The Sound Guy
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I read somewhere (can't find it now) that it's 25% of the birds in Iowa are now infected.
Surepip - Where is the production of Fertilized Eggs and chicks based? Do you think that operation could be impacted by this flu?
Seems to me that if a lost a hefty percentage of the ability to make new fertilized eggs we would go from years to recover to decades to recover.
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I agree with the commentator, the warning that suspect may want to suicide by police may the only thing that prevented the officer from firing.
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Went through the powerpoint.
Comments:
Finance (page 3)
Healthcare - Sorry, if the cost is going from 1.4 million a year to 320K a year, the employees *will* be getting screwed. Sounds like nothing but the admin fee is being covered anymore.
Consumables spending goes up 40% with the Outsource? Sounds like the current employees are careful to make do with the minimum, but as contractors they are expected to be fast, not frugal.
Transition (Page 4)
"Accrue vacation and sick time" - Nothing said about the rate (i.e. if it will be lower / slower than they get now. As well, since they are changing companies, it is likely they will lose any service years they had already built up since it's not mentioned. (When my division was sold, they told us quickly what Time of Service would be transferred and what would not. )
Be paid out by the district for any accrued vacation time - Since this is the law for a terminated employee, well, duh. Not sure how the sick time system works, but I'd be a case of the intentional flu if I had build up sick days and they were just going to cancel them.
Health (Page 5)
This page supports the idea that health care is no more. Only the Health Reimbursement accounts are left? No HMO, No High Deductible plan?
Other Benefits - Disability (Page 7)
Losing Long Term Disability for a job that involves a good risk of getting hurt (Mopping wet floors being pushed to hurry) is another bad thing.
Other Benefits (Page
Losing Depending Care accounts could force those who have to pay for child care to quit.
Retirement (Page 9)
The move would be from PSEPS to a 401K which requires the worker to put their own money in first, then get matched. Since salaries remain the same, this is a pay cut.
As well, it's a 10 year vesting period. If the worker has been with the District for 9 years do they get anything or are they just screwed out of 9 years of pension?
Employee Opportunities (Page 13)
"More access to overtime" - you have to make up for there being fewer people
Benefits to the District (Page 14)
Allows building admin to focus on teaching and learning yadda, yadda, yadda. I call BS on this. They will have just as much interaction with the custodial staff as they do now and have to *add* having to deal with the vendor if they have a problem rather than directly with the employee. No longer will they have any control over the staff directly. Going to be a pain in the butt at the school level.
Rest of this page pure BS as well.
I don't like it. Let's see the admin cut their own benefits to nothing like they are proposing here and see how much THAT saves us.
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So..... Mother is mad about someone doing alleged violence and the answer is more violence?
We really need to add some logic training to the school system, the politicians have taken all common sense out of the program.
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Didn't watch the video, but ya gotta love it!
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Yea, I just read that he did it on purpose.
While I agree that we need massive campaign and "gift" reforms, does he really, really, think that a stunt like that will make people take him *more* seriously?
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What kind of idiot runs an experimental aircraft right next to a no fly zone?
He's gonna get ground up in to little pieces before they are done with him.
And as far a challenges, unless they are willing to make the airspace a free fire, shoot on site zone, you are not going to stop stuff like this.
And if they did, what happens when the downed aircraft kills 40-50 tourists in the street?
Nope. All they can do is fine the carp out of anyone that does something that stupid.
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Actually it's not even in the top ten. You have a better chance of dying collecting garbage then being in law enforcement.
On a statistics basis if you look at all injuries. I don't even know if they keep stats on personal attacks on particular profession due to them trying to perform their job function. So Police are some different.
The vast majority of road worker deaths is caused by idiot drivers not paying attention, not deliberately trying to hit them.
Same with Truck Drivers, I'm sure accidents are the vast majority.
The garbage man did surprise me to make the list. I'm going to have to see the details on that on.
I do think the writer has a point about the arming of the police. It worries me when police are getting large numbers of war based vehicles "for the people's safety".
OK - looked it up. Looks like the Garbage man issue is accidents as well, should have realized that since they have to dodge the idiots on the road.
What makes it a dangerous job: Most fatal injuries occur by traffic or machine accidents. The nature of the job is mostly outdoors and on the streets, and accidents do happen. The other main contributor to fatalities is the garbage truck itself, as material collectors can get caught up in the hydraulic lifts and sustain serious injuries, or death.
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If the cop is being charged with first degree murder and it is obvious that the charge would be hard to get a conviction, doesn't it look like maybe the district attorney is complicit in trying to get a not guilty verdict? Is the process rigged?
It depend on if murder was picked to get him off, or because if he went with manslaughter, you'd see Black Lives Matter screaming that it should be murder and protesting and crap by people who don't understand the difference.
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Sounds like I might have been correct:
From a Defense Attn on CNN:
Criminal defense attorney Paul Callan said he believes Slager's defense will play up the reported scuffle in arguing that this is not a murder case.
"Defense attorneys will say this was a heat of passion shooting -- (that) this was something that he did suddenly after some kind of an altercation, a physical altercation with a suspect," Callan said. "And that would constitute manslaughter under law, as opposed to murder, and it makes a huge difference in sentencing."
In South Carolina, a murder conviction requires a measure of premeditation.
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It concerns me too. Of course, none of us like to think that we are one moment of bad judgement away from ruining our lives, but in many ways most of us can be even without a gun and of course, people covering up their mistakes is a time honored tradition as well. Pull out in front of someone who dies trying to avoid hitting you and hitting a tree instead, do you admit fault if no witnesses were around and go to jail or just claim they left the road and hit the tree while you were watching?
In this case, I would hope that an autopsy would have shown that all the shots were in the back and raised questions, but agree that fox guarding henhouse investigations can be a concern. I personally think that their needs to be a special team in the GBI that investigates all Officer involved shootings.
However, I also have to look at the nature of the job that the police are trying to do.
Attacking a police officer is a violent crime of it's own. You have a cop that is attempting to make an arrest, when the person begins fighting back and (allegedly) attempts to grab the taser. Adrenalin levels skyrocket, fight or flee reflexes kick in and anger emotions fly. However, you expect police training to override those instincts, so it's obvious his career in armed law enforcement should be over.
In this case, I think it's more a voluntary manslaughter case than murder, since it can be argued that he was provoked and it looks like it was a heat of passion killing. Murder would be a high bar for the prosecution to prove if I was a juror. I sometimes wonder if the prosecutors pick the charge to not only make the protestors happy, but make it easier to get one of the jurors to not agree and drop all legal charges.
I just wish that the officers killed on duty got equal time in the news. It's a dangerous job.
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If that's the one where he shoots the guy 8 times in the back from 40 ft away, he's going down.
No excuse for that. You may be pissed he is running, but it's not life threatening. (Unless he's a known terrorist, or on the 10 most wanted or or something like that)
You carry a gun, you have an additional responsibility to keep your emotions under control. He failed.
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Dang. Missed it again.
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Nice little fall right now. Anyone else getting any?
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And my iPhone stays mobile no matter what the other two are. USA should note the tablet and PC are Firefox, the iPhone safari.
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well, it stuck, but a little too well. I used to get my tablet was in mobile mode, but the PC was in normal mode. Now when I change the table to mobile, my PC is changing as well to mobile. If I change one back, then both change.
Weird.
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Ok mobile option showed up tonight. I'll see if it sticks like before.
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Well I guess that button changed a setting and I can't find it to change it back. I don't see the link you are refering too.
Oh well, will figure it out later, have to be up early tomorrow.
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ok, just looked on the tablet, there is a button at the bottom of the mobile screen that says "Full Site". If you press that, it changes to the full site. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to change back.
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Only thing I don't like about the mobile scheme is that it removes who started the thread.
I like to avoid some threads and that information is critical to determining which I skip.
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Did you get logged out? I've found that the mobile scheme only shows up once I've logged in.
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I may take you up on that when I get back in town.
Did you get hard floor or carpet ones? I need them for carpet downstairs and hard floor upstairs.
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Love to come look at it, but no way I can get there before 5:00. Bummer.
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National Weather Service is showing a 30% chance of Freezing rain on Sunday Morning. Whoo Hoo!! the real winter starts!
Five year old special needs kid handcuffed in Pennsylvania
in Paulding County NEWS
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Oh heck no am I going to wrap somebody's elses kid up in a blanket and start squeezing.
That's a lawsuit *waiting* to happen.