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Memorial for cyclist marred by SFPD harassment
A memorial and informational event this morning at the 6th and Folsom corner where a bicyclist was fatally run over by a truck last week was marred by a tense and unsettling confrontation with an SFPD sergeant who showed up to block the bike lane with his cruiser, lecture the cyclists, and blame the victim.
The event was organized by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to raise awareness of the incident and that dangerous intersection and to call for the city to make improvements. It included friends and co-workers of 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac, who was riding in the Folsom Street bike lane on the morning of Aug. 14 when an unidentified delivery truck driver turned right onto 6th Street, across her path, and ran her over.
SFPD Sgt. Dennis Toomer tells the Guardian that the department has completed the traffic incident report, information from which can only be shared with the parties involved, but that the investigation of the fatality is still ongoing and will be forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for review once it's done.
But SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum said that SFPD Sgt. Richard Ernst, who showed up at the event a little before 9am, had already drawn his own conclusions about the crash and showed up to make his apparent disdain for "you people," bicyclists, disturbingly clear.
Shahum said that she tried to be diplomatic with Ernst and asked him to please move his patrol car out of the bike lane and into an available parking space that was right next to it, saying that it presented an unnecessary hazard to bicyclists riding past.
But she said Ernst refused to do so for almost 10 minutes, telling the group that he has "a right" to leave his car than and that he was "making the point that bicyclists need to move around" cars parked in bike lanes, according to Shahum's written account, which she prepared to file a report about the incident with the Office of Citizens Complaints.
"He then told me explicitly that he 'would not leave until' I 'understood' that 'it was the bicyclist's fault.' This was shocking to hear, as I was told just a day ago by Commander [Mikail] Ali that the case was still under investigation and no cause had yet been determined," Shahum wrote.
And apparently Ernst didn't stop at denouncing Le Moullac for causing her own death, in front of people who are still mourning that death. Shahum said Ernst also blamed the other two bicyclist deaths in SF this year on the cyclists, and on "you people" in the SFBC for not teaching cyclists how to avoid cars.
"I told him the SF Bicycle Coalition does a significant amount of safety work educating people biking and driving about sharing the road, and that I'd be happy to share more information with him. I again urged him to move his car out of the bike lane. He again refused, saying it was his right and he wasn't moving until I 'understood,'" Shahum wrote.
Shahum said there were multiple witness to the incident, including three television reporters who were there to cover the event.
"In addition to the Sgt's inappropriate and dangerous behavior of parking his car in the bike lane and blocking safe passage for people bicycling by, it was deeply upsetting to see him unnecessarily disrupt and add tension to what was already an emotional and difficult time for many people who lamented this sad loss of life," Shahum wrote.
Asked about the actions and attitudes expressed today by Ernst, who we could not reach for comment, Sgt. Toomer told us he "cannot talk about personnel issues."
Compounding Ernst's insensitive and judgmental approach today, it also appears the SFPD may have failed to properly investigate this incident, which Shahum and the SFBC have been tracking closely, and she said the SFPD told her that there were no video surveillance tapes of the collision.
After today's event, SFBC's Marc Caswell decided to check in at businesses on the block to see if they had any video cameras aimed at the intersection, and he found an auto body business at the intersection whose workers said they did indeed have revealing footage of the crash that the SFPD hasn't requested, but which SFBC today delivered to investigators.
"He had the time to come harass us as a memorial, but he didn't have the time to see if anyone had footage of this incident. It's very unsettled," Shahum told us.
Whoever was ultimately at fault in this collision and others that have injured or killed bicyclists in San Francisco, today's confrontation demonstrates an unacceptable and dangerous insensitivity and animosity toward bicyclists in San Francisco, which was also on display in the comments to the post that I wrote last week about the incident.
It's fine to debate what happens on the streets of San Francisco, and you can even harbor resentments toward bicyclists and believe that we deserve your ire. But when you endanger people's lives to make a point, or when you threaten violence against vulnerable road users, then you've gone too far.
Yes, let's talk about what happens on the roads and how to improve behaviors, but let's not forget our humanity in the process.
position. We do not yet know whether this accident was the fault of the driver or the cyclist, or perhaps just a genuine no-fault accident. Yet reading Steven here and SF Streetsblog, it is clear that the bike lobby have already made up their mind.
Civility starts with respect for the police and, having met a number of people in SFBC, and encountered their strident, often shrieky demeanor, it would not shock me if Shahum didn't show appropriate respect for authority.
Oh, and a police car can go wherever it wants in the pursuit of law enforcement, and that includes bike lanes and bus lanes.
"respect for the police", "appropriate respect for authority","police car can go wherever it wants in the pursuit of law enforcement"
What do these phrases have in common?
They are the ramblings of the perfect subject of the authoritarian police state.
Oh, by the way, the article makes clear that the police were not in pursuit when they decided to block the bike lane to make their point about their unaccountable power, innocent bike riders be damned.
We'll park our car where we want because we are the police and we'll fuck you up if you stand up to us.
In the words of the above commenter, bah. eieio
as close to the demonstration as possible.
If you call the cops because your house is being robbed, do you want the cops to circle around until they find a legal parking spot?
No, didn't think so.
One case is an emergency, the other is not. I don't mind cops parking wherever they want when responding to an emergency. But we've all seen cops just plow through stop signs and blatantly disregard speed limits even when there is no emergency. I've seen them lazily cruise along and run stop signs at will, and we all know it's just to give the public a big, long middle finger. We're cops, and we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Go take your hate out on - I don't know - criminals?
I know I have no credibility with *you* personally, troll. But I'm not writing for *you*, you don't speak for "here" in the general sense, so I don't give a shit what you think.
nobody will take any notice of you when you post on that topic because you are a broken record with a documented history of bias and prejudice.
One single article about a single incident does not = down on cops all the time.
The primary flaw in the logic applied by the 'Guest' and 'anon' who are trying to refute the article, is that they frame the police as victims whose perspective continually are not allowed to voice their points of view in public debates such as these.
On the contrary, it is typically the Police perspective that is typically regarded as the ONLY perspective which is credible, and opinions of non-authority figures (read: regular citizens) are seen as less important.
It is healthy to question every point of view that is presented to you, regardless of origin, but it is imperative that we try to understand the context as well as societal prejudices that we bring to the table before we can truly assess the situation.
Plenty of officers both support bikes and are bicyclists themselves; it was clear -to me at least- that the author's intent was never to disparage all law enforcement personnell
I cannot recall a single time you have ever expressed support for a cop here.
Therefore the fact that you disapprove of the cop's behaviour here is irrelevant because of previously established bias on the topic.
I don't think you even ride a bike or care about cycling. you just leap on any opportunity to be down on cops.
Shame on you.
expressed support for cops. He is too modest to admit to his community activism in support of underweight cops. That is, his foundation entitled, "Skinny Cop, Free Donuts".
On the other hand, I never recall a single time that anon expressed support for working class people (especially food servers) or blacks or "hispanics".
Since the vast majority of people are working class or black or hispanic or food servers, anon's comments are irrelevant here.
Your commentary is a broken record of bootlicking memes in sycophantic praise of authority, so I think your credibility is pretty shot.
I am actually an avid cyclist. I'm not always on the bike side of the debate though. I think there are rude motorists, rude bicyclists, and pedestrians who abuse their privileged position under the law. I think all the sides make some good (and bad) points, but I'll tell you, the trolls on this site (read: YOU) are such a ridiculous caricatures of themselves, that it's hard not to come down squarely on the side of the bikers after reading some of the outrageous things you post.
what Greg posted about cops, but here you are, taking notice. Do you ever remember what you post, or is that another "anon"? Or is it, as I expect, that in your rush to attack and say anything to elicit a reaction, you often do not realize what you have posted before?
One can easily turn your claim that what Greg posts here is irrelevant due to his bias toward you and your posts.
massive, hateful bias against cops, so that they would not read his criticism of cops here as having any bearing in truth.
He's simply an opportunistic cop hater.
and are now trying to make an excuse for your faulty logic and actions by stating you wanted to "make sure other readers were aware" of Greg's supposed hatred of the cops. Fail.
that Greg had credibility and objectivity on this issue.
He does not. QED.
Everyone knows that a boot-licking toady does not have any objectivity either.
Greg has no credibility and objectivity on this issue? They need you to tell them what to think? Are you not always complaining about how progressives are telling people how to think?
I can tell you that from reading your comments on this thread, I do not think you have any credibility or objectivity on the issue. However, I will let others come to their own decisions about that, risk or not.
I think that you are a boot-licking cop-loving toady that has no business telling anyone, least of all progressives, what they should think about anything.
that I am obsessed with the man and want nothing more on this earth than to drink his piss.
One single article
He's a broken record.
It's a bootlicking sycophantic screed.
hateful, snide and hopelessly partisan.
But at least I support law and order.
You are a boot-licking toady.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Just what the city needs.
Go brush your teeth. Your breath stinks you boot licking toady.
Your are so ignorant that you don't even know who Patrick Henry is. He was one of the founders of our Country, you boot-licking toady.
I am sure that this will work and many visitors will think that same thing!
many of us do pay attention to what greg is saying, some because he is consistent with his distrust of cops
a person who doesn't like cops has good reasons for this . cops are becoming more and more arrogant and militarized not only in their approach to crime, but in their approach to everyone who is not a cop . many of us have seen the long side of their batons for daring to speak out ... not for committing crimes
many of us have seen the inside of jails not for committing crimes, but because some jerk cop felt like 'teaching us a lesson' about daring to exercise our constitutional right to question their authority ... not different to what ernst did in this situation
ernst proved himself a bully . he acted like a bully . he abused his power as a cop to do this, which is not only wrong but actually a violation of his oath
with all the evidence at our fingertips which proves that, in general, cops are not to be trusted, having a bias against cops is way more reasonable than not having that bias : even supposedly 'good' cops will not step up to protect an innocent person from abuse by a bad cop . that makes 'em both bad, in case you cannot process that type of logic
reasonable? Well, gee, I'm shocked.
But I'm sure you won't be shocked to hear that I'd value more the opinions of people who don't get on the wrong side of the law.
Cop-haters undermine our safety and our society. I have encountered nothing but civility and service from our police. Could it be that maybe I treat them with respect and so get respect back? Whereas you get in their face and, not surprisingly, they respond adversely?
I have never been accused or convicted of a crime and have never in any way fallen on the wrong side of the law, and I think that you have consistently come across as a banal broken record, someone who will bludgeon one trifling point with such stubbornness that by the end he isn't even saying anything, just hurling insults.
Never once have I run afoul of police, besides a ticket for an expired inspection sticker in which the officer was incredibly respectful and even expressed a lighthearted sense of humor. But as a counterweight to this, every single day I see police cruisers run stop signs, park illegally with no sign of emergency, run red lights without even bothering to (illegally) turn their lights on just for that purpose, and abuse every privilege they are given in the name of actually protecting the people or pursuing criminals. Once I saw a cop pull up to a red light and cross the stop line, blocking the crosswalk, which a pedestrian was actually trying to cross at that moment. He blocked the guy's path and made him stop in the middle of the road while he edged slowly out into the intersection, and then after all that, flat-out ran the light which was still red. No lights, no sirens.
I live by the law every single day and I see police officers not doing the same. They don't even bother to pretend there's cause anymore. Do I think these are all police? No. But as long as a single cop thinks he or she can act with complete disregard for the law, then sadly, it doesn't matter that there are good cops. Because that one is out there needlessly endangering people and eroding the good will of the community.
I can't believe that you call yourself an avid cyclist, but you are on here childishly insulting the author and everyone who disagrees with you, ignoring the fact that A COP WAS HARRASSING CYCLISTS AT THE MEMORIAL OF A DEAD CYCLIST. That is completely indefensible.
To bad that we must read this kind of sad stories. The article is somehow interesting!
Soooo, "Guest"; apparently you feel YOU are the arbiter of credibility. Let me disabuse you of that delusion -- you're not. AND you're wrong in what you're saying. Police do NOT have that level of all-encompassing authority, and in the example HERE, the cop was 100% wrong. ESPECIALLY since he was DOING it to make a political point.
"But we've all seen cyclists just plow through stop signs and blatantly disregard speed limits even when there is no emergency. I've seen them lazily cruise along and run stop signs at will, and we all know it's just to give the public a big, long middle finger".
You accidentally substituted "cops" for "cyclists" Greg. Fixed it for you.
pet hates, like with cops, Asians, Christians and anyone who is successful.
Cyclists are ticketed at a relative rate of several times motorists, yet the cops get to break the law without any justification, because they feel like it at the time with no accountability.
Public safety employees should follow a work plan that is more detailed than "do whatever you please." Resources are scarce and we need to be smart about policing. The SFPD has proven that they are incompetent at that.
transgress the law more. That is certainly the perception of many San Franciscans. For a start, they never stop at a stop sign.
Where the heck did you get that cyclists are ticketed at a rate of several times motorists? Just because your friends get ticketed for running red lights and stop signs does not mean that it happens at a rate more often than motorists.
Bullshit. "Cyclists are ticketed at a relative rate of several times motorists". Only 1% of the tickets written by SFPD in 2011 went to bicyclists.
Does anyone really trust the SFPD to tell the truth? Seriously?
invited people to express their trust in and support for SFPD, it would be a very high approval number. Certainly higher than one for, say, the progressives who like to constantly undermine those who protect us.
Only boot licking toady's like you support SFPD.
The police officers that people criticize are not those who protect us. They are the ones who use their position as one giant fringe benefit, as a means to be above the law themselves, and as a means to have power over the people around them and use that power any way they feel like. They give the police who ARE there to protect us a bad name. I don't understand why you are on here trolling this board and blaming the people who are angry about this incident, when the ones creating a bad name for the police are in the police force.
The job of the police force is to protect and to serve. Not themselves - everyone. It is not to yell at people gathered for a memorial and tell them that their dead friend is to blame, without even pretending that they are there for a matter of public safety. A police officer has no business pulling up to any gathering and expressing a personal opinion. They are public employees on the job. There was not even a pretense that anyone was breaking a law, or a rule, or acting unsafely, or anything that would give an officer cause to intervene.
It doesn't matter how you feel about him blocking a bike lane. The officer stopped and took time out of his job to make a personal argument that had no bearing on law or safety, and that is a misuse of municipal time and money. This is a government employee wasting tax dollars and getting paid to not do his actual job.
How do you know there is no emergency????
the questions you pose to other commenters on their behalf.
Or do you just talk to yourself online?
I'm sorry the truth is inconvenient for your preferred ideological narrative.
There was a parking spot *right* next to where he double-parked in the bike lane. And it was not an emergency: he even said he was there because, by his own twisted logic, he was trying to show everyone that see, bicyclists can indeed going around a car in the bike lane.
There was a parking spot *right* next to where he double-parked in the bike lane. And it was not an emergency: he even said he was there because, by his own twisted logic, he was trying to show everyone that see, bicyclists can indeed going around a car in the bike lane.
But it was a situation judged to warrant attention and intervention.
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Scrappy's Bitters/
Scrappy's Bitters first hit the bitters scene in 2008 when it wasn't the crowded market it's become today, and they have only grown more successful since that time. Part of their success can be attributed to their commitment to organic ingredients and no artificial flavors or colors. Scrappy's "craft" bitters are perfect representations of the ingredients they contain along with a balance of carefully selected herbs and spices. We mixed up a few of their recommendations, one classic cocktail and two original cocktails from influential West Coast bartenders.
Dr. Girlfriend
(recipe from Phil Thompson, of Tavern Law)
1.25 oz Gin
.5 oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
.5 oz Aperol
.75 oz Grapefruit Juice
.5 oz Lemon Juice
Float Scrappy's Lavender Bitters
Add all ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake for 15-30 seconds. Double-strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Better Part of Valor
(recipe from Allison Weber)
1.5 oz Weste Bourne Navy Strength Gin
1 oz Cocchi Americano
.75 oz Amaro Nonino
1/8 oz Fernet
2 dashes of Scrappy's Grapefruit Bitters
Add all ingredients to cocktail mixing glass filled with ice. Stir for 30-45 seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
1 oz Old Tom Gin
2 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Scrappy's Orange Bitters
1/8 oz Maraschino
Add all ingredients to cocktail mixing glass filled with ice. Stir for 30-45 seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.


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Code optimization not necessary?
I just watched a short presentation by Douglas Crockford where he said that the benefits of optimizing JS were insignificant. His reasoning was that the DOM is so inefficient and spends so much time rendering layout, style, etc, that it negates the benefits of optimizing code. Is this true?
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Have you heard the phrase about premature optimization being the root of all evil? Before optimizing, figure out where the slowdowns and bottlenecks are, so that your optimizations can then be effectively targeted at dealing with the actual problem that is being faced.Programming Group Advisor
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If Douglas Crockford, who knows more about Javascript then anyone...say it is so then that probably means it is true?Logic without the fatal effects.
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Just because it makes no significant difference to run times does not mean that there is no point in applying optimisations to javaScript.
Where the optimised version is just as quick to write and just as easy to read as the unoptimised version then using the optimised version still makes sense.
Where the optimised version results in less typing and easier to read code then there is even less reason for using the alternative.
Often using a slightly better optimised version means that you are using code that is easier to read and maintain.
There are of course also a lot of optimisations that would make the code run slightly faster but which make the code far harder to read and understand - these should always be avoided as readability is far more significant than speed with JavaScript.
So for example I'd reference the first data row in a table using:
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Today, 48-year-old Craig Johnson was convicted on all three charges that he faced, including first degree murder.
Johnson killed his girlfriend, 42-year-old April Smith, on Dec. 11, 2011, at the home they shared eight miles west of Sidney in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Authorities say Johnson became enraged at Smith because she'd let her estranged husband fix her vehicle. People also reported to police that Smith planned to reconcile with her husband.
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Where Did We Lose Our Way?
I want to understand the principle of separation of church and state, as it was intended by the founders of our country. The principle is explicit in the First Amendment of the US Bill of Rights ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") and was first named in an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." . . . The clear intent of the First Amendment—sanctioned by Jefferson, as Scripture was sanctioned by the early Church Fathers—is to protect religion against state meddling. When did the principle flip-flop? When did religion become the meddler and the state (in a democracy, the will of the majority) become the victim?
I recently thought of these questions in the midst of an intrafamily brouhaha over religion, when a (Christian) family member wrote: "The constitution separates church and state because we are a pluralistic, multi cultural, multi racial society. Our government is for all. Church or temple or mosque is not for all. Religion should remain a personal matter between people and their God or like spiritual inspiration. . . . "
In fact, the Constitution separates church and state because religion is sacred (of higher value) and the Founding Fathers recognized that it needs protection. But relativists like my relative now invoke the "principle" to defend their position.
The issue has returned to my mind today while reading about the legal battle currently playing out in San Francisco, between the city and Catholic Charities, about whether the state can force a religious organization to place orphaned children with same-sex couples. With the guidance of Cardinal William Levada, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former Archbishop of San Francisco, Catholic Charities has refused to do so. In court, the city has termed CC's stance "discriminatory and defamatory."
What would Thomas Jefferson say about this? We know what the Thomas More Law Center, representing a couple who are countersuing on behalf of the CC position, said: "Anytime something is promoting religion, the line becomes far clearer towards prohibiting the conduct, whereas if the action in question is hostile towards religion, the line moves further towards defending the government that's taken the action."
Is what I'm saying. Where and when did we lose our way?
Good questions.
The primary purpose of the First Amendment religion clauses is not to protect religion or government, but rather to protect individuals' religious freedom. The free-exercise clause does this directly by constraining the government from prohibiting individuals from freely exercising their religions. The establishment clause does this indirectly by constraining government from promoting or otherwise taking steps to establish any religion, thus assuring that individuals are free to exercise their religions without fearing the government will favor the religions of others and thus disfavor theirs.
Some who nonetheless would like to use government to promote their religion have argued that the First Amendment works only in one direction–to protect churches from government, but not the other way around. This, they suppose, would leave them (and churches) free to insinuate their religion into government and thereby effectively establish it as the nation's religion. To the extent that the First Amendment prevents that, it can be said, I suppose, to protect government from churches.
Separation of church and state does not prevent citizens from making decisions and voicing opinions based on principles derived from their religions. Moreover, the religious beliefs of government officials naturally may inform their decisions on policies. In this context, the principle of separation of church and state does, though, constrain government officials not to make decisions with the predominant purpose or primary effect of advancing religion; in other words, the predominant purpose and primary effect must be nonreligious or secular in nature. A decision coinciding with religious views is not invalid for that reason as long as it has a secular purpose and effect.
Wake Forest University recently published a short, objective Q&A primer on the current law of separation of church and state–as applied by the courts rather than as caricatured in the blogosphere. I commend it to you. http://tiny.cc/6nnnx
Oops! I meant to comment, too, on the San Francisco case. One aspect of church-state matters is the difficultly of determining whether and, if so, when the government should require people to do things contrary to their faith. The government could hardly operate if anyone could opt out of laws with the excuse that their religion requires or allows it. The courts have confronted this sort of issue and have ruled that the government cannot enact laws specifically aimed at a particular religion, but it can enact laws generally applicable to everyone or at least broad classes of people (e.g., laws concerning traffic, pollution, taxes, crimes, contracts, fraud, negligence) and require everyone, including those who may object on religious grounds, to abide by them. Thus, the government can forbid discrimination against specified people and apply that law even to those who say their religion allows or requires them to discriminate. And the government can adopt land use laws and apply them to regulate where churches are located. In rare (one hopes) circumstances, such a generally-applicable law could put an individual in an ethical Catch-22 if it requires one to take actions one considers immoral. For just this reason, when such binds can be anticipated, provisions may be added to laws affording some relief to conscientious objectors.
I'm not sure what you have in mind about a "revised" idea of the founders' intent.
Some try to pass off the Supreme Court's decision in Everson v. Board of Education as simply a misreading of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists–as if that is the only basis of the Court's decision. Instructive as that letter is, it played but a small part in the Court's decision. Perhaps even more than Jefferson, James Madison influenced the Court's view. Madison, who had a central role in drafting the Constitution and the First Amendment, confirmed that he understood them to "[s]trongly guard[] . . . the separation between Religion and Government." Madison, Detached Memoranda (~1820). He made plain, too, that they guarded against more than just laws creating state sponsored churches or imposing a state religion. Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., "the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress" and "for the army and navy" and "[r]eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts"), he considered the question whether these actions were "consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom" and responded: "In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the United States forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion."
Some also make much of various statements by founders about their religiosity. While many founders were Christian of one sort or another, care should be taken not to make too much of individual founder's religious beliefs. In assessing the nature of our government, the religiosity of the various founders, while informative, is largely beside the point. Whatever their religions, they drafted a Constitution that plainly establishes a secular government in the sense that it is based on the power of the people (not a deity) and says nothing substantive of god(s) or religion except in the First Amendment where the point is to confirm that each person enjoys religious liberty and that the government is not to take steps to establish religion and another provision precluding any religious test for public office. This is entirely consistent with the fact that some founders professed their religiosity and even their desire that Christianity remain the dominant religious influence in American society. Why? Because religious people who would like to see their religion flourish in society may well believe that separating religion and government will serve that end and, thus, in founding a government they may well intend to keep it separate from religion. It is entirely possible for thoroughly religious folk to found a secular government and keep it separate from religion. That, indeed, is just what the founders did.
The First Amendment embodies the simple, just idea that each of us should be free to exercise his or her religious views without expecting that the government will endorse or promote those views and without fearing that the government will endorse or promote the religious views of others. By keeping government and religion separate, the establishment clause serves to protect the freedom of all to exercise their religion. Reasonable people may differ, of course, on how these principles should be applied in particular situations, but the principles are hardly to be doubted. Moreover, they are good, sound principles that should be nurtured and defended, not attacked. Efforts to undercut our secular government by somehow merging or infusing it with religion should be resisted by every patriot.
I hesitate to say much about the Catholic Charities issue since I know so little about it. Reasonable people may differ, I suppose, on how the general legal principles, described in my earlier comment, are applied in a particular case.
It's hard to find knowledgeable people on this topic, but you sound like you know what you're talking about! Thanks
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So when does Krogers offer $2.00 off per gallon, is it some specific month(s) of the year.
I have been doing my best to get my $35 dollars, (35 gallons) every chance I can get.
Actually this works out really well because I don't need to pay much on the Lowe's line of credit to maintain the 0 percent interest, so I can meet the Lowe's minimum and use all the 35 gallons more or less in pace with each other.
I actually went and bought 2 more gas cans and a funnel to help facilitate this, but we use gas cans for everything here so not that big of a deal and I hate to leave that $1 per gallon sitting on the table.
I looked into the Krogers prepaid Visa/Mastercard cards as well. These have fees attached which diminish the deal greatly but my quick math still showed that you could get $5.95 worth of savings if you purchased 5 $100 Visa cards. It is a bit more trouble for really about 1% return but when you plot that against savings accounts/CD's etc it would be competitive.
David, if you happen to read this, try to get Kroger's to expand their gift card store selection more. I can use the Lowe's gift cards for a bit but at some time I will have a tough time finding a good card to buy.
Anyone else have any other creative discounts that they take advantage of?
I'm sure that I have OCD on this subject, but hey, how long does it take you to make $35? How about after taxes? That $35 is probably more like $43+ and that means a couple of hours work even for people fortunate enough to have a good wage.
After scoring the gas, I had to go down and beat up TSC over some chicken wire that they had marked one price on the shelf and another at the register.
Keep your eyes open, ask for discounts and don't let anyone charge you more than advertised. I know you guys are savvy Cub buyers so don't let your guard down on your other purchases.
Have a great day, Thackery


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Section 27-104 Motor installations.
(a) Electric motors larger than ten (10) horsepower shall be three-phase, except by special approval of the director.
(b) The starting current for any three-phase motor shall not exceed eight (8) per cent of the full load capacity for the department's distribution feeder which serves the motor. The maximum size motor which will be permitted to start across the line without current limiting starters for various feeder voltages, is as follows:
2,400 volt feeder....
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13,800 volt feeder....
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Sunday night in Detroit, the San Francisco Giants beat the Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings to complete their four-game World Series sweep. In the top of the 10th, Marco Scutaro laced a two-out single into center field, with Ryan Theriot scoring the Giants' go-ahead run. And in the bottom of the 10th, closer Sergio Romo struck out all three Tigers he faced, including Miguel Cabrera on a fastball down the middle to end the game and the World Series, delivering the Giants' second World Championship in three years.
Max Scherzer started for the Tigers, and he struck out three of the first four Giants he faced, but weakened for just a moment in the second inning. Hunter Pence, who entered Game 4 with only two extra-base hits in 15 postseason contests, blasted a long fly ball to left-center field, where it bounced over the fence for an automatic double. And Brandon Belt followed with a drive off the wall in the right-field corner; thanks to a weird bounce, Belt wound up on third base with a triple.
Scherzer righted himself, though, and that single run was all the Giants would get. For a while.
In the bottom of the third, the Tigers a) scored for the first time since Game 1, and b) took their first lead in the entire World Series. With Matt Cain pitching for the Giants, Austin Jackson worked a one-out walk on a pitch that just missed the bottom edge of the strike zone. And after Quintin Berry was out trying to bunt for a hit, Miguel Cabrera drove a fly ball to deep right field. Hunter Pence retreated as if he had a play, and Cabrera acted like he'd not gotten quite enough of it. But the stiff wind had other ideas, and Cabrera's drive carried into the first row of seats for a two-run homer.
With Scherzer pitching well, the Tigers still owned that 2-1 lead after five innings. But in the sixth, just one bad pitch cost him that lead. Marco Scutaro led off, and hit a high chopper toward third base that Miguel Cabrera just couldn't grab in time for a pointed throw. Scherzer struck out Pablo Sandoval, but then he left a pitch over the middle for Buster Posey, and Posey drove it over the fence in the left-field corner. Just like that, the Giants were back on top, 3-2.
Once again, Scherzer righted himself and kept the score there. And just a few minutes later, Delmon Young drove a high slider from Cain over the right-field wall to tie the game, 3-3 in the bottom of the sixth.
Scherzer left in the seventh, but Drew Smyly and Octavio Dotel kept the Giants off the board in that frame, and also in the eighth. Cain was replaced in the eighth by lefty Jeremy Affeldt; he walked Avisail García, the first batter he faced, then struck out Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder, and Delmon Young in order.
Undaunted, lefty Phil Coke relieved Dotel in the top of the ninth and struck out Hunter Pence, Brandon Belt, and Gregor Blanco.
In the bottom of the ninth, Affeldt got a couple of outs before giving way to Santiago Casilla. After a called strike and a couple of balls to Omar Infante, Casilla's inside fastball caught Infante flush on the left hand; he went straight to the clubhouse, and was later diagnosed with a broken finger. Alas, that loss wasn't a blessing in disguise; pinch-runner Danny Worth died on first base when Gerald Laird hit an easy grounder to third.
Coke, who became Jim Leyland's favorite relief pitcher earlier this month, came out again in the top of the 10th. Leading off: Ryan Theriot, certainly on someone's list of the unlikeliest Designated Hitters in World Series history. Theriot had gone 0 for 3 in his first-ever appearance as a DH, but in Game 4 the Giants' luck held as Theriot hit a little flare into short right field for a hit.
Brandon Crawford laid down a fine sacrifice bunt to push Theriot to second base, with the top of the Giants' order coming up.
First: Ángel Pagán, and Coke struck him out with a sweeping backdoor slider.
Second: Marco Scutaro, who was so hot in the National League Championship Series but hadn't done much in this World Series. Which nobody's going to remember, because with the count 3-and-1, Scutaro ripped a high fastball into center field for a single; Austin Jackson threw home but didn't have a chance to keep the run from scoring.
Speaking of which, here's Ryan Theriot, in what's almost certainly going to be the biggest moment of his entire professional career:
Coke got out of the inning when Pablo Sandoval grounded out, but now the Tigers were down to their last three outs.
With Sergio Romo coming in. He struck out Austin Jackson, swinging. He struck out pinch-hitter Don Kelly, swinging. And after getting ahead of Miguel Cabrera with a bunch of sliders, Romo threw a fastball that carved a path through the heart of the strike zone, while Cabrera simply watched before walking back to the losers' dugout.
Here, you might as well see it; Cabrera sure did:
Baseball's a funny game. The Giants needed unlikely comebacks to beat the Reds in their Division Series, and again to beat the Cardinals in their Championship Series. And yet now they've swept the heavily favored Tigers in the World Series. And they've done it all without their Opening Day closer and their mid-season Most Valuable Player, and with one of their highest-paid starting pitchers in the bullpen.
It's a funny game.


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"Can I get a 'Church!' from the Congregation?" Fresh off unleashing his latest street album upon the 'net, Talib Kweli has donned his Sunday best to bring us a standout selection off the project. And,...Read More
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It's freezing in the US of A right now, and with the climax of events happening across the nation, ranging from the cries surrounding the murder of Trayvon Martin to the heated debates on health care and civil liberties,...Read More
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I'm typically a Spoetzl apologists as I like several of their beers, but not this one. Not only is it not a Dunkelweizen as the name suggest, it really is a poor tasting beer. This is even the 2nd year that I've given it a try thinking my first may have been a mistake. The mistake wasn't trusting my original impression.
A - The color is a nice enough, but not what I equate to a dark wheat. This had more of a brown ale red hue and absolutely clear.
S - I did like the peach smell and that is probably the nicest thing I have to say about this beer. Do I equate peach with Dunkelweizens? No, but the peaches were the element that I associated with giving it a festive, seasonal characteristic.
T - Ok, this is really where the train left the rails. The taste is horrible. It had a very distinctive bitter taste, like they brewed the beer with the pecan shells and not the nuts. I do not say this as hyperbole, that was the actual taste. The finish was artificial tasting to me, almost a cough medicine taste.
M - The mouthfeel was generally alright.
O - Overall, I downgraded my rating from what I gave this beer last year. It just simply is undrinkable. Unfortunately its poor showing prompting me to write a full review this time.
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A dunkelweizen brewed with peaches, pecans and delicious natural flavor and caramel color. On a day like this, what could be better than some crisp refreshing natural flavor?
The beer is the color of mahogany with ruby red highlights and perfect clarity, which I find a little odd for a dunkelweizen. The head crackles and dissipates like a can of soda poured into a paper cup. Looks exactly like Coke, actually.
Sweet and tart peaches and cream greet the nose first; more like cream soda actually. Toasted pecans and whole wheat toast are present as well. It's on the sweet side, and oddly artificial smelling.
Cola, peaches, strawberries, caramel and pecans are dominant on the tongue, along with a touch of nutmeg and chocolate. It's very sweet and syrupy, though the body is thin and carbonation high. It finishes on a dry note, with some lingering bitterness, Cherry Coke and peach. This is strange, unsettling stuff; it's like a soda/beer hybrid. If you're the type of person that adds shots of vodka to their RC Cola, you may enjoy this, but otherwise it's best avoided.
12-15-2009 03:09:55 | More by largadeer
2.08/5 rDev -40.9%
Poured from a 12oz bottle (no dating info but new seasonal so it's fresh) into a pint glass. It was mahogany color with some carb and slight lacing. It has a good sized light beige head that took awhile to fade.
The was peach, peach and more peach. Never really got a whiff of the underlying base beer. I like peaches but this was too much. Same for the taste. Very one dimensional and cloying. It also clashed with the base flavor.
Overall, nasty and a drain pour. One and done. Very glad I got a single instead of a sixer. Another sub-par effort from Shiner - a faded Texas icon. Avoid.
11-12-2008 01:08:42 | More by TexIndy
2.15/5 rDev -38.9%
A - Pours a deep amber, very dark but still see-through. Not a very dunkel looking beer. 3 fingers of a heavy wheat head, that recedes to a thick lacing.
S - Peaches, with mild wheat and sweet malt undertones. Extreme overpowering peach notes take away from any real beer ingredients. Not pleasant, smells artificial.
T - Peach blast. And not a very pleasant blast at that. Mild yeast notes as the taste fades out. No real wheat presence. Strange flavor, not all that enjoyable from my end.
M - Might as well be a light lager. I've never tasted a dunkel that was this thin and bubbly. Little thicker than a light lager I guess, but not nearly the wheaty body you'd expect.
O - Disappointing is the name of this beer. If you're REALLY into peachy flavors and thin beer, go for it. But if you're looking for an actual dunkel, steer clear of this one.
11-19-2012 15:44:09 | More by BigBarley
2.23/5 rDev -36.6%
Oh God, the peaches. It's not so much that the peach flavor is all that bad, in fact it's one of the more natural-tasting fruit flavors in a fruit beer that I've tried, but it's just extremely peachy, like someone mixed peach preserves and beer. The smell is particularly peachy, literally rather than figuratively. The flavor is like a cross between a strawberry soda, a light possibly decent dunkelweizen and a giant bowl of peaches (and a trace of bile - but I hate a lot of sweet fruit beers). I've never really associated peaches with the holiday season, so it leaves me a bit confused. Maybe, it's a Texas thing. Also, if anyone can taste pecan in this beer, my hat is off to you. It's really not a horrible beer, I guess, but it's not my thing.
11-21-2009 07:15:09 | More by popery
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07-14-2012 04:25:44 | More by vinhgoh
2.25/5 rDev -36.1%
12-29-2012 21:28:41 | More by BillyPirate
2.25/5 rDev -36.1%
This beer tastes 10x better on tap than bottle. The bottle taste reminds me of sour milk on the after taste. Have you ever tasted your own ear wax? Well after drinking this you might be able to recall that. Now, why I say ear wax??...well I tasted my ear wax numerous times out of curiosity. I wouldn't buy this beer. I'd rather bum off someone else.
12-20-2012 07:05:29 | More by goldenboi187
2.25/5 rDev -36.1%
10-11-2012 16:01:05 | More by cmr5056
South Carolina
2.3/5 rDev -34.7%
Extremely clear medium brown beer with a small head that melts to a ring.
The aroma is a balance of sweet malt and tart fruit.
Way too much fruit. And way too sweet. It tastes like I'm drinking a piece of peach candy. I hate the flavor. It doesn't taste like beer.
The mouthfeel is not bad. Medium bodied. But I'm having trouble getting past the flavor.
It sounds weird to say, but everything about this beer was good except the flavor. In fact, I ha to pour it out after I drank about 3/4 of the bottle. And I hate to do that, but there's other way better beer in my fridge.
11-29-2011 01:44:30 | More by UnderPressure
2.3/5 rDev -34.7%
12oz bottle, 2010 batch. Pours clear copper amber with a one finger off white head that quickly recedes to a wispy cap and ring, not much lacing at all. Aroma is a bunch of funky peaches, I can dig peaches but these are just...well...funky. A lot of pecan as well, maybe too much as it ain't playing nicely with the peaches and may be what is contributing to the funk. Also a bit of caramel malt. Good strength. Flavor is also loaded with the funky peach taste, particularly on the finish, pecans, good caramel malt backbone, bready, rather sweet. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, oily becoming sticky, medium carbonation. Not my cup of tea. I know they use real peaches and pecans but can't help but feel that those may be boosted by some artificial flavorings as well. Doubt I'll make it to the end of the glass...
01-07-2011 02:31:29 | More by elgiacomo
2.35/5 rDev -33.2%
Aroma: Crazy big artificial fruit flavors going on here. I get lots of artificial grape gum flavors that dominate the nose. No hop aromas. Some bready malt character as the beer is agitated.
Appearance: Dark copper colored pour with a low and short lasting white head.
Flavor: More artificial fruit flavors. Kind of seems like cran-grape juice. Background spicy hop notes provide some balance. Finish is crisp and dry.
Mouthfeel: Light bodied and high carbonation. No astringency or warmth on the palate.
Overall impression: A very artifical, confusing ale. Not sure what to think of it but it just tasted industrial and artificial. Avoid.
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LAS VEGAS -- Nevada's medical community received conflicting signals regarding whistleblowers.
The State Board of Medical Examiners sent a message Friday that doctors who testify against other doctors will not be punished. But physicians at UMC recently decided to expel two whistleblowers while at the same time, embracing the target of a criminal investigation.
"Countless physicians knew what was going on and nobody came forward. Countless lawyers knew what was going on and have not come forward. That's the biggest difficulty in these cases -- no one is willing to talk," said attorney George Kelesis.
Kelesis asked the medical board to send a message that is it okay for doctors to come forward with information about wrongdoing by other doctors. Kelesis represents two physicians who testified for the government in the Medical Mafia saga -- Dr. Ben Venger and Dr. John Thalgott.
Two dozen doctors and lawyers received subpoenas as possible targets of the FBI and IRS investigation, yet the Medical Board came after the whistleblowers, not the targets.
Kelesis says this not only made it harder for federal lawmen to go after the Medical Mafia suspects, but has also handcuffed prosecutors pursuing the endoscopy fiasco. Nevada doctors and nurses with information simply won't come forward because they think whistleblowing results in punishment.
"Look at all that goes on and no one says anything. Look at the difficulty of the endoscopy centers they had -- the problems at UMC. No one speaks," said Kelesis.
Kelesis worked with state lawmakers last year to draft a whistleblower protection law for the medical field. The Medical Board did not cooperate with that bill but came face to face with it Friday. General counsel Ed Cousineau suggested from Reno that the complaint against surgeon John Thalgott probably shouldn't have been filed since Thalgott was never a target of the federal investigation and came forward on his own to testify.
Cousineau said the U.S. Attorney's Office thinks Thalgott's testimony was critical in getting guilty pleas from attorney Noel Gage and surgeon Mark Kabins. For that reason, an agreement was worked out to forego any punishment of Thalgott for initially trying to protect his former partner, Dr. Kabins.
Board members did not seem anxious to approve the deal.
Minutes later, the vote was unanimous to forego punishment of Thalgott and to send a message. Yet during the hearing, Kelesis revealed that a conflicting message had been sent at UMC hospital. The board's medical committee has recently voted to strip whistleblowers Thalgott and Venger of any hospital privileges while welcoming the man they testified against, Dr. Kabins.
How could UMC say a confessed felon is ok, but the witnesses who helped the government are not?
Kelesis says two doctors present at the closed door meeting confided what they heard at UMC.
"Quote, 'I see doctors do things wrong every day but I won't tell anybody.' That was said at UMC," he said.
The decision by UMC seemed even more odd since Thalgott has not practiced there in years. Kelesis says he might go to court to get to the bottom of UMC's unusual decision.
A chief officer at UMC says Dr. Kabins is not new to the hospital -- he's been working there for awhile -- and it will be up to the medical staff, not the hospital, whether he is allowed to stay, just as it was the decision of medical staff to exclude Dr. Thalgott and Dr. Venger.
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State Senator Dan Patrick and the Vice Chairman for the State Board of Education Thomas Ratliff spent Saturday night debating a controversial public school curriculum.
Patrick initiated the debate in an "anytime any place" offer and Ratliff accepted.
The debate topic was CSCOPE, a lesson plan and curriculum management tool used in public schools.
At the debate, nearly every seat was filled. Over 150 people were in attendance for a debate that became heated at times, and had interaction from the crowd who were all seeking answers about the confusion of CSCOPE.
For Ratliff, he says he has seen support for the CSCOPE lesson plan.
"Tyler ISD has sent me some emails and Grand Prairie ISD testified in front of the Senate of Education Committee and they say it's invaluable to the brand new teacher," said Ratliff. "Teachers say don't force us to use it and as a master teacher, if I need it, I'll use it."
He also argues a positive response since the implementation of CSCOPE.
"Tyler ISD sent me an email the year before they adopted CSCOPE and their test scores were at a criteria level. Three years later all the test scores across the board in every subject were up," said Ratliff.
Senator Patrick on the other hand, disagrees.
"All the data we've seen so far has shown that school using CSCOPE perform about a third less in their scoring in standardized tests than schools that don't use it," said Patrick.
Patrick also has his own problems with CSCOPE.
"We have a program that was set up illegally, potentially illegally spent millions of dollars of tax payer money and is not providing a quality product to our schools," said Patrick.
"I'm standing up for the 875 school districts that have chosen to use this curriculum and whether they choose to use it going forward or not should be their choice," said Ratliff. "Not a senator from Houston's choice."
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10:39am Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in News By Patrick Knox, Senior Reporter
A CHARITY worker drowned in a three foot deep lake in Hampshire after rescuers were refused permission to rescue him for health and safety reasons, an inquest heard.
Simon Burgess, 41, was left floating face down in a model boating lake in Gosport in Hampshire while apparently suffering a epileptic fit.
The inquest was told how a witness, who had dialled 999, begged the first fireman on the scene to help Mr Burgess but he refused because the water in the Walpole Park pond was above "ankle deep".
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In August 2005, the world watched in horror as New Orleans tried to survive the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. As the flood waters receded, black, smelly slop - dubbed "toxic soup" by some reporters - oozed into Lake Pontchartrain on the northern edge of the city. Full of sewage, dead creatures - including humans - rotting debris and all sorts of detritus from the wounded city, the putrid sludge prompted many piscatorial pundits to proclaim the death of this rich 4,000-year-old estuary.
As Mark Twain once quipped, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!" If Lake Pontchartrain could talk, it would say the same thing.
"The speckled trout resource really wasn't hurt by Katrina," says Harry Blanchet of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Marine Fisheries Division. "Biologically, there was no real impact on trout. We also had a mild winter in 2005-06, so that gave trout good conditions for survival, making 2006 a remarkable year for speckled trout and redfish."
Fish moved to uncontaminated areas as tides flushed the system. Nature cleans itself much faster than humans can. Even immediately after the storm, people could catch all the speckled trout they wanted - if they still had a floating boat and could get it into the water!
"About 10 days after Katrina hit, we saw more fish in Lake Pontchartrain than I ever saw in my life, and I've fished the lake for more than 45 years," says Capt. Dudley Vandenborre (985-847-1924; www.rodnreel.com/dudley). "We saw big schools of fish. The lake filled up with shrimp. Lake Pontchartrain has a tremendous amount of bait."
The storm surge from Katrina pushed more than 20 feet of salty water into the normally brackish-to-fresh estuary. The system stayed salty into 2007 because of a drought. High salinities led to abundant trout spawns in 2006 and 2007. Fish spawned in 2006 should weigh about 3 to 4 pounds now, Blanchet says. In addition, fishing pressure virtually disappeared in the months following Katrina as people focused on rebuilding their lives.
"Since Katrina, I've never seen the fishing so good," Vandenborre says. "People can limit out with 2 1/2- to 7-pound trout almost every time they go. We catch a lot more fish in the 16- to 18-inch range now. That might have something to do with the good spawns after the storm. It's not hard to catch 100 fish. Before Katrina, we might have caught 40 to 50 fish a day, but they would have averaged a bit larger."
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Decades ago, few people considered Lake Pontchartrain a trophy trout lake. Shell dredging disturbed the soft, muddy bottom, removing natural reefs and tearing out grass beds. Waves carried silt throughout the system, turning the water murky. Shell dredging stopped in 1989, and the bottom became more firm as natural sea grass sprouted again. The filtering sea grass oxygenated and cleansed the system. In addition, the state banned gill netting in 1995. By the late 1990s, people began to notice as anglers occasionally landed monster specks.
In January 1999, Kenny Kreeger caught an 11.99-pound speck, the biggest trout seen in Louisiana since May 1950 when Leon Mattes set the state standard with a 12.38-pounder. Nine months later, Jason Troullier yanked an 11.24-pounder from the Rigolets, one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain to Lake Borgne, an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. That fish holds the number-three position on the state record book list. In April 2002, Vandenborre caught a 10.50-pounder, a fish currently holding the number-nine slot. Another angler landed a Pontchartrain trout approaching 12 pounds but refused to submit the catch through the official record process.
"Even back in the 1970s, trout were always in Lake Pontchartrain," Vandenborre remembers. "There was always a group of people who consistently caught big fish in the lake. I can remember fishing with my dad under the Twin Bridges (Interstate 10) and each of us having a 5-pound trout on our lines as people drove across the bridge to fish elsewhere. Fishing with my grandfather many years ago, I remember catching big trout that could not fit into an ice chest without bending."


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After defeat, Luna plans to push merit pay in 2013
Public schools chief Tom Luna plans to ask the 2013 Idaho Legislature to adopt another pay-for-performance program for teachers, saying he doesn't believe voters' rejection of merit pay last week is any indication they want to return to the old way of compensating educators.
Meeting with reporters Monday, Luna outlined plans to work with stakeholders including the Idaho Education Association teachers union to craft education changes with broader support than his "Students Come First" laws had.
Still, he believes the only way members of the Republican-controlled Legislature will support anything more than nominal increases in teacher salaries is if they are tied to performance measures.
On Nov. 6, voters broadly rejected not only merit-pay provisions of Luna's overhaul, but also collective-bargaining limits and laptops for high school students.
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