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Statewide Impacts of Budget Cuts to K-12 Schools
Original post made by Karen, Birdland, on Feb 18, 2009
Of the $10.8 billion in Prop. 98 cuts proposed, $9.7 billion will be cut from K-12 schools. Here's what those cuts would look like . . .
Shutting down every school across the state for 34 days.
Increasing class sizes statewide by over 50%.
Reducing per-student spending by more than $1,600.
Laying off 240,000 bus drivers, janitors, food service workers, maintenance workers, and other education support professionals.
Laying off 140,000 teachers.
Cutting more than $41,000 per classroom.
Cutting more than $16.4 million per school district (assuming 10,000 students in the district.)
Eliminating all music, art, and career technical education programs statewide with room to cut even more.
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 18, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Finally, the state does something right. This fat-trimming exercise is long overdue.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 19, 2009 at 8:42 am
Where did you get these numbers from, Karen? Can you post your source?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 19, 2009 at 10:04 am
Instead of all those cuts reduce salaries and benefits by 10% with 20% for the higher ups. We are digging ourselves into bigger and bigger holes. This stop gap budget still means California is basically bankrupt as are most of the cities. We need to go back to 2000 levlels and adjust for inflation and population change, which means a cut of over 20%. Live within your means. We are in a new era.The whole nation is in deep trouble and California is by far the worst. Public sector needs big cuts much more than in the budget.
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I can't wait :( for all the teacher bashing that is about to occur on this discussion thread.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm
So now that there is a state budget, and no cuts to CSR, what is it the district needs in a parcel tax (dollars and program) and why?
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm
What are the budget impacts now? Other than of course we will be paying more taxes in every form.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 20, 2009 at 1:47 pm
There are so many posts across these threads about how teachers need to take a pay cut, teachers don't work very much, teachers are overpaid, etc.
I am truly curious to all those people, how much do you think a teacher should get paid? Please try to provide at least a little rational behind your response.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 20, 2009 at 1:54 pm
"People have criticized Casey's salary ($227,002) and management perks, and he said he makes no apologies for his earnings"
What are the terms of the Superintendent's contract?
Superintendent Dr. John Casey is employed under a contract which ends June 30, 2010. His annual salary is $227,002, with a 12-month work calendar and 24 days of vacation. Medical and other health insurance may be purchased at his sole expense, and the District contributes $5,000 annually for life insurance premiums. At the completion of each year of the contract where he has worked at least 85% of the days, he receives a payment of $10,000 into a tax-sheltered annuity. He receives $1,000 per month as a transportation allowance and membership in professional organizations as appropriate and necessary. When Dr. Casey moved to Pleasanton, he received a $200,000 loan to help purchase a home in the community. This loan is interest free and must be repaid within 18 months of the termination of his employment. There is no provision or expectation that the loan would be "forgiven." The current balance of this loan is $190,000.
a resident of Del Prado
on Feb 20, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Why do teachers think they have been unfairly singled out? Everyone must take reductions.
I expect our school administrator to take a 10% reduction also.
Buchanan talks about state budget:Web Link
"As part of the state's attempt to trim back expenditures, members of the Assembly have chosen to reduce their budget by 10 percent. The cost savings has been directed to the Employment Development Department.
Buchanan herself took it a step further, asking the State Controller's Office to reduce her salary by another 10 percent as well.
"I've always believed that people in leadership positions should lead by example. If we're willing to cut funds to programs around the state we should be willing to cut our own funding, too," she explained."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 20, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Why? Well, if you read these blogs and you were a teacher, you would read comments about being greedy, on the gravy train, overpaid, underworked. Consider how you might feel if the public found it acceptable to judge and evaluate your job performance and worth without even knowing you. I am a teacher who has spent the last ten years or more earning the 10% you think I should forfeit. I, like most of you, have planned my budget around that income. Unlike the state of California, I have stayed within my means and didn't take out more in loans than I could pay back. The only area in 2008 tax year I overspent was the $2576.72 on my classroom and my students, other people's children. Each dollar I supplement my classroom takes away from my own children, so I am very offended my these mean-spirited, misinformed generalizations about educators. Some of you are cyber bullies!
a resident of Harvest Park Middle School
on Feb 20, 2009 at 9:48 pm
"Teacher, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood",
Do you not understand that nationwide people are losing their jobs, the lucky ones are taking salary reductions. It is not a reflection on anyones value but a reality of this economy. We are all making lifestyle adjustments.
Of the 5 Pleasanton schools my kids have attended I don't believe any teacher has needed to pay out of pocket after the parent fees and fundraising. Pleasanton treats teachers well.
It does not mean I hate teachers when I say I can't/won't support a parcel tax.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Feb 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm
If it is solely PUSD's fault that we're in the mess, due to mismanagement of funds, the lawsuits, etc., then why did other districts (San Ramon, Livermore...) already pass parcel taxes? Are those districts also mismanaging funds, spending money on lawsuits, etc.? No! So why then is PUSD the bad guy here? The state of California made this mess-not the district, not the teachers, not the teacher union, and not the kids-but who will suffer in the end....the kids! PUSD has done an excellent job of not needing monies from a parcel tax unlike other neighboring districts. Some bloggers are stating that the schools are not the main reason families come to PTown. I disagree. I stated this in a previous blogg, but I have 4 new families this year to my classroom. Their reason for being at my school.....the school district and the high-quality of education that their children will get from attending PTown schools. Losing school programs will have an affect on whether or not families choose to move to Pleasanton, remain in Pleasanton, or move elsewhere. Losing school programs will have an affect on your house values. Losing school programs will have an affect on test scores. All of this is pure common sense. If we want PUSD to still be one of the top performing school districts that it has been known as, then these programs must stay in place - especially CSR. APT has put out a very informative FAQs. I will try to see if I can forward it, or link the site. I think it will address a lot of the community's questions and concerns that have been raised in these different blogs. Please support the schools-the kids are the ones that will suffer in the long run.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Feb 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm
"Of the 5 Pleasanton schools my kids have attended I don't believe any teacher has needed to pay out of pocket after the parent fees and fundraising."
I will tell you that from my own personal experience this is absolutely not true. I have spent thousands of dollars out of my own pocket since I became a teacher. So far this year (and the school year is not over), I have spent at least $400.00 for things in my classroom. I agree that many in this district do support the teachers and the schools. No doubt - I see this everyday with parents that help financially, or help out in classrooms or in the office. I truly appreciate the kindness and generosity that my parents have shown me over the years! But, I have noticed a big change in the amount of parent support in the last 4 or 5 years. We have a different parent community now days. Less parents are able/willing to donate their time and money to the schools. There are more 2 income families, working hard to make ends meet (and to afford living here in PTown). I get that-things change. But, please don't assume that you know that teachers are not paying out of their own pocket to support programs, purchase materials, make copies, purchase ink and toner cartridges, etc., etc.. The list goes on and on. Each year, I get less and less "donations" from parents (only 13 of my 20 students). I then must subsidize the rest. I want the best for my students and if I have to pay for things out of my own pocket...then so be it. It is something that we teachers just do. But, it does hurt my own family at times. Take a minute and ask your children's teachers their point of view on these troubling times. I think many of you will get a completely different image of what a teacher working in Pleasanton is like-it's very different than what many imply here on the bloggs!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Feb 21, 2009 at 3:35 pm
"then why did other districts (San Ramon, Livermore...) already pass parcel taxes?"
Even with our neighboring districts parcel taxes, PUSD still has more money per student than they do!
Do the math Pleasanton has far more money to work with than San Ramon even after their parcel tax….they have the same API scores as we do.
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"PUSD has done an excellent job of not needing monies from a parcel tax unlike other neighboring districts."
We are paying a local school tax to PUSD.
Pleasanton taxpayers are paying off 155 MILLION dollars in Bond taxes to our school district now!
The sky will not fall if PUSD makes reasonable cuts.
I support our teachers and care about our kids.
No ParcelTax!!!
a resident of Harvest Park Middle School
on Feb 21, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Pleasanton is not like other districts where classrooms are underfunded. The PTA's classroom contribution together with the classroom fee is so much money it should be unnecessary to spend more!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 21, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Asking parents for donations is a tactic used to give parents the impression that the classrooms are underfunded. The countless fundraising activities carried out by the PTA is more than enough to cover all of the teachers' expenses. Spare us the lies, please.
a resident of Oak Hill
on Feb 21, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Parent and Teacher - Amador Estates Neighborhood,
I agree you shouldn't be required to provide out of pocket expenses for your classroom and I have a question.
Please understand this is not questioning the validity of your statement concerning out of pocket expenses for your classroom, nor is it an invitation for someone to attack you. With that said, I have a question for my own education. What method do you use to solicit parents for needed funds. When my family had children in PUSD we would periodically ask "Our Teacher" if we could assist with classroom needs in some manner. I don't recall notes coming home asking for assistance, we simply ask via notes to her.
When our youngster was in 3rd grade I think the most amusing item we provided was a "Boom Box" that played tapes. Seems someone stole the one she used. "Our Teacher" explained she played soft music when the kids were being tested and for "fun time" at other times.
If you chose not to respond that's ok - I understand...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 22, 2009 at 4:14 am
Standard practice is every family gets a letter listing required classroom supplies. The list is extensive and includes things like computer paper, a box of tissues, colored pens and much more. Every student is told that they must contribute $35. Students that do not immediately pay are pressured to remind their parents, my sons name was written on the board and humiliated in front of the class each day.
It is true that many of the new immigrant families do not pay.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 22, 2009 at 9:12 am
When I was just a child in school, I never understood the "supplies" nonsense. Every year my parents dutifully purchased what was on the supply list and every year I ended up with more and more unused pencils, pens, binders, folders, etc. I only ever used about half of what was on these lists. There has got to be a better way.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 22, 2009 at 10:50 am
"...my sons name was written on the board and humiliated in front of the class each day."
Did you not get your welfare check in time? Bring out the tar and feathers!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Feb 22, 2009 at 11:12 am
"...every year I ended up with more and more unused pencils, pens, binders, folders, etc."
When I was in school, those supplies were provided by the school, paid for with our tax dollars. Nowadays, our taxes end up lining the pockets of the administrators and teachers rather than being spent on essential school supplies.
To think they have the balls to come ask us for more money both in the classrooms and in new taxes...WOW!
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on Feb 22, 2009 at 12:30 pm
For many years parents go through the lower grades with blissful ignorance. We believe the poor school district mantra. We pay, and pay, and pay, then we begin to understand that they just need us to pay for our kids supplies so they can suck all of our tax money into their pockets. I began to realize I was paying for my kids glue-stick so the superintendent could go out to lunch on the district expense account. When the principal suggested we should bring the toilet paper it was clear their goal was to get parents to cover all operational costs.
I reached my limit. No Parcel Tax!
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Feb 22, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I've also reached my limit. I pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to the county/state each year. The least I can expect is to enroll my children into a public school that is funded by my taxes without having to worry about teachers twisting my arm for a loudsy $35 donation.
Take away Casey's $1000/mo. in transportation expenses and put those savings back into the classrooms. That will cover the $35 donations for 343 students or more than 17 classrooms.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 22, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Julie is a registered user.
When we first moved here I naively sent the $$ for the PTA compiled classroom supplies. After that I realized that I could get them more cheaply on my own, and that I didn't need to keep buying some of the same stuff every year (e.g. scissors!).
Where does a small town Superintendent travel that he needs $1000/month in transportation expenses? I'm not asking rhetorically, I really am curious. No matter what, I think he earns a good enough salary and benefits to cover any driving that he needs to do. I get paid A LOT less than he does and I get to work on my own dollar.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Again, some of you assume things that simply aren't true.
The district allots about $250.00 a year to run a classroom of 20 for the entire year. This amount is to cover copying, supplies, art materials, paper, pencils, and any other supplies needed. Can anyone of you truly believe that this is enough money to get through the entire year when a printer ink can $65.00 of that yearly budget? Then, yes, the P.T.A. allots about $30.00 per child, depending upon the school. This money, however, is for field trips, assemblies, or magazine subscriptions like Time for Kids or National Geographic. Parents do donate money and teachers really appreciate those donations because they simply cover the cost of graphics, ink, paper, art supplies and the all the other basics not covered by the $250.00. Most teachers supplement their classrooms each month. We have to because the bar has been set, so even as the economy and demographics change, the activities will remain and will cost teachers more out of their pockets. I am surprised anyone doesn't realize how much individual teachers supplement their programs with libraries of books, math manipulative, read alouds, music, art supplies, rewards, bookcases, binders, professional books.....I could go on, but I won't.
If you doubt this, just ask the spouse of any teacher.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Feb 22, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Bottom line:
California has the worst per pupil spending in the nation. That is the reason parents are donating, volunteering, and supplementing education. Parents should be furious about the new state budget. We will all be paying more taxes, but K-12 education was still hit hard. Now the governor wants us to vote to change Proposition 98, the only guarantee that school funding has at least a guaranteed minimum. Communities will be supplementing quality education more and more until we write these letters to the right people...the ones that want your vote the next election. PUSD has provided children with band, strings, sports programs, Physical Education teachers, reading specialists, music teachers, art teachers, small classes, intervention classes, field trips, assemblies, and enrichment opportunities, particularly AP classes at the high school level. All of that may go away over the next few years because the economy will be bad for at least 18 months to 3 years according to most economists. It's clear that school employees will not betting getting COLA or raises for years to come. It's unbelievable that some of you really believe this is a "scare tactic". A $8.5 million cut is a huge loss for a small district. If you don't believe, look at the books or attend meetings. The district did not include class size reduction money in that $8.5 million, so they aren't getting $4 million more from the state. The district is still facing a $8.5 loss of revenue. Underfunding of public schools will not end until the state of California stops spending $48,000 a year to house prisoners, a large amount of them illegal. Prisoners have health care and education opportunities which are superior to what many children in the state of California receive. Do you know that many states ship back illegal immigrants when they commit a crime? California houses them for $48,000 a year at the expense of our children!!! That makes me angry, not school employees' salaries. I believe my children's teachers with college degrees, credentials, and often masters degrees should make more than prison guards, not less. We should all demand that our children and our neighbors' children are treated better than citizens and non citizens who have broken the law!!! Write your legislatures and tell them that you don't like the way your tax money is being allocated!!
a resident of Castlewood
on Feb 23, 2009 at 12:04 am
Does anyone have any idea how much money we spend educating illegal criminal (aliens) children. I know the kids are innocent but the line has to be drawn somewhere. It's our kids future.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 23, 2009 at 8:45 am
"The district allots about $250.00 a year to run a classroom of 20 for the entire year."
The same district allots $1000 a month, $12,000 a year, to run Casey's car (or make his car payments?). That's the equivalent of funding the supplies of 48 classrooms for an entire year!
Am I making some wrong assumptions here too?
The same district lends out $200,000 of the district's money to Casey at zero interest. At 5% interest, those funds could generate an annual return of $10,000 for the district, which is equivalent to funding the supplies for another 40 classrooms.
That's not to mention Casey's base salary and other perks (expensed lunches) but you get the picture.
How can the district do this, you ask? Because naive parents are donating money to buy the supplies in the classrooms. The administrators can then allot those funds elsewhere (hint: their pockets).
What am I missing?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 23, 2009 at 8:57 am
This extract is from one of the other threads that I think is worthy of reposting:
"Mr. Casey's contract, including his salary and perks (i.e., allowances, housing subsidy, etc.) to be renegotiated by the school board. His salary alone, at $227,000 annually, should be reduced by $75,000, with all other perks, aside from insurance and pension (presumably CalPERS) benefits, including his special housing subsidy, eliminated."
"If he and his family can't live on $152,000, then I recommend he find employment elsewhere. The Pleasanton City Manager, Nelson Fialho, makes approx. $155,000 annually, and I would argue that Mr. Fialho has as much, if not more, responsibility and workload as does Mr. Casey. $75,000 saved by PUSD from paying Mr. Casey I think would fund at least 1 full-time teacher position, or 2 part-time ones."


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Reviews of this property
Accommodation nice, comfortable beds, functional kitchen and bathroom and clean!
Convenient to the metro: 2 min. on foot
The person who greeted us was friendly and helpful !!!
I will be back for sure!
Alloggio carino, letti comodi, cucina funzionale e bagno completo e pulito!
Comodissimo alla metro: 2 min. a piedi
La persona che ci ha accolto è stata gentile e disponibile!!!
Ci tornerò di sicuro!
Me and my family, when we arrived we were greeted by a mass of stinking waste of all kinds including a broken toilet accessories and more garbage containers filled (the containers were emptied two days after the end of stay other waste were still present), once you enter the door outer climbing stairs covered with carpet not own toilet, a strong musty smell assaulted us.
We open the door of the apartment and the smell of mold ..... the stairs was nothing compared to the one inside the apartment from the kitchen greasy beyond belief (in fact we have not touched a piece of cutlery or a dish), plus: hole in the wall of the hallway, hang towels in the bathroom with all jaws broken, loss of water from the basin wall (resolved after a few days), toilet seat broken (replaced more than half of the stay), the toilet drain hole in the wall likely to mice, two chairs on three dirty but one of them was really dirty (replace more than half of the stay), lack of set of towels for the third person (which were delivered in mid-stay), lack of bedside side bed and chandelier (pictured inset were clearly visible). But when we reached the top we had confirmation on the second day of the presence of rats. On the morning before going out in the evening before going to bed piazzavamo bait in the apartment on time on our return and / or awakening they were gone.
For the agency on the spot it was impossible the presence of mice but considered dirt and waste outside ..... in fact they came to install an ultrasound device over the traps chemicals already present in the bathroom and kitchen.
The problem we do not know if it was solved, because we no longer put bait. All this has also caused economic damage as well as moral, because I and my family had chosen the solution of the apartment for dinner at home, but in these conditions of hygiene do not succeed we felt, so every night we had dinner a fee.
Of some of these drawbacks possess photos.
Io e la mia famiglia, al nostro arrivo siamo stati accolti da un ammasso di rifiuti maleodoranti di ogni genere compreso un wc rotto più accessori e contenitori dell'immondizia pieni (i contenitori sono stati vuotati a due giorni dal termine del soggiorno gli altri rifiuti erano ancora presenti), una volta entrati dalla porta esterna nel salire le scale ricoperte da una moquette non proprio igienica, un forte odore di muffa ci ha assalito.
Apriamo la porta dell'appartamento e ..... l'odore di muffa delle scale era niente a confronto di quello all'interno dell'appartamento proveniente dalla cucina unta all'inverosimile (infatti non abbiamo toccato una posata o una stoviglia), in più: buco nel muro del corridoio, appendi asciugamani nel bagno con tutti i ganci rotti, perdita d'acqua dalla parete della vasca (risolto dopo qualche giorno), tavoletta del wc rotta (sostituita oltre la metà del soggiorno), scarico del wc nel muro probabile tana per topi, due sedie su tre sporche ma una delle due era veramente sudicia (sostituite oltre la metà del soggiorno), mancanza del set di asciugamani per la terza persona (consegnatoci a metà del soggiorno), mancanza del comodino a fianco del letto e dei lampadari (nella foto dell'inserzione erano ben evidenti). Ma il top l'abbiamo raggiunto quando abbiamo avuto la conferma già al secondo giorno della presenza di topi. La mattina prima di uscire e la sera prima di coricarci piazzavamo delle esche nell'appartamento che puntualmente al nostro rientro e/o risveglio erano sparite.
Per l'agenzia in loco era impossibile la presenza di topi ma considerata la sporcizia e i rifiuti all'esterno ..... infatti sono venuti ad installare un apparecchio ad ultrasuoni oltre alle trappole chimiche già presenti in bagno e in cucina.
Il problema non sappiamo se è stato risolto, perché non abbiamo più messo esche. Tutto questo ci ha arrecato anche un danno economico oltre che morale, perché io e la mia famiglia avevamo scelto la soluzione dell'appartamento anche per cenare in casa, ma a queste condizioni di igiene non ce la siamo sentita e pertanto tutte le sere abbiamo cenato a pagamento.
Di alcuni di questi inconvenienti posseggo le foto.
Hola a todos.
El apartamento es sencillo pero para ir a pasar unos días a Londres tiene todo lo necesario.
Creo que lo mejor es la atención recibida por Irene, persona de contacto la cual se preocupo en todo momento de que estuviéramos hospedados y llegaramos al apartamento.
Apartamento sencillo pero con lo necesario para pasar unos dias
Die Wohnung war definitiv ausreichend für einen Städtetrip, super nah an der Bahn und ein kleines nettes Cafe war auch direkt um die Ecke. Der Kontakt war auch sehr nett und unkompliziert. Leider war das Ausklappsofa kaputt, sodass man nicht darauf schlafen konnte und es hätte auch sauberer sein könnte. Die Gegend war grundsätzlich sehr ruhig, nur waren die Wände zum Nebenhaus sehr dünn, sodass man nachts und morgens zum Teil die Gespräche oder Streitigkeiten der Nachbarn mitanhören konnnte/musste.
Insgesamt aber ein netter Aufenthalt.
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We had a very nice stay at the apartment. We got the keys when we arrived, and Irene and her colleague were very sweet.
A nice flat near shoping street . The overground is near and you can find everything around .
Location is excelent , the flat is clean and nice . I recomend this property for holiday in London !
The Appartment was as shown on the photos, nice and clean. It's easy to find and surrounded by several good shops, pubs, etc.
Check in and out were easy and without any problems.
The bathroom was pretty small, but there were many towels. The Bed is comfortable, the Sofa is ok for a few days.
Good: The location is great, minutes from two tube stations, Hyde Park, and shops and restaurants for anything you need and is quiet by London standards. The flat is equipped with washer, stove, microwave, and a good kettle and a small television. We also felt secure there and there was lots of hot water. We were met by staff -very friendly and got us some extra pillows and a quilt. What was there was a little skimpy.
Tricky: It is a basement flat and the stairs down are a bit steep. The overall appearance is a little tired but this is mostly cosmetic. It is a basement flat in an older building and it can be a little dank especially in the bathroom (probably similar with every other basement on the block). There is a window the opens to a back courtyard which clears that up fairly quick. The electric top up was tricky as we were told to take the dongle to the post office, Spar store, or news agent to add money. Well none of those worked and we were directed several blocks away to a shop we didn't find. Fortunately we didn't use much electricity so it wasn't a problem.
Do Different: Owners should take a few minutes to do a sheet explaining things for visitors such as exactly where to top up the power, light switches in the entrance hall, and basic instructions for the washer dryer. Add small night light and some clothes hooks in the hall, and bathroom and a few more hangers. Beaching the tiled bathroom and adding a can of air freshener would also go a long way.
We would probably stay again. Next time we will ask for a spare key.
The flat (nr 6) was perfect for a short break in London.We were three People and had enough space as it was bigger than we expected.Underground stations on your doorstep therefore easy to get around the City.In the flat was everything you Need so for London Prices ok.Good restaurants and Pubs also nearby.You must pay extra for the electric(why ???) but i supose thats how it is.
Would i stay here again when visiting London.......YES
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MADRAS, Ore. - Jefferson County School District 509-J closed all schools for a second day Tuesday "due to continued problems with frozen water lines and bus issues."
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While getting the tools and equipment ready for this year's beekeeping and gardening I recalled a beekeeper some years ago who used to have a soup can full of what he called his hive cream for treating wood tool handles. He would pass it around but would only say that it was honey, beeswax and other goodies. Have any of you ever seen this guy or had the can passed to you? It was great for tool handles as well as one's hands. I would like to make some or a close resemblance if anyone has any ideas of what went into this heavy type beeswax colored cream which smelled like the inside of a hive.


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How many queens have you killed so far w/ your no smoke/no veil criteria?Based on what I've seen and experienced. It's 100% genetic/pheromone influenced trait. I keep mine in the front yard. I can't allow anything other than gentle.
Size of the hive only makes a difference if they are mean to begin with. three frames of bees with the same queen mother will act just like 30 frames of bees with the same queen being the mother. Sometimes even with workers that are not her offspring. If I have to use smoke and a veil. I kill the queen. If I have to use smoke. I'll kill them this fall and combine with the nicer ones.
No tellin how long this selection process will take. I've got about 30ish queens mated out here this year and only three of them can be worked without smoke. I have one stacked three mediums high and one four. The four high one is well packed with bees. Not an issue. I can tear the whole hive down and spend as much time as I want in there. I shook about two pounds of bees out of it to help out other hives newly mated the other day. Cracked the box open 24 hours later. Still nice.
Test the bees at the entrance first. Wave your hand slightly in front. If they ignore you. Crack the lid. If a few run out and bump your hand or bounce off of you then you may want a veil. Or reaching for the frames if you notice them come out and bounce on you hands you might want gloves unless you can tolerate getting stung. The ones of mine that hit my hands when reaching for frames. The use of smoke usually stops that behavior enough to work them without protection of any kind. If not I kill the queen and shake them out forcing them to beg into a nicer hive.


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Obama, the empty suit
Original post made by Gary, Downtown North, on Oct 4, 2012
It was a thrill up my leg (to paraphrase Chris Matthews), and I am still giddy.
There is no there, there with Obama. It is a near tragedy that we have had to put up with him for the past four years.
I have refrained from criticism of our CiC on foreign affair issues, involving our troops at war, because our troops do not need to hear it. However, the President of the USA is fair game on all other issues.
Obama was shown to be the empty suit that he is, last night.
Mitt Romney did it. Imagine what Reagan would have done with him!
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a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 4, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Does Gary expect us to take him seriously? Yawn. Same song and dance for 4+ years.
a resident of Mountain View
on Oct 4, 2012 at 6:52 pm
I'm still trying to figure out your first sentence.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 4, 2012 at 6:58 pm
The next debate will be on foreign policy
-with the disasters in
2-at our Bagram base in AfPak
- this will be even worse for Obama.
It is up to Joe Biden to save Obama
-an easy job for such a mensch as Joe Biden
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:02 pm
>I'm still trying to figure out your first sentence.
Try to think of a mass of brain tissue, organized into higher order thought, with free will. It should become obvious to you. The human ego is what makes humans the superior species. It also produces the printed word, and computers, etc. Dah!
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Paul Ryan will twist Biden into a pretzel...not even close. Poor Joe, doesn't have a clue about what is about to come out of his mouth.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:07 pm
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a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:20 pm
> as for Gary, same olds same old.
yawn, as long as it it true, or tells the truth, it doesn't
matter how old it is. Do you disagree, or are you just another yawn?
I don't get your basic take. Care to explain?
Obama is an empty suit...as I have said for the past several years. He does not command his job. Hillary would have commanded the job. Too bad for the Dems that they went with Obama. Too late now.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Let's see: we had a really handsome loud man, etch-a-sketching to the middle while lying through his teeth.
And our President.
Tough call.
The lies (a very small, partial list of the Romney whoppers)
- Romney said: "About half of [the clean energy companies that] have been invested in [by the government] have gone out of business." WRONG. The default rate on the Department of Energy's $16.1 billion energy loan guarantee program, according to Bloomberg, is at worst, about 3.6 percent.
- Governor Romney: "Health care costs have gone up by $2500 a family." ABC News' Serena Marshall reports: Factcheck.org labeled this claim false.
- Romney said: "In one year, you provided $90 billion in tax breaks to green energy." False. During Obama's entire term of office, not a single year, the government investment for public transit, energy-efficiency measures like better insulation for homeowners, demonstration projects (including for "clean coal"), renewable research and development projects, competitive prizes and similar projects have amounted to $90 billion. Double Bottom Line Venture Capital reported that for the period 1918-2009, oil and gas received $446.9 billion in subsidies. The nuclear industry took in $185.7 billion from 1947 to 2009. Up until 2009, the renewable energy sector, excluding biofuels, had received $5.9 billion, DBL concluded.
- Romney: "Millions Losing Health Care Under Obama": That claim is based on a report from CBO. Politfact says it's FALSE.
Then there's the dozens of Romney lies about Medicare and his tax policy. Too long to list. Go to any non-partisan fact check site.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 4, 2012 at 7:36 pm
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This Spring started out like any other for swarms but was running about a month late due to the continuing cooler weather. About the first half of May I saw several scout bees coming and going from a trap in my back yard and within a day the swarm came buzzing in as usual. The last two weeks of May I caught a swarm each week from a small five frame nuc I had placed in town while out in the rural area where I keep my bees I started noticing some strange behavior.
Not one of my surviving hives even attempted a swarm cell and the last time I checked about two weeks ago they still haven't formed one which is odd in and of itself, but the activity around my traps has me totally baffled. If I observe a trap most of them would appear to be occupied. There is enough activity for me to believe a swarm has settled in. Once I observed a worker removing a dead bee from a trap and entrance guard activity yet when I went back that evening to remove the trap no bees remained inside. On another occasion I watched a bee bringing in pollen yet when I went that evening again no bees were in the trap. Yesterday I watched as at least 100 bees (and yes I counted them) went inside a trap within a 10 minute period and yet this morning there were maybe 50 bees in the trap when I popped the top.
I have at least a half dozen traps all showing this exact same activity. Lots of scouts, more than I have ever seen in fact at one time in any previous captures and what appears to be actual hive activity but no swarm.
I thought at first it was just robbing but the frames of comb I have inside the traps is not showing signs of being chewed any. In some cases bees are even remaining in the traps over night as I observed at least half a dozen bees hanging out around the entrance of a trap in my back yard well after the sun set this evening.
I don't think we have had the usual swarm activity because I have only received one swarm call this year and it turned out to be an impossible trap out. The two swarms I caught in the city were very small but then again I only had a small trap out there anyway so I might have missed any big ones.
Just not the usual swarm activity I have gotten used to.


text: Well every automotive forum has a "whatz in ur toolbox" thread and they're all boring because everyone just posts their lists and there isn't much discussion. So don't do that. But let's talk about the kinds of roadside emergencies you anticipate and are prepared for, and how that has shaped the contents of ur toolbox. In my experience, minor tire leaks are extremely common so I carry plugs and a little air compressor in addition to the factory tire changing kit and a full size spare. Since I often tow a trailer and trailer wiring is flakey I have a bunch of stuff to deal with that. Battery and alternator problems being common I carry stuff to deal with those. I need to tweak my tool kit a little but the intent is to have all the tools necessary to replace an alternator on the road. I'm tempted to carry a spare alternator or at least replacement diodes but haven't been. Tool wise the hardest part of an alternator replacement is having something to release the tension on the serpentine belt with. I tend to get stuck in the snow and mud from time to time so I carry a tow strap. I've been stranded by transmission failures with no advance warning but haven't figured out a way to do a roadside transmission swap so that one requires a tow. Another use for the tow strap. Murphy's law being what it is everything tends to go to hell when it's cold and dark so I pack a pair of gloves, an extra coat, a flashlight, and a cyalume stick. I used to think cooling system problems were a big deal and statistically they are but nearly always due to a lack of maintenance. So I'm in the habit of checking and replacing cooling hoses more aggressively then I used to, and I pressure test the cooling system every year or so to find any clamps that no longer seal. With that I don't feel like I have to carry spare hoses and clamps.


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I recevied email from a member of a Tara Beekeepers Association of GA.
He wrote:
The following photos show the complete destruction of my hive by wax
moths. I had inspected all the sections of this hive 4 weeks ago and it was
completely clean and well populated with bees and brood. I had two and a
half medium supers of capped honey on this hive since I harvested the spring
popular crop in mid June. Most of this honey was sourwood. I should have
removed it in mid August, but I had other things to do around the house and
I procrastinated. I can only assume that as the hive population declined
(as they normally do) in August, the moths moved into those honey supers and
took over the hive. I came home for lunch on Wednesday and the bees were in
the process of absconding. The yard was absolutely full of bees and I
initially thought that I was having a fall swarm. The hive emptied very
quickly and within 15 minutes all but a handful of the bees were gone. I
opened the hive yesterday and it was a sickening scene. Most of you may
have seen this before, but it was new to me. Combs complete destroyed,
woodenware chewed up, honey dripping from damaged combs, dead and decaying
worms and bees, maggots from flies, webbing, etc, etc.


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Christmas Eve at our house isn't the same until I set out a platter of these succulent stuffed artichokes.
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- 4 medium artichokes
- 8 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 medium lemon, sliced
- 4 whole peppercorns
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon salt, divided
- 4 cups cubed Italian bread (1/2-inch cubes)
- 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons plus 4 teaspoons olive oil, divided
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Using a sharp knife, level the bottom of each artichoke and cut 3/4 in. from the top. Using kitchen scissors, snip off the tips of the outer leaves; brush cut edges with lemon juice.
- Stand artichokes in a Dutch oven; add 2 in. of water. Add lemon slices, peppercorns, bay leaf and 1/2 teaspoon salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 25-30 minutes or until tender and leaves near the center pull out easily. Invert artichokes to drain. Carefully scrape out fuzzy center portion of artichokes with a spoon and discard.
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine bread cubes, parsley, cheese, 2 tablespoons oil, lemon peel, garlic, pepper and remaining salt. Gently spread artichoke leaves apart; fill with stuffing.
- Place in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish; drizzle with remaining oil. Bake, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until heated through and stuffing is lightly browned. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Stuffed Artichokes in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2004, p61
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Five years ago today, Dilorom Abdukadirova, 44, managed to escape the heavy spray of bullets in her native Uzbek city of Andijan. On that day, government troops shot and killed hundreds of civilian protesters on the orders of President Islam Karimov. Leaving behind her husband and four children, Abdukadirova found a refuge in Australia, where she counted the days until she could again embrace her family.


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elaborate on the sweet moses?
This is not the place to try and further your musical aspirations by posting links to your YouTube videos in multiple forums. It needs to stop
Thank you
There is no harm. Its the entertainment section. If nobody wants to listen big deal.
If he made it one thread, it wouldn't be a big deal lol. we do have an entertainment section for a reason.


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Brill's Pill, Distilled
Original post made by Tom Cushing, Danville, on Mar 15, 2013
Brill sets out to unmask a system that accounts for fully 20% of GDP, twice what other First World countries pay per capita, with no better results to show for the duplicate investment. If we could somehow wean the estimated $800B waste from a $2.7T annual invoice, we'd have addressed many of our most vexing public spending problems. But it's a seller's market run amok, with wildly-inflated prices opaque to its customers, utterly unhinged from its costs across the entire supply chain, and protected by lobbying investments five-times those of the well-greased defense and energy industries.
Ironically, its best-run sector is Medicare. That government program is cost-based, efficient, well-policed – and in danger of being dismantled because of its sheer size and growth. One alternative, popular among House partisans would substitute a deeply flawed, regressive voucher system, with all of the defects present in the private insurance system – and they are many.
Rather than paint the several thousand health insurers as the villains of this drama, Brill sees them as the hospitals' whipping boys, with only limited bargaining power. Each negotiates a significant individual discount on covered patients' bills – but a discount from what? Therein lies the key to understanding this debacle.
The increasingly powerful hospitals use a mysterious system called The Chargemaster to decide the rate at which each element of service is invoiced. The mark-ups are shamelessly outrageous. Typical examples include a lab test for which Medicare pays a cost-plus $14, billed at $198; $7 for a single prep pad, when a box of 200 retails for $1.91; and a cancer drug that costs $300 to make, then billed to the hospital at $3,000 and thence to the patient at a whopping $13,702! Sadly, those are not isolated cases, and they make the Pentagon's $100 toilet seats look like a bargain.
The explanations Brill says he was offered were three: nobody pays The Chargemaster rates, they are necessary to offset discounts given to insurers, and they underwrite charity care. None holds up to scrutiny. First, the near-poor/uninsured Do pay retail, often ruinously, as they have no buffer. Second, the insurance discounts are 30-50% on services typically marked-up well-over 100%. And charity care – at Chargemaster rates -- accounts for less than 5% of hospital revenue, according to the industry's own lobby. Their actual cost? – a pitiful fraction of that pittance.
The system also feeds itself. With their untaxed profit margins of 10-30%, non-profit hospitals can't pay dividends, so they expand facilities, buy the latest Chargemaster-able machinery and bestow handsome administrative salaries. Too often, those new machines provide only marginally better care, but their tests can be billed at multiples of the old tests – and no doc will ever be grilled by a malpractice attorney for ordering the newest new thing. Everybody has to have one, too, of course -- and we all pay.
Policy wonks used to think that part of the solution was to shorten hospital stays. The Chargemaster was more than equal to that task, however – shifting the highest of those outrageous mark-ups to the out-patient services departments.
So, what's to be done? Brill does not expect much help from ObamaCare – indeed, he believes that premiums will rise dramatically, at least in the short run. That reform simply does not address these problems as would, say, a single payor system (Medicare, for all). Nor is he very optimistic otherwise, given the complexities of reform – and the deep entrenchment of the interests. He offers a number of lawyerly possibilities, like outlawing The Chargemaster, eliminating hospital mergers, taxing all hospital profits and limiting administrative salaries.
As he puts it, "we've enriched the labs, drug companies, medical device makers, hospital administrators and purveyors of CT scans, MRIs, canes and wheelchairs. Meanwhile, we've squeezed the doctors [and] everyone outside the system who gets stuck with the bills. We've created a secure, prosperous island in an economy that is suffering under the weight of the riches those on the island extract."
"And we've allowed those on the island and their lobbyists and allies to control the debate, diverting us from what Gerard Anderson, a health care economist at Johns Hopkins, says is the obvious and only issue: 'All the prices are too damn high.'"
Synopsis: the health care system is broken, and there's no relief in sight.
Comments (5)
a resident of Diablo
on Mar 20, 2013 at 2:43 pm
My goodness---admitting Obamakill will make premiums rise?? This will....and not for a "temporary" time. Will denial of service (let them die) be race related so as to kill off Caucasians faster? Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration reform not destroying the USA fast enough? Probably. We are the brave new world.....thanks socialists.
a resident of Diablo
on Mar 20, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Arrrrr, Cap'n Jack Sparrow: I tried translatin' yer comment from th' buccanneer dialect into English, but 't didna help. Ye be lily livered that Obama wants t' kill white folks, but he`s half white, so wouldna he want t' only kill half o' them? An' what does Teddy Kennedy be havin' t' do wi' anythin'? We know he wasn`t much o' a seafarin` man.
Anyway, th' parrot an' I agrees that ye be one strange bird.
Troth tol', yar a scallywag who ortin' t' be keel hauled!
a resident of Alamo
on Mar 21, 2013 at 6:14 am
Jack: I don't know Brill's politics, so I'm not sure I'd call his prediction about future premiums an 'admission.' I do think he's right that the new approach has not been designed to address the system flaws he describes in this article.
The article, though, is about Those flaws. Do you have any ideas about That subject, lest folks are left to suspect that the parrot and the red head are correct (matey)?
a resident of Danville
on Mar 26, 2013 at 2:42 pm
In the end, the fundamental problem is essentially one of cost-shifting, which serves to blunt or even eliminate any beneficial effects of competition.
Brill somewhat acknowledges this, I think, in saying that the insurance companies are not really the main problem here. Indeed, there is a reasonably competitive and some-what efficient "marketplace" for health insurance. Companies are very able to shop around for better rates for their employee health plans, and even individuals have some degree of ability to shop for different levels of coverage, from different vendors.
But this all breaks down at the service-provider level. No one really shops for better hospital rates, nor ER rates, nor regular doctor rates. And while the insurance companies DO have some leverage with hospitals and other service providers, it is limited by geography. The inurance companies want to have broad inclusion of service providers so that the shoppers of insurance plans will see that their local providers are covered by the plan. So this takes away the main insurance company leverage - which is dropping a provider from coverage. It's relatively easy to drop a doctor, or even a local medical group. But not easy at all for an insurance company to just drop a hospital (at least not without ticking off lots of their plan participants.
I'm very leery of government-run single-payer proposals. That said, an argument might be made that a single-payer system that only extends to the hospitalization part of an insurance plan, and perhaps just for "catestrophic" coverage, might make sense. You could still have the actual doctors bills and specialists bills be borne by regular insurance, since there are enough choices so that the insurance companies could actually drop doctors or surgeons who charged too much. This sort of "hybrid" private/public health insurance might well get rid of the most un-competitive situations (by putting them under regulation), while letting competitive forces work where they have a chance of working. Just my $0.02.
I agree that Obama-care doesn't address this issue. However, one might argue that Obama-care was actually designed/intended to raise health insurance rates, so as to drive people toward a single-payer system over time. That's not part of the talking points, of course. But it seems like that's what the impact will be....
a resident of Alamo
on Mar 28, 2013 at 5:17 pm
CRM: Yup -- I agree with your characterization of the market failure. It's a little like a public-type utility, in that everybody needs it, and yet you cannot shop for it -- like a utility, except that it is completely unregulated as to price. Imagine what PG&E could do with that kind of freedom!
I've had both hips replaced, grace of my misspent youth. Surgeon who did hip 1 had moved to Austin; I was so happy with the result that I tried to comparison-shop to get hip 2 done there. Couldn't do it, even with his help. His former partner did hip 2 here, and I'm as happy with that job, but I learned that you cannot be an informed consumer -- even on non-emergency service that you can schedule ahead.
I also like your half/half idea, except there may be too many moving parts at that point. I doubt ObamaCare was passed for the purpose of eventually reaching single payor -- but that said, I'm guessing that's where we're headed. Maybe Hillary will get us there, after all? (I know you'll love That idea.)
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Definition of breath
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When Oscar Wilde allegedly gestured at the garish wallpaper in his cheap Parisian hotel room and announced with his dying breath, "Either it goes or I go," he was exhibiting something beyond an irrepressibly brilliant wit. —Tom Robbins, Harper's, September 2004
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gum that freshens your breath
It's so cold outside that I can see my breath.
My mad dash for the bus left me gasping for breath.
I took a long breath before speaking again.
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Middle English breth, from Old English brǣth; akin to Old High German brādam breath, and perhaps to Old English beorma yeast — more at barm
First Known Use: before 12th century
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out of breath
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out of breath
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