Waterfont Toronto must speed Development - 'Big Mall' backroom deal dead

" ..with a consolidated effort by progressives that targets Jaye Robinson, Michelle Berardinetti, Karen Stintz and John Parker's ward constituents - organizes those progressive majorities against the Core Service Review cuts - this nightmare mayoralty could turn to an enlightened spring by Christmas!"

Councillors Jaye Robinson, Michelle Berardinetti, Karen Stintz and John Parker, the Star says (Ford gives up goal of seizing Port Lands), we're ready to split ranks on the Waterfront Toronto / Biggest Shopping Mall Ever! issue.

The Mayor's Office reacted quickly, compromise happened and now the call out of City Hall tomorrow will apparently be:  'Hurry up the spending, let's get the Waterfront Toronto vision in place quicker!!'.

So we go from a neo-con power grab, an insider real estate deal - to a Keynesian Infrastructure spending program.

Way to go Councillor Paula Fletcher!

A great victory if this passes council. She got everything she could have hoped for - and found a way for the Fordites to save a little face too.

So, it turns out Doug and Rob Ford are secret bicycle riding, pinko-Communists - possibly closet gays? 

Nope.

Tonight I'm checking out "#codeblueTO", the Twitter list tag that has evolved as an information clearing house on the Port Lands issue in Twitter. At 2:00 AM it was refreshing with 20 new hits every 5 minutes. Check it tomorrow as this news item hits the front porches and the broadcast morning news shows.

What this shows I think, is that this so called Mayor Ford City Council is really a centre dominated house of cards. On the Port Lands issue The Mayor's Office has chosen to fight one battle at a time - they've put out this fire with-in their ranks with this 'compromise'.

And the result is a complete victory for the process, and for the progressive agenda that is Waterfront Toronto - and Councillor Paula Fletcher who's Ward 30 includes the Port Lands.

The Ford brain-trust must consider that they will be lucky if the Core Services Review doesn't split them again. With out this 'step back' by The Mayor's Office the Core Service Review would be in danger. Cuts to services are more likely to pass with out a revolt because everyone's getting gored at the same time instead of everyone focused on one issue like The Portlands. The Core Service Review on the other hand, is about thousands of issues - perfect divide and rule ground for the Mayors Office and their corporate masters.. This is a likely scenario I think, and the strategic brillance of the Ford plan is that a raucous, divided council - each Councillor fighting to save services for their wards - would never find a common voice - and call the kettle black. The Mayor Office must hope that Council would never unite around the progessive idea that spending on infrastructure - with money already approved from the Federal and Provincial levels (for Transit City and the Port Lands) will increase the cities tax base and negate the on-going deficient problem. - with NO cuts in services.

You know - Keynesian economics, rather that neo-con slash and burn reactionary policies designed to appeal to the ignorant, guilt ridden, knee-jerk, first time electors who voted for this idiot.


My point being, with a consolidated effort by progressives that targets Jaye Robinson, Michelle Berardinetti, Karen Stintz and John Parker's ward constituents - organizes those progressive majorities against the Core Service Review cuts --- this nightmare mayoralty could turn to an enlightened spring by Christmas!

Ya think?. Are there other 'tippy' canoes out there?



mh

A Real Time Graphic of Micro Loans and Repayment Rendered on a Map of Earth.

$25.00 Kiva loan transactions. 620,000 lenders - 615,000 entrepreneurs, from 2005 to 2011

Big this up to full screen, sit back and prepare to be amazed!!







I'd like to see this kind of transparency in the general global economy.


Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo.

Via 'Todd Tyrtle' at fb.


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Minima III Baseball Scorecard - Build 4 (3 X 3 TEST)

This was originally published at one of my other blogs, the extra wide Blogger Baseball Scorecard. The image below shows the new scorecard's lay out in build 4, to experience the interactivity of the new coding you should go to the site.

Had to take a break from coding for a while - the last time I published on the Minima III Baseball Scorecard project was on July 7th 2011.

Publishing code inside of the Blogger Interface poses tricky problems - everything can be working perfectly when one checks one's work in one's browser - taking the code into Blogger creates some default issues that need to be solved.

Back on July 7th I presented a 2 row, by 2 column example of the Minima III Scorecard that inexplicably stretched the table at certain points. That has been fixed. As well, only Microsoft IE 9 and newer support the Base Icon buttons (if you're in an earlier MS browser you see "&" instead of diamonds).

I have been unable so far, to fix the way MS renders the green Field Icon over-top of the 2nd Base and 3rd Base text areas - despite 'z-index' attributes. As a stop-gap, I created space between each row of AB boxes to remind Internet Explorer users that they have to click above the 2nd Base and 3rd Base text areas to get a prompt cursor in them.

Image of the Minima III Baseball Scorecard example coding - rendered with the HTML5 compliant browser, Firefox 5. Via Blogger Baseball Scorecard

This coding is working great! All the sides of the diamond can be coloured 9 different ways via pop-up menu that open with a click on any of the 4 Bases.

Every space on the scorecard is live, ready for text. In all of the text areas, scroll bars open automatically when you create more lines than there is space for in each area - so you can write as much as you like. As many game-notes as you need - positioned where they belong, at the precise point in the time-line schematic where the action is happening!



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