An artist named Ken Hepurn made the gate at the top of our driveway. And the gates on the walkway. And the "totem" in the front yard. We wanted him to make us a mailbox, but he had sold out to corporate America and was designing for The Gap, so we had someone else make a knockoff of his style.
Then he went into the custom door business, and he made our front door. You could say we are big Ken Hepburn fans.
Now he is on to another adventure–he has started a web company called givigiv.com, which is in the business of facilitating gift giving by offering the ability to send drinks and appetizers at popular restaurants to someone via their smart phone. Your recipient gets an email which contains a link to the gift certificate, then goes to the chosen bistro and shows the link to their server. Two drinks and two appetizers coming up, no charge.
This is an easy gift–it fits everyone, it should offend nobody. No shopping, no wondering, just a few clicks and your social or business obligation is taken care of. The restaurant gets a new customer, who will likely order more than just the first round of drinks, possibly dinner. Everyone is happy.
At least, that's the plan. The world is full of internet start-ups, some get rich, some sink without a trace. We're hoping our friend is in the former group.
Ken has this business going in the LA area, and is moving towards SF. He sent us a givigiv test for a place called Serpentine in the city, so tonight we went and tried out both the system and the restaurant.
Serpentine is not downtown, it's in Dogpatch, an honest to God neighborhood, at 2495 3rd Street. I think that's the Potrero district.
The building is old and industrial, like the area. Inside, things are pretty industrial as well, but I liked the decor.
We got there at opening time, so the place was empty. It didn't stay that way long.
I tried to make an Opentable reservation, but they were booked, so we just walked in at the stroke of 6, when they open. I could see that they had a ton of reservations on the screen, but they shoehorned us in anyway.
A tiny table, a chair out into the aisle for the big boy. The cute redhead is grand-daughter Tessa.
When we got a waitress, I showed her the givigiv certificate on my iPhone, but she had no idea of what I was talking about. Her manager came over and made it work, though. We may have been the very first people in San Francisco to try this system out.
Gail had wine, Tessa the adored grand-daughter had a champagne cocktail, I had iced tea. We had appetizers–olives, and pickled veggies. Then, proving the concept, we ordered dinner.
A seriously beautiful piece of steak.
Gail and Tessa split the steak, which was sitting on a bed of mashed potatoes and, and, and, we never figured out what else. Some kind or root vegetable, maybe parsnips. Whatever they were, they were gone before long.
I went for the seared ahi, which came perfectly cooked on a bed of Himalayan red rice with a green curry. The rice was delicious, the curry was way on the hot side for a sissy like me.
The dessert card offered a lemon buttermilk pudding, and who could resist that?
Lemon buttermilk pudding with huckleberry sauce, topped with vanilla whipped cream.
It was like having just the good stuff from the middle of a lemon meringue pie, with whipped cream on top. I loved it.
So we had a double winner tonight—the givigiv concept worked; Ken sent us drinks and appetizers as easily as sending an email. We ordered dinner, so the restaurant made out. The meal was great, so we're happy. Everybody wins, but I won the most–that lemon dessert was one to remember.


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Strong bulk-surface interaction dominated in-plane anisotropy of electronic structure in GaTe
19:17 09 junio in Sin categoría by Consultora CIS
Geometric and electronic structure of GaTe
Bulk GaTe is a monoclinic p-type semiconductor with the C2/m space group and possesses two kinds of Ga-Ga bonds with different orientations, one of which lies almost within the layer plane and the other is oriented in the out-of-plane direction. The primitive cell of bulk GaTe is shown in Fig. 1a. The cleavage plane of bulk GaTe corresponds to the (1 1 1) plane, thus the surface Brillouin zone (BZ) is obtained by projecting the first BZ of bulk onto the (1 1 1) plane of the reciprocal space as demonstrated in Fig. 1b. After the formation of surface, the Γ and Z points in bulk BZ fold to the \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point and the in-plane high-symmetry H-Z-L path of the bulk projects onto the \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{Y}}}}}}}\)–\(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) path of the surface. The GaTe band structure revealed by ARPES using He I α line is shown in Fig. 1c. The VBM is located at \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point, and the dispersion of highest valence band along the \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{Y}}}}}}}\) direction is stronger than that along the \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\). The hole effective mass along x direction is about 3.5 times larger than that along y direction (Supplementary Fig. 1a). Meanwhile, the anisotropic valence bands can also be visualized by the constant energy surfaces (Fig. 1d). They exhibit two-fold in-plane symmetry from VBM to a binding energy of −0.5 eV. The valence band spectral intensity along \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) direction is elongated, which implies a stronger dispersion of the highest valence band along y direction than that along x direction. The constant energy surface reveals a four-fold in-plane symmetry at a binding energy of −1.4 eV.
Fig. 1: Geometric and electronic structure of GaTe.
a Crystal structure of bulk GaTe. The directions of the lattice vectors are indicated by (a, b, c). b First Brillouin zone (BZ) of bulk and surface GaTe. The high-symmetry points of bulk and surface BZ are marked by orange and red dots, respectively. The high symmetry path in the bulk BZ is plotted by orange dash line. c Valence bands near Fermi level along \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{Y}}}}}}}\) and \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) directions for GaTe obtained by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using He I α line. The color bar represents the ARPES intensity. d Constant energy surfaces from valence band maximum to a binding energy of −1.4 eV.
The origin of in-plane anisotropy of band structure in GaTe
In order to assess whether the observed anisotropy of energy band structure of GaTe originates from the low crystallographic symmetry, the band structure of monolayer (1 ML) GaTe is calculated by using PBE functional with the inclusion of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect. As shown in Fig. 2a, the direct band gap is located at \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) point, and the highest valence band dispersion along x direction is stronger than that along y direction. These results are inconsistent with our experimental observation, indicating that the in-plane anisotropy of energy band structure of GaTe obtained by ARPES doesn't originate from the low crystallographic symmetry. Moreover, a higher specific surface area is expected in 1 ML GaTe as compared to its bulk counterpart and the surface effect dominates the electronic structure of the system. These results imply that the bulk effect plays an important role in the observed in-plane anisotropy of band structure of GaTe.
Fig. 2: Comparison between anisotropic band structures for experiment and theoretical models.
a, b Band structures of monolayer (1 ML) and bulk GaTe calculated by the PBE+SOC method. c Hole effective masses for x and y direction for bulk, 1 ML and 7 ML slab configuration calculated by PBE+SOC method compared with experimental results in units of free electron mass m0. d Band structure of 7 ML GaTe slab configuration. e Spatial-resolved band structure of 7 ML GaTe slab configuration. f Orbital-projected band structure of 7 ML GaTe slab configuration. g Scheme of polarization-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurement. h ARPES spectra of GaTe obtained by using p(LH)- and s(LV)- polarized light of 21.2 eV.
Therefore, the band structure of infinitely extended bulk GaTe is calculated. The geometric structure of bulk primitive cell is fully optimized by the optB88-vdW functional. The lattice parameters of GaTe bulk unit cell predicted by optB88-vdW functional are approximately 1.2–2.0% larger than those obtained in the experiment14, and better than those calculated by PBE functional (Supplementary Table 1). Figure 2b shows that the band structure of bulk model possesses a direct band gap at Z point. This agrees with previous theoretical results12,21. Like 1 ML system, the hole effective mass along x direction is smaller than that along y direction for the bulk model, which doesn't agree with our experimental result (Fig. 2c and Supplementary Fig. 1b, c). This suggests neither bulk nor surface effect could solely determine the observed in-plane anisotropy of energy bands of GaTe. Both the bulk and surface effect thus should be included in the theoretical model in order to interpret experiment.
We next perform the band structure calculation of a slab configuration with thickness of 7 ML GaTe. This configuration is built on the basis of bulk unit cell relaxed by optB88-vdW functional (Supplementary Fig. 2), in which the middle five layers are fixed as bulk region while the top and bottom mono-layer are regarded as surface region, respectively. The positions of surface atoms are also optimized by the optB88-vdW functional. As shown in Fig. 2d, the PBE + SOC method predicts that the VBM of GaTe slab model is located at \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point, and the highest valence band dispersion along \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{Y}}}}}}}\) direction is stronger than that along \(\bar{\Gamma }\)–\(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) direction. The hole effective mass along x direction is about 2.3 times larger than that along y (Fig. 2c and Supplementary Fig. 1d). These represent the anisotropic band structure of 7 ML slab model agrees well with our experimental result. Despite the agreement of calculation with experiment, the 7 ML slab model is not thick enough to eliminate the quantum confinement effect on the anisotropic band structure of GaTe. We then calculate the band structures for GaTe with thickness of 8, 9, 13, 16, 20, 25 and 30 ML. The geometric structures of all multilayer systems are fully relaxed by optB88-vdW functional. The Supplementary Fig. 3a shows the values of in-plane lattice constant and the band gap of the multilayer GaTe gradually converge and are close to those of bulk model as the thickness increases to 30 ML GaTe. The anisotropy of hole effective mass of 8 ML GaTe is consistent with that of 30 ML GaTe (Supplementary Fig. 3b and Supplementary Fig. 4), which indicates the quantum confinement effect doesn't play a primarily role in the in-plane anisotropy of band structure of GaTe.
Moreover, Supplementary Fig. 5 shows that the ARPES intensities around Fermi level (EF) as a function of the momentum ky as well as the probing photon energy are rather slender (i.e. along the kz direction). From these spectra, photon energies 20 eV and 30 eV seem to be corresponding to high-symmetry points, while an inner potential V0 of 16.4 eV has been obtained which qualitatively agrees with the earlier experiments21. In contrast to the bulk model calculations where the band structures at Γ and Z points have obvious differences, the VBM at the aforementioned two different high-symmetry points are quite close and their dispersions are similar as shown in Supplementary Fig. 6. These results suggest that the kz dispersion is considerably weak and GaTe doesn't possess obvious surface states, which also agrees with early reported results21.
Furthermore, our band structure calculation for 7 ML slab model shows that the highest valence band is dominated by the pz orbitals from bulk region (Fig. 2e, f). Here, we also performed the polarization-dependent ARPES measurements. The scheme of our polarization-dependent measurements is shown in Fig. 2g. According to the selection rule, the s(LV) polarization is sensitive to probe the py orbitals, while for the p(LH) polarization, the transition matrix element is nonzero only for photoemission originating from px and pz orbital. Here, as we can see in Fig. 2h, for the highest valence band, the result of p(LH) polarization yields stronger spectral weight than that of s(LV) polarization, moreover, the valence bands between −1.5 and −2.0 eV below EF that also dominated by the pz orbital is significantly more distinguishable when probing with p(LH)-polarization. As for valence bands surrounding the \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point while locate at −1.0 eV and higher binding energies are dominated by px and py orbitals, these band features are both pronounced under different polarizations. The distinguishing spectral weight distributions between the two measurements illustrate that the highest valence band hosts a predominantly different orbital makeup compared to band structures reside at binding energies higher than −1.0 eV.
In the discussion above, we find that the experimentally measured in-plane anisotropy of energy bands in GaTe doesn't originate from the low crystallographic symmetry and the quantum confinement effect, and could not be reproduced by the system solely involving the surface or bulk effect. Only by considering both the bulk and surface effect does the calculated anisotropic band structure of GaTe agree with the experimental observations. Hence, there exists a strong bulk-surface interaction which dominates the in-plane electronic structure anisotropy in GaTe. The influence of bulk on the surface is attributed to the interlayer coupling. To verify this, we perform band structure calculation for the 7 ML GaTe slab model with weakened interlayer coupling, in which the interlayer distances of the bulk region are 0.5 Å larger than the equilibrated ones. As shown in Supplementary Fig. 7a, the band structure of the system exhibits an indirect band gap. The VBM of the system is located at the point closed to \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) and contributed by both the pz and pxy orbitals (Supplementary Fig. 7b), instead of pz orbitals predominantly. This feature is approximate to that of 1 ML GaTe, in which the VBM is dominated by the pxy orbitals (Supplementary Fig. 7c). These results indicate that the interlayer coupling will reduce the surface effect in the multilayer GaTe, which is naturally included in the bulk system. However, the significant influence of the surface effect on the in-plane band structure anisotropy of GaTe remains even though the number of layers reaches 30 ML. As shown in Supplementary Fig. 3b, with the number of layers increasing to 30 ML, the hole effective mass along y direction gradually converges to that of bulk model, and a large difference between 30 ML and bulk GaTe could be found for x direction. As a result, 30 ML GaTe has an opposite in-plane anisotropy compared with that of the bulk model. This means that once the periodicity perpendicular to the cleavage plane of bulk GaTe breaks down, the highest valence band dispersion along x direction becomes much weaker than that along y direction. Therefore, the bulk-surface interaction originates from the interlayer coupling and out-of-plane periodicity breaking in GaTe.
Band structure evolution from monolayer to few-layer GaTe
The difference between the positions of VBM in 1 ML and 7 ML GaTe suggests a band structure evolution from monolayer to few-layer GaTe. To verify this, we provide theoretical calculations for the electronic structures of GaTe in dependence on the number of layers from 1 to 9. The geometric structures of all the systems are fully optimized using optB88-vdW functional. Supplementary Table 2 summarizes the structural parameters of few-layer GaTe. The in-plane lattice parameter of the system is non-monotonically increasing with thickness. The values of interlayer distances are in the range from 2.01 to 2.16 Å, which are much smaller than those in BP20. The charge density difference between 6 ML and 1 ML GaTe shows electron accumulation in the interlayer region of GaTe, indicating strong interlayer coupling in GaTe (Supplementary Fig. 8). As shown in Fig. 3a–i, the band structures calculated by PBE + SOC method for few-layer GaTe suggest the system experiences a direct-indirect-direct band gap transition with the thickness increasing from 1 to 5 ML.
Fig. 3: Layer-dependent band structures in GaTe.
a–i Band structures of GaTe with the number of layers (N) increasing from 1 to 9. j Evolution of hole effective masses along the x and y directions (mx and my) in units of free electron mass m0, and the ratio between mx and my with number of layers. k Band gap evolution as function of number of layers for GaTe. These results are calculated by the PBE+SOC method.
We further analyze the orbital-projected band structures of GaTe for the number of layers from 1 to 6. As shown in Supplementary Fig. 9a, both the CBM and VBM of 1 ML GaTe situated at \(\bar{\Gamma }\) are derived from the delocalized out-of-plane pz orbitals. When two monolayers are stacked to form 2 ML GaTe, the VBM of \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point is lifted in energy relative to that of \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\), and the positions of CBM and VBM shift from \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\) to the points close to \(\bar{\Gamma }\) and \(\bar{{{{{{\rm{X}}}}}}}\), respectively, as a result of strong interlayer coupling. This induces a direct-to-indirect band gap transition. The 2, 3 and 4 ML GaTe are indirect band gap semiconductors, in which the VBM and CBM are composed of pxy and pz orbitals (Supplementary Fig. 9b–d). When the number of layers reaches 5, the VBM and CBM shift to \(\bar{\Gamma }\) point and are dominated by the pz orbitals (Supplementary Fig. 9e), leading to an indirect-to-direct band gap transition. As shown in Fig. 3j as well as in Supplementary Fig. 1b and Supplementary Figs. 10, 11, the in-plane anisotropy of hole effective masses is reversed with the number of layers, and the ratio between hole effective masses along x and y directions reaches minimum and maximum value in 3 ML and 5 ML GaTe, respectively. In contrast to the layer-dependent anisotropy of hole effective mass, the anisotropy of electron effective masses shows layer-independent feature. Moreover, we conduct angle-resolved polarized Raman measurement for GaTe thin films with thickness of 3.53, 4.87 and 6.47 nm encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). The optical microscopy images, Raman maps and atomic force microscope (AFM) height profiles of GaTe thin films are shown in Supplementary Fig. 12. The polarized Raman spectra exhibit strong in-plane anisotropy of the Raman intensity which is consistent with that of bulk GaTe (Supplementary Figs. 13, 14). This indicates that the GaTe thin flake may be very sensitive to ambient conditions, though a monoclinic to hexagonal phase transition with the decreasing of the GaTe layer thickness has been reported before14,22. Our results demonstrate that the GaTe monoclinic phase is robust for the flake thickness down to 3.5 nm, and the anisotropic band structure evolution with thickness for GaTe is potentially feasible.
Previous studies show the quantum confinement effect plays an important role in the band gap evolution of layered materials23,24. We thus use the empirical equation E = A/Nα + Ebulk, where E is the band gap of multilayer GaTe, N is the number of layers and Ebulk is the band gap of bulk GaTe, to evaluate the influence of quantum confinement effect on evolution of band gap for GaTe. The fitted parameters A, α and Ebulk are 0.70 eV, 0.79 and 0.68 eV, respectively. As shown in Fig. 3k, the band gap of GaTe decreases as the thickness increases, following the 1/N0.79 power law. The fitting exponent is smaller than the values of the infinite potential well model and BP23, which suggests both quantum confinement and strong interlayer coupling control the band gap evolution of GaTe.

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2018 was a banner year for the U.S. energy industry—one that influenced the way that business owners large and small use, pay for, and think about their power supply. What stood out in the U.S. energy landscape last year, and what's in store for 2019?
For more than a century through the rise of the Industrial Revolution, power consumption in the U.S. - and most developed nations - climbed. But over the past decade, that generations-long trend has ended. Power consumption has actually decreased in four of the past eight years, and overall usage in 2017 was equal to that of 2010. In a sense, the U.S. energy grid is shrinking as consumers find efficiencies and even turn to non-grid-based energy to power their homes and businesses.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that U.S. power consumption will remain relatively flat over the next two decades, with natural gas and renewable sources making up a larger percentage of the energy mix.
In virtually every U.S. market, at virtually any time, power is inexpensive. Even in the five largest cities in the country—New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia—the cost of wholesale electricity has averaged about three cents per kilowatt hour over the past year.
"The impact of lower demand, cheap gas prices and higher amounts of zero marginal cost renewable generation are all contributing factors to lower energy prices," Schultz says.
With flat or decreased demand for power and low energy prices, generating sources are increasingly seeking subsidies. Wind, solar, nuclear, and coal (an area of focus for the Trump administration), among other industries, are seeking federal and state-level incentives to stabilize their operations.


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Selection Of Pak Army Chief
✔ Rajib Khaja Official on September 11, 2022 0 Comment
Everything that Imran Khan has said about the issue of selecting an army chief is 100% right as per the law of nature. It is axiomatic that a corrupt regime can never choose an honest and patriotic army chief. A patriotic and honest government may select a chief surreptitiously hooked up by Enemy of Islam (EOI) by mistake but never knowingly select one whose integrity is questionable. As the welfare of the people and country is not on the present Imported Hukumat (I H) agenda, they will look for a "Yes Minister" type COAS. Professionalism, meritocracy, honesty, or Patriotism are redundant issues for them. The corrupt regime will remain concerned only with the one who will support all their evil agendas.
In this respect, President Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia set a historical example. When a new Air Chief was about to be selected. The senior-most candidate with the highest professional credential, a GDP pilot, never stood 2nd in any course. To everyone, he was the most likely and legitimate candidate to be the next Air Chief. But Mahathir selected the second senior-most officer. He was a helicopter pilot and not a champion in his professional credential like number one on the list. When asked by someone close why he did do that? According to the report, his response was that both are honest and equally affluent; the private car of number one is a BMW, and number two drives a Proton Saga; number two is more patriotic than the serial one candidate. Professionalism is most important throughout the career, but Patriotism is of utmost importance at the highest level of any profession. Mahathir Mohammad was a man of such vision and foresight. What quality will this corrupt regime look for while selecting a new COAS for Pak Army? Besides, they have to abide by the dictation of EOI, which has brought them into power through a sneaky parliamentary coup.
EOI not only hooks up military officers but also hooks up judges, election commission officials, and political leaders who only want to remain in power. These EOI hooked-up people may serve in different portfolios, but they will have similarities at one point, i.e., they all are dishonest, and dishonesty may have different shapes or forms. The Pakistan army produced world-class generals but not always. Pakistan had generals like Ayub Khan, Ziaul Haq, and Rahil Sharif; they were not only professional but honest and dedicated patriots. Pakistan Army also produced Generals like Yeahia Khan, Pervez Musharraf, or ongoing Gen Mir Bajwa; they are all hooked up EOI control generals. General Yahia divided Pakistan into two; if Gen Mir Bajwa can not be stopped in time, he may divide Pakistan into five. When Gen Yeahia was dividing Pakistan, we had high court and supreme court judges; they did not issue any Su-Moto the way they are also not doing now.
The present Election Commission of Pakistan is fully EOI, and Mir Bajwa controlled. They will never come up with an election date until they collectively put Imran Khan behind the bar successfully. Pakistan is under existential threat now. One can never expect a patriotic decision from a Gaddar. A country under the command of a bunch of Gaddars can never be independent in the truest sense of its term. Lastly, If Imran Khan has said the Corrupt regime would select a CAOS to suit their purpose, it is absolutely right. If any judge opines that Imran's statement goes against the Pak army, that judge should be hanged by the neck till death by a public court.


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Mammoth Unified School District explores books versus bullets
by Andy Geisel
— 4 Feb, 2013
With so many recent shooting incidents, not the least impactful of which was the Dec. 14, 2012 school shootings in Newtown, Conn., guns and school safety have been a major focus in school districts nationwide. Mammoth Lakes is no exception, and last Thursday evening, Mammoth Unified School District's Board of Education held a discussion on the matter.
MUSD Superintendent Rich Boccia prefaced the agenda item by describing safety audits of all three campuses (high, middle and elementary schools) during the past few weeks, assessing both weaknesses and needs. Mammoth Lakes Police Chief Dan Watson led the briefings segment.
Watson lauded Boccia for using the events in Connecticut to frame the school safety discussion. He did mention the effect of recent cutbacks in the police force, due to the Town's restructuring measures, saying the upside of the cuts is that the biggest reduction in force would occur late in the evenings and during the middle of the night, when school is not in session. The downside, however, is that the dedicated School Resource Officer position will be eliminated, but that SRO Andy Lehr would likely be able to devote at least some part-time hours to being on campus.
During daytime hours, Watson added that there would be five sworn officers who would be able to respond immediately in case of an emergency, including members of the Mono County Sheriff's Office, Bishop Police Department and California Highway Patrol.
"Police tactics have changed since the 1994 Columbine shootings in Littleton, Colo.," Watson posited. "The police there were criticized for not responding fast enough and not going into the campus sooner. If we're notified of an active shooter on campus, we'd all respond, as would fire and paramedics, whether there were any wounded or not."
For easier access, MLPD officers also now have master keys to all MUSD campuses.
The Chief said the MLPD would review the district's safety plans and provide input as a consulting participant, but recognizes that MUSD is the Board's jurisdiction when it comes to policy making.
This spring, while students are off on Spring Break, MLPD, CHP and Mono Sheriffs plan active shooter drills on campus, an exercise that hasn't been conducted in the past three years. Increasing familiarity with the campuses' rooms and overall layout, the Chief said, would be one benefit of such drills. That said, his concerns are that the campuses are largely open to daily traffic, though he does not recommend securing them like compounds, a view shared by Boccia, who previously has expressed similar thoughts. "Secure the exterior so you can free up interior doors," Boccia suggested. "There's nothing worse than seeing all classroom doors on lockdown."
"Newtown's school district had a safety plan, and had practiced it recently," Watson pointed out. "The police and first responders did an excellent job, and there were still 27 dead." Even though California has the nation's strictest gun laws, he said the gun debate currently being waged is "healthy."
Soft spots
Some of what was revealed in the safety audits, according to MUSD Director of Operations, Maintenance and Transportation Robin Davis, went to the human factor in the equation. "Right after Newtown, the staff here had a heightened sense of awareness," he said. "A couple of weeks later, people started to get comfortable again and we found doors not properly latched, that sort of thing. We need to get staff to rethink what 'normal' is." How does he see MUSD improve? "Make people more sensitive to comings and goings, and that should include public and sports events. Mammoth is safe as long as we're paying attention to and watching what's going on."
Views from the principals' chairs also yielded mentioned areas that could use work. Elementary School Principal Rosanne Lampariello, who is currently reviewing MES' entire emergency preparedness plan, opined that in Mammoth, "Everything's open, from homes to classrooms. When it comes to visitors, we have to change our mindsets. They have to go through the office." Mental health, she added, is a "huge issue" MES takes seriously, referring kids in need to the new North Star Counseling Center.
Mono County Office of Education Superintendent Stacey Adler spoke in detail about Northstar's role in school safety. Northstar tracks kids from when it receives a referral from the principal to when the child can be returned to school. She suggested such counseling could possibly be used in lieu of suspension, to further keep kids from falling through the cracks.
At the Middle School, Principal Annie Rinaldi reported the school has had two safety meetings and is fine-tuning its emergency plan, including lockdown drills, which she said have been well practiced. "Communication with students is number one, so threats can be reported," she said.
High School Principal Gabe Solorio took Lampariello's point, saying he's found a few doors that have been open, and that front access to the school, both through the main office, as well as the library and multi-purpose room would be considered as part of the school's planning.
Robin Roberts, Director of Mono County Behavioral Health, said "With positive relationships, kids, no matter how weird or strange they might seem, grow up to be normal, functioning adults," she indicated. She did, however, say we could ID kids who are in crisis. "We are the crisis team for the county, and we're really good at sorting out kids so they don't go through the cracks. We have programs that help fortify the community. We're small, but we're very talented and we really care."
Board looks at proactive ideas
While Board and public comments were sparse, BOE member John Stavlo said he would like the district's final plan to include some attempt at prevention. "Emergency preparedness plans are for events that have happened," he said. "Walking into schools is basically on the honor system. How do we want to control it? Do we want to control it? Some teachers follow lockdown, some don't. Are we going to enforce it and hold teachers accountable?"
Parent Connie Moyer said she attended the Middle School's safety meeting, and was impressed. "A school should be a safe place, but safety also means emotionally, and from earthquakes as well as shootings," she opined. Moyer also expressed disappointment with the loss of the School Resource Officer, and lamented the Town's choosing budget over safety.
She further thought that addressing school safety should also include renewed enforcement of the district's zero tolerance policy on alcohol, drugs and tobacco, advocating random dog sniffing. Boccia said dog searches have been conducted in the past and could be done on lockers and so on while students are in classes without disrupting the education process.
A district safety plan draft is due Feb. 18, and will be put before the Board for its consideration during its Feb 21 meeting. A public hearing on adoption of the plan is currently set for Feb. 28.
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Lying About Sex And Murder
One is an impeachable offense; the other not so much.
Article 2, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice for matters arising out of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
If perjury and obstruction of justice constitute high crimes or misdemeanors, then doesn't it seem rather obvious that the murder of an American citizen by the president would also constitute a high crime or misdemeanor, especially if the citizen is a child?
That's precisely what President Obama, acting through U.S. national-security state agents, did on October 14, 2011. He murdered a 16-year-old American boy who was traveling in Yemen. The boy was Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was the son of accused terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, who the CIA had assassinated two weeks before.
Why did President Obama and the CIA or the military kill Abdulrahman? The president, the CIA, and the Pentagon have all chosen to remain silent on the matter, refusing to even acknowledge that they killed the boy. But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs implicitly provided the justification: "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well being of their children. I don't think becoming an al Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business."
So, there you have it: the boy was apparently killed because he was considered to have the wrong father.
But if that's a legitimate justification for killing a child, there are obviously a lot more children at risk in this country.
Proponents of the war on terrorism argue that the killing of the teenager wasn't really a murder but rather an assassination. But isn't that a distinction without a difference?…
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…And now here we are today, with a "progressive" president who absorbed all the rancid policies of Ronald Reagan and George W Bush and adopted them as his own as titular head of the American Empire…


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The Dutch defender inspired the Reds to their first Premier League title and sixth European Cup since his arrival at Anfield.
Unless, that is, you are Sam Allardyce.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists he was not angry with his players for their failure to beat West Brom as he has a greater perspective on their collective achievements.
While acknowledging the mental challenges of playing against a team comfortable within their defensive shell, Klopp did not think his players stuck to their task in the manner Sam Allardyce's side managed to - West Brom's boss has now gone unbeaten in his last four Premier League matches at Anfield, doing so with four different teams.
"Big" Sam Allardyce recently backtracked on his plans to "wind up" the other Premier League managers this season.
"Everyone is talking about that, about us being lucky because of the save, but it was not save after save", he said.
They failed to have a shot on target from the 21st minute onwards.
Not that the weekend's most odd result will cause Klopp a sleepless night, even though it left them with only a three-point lead over neighbours Everton.
He was Liverpool's only fit senior center back, with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez out with long-term injuries.
Newcastle's season is delicately poised as they are only one win away from moving into mid-table and getting close to the 10th-place spot Bruce said was the aim for the campaign.
Pedro Neto supplied the corner from which Saiss scored and he was among seven Portuguese stars in the Wolves XI, a joint-record for the most non-English players from the same country in a Premier League line-up.
Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo has refused to give a timeframe for Jimenez's possible return to action. "That's why it is only one point instead of three".
I'd watched the Liverpool-Real Madrid game on TV and I was supporting Liverpool, but unfortunately, they didn't win.
The French goalkeeper was awarded a free-kick for backing in by Ben Mee and despite Meslier appearing to be the aggressor, the goal could not be reviewed by VAR as referee Robert Jones had blown for the foul before the ball hit the net.
"I am looking forward to it very much", he said. "I'd love Liverpool to strengthen well, get Thiago back, and suddenly they'd get some real good form and run clear".
Brighton are yet to lose to West Ham in the Premier League but could only take a point against the Hammers in a fourth meeting running.
Leeds, meanwhile, bounced back from their 6-2 thrashing at Old Trafford with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Burnley - Patrick Bamford's early penalty proving enough.


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