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Monday, June 28, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
We sharpen knives and scissors
We sharpen knives and scissors
Tuesdays
3:30pm–6:30pm at the corner of Monument Dr. and Government Center Pkwy.
Wednesdays
Parking lot of the National Realty Building
Corner of Reston Parkway and Sunrise Valley Drive
3:30pm–6:30pm
Also by appointment on location
Tuesdays
3:30pm–6:30pm at the corner of Monument Dr. and Government Center Pkwy.
Wednesdays
Parking lot of the National Realty Building
Corner of Reston Parkway and Sunrise Valley Drive
3:30pm–6:30pm
Also by appointment on location
Monday, April 12, 2010
hours of operation
on Tuesdays at:
11895 Grand Commons Avenue (next to the Lucy store)
Fairfax Corner
11:30am–2:30pm
Year-round
As of April 27 this market will run from 3:30pm–6:30pm and return to its previous outdoor location at the corner of Monument Dr. and Government Center Pkwy.
Wednesdays
Parking lot of the National Realty Building
Corner of Reston Parkway and Sunrise Valley Drive
3:30pm–6:30pm
Opens April 28
and maybe on Thursdays if I can get the Herndon town council to understand the benign nature of sharpening
Herndon Centre (Kmart)
Elden St., Herndon
3:30pm–6:30pm
Opens May 13
I am at Curran Fabrics in Mclean around the corner from Giants the first Wednesday (this) of the month where you can drop them off and pick them up at your leisure.
11895 Grand Commons Avenue (next to the Lucy store)
Fairfax Corner
11:30am–2:30pm
Year-round
As of April 27 this market will run from 3:30pm–6:30pm and return to its previous outdoor location at the corner of Monument Dr. and Government Center Pkwy.
Wednesdays
Parking lot of the National Realty Building
Corner of Reston Parkway and Sunrise Valley Drive
3:30pm–6:30pm
Opens April 28
and maybe on Thursdays if I can get the Herndon town council to understand the benign nature of sharpening
Herndon Centre (Kmart)
Elden St., Herndon
3:30pm–6:30pm
Opens May 13
I am at Curran Fabrics in Mclean around the corner from Giants the first Wednesday (this) of the month where you can drop them off and pick them up at your leisure.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The ARCH forum -Has the RA Already Picked Out It's New Furniture
What if Reston Citizens had line item veto? Would they veto higher dues at the expense of other high priority items that the RA cherishes? would they be willing to do with less. Maybe but RA would not!
None of this was addressed last night at ARCH as candidates rehashed same old same old same old. It struck me that the candidates and RA live in offices where they produce jargon on a daily basis to justify the continued existence of more of the same as the mainstay of there work.
One RA endorsed candidate got a nervous laugh when he suggested what if the RA had no where to go and were out on the curb? The existence of the RA is invested to the max in bloated organization which they want to get still bigger.
The RA has probably already picked out their new office furniture for the New Headquarters. Milton Mathew can only justify his $180,000 salary as Executive Director if he directs something. He would be against more citizen volunteering to actually do the real work at RA at the expense of the paid organization.
The typical ARCH member lives in a cluster where life is even more restricted then the RA. They are full of minute details and in several cases when allowed questions were alowed asked questions that in many cases could not even be understood and had to be re interpreted by the moderator in order to be addressed.
I wanted to ask the candidates (but was prevented by the ARCH moderator who was horfield that I did not want to participate on the forum) who would be for going over the budget and reducing item after item so as to be able to reduce the dues if it could be proved that this is what citizens want.
Even to ask the citizens is not on the agenda. Candidates spoke about communicate communicate communicate but with these guys it'll be the same old stuff. What are three things the RA dose well? What are ways to engage more citizens Robin asked.
The fact is the average citizen hates the institutional jargon and dose not want go to these things and dose not want more of it. They could care less if the RA had no where to go as long as they did not have to listen to it.
Perhaps such forums could serve as a kind of punishment with those who have conducted some kind of outrage and they would be condemned to sit and listen to it for long hours.
The ability of the RA to control the election is being calmly accepted by Reston Citizens who either don't know about it or have grown used to it. They can always just ignore it unless the RA chooses to do something extremely outrageous which it probally will.
None of this was addressed last night at ARCH as candidates rehashed same old same old same old. It struck me that the candidates and RA live in offices where they produce jargon on a daily basis to justify the continued existence of more of the same as the mainstay of there work.
One RA endorsed candidate got a nervous laugh when he suggested what if the RA had no where to go and were out on the curb? The existence of the RA is invested to the max in bloated organization which they want to get still bigger.
The RA has probably already picked out their new office furniture for the New Headquarters. Milton Mathew can only justify his $180,000 salary as Executive Director if he directs something. He would be against more citizen volunteering to actually do the real work at RA at the expense of the paid organization.
The typical ARCH member lives in a cluster where life is even more restricted then the RA. They are full of minute details and in several cases when allowed questions were alowed asked questions that in many cases could not even be understood and had to be re interpreted by the moderator in order to be addressed.
I wanted to ask the candidates (but was prevented by the ARCH moderator who was horfield that I did not want to participate on the forum) who would be for going over the budget and reducing item after item so as to be able to reduce the dues if it could be proved that this is what citizens want.
Even to ask the citizens is not on the agenda. Candidates spoke about communicate communicate communicate but with these guys it'll be the same old stuff. What are three things the RA dose well? What are ways to engage more citizens Robin asked.
The fact is the average citizen hates the institutional jargon and dose not want go to these things and dose not want more of it. They could care less if the RA had no where to go as long as they did not have to listen to it.
Perhaps such forums could serve as a kind of punishment with those who have conducted some kind of outrage and they would be condemned to sit and listen to it for long hours.
The ability of the RA to control the election is being calmly accepted by Reston Citizens who either don't know about it or have grown used to it. They can always just ignore it unless the RA chooses to do something extremely outrageous which it probally will.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
The ruling elite in RCC and RA do not want democracy. Lila Gordon don't want to put batteries in the boom boxes. don't matter if she looks stupid by insisting power cords are safe. I guarantee you if we could vote: do you want batteries or power cords by the pool 99% of people would vote for batteries.
She don't want suggestion boxes because she says of the environmental impact. There is no environmental impact from suggestion boxes. She don't want no suggestions.
She don't want people to use the shop. It's only open one day and one evening and let me tell you it's full up then. A lot of the rest of the time she's given it to some thespian group. Thespians belong in the theater not in the shop. Most of the time it's just closed. The original plan was to have a wood shop that people could use.
They used to have community pancake breakfasts but not no more.
Lila Gordon meet in secret sessions with the RA when they came up with this plan to build a massive rec center with 500 cars. That place would of been like RCC with no democracy.
The RA don't want no democracy either. They have their email list and they can send out whatever they like for what ever reason they want any time they want and they like it that way. They don't have to answer to no one just like they did in Snow gate.
I went to see them when they advertised for their communication committee. They told me no we can't have no two way communication because there is no mandate. Well then they then went out and started that magazine, which gives them still more power.
Power is infectious with hierarchies, democracy is not.
Vote for whoever you want to vote for. I can't say that I care whether I personally am elected but I do care if I live in a Democracy or not.
I care that people have to swim with live power cords dangling near the swimming pools or can use the wood shop without crowding like the originators of RCC intended.
She don't want suggestion boxes because she says of the environmental impact. There is no environmental impact from suggestion boxes. She don't want no suggestions.
She don't want people to use the shop. It's only open one day and one evening and let me tell you it's full up then. A lot of the rest of the time she's given it to some thespian group. Thespians belong in the theater not in the shop. Most of the time it's just closed. The original plan was to have a wood shop that people could use.
They used to have community pancake breakfasts but not no more.
Lila Gordon meet in secret sessions with the RA when they came up with this plan to build a massive rec center with 500 cars. That place would of been like RCC with no democracy.
The RA don't want no democracy either. They have their email list and they can send out whatever they like for what ever reason they want any time they want and they like it that way. They don't have to answer to no one just like they did in Snow gate.
I went to see them when they advertised for their communication committee. They told me no we can't have no two way communication because there is no mandate. Well then they then went out and started that magazine, which gives them still more power.
Power is infectious with hierarchies, democracy is not.
Vote for whoever you want to vote for. I can't say that I care whether I personally am elected but I do care if I live in a Democracy or not.
I care that people have to swim with live power cords dangling near the swimming pools or can use the wood shop without crowding like the originators of RCC intended.
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