the data – the higher the chance of a breach."


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text: so it happens pretty often. its mostly in larger font areas. like on this site in people replies where it shows your user name, i see some people with all the letters of their name bunched up together instead of being displayed normally. so i just see a big cluster of letters all in one spot where theres only supposed to be one or two letters kinda hard to explain sorry, id do a screenprint but i dont know how to on a mac yet is this a common issue for anyone else?


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Even though eco-printing exists since quite some time, it seems to be really in at the moment. There are so many workshop-offers, and the internet is full of tutorials, and pictures of amazing eco-printed pieces of art! I made my first eco-printing experience last summer: I collected some random flowers, branches, leaves and berries, laid them onto a piece of cotton fabric and rolled it up into a loose bundle. I threw the bundle into some boiling water for an hour or so, rinsed it with some cold water so I could open it - et voilà! My piece of fabric had an undeniable similarity with a dirty cleaning cloth. After this first disappointment I gave up.... until this winter! Just the most ungrateful time of the year when you want a variety of what the local flora has to offer. I have no idea what kind of european plants are good for eco-printing. When searching for informations, I read a lot about eucalyptus leaves and a series of other exotic plants that don't grow in europe. All I could find during my walk through the woods were blackberry leaves, a pine branch and some mysterious berries (by now I know they are privet berries!).
I informed myself about mordants, which of them are toxic and how to use them. I decided to go with a rather harmless iron mordant. I read about the importance of scouring the fibers, by washing them (or even boiling them) in some sopy water. I boiled my cotton fabrics for about an hour in sopy water, and laid it flat on the table, without rinsing out the soap.
Afterwards I dipped each blackberry leave into the iron mordant before laying it onto one of the fabrics. I wasn't quite sure which side of the leave should touch the fabric, so I varied a little bit. My biggest worry was the thick thorns of the blackberry leaves, which penetrated the fabric. I still don't know how to solve this problem in the future. Maybe by pressing them for some time before using it for printing?
I put the privet berries on another piece of fabric.
Some onion skins, black tea, and blackberry leaves on the third one.
Here they are - ready for a
bath steam:
and just after the 2 steamy hours:
blackberry leaves
privet berries
Onion skins, black tea and blackberry leaves.
Sadly those becuatiful colors changed after their mordant dip.
Here they are, drying after an iron bath.
cotton fabric
blackberry leaves, privet berries, onion skins, black tea,
iron mordant
the fabric dyed with the blackberry leaves became this pillow
and the one dyed with the privet berries became this one


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- 1 Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open
- 2 Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decitions
- 3 Community Engagement (Product)/Media Viewer consultation/fr
- 4 IRC cloak request
- 5 How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?
- 6 Last call for WMF grants feedback!
- 7 What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?
- 8 Future IdeaLab Campaigns results
- 9 Inspire Campaign on content curation & review
- 10 Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants
- 11 Translations tools for Wikimania-Hackathon-2016?
- 12 Participate in the Inspire Campaign and help address harassment!
- 13 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
- 14 Referenciaton
- 15 SVG Translate Community wishlist survey project
- 16 The Community Wishlist Survey
- 17 Itsy-bitsy little problem with 1lib1ref portal
Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open[edit]
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Thanks, Thehelpfulone 22:10, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decitions[edit]
The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
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I'm notifying you because you participated in one of several relevant discussions. -Pete F (talk) 22:23, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Community Engagement (Product)/Media Viewer consultation/fr[edit]
Je n'avais pas vu que tu étais en train de traduire, et il est possible que j'ai modifié certaines de tes traductions sans m'en aperçevoir (dans la section "The Media Viewer Improvements List" uniquement). Dans le début, j'ai mis des apos typos surtout lors de la relecture. ~ Seb35 [^_^] 15:09, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Je disais ça parce que je me méfie de la bonne gestion de l'édition par Translate. Merci pour la traduction et le "100% reviewed". ~ Seb35 [^_^] 15:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
IRC cloak request[edit]
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/msg memoserv send wmfgc IRC cloak request. If you run into any issues or have any questions, please feel free to contact me on my meta talk page. Kind regards, Snowolf How can I help? 15:24, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?[edit]
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Future IdeaLab Campaigns results[edit]
Last December, I invited you to help determine future ideaLab campaigns by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm happy to announce the results of your participation, and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate and submit ideas.
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Inspire Campaign on content curation & review[edit]
I've recently launched an Inspire Campaign to encourage new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge, and we're looking for your ideas about how to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible. We invite you to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.
All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is welcome - your skills and experience can help bring someone else's project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign to improve review and curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and accessible! I JethroBT (WMF) 05:39, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
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Translations tools for Wikimania-Hackathon-2016?[edit]
Do you want talk here or in a better shared page ? --Rical (talk) 13:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Rical
- If that's related to my work at the Wikimedia Foundation, please leave me a message on my professional talk page or send me an email.
- If that's not, can you expend? :)
- Thanks, Trizek from FR 16:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- I just updated a french proposition of a TranslatorHelper. --Rical (talk) 23:26, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
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The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is now open for wishes. You can create proposals until November 20. You will be able to vote on which wishes you think are best or most important between November 28 and December 12. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
- Salut Trizek ! Je viens de tenter de résumer notre discussion du mois dernier à propos de l'éditeur visuel pour le sondage technique, mais je serais bien intéressé par ta relecture ! Je t'invite donc à relire la proposition 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Editing/VisualEditor Template Suggestion. Merci d'avance ! Noé (talk) 20:25, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Bonjour Noé
- Il y a deux choses à distinguer dans ta proposition : la définition d'une liste de modèles par la communauté et la définition d'une liste personnelle de modèles/caractères. Les deux sont possibles, mais complexes. J'ai modifié la proposition en ce sens.
- Trizek from FR 09:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
- Très juste, j'imaginais les deux, mais j'avais du mal à être clair et concis. Merci beaucoup pour tes améliorations dans la proposition ! C'est nettement mieux maintenant ! J'imagine bien que c'est complexe, mais ça ne figurait pas encore dans la roadmap de l'équipe de développement de l'éditeur visuel, pas même dans la catégorie des choses à explorer un de ces jours. Pourtant, je suis sûr que c'est une amélioration qui serait très appréciée Noé (talk) 10:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, thanks and thank you very much for your translation, ideas and time. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 11:17, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- I've been very happy to help, Vanbasten 23. Trizek from FR 11:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Bonjour Trizek. J'ai créé un bot pour Wikidata qui ajoute des descriptions dans les biographies, il s'appelle Aosbot. Jusqu'à présent, je faisais des modifications en espagnol, mais j'augmente le nombre de langues pour que je puisse en modifier plusieurs en une seule édition. J'ai besoin de quelqu'un pour me traduire en français et je pensais que tu pourrais m'aider. Merci beaucoup. Salutations. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 09:32, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Holà Vanbasten 23
- ¿Dónde están las traducciones?
- Gracias, Trizek from FR 10:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
- Bonjour Trizek. J'ai créé un bot pour Wikidata qui ajoute des descriptions dans les biographies, il s'appelle Aosbot. Jusqu'à présent, je faisais des modifications en espagnol, mais j'augmente le nombre de langues pour que je puisse en modifier plusieurs en une seule édition. J'ai besoin de quelqu'un pour me traduire en français et je pensais que tu pourrais m'aider. Merci beaucoup. Salutations. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 09:32, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
SVG Translate Community wishlist survey project[edit]
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The Community Wishlist Survey[edit]
You get this message because you've previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year's survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.
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Itsy-bitsy little problem with 1lib1ref portal[edit]
Hello Trizek, thank you for helping us out with the 1Lib1Ref campaign pages - much appreciated! Although I like the idea of having a separate portal page for the navigation template (and the translate), it doesn't exactly work as intended. For instance, the The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate page should highlight the 'Participate' tab instead, it now highlights the 'Home' tab. This is true for all the pages. Is there a workaround or can we go back to how it was? Thanks --AVasanth (WMF) (talk) 04:55, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hey AVasanth (WMF) -- I've noticed that too. I've removed the highlight: I think it is more important to have a translated banner than a small highlight. Trizek from FR 11:49, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


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The Monthly Newsletter of Rotary District 6250
May Edition
Important Note: Deadline for district newsletter submissions is the 25th of each month.
District Governor's Message
Dear Rotarians,
This has been a very dynamic and innovative year for Rotary in our District. Among those innovations have been the District Ethics Initiative, the District Leadership Academy, and the Future Vision Task Force designed to make sure that we have the support in place for our clubs when the new International Foundation Rules go into effect on July 1, 2013. We have continued support for Club Visioning and expanded multi-club projects. To directly benefit people within our District, we have expanded support for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Interact, and Rotaract. I want to take a moment to highlight two other initiatives that will directly benefit the clubs in our District.
The District 6250 Charitable Trust has now been created. This is a Wisconsin non-profit corporation that will be set up as a 501(c)(3) organization which will allow contributions to be tax exempt. This is not designed to compete with existing local club foundations or the Rotary International Foundation. This new organization will provide four important services to our District.
First, it will be available for use by clubs that do not have their own local foundation. We have many clubs in the District who do not want to financially establish and support a local foundation, but would benefit from a tax exemption for fundraisers for Rotary projects. Much like a community foundation, there will be separate designated accounts for any club wishing to use the charitable trust and all funds raised by the club will be maintained in that separate account for that particular club's Rotary projects.
The second important feature will be Emergency Disaster Relief. In the past, we have seen tragedy strike and Rotarians respond. Often we make individual contributions and, on occasion, contributions through our clubs. It is my hope that with a tax exempt District organization, individuals and clubs willing to support disaster relief would make their contribution to The Rotary District 6250 Charitable Trust and receive a tax deduction. Combining our efforts, a large gift will be made in the name of Rotary from our District. Moreover, this would be another way our clubs can work together in common cause for the common good.
The third benefit would be to have specialized funds within the Charitable Trust to support Rotary programs within our District, such as RYLA and Youth Exchange. For example, the La Crosse Valley View Rotary Club will be making a donation of approximately $20,000.00 to the new District Charitable Trust to support scholarships for Youth Exchange. Other clubs and Rotarians who wish to support that cause will know that their donations are not only tax deductible, but will be dedicated for that purpose. Fourth, on rare occasions, Rotary Clubs do dissolve. After expenses are paid, there are often funds left over that were raised by Rotary for Rotary purposes. These funds will now be transferred to The Rotary District Charitable Trust. They will be held initially for two years so that if another Rotary Club is established in that area, the funds can be then sent to that new Rotary Club. However, if no Rotary Club develops in that area, the monies will then be used for Rotary purposes to support Rotary programs.
The other special initiative I would like to highlight is the joint fund raising effort for a project in Thailand as part of the Group Study Exchange we have this year with Australia. Because both the United States and Australia are developed countries, we asked the two GSE Teams to work with the two Districts to develop a Rotary program in a developing country and Thailand was chosen. Our GSE Team helped to raise funds for this project while in Australia, and the Australian team that will arrive shortly in our District will do the same while they are with us. In addition, we are asking all the clubs of the District to provide at least one quality item for the silent auction at the District Conference and the proceeds will be used to help support this project that will provide fire extinguishers in a slum area of Bangkok, Thailand.
Finally, I want to call your attention to the Positive Athlete Initiative that District 6250 is working on with District 6220 and 6270. Packer great, Greg Jennings, along with the Positive Athlete organization, is seeking nominations of high school student athletes. The purpose of this movement is to inspire young athletes and emphasize the importance of playing sports in a positive way. The award does not go to the most successful athlete, but the athlete that best exemplifies a positive attitude, team support, and character leadership. There are more details on this program in a separate article in the newsletter.
What we have seen this year in our District is quality support for our clubs and increasing cooperation by clubs within our District. The more we can find ways to cooperate and support one another, the greater will be our impact on our local communities and the good we can do in the wider world. I eagerly look forward to seeing all of you at the District Conference on June 8-9, 2012, in La Crosse. We will celebrate what's right with the world, share ideas, expand our horizons on what we can do in Rotary, and have a lot of fun. For more information on the conference, all you need to do is click here. See you in La Crosse!
Please click the image above for more Conference details and the registration form.
All the best,
Chuck Hanson
District News, Events and Announcements
On May 9th, an Australian Group Study Exchange Team of five members will be arriving in La Crosse to begin a 30 day tour of various clubs in our District. The team consists of a Rotarian Team Leader who is a consultant with a variety of management systems, an accountant, an attorney, an architect and a retail sales assistant.
They will be hosted by ten Rotary Clubs in our District as outlined below:
May 9 – May 13------Rotary Club of La Crosse
May 14 – May 16------Rotary Club of Eau Claire
May 17 – May 18------Rotary Club of Wisconsin Rapids
May 19 – May 20------Rotary Club of Wisconsin Dells
May 21 – May 23------Rotary Club of Madison
May 24 – May 27------Rotary Club of Prairie Du Chien
May 28 – May 31------Rotary Club of Marshfield
June 1 – June 4------Rotary Club of Edgerton
June 5 – June 7------Rotary Clubs of Horicon and Mayville
Rotarians throughout the District are encouraged to become involved with their abundance of activities in our District. Details and further information can be obtained from District Chair Tom Marshall at 715 423 1921 or email@example.com
La Cresecent Rotarians Lead City Clean Up -
Rotarians in La Crescent headed into the city's neighborhoods for a clean-up that garned lots of community attention. Saturday, April 21, was Neighbor's Day in La Crescent. Volunteers took on three different project requests. The event was highlighted on the front page of the "Houston County News" and included a picture of Rotarian Chuck Dockendorff. The last few paragraphs of the news article had a great focus on Rotary. Click here for the full story posted April 25th in the Houston County News.
|Madison Breakfast Rotary Club participated in "Rotary at Work Day" on Saturday April 28, packing books for its Books for the World project. With more than 75% of the club members participating, over 4 tons of library and text books were packed that day. For more information about the Books for the World project, contact Carol Dombroski at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Submitted by Judy Levine, District Youth Exchange Chair
I want to share a true story that I hope will convince you that youth exchange can make such a difference. Please take the time to read the whole story.
Several years ago the West Towne Middleton club sponsored a student. This student was a bright student who did not have the financial means to go on exchange. She came from a troubled family and didn't know anything of living with a family that many of us as Rotarians take for granted. The 10th grade principal at her high school must have seen possibilities in this student. He was a Rotarian and knew that the West Towne Middleton club was going to provide a full scholarship for a student to go on exchange. Mary Feldt of that club helped prepare this girl to go on exchange to Brazil.
In her words...
"For one year I ate, slept, lived and breathed everything Brazilian. I went to school, I travelled the country, I learned the language and the culture. I walked the streets of the favelas and was amazed that in a country with people who had such wealth and beauty, there were children living on the street and people living in whole neighborhoods made of cardboard boxes. We had been poor, but nothing like this. I swam in the ocean, danced in Carnaval, walked streets of cobble stone and for the first time in my life, met Black people that had retained much of their African Heritage. I was amazed at the Afro Brazilian culture and how it had evolved so differently than that of the African American. In it all, these people were full of life and shared with me their opinions and views of the US and of the world."
Click here to read the rest of her narrative.
This student has just graduated for the UW Medical School. She wants to focus on helping disadvantaged families. Yes, your club can make a difference!
Inbound Students
If you would like more information, please contact me (Judy Levine), the district chair for youth exchange. I can be reached at 608 220-2949 or by email at email@example.com. I will be happy to come and talk with your board or make a presentation to your club.
Judy Levine
District 6250 Chair
The Rotary Clubs of Wisconsin will be the Presenting Sponsor of the 2011-2012 Wisconsin Positive High School Athlete Awards this Spring. Packer great, Greg Jennings and Positive Athlete are coordinating this effort. Rotary is all about "positivity" and we believe this program will have a major impact on the every youth playing sports in the state. This requires no money or special efforts by District Rotary Clubs, but it does require that this information be given to your high school principal right away. The principal then sends any nominations directly to Positive Athlete.
Cross Country
Golf (Girls)
Golf (Boys)
Soccer (Boys)
Soccer (Girls)
Swimming (Girls)
Swimming (Boys)
Tennis (Girls)
Tennis (Boys)
Volleyball (Boys)
Volleyball (Girls)
Basketball (Boys)
Basketball (Girls)
Hockey (Boys)
Hockey (Girls)
Track & Field (Boys)
Track & Field (Girls)
* These 23 athletes will have the opportunity to meet Greg this June at a ceremony in either Milwaukee or Green Bay.
HOW WILL THE ROTARY CLUBS OF WISCONSIN PARTICIPATE?* Rotary Clubs of Wisconsin will be the Presenting Sponsor of the Awards program
* Clubs will ask the school principals to forward this official Nomination Form to their coaches, athletic directors, principals, teachers and booster clubs who can submit as many nominations from their school as they would like directly to Positive Athlete via:
firstname.lastname@example.com The deadline for nominations will be Thursday, May 17, 2012.
* Also, a part of the ceremony and presentation with Greg Jennings will be a member of the Rotary Club that introduced the program to the school that produced the winning athlete.
We hope to have 100% participation by each of the clubs this Spring. We believe this program will provide each Rotary Club with incredible "positive" exposure in their community, and will create new opportunities to grow membership in high school Interact programs, and more long-term, Rotaract and Rotary Club memberships.
Please have your Club Presidents or representative feel free to email Scott Pederson with any questions at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nicholas tends his reforestation nursery.
Julina shown in her woodlot.
Water is drawn from the bottom of the cistern.
The installation of the cistern is a community effort.
Nicholas would be the first one to assure you of that!
Nicholas Syano came to Wisconsin with a dream, as a new student at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, in 2007. In 2008, Nicholas received his Masters Degree for Natural Resource Management, and was the first international student to receive the Natural Resources Graduate Student of the Year award! With the training & encouragement he received at UWSP, the dream grew, sprouted & blossomed into a miracle for his tiny village in Kenya – potable water and reforestation!!
Nicholas Mutuku Syano was born, grew up and still continues to live with his wife & two daughters in Mbunbuni, Africa, in the Makueni district of Kenya. He has witnessed the natural woodlands of his community be decimated over the years for charcoal which in turn sustains their livelihood. This practice destroys the habitat and community. Nearby streams & rivers dry up as the result of desertification caused by deforestation and global warming, during the dry season. However, the women & children still have to try to gather water from the polluted river bed when it's not the rainy season, & carry the water on their back in a 5 gallon container with a strap wrapped around their forehead! They even get up at 4:00am or 5:00am to be first in the long line for water!
As Nicholas, trained at UWSP, he began to share the natural resource challenges of Kenya & his small village with members of churches & organizations around Central Wisconsin. That's where ROTARY stepped in. Nicholas gave a presentation about Deforestation to our Wisconsin Rapids Sunrise Rotary Club, & afterward I asked if his village needed a well? He immediately replied, "Yes, that would give our community HOPE & A FUTURE!!" After exploring the unsuccessful possibilities of a well, ( with WASRAG, involved in the decision making), we decided to opt for water-harvesting instead, using the cistern system. By this time, Nicholas had gone back to his family in Kenya, joined Rotary, & experimented with the first cistern, at his tiny tin-roofed home.
With fundraisers & a Simplified Matching Grant our Sunrise Club has funded four cisterns with more in the planning stages. Then Wisconsin Rapids Noon Rotary joined us in funding two more cisterns. And, CCR, (a Wisconsin not-for-profit corporation created to assist Nicholas' village with water conservation reforestation & education ), has funded ten cisterns! At $1,200.00/ cistern, (with community members doing their own constructing & also each recipient providing a monthly maintenance fee), this worthy project is indeed do-able & affordable!
If anyone or any Club would be interested in obtaining more information on Nicholas' village, or on funding a cistern or about installing a cistern yourself, please contact: Joanne Marshall 715-423-1921 715-459-4212.
We hope you'll be excited by the photos of Nicholas' cistern & reforestation projects and be moved to help!
Those who receive a cistern seem to be pleased.
Community members are pleased and thrilled for each other too!
Do you have an upcoming Club Event or accomplishment that you would like to announce? Send your pre-written article to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Click view a Calendar of Club Events.
Join us Thursday June 7th, 2012 for an afternoon of golf at Hillcrest Golf & Country Club, one of the areas premier courses in the Chippewa Valley.
Registration includes golf, cart , lunch, dinner, prizes and refreshments while you play.
Registration and more information available at www.morningrotary.org
Madison Breakfast Rotary is having a Beer Tasting at Sprechers at 1262 John Q. Hammonds Dr. in Middleton (across from the Marriot West on Thursday, May 10 from 5-8pm. Proceeds go primarily to the youth exchange program for the club. Sprechers will do pairings of appetizers with different beers. They will also have Root Beer Floats. Event tickets can be purchased at the door. This is a very fun event. Hope to see you all there.
The Waupun Rotary Club held a Visioning in February that turned out to be a very valuable four hours. Lots of creative ideas were shared which are now breathing new life into our club. The four facilitators were well trained and really kept our group on task with both respect and humor. Any club that has not participated in a Visioning is missing out on a wonderful growth experience.
Jan White
RI News
The Rotarian Magazine is our link to the greater Rotary world. The pictures and stories tell us of the wonderful work that is being done, in and through Rotary, to make the world a better, safer and a more peaceful place…all because we are advancing the key elements of social justice, health projects, and educational opportunity and alleviating the dire effects of poverty.
A person is not free if they are hungry. A man is not free when he has to watch his children die because of the lack of clean water or adequate food. A mother will not be free if her sick child cannot receive medical care and when people are not free they will seek social justice even if it means going to war to achieve it.
Our magazine, paid for in our RI dues, is not junk mail. It makes you and me "literate" in the great story of Rotary. Read it. Share it with others. Drop it off in a public area where literature is offered, a dentist's reception area, the waiting room at your local hospital or when you go to your accountant's office to pick up your tax filings. Plant the seeds of Rotary by sharing our great story.
Club executive members can now download a Multiple Donor Form that is pre-populated (filled out) with details of club members including their ID number. This form is on Rotary.org at member access. Club presidents and club secretaries have access to this form. Also club treasurers and club Rotary Foundation chairs can get this form if they have been registered on member access by the president or secretary. Select the club members who have donated and add the amount of each donation. The new form makes it easy to forward donations from a group of club members who contribute weekly, quarterly, etc. More Info.
Each club in District 6250 has established a foundation goal and the question is how are the clubs going about the achieving those goals? Have each of the clubs done an every member enrollment? Successful clubs take the time to ask each member to make a pledge commitment to the Rotary Foundation. Fulfilling that pledge might involve a quarterly billing by the club secretary/treasurer or participating in the direct deposit transfer from the Rotarians checking account to the RI Foundation account or it might mean a monthly charge to a credit card. Successful clubs establish a process that allows their members to both make and fulfill the commitment.
Click here to view the updated Club Goals Report!
Check out the reporting tool for District Attendance!
Clubs can view each month's attendance in a visual graph. Also Club Secretary's can request access to update their information directly online!
Click here to submit your club's attendance report
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Accurate Education Funding Data is Hard to Come By, Unless You Know Where to Look
There's no doubt that finding good, clear, and actual information about any aspect of Delaware's education system is like trying to find little needles within acres of haystacks. What makes it even more difficult is when a source of truth is found, other groups who have something to gain by distorting the facts and truth pop up to confuse and mislead people even more.
And that's probably by design.
The last post I wrote about per-student expenses in the Christina School District apparently grabbed the attention of a couple of the groups I described above. I'll give them credit for actually trying to calculate the numbers for education spending out to a per-student expense, because that's about 200x more effort than they gave last year when they just ran with a bunch of incorrect BS designed to scare people. Their creditworthiness ends there though.
As I have said over the last 2+ years, using the State of Delaware Online Checkbook is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. It shows expense categories and number of payments. Using that checkbook to figure out expense details is like wanting to know the total $ amount I spent on groceries and saying "Food – 54 payments, $8,000" is the answer. Sure some of that is on groceries, but some is probably on fast food, restaurants, concessions, takeout, etc. And my wife contributed some of her income to food purchases, too. How will you know how much of my income I spent on groceries from Shop-Rite, or Acme? Good question. You can't tell from the Online Checkbook. Better trim that food budget though $8k on food looks awfully high!!
Anyway, this is where me giving credit stops abruptly. Everything from then on in their post is just completely, totally, utterly off base, borderline lying.
Proponents of the tax increase insist that cost per pupil is not $13,586 as it is listed on their state profile. They assert that when the specialty schools are factored out, cost per pupil is competitive with nearby private schools, which is $10,000 per pupil and under.
I assume, perhaps wrongly, that they're referring to me as the "proponents". I explained that the actual cost to Christina taxpayers is much lower than what DDOE projects on their School Profiles site. I don't believe I ever compared it to cost, functionality, or demographic make up of private schools.
By the numbers, it appears they are partially correct. It may not be $13,586 per student. However, it may actually be more.
Enrollment in the district is down 3,680 students since 2006, yet school taxes have continued to increase. In 2014, there were 16,721 students. In 2015, that number dropped to 16,255. For 2016, it dropped even further to 15,553 students.
Enrollment in the district has been declining and school taxes have gone up over the last 5 years (something something, increasing Special Needs student enrollment funded by Tuition Tax, not general operating tax). Let's continue.
If expenditures remained the same for FY 2016 as they did for FY 2015, the Christina School District's non-Autism/non-Option ILC/non-Reach/non-Deaf expenditures of $251.5M would fall to around $17,751.89 for each of the 14,170 students.
This is still $7.7K higher than the district insists their cost per pupil is, so we wanted to further work the numbers as best we could to the district's advantage.
No, you didn't. You took the district enrollment total, tried (and failed) to adjust for special ed enrollment and used it to divide the TOTAL operating budget (including State, Federal and Local sources of revenue) and claimed it was the expense per student in the District AND THEN used it to argue why Christina taxpayers should vote against the Operating Tax referendum.
The Operating Referendum reflects what Christina Taxpayers exclusively pay to support the functioning of their public schools. Those monies are termed LOCAL FUNDS and to really give them a picture of what they directly spend supporting Christina, you must EXCLUDE state and federal revenue. By doing that you are light years ahead of controlling for special ed enrollment in your math than just randomly selecting two disabilities and subtracting students in those categories.
Whoops, those other guys left this nugget out of their calculations. Christina has almost 5,900 students that LIVE in the District (and as such receive funds using the same methods and tax sources as kids in district schools) but don't actually go to district schools. They're still part of Christina's expenses because the local funding follows them to Charters. DDOE makes it hard to total them up too because they list each charter as its own "district" so you have to manually figure out which Charter is in which district and add enrollments. Or you could attend a CBOC meeting and find out the same day.
They left this nugget out too. Christina funds students who choice out of the district with local dollars too. 1179-420= net 759 students Choiced outside the district. You can find that out at CBOC meetings too.
And you know, I controlled only for in-district students as well in my previous post. However, if we want to be completely accurate, we can't ignore charter and choice students, because they get the same local dollars that in-district students do. Also, trying to separate out special ed students that are in our district schools is difficult as well. So there's some variance depending on which of the dozens of factors you include/exclude when you do the calculations. And I'll fully admit, I miss an exclusion or inclusion when I try to do it myself. What I do not do is mislabel, or not label at all, the numbers I'm using in the calculations. It's absurdly complicated to figure out per-student expense, but when I do it I try to make sure you know the numbers I'm using.
So, how many students in total are Christina taxpayers supplying local operating funding from their property taxes for?
Regular District: 14,502
Charters: 5,132
Choice: 759
Total Students locally funded by Christina property taxes: 20,393. Twenty Thousand Three-Hundred Ninety-Three.
Non Special School Budget: $222,079,358 / Non Specialty School Enrollment: 20,393
Expense Per Pupil: $10,899.97 (Combined State+Local)
But we want Christina resident property tax funds.
Property tax funds are in "RESTRICTED LOCAL" and "UNRESTRICTED LOCAL" columns. Adding them together: $101,991,838
$101,991,838 / 20,393 = $5001.31 per pupil from operating taxes generated by property taxes.
What did those other guys get?
…Fuzzy Math…
$251,544,302.58 / 15,835 = $15,885.34 per student.
Yes, it is a mess. No doubt. But no matter how you slice it, CSD schools do not yet appear to be fiscally competitive with private schools in the area.
Ah yes. Christina residents only vote on operating tax rates, but let's completely mislead them by throwing in every other source of funding EVER in our equation, and not tell them, to make everyone think they spend $16k per student from their property taxes!!! But even if you DO use State & Local sources to do a per-pupil expense and do the math correctly you still only get to ~$11,000 which, according to First State Liberty, is a bit more 'competitive' with the costs of unnamed mystery "nearby private schools, which is $10,000 per pupil and under."
If only there were a group of dedicated people whose sole purpose was to know information like this. If only said group had meetings on a regular basis that are open to the public. If only they'd reach out to others and offer time to help them understand public education finances. Man, groups like that would be awesome! And helpful!
Context matters. For some of us.
EDIT: In my haste to throw this post together, I've already noted some errors in what I have written. So I am going back to correct them. Most notably, why is the per-pupil expense higher in this post than the last post? The last post excluded all special ed student expenses, whether they were in the District's schools or in Statewide Special Programs. This post considers traditional district school, charter, and choice students regardless of their level of educational need. It excludes statewide special programs. Per pupil costs will skew higher or lower depending on what student populations you include in your math. Including special ed students shifts the average higher. Excluding those expenses shifts it lower.
It's why I keep saying 'average per student expense' is a pretty terrible way to look at how much educating a student costs.
Tags: CBOC, Delaware Education, first state liberty, funding, math, property taxes


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MUNICH, Germany -- Kirch Group plans to limit the sale of a stake to possible investors or strategic partners to 20%.
Kirch's managing director, Dieter Hahn, also said the German media company is in the final stages of talks with possible partners aimed at furthering cooperation in several areas.
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text: Rose Rock, child advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rock, shares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parenting. Uber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children. She did it by never shying away from hard conversations and by not being afraid to present strong ideas about boundaries, discipline, choices, and consequences. In short, Rose Rock tells it like it is.


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The rain had stopped, but not the wind. Lying in my tent, I listened to it whip over the ridge and across the lake, bullying everything in its path.
Somewhere in the woods a tree fell. I heard it. It definitely made a sound.
The next day, I leaned back in the ragged deck chair, feeling the sun on my face. With my eyes closed I counted the first five things I could hear.
Water splashing the rocks. Water splashing the docks. A breeze in the trees. Something small and foraging in the underbrush.
It took a long time for a fifth sound to emerge, floating light and bright through the woods: laughter.
Back home, I am accosted by the volume of things. The window air conditioner's roar makes the bedroom feel like a highway rest stop. The delivery trucks seem gargantuan, and ready to explode. I am reminded just exactly how close the airport is.
This morning, the night cooler and air conditioner mercifully off, I luxuriated in the predawn murmur: a distant soft metallic hum, a few hungry birds, the light tapping of the shade on the frame of my open window.


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Texas Historical Racing Delayed
Historical racing in Texas faces a delay.
October 16, 2014
Texas horsemen will have to wait to find out the future of historical racing in the state, as there is a November 10 hearing to determine if the Texas Racing Commission has the authority to allow this form of pari-mutuel wagering.
Read the full story at Bloodhorse.com
Read about historical racing in the October Q-Racing Journal
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of gold companies inched higher Friday as gold futures prices traded little changed.
On the Commodities Exchange division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, February gold rose 10 cents to $268.50 an ounce. March silver shed 1 cent to $4.57 an ounce.
Late Thursday, COMEX gold warehouse stocks rose by 89,146 ounces to stand at 1,783,889 ounces. Silver stocks climbed 754,624 ounces to 93,627,230 ounces.
Meanwhile, March palladium was flat at $982 an ounce, while April platinum slipped $9.90 to $619 an ounce.
March copper gained 0.15 cent to 81.25 a pound. London Metals Exchange warehouse stocks added 1,875 metric tons to 362,900 metric tons as of early Friday. Late Thursday, COMEX stocks gained 680 short tons to 67,167 tons.
In the equities markets, the CBOE Gold Index GOX, -0.56% climbed 0.9 percent to 30.13. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index XAU, -1.66% rose 0.4 percent to 49.99.
Individually, shares of Anglogold AU, -3.52% added 19 cents to trade at $14.50 and shares of Agnico-Eagle Mines rose 6 cents to $6.19.