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Idaho Criminal Rule 41. Search and Seizure.
(a) Authority to issue warrant. A search warrant authorized by this rule or by the Idaho Code may be issued by a district judge or magistrate within the judicial district wherein the county of proper venue is located upon request of a law enforcement officer or any attorney for the state of Idaho. Where it does not appear that the property or person sought is currently within the territorial boundaries of the state of Idaho, such warrant may still be issued; however, no such issuance will be deemed as granting authority to serve said warrant outside the territorial boundaries of the State.
(b) Property or person which may be seized with a warrant. A warrant may be issued under this rule to search for and seize
(1) evidence of the commission of a criminal offense; or
(2) contraband, the fruits of crime, or things otherwise criminally possessed; or
(3) weapons or other things by means of which a crime has been committed or reasonably appears about to be committed, or
(4) a person named in an arrest warrant issued pursuant to Rule 4 of these rules.
(c) Issuance and content. A warrant shall issue only on an affidavit or affidavits, which include written certifications or declarations under penalty of perjury, or by testimony under oath and recorded and establishing the grounds for issuing a warrant. If the district judge or magistrate is satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that the grounds for the application exist, the judge or magistrate shall issue a warrant identifying the property or person and naming or describing the person or place to be searched. The finding of probable cause shall be based upon substantial evidence, which may be hearsay in whole or in part, provided there is a substantial basis, considering the totality of the circumstances, to believe probable cause exists. Before ruling on a request for a warrant the district judge or magistrate may require the affiant to appear personally and may examine under oath the affiant and any witnesses affiant may produce, provided that such proceeding shall be taken down by recording equipment and shall be considered a part of the affidavit. The warrant shall be directed to any peace officer authorized to enforce or assist in enforcing any law of the state of Idaho. It shall command the officer to search, within the specified period of time, not to exceed fourteen (14) days, the person or place named for the property or person specified. The warrant shall be served in the daytime, unless the issuing authority, by appropriate provision in the warrant, and for reasonable cause shown, authorizes its execution at times other than daytime. "Daytime" means the hours between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. according to local time.
(d) Execution and return with inventory. The officer taking property under the warrant shall give to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken a copy of the warrant and a receipt for property taken or shall leave a copy and receipt at the place from which the property was taken. A verified return, which may be a written certification or declaration under penalty of perjury, shall be promptly made to a district court judge or magistrate in the county where a warrant for the seizure of property or a person was issued. The inventory shall be made by one of the officers executing the warrant in the presence of the person from whose possession or premises the property was taken; provided, if such person is not present, the executing officer shall make the inventory in the presence of at least one (1) credible person of age. The district judge or magistrate shall, upon request, deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant. The district judge or magistrate before whom the warrant is returned shall attach to the warrant a copy of the return, inventory and all other papers in connection therewith and shall file them with the clerk of the district court for the county in which the warrant was issued or served.
(e) Motion for return of property. A person aggrieved by a search and seizure may move the district court for the return of the property on the ground that the person is entitled to lawful possession of the property and that it was illegally seized. The motion for the return of the property shall be made only in the criminal action if one is pending, but if no action is pending a civil proceedings may be filed in the county where the property is seized or located. The court shall receive evidence on any issue of fact necessary to the decision on the motion. If the motion is granted the property shall be restored and it shall not be admissible in evidence at any hearing or trial. If a motion for return of property is made or comes on for hearing after a complaint, indictment or information is filed, it shall be treated also as a motion to suppress under Rule 12.
(f) Motion to suppress. A motion to suppress evidence shall be made in the trial court as provided in Rules 5.1(b) and 12.
(g) Telegraphic or facsimile copy of a search warrant. After the issuance of a search warrant in the form set forth in subsection (c) above, a copy of the search warrant may be sent by telecommunication process or by facsimile process to any peace officer or other officer serving the search warrant.
(Adopted December 27, 1979, effective July 1, 1980; amended March 30, 1984, effective July 1, 1984; amended March 20, 1985, effective July 1, 1985; amended June 15, 1987, effective November 1, 1978; amended March 23, 1990, effective July 1, 1990; amended March 18, 2011, effective July 1, 2011; amended February 9, 2012, effective July 1, 2012; amended June 20, 2013, effective July 1, 2013.)


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Man spent 11 hours in tree to avoid arrest
Published: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 11:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 11:03 p.m.
LAND O'LAKES — A Pasco County man who spent eleven hours in a tree to avoid being arrested is now behind bars.
Jail records show 37-year-old Ray Allen Charron was taken into custody early Saturday morning. He's being held in the Land O'Lakes Detention Center on charges that include strong arm robbery, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence. It's not immediately known if he has an attorney.
A sheriff's office report says deputies received a call Friday afternoon about a man who stole a bike by pushing the passenger off. When a deputy arrived, the report says Charron began fighting the deputy, who called for backup. Charron then fled and climbed a 30-foot tree.
He didn't come down until eleven hours later.
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A rogue planet three times as massive as Mars probably sideswiped Earth 4.5 million years ago, vaporizing enough material from Earths upper layers to form the moon, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.
While many theories on the moons formation have been proposed, detailed analyses of lunar rocks obtained during NASAs Apollo missions were key in creating the giant impact theory in the 1970s that is now widely accepted, said Robin Canup of CUs Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. But the Mars-sized impactor proposed by Harvard University researchers in the late 1980s is not large enough to account for the formation of our unusually large moon, according to calculations by Canup and several other CU planetary scientists.
The modeling work by the CU-Boulder group, which is collaborating with the Harvard group, indicates the impactor must have been at least 2.5 to 3 times the mass of Mars to create the volume of debris required to eventually coalesce into the moon, Canup said. The protoplanet probably was orbiting the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars when the collision occurred.
This was a surprising result, said Canup. Our calculations indicate a lot more impact energy than previously believed would have been required to produce enough material to form the moon.
Canup presented a talk on the subject at the American Astronomical Societys annual Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting held July 28 to Aug. 1 in Cambridge, Mass.
The CU research indicates an oblique impact between Earth and the ancient planet vaporized the upper portions Earths crust and mantle, spraying the material into Earths orbit. The material appears to have spread into a gaseous disk around Earth, then formed a handful of small, extremely hot moonlets that eventually coalesced into the single, large moon we see today, said Canup.
Large-scale impacts like this one probably played a crucial role in shaping the solar system, said Canup. The puzzling size and composition of Mercury, the extreme tilt in Uranus axis and the peculiar, double-planet system of Pluto and its large moon, Charon, indicate such impacts may have been relatively common.
We believe this theory is a linchpin to understanding how planets formed in our solar system and in solar systems that may exist around other stars, she said.
Questions regarding the formation of Earths 2,160-mile-in-diameter moon still remain, Canup said. Although the size of the impactor proposed by the CU team provides the correct amount of material required to form our unusually large moon, the model also yields an Earth that is spinning too quickly.
The angular momentum, or intensity of rotational momentum, in the Earth-moon system depends on the spin of Earth and the moon and their distance apart, said Canup. Although the total amount of rotational spin in planet-moon systems must remain constant over time according to Newtons laws, the CU-Boulder model produces a system with roughly twice as much rotational spin as the Earth-moon system exhibits today.
The Harvard model produced the right amount of initial spin for the Earth, but not enough material to have formed the moon, she said. Our closest celestial neighbor remains a mystery in many ways.
The ongoing moon-origin study may pave the way for searches of newly forming solar systems, planets and moons elsewhere in the universe, she said. Because the disk material formed by planetary collisions would be extremely hot, such impacts would likely be very bright and might be detectable using new generations of sophisticated Earth- and space-based telescopes.
The moon, which orbits Earth at about 239,000 miles distant, appears to have formed at roughly 15,000 miles from Earth, according to the CU researchers.


text: So i was on this mission to get one of those Denali color match bumper looks for my silverado....priced out just getting rid of the chrome inserts and non painted replacements for those are like $265....A PIECE! So my question is does any one have a roll pan on their truck? And if so do they have pictures? I might be leaning towards that knowing that i cant do a good job painting that textured plastic on the bumper anyway.... Adam


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Yeah, I'm putting the cart before the horse but I like to think ahead.
Have been playing around in P-shop with an idea.
We had mentioned to our accountant last month that we'll have to come up with a new name for our honey bee business and she asked why?
She thought I should stay with our blacksmithing name on the label and market it that way.
Seemed a little strange to me so I did a quick layout.
Is that an odd way to name our honey or could it work?
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Título: Gallery of Poetic Pictures; Comprising True ...
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Año de publicación: 1857
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Edición: First Edition.
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When times get tough, the tough get...protein. Well, I do anyway. Protein-packed, blood sugar stabilizing snacks at the ready to power me through long days or hard-core workouts. And these little bites should preferably have the ability to be prepared well ahead of time and frozen, or be whipped up in an emergency energy situation with ingredients that I often have on hand.


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Programmatic Trading is the buzz word for 2013. Many publishers are showing interest in adopting this more efficient way of trading but often lack the support to do so. Concerns in the market are rife, and it can often seem discouraging when the knowledge behind the technology isn't there. And to confuse matters, Private Marketplaces (PMPs) have entered the programmatic scene, leading to even more mystification and fears on the publisher side.
However with their granular transparency PMPs give the reins back to publishers, allowing greater control over pricing and powering direct sellers with information on the practices and preferences of their best clients.
A recent PMP success story for PubMatic started when it partnered with IDG UK (International Data Group UK) towards the end of last year to help drive IDG UK's offering into the programmatic spectrum.
IDG UK is a global technology network bringing together over 280 million technology buyers in 97 countries. IDG UK chose PubMatic as their Strategic Selling Partner to enable its programmatic offering to market for their B2B and B2C properties, such as ComputerworldUK, Macworld, PCAdvisor and DigitalArtsOnline.
Like many of our other clients, IDG UK needed to partner with a trusted technology platform to lead their programmatic trading adoption and help them drive their direct sales into the opportunities around Private Marketplaces.
Key factors for any client, when moving into the PMP environment, are to gain deep control over their digital assets with heightened transparency and the ability to adjust floor prices when needed. The feeling of having the chance to be 'hands on' within the programmatic landscape is often needed by the publisher to allow them control and transparency when dealing with their inventory.
IDG UK was quick to realise the benefit of embracing programmatic trading and taking ownership over how and to whom its impressions were traded programmatically. As part of its overall digital strategy, IDG UK's media services director Dan Shaw quickly identified the need for a specialist to lead their programmatic trading and adoption within their direct sales teams.
"Everywhere you look there are very bullish forecasts about how much the programmatic space will grow. We wanted to make sure we were as close to the market as we could be. And we also wanted to be one of the first Publishers having the conversations agencies wanted to have. A dedicated sales resource has given us the opportunity to do both of these things; we recognised the need to have someone actively talking with all demand partners (and someone who could spend time with Pubmatic) so they really understood the opportunities and could feedback to the overall business," said Shaw.
By appointing Rob Bradley to work with PubMatic's EMEA Director of Advertiser Solutions, Duncan Chamberlain, Dan Shaw ensured IDG had a dedicated sales lead to partner with PubMatic.
This enabled the direct sales business to work alongside the Agency Trading Desks whilst complimenting each other rather than cannibalising the sales efforts which led to increased revenues.
Programmatic buying and PMPs equip IDG UK with the capability to control the pricing of inventory by advertiser or segment whilst maintaining direct relationships with buyers and controlling ad quality. This was previously not possible with network relationships.
Throughout 2013, IDG UK will continue to focus on PMPs, extracting higher CPMs and approaching more trading desks, segmenting audiences further with the addition of 1st and 3rd party data.
By funnelling more agency spend into programmatic, IDG UK will gain greater control on pricing via guaranteed spends across its premium/audience rich inventory.
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"The next few months will see us arranging more PMPs with various demand partners and keep a close eye on their success and impact against direct sales. We see them as a core progression towards Premium RTB. In fact I am already experiencing conversations regarding branding campaigns with higher CPMs than the usual direct response we are used to via RTB," Bradley said.


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On November 7, 2004, five days after the election, it was reported that thousands of surface-to-air missiles that had once been under Saddam's control were unaccounted for because the US-led force had not secured all the weapons depots in Iraq. The next day, US-led forces moved in to clear out Fallujah, a stronghold for Sunni insurgents, launching a ferocious 10-day battle that killed at least 1000 insurgents and left 54 Americans dead and more than 400 seriously wounded. Colonel Gary Brandl led his troops into battle with words evocative of a Holy War. "The enemy has got a face," he said. "He's called Satan. He's in Fallujah and we're going to destroy him."
During the assault, a marine deliberately shot and killed an unarmed Iraqi civilian in a mosque, and the videotaped incident was televised across the world. In response, violence raged across Iraq. On November 9, militants kidnapped three members of interim prime minister Ayad Allawi's family. A few days later, in the north, saboteurs set fire to four oil wells northwest of Kirkuk. Astoundingly, despite having the second largest oil reserves in the world, Iraq was forced to import oil from nearby Kuwait because of lack of refining capacity and hundreds of terrorist attacks on its facilities.
By now, repercussions from the war were also being felt throughout the entire Middle East. Iraqi authorities had already captured Saudis crossing the Saudi border into Iraq to fight the United States. In response to Fallujah, 26 prominent Saudi religious scholars urged their followers to support "jihad" against US-led forces. Militant Islamists from America's oil-rich ally had now taken up arms against the United States.
Paradoxically, even though their policy failures were finally evident, the neocons had become empowered as never before. Just before the election, Bush had quietly dismissed Brent Scowcroft as chairman of PFIAB [the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board] — without even bothering to speak to him personally. Cheney and Bush had both known that the phenomenally popular Colin Powell was crucial to their re-election chances. But now he, too, was expendable. On November 10, eight days after the election, Powell got the phone call from White House chief of staff Andy Card. He was out.
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*Rumour Has it that Stephon Gilmore is right there with Dre Kirkpatrick as the Number 2 ranked CB in this yrs draft, which comes to no surprise for me, as i've been saying i'm not high on Dre Kirkpatrick, and presonally, i have Casey Hayward ranked higher as well as Gilmore.. I just don't see Kirkpatrick as more then a Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie type CB at his best...*** Heres my personal CB rankings, and u guys might laugh, because of how down i am on Dre Kirkpatrick..
1. Morris Claiborne LSU
2. Casey Hayward Vandy-* God, i love this kids game!
3. Janoris Jenkins No Ala
4. Stephon Gilmore S.Carolina
5. Josh Robinson UCF
6. Brandon Boykin Georgia
7. Dre Kirkpatrick Bama
8. Leonard Johson* Iowa St
9. Jamell Fleming Oklahoma
10. Omar Bolden- Kinda my sleeper CB.. I really like Bolden.. If healthy, he'd be sure 2nd rder...
Guys i don't like- Jayron Hosley,* Dwight Bently, Cliff Harris, Alphonso Dennard... I also got Trumaine Johnson more as a FS then CB... I love Trumaine Johnson by the way!* I like the Giants, like my CB's to have a bit of size to em, hence im just not a fan of guys like Cliff Harris and Jayron Hosley..* I make a exception for some, ala* Brandon Boykin.. [/quote]I agree with your list. I'm sure Claiborne, Jenkins and probably Kirkpatrick will be gone by 32. But I would not be disappointed with Gilmore, Robinson, Hayward or Fleming in the 2nd-4th rd area.
I too am a Hayward fan, hell I pull for Vandy living down here in the Nashville area. So when I see a Vandy player getting some love from the media and analysts, it makes me want them to succeed that much more.
And what I like about Boykin from Georgia, is that he can contribute in the kick return game.


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Geoff's big dream
Dark days are coming; really, they're already here. It's the time of year to build up body fat, pray for snow, and start dreaming about 2010. Most of my ideas for next year encompass things that even normal people would consider a fun vacation (ski touring in Banff), local epics (traversing the Juneau Icefield to Atlin, B.C.), and real big-time bike races (TransRockies).
But, so far, nothing truly huge. I admit that I wish I had something big, even in the abstract sense, lined up for 2010 or 2011 — if nothing else, because it might add some depth to this state of flux I feel like I'm drifting through. But, no, now is not the time for that. Now is the time to focus on the bigger picture and let the adventures fall where they may.
I think that's why I'm feeling excited about an ultramarathon that Geoff has been cooking up that he is calling the Tongass 100. It's not particularly new to me (a lot, though certainly not all of the terrain is stuff I've seen). It's not particularly far away (always within about 10 as-the-crow-flies miles from Juneau city limits). It's not even something I could participate in (Someone like me would require three to five days to complete the route, and even then I would call it "fastpacking.") But there's something about it that feels huge; maybe it's just potential - this twinkle of something larger, like when those Iditabike crazies in the '80s looked at the Iditarod Trail and said, "Let's try to ride our bikes on this."
From what I know about 100-mile foot races, the Tongass 100 would be similar to, well, none of them. There would be times racers would be sloshing through shin-deep mud or balancing on slippery wooden planks; others where they would be plodding up or swinging down 60-degree slopes; and then there's the alpine — hand over head scrambles up peaks, crossing massive snowfields, glissading down and repeating over and over and over again. The crux of the route involves the crossing from Nugget Peak to Ptarmigan Ridge. Either Geoff will have to drop the route several thousand feet and ford Lemon Creek (which is a raging river in my opinion), or stay high and cross over the Lemon Glacier, which I've heard has been done by people in running shoes, but still ... glacier. Big, shifting river of ice that tends to be full of large crevasses (usually exposed in summertime).
Of course, this race would be unofficial. It's an insurance nightmare, dangerous in many ways, but oddly doable. People could run this route. It would be one of the toughest 100-milers ever attempted in the U.S., for sure. I wouldn't be surprised if the elevation gain is in the 30,000-35,000-foot range. But it wouldn't be anything like the big climb-fests of the Rockies. Sure, there's no real altitude in Juneau, but what we lack in elevation we make up for in bad trails, treacherous terrain, horrible weather, and sheer remoteness even so close to a populated area.
I would hope my contribution to this race would be to man a checkpoint at a place near Cairn Peak called Camp 17. It would be located between to two huge ridge traverses, where runners would gain an endless string of peaks and a large bulk of their elevation, all without touching any hint of civilization. I would have to backpack in any provisions, over a seven-mile, 5,000-feet-of-climbing hike for me and anyone I could convince to do it. But I envision setting up shop in the unheated quonset hut, rolling out the extra sleeping bags I carried, firing up the camp stove to melt snow for water and filling up a small number of water bottles with some kind of endurance drink. And if I could find a really good friend with a big backpack, there would also be sliced oranges. Runners would drop in after their long traverse of Heinzelman Ridge, summit run over Nugget Peak and crossing of either Lemon Creek or Lemon Glacier. I would hand them a water bottle and a sliced orange and say, "there are only seven more peaks and maybe 10,000 feet of climbing and then a huge drop to sea level before the next aid station." Yes, that would be lots of fun ... for me.
But it is inspiring to watch Geoff dream up this monster, and maybe even talk others into joining him. I hope he pulls it off, and I hope I can somehow be a part of it. So if anyone out there has any crazy ultrarunning aspirations, I encourage you to get in contact with Geoff. It's not about how fast you can do it — it will be amazingly impressive if anyone can even do it, even Geoff, with his hometown advantage and superhuman endurance. But the Tongass 100 may be just crazy enough to become the next big thing.


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If a visiting Martian happened to find himself on an 8am ferry between the North Shore and downtown Auckland, he'd probably think the local men wear a "uniform" that neither age, nor ethnicity, nor girth can alter.
That was the verdict of a friend, an out-of-towner, who recently found herself hemmed in by a throng of blue-shirted, dark-blue panted Kiwi males making their way across the harbour at the peak morning commuting hour.
She went on to experience the same thing four mornings in a row. Were Auckland men ahead of the fashion pack, she wondered, or had a consignment of cut-price blue shirts washed up at Onehunga recently and been filtered through the city's chain stores?
I had to concur, when visiting downtown myself at the same time of day.
The dark blue/shades-of-light-blue combination was infinitely preferable to the drab and dreary browns and blacks of the typical Wellington office, and a light year's worth of improvement over the cheap, shiny-arsed suits of yore.
But there was still that frightening tendency to dress alike, in a safe, cool colour denoting conservative masculinity and financial continence.
It may inspire confidence in your average investment firm client, but there was precious little else inspiring about it. It was a double tragedy when contemplating all the possibly athletic bodies hidden under this humdrum attire.
The New Zealand male's historic inability to put his head above the fashion parapet has long been bemoaned by local women and assorted fashion lovers. Now, because corporate men have moved into a slightly nicer line of pant or sheen of shirt, they think the hard part is over: frankly, they don't have to think about it anymore. But while we don't want our bank managers and insurance salesmen to spend all their time reading fashion blogs and Esquire magazine, we require a little more effort yet from the male of the species.
As New Zealand doubles down in blue, the rest of the world, as always, moves apace. The trends from London Men's Fashion Week - a separate event just for the guys - were: colours that "pop" (orange a particular favourite); checks and vintage (pop culture favourites, such as Justin Timberlake and Mad Men leading the charge) and androgyny (a perennial runway favourite, if not always practical in real life). Print ties, layered denim, pastels, piping and big hats are in. Even "meggings" (male leggings) have made their debut. Will they be seen in New Zealand anytime soon? Outside Grey Lynn, probably not.
My husband recently burnished his dandy credentials by using his work-related clothing allowance to buy two rather eye-popping suits: one cream coloured, the other electric blue.
I feared he would look like a Pakistani Colonel Sanders in one and Elton John in the other. But I needn't have worried, because a man with confidence can make almost anything work.
Admittedly, I'm yet to be sold on the frilly black shirt, the pale velvet suit, the hat worn at a jaunty angle and the Jean Paul Gaultier-inspired sailor-wear, and yet there is something arresting, fresh and vibrant about these kinds of choices.
Admittedly the portents of progress aren't great when our Prime Minister considers the wearing of plain old red to be "gay". But even he'd have to agree that, old-school notions aside, a pale pink shirt, a crimson belt, or a mint green tie give a welcome splash of colour in the sometimes dour world of high finance.


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- 1 cup chopped green pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
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What companies are fueling growth in Lincoln? Why are they a great employer?
al4626@*****.*** in Greeley, Colorado
114 months ago
I have no idea what companies are doing well in Lincoln
Jordan in Lincoln, Nebraska
113 months ago
Wait just a minute. This is a trick question. The job market in Lincoln is horrible! I earned my BSBA one and a half years ago, was on the dean's list, earned scholarships, have a solid work history and I still cannot find a decent job in Lincoln. So, to answer the question, there are no companies fueling growth in Lincoln. However, let's apply some economics and take a closer look at why this is.
This lack of strong companies and growth is partly due to Lincoln's failing business tax incentive program, the Nebraska Advantage, which is not effectively encouraging business to expand or (re)locate in Lincoln. Consequently, recent graduates have little incentive to look for work in Lincoln because the job market is weak and flooded by candidates. Lincoln needs to stop being so conservative and give prospective businesses more and/or better incentives (through taxes, labor, land, materials, etc.) to locate in Lincoln. This will increase the number of jobs in Lincoln and boost the local economy greatly.
Secondly, Lincoln is a "college town" with too many graduates and not enough jobs. This lack of a job market, combined with the high number of recent graduates, encourages many graduates to relocate to more lucrative and prosperous cities; thus perpetuating Lincoln as a brain drain city. And as for the graduates that do not relocate? Well, they are faced with a difficult challenge: competing against many homogenous candidates for a mediocre job. This drives wages down and ultimately leads some candidates to work jobs they are grossly overqualified for.
Better business incentive programs combined with a generally strong and educated workforce, friendly atmosphere and a low crime rate would make Lincoln a highly desirable place for new businesses. However, until these incentive programs prove more desirable job seekers may want to consider relocating or be prepared for a very difficult and frustrating job search.
dcarl in Lincoln, Nebraska
101 months ago
Jordan, did you find a job? I am now on the market, looking for a better work-life balance, instead of being away from my family for 11 hrs. a day, I want to work from my home office, do some field work, and stay within my industry knowledge: real estate appraising, staffing-sales, advertising-sales, human resources or childcare management. I am searching on the web, and it's fun but no bits yet. It has only been since 1-16 when I got the 'pink slip.' It may take me up to 5 mths.
clentz@*****.*** in Lincoln, Nebraska
101 months ago
Host said: What companies are fueling growth in Lincoln? Why are they a great employer?
No idea, I think good are those companies paying over 40k a yr. Low, low salaries!
Real Estate is picking up, anyone need an assistant, for inspecting properties, data entry, etc. I have run a real estate appraisal company for over 10 yrs. and needing more work to keep me busy. Our volume is consistent but could use more.
startups in Lees Summit, Missouri
83 months ago
If you're young and somewhat tech savvy, there are a number of expanding startups in the city hiring in tech, design and sales that have really good atmospheres. Design companies like archrival, thought district, and roundus have grown in recent years and are great places to work downtown. Agile sports (football IT startup) has been funded over in the haymarket. Five Nines (IT consulting) was on the INC 500 this year. Milestone local surfaces seems to be getting off the ground. If you want to talk to some people about their jobs, try the lincoln young professionals group or business after hours.
There 10 or so growing companies in the Turbine Flats idea incubator by campus. They have a really cool space and have lot of fun and community interaction. Allied Strategy (insurance/consumer/web) in there is really growing and has hired quite a few sales and customer support, ruby and javascript developers this year.. play creative design has hired a couple graphic designers as well. I think ISoft is growing too. Those companies have tremendous cultures, and as a building had something like a 2-300% growth rate last year.
Of the above Allied Strategy, Archrival, Agile Sports, and Five Nines probably pay the best. The culture fit is what makes a company great though. Working at high growth startups is a lot more fun. They also tend to be a lot more flexible with hours and schedules, and in terms of human dignity provided.
Have to agree with the above comments about incentives. The city thinks it's a better idea to spend on a Verizon call center than to invest in it's own high growth companies providing Lincoln well-paying jobs. Turbine Flats has had runaway success, and they can't even get a bond to expand. The local terms on startup/growth capital pushes many of the best growth players out of town. Lobby the mayor, LPED, and chamber of commerce for a wakeup call, and lets get some quality jobs here by really incentivizing desirable jobs!
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- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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Palo Alto's plan to "retain" illegal summer school tuition violates state law
Original post made by Curious, Fairmeadow, on Jun 6, 2013
The district's decision to withhold refunds unless parents request them puts the City of Palo Alto in a difficult position. The City acts as PAUSD's "fiscal agent" by collecting summer school tuition and processing refunds. The City now must decide how to respond to the fact that hundreds of parents are owed refunds of illegal fees it collected on behalf of the school district. The large majority of the parents involved are residents of Palo Alto.
The district email, sent by Chief Business Officer Cathy Mak, tells parents that if parents do not explicitly request a refund the district "will retain your payment as a donation." (see Web Link). The school district collected $368,000 in summer school tuition in 2012 (see Web Link).
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Yeah, I wondered about this. Seems like reading the law ahead of time would make sense, instead of just reacting to it when somebody else points out the rules. I suppose at some point that idea will penetrate over at 25 Churchill, but not just yet.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 6, 2013 at 10:11 pm
Regulations that have not yet been approved are not yet law.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 6, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Curious, please take a chill pill and relax.
a resident of Greendell/Walnut Grove
on Jun 6, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Seems as if curious' postings are very spot on and that if we had every member of the community "take a chill pill and relax" that this district would have relaxed itself into oblivion.
What I am wondering if F, F, and F (district's legal cousel) is ever consulted with prior to misssteps by Dr. Skelly and the district. Seems like the Supe gets himself into an inordinately high number of illegal predicaments. Can we afford to have Dr. Skelly at the helm any longer? Especially in light of the escalating legal costs that we tax payers are having to foot the bill on. I would much rather that my hard earned tax dollars be spent helping the students and not so much for hurting our students. It is time for Dr. Skelly to be given his walking papers. Perhaps he will resign. That would certainly be a gift to us all!
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 6, 2013 at 10:45 pm
::yawn:: tempest, meet teapot.
a resident of Greendell/Walnut Grove
on Jun 7, 2013 at 12:13 am
@sure: compared to the district's neglect of the disabled middle school girl this may seem to you to be a tempest in a teapot but just remember that many tempests stir up gale force winds and I think the district has been cruising towards a shipwreck unless they change course. Changing course can start with something as little as admitting their error and correcting it ASAP. A little honesty goes a long way. It might restore a tiny bit of confidence in the people at curchill.
It is unlikely that your attitude will capture many people's imagination!! I think you are just trying to make it appear that there are a bunch of crackpots out there complaining about trivial matters and you are wrong on this one.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 7, 2013 at 8:17 am
"It is unlikely that your attitude will capture many people's imagination!! I think you are just trying to make it appear that there are a bunch of crackpots out there complaining about trivial matters and you are wrong on this one."
The only quarrel I have with your description of my view is that "a bunch" may overstate the number of citizens concerned about the structure of summer school fee refund policies for non-core classes. It might be the "tempest that stirs up gale force winds" (nice!), but I'm doubting it.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 7, 2013 at 8:51 am
The problem here, as I see it, is that the practice may well be "illegal", but the practice has served this community well for years.
We have had a wonderful summer school program with plenty of enrichment offerings which have funded the core subjects. The enrichment programs are affordably priced compared to the private offerings out there which means that there have been interesting things for kids to do which have given families who can't afford the more expensive offerings a great experience for their kids. As a result, those who need the intervention classes of math and English have been getting them for free and these are quite often families who would not be able to pay a fee to get their kids caught up.
Now that it is shown to be illegal (at whatever way it has been done) the middle income families no longer will have interesting options at reasonable cost and the intervention classes which are sorely needed by some will have no source of funding.
So really what we have here is that affordable enrichment classes will go and it is doubtful if the intervention classes can continue without this funding.
So who wins here? Certainly not the lower income families, their kids, or those working parents who struggle to find something worthwhile for their kids to do for the long weeks of summer.
What will be the result? More kids left at home alone during the day, more bored kids getting up to mischief around town, more struggling students falling further behind, are some of the downsides. The other way of looking at is there will be many more expensive private offerings willing to take up the slack for those with the money to pay for them.
Oh, and I suppose if the school district rent out school space to the expensive privates, they just might make enough money to offer a few classes to those students who really need it - and summer school will get the reputation of being something for dumb kids! Mark my words, wait and see.
a resident of another community
on Jun 7, 2013 at 9:15 am
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Who loses here?
The answer to this is obvious as well: the kids lose.
The whole thing is a travesty and makes this community look petty and mean-spirited.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 7, 2013 at 9:33 am
Well said "Resident" and "Different Take". It would have been nice if the people who have the legal expertise and interest to call out the district for not following this law would have instead spent their time writing the lawmakers to create a law that really helps the lower income families. I understand that equity is what is the spirit of this law, but the reality is that the divide will just get bigger. As I have said before, these enrichment programs will now be offered by the private sector (at considerably more money) and no "scholarships" will be available for lower income families and middle income families will not be able to afford the increased price of these programs.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 7, 2013 at 9:43 am
If what you say comes to pass, lots of folks will want to know who put the wheels in motion that ended affordable summer school in Palo Alto.
Based on prior posts, it looks to have been Edmund Burke and Curious who have been very vocal about the Office of Civil Rights complaints too.
Their line in the sand is clear: "This is not about fairness. It is about the rule of law."
It's a curious tack for those who care about civil rights to take. If they remember their US History, they'd recall that the 1960s civil rights movement made advances by challenging and breaking laws/civil disobedience.
Would those two have upheld the Jim Crow segregation laws because they were "the rule of law" too?
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 7, 2013 at 10:00 am
@sure posted "::yawn:: tempest, meet teapot."
The district has illegally collected approximately $350,000 per year from families for summer school in 2012 and 2013. That is $700,000, during the past 12 months that has to be refunded to families right now as of today. That is not a "teapot" level tempest -- it's three quarters of a million dollars of the money of PA citizens that has to be refunded. The administrative cost of the refunding process will also be substantial. This is an epic screw up.
@sure, resident, and different take -- all posted comments that essentially boil down to three points: 1. Our system was good even if it was illegal; 2. now we won't have our good system any more; 3. there won't be any more summer school. All of these points are unproved panic peddling.
1. Our system wasn't good or working well. It was an unconstitutional, illegal mess. We did charge people for classes who were poor. We charged everyone. We did not automatically give anything to anyone for free -- everyone had to apply for a fee waiver if they wanted one. Many people either did not send their kids to summer school or did not apply for the waiver because they were embarrassed or didn't know it was possible to get a waiver. The California Constitution guarantees a free public education. If you want to sponsor a proposition that amends the California Constitution to make public school a private tuition based offering, please knock yourself out. But until then, we have a constitutional right to a free education in this state, including all classes.
Summer school classes cost between $235 an $470 each. That is a lot of money. If a family has three children, that could be $1500 per summer. Maybe that's nothing to you, but it's a lot for most people. It's outrageous that our district is spending money on a PR officer while bilking PAUSD families to pay for something that they have a constitutional right to have for free.
On that note, let me just point out that PAUSD has a bloated administrative staff, and spends money on stuff that is totally unnecessary. Do you think that there is no fat anywhere at 25 Churchill? In addition to the aforementioned PR officer, how about the legal fees for the various misdeeds and escapades? Could we not spend that money more profitably on our students? I think that is the point of CCC above.
2. There's no evidence that the "fun" classes were subsidizing the remedial courses, or that the remedial courses are going away. That is all conjecture. But the chance that PAUSD will eliminate all of its courses including credit recovery courses, is very low. In addition, the chance that PAUSD will eliminate its middle school math classes is also very low. Much of summer school at that level is comprised of kids trying to qualify for a higher math track in PAUSD's overly-rigid multi-track math program so that they can be positioned for the correct math lane in high school. Some of summer school exists to make this possible and if it was eliminated, parents would howl so loud you could hear it in the admissions offices of private schools around the Bay Area. In other words, nope that will not go away. And the idea that these classes hurt the poor -- yes that's true. You can read the other thread to see evidence of it. But that's not new or different. That is business as usual in PAUSD. Upper income, white and Asian kids get Algebra 1A or above in 8th grade. Poor and black and brown kids don't. That's what has been happening and the modification of summer school won't change it.
That's happening because the high scoring, mostly Asian kids in this district have created a lot of wealth for homeowners. They have served as an engine of prosperity. So long as the district is comprised primarily of white and Asian students, and those students continue to be so high scoring, the inept and somewhat dishonest district administration and the feckless school board will continue to have a free hand. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
3. Of course there will be summer school. But it won't be the same. Resources will be focused where they are needed. The fact that you call those who need to catch up "dummies" just shows how little you understand or care about those kids.
PAUSD has to stop ignoring the law as if we are special and above it. What we were doing was wrong. It took resources from families who could have used that money for vacations, or home repairs, or to spend in the local economy at local businesses, or to invest or to save for college, or just for whatever they wanted. It deterred families from even signing up. It was a system of preserving advantage for those with money and those in the know and those who long ago lost their embarrassment at asking for "scholarships." It is unconstitutional.
Start processing those checks, City Recreation Department!
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 7, 2013 at 10:04 am
"If they remember their US History, they'd recall that the 1960s civil rights movement made advances by challenging and breaking laws/civil disobedience.
Would those two have upheld the Jim Crow segregation laws because they were "the rule of law" too?"
This is hilarious! There is not even any way to parody the essential wackiness of ths post. Thanks!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 7, 2013 at 10:37 am
I definitely do care about those kids.
I have a kid who has needed math intervention most of the time he has been in PAUSD. These classes have been necessary to keep him at grade level. These classes have been offered to me for free but I would have paid for him to do them had we needed to.
This kid who has struggled in math has happily every summer gone along to summer school. He has been able to go on his bike, to a school he is familiar with and sometimes even with a teacher who he has some familiarity with. I have not had to fill in forms, get progress reports from summer school to regular school, it has happened within the efficient administration of our school system. He has happily ridden his bike with some friends who are also attending the same summer school session even though they may have been doing an enrichment program which had to be paid for by parents. There has been no stigma, he hasn't felt dumb, he has been with his friends outside the math classroom. He has improved his grade and his skills and managed to keep up with his grade. It has been a win/win situation for him.
Now let us see how this would change if summer school for him was necessary and his friends all went to camps somewhere else. He would very soon feel "different" because he would be doing summer school while his friends would be doing camps. He would be in one school campus while his friends would be somewhere else. He would not realize that his classes were helping him without him realizing it. He would know exactly that he was doing it because he was not "smart" enough to get a good enough grade to prevent him from repeating the grade. I wouldn't be telling him. His teachers wouldn't be telling him. His peers would be telling him, his conscience would be telling him.
Is this fair? Is this equitable? Not to me and my kid?
Has there been a problem before? I doubt it because any kid who has needed this intervention has gotten it for free. How do I know? Because that is how it has worked for us. We have not had to ask for it, we have basically been told that these summer school sessions were necessary for him to be able to enter the next grade.
And if you don't think kids will start calling summer school attendees dumb for free intervention classes when that is all summer school becomes, then you don't know kids very well. I hate to think how I would get my kid to do these classes happily when they get the reputation for where the dumb kids go. (Just like Saturday school has the reputation for where the troublemakers go).
This upsets me greatly. Just because the law is there does not mean the law is right. The spirit of the law has been upheld all along even if the letter of the law has been bent. Those who have needed intervention have gotten it. Those who needed scholarships for other classes, have gotten it. If people have not requested scholarships or realized that the intervention classes were free then they have not read the summer school material properly. If they have been too embarrassed about asking for scholarships, then they have put their embarrassment above their kids' welfare. Nobody knows who gets the scholarships, so where is the embarrassment other than the initial request.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 7, 2013 at 10:51 am
How about advocating for free summer school in Palo Alto? It's not prohibitively expensive, and -- guess what!! -- it's actually legal.
I love this line: "The spirit of the law has been upheld all along even if the letter of the law has been bent." Sorry, the spirit of the law is that every child is entitled to a free public education, not the right to beg for a handout.
No wonder our school district seems incapable of reading the law and following it, without going through a process of asking, "Hey, it's the law, but should it really apply to us? After all, we're Palo Alto!!"
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 7, 2013 at 11:13 am
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It seems to me that the law is badly worded - if it had been intelligently phrased we would not be in this mess.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jun 7, 2013 at 11:19 am
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The law is worded completely clearly. It is intended to ensure that every child receives a free public education. Full stop. Not, "as long as they read the fine print, or the PTA ladies sell enough brownies, or if the district staff decides to grant a fee waiver, or if they overcome their embarrassment to ask for a 'scholarship'."
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 7, 2013 at 11:57 am
"If they have been too embarrassed about asking for scholarships, then they have put their embarrassment above their kids' welfare."
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.] No one should have to swallow their pride in order to access a free, public education. What is a constitutional right anyway? Does the Constitution matter to you at all or is it just what's "fair and equitable" to "me and my kid" as you so transparently phrased it.
Rec Department, send those checks! And next time, consult your own counsel before you believe any representations from PAUSD about legality. [Portion removed.]
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jun 7, 2013 at 12:09 pm
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 7, 2013 at 1:30 pm
If free summer school for all is such a good and fiscally possible idea then why do NO other districts do it? Check around and you will see that other districts offer ONLY remedial (credit recovery) classes and ONLY for high school. If PAUSD decides to offer a "free" program to all it will be very expensive and I for one will speak at a board meeting about the waste of money. Right now if kids want to advance to the next math class (bridge course) they PAY for it, if they want to study for the SAT they PAY for it, if they want to take a basketball class they PAY for it. I am absolutely not in favor of PAUSD paying for these opportunities given the budget constraints. I think it is fantastic that they offered the opportunity (at a cost or scholarship) but this is not something that should be universally funded. Money is much better spent on lowering class size in the high school, buying more textbooks so students have a set in class, expanding an after school tutoring program, creating a higher quality lunch program etc. The "extras" of summer school is not where I want my tax dollars being spent.
a resident of Southgate
on Jun 7, 2013 at 3:35 pm
So having first ignored the law that prohibits charging summer school tuition (until they were caught), now our district employees are ignoring the law requiring that they send the money back (until they are caught again). Why does this keep happening? The district seems to lack basic management ability. That seems like a question that the school board might start to get a little more curious about.
And if the city is actually holding onto this money, they should also be interested in sending it back, otherwise they are also on the wrong side of the law.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 7, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Just ask for your money back already. Move on.
I agree that bridge classes or advancement classes are going to disappear from summer school. And I say that because if there is a budget for summer school, then the first place the funding should go towards is the remedial/make-up courses if they can do it.
For those who want to advance, they can go to Lydian, St. Francis, etc. And you'll have to pay...especially for Lydian!
And here's a prediction: We'll have another discussion in a couple of years about how it is unfair that some families can afford private summer schools while others cannot; that PAUSD shouldn't accept qualified coursework from those institutions. It's not fair, etc.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jun 7, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Like CPD said. It's a small potatoes crime, nothing to see here.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 7, 2013 at 9:13 pm
@the public is not the problem wrote: "The district has illegally collected approximately $350,000 per year from families for summer school in 2012 and 2013.... That is an epic screw-up."
This seems like a loss of perspective. Our school district budget is approximately $160M in revenue/expense, plus another $50M a year in bond-funded capital expense. $350K / $210M = 0.17% My sense is that most of the families happily paid, got what they paid for, and would have had to pay more elsewhere if PAUSD has not made the course available.
Our school district certainly has challenges and could improve in various areas. But the refund policy for non-core summer school program fees is small potatoes, and does not make my top 10 list. An "epic screw-up"? Tempest, meet teapot.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 8, 2013 at 8:32 am
Dear "Sure",
I will be coming by this morning to pick up the "rent" for the parking space in front of your house. I'm sure you won't mind paying it -- it is a very nice space and I am sure quite useful to you. And the amount will, I promise, be small in comparison to the budget of the City of Palo Alto.
Thank you in advance,
a resident of another community
on Jun 10, 2013 at 5:27 pm
I am very curious to know if there is any data from the recent years comparing the % of the kids who attended summer camp, free, after a fee waver to the % of the kids, per school, known to be low income and in need of remedial Math or English. I am especially curious to know if this type of data is available in the elementary level.
Curious - Thank you for your on going efforts.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Things that are free are often abused.
Today is the first day of summer school. In my son's free remedial class, 26 students are registered on the attendance list and 14 turned up. It is obvious that parents agreed to something but it is such a low priority that they either change their minds and don't let the school know, or don't ensure the kids get to school.
There is more value in something for which there is a charge.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 10, 2013 at 7:45 pm
The parents had to work and the kids had to go to grandmas or a neighbor's because summer school is two hours long and working parents may not be able to make child care happen. Not everyone has the luxury of dropping off and picking up from a 2 hour class or having household staff to do it for them.
Please send your comments on how paying for something is better to:
Committee to Amend the California Constitution to Charge Tuition for Public Education, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include a large donation! I'm sure you will be more committed to the cause if you support it financially.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 7:49 pm
If that had been the case, then good manners would have meant that they would have turned down the opportunity for summer school or let the school know so that the child's name would not be called out in the classroom at attendance.
Good manners costs nothing, but perhaps you can explain that one away also.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Additionally, are you stating that summer school at only 2 hours is too short for many families? Do you think that the number of hours per day should be more? Or are you also advocating that not only summer school should be free, but that there is a case for providing free after school child care (summer or year round) for working families also?
If this is not what you are saying, then I completely misunderstand your point.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Yes you completely misunderstand my point.
My point is that people have a constitutional right to a free public education. Your moralizing and speculating about how the poor don't appreciate the fine gift of this free education completely fails to acknowledge that it is not a gift, it is a right. It's a right that the middle class, the rich, and the poor all have equally. It is the same right. Your posts about the unappreciative beneficiaries of this benevolence smack of noblesse oblige, of "takers" and "makers." And your willingness to speculate about why people may or may not be there for summer school is bizarre since you know absolutely nothing about the life circumstances of those who did not show up. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:30 pm
@public is not the problem
I tend to agree with Resident. It seems to me, if a student is slated to attend a class (remedial or not) and then it is decided (for whatever reason) to not have the student attend the proper thing to do is to let the staff know. Maybe there is a waiting list for the class. Also, high school summer school is over 5 hours long. I agree that everyone is entitled to a free education but summer school is not really part of that package. At this point, I don't feel that PAUSD should offer any summer school. The law states that students should have equal opportunity so why should summer programs be limited to remedial or recovery classes? If we are going to give "equal" opportunity to all, then all students should have a summer class to attend. I don't think that this will happen so why should only some kids get the benefit of summer school? I think PAUSD should get out of the summer school business all together.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:32 pm
I haven't been able to find a singe school district in California that offers free summer school other than for students who are failing. It's a pity that there is no longer a low cost option for students to take classes during the summer. Sure, they can take them for free during the school year, but it will limit their options. Take a look at the SAT prep classes offered during the summer. They are half the price of private classes. Who does this affect? Those that can't afford the expensive private options.
The rich will always be able to afford the private options. We have just now eliminated those who have some means and those who are eligible for financial aid. Oh well.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:42 pm
I get your point. You are more concerned about the law than the people.
My son volunteered the information as part of his impression of summer school, his point being that the class was small and that a lot of people were absent.
You can call me a helicopter parent, I was just taking an interest in what he had to say.
You were speculating about the difficult circumstances that caused students to not turn up for summer school. You also speculate about my parenting and an attitude of noblesse obliges, talking about takers and makers. I have no idea of the background of those who didn't turn up because yes, everyone is treated the same. Yes, everyone is entitled to a free education but everyone does not treat the privilege of education in the same light. You are assuming a lot about the economic background of those that didn't turn up in the same way you are assuming a lot about me. The income of any family at summer school is not the point. The attitudes with which families treat summer school was my point.
You still did not answer me about whether you think two hours is too short a time at summer school and whether after school childcare should be included. It makes no difference to the free aspect of summer school as to how families make their arrangements for getting their children to and from the school and it is not up to PAUSD to take that into consideration unless they are the Tinsley students who need a bus. In other words, the 2 hours is a red herring in your argument.
Getting back to the point of a free education. A free education is fair, just and available to all. How people treat that privilege is a fair follow up, in my opinion, which is why I raised the point.
a resident of Addison School
on Jun 18, 2013 at 12:01 pm
I heard today from Dr. Skelly that the district is actually going to refund these fees to everyone who paid them. That is good news.
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geeber1 wrote:http://www.holymtn.com/tea/blacktea.htm
This site has several Nilgiris that look interesting. Has anyone ordered from here?
No teas just Chataku!
I got my other 2 Nilgiri now, I'm ready to swap - I'll PM you Geeber!
geeber1 wrote:http://www.holymtn.com/tea/blacktea.htm
This site has several Nilgiris that look interesting. Has anyone ordered from here?
kymidwife wrote:OK I have 3 Nilgiri offerings from SpecialTeas coming...
Tiger Hill OP (CL)
Thiashola TGFOP1
Thiashola Organic SFTGFOP1
Probably not as nice as some of the others, but will be interesting to compare vendors and prices. I have been reasonably satisfied with most of my SpecialTeas experiences.
Cinnamon Kitty wrote: After hearing all the awesomeness about the Glendale Estate Handmade ... What does it taste like beyond being delicious?
Chip wrote:Beautiful photo Sal, which reminds me, how can this be a black tea? Jeez, looks almost like a green or a green oolong. So many Indian "blacks" fall into this abyss.
Great description, could almost win me over to the Dark Side" but ... this tea really does not qualify. How could a greenie resist it?
Victoria wrote:I'm beginning to think I got very lucky with the Nilgiri I first tried. All three of them, just have been fantastic. Following the success of those 3 the next two I have tried have been far from stellar.
No 4 was a new one of mine from ToT. No 5 is Glendale Estate, FOP from Geeber1.
Although warned about another one, the bigger leaf of this one was so appealing, I was not expecting such bitterness! In fact I was beginning to think a common trait to all Nilgiri is a smooth non-bitter finish.
I will try this again with different parameters but wow - be careful there is a HUGE difference between Glendale Estate FOP and Glendale Estate Handmade.
I have found that reducing the time often helps with this problem. I would not reduce the leaf or you will get a much weaker taste. Generally, try to vary just one factor at a time or you don't really know what accounts for any change.geeber1 wrote: Victoria, I noticed that also on the first steep with this one and the Dooars, but the second steep of both was much better to me. Is that normal? I'm going to try them both again with a little less leaf and time.


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By Charlin Jones
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(Dec. 22, 2006)--Members of the UTSA Alpha Pi chapter of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society and faculty, staff and students participated this semester in the ninth annual Care Bear Drive.
Alpha Chi members began collecting new and previously loved stuffed animals at the beginning of the fall semester. More than 500 stuffed animals were donated this year from the generous campus community. The animals were kept safe in the Office of Student Activities until it was time to say goodbye.
Today's headlines
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Alpha Chi donated this year's stuffed animals to Blue Santa of the San Antonio Police Department to give to children they encounter on the job. Blue Santa himself came to UTSA Dec. 22 to pick up the animals at the Giving Tree in the University Center lobby on the 1604 Campus.
"It is really wonderful that so many people took the time to donate to those in need. I know that a lot of children will have a smile on their face this holiday season because of the generosity of the UTSA community," said Lyndsey Battles, Alpha Chi secretary.
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posted at 8:10 am on September 24, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
First we had the Vero Possumus seal, and then the Barackopolis. One might have thought that Team Obama would have learned their lesson on hubris and self-absorption, but a deal with a British firm goes even farther. Democrats have begun striking coins with Barack Obama's profile — and already proclaiming him President:
The coins already sold to the Democrats will be presented to the senators, congressmen, governors and other politicians they are being given to within the next two weeks.
There will also be a television advertising campaign launched in the US.
The company directors got the idea of producing the coins after seeing actress Meryl Streep talking about Barack Obama on a television programme.
When they got in touch with the Democrats the party jumped at the chance. And the coins have proved such a hit that locally produced versions have already been launched to compete with the UK originals.
The coins show Senator Obama's face, along with a picture of the White House and the legend "President of the United States of America".
Apparently, the coin does not include the new motto of the United States: Vero Possumus. Instead, it declares Obama President, well ahead of when Americans get to make that choice. If that seems rather presumptuous, it only appears that way to those who have not watched the cult of personality grow over the last few months.
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his image on coins, which started his downfall. Barack Obama may be the first person in history to start striking coins in his image before taking power. Maybe he just wants to look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills, but this is starting to get … creepy.
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Make that four people he's killed, the officer that was one of the two injured, was shot in the face. Rambo was fake, and to a lot of people who were in Vietnam, it offended them. When Bavaro was nick named Rambo, he didn't approve of it.
I say, give it two years and this will be made into a movie. What do you guys think? I know this isn't political but please don't turn it into that. This is a very interesting story to me because this just goes to show you how training the wrong person can back fire on you. He is now in a log cabin where he took in two hostages who now escaped. This is like something out of Red Dead Redemption, some Wild West stuff.
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Take a look at the last back to back winners of Super Bowls To expect NYG to win back to back Hell Yes. Is it realistic don't think so. So we need to cut these great NYG players and coaches a break. Including my self who is very critical of them.
Beat up on individual players I sure do then again what the hell do I know I am sitting in front of a computer Just my thoughts go easy on me.
Last teams to win back to back
1966-1967 Packers
1972-1973 Miami Dolphins
1974-1975 Steelers
1978-1979 Steelers
1988-1989 Niners
1992-1993 Cowboys
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