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Pleasanton Teachers Give Concessions to Help PUSD
Original post made by PTA Mom, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on May 12, 2011
Thank you to all the Pleasanton Teachers who work so hard, gave up so much, and plan on working even harder next year. Many of us parents who have supported you and the schools through the last 3 years, are thankful for your dedication and love of the job and our children.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 12, 2011 at 8:13 pm
The CSEA union (non-teachers) are the ones who gave the concessions of furlough days to the district; not the teacher's union. The only items the teacher's union gave were:
# The agreement suspends the collaboration period at the comprehensive high schools for 2011-12. Schools may elect to schedule some class periods from their staffing allotment outside of the regular six period day in order to make some availability for seven period schedules (e.g. A or B period classes.) Estimated budget savings of $448,000.
# Continue the suspension of Voluntary Staff Development Days for teachers and continue suspension of the Teacher Support and Training Advisory Committee and associated teacher stipend for 2011-12. Estimated budget savings of $395,000.
The other item that they say is saving the district the most is allowing the staffing ratios to increase. They don't have a choice on this matter since we have to lay off teachers and have to educate the students of the city so of course the staffing ratios are going to increase. That is a false savings. They say this saves $880,000 but in reality it saves nothing because we have to do layoffs.
Of course there are still step and column raises which are actually more than the concessions of the union.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 12, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Since there are no more APT certificated furlough days for next year (last year there were 5 unpaid furlough days), this means that PUSD will be spending 2.78% more on payroll for APT members than last year. What that means is that in addition to step and column, there is an across the board pay increase consisting of 5 more paid days for each APT member next year. That means in addition to step and column increases, teachers will receive an increase of around $3 million next year compared to the last school year.
So the classified staff came through with furlough days, the certificated staff did not.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 12, 2011 at 9:37 pm
To Salary schedule:
Let's keep our eye on the ball: don't we want the kids to be back in school for those five days? Shouldn't we be thinking about the kids? Many teachers were happy to consider furlough days, but we were encouraged to keep the kids in school, so we found other ways to cut. Is 1.7 MILLION not enough for you?
And I love how you think replacing five lost days is a raise! Talk about spinning the truth! If you want to call that a raise, be sure to include that my health care costs go up every year (which comes out of the teachers' paychecks, the district does not cover that). Is that somehow a raise?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2011 at 9:20 am
To Get the facts:
There are not 1.7 million in savings from APT. Most of that money is from "allowing" the district to lay off teachers that there is no money for.
Only in government can you have the situation where you have to lay off somebody because of lack of funds and then the union claims that as a concession/savings. The APT union is giving the public a great reason to get rid of public employee unions.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2011 at 10:20 am
Respectfully, have you not spent the last year shouting from the rooftops that the furloughs were a pay cut? So to suspend them would be a pay raise.
You can't have it both ways just because it now suits your purpose to change your interpretation.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2011 at 5:08 pm
"There are not 1.7 million in savings from APT. Most of that money is from "allowing" the district to lay off teachers that there is no money for.
Only in government can you have the situation where you have to lay off somebody because of lack of funds and then the union claims that as a concession/savings. The APT union is giving the public a great reason to get rid of public employee unions."
It is difficult to argue with your assesment. Another way savings are articulated is by eliminating unfilled positions. Don't ever expect a straight answer when the unions are involved.
Here is a good article, not from Danieal Borenstein, about Daniel Borenstein and his writings: Here is an excerpt:
By Jane Jamison
Daniel Borenstein of the Contra Costa Times in Northern California continues to be one of the very few TRUTH tellers in the mainstream media when it comes to the financial crisis being caused by public employee pensions.
He deserves a big hat tip for bravely reporting from a blue area in a blue state and throwing the disinfectant of "sunshine" on the facts Democrats and Big Labor don't want you to know. How he has survived his liberal editorial board members, I don't know, but keep writing, Dan.
Here is some very useful information that you will need as a "talking point" to fight the millions of dollars in advertising messages you are going to get from the California public employees. As you might expect, they are LYING like crazy to keep the public in the dark about their fat, overbloated salaries, pensions, health insurance and benefits.
Daniel Borenstein: Public employee pensions much higher than advertised
There's not much more than lip service being paid by Governor Jerry Brown to pension reform in California. After all, they OWN him to the tune of at LEAST $20 million in campaign donations this last go 'round.
But even the tiniest bit of public resistance and discussion about touching public employee pensions is being shouted down by the unions and even by another of their sobsister-on-payroll apologists, Treasurer William Lockyer.
The public employees are trying to tell California that they really are just poor, hard-working public servants who are scraping by on an average of $27,000 a year in retirement. Have you heard that figure being used? Of course you have....
True or false?
Reporter Borenstein says without a doubt, FALSE.
In fact, CalPERS data shows the average career public employee, who put in at least 30 years of service and retired in the 2008-09 fiscal year, collected a starting pension of $67,000 a year, or 2.5 times the advertised figure. The higher number is buried deep in the retirement system's financial statement and never makes it to the promotional material CalPERS hands out.
The pension numbers are even higher for the separate local retirement systems that cover employees of the two East Bay county governments. The average was $85,500 for career workers who retired in 2009 from the Contra Costa system, and $83,000 from Alameda County."
More here: Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2011 at 10:20 pm
To show how crazy its getting w/ state employees and unions did anyone read about the Newport lifeguard who gets to retire @ the age of 51, receive a government retirement of over $108,000 per year for the rest of his life?
He will make well over $3 million in retirement if he lives to age 80!
I hope I posted the link correctly. If not, you can google. It was on Real Clear Politics recently. well worth a read.
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a resident of Foothill Farms
on May 13, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Yeah, I read that article. The guy's name was David Hasseldorf.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Lifeguarding in OC is totally lucrative; some make over $200k
"High pay and benefits for lifeguards in Newport Beach is the latest example of frustrating levels of compensation for public employees. More than half the city's full-time lifeguards are paid a salary of over $100,000 and all but one of them collect more than $100,000 in total compensation including benefits...Newport Beach, lifeguards are compensated all too well; especially compared with the county annual median household income of $71,735."
"Brent Jacobsen, president of the Lifeguard Management Association, defended the lifeguard pay in Newport Beach: "We have negotiated very fair and very reasonable salaries in conjunction with comparable positions and other cities up and down the coast"
- Of course the compensation seems reasonable compared to unreasonable compensation from other comparable cities up and down the coast. That's how it works. Unions neglect the reality of private sector compensation by only bargaining based on the highest compensation of their overcompensated counterparts.
"Lifeguard salaries here are well within the norm of other city employees (note: are other cities paying attention)." And therein is the problem: Local public worker pay has become all too generous and out of line with private sector equivalents."
"Lifeguards are organized as part of the fire department."
- Of course. Why not hitch your wagon to some of the highest paid public servants on the planet.
a resident of Vineyard Hills
on May 15, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Please don't continue to lump teachers' pensions with the ones you that cited. My pension would be $38,400 at 55 after 31 years of teaching with no medical coverage. I am looking at my STRS paperwork right now. Medical coverage would cost at least $12,000 a year, so of course I won't even consider retirement at 55. Luckily I still love my job. But, I guess I should have continued lifeguarding if I wanted a earlier and larger pension. I didn't realize so many public employees had benefits, salaries, and pensions far superior to teachers until reading this blog. And to those who say I should contribute to a 401 like the rest of you, I do and have since my second year of teaching.
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on May 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm
A $38K pension isn't lucrative but it's 38K more per year than I will get after 31 years in the private sector. I haven't had a raise in 3 years and my medical costs have gone up every year.
Teachers should not receive guaranteed salary increases (step & column) while we are eliminating positions, reducing school days and increasing class sizes. While Pleasanton has many exceptional teachers, current economic realities don't warrant raises.
PUSD needs to make some tough choices (contract support services, freeze teacher salaries). Also, those who voted no on E need to recognize that poor choices by the State will result in significant funding reductions to our schools, regardless of what actions the school board takes.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 15, 2011 at 8:01 pm
"Please don't continue to lump teachers' pensions with the ones you that cited. My pension would be $38,400 at 55 after 31 years of teaching with no medical coverage."
What state do you teach in? No teacher with 30 years experience in Pleasanton will retire with less than 54K, and the number will be much higher for most. Maybe I'm missing something but I beleive CA Teachers receive a pension beginning at 60, and receive 2% of their pay for each year worked based on final salary. If they work until age 63 they receive 2.4% of compensation times years worked. Teachers have also been diverting 2% of their pension contribution toward retirement health care for the past decade, with a taxpayer guaranteed minimum rate of return, so they do receive some retiree medical coverage.
Am I wrong about that?
a resident of Vineyard Hills
on May 15, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Wrong, I'm looking at my statement...and I teach in Pleasanton. I could have a reach a higher pension if I teach 35 years and retire at 60.
a resident of Vineyard Hills
on May 15, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Oops grammatical mistake. I could reach a higher pension at 60 years of age and 35 years of teaching. Many of you assume things that aren't true.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 16, 2011 at 7:46 am
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This is a page at the CaSTRS site so everyone has the same information. It is important to note that few teachers are eligible to also collect from Social Security, even if they contributed.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 16, 2011 at 9:34 am
"Teachers should not receive guaranteed salary increases (step & column) while we are eliminating positions, reducing school days and increasing class sizes. While Pleasanton has many exceptional teachers, current economic realities don't warrant raises."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 16, 2011 at 9:51 am
"Teachers should not receive guaranteed salary increases (step & column) while we are eliminating positions, reducing school days and increasing class sizes. While Pleasanton has many exceptional teachers, current economic realities don't warrant raises."
As a teacher in the Bay Area comments like the one above truly frustrate due to a couple of points below.
1. With all the furlough days we have taken the past couple of years, even with my step and column moving up I have still taken a cut of approximately $1200/year. So, for those arguing you haven't gotten a raise in the public sector neither have we. In fact we have taken cuts to our pay. Spin it whatever way you would like but I know the facts of my paychecks and tax documents.
2. When we were fighting districts for a 2-3% COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment)the state passed down 7+ years ago to offset living costs such as healthcare (that was going up MUCH more than 2% yearly)what was going on in the private sector? People were walking into their bosses office and negotiating raises of 10+%.
When times are good, we are not getting raises like those in the private sector, we know that, accept it and move on. We would like at least the respect deserved of cost of living adjustments that the state provides. Even then some districts try to hold on to the money and we fight it. For a measely 1, 2, 3%. We rarely/never find ourselves in the situation of a double digit pay increase percentage. We know it is a trade off to more job security (although such security is not what it once was).
We are certainly not expecting any COLA right now. It is unrealistic, but when the state is doing well and people in the private sector are getting huge bonuses, vacations, etc. we are still working for your children to educate them, create contributing members of society and being pretty much forgotten by many others. The economy starts to go south and we are the evil enemy bilking all the money out of the state. I know that people are more educated than this, the teachers unions did not cause the current financial situation anywhere in the country. Maybe people need to look a bit closer to their own private sector employers for the cause.
a resident of Ironwood
on May 24, 2011 at 9:20 am
With great respect to the commentator above, a $1200 reduction in a year's pay is much less a loss than many in the private sector have taken. I have seen jobs reposted at 25% less money, and this has been talked about a lot in the news recently. As for the idea that private sector people walk into the office of the boss and negotiate a 10% raise, I have no idea where that notion comes from, but it's fiction for the past 10 years. To do something that foolish is just asking to be classified as a disgruntled employee and let go at the next opportunity. I have been in private sector business quite a few years and I have not seen raises in the private sector more than 3% which is being described by teachers as "measly". Given that many people deal with flat or falling pay these days, I'll take the "measly" 3% with humble gratitude and appreciation of actually having a job. On the idea that there are "huge bonuses and vacations" for those int he private sector, please send the goodies over to me. I have had no fancy vacation and no huge bonus in a decade. If you think that Wall Street outrages are representative of the private sector, that is mistaken. They are a bizarre exception and have been so for a very long time. And finally, the suggestion that when times are good the private sector races ahead is missing two considerations: it isn't true, and it doesn't account for the compensating job security. Try an at-will private sector job some time and let us know how it feels to be dismissed or offshored on little or no notice with a child and a mortgage! At least teaching as tough as it is has a lock-in employment security for the duration of the school year.
So, here's an alternate vision to replace the whining about lost COLA and all the other complaints I have seen: be ever thankful to live in America where there is freedom, opportunity, and hope!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 24, 2011 at 10:09 pm
"Property Perspective",
The "private sector" work you do must not be in silicon valley. I work in VLSI design, and 10% increases are not unusual at all these days. I know a lot of the same competition for workers exists in many of the software fields as well. We have had to give emergency raises and bonuses to stem defections, and it is not just our company. Google, Apple, and others are all facing this.


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Fable was released to the public yesterday and the big question on everyone's mind is "With Peter M.'s promises being whittled down, is Fable all that it was advertised to be?" Well, the short answer is yes.
You start off as a young kid in a villiage living with your dad, sister, and absentee mom. Life is simple but almost immediately you are thrown many choices that will force you to one moral side or the other. For instance, a farmer wants you to stand by some crates and watch things while his goes and 'uses the facilities'. Do you stand there while a group of kids trys to taunt you into breaking into the farmer's property? Do you succumb to their taunts and break into the barrels and then run off shirking your promise to stay put? Do you agree to stay put, go and break the barrels, and then come back and pretend like nothing happened? Its a simple choice, but you'll find that they get far more complex later on. Its always simple when you are a kid....
Some horrible fate befalls your family and your mother and sister are taken hostage. You are rescued and whisked away to the Hero Guild for training. Here is where one of the hooks of the game hits you: A hero isn't always a good person. Being well known, doesn't always mean being well liked. If you a Nazi, Hitler would be your hero. If you are a Mongol, Ghengis Khan is your hero. If you are the guy that walks into town and everyone is terrified of you, you can say you are 'well known' or of 'high renown". You can also walk the light path and do the right thing making people love and respect you. To say that he game has replayability would be an understatement.
While at the Guild, you learn the three basic combat types: Melee, Ranged, and Magic. You are given all three in the guild, so you don't have to choose between them up front. As you progress through the game you will be able to specialize through general experience gained through adventuring or thorugh specialized experience gained by using one of the three combat types. If you are a caster, you might specialize in destruction spells. Practice makes perfect, so the more you use it, the more xp you can spend on it. I've not gotten far enough to see if trying to do all three will have a negative effect, but suffice to say you'll be more powerful if you specialize.
The graphics of the game are well done. The screenshots don't convey the amount of detail in the game. Each piece of armor you buy is graphically represented. Towns feel somewhat alive, and villagers seem to carry on about their business like they should. The whole game seems to have a haze or glow about it (which could easily go away as I slowly shift towards the horn-wearing tattoo type) which adds to the overall feel of the game. I've not encoutered any slowdown yet, even with 10-12 enemies on screen. This could change as we move into the higher level magic effects, but thus far its fantastic.
Loading is minimal. For the bulk of your adventuring, you'll load an area, adventure in it for a while, and then load the next area. You can always teleport back to the guild for new missions, so don't think you have to load 10 areas to get somewhere, and then reload them all to get back.
The voicework in the game is very good. Each character is voiced (even you to a degree with your emotes) and I've not encountered anybody that sounds like they might belong to a Resident Evil game.
I've just completed my training with the guild and taken my first mission. I've killed a bunch of wasps that were bothering some villagers. I faced off against their queen and defeated her as well. Villiagers came and celebrated my successes and it felt good. (Pride is a vice you know...) I'll show the Queen's head to anyone who will look...damn right I killed her!
We'll see what today's adventure brings...
(i.e. this will be a long running thing until the review, and perhaps beyond if you guys are interested)
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I have a hell of a lot more to write, but I'm kinda time-compressed at work. :/
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I LOVE the shakedowns! Don't care if they're 1 line or 50 pages!
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I LOVE the shakedowns!
Noone cares what you LOVE.
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Hey Ron -
When you get to it, I am most interested in your take on magic, the way it is handled, if you feel rushed when casting, the spell variety, etc. etc...
Please don't skimp on describing that when you get to it.
And ditto what jacktard-01 said about the shakedowns... I love 'em too.
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I LOVE the shakedowns! Don't care if they're 1 line or 50 pages!
Why is that? So you don't have to do them yourself?
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First off - It's Captain Jacktard and you are Irving Jacktard, my half-brother and butler at Jacktard Estates.
Second - The whole world hangs on my every whim! :wink:
Fourth, no wait.. Third - I can only shakedown sports games and even then it's like a 60 second shakedown.
Tenth - Nobody cares about magic. People just want to run around and bust heads. Prancing around the forest in a robe with a 'wand' turning enemies into snails or something is lame. Why bother getting out of bed?
Seventh - I have nothing left to say.
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I'm tired of playing the goody two-shoes in RPGs, so with Fable I'm going all out evil and see the darker side of things. :twisted:
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Here here Nth Power! I'm tired of being the good guy too.
As for magic, I find that some spells you need to start while the enemy is at far range, but for the most part you can fend them off or do severe damage before they can close to melee distance. For those foolish enough to use a bow, you can cook them with lightning all day.
I wouldn't say I feel 'rushed' as much as overwhelmed at this point. I strayed into an area that I was quite obviously not equipped for. I killed all the bandits in the area but it cost me every potion I had.
I have augmented my first weapon now. I have a Katana that has a flame augmentation. The sword burns while I swing it and causes a little extra flame-love to the enemies I hit with it. It'll be interesting to see if they are all simple modifiers like flame or if some will be epic-style stuff that gives you A but takes away B and makes you hideous to look at or something like that.
I wanted to also comment on the skill system. Becoming a Magic using Assassin is really as simple as going out there and doing it. Stealing gives you skill points that you can use to bump up your Guile skill and using magic gives you Will exp. You can also augment those experience points with general xp. (i.e. If it costs 500 xp to buy Fireball but you have 250 Will Xp and 1000 General XP, it'll take the 250 from your Will XP and then the remaining balance from your general XP) My goal is to eventually 'persuade' some folks to leave their shop and make me the new owner. Rumor has it that you can slaughter an entire town and own every building. We'll have to see about that....
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The back buffer format I am using is:
My GBuffer render targets are:
SV_Target0 is DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT
SV_Target1 is DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM
SV_Target2 is DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM
SV_Target3 is DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT
The texture used for my light pass (additive blending) is also DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT.
Here is an example of what is going on.
Any insight to possible fixes I may have missed would be greatly appreciated. I may be missing something obvious, and have just been staring at it for too long. If there is any other information I can supply to better troubleshoot this issue, just let me know.


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
NASHVILLE – There's no more guessing about the NCAA tournament status of Ole Miss.
Another inspired senior performance and more of the same from Marshall Henderson saw to that, as the Rebels completed a three-game run through the SEC tournament with their first championship since 1981, their second overall, rallying to beat No. 13 Florida 66-63 before 12,138 fans at Bridgestone Arena on Sunday afternoon.
With the win comes the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the Rebels' first trip since 2002. They'll play Wisconsin on Friday in Kansas City at 11:40 a.m.
As it happens, Ole Miss (26-8) completed the "getting in" part with its semifinal win over Vanderbilt. Sunday was about NCAA seeding.
More than that, it was about validation, a stamp of recognition on a conference season that began with six-straight wins before becoming yet another run to the bubble.
"This is obviously a big moment for our program," Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. "We knew this was possible if we stayed together and focused on the things we could control. I don't think we played outstanding basketball today, yesterday or Friday, but we played determined basketball."
The most determined Sunday was Murphy Holloway who led all scorers with 23 points on 11-for-14 shooting and had 10 rebounds to complete the double-double.
Holloway's free throw with 8.6 seconds left gave the Rebels a three-point margin and forced the Gators into a 3-point situation for their final shot.
The Rebels didn't let them get there as Nick Williams fouled Scotty Wilbekin in the open floor, a non-shooting situation.
Wilbekin missed the front end of a one-and-one. The Gators' Kenny Boynton rebounded but was way off the mark on a 3-point shot.
A 54.4 percent free throw shooter, Holloway said he didn't feel the pressure to make two.
He said, "Make one, just make one Murph," rang out in his head. "We wanted to win this. We had a chip in our shoulder."
Henderson, who was relegated along with Holloway to the All-SEC second team by league coaches, had 21 points and was named tournament MVP.
With both teams playing their third game in three days it was Florida, the regular season champ, that seemed to have fresher legs early, knocking down 7-of-14 3-point shots in the first half and taking a 38-26 lead.
The Gators (26-7) didn't have long-distance staying power, though, and there was no consistency to be had by taking it straight at a focused and determined Reggie Buckner, who played 38 minutes and had three blocked shots while altering many others.
Ole Miss made its move early in the second half and tied the game at 43 on Henderson's lob to Buckner then minutes later took its first lead on three Henderson free throws with 12 minutes, 16 seconds left.
The Ole Miss lead reached six in the second half with 11:15 to play.
Henderson said he was motivated by the All-SEC first-team snub.
"All the other coaches out here … they're losers. They didn't win this tournament, we did," he said. "We went in with a chip on our shoulders. Maybe they'll be smarter next year."


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West Union pulls out division win against Ingomar
West Union pulled off a big division win, defeating Ingomar at home, 5-4, on Tuesday.
Tied at four in the bottom of the seventh, the Lady Eagles loaded the bases with one our for Gracen Conlee. A Lady Falcon error in the outfield plated the winning run, giving West Union the edge in division play.
"This was a huge division win for us, and we're excited to have it," Bogue said. "Ingomar's an awesome team, and we knew this would be a very tough game for us; both teams would be fighting hard for it, because it's such a tough division."
Ingomar scored the first two runs of the game, capitalizing off of five first inning hits. Reid Little and Lauren Koon brought in the runs, giving Ingomar its only lead at 2-0.
West Union answered in the bottom of the inning, placing runners in scoring position with one out. Hannah McQuary brought in the first run on a single and Grace Rutledge plated Bailey Bogue on a sac fly to tie the game.
Bogue gave the Lady Eagles the lead in the third inning, scoring Julianna Garner and Brittany Taylor on her single. Garner and Taylor reached base earlier in the inning on Ingomar errors.
Loading the bases in the sixth, Ingomar walked in its third run, and positioned itself for the top of the batting order to open the seventh. The Lady Falcons tied the game after Heather Dillard and Kate Webb were positioned at first and third and Reid Little brought in Dillard, but that was all Ingomar could do in the inning.
"I just let them know, we have top of the line up coming up; these are the girls that can do the damage, so you've got to do what you need to on defense then go back out there and take care of business, if you have to," Bogue said. "They showed out, and I'm very proud of them."
With one out in the bottom of the seventh, McQuary hit a single, Rutledge walked and Jodie McMillin hit a single to load the bases for Conlee. West Union now holds the edge in the division and will step out of region play on Thursday, traveling to North Pontotoc.
"We've been off since Thursday without any practice at all," Bogue said. "We made some plays when we needed to and let some go. Those are the things we need to work on to get better."
Garner, Bogue, McQuary and Callie Baggett each had two hits to lead West Union, while Dillard led Ingomar's offense with four hits.
Ingomar will next play at Wheeler before this weekend's county tournament.
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hey guys my brother & i were looking at the new rules for MN turkey hunting & i do realize that we can only harvest 1 turkey in MN that has not changed but in looking at the surplus license sales it says any eligible person can buy a tag the day after the mid march surplus license sale day for those who sent in & were un-successful in the drawing the next day any eligible person can buy a surplus tag if any are left over for a give n hunt period/season...??? so how do you guys read into this statement???
also my brother was reading the new rules & what not & he has the a question of are the tags unlimited for the last 4 time periods/seasons??? or are they only selling for example 1835 tags for each of the last 4 seasons in hunt area 501??? if the tags were unlimited in theory they could sell 1836+ plus tags & surpass the 1835 tag mark set by the MNDNR for the 1st 4 hunt periods in hunt unit 501 correct??? or once they would sell the 1835th tag there would be no more tags available or sold for that season in hunt unit 501???
of course once we would shoot a turkey our other tags would become void if they would/will even sell us the 2nd tag for another season??? they do say for sure once we draw a tag were are not valid to buy a archery only tag they dont say if we drew a tag we are not eligible for a surplus license for another hunt period / season???
i may have to take back my grips about the new changes not sure as of yet???


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Barkan earns Zabel award for writing
Posted April 14, 2004; 11:10 p.m.
Leonard Barkan, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, has won the Morton Dawen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The award, intended to recognize a "progressive, original and experimental writer," is given in biennial sequence to a poet, a fiction writer and a critic. Other critics who have won the award over the years are George Steiner, Clement Greenberg, Edward Said and Eve Sedgwick. Princeton faculty members C.K. Williams and Yusef Komunyakaa also have won the award for their poetry.
Barkan, who is director of Princeton's Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts , specializes in Renaissance literature and art history, as well as drama. His publications include "Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture" (Yale University Press, 2000), which has earned five major prizes.
The academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist and sustain an interest in literature, music and the fine arts." Each year, it honors some 50 artists, architects, writers and composers with awards.
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Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Image courtesy of Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford
A recent climate modeling study indicates that global land use strategies that protect tropical forests—such Brazil's Caxiuanã National Forest, shown here—could dramatically reduce air warming projected in these regions.
Changes in land use from increased cultivation of biofuel crops can alter climate by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and changing the reflective properties of Earth's surface. As part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, a new study by Department of Energy (DOE) researchers investigates how (1) land-use policies and economic factors influence where and how biofuel crops are planted, (2) the potential implications for land-use change and greenhouse gas emissions, and (3) the overall effect on global and regional climates.
The results indicate that future activities that promote intensification of land use may result in more tolerable future environmental conditions for local populations in tropical regions.
The study uses the DOE-supported Integrated Global Systems Model (IGSM) to simulate the climate effects of two possible global biofuels futures—one that allows conversion of natural areas to meet the increased demand for land and a second that encourages more intense use of existing managed land and restricts deforestation. The team finds that increased biofuel crop cultivation has a negligible effect on global temperature as warming from increased greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation is balanced by cooling caused by increased surface reflectivity of cropland. Although global temperature will be affected only minimally, more substantial regional warming may occur and not necessarily in the regions where biofuel crops are grown. The model predicts the Amazon Basin and Central Africa will warm by as much as 1.5°C. This effect is stronger in the first scenario that includes the conversion of forests into crop land. The effect is less pronounced when deforestation is limited.
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Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, 02139
This research is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
W. Hallgren, et al. "Climate impacts of a large-scale biofuels expansion." Geophys. Res. Letters 40, 1624–1630 (2013). [DOI: 10.1002/grl.50352].


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November 1620:
Being thus arived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious and ocean, delivered them from all the periles and miseries therof, againe to set their feete on the firme and stable earth, their proper elemente. . . . Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembred by that which vente before), they had now no freinds to wellcome them, nor inns to entertaine or refresh their weatherbeaten bodys, no houses or much less townes to repaire too, to seeke for succoure.
Winter 1621:
But that which was most sadd and lamentable was, that in 2. or 3. moneths time halfe of their company dyed, espetialy in Jan: and February, being the depth of winter, and wanting houses and other comforts; being infected with the scurvie and other diseases, which this long vioage and their inacomodate condition had brought upon them; so as ther dyed some times 2. or 3. of a day, in the foresaid time; that of 100. and odd persons, scarce 50. remained., And of these in the time of most distres, ther was but 6. or 7. sound persons, who, to their great comendations be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with abundante of toyle and hazard of their owne health, fetched them woode, made them fires, drest them meat, made their beads, washed their lothsome cloaths, cloathed and uncloathed them; in a word, did all the homly and necessarie offices for them which dainty and quesie stomacks cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cherfully, without any grudging in the least, shewing herein their true love unto their freinds and bretheren.
Early autumn 1621:
They begane now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strenght, and had all things in good plenty; for as some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, and bass, and other fish, of which they tooke good store, of which every family had their portion. All the sommer ther was no wante. And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter aproached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they tooke many, besids venison, etc. Besids they had aboute a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean coree tb that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained, but true reports.
Account from Mourt's Relation:
Our harvest being gotten in our Governour sent foure men on fowling that so we might after a more speciall manner rejoyce together after we had gathered the fruit of our labours. they foure in one day killed as much fowle as with a little helpe beside served the Company almost a weeke. at which time amongst other Recreations we exercised our Armes. many of the Indians coming amongst vs and amongst the rest their greatest King Massasoyt with some ninetie men whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed five Deere which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour and upon the Captaine and others. And although it be not alwayes so plentiful as it was at this tune with vs yet by the goodnesse of God we are so farre from want that we often wish you partakers of our plentie.
William Bradford closed his chapter describing their safe arrival at Cape Codd by saying:
May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: Our faithers were Englishmen which come over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this willdernes; but they cried unto the Lord, and he heard their voyce, and looked on their adversitie, etc. Let them therfore praise the Lord, because he is good, and his mercies endure for ever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how he hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressour. When they wandered in the deserte willdernes out of the way, and found no citie to dwell in, both hungrie, and thirstie, their sowle vas overwhelmed in them. Let them confes before the Lord his loving kindnes, and his wonderfull works before the sons of men.
Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford 1590-1657
Account from Mourt's Relation: The fast and thanksgiving days of New England William DeLoss Love
That damn turkey ought to have been hung! He's white isn't he? In the New Amerika the likes of him don't deserve mercy. He's the reason the world is in the sorry state it is, or so I have been told my whole life.
There is a new society coming where the old ways aren't welcome. Shakespeare and Einstein, and all those other dead white guys are to be thrown on the trashheap of history and post modernism tells us that there sad attempt at imparting reality has FAILED. Failed, because there is no reality, just whatever crap the next political thug imagines and has the will to make the truth.
This sounds silly, but its what the abncients beliebed and history to them was more about story telling than truth. Thats what we have become…savage throwbacks to am uglier age, when force and violence and the thread of mythmaking mattered more than we laughably passes for truth. We think the truth is so inviokate, but it sin't.
The lefties have it right. The truth is what we MAKE IT, and they have the will to make it what they want.
They are going to win!!!!!!! Have won.
Wars are won in the will. They are winning this war because they believe and the right is broken. Brokem of will and coward;ly. You don't think so? John Beoner!!!! There is no counter arguement to that.
John Beohnera nfd hos ilk are embalamatick of the weakness of the right. Romney and mnccain, and even Palin are afraid and bend the head to the lefts cultural dominance.
We have lost. Bitter enders is all we are.
Fascism or communism is the wave of the future. Take your pick. Ain't it grand?? Once the left takes hold, like Isalma it never lets go.
Dp you know that communism is still popular in Russia? Yes sirrie, its still a going thing and that should tell you something if you care to listen!!
Islam and Marxism appeal to the worst in human beings and that is what they default to when the wages of stupidy come due. We sitr here and we think that they will come to Jesus when the SHTF BUT that ISN'T WHAT HISTORY TEACHES YOU IGNORANT BOOBS!!
History teaches that people choose the easieest way out. The absolute minimum of thinking,. Choose that and you wiolll be the prognostcator of priogmistatcors.
The guy who was involved in the watergate coverup said something I will never forget.
People will do what succedes.
If women flocked to the guys who wear pink flamingo hats then that si what guys wuill wear within the week.
We have subsidzed socialism and we shouldn't be surprised that socialism is the future. It might be national socialism or it might be internatioanl socialism, but IT WILL BE SOCIALISM in one form or aNAOTHER YOU IGNORANTY PEASANTS.
Wish I had some good news for you but there just isb't . If you study history you get cynical about human nature and the way that people are. You see the deeper rivers of human nature and the progressive BS stops being something you can believe in,.
You get colder and meaner, and even if you don't want to beliebve it, you are forced to go there. People are cowards and they become better than their nature only if a higher socoiety impels thenm in that directuion
But we hate that higher society, because that higher society implies that you are a sh!thead if you don't meet the standards of that society. So the weak and the grotesque make an alliance that is forged in a pact to destroy the makers of standards. Standards are the bane of this alliance. They cannot stand the judgements that an arbitrary standard would make.
And are not all judgements arbitrary? When does a coach become a chair? Arbitaray judgement on that and on everythibng!
Everything is arbitrary and thats the dirty secret they don't want to tell you!
They like to use that arbitray judhement and its arbitrariness as if that in itself is something to delegtimize the judgement itself.
They cannot stand to be judged. Thats the truth.
Drambuie. I have been drinking.
Judgement breaks their will. Its shateering to their world view and its what they hate more than anything else.
I am not a Christian. Did you notice thatr I capitalized Christian?? Thats because Christians are worthy of respect because they are what created our civilization.
I am not a Christian because I cannot believe in what I don't believe. But I have a lot of respect for thos Chistians v=be cause they built civilization.
Whatever they had…..IT WORKED YOU ATHEISTS MRONS!
i MEAN HOW hard is it to realuize what worked and what created chaos?
I guesss too many aethists beliebe that the left has the answer but the right has the economic solutuions. Well gueesss what Mr libertarian?
iTS A PACKAGE DEaLA.
You don't get to choose the parts yoyu like and the parts you don't.
Thats why I am fine with being a a hypocrite.
The hypocrite. Thats me. I don't beliebe in God. H3e's a big myth. But thats thtats OK, because he meansd we get to have things like rights. Ever herad of those?
Thos eare the things that mean I am not supposed to cut your head off and mount it on a spike in from of my castle. Thats bad,
Those are the things that are fading away.
Oh sadness.
Now its just naked power. They, the left have that power and the right lacks it.
Principles. Those damn inconvenient things. We have principles. Sad bastards that we are we believve in things. That means we will stab each other in the ey because of those damn principles and the left who beliebves in nothing but the will to power (niestche_ will win.
They will win because they see clearer than we do that power is what matters and the rest is BS.
We attack each other because we believe in stuff and they believe in cforcing their will on others. Assyriabs, Mongols, Romans, the names change but the method remains the same.
Break the enemy and impose your will on them. The left understands this historical imperiative and the right blathers on about Constitutionsl rights as if that actusally mattered.
It doesn't.
sharrukin on November 22, 2012 at 5:27 AM
I wish the world could be something it isdn't but when we become adults we are suposed to put away the things of chil;dhood but we on the right wrap ourselves in the tattered shrouds ofthe constitution. Proud and sad folk that we are. believers in a forgotten yesterday.
The choice we are faced with is fascism or communism. We want the figments of a past that has vanished in a stew of leftist hate. The constitution is a dead letter. A ghost of days past. We are the scrooge that the left claims we are and we hanker for the ghodt of Christmas past. But that Christmas is gone and all the wishing in the world will not bring it back to life.
Are we ghosts? Do we really have any claim on the future? The ancients believed...In vino veritas .
In wine there is truth.
I am somewhat soussed and therfore what I am telling you is the truth. I just threw up on my floor, so you know I am an honest man!!!
Why do we assume that we are clever? They were as smart as we are and yet we assume that we know things they were denied the knowledge of. What hubris?
They were closer to the essential nature of who men are and we ignore that at out peril
They had less than we did. They were poorer in material goods and in that they were closer to the essemnce of human nature. The third world understands that better than we do because they also are closer to what human beings really are.
We are closer to what human beings SHOULD BE, and that is our doom. We strive for the best in men and in that striving we miss what is essential to the life of man. Hearts of gold and feet of clay, and socialism calls to the worst of human nature.
They will win because in a reduced and lowest common denominatr society they will triumph with their mesaage of looking out for number one.
sharrukin on November 22, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Not doggin on turkeys, but they put the ug in ugly, as birds go (and we have some "beee-utiful" tropic-azz birds hyar in Texas.
But I've got to say that Cobbler (this year's cover-turkey-that-doesn't-matter-since-turkeys-only-live-two-years-anyway) is arguably the most magnificent, death-row-pardon-worthy, GQ cover-ready handsome drumstick-plump fowl I've wished to run free range till his natural death five months from now EVAH!!
Happy Turkey Day, yall!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 22, 2012 at 6:50 AM
Again, Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! Give thanks with a grateful heart. My take.
kingsjester on November 22, 2012 at 7:33 AM
"Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization …"
a pardon for the turkey- no pardon for us, those who still believe in the Rule of Law and the Constitution. but still i am thankful that at least half the country still appears to be composed of free Americans- as the Founders intended.
sharrukin on November 22, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Well, now we know what it takes to get you to open up! I hope you are feeling better once you've had some sleep. I DO believe in God, and that, while a comfort for later, doesn't make me think we aren't going to have problems to deal with here. Big ones. I don't think most people in this country are as far gone as you think they are. I don't think our opposition is intelligent enough to actually follow through on a lot of their plans. They are a bunch of clowns. Evil is mostly petty and small. Yes, they got Obamacare through, but they don't have the freaking infrastructure to implement it. Yes, they are regulating us into the ground, but we are smart enough to find a way around whatever they do. Even though we have had a huge setback, I still have hope. I have always enjoyed your posts, they are honest and well thought out. I just want to say to you that it is not time to give up. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Night Owl on November 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Thank you for that, Night Owl. I have been feeling like sharrukin every day but today is not the day for it.
shaloma on November 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Again, Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! Give thanks with a grateful heart. My take.
kingsjester on November 22, 2012 at 7:33 AM
That was a great post and I am so happy things turned out the way they did for you! This is one of my favorite holidays because it has not been destroyed with too many decorations, cards, gifts, etc. Anyone who values shopping over spending time with family today needs to re-think their priorities.
Night Owl on November 22, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Thank you for that, Night Owl. I have been feeling like sharrukin every day but today is not the day for it.
shaloma on November 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM
You are very welcome. I wish INC was here this morning, she has posted stories from our past that made me cry, showing the courage and perseverance that we as a people are known for from our beginning as a country. I refuse to believe that a petty little tinpot dictator will win in the end, no matter how bad things might look right now. I hope you have a great day with family today, and then tomorrow we can get back to doing what we can to put a wrench in the works!
Night Owl on November 22, 2012 at 10:03 AM
sharrukin on November 22, 2012 at 6:18 AM
You are definitely one of the most overly dramatic members of the doom squad on here.
Do you go on like that in person? Seems like you like to hear yourself talk.
All that endless despairing is exhausting and not productive.
Well, now we know what it takes to get you to open up! I hope you are feeling better once you've had some sleep.
Night Owl on November 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I am and thanks.
I hope you are right regarding your optimism.
Thank you for that, Night Owl. I have been feeling like sharrukin every day but today is not the day for it.
shaloma on November 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM
One should only post while sober. And today isn't the day for it.
My apologies.
sharrukin on November 22, 2012 at 6:56 PM
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