Re: Hello all, just sharing a government themed greeting card, Thanks, Peter Duerr

[Peter Duerr]

Hi everyone,

In what I hope is not out of the realm of entries for this site, I would
like to share a parliament themed greeting card that was given to me
recently.

Hope the holidays are restful and pleasant,

Regards,

Peter Duerr
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> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:43:25 -0500
> From: Peter Duerr <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] A short summary of speech given by
> the former Mayor of Toronto, David Miller. Thanks, Peter Duerr
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I wanted to share with you a short summary of the recent and excellent
> lecture by the former Mayor of Toronto, David Miller, that was presented
> on Thursday 22nd November 2012 in the Life Sciences Building. The
> lecture was entitled "Nations Talk. Cities Act." and was jointed
> organized by IRIS ( Institute for Research in Sustainability ) and the
> Undergraduate Political Science Council. It was delivered to a packed
> house.
>
> It was an inspiring and interesting talk. One of the main themes was as
> more than half the world's citizens now live in cities, it will be
> necessary to develop solutions to humanity's economic, social, political
> and environmental/ sustainability problems in these urban areas. Mr.
> Miller emphasized that this is in part due to cities responding more
> speedily and more nimbly to present day challenges than many national
> governments. He felt that by working together, cities would be able to
> share their success stories in terms of projects that address persistent
> and urgent issues like unemployment, decaying infrastructure and the
> affects of climate change.
>
> It was to this end that he worked to get Toronto involved in the C 40
> Cities organization. It is a global network of world metropolises which
> began in 2005. The organization is dedicated to implementing policies
> and programs that result in the reduction of greenhouse gases and other
> climate risks. These  results were to be shared among the members. Here
> is the link to their website for further information:
> http://www.c40cities.org/
>
> Mr. Miller offered a case in point of how beneficial this sharing of
> best practices can be. He mentioned that at one of the  C 40 meetings,
> he was discussing landfills with the mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In that
> city, the city has harnessed and captured the gases from its enormous
> landfill whereby the gases are burned to produce electricity. The city
> uses this energy produced to cover 9 % of it electrical requirements;
> simultaneously it greatly reduces the environmental damage caused by the
> garbage site. While mayor, Mr. Miller began a similar project in Toronto
> which will be completed in 2013.
>
> Although there were numerous examples and subjects discussed in the
> presentation, one of the most striking concerned the large number of
> "concrete slab" high rises that can be found in the Toronto area. These
> buildings will last 100 years due to the strength and durability of the
> concrete but regrettably have almost no insulation qualities. This means
> that their heating and cooling energy requirements are quite high.
>
> In a innovation that nicely marries the diverse factors of social
> justice, sustainability and job creation, he described the following
> scenario.
>
> City engineers uncovered that if you clad the two ends of these concrete
> highrises and then add insulating materials between the cladding and the
> concrete, you will vastly increase the heating and cooling efficiency of
> those structures. It was estimated that it would require 30 workers to
> complete this type of retrofitting over a one year period. As these
> "concrete slab" buildings are often located in districts that have high
> levels of unemployment or underemployment, programs could be instituted
> to train the building residents to learn the necessary trades. There are
> about 1000 of these buildings in the Toronto Area; a significant number
> of qualified workers would be one result of these projects were such
> training programs developed. The costs associated with this project
> would be recouped by the energy savings in roughly seven years. As you
> can see, there would be successful outcomes on several fronts.
>
> In closing, it was very satisfying to attend a lecture by a former city
> leader that outlined a variety of deliverable projects that address
> pressing municipal issues, especially as Torontonians currently face a
> tumultuous and unproductive City Hall.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
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>>      2. G&M: Visualization - Gun control in America: A state-by-state
>>         breakdown (Tracey P. Lauriault)
>>      3. Re: G&M: Visualization - Gun control in America: A
>>         state-by-state breakdown (Glen Newton)
>>      4. Re: G&M: Visualization - Gun control in America: A
>>         state-by-state breakdown (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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>> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:04:16 -0500
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I contacted Ms. Grbic at IC because the new extension date was not
>> updated on their website. The correct date  is now in place.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Have a good holiday season all,
>>
>> Peter Duerr
>> York University
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>>>       1. Re: An aside on word clouds.... (James McKinney)
>>>       2. Re: An aside on word clouds.... (Glen Newton)
>>>       3. Re: An aside on word clouds.... (Peder Jakobsen)
>>>       4. Fwd: NOTICE OF EXTENSION: Canada's Information Commissioner
>>>          Extends the Dialogue on the Access to Information Act / AVIS DE
>>>          PROLONGATION : La commissaire ? l'information du Canada prolonge
>>>          le dialogue sur la Loi sur l'acc?s ? l'information
>>>          (Tracey P. Lauriault)
>>>       5. Fwd: Bilan 2012 et joyeuses f?tes de Qu?bec Ouvert
>>>          (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:36:40 -0500
>>> From: James McKinney <[hidden email]>
>>> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>, Glen
>>> Newton <[hidden email]>
>>> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] An aside on word clouds....
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>>> Second link should be http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml ?
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>>> On 2012-12-16, at 4:28 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
>>>
>>>> As someone who works in the areas of text analysis and information
>>>> visualization, I have seen a number of word clouds proudly associated
>>>> with blogs, reports and even various importanty govermenty documents.
>>>>
>>>> Here are two articles that fairly accurately describe my view of word clouds:
>>>> - 2011, "Word clouds considered harmful"
>>>> http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
>>>> "...Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little
>>>> inside..."
>>>> - 2005, "Tag clouds are the new mullets", https://www.lytro.com/camera
>>>>
>>>> The former is from the New York Times senior software architect, and
>>>> the latter I consider a gem of true foresight! :-)
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy,
>>>> Glen
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>>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:35:46 -0500
>>> From: Glen Newton <[hidden email]>
>>> To: James McKinney <[hidden email]>
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>>> Yes, apologies.
>>>     The risks of sending multiple emails at 0430.  :-(
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>>> -Glen  :-)
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>>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Second link should be http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml ?
>>>>
>>>> On 2012-12-16, at 4:28 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As someone who works in the areas of text analysis and information
>>>> visualization, I have seen a number of word clouds proudly associated
>>>> with blogs, reports and even various importanty govermenty documents.
>>>>
>>>> Here are two articles that fairly accurately describe my view of word
>>>> clouds:
>>>> - 2011, "Word clouds considered harmful"
>>>> http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
>>>> "...Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little
>>>> inside..."
>>>> - 2005, "Tag clouds are the new mullets", https://www.lytro.com/camera
>>>>
>>>> The former is from the New York Times senior software architect, and
>>>> the latter I consider a gem of true foresight! :-)
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy,
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
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>> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
>> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] G&M: Visualization - Gun control in
>> America: A state-by-state breakdown
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> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:16:21 -0500
> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Government: Data and Records Management
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> As a few government datasets trickle into our federal open data portal,
> millions of aboriginal residential school data are mismanaged, lost, or
> just plain not made available due to bureaucratic apathy combined with the
> decimation of our knowledge institution, archives.  Also, often this is the
> responsibility of government libraries which are being shut down and the
> records section of government institutions which are hard to find.
>
> You'd think there was some sort of records management system in place!
> Nope! The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a similar
> process in East Timor could do it, why can't we for our aboriginal Truth
> and Reconciliation Commission?
>
>   Ottawa balked at high cost of releasing residential school records
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-balked-at-high-cost-of-releasing-residential-school-records/article6550829/?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=The%20Globe%20and%20Mail&utm_type=text&utm_content=TheGlobeandMail&utm_campaign=100150853
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