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Less Guns, More Crime...(The Aussie Lesson)
Original post made by 2nd Amendment Supporter, Amador Estates, on Dec 15, 2012
it may be helpful to study the opposite "Less Guns, More Crime" from an Aussie policy...
The result after the Australian government instituted a $500 million gun buyback program... effective you ask???
Armed robberies rose significantly and home invasions rose as well.
Moreover, assaults involving guns rose more than a 25% and murders with a gun rose nearly 20%.
Note -- crime with guns increased after the gun ban was passed.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm
John Lott is an idiot. He's the laughingstock of academia, but the gun lobby supports his "research."
The Brietborde site is best used for toilet paper.
Use you head instead of putting forward such unmitigated tripe.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 15, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Not one word of condolence, or sorrow, or support here in this post for the people of Newtown Connecticut, but plenty of defense of the indefensible. Have some decency, dude.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Dec 15, 2012 at 5:03 pm
You're right, A Neighbor.
I posted elsewhere on this site how terrible I feel for the victims, families, and Community. I neglected to repeat my post on this thread. My oversite.
I have the same goal as those who want to ban guns. I want a safe America for kids and everyone. But I have a high regard for the valid and reliable social research of John Lott, unlike the previous poster.
His data is hard, if not impossible to refute.
As a sidebar, I have family from Littleton, Colorado where Columbine High School is ... and am hypersensitive to these issues. I once was against the 2nd Amendment but have switched my views 180 degrees after thorough research.
I will be praying for the families of these precious kids.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 15, 2012 at 5:04 pm
The 'dude' has the moral maturity of a 10 year-old boy. Gets off on cowboy and indian society with lots of shoot-em ups, and he sees himself as the hero. Likes the idea of a violent society because it 'legitimates' his own sick, violent fantasies.
a resident of another community
on Dec 15, 2012 at 5:58 pm
This whole issue of having less or more gun control isn't going to solve anything. We could have less or more guns out in society and it wouldn't do any good. I think accidental shootings at home may raise, as we live in a society where people don't take proper responsibility of locking guns up. However, I do believe that all gun owners in this nation need to be background checked/finger printed, attend mandatory gun training classes, as well as be checked out by a psychologist somehow. There's also a lot of power hungry people in this world and in our country that shouldn't be carrying a gun. At least if an attacker is using a knife or bat, you can fight. Where as with a gun it's boom and your shot.
The issue of gun violence goes a lot deeper. Too many mentally ill people walking around this world without ever receiving the proper medical attention.
a resident of Livermore
on Dec 15, 2012 at 7:58 pm
anybody with a gun is capable of killing others and i wouldn't assume that they are all mentally ill...even if one doesn't own a gun it's easy to buy one...if people get angry enough and decide to take out innocent others, it's possible...
not quite sure what you mean by "mentally ill"...?
a resident of Oak Hill
on Dec 15, 2012 at 9:40 pm
"2nd Amendment" wrote: "... But I have a high regard for the valid and reliable social research of John Lott, unlike the previous poster."
Curious about John Lott, I looked him up. Here's some of what a Wikipedia article on him says:
"As part of the dispute surrounding the missing survey, Lott created and used "Mary Rosh" as a fake persona to defend his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After investigative work by blogger Julian Sanchez, Lott admitted to use of the Rosh persona.[8] Sanchez also pointed out that Lott, posing as Rosh, not only praised his own academic writing, but also called himself "the best professor I ever had". (Web Link)
Sorry, but I don't have a very high regard for the character of this person.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 16, 2012 at 1:32 am
Yes, Sam, given the dubious quality of Lott's work, it's amazing that anyone would cite him.
I heard him on a radio station the other night on a talk show with a moderator who was open to the suggestion that the Columbine shooters as well as Connecticutt's recent shooter were programed (by gun control advocates) through special video games to kill kids so that America would cry out for more gun control. (I was driving through a rural part of Cal, the central valley and my listening options were limited.)
The moderator and John Lott discussed (1) how the mentally deranged young men who resort to killing a mass of innocents are doing it as an act of "glorious suicide" and that (2) had the kids been armed, the mentally deranged ones wouldn't have engaged in this violence because, hey, the mentally deranged ones don't want to get shot. Of course, (2) is negated by (1).
It is this kind of "reasoning" that has led to John Lott being the laughingstock of academia. One has to wonder about the mental stability of anyone who would embrace Lott's views and think of them as empirically validated. Note the correlation between the sickness of one or more of the regular posters on these sites and, of course, their espoused advocacy of our need for more guns and relaxed gun control laws. That's a pretty chilling thought, if you ask me. It's enough to ensure that I remain anonymous while posting on these sites; for some of these posters take themselves way way far too seriously.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Dec 16, 2012 at 9:53 am
Ever wonder why Israel doesn't have the USA-type school massacres?
Here is a visual that may illuminate those, like you Noreen, who refuse to see.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 16, 2012 at 10:12 am
Yep, too intellectually deficient to actually engage in an argument. Just an ad from a Tea Party/KKK site along with violent imagery. Yep, let's all become like Israel. Isn't that a cheery prospect?
I'd love to be able to laugh at the same TeaPee/KKKers were the state to start arming public school teachers. Can you imagine the clamor over militant socialist state? But of course we're dealing with intellectual midgets here.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Dec 16, 2012 at 10:21 am
The problem is not owning guns.The problem is being able to own assault rifles and the like.Any reasonable sane human being should be able to agree to owning a hand gun for protection and a rifle that is appropriate for hunting.That should be the end of it.Everything else is banned with severe punishments.
The gun lobby should be ashamed for going beyond that.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 16, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Yes, intellectually deficient is an apt description for your debating style, noreen. Note the inability to reference the Tea Party without the frenzied, psychotic name calling of KKK, as though her rambling rant had some relevance.
The waiting period for gun ownership was aimed at nuts like you. Hopefully, this tragedy will result in more adequate and proactive psychological screening so people like Noreen are never able to legally possess guns. Of course, she could always buy a gun on the black market, assuming she can accumulate enough food stamp funds to purchase a weapon.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 16, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Very well thought out and carefully reasoned argument, Boreen. Worthy of some of the best kkk logic I've ever read. You certainly do your kkk comrades justice. Tea Party? KKK? The stink of illogic and hatred is identical.
Your assignment for this week, Boreen/2ndASs/Steve, is to stand out on Main Street with a poster that advocates arming public school teachers in the classroom. I'm certain you'll elicit much uptake, and that your fellow kkkers probably won't even recognize the contradiction.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Dec 16, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Feel better after your (illogic) rant, Noreen?
And speaking of street corners, my guess is that you'll be there waiving your campaign sign to become the first "Secretary of the Department of Peace."
Kumbiya you hopeless liberal.
When will you peaceniks realize that to have peace, you must be prepared for war. It is called history.
a resident of Oak Hill
on Dec 16, 2012 at 9:18 pm
"2nd Amendment" wrote: "Kumbiya you hopeless liberal. When will you peaceniks realize that to have peace, you must be prepared for war. It is called history."
Well, "2nd", it didn't take you long to change from your lofty prose of your first post here to the childish taunts of your latest post, did it? Kind of surprised how quickly you allowed yourself to be unmasked.
As for your claim that to have peace one must be prepared for war, that comes from an old Roman quote that referred to military strategy with hostile states. It was never meant to be applied to internal relationships within a civilized society. Peaceful relationships within a civilized society does not and should not depend on my having a bigger weapons arsenal than that of my neighbors.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Dec 16, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree Sam.
I also sense that many parents of those innocent children who were gunned down would have given anything if someone at Sandy Hook were armed to defend against that madman.
Given your quote... "As for your claim that to have peace one must be prepared for war, that comes from an old Roman quote that referred to military strategy with hostile states. It was never meant to be applied to internal relationships within a civilized society. Peaceful relationships within a civilized society does not and should not depend on my having a bigger weapons arsenal than that of my neighbors."
That town and Sandy Hook are about as civilized as you can get. Yet, this didn't help them much did it. And BTW: Did you catch that the police ... which have an office less than 3 miles away...took 20 MINUTES to respond! With that amount of time, I am surprised the shooter didn't cause even more mayhem.
An armed society spends more time stopping evil than contemplating it. It is the disarmed society that is always contemplating it as a thing beyond its control.
I am done with this thread as both you and your flaming liberal friend Noreen and I have our heels dug in with our respective positions. You and Noreen can choose unpreparedness and I choose to protect my family. Good luck.
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 18, 2012 at 9:56 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Noreen, what's with your hostility towards the dem-inspired KKK? Are racist left leaning organizations like the KKK (Robert Byrd's legacy) somehow responsible for the rampage in CT? Your anger management issues show right through your posts as does your inability to engage without hostile name calling and insinuations. You make a great case for mental health screening to prevent violent outbursts like the one in CT. I hope you don't won any guns and if you do, you should consider keeping them inside your trailer.
a resident of Dublin
on Dec 18, 2012 at 11:34 pm
dublinmike is a registered user.
Guns help the feable feel more confident...
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The Torrington Dog Pound and other local pounds are run by knowledgable people who cae about their temporary boarders. They do an often thankless job. If you cannot adopt, drop by the pound and leave a donation. This time of the year with cold weather coming the pound can use blankets, towels, dog toys, dog treats and canned dog food. These things make the life of a pound dog that much easier and provides comfort to them. Before you get a dog, especially with holidays coming, think adoption. There are so many good, nice dogs who deserve a second chance at a loving home.
If the media did their job and reported the news honestly, Mitt Romney would be up by 25 points!
To the person who wrote to Sound Off that Biden trounced the young and smirking Paul Ryan, just exactly what channel were you watching the debate? You are somewhat confused. It was Joe Biden who was laughing like a hyena, not Paul Ryan. Ryan conducted himself professionally. It's scary to think that Biden is a step away from being President. He acts like a first-class jerk. Always with his foot in his mouth. You should get your facts, whoever you are.
After weeks of constantly changing stories and head twisting spin by the Obama administration, some of the truth is finally starting to emerge about the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi. Despite the Obama cover up it is clear that the security situation in Libya was grave, yet the administration chose to drastically reduce security despite multiple pleas from Stevens for more security. As soon as the terrorists attacked the Embassy Stevens sounded the alarms and notified Washington about the attack. As drones buzzed overhead and filmed the brutal murders of these dedicated Americans the Obama administration sat on their hands and did nothing. Heavily armed assets were available just a short distance away in Libya as well as military assets just one hour by air. So why did the administration refuse to send in forces to stop the terrorists and prevent the murders of Stevens and others? Was it because Obama had spun the tail about Al-Quaeda being decimated Was it in retaliation for your administration killing Quadaffi? Why did your administration fail so completely in this tragedy and continue to cover it up?
Obama has received a huge boost as he has been soundly endorsed by brutal dictator Hugo Chavez, long time tyrant Fidel Castro and Communist boss Vlad Putin. Certainly these endorsements mean a lot to freedom loving Americans. Viva Obama!
Many young female celebrities are putting a push on the females in this country to vote for Obama and make us feel like it's the wrong choice to vote for Romney (via Twitter, etc.). They will resort to some falsehoods and guilt trips to do it. Women in history worked so hard to finally get the right to vote in 1920 that it's a shame that we should feel wrong about voting for whomever we wish. I have thoroughly followed and researched truths about both candidates and have been very thoughtful about the candidate that I have no doubts about picking. I can't believe how many people out there are voting without knowing what both possible future Potus really stands for. Taking time to actually research and debunk the false stories, and read about the realities is important. I realized, during these campaigns, how much the mainstream media can hide or slant the truth. This young woman isn't fooled by the garbage of these female celebrities, but instead is proud to say she's voting for Romney!


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Javier Sicilia Receives Honor from California State Senate
Posted by Carleen Pickard in Human Rights, Mexico, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights on 16th May, 2012 | No Comments
To close out his Spring visit to the United States, Javier Sicilia traveled to Sacramento to meet with California Governor Jerry Brown, and State Senators Leland Yee and Kevin de Leon. Javier Sicilia's work in Mexico to bring awareness about the drug war was recognized in a State Resolution. Watch the video of Javier addressing the State Senate.
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Top 10 Quality Issues for 2013
Quality officials should see this year as among the most interesting, albeit nerve-racking, for acute care hospitals and doctors as major provisions move closer toward official policy under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
It's impossible to know or predict them all. But these few, at the very least, will send many hospital and physician leaders reaching for their Pepcid.
For all these thought-provoking issues, there are hopes for greater efficiency, safety, transparency and overall quality of care. But hospital officials should not be blamed if they worry about unintended consequences, and whether they have the resources to manage each and every program.
While some of the policies won't impact payment or quality reporting requirements until FY 2015, performance periods on which hospitals will be judged may begin much sooner. The clock is ticking.
1. Cracking HACs
Section 2008 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says that payments for the care of Medicare patients discharged as of Oct. 1, 2014, will be reduced based on each hospital's track record of causing or failing to prevent hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) to their patients.
Hospitals will be divided into performance groups, depending on the acuity of their patient mix. Those in the highest quartile of performance, which in this case means those that had the worst number of HACs, will be penalized 1% of their Medicare base DRG rate.
It remains unclear which hospital-acquired conditions the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will include in the list, or during what time period hospitals will be judged. But it may be assumed that performance during all or a portion of 2013 and 2014 could figure in the equation.
These conditions listed on Hospital Compare are obvious candidates:
- Objects accidentally left in the body after surgery
- Air bubble in the bloodstream
- Mismatched blood types
- Severe pressure sores, usually defined as those classified as Stage III or IV.
- Falls and injuries in the hospital
- Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein
- Infection from a urinary catheter
- Signs of uncontrolled blood sugar
As of 2008, federal regulation prohibits additional care necessitated by any of those events from being reimbursed when they occur in a Medicare patient. But look for providers to be penalized when they occur in Medicaid patients as well.
Federal officials will send each hospital an updated "confidential report" regarding the number of hospital acquired conditions they had during the performance period.


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Town Square
On Deadline: Citizen watchdogs dig out another 'confidentiality' secret -- but such things go w-a-a-y back
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, on May 17, 2012
Such practices are nothing new, going back decades in local cities, school districts, counties and special districts -- the so-called "public agencies" that govern nearly all our day-to-day contacts with democracy.
It is a surprise that Skelly has been outed, so to speak, for sending regular confidential weekly memos to school board members, as he has presented a public persona of openness and transparency in handling school affairs since he was named superintendent in the spring of 2007. (See story on the memos [Web Link here], with a link to a formal protest letter from Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson).
A take-home lesson here is that the state's Ralph M. Brown Act, the open-meeting law, extends well beyond meetings. It includes private communications between officials that are part of the decision-making process. It includes "serial" communications of any kind, even when members of an elected body don't meet in person.
There are explicit exceptions to open meetings for personnel matters, actual or potential lawsuits, labor negotiations, such as the "hiring, firing or bringing of charges" provision under the personnel exception. "Personnel matter" is not a blanket cover.
Proper notifications of closed sessions must be followed immediately by a public report on any definitive decisions made, although the definition of a decision is subject to stretching.
After being alerted by citizens Ken and Michele Dauber, Palo Alto parents of five children and founders of "We Can Do Better Palo Alto," the Weekly took up the broader issue of the memos between Skelly and board members. The Daubers filed a Public Records Act request and turned up a weekly memo and other documents. They in turn alerted the Weekly. The Weekly has since filed its own Public Records Act request.
The bigger question in this case, and historically, is why the elected officials allowed these privy communications to happen.
Why did no one on the board -- not one -- speak up and put a stop to them? In earlier cases, council members also allowed such things to occur.
Yet virtually all such officials are briefed on the Brown Act. It is virtually impossible for an outsider to know about the quality of such briefings, which often occur during "boardsmanship training" retreats for multiple districts.
One problem peculiar to school boards, including Palo Alto's, is that there seems to be an emphasis on creating a "leadership team" that includes both the board members and top administrators. This is less of a pattern in cities and counties, in my experience.
A leadership team's emphasis tends to erode the distinction between those elected to govern a district and the administrators hired to run it. It blurs the line between bosses and staff, especially when there is a strong administrator who is adept at furthering such a blending of responsibility.
Similar patterns can happen with cities, counties and special districts -- the latter especially are vulnerable because they are not followed as closely by today's local newspapers and are way below the radar of electronic news.
Historically, the City of Palo Alto had a strikingly similar circumstance in 2000. It was in the form of "Frank's Weekly Memo," after then-City Manager Frank Benest. As editor of the Weekly in mid-2000, I heard about a weekly memo Benest planned to send out. Then I learned Benest had been sending them to City Council members for several months.
I immediately requested a meeting with Benest, and we set up a short after-hours session that afternoon in his office. Staff Writer Jennifer Kavanaugh and I headed over to City Hall. On the way, she asked, "Do you think we'll get the memos?" I replied that we'd get the memos but the real question was whether Benest and I would have a relationship after. We did, actually.
The 15-minute meeting stretched to an hour and a half of sometimes head-to-head discussion. He finally shoved a pile of past memos over to us and we looked through them while he ducked out to another short meeting. They were essentially harmless announcements of awards to city staffers and upcoming city events or programs.
Benest at one point said we could file Public Records Act requests and he would have 10 days to respond for each memo. I said that would be OK if that was the kind of relationship he wanted to have with the Weekly, and I wondered if this was the issue on which he wanted to throw himself in front of the bus. It wasn't. Ultimately the memos were put on the city's website.
The Weekly sued the city twice during my tenure as editor, with Johnson spearheading the suits. One, filed in January 2003 and ultimately settled, was over secret e-mails sent between certain council members and staff members. Oddly, the city attorney's office ruled that making the e-mails or staff responses public would violate the Brown Act.
The settlement was that all e-mail communications between council members and staff would be placed immediately on the city's website -- breaking new ground statewide.
The other suit, in the fall of 2005, was to obtain a $300,000 consultant's report relating to lax supervision in the city's large Utilities Department that resulted in discipline or dismissal of 19 employees and the forcing out of the department director. The court ruled cleanly for the Weekly.
My first personal brush with open meetings was when I was an intern with the Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer newspaper (Los Gatos was my home town). I was assigned to cover a Town Council meeting. I arrived early, and the manager invited me into his office -- where the whole council had crowded in. They went over the entire agenda, indicating likely actions they would take in public. I believe they felt if a reporter was present it was OK.
The paper made an issue of it, effectively ending the practice. But it made me acutely aware of the issues.
The Brown Act provides a strong model for good government, but it has great weaknesses. It does not apply to the state Legislature, and it suffers from weak enforcement -- which leaves it up to the elected officials, public watchdogs and the media to enforce it by exposure and public opinion.
Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at email@example.com with a copy to firstname.lastname@example.com.
a resident of Midtown
on May 17, 2012 at 10:39 am
Nice job of tooting your own horn and patting yourself on the back, Jay.
Now if you would only write an On Deadline expose about the censorship on the Town Square Forum.
a resident of Midtown
on May 17, 2012 at 10:44 am
One other point. You say:
"The bigger question in this case, and historically, is why the elected officials allowed these privy communications to happen."
Did you ask the city council members, during the Benest memo issue, why they allowed these privy communications to happen?
Oh, wait, never mind. I forgot those were city council members that were involved (i.e. sacred ground that i snot be questioned or disturbed)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 17, 2012 at 6:54 pm
The lack of transparency of the various local government agencies is difficult to ascertain—because there doesn't seem to be anything like a permanent watchdog/auditor in place at the PAUSD, or the City-- tasked with actually insuring that all each agency's activities are legal, and in compliance with all open-access laws.
There are no really good sources of City/PAUSD history to which the public has access. The City does have a document retention schedule which seems to suggest that some documents are kept on file for up to eight years, with other less than that. There does not seem to have been any attempt on the part of the City to digitize its records, allowing them to be kept for much longer periods of time. Neither has there been any attempt to index them in any meaningful way.
The City Library does happen to have the microfilm of the old Palo Alto Times, which was, a pretty good little paper, in its time. Unfortunately, there is no index, and anyone wanting to learn about Palo Alto history must sit in front of a microfilm reader, and read the films, one frame at a time.
Using those microfilms as a source, all sorts of interesting information about the trials and tribulations of Palo Alto government can be gleaned. For instance, way back in the late 1950s, Stanford and the City were involved in running a hospital together. Oversight of the hospital involved the City Council, and people from Stanford. Over time, the finances became murky, and the meetings between the City and Stanford started being held behind closed doors. Eventually, the Grand Jury got involved. At some point, Stanford decided that it would run the hospital alone—terminating its arrangement with the City and its building the current hospital. The public was never afforded access to the problem that confronted this hospital at the time.
Since the City is over a hundred years old, it's anyone's guess how many scandals, or near scandals, have swirled around the PAUSD and the City during that time. Sadly, no one is keeping count. The Weekly's archive is a good place to start, but it is not well indexed, and only goes back to the mid-1990s. The City seems to whitewash its web-site, so there is no evidence on it that anything has ever gone wrong, other than any mention to scandals that have occurred that resulted in Council's reporting closed door action to the public. There are microfilmed City Council meeting in the library, but they require a lot of "face time" with the microfilm reader to retrieve any information.
Both the City and the PAUSD hide behind attorney/client privilege—keeping most disturbing information out of the public's view. The City has for quite some time now used "work product" from consultants as another reason to hide information from the public. Anything that might be unflattering, or possible illegal behavior on the part of employees, is very likely to disappear into the hands of a consultant—whose reports are going to be considered "secret". The sand-bagging of the City Manager's home during the Flood of '98 (June Fleming), although investigated, was not reported to the public. Over time, this has become just one more City scandal that has mostly been forgotten.
Same with Utility contracts. Non-disclosures agreements between the City, and vendors, even potential vendors, has resulted in what can only be characterized as losses—to be paid for by higher utility rates. The Enron lawsuit settlement falls into that category.
The City Auditors always seem to tip-to around issues that would seem to call for deeper investigations. The last Auditor came up with the fact that the City was paying for a telephone that was not installed on City property. The Auditor did not reveal the number, or the name of the person that was enjoying this taxpayer benefit. A Request For Information for this information received a response that the Auditor didn't know who the person was. There has never been a follow up on this case—which no doubt cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars.
There was the matter of the secret donors for the Mandarin Immersion program feasibility study. Numerous attempts to obtain this information resulted in claims that the School District could accept money from anyone/groups, for various purposes, and not have to reveal the source of the money. None of the local papers, including the Weekly, seemed very concerned at the time.
Of course, the Utility Scandal was the big one. That scandal has never been properly reported to the public—even though the Weekly's lawsuit did open the door a bit. What's a little odd about this OpEd is that the Weekly has written many editorials about the investigative reporting of some of the other local papers—expressing attitudes between disdain, and condemnation.
This particular matter, of some "confidential" memos—seems to be creating a bit of a firestorm, where one really doesn't exist, or at least not yet. There are no allegations of fiscal impropriety, moral turpitude, or other illegal behavior/acts on the part of anyone involved with the memos. So, why would the Weekly be so outraged? Is this the sort of build up before the inevitable editorial claiming that there is another "elephant in the room"? Would it be all that unexpected to see the Weekly claiming that "changes need to be made" at the school district—pointing to a string of articles that have yet to produce anything close to a "smoking gun"--as the basis for their claims demanding "change"?
So far, there just doesn't seem to be anything worth getting outraged over—even if the Brown Act has been "bent" somewhat.
Moving on--there are flaws in the Brown Act. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much interest in identifying these flaws, and getting them corrected with the appropriate legislation. Given how complicated government programs have become, how difficult expenditure reporting can be, and how complicated the political process has become--it's difficult to father how one or two "tweaks" can remedy any simple flaws in this law.
Lastly, it would help us all if government at every level would commit to e-government, and begin placing all public records on-line, fully indexed, and searchable. While this could take some time, it would not be that difficult to begin today digitizing, indexing and storing the current business documents on-line so that we can all see what is going on at 250 Hamilton, and 25 Churchill.
a resident of another community
on May 17, 2012 at 7:40 pm
There seems to be a conspiracy going on here. Let's take them all down. That'll solve all the problems in our city and schools. You go Palo Alto Weekly. Hope you're here to put everything back together the way you want it. At this point, I can't imagine why anyone would run for public office or want to teach in our school district since we all know better than the professionals. According to all the recent articles and postings, it seems that everyone who works in a public school really hates kids and are trying to do the worst by them. Imagine.
a resident of Ventura
on May 17, 2012 at 9:46 pm
@ really
It seems to me that the goal of a certain group of people in Palo Alto is to hand out, to all students graduating from Palo Alto schools, a diploma that automatically qualifies its recipients for UC admission, while ensuring that the students go through completely stress free schooling, with no homework (who knows, maybe no tests either) while giving only As to everyone. Never mind that this diploma won't be worth anything any more, which won't be lost on universities.
The destruction of our schools is underway...
a resident of Professorville
on May 18, 2012 at 10:04 am
So I'm assuming after scaring off all the other candidates for school board, I assume the WCDBPA/Weekly will run their own slate of candidates unopposed...is this the end game here?
a resident of Barron Park
on May 18, 2012 at 10:56 am
Great column, Jay. As always, your historical perspective is invaluable.
I find it fascinating that, in response to serious issues with a lack of transparency that threaten our democratic processes, @really, @random and @another random choose to shoot the messenger and by implication indicate that they are fine with secret government decision-making that undermines the credibility and reputation of the school district.
The endgame here is accountability.
a resident of Gunn High School
on May 18, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Thank you, Mr. Hauser. I have noticed a lot of pretty hysterical "shoot the messenger" on these boards. I don't get the idea that if we hold public officials to the idea that they should do the public's business in public, nobody will want to run. All of the school board members are adults who wanted this job.
They screwed this up. Based on what I have seen, they do think of themselves as part of a team, and Skelly is the coach. They don't really understand what they should be doing, which is representing the public, not just rubber-stamping Skelly's private decisions. We can remind them of that, or we can pretend that it's not true so that we don't hurt their feelings. I think everyone here is a grownup enough so that we can have an honest talk about what is going wrong and how it can work better in the future. I bet we'll even get people to want to be on the school board after we do it.
a resident of Midtown
on May 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm
The article that Jay referes to states:
"Stating that Palo Alto school board members may have violated California's open-meeting law, the Palo Alto Weekly has asked the board to cease the practice of receiving weekly confidential memos from Superintendent Kevin Skelly."
However Jay's self-congatulatory on-deadline rant makes it sound like that (a violation California's open-meeting law) has proven to be the case. Perhaps Jay should wait until all the facts are in before he starts to sing his own praises on the pages of his advertising circular.
That is what a real journalist would do.


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An international freshman student is an applicant who is not a citizen or a legal resident alien of the United States and in addition has never attended a college or university; is coming to Barry with less than 12hours of transferable college credits; or is a high school student with advanced placement and college credits.
There are two parts of the process of becoming a Barry University international freshman student. First of all, you must become an accepted student to the university. After that, you must comply with all the documentation necessary for us to provide you with a Certificate of Eligibility (I-20A) that you must present to the US Embassy or Consulate to apply for a student visa.
Barry University accepts applications on a rolling basis. However, applying as early as possible is in your best interest in order to allow ample time for immigration processing. Please note that general admission to Barry University does not guarantee acceptance into all academic majors. Consult the academic requirements for your academic area of interest. Also, please be aware that admission to Barry University does not guarantee that you will be granted a student visa by the United States Embassy or Consulate in your country of origin.
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- Complete an online undergraduate application by creating a myBarry account. Applying online is highly encouraged because it expedites the admission process.
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Lengthy lay-offs likely in bid to extend the career of Silver Ferns captain
After last month's false start, Casey Williams is ready to make her international netball return in tomorrow's Quad Series opener against South Africa, but the Silver Ferns captain is resigned to spending time on the bench over the next three weeks.
The series, which also includes world champions Australia and England, will take in six stops across Australia and New Zealand, with the teams remaining in Auckland at the conclusion for the Fast5 tournament.
The busy end to the season and tight scheduling means the star defender's workload will need to be carefully managed during the series.
Williams said she has come to accept that if she wants to prolong her career and avoid any further lengthy lay-offs she will have to be rested for some of the matches.
"It's likely that I'll have a bit of time out because otherwise I've gone from one extreme to the other, and that's not ideal," she said.
Williams, who has not played for the Ferns since last year's world championships, had her return to international netball put on ice after one of her troublesome knees flared up in the lead-in to last month's Constellation Cup series.
But this time she claims she is ready to go.
"I've come through all the sessions and this morning I was running with no pain at all - I feel like a 17-year-old again, it's great," said Williams.
While she insists her side are not taking South Africa lightly, Williams said tomorrow's match-up is a good opportunity for her to ease herself back in to action before the Ferns take on the more competitive English and Australian sides later in the week.
"Personally for me, it's a good first game to come up against to try and get myself up to speed," she said.
"In training this morning I was getting frustrated because I could see the ball, I could see what I wanted to do, but just getting the timing and co-ordination back takes time."
With the return of Williams, the Silver Ferns have made a couple of changes to their line-up from last month's historic Constellation Cup win, coach Waimarama Taumaunu keeping her promise to rotate her squad throughout the international season.
Canterbury's Anna Thompson will get her opportunity to push for a fulltime spot, replacing Jodi Brown in the shooting end, while in the midcourt uncapped youngster Shannon Francois joins the team as a late replacement for the injured Grace Rasmussen.
Rasmussen, who has a stress fracture in her ankle, was originally called in to the line-up in place of Camilla Lees, who ruled herself out of the tour because of study commitments.
Without Lees or Rasmussen, the pressure goes on Ferns newcomer Bailey Mes to step up and take on a starting role.
Mes was a shock selection in the New Zealand line-up, having played just one quarter of ANZ Championship netball this year. After such an unexpected rise, Mes' debut has been keenly anticipated. Her opportunity is expected to come tomorrow against South Africa, and if she struggles, there is little in the way of a safety net for her.
Taumaunu said that while she would have preferred to have a more experienced back-up at wing attack, she is still confident with the mix she has.
"The idea of both Camilla and Grace was that at any point we had one of those two in there with test experience to support, so we did not anticipate we'd have two uncapped players in there. But having said that, Anna Thompson has played a lot at wing attack this year and we have the option of moving her across to the wing," said Taumaunu.
The Ferns were disappointed with a sluggish start the last time they met South Africa in the quarterfinals of the world championships last year, where they trailed Elize Kotze's side at the first break.
Taumaunu said her side have learned their lesson from that and will need to adjust better to the difference in style tomorrow.
Quad series
Tomorrow - Adelaide
4pm: Australia v England
6.30pm: Silver Ferns v South Africa
Wednesday Oct 17 - Newcastle
8.30pm: Silver Ferns v England
10.30pm: Australia v South Africa
October 21 - Sydney
4pm: Silver Ferns v Australia
6pm: England v South Africa
October 25 - Wellington
6pm: Silver Ferns v England
8.20pm: Australia v South Africa
October 28 - Tauranga
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Study: Junior Seau had degenerative brain disease caused by blows to the head
Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May, two years after retiring as one of the premier linebackers in NFL history, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that also has been found in dozens of deceased former players, five brain specialists consulted by the National Institutes of Health concluded…
"I think it's important for everyone to know that Junior did indeed suffer from CTE," Gina Seau said. "It's important that we take steps to help these players. We certainly don't want to see anything like this happen again to any of our athletes."
She said the family was told that Seau's disease resulted from "a lot of head-to-head collisions over the course of 20 years of playing in the NFL. And that it gradually, you know, developed the deterioration of his brain and his ability to think logically."


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Multiple UFO reports arise from Blackfoot
BLACKFOOT, Idaho - A strange sighting in the sky has people across our region thinking twice about their belief in unidentified flying objects.
Tara Pagan comes from a family of self-described skeptics, but when the family stepped outside its Blackfoot home Saturday night, there was no way to assign logic to what they all saw.
"I've never seen anything like that," Pagan said. "Probably around 10 to 13 round, orange, glowing balls -- and then they were staggered, and then they made like a formation and then floated diagonal, and then they just faded out."
Pagan managed to get a blurry picture of one of the orange lights on her phone.
"I had four [lights] on my screen, but by the time the picture hit, it only had one on there," Pagan explained.
Pagan's cousin called the fire department, but they said they had nothing to do with what was in the sky.
Pagan went online to ask an expert at the National UFO Reporting Center. When she got ahold of director Peter Davenport, his response was stunning.
"We got two reports," Davenport later told us. "Shortly after the sightings were reported, we started receiving reports from Spokane Valley ... of similar objects."
Davenport received six similar reports that night, none of which he could explain.
"They were not aircrafts, to the best of our knowledge," Davenport said. "They were not hot air balloons ... They were not crash dummies, swamp gas, weather balloons or any other item of pedestrian or terrestrial origin that I can imagine."
Saturday's reports show striking similarities to other accounts, which Pagan easily found online.
"I think it would have to be something -- not us," Pagan said.


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Chapter 2 The Pre-Travel Consultation
Perspectives: Fear of Vaccines
Pre-travel consultations often provide the opportunity to update routine vaccinations for both children and adults. One of the first topics covered in such sessions is whether the traveler is immune to diseases such as measles and varicella. Unfortunately, in some circumstances, providers may be surprised to find that travelers have no interest in being vaccinated or in having their children vaccinated, whether for measles or other potentially life-threatening, travel-related infections, such as yellow fever.
Although travel-related vaccines may not have implications for community health, such as providing herd immunity, they can protect people against severe and occasionally fatal illness. For these vaccines, the discussion between clinicians and patients is one of weighing the risks and benefits of travel-related vaccines for particular destinations. Travelers are often at a higher risk of exposure to diseases for which routine vaccines provide protection, even when traveling to countries in Europe. For example, measles outbreaks of 27,134 cases were reported in the World Health Organization's European Region in 2012, and an additional 31,520 cases were reported in 2013. The European measles outbreak belied a common belief that severe and occasionally fatal vaccine-preventable diseases are the province of the developing world.
Because so much is at stake, the travel health provider should educate all travelers, and especially parents, about the use of vaccines. Those providing travel health advice should familiarize themselves with the literature on the safety of both routine and travel-related vaccines, so they can address any concerns that their patients may have.
The history of the development of vaccination complacency and avoidance is a curious one. During the 1940s, parents in the United States did not hesitate to get the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines; they knew that diphtheria and pertussis were common killers of young children, and they had watched tetanus claim the lives of soldiers in World Wars I and II. During the 1950s, the polio vaccine was a godsend; everyone knew what poliovirus could do. During the 1960s, parents gladly accepted the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. They knew that measles caused tens of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths every year, mostly from pneumonia; that mumps was a common cause of deafness and a rare cause of sterility; and that rubella caused thousands of children to suffer severe birth defects of the eyes, ears, and heart.
The widespread use of vaccines caused a dramatic decrease—and in some cases a virtual elimination—of several diseases. Parents, no longer compelled by fear of the diseases around them, became complacent. Immunization rates plateaued. Now, the United States (as well as many European countries) finds itself in a situation where vaccine safety issues, real or imagined, are a primary concern. Parents confront a flood of misinformation from radio and television programs, magazine and newspaper articles, antivaccine blogs, YouTube, and Twitter. Vaccines—considered mankind's greatest lifesaver—are now feared by some to cause a variety of chronic diseases, including autism, diabetes, allergies, asthma, learning disabilities, multiple sclerosis, and attention deficit disorder. As a consequence, some parents are choosing not to immunize their children according to recommended schedules. Travel health providers must be aware of these issues and arm themselves with accurate information to properly educate their patients.
In addition to protecting the health of the vaccine recipient, vaccination safeguards the health of entire communities, both at home and possibly at travel destinations. Predictably, in communities with clusters of underimmunized children, there is increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Some of the outbreaks in these communities have been linked to international travel to the United States. More measles cases were reported in the United States in 2014 than in any year since 1994. Many of the cases in 2014 were associated with people returning to the United States from the Philippines. Pertussis outbreaks have swept the nation, fueled in part by inadequately vaccinated children. Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis has claimed the lives of several children in Minnesota and Pennsylvania, deaths that could have easily been avoided if parents had not feared vaccines more than the diseases they prevent.
So, where do we go from here? How do we again inspire people to vaccinate themselves and their children? One way would be to make parents aware of the impact of vaccine-preventable diseases and to provide the science that supports the safety of vaccines in a manner that is compelling and easily understood. Some of this information is available from CDC (www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/patient-ed/conversations/index.html), the American Academy of Pediatrics (www.aap.org), the Immunization Action Coalition (www.immunize.org), the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (www.vaccine.chop.edu), Every Child By Two (www.ecbt.org), the National Network for Immunization Information (www.immunizationinfo.org), the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins Hospital (www.vaccinesafety.edu), and Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases (www.pkids.org), among other groups.
But is it enough? As providers whose job it is to protect people against vaccine-preventable diseases, travel-related or otherwise, we need to enhance our efforts to educate ourselves and our patients, so that we will not once again be compelled to vaccinate after witnessing the suffering, hospitalization, and death caused by vaccine-preventable diseases—an unwanted return to an earlier and darker phase in history.
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- CDC. Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in five young children—Minnesota, 2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2009 Jan 30;58(3):58–60.
- CDC. Measles—United States, January 1–May 23, 2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Jun 6;63(22):496–9.
- CDC. Notes from the field: outbreak of pertussis in a school and religious community averse to health care and vaccinations—Columbia county, Florida, 2013. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Aug 1;63(30):655.
- Chen RT, Mootrey G, DeStefano F. Safety of routine childhood vaccinations. An epidemiological review. Paediatr Drugs. 2000 Jul–Aug;2(4):273–90.
- Muscat M, Shefer A, Ben Mamou M, Spataru R, Jankovic D, Deshevoy S, et al. The state of measles and rubella in the WHO European Region, 2013. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014 May;20 Suppl 5:12–8.
Perspectives sections are written as editorial discussions aiming to add depth and clinical perspective to the official recommendations contained in the book. The views and opinions expressed in this section are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC.
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