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I am going to reply now since apparently this is the third time you posted
it. It must be obvious that I can see it now. Very interesting.
Shires that elect councillers that elect a President.

I often wondered about the shire suffix. Worcestershire, Lincolnshire,
Ayrshire, etc. But not enough to look it up until now.

shire: an administrative subdivision; especially : a county in England
saw a show where you number your schools (in NYC anyway). Public School
No. 163 was the school on a Law and Order episode.

I could care less what they do in NYC. NYC could be in Australia as far as
I care. The Public School No. 163 fighting Tornados. LOL We are big on
names for school athletics, the MOC Dutchmen and the Spencer Tigers.

In the heartland, most school districts have a name and a number. MOC-Floyd
Valley Community School District 4149, Spencer Community School District
6102, Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6. About the only time that
you need to know the number is at income tax time so you can fill in the
blank for what school district you live in on the state income tax form.
School districts get the property tax money. School districts have School
Boards that wisely spend the tax dollars. I know this because I am an
official Federal/Colorado tax payer. Oh yea, and an official property tax
payer.

I went to grade school, Kindergarten through Fourth Grade at Maurice-Orange
City Elementary School (Orange City consolidated with Maurice in 1960
something) in Orange City, Iowa. When we moved to Spencer, IA in 1964 I
went to Johnson Elementary School for Grades 4-5, Lincoln Elementary School
Grade 6, Spencer Junior High School Grades 7-9 (now they call it Spencer
Middle School and it's 7-8) and Spencer High School Grades 10-12 (now 9-12)
all in the Spencer Community School District. Big on naming elementary
schools after Presidents. Now I think they name them after whoever donated
the most money, like pro sports stadiums.

Spencer also has one parochial school; Sacred Heart Catholic Elementary
School, K-6.

I don't know about other states, but in Iowa consolidating/merging school
districts has been going on hot and heavy for 30 years. In the small towns,
the population/tax base has been dwindling and they have to merge several
school districts together to get enough tax money to run the schools.

As an example, in 1994 MOC (where I attended K-4) reorganized to form
MOC-Floyd Valley Community School District . Serving the Iowa communities of
Alton, Granville, Hospers, Maurice, Newkirk, & Orange City. That's six
little towns and they have to bus the students all over the place.

In Greeley, CO where I live now the high schools are Greeley Central High
School, Greeley West High School, Colorado High School of Greeley,
Northridge High School, Weld Opportunity High School, Trademark Learning
Center and Union Colony Charter High School. Greeley-Evans Weld County
School District 6. Greeley's population is around 89,000. The town of
Greeley was originally organized as the Union Colony in 1869 as an
experimental utopian community of "high moral standards" by Nathan C.
Meeker, a newspaper reporter from New York City. The name Union Colony was
later changed to Greeley in honor of Horace Greeley (who was Meeker's editor
at the New York Tribune). Evans is like a suburb of Greeley, but not
really. A lot of businesses, etc. are named Union Colony This or That.

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David Candy said:
All our states have minor differences.

Land is described by which parish in which county it is. EG Sydney is is
the County of Cumberland. This is not local government. This is just a
way to descrbe location. Our old farm previously known as the Bondi
Estate, today known as the suburbs of Bondi and Bondi Beach (Australia's
most famous surburb), is in the Parish of Alexandria in the County of
Cumberland. Today it's local government is known as Waverly Muncipal
Council.
Note above is based on Anglician (known in USA as Epicostal Church or in
England as Church of England) not Catholic (as in Louisiana) concepts.

Local government has three different names in my state. The three are the
same except in name. A few local governments directly elect a mayor but
one has to apply to the state government to direct elect a mayor. We
generally believe in corporate governence. Local government draws
sovereignty from the state government which draws theirs from the Queen.

The three are

Shires that elect councillers that elect a President.
Municipal Councils that elect alderman that elect a Mayor
City Councils that elect alderman that elect a Lord Mayor
There were county councils - they were electricity (and in rural areas
also water) supply companies owned by more than one council/shire. Most
of these are now corporatised and have names now like Energy Australia
(that supplies electricity to half of sydney - they have grandiose plans
with the Australia bit).

I live in Randwick City Council near the border with Waverly Muncipal
Council (the farmhouse for the Bondi Estates were in Randwick). Randwick
is bounded in the east by the Pacific Ocean/Tasman Sea, in the south by
Botany Bay (Port Botany/Botany Bay is Sydney's main commercial harbour
not Sydney Harbour/Port Jackson, however it is ugly compared to Sydney
Harbour), in the north by Waverly Muncipal Council, in the south west by
Botany City Council, and in the north west by the City Of Sydney. When I
was born both Randwick and Botany were muncipal councils.

Most people would be happy to have appointed local government. As all
local government is corrupt. I only support becoming a republic so long
as the president is appointed not elected, ie what is now a Governor
General just changes it's name to President.

Shires were meant to be rural areas, but some shires are no longer rural
but stay shires for tradition. There are two shires in the Sydney area.

Cities were meant to be the main part of the capital (sydney has lots of
councils). The City of Sydney is just the CBD district. Country towns
with a population of more than 25 000 are also cities. However many
muncipal councils changed to City Councils cause the Mayor becomes a Lord
Mayor. See below for bullshit as to why.

From Australian Govt Style Manual
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

In local government there is a variety of titles: Mayor, President,
Alderman, Councillor.

The lord mayors of Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and
Sydney have the title

The Right Honourable attached to their offices but not to their names.
There is no related

honorific for their spouses. The titles Alderman and Councillor do not
change if the lord mayor

is a woman. The lord mayors of Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney are aldermen,
in Adelaide and

Perth they use only the conventional title (Mr etc.); the lord mayor of
Melbourne is councillor.

The lord mayors of Darwin, Newcastle and Wollongong are addressed as 'The
Right

Worshipful the Lord Mayor of …'

The lady mayoress, wife of a lord mayor, is addressed as 'The Lady
Mayoress of …'

The mayor of Geelong is addressed as 'The Right Worshipful the Mayor of
Geelong'. Mayors

of other cities are addressed as 'His (or Her) Worship the Mayor of …'
The mayoress, wife of

a mayor, is addressed as 'The Mayoress of …'

A Shire President is addressed as 'The Shire President'.

An alderman, man or woman, is addressed as 'Alderman …' Similarly, a
councillor is addressed

as 'Councillor …'

I once asked Kelly what an electorate or seat was called in the US. It
took about three hours for her to understand the question. Technically at
the federal level they are known as the Division of Whereever (for me
Division of Wentworth). You call them Congressional District No. 51. I
saw a show where you number your schools (in NYC anyway). Public School
No. 163 was the school on a Law and Order episode. I went to Harcourt
Infants School (years K, 1, & 2), Campsie Public School (years 3 - 6),
and two high schools (years 7 - 12), one public (Belmore Boys High
School) and one private methodist school.

Your unions also like to number themselves too I notice. We aren't big on
numbers in Australia prefering names.



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Wesley Vogel said:
No, I didn't see it. I hate it when a long reply gets deleted. For me
it's usually something that took a while to type and of course I never
saved a copy.

It didn't make it to Google either.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...nsubject:prompt&rnum=1&hl=en#58a6e673caca3a92

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the magna carta and such. Louisiana is based on Napoleonic something
or other and they have parishes and not counties like the other 49
states.

Do you have counties in Australia?

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In David Candy <.> hunted and pecked:
Your states quote King James in the Supreme court often as he set the
boundaries and water rights etc for those 13 rebel terrorist colonies.

While George W (no nor Bush but ashington) wasn't a terrorist the
other theatre did use terror to make the population, which was mostly
loyal to the crown, give up. The British didn't realise that terror
was going to be employed and didn't protect the population. Terror
can be quite effective.
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LOL I had to read your message twice to see the "The you below was
to a pom." Because I am pretty certain that we have not had a queen
here for a couple of hundred years. ;-)

I learned all about pommies from the movie Quigley Down Under.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102744/

My favorite lines...
Elliott Marston: [O'Flynn and Dobkin prepare Quigley for an
old-fashioned duel] I seem to remember you're not too familiar with
Colonel Colt's revolver, so this will be your first lesson. Don't
worry. Mr Dobkin and Mr. O'Flynn will ensure that it's a fair
contest. <snip>
Matthew Quigley: [Quigley shoots Dobkin, O'Flynn and Marston before
they can even aim their guns, then walks up to a dying Marston] I
said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to
use it.

Quigley Down Under is one of my favorite, er.............. Westerns.

Who says my education has been pedestrian?

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In David Candy <.> hunted and pecked:
I've explained it a few times in the last 5 days. The you below was
to a pom.

Daylight saving was extended by one week for your crappy Empire
Games being held in the colony of Victoria. The queen (ours -
Elizabeth the Second, Queen Of Australia and Her other Realms - and
yours) couldn't be bothered to stay for longer than one day.
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That's correct. I'm not responsible for our state governments
refusing to obey MS. Nor am I responsible for the Empire games (of
which I saw NUFFIN of) which caused DST to be extended by a week.
But the games ended on Sunday.

I was also the first to point out problems with Sydney 2000 DST
dates. Which started in winter - that was wierd.

I could type timezone as I have resource kit installed. But I think
dates shouldn't change.
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Has Australia gone to Daylight Saving Time now or something? Your
clock is messed up.

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In David Candy <.> hunted and pecked:
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /sos /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Bootlog" /fastdetect /bootlog /sos /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Safe Mode" /fastdetect /safeboot:minimal

This is my boot.ini. It matches the first path found, all three
options above have the same path so it will take the switches for
the first. The switch you want is /noguiboot (it's not in my
list). You can script it with
a/ the copy command - note boot.ini needs it attributes changed to
be able to copy over it
b/ bootcfg program - type it in help.
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Choose Command Prompt only from the boot menu.

You and Wesley hit on the same idea....is there a way to force
this start mode without user interaction, then clear it later?
In Win 98 I can use MSDOS.SYS (bootgui=0) to do this, and in XP
I was hoping for a similar BOOT.INI setting.

-John O
 
This is the _second_ time that I am going to post this. I snipped it this
time, maybe now it'll get through. I sent it once this morning.

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I am going to reply now since apparently this is the third time you posted
it. It must be obvious that I can see it now. Very interesting.
Shires that elect councillers that elect a President.

I often wondered about the shire suffix. Worcestershire, Lincolnshire,
Ayrshire, etc. But not enough to look it up until now.

shire: an administrative subdivision; especially : a county in England
saw a show where you number your schools (in NYC anyway). Public School
No. 163 was the school on a Law and Order episode.

I could care less what they do in NYC. NYC could be in Australia as far as
I care. The Public School No. 163 fighting Tornados. LOL We are big on
names for school athletics, the MOC Dutchmen and the Spencer Tigers.

In the heartland, most school districts have a name and a number. MOC-Floyd
Valley Community School District 4149, Spencer Community School District
6102, Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6. About the only time that
you need to know the number is at income tax time so you can fill in the
blank for what school district you live in on the state income tax form.
School districts get the property tax money. School districts have School
Boards that wisely spend the tax dollars. I know this because I am an
official Federal/Colorado tax payer. Oh yea, and an official property tax
payer.

I went to grade school, Kindergarten through Fourth Grade at Maurice-Orange
City Elementary School (Orange City consolidated with Maurice in 1960
something) in Orange City, Iowa. When we moved to Spencer, IA in 1964 I
went to Johnson Elementary School for Grades 4-5, Lincoln Elementary School
Grade 6, Spencer Junior High School Grades 7-9 (now they call it Spencer
Middle School and it's 7-8) and Spencer High School Grades 10-12 (now 9-12)
all in the Spencer Community School District. Big on naming elementary
schools after Presidents. Now I think they name them after whoever donated
the most money, like pro sports stadiums.

Spencer also has one parochial school; Sacred Heart Catholic Elementary
School, K-6.

I don't know about other states, but in Iowa consolidating/merging school
districts has been going on hot and heavy for 30 years. In the small towns,
the population/tax base has been dwindling and they have to merge several
school districts together to get enough tax money to run the schools.

As an example, in 1994 MOC (where I attended K-4) reorganized to form
MOC-Floyd Valley Community School District . Serving the Iowa communities of
Alton, Granville, Hospers, Maurice, Newkirk, & Orange City. That's six
little towns and they have to bus the students all over the place.

In Greeley, CO where I live now the high schools are Greeley Central High
School, Greeley West High School, Colorado High School of Greeley,
Northridge High School, Weld Opportunity High School, Trademark Learning
Center and Union Colony Charter High School. Greeley-Evans Weld County
School District 6. Greeley's population is around 89,000. The town of
Greeley was originally organized as the Union Colony in 1869 as an
experimental utopian community of "high moral standards" by Nathan C.
Meeker, a newspaper reporter from New York City. The name Union Colony was
later changed to Greeley in honor of Horace Greeley (who was Meeker's editor
at the New York Tribune). Evans is like a suburb of Greeley, but not
really. A lot of businesses, etc. are named Union Colony This or That.

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David Candy said:
See if you can see above one which is third time posted.

<snip>
 
I canna see a name like greeley being an improvement on anything.

The thing I can't handle is naming ships after Presidents. USS Any P. Name just doesn't work for me. Our subs are named after navel heros but we only use their last names, no first or initials.
 
The US navy is so nice. They even provide targeting infomation. In the cold war they (the free market loving Evil Empire and the freedom loving Communists) set up massive intelligence centres to do this. Now you just use the web.

Perhaps you should read the mini essay in my sig on why the Iraqi war is probably lost. Untill people like Media Liason Units, Media Advisors, and similar (anything that spins or lies) get out of the way the war will be lost and it will be lost in America not in Iraq. This is because Americians will get tired of being lied to.
 
Horizon Lines not the Navy. Although the government is involved, NOAA.

All of this is for gathering weather information. As a byproduct you can
track individual ships that are part of the Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS)
Scheme and the YOTREPS network of cruising yachts.

VOS - The WMO Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) Scheme
http://vos.noaa.gov/vos_scheme.shtml

YOTREPS Offshore Reports
http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/index.php

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We had really good waves last week from Cyclone Wattie. Why would anything not a Navy ship go to Guam.
 
Container ship. They have to eat on Guam.

All the Horizon ships just sail in a big circle, unloading and loading
containers.

Horizon Enterprise sails from TACOMA, WA - OAKLAND, CA - LOS ANGELES, CA -
HONOLULU, HI - KAHULUI, HI - NAWILIWILI, HI - KAWAIHAE, HI - HILO, HI -
SAIPAN - GUAM - HONG KONG - KAOHSUING, TAIWAN - TACOMA, WA and around and
around like the Flying Dutchman.

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Give an island a container ship you feed it for a day, give an island a fishing rod you feed it for life.
 
:-)

Those folks may also want all the other cheap goods that everyone else
wants. No Wal-Marts on Guam, yet.

This thread is living on borrowed time, my message rules are about to delete
it with the 7 day rule.

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