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Last month, attorney Michael Conger filed a suit challenging the city council's 2009 placing of a cap on retiree health care benefits. The suit says that in 1982, the City decided to withdraw from Social Security. To induce employees to approve the deal, the City offered employees lifetime retiree health insurance, with the City paying the premiums. In July of last year, city council voted to put a cap of $8,800 a year on those benefits for police and blue collar workers. Conger says the workers should have had the right to vote on the matter; the City claims otherwise. Conger says that an ordinance amending the retirement system cannot be adopted without a vote of the employees affected. In effect, the cap only applies to active employees' future benefits. Current retirees' benefits aren't affected. In 2004 and 2006, Conger got big settlements after suing the City to force it to pay the right amounts into the pension system.
I think Conger is going to win another round.......
Response to post #1: Conger says, "There is no question that the City says it is out of money. But if you can't afford something, don't promise it." That's the dilemma faced by cities headed for bankruptcy. The politicians who made the promises that can't be met have moved on to higher office, are out of government, dead...whatever. Best, Don Bauder
The City bailed out of Social Security in 1982 and the 7.65% in matching employer contribution. So what happened to all of that money over the last 28 years? That's the real question.
Then Mayor Pete Wilson and City Manager Ray Blair concocted this plan to relieve the city of the require contribution in 82. I believe it was four years later circa 1986, the federal government require all new city employees to contribute to Medicare.
There are tens in not hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted. And that doesn't even touch the City stealing the so-called "waterfall profits" from SDCERS investments to pay retiree health care benefits.
No wonder the pension system is grossly underfunded. The City was stealing from the investment returns for years.
Response to post #3: I don't know whether what you say is true. But I do know one thing: you won't be able to find out. Best, Don Bauder
You guys should stop complaining cuz one the health care we have now isnt as good as it was supposed to be. also the law has just been signed give it a try u guys are too hard on democrats they went to college and we voted for most of these people.so if u want to say u have the right to choose tell that to ur congress men or state official. as for obama people are just tryin to make it look like america made a mistake he has done things to help us and we had a full 8 years of a terrible president and i will be so as happy as ever when a obama fixes bush's mistakes. obama has to put up with the wo0rld judging his every move and trying to fix the mess we are in we are lucky anyone wants to be our president. STOP COMPLAINING AND GIVE HIM A BREAK. i wanna see one of yall do what he sas done. some people are just so ignorant.
My grammar skills are not the best, but, tHaNk yoU fOr nOt TYpIng liKE tHiS iN Ur ReEpLii
Maybe the grammar skills are some literary person showing off because they can,yall. You have to love the variety of bloggers who inhabit this site.
Well, the City AND the employees bailed out. That was not a one way street-it needed the approval of the employees, and once again, the City pension deal is 5000% better than anything SS can provide.
In fact there is talk of raising the current retirement age for FULL SS from age 67 to age 70. So a cop working 25-30 years will get a 75%-90% pension (with 2%-3% annual COLA's) for the next 31-36 years in retirement, while a SS worker working 50 YEARS! will get $12K average (with 0%-1.2% COLA's) for 11 years in retirement.
As you can see, the numbers don't lie.
As usual pupster/JohnnyV/billyb you've missed the point once again. This has nothing to due with SS versus city pensions, it deals with missing tens of millions of dollars and politician who do anything to keep their elected office.
It's a very simple question and statement. When the city stopped paying the matching dollars to SS/medicare in 82 what did they do with the money? It's especially troubling since they promised lifetime healthcare to what the AARP recognizes as senior citizens. Then they stole a portion investment returns, undermining the stability of SDCERS to pay for the promised benefits.
The City has been cooking the books for years just so a handful of politician, the ones who contribute the least to their retirement and vest the soonest, could line their own pockets.
Response to post #5: Obama has made some mistakes (naming Geithner, Summers for two), but overall he is preferable to ANY Republican, particularly the nitwits he ran against, McCain and Palin. Best, Don Bauder
Ordinance O-17770 approved by the City Council on May 26, 1992 was specifically made to create a new system of bifurcated payments of retiree healthcare benefits between safety employees and non-safety employees within Municipal Code Section 24.1102e on Page 3 linked below. "General members granted CERS benefits by this section shall not, pursuant to Section 24.1201 and 24.1202, be eligible for City-sponsored Group Health Insurance for retirees."
The Bifurcated lifetime benefits for safety versus non-safety employees is normal. The last thing David Wescoe tried to pull before he left San Diego is to retroactively change the Municipal Code to give non-safety retiree lifetime healthcare benefits because he said a technical mistake was made in 1992.
David Wescoe and the Unions tried to slip a change to the Municipal Code without evidence, and to bypass a public vote that would be required to change the Municipal Code to retroactively give lifetime healthcare benefit to non-safety workers, without a source of funding and without taxpayer approval to increase the public's debt.
Please watch the video link below at Start Time: 2 Hours and 1 minute to End Time: 3 Hours and 21 Minutes, and the backup documentation linked above.
Hey, the truth can be painful.
The City did bail out of SS, but that is NOT "[That's] the real question." as you posted.
That is just part of the question/s.
IMO the "REAL question" is why did the SD pension system AGREE to allow the underfunding??????????????????????
I won't hold my breath while you try to answer that one.....(it is a rhetorical question, the reason is because you didn't care about the system's health, but were greedy).
No Johnny, as you know SDCERS follows the plan sponsor's i.e. the city's documents. Those documents are the Charter and the corresponding ordinances. In addition, SDCERS and its Board are fiduciaries with, what some have illustrated, are duties that conflict with each other from time to time. But, as you also know, the California Supreme Court recently ruled there was no conflict of interest when they acted. So why bring it up again?
I can't count the number of times you've said, it's not over until the supreme court rules. Well my fried, they have, and, as you've pointed out repeatedly it's now settled law!
The truth is City Management, and its political leaders didn't care and citizens didn't care either. Our only local newspaper, the SDUT, the one with first amendment right AND responsibility to keep and eye on government didn't care and was asleep at the switch for years.
You cannot spin, nor change the facts, City leaders proposed leaving Social Security, they created DROP too. Then they approved it and codified it into the muni code and the SDCERS plan documents.
City Management also defined the "waterfall" as a surplus portion of SDCERS' investment profits. Profits to be used for the pay-as-you-go method funding healthcare benefits.
But honest people know there are no such thing as profits in a pension system. But no one cared back then because everyone was making money. But the good times ended and the malfeasance by the City leaders was brought into the light. The IRS ruled and the City acknowledged its retiree healthcare funding scheme was illegal. And as we know, the city hasn't repaid what they stole over all those years.
Heck johnny even you the endless naysayer acknowledge in comment #1 "I think Conger is going to win another round......." and Don acknowledged a "promise" made by the City [leaders]. Which takes us back to 1982 when the City made the promise to employees to get them to agree to leave social security. What happened to money it wasn't paying, the matching 7.65%, over the past 28 years?
Response to post #6: It's just James Joyce prose. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #7: It's called stream of consciousness. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #8: And if those superior returns are set in cement, as some claim....well, we'll here from you again, SurfPup. Best, Don Bauder
OOPS. I meant hear, not here, in post above. Mea maxima culpa. Humbly, Don Bauder
Response to post #9: I thought SP would stir JW. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #11: You can't slip one by the Sleuth of Point Loma. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #12: And SP's riposte was inevitable, too. Best, Don Bauder
Yes they are fiduciaries , and they violated their fiduciary duty (BIG time) by allowing the city to underfund the pension system in exchange for a quid pro quo bribe of higher pension payments, higher pension payments that were neither worked for nor earned, but were in fact a gift of public funds to make the quid pro quo bribe work.
I say we sue the pants off the pension board who violated their fiduciary duty.......but in any event the taxpayer should not be on the hook for any short fall given the board members violations of their fiduciary duty to keep the pension fund solvent.
You KNOW I am right on this, and no JW spin will change those basic facts.
Response to post #13: We're back to the original question: what happens when stupid or corrupt politicians and bureaucrats make promises that, as the years go by and conditions change, can't be met? Does the law just throw up its hands and say the entire city has to suffer grievously because those old, fanciful promises can't be met? Judges will have to decide this one. Best, Don Bauder
The TAXPAYERS (aka "citizens") didn't care JW?????
Are you for real??? Did you poll them personally, all 1.3 million San Diego Citizens??... or are you stretching the truth just a wee bit????
I know I cared, and everyone I know cared. I also know I didn't vote YES for that retro active pension give away of a gift......
No surfpupsters you didn't care! No one needed to poll them then or now...
Did you write letters to the editor in 1982 warning the San Diegans of the debt they'd be responsible to pay years later?
What about 1996 or 2002 did you or any other citizens protest the underfunding? No.
Where was the SDUT back then? It held the role of government watch dog? Where was scam san diego then? Where were the op/ed pieces when Golding/McGrory planned MP1, proposed and carried it out?
What about the three year trial period for DROP, it was the City leaders who DID not do the required studies. And, as a matter of fact have drug their feet on those studies still, some 14 years later.
Me thinks the SDUT and the Copley family was more interested in seeing Golding a US Senator then worrying about the financial health of the city it believed was populated by sheep.
Then city leaders did it again in 2002 when pension safety net floor was breeched, the city leaders concocted a second underfunding to hide their malfeasance. I don't recall hearing your voice of protest.
You call it a retroactive gift, but the State AG, who may be governor again soon, has filed a friend of the court brief in the Orange County case making its way up the appellate chain now. He believes it's not a gift.
You say they, the SDCERS Board failed in their fiduciary duties. The Supreme Court of California disagrees with your legal conclusion and dismissed ALL conflict charges, except against Saathoff, and Bonnie has declined further action.
But you keep on avoiding my question..what did the city do with matching dollars they did not send to SS for last 28 years? And since they were fully aware of their promise to pay for retiree healthcare, why didn't they do it?
Response to post #23: It may not be a matter of San Diegans not CARING. It may be a matter that they were not properly INFORMED by a kept media. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #23: There is no question that everybody -- pols, bureaucrats, media -- didn't see the cataclysm coming from 1996 forward. We all screwed up. But this confession doesn't address the current problem: what do we do now with the City technically insolvent? You seem to think the promises that could never be kept should now be honored even though the entire population will suffer. I don't think that is realistic. Best, Don Bauder
Technically insolvent? How so, the City continues to pay its bills.
Post #5 is spam.
Just pointing it out so the Admin can remove the account when Admin gets a chance.
Carry on.
You are like a kid who says he is not overdrawn b/c his checking acount still has money in it when there are tens of thousands in outstanding checks waiting to be cashed.
The city does NOT have enough money to pays it's bills, or did you not know we have, a what, 150 million dollar hole in the budget, and that hole grows bigger every year going forward, $250 million next year!
In July of last year, city council voted to put a cap of $8,800 a year on those benefits for police and blue collar workers
Hey city worker scum
Welcome to the real world.
Response to post #27: If it is paying its bills, it is only because it is ignoring all the necessary spending that makes a city livable: infrastructure, maintenance, street repair, water and sewer, libraries, etc. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #28: Spam? I thought it was James Joyce. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #29: And those deficits are covered through phony accounting and other dubious moves. The city has a chronic, structural deficit. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #30: I'm afraid San Diego, and most of the U.S., has become like the banana republics. At the top are the extremely rich (maybe 1 or 2%) The next 10% are well off. Government employees are very well off. Then come the rest of workers, ailing. Best, Don Bauder
I believe that the City of San Diego will soon declare Bankruptcy, so that all the City Councilmembers and the Mayor can put all this "mess" behind them and happily (for them) start the same old ball rolling again, because they know what is BE$T for them!
Our last great hope is for the City is that the IBA will kick some butt and "help" our Leaders do what's right for SD; but with BOTH a new library and stadium in the near future I'm beginning to wonder if they really have any say! If we are not careful San Diego will be owned lock, stock and barrel by the Chinese very soon...
Response to post #34: I agree with your Banana Republic image! I also believe that SD will start having the same types problems those Countries are now experiencing, and maybe then, the Ultra Rich in San Diego will wonder what's happening to "their" San Diego!
Taxpayers have to make sure that a secret negotiation is not made in Closed Session in order to bypass voters and not fight the Unions. All these issues should be decided.
Any agreement to change Municipal Code 24.1102e requires a public vote in order to allow public debt without a source of funding.
As David Wescoe stated at the public meeting,
The Audit on the Pension system requires MC 24.1102e to be change, and the issue of lifetime health benefits for non-safety workers be finalized. The Unions are just suing first.
Response to post #35: I don't think that bankruptcy is coming soon, but I believe it is coming. The City simply cannot afford to put into the pension system what it is obligated to put in over the next five years or so. It can't be done. It continues to defer maintenance and infrastructural spending, cut back on fire protection, drop library hours, etc. And juggle the books. At some point, the citizenry won't be able to take it any longer. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #36: I'm not sure the Beautiful People will even notice, as long as they can still have their glittering parties. But the downtown business establishment will notice when, finally, the people realize that redevelopment is being used to construct legacy buildings that are not needed (such as a football stadium for a billionaire owner), and demand reform. Hopefully, the councilmembers who have given succor to this thievery, such as Kevin Faulconer, will be taken out and given a good thrashing, metaphorically. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #37: But how do you find out that secret deals are being made? Secrecy is deeply inculcated in the San Diego political culture. Best, Don Bauder
Hey city worker scum
Welcome to the real world.
Finally, some back up!
Founder makes an interesting point in the comment above. The city has just approved a new library, wants a new City Hall, appears to be supporting a new Charger Stadium downtown, and hopes to expand its convention center to keep Comic Con coming to town.
If the City is technically insolvent as you claim, who in their right "business" mind would want to enter into these contracts worth hundreds of millions?
Who would want to risk a municipal receiver deciding what they would be paid if the city did file for bankruptcy?
Yet the movers and shakers and with our ample Mayor says there's no problem other than old Malin Burnham, who once again in today's VOSD, "We need a new City Hall," said real estate mogul Malin Burnham, who ruffled feathers in October when he argued that 99 percent of voters wouldn't understand the argument for the new building."
"Scott Maloni, chairman of the Downtown San Diego Partnership, estimated a successful campaign would have to cost between $300,000 and $1 million, depending if there's organized opposition to the project."
300K to one million sure would fix a lot of pot holes.
We have already seen that the muni services usually covered by the muni, such as library access, community pools, parks, beaches-these have ALL been cut back to bare bones funding and pretty soon librabries will only be open two days a week, from 10 AM to 2 PM, pools will be shut down completely (due to "budget cuts"), parks will be left to rot and not maintained, and the beaches will never be kept up-in fact we have seen ALL of these things happen already (beach fire rings gone, libraries w/limited hours, pools shut down, parks getting maintained less) and the ONLY thing we will have is an over paid fire and police dept's. That is all we will have, and the service will be lousy and the costs sky high-like it is right now-but it will get worse.
Founder makes an interesting point in the comment above. The city has just approved a new library, wants a new City Hall, appears to be supporting a new Charger Stadium downtown, and hopes to expand its convention center to keep Comic Con coming to town.
Well, your first mistake was thinking our elected leaders are in their "right mind", they are not.
Carl DeMaio and Donna frye are the ONLY two who are speaking out against these white elephants. Carl is demanding a PUBLIC vote on these issues. Finally someone giving the average Joe who pays for this BS a right to voice their opinion.
Response to post #41: I thought you would approve of that pejorative. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #42: I said the City is technically insolvent but I never said that the supporters of these corporate welfare projects are in their right minds. Best, Don Bauder
Response to posst #43: I do think it is safe to say that things will get worse -- and not just in San Diego. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #44: Sherri Lightner might wind up on the right side of these issues. She voted against the library. Best, Don Bauder
The U.S. A. and California is entering the next great depression.
Response to post #49: Possibly, but I think the most likely course will be several years of extremely slow growth. Best, Don Bauder
What we have setting in right now (today) is, IMO, deflation from job declines in the private sector.
The loss of jobs, as in working class, middle class, decent wages, American, jobs, is leading to stagnant spending, causing deflation.
As long as the economic job losses continue we will continue to see deflationary signs..........we are in big trouble.
Response to post #51: The Fed believes it is fighting deflation with zero interest rates (to the big banks), and with quantitative easing -- the massive purchase of intermediate and long term paper to bring interest rates down. The zero rates may be propping up the stock market to some degree, but are punishing savers, thus exacerbating the problems on Main Street. It is difficult to get a loan, even though bank reserves have been fattened as a result of the zero rates. But that's OK: if there were brisk lending, inflation would soar. Best, Don Bauder


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Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club awarded $7,000 for park improvements
NORTH TONAWANDA – The Board of Directors of the East Hill Foundation has awarded a grant of $7,000 to the Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club. which will use the funds to complete three projects at Donald F. Miller Park.
The mission of the all-volunteer Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club is to maintain and operate the Donald F. Miller Park to provide low-cost outdoor experiences for area youth. A grant of $2,000 will be used toward the purchase of picnic tables for children with special needs. A second grant of $5,000 will used to replace a roof on one of the cabins and a furnace in another cabin.

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Toronto police allege Alexander Lisi used threats or violence or menaces to get one of two men — including one identified by the Toronto Star as having tried to sell them a video purportedly showing Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine — to hand over a digital video recording to him.
The allegations are contained in a brief synopsis that sheds light on an extortion charge against Lisi, 35, who was released on $5,000 bail on Friday.
Police allege the extortion occurred between May 16 and May 18, which coincides with when the story broke on U.S. website Gawker and the Star.
The "information" filed in court states that on or within those days, Lisi "without reasonable justification or excuse and with intent to obtain a digital video recording did induce Mohamed Siad or Liban Siyad by threats or violence or menaces to deliver said digital video recording to Alexander Lisi contrary to the criminal code."
Mohamed Siad is the man the Star says tried to sell two reporters the video.
A man named Liban Siyad, 22, was one of those charged in the June Project Traveller raids. Police documents released on Thursday show Lisi calling a Siyad on May 16 twice within five minutes and a Liban Siyad on May 18.
The document was released to the media after Lisi left court on Friday. His father put up $5,000 bail.
A publication ban was placed on the bail hearing proceedings. Lisi, dressed in a black Canada Goose jacket, turned his back to reporters sandwiched in the court aisles.
Lisi is prohibited from contacting directly or indirectly with Liban Siyad and Mohamed Siad. He cannot come within 500 metres of where they reside.
Lisi also has to stay away from Elaine and Fabio Basso, and at least 500 metres from their home, 15 Windsor Road. That address was purportedly the location where the video was filmed and also the backdrop for an infamous photo showing Mayor Ford posing with Anthony Smith, an alleged gang member who has been murdered, and two other alleged members of the Dixon City Bloods.
Lisi is banned from possessing weapons, illegal narcotics and cannot associate with anyone known to have a criminal record.


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Around one in seven rape convictions last year involved offenders who have been previously found guilty of sex crimes, new figures have revealed.
There were 1,200 rape convictions in 2012, of which the offender had previous convictions for rape in 43 cases and other sexual offences in 136 instances, according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice.
Elsewhere, the figures, first published in The Sun newspaper, showed that nearly half of rapists (48%) in 2012 were released from jail after serving half or less of their sentence, up from 43% in 2011.
Justice minister Jeremy Wright said: "Tough new sentences are available for those who commit these dreadful crimes - and under this Government sex offenders are more likely to go to prison and for longer.
"We recently introduced a new mandatory life sentence for people convicted of a second very serious sexual or violent crime and introduced a tough new extended determinate sentence which will ensure dangerous offenders spend long periods in prison and are supervised for long periods after their release.
"We are determined to drive down stubbornly high rates of reoffending - that's why we are reforming the system to provide prisoners with the support and supervision they need on release to turn their backs on crime for good."
Repeat sex attackers include Robert Black, 66, jailed for life for four child murders and who was convicted for two sex attacks as a teenager, and Roy Whiting, 54, who was already a convicted paedophile when he abducted and murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne in 2000.


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Section One - Introduction Section-1 Introduction Getting Acquainted Congratulations on your wise choice in purchasing the RP2000.Thanks to the continuous advances in musical technology, you have the flexibility, power, and capability of producing sonic creations never before thought possible. Although the RP2000 is so user friendly you may not even need to read this manual, we recommend that you become better acquainted with us, and what we have to offer by going through this User's Guide with your RP2000 in front of you.
Section One - Introduction A Guided Tour of the RP2000 The Front Panel 1.Preset Switches - These 4 footswitches are used to select Presets, access the Tuner, turn individual effects on and off, change Amp Channels, select functions in Learn-A-Lick mode, or bypass the RP2000. 2 Matrix - The matrix provides information regarding the current Preset, and parameter edit functions.While in performance mode, the LEDs in the 9 buttons across the top of the Matrix will provide a visual indication of which effects are in use for the current Preset.
Section One - Introduction 6. Mode Buttons- These 6 buttons are used to select various modes in which the RP2000 will function.The top three buttons perform single functions while the bottom three buttons perform dual functions based upon the current operation of the RP2000.The buttons are labeled as follows: A) FX Mode - The FX Mode button selects whether the 1-4 footswitches will recall Presets within the selected Bank, or act as on/off switches for the individual effects in the currently active Preset.
8. Output Level - This knob controls the overall volume level of the signal coming out of the RP2000. 9. Power Input - This jack is used to power the RP2000. Use only the DigiTech PS0920 power supply provided. 10. S/PDIF Output - This is the digital output from the RP2000.The signal at this output is in a stereo digital format, and is to be connected to a digital S/PDIF input such as those found on digital recording devices.
Section One - Introduction Getting Started Making Connections Before connecting the RP2000, make sure that the power to your amplifier is turned off, and that the power to the RP2000 is disconnected.There is no power switch on the RP2000.To turn the RP2000 on or off, simply connect or disconnect the power supply from an AC outlet.
Section One - Introduction Direct to a Mixing Console The RP2000 can be connected directly to the inputs of a house PA system, or to a recording console. Connect the guitar to the input of the RP2000. Connect from the outputs of the RP2000 to the channel inputs of the mixing console.
Section One - Introduction About the RP2000 The Presets Presets are numbered locations of programmed sounds which reside in the RP2000. Presets can be recalled with the Footswitches or the Data Wheel.The RP2000 comes with 64 Factory and 64 User Presets available.The Factory Presets will not allow you to store any changes to them.The User Presets are locations where your creations may be stored.
Section One - Introduction The Bank and Control switches are located on the upper tear. In Preset mode, the Bank switch will advance Banks with single presses or reverse Banks if held down. In FX mode, the Bank switch will advance Presets with single presses or reverse Presets if held down.The Control switch is used to control a Parameter of your choice in real time, or to change Banks.
Section One - Introduction Edit Mode The Edit Mode of the RP2000 allows you to customize Presets to suit your particular needs and applications. Pressing the Edit/Exit button allows you to access, replace, or change any aspects of the effects which make up the Preset. Once in the Edit mode, the buttons in the matrix can be used to access the effects.
Section One - Introduction Learn-A-Lick Mode The Learn-A-Lick function allows you to record a 10 second passage of music and play it back as slow as 1/4 speed with no change in pitch. This is very useful for picking out the notes of a fast solo passage. There are 6 functions for Learn-A-Lick.They are: •...
Section Two - Editing Functions Section Two - Editing Functions Editing/Creating Presets Creating your own signature sound with the RP2000 is easy and intuitive.The RP2000 lets you create your own Presets, or fine tune existing Presets to suit your needs. When creating or editing a sound, you must first start with one of the User or Factory Presets.
Section Two - Editing Functions Storing/Copying a Preset Once you have modified the Parameters and Effects to your liking, you can store them to a User Preset location.When editing a Preset, the Store LED will light indicating that you have changed a Parameter and need to store the changes. The following steps outline the procedure for storing a Preset 1.
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Section Three - Effects and Parameters About the Effects The RP2000 can be thought of as several different "virtual" amplifiers, and individual, hi-tech stomp boxes.With stomp boxes, the order in which they are connected can make a big difference in how good the overall sound is.Whether the stomp boxes are placed before the amp, or in the amp's effects loop will also make a difference.The RP2000 has the Effects connected in the most logical, and best sounding order.
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Wah/Pitch The Wah/Pitch column in the RP2000 is a multi-function module, allowing you to select your choice of classic Wahs, Pitch Shifting, Detuning,Whammy™, or Intelligent Harmonies. Only one effect from this column can be used at a time. After choosing the type of effect from this module, you can then adjust the individual parameters of the selected effect.
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Section Three - Effects and Parameters The Gain adjusts the amount of drive applied by the Amp Model. Higher amounts of Gain will produce more break up or distortion. Gain ranges from 0 to 99. Gain is not available on the Acoustic or Direct Modeling selections.
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Talker™ The Talker™ is an effect designed exclusively by DigiTech, which enables your instrument to speak.The Talker™ requires a microphone to be connected to the Mic Input on the rear panel of the RP2000. As you speak into the microphone, your instrument will mimic any words that you say.The Talker™...
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Chorus (Chorus) A Chorus adds a short delay to your signal and modulates the delay time which takes the delayed signal slightly in and out of tune.The delayed signal is then mixed back with the original signal to create a thicker sound as if two guitars were playing the same part.
Regen - Controls the throaty quality of the YahYah™. Ranges from 0 to 99. YahYah (YahYah™) The YahYah™ is another effect exclusive to DigiTech products. Like the AutoYah™, it combines the characteristics of a wah and a flanger together providing a unique talk box type of effect, but is controlled by the Expression Pedal.The YahYah™...
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Envlop (Envelope Filter) The Envelope Filter is an automatic Wah.The Envelope alters your sound based upon how hard you play. The softer that you play, the less intense the sweep of the Wah will be.The harder you play, the more intense the sweep will be.
Section Three - Effects and Parameters Sets the time interval between repeats.The available delay time ranges are 10 milliseconds (1/100 of a sec- ond) to 3.0 seconds. Controls the number of repeats for the Delay. Ranges from 0 to 99, and rphold (infinite repeats).The Feedback Parameter is not available with the Reverse Delay.
Section Four - Tutorial Section Four - Tutorial A Guided Example Suppose you wanted to create your own dual channel Preset which gave your single coil pickup a humbucker sound, used no Compression, had Wah before the Amp Modeling, the ripping distortion of a Rectified Amp with boosted bass on the red channel, the warm sounds of a vintage Tweed in the Green Channel, a Noise Gate that opens quickly, a clas- sic Phaser sound, no Delay, and a little bit of a Hall reverb.The following steps will guide you through the procedure for creating just such a Preset in the RP2000.
Section Four - Tutorial Select the Green Channel Amp Model We wanted our green channel's Amp Model to produce the sound of a Tweed Amp. Press the Amp Model button and if necessary, rotate the Data Wheel until the Display reads Green. Press the Amp Model button again which will take us to the Amp Type Parameter for the Green channel.
Section Four - Tutorial Now to get a full sound out of the Cabinet, we should place the mic close to the center of the speaker. Press the Amp Model button again which will take us to the Mic Placement Parameter. Rotate the Data Wheel until the Display shows MicP 9.
Section Four - Tutorial Adjust the Noise Gate Now we can move on to our Noise Gate Parameters. Press the Talker button which will give us access to the Noise Gate Parameters. Our Example did not call for the use of the Talker effect so if necessary, rotate the Data Wheel to set the Talker to bypass.
Section Four - Tutorial Turn the Delay Off In our example Preset we wanted the Delay to be bypassed. Press the Delay button and if necessary, rotate the Data Wheel until the Display reads bypass. Adjust the Reverb In our example Preset we also wanted a little bit of Hall Reverb to provide some ambience. Press the Reverb button to access the Reverb's On/Bypass Parameter.
Section Four - Tutorial Store the Preset The last step that we need to do is to store our changes to a User Preset. If we changed Presets or turned the RP2000 off without storing these settings, it would forget what we had done and revert back to the original Preset. Press the Store button once.The first letter in the Display begins to flash which is asking us to rename the Preset.
Section Five - Other Functions Section Five - Other Functions Rhythm The Rhythm mode in the RP2000 is a great tool for improving your timing, rehearsing different musical styles, or just jamming when your drummer is out delivering pizzas.The Rhythm mode plays sampled drum beats in an infinite loop and lets you to select different patterns, change tempo, and adjust the volume level.When the Rhythm mode is activat- ed, the drum samples are mixed with your guitar signal at the left, right, and headphone outputs of the RP2000, and at the Digital Output if the Dry Track feature is off.
Section Five - Other Functions Use the Rhythm button to scroll to the right, or the FX Mode button to scroll to the left through the minimum and maximum value menus, and to reach the Control Switch and LFO menus. Note:The Rhythm mode must be disabled to access the Assign menus.
Section Five - Other Functions LFO 1 and LFO 2 The LFOs in the RP2000 are filters that sweep back and forth between two points at an even rate.The speed that the LFOs cycle back and forth is programmable, and there are 5 selectable wave forms for the LFOs.The waveform con- trols the abruptness of change between the minimum and maximum values.These LFOs can be assigned to Parameters and as the LFO sweeps back and forth, the assigned Parameter will continuously change values at an even rate.
Section Five - Other Functions Global Cabinet Modeling The Cabinet Modeling in the RP2000 can be enabled globally in every Preset.This can save time when your application requires the use of the Cabinet Modeling on all Presets.To access the Global Cabinet Modeling, press the Utility button and scroll to the left or right until the display shows cabloc (Cabinet Local), or cabglb (Cabinet Global).When set to Global, all Presets will have the Cabinet Modeling enabled, regardless of whether it was programmed into a Preset or not.When set to Local, the Cabinet Modeling will only be enabled on Presets which were programmed with it on.
Section Five - Other Functions MIDI Channel The RP2000's MIDI channel is used for receiving incoming MIDI data only. The MIDI channel is access by pressing the Utility button and scrolling to the left or the right until MIDIch is shown in the Display. Rotate the Data Wheel to select the desired MIDI channel the RP2000 will respond to.The MIDI channel will be shown in the red Display.
Section Five - Other Functions MIDI Merge The MIDI Merge function is used to enable or disable the transmission of incoming MIDI data to the MIDI Out port. This is useful when multiple MIDI devices are chained together, and you wish to pass the incoming MIDI Data on to MIDI devices downstream from the RP2000.To access the MIDI Merge function, press the Utility button once and scroll to the left or right until the Display shows Mmerge.
Section Six - Appendix Section Six - Appendix Preset List Bank 1 - Showcase (shocas) Bank 9 - Metal (metal) 33. Scoop 1. DaSolo 34. OctSub 2. Clasic 35.Whamit 3. Rhythm 36.Talker (Use Mic) 4. AYah Bank 10 - Amps 2 (amps 2) Bank 2 - Stars (stars) 37.
Section Six - Appendix MIDI CC List Parameter CC Number Parameter CC Number Pickup On/Bypass CC 1 Talker On/Bypass CC 29 Type CC 2 Type CC 30 Mic Sensitivity CC 31 Comp. On/Bypass CC 3 Attack CC 4 Gate/Swell On/Bypass CC 32 Threshold CC 5...
Section Six - Appendix MIDI Implementation RP2000 User's Guide...
Section Six - Appendix Specifications A/D Converter: 24 bit D/A Converter: 24 bit Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz DSP Section: Dual DSP architecture with true 24-Bit stereo processing @ 128 Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) Connections: Guitar Input and Outputs: 1/4" TS Microphone: Balanced XLR with hard wire relay bypass to XLR output.
MODELING GUITAR EFFECT SYSTEM Copyright the Harman Music Group 1999 Printed in the USA 11/99 Manufactured in the USA RP2000 User's Guide 18-6334...


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Entourage - Poem by clifford mate
Born and raised here,
sharpened to take life head on without fear,
hardened not to shed a tear,
brought up to b the worlds spear.
Today is near but tomorrow is here,
mirage say nothing clear,
so just look here,
say every word in plain,
black or white blood is always red,
even those who consider themselves immortal do bleed.
Morning comes with glory,
as marriage is always a ceremony,
but birth of a divorce story,
it wont hurt if you say i am sorry.
Life is always a bitch,
one day you are hustling in the east,
next thing you know you are drinking down the beach,
at shores of life it is always sweet so i heard them preach.
Fear not have courage,
don't wait for me,
live your own life,
follow not my example,
imitate your inner person,
as we all have air castles.
Slums or estates,
it doesn't mater,
better life is what we are all after,
then we will sit down and enjoy life with smiles and laughter,
but with this walls and barriers i need you.
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Gajanan Mishra (12/8/2013 5:49:00 AM)
enjoy life with smile, good write.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of an Idaho couple that challenged an EPA Clean Water Act compliance order which carried up to $75,000 in fines. The couple, Chantell and Michael Sackett bought a subdivided lot north of Idaho's Priest Lake where they intended to build a house on land designated as a federal wetland. The Sackett's filed a lawsuit to fight the EPA's designation. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the lawsuit, so the Sacketts took their case all the way to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruling says that the Sacketts are entitled to challenge the EPA's compliance order in federal court. However, the ruling does not say the couple can continue to build their house on the lot. The ruling, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) leaves "intact the EPA's ability to issue compliance orders that protect our health and our environment.
The NRDC's position, over all, is a cup-half-full approach. Jon Devine, senior attorney in the NRDC's water program said, in a statement, that the "Supreme Court did not give anyone a license to pollute." Devine believes that "those who pollute our waters will still be held accountable."
"Today's decision affirmed the legal principle that the EPA under the Clean Water Act may issue compliance orders to promote speedy resolution of pollution problems," Devine adds. "The court did not adopt any of the radical ideas advanced by industry and its allies that could have severely hampered public health and environmental protections."
While all of that is true, not everyone is that optimistic about the decision. Nina Mendelson, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School believes that the ruling's effect "may go significantly beyond wetlands…it also may interfere with the EPA's ability to respond quickly to protect the nation's waterways from all kinds of threats, including threats we can all agree are urgent."
"The EPA is likely to be stuck in litigation over compliance orders not only in wetlands cases, but in these cases of obviously urgent threats to water quality," Mendelson wrote about the ruling. "It may use compliance orders less often and when it does use them, it may take much longer for the orders to go into effect."
Mendelson worries that the ruling could extend beyond wetlands' cases to Clean Air Act and Solid Waste Disposal Act compliance orders. "The EPA is likely to face arguments about judicial review of compliance orders in these settings, too," Mendelson wrote.
Mendelson recommends that Congress amend the Clean Water Act and the other two acts "to clarify, at least for urgent environmental threats, that judicial review of a compliance order should have to wait."
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a concurring opinion, also recommends that Congress bring clarity to the Clean Water Act. "Real relief requires Congress to do what it should have done in the first place: provide a reasonably clear rule regarding the reach of the Clean Water Act," Alito states. Alito's kind of clarity sounds like a recommendation to gut the Clean Water Act.
What do you think of the Supreme Court's decision?
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The Grantville Action Group has challenged various redevelopment projects that the City claims should go forward, even with the abolition of redevelopment agencies. After that abolition, various cities created Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedules, made up of projects that they insisted should go forward because of previous legal commitments. But the worst-kept secret in the state is that many if not most projects on these lists should not qualify. Dr. Brian Peterson of Grantville, through lawyer Craig Sherman, today (April 25) protested to the Oversight Board for the City of San Diego, successor to the Redevelopment Agency (the city council), that a bunch of these projects should be rejected. Among the projects that don't belong on the list are City of San Diego debt, convention center cooperation agreement, ballpark cooperation agreement, various street agreements, a Grantville affordable housing plan based on expected tax increment that won't now eventuate, and numerous other projects. The Grantville Group argues, in effect, that these projects are ones the City hopes to do, but has no obligation to do.
Somewhere (probably Tierrasanta), Jim Madaffer is smiling. He tried to ram Grantville redevelopment down the throats of local residents, and only by the doings of people like Brian Peterson and the Grantville Action Group, has the city been mainly thwarted (at least for now) in their attempts to "revitalize" Grantville and Allied Gardens. And why is CCDC even paying for Petco Park? It was supposed to be paid for with TOT revenue by all of the ballpark-area hotels that were supposed to have been built--oh, wait, the city allowed John Moores and JMI to change the terms of the MOU to allow less hotels and more (empty) condos instead. Hopefully, the oversight board will reject some of these projects; if not them, perhaps the state will chime in and say no to the EOPS.
Agreed: Dr. Brian Peterson and his Grantville group have done yeoman work fighting the redevelopment scam. In re Petco: in the ballot argument in 1998, ballpark advocates claimed that the deal would be revenue neutral. The TOT tax would supposedly throw off enough money to service the bonds. Didn't happen, obviously, partly because the hotels weren't built. Later, the grand jury interviewed bureaucrats who admitted they had been pressured by the Golding/McGrory administration to juggle the numbers to make it look as if the TOT revenue would pay for the ballpark. The ballpark is now a $15 million drain on the City, according to the latest budget. Best, Don Bauder


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