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Languages/Python/PyKDE DBus Tutorial
|Tutorial Series
|What's Next
|Further Reading
|Qt Signals and Slots in python, Introduction to PyQT4, Qt DBus Intro
The aim of this tutorial is to give an overview of DBus in the context of python. By the end, the goal is to understand how to find DBus methods in existing applications and how to use them in PyQt4/PyKDE4. It assumes a basic working knowledge of Python and PyKDE4.
Future Plans
Later additions to this tutorial may cover creating and emitting dbus signals.
First off, a small introduction to DBus. DBus is an inter-process communication framework. In other words, it allows different applications to talk to each other. DBus uses the concept of signals and methods, which are similar to the Signals and Slots in Qt. (For more information on Signals and Slots in python, suggested reading at the top) You can connect signals to methods, or call methods directly.
Bus Types
Everything sent or received in dbus is transferred over a bus. There are two main buses available, the Session Bus and the System Bus. The former handles per-session (per-user) information while the System Bus handles systemwide notification and settings. For example, the hal subsystem provides a number of interfaces on the System Bus, while Amarok or PowerDevil provides session-specific interfaces for control over music and power options, respectively.
A DBus path is made up of three parts, the Service Name, the Object Path and the Interface. The following table (taken from the Qt intro to dbus) provides some ways to distinguish between the three parts.
DBus Cheat Sheet
|D-Bus Concept
|Name format
|Service name
|Network hostnames
|Dot-separated ("looks like a hostname")
|Object path
|URL path component
|Slash-separated ("looks like a path")
|Plugin identifier
Exploring DBus Interfaces
One of the easiest ways to discover a DBus method is by browsing for it using qdbusviewer. Run this program from your command line or KRunner (alt+f2) prompt.
You should see the following screen:
The two tabs available are the Session Bus and the System Bus.
Within each bus, the left pane shows Service Names. If you click on a service, the right pane shows information about that service.
Find the org.freedesktop.PowerManagement service and select it. You show now see the following:
Object Paths
Everything you see on the right pane is the start of an Object Path. Try expanding down the modules/powerdevil/ path. You should now see the following:
org.kde.PowerDevil org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable
The above entries are Interfaces. They are the things that you can actually interact with. When you expand the org.kde.PowerDevil interface, you see a number of Methods and Signals:
Calling Methods
Clicking on a Method will call it. Try clicking on the "turnOffScreen" method. Your screen should go blank. Note: You can get your display back by wiggling your mouse.
When your display comes back, you should see some information in the bottom pane.
Since the method returned nothing, qdbusviewer told us that.
Now, for working with methods in python and PyKDE4.
Code Example
First I'm going to throw a whole bunch of code at you. This example contains the basics for setting up a KDE application gui and connecting a button to a dbus method.
#! /usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
from PyKDE4.kdecore import ki18n, KAboutData, KCmdLineArgs
from PyKDE4.kdeui import KApplication
from PyQt4.QtGui import QLabel, QWidget, QPushButton, QBoxLayout
from PyQt4.QtCore import Qt, QObject, SIGNAL
import dbus
class MainWindow (QWidget):
def __init__ (self):
QWidget.__init__ (self)
self.sessionBus = dbus.SessionBus()
self.powerdevil = self.sessionBus.get_object('org.freedesktop.PowerManagement',
self.layout = QBoxLayout(QBoxLayout.TopToBottom, self)
label = QLabel ("This is a simple PyKDE4 program", self)
button = QPushButton("Push to turn off screen!", self)
QObject.connect(button, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.screenOff)
self.resize (640, 480)
def screenOff(self):
#--------------- main ------------------
if __name__ == '__main__':
appName = "DBusApp"
catalog = ""
programName = ki18n ("DBus Example Application")
version = "1.0"
description = ki18n ("DBus Example")
license = KAboutData.License_GPL
copyright = ki18n ("(c) 2009 Andrew Stromme")
text = ki18n ("none")
homePage = "http://blog.chatonka.com"
bugEmail = "[email protected]"
aboutData = KAboutData (appName, catalog, programName, version, description,
license, copyright, text, homePage, bugEmail)
KCmdLineArgs.init (sys.argv, aboutData)
app = KApplication ()
mainWindow = MainWindow ()
mainWindow.show ()
app.exec_ ()
Walking through the code example
Importing Libraries
Lets go through this example to try and understand it. First we import the libraries that are needed to make it all work. Most of the Qt and KDE ones should be familiar to you, but to get dbus we need the one at the end: "import dbus".
DBus Initialization
Now we have imported our libraries, we need to write our main window. In the __init__ (constructor, for the C++ people here) method, we set up the dbus connections:
self.sessionBus = dbus.SessionBus()
self.powerdevil = self.sessionBus.get_object('org.freedesktop.PowerManagement',
Because the org.freedesktop.PowerManagement is on the Session Bus, we create an object self.sessionBus that represents that bus. We also grab our powerdevil Object via its path /moddules/powerdevil. We can now call methods on the object, but first we need to set up the gui framework, a button and its connection (via Qt signals/slots) to a python method that will call the dbus method.
Layout and Buttons
self.layout = QBoxLayout(QBoxLayout.TopToBottom, self)
label = QLabel ("This is a simple PyKDE4 program", self)
button = QPushButton("Push to turn off screen!", self)
QObject.connect(button, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.screenOff)
If you need help understanding the above, you should consult the reading list linked at the top of this page.
Calling DBus Methods
We now need to define the self.screenOff method that we have just connected to the button.
def screenOff(self):
It's relatively simple. We call the method turnOffScreen() on our powerdevil object (the method turnOffScreen was shown on the interface org.kde.PowerDevil in qdbusviewer)
The rest of the application sets up the KDE app and populates it with author/name info. Again, if you need help with that, see the other reading linked to from the top of this tutorial.
Congratulations, you should now have an applet that lets you turn off your screen at the push of a button.


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Here's a video showing some of the hints for Batman: Arkham 3.
Batman: Arkham 3 Hint #1
During the Steel Mill located at Joker's funhouse, you can find a costume for Harley Quinn. Laying on the floor next to it is a pregnancy test… the result? POSITIVE.
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Having survived a first date disaster like no other, I'd like to spare my fellow unsuspecting females the trouble. In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck," I offer the following diatribe:
"He might be a sugar daddy."
I'm talking about the older man. The philandering, but powerful older man. In particular, the philandering, but powerful older man who wants you to be his mistress. And before we get started, I should report that just typing the very word "mistress" makes me cough and sputter.
When I was younger and very much enamored of Belle Époque Paris, I thought it might be cool to be somebody's mistress, albeit in an abstract, Moulin Rouge "Hi, I'm Toulouse Lautrec and I'd like you to meet my girlfriend" sort of way. But there are several things wrong with this picture.
For starters, Toulouse Lautrec was French, so he wouldn't have said "hi." He would have said "bonjour."
Secondly, Toulouse Lautrec was short, so I would have never gone out with him in the first place.
Thirdly, in order to be somebody's mistress, you have to lounge around in your negligee, smoking cigarettes all day. I don't smoke, and I don't actually own any negligee. Maybe you get negligee when you sign on to be somebody's mistress (a year's supply, perhaps, and more for good behavior?), but I rarely trust normal men to pick out clothing for me, let alone men with questionable morals.
Finally—and this is real deal breaker—you have to have sex with your philandering, but powerful older man to be a good mistress. And this, no matter what sort of penthouse said sugar daddy might have in store for me, is a bridge I'm not willing to cross.
Unfortunately, catching a sugar daddy at his game it harder than you'd think. It's easy to meet an older man for a drink—a powerful older man—and not realize that he's a perverted philanderer who has no business cavorting with a woman half his age.
I know all of this because I've done it, and I'd like to point out the warning signs:
If he says he's generally "tied up" in the evenings, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he's relieved to hear that you're a freelancer, and that you're generally available in the mornings or in the afternoons, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he orders expensive drinks and encourages you to do the same, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he informs you that he comes with baggage, specifically an "open relationship," he might be a sugar daddy.
If he refuses to disclose the conditions of this "open relationship" unless you agree to a second date (a second date that will undoubtedly involve copious amounts of alcohol), he might be a sugar daddy.
If he lies about his age and turns out to be a full ten years older than he's originally stated (making him nearly as old as your father), he might be a sugar daddy. (Why do you think they call it a sugar "daddy"? It was at this point in the conversation, by the way, that I learned what its like to gulp Chardonnay.)
If he compliments your looks, way beyond the First Date Protocol, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he asks how often you go to the gym, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he keeps leaning in and touching your shoulder, although it's perfectly warm out and there's really no need, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he continues leaning in, so that the bar tender can't overhear what he's saying, he might be a sugar daddy.
If he gets you talking about your previous boyfriends, and then acts all understanding and supportive as you explain why those relationships didn't work, he might be a sugar daddy. (Do not for a minute think that he's just a "nice" guy!)
If he bemoans the fact that you live with your parents, and informs you that you'll need your own place for "this" to work, he might be a sugar daddy.
In conclusion, folks, he is a sugar daddy. And he is looking for a mistress.
Of course, I didn't realize this right away. I just thought, "Well now, he seemed rather keen." Upon taking my leave of said sugar daddy, however, I received a text. In addition to praising my physique, he emphasized, once again, the importance of having my own place.
It finally dawned on me: this was no ordinary boyfriend-to-be.
I drafted half a dozen replies. These ranged from the sarcastic ("Well great, if this whole writing thing doesn't work out, at least I've got a fallback plan!") to the rude ("Get the hell away from me, you creepy old man!").
In the end, I settled for a terse, "Thank you, but I'm not interested."


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Jo Dee Messina Explains How Her Husband 'Helped' Inspire 'A Woman's Rant'
Jo Dee Messina's husband Chris wouldn't get up to get the baby one night, but by sleeping in he may have inspired the singer's newest hit single. 'A Women's Rant' was started by an angry and exhausted Messina as she tended to her youngest son during a late-night wake up call.
"I was run down, exhausted and I think I had the flu," Messina remembers from that night almost two years ago. Jonah, now two years old, didn't sleep through the night at all during his first year. It was 4:30AM when he called this time, but Chris barely budged.
"I was waiting for my husband to get the baby, praying to God that he would get this child. I'm nudging him, punching him … 'Can you not hear this?'"
Finally Messina woke up, and after awhile she was wide awake penning thoughts into her journal. Those thoughts became the first verse of 'A Woman's Rant.' "The rest of it is just what we go through in the course of a day."
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Maybe the Dodgers will retire a number this year after all ...
Steve Garvey and Tommy John are among a group of 12 eligible for the Hall of Fame if they can earn 12 out of 16 votes from a special committee, according to Inside the Dodgers.
... The 12 individuals who will be considered by the Expansion Era Committee in December for Hall of Fame Induction in 2011: Former players Vida Blue, Dave Concepcion, Steve Garvey, Ron Guidry, Tommy John, Al Oliver, Ted Simmons and Rusty Staub; former manager Billy Martin; and executives Pat Gillick, Marvin Miller and George Steinbrenner. Martin and Steinbrenner are deceased; all other candidates are living.
The 16-member electorate charged with the review of the Expansion Era ballot features: Hall of Fame members Johnny Bench, Whitey Herzog, Eddie Murray, Jim Palmer, Tony Perez, Frank Robinson, Ryne Sandberg and Ozzie Smith; major league executives Bill Giles (Phillies), David Glass (Royals), Andy MacPhail (Orioles) and Jerry Reinsdorf (White Sox); and veteran media members Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun), Tim Kurkjian (ESPN), Ross Newhan (retired, Los Angeles Times) and Tom Verducci (Sports Illustrated). ...
I'm skeptical that Garvey gets (or should get) the support he needs, though certainly it's as good a look at the Hall as he's ever had. Personally, I think Miller is most deserving. The results announcement will come Dec. 6
Jared Massey of LADodgerTalk did some research and thinks that an abrupt change to Jonathan Broxton's slider caused his 2010 downfall.
Stadium Review offers a mixed review of Dodger Stadium, though correspondent Drew Cieszynski did say the fans were loud. You might quibble with some points, but overall it's a pretty fair assessment.
Paul DePodesta is moving from San Diego to the New York Mets as their vice-president of player development and amateur scouting, once again working for Sandy Alderson, the new Mets general manager. I'm always nervous about posting DePodesta news for fear that it will reignite a tired debate, but I didn't want to ignore it. Congrats to Paul.
End of an era: Next year, for the first time in more than two decades, Jon Miller and Joe Morgan will not be doing Sunday Night Baseball telecasts for ESPN, though Miller might stick around to do radio. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times believes that next year's booth might be Dan Shulman, Orel Hershiser and Bobby Valentine.
Rob Neyer of ESPN.com made note of the Toronto Blue Jays trading a player to be named later for Colorado catcher Miguel Olivo, whose option they bought out for $500,000. For that price (and an offer of salary arbitration they expect to be denied), the Blue Jays expect to pick up a supplemental first-round draft pick.
Matt Bush, known for years as the disastrous No. 1 overall choice of the 2004 draft (by San Diego), has been making a comeback, having converted from shortstop to pitcher. Tampa Bay has added Bush to its 40-man roster, notes David Brown of Big League Stew, after he did his best Kenley Jansen imitation, striking out 20 in 13 2/3 innings over 10 minor-league games this season.


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Naps on the weekend don't really make up for pulling droopy-eyed all-nighters
The widely held notion that you can pay back a "sleep debt" may be a myth
Mice forced to sleep like shift workers had heavy damage in a key group of nerve cells
Scientists want to study deceased shift workers to see if they suffered similar damage
Are you a truck driver or shift worker planning to catch up on some sleep this weekend?
Cramming in extra hours of shut-eye may not make up for those lost pulling all-nighters, new research indicates.
The damage may already be done – brain damage, that is, said neuroscientist Sigrid Veasey from the University of Pennsylvania.
The widely held idea that you can pay back a sizeable "sleep debt" with long naps later on seems to be a myth, she said in a study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Long-term sleep deprivation saps the brain of power even after days of recovery sleep, Veasey said. And that could be a sign of lasting brain injury.
Veasey and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania medical school wanted to find out, so, they put laboratory mice on a wonky sleep schedule that mirrors that of shift workers.
They let them snooze, then woke them up for short periods and for long ones.
Then the scientists looked at their brains – more specifically, at a bundle of nerve cells they say is associated with alertness and cognitive function, the locus coeruleus.
They found damage and lots of it.
"The mice lose 25% of these neurons," Veasey said.
This is how the scientists think it happened.
When the mice lost a little sleep, nerve cells reacted by making more of a protein, called sirtuin type 3, to energize and protect them.
But when losing sleep became a habit, that reaction shut down. After just a few days of "shift work" sleep, the cells start dying off at an accelerated pace.
The discovery that long-term sleep loss can result in a loss of brain cells is a first, Veasey said.
"No one really thought that the brain could be irreversibly injured from sleep loss," she said. That has now changed.
More work needs to be done on humans, she said. And her group is planning to study deceased shift workers to see if they have the same kind of nerve damage.
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Twelve inmates remain at the state's "supermax" and 48 in Tamms' minimum-security unit.
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Written by D.Fauvell this page looks in more details at some of the most severe UK winters in history, including of course the much talk about winter's of 1947 and 1963.
Daily meteorological records commenced in the 17th century, since then, there have been a number of severe winters, some exceptionally severe...
During the winter 1739/40, between November 1739 and May 1740, London had 39 snowy days, a quite exceptional figure when considering the usual 90's figure. But January and February 1740 where surpassed numerous times, in regards to temperatures, some years being much colder.
England and Wales where made to wait for another '1740'...made to wait another 223 years...until 1963.
In fact 1740, had 2 months of mean temperatures below 0c in the Midlands and Southern England, the only other known instances of this happening coming in December 1878, and January 1879.
Serious snowfall events happen rarely, but when they come, the UK normally isn't prepared!
Winter 1947 Courtesy O.Bullock
One such winter was 1947. From January 22nd to March 17th, snow fell every day, somewhere in the UK! The snow accumulated quickly, causing real problems. The temperatures rarely rose more than a degree or 2 above 0! Several of these snowfalls where of 60cm or more, and depths of level snow amazingly reached 1.5m (150cm) in Upper Teesdale and the Denbighshire Hills. Across the UK drifts of more than 5 metres in depth blocked roads, and affected traffic. The armed services were brought in, to drop supplies to people in danger, trapped in their homes due to blocked roads and railways.
The strangest thing about 1947, was the first part of the winter was very mild, with only 2 failed cold spells...The weather in fact, turned unseasonably mild for a time. On the 15th January, the temperature in Leeming, North Yorkshire, didn't fall below 11.7c, and rose to 14c the next day in parts of Norfolk, Herefordshire, and Flintshire. This soon changed.
An area of High Pressure transferred north, from France, on January 18th. Two days later, the anticyclone was centred over North -West Norway. It then drifted South -East to Southern Scandinavia, and dominated the UK weather for the rest of the month. The first frost came on the 20th, and the first snowfall on the 23rd, where heavy snow was recorded in the South West of England, even the Scilly Isles. Many villages became cut off and isolated.
Winter 1947 Courtesy O.Bullock
The cold and snowy weather continued. Any breaks lasted very little time, before the next onslaught.
Here are some observations from the Met-Office taken at the time:
On no day in February 1947 did the temperature at Kew Observatory top 4.4C, and only twice in the month was the night minimum temperature above 0C.
The mean maximum temperature for the month was 0.5C (6.9C below average) and the mean minimum was -2.7C (4.6C below average).
On 26 of the month's 28 days, snow was lying at 0900 UTC
South of a line from The Wash to the River Dee, mean maximum temperatures were everywhere more than 5.5c below average and, in some places, more than 7C below average.
Mean minimum temperatures were more than 4C below average everywhere in the south and south-west of England, and almost 6C below average in some places.
February 1947, was the coldest February on record in many parts of the UK, and has been compared with 1814 (January) for its persistent snowfalls, combined with low temperatures.
An interesting observation of the UK in the winter of 1947, shows the lack of Sun in Southern parts, and the huge amount in Western Scotland, which was unusually sunny. At Kew, Nottingham and Edgbaston, there was no sun on 22 of the month's 28 days. Hardly anywhere in the Midlands and Southern England, did the sunshine totals exceed 40% of the average. When the skies did clear though, things became decidedly nippy! A minimum of -21c was recorded in Woburn (Bedfordshire), early on the 25th of February. Without the cloud, the month would have been much colder, more particularly at night.
March 1947 was also bad, with gales and heavy snow early on. 5 metre drifts where reported. In the Scottish Highlands, drifts of 7 metres where reported. Meanwhile, in the SouthWest, much milder air, above freezing, pushed NorthEast, bringing a thaw and heavy rain. Flooding was widespread. The frozen ground just prevented melt water from sinking into it, and so it lay on the surface, causing chaos. Deepening depressions forced in off the Atlantic, with gusts of wind up to 90 knots reported in Southern England. Buildings sustained bad damage, and waves were blown in shore.
Eventually the floods subsided, but the devastation remained. A memorable winter.
Now, the coldest winter since 1740 (mentioned above) yes, 1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years
Anticyclones to the North and East of the UK, brought bitterly cold air over us. Depression tracked to the South, brining huge snowfalls to England, Wales, and Scotland. Mean maximum temperatures for January 1963 were more than 5c below average over most of Wales, the Midlands and Southern England, and in some places, an amazing 7c below average!!!!!
The winter began, just before Christmas 1962. The weather in early December was changeable and stormy. London experienced terrible fog, for a time. Gusts of up to 88 knots were recorded in the North of the UK.
Winter 62/63 Courtesy O.Bullock
A belt of rain over the North of Scotland turned to snow as it moved South, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938! When the snow belt reached the South, it became almost stationary. 5cm of snow fell in the Channel Islands, 30cm in Southern England.
A blizzard over South West England, and South Wales (Yes!!! We did get snow once! ) in late December, brought snowdrifts 6m deep. It wasn't a laughing matter anymore. Villages were cut off, power lines where drought down, trains were cancelled. Farmers couldn't reach livestock, and many starved to death. Extremely tragic. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, much of England was under snow continuously, an amazing feat, 3 months of snow.
Even so, the UK was generally sunny, unlike 1947. In fact sunshine totals were above average for many.
1963 will be remembered more for its coldness, and less so its snowfall. 1947 the opposite, remembered for its snow, less its coldness. Nonetheless both were very cold and very snowy, and hazardous to life. For once, snow wasn't just fun and games.
In January 1963, there were 25 or more air frosts almost everywhere in southern England and South Wales! Mean maxes were below 0c in much of England and Wales, for January, and slightly higher during February. Braemar recorded a low of -22.2c on the 18th of January! Surpassed by 1995 interestingly!
The thaw eventually came, and there was flooding, but not on the scale of 1947. Temperatures returned to normal, as did lives, but noone will ever forget either 1947 or 1963, they will remembered as the 2 snowiest/coldest winters, for many years.
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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found traces of two enormous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jämtland, a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago.
The researchers have discovered two craters in Jämtland. One is enormous, while the other is a tenth of the size of the first.
"The two meteorite impacts occurred at the same time, 458 million years ago, and formed these two craters," says Erik Sturkell, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Gothenburg.
Erik Sturkell and his research colleagues found one of the craters 20 kilometres south of Östersund in Brunsflo. This is an enormous crater, with a diameter of 7.5 kilometres. The smaller crater is located 16 kilometres from there, and has a diameter of 700 metres.
An era of meteorites
The two meteorite impacts 458 million years ago were not the only ones to strike Earth at this time.
"Around 470 million years ago, two large asteroids collided in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and many fragments were thrown off in new orbits. Many of these crashed on Earth, such as these two in Jämtland," says Erik Sturkell.
Jämtland was under the sea at the time, with a water depth of 500 metres at the points where two meteorites simultaneously stuck. Double impacts like this are very unusual. This is the first double impact on Earth that has been conclusively proved.
"Information from drilling operations demonstrates that identical sequences are present in the two craters, and the sediment above the impact sequences is of the same age. In other words, these are simultaneous impacts," says Erik Sturkell.
The water was forced away during the impact, and for a hundred seconds these enormous pits were completely dry.
"The water then rushed back in, bringing with it fragments from the meteorites mixed with material that had been ejected during the explosion and with the gigantic wave that tore away parts of the sea bed," says Erik Sturkell.
Meteorite in limestone slab from Kinnekulle. The meteorite is the black section in the middle. The side of the limestone slab actually measures 25 centimetres.
Impacts at several locations in Sweden
Several meteorites have also been found on Kinnekulle.
"In the 1940s, an unusual-looking red limestone slab was found in a quarry. A few years later, researchers understood that there was a meteorite in the slab. Large meteors explode and disintegrate almost completely, while small meteors fall as rocks, such as in this limestone," says Erik Sturkell.
Around 90 meteorites from meteorite impacts have been found on Kinnekulle over the past fifteen years.
"Small meteorites survive the fall, while large ones explode and disintegrate. In Jämtland we have only found minerals from the meteorites, small grains of chromite.
The fact that active quarrying is conducted on Kinnekulle is the reason why researchers have found meteorites there. And as a discovery was made as long ago as the 1940s, the individuals working in the quarry know what to look for.
So might it be possible to distinguish slabs in our limestone floors that might come from meteorites?
"Technically speaking, yes, although there is probably not much chance, as the limestone slabs that come from meteors are often rather ugly and will probably have been discarded. But they do exist!
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 31, 2012, 9:00 AM
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Palo Alto looks to trim managers' benefits
Original post made on Aug 31, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 31, 2012, 9:00 AM
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 9:30 am
I hope PA will tackle this issue, which aso goes well beyond here.
I don't have much confidence in Jerry Brown's overly-dramatized proposal, which I understand would kick in for NEW state employees starting work January 1! There have been comments from pundits suggesting even this modest proposal will be heavily watered down by the state legislature, which is controlled by public sector unions in this state.
What about our CURRENT problems which include an obvious problem of bloated pensions, double dipping, etc.?! There have been many alarming published reports documenting outrageous pension schemes.
This morning on tv news, I caught sight of a report of a former Bell government employee suing for his/her pension, despite the incredible fraud of that whole situation down in Southern California.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 9:34 am
Perhaps it is time to evaluate the number of managers a city of our size has.
Perhaps it is time to rethink and say too many chiefs and not enough indians.
Perhaps it is time to see where we can cut costs at the top, shrinking administrative costs, merging with similar departments in the county or neighboring cities, and saving some real money to help us balance our budget without losing service.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 9:48 am
There are somewhere around 1100 FTEs on the City's payroll, and maybe 300-400 part time people. Two hundred managers seems like a lot for 900 non-managerial employees. Although this 1 Manager to 4.5 employees has been noted in the past, nothing has ever come of restructuring the organization so that a more reasonable span-of-control could be achieved.
Now this bloating in the management side of the organization happened is probably not something that we can understand unless we looked at a year-by-year change in the head counts of both managerial and non-managerial staffing. Also not clear from this article is how many line managers there are, and how many managers there are with few direct reports.
The City Council has demonstrated itself to be useless in oversee this organization. There simply is no way that we can return any of the incumbents to continue "business as usual".
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Aug 31, 2012 at 10:32 am
I know a recently hired, part time employee- who receives all the same benefits of a full time employee. That's quite a perk considering our current budget situation.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Aug 31, 2012 at 10:36 am
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Aug 31, 2012 at 11:12 am
About time! PA has way more highly paid employees than any surrounding city. There was a great study a few months ago published in the other papers that showed how very high our unpaid benefits were, something like $10,000 per resident for city retirees.
It's not like most of us have pensions unless we own a small hotel in Europe.
a resident of Barron Park
on Aug 31, 2012 at 11:46 am
According to the article, the "most dramatic changes" will be increasing employee contribution to pensions (to 7%) and increasing employee contribution to medical (to 10%), saving the city $272K and $109K, respectively.
Who are they kidding? With a budget of about $120 MILLION and with benefits now equal to 62% of salary (up from 50% of salary in just 2 years), this savings of less than 0.4 Million is a joke. A bad joke. Not even a bandaid.
These largely unfunded, defined benefit programs are totally unsustainable. Any serious attempt to regain fiscal sanity will require employee benefits to be similar to those in the private sector, with 401K style pension programs to which the employees contribute the majority of the savings, and with medical plans that end when the employee quits or retires.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 31, 2012 at 11:53 am
...and so the Keene and Klein plan towards privatization of city services moves ahead. So we a big story with lots of references to grand jury's and ass't personnel directors opinions on pensions by the Weeklys writer, but no link to the pension reforms council plans to approve next Tuesday. As many of the private contractors now employed by the city earn three times as much in salary as current Palo Alto FTE's holding the same job title, it will be interesting to see how council and the city manager will address this issue come Tuesday.
Several issues Ms. Blanch writes in her report are very concerning. She calls the current permanent employees working for the City of Palo Alto as not a "workable paradigam" and questions their employment in exchange for pleasant and courteous service. Apparently she has forgotten what Public Service is really about. Maybe that is the problem with current management who were hired to serve the public. Maybe they never expected to serve the public or are unable to grasp what Public Service really means. It is somewhat disconcerting that the Ass't Personnel Director is quoted as belittling Public Service in general along with public service employees, but no response by the Director of Personnel, City Manager, or City Council members is offered in this press release. What a pity!
a resident of Downtown North
on Aug 31, 2012 at 12:11 pm
This is mouse nuts.
Making the next generation 1% less screwed by this generation's bureaucratic bloat isn't progress at all. I'd rather not have my kids paying for the fact that the city councils of this era didn't have the spine to stand up to special interests and ended up paying six figures out of taxpayers money to union streetsweepers, and double that for countless management types. The bloat is rampant throughout Palo Alto.
San Jose and San Diego have shown the way. Cut back existing benefits and get all new workers on 401Ks. Better yet, outsource functions to the private sector, where there is competition and accountability: two efficiency drivers that sorely lack in the public sector.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Aug 31, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Most calls (80%) for the Fire Dept are medical. Couldn't the city bring in a private paramedic company to answer 911 calls for medical? The city would no longer have to pay benifits and pensions. I'm not saying to get rid of the Fire Dept, but only to cut back on employees we no longer need. Times have change and other cities are doing the same.
a resident of another community
on Aug 31, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Wages and benefits will continue to be cut until a tipping point is reached. The San Jose Waste Treatment Plant has tipped over: Web Link it's a shame that Jim Keene and Klien can't see he writing on the wall.
Why did the retirement liability spike? The high number of retirements at the City in recent years.
The manipulation of statistics to make financial situation look much worse than it is. You can do this by comparing the employee costs from when Calpers was super funded to now. Of course it's gone up, in the early 2000s the City was paying zero towards pers. It's normal for employee costs to be a large part of general fund budgets. This is consistent with service industries.
a resident of Community Center
on Sep 1, 2012 at 12:38 pm
They don't want to just contract out city services, they want to sell our assets to pay for operating costs. Just say NO!
a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 2, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Has anyone done the math on the typical ratio of municipal employees to population?
Palo Alto sure seems on the high end for both budget and bureaucrats per capita, but it would be interesting to see some figures.
a resident of another community
on Sep 2, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Good question new in town.
You have to factor in the fact that Palo Alto runs all utilities. The Utilities Deprtment employes buyers, resouce managers, waste water employees, gas construction, electric construction, engineering for all utilities, water distribution and transmission, and all of the management to support them. The City's garage maintains all of the Utility vehicles.
So you should see that a direct ratio might no work.
a resident of College Terrace
on Sep 2, 2012 at 10:16 pm
it's a start, but a very small start. much better than our senile governor and his democratis yes men who claim they fixed the pension problem in CA. They did nothing but push the problem off for another day. Nothing they did will have any significant impact (savings) until decades have passed. Pathetic "leadership". San Jose bit the bullet and made hard choices, but will probably emerge better off for it, both for the tax payers and the employees. A bankrupt city pays no benefits.
Keep moving PA, freeze existing pensions, and move forward with a defined contribution not a unicorns in the sky defined benefit pension system. it's a bitter pill to swallow, but the current system, or a slight incremental deviation from it, is unsustainable.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 3, 2012 at 8:44 am
> Has anyone done the math on the typical ratio of
> municipal employees to population?
This is not really a meaningful number, in general. There are too many different governmental structures that have, more-or-less, unique employees/population ratios.
For instance, as pointed out in one posting, the City runs a Utility--which is not generally done in most cities. Menlo Park does not have a Fire Department, as it is a member of a coalition of other governments in a Fire Protection Agency. Many Santa Clara County governments have joined together in a library cooperative--so there are no library employees on those government payrolls. The costs of these government services generally show up on one's property tax bills as separate line items, so they need to be factored into any calculation for a property's cost-of-government numbers.
a resident of another community
on Sep 3, 2012 at 3:20 pm
So the Managers are getting a 3% pay raise "in exchange for decreased benefits"?
Many of thePalo Alto'srank and file workers took PAY CUTS in addition to decreased benefits. As usual the managers will not make the same sacrifices they expect other city workers to take!
How they can preach to everyone else the need to tighten their belts, do more with less and be willing to take pay reductions, but then take a 3% pay raise themselves is very telling.
Do as I say and not as I do, should be printed on dept managers business cards!
a resident of Community Center
on Sep 4, 2012 at 9:33 am
Jake you have no idea what you are talking about and obviously have an agenda.
The managers in the latest round received a three percent salary increase but at the same time will pay as much as 9% towards their retirement plus other cuts. The increase doesn't come close to covering the cuts and they haven't received an increase in 4 or 5 years.
Similary SEIU got a 1.65% increase while at the same time paying and additional 2.25% increase towards their retirement and some other concessions.
In both cases, both groups took concessions much larger than the cost of living increase they got. The city is applying this equally.
get the facts
a resident of another community
on Sep 7, 2012 at 11:09 am
"Jake is a fake"
I have the facts, other employees and other units are paying more towards their pension benefits, more towards medical, and those employees ALSO took pay cuts!! Giving the managers a 3% pay raise does not make them equal, the managers also kept benefits other people lost as well like tution costs for continuing education. The managers of course kept theirs. A 3% raise is a raise, the whole point of having employees take reductions is too reduce overall costs. It's not to offset costs by providing 3% raise. Which by the way increases the managers pension benefits because it raises their base pay.
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