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The six-story, 105,929-square-foot Rainier Pavilion is part of a $192 million project to expand services for women, newborns and children at Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. The departments finished transition into the new areas in March 2014.
Tacoma General's NICU will feature 51 private rooms that will comfortably accommodate families who are critical partners in caring for fragile newborns. One room is even designed for twins or multiples.
Both the NICU and the Family Birth Center are connected to MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, southwest Washington's only pediatric hospital.
The first phase of this project opened in May 2013, when two inpatient floors, including a new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, were added to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. The two floors totaling 47,537 square feet were added atop the Milgard Pavilion on Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
After the new birth center and NICU move to the new building, the project will wrap up with a refresh and remodel of the vacated spaces.
When the final phase of the project is complete, the project will have added 153,466 square feet of new space and 144,835 square feet of renovated space.
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The expansion is supported by Building Dreams Together: The MultiCare Campaign for Healthy Children. This campaign will help build the facilities, buy the equipment and make the investments necessary to care for fragile babies and vulnerable children right here in our community. Learn more about Building Dreams Together.
Read more about MultiCare's expansion and remodeling of areas that serve women, newborns and children at Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children's Hospital.

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Well, we all know about the hoses for gauntlets...
Cool detail but the ones I got with my MOW set is a bit to stiff for my liking.
I've looked high and low for a hose I could buy off the shelf... no luck till now.
I my wife wanted me to replace the shower head with a new multifuction head and our old head had a hose that is similar to my gaunt hose.
so I kept it.. but in my haste I thru out the rest of it BUT My bro has the same shower head in his guest bath room.... I may have to "upgrade" his fixture....
on to pics
Left is the stiff MOW and Right is shower head hose.
....ooooh so flaccid
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Colorado Springs man works to curb meth use
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Not even once.
Three words that pack a powerful punch for KT Leonard, the Southern Colorado representative for the Colorado Meth Project.
Meth has affected Leonard's life adversely in many ways. It's the reason he's a single father and the reason his brother was murdered.
"The meth world is full of destruction and death," Leonard told KRDO NewsChannel 13. "It's easy to get into it. It's much harder to get out of it."
On Wednesday, deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office found a man's body and a meth lab at a home in Monument. Investigators spent two days taking out dangerous chemicals. The man has not yet been identified. The sheriff's office says there are no signs of foul play or trauma.
"It makes me said," Leonard said of the man's death. "He probably didn't get the information that he needed."
Leonard works to give people that information. He gives presentations at various events and schools, hoping his story will impact others in a positive way.
"If you've never done it, don't ever do it. Don't even do it once," he said. "If you've done it, stop. Never again. Not even one more time, because it's a terrible cliff. You either stop, die or you go to prison, and most of the time prison doesn't stop it."
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|7th Feb 2013, 14:54
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|7th Feb 2013, 14:57
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Never understood the excitement for cycling, allthough I used to do Triathlons myself. Seeing the professional cyclists being nothing than a drug-train for the last decades.
Anyways, the case looks good so far and I like the colour-scheme.
...and allways remember, that the world is an orange!
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|7th Feb 2013, 15:09
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As for the case, I follow the only British team in the World Tour peleton and so the theme and colours were a gimme really.
|13th Feb 2013, 15:43
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This seems to be a popular colour scheme for the NZXT 810 switch! or just for anything in general. It looks really nice so far - loving the white carbon effect. Will stay tuned for more!
|15th Feb 2013, 18:59
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Update #5 - Feb 15th, 2013 - Fillport & various bits
@Elenos - Thanks. I'm sure when it's finished some people might think there's too much white carbon effect, but for me that's the look I want as that's how it is on my bike with it's white carbon frame....
Right, on to the new update. First off I had to re-visit the PSU cover as the 'tape of the gods' didn't quite live up to it's billing and the mesh started to come away from the panel, so I drilled a few holes and secured it with the M3 machines screws (and nuts) used throughout the build. Still fits the theme and is a lot stronger now. Also, the 3 stripes made out of the vinyl decal paper started to curl and peel off so I changed them for white card stripes stuck down with double-sided tape.
When I came to re-fit it in the case, after beginning work on a Pump/Reservoir mounting, it quickly became obvious that it wasn't going to fit and be removable the way I'd planned. The PSU cover panel is actually longer than the horizontal width of the case so had to be put in at an angle. However, with the Pump/Res mounted in there, there wouldn't be room to manoeuvre it inside the case. Quick re-design followed, which basically meant removing the small section towards the back of the case so that the panel could be put in the case horizontally.
To fill the gap I used a small bit of aluminium angle, filed to shape.
After a test fit, I wrapped in Di-Noc and drilled rivet holes to secure it to the back of the case. End result...
Quite pleased really. It's barely noticeable at the back of the case, and it makes things a lot more practical for taking the PSU cover in and out when needed. The final panel now looks like this:
The main part of this update is to show the mod I made for the fillport. I wanted to have easy access to a fillport from the top of the case but the one 'supplied' in the Switch 810 case is not very practical really. If you can see on the picture (in the red circle), the hole provided for the fillport is located underneath the top clip-on panel which means every time you want to access it, you need to unclip the panel and doing that enough times is going to snap the plastic clips. Besides which, the hole drilled wasn't big enough for the fillport I'd bought!
As I'm going to use a 360 radiator on the top, it leaves a gap at the front of the case so I used this to place my new fillport plate. Small aluminium plate, 4 M3 screw holes, 1 25mm fillport hole.... done!
I put it together and wrapped it before trying it in the case. Small problem, not quite enough clearance between the front of the rad and the case, so I a small notch.
I added 4 of the M3 rivnuts from previous to fix the plate to the case with and voila!
Considering I work from home and will be sat looking at this machine every day, small things not quite right with it will niggle me! Looking at the new fillport from inside the case meant a big gaping hole which would expose a lot of the front panel wiring and the various holes in the case. Yuk!
I'm sure some wouldn't bother, but it's the details that will hopefully make this build, so I decided to fashion another little panel (wrapped of course!) to fill the gap.
With a couple more rivnuts in the sides of the top 5.25" bay, in it went. Much prettier!
View from above.
That's it for this time.... The planned update on the Pump/Reservoir mount didn't happen (yet) as the reservoir I bought (EK RES X3 150) didn't quite fit where I wanted to put it and would have made tube routing difficult. I've got a different model res on the way now, so hopefully that'll be put together soon.
Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for all the positive feedback so far!
|15th Feb 2013, 20:12
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Awesome progress man! Really liking the fillport placement.
|15th Feb 2013, 23:15
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I'm curious. I guess you have pipes that run through the mid plate. Are these bulkhead fittings or tubing pushed through grommets? If its the latter have you got an easy way to get them out without draining your loop onto your mid plate?
I hadn't thought about a fillport but seeing this gives me some ideas. What size tubing are you using? Mine arrived today and 1/2" ID 3/4" OD is huge. Might have a rethink but I've bought a old of fittings as well. It will work fine it's just chunky.
|15th Feb 2013, 23:30
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My plan is to have a drain tap on a T-line (under the midplate) on the tube feeding out of the bottom 240 rad so that I can drain the loop without anything going on the midplate.
I'll still be able to access everything underneath, even with the midplate in place and the tubing in the grommets, as I can remove the side panel of the PSU cover. The only times I'd be removing the tubing from the midplate, I'd want/need to drain the system anyway....
I'm using 3/8" ID 5/8" OD tubing.
|21st Feb 2013, 14:54
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This is an awesome build!
I had a question - would you possibly have the measurements for the PSU cover you made? I have a switch 810 and I'm thinking of making my own PSU cover.
|22nd Feb 2013, 14:47
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The top panel is 187mm (W) x 498mm (L). The side panel is 110mm (W) x 515mm (L) and then the small piece to fill the gap is 70mm (W) x 17mm (L).
|22nd Feb 2013, 21:41
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|23rd Feb 2013, 05:00
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Looks great so far. Love cycling and your build. The water bottle holders on that Giant are awesome. Thought about incorporating something like them in your build?
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it looks great so far, i would rather like to see white paint than white dinoc :/
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|28th Feb 2013, 12:10
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Sorry to prolong the suspense!
|5th Mar 2013, 02:26
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Nooooooo! Stupid stupid rivet gun!
Can't wait to see what all is going to happen here. Maybe some sexy bike parts incorporated?
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|5th Mar 2013, 22:10
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Update #6a - Mar 5th, 2013 - Pump and Reservoir mount
So it's been a while since I updated but it's not for the want of trying!
I've split this update in to 2 parts as it covers quite a lot and there's loads of photos.
So, the mount for the pump and reservoir.... this thing has driven me nuts and has taken far longer than it probably should! It's gone through 2 prototypes, 3 changes of reservoir model, a broken rivnut gun, and hours and hours of head-scratching to work out how it was all going to fit together.
The basic idea was to create a mount for a cylinder reservoir and a Laing D5 pump arranged vertically to each other. Holding all that hardware up was going to take some strength so I started with 1.5mm aluminium this time. I wanted to mount the D5 so that the body of the pump and all the wiring was hidden, so I designed a box shape that would fit to the motherboard tray in to which the pump body could fit. It's hard to explain, so less words, more pics!
I started with a main front panel and 2 side panels, along with 4 lengths of 20mmx20mm aluminium angle for holding them all together.
The left side panel had to have cutouts for the 24-pin ATX cable and the SATA cables. It was going to be fixed to the case by bolting it with M3 machine screws into rivnuts fixed in the side panel angles. I wanted the front panel to be removable as well, so that too was to be fixed to the sides by using the screws/rivnut method.
Left side panel:
Initially I held it all together with M3 screws and nuts until I was happy with everything fitting, at which point I was going to rivet the parts together.
The right side panel had to have cutouts to allow for cabling to pass through and for access to the pump from the rear of the case.
Right side panel:
For the front panel I wanted to mount a cylinder reservoir vertically and initially I had bought an EK-RES X3 150 but soon found that the locations of the ports made tube routing very awkward. I swapped that for a Bitspower Multi-Z 80 which had better situated ports.
But after looking through some photos of Team Sky from last season it suddenly dawned on me that maybe I could use a water bottle holder as the team use on their bikes to hold my PC's water bottle!
The bottle cages Team Sky use are Elite Custom Race and they are quite cheaply available in team colours and are identical to those used by the team themselves.
The one issue I had with using a cage to hold a cylinder res was that they have a small lip on the top to hold down a water bottle in the cage to stop it bouncing out when on the road. That lip would stop any cylinder from going in, so it had to go. A few nervous moments with the Dremel and all sorted.
With the reservoir holder sorted I could carry on with the front panel. I put 2 M5 rivnuts in for the cage to bolt to the panel. Then with a 64mm holesaw drill bit I made hole for the D5 pump to go through. A little bit of filing to tidy it up and some screw holes drilled and it looked like this.
The next issue was going to be finding a cylinder reservoir to fit the bottle cage. The cage had a diameter of 74mm and most reservoirs these days are a standard 50mm or 60mm.
Anyway, that's it for this update. I'll post the 2nd part straight after this, where it all gets finished....
|5th Mar 2013, 22:14
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Update #6b - Mar 5th, 2013 - Pump and Reservoir mount
Right, part 2 of this update.
After much trawling of the internet trying to find dimensions of every known cylinder res, I hit on the AquaComputer Aqualis range which have a diameter of 75mm - almost perfect! Only 1mm too big but the cage is quite flexible. I went for the basic ECO model (cost the deciding factor). Not only did it fit the job but it also looked how I wanted and the ports were perfect for what I needed.
With the res sorted, next was the pump. I wanted a D5 pump so it would comfortably handle everything I was going to put in the loop. As I'm planning on using an AquaComputer Aquaero 5 for monitoring the water cooling, I thought getting the AqauComputer version of the D5 pump might make sense in the long run, and mean that I had better options when it came to compatibility.
Obviously the pump needed a top and I quite liked the idea of being able to see the cooling liquid in the pump so I went for the EK-D5 X-TOP CSQ plexi version. I don't mind the CSQ version to be honest but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea!
So with the main bits of hardware sorted, it was decision time on the compression fittings and the tubing between them. I went for Tygon tubing (ID 3/8" OD 5/8") after hearing quite good things about it, and for the fittings I really liked the look of the Monsoon ones.
Given the res and pump locations I had to use some 90 degree fittings as well. I know some people say they'll restrict flow, etc. but I'm not looking for top performance so much as making this thing look how I want it to end up.
I know Monsoon sell end caps for their angled fittings so that you can colour co-ordinate with your build but I saw that as the ideal opportunity to make my fittings unique to this build and I made my own end caps to fit the theme. Bradley Wiggins, last year's Tour de France winner for Team Sky is infamous for his love of all things 'mod' and he uses the Roundel symbol on his kit, his bike, etc. Check out his name on the side of his jersey in this pic.
With a bit of handiwork in Paint and some printing on glossy vinyl decal paper, I'd made my own personalised fittings!
One small issue I had to sort out was that the ports on the bottom of the reservoir are recessed in slightly meaning there wasn't clearance to screw in the 90deg fittings. I ended up using some Koolance Male-Female G1/4" extenders to push them out clear of the bottom of the res. Fortunately they had the same grooved pattern on them as the Monsoon fittings so don't look out of place.
So with all the hardware sorted and all issues ironed out it was time to di-noc wrap the panels to match the rest of the build, rivet the panels to the angles and put it all together in the case. Forgot to mention I also made a couple of cuts to the original motherboard tray of the case to allow easier access to the rear of the pump and the sockets on the back of it.
I'll leave you with the finished shots of how the build stands as of today. I'm really pleased with progress (albeit a little slow for my liking) so far. It's great to start to see ideas and visions I've had in my head for 6-12 months slowly turning in to results.
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My god, its beautiful. I can not wait to see more of this.
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For this, my 200th post on this blog (how the hell did that happen), I am ashamed to do that lame-ass thing where bloggers make a post about how busy they have been and apologize for not making regular updates lately. I hate that. Plus, all the blogging gurus (and LORD there are a lot [Continue Reading…]
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The interest in use-based car insurance -- where consumers pay insurance rates based on their driving habits -- is growing, with 36 percent of consumers saying they would change carriers for a 10 percent discount on their car insurance rates, according to the 2013 Telematic Survey by Lynx Research Consulting for LexisNexis.
Usage-based auto insurance uses a telematics program to determine the time, frequency and manner in which the car is driven, collecting the information and providing it to the insurance company to determine if a driver is eligible for discounts on insurance premiums. One-third of respondents said the idea was appealing and are likely to allow a personal smartphone to be used to collect and transmit the necessary data.
The study found that 61 percent of drivers are more likely to accept telematics if insurers offer a three-month trial period, while 72 percent are more likely to accept a program if the car insurance provider offers an automatic 10 percent discount during the first six months.
How about you? Would you accept telematics?
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Next stop was Poas Volcano which is about 8870 ft or 2704 metres high so it was a little chilly up there. Just a side note... one of the gals who came on this tour today was wearing non other than 4" heels. The question "what are you -- NEW??" came to mind. Anyhow, we got up to the summit of the volcano and it was a beautiful, spectacular wall of WHITE!!! Couldn't see a darn thing! I didn't even know what or where I was supposed to be looking
Part 3 was the La Paz River waterfall. I actually stood behind the waterfall where you really got an appreciation for the power of the water. The ledge to walk on was a bit slippery and not very wide, so this was no time to lose my balance (and no, stilleto girl didn't venture over to behind the waterfall -- she actually didn't see Poas either cuz you had to walk for about 10 minutes). Then we stopped at this little restaurant that also had tons of hummingbirds. This is where I'm pretty sure I've lost it and should consider professional help. I must have taken 18 pictures of frickin' hummingbirds! What the heck?? Thank goodness for digital cameras. They were really something to see but the pictures I'm sure will not do them any justice. Also saw a tarantula, up close and way too personal
Next stop was lunch as the Selva Verde Lodge (Green Forest Lodge) where we saw poison dart frogs or also known as "blue jeans" frogs because their legs are blue (bodies are red). Our guide held one and said as long as you don't close him in, like in a fist, he won't attack. Again, thank goodness for a zoom lens and again, wasn�t interested in holding him.
Final stop of the day was for a float on the Sarapiqui River where we saw some huge iguanas, lots of howler monkeys, a few Jesus Christ lizzards and a couple of cayman crocs. It was smoking hot down here on the river compared to having goosebumps up at the volcano! Two extremes today (yeah, I know... poor me!).


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Atherton Parcel Tax
Original post made by History Repeats, Atherton: other, on Apr 21, 2013
Nothing has changed, and it is clear the Town does not have the revenue to sustain all the services it provides. The lack of a sales tax dooms it to alternate revenue. Utility tax proposals and real estate transfer taxes are once again being considered by the Council by the consideration to turn Atherton into a Charter city. However that dog is unlikely to hunt. Demands that savings be made will again be made in government and the usual discussion of the cost of the Police Department, salaries, medical and pension cost etc. It is clear the city staff has been cut to the bone and the police are understaffed and the Town is faced with the need to be competitive for officer retention in a very competitive marketplace.
All these arguments have been made before in the last decade or more, and it still comes back to the reality of the need of approving a Parcel Tax and probably increasing it this time. Hopefully the Council will spend the time making the case to the residents.
An Almanac article from the past...
Publication Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2004
By John and Dianne "Didi" Fisher
Mayor Kathy McKeithen said in the press recently, "We have run out of options," after the failure of the Atherton parcel tax to win a two-thirds vote in the November election.
Now the Council has voted to put two new tax increases on the March ballot. One is an increase in home construction/remodeling fees (an increase of an existing tax on contractors) and the other is a tax on title insurance, due on sale of any property.
Is there an emergency? No way. Have we run out of options? Nuts! The town has had the parcel tax defeated before. After a thoughtful explanation to the residents of the need for the tax, it has always passed. This last fall, the council did remarkably little to remind residents of the level of town services, and why we need the parcel tax. That's why it failed to pass. But even with an indifferent selling effort, it won 57 percent of the vote.
There is plenty of time for the City Council and the Atherton electorate to do the right thing. Back in 2000, the parcel tax failed to win the required two-thirds. We had no tax the next year. The council did have to tighten spending, but reserves were not depleted. And the parcel tax was passed by a two-thirds majority and reinstated the next year. The current tax runs through this coming June. Town reserves have been increasing annually in recent years and are now over $5 million.
Are we trying to keep young people out of Atherton with all of these proposed increased levies on real estate? Should buyers and sellers have to pick up large fees for basic Atherton services? Shouldn't all of the people who enjoy services be paying for them?
Council member Jim Janz said, "this is the cost of admission" to living in Atherton. We don't think a toll gate at the city limits is the way to finance core town services.
"We desperately need this," says Mayor Kathy McKeithen, when speaking of the new tax proposals. We think this is an exaggeration.
Not even the rest of the council really believes that these proposals are the last chance. Council member Charles Marsala has asked to put renewal of the Atherton parcel tax on the council's agenda the week before the March election -- as a fail-safe measure.
Let's be fair. The council has a tough job. It stands between the staff's need to get paid, and the residents' right to be fairly taxed. And the council members get no pay for their voluntary labor. That's no reason that they should take the easy way out by proposing two new taxes, just because they are easier to pass.
As residents we deserve to understand the real alternatives and not be panicked into voting as if it's our last chance. If asked whether we're in any crisis and whether the proposed new taxes are the right things to do, we say "we don't think so." We'd rather vote bad taxes down in March, and do the right thing in June.
John and Dianne Fisher have each served on the City Council and as Mayor of Atherton.
The Atherton tax debate
Here's the Fishers' assessment of the pros and cons of Atherton's tax options:
The New Taxes -- Pros
** Such "fees" need only 50 percent voter passage (versus two-thirds for parcel or other special taxes). * No sunset date -- it's the tax that keeps on taxing. * No more campaigns for the parcel tax every four years -- less work for the council. * The tax increases with inflation of real estate and construction costs ... sound familiar? * The Parcel Tax -- Pros
** Accountability of the council for how the tax money is spent (re-authorized by residents every four years). * All residents pay their fair share (not just contractors and residents who sell their homes). * Income tax-deductible to the resident taxpayer. * Tax has a fixed dollar ceiling with a sunset date.
The New Taxes -- Cons
A 0.53 percent levy is added to a property's purchase price, as a title insurance tax ($15,900 for a $3 million property) that raises the property basis but is not deductible. * A 1.23 percent tax increase for construction projects ($12,300 in new taxes on $1 million project). * Reduces the City Council's accountability to the residents for both taxing and spending. * Creates two classes of Atherton residents -- those who pay because of real estate transactions or construction projects and those who get services -- for nothing. * No sunset provision (continues forever). * A tax on title insurance is a back-door ad-valorem (based on property value) tax, and may be illegal under California statute. Atherton could have to fight it out in court.
The Parcel Tax -- Cons * Periodic renewal requires work. * Fixed dollar amount limits flexibility to increase spending. * Supermajority vote (two-thirds of voters voting) is required by statute. * In other words, passage requires work. You need to run a campaign to inform residents.
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a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Apr 21, 2013 at 9:14 am
And the APOA is heard from yet again.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 21, 2013 at 9:41 am
Menlo Voter states "And the APOA is heard from yet again"
Menlo Voter is incorrect. I am a resident of Atherton and have nothing to do with the APOA.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 22, 2013 at 7:31 am
"It is clear that...the police are understaffed"
Why? Just because John Mattes said so in his letter? The facts are two officers for 7,000 residents is far more than San Francisco uses, which is about two officers for 50,000 residents.
"It is clear that...the Town is faced with the need to be competitive for officer retention in a very competitive marketplace."
Atherton is already uber competitive. It pays at the 70th percentile of surrounding communities. Unlike San Francisco, in which officers pay over 10% of their take home for their pension plan, San Jose, where officers pay about the same, and Santa Cruz, where officers pay over 20%, Atherton officers pay ZERO since their existing sweetheart deal with Atherton specifies Atherton make their retirement contribution (both Atherton's part, and the officers' part) for them.
What private company not only matches a 401(k), but pays your portion also?
I think it is galling for the APOA to send that letter out when their compensation is already so high.
I think it's going to be an incredibly hard sell to convince residents to pay a parcel tax, and, as you allude to, an increased parcel tax, when the APOA buys candidates who give them raises in an environment in which smart, well-read, residents know from the newspapers that public workers statewide and nation-wide are taking compensation hits after fifteen to twenty long years of dizzying compensation escalations.
I think it's going to be an incredibly hard sell because Mattes and the APOA won't be able to tell just one side of the story this time. There is organized opposition, and it will inform residents just how rich the existing compensation package is.
I think residents have to ask themselves the question, which will be posed to them, how did Atherton maintain its own police department for over 70 years in the absence of a parcel tax. There were no sales taxes back then either, since there were no businesses. The answer is clear. The insanely high pension and compensation increases started getting rolled in about twenty years ago.
The APOA wants residents to think it has to continue, since other cities are continuing it also. I'm sure the police unions in the other cities are saying the same thing. It has to stop somewhere. People are just too smart for this. They've worked too hard for their money.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Apr 22, 2013 at 7:42 am
Remember, only one third of voting residents need to wake up to stop this insanity.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Apr 22, 2013 at 6:52 pm
History shouldn't repeat:
I'd love to agree with you that giving the Atherton Police a raise and raising the parcel tax will not happen because of a well educated and well read electorate. From what I have witnessed, this is unlikely. I have constantly been amazed at the total apathy of Atherton voters when it came to issues surrounding their police department. Even when some officers were clearly violating the rights of some of their citizens.
Don't hold your breath expecting a change. For some unknown reason Atherton residents are addicted to having their own police department. Even when they could contract with the county for police services and private security for the nonsense duties they ask of their police officers and save a couple million dollars a year.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 23, 2013 at 8:11 am
It's pretty simple to figure out. If Atherton cops didn't know they were getting a much better deal in Atherton than they could get anywhere else, they wouldn't be spending their own money to fight outsourcing the department.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 23, 2013 at 8:41 am
Why does the APOA need to spend the money to fight outsourcing? Did any of last year's candidates favor outsourcing? Does anyone on the council favor outsourcing?
Posted by Greg Conlon, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, 16 hours ago
This is my first posting on this response to Jerry Carlson's indicating retirement. I want to say that Jerry's hard work on the Rail Committee has been devoted to what he believes are the right answers for the Town. He also served on the Peninsula Community Coalition in an outstanding manner to represent Atherton with five other cities re High Speed Rail challenges.
Regarding Legacy's comments about my response to the Police Department's endorsement of the Lewis and Wiest, I did not change my mind on any point. The issue was whether I supported out sourcing the Police. I explained to all of Atherton with a voice mail that made clear I did not support outsourcing the Police unless the Town was up against an unexpected bankruptcy. It had nothing to do with the Police wage negotiations.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 23, 2013 at 9:35 am
Any responsible council member or candidate should always keep outsourcing on the table, even though it may not be the preferred choice. The responsible position is to say I'm in favor of keeping the police department IF we can get a reasonable and affordable contract in place. If not, of course we need to outsource.
There's nothing about that notion that doesn't make sense. If you take outsourcing off the table, the APOA has way too much leverage in negotiations.
The fact remains, the APOA vehemently opposes outsourcing since they can't get their sweetheart deal that exists in Atherton anywhere else. And, they complain about being underpaid at the same time! You've got to admire the audacity, at least.
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So we were told that the bees could overwinter without protection in Oregon and then we had one of the worst storms in 100 years in this area... cold, snow, ice, etc for at least a week, and we lost our bees. This was our first winter with them. As far as the frames in the hive now, what should we do with them? Try to extract, or will the honey be crystallized and impossible to get out? Keep them as they are for some new bees to eat and use?
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brac if your reffering to WI, you actually pick an area when you apply for the tag
brac if your reffering to WI, you actually pick an area when you apply for the tag
A government large enough to provide everything you need is strong enough to take everything you have. T. Jefferson
Brac, in Oregon tags are Spring and fall. In spring the tags are a draw. Pretty much 100% draw in the west (coast heavy mountain timber) East you may need as many as 3 points to draw a far eastern unit. All the regulations and draw is on line here if you want to look: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Find where they are. Use scents to increase the odds..................Patience...........Don't rush in and screw up all your hard work and planning.
The misuse of anything that is an attractant to bears can put you in a very tough position. Always have a spare loaded weapon with you at all times.
DO NOT place any bear attractant on your boots thinking you will make a scent trail to your stand! You will and that will also lead the bear right up your backside when you are walking out at dark! Carry a spare flashlight and firearm in hand when ever you are using bear scent attractants.
Leer Family Honey Farm-Shannon Leer
I would have figured on this thread everybody would be talking about burning honey. Anybody tried it with luck? Cougar are the only thing we now have more of then bears. Big cat hunting season is pretty much open all year except when they have kittens. I have my bear tag applications in for the year.
Honey Burn- there is much better attractants than that. If you are going to use something that is illegal you may as well make it something that works great not just good.
Leer Family Honey Farm-Shannon Leer
Grease burn works better than the honey burn!
Big Fire with lots of used deep fryer grease.
Works good in Canada at least and I have seen some monster bear shot with this technique!
Oregon and Washington are in the same boat, overrun with bears/cougars and they stopped bear/cougar hunting with hounds and bait!
Doesn't make much sense to me?
WA also outlawed trapping at the same time and then they wonder why there coyote population is out of control!
Guess the crunchers got there way on that vote?
The wait on a bear tag in Wisconsin is insane as there bear numbers are way off. They have a lot more than the DNR estimates.
My Mother lives in Northern WI and can't keep a bird feeder standing because of the 5-8 different bears that come into her yard and tear it down.
When I lived in WI, I used to go to MN bear hunting in between all those waiting years in WI for a tag. They at least managed there season properly!
Just my two cents and YES, I was venting!
No joy for my spring bear hunt. I put in for Eastern Oregon knowing I did not have enough points but figured I would still get given the west (they are eager to take my money) as a second choice. Gives me another point.
I did look at the rules for what the state figures a "scent" is over a "bait". I figured the burning would qualify as a scent more than a bait. The rules do not separate them other than you have to wear it on your body.
But don't forget the fall season out here. Spot and stalk in the fall works good, particularly out on the breaks of the Snake River or in the blue berry patches in the blue mountains.
Another trick: collect the drippings off bacon, melt and dip your boot soles in it. Makes a sent trail and is applied to the body, therefore legal. But you are putting you self at the center of attention. Predator calls also are supposed to work.
Keep in mind this is second hand advise, but from reliable sources. Usually the wife, and to be honest work, only allows so many hunting days a year and so far bear has not made the line up for a good long hunt.
Dan Hayden 5 Years. 10 hives. Tx Free. USDA Zone 5b.
Yet another trick: make a human-sized hot dog bun and lie in it in the woods. It's legal because nobody's thought to make it illegal.
If yo axk me, thats all a mighty piddling business, I recon you boys dont know diddely bout hunting no 'bare' mountain style. Back in the 40s this old fellew up in the Great Smokey Mountains sold bare sandmages to tourists fer a libbing. He learnet me how to hunt bare.
First get yourself one of those old time milk delivery van trucks, you know the kind with an enclosed bed and the only door the one in the rear. Rig yo up a rope to the rear door knob so yo can slam it shet from the drivers seat. With yo winders rolled up, park on the roadside in bare country and sprinkle some bare vittles in the back of the truck. When a bare climbs into the truck to get hisself a snack, yo yank on the rope, slamming the door shet. Then crank up yo milk truck and drive home with yo 'bare' on the half-shell in the back.
I hope you are all LYAO (Laughing Your Adenoids Out)
Scrapfe---Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.--Otto von Bismarck.
I used fresh hot bacon grease and tossed it up
a tree truck before I got into my stand. Did a few
years of bow hunting in Ontario before it got too
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We will see in this article how to send commands in the background, then return them to the foreground, and make sure that also closing the current shell or terminal the process doesn't remains tied to the session but continue to work.
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That's one way. I try to have drawn comb for the bees from a slimed hive, I've only had one, and put the bees & queen in a fresh hive. Then I freeze the comb for 3 days. AfteriI remove it I let it thaw out and then I rinse off the watery slime and put the comb on a strong hive which cleaned it up & was able to use the resources that were still OK.
This was told to me by the bee inspector. The hive cleaned out the dead SHB larvae and the disgusting comb was like new again.
BTW the fermented pollenfrom a slimed comb is the ultultimate bait if you ever use the beetle jail traps that have a center section for bait.


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Personally I've always resented his dominion over the word "twang." As in "sour, twanging afternoon light," or "It was a dream script, wonderfully coherent, with oodles of rhythm and twang." And just try to better this as a description of a boy with a bad stammer: "First, the tensing, the momentary glint of self-hatred, then the little nose went up and the fight began." I'll repeat, and italicize: "the momentary glint of self-hatred." Even John Updike in his definitive stutter memoir "Getting the Words Out" never caught so keenly that first unhappy recoil into muteness.
The above line comes from Amis's new novel, House of Meetings, and the stammerer in question is the narrator's brother, Lev. The pair spend most of the book scuffling for survival in a Stalin-era Soviet slave-labor camp called Norlag. Amis is getting his money's worth, you might say, from all the research he did for 2002's Koba the Dread, his rather strange non-fiction book about the Stalinist terror. Fortunately, we the readership are getting our money's worth too, because House of Meetings is the successful fictional consummation of Amis's years-long interest in Russian darkness, Russian atrocity. The narrator, now crusty with age and bad habits, swaying down the Yenisei river in a tourist steamer called the Georgi Zhukov, is recalling his life for the benefit of his daughter in America: the years of rapine with the Red Army; the gulag years among the brutes, bitches, pigs, snakes, and shit eaters; the years (served like a concurrently running sentence) in which he yearned and lusted after his brother's wife, the incredible Zoya. "When she walked, everything swayed. When she laughed, everything shook. When she sneezed — you felt that absolutely anything might happen."
Punctually denounced as Fascists after the Second World War, the brothers are packed off to Norlag, there to get to know themselves, and each other, a little bit better. Lev is literary, awkward, non-conformist, heroic, eschewing the violence that is the currency of gulag life. The narrator on the other hand, a decorated warrior of the Eastern Front, gets right into it. Here he is, fresh from his second in-camp homicide: "Badged with blood, and panting like a dog that has run all day, I pushed past Lev at the entrance to the latrine; I slapped my raised forearm against the wall and dropped my head on it, and with the other hand I clawed at the string round my waist, then emptied my bladder with gross copiousness and (I was told) a snarl of gratitude."
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can a set of 500mcm off of a 400 breaker be terminated to the line side of a 200A Disconnect. I believe the line side of the disconnect determines the size it should be rated at and fused @200A. The code is vague to me, can anyone tell me if this is acceptable?
As far as the Wire size goes, you just need to apply the right size lugs to fit on the 200A disconnect. But the wire doesn't technically determine the fuse size. You can over size the wire big time if you want and still be protected by 200A breaker. It's just a waste of wire. The over protection devices determine the size of wire needed.
can you put both hot legs of a multiwire circuit on a mini breaker?
How long of a distance from a main panel to a sub panel before I have to derate it? I was thinking 300' but I can't find it in the nec.
Technically, you need to derate after the wire leaves the panel. Just off the top of my head, I think it's after 2 ft from the panel. But as far as derating for voltage drop (I think that's your main question) you will start getting significant voltage drop after about 125 ft. The formula is for
single phase: VD=2 x R x L x I / 1,000 ft
R= Resistance of wire
L= Length of wire Run
I= Amps
1,000 ft is based off of a constant
What is the definition of a "Line Gutter". If a gutter is on the load side of a fused disconnect that is fed from a FPL vault would this be considered a line gutter?
I recently was looking at a home owners electrical work and noticed that he had excessive lengths of NMC sheath inside outlet boxes and a panel board. I informed him that the NEC required only a 1/4" of sheath to enter the box or panel he said he read in the NEC and that art 334 stated that a minimum of 1/4" was required with no reference to the maximum. I was shock and read the article and sure enough it so stated. Can anyone provide some clarification on this issue. Thanks Mike
Is it required that all bedroom wall receptacle outlets be wired with only 12/2 w/grd NM (romex) cable or can 14/2 w/grd be used? And if 14/2 w/grd is used the circuit has to be a 15 Amp ArcFault Circuit Breaker and only 15 Amp 125vac '' Tamper Resistant '' Receptacle Devices be used. This is for a single car garage conversion that is being converted or remodeled into a bedroom with a WIC for a little girl's bedroom
What article sites that a shut off switch is required for a bathroom in line exhaust fan at the unit?
where in the nec code book does it say that you can no longer superseed the nec codebook.
I need to feed a small shed from the house is there a minimum size type USE I got to use I'm thinking that 60A shouldn't apply since I'm coming out the main panel in the house I want to use a 30A feed but can't interpret what the code really states!
NEC article 220 Branch-circuits, feeders, and service calculations
and the working space can overlap the working space for other electrical equipment.
where in the codebook does it state the working space can overlap other electrical equipment? what is defined as "other electrical equipment"? im fighting an inspector that says I can't install a transformer next to a panel if there isn't 30 of work space for the panel, why isn't the transformer considered electrical equipment?
Is there a minimum height requirement to place receptacles from the floor?
How many 100A subpanels can be installed in a 200A house power panel?
What is the required distance from LED surface-mounted light to stove top?
I have four 6'' x 4'' posts holding up the roof on my new back room and would like to put a receptacle in each post. Can I router out a spot big enough to install the electrical box in each post so that the box is in the center of the post?
Can you mount rigid or EMT conduit to the back of metal cabinets free standing in the middle of a room? They ran 120VAC outlets and 480VAC, 3-phase to disconnects with plugs for equipment. The cabinets are not grounded or bonded to anything or bolted to the floor.


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