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Michelle Obama's Costly Travel
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Aug 15, 2011
The start of the new school year is upon us. The kids have all gotten their new school clothes and supplies. Registration for Amador and other Pleasanton schools is next week. Parents can breathe a sigh of relief that the kids will get back to the regimen of a school once again.
Teachers may have to forgo the customary writing assignment that many of us may remember the first week of school—'What we did during summer vacation.' With the high number of unemployed, the price of gas at over $4.00 per gallon, many families had to either scale down on the vacation plans, or scrap plans all together.
Many families had to explain to their kids the importance of sacrifice, and the need to conserve during tough times. But other families seem to think that vacations are a right and not a privilege; especially when it's on the tax payer's dime.
Michelle Obama, in 2011, has racked up a staggering amount of money traveling across the globe. Here is what her itinerary looked like so far this year:
• Trip to Latin America to discuss trade and the global economy doubled as a vacation since it was spring break for daughters Malia and Sasha.
• Panama City, Florida
• Martha's Vineyard
• Hawaii
• Trip to Africa where Michelle brought her two daughters, mother, two nephews, a few friends and a few white house staffers
• Trip planned for later this year to Corvallis, Oregon to see her brother
Although the first family is responsible for picking up the tab for many of the costs involved in recreational travel, the taxpayers are paying for air travel and security. Michelle Obama has been using Air Force 2, which is usually reserved for the Vice President. Air Force 2 is a C-32a which is the military version of the 757 which flies at a cost of $12,723 per hour. The cost round trip to Africa would be $165,399 for air travel alone. Put in the cost of Secret Service agents protecting her entire entourage and the price tag is substantial.
Even the most ardent supporters of Obama and his administration should agree that you must lead by example, and this is sending the wrong message to the middle class who is sacrificing everywhere they can to stay afloat.
a resident of Charter Oaks
on Aug 16, 2011 at 12:03 am
Ah, Cindy hops on the bandwagon of racist hatred. Not quite as bad as Nancy Reagan's insistence on a new $180,000.00 set of china, do you think? Your colors are beginning to show. Worse, you really don't have anything to say. Spit out grade school summaries of mainstream news, add nothing, and then sit on the sidelines, too timid to face the fire of criticism. Joke.
a resident of Downtown
on Aug 16, 2011 at 2:10 am
Cindy, How does Ms. Obama's travel compare with other First Ladies? Are you suggesting that the First Lady, under enormous stress that comes from being in the White House, should restrict her travel and refrain from visiting her relatives at her own expense?
There are truly important issues in the world. We're burning up, economies are collapsing, people are starving in drought-stricken areas around the globe, wars are being fought and revolutions are being waged ... and you write about this? [Portion removed because it was disrespectful]
a resident of Oak Hill
on Aug 16, 2011 at 7:24 am
Cindy, you must have put a lot of thought into your little essay. You use three paragraphs building up a grand introduction before getting to your point: That you think that Michelle Obama spends too much money traveling.
The fact is, First Ladies of the US tend to do a lot of traveling. As unofficial ambassadors of the US, they're expected to go out and meet foreign dignitaries and officials as well as ordinary people. You claim that Michelle Obama "racked up a staggering amount of money traveling across the globe". How about the previous First Lady? Would you characterize her travel spending as "staggering"? No? Why not since she and other First Ladies have all done about the same amount of traveling?
I'm not claiming that President Obama is the perfect President. I'm not saying I agree with all of his policies. But your singling out the First Lady's travels for criticism comes across to me as being a bit petty.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Aug 16, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Another point of view - Aircraft used to ferry government VIPs generally belong to the USAF. These aircraft need to be flown a certain number of hours per month or else the aircraft starts to deteriorate on the tarmac. Also the aircrew need a certain amount of flying time along with duties associated with the various aircrew functions. For example pilots need a certain number of takeoffs and landings (day and night) to stay qualified in the aircraft that they are assigned to.
So....the aircrew can practice drilling holes in the sky or they can ferry VIPs on good-will missions. Either way the most expensive part of the mission is the fuel, which is an ongoing expense that is budgeted to the maintenance and upkeep of the strategic resource.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 19, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I'd love to be chosen to travel with the First Lady. I'm gonna write her a letter, send a photo of myself, and ask her if I can show her around the Basque Country. I wouldn't visit any of the bigger cities, just small villages and places where she and her children could hike and eat home cooking!!!
The food is so good she would surely go nuts!
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Aug 19, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Good-will missions are an important and time-honored part of the First Lady's job; and given the fact that the president's wife is the ultimate in unpaid staff, I think we can appreciate what a great bargain we are getting.
I'd also say she sets one heck of a great example by being our nation's premiere volunteer.
a resident of Hart Middle School
on Aug 20, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Hi, Cindy.
So you find an article on the Fox News site, or Newsmax, do CTRL + C and then CTRL + V?
Hey, that's great!
We teachers have a word for it: it's called "plagiarism". You know, stealing other people's words and ideas and passing them off as your own.
I know why Tea Partiers seem to hate Mrs. Obama (who has no legal obligation to fulfill her unpaid duties as First Lady) even more than Mr. Obama: the only thing worse than seeing a black man as President of the United States is seeing his "uppity" black wife jet around the world on goodwill missions.
Yep, it's racism. And some of them lib'rul college perfessors has done proved it:
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*Scholar Robert Putnam, best known for his study of American atomization in "Bowling Alone," has produced new data on the Tea Party and it's being billed as a shocker. Sit down before you read this: They are older, white conservative Christians "who were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born."*
To quote Joan Walsh, the author of the article:
"The role of race is nothing new. A New York Times survey as well as a University of Washington study found Tea Party members more likely even than other Republicans to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people, that the Obama administration favors blacks over whites, and to blame black disadvantage on the shortcomings of black people, rather than on the legacy of slavery and discrimination. Is it only about having a black president? Um, that probably doesn't help. But it's worth noting that these are the same people who've been fighting the Democratic Party since the days of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the beginning of the War on Poverty, almost 50 years ago. They associate those long overdue social reforms with giving folks, mainly black people, something they don't deserve. I sometimes think just calling them racist against our black president obscures the depths of their hatred for Democrats, period."
A long-winded way of saying "the Tea Party are a bunch of old white people who always have been, and still are, racists."
Yeah, that's what I thought.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Aug 21, 2011 at 4:41 pm
I have found that the more the participants in such a conversation understand about the underlying mechanism of politics, the less emotional the individual comments are.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 21, 2011 at 5:09 pm
We must strive to be perspicuous and perspicacious in our platitudes so as to seek to earn all levels of reproach. I learned that in the inestimable bastions of epistemological and ontological consciousness of the Army.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Aug 21, 2011 at 6:11 pm
And could any of us veterans ever forget the admonition that a soldier who fails to learn the proper maintenance and operation of his equipment often ends up doing more damage to his own position than he does to the opposing force?
a resident of another community
on Sep 28, 2011 at 7:39 am
Boy, Critcize Barrack or Michele and the liberal racists just come out of the woodwork. Why is it everyone who does not agree that the Obamas are the best thing since sliced bread are racists? Trying to sell a Honda as a Mercedes will never work.
a resident of Walnut Hills
on Sep 28, 2011 at 8:20 am
I think this was an informative article, and the author was doing her job as a member of the press - holding those in power accountable. The same was done when Bush and Clinton were President, and it's a good thing. Some of Michelle Obama's trips (to Africa, Martha's Vineyard, Spain) were not in the role of good-will ambassador but were vacations. During a recession, Jimmy Carter and family went to Camp David. Ronald Reagan went to his California ranch. Obviously the Obamas should take vacations, but why don't they follow the example of other Presidents, and forgo the expensive trips until we are in an economic recovery?
BTW, people who say the Tea Party are racists - how do they explain that Herman Cain is currently the Tea Party favorite among Republican candidates? Herman Cain grew up as a black man in the Jim Crow South, endured horrible racism, yet went on to accomplish great things. His Dad was a chauffer and his Mom was a maid. If the Tea Party were racist, why did they vote Cain the winner in the Florida Straw Poll?
Meanwhile, it was Joe Biden and Harry Reid who were glad Obama was so clean-cut, articulate, etc. - in other words, he "sounded white". Cain, meanwhile, has a distinctive Southern black accent, which didn't stop the Tea Party from voting for him.
The reality is that race should be irrelevant. It's the job of journalists to speak truth to power and to be the watchdogs, so this article on the First Lady's travel is part of the job of the media.
a resident of another community
on Sep 28, 2011 at 1:07 pm
You make a good point about the TEA party. They are not actually racist. but you must have noticed that in the political environment in which we live today, "Racist", is what one yells when one has no other cogent argument. The accusation is impossible to refute, which makes it all the more attractive to cast at your enemies.
The problem with calling "Racist" to all who disagree with you is this: After a short while, people notice. They notice that one never has an ability to argue intelligently, and to support one's arguments with facts. They learn that the accusation of racsim is bandied about freely.
Thinking individuals also notice that false cries of racism undermine and devalue real instances of racism.
Crying "racist" undermines the speaker's position, undermines those suffering from actual racism, and increasingly, renders ones opinions moot.
a resident of Vineyard Hills
on Sep 29, 2011 at 8:12 am
Yeah for Michelle Malkin of Fox News for pointing out the federal bullying over a little article that is based on fact. Ms. Malkin blogged about this in the article below and also mentioned it on Fox News on Sept. 28.
Good for Cindy Cross and the Pleasanton Weekly for exercising free speech, good journalism, and to not back down to federal imperialists!
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Does the town really smell like chocolate?
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The kids enjoyed running through the rows of different type of rose bushes at the beginning of the park, we even saw a few bunnies in the area. Following our walk through the rose garden we proceeded to through a canopied trellis into the Children's Garden. The kids made a b-line for the water play area, which consisted of three Hershey kisses that sprayed mist at random intervals (I timed it as I was watching..
We then went into the Butterfly Garden, which was great because they provided us with a lamenated chart with pictures of all the different butterfly varieties that were in the Garden.
Sophie was very interested in finding all the butterflies on the page and we spent a good amount of time just looking around everywhere, both at the butterflies and the great flowers and water features in the garden. There was a great goldfish pond, which both Sherri and I enjoyed (summer project... um no) We could tell that the butterfly garden was great because even our 3 yr old Max was looking around and not doing the usual "I-am-ready-to-go" (i.e. climbing structures, walking in the gardens, flailing around, and bumping into other people). The people inside the butterfly Garden were also very informative and helpful, Sophia had a hard time finding one particular butterfly and the woman there walked around with us and pointed it out.
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We then headed over to Hershey's Chocolate World, outside the park, figuring that would give us a good idea of the area
We then perused the stores, which actually were not as big as expected. The girls debated various items to purchase. All this shopping pooped max out and he finally fell asleep. Notice his cool new ride, as his stroller broke at Elmo's world and we had to buy a new one.
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Menlo Atherton Algebra Class Travesty
Original post made by MA Bear, Menlo-Atherton High School, on Nov 16, 2012
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I read it and wondered if it was student humor. I hope it's not true. What a travesty of taxpayer funded education!
Math teacher Manuel Delgado has now been absent for exactly a month, leaving his five Algebra I classes without lesson plans. Students are worried about their ability to succeed after their teacher's lengthy absence.
Delgado left school to attend court over his discontent with the school after he failed to accept the settlement of his last case. Principal Matthew Zito has also been called off campus for the trial.
Meanwhile, Delgado did not arrange for a substitute, leaving no teaching plans and few materials.
"The first week or two we didn't really do anything because [Delgado] locked up everything. He didn't let anybody use anything, he would write notes on the computers saying they weren't working so that people wouldn't use them. He took the eraser and the smart board pens and locked them in a drawer, so that no one would use them or be able to. So we basically used our fingers [as pens]," freshman Diana Bojorquez.
Diana Bojorquez' description of Delgado's classroom clearly portrays the tone of the confusion and discord that has persisted in his absence. Delgado's semi-permanent substitute Mr. Callan forged a note from Delgado on the board in order to ease the confusion from Delgado's lack of communication with his classes.
Because Delgado's absence is such an extended one, students risk missing a month's worth of material and some worry about failing Algebra I.
Many students expressed their worry with regard to failing the class because of Delgado's absence. Sophomore Sophia Sorci has even more to lose as she explains: "I already took this class, so I don't want to take it three years, and I'm worried I'm going to have to take it again because he's gone for so long."
While Mr. Callan is credentialed to teach history rather than math, he recognizes the concern of many of his students and has therefore been teaching himself the material a week in advance and using the lesson plans of the other Alegbra I teachers in attempt to keep the class somewhat on track.
Regardless of his efforts, it is still a struggle as "it is hard because he is learning the material while we are learning it," explains freshman Briana Martinez.
Although students are getting some instruction thanks to Mr. Callan's efforts that far exceed the usual duties of a substitute, there is still worry among the students regarding their semester final. If Delgado returns before the end of the semester students worry about the possibility that he will give his classes his own final while they have been learning the material of other Algebra I teachers for the past month.
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a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Dec 4, 2012 at 10:56 pm
I am an editor for the M-A Bear News who worked on this particular story, and it was actually not written as a satire, but as an informative piece. The teacher who had been absent for over a month was attending his trial versus the Sequoia Union School District. We just wrote another article detailing the major arguments in the case and the final verdict, which can be read here: Web Link.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Dec 5, 2012 at 7:08 am
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
This is a horrible reflection on the principal and the school board. It is there job to provide for substitute teachers.
Can you imagine a business that just abandoned its customers for six weeks? Such an organization would go out of business.
a resident of Menlo-Atherton High School
on Dec 5, 2012 at 10:00 am
"Can you imagine a business that just abandoned its customers for six weeks? Such an organization would go out of business."
Unless it's a health insurance company.
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UTSA Professor John Bartkowski
Ovations lecture: Parents, children and religion
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(Nov. 6, 2008)--The UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts Ovations Lecture Series presents John Bartkowski, UTSA professor of sociology, speaking on "Religion, Parents and Children: What Helps, What Hurts" at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 12 in University Center Ballroom I on the 1604 Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Bartkowski will discuss his 15 years of research on religion and religious practices, proposing ways in which parents' religious commitments both help and hinder child development from birth to adolescence.
"I hope people gain a greater appreciation of religion's role in raising the next generation," said Bartkowski. "This balanced approach identifies the advantages and disadvantages of a religious upbringing. Such even-handedness is often missing in public debates and discussions about religion."
Topics will include the effects of parent and youth worship service attendance regardless of faith tradition, beliefs about the Bible and children's involvements in youth groups.
Bartkowski's published research explores the influence of religion on family life and the effectiveness of faith-based initiatives. Currently, he is completing two books. One examines religiosity among teens involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while the other contrasts faith-based and secular approaches to poverty relief.
"The Ovations Lecture Series features UTSA's top scholars in the arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as distinguished guest speakers," said Daniel J. Gelo, dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. "The lectures exemplify the high quality of research and creative activity in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and address topics of interest and importance to our entire community."
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Good for u Jo, but you should have tried to work out something with Kali, just for your son like getting back together. But instead you found a bad chick who like to party and that like to smoke and drink when you have your son over at your parents house what a shame for ur son.
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My wife, probably due to being required to live with me, really likes mead. I was thinking of geting together some stuff to give her as a birthday present where she/we could make some.
I bought a "how to make mead" book. Any suggestions on a cost-effective source/list of items to purchase to make a first batch?
She also like fairly sweet meads with or without fruit added. Anybody have a suggested recipe(s) to start making such mead with (complete with suggested yeasts, which is a topic that confuses me)?
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'Let me see is it easier for them to build a comb with nothing in the way and festoon down the middle or to festoon some bees on one side of the foundation and some bees on the other side of the foundation.'
What a marvelous observer you are!
That's got to be a winning argument for foundationless if ever there was one.
Perhaps rweakley's observation could suggest a way to speed up comb building on foundationless frames?
I already glue popsicle sticks to the top bar. I've glued a bunch to the bottom of some. I might just do a comparison.
Last edited by WLC; 06-07-2012 at 06:23 PM.
My general impression after 10 month of bee-observing (do not feel, I am a beekeeper) is that the whole approach needs to be re-evaluated in the light of current reality: pesticides, 100+years old dogmas, congestion, concrete, industrialization, pollination, migration, "bee space", new diseases etc. It needs to be accepted that current beekeeping industrial system - fails! Nearly 50% of bee-colonies lost every year in US - it IS a failure of the current approach. If system did not work, it needs to be changed in accordance to the new reality. If someone repeating the same thing and it fails every other time - is this right way to do business? Like, if every other space shuttle will fail? I think, such forum(s) is a good place to discuss a new ideas and learn new approaches from the people who may be "discovered" something better for your bees.
Last edited by cerezha; 06-07-2012 at 07:53 PM.
I've already seen that bees prefer to build on foundationless frames while ignoring perfectly good small cell frames. I've also added an empty foundationless body to small cell comb containing body to see what happens.
I also have ritecell deep frames in my nucs that were drawn by placing a deep over a body with fully drawn foundationless frames.
So, I kinda understand some of the dynamics involved, and the frustrations as well.
However, I never really thought about the way bees festoon when building comb and how that might affect the speed (or preferences) when building new comb on different types of frames.
There's something there.
So, I'll see if popsicle sticks on the top AND bottom of a foundationless frame speeds things up or not.
It's just a hunch. Besides, it'll give me something to look for that I can see clearly.
I've heard of the anectdotal reports that foundationless frames are drawn more quickly than frames with foundation. I haven't really noticed that. I think that the deep frames with ritecell were drawn more quickly than foundationless frames or small cell frames.
So, I'll give it a second look.
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Like I says - many thing in beekeeping is controversial! Measuring the speed of honeycomb formation is not a simple task. Many factors needs to be accounted. I never actually measure the speed of honeycomb creation, but I noticed that honey comb on foundationless frames is thicker than on the frames with foundation (I am doing 8 in 10-frame medium box) . In my hive, foundationless frame full of honey is approximately 30% heavier than completely filled frame with foundation. So, I have more honey from foundationless frame. In this sense, if you want accurate measurements, you need to normalize your data per pound of comb (honey+wax+drones), per day.
By the way, in my hands, the top plank of the standard frame works as great as a full frame. My local bee-store sells to me only top parts for something ridiculous - 0.24$ per piece? Also, I do not see a difference between using "popsicle sticks" type guide or just fill up the groove in the plank with melted wax. I prefer the latest because it is much quicker and attachment of the comb to "frame" seems to be more secure. So, right now, I am replacing all frames on just top planks with groove filled with melted pure wax. I found that it is much better to alternate empty frames and full frames - when box is full of honey, I took each other frame, sort of checker-boarding... girls work like crazy to "repair" the damage. It has additional benefit - it looks like they are so busy that keep forgetting to swarm... As for honey extraction - you just dump everything in the mesh bag installed in suitable container with holes and let it drip! It is scalable - one could use a barrel or even something bigger. Next day you have a really raw, grade A, non-heated beautiful honey. I mix the remaining wax/honey leftovers (still in the mesh-bag) with water, remove wax with mesh-bag and use the liquid to make a honey vine - just add yeasts and plug the water gate. Wax is used for candles.... As everything in beekeeping, my non-professional dilettante approach may not work for you. Sergey
Now the old Dadant small cell plastic foundation was another story. It was horrible, but fortunately, it's not still on the market. I still have five pieces. I tried them again this year just for kicks and it was an abject failure.
I don't doubt that foundationless is drawn quickly and has has many other benefits.
My experience with rite cell just happened to be a positive one. It may simply be a great product.
I am interested in seeing how bees on drawn natural cell (foundationless) will build on PF 120s. I'm also interested in seeing how bees on drawn PF 120s will build on foundationless frames.
I hope to see a reduction in cell size when PF 120 'bees' draw on foundationless. I expect to see the bees 'balk' when they go from foundationless to PF 120s.
I also expect that the bees will confound any of my expectations.
As for the festooning observation, I'm interested in seeing if having a comb guide on both the top and bottom of the frame speeds things up.
What I really want to do is observe how the bees festoon on the top and bottom vs the top only comb guide frames.
Who knows? There might be a some differences that may suggest possible improvements.
Someone with an observation hive should make a time lapse video of comb drawing in the above cases. Just a thought
psfred I was told of this site recently
I have not taken the time to check it out so take it fwiw.
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That's Randy Oliver's site. I have found quite a bit of good information on there concerning bee nutrition, feeding protocols, and general bee health. I don't find him biased particularly, but he does have a focus on pesticides.
Remember that he keeps bees in California for almond pollination amongst other things, and there is probably more pesticide applied at more times in the Central Valley of California than at any other place in the world (including herbicides and fungicides). I suspect that bee kill-offs are a significant problem. Bayer just last year de-listed neo-nics for use on almonds due to concerns that the bees, without which there will be no almonds, were being killed off.
Naturally, he's quite concerned about pesticide effects on bees, and research on "CCD" has focused quite a bit on some pesticides that came into common use at about the same time as CCD showed up (notably neo-nics).
The recent scare about slamonella and e.coli on lettuce has resulted in a very serious "weed eradication" program that pretty much removed any non-crop plants, too, which is causing some stress problems.
In my opinion, the second worst problem beekeepers face (after loss of forage) in the near future is pesticide use that seems to keep increasing all the time. Mites can be managed by treatment, or better, by breeding resistant bees and non-lethal mites, but we are never going to breed pesticide resistant bees.
Here is something that nobody has mentioned yet.
Its more fun!
Even if all the claims about foundationless turn out to be false its still going to be a simpler and more enjoyable way to keep bees.
This isn't true. We are experts at breeding pesticide resistant insects. Any time you use a pesticide that does't kill 100% of a population you are eventually going to end up with pesticide resistant insects. This applies to bees just as much as it does mosquitoes.but we are never going to breed pesticide resistant bees.
The problem is that bees have a longer life cycle than most the insects we are trying to kill and so will adapt slower than the pest species.
For the most part pest species also adapt faster than the chemical industry. I'm not actually all that worried about pesticides. Given enough time they'll all become useless. Heck, given evolutions track record we'll probably end up with insects that depend on pesticides as part of their biochemistry. We'll have healthy bugs filled with so much poison nothing else will eat them.
Another advantage to foundationless is being able to cut out whole capped queen cells (for splits) without much worry, as opposed to doing that on plastic.
You can also do the fatbeemans method of cutting a strip of comb off with eggs and put it into a cell starter, I dont think you can do that with plastic, without grafting. Another good thing is if they do make a frame or two of drone comb, you can move those up into the honey supers and have LARGE cells of honey!!
This is my first year of foundationless and I am impressed at how fast the bees draw out the comb compared to plastic. Its also fun watching them start the comb and amazing how they can make something so nice and architechual!!
But he main thing for me...............saving money!!
Coyote Creek Bees
I am sorry I am interested in foundationless.. Only because it is cheaper. Secondly the benefits of contamination from another wax source is also a plus. cell size. my foundationless are huge cells. Maybe they are building giant bees maybe those were not drones I saw maybe I am breeding giant bees
Can someone quantifiably show that foundation less is cheaper? By my calculation it is not-- you are losing honey production. If I buy foundation from Dadant, seven sheets equals one pound so for 2 deep boxes that is 20 sheets or 2.85 pounds of wax, which translates at 8 pounds of honey per pound of wax 23 pounds of honey. I sell honey at 10 dollars a pound that is 230 dollars lost money. Even if you include the cost of the foundation, which if bought in a fifty sheet pack would be 19 dollars worth of foundation for the above example--there is still a loss of 211 dollars honey profit just to start to draw out the brood boxes let alone the supers-So how is it cheaper again?
What you really mean is why don't all of the commercial operations use foundationless if it's so great?
My guess: time bandits and money pits.
I shouldn't do this,,,
But see, there we go again, putting production first, and bee health somewhere down the road. I'm not singling anyone out here but the attitude is,,,,,disheartening. It reminds me of the "curmudgeon" at the last, and I mean last, bee meeting I went to. Take all the honey from the bees sell it, and then feed them syrup, because honey is worth more than the cost of sugar. Maybe it is just me, but is it any wonder there are problems in a management system like that ? We are talking back yard beeks here.
I have my bullet proof vest on
Rick I hope its kevlar!
I understand what you are talking about, but you are comparing apples to oranges here. This discussion is about not using foundation not all beekeeping Modus operandi. I agree with you taking all the honey is clearly wrong but that is not at all the same as using foundation. Just because I am demonstrating cost effectiveness doesn't mean I am shortchanging the bees "way of life" wax foundation is just that beeswax from bees which helps them get a head start on comb drawing. Yes there could be contaminants in it but even with foundationless contaminants will get in in a season or two- unless you plan to constantly remove combs, which most people do not.
WLC I dont think they question should be why don't all commercial beeks use foundationless if its so great but why dont ANY use it if its so great (unless you know of someone?)


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This is one room in a 2 bedroom apartment located on the top floor of a 2-family home. The building is situated in a quiet location, yet it is just around the corner from the business district and a few blocks to the buses that take you to Manhattan in 15 minutes.
If you are interested in renting the entire apartment go to WIMDU/9NCF3BI7
Please note: with this screen you are booking/inquiring to rent just one of the bedrooms.
It is ideal for people looking to visit the city for a couple of days as well as people looking to stay for a couple of months. Please message me if you are interested in staying for an extended period of time and I will be happy to discuss long-term pricing with you then.
The apartment has been completely renovated, including the bathroom. The walls have been newly painted and all furniture is brand new!
Please make sure that you check all my other listing – the GreenRoom (Wimdu/99UF2OL3) & the entire Apartment (see above), and if you don't find the dates you're looking for, shoot me an inquiry anyways and I'll do what I can to help you, including recommending other great local hosts.
Great energy and very peaceful! Feel free to message me with any questions!
ABOUT YOUR ROOM and the house:
* There is a fully equipped kitchen and refrigerator. We provide coffee, tea and hot chocolate. We encourage you to make yourself at home. Depending on the length of your stay, you can stack up on food and drink, there is plenty of storage space! We suggest restaurants (menus on the book shelf of those that deliver!)
* Keypad code (no physical keys) so you can come and go as you please
* There is a key to each bedroom to assure privacy and security
* Your bedroom (The Red Room) has a "queen-sized" bed and a large closet. The room comfortably accommodates two people
* Free WIFI
* Includes all linens, blankets, towels and pillows
* Share kitchen and bathrooms with other guests
* We can install child proof rail guards
* LGBT friendly
Interaction with Guests
I do not live in the house. I like to come by the morning after guests arrive to answer all questions and to make sure everything is in order. After that I keep in contact with guests via WhatsApp or other applications (Email or phone), so we can be in contact at all times. I am only a few blocks away and can be there in 10 minutes if need be.
The Neighborhood
* Located in Union City, NJ, a very short direct bus ride to the Times Square area
* Five blocks from gorgeous Manhattan views (along Hudson River)
* Best 'cafe con leche' in town around the corner. You'll wonder why you spend so much at Starbucks!
* Buses to Manhattan/Times Square run every minute during day, and every 4 minutes at night. Buses run 24/7.
It is easier and faster to commute into the City from Union City than commuting from Brooklyn or Queens. If you were to stay in the Bronx it would take you 40 min to get to Times Square. If you were to stay in Brooklyn it would take you the same amount of time as subways in Brooklyn are not direct. If you were to stay in Manhattan you would not find a place as big as this one for this price.
* Great grocery and wine/liquor stores in the neighborhood; a Bodega around the corner (open until 11pm), an Italian deli across the street from it, and the supermarket is just a few blocks away.
* Very safe neighborhood, lots of great restaurants and bakeries but also very quiet at night.
Believe it or NOT – it is possible to be outside of Manhattan and so close to it, yet it's true. Here are some facts about transportation:
1. Apartment is 5 minutes (7 blocks) walking from the central bus stop at post office.
2. The jitney bus is very frequent, I rarely wait for it more than 2 to 3 minutes. Most of the time you won't even wait at all. You will get to the bus stop and a bus will be there.
3. Buses are available 24/7 so you can catch them even when you spend the whole evening out.
4. The price of these express buses is $3 onboard, and $2.50 if you buy tickets at ticket window #23 at Port Authority Bus Terminal
5. You won't find a timetable or route on the internet for these buses, it's a private bus company that runs many lines in and out of Manhattan
6. City bus #22 runs every 30 minutes into Hoboken, home of the Cake Boss, Birthplace of Frank Sinatra and Baseball (where you can also catch the PATH into Manhattan 33rd Street and/or the World Trade Center) and bus #123 every 15-30 minutes (during commute hours) into Manhattan's Port Authority (42nd Street & 8th Avenue – Times Square)
Easy city bus access to Jersey Garden Outlet Mall, much closer and as good as Woodbury Commons.
We are also close to Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City.
Being an urban area, parking is tight. We will provide a visitor pass so you have the same privilege as residents. Please note, that you must not forget to return this pass, otherwise we will need to charge you $35.00. For those who are not familiar with the parking system in the US, you must adhere to the parking rules - ie NO parking in fire zones / handicapped zones; sweep days; parking meters need to be adhered to and if you get a ticket, do not assume that you will not get another one if you don't move your car.
Many ask about the price and extra fees and how to pay. When you put in the dates and number of people you will get our total cost. There are no taxes or extra fees on top of this, but Wimbu adds their fee. It varies between 6-12% on top of our price.
All the payments are safely made with credit card to Wimdu when booking. They hold the money until the day you check in and will then transfer it to us.
Bookings with us are done with the "strict" cancellation policy and all cancellations should be done through Wimdu. This being said, if we manage to re-rent the place the nights you have canceled we can give a bigger refund to you than what the strict cancellation policy dictates. The earlier you cancel the bigger the chance that we will find other guests.
DEPOSIT IS FOR KEYS + VISITOR PASS or any damages that may have occurred. IT WILL BE REFUNDED TO YOU BY WIMDU AFTER YOU HAVE CHECKED OUT.
To confirm that you have read the entire description, please include the secret word "GreenwichVillage" in your inquiry to me.
Check out by 11am – if you need to stay longer, a special request can be made, depending if we need the room the same or the next day.
I was born in Vienna, Austria and have been living in the States for some 4 decades. I lived in Greenwich Village and the East Village (NYC) for 25 years - I consider myself a true New Yorker still, although I now live in New Jersey! I speak German and English and the people in the building speak Spanish!
You are sharing the living room, kitchen and bath with another guest. Please be respectful and considerate and clean up after yourself, especially after using the bathroom. Please wash all the dishes, dry them, put them away and take out the garbage before you check out (see recycling notice on the bulletin board).
Security Deposit is held to ensure return of Room Key & Visitors Parking Pass. Please leave your room key in the door lock upon check out, and the parking pass on the bulletin board to make sure that deposit is instantly refunded to you. Check out by 11am
Smoking is not allowed in the apartment – please smoke outside in front of house.
The house is in a quiet residential neighborhood, so PLEASE NO noise after 11pm.
There is lovely family living on the first floor, who can also answer questions.
Please keep food in the kitchen, we keep a pest free house and wish to continue to do so.
NB. Absolutely no downloading of copyrighted materials (no bit torrent, for example). Any copyright infringement by guests is subject to release of guests' info to copyright holder for further action.
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Hannelore is a great host. She took care of us in our stay in New York. She advised us about all our required information.
The location is really good. It takes 5 min walking to the bus stop and then the way to New York ( Times Square) takes around15 min. The house is really cozy.
I really advise this accommodation.
Thanks Hannelore!
It was a pleasure meeting you hannelore. with a lot of important information, you gave me, i was ready for new york! thank you for everything!
Wonderful stay in this apartment. Just 15 minutes away from manhattan by bus. The apartment is equipped with everything a family need. And is also very clean!!
This was our first experience. Had a great and pleasant stay, the appartment was super and very clean, with all the equipment a home needs.The area was also very quite and peaceful. Ppl very nice and helpful. The busstop to New York is just 5min away, and takes you in 10min depending on traffic.oneway ticket is around 3$. Hannelore is a superb host. So helpful before and during the stay. Everything was just perfect, we will definetly come again and with the whole family.
Hannelore was the perfect host! The place was cozy and clean and the area was in close proximity to restaurants and stores in Union City. Hannelore was a big help in terms of finding our way around and Manhattan was a short bus ride away.
We stayed in October for 12 days in this apartment. The apartment is very clean, well equipped and furnished with a lot of heart. The environment is pleasant and safe. The New York connection worked well with the bus. Hannelore is a gracious host and very attentive to the guests' wellbeing. We can highly recommend this accommodation and we would like to book at any time again.
Hannelores place is very cool. I went there to spend 2 nights and visit NYC. Getting to the NYC is very easy and Hannelore has all necessary information in the flat. A bus ride is fairly easy and is about $3.20 (single ticket) at the time writting.
The location of the flat in Union City is somewhat interesting, as this seems to be an area with a lot of mexican influence, so you can enjoy lots of great mexican food.
The flat at all is very comfortable, clean and has everything you need. The kitchen is well equiped to prepare some meals too. The folks I met there was a couple from Germany and had a good time chatting.
Unfortunately I couldn't meet Hannelore as I had to leave earlier. I will definitivly recommend this place to my friends visiting NY area.
Wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt bei Hannelore, sie hat uns gute Tips gegeben und ist immer erreichbar falls was benötigt wird. Die Lage der Wohnung ist gut und man fühlt sich auch sicher. Günstig, sauber, kostenloses Parken ! Manhatten ist mit dem Bus schnell und einfach zu erreichen.
Vielen lieben Dank nochmal an Hannelore !
Grüße aus dem Blackforest :) Claudia und Klaus
Hallo Zusammen!
wir hatten einen wunderbaren Aufenthalt bei Hannelore, wir sind zwei junge Frauen (20) aus Deutschland die zusammen NYC entdecken wollten. Die Unterkunft war preislich sehr gut wir hatten eine 10 minütige Busfahrt direkt nach Manhattan, was sehr angenehm war. Da wir mit dem Zug nach New Jersey anreisten, war ees nicht üblich für Sie, denn die meisten Gäste kamen mit dem Flugzeug. Sie half uns sehr mit der Zugverbindung und stande jederzeit per Whattsapp zur Verfügung. Wir waren sehr zufrieden. Apartment war recht sauber und es war alles vorhanden was man zum kochen, duschen etc. brauchte. Ein bisschen hat uns die Klimaanlage im Schlafzimmer gestört, ohne die Anlage war es viel zu heiß, jedoch war diese schon sehr alt und man konnte nicht viel verstellen und auch der Lärm der Anlage war sehr laut.
Wir beide würden aber jederzeit wieder Ihr Zimmer buchen. :-)
Abbiamo trascorso 7 notti in un appartamento molto confortevole, occupando la stanza piu' Grande, la rossa! La padrona di casa e' stata semplicemente squisita durante tutto il nostro soggiorno. La sistemazione si trova in una posizione ottimale rispetto a Manhattan, a soli 10 minuti di Bus al costo du 3 dollari a corsa, arrivando direttamente allo snodo di Port Autority, Sulla 8th Avenue. Che dire di piu'...Grazie di tutto, cara Hannelore, a rivederci presto!
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Top photo: From left are Frank Guevara, president, San Antonio
Association for the Education of Young Children; C.A. Messina,
executive director, Voices for Children of San Antonio; Harriett
Romo, director, Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute
and associate professor of sociology; Ricardo Romo, UTSA president;
and Robert Zeigler, president, San Antonio College, with pre-school
artists. Bottom photo: Pre-schoolers' artwork
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UTSA hosts Week of the Young Child art exhibit
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(April 19, 2007)--As part of the Week of the Young Child, UTSA, San Antonio College and local early childhood education advocates hosted an April 17 viewing of the traveling art exhibit, "Picture the Future," at the UTSA Downtown Campus.
UTSA President Ricardo Romo, Dr. Harriett Romo and San Antonio College President Robert Zeigler and San Antonio preschoolers introduced the traveling exhibit at a 10 a.m. ceremony in the Buena Vista Street Building.
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The exhibit features 90 drawings done with crayon and markers by three- and four-year-old pre-schoolers from the UTSA Child Development center, the SAC Early Childhood Center and Parent-Child Inc. affiliates in San Antonio.
The exhibit can be seen April 19-26 at the SAC Early Childhood Center, April 26 at the Palo Alto College PACfest and April 30-May 4 at the Palo Alto College Early Childhood Center.
The Week of the Young Child, observed April 22-29 this year, is a national recognition of the importance of a early childhood education. From birth to age eight, children form the foundation for success in school and later life.
Research shows that children who participate in quality early childhood programs are less likely to drop out of high school, more likely to attend college and more likely to earn higher incomes.
The Week of the Young Child is sponsored locally by the San Antonio Association for the Education of Young Children. The advocacy group Voices for the Children of San Antonio organized the exhibit in collaboration with UTSA and SAC. The exhibit's objective is to enlist community support to help children fulfill their dreams by asking, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The children then are given the opportunity to express their answers in artwork.
For more information, contact the Voices for Children Coalition at (210) 226-9151.


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The talking heads are already looking stupid, how can anyone favor these guys? What a joke Dallas is!
The talking heads are already looking stupid, how can anyone favor these guys? What a joke Dallas is!
Oh well, sucks for that loser.
As a Cowboys fan I regularly see the tweets of players working out with each other on their own time and then there are quotes like this one from Brandon Carr;
"I was just surprised coming into this whole process of being a free agent and meeting with the Cowboys that a lot of the guys stay here and workout," Carr said after an NFL Play 60 fitness event in North Dallas. "That's something you don't really see with a lot of teams, guys staying for the off-season when they could be out traveling to other cities and other states. The guys are here and getting it in."
Curious though... which other players on the Cowboys aren't motivated?
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Marty B is a very good example, but he's not a Cowboy anymore-- he's your problem now. A step toward culture change? Absolutely...
A year removed from Wade Phillips, Bryant is NOT unmotivated.
1. http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/20...ryants-h.html/
2. http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=112&f=1786&t=9046557
3. http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/05...blockID=734494
4. http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/06...blockID=747898
... and I think that's probably enough to not be considered cherry picking. Football IS Dez Bryant's life.
So you've got a guy who is no longer on the team and Dez Bryant who is clearly 'getting it' now that there is a solid HC. Who are the 'et ceteras'? Please name the other unmotivated players.
I see where you have gotten that perspective, and I suppose it's fair that you keep your opinion until they 'actually do something'-- doesn't really matter to me.
All I'm saying, is I see things differently and soon you will too.
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These '3 guys' are Jones, Brodney Pool, and Andre Holmes. Pool is a newcomer this year who failed the conditioning portion because of back spasms, and Holmes is behind Coale, Radway and Ogletree at this point fighting for a 3rd WR position... he probably won't even make it.
I understand why you have the perception that you do. That's fine. Wade Phillips didn't run a tight shift and the team fell apart eventually because of it. But Wade has been gone for a year and a half now and Garrett has been putting everything back together.
And as I've mentioned many times before, Jerry is in the process of stepping down from the 'football' side of things. He's still a promoter and an owner, but calling the shots? Hardly. He's given that up to Stephen and Garrett.
Also, it's just not true. The buzz around the Cowboys stems with what Garrett has been able to do via youth movement. We many more young stars on this team (Bryant, Murray, Smith, Carter, Lee, Carr, Claiborne) than we have had in a while, opposed to last year's "Cowboys look like an 8-8 team". And, for the most part, the light is shining bright on the Eagles at the moment... not the Cowboys.


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After watching a movie that you were so sure would be terrible but it ended up being pretty good, you may say: "Well color me surprised."
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Between Microsoft cutting prices for the Office 365 software-as-a-service suite, an ex-Googler explaining why he left the company (hint: it involves Google+), and Salesforce.com launching new social and site-building services, and more, it was a busy week in cloud services. But isn't it always? Here's a roundup.
Microsoft Office 365 Cuts Prices by 20%
Thanks to the cloud's economies of scale, Microsoft was able to slash prices on Office 365 – which provides customers with cloud-hosted versions of Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office Web Applications – by as much as twenty percent on some SKUs. Courtesy of Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet, here's an handy, easily-readable chart detailing the change:
Also of note: Microsoft is now offering its education-focused A2 service plan to school faculties and staff completely for free after offering students the same for some time. That said, A2 only supports Exchange Online and Lync Online, with the promise that the rest of the Office 365 suite will come this summer.
Microsoft Office 365 considers Google Apps its primary competitor, but this still doesn't give it a price advantage: Google charges $50/user billed annually or $5/user billed monthly. Of course, Microsoft boasts that it has the technology advantage, and takes any opportunity to take a shot across Google's bow. Which is a nice segue to…
Why He Left Google
In "Why I Left Google," a much-discussed article on why he left his position as Google Engineering Director and developer evangelist to join Microsoft as a Partner Development Manager, James Whittaker harshly criticizes the search giant's newfound focus on social. In the "new" Google, engineering and technology platform development takes a backseat to mining for user data for use in advertising.
"Our advertising revenue gave us the headroom to think, innovate and create. Forums like App Engine, Google Labs and open source served as staging grounds for our inventions. The fact that all this was paid for by a cash machine stuffed full of advertising loot was lost on most of us," Whittaker writes of Google's old priorities. But apparently, no longer.
Salesforce.com Rypple and Site.com
I won't spend too much time on these since we covered them in some depth earlier this week, but Salesforce Rypple leverages the technology it acquired at the end of 2012 to add a gamification layer to the so-called social enterprise, in a direct jab at rival SAP. Meanwhile, Salesforce Site.com is a platform for creating and deploying business websites and pushing content across the entire Salesforce cloud ecosystem and social networking sphere. We also discussed Salesforce's approach to big data.
Lightning Round
- We finally got some insight into the actual physical size of the Amazon EC2 compute cloud – somewhere around 450,000 servers.
- Cloud integrator Appirio raised $60 million in VC funding to fuel its growth and take on the technology services market.
- HP explained in an interview with theCube that people are the crux of its services offering – not technology, let alone the cloud.


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The first great conspiracy of the 2010 World Cup has emerged.
It comes complete with innocent victims, millions around the world devastated and a shadowy multi-billion dollar corporate.
Look at the evidence. What do Wayne Rooney, Fabio Cannavaro and Cristiano Ronaldo have in common?
They all performed like turkeys. Ones that had already been stuffed, roasted and set on the table.
And they all appeared in Nike's pre-World Cup Write the Future adverts.
Rooney could have been knighted in the ads or he could have become a despised figure, bearded and living in a gypsy caravan. Which is more likely now?
Italy's beloved centre-half was supposed to be a star on the talk-show circuit with songs in his honour, but his reigning world champion team left in shame after the first round unable even to defeat that rag-tag bunch from New Zealand.
And Ronaldo? They should have been building a statue in his honour, but he was last seen in the second round crashing out against Spain with the commentator saying in the 78th minute: "It has to be said that Cristiano Ronaldo has been a peripheral figure in this game. We've hardly seen him."
Coincidence? I think not.
And if people remain unconvinced, there is more compelling evidence.
The other star of the Nike advert was Brazil's Ronaldinho...who was not selected to play for his country and never even made it to South Africa.
There are also cameos in the ad. Frenchman Franck Ribery is Rooney's nemesis - and look what happened to the French: ordered to fly home economy class in disgrace.
Finally, there is Cesc Fabregas from Spain. He has got off lightly as Spain are through to the quarter finals, but is it simply coincidence that he has been stuck to the substitutes bench making only brief appearances on the field?
Nike, meanwhile, continues to make millions selling sports gear while nations around the world are in mourning at the death of their football dream.
And the most compelling evidence of all; Nike is an American corporate and American corporates are always behind conspiracies.
I rest my case (and change my identity and go into hiding).


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So, instead of complaining about my life, I'll tell you something funny about Suegra. That always cheers me up.
Today I found out that she wears her underwear inside-out. She believes it gives her good luck. Mr. López swears it isn't just her and that there are other Salvadorans who wear their calzónes al revés for suerte, too.
This is how I know I haven't become totally hopeless. At least I haven't considered putting my panties on the wrong way… (yet.)


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Its a tough old dog-eat-dog world out there ... you need a hard nose and a sharp tongue to make it in the business minefield, apparently. What appealing lives we have created for ourselves in the corporate world. With populist conception of what it takes to succeed at the very top provided by professional tough guy Donald Trump, flanked by icy-faced colleagues, snarling "youre fired" to nasty egos in expensive suits on The Apprentice, and tales of aggressive boardroom stoushes and personal battles as the standard fare of the "business legends" autobiography, an outsider would be forgiven for thinking that the workplace is an appallingly aggressive place to exist. And for some people that would actually be right.
Bullying is a topic that tends to crop up mainly in relation to school children deprived of lunch money, and as such is often given short shrift when it comes to the professional world. Corporate bullying is usually seen as a simple HR issue with regards to junior members of staff and their supervisors, or a petty squabble between colleagues. Sexual harassment is a serious problem but is often not categorised as bullying per se in the corporate mind.
However, it is far from being that cut and dried; research highlights that it is a genuine bane to many large organisations. Bullying in the workplace reportedly affects at least 50 per cent of the employed population. In 2001 a workplace project team from Griffith University attempted an impact-and-cost assessment that found the various consequences of bullying cost Australian businesses between six and 13 billion dollars each year through litigation, lost productivity and impaired decision-making.
The nature of the beast
Senior executives, such as CIOs, who think the issue beneath them should reassess, according to experts in the area, because the culture of bullying can penetrate to the very top of a business empire.
According to leadership adviser Sarah Cornally, the essential ingredients of bullying are not limited to the lower employee ranks; it is an equally prevalent issue in the boardroom and is crippling decision-making in numerous Australian organisations. The problem is, what people will often come to accept as the culture or nature of the organisation and those they work with, can actually amount to bullying if you look at a reasonable definition of it.
"Generally it should be accepted that bullying is classified as any time someone feels so intimidated that they cannot be themselves," says Cornally.
"You can come back to the reference point of how safe do people feel? and that neednt simply mean in terms of physical danger, but also in terms of whether someone is able to express an independent thought, disagree with someone or stand out from the groups general consensus without feeling threatened on some level ... If you ever wondered why there are so many irrational decisions made, then this [bullying] is the major answer. People dont act to address the power dynamics; they accept the game and submit to its forces. And yet it is not necessary."
Aspects of abuse All senior executives need to consider bullying from a number of aspects: whether they are being bullied, whether they themselves are bullying people in their own organisations, or whether they are fostering bullies in the management structure beneath them.
Aside from the obvious example of physical intimidation, Robyn Mann, a Queensland-based researcher in psychological abuse in the workplace, provides examples of negative actions that often achieve legitimacy in a workplace - under the guises of appraisal, supervision, corrective action, and even motivation - but in fact characterise a build-up of abuse.
Direct verbal communication such as name-calling, harsh criticism of outcomes, threats to job security, personal attack, supplying incorrect information and dressing down. Indirect verbal communication such as gossip, slander and innuendo relayed to the individual. Non-verbal communication such as disparaging looks and noises, sarcastic/harsh tone of voice, offensive gestures, ignoring, freezing out, physically standing over another with the intention of intimidating, and thrusting or throwing articles towards an individual. Manipulation of the working environment such as withholding needed information, setting unreasonable deadlines, excluding from critical meetings, changing work schedules unfairly, failing to give due credit and retarding opportunities for promotion or higher pay.
Power struggle
Cornally says bullying behaviour nearly always surfaces in individuals who feel powerless in their situation, rather than in someone who simply has a vindictive personality.
Increasingly heavy workloads, targets that are all but impossible to hit and the need to be seen as a leader within an organisation all make for an ideal breeding ground for bullies. The heavier the pressure gets on an individual, the less able they become to carry out what is expected of them, and an under pressure CIO is as liable as anyone to be perceived as a bully and end up on the wrong end of harassment claims.
One way the problems can occur is if the executive has worked in an organisation with an aggressive ethos for a significant length of time. An executive team generates a style of its own over a period of years and, with certain personalities, can become both competitive and aggressive. Those involved see their style as assertive, tough but fair, and will take any suggestion of undue pressure on colleagues with a pinch of salt and an attitude of if you cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Executive level bullying therefore often goes unreported. British organisation, ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service), addresses this in an advisory document intended for senior managers. The document suggests bullied and harassed executives will often appear to overreact to something that seems trivial but is actually the last straw in a string of incidents.
"Bullying and harassment can often be hard to recognise - they may not be obvious to others, and may be insidious," says the ACAS document. "The recipient may think perhaps this is normal behaviour in this organisation, and be anxious that others will consider them weak or not up to the job if they find the actions of others intimidating."
A newcomer to the organisation will understandably be expected to fit in with the corporate culture, but an unchecked aggressive modus operandi obviously goes beyond this reasoning and leads to potentially useful opinions being stymied in meetings.
Addressing the issue Cornally says part of the challenge of addressing a bullying problem is that often the bully themself doesnt realise they are bullying. They dont notice the individual reactions of those around them because bullying can often be in the eye of the beholder. A bully isnt necessarily an aggressive and malicious individual; and Cornally warns CIOs to observe the reactions of those around them to gauge whether they have an undetected bullying side.
"If someone genuinely wants to be aware of their own leadership style they need to think about whether the people around them are relaxed," says Cornally. "They need to ask, is everyone engaged with me? Are we getting the best from them or has the room gone quiet? Am I getting my way too easily? If you thought you were going to get push-back on an idea and you arent getting any, then you should check it is genuine [support] and not just people keeping quiet."
According to Cornally, bullying often takes on a physical dimension, usually not in the sense of direct attacks but often through aggressive non-verbal communication. A common bullying trait is someone who puffs up their body size in a conversation, their face goes intense, their jaw is set, their eyes become penetrating and their tone and manner suggests something explosive behind what they are saying. The typical response is a colleague acquiescing because they feel it is not worth the aggravation of dispute with this person.
She recalls a managing director she worked for who had a tendency to launch into what she describes as "full-blown bullying" when anyone frustrated him. He adopted a confrontational posture and the fact he was built like a front row forward meant it was easy for him to intimidate.
He was aware of this potential and admitted that he reserved it for difficult people; what he wasnt aware of was that the behaviour emerged in meetings with all his executive colleagues. The problem came to a head when one of his direct reports was under investigation for harassment of his staff and justified his behaviour by claiming he was simply fitting in with the existing culture of the companys management.
Check your style
It comes down to the question of whether an individual is happy to get their own way, or whether they truly want decisions to reflect the considered opinions of the executive colleagues as well as their own.
As a senior executive, it is certainly worth making an effort to evaluate your personal leadership style. Dont fall into the trap of some executive bullies who, in extreme cases, have been genuinely surprised when they lost their jobs due to bullying. Sari Conway, for example, was sacked from her position as chief executive of Eastbourne Borough Council in the UK for gross misconduct when an independent report claimed her relationship with other chief officers had completely broken down.
She had faced allegations of a destructive, divisive and aggressive management style and, after her dismissal, claimed to be proud of her record and said she thought people simply felt vulnerable because she advocated change.
Whats acceptable? As with any area of corporate law that involves human emotion, it is difficult to draw up a definitive list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Cornally believes a vital step for any CIO with leadership aspiration is to avert the problem by simply developing the ability to have difficult conversations. Bullying behaviour persists, generally, because the perpetrator is not called to account for their demeanour.
"I once coached a CIO who had a project fail due to an operational error. The regional director responsible for the failure proceeded to blame the CIO in meetings and the perception stuck," she says. "The CIO didnt want to have a fight as he thought the situation would get worse ... and he also had a subordinate who was getting away with blue murder because she knew he wouldnt get into a conflict."
In both cases all that was required was a firm conversation in which the CIO set the agenda. With the regional director the conversations needed to be kept focused on a constructive search for outcomes rather than allowing subjective discussion of personal competency and culpability seep into the dialogue, and with the direct report he actually had to understand better why the problems were arising, as she actually had ambitions that were not being addressed.
Just as bullying is destructive in its common domain of childhood, so it can be in the professional world and - just as children are told - it must be confronted.
"Everything you see in the schoolyard you will see in a corporate environment, just in a more grown-up form with more adult ways of expressing it," says Cornally. "There is an image that if you cut the mustard in the corporate world that you are not going to worry about a bit of intimidation, but then people get nervous when talk turns to harassment ... it deserves to be taken seriously."
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