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LeapFrog SchoolHouse Creates Multisensory Tools to Enhance Student Learning
What's New
University of Pennsylvania sponsors conference on university-assisted schools; Center for Education Reform hosts conference on the next 10 years of education reform; the New York State Board of Education released a five-year report on charter schools ; and the California Charter Schools Association has been launched to lead the state's charter movement.
Innovations in the News
Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, a recent recipient of an OII grant, is working to expand school choice to Hispanic children; plus information on school choice, school leadership, charter schools, and supplemental educational services.
LeapFrog SchoolHouse Creates Multisensory Tools to Enhance Student Learning
Kindergartners sit at table workstations using desktop devices to help them read sentences, sound out words, sound out letters, and give them feedback on their skills. Other children wear headphones while using a "magic pencil" to activate their battery operated, brightly colored desktop players. Are they simulating air traffic control? Is this a classroom of the future? It is a classroom of today where the teacher and students are using the LeapFrog SchoolHouse technology education system.
Today's school children function in a technology-rich world. Should the tools they use at school be less sophisticated than the tools or toys they have at home or after school? Innovations in technology have often influenced innovation in the classroom. From handwriting to typewriters to computers, for example, they have affected how teachers approach teaching in the classroom and how students approach information and learning.
LeapFrog educational toys founded in 1995, spawned LeapFrog SchoolHouse education systems in 1999. LeapFrog SchoolHouse was established in response to educators who wanted to use LeapFrog technology in the classroom. LeapFrog SchoolHouse materials enable instruction in reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies using a multisensory-hearing, seeing, and touching-approach. The goal of this approach is to reinforce learning by actively engaging children in the learning process. To meet the educational need, LeapFrog SchoolHouse publishes preK-8 curriculum and assessments, along with the interactive electronic tools.
The tools, such as the LeapPad desktop player, are accompanied by a teacher's manual, lesson units, book and music cartridges, assessment books, and skill cards in the Ready, Set, LEAP! program, for example.
Another tool, LeapTrack is an interactive "take-home" assessment component. A cartridge can be plugged into the teacher's station, and the system will recommend what books and activities a child should do at night for homework. The result is customized education for every student, with individualized instruction that can be tailored for a student's unique needs.
The Ready, Set, LEAP!, program, for pre-K students, is based on current research about literacy and language development, how children learn, and effective curriculum structure for early childhood education. It is content-oriented and emphasizes cognitive, as well as social, emotional, and physical development. It also includes interactive "take-home" books and other tools to help forge strong home-school connections.
The Literacy Center, another LeapFrog program, is an interactive, supplemental early literacy program for preK-1 that is meant to integrate into any core reading program. It combines technology with instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, and other literacy skills. Children practice their reading skills at technology centers and further develop these skills by participating in small group activities.
LeapFrog SchoolHouse programs and tools have been endorsed by many states and national organizations. The Literacy Center has been adopted by eight states including California, Illinois, and Nevada. Also, The Literacy Center is an approved Reading First program in six states, including Colorado and Washington.
Ready, Set, LEAP! has been adopted in Texas, thus far. Through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, Ready, Set, LEAP! will be implemented in 20 centers and 44 classrooms in the Newark (NJ) City Public Preschool program.
Funded by Reading First, Broward County (FL) has expanded what started as a summer program to provide LeapPads and books in 150 classrooms. Also, the Chicago Public School System, through a grant from the Department's Enhancing Education through Technology (Ed-Tech) program, will install the LeapTrack assessment and instruction system in 280 classrooms in K-2 across the district.
Overall, LeapFrog SchoolHouse programs are funded throughout the United States by Head Start; Titles I, III, and V; Reading First; ED Tech; and No Child Left Behind- funded after school programs.
For more information about:
- LeapFrog SchoolHouse
- Enhancing Education through Technology Program
- Institute of Education Sciences' Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Program (see below)
A study of the effectiveness of Ready, Set, LEAP! is being funded by the Institute of Education Sciences through the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research program. Through randomized trials, the effects of the Ready, Set, LEAP! curriculum will be compared to that currently being offered in preschool centers. Ready, Set, LEAP!, along with seven grants awarded in 2002 and five additional grants awarded in 2003, will be studied for its efficacy as a currently available preschool curriculum program.
What's New
University-Assisted School Conference
The University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a conference on university-assisted schools, October 30 -31, that will explore governance structures, how universities are involved with curriculum management and teacher development, and local and national implications of public education and community engagement. For information about the conference, see University-Assisted School Conference. (Oct. 30)
Center for Education Reform Conference
On October 30, the Center for Education Reform will host a conference, "The Best Is Yet to Come…A Look at the Next Ten Years of Education Reform in America." The conference also marks the Center's 10th anniversary. For more information about the conference, see Center for Education Reform. (Oct 30)
New York Charter Schools Five Year Report
The New York State Department of Education released a five-year report showing that charter schools outperform some of their host districts and demonstrate dramatic increases after only two years. For more information, see NY Charter Schools Report. (Sept. 3)
California Charter Schools Association Launches a New Plan
The California Charter Schools Association has been launched with a plan and team to lead the decade-old charter school movement in California. Former LAUSD School Board President Caprice Young is the new CEO, and the new group will continue the work begun by the California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC). For more information, go to:
CA Charter Schools Association. (Summer 2003)
Innovations in the News
Supplemental Services
As a single, working mother, Sandy Gutierruz feels she can only do so much to help her daughter with schoolwork. So, when the Gwinnett County school system told her this month her daughter is eligible for free professional tutoring, Gutierruz jumped at the chance.[More-The Atlanta Journal Constitution] (Oct 16)
Making sure that no child is left behind is the priority of area schools, but at East Marion Primary School in Mississippi teachers took the time to make sure no parent was left behind.[More-The Hattiesburg American] (Oct 15)
Virtual Schools
The Arkansas Board of Education gave permission for the Arkansas Virtual Academy to open next fall as a charter school and removed a cap on the number of students who may attend, thus opening it to virtually every student in the state. [More-The Arkansas Democrat Gazette] (Oct 14)
Parental Involvement
Imagine checking on your child's performance at school with just a click of a button. In New Jersey, parents increasingly can do that as more schools go online with student information systems. [More-The Courier Post] (Oct 14)
Charter Schools
The Minnesota Department of Education approved the Lakes International Language Academy charter application and agreed to sponsor the new Forest Lake public elementary school. The decision paves the way for one of the state's first Spanish-immersion charter schools for elementary students and only the second school in the metro area to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program for its core curriculum. [More-The Forest Lake Times] (Oct 15)
Legendary school reformer Ted Kolderie provides insight into the challenge of evaluating charter schools. [More-Education Week] (Oct 8)
A new breed of small, specialized schools-within-schools, called "multiplex schools" by some, are turning heads nationwide. [More-USA Today] (Oct 2)
KIPP Adelante Preparatory Academy, which operates in an office building in downtown San Diego, is another local franchise of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP). Seven new KIPP schools opened this fall in California alone. [More-SignOnSanDiego.com] (Oct 14)
Many urban charter schools in Massachusetts have made impressive gains on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test and are outperforming their parent districts' regular schools.[More-The Boston Globe] (Oct 17)
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Discussion in 'GM Powertrain' started by 08bowtie, Dec 11, 2010.
where is this located? I am looking for this and need a little help, thanks :rules:
Can you be specific about which actuator you are referring to? I can think of 2 parts that could be called "4x4 actuator:"
1) the mechanism on the transfer case that "shifts" the transfer case. T-case is the thing located behind the transmission with the driveshafts coming out of it. You don't say if you have a lever/manual shift transfer case or an electric shift, but the shifting mechanism will be attached to the transfer case.
2) the center axle disconnect (CAD) on the front differential. I believe it is usually near the place where the driveshaft attaches to the differential.
i have a turn style knob, automatic.
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Ok so I found the actuator , unplugged it but no good. I guess it is off to the shop on mon am.....
turns out it was not the actuator....it was a broken front end....
How did you get the 4X4 switch out to unplug it?
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poor caroline....she definitely looked like she wanted to cry out there. a fall and a step out and at least one cheated jump....
no pearl spin?? i was hyping that to my BF who knows nothing about skating and she didnt do it....is she injured?
dilla found the feed first, I only gave the direct link
Yes, she is hurt. Now Caroline, take some time to heal your injuries, and come back strong next season.
I'm very proud of her as well. Remember she's only 16... there is time..
Poor Caroline. She looked miserable out there...
Here jumps are troubling. They looked so labored. I hope she can figure out some technique that can give her some more jump security and ease because she has so much natural talent and musicality and grace.
Wow, Bebe is skating really well!


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by TheFrogPrints September 04, 2011
The act of taking a shit in a bidet. Usually done by American tourists in European countries who come back to their hotel rooms drunk off their ass.
I made sure to leave an extra large tip for the cleaning lady because I had accidentally gone number 3 the night before.
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A Number 3 is described as the "ultimate intense severe fecal explosion," the highest level of bowel movements, a situation much more intense and severe than explosive diarreah. Some cases of Number 3, can become fatal. Prior to a Number 3, one's body will start feeling tremors throughout the body, starting from the toe nails all the way up through one's torso and into the stomach and intenstines and through the heart. During the occurence of a Number 3, extreme seizure-like twitching will happen, alongside foaming of the mouth and bleeding of the eyes, nose, and ears. The force of the poisionous gaseous liquid fecal matter tears through the victim's anus with the force of a train and is strong enough to paralyze a victim within 5 seconds. The occurence of a Number 3 typically lasts from 25 seconds to a painful 2 minutes, leaving the victim lifeless and faceplanted on the bathroom floor. Following a Number 3, one's entire set of organs is completely depleted of any water, and blood, and the victim's soul is comprimised. In addition, the bathroom or location of the occurence is almost always deemed unfit for humans and must be bulldozed or razed and set on fire. The clothing of the victim following a Number 3 must also be burned.
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Fantasy isn't always about Dragons and wizards. Sometimes it's about a big old Victorian house that you never noticed before...until one day you feel compelled to walk up and knock on the door, or a phone call from a stranger who states that you are the only one who can prevent an otherwise certain death.
"The house at the end of Hope Street", by Menna Van Praag.
For over a hundred years the house has called out to women who were in crisis, and invited them in to stay for up to 99 days. While there the house helps them sort out their problems and hopefully come to a resolution to their problems. The help can take the form of the seemingly magical appearance of items that the women didn't even know they needed. In addition, the walls of the house are covered with photographs of the women who have stayed there in the past, which can speak to you when the circumstances are right. Some of the women in the photographs went on to become famous and respected in their various fields. But sometimes, its the seemingly unknown women who offer the most help. Currently along with the caretaker, there are 3 women staying at the house, all of whom have very different problems. The author doles out their stories piece by piece, enticing you to read further to uncover their secrets and wonder how the house can possibly help them. It is in a way like a modern-day fairy tale where the damsels in distress save themselves.
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With prices like these beesource will be growing leaps and bounds.
With prices like these beesource will be growing leaps and bounds.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
No thanks! I'll put that $189 toward another hive.
Don't provoke a hive full of angry bees.
Maybe part of the cost is to cover their recent legal fees and fines...............I dunno..
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Granted, $189.00 is quite a bit of money, but this is one hobby that can get breathtakingly expensive in a hurry. Most people who become interested in bees, don't have a well equipped woodworking shop, or a suit or any of the varied tools that wind up in most beekeepers' tool box, and don't have any idea where a good spot is to set a swarm trap, if they had one. Add up a package of bees, a suit w/veil, and the beginners kit that the supply houses will almost always steer newbies toward, a couple of the books available everywhere, and you are going to be well north of 189 bucks before you get your first sting. It may not help that on all of the available forums, when a question is asked by anyone they will get 13 different opinions for every dozen responses. Certainly not for everyone, and I won't be spending the money to subscribe, but I think it might be an excellent resource for some, and well worth the price.
For that price I could meet up with ODfrank and Charlie, buy their lunches and pick their brains for a wealth of hands on knowledge and still be money ahead.
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Thats PENN STATE they try to cash in on anything they can. I own a business in state college{20years} and it's all about the campus and it's money.
If PENN STATE does not get a chunck it don't happen in STATE COLLEGE. But thank god for that college or i'd have to sell alot of honey to make what that town gives me.
Plus i do beleave they have a nice Department of Entomology and they are working to help the bee's but they are not getting any money from me i think 189.00 for the basic bee keeping knowledge is kinda steep . Join a bee club much cheaper and ya have some hands on . I say just buy 3 hives jump in and swim or drown and read all you can you'll get it and you'll know with in 2 years if beekeeeping is for you.
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By comparison the Minnesota course is only $25!
It is a bit pricey, but, I believe the biggest factor in newbee dissatisfaction and failure, is "lack of knowledge" If you are just starting, beekeeping is a lot like any other new enterprise. There is so much more to beekeeping than just buying a veil and a smoker, and so much of beekeeping is very time sensitive. If it needs to be done, it needs to be done now to preclude additional damage.
It is pricey, but, get the knowledge somewhere, before you become discouraged and just give up on beekeeping, or spend a ton of money.
Here is my question to the forum pointed at commercial operations: Would you pay someone more that has taken this class or would you rather teach this person yourself starting at a lower wage? Once this question is answered then we can determine if the 189 bucks is worth it.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
The first thing I look for in an employee is honesty, then a strong work ethic, previous beekeeping experience, physical strength, pleasing personality, intelligence, drivers license, the flexibility to be away from home for up to a few weeks at a time..........hmmmm I haven't gotten to formal online bee education yet......it's way down there somewhere. Pay more? Yeah right.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Shopping for an education is a lot like shopping for a car. Prices vary for a wide range of reasons. One example of cost of education is a course in Instrumental Insemination. U.C. Davis wants $950 for the entire course. II and Advanced II. Plus you provide your own instrument. Some students provide their own microscope. But where else are you going to get the training? And if you do get it somewhere else was it worth getting.
On the other hand. They need to do a lot more to support that their course is with a plug nickle. I want to see the results that are achieved by those that have taken the course. Do people come out of the course better than average beekeepers and if so is it $189 better?
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
I jumped in with no help at all from a mentor or classes .
I learned everything from /books/beesorce/ the other forums/web sites/hands on/ .
The first year was a failure 2 hives both died out my falt seconed year bought 3 nucs all made it throught winter and got alittle honey made queens and splits caught swarms{mine i'm quessing} i now have 13 hives and 2 nucs going in to winter and there all heavy and health.
This coming year i'll will learn more about swarming and a better SPM thats for sure. And the varroa destructor my main concern trying to stay chemical free so far so good. So ya see ya learn more and more the longer you stick to it but ya have to love it and ya don't need a course thats just another way for people to make money.
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Regards, Barry
I'm a great fan of education, but beekeeping is an art as well as a science.
I went for an afternoon session at a local apiary ($40), joined some beekeeping forums, and read all I could find.
The apiary afternoon gave me minimal hands on, but I became sure I wanted to get into it.
You don't get that through a correspondance course, and you have to keep abreast of news/trends/developments in the field anyway.
I'd rather take a more advanced course now that I have a couple of years in; I think my money would be better spent.
The art part comes from doing; the science through reading/study.
You need both.
PS I don't claim to be an artist, or scholar w/r/t bees. Getting a hive is more like a license to learn.
Well the fact that your wife might welcome the last requirement makes me wonder about number five. But what the hey as the old drill instructors would say drop yer......errrr I mean grab your hive tool lets get some work done. On the other hand you just might be better suited to fixing up the old money pit than putting up with the likes of our crew for very long though.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
What did you pay for those bees? Since it was your fault, if you had taken a class, maybe they wouldn't have died and you'd have saved the money of replacing bees plus made honey the second year....education is an investment, not a one-time cost.
The bee's i made this year alone made up for the bee's i lost and the problems i had and i had a few made me even a better beekeeper.
I now don't have to buy bee's/queens /honey just have to raise bee's all learned from books/net/hands on/
How much can a course realy teach you that a book or internet and hands on can't? I know i have alot to learn but i bet that course could not teach me anything and if it did i bet it would not be much.
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A creepy creature that goes in all your rooms one night a year and distributes substances meant to slowly poison you over the course of your life. It also hides this substance around your house in the form of eggs, to be discovered by your little children and innocently consumed.
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On Easter's Eve, the Easter Bunny arises from his tomb to spread good tidings and tooth-rotting chocolate Christ statuettes to all.
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There will be a few FDNY inter department matches and a couple of other boxers from the NYPD, Philadelphia Fire Dept. and Chicago Fire Department. There will also be two kick boxing matches.
Half of all tickets sales will be donated to the "Wounded Warrior" project which supports severely injured American soldiers who return home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last year's event raised $10,000 and the FDNY hopes to top that figure for the troops this year.
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Is it possible the queen is still there? I couldn't find her. I don't think this is a supercedure- most Q cells are on bottom of frames.
Also fresh eggs in Q cups in another hive- would a cut-down split be the best approach? I'm not particularly trying to increase hives- 5 is plenty. Just want some honey for mead


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Video: Of course we'd invite Hitler to speak, says Columbia dean
posted at 6:47 pm on September 22, 2007 by Allahpundit
Webloggin's also on this. I have it in my head somehow that Dwight Eisenhower, when offered the opportunity to personally accept the surrender of a German general, refused. So unspeakably loathsome did he find the Nazis that he wouldn't dignify them with his presence, even at the moment of triumph. I can't find an account of that online, though. Anyone able to help?
Apparently 60 Minutes is going to let Ahmadinejad speak directly to the American people, which won't be the first time a broadcast news outfit has invited a pig to propagandize. In the meantime, as we await the arrival of the world's foremost Holocaust denier, a few words to meditate on from a then-future, now former president of Columbia University:
The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so over powering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda."
Note what Coatsworth says about there being no shortage of willing media outlets. Hard to argue with that.
Update: As it turns out, Columbia's been Nazi-friendly for more than 70 years now. It's part of the Ivy tradition of enlightenment.
Update: I guess this video was worth cutting, huh?
The link goes to my YouTube clip.
Update: Gaius e-mails with a link to the story of Ike and the German general.
The German government tried to surrender to the Western Allies only. On May 6 Colonel General Alfred Jodi was flown to SHAEF headquarters in Rheims, France, to negotiate a surrender. Eisenhower refused to negotiate a separate capitulation to the West, and he refused to deal with Jodi in person. To Eisenhower, Jodi was not really a soldier, and the German military was not worthy of the respect given to real soldiers, sailors, and airmen. He believed it was part of a gangster regime that stained the honor of soldiers. With little negotiating leverage, Jodi accepted Eisenhower's terms on May 7. Officially, at midnight as May 8 began, Germany surrendered to the Western Allies and Russians alike. At the insistence of the Russians, however, a second surrender ceremony took place in Berlin later on the 8th.
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Town Square
Decline in the Middle Class in America
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Sep 6, 2011
Is the middle class doomed? The huge disparity between the number of wealthy and those living above the poverty level is growing at an alarming rate.
Consider the following statistics; in 1988, the average income of the American taxpayer, adjusted for inflation was $33,400. The average taxpayer income in 2009 was $40,711; with the same adjustment in inflation, this amount would be equal to the $33,000 from 1988. In contrast, the average income of the top 1% in America is $380,000, with a growth of over 33% in the last 20 years.
Even more sobering is the poverty level. According to the government website ASPC.hhs.gov, a person making $22,350 is in the lowest working class echelon in our society, and is living in 'poverty.' Less than $20,000 separates those in the middle class and those living in poverty when more than $300,000 is the gap between middle and upper class Americans.
With a presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying, "Corporations are people too," it would not be unreasonable to imagine the average middle income lowering enough to meld with the poverty level, thereby eliminating the middle class all together Why help Americans when corporations are in need?
Corporations are sending jobs overseas leaving many American blue collar workers unemployed. The Bay Bridge is being built and constructed in China, with Chinese steel. The stone sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr., recently unveiled in Washington D.C. was done by a Chinese artist and constructed by Chinese workers. These artists, who may not have understood the nature of their subject, showed Martin Luther King Jr. in a more serious, patriotic stance rather than the emotion evoking, life changing essence that the spirit King will hold over generations of Americans he inspires. Had an American artist completed the sculpture, both the spirit and grace of King may have been better portrayed. But alas, even American art is made in China.
Unless we bring back jobs from China and other foreign countries, Americans will all either become very wealthy, or barely making it.
With this enormous gap in income, how can those in the government leadership scoff at the thought of increasing taxes for the wealthy?
Here are some statistics that show the decline in the middle class:
• 83% of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1% of the people.
• 61 % of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 % in 2008 and 43 % in 2007.
• 66 % of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 % of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• 43 % of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 % of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 % increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 % of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• The bottom 50 % of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 % of the nation's wealth.
• The top 1 % of U.S. households owns nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• More than 40 % of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a 16 % to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 % of Americans now earn around 50 % of our national income.
Warren Buffett, American business magnate and the world's third wealthiest man recently wrote an article for the New York Times. In his article, titled, 'Stop Coddling the Super Rich,' he says, "But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households in 2009 — I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more — there were 8,274 in 2009 — I would suggest an additional increase in rate. My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice. "
Many scoffed at Buffett's ideas and suggested that he write a check to the U.S. Treasury if he was so interested in the rich giving their 'fair share.'
The late real estate investor and billionaire Leona Helmsley, better known as the 'Queen of Mean,' was right when she said, "Only the little people pay taxes." So strong was her conviction against paying taxes, that in 1989 she was tried and convicted of federal tax evasion, and spent nineteen months in prison.
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a resident of Livermore
on Sep 8, 2011 at 11:04 am
i would love to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that warren buffet and i are 1st cousins...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 8, 2011 at 12:26 pm
If the government were more effective at spending and investing, I would be more inclined to increase my taxes to help out. But they are not. The more we let government spend, the dimmer our future will be. Look at the $800M stimulus bill with all its shovel-ready projects. Are we more competitive now? No. Did we make any investments that will fundamentally improve our competitiveness? No. Unless you want to count Solyndra ;-)
The best thing we can do right now is starve the beast and then let market forces take over. Markets and companies create jobs. Governments don't.
Here is one area where I'd be more than happy to increase my taxes to support: binding productive improvement projects for government operations. I'd be happy to make that investments as I know there would be a down stream return.
a resident of Ironwood
on Sep 8, 2011 at 12:31 pm
@"Here is one area where I'd be more than happy to increase my taxes to support: binding productive improvement projects for government operations. I'd be happy to make that investments as I know there would be a down stream return."
As another patriotic Republican, I have to tell you you should invest in the kinds of govt activity being advanced by the GOP. Higher and higher border fences will add so much to our nation, as will more Border Patrol agents and workplace regulators. Prisons are productive too. More prison guards will give us a real bang for the buck.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm
You know I'm not a Republican, but continued idiotic statement like yours and others are causing me to look far and wide for new ideas and true leadership.
It is pretty sad that all you can do to protect status quo is to say the others guys would be worse.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 8, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Oh Cindy, you lack such depth ! What do you mean 83% of stocks are in hands of 1% of our people? So not really true. Almost every 'working' family or union member has a varying amount of mutual 'funds', thru companies such as Fidelity Funds and Vanguard.....each smaller 'fund' made up with 20-40 'stocks'....in their deductible IRA accounts. The massive 'union accounts' and municipality investment accounts are made up of these stock index funds...for retirees (people). Most seniors have investment funds ....made up of a variety of 'stocks'. The stock market is made of more average people, who can't buy BIG things. The really rich, invest in multiple world mansions, and own smaller 'private' companies that are not even ON the stock market ! The 'market' is actually for the little people who don't have big $$$ to invest....and buy 'little pieces' in mutual funds.
IRA accounts, or senior funds, (comprised of mutual stock funds) are in the names our families, friends, and relatives.
Do you think every employee just has 'cash' sitting in CDs and savings accounts to fund their IRAs.
Your eagerness to trash Romney with petty digs tips your hand.
Since you don't understand 'how' people invest in 'corporations' that are owned in millions of 'pieces' by little people, I would guess you must be a union talking head....fearing Romney would beat Obama, which he would....the others would not.
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Sep 15, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Cindy has some good points but not enough of the full picture.
My 8 rules for a better society:
It's simple -
1) shame CEOs, other executives, hedge fund managers, etc into slashing their compensation. How many millions are enough for you guys?
2) give this money back to the middle and lowest paid employees (or at least prevent layoffs - BofA executives, are you listening?)
3) demand that Government function more efficiently
4) bring back jobs from overseas
5) stop blaming illegal immigrants for our troubles (seriously, are you really going to wash cars, clean houses, do yard maintenance, and pick crops?)
6) stop blaming Muslims for our troubles and stop going to war (hello?! war is expensive!)
7) get rid of all Reality TV
8) slow down the massive consumerism which drives this country (it's unsustainable you idiots!)
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Sep 26, 2011 at 8:53 am
Taxpayer, just because something is repeated ad infinitum doesn't mean it's true. "Markets and companies create jobs. Governments don't." What utter nonsense. A few facts: corporations are required by law to make as much return on investment as possible, i.e., it is woven into the fabric of our society that the most powerful concentrations of wealth the world has ever seen are legally required to place profits above citizenship; the people who run them are legally protected from personal responsibility for any damage the corporation does to regular people. CEOs think nothing of taking millions of dollars in salary while laying off hundreds, thousands of people from those jobs you think they create; they think nothing of shipping our manufacturing jobs overseas to make more profits for the corporation while destroying our manufacturing base, turning us into a nation of "consumers." Those corporations and markets you think are the solution to every problem are sitting on trillions in cold hard CASH right NOW, enough to pay off the entire federal deficit and put a whole lot of people to work right NOW. Market forces aren't solving this problem, are they? As a nation, we've transferred our entire wealth to the private sector and we're too stupid to see what's going on. And you keep barking out the party line, no new taxes, etc. Who do you think was responsible for getting us out of the great depression, Ford? AT&T? No, unfortunately, it was a war, and a huge public works project financed by what? the government. It's all just people making decisions; the difference between government and corporations is just who has the power: government is open, corporations are not. By the way, corporations now control all of our media; we were too stupid to notice that the laws about concentrated media ownership were changed a couple of decades back.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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[quote user="Ntegrase96"][quote user="jjj45"][quote user="Giantpasion"]Congrats Giants fans, the better and tougher team won. Good luck in the playoffs, however I'll be cheering for the dirty birds lol!
[/quote]Thanks bud,
Now who is better: Nicks or Dez?
I still love this debate. Nicks is better right now and may always be. Bryant's window is fading fast, but he seems to be getting on the right track (finally).
Nicks is good at beating double coverage and nice crisp routes, good body control. He's made some big catches in clutch sitations. He has great production and in the end that's all that really matters isn't it?
Criticism-- Drops.
Bryant is a phenomenal athlete. One of the best at tracking the ball in the in the air and getting it at its 'highest point' (never really liked that term), extremely good body control, hands like glue. Also has made big, clutch catches. (three 3rd and 10+ catches on game winning drives this season)
Criticism-- limited playbook due to laziness during the week.
[/quote]Good points there. Dez is more freakeishly athletic than Nicks, but like you said, he can be lazy. If he ever snaps out of it, this could be interesting.
Nicks as been flying under the radar this season, and still has fantastic numbers.
Other fans don't respect Nicks with the emergence of Cruz. But coaches do.
Why do they think Cruz is always open so much?
All the ATL fans are only worried about Cruz. I can't wait till Nicks burns em.


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Just did it to my 55g tank after a restart.
Aprox. 3tbsp pr 10 gallon. Dosed 220ml 3% H2O2 to my tank. Added 4000L/H worth of circulation pumps + my FX5 without media.
15-20min, then 70% WC. Dosed 30ml Excel after WC.
No deaths. Fauna include, Cardinal tetra, C.Sterbai, B.pleco, platy and cherry shrimp.
All plants seem unaffected this far (24hr after) HC, L.Glandulose, Buce. "Wavy green", weeping moss, Microsorum "trident", H.Siamensis, H. sp "compact", AR "mini", S.repens, P.Erectus.
GSA mostly gone, all BBA and staghorn pink/red/white. Just recently had a slight staghorn outbreak, never had a issue with it before. But I'm contributing that to the new Tropica aquasoil which gave me a slight Ammonia spike @ 0.25ppm for about 4 days.
|All inhabitants made it through even a Nerite. The tank is looking pretty good again so thank you very much once more. I did lose an Otto but I mean literally. I had 3 in there but can find the third one anywhere. He must of jumped ship as I have been through the tank multiple times with no luck. Awesome technique
|Correction, it was 3 Tablespoons of H2O2 and 7.5 mL of liquid CO2, apologies
I have a few tanks. I have a Planted +24/7 Finnex on one and a UGF. It's a 12 gallon bookshelf 36" with one half non UGF with a Fluval Nano on the opposite end of course. Had a major cyano breakout that I had clear up on its own by reducing the 24/7 to moonlights at night and midday sun the rest of the time. From what what I gleaned, the orange and reddish spectrum help fuel the cyano. I also increased the ferts a little.
I also have a 20H with the slimy hair algae, the really long and flowy kind, light tricks didn't work. I have a HOB Whisper 20 and a sponge filter PH combo so there is always lots of bubbles on all of my plants. Oh this tank is dirted an inch with inert on top. Anyway, I pulled the trigger and did the One Two Punch last night. All of the bubbles were white within 15 minutes. I dosed at 7.5mL based on 15 gallons. Lots of rocks and wood and 2.5 inches of total bottom. 50% change and replaced the biologicals and hit it with Carbon. I saw the stringy stuff starting to lose its hold. This morning everyone was still alive RCS, Nerites and Otto's. I will post a follow up in a few days but thanks for pioneering this method! Greatly appreciated indeed!
I dosed at 2ml per gallon, with the filter OFF and had bubbles. The results didn't happen until I started to dose Excel after I stopped using h2o2.
I was only attacking BBA so I am not sure about BGA
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Thanks for your reply!
Even when i dosed it correctly the BGA is growing again. I also see signs of diatoms forming. I know a cleaning crew could help but i really hoped this method would kill it instantly. Like a hard reset.
You say i dosed correctly but do you mean with 2tbsp or 4tbsp. I ment to dose 4tbsp.
Should i retry it and put a higher dose of H2O2? I always catch my livestock so that is not a problem...
Any others with BGA [Blue green algae or Cyanobacteria] succesfully killing it with the one two punch? If this does not work i will try the blackout method.
According to what I have found as a dose of 2ml per gallon of H2O2. You dosed the correct amount.
I think the reason why you didn't see any bubbles is because all the H2O2 was being moved around and not allowed to sit. I always saw bubbles with the filter OFF but never with it ON.
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My algae problems where mainly diatoms and blue green algae [Cyanobacteria]. Spot treatment with H202 was successful but now i want to really kill the BGA.
I tried this method as following;
- Catched my twenty Rasbora Galaxy's
- Switched of my filter
- Added three pumps for sufficiënt flow.
- I have ADA's 60P which has 63 liters but with the soil, hardscape and not filled up to the top i count for 50 liter. I added 25ml of H202
- I let it circulate for twenty minutes and during that time i took one pump to move it al around the tank.
- Refreshed thirty liters of water.
- Added 15ml of liquid carbon
- One hour after that i placed the fish again
- No deaths so far.
I did not see any bubbles or sizzling as i used to see doing spot treatment. Can someone please read this and check if i pulled the one two successfully or i did something wrong.
Did i add enough H202?
I did this last week as I have been fighting with algae for a few months. I made a lot of changes to my tank and it got out of whack. I was about ready to just start over.
All the green algae is gone. It took a few days as it would slowly cover my intake prefilter with a slimy goo. The BBA turned a bit grey, but I then noticed the snails and fish were eating it. It looks like whatever the treatment did to the BBA the fish are now eating it and it is almost completely gone as well.
I think I got my CO2 and lights aligned so hopefully it doesn't come back, but it is one more tool in my belt to fix things when they go badly wrong.
This is really a nice information for protection against algae. Earlier I tried H202, but it was not much successful. Thereafter as per your direction I used Excel and it helped me a lot in protection against algae.
But this formula is not fit in the case of cleaning of algae in big water storage tanks. Here it will be better to use small amount of chlorine, as it will not allow to the growth of algae bacteria in the water.
|I just blacked out my 29 gallon now-quarantine/formerly main/soon to be shrimp tank for a week to control green hair algae that had taken hold in the hairgrass, whicih is basically the only plant in the tank at the moment. Uncovered the tank this evening and the algae is basically gone. Will need to do a big vac tomorrow as there's dead algae everywhere, but dead is the goal here, so that's NBD.
I gave this process a try over this past weekend on my fully planted, low tech 20H tank. I've been battling with first some hair or thread type algae, but that went away only to be replaced with BBA that has been stubborn to get rid of but fortunately fairly slow growing. I have been battling it by cutting and removing the heavily affected leaves, but that only serves to keep it in check, not eliminate it.
I run the standard dose of Excel even though it is a low-light tank (2 8" clamp lights sitting on the Versa-top with 9W 6500K CFL lamps). I'm guessing there are medium to high-ish light areas directly under the lights, but overall it's low. Substrate is PFS, and I use Flourish root tabs and Flourish liquid for micros. I have 5 spotted corys and a BN pleco in there. I tried spot dosing once with the Excel but ended up burning half the tail off one of the corys. Fortunately, he's just fine and it's growing back...whew!
Anyway, I pulled the filter media, added another HOB with no media and a small powerhead, dosed with 6 tbs. of peroxide and waited 15 min. Did the 50% change, and added the starter dose of Excel. Corys and pleco completely unfazed by the treatment.
The next day the water clouded up just a tiny bit, but ammonia and nitrite were both zero. It appears the BBA took a significant hit, turning reddish and grey/white color. I'm hoping it's dead but if I need to I'll tread it again with no hesitation since the fish did so well with it.
Three weeks after I re-setup my ADA 60H planted tank I got crazy GHA, GW and cloudy water. I kept changing water but thing were getting worse.
Last nights I decided to do the One-Two punch. While dosing H2o2 I added a eheim pump and directed the flow to blow directly on the GHA.
Like 10 minutes after I added 2 capful of Excel the Amano shrimps started swimming around trying to hide...
Did a 60% water change, call it a night and hope for the best.
Today When the light turned on the tank is much cleaner! The water is no longer greenish. About 70% of the GHA is gone and the rest looked weaken.
Counted my live stock. Amano shrimps, Ghost Shrimps, CRS, Chinese alage eaters and clown killifish babies are all alive!
I added a bunch of floater just to see if it can help further improve the situation and keep it clear.
Thank you for the one-two punch method. It worked for me.
[Update] Within a week all staghorn was gone passing from black through pinkish to completely white and eaten. I have lost a fish in the process but that was not purely as a result of the treatment. The fish has been previously stressed and the treatment was probably the last stroke. Overall, I call this treatment a success and will keep doing this whenever there is a necessity.
Hi, I want to reconfirm that it seems to work, I am only ~24 hours since I have performed the treatment but I have noticed that the algae turns reddish. I can reconfirm as well that the water becomes cloudy afterwards. Probably to the massive bacteria death or bloom. Not sure at the moment. I have added this thread to my subscription list. Let's see how it would turn.
Did the one-two punches on Feb 06, 2016. Most algae have disappeared. The side effects caused a goldfish's death.
This is the list of steps done on a 56G tank:
1. Move all fish (6 goldfish and 1 Siamese Algae Eater), and 20% filter media, to another tank.
2. Move the remaining 80% filter media to a bucket with existing tank water.
3. Turned on Fluval 306 canister and maxijet 300 power head, plus a pump for added water flow.
4. Dump 300ml H2O2 into 56G tank (50G water).
5. Wait 30 minutes. Redirected water flow a few times.
6. In next 30 minutes, pump out 60% old water. Refill with tap water, add prime, turned on Fluval 306 + maxijet 300. Remove pump.
7. Add 25ml Excel.
8. Wait 15 minutes, put all filter media back, move all fish back to 56G tank.
There were a lot of small gas bubbles in the tank for the next few/ten hours.
24 hours later, all the brown algae disappeared, the plants look much greener. Sadly, a pearl scaled goldfish died. Ammonia reading was 0.5+ppm at that time. Nitrite (NO2) was 0ppm. The rise in ammonia reading was probably due to the combination of reduced bacteria in filter media, and the spike of organic matter (dead algae).
36 hours later, ammonia reading was 2.0+ppm, nitrite (NO2) was 0ppm. I immediately added 5x prime, move all fish to another tank, and did an 80% water change (and added 3x prime). Ammonia reading was 0.5ppm, nitrite (NO2) was 0ppm. The goldfish had to be moved back to the tank, because tiger/rosy/odessa barbs keep nipping on them in the other tank.
There is still some BBA around the canister filter pipes and water return, not sure if they are alive or dead. Will wait and see.
Conclusion: this method works, but beware of the side effects to fish or other live stocks.
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City manager declines $30,000 bonus
NEW BERN, CRAVEN COUNTY - Following a decision by New Bern officials to grant the city manager, Mike Epperson, a $30,000 bonus over the next three years, Epperson issues a statement saying he will not accept it.
Epperson issued the following statement to NewsChannel 12. The statement is an email he sent to the mayor and board members:
Mayor Bettis and all Board Members:
After careful consideration I want to inform you that I respectfully decline the Board's offer of an annual bonus.
As I stated last night I never asked for this bonus nor did I have discussions with any individual Alderman or the Board as a whole regarding a bonus. I certainly did not (and would not) try to leverage receiving a bonus against looking at other employment opportunities.
I appreciate the Board's gesture in offering the bonus, however our City faces many challenges as well as opportunities and I do not want this to become a distraction which takes our focus away from the hard work that needs to be done.
Once our City Attorney returns I will consult with him on the proper process to dispose of the executed amendment to my employment agreement.
Please do not hesitate to call if you have any questions or concerns.
The city's Board of Alderman informed the public Tuesday night of a big bonus for City Manager, Mike Epperson. The bonus adds a total of $30,000 to Epperson's more than $150,000 salary over a three year period beginning in 2014.
Mayor Lee Bettis said Epperson is worth the extra pay.
"We're trying to keep him," Bettis said. "He is absolutely the best city manager you're ever going to find anywhere."
The number does not sit well with some city residents.
"I just think that's totally wrong for a city the size of New Bern," Stevie Bennett said.
NewsChannel 12 asked Mayor Bettis if the price is out of range for New Bern, but was told it's average for comparable cities. According to public records, the city of Greenville pays its city manager $160,000 per year; the city of Kinston pays its city manager $110,000 a year; finally, the city of Morehead City pays its city manager $95,000 a year.
NewsChannel 12 also asked the mayor why the decision was not brought up for public comment at a weekly Board meeting. The vote was made at an annual retreat on Saturday, February 16th.
"Everybody was welcome to attend," Bettis said. "We've been discussing it for two months now and voted on it at a public meeting."
Stevie Bennett said there are better places the city's money could go, including to city employee salaries. The mayor said those employees have recently been brought up to the same level pay as other cities around the area. Bettis said paying Epperson a little extra is a small price to pay for his work.
"We're trying to prevent other cities from taking him," he said. "We don't want to lose him ever."
Bettis said Epperson has bettered the city's financial state, improved the sewer maintenance program and reorganized department heads.


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Gilbride has had proven success but lets face it we won superbowls because we held the pats to under 18 points. thats how we won them both!! go rewind the tapes and have a look at the first 3 quarters of offense. Gilbride has had the benefit of a good d that forces turnovers
Screen pass on 3rd and 20 despite just missing Nicks and Cruz on 2 deep balls. Horrendous call. Run, run, pass the possession prior. Terrible calls. I dunno that it falls solely on Gilbride, but he certainly didn't put us in good position.
Kevin Gilbride, I have been saying has used up his worthiness here with us. He has no more tricks in the bag and we need a new OC for next season with fresh plays, strong convictions to keep drives alive and be an all around OC. as much as I dislike the Pats, they have the necessary combo to play great every season.
their players play great all the time, the coaches are hardcore. Steelers are the same. They have both great organizations that perform.
our OC and DC are used up. when teams know what we are going to do, THAT's the issue. I see the team not trusting this coaching staff at all. boley is a great player and he gave up. that speaks volumes.
enjoy the crow coaches, need some collard greens or BBQ sauce to go with your crappy performances?
A couple of times this year the screen or the handoff has worked for us in similar situations, but the problem with this team at times is that they like to go back to the same well too often. Gets a little predictable after a while.


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