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Man accused of killing father outside former nightclub faces judge
Death certificate: Victim died from gunshot wounds to chest
JACKSONVILLE, ONSLOW COUNTY - A man faced a judge Monday for allegedly shooting and killing a father of four outside a former nightclub near Jacksonville.
According to investigators, 25-year-old Sherodnie Smith was taken into custody at about 12:30 a.m. Monday at Triangle Motor Inn on Wilmington Highway in Jacksonville. Smith made his first court appearance later in the morning on an open count of murder. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for Sept. 30. Smith is being jailed under no bond.
Deputies said Smith shot and killed Tiaseer Rambert, 37, outside the building formerly known as the Stratosphere nightclub on Gum Branch Road at about 3 a.m. on Sept. 1.
Rambert's death certificate stated he died from multiple gunshot wounds to his chest.
Although a motive for the shooting was unknown, investigators said the suspect and the victim knew each other.
"We can sleep a little better now, knowing he's not out there, that he hurt someone else, taking lives from other people," said Betty Rambert, the victim's mother, of Smith's arrest.
Tiaseer was standing outside the building when the suspect pulled a gun on him, Betty said. She said she was told her son didn't put up a fight and was shot at least three times.
"I wish the Lord that it never had happened. But it did happen, and he's gone, and he's not coming back," Betty said.
Tiaseer was a father of four children.
According to Betty, a relative of the gunman later came to her and said, "Our nephew did this. We want him to turn himself in."
Before Smith's arrest Monday morning, his great aunt said she hoped Smith will cooperate with law enforcement.
"Don't let anyone keep hunting you down like you're some kind of animal," said Minnie Smith. "Please come back and talk to authorities about this matter- whether you did it or somebody else is involved."
Minnie said she wanted Smith to consider the feelings of the victim's relatives, and hoped he can help bring some closure to both families.
"We love him, and always will love him," Minnie said. "Everybody makes mistakes, and there's two families hurting."
There was no word on whether anyone else was injured in the shooting.
NewsChannel 12 spoke with several neighbors who did not want to identified. Most said they were not surprised by the shooting. One neighbor said law enforcement officers came to the club several times after he called in about a noise complaint.
But Hair stylist Kaila Shannon, who works in the same plaza as the club, said she thought the area was safe. She said she had not heard of things like this happening before.
"I've left the area late at night before 12 a.m. and had no worries. But now, I am skeptical," Shannon said.
Shannon added that the nightclub isn't open during regular hours, but can be rented out.
"It's not a particular business, because different people rent it out and do what they do," Shannon said.
Investigators said crowd control was a major issue at the scene.
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The Swell Season - Young Hearts Run Free (Candi Staton Cover)
Earlier this week, I let loose a piece of info surrounding Levi's, cover songs, and the new chaps who are taking on the timeless tunes. Last go 'round it was Nas doing his best Slick Rick. In this installment, we go grassroots via disco with The Swell Season, and their take on Candi Staton's Young Hearts Run Free.
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Town Square
Should student enrollment at Pleasanton's high school campuses continue to increase indefinitely?
Original post made by Julie Testa, Foothill High School, on Jan 2, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
5:00 p.m.
District Office, Board Room
4665 Bernal Avenue
Should student enrollment at Pleasanton's high school campuses continue to increase indefinitely?
Amador student enrollment is 2587, by California Department of Education standards this exceeds a "Very Large High School". Amador is 153% of capacity on 39 acres of land.
Foothill student enrollment is 2343, also defined as a "Very Large High School" at 125% of capacity on 43 acres.
The California Department of Education (CDE) does not support large high schools. Research locally and nationally is overwhelmingly in favor of moving away from the larger schools. It clearly shows the social, developmental, academic, and financial value in doing so. The CDE has made new pots of money available to implement small schools. The Pleasanton school district believes our community is supportive of the very large schools and believes our high schools can increase to 2700 students. They have therefore been ignoring the grant money offered by the state and not pursuing options. PUSD's current plan is to identify more students to go to Village HS to take some of the burden off the large campuses.
We may have an opportunity to create a small career tech school, Energy and Utilities or Engineering and Design Industry are two possibilities. Reducing enrollments by 500 students per campus would not limit the ability to offer the breadth of programs now offered. We have not reached peak enrollment and we can show there is no bubble to give relief anytime soon.
This topic will be discussed at the School Board meeting, Monday Jan. 7th 5:00.
We have a great community with great families and kids; our schools are very good but we could be better.
Let your School Board know if you are concerned about High School enrollments.
Board President Jim Ott firstname.lastname@example.com; Clerk Chris Grant firstname.lastname@example.com;
Steve Brozosky email@example.com; Kris Weaver firstname.lastname@example.com; Pat Kernan firstname.lastname@example.com
Decade of opportunities squandered
Web Link
"we are reminded that this board didn't want maximum capacity at the high schools," Weaver said.
Web Link
Career Technical Education
Web Link
An overview of the State School Facility Programs
Web Link
Comments (42)
a resident of Castlewood
on Jan 4, 2008 at 1:20 pm
To solve the overcrowding issue why not just have all non Pleasanton residents leave our schools. We have many students that should not be in our schools.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The number of students that are nonresidents would not be enough to resolve the problem. Most of the nonresident students are teacher's children that are allowed to attend PUSD. The district has been searching out any other nonresident students and issuing 10 day notices to vacate. Rather harsh and unfortunate that we are in a position that requires this.
Please email board members if you are concerned.
Board President Jim Ott email@example.com; Clerk Chris Grant email@example.com;
Steve Brozosky email@example.com; Kris Weaver firstname.lastname@example.com; Pat Kernan firstname.lastname@example.com
a resident of Castlewood
on Jan 4, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Yes, you are right it is not enough to make a big difference. If you talk with teachers you would be amazed by the number of kids living in other cities. Why Should our children be impacted by this. I have paid the price for my house and for these schools so why should someone from Fremont or Livermore get access to our schools.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 4, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I have been pleased by the opportunities that my children have been offered during their high school years - three graduates from Foothill who have done well in college. This issue seems to continue to be raised by the same people, over and over. I am more concerned about quality than school size and feel fortunate to have the high schools that we have.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jan 4, 2008 at 10:23 pm
The size of a high school affects its students in a limited number of aspects. A principal one which has indirect effect is the distance to travel from home for students. As a community expands geographically, simply increasing the size of a school may adversely affect the incremental student population if these added students live outside a normal geographic radius. The travel distance can be burdensome. This, however, does not seem to the case in Pleasanton, where the two present high school locations seem to satisfy the distance issue.
The other aspect appears to be the number of sports teams, bands, and other such groups per student capita that exist in each school. It does not seem that this is the issue being raised. If there are two high school football teams serving 5000 students in Pleasanton now, it may not matter to anyone too much if there are two football teams serving 6000 students next year.
What matters is that each school expands its classroom infrastructure, its teaching staff, and its class offerings to accommodate additional student population. If the campus has the land space to do this, then it is usually best to expand each campus rather than to build a completely new campus. It is easy to argue that the result will be higher quality with more money available to put into education rather than overhead to support many small campuses. Are the UC campuses like Berkeley inferior because they accommodate upwards of 30,000 students each?
In the above posts the word "overcrowding" is used, but nothing is offered to show evidence that this is the case except to allude to some California standard without explaining what it refers to and without explaining how and why Amador and Foothill are overcrowded. No real metrics and their explanation are offered by any poster.
The title of this thread refers to high school population increasing indefinitely. This title is ridiculous! Since the population of Pleasanton cannot increase indefinitely and is actually nearing its limits, how can the high school population increase indefinitely???!!! Indefinitely means INDEFINITELY, like infinity!!
I think the thread's title may be a poor choice but simply put there to serve as a catchy headline to elicit discussion about someone's pet issue regarding high school programs. I certainly would not choose to build another campus simply to add programs that can be added to existing campuses.
Sorry to step on anyone's toes, but your hurt toes are certainly deserved in this case. DEFINITELY.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 1:23 am
Please change the title of your post to something Frank approves. Also please explain what you mean by "indefinitely". Oh, never mind..... Most of us understand.....
a resident of Del Prado
on Jan 5, 2008 at 10:38 am
I'm in favor of smaller schools as long as the support that the larger schools are getting also are available to the smaller schools. It's a fact that when a school gets so large the students feel like they are lost in the shuffle. Teachers have a harder time keeping track of what students are doing in a very full classroom. My son was a victum to bullies a number of times in a classroom where teachers were not aware what was going on in their classroom and just outside their doors. Teachers don't have time to correct papers in a full school / classroom and resort to other students making decesions and grading their fellow students work. As a parent, I want class sizes and campuses smaller so the control of students, and student self esteem benifits the community it serves. I want teachers to feel they have enough time to teach students and give one on one time where needed, not just when a students asks for help but when they know a student needs help and would benifet from their expertise. I want teachers going back to grading and making decisions about their students work not relying on students to pick up the slack. Don't let students feel like they are invisible or lost in the shuffel because of the big school convenience stance.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 11:40 am
John I am glad your children have been successful. I agree we have very good schools. I have also had two sons graduate as proud Amador Dons. One just received his degree and the other is also successful in college. My third son is a proud Foothill Falcon he is doing very well. Unfortunately not all students thrive in the large campus environment.
Claudette thank you for sharing, I support your concerns.
Frank thank you for your concern about my toes, I welcome the opportunity to respond.
Your criticism is valid without the background of information that I have in the past and will again attempt to share at Monday night's meeting. You are mistaking about my agenda, it is no more than my ten year effort to look for options that will benefit our kids. You can read past articles to understand some of the history of my concern. Having read your post in the past I have seen you are a thoughtful person so please understand how sincere my concern is for this issue. I respect your opinions.
Most of the issues you have raised I have addressed over the years.
Opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities is an ongoing concern.
Please read: Web Link.
Overcrowding is not my opinion or an inflammatory term, it is the term used by the California Department of education. I have used their formula to try to inform our community of the facts. I want to show that it is not the State that is forcing our "overcrowding" but a local decision.
Please visit the State of Ca. guide for schools, Web Link
Our HS sites are too small for the student population and our campuses are land locked. There is no space to add the career tech programs. That is the point, there is no space for new sports teams or at times for practices for the teams we currently have.
I felt a renewed need to share with the community when the district began to campaign for a new parcel tax. They identified the two top concerns of the community are class size reduction and a lack of career tech programs. They were not however telling the community that their own report showed that class size reduction is now impossible at the HS level because there is no space!
They were also not telling the community that they were not applying for millions of dollars in state grant dollars offered for career tech programs that you and I are already paying for with our tax dollars.
I am glad they will now be applying for some of those dollars and rethinking the parcel tax.
Career Technical Education, Web Link
I stand by my use of the term indefinitely, we are not at peak. Please read about how our district has been selling the high school sites that our city leaders and planners have set aside.
Decade of opportunities squandered, Web Link
If you are aware of the lawsuit that threatens our housing cap and the prohousing movement that is talking about adding up to 20,000 more housing units to our town, (I do not support this, but it is true.) you would understand the use of "indefinitely".
We have missed our opportunity for a third comprehensive HS. We may have an opportunity to create a career tech school that would serve the student population that we have now as well as the hundreds more we are sure to have. The career tech program would offer both college and non-college opportunities. It would be an exciting asset to our community.
I respect everyones input.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 12:19 pm
WOW! A few years ago Amador was under 2000 students and now it is almost 2600? It's no wonder there are such traffic problems around the schools! Friends say they must leave 45-60 minutes before school starts to get their kids to Foothill because of the gridlock on the west side. Amador isn't quite so bad because of more access roads. Still, the school closed the back walk through gate that now makes it more difficult for pedestrian students! Go figure. The gate was fine when there were fewer than 2000 students.
So while the travel distance might not be burdensome as Frank says, I think the traffic issues for the schools AND the city are. And as a parent, I am tired of getting those traffic survey letters each year asking if I would be willing to direct traffic or serve on a committee looking for solutions. Fewer kids on each campus would be a solution.
I also have an older kid who went through Amador, but with almost 1/3 more students it is a different place now than even a few years ago. Hasn't anyone noticed the portables that are nearly on the sports fields?? Maybe we can put bleachers on top of them to increase seating for games!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Have to agree about the change regarding the Gatetree entrance - just doesn't make sense. Why would the school change the fencing and make it more difficult for students to walk to school as the school enrollment has increased? Enrollment is, in my opinion, fine as it is. Don't need a defensive reply or hear state data. Local data shows that students are performing well in current environment.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 1:02 pm
The "prohousing movement" and 20,000 new units? I know of a small active faction that is in favor of adding affordable housing (which we need), but to call this a pro-housing movement and suggest that 20,000 new units will be built is passing on wild conjecture from just a few biased individuals.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 5, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Yikes, I regret saying that because I do not want this to be a discussion about housing. I have heard this from multiple, very credible, sources. I don't mean to suggest that many people believe it will happen. I don't believe it will, but it is a real discussion that is happening. The fact that our city has to defend our housing cap in court does seem like a prohousing movement to me.
I want to address the student population we have now and the new students that we know we will have. I would like to do so by looking at the Career Tech programs that I believe are a timely and exciting opportunity.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jan 5, 2008 at 9:02 pm
It is obvious that Pleasanton needs a new High School.
The belief that recent increases in enrollment are temporary make no sense.
PSD, given its outstanding reputation, will continue to attract young, affluent
families from all over the bay area. If one takes a regional perspective, instead of focusing on the coming "build out", high school enrollments are going to increase. This what has happened in recent years despite the school board's projections of
flat to declining enrollment. In an apparent admission of this, one board member
recently suggested the possibility of year round schooling.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 6, 2008 at 10:15 am
Help me understand something. If the student population is going to be expanding "indefinitely" then why build a smaller vocational school instead of a full-fledged high school? Seems like a waste of money to me.
I'm just reminded of the elementary school that never materialized near Ruby Hills on Vineyard and cost the district X amount of $$$ for the land and cost the City X amount of $$$ in constructing then removing the traffic circles. The students hitting the high schools now are probably the same ones for which that Ruby Hill elementary was planned for. What's the current population in the elementary schools? Considering that a new school takes years to plan and build around here, those will probably be the target students who would benefit from a third high school.
I think we need to keep in mind that while we got a lot of new families that moved into new developments, those developments age as well as the population. Then it takes quite a number of years before new families move into those old areas. So the perceived growth in student populations is actually constantly in flux. If the 20,000 new housing units does materialize, I would hope the City attaches developer fees to them that go to fund a new school.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 6, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Stacey as always you have good questions.
Ideally PUSD would have planned for the growth and used the developer fees (three times the state mandated amount), and local bond money (151 mil), together with the states 50% match dollars, and built the HS five years ago. We would now have three comprehensive HS's with between 1500 to 1800 students each (still large HS's), plus Village HS.
Now our local resources have been used and the cost of a comprehensive HS has escalated. We know our campuses are impacted and we still have hundreds of students to come with the housing cap we now have.
Using the findings of the districts Excellence Committee (I was not a part of it) we see we have a need for career tech programs but we know we don't have space at our already impacted campuses.
Looking at the grant dollars available from the state we may have an opportunity to create a small school. If the district had not recently sold our option on the land on Bush we could have paid for our share with the money that we have from selling our last HS site, the state would have paid for half the land. We could have started with a small HS that could expand as needed. By placing the small HS near one of our comprehensive HS's we can arrange for students to take any classes not offered at the Tech school at the comprehensive HS.
Our middle and elementary schools are also impacted. Pleasanton has proven the empty nest forecasts wrong as our older housing quickly repopulates with young families. We are not likely to experience a bubble but instead we will eventually level off.
We have passed up many opportunities but we can create new ones. I believe the waste is not exploring the resources and opportunities available because status quo is easier.
a resident of Del Prado
on Jan 6, 2008 at 6:00 pm
What a shame that this important problem of school overcrowding has yet to be resolved. When we moved to Pleasanton over 12 years ago (primarily because of the town's reputation for excellent schools) we found out within less than a month that our oldest child's neighborhood elementary school was full and she would have to be "overflowed" to another school some distance away; fortunately, a spot for her became available just the day before school began. My husband and I became involved in efforts to convince the school board that school overcrowding needed to be addressed and, specifically, a third high school needed to be planned for and built. These pleas fell on deaf ears.
Since then, our two older children have both graduated from Foothill High School, but their experience there was less than optimal, in large part due to the ridiculously large population where many kids fall between the cracks. We lost confidence in our school district and decided to enroll our third child in a private high school, where he is THRIVING!
Although it is too late for our own children, we hope the school board will apply for state grants so that this overcrowding problem can be alleviated, to the benefit of many of our town's "overlooked" kids.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 6, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for responding. I'm still not understanding why we would want to build a small specialized school over a comprehensive HS. You say that the empty nest forecasts have been wrong and so student population is still growing (and will "indefinitely"). The population currently at Amador and Foothill equals almost 5000 students which makes no room for any career tech programs there. So why are you trying to campaign for a vocational school that would not really relieve the overcrowding at the current comprehensive high schools?
Wouldn't it be better to campaign for the third HS? That way we'd have smaller high schools of about 1500 students each which could have room for these career tech programs at each site. Then there's the added bonus of more opportunities for all the extracurricular activities which wouldn't be available in a specialized vocational school.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 6, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Absolutely! I could not agree with you more. I along with many other parents campaigned for just that almost ten years ago. It was a very contentious community discussion as some people said we would never have the numbers to support three schools. We proved our case but the compromise was we would begin a new HS when our schools hit 2000 to first prove the need.
To explain what has taken place between then and now would not be productive at this point. I will just repeat that our local resources have been used and the cost to build a comprehensive HS has escalated. We could have built the comprehensive HS then; I do not believe it is possible any longer. I do believe we still have other options. I am asking the board to seriously pursue them.
a resident of Foxborough Estates
on Jan 7, 2008 at 1:27 am
When Julie speaks of a "pro-housing" movement to build 20,000 additional housing units in Pleasanton, I believe she is actually referring to a guest editorial I wrote in 2006 about Mayor Hosterman's interest in stopping global warming.
Web Link
I will say that if our community decided to rewrite the General Plan to reduce our disproportionately large contribution to global warming we would definitely need more schools, unless we determined to restrict commercial development as much as we have housing development.
a resident of Birdland
on Jan 7, 2008 at 6:32 am
Why not stop development all together? Look for alternate methods to bringing in money to city tax bases. Building can't be the only answer.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 7, 2008 at 7:41 am
I agree with Anonymous ...
Since Pleasanton has such excellent schools, additional school funding can be raised by charging students tuition based on their parent's income.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 7, 2008 at 8:09 am
Anything is still possible. The small school idea still seems like a waste to me. You see the problem as a third comprehensive HS having a high upfront cost and use that as a reason for why to build a small school or two or several at a time instead. But I see it as in the long-run it may cost more to operate all those small schools instead of three large ones.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 10:22 am
What I am advocating for is not related to additional housing, I do not support overturning our housing cap.
Becky I was not referring to that article but it is interesting to read again.
This district has been unable to plan for the future and has now limited our options.
We could have built a comprehensive HS for 51 Million 8 years ago. It would now cost more than 100 million and our resources have been used.
I am advocating for a career tech school that has tremendous value to the students that are currently in our schools. I am advocating that it coordinate with our current HS's so all students can access all programs. I am advocating that we create it in a way that allows for expansion if resources come available to do so. The cost to operate it is paid for by the students ADA dollars that come from the state. This would be a great asset to our students.
For the students that are currently in our schools, and are yet to come, solutions are over due. To do nothing would be the waste.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 11:19 am
Do you anticipate that a large enough percentage of Pleasanton high schoolers would take advantage of a "career tech" high school so as to offset the overcrowding?
With upwards of 95% of graduating seniors going on to college, I'm not sure a tech school is attractive to that many kids, thus doing nothing substantial to alleviate overcrowding.
And how would the kids get between the high schools if you're proposing a school that kids would go to while also attending their home high school?
Frankly, I'd rather see a gifted magnet high school, given that 20% of Pleasanton students test as gifted. But I know that will never happen.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jan 7, 2008 at 12:21 pm
20% of Pleasanton students are 'gifted'? Where did you get that figure. The number is closer to 5% of the population, and that number is high compared to neighboring districts because our criteria is not a stringent as in San Ramon Valley.
The solution is simple: build a 3rd comprehensive high school! Do not create any more of an elitist society than already exists in this town!
Also, I'm concerned as to why the district has not publicized this 'issue' more. I have not received any notification as a parent, other than what I've read in the local paper.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hey Bob -- Funny you should mention the portables on the sports fields. If you're referencing the shipping containers on Amador's fields, I can tell you that while they may not be used for additional seating, they are consistently leveraged as bathroom areas at many sport functions. I'm sure those that back up to the Amador football field love the smell of human urine that penetrates the air after a Friday Night Game.
And FYI -- this applies to those participating in Pony League on the weekends. Apparently walking to the outhouse expends far too much energy.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 2:02 pm
A Wheels bus route could be used between Comprehensive HS and Career
Annex school.
The Career Tech has both college and noncollege tracks.
A program of study that involves a multiyear sequence of courses that integrates core academic knowledge with technical and occupational knowledge to provide students with a pathway to postsecondary education and careers in the areas of marketing, finance, accounting, information technology, entrepreneurship, and economics.
Energy and Utilities, Engineering and Design, Architectural and Structural Engineering Pathways, and more
Web Link
I asked the District to notice parents…..
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I don't want to derail the conversation to talk about GATE, but in reply to anonymous, the standards are the same across the Board: 98%.
I'd like to see stats for your 5% number. No way is the GATE margin that low. Pleasanton School officials have given me the 20% number - and that's not outragous - it's typically what happens in an affluent, well-educated community. It's not elitist - it's giving all kids a right to learn in an appropriate matter. Do your homework.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 7, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I am writing to voice opposition to building another high school. I am a parent who initially supported a third school when it was first proposed. My child graduated in 2006 from Amador. Enrollment at the time was about 2500 students. She had a great time there and never felt at all pressured or overwhelmed by the enrollment. She had great teachers and loved her experience there.
She also experienced the attrition of teachers at PMS when Hart Middle School was built. She was separated from friends she had made and lost very good teachers who left to go there to work, leaving her with inexperienced subs.
I therefore have seen both sides but to build an interest school as Mrs. Testa suggests is something that I will not support. We have a third high school and it is called Village. Put more kids that need other than academic focus there, but this bandwagon has passed and does not need to be brought back.
a resident of Downtown
on Jan 7, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Something that has been overlooked in regards to "falling through the cracks" in big, overwhelming high schools is that maybe that is just a typical reaction teenagers have. Teenage angst and all those hormones flowing through their blood, as well as the developing of good decision-making skills, can all contribute to not having that dreamy, nostalgic high school experience. Big size or not, those numbers on the California Dept. of Edu. website are misleading. The RATIOS are important, like faculty to student ratios (the common ratio used by colleges as a basis of comparison to attract prospective students).
Also, I believe that educators and parents have fallen in love with the idea of "technology" as something that needs to be taught. Technology is a tool and can never replace knowledge. Yeah, you may learn how to use a spreadsheet or calculator, but do you know why you get the answer you get? Or how to do the calculations by hand? Yeah, you may learn how to write a computer program, but can you explain the logic and math behind programming? Emphasis in critical thinking skills are needed, not "technology."
I say go with the comprehensive high school! What's the point of investing a bunch of money in a "tech" school and a "tech" curriculum when all that "tech" stuff the 14-18 year old learned will be outdated by the time s/he graduates? How does that translate into lifelong learning skills?
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 8, 2008 at 9:01 am
The answer is …YES! Pleasanton High Schools will continue to grow.
The board discussion was productive.
The outcome is there is no bubble and only the strong survive.
A Career Tech program was a priority when they were using it as justification to float a parcel tax in Pleasanton. But status quo is fine when they are shown there are state grant dollars available that as tax payers we are already paying for.
As a parent I think the outcome of the meeting is unfortunate but as a taxpayer I think it is great. PUSD needs to remember this and no longer look to the community for more money. They have made a decision to house as many students as possible at the existing sites to concentrate our students ADA and facilities dollars. This makes the maximum amount of dollars available for salary and they should not need to be coming to the community for program or facilities needs. Permanent overcrowding is the price our kids will pay for that concentration of dollars. My message to the district is use our kid's money well… now stop and asking for more.
A percentage of students will thrive at our very large overcrowded campuses, a large percentage will do well, and a percentage will be lost or worse damaged.
No school can guarantee all students will thrive but realistically we know that the true consequence of large schools is more students are at risk.
My students have thrived at Amador but my heart breaks for the ones that I see that do not. Sondra it is unfortunate that you do not hear the many parents that have shared their children's painful experiences and understand that one size does not fit all. I was moved by the testimony of the mom that had previously opposed another HS, sharing her message of regret because her child was damaged by the large environment she had supported.
The districts decision is that they will make more room at the continuation school for those students. I think that is an unfortunate choice for a parent to be given.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 8, 2008 at 9:57 am
Opps typo...
They have made a decision to house as many students as possible at the existing sites to concentrate our students ADA and facilities dollars. This makes the maximum amount of dollars available for salary,program and facilities needs. Permanent overcrowding is the price our kids will pay for that concentration of dollars.
My message to the district is use our kid's money well… now stop asking for more.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 8, 2008 at 10:21 am
I attended the school board meeting last night. The board voted no to the $25 million price tag it was reported by Dr. Casey in his report it will cost to build a third high school. Also the Blue Ribbon Group made the recommendation that Village Continuation High School could be reinvented to become an alternative high school if necessary. Interesting recommendation, since in this same meeting, Dr. Casey confirmed that the district could house up to 2700 students before he would return to the board for dual scheduling, and with that increase it would be more for the overwhelming traffic problems and lunch time concerns. Housing the students into the classrooms would not be a problem. 35 kids to 1 teacher is not a concern. WOW.
What about the mental and emotional well- being of the students that is already 152% over capacity now! I guess another 500 kids or so on campus would'nt make a difference.
Where this mentality fits into the "Relationship" of working better to help ease large school scenario.
How out of touch is the school district staff?
Why is ok to have student housed like cattle on I-5 near Harris Ranch now and in the future?
I understand that the district has added more counselors and VP. Short term fixes are to be appaulded however that doesn't even begin to address the ongoing crisis of too many students on the campuses of our high schools. I never did hear from the school board about THEIR concerns over the 152% over capacity issue. They were charming about their excitement on the ideas of tech, and engineering driven programs and showed compassion for those who spoke. I will give this board a B+. The district staff however receives a D for overall lack of concern for the large school population. The reason it's not an F is because the as usual the board packet was well presented.
I walked away feeling that the district believes that it is ACCEPTABLE to have" lost" children when the school population is so high and will continue to stay this way for many years to come. The least the district can do is offer freshman a class called, Surviving Pleasanton High Schools 101.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 8, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I think that parents who would like a small high school population should take advantage of the many private schools in the area.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 8, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Since 2000 Amador Valley High School has had Career and Technical Education Academies in place. Currently there are academies available for 10-12 grade students in Business & Finance, Science Engineering and Computer Technology, Health & BioScience and Public & Human Services. Students choose the academy they would like to participate in. Academy students work in small learning communities having common English and Social Studies classes with the option to take the academy elective which is a Career and Technical Education class.
Each high school has a Career and Technical Education Department which consists of Business courses, Consumer & Family Studies courses and Industrial Technology courses. Several of these courses receive Las Positas College credit and are UC a-g approved.
Much of this discussion sounds as if there is not a Career and Technical Education program in place in our district. The reality of it is that there is a program and students do have the opportunity to take Career and Technical Education classes but they choose to add another AP class to their schedule because they are not thinking about a career yet they are thinking about how to compete for college admissions.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jan 8, 2008 at 4:55 pm
As each of us read these posts usually some phrase or two hits a response ("hot") button in us and motivates us to write. So, here's mine, which is focussed on an implicit assumption being promoted.
That is, the claim or assumption is that a large high school "damages" children or causes children to be "lost". My suggestion is that parents should look beyond always blaming some aspect of the school for the reason their children may not do well, for example, size of school, teachers, etc.
It is obvious that the evidence shows the majority of students in Amador and Foothill do well. If your child is not doing well, look at all of the things that may contribute to this. The school can be one reason, but is not the sole possibility of all things considered.
Is it not true that our schools have programs and resources to help those who struggle, but as parents we need to use those resources?
It is my opinion that it is not the responsibility of taxpayers to provide a menu of school sizes to pick from for a minority who claim their children will then not be "lost". People have choices, such as private school as one poster suggested.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 9, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Having children that have been both a GATE super achiever and a child that has struggled greatly (same gene pool same environment). I have learned I can't take full credit for their successes nor do I feel blame for their challenges. I do take full responsibility and will always be their advocate. Children come as unique people with their own personalities and abilities. They are a work in progress their successes or challenges today do not guarantee who they will be as an adult. Being a parent is a challenging job and a huge responsibility that I have enjoyed for good and bad. The "takes a village" sounds cliché but is true. That is why families move to Pleasanton to raise our children in a family supportive community. Our schools have a large responsibility in the effort.
To all parents that love their children and make every effort on their behalf each day you have my respect. To anyone who condemns a child for a mistake, judges a loving parent for their imperfection, or perpetuates the attitude of survival of the fittest among our kids shame on you.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 9, 2008 at 1:08 pm
You are so correct!! People who judge parents by the success or failure of the parent's children are ignorant!!!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 9, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Who is blaming/judging the parents or condemning children? I don't read anything in this thread like that. *scratches head*
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 9, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I am familiar with the academies. My kids participated, they give a student an opportunity to become familiar with those career paths. They are not the same as the career tech programs. They do not prepare a student to enter that career.
The board did however point to them as a reason to not pursue a career tech program. I wonder if the academies fill the need for a career tech program then why was a career tech program identified as a priority of the excellence committee? Why was the district using it as a priority to justify the parcel tax if we don't really need it.
Energy and Utilities, Engineering and Design, Architectural and Structural Engineering these are fields that have a crisis shortage of trained professionals. How will training in these fields be outdated soon?
I will always believe we should have built a third comprehensive HS when it was possible. If anyone else can figure out a way to make it happen now, and then get board support, I will bow to you.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 9, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I think you meant to respond to someone else.
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posted at 10:55 am on November 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
What a difference six months — and a health-care overhaul proposal — can make! Just six months ago, the U.S Preventive Services Task Force, which works within the Department of Health and Human Services as a "best practice" panel on prevention, sounded a warning signal over a slight decline in annual mammograms among women in their 40s. In fact, they warned women of this age bracket that they could be risking their lives if they didn't get the annual preventive exam (via HA reader Devil's Advocate):
The downward trend, however slight, has breast cancer experts worried. Mammograms can enable physicians to diagnose the disease at early stages, often before a lump can be felt. "When breast cancer is detected early, it often can be treated before it has a chance to spread in the body and increase the risk of dying from the disease," says Katherine Alley, medical director of the breast health program at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.
The U.S Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts working under the Department of Health and Human Services, recommends that women older than 40 get a mammogram every one to two years. The task force finds the test most helpful for women between ages 50 and 69, for whom it says the evidence is strongest that screening lowers death rates from breast cancer. Other groups, including the American Medical Association, suggest a more rigorous schedule, saying the test should be done every year; insurers often pay for annual tests.
But experts say they are seeing gaps beyond two years in many cases. Carol Lee, chair of the American College of Radiology's Breast Imaging Commission and a radiologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says many women understand that they need to have a mammogram but don't go back for repeat tests after the first one. In Bethesda, Alley said she has even heard anecdotal reports of breast cancer survivors forgoing recommended mammograms.
But today, that same panel says … never mind:
"We're not saying women shouldn't get screened. Screening does saves lives," said Diana B. Petitti, vice chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which released the recommendations Monday in a paper being published in Tuesday's Annals of Internal Medicine. "But we are recommending against routine screening. There are important and serious negatives or harms that need to be considered carefully."
Several patient advocacy groups and many breast cancer experts welcomed the new guidelines, saying they represent a growing recognition that more testing, exams and treatment are not always beneficial and, in fact, can harm patients. Mammograms produce false-positive results in about 10 percent of cases, causing anxiety and often prompting women to undergo unnecessary follow-up tests, sometimes-disfiguring biopsies and unneeded treatment, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
But the American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology and other experts condemned the change, saying the benefits of routine mammography have been clearly demonstrated and play a key role in reducing the number of mastectomies and the death toll from one of the most common cancers.
"Tens of thousands of lives are being saved by mammography screening, and these idiots want to do away with it," said Daniel B. Kopans, a radiology professor at Harvard Medical School. "It's crazy — unethical, really."
What changed in six months to change the USPSTF from a sky-is-falling hysteric on a 1% decline in testing to Emily Litella? If the administration gets its way, the government will be paying for a lot more of these exams when ObamaCare passes. That will put a serious strain on resources, especially since many of the providers will look to avoid dealing with government-managed care and its poor compensation rates.
The motivation for HHS will be to cut costs, not to save lives. The sudden reversal in six months of the USPSTF, especially after it made such a stink over a relatively minor decline in screening, certainly makes it appear that they have other priorities than life-saving in mind here.
One final thought. Barack Obama predicated his ObamaCare vision on the notion that increased prevention would save costs. Suddenly, his administration is for decreased screening and prevention. Could that have anything to do with the CBO scoring on screening? And what does that say about how government will make decisions once they control the compensation and care in the US?
Update: Courtesy of an anonymous reader, here are the members of the US Preventive Services Task Force. See if you can figure out the one thing they all have in common:
Current members of the Task Force are listed below. They have recognized expertise in prevention, evidence-based medicine, and primary care.
Bruce N. Calonge, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair)
Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO
Diana B. Petitti, M.D., M.P.H. (Vice Chair)
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Susan Curry, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Public Health
Distinguished Professor
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Allen J. Dietrich, M.D.
Professor, Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D.
Carl Weihl Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Kimberly D. Gregory, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Women's Health Services Research
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
David Grossman, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Director, Preventive Care and Senior Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative
Professor of Health Services and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
George Isham, M.D., M.S.
Medical Director and Chief Health Officer
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN
Michael L. LeFevre, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
Rosanne Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D
Professor, Geriatrics and Adult Development, Medicine, Health Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Lucy N. Marion, Ph.D., R.N.
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
Bernadette Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P./N.P.P.
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Wanda Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
J. Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz, M.D.
Leon Hess Professor of Medicine, Health Management, and Economics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
Timothy Wilt, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
What do they have in common? There isn't a single oncologist among them, at least not as a listed specialty by the USPSTF published roster.
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The Pa Boys, about a three-piece band's road trip around small-town pubs on the East Coast and Northland, is being developed with help from Te Paepae Ataata, a Maori film development organisation.
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Ainsley Gardiner, who produced Boy and established Whenua films in 2004 with actor Cliff Curtis, would produce it. Writer, photographer and musician Himiona Grace was directing the film.
Film-makers have told fans on Facebook filming would start in May.
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The Pa Boys is understood to have a budget of less than $2m and is one of two projects to win production financing at the NZ Film Commission board meeting last spring. The other was a Sir Edmund Hillary biopic, Beyond The Edge.
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Great journal and thanks for sharing the pictures.
It was interesting following your journey through the years.
The latest version is my favorite. Looks really healthy and a beautiful presentation.
You should update a little more frequently. Would like to follow along and see how things progress from here.
Time for an update. Photos first:
This thing has been doing pretty well. I'm not the best aquascaper, but I can definitely grow plants. Most of the plants in here started from tissue culture last fall/early winter.
Current Plant list:
On plants, it seems like a lot, near collectoritis, but I'm trying to move this into a hybrid Dutch scape, so that number seems about on par. I'll almost certainly pull the Barclaya longifolia out. It's a nice plant, but I'm tiring of it. Might ditch the crypts and anubias sooner than later. The crypts aren't doing so well in the extremely soft acidic water in this tank. When I raise the hardness up to help the crypts out, the red plants lose some of their brilliant red colors, which is not a trade off I'm willing to make. The anubias are algae magnets. I used them in the beginning as filler because I had a to of them in the previous scape of this tank, but now I'm not sure they work in high light of this tank. The driftwood isn't the greatest placement, but I'm going to ride it out a bit longer.
Current things I'm excited about:
Things I'm looking to change:
That's about all I've got. The plumbing is still working great since I replumbed it. Great CO2 diffusion, great flow. I'm currently manually dosing all ferts. Probably will go back to auto dosing in a while, but meh. Automatic water changes have been and continue to be the most amazing thing. 1:00 a.m. every Monday morning. Drains and fills before the sun comes up. I never even see it happen. Wondeful. Only thing I have to do is change the filter on the water supply line every year or so.
I'll post again after I rescape and make the above changes.
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|update? stunning tank and really educational journal!
I'm going to fast forward the grow story a bit. I've been taking pictures with my iPhone, and it's just not doing it justice, so I spent some time with my D200 tonight:
This is now a month after planting the tissue culture plants
Really nothing major to share. I've added ~50 cardinals, 12 Otos, and 2 Sterbai Cories (looking to get 8-10 more). I also tossed in about 25 red cherry shrimp from my upstairs 60-P. Everyone is doing really well.
I've added a few more tissue cultures. Some ammania bonsai, alternanthera reineckii mini, and some Rotala 'pearl'. Now it's just a waiting game to let it all fill in.
Things are growing so well that I'm thinking on replacing the Marsilea minuta down front with glosso. I've been using the Marsilea for years because I couldn't commit the time to really maintaining a high light thank like a good glosso carpet with require. However, with all the stems I've put in here, I'll need to keep the light up to get great colors, so might as well take a shot with glosso.
Still thinkiing on that.
man after my own heart using all those Eheims.
I love the DIY plumbing you did with everything and your hardscape looks awesome! That is a great piece of driftwood
Good luck!
|OMG, had to laugh at the cat pics only because one of my cats would have done exactly that given the opportunity.
I started off by just scaping a bit with rocks and manzinita. Got this piece of wood from Tom Barr a couple of years ago. Used it in my old scape, but decide to turn it upright this time to give a more height to the scape. As I was bringing in plants from my storage area, my tank started to show signs of life:
But she quickly exited when I started filling the tank
Initial planting was with what I had on hand: Anubias (mostly 'nana'), Barclaya longifolia, marsilea minuta, and some random crypts.
I then ordered in some plants from aquariumplants.com. I'd gotten some tissue culture plants before form Petco, on sale I think, but I really didn't know what they were exactly. Looked into it, and decided it was worth a shot, especially since aquariumplants.com had them on sale.
I ordered some S. repens, L. hippuridoides, Crypt wentii 'brown' and 'tropica', Downoi, and Lobelia cardinalis.
I'm really pleased with the tissue culture plants. Once rinsed and separated out like suggested from the seller, there are really a lot of plants in here. Really got my money's worth. I''d still consider it a good deal at the for $9 price. But I'm patient, so I don't mind waiting for them to fill in over the next few weeks.
I've finally put this tank back together.
I've never really liked the plumbing. I spent a lot of time thinking about the plumbing when I first set it up, but I made it overly complex. Biggest issue was all the turns. I was losing a lot of head pressure, so I really had very little flow in the tank. So, I decided to redo it.
Same internals as before. Two tank drains, left and right, plumbed to a corner drilled hole in the tank. These feeds into 6 port manifold. The manifold feeds three Eheim Classic 2217s, and has ports for automated macros, micros, and a burp/manual drain/fill port. At present in the picture below, I only have the macro line installed. The micro line and the burp line are currently plugged off. I'm doing dry micros right now and for the immediate future.
Filter Loop 1
A single Eheim 2217 pumps to a substrate level spray bar. In line after the Eheim are two solenoid valves: one for drain line, one for fill line. At present I do about a 10% water change once a week. Been doing that for a few years, while dosing a modified PPS-Pro and have been pretty happy. Not a huge waste of water/ferts and the tank is happy.
In the back of the picture here you can see the green irrigation solenoid on top for the fresh water supply line, and you can see the top of a Asco Red Hat valve on bottom for controlling the drain line.
Filter Loop 2
Two Eheim 2217s run in parallel. In line before one of them is an atomic CO2 diffuser. Love that thing. Then the two filters come back together via a manifold yee fitting and run through a single Hydor inline heater.
I got it all plumbed in and turned on, and was immediately thrilled with how it turned out. Much better flow and circulation in the tank. Reducing all those turns from my previous plumb job has been a great thing. It has also improved how long it takes to drain this tank. The loss of head pressure to do all the turns meant it took forever to drain even 15% of the tank via the automated process. Now I can drain that in just a few minutes.
Here it is all filled and cycling:
|Very nice set up. I like the looks and your automation of everything.
This tank has currently been broken down and put into storage for about 3 months.
A few months back we decided to have the rest of our basement finished, which meant a considerable amount of construction around the location of this tank (and included painting the room this tank is in), so I had to break the entire thing to move it.
Now that I've done it once, it'll be much easier if I ever have to do it again. I'm writing this post as a helpful guide in case anyone has the exact situation I had ever again.
My tank sits on a tile floor. I needed to move it about 15 feet into the next room (that would be untouched during construction). I still had fish in the tank (not a lot) and I didn't want to lose my cycled filters, so instead of completely breaking it down I got it as light as possible. I drained almost all of it. Removed all the plants, rocks, and wood. Then I removed 1/3 to 1/2 of the substrate. And drained some more. That was the easy part.
I mentally struggled to figure out how to move this think. Even with all that this sucker was still heavy. Enter brilliance and luck. The tank was on a tile floor, and that tile floor extends into the room I needed to move the tank to. So, I got two neighbors to help me lift sucker, and then put the edges down on two folded blankets. Each end of the tank was on about 4-6 layers of blanket. From that point, the thing was pretty easy to just slide into the next room. One person could have done it (the sliding).
All of the plants got stored in rubbermaid tubs in my laundry room with lights. Fortunately, this is a tank composed mostly of low light plants, so it was easy to just put them in "hibernation" for a few months. I kept lights on them and topped of the water occasionally.
Move updates to follow soon.
|The Dude
|Man I love the latest iteration. It just pops to me... the way the wood runs though the plants and the long slender leaves running through it. I'm not a fan of stems, but it's hard to get things in the right places to make a natural scape without them I'm learning. I saved a pic as inspiration for my 180 Gallon
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Family and friends mourn the deaths of three individuals that were found shot to death in McMillan Park on Wednesday night. (Rick Hickman / American Press)
Last Modified: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:21 PM
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
City police said they have captured one of the men wanted in connection with Wednesday's triple homicide at McMillan Park.
Deputy Chief Mark Kraus said 18-year-old Armonta Dquon Hadnot, of Lake Charles, was taken into custody after midnight. Two other unidentified people are also being sought in the murders.
Hadnot was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder, six counts of armed robbery and six counts of armed robbery with a firearm.
He is being held in the Calcasieu Correctional Center without bond on the murder charges.
Police found the dark green 2001 Buick Century linked to the shooting at around 10 p.m. Thursday.
A Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office deputy saw the vehicle on the road in the vicinity of Gieffers and Shattuck streets at 9:50 p.m..
As the officer turned his vehicle around, the Buick turned onto Gieffers Street, where Hadnot crashed into a yard before fleeing, Kraus said.
Lake Charles Police Chief Don Dixon said the killing of three people during a dice game robbery Wednesday night at a local park is "by far the most cold-hearted, brutal crime" he has seen in his 11 years and three months as chief.
Hadnot is believed to be one of two trigger men at the park, Dixon said Thursday at a news conference. He said police are working to identify the other shooter and the driver.
During the news conference, Dixon said Hadnot is "probably the most dangerous person in America right now."
"He is a threat to anyone and everyone," he said. "He's desperate, he needs money, he needs to get away."
Dixon said four people were shot during the robbery at McMillan Park, at the corner of Goos and Evans streets.
Twenty-year-old Jeminskian J. Arvie, 23-year-old David Jermaine Galmore and 20-year-old Fitzgerald Tremayne Guillory died, Dixon said.
He said the men were "minding their own business" playing dice, when they were robbed. He said it is unknown whether the victims knew their attackers.
While they were playing dice at about 9:30 p.m., the men were approached by gunmen and told to lie down and empty their pockets, he said. The men did as they were told, but one of the victims was shot while still on the ground, Dixon said.
The other victims then tried to get up and run, he said, and two of them were shot while trying to get away.
"What's disturbing is the cold-blooded nature of this — to shoot somebody laying on the ground defenseless and then to shoot others as they are running, in the back," Dixon said.
There were small children playing on a nearby playground, he said. As one of the victims ran in the direction of the playground, one of the assailants continued to fire toward him, Dixon said.
Hadnot was also wanted in connection with a shooting that happened earlier in the evening at the corner of U.S. 171 and Fitzenreiter Road.
According to Deputy Chief Mark Kraus, Hadnot was the passenger in a 2001 Buick Century driven by Lon Allen Porter, 23, of Lake Charles. At about 7:45 p.m., they got into an argument with a person walking through a parking spot they were trying to pull into at a business on U.S. 171.
Video presented at Thursday's news conference showed Hadnot leaning out the window of the Buick, firing at the other vehicle as it exited the business.
"That shows you the attitude of this person — a total disregard of human life," Dixon said after showing the video. The parties are not believed to have known each other, he said.
Porter was arrested at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, Dixon said. He was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
(From the Lake Charles Police Department)
Posted By: Goosport On: 8/5/2013
Free my Lil cousin Tay Tay man
Posted By: Deeply Sadden On: 3/25/2013
My heart and prayers goes out to the mothers that lost their boys in that park. Both the young men that were slained and the young men that committed the unthinkable. Mothers you can get through this with the Grace of God.
Posted By: leelee On: 3/23/2013
Ugh y'all need to catch the other one also Cuz I knew them boys. They were cool.


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I bought a plastic 3KG tub of Apiguard from Dadant in the fall of 2007 and used in to treat a few hives. It seemed to have worked well. But most of the gel was not used. So, I replaced the lid securely and taped it on with duct tape.
Then in the fall of 2008 I used the remaining gel to treat about 20 hives. It did not appear to work at all. I did notice that the odor of the gel in 2008 was almost nothing compared to what it was a year earlier. What is the shelf life of Apiguard. It appears that is it much less than a year.


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March 30th – Palestinian Land Day
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As activists commemorate Palestinian Land Day around the globe, Global Exchange is recognizing this 37th Palestinian Land Day with a Reality Tour that is currently on the ground in the West Bank. But, what is Palestinian Land Day?
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Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette. (American Press Archives)
Last Modified: Saturday, February 09, 2013 6:30 PM
By John Guidroz / American Press
U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany R-Lafayette, said Friday that approving a sensible operating budget is the biggest challenge facing Congress this year.
Boustany visited the Republican roundtable luncheon at Reeves Uptown Catering to hear state Reps. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, and Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, discuss a series of draft proposals aimed at modifying how the state crafts its budget.
On the federal level, Boustany said a House-approved bill that prevents senators from being paid unless they pass a budget could be key in reaching "some real agreement where we have a budget to operate off of."
Boustany also spoke about "sequestration," a series of across-the-board cuts in nearly all areas of federal spending that will occur March 1, if Congress and President Barack Obama do not take action before then.
"Unless equal cuts are selected out what we agree with, plus a path forward to further reduce spending is laid out, then we're going to say let it happen," he said.
Boustany said Obama sees sequestration "as a threat to the domestic programs he's trying to protect."
"He wants to increase spending which is wrong right now in this environment," he said. "We're going to use this as leverage
and really work on a long-term plan."
Boustany said the gun control measures introduced by President Obama are "not really a solution to the problem." Obama introduced legislation and executive actions and has asked Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons and require universal background checks on firearm purchases.
"I do believe our gun laws are fine," Boustany said. "We just need good enforcement. What the president is proposing is a non-starter."
The bigger issue, Boustany said, is assisting people with mental health problems.
"We should make sure mental health illness is treated like physical illness, and it's not shoved aside," he said.
Boustany said lawmakers should also analyze existing federal laws that allow someone with a mental health issue to refuse receiving proper treatment.
Boustany said he reintroduced the Realize America's Maritime Promise, or RAMP Act, last month to ensure that all the money collected in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund is used specifically for dredging and maintaining waterways. Only half that money is being used for those projects, and the rest is spent on other unrelated projects, he said.
Boustany said it is important to guarantee that all of the money is spent on dredging and other similar projects like maintaining the Calcasieu Ship Channel.
"Everyone knows how vital the ship channel is. That's the reason we're seeing the Sasol investment coming in here and why other companies are looking to locate and invest right here in Lake Charles and in Cameron Parish," he said.
Boustany said that U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and David Vitter, R-La., are supporting the RAMP Act in the Senate.


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text: YES - they work for the .32! The Fobus holster fits all of the configurations of the Thunder pistols. They are all built on the same frame. I have one and use it with the T22, T380 and T380 Plus. Something to think about though - the Fobus is not a good concealed carry because it stick out a significant amount and orients the pistol in a "slanted out" position. While I really like the rotor design (I like the "FBI" forward position) I was hoping for a holster that snugged the pistol to my side. Measured from the belt slot to the outer edge of the holster it sticks out one and a half inches. Even with a baggy shirt on it sticks out more than my iPhone. The pistols snug into it very well though - no worries about them falling out even running and they are solidly built.


text: Hi ! I'm a new member from Sherbrooke Qc. My name is Pascal and I'm very happy to have found this forum. I currently own a 07 Chevy Equinox AWD. I love my truck, I only had car in the past since this vehicule and there is no way for me to go back to a car! I have a small background in mechanic, currently work for BMW for the past 2 years but in the industry for my 7th year. I love to do all the repair and maintenance my self on my vehicule, not to save money but to learn something new each day ! You seems to be a nice community, can't wait to get to know you! Pascal


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Thanks & will do! For Jr's T-S set-up, I plan M11 springs (compact diameter) on guide rods near the outsides of the BC in the rear. Short guide tubes in the buttplate will keep the springs guided thru the stroke. The guide rods will ALMOST extend to the guide tubes creating a simple telescopic effect. The BC ext may need side-reinforcements if the diagonal "L" needs narrowed (for the springs/guides to clear). It may sound a little mickey mouse, but I believe it will work. Let's call it the 'no-mill' approach
Just snapped this after writing the above explanation. A pic is worth a thousand words. Still need to find correct-size tubing for the guides and build a butt-plate. You can see I cobbled together the top part for the TC latch, because I didn't have 1 1/8" tubing. It doesn't set on the top rails like it should. With the RPD TC, I should've removed the latch from the TC to fit that part, but didn't. The latch screw is STAKED
I'm open to suggestions for common small dia springs. The smaller the spring dia, the less the "L" ext will need narrowed/weakened. I don't want it to break after 10 shots. M11 springs are .275"OD x 11" OAL and compress to 5". There is 4" for 'stacked compression space', from the butt of the BC to the back end of the ext
This is the BACK of the stroke. Jr has 5 1/8" BC stroke whereas my MG47 only has 4 1/8", though it's rcvr is 1.5" longer. That's because of the HOLLOW stock mount, allowing the BC ext to recess into it. Building Jr more compact, yet having a longer stroke was a learning curve. Who knows how far this design will progress a year from now -
The 7.62x25 will be a completely new build. A BC for it is on the way from Shadow Walker (THANKS) and I have all the other parts. I'm excited because of how easily they click in & out of the links, which should allow a weaker spring, leaving most of it's lesser power to cycle the TC/ feed mech (instead of overcoming a strong recoil spring). THEY ARE TOO LOOSE in the "L" link belts. This build won't happen anytime real soon. Knob Creek & Cheyenne Wells in CO are coming up, so not much time to build. If anyone else is persuing one I'd be glad to share what I've come up with, to help jump-start yours. A seperate thread for the 7.62x25 will be in order. EIGHT CENTS A RD makes it a gotta-do
I've shot the MG47 & Jr every day I've been home. Fortunate to have a place nearby to shoot (5 minutes away) but it's being excavated for development, so that won't last much longer.
HERE is where we go out to shoot when we really shoot. It's a secluded bowl-shaped valley about 1 x 2 miles. No people nor houses for miles. If I'd win the lottery, I'd buy it all and retire there. But I don't play the lottery
That's me, Marty, and famed 1919/MG34/MG42 CII builder John McGuire, at "Thunder Valley". Thought you guys would enjoy that one


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Nisswa pond hockey registration due by Dec. 13
Nisswa Park and Recreation seeks a pond hockey co-coach for ages 8-10.
If interested, contact Paula Anderson at 963-4444.
Registration for Nisswa pond hockey teams is due by Thursday, Dec. 13, to Nisswa Park and Recreation.
Fee is $40. Late registrations will be accepted on a space available basis only, and for an additional $5.
Games will be played at the Nisswa Park hockey rink. Following are age groups:
• Little Huskies for ages 5, 6 and 7 meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. Saturdays.
• Penguins for ages 8, 9 and 10 meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 11 a.m. Saturdays.
• Ice Dogs for ages 11-15 meets at 6:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays.
Penguins and Ice Dogs will play games with neighboring towns.
Players will receive an email with the start date and schedules.
Players need to provide stick, skates, shin guards, elbow pads, helmet with mask and mouth guard.
Pond hockey is for girls and boys who want to learn the fundamentals of hockey. The goal of pond hockey is to give kids an opportunity to learn, have fun and love the game of hockey.
The season will begin when the outdoor ice is ready.


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No, Mach3 is the CNC controller software. I haven't found any CAD software worth dog spit yet.
Drilling the firing pin hole is no big deal; if you use a sprung pin the small hole is much shallower.
It's the profile of the locking lugs that stumps me. I could use the manual machines and make square lugs, but it requires a cam-operated or CNC fourth axis to cut the lugs... though I bet there are some geezers out there who could do it by eye with a file and half a plug of Red Man.


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I picked up one of these pocket hats on Friday. Although its a mosquito net, it looks to me like it would be a good emergency (or at least portable) beekkeepers hat/veil.
I haven't tried it yet (harvesting is pretty daunting as it it is ...) at C $12, it seems like a good emergency 'chute.


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If there's one thing we can count on from indie developer Karios Games, it's frequent software updates. Karios' standout jumping game MonsterUp Adventures has already received two substantial updates – one to ease the game's difficulty and another that greatly improved its boss battles. One aspect of the game still needed tweaking though: its in-game purchases. That's just what the new version 1.4 update addresses – for Windows Phone 8 users.
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text: Everyone that is on this message board that is calling for coach Coughlin to be fired should be ashamed of themselves. This guy has earned his job and should be entitled to stay as long as he pleases. Just because they are in a slump doesn't mean anything other than they are in a funk and just need to regroup. When you fire a head coach and bring in a new coach, that's that much more time for the team to adapt to the new coaches schemes and playing style. Not to mention building relationships with the players and other assistant coaches as well. That can take several seasons to make everything click. So you dim bulbs calling for his job, put a lid on it.


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