Over the weekend I sprung for my very first purchases of Japanese Maples.
I've been mulling over this decision for months, knowing I would be looking in the fall when the nurseries mark down remaining trees and shrubs to move them out. I was hopeful to find trees with great fall color as fall is...my favorite time of year!
My first find is called Acer Palmatum 'Fire Glow'. I plan to plant this beauty where the rays for the setting sun will find it in a big backyard. Even better, our local garden store had it on a great sale!
I drove down I-5 for my next stop and found a perfect tree! My second find was a Acer Palmatum 'Twombly Red Sentinel'. Also..great sale going on!
This little fella grows straight and slender. I think it's perfect fit as a focal feature in a postage stamp front yard. It will be fun to build around this gorgeous tree with complimentary conifers and perennials.
The sales gal at Tsugawa Nursery told me she had heard Japanese Maples could be addicting.
I think the bug has bitten me!
Japanese Maple is the one non-edible that exists in my garden. I try to forget about it, and then WHAM! It's all bright red and unexpected.
Oh I so wish we could plant Japanese Maples. I love them. As close as I could get was an Autumn Blaze Maple maple. Good luck with yours. I'm happy for you.
it certainly sounds like the acer bug has bitten you. Enjoy the scarlet - I like the vision of it against the setting sun.
Two very gorgeous choices! We have one huge one in our backyard and one small one in a container. I wish I had space for more. This is a great time of year for tree shopping!
Oh I have one and it's gorgeous! The colour is truly amazing, such a great choice!
Congratulations and welcome to the club! I had my obsession a few years ago but I still can't walk by a Japanese maple with out stopping and ooing and ahhing. Your selections look wonderful.
Japanese maples are fantastic - I always admire them.
These look gorgeous. Hope they give you your fix of autumn colour!
We have one in our front garden and the late afternoon Fall sun (when it is out) makes it glow, I LOVE it :) T.


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Walmart managed to lose $21 billion in shareholder value in a single day when its latest results were announced mid-October. Off the back of that, Forbes has just run an article entitled "Amazon & Walmart Should Marry (But They Better Start Planning Soon)." That does a better job than I ever could of talking up just about every facet of Amazon's business. But in a nutshell, Amazon has our retail future – including books both offline and on – for its chew toy. And Walmart is just grist to the mill.
Needless to say, $21 billion doesn't just fall off the shopping cart. The trigger for the share slide was Walmart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley's forecast of a 6-12 percent profit decline at in fiscal 2017, almost three times analyst expectations, with 75 percent of the loss linked to higher wages. That's a commitment, however, that the public don't seem ready to let Walmart back out of. And some union leaders and others are accusing Walmart of trying to shift blame for its own poor performance onto the wage issue. Plus, it seems to be a vicious circle: shoppers avoid Walmart and plump for Amazon due to accusations of low pay, meaning Walmart can only afford lower wages, and so on ad nauseam.
The whole traditional retail sector looks likely to be hit by the wage issue. And who's likely to benefit? Amazon, of course. Their model simply isn't labor-intensive in the same way. Other recent PR upsets such as the Federal Trade Commission's probe into erroneous "Made in the U.S.A." labels on the Walmart website only bolster the impression that the company is losing customer loyalty while failing to master online.
Yet investors seem ready to forgive Amazon extremely modest profits, if any, while still rewarding its stock. The assumption is simply that they have lost all faith in Walmart's future. One key factor, as the Forbes article underlines, is that Amazon is that "Walmart's customer profile is lower-income shoppers … Walmart is at the mercy of the global economy and a lower-income customer base that's especially vulnerable to trends in wage inequality, the unlikeliness of a significant increase in the US national minimum wage, and a likely US recession in the next few years." Amazon, meanwhile, is doing a bang-up job of upselling its entire platform to wealthier online shoppers, via Amazon Prime and oodles of other services, not least same-day delivery. And as I argued elsewhere, haters' hopes of Amazon coming unstuck on propositions like the cheap Kindle Fire 7 are doomed to disappointment.
All in all, Walmart should probably hope that Amazon will haul it to the checkout. And Amazon is likely to be around for much longer than it is.
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Walmart is a $500 billion a year company. Amazon only has a fifth the revenue.
Yeah, I don't see that purchase happening.
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Walmart doesn't bring much to the table for Amazon. More and more it is looking old and tired, like Montgomery Ward in the 1970s, K-Mart in the 1990s, or Sears in the 2000s.
Amazon has the advantage of being able to sell to a wide financial demographic while Walmart is boxed into its lower-income base.
Amazon has the creative vitality right now to build new things and doesn't need to be shackled to traditional retailing. Just like Walmart thirty years ago.
Mrs. Mac October 23, 2015 at 1:29 pm
I don't shop at Walmart. Absolutely hate the place. I find going in the store to be depressing, and the layout of the local store is confusing. If Amazon were to buy Walmart, and really bring it up to date and brighten the shopping experience, I'd become a Walmart shopper.
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The government's 25-year plan to use education as a tool for cultural, economic and national renewal is based on a similar programme adopted in 1993, which critics say has been gathering dust ever since. The new doctrine was approved by a national educational congress last month.
But experts from Kiev's International Centre for Policy Studies and from the Centre for Social and Political Research at the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy have said the plan is an uncosted fantasy that ignores Ukraine's troubled economic reality.
The doctrine, developed by the education ministry and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, puts Ukrainian language and culture at the centre of a policy designed to "implement the Ukrainian idea of state formation" and to inculcate a love of the Ukrainian language, culture and traditions.
It stresses that higher education should be "free on a competitive basis", that credits and loans should be available to postgraduate students and that there should be equal opportunities for access to university across the country.
But Yuri Lukovenko, of the Centre for Policy Studies and author of an alternative paper on educational reform, said the plan's vague language and lack of a properly costed implementation strategy was a recipe for continued government complacency.
"This doctrine was created in such a way that it will affect nothing. It will preserve the current situation. It says nothing about the responsibilities of government."
Strong vested interests in the government and the ministry of education, both of which provide education and set standards, keep universities locked into Soviet-era relationships. University autonomy exists only in a technical sense. Universities must raise money from non-government sources because the state pays for only half of all students. In seeking funds, enterprise and service development take a back seat to corruption, bribes and kickbacks.
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Elena Gorsheniova, the British Council teacher training projects manager in Kiev, said crowded courses, poor teaching, no quality assessment and no transparency in standards drove many students to pay for private tuition.
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Great interview in the International Herald Tribune/NYT with Clint Eastwood, but once again, it's old media slagging off new media and ending up looking the worse for it.
The interviewer, presumably, asks Clint to confirm that he's a vegan. Turns out he's not. Apparently the writer did his research on Wikipedia, because that's what he cites as a source:
Despite what you might have read on Wikipedia, Eastwood is not a vegan, and he looked slightly aghast when told exactly what a vegan is. "I never look at the Internet for just that reason," he said.
Trouble is, the source is not Wikipedia. As anyone who uses Wikipedia knows, any information on there must be sourced. A glance at the actual Wikipedia page would reveal that the source for this 'fact' about Clint is, in fact, a fellow old media source, The Los Angeles Times:
People ask him to autograph rifles, but Eastwood is no Charlton Heston. A vegan, he was distressed to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton boast recently about bagging a bird.
This piece was subsequently run in the San Jose Mercury News, the Providence Journal and PressDisplay.
In fact, you won't be able to see this on the Wikipedia page anymore because it's been removed. That's because some new media moves faster than old media: on December 11, the day the NYT piece was first published, a Wikipedian spotted the reference and prompted a discussion, and the removal of the reference on the grounds that a direct denial from Eastwood trumps an LAT piece. (You can see the discussion here.)
In other words, from what we can judge, the journalist involved researched Clint on Wikipedia, and was ready enough to accept that as a source on which to base his questions. When the fact in question turned out to be wrong, he allowed Clint to make a familiar sideswipe at the Internet, and not further research the origin of the myth.
But the story doesn't stop there. The LA Times doesn't cite a source. But there are plenty of them—apparently. Clint is quoted on dozens of sites as saying
"I try to stick to a vegan diet—heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products."
Sites like GoVeg.com have been happy to include him in their Animal-Friendly Celebrities (although, to their credit, they seem to have removed him. Compare this page with this cached version.)
What's perhaps most intriguing is the source of this quote. I'll admit I can't find it. But it's been bouncing around the net for a couple of years; this forum cites it in September 2006. I found a piece in Glasgow's Daily Record on May 23, 2006 that also listed Clint as vegetarian, although the web site does not seem to contain a record of it. The oldest reference I can find is in the Miami New Times, on October 13 2005, which lists Clint among a number of (supposed) vegans.
In other words, a myth arose on the net, without any straightforward way of establishing its provenance or authenticity, which was then happily picked up by websites, businesses, and organisations whose purpose it served, then found its way into a mainstream news article, before finally being authoritatively quashed.
So yes, in a way Clint and the NYT reporter are right. The Internet isn't reliable. But Wikipedia is. Or at least, it's no less reliable than the sources it cites. Which in this case, happened to be old media itself.
Lesson? As a journalist I guess I might too have fallen into the trap of trusting the LA Times. But it's a timely reminder that there's no fact too small or apparently established that it can't stand to be fact-checked.
Just don't blame the net if you get it wrong. It's cheap and it's old wave.
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Wed 23, Mar 16 | By David Weinstock, Addison County Independent
"The film, beautifully shot and scored, has a point but is not a manifesto."
By David Weinstock, Addison County Independent
What is the secret of human happiness? Documentary filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll has immersed herself in the question ever since she studied philosophy as a Middlebury College undergraduate in the mid-1970s.
One thing seems certain — the world's incessant striving for money and possessions is rarely the answer. Her new film "A Small Good Thing," to be screened at Middlebury College's Dana Auditorium at 7 p.m., this Wednesday, March 23, offers some attractive alternatives being pursued by New Englanders living deliberate and purposeful lives in small, tightly knit communities.
Boll's work in documentary film includes "Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red-Light Kids," for which she won an Oscar for Best Documentary. "A Small Good Thing" is set in a less desperate milieu, but still raises issues about human dignity and good livelihood. We meet six residents of the Berkshire region of Massachusetts: three organic farmers, an ex-actor turned yoga instructor, a recovering addict with Native American roots studying social work, and a community organizer using the lively arts to uplift teens. (That organizer, Shirley Edgerton, will join Boll and environmental author and advocate Bill McKibben live for a Q&A session after the screening.)
Preparing for the film, Boll immersed herself in the science of happiness.
"There are three or four things that actually make people happy, as distinct from what we think will makes us happy," she told me.
"If we live in a group of people that we see frequently, that we have respect for, that we can deal with in an authentic way, then we have a greater chance of being happy."
One human basic is food. The film's title comes from a moment in a Raymond Carver short story when two grieving parents are consoled by a baker bringing warm cinnamon rolls and saying, "Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this." Farmers Peter and Jen Salinetti and Sean Stanton have taught themselves to raise vegetables, herbs and meat in ways that are gentler to the earth than industrial agriculture. Bill McKibben points out that despite the usual justification given for "Big Farming," small farms can produce more food more efficiently and with less ecological impact. The film follows the Salinettis as they travel to Rwanda to share their techniques in a place where starvation is common.
The film, beautifully shot and scored, has a point but is not a manifesto. "I'm not someone who hits people over the head with an idea. I'm a storyteller," says Boll. "My purpose is to tell stories that make people think about a different way to live, to inspire them, to tell them that things that seem out of people's control can actually be more obtainable."
Watch the film trailer online at www.asmallgoodthingfilm.com. Wednesday evening's screening at Middlebury's Dana Auditorium is free.
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The Challenger Class Association is a charity that represents the interests of sailors with disabilities – people who want an outdoor life coupled with an adventure sport that is demanding and can be played on equal terms with able-bodied competitors.
Sailing is one of the few sports to provide that equality: the wind and the waves are the same for everyone, as are the skills needed to race a yacht or a dinghy.
The Challenger Trimaran has been specially developed with the aim of allowing disabled people to achieve their sailing goals. It was the brainchild of Diana Campbell who, from the age of seven, had been confined to a wheelchair.
Diana developed a passion for sailing and bought a catamaran at the age of sixteen. From this background came the idea of a purpose-built boat for disabled people. In 1979 Diana and yacht designer Rod McAlpine Downey collaborated to create a stable, seaworthy craft that was fast and fun to sail.
The first boat, sponsored by British Petroleum and the Royal Yachting Association Seamanship Foundation, was built in 1980 by Cheesman Rollo and delivered to the disabled section of the Oxford Sailing Club. 10 years later the MkII was produced by Reg White in Brightlingsea.
The Challenger has been a racing class since the first days of its development. There is an active national regatta circuit where sailors from across the UK meet at different venues to compete. Most boats are bought through fundraising activities and there are often as many helpers as sailors, as help is needed to rig and launch the boats.
Sailing can make big physical and mental demands on those taking part. Despite these difficulties disabled sailors have achieved some remarkable goals. In 2007 Geoff Holt, a quadriplegic, sailing a Challenger, became the first disabled person to circumnavigate the British Isles, braving some horrendous weather conditions on the way.
Challenger No1 was presented to the Museum by the Challenger Class Association in 2007.
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Chelsea and Manchester United's hope of signing Raphael Varane have been dashed after the defender revealed that he remains committed to Real Madrid.
The French international has seen his first team appearances have been limited this season, which had raised concern over his long-term future at the Spanish capital club. This has seen him attract interest from long-term admirers, the Blues and the Red Devils.
Real are already knocked out of the Copa del Rey by their derby rivals Atletico Madrid. The La Liga giants now have the Champions League to defend and also have a chance to win the league this season.
Varane admitted that he is 100% with the 10-times European champions and has set his eyes on winning the Champions League and the La Liga.
"My future? I'm 100% with Real Madrid and we will continue to work with the club. I am happy here and I have a contract until 2020," Le 10 Sport quoted Varane as saying.
"The goal this season is to win the league and the Champions League . These are two important goals for us. We want to win everything. There are a lot of determination and motivation in the locker room."
Meanwhile, Real manager Carlo Ancelotti has also come forward and rubbished the speculations suggesting that Varane will leave his current employers.
"I'm surprised because I didn't know Mendes [the agent cited in the rumours] was his agent. Three days ago he had a different agent. Varane will be a Madrid player for a long time," Ancelotti said, as quoted as saying by Spanish newspaper AS.
The Frenchman was set to be a long-term replacement for John Terry at Stamford Bridge. With Varane and his manager clearly suggesting that the centre-half is not for sale, both Chelsea and United have to look elsewhere in the transfer market.
Louis van Gaal has set his sights on Borussia Dortmund star Mats Hummels, who is also on Arsenal's radar. The German international has long been a transfer target for the Red Devils and a summer move could be on the cards, with the Old Trafford club leading the chance for his signature.


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Q: How do I display the value of an option on a drop down in an output box when a button with an assigned function is clicked on? How do I display the value of an option on a drop down in an output box when a button with an assigned function is clicked on?
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  <input type="button" id="findScore" value="Score" onclick="return scoringValue()" />
  Total Points: <input type="text" id="totalPoints" value=0 disabled="disabled" class="output" />

A: You need to parseInt values in your code, because they exists as string. So if you will sum two strings "2" + "2", the result will be "22". So the answer is: use parseInt to transform the string to a number to sum them properly. Here is an example:

function scoringValue() {
  var chosenOne = parseInt(document.getElementById("totalPoints").value, 10) +
  parseInt(document.getElementById("options").value, 10);
  document.getElementById("totalPoints").value = chosenOne;
}

Scoring:<select id="options">
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="8">8</option>
</select>
<input type="button" id="findScore" value="Score" onclick="scoringValue()" />
      Total Points: <input type="text" id="totalPoints" value=0
      disabled="disabled" class="output" />

A: You can use parseInt to convert you values from string to int and then perform your calculation.
Example:
function scoringValue() {
    var totalPoints = parseInt(document.getElementById("totalPoints").value, 10);
    var optionsValue = parseInt(document.getElementById("options").value, 10);
    var chosenOne =  totalPoints + optionsValue;
    document.getElementById("totalPoints").value = chosenOne;
}

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Nevada Democratic Senate Candidate: "Offensive" To Suggest I'm Not Mexican Enough
Catherine Cortez Masto, running for Senate in Nevada, chided her opponent for a former aide's tweets about not speaking Spanish, and how Mexican she is.
By Adrian Carrasquillo
Adrian Carrasquillo BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on September 22, 2016, at 7:40 p.m. ET
Tom McAllister @TMAC702
Catherine is about as Mexican as I am. It's relevant when applying for scholarhsips...or running for #nvsen https://t.co/18RzjRbDnY
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WASHINGTON — Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, running to replace Sen. Harry Reid in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, said it was "offensive" to suggest she isn't Mexican enough because she doesn't speak Spanish.
Cortez Masto was responding to her opponent's former political director, who is also Mexican-American and who had made a sarcastic remark about how Mexican she is. The former aide, Tom McCallister, asked in another tweet: "quick question does @CatherineForNV speak Spanish?"
Cortez Masto told BuzzFeed News the tweets were "offensive" and sought to tie them to her opponent.
"First of all, I think it's offensive, not just offensive to me, but to the many Mexican-Americans particularly in the state of Nevada who have worked so hard and provided so many contributions," she said.
McAllister is the former political director for Rep. Joe Heck; McAllister left the campaign in June. Cortez Masto argued that the tweet showed who Heck "truly is and that he's not willing to stand for the community because he supports Trump."
The Heck campaign said McCallister does not speak for the campaign.
And she took aim at the idea that she isn't Mexican enough because she doesn't speak Spanish.
"I think its absolutely ridiculous — if that was the litmus test for whether or not you're Mexican-American then Gov. Sandoval would be thrown into that," she said of the popular Republican governor in Nevada.
A recent Latino Decisions poll showed that Cortez Masto isn't well-known among Latino voters, like other Democrats running for U.S. Senate. The Real Clear Politics polling average calls the race a toss-up, with Heck up four points.
But Cortez Masto clearly believes tying her opponent to Trump and leaning into her background will help her begin to change that. "My grandparents and my father would be very surprised to learn that I am not Mexican-American," she said.
Adrian Carrasquillo is the White House correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Adrian Carrasquillo at adrian.carrasquillo@buzzfeed.com.


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Dani Miller scored the lone STU goal in today's
2 to 1 defeat against UPEI.
Courtesy Dylan Buell
The St. Thomas Lady Tommies headed to Alberton, PEI this afternoon in search of a big win versus the UPEI Panthers. Unfortunately it didn't go as planned, as the Panthers dispatched the Tommies 2 to 1.
UPEI scored a powerplay marker in the first and second period to account for both of their goals. The Tommies answered late in the third period at 19:51 when Dani Miller connected with the extra skater on the ice for STU. Final shots were 21 - 17 for PEI.
With the win the Panthers move three points ahead of St. Thomas for third position in the AUS and the Tommies slip to fifth, as the Mount Alison Mounties forced U de M to a shoot out to gain a valuable point, moving them into sole possession of fourth.
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VANCOUVER — A former jail guard has won his discrimination complaint against the British Columbia government for being forced to work in what the human rights tribunal concluded was a "poisoned work environment."
Levan Francis, who is black, filed a complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in 2012, alleging colleagues and supervisors at the North Fraser Pre-trial Centre in Port Coquitlam used racial slurs and stereotyped him.
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During a 12-day hearing the government claimed that Francis used accusations of racism as a shield when his performance was criticized and fabricated allegations for his human rights complaint.
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Councillor Sharron Edwards - Press Coverage June and July 2004
Ad News 15 July 2004
'Campaign' claim on flats sparks anger
The rejection by planners of proposals to build 31 flats in Wombourne has been hailed as a victory by a local councillor - to the annoyance of her fellows councillors, who dubbed her actions unacceptable.
Parish councillor Sharron Edwards is claiming to have "spearheaded a campaign" against the building of the flats at the former Wombourne Service Station and says this is a victory for local residents.
Cllr Edwards said: "Finally, the people of Wombourne are being listened to and taken notice of. Residents from all over the village have supported their neighbours in Brickbridge Lane. They fought an excellent campaign and are encouraged that the vital issues raised have been properly addressed".
But Parish planning chief Cllr Alan Hinton said:
"This plan for 31 flats was never going to go ahead anyway, so no "campaign" was needed. I could see that with 10 car parking spaces short, the thing was going to be thrown out. But when villagers expressed their worries, I personally suggested that they write to the district planners and tell of their threefold concerns - that there was a lack of car parking, that this would result in over development of that area and that the access into the highway was poor".
Ad News July 15 2004
Councillor speaks out over housing development
Scaremongering claim over plan
The parish councillor censured last week for failing to comply with normal council procedures has hit back angrily declaring that villagers come before traditions.
Councillor Sharron Edwards revealed a planning application for 29 homes to be built in Wombourne, on the site of the former Swan pub, before many parish councillors had seen it.
Cllr Edwards, of the Freedom Party, said: "As a district councillor I do not have to wait upon parish council approval to do the job I was elected to do."
"Had any of the district councillors sitting on the council bothered to read their emails on June 16 they would have been aware of the application and would had the same opportunity as me to obtain a copy and make informed comments on it when asked by the local community."
But Parish Council chairman Cllr Peter Timms said he did indeed read the relevant email but that 100-year-old procedure had to be abided by.
"I speak as chairman of Wombourne Parish Council and as a district and county councillor Mrs Edwards must go through the correct procedure."
"She as a district councillor had seen the email and so had I, but many of the parish councillors had not. We work from grass roots up. This means when it comes to us we discuss it parish council then it progresses to district planners. We can make comments and suggestions, but the final decision does not lay in our hands as parish councillors."
"Had she followed the correct procedure then it would not have made any difference to the final outcome. It would not change the debate but it would have allowed debate. And that is what the whole system is based on from the grass roots."
"In the end, developments are allowed onIy if they fit in with planning law. Nothing Mrs Edwards has done will make any difference to the final outcome save to worry local people."
He was supported by Cllr Alan Hinton, who saiid: "We are all concerned about over-development, but we can't discuss in front of villagers what we haven't discussed in committee."
"Cllr Edwards, by doing what she has done, is causing unrest in the village and scaremongering. The plans still haven't come to us and will not be discussed in this week's planning meeting. But we will give villagers seven days notice of when they will be on the table. Then we in parish council can give our opinion and it will he taken up by the district council".
Express & Star July 13 2004
Joy as campaigners win fight against flats
by Sunita Patel
Controversial plans to build 31 city-style apartments and a showroom on the site of a Wombourne service station have been thrown out.
Campaigners against the growing trend of modern developments in the village are celebrating after planning chiefs rejected the proposal earmarked for Brickbridge Lane.
Councillor Sharron Edwards, who spearheaded the protest, said residents were delighted. "Finally, the people of Wombourne are being listened to and being taken notice of. Residents from all over the village have supported their neighbours in Brickbridge Lane."
"They fought an excellent campaign and are encouraged that the vital issues raised have been properly addressed."
The application, by Oakhouse Developments, was refused by South Staffordshire District Council's chief planning officer, Bill Meredith, under delegated powers last Friday. He said the luxury flats were out of scale with the type of existing development in the area and the three-storey element would result in a loss of privacy to surrounding properties.
"There was inadequate on-site parking which would lead to congestion on the road, causing highway danger, and access to the site would have been from Holloway Drive which has restricted visibility on to Brick bridge Lane," he added.
Residents are becoming increasingly alarmed by the number of new estates cropping up across the area, claiming the housing boom is getting out of hand and is destroying the charm of the village, which is fast becoming a "concrete jungle ".
The site of the Swan pub, in Common Road, could soon be home to 34 luxury flats, while 40 are planned for Tollhouse Way.
And there has been news of 22 more heading for the village centre to replace the old Wombourne Library site at Windmill Bank.
Wolverhampton Chronicle 10 July 2004
Council in dark over latest plans
AN INVESTIGATION is set to be launched by Wombourne Parish Council after one member managed to get access to controversial plans for new housing.
Councillor Sharron Edwards confirmed at the parish council meeting she had seen plans for the Common Road, Park Avenue and Sytch Lane development.
Furious residents packed the parish chamber to voice opposition to plans to build new apartments and houses.
Anger turned to confusion when parish councillors admitted they had not seen the plans. Acting chairman Councillor Alan Hinton said he could not understand why the plans had not been presented to the council but one member had seen them and he said he would launch a full investigation.
He added: "This is breaking with procedure. We must discuss these plans as a committee and only then can we present the district council with our objections."
After the meeting, Councillor Edwards said: "As a district councillor I was notified by email that the plans were available for inspection. When we refused the original application it was not in keeping with the street scene, so the appeal means the numbers have been reduced by five. I spoke with residents about this."
Developer David Payne Homes look set to build 30 apartments and four houses on the site of the old Swan pub, which has been demolished. Residents say the city-style development is completely inappropriate for the village.
A further development at Waterdale also angered residents after they said a site visit by district councillors went unannounced. Resident Derek Vine said: "When these plans were announced, there were almost 140 objections. We have lived there for 30 years and we have never been consulted over the plans. We didn't even know there was going to be a site visit. "
Wolverhampton Ad News 8 July 2004
Councillor under fire for revealing plans
A parish councillor who jumped the gun by showing housing plans to villagers before the parish council had seen them may have shot herself in the foot say her fellow councillors.
Villagers packed Wombourne Parish Council meeting furious at plans they had been shown to build 29 a apartments on the site of the Old Swan pub in Common Road. Councillor Edwards of the Freedom Party had obtained a copy of plans submitted by developer David Payne and showed them to villagers.
Wombourne planning committee chairman Alan Hinton was forthcoming: "What she did was against all procedure" he said.
"She has jumped the gun. We could censure her if she was in our own group, but she is not and I am going to have to take advice on this".
"We cannot discuss things in full council which have not been debated in committee. But when this comes before committee I shall ask for declarations of interest. We are all expected to arrive with open minds and debate issues. She has made it plain that her mind is already made up which shows her "interest" in the matter, so she will not be allowed to speak."
Express & Star 3 July 2004
Shock as plans for new flats are revived
Controversial plans to build city-style apartments on the former site of a Wombourne pub are in the pipeline again just weeks after being thrown out.
The move by David Payne Homes Ltd has outraged campaigners who thought they had won the battle, only to learn this week that the scheme is firmly back on the agenda.
Villagers fed up with constant projects to build more homes in the area had been celebrating planning chiefs' snub to the property developer's proposals to create 30 apartments and four houses in Common Road.
But South Staffs District Council has since been sent a renewed application and amended blueprints for the scheme, which includes luxury flats, semi and terraced housing, according to Councillor Sharron Edwards.
Residents against the move will have a few weeks to make any objections before the matter is addressed by parish councillors and then planners sitting on the district council's regulatory committee.
"These sorts of schemes are getting out of hand in the village" said Councillor Edwards. "It is over-development and people have had enough."
Bulldozers moved in to flatten the pub in April after the Bromsgrove-based developer bought up the land for housing.
Wolverhampton Chronicle 1 July 2004
Objection deadline
RESIDENTS concerned about the latest development plans for Wombourne have until Monday (5) to launch official objections with South Staffs District Council.
Villagers are in uproar regarding a proposal to build 31 flats on the site of the service station in Brickbridge Lane.
Scores have already attended meetings and written letters to complain saying the apartments would be out of keeping with the street scene.
Councillor Sharron Edwards said issues raised also included car parking, traffic, access and burden on utilities.
She said: "Some residents have had to hire generators to get electricity in the past. There is also the pdtential hazard on the roads considering that the site is next to a children's playing field."
Correspondence should be sent to the planning officer at the district council.
Ad News June 2004
Fight pledge over big developments
A Wombourne councillor has vowed to stop future, 'development explosions' after battling to block the building of new homes on the site of a former village pub.
Residents claimed victory when plans to erect 30 apartments and four two-bedroom houses at the, Swan Pub grounds were booted out by South Staffordshire Regulatory Committee.
Councillor Sharron Edwards, who spearheaded a campaign against the development in Common Road, said she had been flooded with calls from angry residents who labelled it a 'monstrosity'.
More than 40 villagers wrote to the council complaining the development would cause chaos. They also feared a planned 40 car parking spaces would not be enough.
Cllr Edwards said:
"I couldn't agree more with them. As I've said before, this application is another over-development and uncharacteristic of our village. Had Wombourne police station been relocated at the old library site instead and the existing station converted into luxury apartments, residents in School Road would not be faced with the prospect of overlooking a builders' Legoland."
"A development such as this would ruin the attractive nature of the village centre, the apartment's design is totally inappropriate and ill-placed."
Cllr Edwards said one family had moved amid fears the development would go ahead.
"I am made aware that one family, who have lived in the same property for over 10 years, felt forced to move because of this application being submitted."
"This shouldn't be happening and is why I am determined to continue to do all I can to balance quality of life in our village as well as prevent any further development explosions waiting to happen."
The David Payne Homes Ltd scheme was refused by 18 votes to 10.
Letter in Ad News
Place for station
I wholeheartedly support the suggestion made by Councillor Sharon Edwards to relocate the Wombourne Police Station.
Placing a police presence on such an elevated site at the heart of the village would send a reassuring message to the whole of the community.
We have a pretty village in a lovely setting. Let's make it the 'Jewel in the crown' with an imposing building and thoughtful layout.
J Phillips
Wombourne
Ad News 24 June 2004
Over-development fears are aired
The over-development of Wombourne continues to worry villagers, who called a meeting in the home of one of them to discuss their concerns.
Residents in Brickbridge Lane and surrounding roads met on Sunday to look at proposals to build 31 flats on the former Wombourne Service Station and showroom.
C11r Sharron Edwards, who attended the meeting, said:
"Local villagers unanimously agreed the application was not acceptable. They were emphatic that redevelopment didn't have to mean over-development and that an application mimicking properties in the surrounding street scene would be considered favourably. Villagers also commented that flats on the estate had been demolished to he replaced by bungalows, and questioned the logic in wanting to build more flats again, concluding that it didn't make any sense. I feel residents have provided a balanced judgement on this application and fully support their overwhelming decision that any redevelopment on this site should reflect properties in the area."
"I have forwarded representation to the planning office at District Council and highlighted the issues raised, not least the potential hazards on the roads, considering that the site is next to a childrens playing field and that large numbers of children use Brickbridge Lane to get to school."
Cllr Edwards said the local community was up in arms over the development, and determined to stop it.
She said Common Road residents who recently won their campaign against apartments on the former Swan Pub are supporting the Brickbridge Lane people.
Wolverhampton Chronicle 24 June 2004
Residents oppose village flats plan
ANGRY villagers flocked to a public meeting to launch fierce objections over plans to build 31 flats at a major Wombourne site.
Residents so incensed by the latest plans to develop "city-style" apartments in the rural setting demanded the meeting take place as a forum to air their views. They said they feared the proposed development at the service station and showroom on Brickbridge Lane would irreparably change the face of the area as well as increasing traffic and parking problems.
Parish council chairman Councillor Peter Timms said. "Due to the amount of high public feeling and widespread despair at this latest application, I offered residents the facility of the council chambers for the meeting. Yet again we have an application for apartments which are just not suiting for Wombourne. This time some of the buildings would be three storeys high."
Councillor Sharron Edwards said applications for more than 100 apartments had been submitted in a matter of weeks.
"Flats would ruin the attractive nature of the village. They are totally inappropriate and ill-placed, especially in a village environment. The building has to stop. People have had enough, their lovely village is fast becoming a concrete.jungle. The village infrastructure can't cope either. As a member of the Safer Routes to School Committee trying to reduce traffic and speed, 1 feel the project would be futile if the present problems were allowed to be exacerbated by accepting more vehicles on the road as a result of continued overdevelopment."
Applications currently making their way through the planning process include 34 luxury flats on the site of the Swan pub in Common Road, 40 more in Tollhouse Way and a possible 22 in the village centre to replace the old library at Windmill Bank.
Express & Star 17 June 2004
Villagers in fight to stop city-style flats
By Suffita Patel
Campaigners fighting a growing trend towards city living style apartments in Wombourne have been hit with another proposed development.
The latest application to land on the desks of planning chiefs in South Staffordshire is the proposed transformation of a service station and showroom in Brickbridge Lane into 31 flats. Councillor Sharron Edwards, who is spearheading the protest on over-development in the village, said the problem was getting worse.
The site of the Swan pub in Common Road could soon house 34 luxury flats, while 40 are planned for Tollhouse Way. Recently there was news of 22 more in the village replacing the old Wombourne Library site at Windmill Bank. With the addition of the new plans at the Total garage, figures will have risen to more then 120 in a matter of months, she said.
"Flats would ruin the attractive nature of the village. They are totally inappropriate and ill-placed, especially in a village environment."
"The building has to stop. People have had enough," said Councillor Edwards.
"Their lovely village is fast becoming a concrete jungle."
"As a member of the safer routes to school committee, trying to reduce traffic and speed, I feel the project would be futile if the present problems were allowed to be exacerbated by accepting more vehicles on the road as a result of continued over development."
Concerns have been expressed by residents whose properties in Holloway Drive and Furnace Close will be overlooked by the flats.
Issues including traffic and noise are to be highlighted by villagers at a gathering to discuss the plans this weekend. Residents are becoming increasingly alarmed by the number of new estates cropping up in the area. They are claiming the housing boom is getting out of hand and destroying the charm of the village.
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Winchester Wildcat .22LR Review
The Winchester Wildcat .22LR rimfire rifle may look futuristic, but it's just right for some old-fashioned plinking and hunting fun.
The new .22LR Winchester Wildcat autoloader features an 18-inch barrel, a 10-round detachable magazine, and a futuristic-looking synthetic stock. The gun accepts Ruger 10/22 magazines.
October 22, 2019 By Steve Gash
New whiz-bang cartridges come and go, but the .22 Long Rifle just keeps chugging along. It has been made since 1887 in a huge assortment of loads from subsonic to hypervelocity, and it is justly considered the most popular cartridge in existence. Long guns and handguns of almost every shape and configuration continue to be made for the .22 LR. One of the latest is the Wildcat autoloader from Winchester.
The Wildcat (which bears the same name as one of Winchester Ammunition's great .22 LR loadings—read more about it in the special Quick Shot report beginning on page 56) has many new features that make it unique and practical. Winchester says the Wildcat is ultra-reliable and "purrs like a kitten." That sounds good to me.
The Wildcat is manufactured by a company in Turkey called Istanbul Silah. While this name may not be familiar to American shooters, the company is a very successful international arms manufacturer.
I received one of the first Wildcats in captivity, and I must say its appearance grabbed my attention. It's black all over, with several conspicuous red plastic control buttons and rails located in a number of places.
The Wildcat is unquestionably the most ingeniously designed gun I've seen in quite a while. That so many features are packed into such a low-cost rifle (MSRP is just $249.99) is amazing. The molded polymer stock has a matte black, textured finish, and the large cutout in the buttstock gives it a futuristic look. Underneath these dashing cosmetics lies a sophisticated and innovative .22 rifle. The Winchester Wildcat is no Hollywood make-believe rifle; it's the real deal.
The Wildcat comes with a fully adjustable ghost-ring rear sight and a ramped post front sight. It also has a built-in Picatinny-type optics rail.
The hollowed-out buttstock helps reduce the weight of the rifle to a feathery 4.0 pounds. The stock, which Winchester calls the "upper assembly," has a 10-slot Picatinny rail on its top for the convenient mounting of a scope or a red-dot sight (no 3/8-inch grooves here). On the bottom of the fore-end tip are two Picatinny slots for the attachment of a light, laser, bipod, or other accessory. There's also a sling-swivel stud there. These fore-end features are hidden by a removable cover. The upright pistol grip has a slightly raised textured surface for a positive grip.
The stock houses the "lower receiver assembly." It is a molded polymer unit that contains the fire-control mechanism and other action parts. Interestingly, the Wildcat uses a striker-fired design similar to a bolt-action centerfire rifle.
Winchester says this provides a faster locktime and a lighter trigger pull. Significantly, the tip of the firing pin is hemispherical. This produces a deeper rim indentation for more positive ignition.
The Wildcat's trigger has about 0.1 inch of take-up. My gun's trigger is really smooth, so the take-up doesn't interfere with trigger control. There is almost no overtravel. The weight of pull on my test gun averages 5 pounds, 10 ounces. The manual push-button safety behind the trigger is hard to move in either direction, so accidental movement is highly unlikely. The safety is reversible, so it's fully ambidextrous.
The rotary magazine holds 10 rounds and has metal feed lips that are more reliable and last longer and make the cartridges feed easier. One of the Wildcat's neatest attributes is the "speed load/unload" feature that makes it super easy to insert cartridges into the magazine. Here's how it works. At the right rear of the magazine is a little notched wheel, right where your finger will be when reloading. Just hook your fingernail in one of the notches and rotate it toward you for each cartridge. Presto! The rounds slide in under the metal feed lips as smooth as silk. It works just as easily when unloading.
The magazine also has a boltstop that locks the bolt open after the last shot is fired. Plus, there is a slide-lock button in the front of the trigger guard that allows you to manually lock open the action. Pressing the bolt release button on the left side of the upper receiver or pulling back on the cocking handle releases the bolt lock, and the action closes.
There are two magazine releases, and both are fully ambidextrous. A wide release bar is at the front of the rotary magazine, and two side-mounted rails with aggressive gripping slots are on either side of the magwell in the upper. Actually, these are all one part. Actuating either release drops the magazine, and it snaps back into place just as easily.
One 10-round magazine comes with the Wildcat, but the clever engineers at Winchester didn't bother reinventing the wheel on high-capacity magazines. The Wildcat accepts magazines from various vendors that are compatible with the Ruger 10/22. The bright red control buttons are all easy to see and use, and all of them worked flawlessly throughout my tests.
The Wildcat's button-rifled barrel is chrome-moly steel, is 18 inches long, and has the standard .22 rimfire twist of one turn in 16 inches. I took a peek down the barrel with my Hawkeye borescope and found no lumps, bumps, or extraneous tool marks that might degrade accuracy—it looked slick and smooth.
The Wildcat has a ramped post front sight that is 0.08 inch wide. It is secured to the barrel with a hex screw, so it is removable. The rear sight is a ghost-ring peep with a 0.01-inch aperture. It is fully adjustable for windage and elevation, and it is secured by a tiny hex screw. Two hex wrenches are clipped to the lower right side of the action unit. The smaller one is for the rear sight, and the larger one is for the stock screw in front of the magazine well.
Okay, here's what may be the coolest feature of the Wildcat rifle. There is yet another "red button." This one is at the rear of the receiver, uh, make that "upper receiver assembly." Pressing this button drops the "lower assembly" that contains the entire guts of the action, trigger group, and magazine right into your hand for easy cleaning. Winchester says that "no tools are required, just your finger," but I found that an unsharpened pencil worked much better. By the way, when you have the action out, notice the aforementioned hex wrenches clipped to the right rear side of the action.
Oh, did I say easy cleaning? Remember that big red button I pushed to drop the action? Well, now there's a big hole there, exactly in line with the bore. You easily can insert a cleaning rod and clean the bore from the breech, which protects the barrel's crown. Is this a neat idea or what?
The rifle has magazine releases on both sides, and both are fully ambidextrous. The rifle accepts Ruger 10/22 rotary magazines.
Shoots Great
Okay, so the Wildcat rifle is cool and innovative, but you probably want to know how it shoots. To find out, I installed a brand-new Simmons Pro Target 3-9X 40mm scope that is made for rimfire rifles and gathered up 13 different .22 LR loadings, ranging from 36-grain hyper-velocity ammo to various 40-grain standard-velocity loads. I fired three, five-shot groups with each load at 50 yards from a solid rest. The results are shown in the accompanying chart.
The little Wildcat rifle functioned 100 percent with all loads. Overall, the 13 loads averaged 1.94 inches. Top accuracy honors went to Browning's Performance Rimfire load with a 37-grain fragmenting bullet. It averaged 0.90 inch with an average velocity of 1,216 fps measured 10 feet from the gun's muzzle. Browning's Hunting & Target 40-grain HP loading averaged 1.57 inches and had the highest velocity of any load I fired at 1,337 fps. Naturally, it produced the most muzzle energy: 159 ft-lbs. Remington's High Velocity 40-grain PHP produced a group average of 1.26 inches.
As expected, some loads shot better than others, so I looked for trends in accuracy related to bullet weight, type, and velocity. But try as I might, I had no "aha!" moment, so you'll just have to experiment with a variety of loads when you get your own Wildcat rifle. But, heck, that's another reason to do more shooting!
All in all, the new little Winchester Wildcat autoloader purred like a kitten. Also, it's packed with a lot of cool features, offers plenty of shooting fun for the money, and is darn good looking, too. Its futuristic styling and very low cost should attract legions of new shooters—and quite a few old-timers, too.
Winchester Wildcat .22LR Specs
Manufacturer: Winchester Repeating Arms
Type: Blowback autoloader
Barrel: 18 in.
Overall Length: 36.25 in.
Weight, Empty: 4.13 lbs.
Stock: Synthetic
Length of Pull: 13.75 in.
Finish: Matte black barreled receiver, black and red stock
Sights: Fully adjustable ghost-ring rear, ramped post front
Trigger: 5.63 lb. pull (as tested)
Safety: Two position
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Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman Claims FBI Agent Gave Him "Veiled Threat": "Nothing Ever Happens To People That Don't Talk About These Things"
I'd say at first glance, the intimidation by the US Gestapo, also known as the unconstitutional Federal Bureau of Investigation, towards the computer repairman that first introduced Hunter Biden's laptop to them and the world, is quite telling because from all I've seen, people are more protected when they dump all the goods out on the table in the light of day, not when they don't speak out. Nevertheless, Mac Isaac claims that an FBI agent had a "chilling" message for him that insinuated just that, keeping his mouth shut.
Jack Phillips has the story.
Mac Isaac alleged in a Monday interview with Fox News that an FBI agent gave him a "chilling" warning when he first interacted with the bureau after finding the laptop. The Delaware-based laptop repairman said he recalled telling one agent that he would change their names when he published his book.
"That's when Agent Mike turned around and told me that, in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don't talk about these things," Mac Isaac said, claiming that it was a veiled threat to keep silent.
"I have been dealing with retaliation from multiple fronts for the past two years when what I did was leaked to the country. I'm expecting it, and I'm going to expect it to continue," he added to Fox News while promoting his book.
Republicans, he said, should hold "the FBI accountable for colluding with our mainstream and social media to block a story, a real story with real consequence," and they should "get to the bottom of what the Biden family was up to when Joe Biden was vice president."
On Monday, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, Chris Clark, told CBS News that Mac Isaac did not have Hunter's "consent to access his computer data or share it with others." Some analysts said that it may have been the first time one of Hunter Biden's lawyers confirmed that he left the laptop at the Delaware computer repair shop.
Earlier this year, Mac Isaac recalled to the New York Post about how Hunter Biden arrived at his shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in April 2019.
"I'm glad you're still open," Hunter Biden allegedly told him. "I just came from the cigar bar, and they told me about your shop, but I had to hurry because you close at seven."
"I need the data recovered off these, but they all have liquid damage and won't turn on," Mac Isaac recalled him saying.
It came as CBS cited an independent expert as saying that the data sourced from Hunter Biden's laptop is genuine, coming about two years after the NY Post and other news outlets, including The Epoch Times, reported on it. It's not clear why CBS decided to publish its report Monday.
The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI's press office for comment.
After Republicans recaptured the majority in the House, top GOP lawmakers indicated that they will investigate bank records and claims by whistleblowers that show connections between Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden.
With weeks to go before the 2020 General Election, the New York Post published information sourced from the laptop, showing what Republicans and other critics say are shady business deals between the Biden family and individuals linked to the Chinese Communist Party and Ukrainian energy firms. The younger Biden, in a 2019 interview, has denied that he did anything wrong but acknowledged that such deals created a negative outward impression.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is expected to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told reporters last week that the committee will investigate not just Hunter Biden but also President Biden.
"I want to be clear. This is an investigation of Joe Biden. That's where the committee will focus in this next Congress," Comer told reporters.
"This committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden's relationship with his family's foreign partners and whether he is a president who is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence," Comer said, adding that his committee has acquired suspicious activity reports filed by major banks.
In response, the White House said in a statement last week House Republicans are engaging in partisan attacks against Biden's family members. The administration accused the GOP of trafficking in "long-debunked conspiracy theories," without elaborating.
"President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans' priorities," Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel's office, told news outlets.
Weeks after the 2020 election, the younger Biden said that Delaware prosecutors were investigating his tax affairs, although he hasn't been charged with a crime. Since then, few details have been publicly disclosed about that investigation.
As Republicans conduct their investigation, it's not clear how many Americans will consider it a top priority.
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Almost one year after being named the Gold winner at the 2003 AQP Team Excellence Competition, the Fidelity Wide Processing (FWP) team continues to improve and provide inspiration across the company. FWP provides innovative solutions in publishing, fulfillment, regulatory mail, scanning, and transaction processing to other Fidelity Investments business units.
FWP's Incoming Customer Correspondence Process Improvement Team focused on improving the processing of incoming documents for Fidelity Employer Services Co., the division that services the benefits needs of more than 13 million employees at 11,600 companies. Its job is to ensure that incoming transaction processing documents, such as customer correspondence with checks, new accounts, and other maintenance items, are in good order prior to being scanned and uploaded into customers' workflow systems. This process was targeted for improvement because of the large potential for positive impact it could have on customer service. The team introduced measures to improve quality, service delivery, and cost.
Since receiving the Gold award last year, FWP continues to look for process and quality improvements. The increase in self-esteem that was associated with winning the award ties in with FWP's Success Model's foundation of associate satisfaction and loyalty by increasing (or continually improving) associate engagement.
There has also been an increase in interest across Fidelity in training for surrounding improvement methodologies. The company is looking at both lean concepts, as well as quality defect improvement processes such as the DMAIC quality process—define, measure, analyze, improve, and control—to rigorously identify root causes of existing inefficiencies, develop solutions, pilot and implement improvements, and measure the results.
The team's story and experiences since winning the award will be presented during ASQ's 2004 Annual Quality Congress in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about the teams presentation at http://wcqi.asq.org .
Dr. James A. White will speak on "Leadership and Success" from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 24. White is chancellor at the University of Arkansas, where he has engineered far-reaching changes for the institution, which operates in one of the most economically and educationally challenged states in America.
On Tuesday, May 25, the conference will open with Dr. Jennifer James' address on "Thinking in the Future Tense" from 8:00 to 9:15 a.m. James is an urban cultural anthropologist, and her presentation will focus on qualities that contribute to better leadership such as perspective, cultural knowledge, and valuing diversity. She will explain that success in business and life requires rapid change, and that leadership in the new millennium must be "different" to be effective.
Keith Harrell will present "Positive Attitude Toward Change" on Wednesday, May 26, from 7:30 to 9:15 a.m. Harrell is known across corporate America for his energetic, innovative presentations. He is a dynamic performance coach who specializes in changing behaviors through a positive attitude.
Learn more about ASQ's 2004 Annual Quality Congress at http://wcqi.asq.org.
More information on the courses and webinars described below can be obtained at www.asq.org/training-and-certification.html .
The following ASQ webinar is scheduled for May. It includes four, 90-minute sessions and participants will receive 0.6 CEUs/ASQ RUs. The fee is $485 per site. Missed sessions can be viewed as archives.
Description: Value stream mapping is a tool used to follow a product's production path from beginning to end, including a visual representation of every process in the material and information flows. Then a future-state map of how value should flow is created.
Description: This course provides a comprehensive review and working knowledge of key elements contained in ASQ's Certified Quality Manager and Certified Quality Improvement Associate bodies of knowledge and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Performance Excellence criteria. The course is designed to provide participants with the QM principles, techniques, tools, and skills for on-the-job application useful in a wide range of businesses and organizations—service, manufacturing, government, education, healthcare, etc.
Description: As organizations move toward team-based environments, employees at all levels must have an understanding of how teams work and how they can complement the overall quality and performance goals of the organization. In this four-day course, attendees gain an understanding of group dynamics and how they affect the success of teamwork. They also will learn facilitation skills to increase meeting effectiveness, including communication and conflict resolution techniques, and how to develop critical team roles and responsibilities.
Description: This three-day course helps build an integrated quality/business strategic plan that mutually complements both quality and business objectives by understanding the guiding principles for strategic quality planning, internal/external environmental analyses, implementation (matching culture and strategy), the role of leadership and vision, benchmarking, and the Baldrige Award strategic planning criteria.
This self-paced course can be taken at any time or in any location where the participant has access to a computer and an Internet connection. Participants have 60 days to complete the courses once they begin.
Description: A thorough knowledge of measurement science is key to maintaining quality standards. This course is designed to help participants master the principles and practices of metrology. It features basic to advanced topics, including an introduction to metrology, development and concerns, standards and standardization, setting up and managing a metrology system, and units of measure and instruments used in various parameters.


Spider Ring Math Manipulatives = FUN!
We are learning about spiders this week and I quickly came up with a little math activity to do during center time and my kids are loving it!
I grabbed some spider rings at our local Dollar Store and cut off the ring part on a few of them and my students are using them as manipulatives to find the missing part.
they have to write their four fact families.
The super cute spider clip art came from My Cute Graphics.


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