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JACKSON – Nobody gave it a second thought Thursday when House Rules Chair Mark Formby, R-Picayune, announced his committee would meet after the chamber adjourned for the day.
After all, the Rules Committee meets nearly every day to pass out the literally hundreds of commendatory resolutions legislators pass each year to honor constituents' accomplishments – whether it be winning a state soccer championship or reaching a significant milestone, such as a 100th birthday.
Some of the Democratic members of the committee did not attend the meeting nor did any member of the press.
But what the Rules Committee took up Thursday was not a commendatory resolution. Its actions were a bit unprecedented.
The Rules Committee took up and killed Senate legislation that reauthorizes the Division of Medicaid after June 30. Normally legislation dealing with Medicaid would be referred by the speaker to the Medicaid Committee. But in this case, Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, referred the legislation to the Republican-controlled Rules Committee.
Gunn was straightforward on why he neglected precedent. He wanted the Senate legislation killed quickly to try to force the House to pass its own Medicaid reauthorization bill.
There is one distinct difference in the House and Senate bills. The Senate Medicaid reauthorization bill has the code section that could be amended by Democrats on the House floor to expand Medicaid as part of new federal law to cover people earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level or about $15,000 per year.
The House bill does not include that language so it could not be amended to expand Medicaid.
The House had until March 13 to pass or reject the Senate bill. The House had to act on its own bill by Friday.
So on Thursday, Gunn sent the House bill to the Rules Committee to kill it so that the only vehicle to reauthorize a federal-state program that provides care to about 640,000 disabled, elderly, poor pregnant women and children was the House bill.
Gov. Phil Bryant, who adamantly opposes the expansion of Medicaid, praised Gunn for "his bold move … and act of strong leadership."
Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, said the speaker's actions were "legal," but not right.
House Democratic Leader Bobby Moak, D-Bogue Chitto, said, "Republicans are again proving that they are not interested in an open and honest discussion on Medicaid. If they were, they would allow Mississippians the benefit of considering this important issue with all options on the table."
Gunn said the debate would have been lengthy and divisive.
He said, "My job is to protect the House … as best I can" from such debate.
Plus, in the end, he said the debate would be fruitless for Democrats since Republicans who oppose expansion have a majority in the chamber.
"The House was faced with what would have been a long and divisive debate on the issue of expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, which would have served no purpose and would have ended with the bill being defeated," Gunn said.
But Democrats had enough votes to block the House reauthorization bill that required a three-fifths majority to pass. The result is that there is currently no bill alive in the Legislature to reauthorize the agency.
To revive a bill would take a two-thirds majority of both chambers. Another option would be for the governor to call a special session and start over on the issue.
A third option, some believe, is for the governor to run the agency through executive order. Some believe the Republican majorities in both chambers could appropriate funds to his office to run Medicaid.
But that action would be fraught with legal questions. And a substantial portion of the state Medicaid funds are derived from health care provider taxes that will die – along with the reauthorization of the agency – on June 30. It would take a super majority to revive those taxes.
Holland said there is a long way to go in the legislative process before the health care agency is repealed.
"Be assured one way or another we will have a Medicaid program by July 1, 2013," he said.
Getting there may be contentious, divisive and highly partisan.


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Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the Shenandoah. Their leader was a rail-thin 59-year-old man with a shock of graying hair and penetrating steel-gray eyes. His name was John Brown. Some of those who strode across a covered railway bridge from Maryland into Virginia were callow farm boys; others were seasoned veterans of the guerrilla war in disputed Kansas. Among them were Brown's youngest sons, Watson and Oliver; a fugitive slave from Charleston, South Carolina; an African-American student at Oberlin College; a pair of Quaker brothers from Iowa who had abandoned their pacifist beliefs to follow Brown; a former slave from Virginia; and men from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana. They had come to Harpers Ferry to make war on slavery.
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The raid that Sunday night would be the most daring instance on record of white men entering a Southern state to incite a slave rebellion. In military terms, it was barely a skirmish, but the incident electrified the nation. It also created, in John Brown, a figure who after a century and a half remains one of the most emotive touchstones of our racial history, lionized by some Americans and loathed by others: few are indifferent. Brown's mantle has been claimed by figures as diverse as Malcolm X, Timothy McVeigh, Socialist leader Eugene Debs and abortion protesters espousing violence. "Americans do not deliberate about John Brown—they feel him," says Dennis Frye, the National Park Service's chief historian at Harpers Ferry. "He is still alive today in the American soul. He represents something for each of us, but none of us is in agreement about what he means."
"The impact of Harpers Ferry quite literally transformed the nation," says Harvard historian John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. The tide of anger that flowed from Harpers Ferry traumatized Americans of all persuasions, terrorizing Southerners with the fear of massive slave rebellions, and radicalizing countless Northerners, who had hoped that violent confrontation over slavery could be indefinitely postponed. Before Harpers Ferry, leading politicians believed that the widening division between North and South would eventually yield to compromise. After it, the chasm appeared unbridgeable. Harpers Ferry splintered the Democratic Party, scrambled the leadership of the Republicans and produced the conditions that enabled Republican Abraham Lincoln to defeat two Democrats and a third-party candidate in the presidential election of 1860.
"Had John Brown's raid not occurred, it is very possible that the 1860 election would have been a regular two-party contest between antislavery Republicans and pro-slavery Democrats," says City University of New York historian David Reynolds, author of John Brown: Abolitionist. "The Democrats would probably have won, since Lincoln received just 40 percent of the popular vote, around one million votes less than his three opponents." While the Democrats split over slavery, Republican candidates such as William Seward were tarnished by their association with abolitionists; Lincoln, at the time, was regarded as one of his party's more conservative options. "John Brown was, in effect, a hammer that shattered Lincoln's opponents into fragments," says Reynolds. "Because Brown helped to disrupt the party system, Lincoln was carried to victory, which in turn led 11 states to secede from the Union. This in turn led to the Civil War."
Well into the 20th century, it was common to dismiss Brown as an irrational fanatic, or worse. In the rousing pro-Southern 1940 classic film Santa Fe Trail, actor Raymond Massey portrayed him as a wild-eyed madman. But the civil rights movement and a more thoughtful acknowledgment of the nation's racial problems have occasioned a more nuanced view. "Brown was thought mad because he crossed the line of permissible dissent," Stauffer says. "He was willing to sacrifice his life for the cause of blacks, and for this, in a culture that was simply marinated in racism, he was called mad."
Brown was a hard man, to be sure, "built for times of trouble and fitted to grapple with the flintiest hardships," in the words of his close friend, the African-American orator Frederick Douglass. Brown felt a profound and lifelong empathy with the plight of slaves. "He stood apart from every other white in the historical record in his ability to burst free from the power of racism," says Stauffer. "Blacks were among his closest friends, and in some respects he felt more comfortable around blacks than he did around whites."
Brown was born with the century, in 1800, in Connecticut, and raised by loving if strict parents who believed (as did many, if not most, in that era) that righteous punishment was an instrument of the divine. When he was a small boy, the Browns moved west in an ox-drawn wagon to the raw wilderness of frontier Ohio, settling in the town of Hudson, where they became known as friends to the rapidly diminishing population of Native Americans, and as abolitionists who were always ready to help fugitive slaves. Like many restless 19th-century Americans, Brown tried many professions, failing at some and succeeding modestly at others: farmer, tanner, surveyor, wool merchant. He married twice—his first wife died from illness—and, in all, fathered 20 children, almost half of whom died in infancy; 3 more would die in the war against slavery. Brown, whose beliefs were rooted in strict Calvinism, was convinced that he had been predestined to bring an end to slavery, which he believed with burning certitude was a sin against God. In his youth, both he and his father, Owen Brown, had served as "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. He had denounced racism within his own church, where African-Americans were required to sit in the back, and shocked neighbors by dining with blacks and addressing them as "Mr." and "Mrs." Douglass once described Brown as a man who "though a white gentleman, is in sympathy, a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery."
In 1848, the wealthy abolitionist Gerrit Smith encouraged Brown and his family to live on land Smith had bestowed on black settlers in northern New York. Tucked away in the Adirondack Mountains, Brown concocted a plan to liberate slaves in numbers never before attempted: A "Subterranean Pass-Way"—the Underground Railroad writ large—would stretch south through the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains, linked by a chain of forts manned by armed abolitionists and free blacks. "These warriors would raid plantations and run fugitives north to Canada," says Stauffer. "The goal was to destroy the value of slave property." This scheme would form the template for the Harpers Ferry raid and, says Frye, under different circumstances "could have succeeded. [Brown] knew that he couldn't free four million people. But he understood economics and how much money was invested in slaves. There would be a panic—property values would dive. The slave economy would collapse."
Political events of the 1850s turned Brown from a fierce, if essentially garden-variety, abolitionist into a man willing to take up arms, even die, for his cause. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which imposed draconian penalties on anyone caught helping a runaway and required all citizens to cooperate in the capture of fugitive slaves, enraged Brown and other abolitionists. In 1854, another act of Congress pushed still more Northerners beyond their limits of tolerance. Under pressure from the South and its Democratic allies in the North, Congress opened the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to slavery under a concept called "popular sovereignty." The more northerly Nebraska was in little danger of becoming a slave state. Kansas, however, was up for grabs. Pro-slavery advocates—"the meanest and most desperate of men, armed to the teeth with Revolvers, Bowie Knives, Rifles & Cannon, while they are not only thoroughly organized, but under pay from Slaveholders," John Brown Jr. wrote to his father—poured into Kansas from Missouri. Antislavery settlers begged for guns and reinforcements. Among the thousands of abolitionists who left their farms, workshops or schools to respond to the call were John Brown and five of his sons. Brown himself arrived in Kansas in October 1855, driving a wagon loaded with rifles he had picked up in Ohio and Illinois, determined, he said, "to help defeat Satan and his legions."
In May 1856, pro-slavery raiders sacked Lawrence, Kansas, in an orgy of burning and looting. Almost simultaneously, Brown learned that Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the most outspoken abolitionist in the U.S. Senate, had been beaten senseless on the floor of the chamber by a cane-wielding congressman from South Carolina. Brown raged at the North's apparent helplessness. Advised to act with restraint, he retorted, "Caution, caution, sir. I am eternally tired of hearing the word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice." A party of Free-Staters led by Brown dragged five pro-slavery men out of their isolated cabins on eastern Kansas' Pottawatomie Creek and hacked them to death with cutlasses. The horrific nature of the murders disturbed even abolitionists. Brown was unrepentant. "God is my judge," he laconically replied when asked to account for his actions. Though he was a wanted man who hid out for a time, Brown eluded capture in the anarchic conditions that pervaded Kansas. Indeed, almost no one—pro-slavery or antislavery—was ever arraigned in a court for killings that took place during the guerrilla war there.


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Welcome to the STICS website! STICS (Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney) is an open collective of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people committed to the repeal of the NT Intervention and the struggle for Aboriginal self-determination.
We meet every first and third Monday of the month to discuss the campaign and plan for actions and awareness-raising. 6pm Monday nights, Federation Conference Centre, Level 1, 23-33 Mary Street Surry Hills (turn off Elizabeth st at Albion St and left onto Mary street) - http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=23-33+Mary+Street,+surry+hills&sll=-24.686952,135.703125&sspn=61.631455,97.207031&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=A. Everyone is welcome. Should you require further information and would like to attend, please call Cathy on 0422385852 (after 3pm) or E-mail: [email protected]
Treaty Now!!!
STICS invites you to a Public forum:
First Nations
"Young Women speak out for Treaty"
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
5.30 for 6 pm start
Redfern Community Centre,
Lynda-June Coe, Wiradjuri woman
Natalie Cromb, Gamilaraay woman
Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks, Eastern Arrernte
Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman
Jeff McMullen, journalist and filmmaker
Cathy on 0422 385 852
For the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/966376453500015/
For the leaflet: please click here
For the poster: please click here
As the Federation Conference Centre will be
closed until March 2017, we will meet at
University of Technology Sydney,
15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007
Level 6, next to Jumbunna Student Association
on the first and third Monday at 6pm
Jason De Santolo (Jumbunna Research at UTS) and Lynda-June Coe
Centre. Hear directly from David Gulpilil the experiences of living in
Northern Territory in the 21st Century.
Not A Mention of the Intervention
- 9 Years of Racist shame!
NT Intervention - Stronger Futures
Join us for an anniversary march and rally
Saturday, 18th June 2016 - 1pm
Town Hall Sydney
Bring clapsticks, drums, etc.
Confirmed Speakers:
Jenny Munro, Wiradjuri Elder, founder of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, and tireless activist.
Uncle Ken Canning, Bidjara Elder, activist, poet, candidate for the Federal Senate.
Nicole Watson, Birri-Gubba woman, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney Law School.
Jason De Santolo, Garrwa-Barunggam man, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning.
Paddy Gibson, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS
For the event on facebook: please click here
For the poster: please click here
For the leaflet: please click here
STICS Public Forum
"Men speak out for Treaty"
Monday, 14 March 2016 - Redfern Community Centre,
Following on from STICS' successful 2015 forum, First Nations 'Women Speak out for Treaty', this event featured five First Nations Men:
Yingiya Mark Guyula, Djambarrpuyngu Nation, Yolngu Nations Assembly Spokesperson
Terry Mason, Awabakal Man, Chair of NTEU Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy Committee
Tony McAvoy SC, Wiri Man, Barrister
Tauto Sansbury, Narungga Elder and Aboriginal Advocate
Chris Sarra, Gurang Gurang, Founding Chairman, Stronger Smarter Institute
Facilitator: Jeff McMullen, Journalist and Film-maker
For more info about the Forum: please click here
For last year's Forum "Women speak out for Treaty": http://stoptheintervention.org/past-events/20-mar-2015-treaty-forum
For more info, also see: http://www.respectandlisten.org/treaty.html
also spoke on Tuesday, 15 March at the
Trades Hall Auditorium
For more information about Yingiya, please see:
http://www.yingiya.net/english.html and https://www.chuffed.org/project/ymgfortreaty
Public Forum to mark Human Rights Day
Expansion of NT Intervention and Erosion of Human Rights
Friday 11 Dec 6pm for 6.30 start
Redfern Community Centre, 29-53 Hugo St
Barbara Shaw, Central Australian Aboriginal leader who lives under the Intervention and has continually campaigned against it.
Lex Wotton, an activist from Palm Island, who has recently been released from a government gag order. Monique Wiseman, Senior Aboriginal Project Officer, Wayside Chapel, who works at the frontline in Sydney.
Paddy Gibson, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS and long-time opponent of the Intervention.
Contact: Alex on 0449 184 801 or Cathy on 0422 385 852
For the flyer: please click here
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/519354548235419/
Panel Discussion:
The Intervention - An Anthology
Wednesday, 2 Sept. 2015
6.30pm for 7pm start
Redfern Community Centre -
Downstairs, 29-53 Hugo St, Redfern
Larissa Behrendt: Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman, Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS
Eva Cox: Research Fellow at Jumbunna, UTS
Thalia Anthony: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UTS
For the leaflet: please click here
For the event on facebook: please click here
NT Intervention - Stronger Futures
Sunday, 21 June - 3pm
Sydney Town Hall
Uncle Albert Hartnett, a Wangkumurra man with first-hand experience of child removal
Ken Canning, Murri writer and poet from the Kunja Clan of the Bidjira Nation
Kyol Blakeney, a Kamilaroi man and Sydney University SRC president
Eva Cox, Research Fellow at Jumbunna, Indigenous House of Learning at UTS
Gerry Georgatos, human rights and social justice campaigner. Editor of The Stringer.
For the flyer to print in A5: please click here
For the flyer in A4: please click here
More details: please click here
Terrific report back from Paddy Gibson on the effects of current government policies on First Nations Peoples communities on
Monday, 20 April: please click here
More info, page 8: please click here
Special Forum:
Friday, 27 March 2015 at 7.30pm,
NITV aired a one hour program titled
'Opinion Piece - Women Speak Out For Treaty'
Recorded at the Redfern Community Centre discussing the merits of Treaty. First Nations Speakers include Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Brenda Croft, Natalie Cromb and Amala Groom
To watch it again: please click here (50mins, expiry 26 Apr.)
For more info about the Forum:
For more info on Treaty: http://www.respectandlisten.org/treaty.html
Forum: Can our First Nations Peoples celebrate
UN Human Rights Day?
For Media Coverage by NITV: please click here
9 December 2014 - 5.30pm for 6pm start
Trades Hall Auditorium,
Entry via Unions NSW,
377 Sussex Street St
Sydney 2000
Can First Nations' Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day?
Aunty Debra Swan, Grandmothers Against Removals
Chris Graham, Editor New Matilda and Associate Producer of John Pilger's 'Utopia'
Jeff McMullen, CEO (honorary) of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth
For the leaflet: please click here
For the poster: please click here
Sponsored by:
Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney, Grandmothers Against Removals,
Indigenous Social Justice Association and APHEDA
State Government's threat to close remote communities:
Article and background info about WA Government's move and its far-reaching implications: please click here
The Northern Territory Intervention 7 Years On -
1 PM Saturday 21 st June -
Meet Sydney Town Hall and
March to Redfern Tent Embassy
Repeal Stolen Futures Legislation – Stop Income Management – Stop Stealing Children – Reinvest In Community Controlled Services and Jobs Now
Ray Jackson, ISJA President
Jenny Munro, Redfern Tent Embassy
Kyol Blakeney, National Union of Students
David Shoebridge, Greens NSW MP
For the poster: please click here
For the flyer: please click here
June 21 will mark seven years since John Howard announced the NT Intervention and sent the military into Aboriginal communities. This was one of the most shameful days in the history of Australia's brutal and racist treatment of Aboriginal people and has set the struggle for Aboriginal rights back many decades.
Government statistics show that since 2007 in the NT incarceration has increased 80%, reported rates of attempted suicide and self-harm are up almost 600%, child removal rates increased 80% and there is more alcohol related domestic violence. Almost $1 billion has been wasted on bureaucrats and punishment.
In 2012, the Labor government passed the Stronger Futures legislation that extends the main measures of the NT Intervention for another 10 years. Aboriginal people will continue to be treated as second class citizens: police can enter their homes without a warrant, courts are unable to consider cultural circumstances when sentencing, alcohol and R18+ material are restricted regardless of community wishes and more than 10,000 Aboriginal people are held on income management against their will.
Stronger Futures legislation also extended income management and the BasicsCard to new "trial sites" around Australia, including Bankstown in Sydney. But a strong campaign uniting Aboriginal people, community organisations, migrants and trade unions has helped hold this back.
The Public Service Association (PSA), who represent Child Protection workers are refusing to be part of the expansion of the racist NT Intervention. Of all the "trial sites", Bankstown has the lowest number of people on income management out of all "trial sites". The Labour Federal government increased the categories for Compulsory Income Management and the Abott government is signalling more draconian measures. Join us for a protest to demand an end to Apartheid-style policies in Australia!
For more information please call Cathy on 0422385852
Say NO to continuing Stolen Generations
STOP the DOCS Friday snatch
STOP Goward's new laws
Support and opportunity for families NOT child removal
Rally Friday April 11 - 12pm Tamworth DOCS office
14 - 16 Bourke st Tamworth
Speakers include:
+ Aunty Hazel, Grand-mothers Against Removals, Gunnedah
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/502744536496524/?context=create&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49#
For the flyer: please click here
For the double-sided-leaflet: please click here
For the Media release: please click here
STICS Forum
21 March 2014 - 6.30pm for 7pm start
Marking the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
REDFERN Town Hall, 73 Pitt St, Redfern
Speakers include:
John Pilger, Utopia filmmaker
Marianne McKay, Nyoongar activist
Dianne Stokes, Muckaty Traditional Owner
Aunty Hazel, Grand Mothers Against Removals Gunnedah
STICS Forum on 21 March 2014: please click here
For the Poster: please click here
Speakers on Child Removal
Monday, 3 March at 6 pm,
Federation Conference Centre
Olivia Nigro, who played a central role organising the Child removal rally outside parliament on 13 Feb, will speak on developments in Gunnedah, as a way of starting some collective discussion about how we can take the struggle forward.
Bear, is a First Nations man from Canada taken and adopted out in Australia. He is currently working to change national and international adoption practices and laws, so that the abuses of the past are not repeated.
For the flyer: please click here
Plus discussion about an upcoming forum on 21 March 2014.
STICS Forum on 21 March 2014: please click here
Background Info:
Respect and Listen - Excerpt from the Q&A session where John Pilger talks about the present child removals and the planned new adoption legislation - 20 Feb 2014
The Guardian - Tony Abbott's cuts directly hurt Aboriginal children - 20 Feb 2014
Indigenous specialist services have been slashed by a tidal wave of cuts. This has a direct impact on the health and safety of thousands of Aboriginal children ...
The Stringer - Stolen Generations continues but worse than ever - 15 Feb 2014
Grandmothers Against Removals was formed by NSW regional Gunnedah grandmothers who
have been broken by the record number of removals by our State Governments - yes by
Governments - of their grandchildren from their Mothers. According to grandmother Hazel
Collins, the Stolen Generations continues and in numbers never-before-known. Ms Collins
travelled from regional Gunnedah, with affected families from across the State and from interstate
to NSW Parliament to raise awareness of the record number of children being removed, and the
cycle of devastation this is causing to the communities of First Nations peoples....
NITV - Gunnedah grandmothers rally against removal of Indigenous kids - 13 Feb 2014
On the sixth anniversary of the Australian government's apology to the Stolen Generations, grandmothers from Gunnedah have protested against what they say is a new generation of stolen children. ...
Canberra Times - Fears over rise in Canberra's indigenous children in care - 13 Feb 2014
Canberra's indigenous children risk becoming part of another ''stolen generation'', the head of Australia's peak Aboriginal childcare body says.
The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care is demanding answers from the ACT government about large numbers of local indigenous children who have been taken from their families by social services.
Secretariat CEO Frank Hytten said unconscious prejudice and a lack of support for families could be contributing to the large numbers of indigenous children in care across Australia.
The latest report on government services published by the Productivity Commission found that on June 30 last year at least 140 of the 559 children in out-of-home care in Canberra were indigenous. ...
Media Release: Grandmothers demand DOCS return stolen children on anniversary of apology - 13 Feb 2014: please click here
Related flyer: please click here
ABC - Too many Aboriginal children in state care in NSW admits Family Services Minister Pru Goward - 13 Feb 2014
The New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services has conceded the number of Aboriginal children in care around the state is too high.
Pru Goward has made the admission ahead of a rally of Aboriginal grandmothers at State Parliament today.
It is six years since the Federal Parliament's apology to the Stolen Generations, but for Aunty Hazel it has meant nothing.
She says her grandmother and aunt were forcibly removed from their families and now four of her grandchildren are in care. ...
The Guardian - Aboriginal mothers like me still fear that our children could be taken away - 21 Jan 2014
Indigenous women have been told for the better part of two centuries that we're not fit to raise children. Time and time again, we have borne the brunt of racist and cruel policies ...
WGAR News - Background to 'Keeping Them Home': Campaign against Forced Aboriginal Adoption in the NT, Australia
Keeping Them Home
The most recent data shows that the number of children being moved into out-of-home care in the Northern Territory has just about doubled since 2007. Two-thirds of these children are being placed with non-Indigenous families away from their communities.
Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, as spokesperson for Yolngu Makarr Dhuni calls for this trend to be reversed by increasing family support services in communities. He has written to the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Adam Giles, asking him for his support. If you would like to support Dr Gondarra, please read the campaign letter below.
Letter from Dr Djiniyini Gondarra to Adam Giles: please click here
Campaign Letter: please click here
Background document: please click here
Petition: KEEPING THEM HOME -
Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families: please click here
Media Releases
STICS: please click here
'concerned Australians': please click here
Further Background Info/Articles:
NITV newsclip of 20 May 13 - about 6 mins into the video: please click here
WGAR Newsletter of 18 May 2013: please click here
SMH - Jeff McMullen - 15 March 2013: please click here


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Bloomsday security changes prompted by Boston bombing
SPOKANE, Wash. - If you want to watch your sister, or maybe dad, take off at the start line of Bloomsday this year you won't be able to, as race officials are making a big change to the start after the Boston Marathon bombing.
On Bloomsday morning Riverside is a sea of people, runners and spectators alike; this year, however, only people with a race bib can stand in the start area.
When runners start Bloomsday this year they won't have friends or family cheering them on. They'll have to wait for encouragement until they get further down the road.Bloomsday security changes
"We think its just another safety thing that will people will appreciate," race director Don Kardong said. "Everyone is a little concerned about safety right now, so I think this is a way that can help settle peoples nerves a little bit."
Thursday race officials went over the logistics of the race. Kardong said they're moving spectators out of the starting area on Riverside because of what happened at the Boston Marathon earlier this week.
Kardong himself has finished four Boston Marathons, and the images are still hard for him to see.
"It's just awful to watch, because you know everyone involved in Boston, they all put their heart and souls into it," he said.
Registration is right on track with 54,000 people signed up for the race but what happened in Boston could change that, Kardong added.
"It's hard to know, everyone has to make their own decisions on that, but we think people may see this as an opportunity to show their support for Boston, what happened in Boston. In that sense it could help get more people entered in Bloomsday. And there will be some people that will say 'I'm nervous and I'm not going to do it,'" he said.


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By Tiernan Ray
Folks, The Consumer Electronics Show 2013 will kick off Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, with the usual State of the Industry talks and PowerPoint slides. Yours truly will be there to cover the happenings all week long, God help me.
Something called Maroon 5, which apparently the kids listen to these days, will be there. So will Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson. will.i.am will be on hand, as he has been in past. L.L. Cool J, who is now known as a TV star, will be there, as will Dr. Oz. Ariana Huffington will host Deepak Chopra and others in a discussion of something called the "Digital health revolution."
But in the meantime, the Street today was gearing up for golf, gambling, and gadgets with a flood of previews telling you what to look for:
Brian Blair, Wedge Partners: Expect 13-megapixel cameras "to emerge as the new high-end standard." OmniVision (OVTI) is one to watch as a sensor provider. On smartphones, bigger screens will be the norm, as "more 4.5 inch and 5 inch screens will be seen next week with the continued directional trend being 'bigger = better.' We even understand that there will be an attempt to outbig the Galaxy Note 2 screen with a 6 inch phablet, further blurring the line between huge smartphones and 7 inch tablets." Corning (GLW) will be one to watch as it shows its "Gorilla Glass 3." Asian smartphone makers will have a presence, and not just ZTE and Huawei, but also "little-known players like Oppo and Xiaomi." And once again, he predicts, Qualcomm (QCOM) will be "the brains behind nearly every major global smartphone and tablet. Sure, there will be some examples of competitive offerings, but 2013 mobile will again be owned by Qualcomm." "The Microsoft (MSFT) Surface tablet thus far has been a dud but expect CES to showcase a number of new entrants into the Windows 8 Tablet segment with more licensees, shapes, sizes and price points than can be tracked." In TV sets, "the TV OS will be the headline story" as the chips in the sets "take a giant leap" and the user interface gets closer to what you know in a tablet or smartphone.
Bobby Burleson, Canaccord Genuity: The show will see Broadcom (BRCM) and Nvidia (NVDA) "garner considerable attention" because of the ramp-up of "Long Term Evolution," or LTE, 4G cellular links, "and connectivity opportunities." Three-dimensional printing mavens 3D Systems (DDD) "will be in focus due to the disruptive potential of its technology and business model" and will probably "highlight their Cube (consumer 3D printer), Cubify.com (apps ecosystem for 3D content) and their new additions to their print material portfolio." Atmel (ATML) will be talking about its touch controller business in multiple gadgets, including Windows 8 tablets, and "While smartphones are likely to drive a diminishing share of Atmel's overall touch revenue (we estimate roughly 45% in 2013, down from roughly 65% in 2011), notebooks and tablets are more than taking up the slack." Broadcom's "open house" for investors will likely focus "on the 802.11ac WiFi opportunity, timing of their 4G LTE solution launch and design traction for their newly launched BCM28155 integrated SoC (integrated Apps processor, GPU, ISP and HSPA+ Thin Modem – designed into Samsung Galaxy S2+)." Intel (INTC) will show "newer touch enabled convertible hybrid designs" and "their new low power Atom processors targeted at Win 8 tablets," although adoption of ultrabooks will struggle until the things reach a $599 to $799 price point, he thinks. From Nvidia, he's expecting to hear about "Tegra revenue targets for C2013, the timing of their integrated LTE modem/apps processor launch and the market share gains for Kepler."
Daniel Berenbaum, MKM Partners: "We don't expect a lot in the way of truly innovative products," he writes. The most interesting part of the show, in his view, is "INTC's aggressive schedule, with five investor sessions on the calendar – we sense the company is moving toward either a more aggressive reference design program or perhaps even considering manufacturing certain end products itself in order to take full advantage of the compute capabilities in its CPUs." In the very next breath, Berenbaum writes "We also see a foundry relationship with Apple (AAPL) as increasingly likely [for Intel], as it would be beneficial to both parties. Investor pushback has been along the lines of potential capex requirements from an AAPL foundry arrangement. Our calculations suggest that even half of AAPL's A6 production would only require to 40k-50k wafers per year, and absorb 1%-2% of INTC's capacity."


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North Myrtle Beach Mayfest on MainLocation: Hillside Dr. to Ocean Blvd. on Main Street, North Myrtle Beach
Get your summer started in North Myrtle Beach during the month of May. The 11th annual Mayfest on Main festival will feature some fun for all ages! Bring your beach chair or blanket if you plan on enjoying the live entertainment and get ready for a fun-filled day!
During the event you can shop in the downtown shops and enjoy the festival events with the entire family. There will be a kids' area, stage, performers, arts and crafts and tasty eats all day long!


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IN the autumn of 1862 Richard Calmady went up to Oxford. Not through ostentation, but in obedience to the exigencies of the case, his going was in a somewhat princely sort, so that the venerable city, moved from the completeness of her scholarly and historic calm, turned her eyes, in a flutter of quite mundane excitement, upon the new‐comer. Julius March accompanied Richard. Time and thought had moved forward; but the towers and spires of Oxford, her fair cloisters and enchanting gardens, her green meadows and noble elms, her rivers, Isis and Cherwell, remained as when Julius, too, had been among the young and ardent of her sons. He was greatly touched by this return to the Holy City of his early manhood. He renewed old friendships. He reviewed the past, taking the measure calmly of what life had promised, what it had given of good. A pleasant house had been secured in St. Giles's; and a contingent of the Brockhurst household, headed by Winter, went with the two gentlemen, while Chaplin and a couple of grooms preceded them, in charge of a goodly number of horse‐boxes.
For that first saddle, fashioned now some six years ago by Josiah Appleyard of Farley Row, had worked something as near a miracle as ever yet was worked by pigskin. It was a singularly ugly saddle, running up into a peak front and back, furnished with a complicated system of straps and buckles and—in place of stirrups and stirrup‐leathers—with a pair of contrivances resembling old‐fashioned holsters. Mary Cathcart's brown eyes had grown moist on first beholding it. And Colonel Ormiston had exclaimed:—"Good God! Oh, well, poor dear little chap, I page: 165 suppose it's the best we can do for him." An ugly saddle—yet had Josiah Appleyard ample reason to skip, lamb‐like, being glad. For, ugly or not, it fulfilled its purpose, bringing custom to the maker, and happiness and health to the owner of it.
The boy rode fearlessly, while exercise and exertion begot in him a certain light‐heartedness and audacity good to see. The window‐seat of the Long Gallery, the bookshelves of the library, knew him but seldom now. He was no less courteous, no less devoted to his mother, no less in admiration of her beauty; but the young barbarian was wide awake in Dickie, and drove him out of doors, on to the moorland or into the merry green‐wood, with dog, and horse, and gun. On his well‐broken pony he shot over the golden stubble fields in autumn; brought down his pheasants, stationed at the edge of the great coverts; went out for long afternoons, rabbiting in the warrens and field banks, escorted by spaniels and retrievers, and keepers carrying lithe, lemon‐coloured ferrets tied up in a bag.
Later, when he was older,—but this tried Katherine somewhat, reminding her too keenly of another Richard Calmady and days long dead,—Winter, a trifle reluctant at such shortening of his own virtuous slumbers, would call Dickie and help dress him, all in the grey of the summer morning; while, at the little arched doorway in the west front, Chifney and a groom with a led horse would await his coming, and the boy would mount and ride away from the great, sleeping house. At such times a charm of dewy freshness lay on grass and woodland, on hill and vale. The morning star grew pale and vanished in the clear‐flashing delight of sunrise, as Richard rode forth to meet the string of racers; as he noted the varying form and fortune of Rattlepate or Sweet Rosemary, of Yellow Jacket, Morion or Light‐o'‐Love, over the short, fragrant turf of the gallop; as he felt the virile joy which the strength of the horses, and the pounding rush of them as they swept past him, ever aroused in him, Then he would ride on, by a short‐cut, to the old, red‐brick rubbing‐house, crowning the rising ground on the farther side of the lake, and wait there to see the finish, talking of professional matters with Chifney meanwhile; or, turning his horse's head towards the wide, distant view, sit silent, drawing near to nature and worshipping—with the innocent gladness of a still virgin heart—in the Temple of the Dawn.
Life at Oxford was set in a different key. The university city was well disposed towards this young man of so great wealth and so strange fortunes; and Richard was unsuspicious, and ready enough to meet friendliness half‐way. Yet it must be page: 166 owned he suffered many bad quarters of an hour. He was, at once, older in thought and younger in practical experience than his fellow‐undergraduates. He was cut off, of necessity, from their sports. They would eat his breakfasts, drink his wine, and show no violent objection to riding his horses. They were considerate, almost anxiously careful of him, being generous and good‐hearted lads. And yet poor Dick was perturbed by the fear that they were more at ease without him, that his presence acted as a slight check upon their genial spirits and their rattling talk. And so it came about that though his acquaintances were many, his friends were few. Chief among the latter was Ludovic Quayle, a younger son of Lord Fallowfeild—whom that kindly, if not very intelligent, nobleman had long ago proposed to export from the Whitney to the Brockhurst nursery with a view to the promotion of general cheerfulness. Mr. Ludovic Quayle was a rather superfine, young gentleman, possessed of an excellent opinion of himself, and a modest opinion of other persons—his father included. But under his somewhat supercilious demeanour there was a vein of true romance. He loved Richard Calmady. And neither time, nor opposing interests, nor certain black chapters which had later to be read in the history of life, destroyed or even weakened that love.
And so Dick, finding himself at sad disadvantage with most of the charming young fellows about him in matters of play, turned to matters of work, letting go the barbarian side of life for a while. In brain, if not in body, he believed himself the equal of the best of them. His ambition was fired by the desire of intellectual triumph. He would have the success of the schools, since the success of the river and the cricket‐field were denied him. Not that Richard set any exaggerated value upon academic honours. Only two things are necessary—this at least was his code at that period—never to lapse from the instincts of high‐breeding and honour, and to see just as much of life, of men and of affairs, as obedience to those instincts permits. Already the sense of proportion was strong in Richard, fed perhaps by the galling sense of personal deformity. Learning is but a part of the whole of man's equipment, and a paltry enough part unless wisdom go along with it. But the thirst of battle remained in him; and in this matter of learning, at least, he could meet men of his own age and standing on equal terms and overcome them in fair fight.
And so, during the last two years of his university course, he did meet them and overcame, honours falling liberally to his share. Julius March looked on in pleased surprise at the page: 167 exploits of his former pupil. While Ludovic Quayle, with raised eyebrows and half‐tender, half‐ironical amusement relaxing the corners of his remarkably beautiful mouth, would say:—
"Calmady, you really are a shameless glutton! How many more immortal glories, any one of which would satisfy an ordinary man, do you propose to swallow "
"I suppose it's a bad year," Richard would answer. "The others can't amount to very much, or, needless to say, I shouldn't walk over the course."
"A charming little touch of modesty as far as you yourself are concerned," Ludovic answered. "But not strikingly flattering to the others. I would rather suppose you abnormally clever, than all the rest abnormally stupid—for, after all, you know, am not I, my great self, among the rest?"
At which Dickie would laugh rather shamefacedly, and say:—"Oh you!—why you know well enough you could do anything you liked if you weren't so confoundedly lazy!"
And meanwhile, at Brockhurst, as news arrived of these successes, Lady Calmady's soul received comfort. Her step was light, her eyes full of clear shining as she moved to and fro ordering the great house and great estate. She felt repaid for the bitter pain of parting with her darling, and sending him forth to face the curious, possibly scornful, world of the university city. He had proved himself and won his spurs. And this solaced her in the solitude and loneliness of her present life. For her dear friend and companion Marie de Mirancourt had found the final repose, before seeking that of the convent. Early one February morning, in the second year of Richard's sojourn at Oxford, fortified by the rites of the Church, she had passed the gates of death peacefully, blessing and blessed. Katherine mourned for her, and would continue to mourn with still and faithful sorrow, even while welcoming home her young scholar, hearing the details of his past achievements and hopes for the future, or entertaining—with all gracious hospitality—such of his Oxford friends as he elected to invite to Brockhurst.
It was on one of these last occasions, the young men having gone down to the Gun‐Room to smoke and discuss the day's pheasant‐shooting, that Katherine had kept Julius March standing before the Chapel‐Room fire, and had looked at him, a certain wistfulness in her face.
"He is happy—don't you think, Julius?" she said. "He seems to me really happier, more contented, than I have ever seen him since his childhood."page: 168
"Yes, I also think that," Julius answered. "He has reason to be contented. He has measured himself against other men and is satisfied of his own powers."
"Everyone admires him at Oxford?"
"Yes, they admire and envy him. He has been brilliantly successful."
Katherine drew herself up, clasping her hands behind her, and smiling proudly as she mused, gazing into the crimson heart of the burning logs. Then, after a silence, she turned suddenly to her companion.
"It is very sweet to have you here at home again, Julius," she said gently. "I have missed you sorely since dearest Marie de Mirancourt died. Live a little longer than I do, please. Ah! I am afraid it is no small thing that I ask you to do for my sake, for I foresee that I shall survive to a lamentably old age. But sacrifice yourself, Julius, in the matter of living. Less than ever, when the shadows fall, shall I be able to spare you."
For which words of his dear lady's, though spoken lightly, half in jest, Julius March gave God great thanks that night.
It was about this period that two pieces of news, each proving eventually to have much personal significance, reached Lady Calmady from the outside world. The first took the form of a letter—a rather pensive and tired letter—from her brother, William Ormiston, telling her that his daughter Helen was about to marry the Comte de Vallorbes, a young gentleman very well known both to Parisian and Neapolitan society. The second took the form of an announcement in the Morning Post, to the effect that Lady Tobermory, whose lamented death that paper had already chronicled, had left the bulk of her not inconsiderable fortune to her god‐daughter Honoria, eldest child of that distinguished officer General St. Quentin. In both cases Lady Calmady wrote letters of congratulation, in the latter with very sincere and lively pleasure. She held her cousin, General St. Quentin, in affection for old sake's sake. Honoria she remembered as a singularly graceful, high‐bred, little maiden, fleet of foot as a hind—too fleet of foot indeed for little Dickie's comfort of mind, and therefore banished from the Brockhurst nursery. In the former case, her congratulations being somewhat conventional, she added—in her own name and that of Richard—a necklace of pearls, with a diamond clasp and bars to it, of no mean value.
In the spring of 1865 Richard left Oxford for good, and took up his residence once more at Brockhurst. But it was page: 169 not until the autumn of the following year, when he had reached the age of three‐and‐twenty, and had already, for some six months, served his Queen and country in the capacity of Justice of the Peace for the county of Southampton, that any event occurred greatly affecting his fortunes, and therefore worthy to set forth at large in this history.


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These delicious pancakes are light and moist; the texture is a cross between a crepe and a pancake. Avoid overmixing the batter (it's okay if there are lumps) to ensure that the pancakes will be airy.
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I am in the minority here but my pancakes were mushy. I changed the temp around to try and play with it but never really got it right. The flavor was excellent, however the mess of trying to cook and flip was stressful and not worth it to me. I don't think I over-mixed the batter but I suppose it is possible. I doubt I will make again.
These pancakes are fantastic -- foolproof and delicious! Must be the cornmeal that gives them a slightly crunchy crust. I would go whole milk all the way -- low-fat has more sugar which is less good for you than fat. The topping is quite good and quick to make -- though I also like plain maple syrup or fruit spread. Next time I'm going to mix in some blueberries. Can't wait!
I was looking for a yogurt pancake recipe and found this one. (I had a lot of Trader Joe's European Style yogurt I needed to use up.) I didn't have all the required ingredients so made the following substitutions: Instead of buttermilk, I used 7/8 cup of yogurt (including the whey) plus 1/8 cup milk. I didn't have brown sugar so I used 2 heaping tablespoons of turbinado sugar instead. I didn't have corn meal so I used 2T almond meal instead. The pancakes still came out well (though I'm guessing not quite as fluffy as if I had used buttermilk). They were sweet enough on their own so I didn't use any syrup or make the apple compote. I had a little trouble getting the griddle to the right temperature so that they cooked through without getting too dark, but that is user error, not the fault of the recipe! (I don't make pancakes very often.)
This is my favorite pancake recipe. It's the only I use anymore. They always turn out great, with such a wonderful, light texture. As other reviewers have said it's best when made exactly as written, although sometimes I use flavored whole yogurt like coconut or honey for a slightly different flavor.
I don't like pancakes -- they're always heavy and doughy with little flavor. My kids and husband love pancakes, so I try new recipes to amuse myself. These are, hands down, the best pancakes I've ever tried. Ever. Am now a pancake fan (which may or may not be progress) One change: I read in another recipe to let the batter stand for ten minutes before making them and it really makes them lighter. Makes about 16 pancakes.
My oldest daughter took the Bisquick to a pancake feed for some professional football players for a promo for the radio station she works for. We planned on having pancakes for breakfast that morning so I was miffed that the Bisquick disappeared, but I didn't want to go to the store to replace it. So a-searching on the internet I went to find a four star pancake recipe. I scored with this recipe! Since that morning we've made this recipe at least a dozen times. It is the best. It produces fantastic tasting pancakes that smell delicious and brown to perfection. After making a number of variations on this recipe, I agree with reviewer "eeblet from Oakland". The recipe is best when made exactly as described. However, since I am a consummate tinkerer, I had to try some variations. They were all excellent. One time I substituted probiotic soy yogurt for the whole -fat yogurt. Excellent! Another time I made them using half white flour and half "white whole wheat" flour (King Arthur), also very good but you have to add a little more liquid to get the pancakes to be the right consistency. I added a little more buttermilk. The poor Seahawks! They got the Bisquick pancakes while we dined like, well, Superbowl champs! No more Bisquick pancakes for this family!
Try not to substitute if you can! I've made this many times, sometimes substituting low-fat yogurt for whole-fat, milk w/vinegar for buttermilk, or yogurt for buttermilk -- and it's delicious every time... But it is by far the most perfect when using both whole-fat yogurt and (if you can find it!) whole-fat buttermilk. Best pancakes I've ever had when made as written. I'm just "meh" about the apples though -- a tiny bit of syrup or jam is all that these perfect pancakes need.
Love buttermilk pancakes. I like topping mine with cinnamon infused maple syrup http://ofpotsandpens.com/2012/09/19/whole-wheat-buttermilk-pancakes-with-cinnamon-infused-maple-syrup/
This is the most delightful pancake you will ever eat. Every time I make them I end up sharing the recipe with the eaters. They really are a cross between a crepe and a pancake which makes them delicate and perfectly delicious- not giving you that heavy cake feeling but the perfect brunch feel. You can eat a few or many. I also have added banana or blueberry to the cakes instead of the apple syrup and its a true taste sensation.
Quick and easy and very tasty. This recipe makes a very tender pancake. Do not foget the maple apple topping--it makes the recipe!


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Bank of America's (BAC) stock has doubled this year, as it bounces back from the near-destructive lows it hit in the wake of the financial crisis. But even though it seems to be regaining investor faith and is just about making money, the bank's problems are far from over.
Much of it comes down to one word: Countrywide. The mortgage lender which BofA bought in early 2008 when former CEO Ken Lewis decided that the cusp of a housing crash was the right time to double down on mortgages is still creating a huge headache for executives and investors. This is a deal that some suggest will end up costing BofA $40 billion, remember.
The lede of this Bloomberg story says it all:
Bank of America Corp. has amassed $64 billion of mortgages that are at least six months delinquent and have yet to enter foreclosure, more than twice the amount held by its four largest competitors combined…
Delays in processing the loans add to the expenses borne by investors because maintenance, property taxes and other costs add up. While rising prices may make the mortgage-backed securities more valuable, servicers can be forced to come up with cash to cover interest payments from the delinquent loans and modifications become more difficult to accomplish as the borrower's unpaid debt grows.


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Baptist leaders speak at area revival at Hazelwood Baptist Church
|Hazelwood Baptist Church
|265 Hazelwood Ave.
|Oct 07, 2013
A local church will feature two prominent Baptist leaders in fall revival services Sunday, Oct. 6 through Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Hazelwood Baptist Church will begin revival at 10:50 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 with Marty Dupree, team leader of evangelism and church growth of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. A graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Dupree served as senior pastor of Central Baptist Church in Hildebran and also served as associate pastor for church ministries at First Baptist Church in Waynesville. Dupree will also speak in the Sunday evening service at 6 p.m. Oct. 6.
Dr. Gary Hearon will be featured in services at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Oct. 7 to 9. Hearon is the executive director emeritus of the Dallas Baptist Association where he retired in 2006, having served since 1985. He worked with more than 560 congregations weekly worshipping in 74 different languages and dialects. A former pastor of First Baptist Church in Waynesville, and pastor for 24 years in Texas and North Carolina, Hearon holds degrees from Baylor University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Dallas Baptist Seminary.
Hazelwood Baptist is located at 265 Hazelwood Ave. The revival is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the church at 456-9434.


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Palo Alto City Manager set to receive 25% raise in supplemental retirement income
Original post made by The Shadow Knows, Downtown North, on Apr 1, 2013
That increase will take place this coming September on the 5th anniversary of his employment with the City, and is in addition to his PERS retirement and 457 eligible deferred compensation as provided to other employees. This increase will bring the total amount of the annual contribution by the City to this special fund up to $51,000 per year, in addition to his published salary of $247,187.20, or a total monetary compensation, not including benefits, of $298,187.20 per year!
The details are as follows. When Keene was hired by the City in 2008 an "Employment Agreement" was negotiated and executed. That agreement provides, in section 5.2, for establishment of a "Government Money Purchase Retirement Plan" under the provisions of IRS code section 401(a). This allows the creation of a separate deferred compensation account whereby the employer (City) pays the allowable funds DIRECTLY into an account without it having to pass through the employee's base salary, paycheck, or deductions - as would a regular 457 plan or IRA.
The agreement was signed by then Mayor Larry Klein on August 26th, 2008.
The Employment agreement provides that Keene will be paid 50% of the allowable 401(a) annual maximum in years 1 - 3 of his employment, 75% in years 3 - 5, and 100% after 5 years, which will occur this September. The maximum contribution for 2013 is $51,000, and the 25% increase from the 2012 maximum is the aforementioned $ 13,500 per year raise.
Interestingly, no mention of this supplemental retirement account or funding can be found in the City's web site published list of "Salary Rate Sheets" for "Council-Appointed and Elected Officers" dated 10/6/12, nor in the City Budget as a distinct line item. The rate sheet is where the $247,187.20 salary is found.
Why would a City and a City Manager who claim to pride themselves on openness and transparency choose to provide such an significant amount of compensation in such an obscure, undisclosed, and seemingly intentionally hidden fashion? It would seem to be a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do".
One significant clue as to the motivation involved may be to look at Keene's employment history over the past 17 years or so:
* 1996 - 2000 City Manager of Berkeley CA
* 2000 - 2005 City Manger of Tuscon AZ
* 2005 - 2007 California Association of Counties
* 2007 - 2010 International City Managers Association
* 2010 - 2013 City Manager of Palo Alto
When one looks at these and other prior employment stops in Arizona and on the east coast one finds that Keene has no vested interest in the California PERS system (which requires a 5 year minimum tenure), and will not do so until his vesting upon his 5th anniversary with Palo Alto this September.
No wonder he said when he first started that he wanted to stay with Palo Alto for 10 years - even that would only give him a 27% retirement at an age in his late 60s!
It would appear that Palo Alto negotiated a deal with him creating the 401(a) supplemental retirement fund in order yo make up for his prior failures to vest in a system, possibly so as to attract him to employment there at all. If he stays the full 10 years that fund will total over $500,000.00, not including interest and appreciation! High risk and high stress are sometimes commensurate with high rewards - just not usually at taxpayer expense in the public sector!
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a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 1, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Edit to above post.
Keene's employment history should say:
* 2007 - 2008 International City Manager's Association
* 2008 - 2013 City Manger of Palo Alto
Also, the "yo" in the first line of the last paragraph should be a "to".
My apologies. apparently this system does not allow the original poster to edit their mistakes.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 1, 2013 at 4:55 pm
palo Alto keeps claiming that they are nearly broke, and have no money for extras.
What liars these dorks are!
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 1, 2013 at 11:13 pm
Stockton Bankruptcy - Stockton city management and its cozy relationship with its unions are the real culprits. This is true in Stockton as well as numerous other cities and school districts in California. Corrupt politician and political hacks solicit union donations and payback with unsustainable salaries, pensions and Cadillac medical coverage. Low information voters perpetuate the disaster by continuing to reelect the bums and approving endless bond issues. Palo Alto is not immune from these same forces.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 2, 2013 at 8:59 am
It is sickening that at a time when most people are losing retirement benefits completely, this guy not only gets a posh one, but then he gets a big increase! What did he do to deserve that, end world hunger?
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 2, 2013 at 9:32 am
@ Dorx
No, he didn't "end world hunger" He earned it by balancing the City Budget, primarily by means of cutting benefits for other City employees. Thus the irony and hypocrisy of his own increases......
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 2, 2013 at 10:46 am
Wouldn't his fifth year with Palo Alto be Sep 2015, if he started in 2010?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 2, 2013 at 11:29 am
Can anything be done about this particular situation, I don't think this is right or fair, at least from the explanations here. Any significant expenditure for the city that we all pay for should be explained clearly with detail and justified.
Why is it that virtually anything I see an article about something concerning the city it is a negative story about incompetence or favoritism?
Anyone who works hard to screw regular citizens out of money sure seems to be rewarded big time these days ... and we can see where that has led to.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 2, 2013 at 3:37 pm
@ Tim :
My apologies, read the edit which is the first post under the story. He started in 2008; five years is 2013.
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