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- Number of Discs: 4
- Released: August 4, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Emd Int'l
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Heartbeat
- 2.Travelin' Light
- 3.I'll Never Dance Again
- 4.Walkin' With My Angel
- 5.Dream On
- 6.I Wonder
- 7.For Your Love
- 8.Don't Try To Hurt Me
- 9.Tell Me Baby
- 10.I'm Henery The Eighth I Am
- 11.End of World
- 12.Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
- 13.I'm Into Something Good
- 14.Your Hand In Mine
- 15.Show Me Girl
- 16.I Know Why
- 17.Silhouettes
- 18.Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
- 19.Wonderful World
- 20.Just A Little Bit Better
- 21.Take Love Give Love
- 22.Must To Avoid
- 23.Man With Cigar
- 24.Sea Cruise
- 25.Mother In Law
- 26.I Understand (Just How You Feel)
- 27.Thinkin' of You
- 28.Little Boy Sad
- 29.Story of My Life
- 30.My Reservation's Been Confirmed
- 31.Bus Stop
- 32.For Love
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Where Were You When I Needed You
- 2.All The Things I Do For You Baby
- 3.Leaning On A Lamp Post
- 4.Dial My Number
- 5.Oo Ee Baby
- 6.Je Suis Anglais (L'Autre Jour)
- 7.Listen People
- 8.You Won't Be Leaving
- 9.This Door Swings Both Ways
- 10.Hold On
- 11.George and The Dragon
- 12.Wild Love
- 13.What Is Wrong What Is Right
- 14.Bidin' My Time
- 15.Got A Feeling
- 16.Kansas City Loving
- 17.Gotta Get Away
- 18.Make Me Happy
- 19.There's A Kind of Hush (All Over The World)
- 20.Saturday's Child
- 21.If You're Thinking What I'm Thinking
- 22.You Won't Be Leaving
- 23.Dandy
- 24.Jezebel
- 25.No Milk Today
- 26.Little Miss Sorrow Child of Tomorrow
- 27.Gaslite Street
- 28.Rattler
- 29.East West
- 30.Future Mrs 'Awkins
- 31.Oh Mr Porter
- 32.Two Lovely Black Eyes
- 33.My Old Dutch
Tracks on Disc 3:
- 1.I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving
- 2.Marcel's
- 3.It's Nice To Be Out In The Morining
- 4.Holiday Inn
- 5.Ooh She's Done It Again
- 6.Lemon and Lime
- 7.Most Beautiful Thing In My Life
- 8.Daisy Chain
- 9.Daisy Chain
- 10.World Is For Young
- 11.London Look
- 12.Museum
- 13.Upstairs Downstairs
- 14.Busy Line
- 15.Moonshine Man
- 16.Green Street Green
- 17.Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Gonna Melt)
- 18.I Call Out Her Name
- 19.One Little Packet of Cigarettes
- 20.Last Bus Home
- 21.Ace King Queen Jack
- 22.Sleepy Joe
- 23.Just One Girl
- 24.Sunshine Girl
- 25.Nobody Needs To Know
- 26.Something Is Happening
- 27.My Sentimental Friend
- 28.My Lady
- 29.Here Comes The Star
- 30.It's Alright Now
- 31.Years May Come Years May Go
Tracks on Disc 4:
- 1.Smile Please
- 2.Bet Yer Life I Do
- 3.Searching For The Southern Sun
- 4.Lady Barbara
- 5.Don't Just Stand There
- 6.Mum and Dad
- 7.Moonshine Man
- 8.My Old Dutch / Show Me The Way To Go Home
- 9.Wings of Love
- 10.Big Man
- 11.Wait For Me Here I Come
- 12.Regardez Moi (Here Comes The Star)
- 13.Year Ago Today
- 14.Colder It Gets
- 15.Big Ship
- 16.Oh You Pretty Things
- 17.Together Forever
- 18.Right On Mother
- 19.Walnut Whirl
- 20.Shoo Be Doo Ah
- 21.Because You're There
- 22.Should I (Have Loved You)
- 23.Each and Every Minute
- 24.Green Green Rocky Road
- 25.I Do Believe (In Music)
Product Description:
Personnel: Shelley Fabares (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Peter Mew.
Audio Remasterer: Peter Mew.
Liner Note Author: Spencer Leigh.
Arranger: Arlo Guthrie.
While Herman's Hermits will undoubtedly never get the critical respect afforded other British Invasion groups like the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, or the Kinks, as a group they weren't as silly as most people remember them. OK, maybe they were -- certainly when on camera -- but they and their producer Mickie Most had the good sense to pick solid songs to cover (the Goffin & King nugget "I'm into Something Good," "Silhouettes," originally done by the Rays, and Sam Cooke's great "Wonderful World"), which allowed them to sustain a hit-making career long past the end of chart action for such rival pop-oriented British Invasion acts as Gerry & the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer. This four-disc set covers the Hermits' years with Most (1964 to 1972) about as well as one could in terms of content, representing everything the group did with him, including a brace of rarities, unreleased tracks, and sides that singer Peter Noone recorded with Most as a solo artist on the producer's RAK label. For most Hermits fans, it will seem like too much of a good thing, as all of the group's hits have reappeared numerous times in compilations too ubiquitous to list -- but they would be making a terrible mistake to pass up this set. Indeed, if anything, this quadruple-disc set is too much of a great thing, if such a thing is possible (though with one important flaw). And that makes it well worth saving up for.
One has to say at the outset that anyone who seriously loves the familiar hits will find a huge amount to enjoy and then some in the surrounding LP and EP tracks that comprise most of this set. As one quickly discovers, the Hermits work was an embarrassment of pop/rock riches second only to the Beatles in consistency, if not ambition. One of the secrets behind the Hermits' extraordinary sales success under Most's musical direction was that they never challenged their listenership too much, even on most of their albums; they understood their audience and never outran its expectations. In that regard, anyone who loves the group's hits can feel confident that they'll end up playing this set to death, and get to know a lot more than those hits; and they'll even find revelations such as the Blaze album. Indeed, from the middle of disc two onward, those who only know the group's 1964-1966 AM radio hits may be delighted with the more advanced sounds that start issuing forth, in the form of more ambitious songs, lyrics, and arrangements, all of it still eminently accessible but just a little more demanding of both the group and the listener -- but still fun listening, if that's all the latter desired. Disc four contains most of the rarities and the last of the group's work, plus the Noone solo releases, and it's as enjoyable as the first disc, just more suited to the late '60s and early '70s -- the suite-like "Lady Barbara," for example, shows how this group might well have competed in the era of psychedelic and progressive pop/rock, if only they could have lured that audience. And the sound is fine as well, although some people have criticized the lack of stereo versions of various songs. Mickie Most was a firm believer in mono as the definitive format for a pop single; stereo mixes may have existed on many of the songs, but they were done for expediency's sake -- the mono masters were the ones that counted.
Much more of a problem is the threadbare annotation, which makes this set a study in unnecessary frustration. Just because the music is unassuming pop/rock doesn't mean that a lot of work didn't go into making it, or that this isn't worth discussing or analyzing -- and one wonders how any release as thorough as this one is musically could also be treated so superficially? Yes, one recognizes that Peter Noone was, for recording purposes, the entire show, so far as their producer Mickie Most was concerned; the other group members barely (if at all) played on their singles, and likely not on the album tracks either; and, in fairness, annotator Spencer Leigh does mention Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby, Karl Green, and Barry Whitwam (i.e., the "Hermits") once in his essay. He never directly addresses the matter of the session musicians who played on their records (which, itself, would be an entertaining subject today) -- Noone brings up the matter of Jimmy Page making a revelatory contribution to "Silhouettes," and that's as far as it goes. Otherwise, there is no real account of the craftsmanship that went into the records, or the efforts at advancing their sound that took place within the group, on the Blaze album and various related matters; or even of Noone's thoughts on the movies in which they appeared, the soundtracks of which are represented here. Additionally, Hopwood and Leckenby (and, to a lesser degree, Green) were composers in their own right, and all had songs recorded by the group; and at one point Barry Whitwam was the sole active member of the group as a performing unit. All of the survivors might well have thoughts and memories to share, especially given that -- as those who saw them in concert can attest -- these guys could and did play and sing really well live, and threw everything into it. This set is a keeper, and it is a wonder, in terms of the listening, but it could have been a lot more, like the ultimate resource on the group's work. That would have been a sign of respect for the music, and perhaps also have begun a process of getting this group the respect it deserves. ~ Steve Leggett & Bruce Eder
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This Is Not a Test: Calibrate Your HDTV
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This Is Not a Test: Calibrate Your HDTV
From The New York Times - April 10, 2008:
The article does not mention GetGray
which I think is the best calibration DVD out there. I have both the Digital Video Essentials High Definition and the Avia II DVD's; they are fairly good but not as good as the GetGray calibration disc. With GetGray, white (gray) balance is achievable over a wider dynamic range. For 'by eye' (with filters), It's probably not as good as Datacolor's SpyderTV, calibration device.
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April 10, 2008
This Is Not a Test: Calibrate Your HDTV
By DON REISINGER
BUYING an HDTV usually starts with research. You then may make a decision based on what it looks like in the store.
Take the set home and the picture may look slightly different. Some colors are brighter than others, and the contrast between dark and light colors is heightened.
Now you need to calibrate the TV. Photographers and graphic artists have been doing color calibrations for years on their monitors in order to ensure that colors on screen accurately match what will appear in print or on a Web site. But now, with more consumers owning high-definition TVs where every pixel pops off the screen calibration becomes more important than with the old cathode-ray tube TV.
The easiest way to do it is to ask the electronics store to adjust it for you. It may also be one of the most expensive options. Geek Squad, the service arm of Best Buy, charges about $300 for the in-home service. But other people may find satisfactory results either with software included on some DVDs or by buying a special disc that takes the viewer through calibration steps.
The manufacturers tweak red, green and blue settings a bit to make the colors pop. They intensify blue, causing red and green to overcompensate in the image. Some people may like that look. But it creates an HDTV that is not only too bright, but wont give an accurate color representation of the leopard leaping from tree to tree on the National Geographic HD channel. You can also improve the image quality on your HDTV by reducing the amount of light that creeps into the room. That doesnt necessarily mean you need to spring for room darkening drapes, which are far more expensive than a Geek Squad visit.
Ultrasuede curtains, for instance, keep daylight out and are fairly inexpensive. Another trick that movie theaters use: Paint the walls a dark color, like burgundy, so less light is reflected. Putting the TV at eye level and at a distance of about three times the screens diagonal measurement can help you see a better picture.
The Geek Squad certainly puts on a show for its $300. Upon arriving at a customers home in Wilton, N.Y., Stephen Rhoades, a Best Buy technician who works out of the store in Crossgates Mall in Albany, N.Y., put on Shubee shoe covers the company doesnt want to risk marring floors or carpets and begins by analyzing the customer, not the TV.
What are your hopes for this service? and What do you think of the quality of your current picture? he asks. Mr. Rhoades, whose title is elite service specialist, tries to calibrate their expectations before he adjusts the TV.
The technician then attaches an eye, a small circular camera like gadget that measures minute display changes, to the screen. The device, called the ColorPro V Color Analyzer, measures the red, green and blue levels to see just how far off the HDTVs color settings are from an ideal level. From there, the technician uses Geek Squads software on a notebook computer that is connected to the eye to adjust the levels.
The customers TV was well out of whack. Mr. Rhoades said the TV, a 46-inch Sony Bravia, was overcompensating with blue and was making green and red work harder to create the picture. The result was an HDTV that wasnt reproducing an accurate image and was using up almost 50 percent more energy than usual.
Upon completion, the difference was noticeable. Instead of an extremely bright image, the display showed every worldly imperfection in precise detail.
The Geek Squad said that other calibration methods address only about one-fifth of the factors necessary for a good picture. But according to Gregg Loewen, president of Lion Audio Video Consultants, which does color calibrations, people may get by just fine with a do-it-yourself method.
Calibrating a display and using instrumentation does visibly make an improvement and is better than a test disc, he said. But I dont think that instrumentation is five times better than a DVD disc. In fact, a test DVD, when used properly, provides the best bang for the buck.
To calibrate your HDTV on your own, you might look for the THX Optimizer, which is found in the setup menus of a number of DVDs, including The Incredibles and Toy Story. THX Optimizer movies come with a pair of cardboard Optimizer glasses with blue lenses to help you adjust color and tint settings.
You can also buy the glasses from THXs Web site (
) for $2. THX-certified DVDs can be found at many retailers for about $20.
The Optimizer takes the viewer through a series of tests to set contrast and color. For example, eight white boxes that range from pure white to gray are used to set black and white levels. If you can see all eight boxes just fine, youre in luck and can move on. If not, you should reduce your contrast settings until you can.
To configure color and tint, you don the THX Optimizer glasses and try to balance the brightness of individual letters displayed on screen. When the blue C-L-R of COLOR are the same brightness as the two white Os, its calibrated. The same is done with cyan and magenta in the word TINT.
Although the THX Optimizer is a fine calibration tool, it adjusts the HDTV for ideal viewing only in the room with the TV; if you move the TV, you may need to recalibrate.
A number of companies sell similar calibration software on DVD, most of which you can find in an electronics store. Monster sells the HDTV Calibration Wizard for about $30. Digital Video Essentials High Definition costs about $35. The Avia II does more of the same for $40.
You could also try to do what the professionals do, though that entails investing in some equipment that will be used infrequently. Datacolor sells a $229 calibration device called the SpyderTV. The color-monitoring device connects to your screen with the help of suction cups and transmits information from your screen to your computer through a U.S.B. cable to tell you how to adjust the contrast, brightness and color levels.
A professional using this kind of tool can get an even better picture by tweaking a hidden service menu in the TV set that must be unlocked by a combination of codes or remote button presses. (It varies from one manufacturer to another)
The service menu gives the technician or the TV owner if you can uncover the codes greater control over settings, like individual red, green and blue changes. The codes are not secret. You can find them by typing the name of the manufacturer and the words service menu into a Google search. But be warned: fiddling with the service menu without a diagnostic tool like SpyderTV is risky.
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Visitors just love staying at Caribbean Dunes because of its great location. Immediately next door is the very popular Camille's Restaurant and an adjoining coffee shop. Right across the street is a gazebo and the boardwalk to the beach. Also, the Destin Commons outdoor mall, grocery stores and other great shopping destinations are all less than a mile away. Great things happen when the ease of the Caribbean and the laid back lifestyle of Destin meet- great vacations!
During Spring Break this condo requires a 7-night, Saturday to Saturday stay. Over the 4th of July holiday we require a weekly stay.
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The condo we rented through Newman Dailey was beautiful the colors were vibrant yellow which is my favorite color. The walking distance to the beach was very easy to get to back and forth. With renting from Newman Dailey we were able to rent two movies for free every day, also we received an adult ticket daily for the dolphin cruise and one free parasailing ride daily for the days we were there. Newman-Dailey was very helpful in planning any extra activities that my family and I wanted to do while visiting Destin. Our condo was wonderful, very much loved how the balcony doors opened and you could just sit and relax the balcony was very spacious. Our beds were very comfortable and the Jacuzzi tub was awesome. Kitchen was well stocked with anything and everything we could have possible needed during our stay at Caribbean Dunes 222. Thank you to the staff and especially Laura for making my family and I feel at home and very smooth transition for late arrival the night we checked in to our rooms. We will definitely stay with Newman Dailey every chance we can.
For several years we have chosen units in the Caribbean Dunes complex in the Crystal Beach area of Destin. It's only a block off the main street and the mid-bay bridge entrance, avoiding downtown Destin traffic. The white sands and emerald waters are just across the scenic highway and Henderson State park with less crowded beach areas.
This unit had wonderful luxury towels in the bathrooms, a kitchen fully stocked with cooking items and small appliances, and its own washer/dryer unit. The upstairs bedroom is just an open loft, so the sun will wake you up in the morning and the living room TV is even louder upstairs. We put our teen daughters up there and used the bedroom on the lower floor. We love the balcony to store beach toys and dry towels and suits. And we could view the complex's swimming pool and hot tub as well as a bit of ocean from the balcony.
For check in we had to visit the office to get our code. Usually we get the door code from the app on our phone and go straight to our unit - handy if we arrive late in the evening. Yes, the office was close by, but it was still an extra step that some units in this complex don't require. Bonus - we got a gift card for several free items, including a water park pass and, dolphin tour, and parasailing. Make sure you call the correct number on the card (there were 4 of them) to reserve in advance.
There were no extra trash can liners, dishwasher detergent, dishwashing soap, kitchen towels, or dishrag provided. Many times when we go skiing or to the beach these are included. Since we stay a week, I had come with my own to supplement.
The unit wasn't quite ready when we arrived just after the 4pm checkin time, but the cleaner let us go ahead and start unloading. We visited over July 4th week, so I know they were extra busy.
Water heater is small so schedule some time before you send the next person in to bathe.
These units are 20+ years old, so there are little things here and there that come with age, but we love this complex - if we can't find one on VRBO we go through a property management company to get one here. Have even considered buying a unit. The prices seem to be the same no matter how you find your unit - choose Caribbean Dunes - it's perfect!
The condo was everything we needed! Convenient to the beach, shopping, restaurants and more!! Loved everything about it!
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On a quiet leafy street in the trendy Berlin district of Neukölln, tourists are enjoying coffee and home-made cake in a sunny, plant-filled courtyard beside their camp ground.
It's the perfect spot to relax in a hammock and soak up some rays. But should the weather take a turn for the worse, these visitors won't get caught in the rain: At the Hüttenpalast, vintage caravans and cosy wooden huts are protected from the elements inside an old vacuum cleaner factory.
The Hüttenpalast, which opened in May, is the latest option for travellers in Germany looking for accommodation that goes beyond the predictable. Like venues that offer the chance to quite literally hit the hay in Bavaria, or sleep in the canopy of an ancient Saxon woodland, it takes advantage the unique character of its locale to offer a quirky take on the camping experience.
Events manager Silke Lorenzen and fashion designer Sarah Vollmer have lived in Neukölln for seven years – an up-and-coming neighbourhood packed with independent galleries and artists' studios.
Tired of directing visiting friends to accommodation in the more touristy areas of Berlin, the couple decided their corner of the city needed a hotel of its own. In keeping with the German capital's propensity to reuse old industrial spaces, the duo immediate thought the factory was the perfect setting for their project.
"As soon as we saw it, we fell in love with the backyard," said Lorenzen, her enchantment with the space clearly undiminished after many months of hard work.
"Actually the plan was to have hotel rooms. But if we just made hotel rooms you wouldn't see the factory hall any more, so that's where the concept of having a room inside a room came from."
Caravans dating back to 1950s were sought out – to be transformed by the talents of their creative friends and neighbours. The most striking is a 1970s East German model, which local designer Yoraco Gonzalez has lined with hundred of sanded wooden blocks, the variegated surface recalling sea-smoothed pebbles and imagined holidays of caravan's past. Silver birch branches have been installed to surround it with a copse of artificial trees.
The blend of vintage and modern design is proving a hit with guests. "When you see it for the first time, it's a surprise because you've never seen anything like it," said Luděk Lužný, a member of a Czech dance group staying at the Hüttenpalast recently. "But it's very comfortable. For a group it's perfect because you can sit outside your caravan and chat with people."
If the urban camping experience has a uniquely Berlin flavour, what more fitting way to enjoy Bavaria's picturesque farmland than sleeping under the stars, amid swaying stalks of wheat?
Farmer's daughter Monika Fritz came up with the idea for Bett im Kornfeld (Bed in a Cornfield) during a time of financial hardship: "I was sitting in the kitchen thinking about life and about holidays and I thought, what could I do for a holiday that would be cheap, romantic and a little bit adventurous? The song 'Bett im Kornfeld' by Jürgen Drews came on the radio and I thought, I have never slept in a cornfield in my life!"
Twelve years later, Fritz continues to make the crooner's image of bucolic bliss a reality for her guests each summer, at a working farm near the spa town of Bad Kissingen in northern Bavaria. Pitches are carved out of a wheat field for the few weeks in August when the crop is at its golden-hued best, and piled with straw for campers to snuggle up in.
But couples planning a roll in the hay should bear in mind that sleeping in a communal field does not afford much privacy.
"It's not only to be romantic but also to spend time with other people," Fritz warns.
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Guy Menzies
Guy Lambton Menzies (20 August 1909[1] – 1 November 1940) was an Australian aviator who flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney, Australia to the West Coast of New Zealand, on 7 January 1931.
The first crossing of the Tasman by air had been achieved on 10–11 September 1928 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm in the Southern Cross. The plane Menzies used for his solo crossing was the Avro Sports Avian that Smith had flown from England to Australia, the Southern Cross Junior.[2] Fearing he might be denied permission for the flight,[3] Menzies informed the authorities and his family that he was flying to Perth. Instead, he left Sydney at 1 am on 7 January 1931, and headed for Blenheim, New Zealand. Poor weather forced Menzies off course, and after 11 hours and 45 minutes he crash-landed upside-down in the La Fontaine Swamp near Hari Hari on New Zealand's west coast.[4] Despite the unfortunate landing, he had broken Smith and Ulm's time by 2½ hours.
During the Second World War, Menzies was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force. He and his crew were killed on 1 November 1940, when his flying boat was shot down over the Mediterranean en route from Malta to Sicily. No remains of the aircraft or crew were ever found.[5] He is commemorated at the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.[6]
On 7 January 2006, celebrations were held in Hari Hari to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Menzies' trans-Tasman voyage, and were marked by a re-enactment of the flight by adventurer Dick Smith.
- ^ AustLit. retrieved 23 February 2014
- ^ "Omaka Aerodrome History". Classic Fighters Charitable Trust. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- ^ Wearne, Max,. "The Life of Guy Menzies – The Forgotten Flyer". Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- ^ Madgwick, Paul (2 May 2005). "Pilot to retrace famous flight". The Press. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- ^ Madgwick, Paul (8 January 2006). "Dick Smith recreates first solo trans-Tasman flight". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- ^ Alamein Memorial
External links[edit]
- Account of the 75th Anniversary celebrations, Peter Clarke, NZine
- Images of Guy Menzies from 1931 (from the family album of Dr Peter Clarke)


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Notification » Back to All Topics » GCT Community » Suggestions » An open letter to Harriet Click on a discussion to create a post, or search topics here » Author: ralphtomaccio Joined: 10/28/2010Posts: 3GCT Trips Taken: 1OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2011 April 12, 2012 Hello Harriet, My wife and I have been fortunate enough to do the Sicily Tour with GCT last September with an extended stay on our own in Rome for 4 days. It was a trip we will never forget. As much as we enjoyed our trip with GCT, there is something both my wife and I are truly becoming upset with. That is the frequency of mailings we receive from all your companies. We are not fortunate enough to travel yearly, or more, as many of your other clients are able to do. It took us a number of years to afford the Sicily trip. We have no idea when, or even if, our next trip may be. In the meantime, we receive all these lavishly produced catalogs, invitations, flyers and pamphlets which we cannot afford to take advantage of, causing us to trash them as soon as they are received. It is a tremendous waste of natural resources and mailing expense. I noticed on the back of the most recent mailing, the Grand Circle Cruise Line catalog, that GCT apparently subscribes to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Since you are concerned with sustainable forest management, why don't you give all your clients an opportunity to go one step further and ask if they would like to be taken off you various mailing lists? It would make our forest production that much more sustainable. I know, you'll say you'll loose your marketing edge. I don't believe so. Any client who has been happy with your service will always remember you did an outstanding job and come back to you when they are ready to travel again. I know I certainly would. And they could always ask to be put back on your mailing list. Whether or not you're bold enough to offer such an opportunity, I do respectfully ask that you at least take me off all your mail lists ASAP. It frustrates me to have to continually throw away expensively printed pieces I am unable to take advantage of. It took me at least six requests to stop all your email solicitation. Hopefully, you'll be able to handle this request the first time asked. Thank you, Ralph Tomaccio » Report Abuse Author: captainlarry Joined: 4/24/2010Posts: 543GCT Trips Taken: 10OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2002 April 13, 2012 While my situation is a bit different from Ralph's, I share his belief that GCT seriously over-informs previous clients with beautifully illistrated, slick-finished catalogs. I would like one, or at most two, catalogs a year. Instead, I get several per month. And many of the same tours or cruises are presented in detail in multiple mailings. I do not have Ralph's will power. I have to look at each catalog I receive before disposing of it. But dispose of it I do. I understand economies of scale, and I understand marketing techniques (that was one of my professions). I understand that the marginal cost of sending the 10,001st copy is considerable less than the cost of the 1st copy. Tell me the plans, for example, for the Great Rivers of Europe Cruise for 2013. But tell me ONCE, not once a month. I surmise that many, if not most, GCT clients have Internet access and therefore are very capable of reading on-line the same information that is provided in the catalogs and brochures. Make it a little easier for me to opt out of the multiple mailings and make the Internet web site the main source of information about new and existing travel opportunities. I can speak for myself only, but I will book a new GCT trip because of what I read on-line as quickly as because of what I read in a catalog. I also agree with Ralph that I will not "forget" about GCT if I do not get the catalogs. I have taken eight GCT trips and have the ninth booked. You are my travel provider of choice. Regardless of the mailings, you can't hide from me. » Report Abuse Author: rwhansen Joined: 3/5/2010Posts: 92GCT Trips Taken: 8OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2010 April 14, 2012 We receive just as many mailings from Viking and we've never traveled with them! Perhaps it is an industry practice and needed by GCT to compete. Go GCT! Now.................What can be done about the frequent and unneeded distribution of Yellow Pages? » Report Abuse Author: luisa Joined: 3/13/2010Posts: 718GCT Trips Taken: 7OAT Trips Taken: 2Countries Visited: Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Monoco, Croatia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji. IrelandTraveler Since: 2006 April 14, 2012 I am inundated with catalogs and brochures from OAT and GCT; occasionally I get a small brochure from Viking. Like another poster, I get several brochures of the same trip, I've had as many as five within a short time period. Most go right into the recycle bin. But I pass on some of the catalogs with beautiful wildlife photos and maps to a neighbor who has school age grandchildren. » Report Abuse Author: pauline Joined: 3/9/2010Posts: 1,051GCT Trips Taken: 11OAT Trips Taken: 0Countries Visited: England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Malta, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, China, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Canada, Russia, UkraineTraveler Since: 1999 April 14, 2012 Over the years, I've been inundated with mailings and catalogs of all kinds. In most cases, it's because I had ordered something once from one company and then I guess my name is added to the various lists that get sold. I've tried to get myself off using a website that purported to notify the sender to remove my name. It didn't work. When I moved three years ago, I thought it would all come to an end, but the post office told me "they'll find you." And they did. With GCT, I have managed to stop the mailing of OAT brochures as I never travel with them. It simply took one statement, almost in passing, at the GCT office in Boston. And the right person overheard me and said she could take care of it. So now, I only seem to get things I've shown an interest in by checking off on surveys. Except for the extremely LARGE catalog that came the other day on Small Ship Cruises. I had a lot of trouble getting it out of my mailbox. Interesting to read, though, before it went into recycling. And I do sometimes get them from other travel companies. I read them only to make a comparison with GCT, and GCT always comes out ahead. I agree that it seems to be counter-productive to use up all that paper when we can get the same information online. When I worked managing a library for a business and got multiple copies of the same announcements at work and at home, the publishers told me that it would be too expensive to re-program their computers to get rid of the extras. » Report Abuse Author: captainlarry Joined: 4/24/2010Posts: 543GCT Trips Taken: 10OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2002 April 15, 2012 Quotation from rwhansen: "We receive just as many mailings from Viking and we've never traveled with them! Perhaps it is an industry practice and needed by GCT to compete. Go GCT! Now.................What can be done about the frequent and unneeded distribution of Yellow Pages?" I receive three or four catalogs per year from each of several tour and cruise companies, most of whom I have never traveled with. Some I have triggered with an on-line inquiry, but some have evidently bought my address from another vendor (GCT is but one of the multiple suspects). I receive considerably more GCT mailings than all other vendors combined. Next: I get at most one yellow page book from each company. The fact that there are multiple companies printing and distributing yellow page books is not at all equivalent with the multiple monthly mailings I receive from GCT. » Report Abuse Author: rwhansen Joined: 3/5/2010Posts: 92GCT Trips Taken: 8OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2010 April 15, 2012 To captainlarry: It is really sad when one makes a comment, partially in jest, and then is quoted in entirety by you along with needless additional comments after you have previously expounded on the subject. Back off, captainlarry! » Report Abuse Author: captainlarry Joined: 4/24/2010Posts: 543GCT Trips Taken: 10OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2002 April 15, 2012 I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your comments, rwhansen. Maybe I was being a bit "thinskined" but I took your comments as confrontational. You certainly have the right to say what you will, in jest or in earnest. But I also claim that right. I was not being intentionally disrespectful to you. I quoted your post to leave no doubt as to the intent of my post since there had been several intervening posts. I hold no ill will and I beg that you will forgive my perhaps inconsiderate comments. » Report Abuse Author: jandb Joined: 3/10/2010Posts: 33GCT Trips Taken: 7OAT Trips Taken: 5Traveler Since: 1999 April 16, 2012 We have been recycling every thing we can for at least 40 years, sometimes at a degree of inconvenience to ourselves. That being said, I can forgive GCT and OAT their multiple catalogues when I consider the work the Grand Circle Foundation does in the countries they tour. We have several ways we use the catalogues. My husband uses photos and text from the small brochures to put together, with information from the Internet, a packet to take on trips with us. Especially on long bus rides these packets become popular reading with our fellow travelers. They are lighter than travel guides and specific to the trip we are on. We hand out catalogues to friends who express interest in trips we have taken and several have used us referrals to book their own trips with monetary advantages to them and us. I like to compare current trips with features from the previous year's trips. The last resort is the recycle bin. If too many catalogues is the major complaint against GCT and OAT they are doing a lot right. » Report Abuse Author: jayge Joined: 3/10/2010Posts: 184GCT Trips Taken: 13OAT Trips Taken: 0Traveler Since: 2004 April 16, 2012 We enjoy the beautiful catalogues sent by Grand Circle. It keeps us "dreaming" of our next rivercruise with them. Harriet, we are so glad that Grand Circle and its wonderful riverships are not doing as some of the other rivership companies are doing...trying to make super deluxe accommodations to look like the huge ocean cruise ships lines. We like the "drop down" beds and enjoy reading with the light on the wall next to each bed. They are quite "cozy" beds and "comfortable" for us. We have been on some of the 18 story "superliners" in Europe in the beginning of our travels and prefer the accommodations which Grand Circle provides and the meeting of so many great travelers. We hope you are able to add a trip from the Ukraine to the Black Sea in one of your current ships; we loved the Russia Revealed trip so much! Keep up the good work! » Report Abuse Author: gobuckeyes Joined: 7/7/2010Posts: 160GCT Trips Taken: 4OAT Trips Taken: 13Traveler Since: 2005 April 17, 2012 I remember getting a letter from GCT/OAT a few years ago that suggested leaving their old brochures in various waiting rooms of business that you patronize (i.e. doctor, dentist, hospital, beauty/barber shop, etc.) . Just curious: Has anyone ever done this; and if so, got any referral money* out of it? *Your name and address is on the brochure (unless you cut it off). » Report Abuse You cannot Post or Reply, please sign in
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"No On D" Supporters File Lawsuits
Friday, August 27, 2010
Aired 8/27/10
Opponents of Proposition D are hoping to prevent the sales tax/reform measure from appearing on the November ballot. We discuss why the "No on D" supporters are asking a judge to remove the ballot measure. We'll also talk about why advocates for Proposition D think it is crucial city voters pass the measure in November.
TOM FUDGE (Host): I'm Tom Fudge. You're listening to the Editors Roundtable. Joining me at the roundtable are Teresa Connors, regional news editor for the North County Times, Bob Kittle, director of news planning and content for KUSI, and Tony Perry, San Diego bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Well, California political battles are sometimes fought at the ballot box and sometimes fought in the courtroom. And San Diego opponents of Prop D say it's such a bad idea there's gotta be a law against it. Today, in fact, Judge David Oberholtzer will hear arguments for and against the proposed sales tax increase that is bound for the November ballot. He actually expects to make a decision in the case this afternoon. Prop D would increase the sales tax in the city of San Diego by half a cent. In return, city politicians who put it on the ballot say they'll institute 10 fiscal reforms of San Diego finances. What's wrong with that? Bob Kittle, what's wrong with that?
BOB KITTLE (Director, News Planning and Content, KUSI-TV): What's wrong with it essentially, Tom, is that the 10 so-called reforms are nothing. They're window dressing. They're things that could've been done years ago and, more importantly perhaps they are 10 steps that would have a negligible impact on the city's fiscal crisis because they do not address the core problem which is the pension plan. The City's pension plan is as bloated as one can imagine. KUSI's Steve Bosh reported last night that there were pensioners – there's one pensioner who's receiving $300,000 a year in pension. There are 8 or 9 who are receiving more than $200,000 a year in pensions. There are hundreds who receive more than $100,000 a year in pensions, and the pensions that they receive, in many, many cases, are significantly higher than their highest year's salary. And nothing in Prop D would address this problem. That is the core problem. The city's – this voracious pension monster is consuming more and more of the city's revenue each year. It will continue to do so for the foreseeable future if steps are not taken to address it.
FUDGE: Okay, well, I don't know enough about the measures to argue with you, Bob, but here, I think, in an article in the Union-Tribune it says the ballot measure's official fiscal impact statement says the reforms alone could save the city three and a half million to $428 million over five years. Additionally, if the sales tax is implemented, it could bring the city an additional $102 million annually. $428 million over five years…
KITTLE: Yeah…
FUDGE: …those are the savings according to the city.
KITTLE: Yes, and that fiscal analysis is absolutely absurd. It is the subject of the second lawsuit. April Boling has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to throw out the fiscal analysis because it is false and misleading. For example, one of the 10 measures requires that the city council adopt a pamphlet, a set of rules, for outsourcing. This is something that should've been done years ago. The voters approved this in 2006. It hasn't yet been done. But the fiscal analysis that was written by the city says that preparing this pamphlet will save $27 million. Well, no savings at all would come from developing this set of rules. Now if, in the future, a city council went ahead and outsourced such things as landscape services and information technology, there could be substantial savings but the ballot measure does not require any outsourcing. It merely requires that the set of rules be adopted by the city council so that the fiscal analysis really is absurd.
FUDGE: But aren't there pension reforms in that? Reforms that would cause some city employees to get less in terms of pensions?
KITTLE: There is one requirement that the Fire Fighters Union accept a lower pension plan for new hires. The head of the Fire Fighters Union, Frank DeClercq, said, hey, don't come to us asking for more concessions. We've made all the concessions we're going to make. There could be some savings from that one measure but it would not go to the heart of the problem, which is the incredibly escalating, these galloping pension costs that are going to consume more and more of the city's revenues and so, in fact, the sales tax increase if the voters do approve it will go right into the pension plan because that is the voracious beast that has to be fed.
FUDGE: And, listeners, if you want to put in your two cents, your half cents—half cent which is what you'll be paying extra on – when you buy a car, per dollar—give us a call, 1-800 – I'm sorry. 1-888-895-5727. Well, let's go on down the line here and get some other reaction. Tony Perry, what do you think of what Bob has said and what do you think of this proposal?
TONY PERRY (San Diego Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times): Well, I disagree with Bob on the essence of what he's talking about. I enjoy reading and being envious of people making $100,000 in pension a year, etcetera, etcetera. The average pensioner makes about thirty, gets payment of about thirty. Now, indeed, they also get medical and they also get cost of living. It's still, compared to the private industry, not bad but it is not as egregious. There is a tendency to look at these large pensioners and they become the welfare mom with the Cadillac and the fur coat, the atypical situation that is pointed to. That said, the way this thing was put together in those last frenetic, crazed 48, 72 hours, is proof anew that if you like law or sausage, don't watch either of them being made. And they've come up with this Rube Goldberg 10 steps and the auditor, if this, then that. Pick one from this column. I just think that it was not a shining hour of how legislation is put together and I really wonder why we've been at this for how many years now but yet it came down to a final few hours. And we still don't have anyone who will stand up, as Donna Frye did 5 years ago, and say, Earth to San Diego, this government needs more money. Instead, she comes up with this placating this Libertarian view and that view and I think the thing is going to collapse. If it survives the court challenge, which seems to me a pretty – pretty strong court challenge. I would never disagree with April Boling on numbers. Nobody crunches numbers like April Boling does, so I would not – I would not ever defy her. She's probably right on that. And the judge may very well say this thing is too complex, it violates the, you know, one thing rule for these ballot measures.
KITTLE: Yeah, well…
PERRY: It may collapse either legally or at the polls because of its own weight and its own complexity.
FUDGE: Although, the judge, who has not been silent about his opinions thus far, thinks it's legal. Am I right?
PERRY: Well, he – I read those pieces and he seems to be signaling he wishes it was legal but he wasn't going to be pinned down. He may let it go but I think he may let it go in such a wounded fashion that he's really putting a harpoon in it.
FUDGE: And, Bob, what's the city's deadline to get it on the ballot? Next week? A week from today.
KITTLE: Well, essentially September the third.
FUDGE: Okay.
KITTLE: So the judge will have to rule in both of these cases very promptly, and Judge Oberholtzer, as you indicated, is expected to rule from the bench this afternoon whether to block the measure from going to the ballot. Now that's a very high hurdle for the opponents to overcome. A judge does not want to mess with a ballot measure unless he has to. So I don't know how that's going to turn out this afternoon. I think April Boling's lawsuit, which is a separate lawsuit challenging the fiscal analysis probably has a very good chance of a judge looking at it and saying, look, this is false and misleading and it cannot be attached to the ballot measure.
FUDGE: And she's bringing a lawsuit and the Libertarians are bringing a lawsuit, I think. We have a couple of callers who want to talk about this but first, Teresa, your turn.
TERESA CONNORS (Regional News Editor, North County Times): Yeah, I just – I think it's a shame. I think the city has missed a real opportunity to get buy-in from the voters and I agree completely with Tony that it's a overly complex measure. I agree with Bob that it – it's very weak. It doesn't actually ask for real reform. It sort of just a paper – paper list. So I think it's a missed opportunity.
FUDGE: Well, Mel is calling from Hillcrest. Hi, Mel.
MEL (Caller, Hillcrest): Hi. Well, I know Mr. Kittle had a lot to say about the pension. Everybody has a lot to say about the pension but nobody says how we fix it. So I'd like to ask all of you, how do we fix it?
FUDGE: Uh, lower pensions?
MEL: Yeah, you just pass at work and say your pensions are now lower? Is that how you do it?
FUDGE: Well, there are some legal issues there. The City may have a contract with certain people who are already drawing pensions but for new hires, and I guess this is what they're doing with the fire department, you can change the rules for pensions. But Mel asks, how do we fix the pension problem. Bob, how would you do it?
KITTLE: Well, as Mel well knows, you really cannot tamper with the vested benefits of existing workers. But there are several things that can be done and should be done. The first step should be that all new hires go under a defined contribution plan, a 401(k) plan. That is the way we have in the private sector. Secondly, you would offer the existing employees the opportunity to opt out of the expensive pension plan that they are in and go into the 401(k) plan where their pensions would be smaller. But you say why would anyone do that? Well, younger workers, in particular, would do it because their take-home pay would go up by several hundred dollars a month. Let them have the option, let them decide. That would lessen the pension liability significantly. The other side of the equation, Mel, is that while vested benefits cannot be tampered with, there is nothing that guarantees the taxpayers' contribution to the pension plan. You can have the workers pay more. Under the city charter, they're supposed to be a 50-50 split, the taxpayers pick up half of the cost and the worker picks up half of the cost. But under labor contracts that the city council has agreed to, the taxpayers still pick up a portion of the workers' half. That should be eliminated immediately. And, in fact, if you got into a desperate situation, you could have the workers pay more than 50%. That could all be done legally.
FUDGE: We want to hear from the other editors but Hugh is calling from El Cajon. He has something to say on this. Hugh, go ahead, you're on the Editors Roundtable.
HUGH (Caller, El Cajon): Hi. Yeah, I think part of my answer was already – was just answered. I was going to say that we made guarantees to these people who, you know, served their, you know, working lives to the city to earn those pensions, and in many case, like firemen and policemen, put their lives on the line every day so that they, you know, could earn these pensions and be guaranteed this money. So the idea of just switching it to a 401(k) so their monies can be changed with the whim of the stock exchange doesn't really sound fair to me. What my point is, though, that, you know, yes, these are vested interests. We have to pay those just like when I buy a car, I have a loan, I have to pay that loan back. So any fix that's going to happen will have to be, as your editor said, with those who are starting now and making promises or changes that we can actually, you know, live up to later on. But the real issue is how are you going to manage to keep getting qualified people to be your policemen and firemen when you keep cutting back their benefits?
FUDGE: And that's a good point. Who would like to – Tony, you want to respond to that?
PERRY: I don't see that as a problem, frankly. Good people will continue to step forward to serve their community, and make a decent salary with a decent pension. The problem of San Diego, of course, is the problem everywhere: contracts. These folks have contracts. There are laws that protect them. And then there's the city hall culture. Those are three tough things to overcome. Also, let's be candid, we lost four years in this saga with a city attorney who thought he could go to court and slay this, as Bob says, slay this monster. It didn't work, so we lost four years and we're right back at it. It is not easy. You have to also be careful with your language. Everyone talks pension reform, pension reform, pension reform. What they really mean is pension reduction, and the city employees hear that. You say reform, they hear reduction. They've got very good attorneys. They've got political clout. They're smart. They will not be guilt-tripped into bailing this city out as they see it, this city that does not like to pay its bills. I don't see that you can hard-bargain the employees into picking up, you know, the full tab. Indeed, it's big and it's getting bigger. It's a bill we have to pay. We can whittle it down a little bit but we're not going to be able to destroy it either through lawsuits—we tried that—or, you know, absolute hard bargaining. It's going to take years to whittle it down. In a certain way, I think we pilloried old Dick Murphy more than he deserved. He said it was going to take a bunch of years and it's taking a bunch of years.
FUDGE: Tony Perry is with the Los Angeles Times. Our other guests are Bob Kittle and Teresa Connors. Teresa is regional news editor for the North County Times. Bob Kittle is director of news planning and content for KUSI. Teresa, you want to pitch in here? Say something about this?
CONNORS: Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the problem is political will and the local city councils have to stop being cowered by the powerful unions and be willing to back them into a corner and say, okay, this is what you're going to get. And in – I mean, some communities are doing – I think a lot of communities recognize that it's a problem, that they can't fund the pensions and they are – they're moving towards it but it's going to take time.
FUDGE: Let me jump in and just maybe defend one point that was made by our caller. I was driving around San Diego a couple days ago and I was in back of a police car and on the back of the police car it said 'we're hiring.' You know, call this number, go to this website, if you want to join the San Diego Police Department. So they are looking for cops. And I'm wondering if San Diego police officers end up with a lower pension payment than police officers in La Mesa, Chula Vista or Los Angeles, doesn't that put us at a disadvantage?
PERRY: No.
FUDGE: Why?
PERRY: I don't see a connection between quality policing and how much they make. There's a whole bunch of other factors that involve leadership, that involve the culture of the police department. And while the labor unions might like to make that connection, it just – I think you cannot prove it any more than you can prove that the salaries of teachers equals good teaching. There may be a sort of ethical obligation to pay our people who, as one of the callers said, risk their lives, handsomely, as best we can, but I don't think you can prove that if they pay a little less or if they – their pensions are a little less, they're going to flee in droves and we're going to get incompetents driving those cars.
FUDGE: Bob Kittle.
KITTLE: Yeah, Tom, I agree with Tony. I don't think young rookie cops are mercenaries. They're not in that job to make money and a fat pension and retire at age 50. You ask a 22-year-old why he wants to become a cop and he has much – many other motives than the fact that he might be able to retire with a big pension one of these days.
FUDGE: Well – well, but…
KITTLE: That's not how you recruit young people to become cops.
FUDGE: But, Bob, what if a 22-year-old is asked the question do you want to work in Chula Vista or you want to work in San Diego, and in Chula Vista they're going to get a lot better benefits package?
PERRY: San Diego's the major leagues if you're a police officer or you're a firefighter, and a lot of people like to work in the major leagues even if it isn't as remunerative as the suburbs.
FUDGE: Well, it's time for us to take another break. You're listening to the Editors Roundtable. I'm Tom Fudge. And we'll be back with our editors in a moment. We may discuss the pension just a little bit more but pretty soon we're going to get into the subject of San Diego troops in Afghanistan and the realism of Obama's desire to set a date to start withdrawing those combat troops. So stay with us and give us a call on that subject if you want at 888-895-KPBS.
FUDGE: I'm Tom Fudge. You're listening to the Editors Roundtable on KPBS. My guests are Teresa Connors, a regional news editor for the North County Times, Bob Kittle, director of news planning and content for KUSI, and Tony Perry, San Diego bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Our call-in number if you would like to give us a call, 888-895-5727. Before we leave the subject of Proposition D, which would raise the sales tax in San Diego by half a cent if it gets to the ballot and if it's approved, let's imagine that it doesn't get to the ballot or it's not approved by voters. What are the financial consequences for the City of San Diego? They're talking about a $70 million budget gap. Who wants to comment on that?
KITTLE: Well, let me…
FUDGE: Bob Kittle.
KITTLE: Let me say, Tom, that Mayor Sanders and Donna Frye have been threatening the voters to say if you don't approve this tax, we're going to shut down the fire department, we're going to cut back police. It's sort of the Washington Monument syndrome. When the Park Service is told, well, you've got to cut your budget by 5% they say, okay, we'll close the Washington Monument because it's the most popular attraction in Washington. But the reality is that until the economy recovers, the city is going to have to cut services in a lot of areas with or without this tax increase. This tax increase really will be absorbed by the increases in the pension – in the pension demands. That – This year, we're contributing – the taxpayers are putting $232 million into the pension plan. In 2002, we were only putting in $15 million. That number of $232 million rises to over $500 million in the years ahead. Those – Unless something is done about that, those demands will – the pension demands will continue to devour a larger and larger share of our tax dollars. And regardless of whether this tax is approved, there are going to have to be cuts in other services to pay for pensions.
PERRY: $70 million out of a $2.2 billion budget, let's put it in context, a lot of money but not sometimes as frightening as it might be. We're going to have cutbacks. We're just going to have to find money everywhere and the people are probably going to be sent down the road back to the hiring hall, or—and I know that this is not attractive—we may have to do what poor people have done always: make payments. Somebody may have to float, attempt to float, pension bonds which stretches the payments out, and a lot of people driving cars that they couldn't afford without multi-year leasing and sales programs, and we may get to that. None of it is a happy, happy situation. That thing which they've been threatening, as Bob suggested, for years may, indeed, come to pass although their credibility, I think, has been shot a bit because of a lot of crying of wolf over the years.
FUDGE: Okay. Well, pensions, big problem, huge problem for San Diego and for cities and states all over the country of course.
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SDListener99 | August 27, 2010 at 9:33 a.m. ― 6 years, 7 months ago
The sales tax is destined to fail. I am a fairly liberal Democrat that normally votes for tax increases that make sense. I will never vote for a tax increase until the pension system is totally reformed and that includes any current egregious payments to retirees. I would encourage the city to look at bankruptcy as an option as there seems to be no other legal option. Anything less -- like a new hire only policy -- will not be acceptable to me.
SteveG | August 27, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. ― 6 years, 7 months ago
During the broadcast, this turned into yet another discussion about pensions.
I love how Bob Kittle can continue to yip and yip about how awful and nasty the pension situation is, although his friends in the local government drove the bus into the ditch where we now sit while he had the biggest megaphone in the city at the U-T.
The pension plan, like anyone's 401k plan, is straightforward: You need to save as you go, or in the end you won't have enough cash to pay. San Diego's problem is that it didn't save enough, but it promised to pay the money.
Heavens forfend we now have to raise taxes. Kittle would rather find some responsibility-free route to blame others and kick the can down the road.
As to Tony Perry and his comment that salary and benefits are not connected to the quality of service we get from firefighters and police officers, I suggest he tell his employer he's willing to test that out by taking at 20 percent paycut. It always makes me laugh to hear market acolytes say the free market doesn't apply to their situations.
I am not connected to local government in any way (other than being a San Diego taxpayer, and a services consumer). I'm just tired of our conservamonkey media saying there is a way to pay for things we promised other than having the right tax structure. The people in power have been trying silly gimmicks to solve the pension problem for almost a decade.
Raise taxes, pay off the debt, solve the problem. But that can't work in San Diego apparently. There's always someone with a better idea that involves no pain.
No pain = no gain.
Cytelica | August 27, 2010 at 11:11 a.m. ― 6 years, 7 months ago
Bob Kittle refuses to understand that police/fire fighter wages must be competitive otherwise officers will higher on with better paying departments. He derides officer training and experience and implies that just any "22 year old" who wants one of these jobs is magically qualified. Evidently Bob fervently believes in the "sunshine dollar wages" theory and his oppressive attitude toward public employees is malicious.
Bob Kittle appears to be the consummate right wing elitist who lacks appreciation for the careers and struggles of the middle class. Unfortunately, he continues to offend informed San Diegan's with his nasty wort like persistence and his much touted KUSI title that smacks of being an exaggerated ego wall plaque.
SDListener99 | August 27, 2010 at 1:14 p.m. ― 6 years, 7 months ago
Getting a firefighter job in SD is almost impossible as there are so many applicants. What does that tell you? Yes it is a job with risk but it is also a job that many people want to do. Same thing with cops, there is no risk of not having enough applicants if the pay is appropriate. There is no reason that these public service employees should have the pensions they do.
SteveG | August 27, 2010 at 2:48 p.m. ― 6 years, 7 months ago
Sure there is a reason they should have the pensions: They contracted for them. These aren't optional, or cancellable by the city. They're a matter of contract.
If you're referring to future employees, that might be different. But the people there now were promised these pensions, planned their retirement around them, and are owed them.


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Dry Vagina is main reason of pain during sexual intercourse. With age the estrogen levels in the body decrease rapidly , due to decrease of estrogen level vagina dryness occur and make sex painful and hard. Many of Estrogen creams are available in market that can be apply on vagina, but always used creams after doctor advice.
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Boutique tax cuts are inferior to broad-based tax cuts. They complicate the tax system and have minimal impact. This said, the $1,350 limited time tax credit offered in the Federal Budget may catch some tax cheats. In 2005, CBC reported that the Federal government caught $650 million of tax cheating due to cash-only construction, adding, "Canada has 266,000 construction businesses with total annual revenues of $135 billion. Most have fewer than 10 workers."
Similar principles apply to the Active Families Benefit in Saskatchewan which credits the parents of children in sports or music programs up to $150 per child each year. Although Minister Christine Tell admitted in a TV interview in 2008 that these tax credits are too small to change behaviour, it may still mean more receipts from music teachers. It is not uncommon for such teachers to operate on a cash basis and don't declare income. Ironically, some even play for symponies that enjoy generous taxpayer funding.
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Title: | The bone regenerative effect of platelet-rich plasma in combination with an osteoconductive material in rat cranial defects. |
Author(s): | Plachokova, A.S. ; Dolder, J. van den ; Stoelinga, P.J.W.; Jansen, J.A. |
Publication year: | 2006 |
Source: | Clinical Oral Implants Research, vol. 17, iss. 3, (2006), pp. 305-311 |
Publication type: | Article / Letter to editor |
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : http://hdl.handle.net/2066/49744 |
Subject: | UMCN 4.3: Tissue engineering and reconstructive surgery |
Organization: | Periodontology and Biomaterials Plastic Surgery Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery |
Journal title: | Clinical Oral Implants Research |
Volume: | vol. 17 |
Issue: | iss. 3 |
Page start: | p. 305 |
Page end: | p. 311 |
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The effect of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) on bone regeneration, in combination with an osteoconductive material, was evaluated in a rat model. Cranial defects, 6.2 mm in diameter, were filled with HA/beta-TCP particles, HA/beta-TCP particles combined with PRP and HA/beta-TCP particles combined with PRP gel, where some were left empty as a control. After 4 weeks of implantation histological, histomorphometrical and micro-computed tomography analyses revealed no difference in new bone formation among the groups. Further, no additional effect of PRP gel in comparison with PRP liquid was detected, except for the increased handling capacity of the graft. These findings suggest that PRP had no positive effect on bone formation in addition to an osteoconductive material after an implantation period of 4 weeks. Also, no negative effect was seen, and neither PRP nor HA/beta-TCP hampered bone ingrowth into the defects.


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