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Carlyle group co-founder David M. Rubenstein to receive 100 Women in Hedge Funds' 2012 Effecting Change Award at the annual New York Gala
New York, NY – August 20, 2012: 100 Women in Hedge Funds ("100WHF"), a leading non-profit organization for professionals in the Alternatives industry, today announced that it has named David M. Rubenstein as the recipient of its 2012 Effecting Change Award. Mr. Rubenstein will receive the award at 100WHF's annual New York Gala to be held at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 14, 2012.
Mr. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Carlyle Group, will be presented this award in recognition of his work as an active and exemplary philanthropist.
Over the course of his impressive career, Mr. Rubenstein has pursued a number of diverse philanthropic endeavors. He is the Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, President of the Economic Club of Washington and on the Boards of Directors or Trustees of Duke University (Vice Chair), the University of Chicago, the Brookings Institution (Vice Chair), the Council on Foreign Relations (Vice Chair) and the Institute for Advanced Study. Mr. Rubenstein, who is based in Washington, D.C., is also a signatory of The Giving Pledge, an endeavor founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, through which he has committed to donating the majority of his wealth to philanthropy.
Upon receiving the award, Mr. Rubenstein will join a prominent list of past U.S. Effecting Change honorees that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Soros, Ray Chambers, Gary Cohn, Carl Icahn, Julian Robertson, Robert Rubin, Jessica Palmer, Ken Langone, Joel Klein, T. Boone Pickens and Peter G. Peterson.
Commenting on the award, Mimi Drake, Chair of 100WHF, said: "We are delighted to honor David Rubenstein with the Effecting Change Award this year for his many professional and philanthropic accomplishments. Through his activities with numerous educational, artistic and historical organizations, David has demonstrated the importance of educating America's youth as well as his dedication to helping others achieve success. In particular, his commitment to The Giving Pledge will ensure that his impact is felt by many generations to come."
A former attorney, Mr. Rubenstein practiced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1973-1975. From 1975-1976 he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, and during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Following his White House service, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman). Mr. Rubenstein graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and is a graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. Since co-founding The Carlyle Group in 1987, the firm's has grown into an institution managing more than $160 billion with 36 offices around the world.
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Auto Show: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show
2014 Range Rover Hybrid and Range Rover Sport Hybrid: Frankfurt Auto Show
What Are They?
The 2014 Range Rover Hybrid and Range Rover Sport Hybrid represent landmarks for both the company and the category. There has never been a hybrid Range Rover. And they're diesel hybrids -- still fairly new territory.
Not long ago, vehicle manufacturers struggled to achieve the same smoothness that a gasoline/electric hybrid enjoys. When the combustion engine starts up again -- having been turned off automatically in situations such as waiting at traffic lights -- a diesel version would be "lumpier." But Land Rover (makers of Range Rover) and others have seen sufficient progress to consider a diesel hybrid ready for prime time.
These are not strictly concepts. They're prototypes, ready to negotiate the ancient Silk Road that runs between Asia and the Mediterranean Sea, making them the first hybrids to attempt such a feat. They're scheduled to arrive in Mumbai, India, on October 15.
The diesel/electric muscle in each vehicle adds up to a respectable 335 horsepower with a forceful 519 lb-ft of torque. At the same time, carbon dioxide emissions are lower by 26 percent compared with a gasoline-powered equivalent. The extra hybrid equipments, including the electric motor and lithium-ion battery pack, add only 260 pounds or so to the overall weight. Land Rover claims it doesn't encroach upon passenger or cargo space.
Will They Ever Go on Sale?
They will definitely be sold in Europe and Asia. If they ever make it to the U.S. (and Land Rover says, "no," at the moment), they could be the first premium sport utility vehicles on sale here to run a combination of electric and diesel power (though a diesel hybrid Porsche Cayenne is expected). And it's not such a crazy idea, despite American motorists' traditional aversion to diesel. All vehicle manufacturers are obliged to improve their corporate average fuel economy figures. Considering a 2014 Range Rover 5.0L V8 returns 13 miles per gallon city/19 mpg hwy, a more frugal version would definitely help.
Why They're Important
They meet conflicting demands. On the one hand, customers can't seem to get their fill of large, luxurious sport utility vehicles such as the Range Rover. They love the safety, the elevated driving position and the status symbol. On the other hand, buyers and governments alike are demanding that fuel economy and emissions improve. So even though such a vehicle requires much engineering expertise, the actual decision to offer a 2014 Range Rover hybrid version -- running on gasoline or diesel -- is a no-brainer. Land Rover is also working on hybrid and all-battery versions of its Evoque compact crossover.

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Teacher, staff bonus on board agenda
Original post made on Dec 17, 2012
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Comments (49)
a resident of another community
on Dec 17, 2012 at 9:50 am
Those teacher salaries are shamefully low. Since getting a raise is largely contingent paying to get additional graduate education...add those costs. Also, sSince a teacher would find it difficult to live in/anywhere near Palo Alto itself, add in their commuting costs to the equation. Take those costs out + taxes and teachers' salaries are hardly inflated!
Palo Alto -- perhaps the heart of Silicon Valley will grow a heart big enough to educate and invest in their children.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Dec 17, 2012 at 10:41 am
The District claims that it will cost about $1M to pay this one-time bonus to Staff. It would be nice if the elected officials had some idea what this money was actually buying. If the money were spent on technology, then that $1M could buy a lot of needed hardware/software that would be in use for three-four years. Spent as a bonus, it buys nothing in terms of teacher/staff productivity, or actual education.
Google has recently reduced the cost of its Chromebooks to about $100 for education purposes. This $1M could buy Chrombooks for all of the students in the high schools, and have about 500,000 left over for additional networking hardware/software needed to provide a fully "wired" campus.
The District does have access to untapped funds from the last Measure A Bond authorization which it can spend on technology--but buying hardware/software with Bond funds is a very wasteful use of public funds. The money in the bank that they have now would be better use actually bolstering the educational environment than paying higher labor costs.
It's a shame we don't have people on the School Board who understand even rudimentary public education financing issues.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:02 am
Never forget that teachers get summers off. If you take that into account, teachers actually have very high hourly wages already. Factor in pensions and benefits, and it's pretty awesome compensation. Do teachers need a pay increase? Every pay raise is mathematically expensive because it directly increases future pensions costs. We should use budget surpluses to start a rainy day fund. I don't want to hear about the threat of school budget cuts any time in the next 3 years if we give another pay raise.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:08 am
Did we ever doubt the teachers would be scooping up Prop 30 while the rest of us live with flat salaries and the impending fiscal cliff?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:27 am
I have many friends who are teachers, every single one under the age of 50 either works a second job during the summer (some teaching summer school) or takes classes. Most teachers work very hard, spend lots of hours outside of school time planning and grading and most spend their own money on things for their classrooms (our PTA's are very generous, but teachers are often reluctant to ask).
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:30 am
I completely support giving every teacher who is not a member of the teachers' union a raise.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:35 am
@palo alto mom Do you know why I don't have a summer job? Because I don't get a ten week summer holiday.
a resident of Southgate
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:47 am
Worth every penny. Those teachers are a big part of why PA home prices are so high.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:01 pm
"Google has recently reduced the cost of its Chromebooks to about $100 for education purposes. This $1M could buy Chrombooks for all of the students in the high schools, and have about 500,000 left over for additional networking hardware/software needed to provide a fully "wired" campus."
The district won't buy Chromebooks because they aren't Apple products. We bought Ipads because they were "cheaper" despite the fact almost every Samsung tablet was cheaper than the Apple Ipad. (The latest Samsung tablet has the highest pixel-density on the market, and I believe it's superior to Apple's I-pad 2 and cheaper too.)
Beyond that, I can understand giving a raise to PA teachers just because a) they're the cream of the crop and b) living costs are absurdly high in the area. But regarding prop 30 I don't think any raises should be coming from that. Wish we could choose which teachers got raises/didn't, but there's really no easy way to do so.
a resident of University South
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Support the teachers. Teachers are the backbone of the American middle class; we are dependent on education and quality jobs to rebuild the great American middle class.
No more race to the bottom!
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:13 pm
> The district won't buy Chromebooks because they
> aren't Apple products
And your point is? My point is that the District has not always shown good money management/practices. Seems you are supporting that point-of-view?
> Those teachers are a big part of why PA home prices are so high.
More mythology—particularly since it is clear from data released by the State Department of Education (DoEd) that parents are the reason for the high achievement of Palo Alto students:
Another Look At API Student-School Performance Data:
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Obviously school play some part in high school scores—which are allegedly a driver of high home prices—but in reality there is little hard evidence to back up that claim. The API data, coupled with various Census data, tells a different story.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Palo Alto Mom- you are completely correct in what you state. The actual hours in the classroom doesn't begin to cover the amount of actual work done by the teachers. Give them the raise- what a teacher truly does was clearly demonstrated in Newtown. Outsiders have no idea how fully encompassing the job is. I do. They deserve a raise if they can get it.
a resident of Esther Clark Park
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Teachers used to be underpaid, but NOT ANYMORE! Now doing much less and getting paid much more and no accountability. Salary increases should be contingent on how our students are doing nationally - not to mention internationally!
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:59 pm
1) Prop 30 was passed so education funding would not be cut; instead it provides a surplus, which the district wants to spend as "bonuses". As a voter, I feel mislead.
2) Bonuses in private industry are not handed out equally to everyone. If bonuses are handed out in the district, they should based on performance.
3) Teachers have the opportunity to increase their salary through certifications/classwork, and just years on the job. Do the classified employees have any growth path?
4) Salaried professionals in private industry also work evenings, weekends - who doesn't check their e-mail away from work? or bring home documents to read? or work on presentations at home? It's all considered part of the job. Just like for teachers it shoud considered part of the job to grade homework, etc.
a resident of Barron Park
on Dec 17, 2012 at 2:09 pm
agree with against this
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 17, 2012 at 2:27 pm
The San Jose Mercury News has a database of public employee salaries, including PASD teachers. It's eye-opening. Many of my kids' teachers earn more than I do, and have 2 months off during the summer. Do they work hard? Yes, but I don't feel too sorry for them. Most are compensated quite well. Want a real shock? Look up how much the principals earn.
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a resident of Barron Park
on Dec 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Do you think that the teachers in Shady Hook are overpaid?
Teachers are so much more than deliverers of curriculum. They love, nurture and care for our children every day. They are underpaid for what they do!
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Dec 17, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Many good points and comments on this topic. I hope PAUSD leaders will take some notes of them.
Teaches do work hard, so as all of us work at private companies. Teaches in PAUSD have a very secure life time job and pension, while we, at private company, don't. I got laid off in June this year, spend 3-4 months to find my current job with 10% salary cut. Even that, I feel very luck and blessed because many my coworkers are still out of work even they willing to cut their salary. So, for this point, I don't have much sympathy of why teachers have to have a pay raise. If there are money left this year, save it for a bad year which may be right in front of us in 2013 with DC leaders going nowhere for budget.
We just passed Pop 30 to raise money for education, for which we all have to pay more sales tax. Now, there are plenty of money, can we stop raising sales tax???? It does make people upset and probably will not vote for any tax for education next time. You are losing voters, PAUSD!
Ok, let's say to give teacher a raise as there are extra money this year. Then, how about a pay cut when economy is down, possible?? Also, please don't give some bad teachers a raise, they don't deserve it. PAUSD should have a system to fish those bad ones out, like a survey from all students and parents. I also agree that the good quality of PAUSD is mainly parent driven and good resources of students in Palo Alto. If you put any good teacher in a "lower" achieving school, I don't think that good teacher can do much about it to make his/her class like PAUSD class.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Dec 17, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I support pay raises for teachers. Especially teachers in Palo Alto who not only have to deal with the entitled, attitude filled, students day in and day out, but their God awful parents as well.
Anyone who does not support taking better care of our teachers is probably childless to begin with and should not be commenting here.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 17, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Ducatigirl is a registered user.
One per cent. Whoop-dee-doo. That'll really help them
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Yeah, since sales tax went up 3.45% they're not breaking even.
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 17, 2012 at 4:29 pm
"Teaches in PAUSD have a very secure life time job"
Whether you believe that teachers are overpaid or not, too many people misunderstand the idea of "tenure" for public school teachers. It is not the same as tenure for university faculty. They do not have a job for life. They absolutely can be fired. They certainly can be laid off.
a resident of Addison School
on Dec 17, 2012 at 5:13 pm
As a mom of a child in PAUSD and a teacher in another district, I actually would really appreciate it if the board did a survey of parents to find out how many are supplementing their children with tutoring or other classes. I really think what is needed is teachers in elementary school who are focused on math and english so that when children get to middle school and high school they have a very strong foundation that has been built by strong math and english teachers.
... I am teaching my child math and my husband is helping with the english. I would love there to be more done at school and hiring strong core subject teachers to supplement the existing teachers would be optimal.
I would encourage you to ask the board to use the money to hire strong core teachers to supplement the existing elementary teachers versus increasing the salaries.
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 17, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I think it's misleading to say that the teachers "have not had a raise" since 2009, because they do get paid more with years of experience & taking classes.
I would like to see how many teachers are being paid the exact same salary as in 2009, and show a distribution by salary for those who are paid the same. I would also like to see how many teachers are paid more than they were since 2009, and by how much.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 17, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Some posts above advocate using the money for chromebooks or ipads. I think that would be throwing money down the toilet. Invest in teachers not computers. Any monkey can use google to search for stuff, and ipads and the like are a major source of distraction. Not a good use of funds.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Dec 17, 2012 at 9:33 pm
So, the budget gets better and the teachers ask for a raise based on the district's "ability to pay". But what happens when the district funding gets chopped--no teachers ever take pay cuts. It's all about spend what you have for tomorrow is another day. This is ridiculous! We would never balance our own budget based on a temporary increase in funding--this is what every civil servant lives for--use it or loose it.
Schools need to budget for the long term not the next year. And how much pension will this raise generate and how much is unfunded???
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Dec 17, 2012 at 10:21 pm
@Not this again -- and to clear up obvious misunderstanding about tenure in universities: professors can also be fired (with cause) or laid off because of budget cuts or program closures.
@common sense -- yes, it is misleading to state that there have been no raises since 2009. They are likely referring to cost-of-living raises, but it would be more honest to provide the full pictures. Depending on years of service and other factors, a significant proportion of the teachers have seen annual raises.
Other stats on PAUSD salaries: In 2011 there were approximately 1200 permanent employees (all employees, not just teachers). Almost 500 employee earned base salaries of $90,000+, most earned by teachers, some by school psychologists, nurses, and administrators. Well over 600 received over $100,000 in total compensation. If you look at the public employees database, several had base salaries of ~$50k but total compensation of over $100k. It should be said that teachers, psychologists, nurses are on 10-month salaries whereas other employees are more likely to be on 12-month salaries.
Given the increased tax load residents have volunteered via the highest parcel tax in the area and tax increases associated with Prop 30, serious consideration should be given to this context before $1 million is spent in our still uncertain times.
There is no question our teachers deserve good salaries.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Dec 17, 2012 at 11:58 pm
With the tragic shooting at Newtown elementary school, how about use some of these extra money to add more security at schools in PAUSD? I don't think many PAUSD schools are "locked" during class time. Anyone can walk into campus. Although there is sign reminding people to sigh in at Office, you don't expect a bad guy to follow this rule.
I don't want to hear that PAUSD saying that they don't have money for adding security in the near future. Use the extra money wisely.
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 18, 2012 at 10:11 am
Teachers are making a fair wage in this area. Certainly not "great" but considering their summer breaks they aren't the lowest paid workers, either. That said, we are talking about just a 1% raise and that is after not getting much of a raise for a while. We are not even talking about a raise equal to inflation or standard of living increase. IMHO, this is a no-brainer.
As for hiring a security guard for each school in the area, that would probably be worth it. For those against guns, you could even have them carry just a baton and a walkie-talkie that connects to the office and/or the police station. The most important thing is to have someone watching and ready to take action. We can't expect ALL our teachers to be a Vicki Soto. But let's face it - teachers DO deserve some hazard pay for not only the very limited potential of a shooter storming their classroom, but also just dealing with our little brats from day to day! ;-)
a resident of Meadow Park
on Dec 18, 2012 at 10:17 am
Hey! My kids aren't those "little brats"!
Well, except for those times...
More guns in schools? Insanity.
Hire more cops and put one in each school? Sure. After every school gets a mental health professional, someone that help prevent problems, not react to problems.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Dec 18, 2012 at 11:44 am
Mom and teacher:
The reason elementary curriculum is so sub-standard lately and requires more supplementation is because a group of pro-education-school-research parents and residents instituted the "everyday math" learning system in which children don't need to memorize multiplication tables. As a student, I'm disappointed that this could ever occur, but I'm also glad that I escaped elementary education before the quality became so abysmal.
As for security at PAUSD, we have a lockdown procedure and Palo Alto isn't exactly a gun-advocate bastion (neither, I suppose, is Connecticut but still). As for security, we're not exactly far from the police station and we're quite accessible. The fire-engine response time to get to Paly is something like 2-3 minutes.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Dec 18, 2012 at 11:56 am
@Another Teacher -- To repeat a previous post, it is misleading to say that teachers have not received raises in awhile. While it is true that they have not received cost of living raises they have continued to receive raises for service years and added education, which could range from 3-6%. This info is available on the PAUSD website and salaries can be viewed by searching public employee salary databases. The average salary for a teacher (9.5mos) is over $86,000. There are many in Palo Alto making less. Am certainly supportive of good pay for teachers, but am concerned that it is best not to jump into a spending mode when funding is so tenuous. Just seems like the wise thing to do.
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Marie is a registered user.
This is a discussion about a one-time BONUS, not a raise. I think it is well justified. However, rather than 1% of salary, I think it should be a flat amount to everyone. I think lower paid employees deserve the same amount as administrators. If the amount is a percentage, then the majority goes to the highest compensated employees, many of whom are not teachers.
I suppose it is too much to hope that some of the money could be given as a merit bonus to encourage those teachers who are doing an outstanding job. I think that would be a more effective use of the money.
Am I reading correctly that PAUSD has 800 full and part-time teachers? I think I read in another article that there are 500 non-teaching employees? And certain of the lowest paid functions (cafeteria, janitors) are outsourced, so despite their contributions to our schools will get no bonus. Please correct me if I'm wrong. How does this compare to other best-in-class school districts? Has there been any benchmarking?
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Dec 18, 2012 at 12:53 pm
My children's teachers work extremely hard at their jobs. They put in extra hours everyday to make sure my children have the best experience at school. These teachers deserve the one time bonus along with a raise! These teachers teach my children and take care of my children everyday. They are not only teachers but counselors, parental figures, role models and much, much more to my children. The teachers are what is important in the classroom, not the technology. Spend the money on the individual teachers and the children will reap the benefits within their education.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 18, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Yes, PAUSD's continued strength absolutely plays into high property values. Ask homeseekers, ask realtors. It's a shame more of our teachers cannot afford live in our community (and the same for our other civil servants).
Every person I've ever known who moved from private sector to teaching was overwhelmed by how much harder the job was than they expected.
NCLB. Increasing SpecialEd regulations and populations. Entitled parents expecting replies way after hours. Students from dysfunctioning households, themselves so damaged that schools truly act 'in loco parentis'. The public often forgets, our teachers are required to serve every customer that walks in the door no matter how much time and money and effort and heartache they cost... that's just not true for the private sector.
Those who stayed in the profession (and so many left for "greener" pastures) always say how rewarding it is. I've never heard them say, "financially."
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 18, 2012 at 3:20 pm
As a community we are asking the teachers of our students to take on more and more responsibility for the health and well being of their students and yet when it comes to supporting them with a small bonus for their hard work you want to deny them. Can anyone give a real valid reason why teachers as a whole do not deserve our respect and admiration for the support that they give this community?
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Dec 18, 2012 at 3:41 pm
As a teacher, I know firsthand how hard my colleagues work. For Palo Alto to retain and attract the quality of teacher its residents have come to expect, keeping salaries competitive with other districts is a must. Palo Alto is a very wealthy community overall, and its residents deserve to have its teachers make a salary that will allow them to live closer to (if not in) the community and be a part of it. This will make teachers feel more invested in the schools they teach. I've read the comments about having summers off and what out hourly rate really is. I also know most of you understand teaching is not a 8-3 job. I know of no teacher who doesn't work a minimum of 50 hours a week. And yes, most of us do have to have a second job to afford living in this area. The modest raise we are asking for hardly affects Palo Alto residents in the slightest. For the amount of time, passion and energy we put into our jobs (and your children's educations), you should feel more than willing to give us a extremely modest raise.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 18, 2012 at 4:47 pm
I have a maybe dumb question
Is a teacher's salary used to calculate other benefits?
A small raise is not small when it is multiplied by a lot of teachers, and a nightmare if it causes an increase in other salary or benefit calculations. Not to mention, it sets up an increasing base which at this point in the economy does not even make sense.
Unfortunately, compared to a raise -democratic and delivered. Time passion and energy are not democratic or always delivered in our classrooms.
We had pretty great teachers in Elementary, mixed in Middle School, and more mixed in High School. You wonder why some are even teachers in the higher grades, when they look and act like they hate the students. For all the "love" there's a lot of angst in the higher grades. Maybe it's the second job you say many have, maybe it's the cost of living, but that should not impact the job one has been hire to do. Your credentials should determine what is expected of you, and in theory you have committed to deliver for the salary.
Should't you be leaving the job if it's not right for you?
It almost sounds like blackmail what you say. In a district which already pays well, you are saying you will deliver better only if you can afford to live here.?!?!
We might be better off with young and hungry teachers. Times are changing, we can get passion and energy not only from experience.
a resident of Barron Park
on Dec 18, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Compared to other states, CA teachers tenure and benefits are the most expensive in the country! And don't we rank at about the bottom, if not the bottom of the 50 states?
Illinois just passed a major reworking of tenure & benefits of teachers and school employees so it is possible. Also, amazingly, some high school teachers in the suburbs reach out to the parents if their child has not turned in homework etc.........they are proactive!
As a mom of 2 Gunn students, there are a few good teachers there, but many mediocre and some just plain awful. All of my kids friends have tutors, paid for by their parents, to teach them the material. When I went to high school 30 years ago, this was not the case and our education system was more highly ranked. So many high school students teach themselves the material or have tutors......we have smart parents and hardworking kids, thats why the scores are so high (relative to CA, not other states). Can we say that about the few minority kids who can't afford tutors our don't have guidance at home?
If you work in Silicon Valley in any other profession, you can get laid off, at anytime. There is no safety net and it often has to do with the economy, not whether or not you are doing a good job.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Dec 18, 2012 at 10:48 pm
I wanted to add to this discussion. I have bee in the classroom almost twenty years
Here is a typical day for me. Get to work around 8 am , walk in to my classroom to be greeted by mostly smiling faces. By 8;20 have individually interacted with at least 5 students and probably answered 5 questions. By 8;30 have taught new material and am checking for understanding. By 8;45 I have interacted with at least 15-20 students, made at least 20-30 quick decisions and have to make sure everyone, 30 students was on task. By 9:15 finished the lesson and perhaps have made at least 2-3 other transitions as middle schoolers cannot las that long on one lesson, have said goodbye to all of them. By 10 am have prepped at least 1-2 other lessons as I teach several subjects, made several phone calls, sent at least 10-15 emails to parents, bosses colleagues and maybe had a quick tea. By 11:30 have taught one or two more groups of 30 kids, depends on my schedule for the day. I have sat down maybe a total of 15 minutes.
Lunch is at 12:25 . Often don't sit down as I have to meet with kids to go over material or talk with colleagues as I do not get to see them much during the day as I'm with kids.
After 30 minute lunch I have two more periods.... There are 6 in a day but I usually teach 4 or 5 periods, depends on the day. By 3 pm I've interacted with 150 kids, probably 5-6 colleagues, sent at least 3-5 emails to parents, not to mention the other 50 or so to other administrators and colleagues. I've prepped for my various subjects... Prep time 2-4 hours per day. That does include grading 150 students and I cod tell you with fair accuracy where each one is. I have great secretaries in the front office but they do not take any of my calls , nor answer any of my emails. At home one eve at least 3 nights a week I answer more emails, ponder new lessons, etc
I do often work summer school to pay my mortgage and summer for me is 5 weeks. We have not had ten weeks off in years as someone mentioned above... It is usually 8.
Any workshops are funded by district up to 300 dollars. For any university credits I pay for them. I understand many Silicon Valley jobs pay for things such as this. I love my students and most parents are very supportive but please don't ever tell me that I am over paid as a Palo Alto teacher. I am an educator but am also a counselor, secretary,
Coach, mentor, numerous times throughout my day. It is a wonderful, rewarding job but very demanding and believe me, I never go to bed unable to sleep soundly at the end of my day.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Dec 18, 2012 at 10:51 pm
I apologize for several grammatical errors above as this was typed on an iphone
a resident of Gunn High School
on Dec 19, 2012 at 12:37 am
We've heard the union whine that teachers do a whole bunch of jobs and some teachers do, but frankly, my kids have had a couple of great teachers, some good ones, and some who could not teach at all. Why can't the great ones get a raise of a lot more than the terrible ones? This is where the union fails. It spends more of its time protecting the most ineffective instead of policing its members or behaving as a professional organization. Anyone with a brain knows that an administrator dare not attempt to spend a minimum of five years to dismiss a tenured teacher. In Palo Alto, only a serious crime against children has achieved that. As for the teacher who is planning and preparing, be thankful that you have a salary which provides for that instead of acting as if you get paid hourly like many of your classified counterparts, who by the way, also spend their off-hours preparing and planning for their jobs. My mom was a teacher and her life revolved around it, though she complained a lot less than some of the teachers I've read about here. She married my father, who was a gardener and got paid by the job and had no health insurance for most of his life. He sure spent a lot of time at night and weekends trying to improve his business.
Here's the funny part: this one-time, one percent raise is weak. There is a lot more money in the district coffers, but your union leaders, like you, have failed to make your case, and apparently were unable to compel Skelly and the board that you merited the up to three percent raise that was available. There is obviously a spell that you are under, or a deal has been made to not alarm the parents, but if I understand it correctly, Skelly is getting a million dollar, low or no interest loan just like the two county superintendents and none of you ever raise this issue. Check the warrants and financials on the district website if you don't believe me that there is a lot more money available. Lozano and company are making jokes out of your representation. I also saw that the district is paying the union nearly $80,000 monthly. I'll assume those are the voluntary dues, but I am not sure. Stop paying them and you may recover another one percent. Feel free to let me know if I haven't figured this out.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Dec 19, 2012 at 1:07 am
Thank you Marie! asking, being concerned about non teaching/administration employees is not common.
"It is a plantation mentality and it is clearly split down racial lines, you simply need to know your place. " - a comment short time ago in another thread triggered by same issues.
Kids breath the air - many hours every day.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 19, 2012 at 1:21 am
In the real world, a raise or a bonus is merit based.
Blanket increases simply do not make sense.
Ms Teacher,
You describe your day without any faults. You might be a great teacher who deserves a raise, but you may not.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Dec 19, 2012 at 1:49 am
Let us continue to provide more funds to a system that is failing compared to many metrics. Let us continue to provide more pay to a group of employees that are working even less hours under union rule. And let us continue to increase compensation at twice the rate of inflation and wonder where our tax dollars are going.
When the Calstrs (Teachers retirement system) asks us to pay almost triple what school districts already pay (coming soon to the PA school district) will we be surprised when the district gets behind the need for increased parcel taxes and school bonds to help support the continuation of out-of-control-spending? Will the increased spending ACTUALLY benefit students or will it only increase compensation for school district employees - more tax dollars with little benefit?
The sooner we quit getting sucked into the Teachers Union argument that "it's all about the kids" is about the time the kids will actually benefit and their parents tax dollar investment will provide results
a resident of another community
on Dec 19, 2012 at 5:44 am
Palo Alto pays its teachers very high wages in comparison to other school districts. But if thatś not enough think of how much vacation time and breaks they have: winter and spring break and then in the summer 2 months (wow!) plus tenure (wow and wow!). But I support giving them this one time bonus simply because of the high local cost of living. Bay area districts should have a basic salary comparable to other school districts, making distinctions on schooling and then a yearly bonus for housing which is the area main cause of the high cost of living.
Palo Alto doesn´t make schooling salary distinctions other than the degree attained and pays the same for a degree whether it was obtained at Stanford or Princeton or Scranton University or College of the Redwoods. No wonder that graduates of the better universities
have reluctance in embarking in a teaching career....
a resident of another community
on Dec 19, 2012 at 6:03 am
It has long been a common misunderstanding on the part of teachers (read Ms teacher above) that they work long hours. Well, compared to whom? Apparently 9-5 jobs, typically without security, little or no vacation or low pay. Then they want to be paid as a liberal or technical person. She/he in her/his ignorance doesn´t realize that those persons work all the time: early morning, late evening,on weekends, on vacation (short ones) many times. And if you want to do an involved, well paid professional job nobody pays you for learning new material. Itś all part of the job. What, work all the time? And as for salary, the stating salary for a teacher in PA is comparable to a starting salary for a professional in other fields with the same qualifications. As for the professional shenanigans of obnoxious parents, bad bosses, difficult children, etc, what on earth, what kind of fantasy world do people live in to imagine that other professional people (including the well paid) don´t have to deal with the intrinsic difficulty of the job itself+the difficult people around them?
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 19, 2012 at 10:04 am
Top 50 ranking in the State:
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API #s at the other schools are also quite high, compared to state and nation. To imply as a previous commenter did that PAUSD school are not providing high quality education is simply a broadbrush misuse of statistics.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Dec 19, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Agree, PAUSD is at the top. However, this is NOT solely due to teachers in PAUSD. Let's send the best teacher in PAUSD to another bottom school. If this best teacher can make that bottom class move to top like PAUSD, then I believe that it is solely due to teachers for class ranking. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The parents and good student body is the main reason. I am not saying that PAUSD teachers are not good, I just want to point to the real fact. PAUSD teachers should feel fortunate to have such a good community to support them.
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CARSON, Calif. – There are those who feel the road to the MLS Cup goes through the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake, but Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena doesn't subscribe to that popular theory.
One of these two teams, which meet Sunday at StubHub Center (6 p.m., ESPN) in the first leg of the two-leg, aggregate goal Western Conference Semifinals, has been to the final in three of the last four years. The Galaxy won championships in 2011 and 2012, and Real Salt Lake beat the Galaxy on penalties in 2009 to claim their first title. In 2010, the Galaxy reached the Western Conference Championship, only to fall to FC Dallas.
"I never say any of that stuff," Arena said after training Friday. "Those are comments from people that have never walked the walk or talked the talk. It's all garbage, that kind of talk.
"The road to the MLS Cup final is determined by the team that gets through the next two series. That's what the road is."
Sunday's postseason opener will mark the third postseason meeting between the two clubs, with the Galaxy winning 3-1 in the 2011 Western Conference Championship, two years after seeing their championship dreams end at the hands of RSL in MLS Cup 2009. The Galaxy, – who will travel to Sandy, Utah for the second leg on Thursday, Nov. 7 –also won this year's regular season series by taking two of the three meetings between the two sides. An understrength Galaxy side claimed a 2-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium on April 27, only to fall there 3-1 just over a month later. The final meeting between the sides took place at StubHub Center on Aug. 17, when the Galaxy cruised to a 4-2 win.
The Galaxy's Robbie Keane, who finished fourth in MLS in goals scored with 16, including three in that 4-2 win, feels confident about the defending champions' postseason chances. Last Sunday's 1-1 tie in Seattle, in which the Galaxy rallied from an early deficit, only to be denied a certain victory when referees missed an apparent, first half goal by Omar Gonzalez, led him to feel the team is ready to make a long playoff run.
"I hope so. That's the whole idea," he said with a grin. "I think the game against Seattle was a good game in the way we came from a goal behind. We were solid the whole game and defended very well. That game in Seattle hopefully gave the lads confidence that when we are under pressure we can still come out and get results."
The Galaxy will be taking on one of MLS' most experienced team that features a formidable cast of characters led by the likes of goalkeeper Nick Rimando (1.04 goals-against average and nine shutouts), the central midfield combination of Kyle Beckerman and Javier Morales, as well as top goal scorer Alvaro Saborio, who scored 12 times in 2013 despite appearing in just 16 of RSL's 34 regular season games.
"It's a solid team, very well-organized," Keane said of Real Salt Lake. "It's certainly going to be a difficult game. They have players who have been around for a very long time. It's up to us as players to take that challenge on and enjoy the occasion and hopefully get the results we want."
Added Landon Donovan, who has a goal and two assists in two postseason games against Salt Lake, as well as nine goals and nine assists in 18 regular season games, "It starts with their leadership, in (head coach Jason) Kreis, Beckerman, Nat (Borchers), Rimando. Those guys are good leaders and they're winners. And they're very talented. You could argue they're as talented as any team in the league."


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Holland Fisher takes a lot of pride in being a high-energy player. The nation's No. 7-ranked safety often marches to the beat of a different drummer.
Sometimes, that drummer is Fisher himself.
"I love playing drums," he said. "I played all through middle school and wanted to be in the marching band in high school but I never could march because of football."
Fisher now focuses on football at Midlothian (Va.) Manchester but grew up in the Lancaster (Va.) High district and thought his future would be in the stands not on the field.
"Lancaster had a great band," he said. "Really, they were great, and I had rhythm. I wanted to be in that band.
"They really got the crowd hyped and I am always trying to fire people up. I am the hypest guy on the field."
Come June 22-24, Fisher will bring his energy to the field of Lakewood Stadium in Atlanta for the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge but not to fulfill a dream of playing the drums in the Dirty South but to compete against the best players in the nation.
The No. 72 overall player in the country is already committed to Virginia Tech but says that this trip to the invitation-only camp is a chance to prove his doubters wrong.
"I hear them all the time," Fisher said. "There are a lot of people who say that I am overrated, I hear them, and I am going to show them they are wrong.
"They say I don't have ball skills and they say I can't catch so that's why I have to play safety."
At 6 feet 1 and 202 pounds, with a 4.5-second 40-yard dash, Fisher has the measurements that all colleges would want from his position.
According to Fisher that is not enough; he wants to silence his critics.
"It doesn't make me feel bad or anything that they are out there," he said. "But it does push me. I try to take their negativity and make it a positive for myself."
His first step in that process is hitting the camp circuit hard.
Fisher is one of the most active, highly rated players on the summer tours. He says that the competition and chance to be out on the field is the only way to get better.
"I do a lot of camps," he said. "I try to take something, even the smallest thing, from every camp I go to."
His latest camp, the Rivals.com/VTO Sports camp in Virginia, he took home exactly what he went for: an invitation to the inaugural Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge.
"Getting to go to the big camp was the main reason I went to that VTO camp," Fisher said. "I knew Rivals would be there and I wanted to get my invite.
"It was very special. I earned my invite on the spot. After the camp they told me they wanted me to come and I couldn't stop smiling."
Now that Fisher has accepted the challenge, he is hard at work preparing to be his usual high-energy self.
"I want to get there and get the other players energized," he said. "I want to win that 7-on-7 and I think getting everybody else excited about it will help get us there."
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Fisher is a big, physical kid who could grow into a linebacker if he wanted to but has good coverage skills as a safety. At the Rivals.com/VTO Sports Virginia camp he was excellent and was the best we've seen him at when it comes to coverage despite playing out of position at times at cornerback. He has good instincts and he hones in on the football well and closes strong. His ball skills are better than advertised but he's looking to show that they are a strength at this event. He's one of the most physically gifted safeties around and certainly passes the eyeball test so this should be a great event for him to showcase those skills against some big receivers.
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Sebastian County Circuit Judge James Cox, who ruled last year that the law was too vague for the criminal penalties to be fair after a Fort Smith attorney alleged in a lawsuit that a city administrator was illegally having meetings with individual members of the city council.
The high court's ruling upheld the criminal penalties and the opinion, written by Chief Justice Jim Hannah, said that the Legislature can change the law, but judges can't.
"We construed the open-meetings provision of the FOIA to give effect to the intent of the Legislature that public business be performed in an open and public manner," Hannah wrote.
Attorney Joey McCutchen, a former school board member in Fort Smith who filed the initial lawsuit against the city and several officials, said he was unhappy that any portion of Cox's ruling was upheld.
"I'm disappointed with it ... in terms of it looks like the city administrator and board of directors can basically do anything short of polling, asking how are you going to vote," McCutchen said.
McCutchen said residents will have to take the word of elected officials and administrators regarding what happens when they get together.
"If it was an open meeting, we wouldn't have to be taking their word for it," McCutchen said.
McCutchen sued after then-Fort Smith City Administrator Dennis Kelly met individually with some council members about a proposal he supported that would have given him the power to fire workers, a responsibility held by the city board.
Kelly's employment ended in 2010. Present City Administrator Ray Gosack he wished the high court would have upheld the ruling that the criminal penalties were unconstitutional.
Gosack said the Legislature hasn't provided legal definition of what constitutes a "meeting."
"Given the vagueness of what is or isn't a violation, it creates a lot of uncertainty for public officials and we've seen a clear example of that in this case filed by a citizen who though there was a violation," Gosack said. "In this case there wasn't a violation but what it points to is the need for a definition of what is or isn't a meeting."
The high court ruled that McCutchen's lawsuit didn't give the proper forum for Cox to address the constitutionality of the criminal penalties in the FOIA.
The Arkansas Press Association filed a friend of the court brief asking that the lower court decision be struck down.
"We're pleased that the Supreme Court determined that criminal penalties were constitutional," said Tres Williams, spokesman for the association. "We're disappointed in the decision to interpret actions of certain members of the governing body to not constitute a meeting."
Williams said "it remains to be determined" whether the organization would pursue legislators to address the law.
McCutchen said he wouldn't mind seeing the Legislature take a crack at it.
"Maybe the Legislature does need to take a look at this. We're clearly living in a different day than in the 1960s. Email, text messaging, you name it," he said.


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Out of routine
Currently I'm blogging from my brother in law's house in Bukit Beruntung, a cowboy town adjacent to Rawang. Luckily he has the streamyx broadband installed in his extended corner lot house.
Earlier, after Ikhwan school session ended on a brisk Friday afternoon, we headed up north to Cemor, a small town north of Ipoh to attend a cousin's wedding. The wedding was held on Saturday afternoon but the preparation took place 2-3 days earlier.
We arrived at the house in Cemor at 2.00 am. We relaxed and then slept at the living hall. The next day, I spared my physical energy to assist the cooking process. I helped to do some "kenduri" activity stuffs. It was really tiring but well, I rather help than just sit and see. However, the most interesting thing is my kids also helped and that was very nice to see. I'll upload some photos about that soon after I arrive back to my home in JB.
Later the same day, we move down south to Bukit Beruntung. There were all together 9 people in my white Proton Exora,which include my mother, father and sister in law.
We arrived at Bukit Beruntung and landed safely in the house at 9 pm. All of us relaxed, watched some malay drama and later end the night – sleeping zzzzzzzz…..
We are going to continue our journey to Kuantan later this afternoon and stay in Kuantan until Wednesday.
Hence, within that time, I maybe not connected to the internet. I'll use the time to do my offline work…. hehe…
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Mokelumne Wilderness > Mokelumne Peak > Climber's Log
Mokelumne Peak Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|from Tanglefoot
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2016
|Warm day made the first part of the hike uncomfortable, especially after dropping 600' to the creek below. Once we reach the cross country part, at about 7900', we got a breeze. Last few hundred feet of talus was a surprise.
Great views north to the Yolla Bollys and west to Mount Diablo and Junipero Serra.
|Posted Aug 9, 2016 12:06 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2015
|Nice hike after we determined where the trail head was.
|Posted Aug 20, 2015 10:29 pm
|From Plasse
Date Climbed: May 12, 2014
|A long slog from the gated turnoff to Plasse, with nice views of the Mokelumne gorge. Trip report.
|Posted May 29, 2014 3:14 pm
|From Tanglefoot
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2013
|2-day backpacking trip with Jean. Camped at Moraine Lake.
|Posted Aug 12, 2013 12:03 am
|Birthday Hike
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 1994
|Hiked this with my dad and a bunch of old buddies for a long birthday peak bagging day. I'm thinking of heading up from Salt Springs to Allen Camp on a couple day outing this summer.
|Posted Aug 3, 2013 1:49 pm
|From Tanglefoot
Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2012
|Somewhat tough trailhead to find, but worth the journey. A little bit of everything - trail hiking through the forest, off-trail for a few miles, and some talus hopping to get to a peak with amazing views.
|Posted Oct 21, 2012 3:02 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2012
|From Tanglefoot trailhead -- roads and trail are in decent condition, and even the last bit of off-trail is not bad. This is a nice woodland hike, over a pretty rock canyon and eventually above treeline for a nice view. Tanglefoot creek is mostly dry -- it was a low snow year -- but on the climb out of the canyon the spring was still flowing. Register is scraps of paper in a purple water bottle.
|Posted Jul 22, 2012 11:10 am
|From Tanglefoot TH
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2012
|SPS peak #39. Hiked up with my brother Alan in the afternoon. This is an SPS peak because of the view; quite exceptional IMHO. The trail is seldom used and is becoming reclaimed in places; this could become a problem for some if hiking at night w/o a GPS. The trail has been moved by the park service in many places as well, so it is a bit shorter in the right places; however, it is 8 miles to the summit. There was no summit register, only a couple of plastic bottle with some scraps of paper in it.
|Posted Jul 2, 2012 12:29 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2012
|The approach from Tanglefoot was mostly a uninteresting forested affair. The offtrail stuff was easy if you stay just south of Peak 8628. Skeeters were out but not headnet worthy.
Pics and commentary here
|Posted Jun 30, 2012 5:04 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011
|Volcanic rock overlaying granite was interesting. 6.5 hours c2c.
|Posted Aug 28, 2011 3:59 pm
|Summit Register?
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2011
|Good hike and climb for a one day ascent, turning off the trail a little bit late but we made the summit in time for a great summit session. Around 6 hours up from Tanglefoot and just over 4 hours down. The disappointment was no summit register that we could find. So we made one and covered the plastic bottle it was in. Please bring up a proper register is you go up after us!
|Posted Aug 17, 2011 8:17 pm
|Too early
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2011
|Trying for a one day ascent and the logs across the trail, snowpacks over the meadows, and slow pace of our group kept us from summiting. 7:40 trailhead, 10am Moraine Lake, then our pace slowed and we turned around about 1:30 after turning off the trail. Poor trail conditions and slow pace kept us from summiting this time, we will return!
|Posted Aug 17, 2011 8:13 pm
|From Plasse's Trading Post
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2009
|The jeep ride in from Hwy 88 took us 1.5 hours. We could've hiked it in less than that. Parked at Squaw Ridge and followed the trail toward Cole Lakes. Then the trails petered out and we hoofed it x-country up the north ridge. LOTS of bear scat. Halfway there, saw a rattlesnake coiled about 3 feet from my foot. I nearly stepped on it but it never rattled. What creeped me out is that we'd hiked in for hours, so getting help would have been, well, a difficult & lengthy process. Nice day hike, but bummed that there was no register on the summit. We looked for 15 minutes under rocks and in crevices.
|Posted Nov 13, 2010 5:52 pm
|From Tragedy Springs
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2010
|Started from Tragedy Springs along Highway 88 and followed the Mud Lake Jeep Trail to Plasse Trading Post (1853 - 1862). From there I followed the Munson Meadows Trail past Cole Creek Lakes and Long Lake. At Munson Meadows I found a rarely used trail leading to Shriner Lake. I followed the trail for a short ways before heading cross country towards the north ridge of Mokelumne Peak. For most of the hike out there was thunder and lightning nearby.
|Posted Jul 7, 2010 2:47 pm
|From Plasse Trading Post
Date Climbed: Oct 15, 2007
|Took a short but very rough 4x4 route in from south of Silver Lake, drove through snowdrifts and mudholes to Plasse Trading Post, nice hike from there.
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 6:04 pm
|2-day ski trip
Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2004
|Very nice ridge climb and great descent. Lots of ups & downs on the return to trailhead
|Posted Sep 28, 2009 1:47 am
|Super views
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2005
|Long day hike. Road in is rough.
|Posted Oct 18, 2007 12:42 pm
|Dangers Pop
|Tanglefoot TH
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2007
|I'd been wanting to do this peak for some time. This hike has great views once you start to get above the treeline. Climbed with Jay and Tom. From the summit you could see Mt Diablo. It's remote, but the views make this a worthwhile objective. I will do this one again!
|Posted Oct 7, 2007 11:37 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007
|Not much snow left at all. Ran into a large bear on the way down.
|Posted Aug 21, 2007 6:43 pm
|Tanglefoot-West Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2006
|Nice dayhike. Good driving directions on the SP page. Thx.
|Posted Aug 29, 2006 12:01 am


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Treatment of Low blood pressure
Lower than normal blood pressure in a healthy person that does not cause any symptoms often does not need treatment. Otherwise, treatment depends on the cause of your low blood pressure and your symptoms.
When you have symptoms from a drop in blood pressure, sit or lie down right away. Then raise your feet above heart level.
Severe hypotension caused by shock is a medical emergency. You may be given:
- Blood through a needle (IV)
- Medicines to increase blood pressure and improve heart strength
- Other medicines, such as antibiotics
Treatments for low blood pressure after standing up too quickly include:
- If medicines are the cause, your provider may change the dosage or switch you to a different drug. DO NOT stop taking any medicines before talking to your provider.
- Your provider may suggest drinking more fluids to treat dehydration.
- Wearing compression stockings can help keep blood from collecting in the legs. This keeps more blood in the upper body.
People with NMH should avoid triggers, such as standing for a long period of time. Other treatments include drinking fluids and increasing salt in your diet. Talk to your provider before trying these measures. In severe cases, medicines may be prescribed.
Prognosis (Outlook)
Low blood pressure can usually be treated with success.
Potential Complications
Falls due to low blood pressure in older adults can lead to a broken hip or spine fracture. These injuries can reduce a person's health and ability to move about.
Sudden severe drops in your blood pressure starves your body of oxygen. This can lead to damage of the heart, brain, and other organs. This type of low blood pressure can be life threatening if not treated right away.
When to Contact a Health Professional
If low blood pressure causes a person to pass out (become unconscious), seek treatment right away. Or call the local emergency number such as 911. If the person is not breathing or has no pulse, begin CPR.
Call your health care provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms:
- Black or maroon stools
- Chest pain
- Dizziness, lightheadedness
- Fainting
- Fever higher than 101°F (38.3°C)
- Irregular heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
Prevention of Low blood pressure
Your provider may recommend certain steps to prevent or reduce your symptoms including:
- Drinking more fluids
- Getting up slowly after sitting or lying down
- Not drinking alcohol
- Not standing for a long time (if you have NMH)
- Using compression stockings so blood does not collect in the legs
Calkins H, Zipes DP. Hypotension and syncope. In: Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 40.
Cheshire WP. Autonomic disorders and their management. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 25th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2016:chap 418.
|Review Date: 1/31/2015
Reviewed By: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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SAN FRANCISCO The eyes of soccer fans around the globe will be on Brazil June 12 when at least 3.7 million people descend on the country for the World Cup. A race is on to deploy new networks to ensure the influx of fans will be able to get on the mobile web, but the outcome is still uncertain.
A total of 64 matches will be held in 12 cities in new or redeveloped stadiums. Six of 12 total stadiums are still undergoing WiFi and 4G network testing -- and two are still under construction. In what may be a sign of the intensity of the race to meet deadlines, several workers have died in construction accidents.
In part to help accommodate the extra mobile traffic, Brazil's regulating telecom agency, Anatel, mandated that host cities with over 500,000 people must support universal 4G coverage by May 31, 2014. Carriers that don't meet the deadline will lose their licenses.
With 268 million subscribers, Brazil has the fifth-most mobile phone users in the world, Bloomberg reported. Observers expect existing 3G infrastructure won't be adequate to handle the millions of fans.
That's one reason why the Brazilian government used the convergence of three events -- last year's Confederations Cup, the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics -- to push for deploying 4G networks. The decision raised broad questions about whether Brazil is serving its urban elites at the expense of its rural poor. But in the last days before the World Cup opens, the focus now has turned to tactical concerns on the technical barriers, government red tape, and construction delays with its 4G ramp.
"They are focusing on public places -- airports and stadiums, main streets, major cities," Bob Calaff, Latin America and Caribbean director for the 4G Americas trade group, told EE Times. Travelers using 4G in World Cup venues are likely to get reasonable coverage but "in the city the network could be crushed because of traffic."


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BERLIN – Two people, including one pedestrian, were killed on Worcester County highways in separate accidents a little more than 15 hours apart.
The first occurred around 7:38 p.m. last Thursday when a pedestrian walked into the path of the motorcycle on eastbound Route 50 just east of Elm Street during the torrential downpours that swept through the area that night. According to police reports, a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Carmelo M. Piparato, Jr., 51, of Easton, Pa., was traveling in the far right lane on eastbound Route 50 when a 50-year-old white female stepped into the vehicle's path.
The accident occurred just east on Elm Street roughly between the Starbuck's Coffee store and the Ocean City Factory Outlets on the other side of the highway. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released the victim's name pending notification of next of kin, but a source said this week the victim was a local woman and long-time employee of the Food Lion grocery store nearby.
The area of Route 50 has been particularly deadly this year with two other fatalities in a stretch of a mile or so including another pedestrian. In May, a local teen was killed when he allegedly fell into the path of a vehicle eastbound on Route 50 near the western terminus of the Harry Kelley Memorial Bridge. About a month later on June 26, two bicyclists were struck from behind on the westbound side of the span by a vehicle with one injured and the other pronounced dead at the scene.
Another local was killed in an accident on a dangerous section of Route 113 near Snow Hill around mid-morning on Friday. Shortly after 11 a.m. last Friday, Maryland State Police troopers were dispatched to the intersection of Route 113 and Public Landing Rd. in Snow Hill for a reported motor vehicle accident with entrapment.
The investigation revealed a 1994 Chevrolet Lumina driven by Norman Ayres, 68, of Snow Hill, was traveling westbound on Public Landing Rd. approaching Route 113 and failed to stop or yield the right-of-way to a 2008 Cadillac STS passenger car driven by Graham Wheeler, 85, of Hampton, Va., which was traveling southbound on Route 113. The Cadillac struck the Chevrolet as it attempted to cross Route 113. Ayres was pronounced dead at the scene, while Graham Wheeler and his passenger, identified as Grace Wheeler, 84, also of Hampton, Va., were transported by Snow Hill Fire-EMS to PRMC in Salisbury. The investigation is ongoing.


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Third-party plugins give you more tools to work with your genealogy data in GRAMPS. This page lists plugins written by users to work with the 3.1.x series version of GRAMPS, to be released in March 2009.
Plugins for the previous version: 3.0.x Third-party Plugins page.
Please Note:
These plugins may not be officially part of GRAMPS. Feature requests and bugs with these plugins should be directed to the contact information below.
Installing Plugins in GRAMPS
To install a GRAMPS Plugin:
- click on the download link below
- if the download is a file that ends in .py, save it in your GRAMPS User Directory, in the plugins folder
- if the download is a file that ends in .zip or .gz, save the contents of the file in your GRAMPS User Directory, in the plugins folder
- restart gramps, OR reload the plugins from the Help -> Plugin Status -> Reload button.
Note: If you are attempting to override an older plugin, the .py filename should be different from the original. For example, if you have an older FilePlugin.py save the newer FilePlugin.py as FilePlugin101.py where 101 might be the version number.
The Plugin Status window will show you which plugins failed to load, double click on such an entry shows you the error. You can mail this error to the plugin contact.
Plugin List
Information for Plugin writers
Have you written a plugin for GRAMPS you want to share with the world? Here's how you do it:
- Add the correct license. GRAMPS is GPLv2, you use the GRAMPS plugin system, so make sure you have the correct license at the top of your file. See Howto: Contribute to GRAMPS
- Create a filename.tar.gz file of your plugin code
- Upload the code to this wiki
- Add a description of your plugin to this page. If possible, create a new wiki page, and refer to that page here, with a short description of what the plugin does
Internationalize it
There is a big possibility that you are not a native English speaker and want your report in your mother tongue. To enable others to use your report, and make it easy to include your report later in GRAMPS without large changes, do the following for text:
Translation function
- Suppose you have a string Name, which you want for your own use in French, so Nom. Then write a translation function with the name _.
- For every string, pass it through your translation function: _("Name")
- Your translation function should then look like this:
mytranslation = { 'Name' : "Nom" } from gettext import gettext import locale lang = locale.getlocale()[0] if lang: lang = lang.split('_')[0] def _(string): if lang == 'fr': return mytranslation.get(string, gettext(string)) else: return gettext(string)
Change here 'fr' by the language code of your language
- If the report becomes part of GRAMPS, it will suffice to delete this code and replace it by
from gettext import gettext as _
- Note that you only need to include strings that are not yet a part of GRAMPS, as those will be translated automatically by the gettext routine
- We support right to left languages like Arabic, so never constructs text parts by concatenation of pieces. Always use full sentences/paragraphs with variable substitution, so that a right to left language can translate it correctly.
- There is a possible template which lists references.
Translators may add references to their main translation.


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./jre < whatever version of java you will want >/bin/java: not found.
I have found a solution just for you. First of all lets get the Java runtime enviroment downloaded for your desktop or computer at Java's site at this link here. http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp?locale=en
See the linux downloads you can choose? Select the correct download for your workstation or laptop. I choose the x64 version since I know my workstation is a 64 bit machine.
After you get the correct version downloaded onto your desktop or folder of your choice, lets open up a terminal (CLI) command line interface.
Then grant your terminal "special" permissions by inputting the < sudo > command. If you get a permission denied after inputting this code below, try the < su > command or superuser command. You should try sudo first though, as superuser you can bork out your linux box quickly if you do not know what you are doing. YOU have been warned.
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First lets make a folder for our java runtime environment to rest in. Online its suggested to rest that program in the /usr/bin/java for this purpose. So lets make a directory in our terminal for this purpose. The mkdir command in your terminal does this for you.
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mkdir /usr/bin/java
Next lets "mount" this directory inside of our terminal. To do this you will use the cd command which stands for change directory along with your PATH variable, which is your /usr/bin/java. That is your PATH of your files we are going to move and extract our java runtime enviroment which downloaded onto your desktop as a < .tar.gz. > Select the tar.gz download for your java runtime environment. Remember, exact spelling, spelling, lower and upper case letter keys inside of that terminal are important in typing commands into your terminal if you want to succeed.
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cd /usr/bin/java
Do you see how you are getting colored lines in your terminal for that code above? Cool huh?
Next we will want to "extract" this java runtime environment into the /usr/bin/java folder by inputting the following commands.
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tar zxvf <whatever your java version is> tar.gz
The command zxvf are what are called "switches" in linux, check over what this means on Google search if you need to. The command "switches" tells your computer to move and extract that uncompressed package to the correct folder all at the same time.
Here is a tip if you do not like to type out your whole package name inside of the < brackets java version > above. Just input the tar zxvf into your terminal and drag and drop that java runtime environment that is still NOT extracted yet into your terminal. You will see the PATH variable pop up inside of it!
After you have ran that code you will see lines of code strolling inside of your terminal inside of the folder you just made. To check and make sure your plug in for the Java runtime enviroment is working correctly, check it at this link here. http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
NOTE for Opera browser users. If you get an error still not running the java plug in correctly try these solutions.
You will need to create what is called a "symbolic" link to your < libnpjp2.so > that was downloaded into your directory for your java runtime environment.
To find your directory path type in this command in your terminal.
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find / -name libnpjp2.so 2>/dev/null
Now that you got the path directory for your libnpjp2.so lets create a symbolic link to it from the file you downloaded the Java runtime environment to the plugin folder where Opera rests on your desktop. On mine its located in the /usr/lib/opera/plugin directory. Yours could be different though, so use the directory that is spit out or "outputted" from the code above.
Lets do a:
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ln -s <whatever directory libnpjp2.so is located at >
Mine went like this:
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ln -s '/usr/bin/java/jre1.7.0_11/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so'
Use whatever your path variable is inside the ( ' ) quotation marks above for you for your own path variable for Java runtime that was '"outputted" by the code < find / -name libnpjp2.so 2>/dev/null > .
Restart Opera and go into the menu options now. Go to page >> developer tools >> plugins and see if "java plug in' is listed. If not refresh.
Also check the settings for your path variable in the menu options for Opera by going into settings >> preferences >> advanced tab >> content. Make sure enable plug ins is checkedmarked in there. Hit the "plug in options" button in there and also the "find new" button. It should list your plugin in that setting also.
Do not forget to go back and refresh the page >> developer tools >> plugins page afterwards yet again to get it up and running.
If everything went well check here and see if you NOW got java plugin enabled correctly for Opera Linux. http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
I hope this guide helps those new to linux and learning how to operate linux.


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Alpine Lakes Wilderness > Arrowhead Mountain > Climber's Log
Arrowhead Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Happy New Years!
Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2013
|Dreary forest snowshoe slog to begin with, and the "scenic" railroad hike is less than pleasurable, but once you hit the ridge it's a joy. Great new years hike. Some of the best views I've seen in this area.
|Posted Jan 6, 2013 5:15 pm
Date Climbed: Feb 4, 2012
|fun snowshoe with good views
|Posted Oct 28, 2012 3:26 pm
|Nice Peak!
Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2012
|This peak was easy-going. Eric, Fletcher, Rob, Sergey, and I hiked up the snowy forested NE ridge slopes until reaching the east ridgetop at ~5000' elevation. From there, it looked like *a lot* of snowshoers and/or cross-country skiers had been following the ridgetop to the summit. The summit has great views, especially ofthe Chiwaukums, Jim Hill Mountain, and the Rock/Mastiff/Howard conglomerate. Highly recommended peak!
|Posted Jan 11, 2012 10:45 pm
|Pesky snow
|Snowshoed this with Bryan in low visibility. The E ridge itself was pretty fun but we encountered chunky, icy, deadfall-y snow in the trees that I wouldn't expect until late April, Welcome to the cascades I guess.
|Posted Feb 23, 2011 2:01 pm
|Josh Lewis
|Tough Day Out
Date Climbed: Dec 27, 2010
|I went without snowshoes a good ways which made the trip very tiring for me. For me it was harder than climbing Mount Rainier.
|Posted Jan 12, 2011 5:09 pm
|Long Day!!!
Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2011
|Snow was deep, temps were well below freezing, snow was flying, summit was breezy... It was a great winter destination. Not sure if our ascent was the typical route up but we found an easier way descending the NE ridge.
|Posted Jan 10, 2011 1:05 pm
|Fun Winter Scramble
Date Climbed: Feb 16, 2003
|I've been up three times in winter on snowshoes. Each trip was via a different route. Finally did the usual NE ridge this past winter. It is the easiest route. All three were a lot of fun.
|Posted Oct 23, 2009 11:35 pm
|with the two fellows below
Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2009
|some 12" of powder on top despite hard snow conditions below.
|Posted Feb 17, 2009 4:46 pm
|Nasty weather but nice powder
Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2009
|Great trainer for larger climbs. Check out TR!! Did with Magellan, Gimpilator, QuetzalCoatl, Brent and Mad Dog from NWHikers.
|Posted Feb 15, 2009 10:46 pm
|Bad Weather
Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2009
|It was totally clear on the drive in until we crossed over the pass and from then on it snowed for the rest of the trip. No views and a severe wind chill on the summit, but fun all the same. Here is the route recorded by my GPS. It is a kml file and should be viewed in Google Earth.
|Posted Feb 15, 2009 7:52 pm
|D Smith
|Route Climbed: NW Face Date Climbed: March 2004
|A nice spring day for skiing. Good corn on the upper slopes, but a bit sloppy down low. Had the mountain to ourselves on this particular day.
|Posted Jun 30, 2005 2:39 am


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