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Movies, books, and songs to capture the essence of Chicago and get you in the mood for travel
About Last Night (1986)
Romantic comedy adapted from David Mamet's play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" in which a Chicago couple adjust to cohabitating.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Teen comedy in which a high school senior played by Matthew Broderick skips school to spend the day in downtown Chicago, including Wrigley Field, the Sears Tower, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Oscar-nominated documentary follows two high school boys in their quest to become professional basketball players.
Road To Perdition (2002)
Violent, Prohibition-era gangster drama with Paul Newman and Tom Hanks filmed in the historic Pullman district on the South Side.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Musical comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood Blues, musicians on the run from the law; includes a legendary car chase under the L tracks.
The Untouchables (1987)
Kevin Costner as G-man Eliot Ness brings down Robert DeNiro's legendary mob boss Al Capone in a film largely located and shot in Chicago.
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware (2000)
This highly praised graphic novel covers four generations and a century of change in Chicago. "Captures urban isolation."—Jessa Crispin, founder and editor, Bookslut.com.
The Coast of Chicago, by Stuart Dybek (1990)
Poetic short stories concerning immigrant characters on the gritty South Side.
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson (2003)
Based on true events, the book tells the twin stories of Daniel Burnham, architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer, depicting the beauty and the horror of the city in the late 19th century.
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (1906)
Socialist author exposes the working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. "It revealed the beaten-down underclass."—Victoria Lautman, radio host, Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman.
The Man With the Golden Arm, by Nelson Algren (1949)
Drug addict Frankie Machine struggles to stay straight on Chicago's mean streets. "There's hardly any glamour to Chicago; Algren's work reflects that."—Jessa Crispin.
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
Unusual love story about a man who time-travels to different periods in his own life. "Set in the Newberry Library, a quirky setting of Chicago for a fun book."—Victoria Lautman.
Another Polka Celebration, Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones (1986)
Multiple-Grammy-nominees, the Chicago-based Versatones led by Eddie Blazonczyk, won the prize in 1986 with this record, delighting the city's large Polish populace.
Electric Mud, Muddy Waters (1968)
Mississippi-born Muddy Waters moved to Chicago and electrified the blues with songs like "I Just Want to Make Love To You" and "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man," both on this 1968 recording.
Hoodoo Man Blues, Junior Wells (1965)
Classic early recording from Chicago-based vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells with backing from guitarist Buddy Guy.
The Chicago Principal: First Chair Soloists Play Famous Concertos (2003)
Classic compositions by Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel played by Chicago Symphony Orchestra leads directed by long-time conductors Sir Georg Solti and Daniel Barenboim.
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (1969)
Sixties rock band Chicago named itself after the city's public transit system with the launch of their first album including "Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?" and "Beginnings."
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Louis Armstrong (2000)
Jazz innovator Louis Armstrong in his Chicago period records classics like "Potato Head Blues" and "West End Blues" with a group of jazz all-stars.
The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965, Miles Davis (1965)
The downstate-born Miles Davis recorded standards like "My Funny Valentine" at a two-night gig at a former Chicago jazz club. Herbie Hancock contributes on piano.
Classic songs:
From down-home blues to crooner classics and Sixties protest songs, Chicago has been the subject or backdrop of these 10 favorites:
- "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" by Frank Sinatra
- "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" by Frank Sinatra
- "The Lincoln Park Pirates" by Steve Goodman
- "Baseball Dreams" by Ralph's World
- "Take Me Back to Chicago" by Chicago
- "Via Chicago" by Wilco
- "Chicago (We Can Change the World)" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
- "Goin' to Chicago Blues" by The Count Basie Orchestra
- "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson (or The Blues Brothers)
- "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Some states require burning. Some require "treatment" but don't define what that is.
If I did I would probably shake the bees into another hive, burn the frames and scorch the boxes.
this technique was widely used and known to be effective long before antibiotics.
Hot dipping hive parts kills the spores.
...Quotethis technique was widely used and known to be effective long before antibiotics. OK I can see where it is effective but it surely contaminates the new hive equipment with spores so if the bees get stressed it is likely you will have another outbreak.QuoteHot dipping hive parts kills the spores.This is what I was thinking. You could place the wooden parts in an oven for a specific amount of time to kill the spores. At first I was thinking steam but I see the temperatures are higher than steam.
For the record, if my hive came down with AFB, I'm pretty sure it's required that I burn it.
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Arsenal take on Premier League champions Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
In this week's edition of Stats Zone we focus on the increasing influence of Carl Jenkinson at right back.
In a previous edition of this feature we highlighted the attacking threat of Kieran Gibbs from the left flank. Indeed, that was demonstrated again in the 6-1 win over Southampton as the marauding full back picked up two assists.
But on the other side of the defence, 20-year-old Jenkinson's efficient display also deserves credit.
The defender enjoyed plenty of possession against the Saints and has made the eighth-most passes in the Premier League this season (261) - behind only Mikel Arteta (378) and Santi Cazorla (292) in the Arsenal squad.
In fact, the right back completed more passes than Cazorla during the win at Emirates Stadium (67), quite some feat given the Spaniard's playmaking ability.
Jenkinson's heatmap below is from the Southampton game, with red areas showing where he was especially active. Jenkinson's 108 touches were more than any other player on the pitch - five more than Arteta.
- There have been just six goals scored in the last six meetings between Arsenal and Manchester City with all three encounters last season ending 1-0
- City have scored just one goal in the last five Premier League games against Arsenal
- There have been four red cards in the last four Premier League games between Roberto Mancini's side and the Gunners
- Manchester City have won three of the last four home league games against Arsenal. The only game that Arsenal won in that run saw Samir Nasri score the opener in a 3-0 win for Arsenal
- Manchester City have won 29 and lost none of their last 31 Premier League home matches
- Arsenal have lost just one of their last 10 Premier League away games (W6 D3 L1)
- The Gunners have not kept three consecutive Premier League clean sheets on the road since May 2005
- Only Arsenal (10) have allowed their opponents fewer shots on target than Manchester City (11)
- Santi Cazorla has created more scoring chances for team-mates from open play than any other player (14)
- Sunday's referee is Mike Dean. Arsenal have won just one of the last 14 Premier League matches with him as the official (W1 D6 L7)


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Privacy and security are hot issues these days, fueled by significant data breaches affecting companies like Target and, closer to home for hotel operators, Wyndham Worldwide. According to Hospitality Technology's 2014 Lodging Technology Study, 42% of hoteliers identified "creating a secure framework for all guest data" a top technology goal for 2014. Hotels can't escape the threat of breaches, but there are some things they can do to minimize concerns, and risks, for guests.
Tatiana Melnik is a lawyer with Melnik Legal PLLC (www.melniklegal.com) in Tampa. In addition to being a practicing attorney, Melnik has a degree in information technology. What's unique about the Wyndham case, says Melnik, is that "in the number of years that the FTC has litigated or taken action against companies that have these types of security incidents, nobody has challenged the FTC before so this is the first case of its kind." Wyndham's motion to dismiss the case was denied by the New Jersey federal district court and the Parsippany, N.J.-based hotel company has already filed a motion for appeal. "If ever a case warranted ... appellate review, this is it," Wyndham says in a petition filed late in July with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
The dismissal, according to Melnik, was "a huge win for the FTC — it's really reaffirmed the FTC's authority to enforce data privacy and security requirements." The landscape remains murky for hotel operators and other organizations, she says, in large part because there is still a great deal of gray area in terms of "what it really means to take commercially reasonable efforts to protect consumer information."
Security is a complex issue that requires hotel operators to ensure that they are covering all the bases to protect guests and themselves. Those bases generally involve three components: technology, staff training and communication, and communication with guests. Of these, the experts say, technology is just a part — and arguably not the most important part — of the answer.
Mark Ozawa is GM of Windjammer Landing (www.windjammer-landing.com), a resort in St. Lucia. He is fortunate, he says, that despite the fact that he operates an independent resort, that resort is owned by the second largest construction firm in Canada, EllisDon Corporation (www.ellisdon.com) based in Toronto. That relationship means that, among other things, Ozawa has access to experts on IT infrastructure and technology.
"Guest and staff privacy and security are clearly at the forefront of the things we do," says Ozawa. At Windjammer Landing data and access control are segregated. There are three different networks in place: one for the security infrastructure, one for staff and administrative use, and one for guests.
Guest data is protected through a PMS provided by Agilisys (www.agilysys.com). The PMS is isolated from other systems and is backed up and restored daily, both on and off-property. Access controls are monitored and any need for applications to access the system are vetted through the corporate security team. "Our corporate team monitors our access log-in through audit logging and they also monitor the network traffic flows for abnormalities," says Ozawa.
It is work, he says, that is beyond the competencies of most hoteliers, including himself. Although his background includes work with technology solutions he says, "Frankly it goes against most hoteliers' natural tendencies. So, when people say 'oh, you have to secure your network,' we don't even know where to start."
One of the challenges for hotel operators is that guests often interact with the property through multiple channels. Control Scan Security Consulting (www.controlscan.com) recently conducted an audit with a Florida-based real estate developer that owns various resort and club properties. During that, the team discovered multiple previously unrecognized payment card data touch points within a single-location hospitality venue.
Technology is evolving to help with these and offer added payment and data securities. FreedomPay (www.freedompay.com), a commerce platform company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, recently teamed with Microsoft to offer a joint Payments Platform, combining its Commerce Platform with Microsoft big data tools like Windows Azure.
Despite concerns about the security of data out in "the cloud," Michael P. Bennett, a partner with legal firm Edwards Wildman Palmer, LLP (www.edwardswildman.com), in Chicago specializing in big data and privacy law, says the greater risk revolves around whether the correct people internally have the right types of permissions.
"Even if you have very good security, if you don't properly follow through all the way down to the individual employee that's accessing the information, all of the security that's at the back end can be for naught," Bennett states.
For instance, Bennett says the biggest vulnerability for credit cards is not that a customer went online and bought something from an online vendor, but rather it's that the credit card was used at a restaurant and somebody copied it before running a bill through.
Hotels need to consider security in terms of how customer information traverses the entire network. "You're looking at what technology and security standards are in place at the actual hotel, but you're also looking at the administrative requirements. It's a combination of administrative control, physical control and technical control," says Melnik.
Internal systems, policies, communication governance, and monitoring who has access to what information are key, agrees Bennett. "These types of permissioning systems — where you're really looking at who is authorized to look at what and for what usage — are becoming more important." This approach is preferable, he says, to a model that depends on the consumer giving consent and then having to disclose to them what their data may be used for. Bennett predicts a rise in these types of systems, although he adds that whether or not this will be acceptable from a regulatory perspective remains open. "The regulatory perspective still is squarely within the camp of 'you've got to disclose how you're going to use the information, use it only for that disclosed purpose, get rid of it when you're done with it, and have a lot of transparency with the consumer," Bennett says.
Guest communication is another integral part of the security mix. However, there's a difference between simply providing information and actually communicating with the guest.
For instance, says Tendell, it's fairly common for hotels to put security information about WiFi access in a long page of instructions that pops up when guests sign in for access. "But most people don't read those things," he says.
Bennett agrees, stating, "One of the big issues there is you could transparently say 'we're going to use the data, and how we use it is on the back of your bill,' but if it's in fine print and it goes on for 10 pages and basically says 'we can use it for whatever we want,' that's not really disclosing in a meaningful way."
Sometimes, it's not just the use of the data a guest has provided that can become problematic, but the use of that data combined with other data. For instance, a hotel might be able to combine payment data with information about eating or leisure preferences.
This big data drift occurs when companies hope to extract value from their existing databases by looking to identify other informational relationships that didn't previously exist. It's a murky area that regulators have yet to fully weigh in on, Bennett says.


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457. Citation. If the owner, agent, or person in possession neglects to furnish the assessor with the description within 10 days after the request, the assessor shall cite him to appear before the superior court of the county where the land is situated within five days after service of the citation. On the day named in the citation, to the exclusion of all other business, the court shall proceed to hear his return and answer to the citation.
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In this blog we'll discuss the presentations and demos of the participants of this year's Language Workbench Challenge. Note that this blog post has been written over some period of time which means that some participants were more clearly represented in my memory at the time of writing than others, so for the latter I had to rely on my notes more. I apologise beforehand if you think your tool has been misrepresented and I'm open to comments.
Tijs van der Storm of the CWI presented the latest developments on Rascal. Although Rascal doesn't call itself a language workbench but rather a programming language aimed at source code and meta programming. Consequently, and because of libraries enabling integration in the Eclipse IDE, it can be construed as a language workbench after all.
The biggest change in Rascal is the advent of a VM and a compiler (in "pre^4 alpha" stage) that compiles Rascal code to bytecode on that VM. Previously, Rascal code was executed by a JVM-based interpreter. This propels Rascal's performance into the "realm of reasonability" corresponding to sub-second response times for the scalability part of the focus assignment. Also, the performance is continuously being worked on. Tijs had some statistics on the performance showing that the VM scaled linearly on larger inputs and was appreciably more performant than the interpreter (although that scaled linearly as well).
The implementation of the QL and QLS DSLs has been optimised to an impressively measly 450SLoC, including IDE and semantics – i.e. code generation which takes advantage of the questionnaire reference implementation.
For the collaboration part, Tijs demonstrated a "freshly out of the oven/bleeding edge" language-aware generic diffing capability on top of standard version control systems, like Git.
All in all, it's certainly nice to see Rascal making strides towards maturity while keeping close to its core principles.
Whole Platform
Enrico Persiani and Riccardo Solmi are two of the mainstays of this challenges since the first edition in 2011. That year they blew everyone away with their Whole Platform that no-one so far had heard about but was surprisingly mature and especially: different.
The Whole Platform (from now on: WP) , as MPS, uses projectional visualisation for the concrete syntax of models. Whereas MPS tries to emulate a text-like look & feel, the WP favours a "table-y" look, requiring a lot of whitespace and relying more on visual cues like lines and fold/unfold buttons for navigation.
Interestingly, Enrico stressed the importance of re-use, not just for sake of modularisation but also to achieve scalability. The WP provides a new feature that enables one to reference a part of another model inside a model and use it either as-is or after a model transformation. This enabled them to build up the binary search tree questionnaire model for the 1024=32×32 case by first constructing the 32 case and then re-using that recursively in combination with a transformation. Even with the model for the 1024 case, the editor looked rather responsive, even though the syntax was of course quite graphical.
Finally, Enrico showed off the advanced the model diffing capability (which worked on top of Git) with features like: customisability, three-way comparison and unified "1-way" compare that allows the user to defer merging conflicts and commit models with that way.
The presenter of this contribution, Petr Smolík, has attended the LWC in past years, but this year he promoted himself to participant. For his presentation and demo of the tool he used an iPad, proving that in this day and age you don't need a lot of "iron-on-the-desk" to run language workbenches.
The Metarepository tool has been used for years by Petr's company Metadata to service their customers in the financial industry. The tool is based on the principle of multi-level modelling which means that there is no real distinction between data, model and meta model. E.g., concepts like "entity" and "attribute" can be defined in the meta model, instances of which reside in the model and those you can instantiate again, which means you get (persistent) semantics "for free".
Metarepository runs on the Web and uses projectional editing to visualise and manipulate the models. The concrete syntax of the models seems really "formy", which makes getting an overview a bit cumbersome. In fact, it seemed that one level of containment corresponds to one separate Web page. Especially for expressions this would require some work, but this is the typical painful "edge case" for projectional tools.
Metarepository has built-in versioning (internally bound to Git) and it's really an intrinsic part of the whole user experience, not something that's essentially "tacked-on" which makes for a strong proposition. In fact, the tool seems geared towards providing a software development tooling experience in the first place, with the modelling capability being more of a happy circumstance.
To get from models to running software, you can write semantics in Java or Groovy. This comes out-of-the-box with caching so not every character of the generated code needs to be re-evaluated again, which is obviously good for performance.
The guys from MetaCase are true regulars of the LWC – it just wouldn't be the same without them, especially since they tend to attack the challenge with extreme vigour.
Apparently, being able to do the binary search questionnaire for numbers 1..2^10 wasn't enough, so they generated one for 1..2^20, resulting in a huge model that nevertheless could be opened and manipulated in a very performant manner – impressive given that the model visualisation in MetaEdit+ is intrinsically graphical. In fact, they used a model repository of 5 Gigabytes and opened models of over 1 million model elements to prove scalability of the tool. Interesting is that they had to implement an H-tree visualisation algorithm to layout the questionnaire model without overlap and using as little whitespace as possible.
MetaEdit+ comes in a single and a multi-user version, with the latter using a centralised model repository server to facilitate concurrent versioning. Tight integration of the editor with this server enables MetaEdit+ to use a very fine-grained locking approach that minimises prohibitive locking, so that any one model detail can only be edited by one user at any time but other users can still edit other details that are directly coupled with it.
Changes are transmitted and visible to other collaborators upon a commit – obviously, this necessitates constant network access. Internally, this is all based on ACID-principles with a commit being the transaction boundary. Part of the collaboration capabilities is the graphical "semi-diff" that graphically shows differences in objects (that keep existing).
By the way: you can see this presentation on Youtube.
Monticore is made by the Software Engineering Lab of the Aachen and is a new contribution to the LWC, although it has been in existence for several years: version 1.0 dates from 2006. Right now we're at v3.2.0 (v3.1.1 at the time of the LWC).
Monticore caters for textual DSLs only. The grammar language is a (slight) abstraction of the ANTLR which is used "under the hood" and that probably explains why it looks quite a bit like Xtext.
The Monticore people didn't address scalability and collaboration directly in the tool; instead, they urged to use best practices (such as modularisation). This gives rise to the feeling that the tool is not quite there yet in terms of product maturity for a general (non-academic) audience. It occupies the same technological space as Xtext (Java and Eclipse), making it hard to see the added value relative to Xtext. Maybe next year that'll be addressed more clearly.
Although we had a few members of the MPS development team, the presenting, demoing and (presumably) implementing the challenge was once again done by people from the Sioux company. This is interesting since MPS then is the only workbench in the challenge that's represented by actual users, instead of the tool builders. The presenters dove right into it, showing off the various scalability- and collaboration-related features.
Collaboration is based completely Git – not completely surprising since Git is already nicely integrated in IntelliJ/IDEA. The collaboration plays nice with the projectional editing that MPS does and features a structure diff which honours the projection.
Sioux had prepared a couple of models for the questionnaire challenge, some of them monolithic, some of them modularised. They stressed that model architecture is important and that modularisation, as well as type and constraint checking, often come at a cost of flexibility. The editor and its language services seem to scale roughly linear in model size, for the monolithic models a bit less so for the modularised models. Field data suggests linear scaling as well.
Another nice feature of MPS is the templating language that's used to generate code according to the reference implementation is target-language-aware.
In recent years the Spoofax tooling, which is actively being developed at the University of Delft under the leadership of Eelco Visser, has seen definite growth towards maturity. This is obviously a good thing as it prevents the tool going "Poof!" 😉
Gabriël Konat started off with an overview of the features of Spoofax and was eager to show the newer features: an evolution of the NaBL name binding language and a type system language. The latter integrates nicely with the rest of the tool, provides both type calculation and type checking and works incrementally after the initial slow parsing and checking – this seems to work really well and obviously benefits scalability and collaboration. The type system language can also provide custom functionality like dependency calculation.
Scalability and Git-based collaboration looks really solid, so much so that it's tedious to say anything specific about it. In fact, Spoofax seems to be as boring as a language workbench should be: a set of meta languages that exhibits good separation of concern and an even learning curve. And to quote Gabriël: "in case of stupidity, just revert"!


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In a study I read about this week, it appears that working actually provides an important component of the environment that improves cognitive functioning. In other words, the earlier you retire, the more quickly your memory may decline.
The good news about this finding is that the more we analyze benchmark results, the better it is for the health of our brain.
Oracle published a TPC-H 3TB benchmark last week on the Sun M9000 using Oracle 11g. What amazed me was that Oracle would actually compare it to an IBM result when the IBM Power Systems result was clearly 1.5 times better performance per core than the Oracle result.(1) And that doesn't even take into account the fact that:
The Oracle result had an availability date in 2Q11 while the IBM result was from 2009. The Oracle result was on a brand new system while the IBM result was on a POWER6 system, not even on a POWER7 system. The Oracle result used Oracle Database 11g Release 2.0.2, not even available yet. The IBM result was a proof point using Sybase. And just for fun and to make it even better for your brain, take a look at the difference in database software costs.
(1) IBM Power 595 (32 chips, 64 cores, 128 threads) TPC-H result at 3TB (156,537 Queries per hour QphH@3000GB, $20.60/QphH, configuration available 11/24/09) vs. Oracle Sun M9000 (32 chips, 128 cores, 256 threads) TPC-H result at 3TB (198,908 Queries per hour QphH@3000GB, $16.58/QphH, configuration available 4/5/11). Source: www.tpc.org. Results current as of 10/15/10.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili, the poster boy for George Bush as what constitutes an effective leader in Asia, is claiming there was an attempted coup to overthrow his government by members of the Georgia military. A tank battalion supposedly rebelled and the president rushed to talk with its members, arrested the commander of the group, and announced another attempt to overthrow the man who believes in democracy has been thwarted. Naturally, Saakashvili accused the Russian government of conspiring to cause the rebellion– a "rebellion of a battalion" which ordinarily is not sufficient to overthrow a government.
Some opposition leaders wonder if there ever was an attempt to overthrow the government or whether this was simply a few disgruntled soldiers who were expressing their frustrations.


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As a long time member of the American Sportscaster's Association, I receive information regarding current and past play-by-play announcers from all over the country. In a recent edition of the "Insider Sportsletter" magazine there was a story about the "The Voices" that are gone but not forgotten. The names of Mel Allen, Curt Gowdy, Lindsey Nelson, Don Dunphy, Howard Cosell, Jack Buck, Harry Caray and Bill King are listed. Bill who?


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OK, now we're getting somewhere.
First, I agree that it's very likely your Lifeline batteries are AGMs, not gelled cell batteries.
I also agree that the grouping is rather strange, and it would be beneficial at some point to connect the two 4Ds together and run them as a single 420AH house battery bank, and to use the 100AH battery for starting.
You didn't mention a battery combiner or echo charge device. How is the alternator connected?
Since you already have a 1-2-Both-Off switch, an easy way to improve the setup would be:
1. Wire both 4Ds together in parallel, and connect this bank to position #1 on the battery switch.
2. Wire the 100AH battery to it's own ON-OFF switch and to the start solenoid.
3. Run a cable from the the new ON-OFF switch to position #2 on the battery switch.
4. Install an EchoCharge or DuoCharge device, connected between the house bank and the start battery. This device is completely automatic, and bleeds some of the charge off the house batteries to keep the start battery charged.
5. Connect the output of the Balmar 110A alternator -- and all other onboard charging sources (battery charger, generator, wind, solar, etc.) to the house battery bank.
6. Leave the switch in the #1 position. The "BOTH" position would be only for those very rare times when the start battery is depleted and you want to start from the house batteries.
Now, about the original question re: charging amperage.
There may or may not be something amiss. AGMs can absorb A LOT of amperage...all your 110A alternator can throw at them...and more. The MC612 controls how much amperage is going to the batteries, based on its internal charging algorithm ("program") and upon external factors such as battery voltage, battery temperature, and alternator temperature (assuming these sensors are fitted).
It's really a quite sophisticated system, and works beautifully once set up correctly. There are some potential bug-a-boos, though.
In order for things to work correctly, you need:
1. the correct program chosen in the MC-612 (i.e., PO4 AGL);
2. all sensors correctly connected and working properly;
3. adequate size wiring;
4. clean, tight connections; and
5. alternator belt tensioned properly and not slipping.
The best way to easily check re: output is probably to take the boat out, drain the house batteries to about 50% charged state (about 12.3VDC with NO LOAD and NO CHARGE after sitting for several hours...as measured with a reliable multimeter AT THE BATTERY TERMINALS).
Then, when you start the engine, after 40 seconds or so you should see the amperage ramp up to somewhere over 80. If you see this, then the system would seem to be basically OK. However, if you only see 10A or so, something is definitely wrong.
Note that temperature sensors can give improper readings. If you suspect a bad temp sensor, just pull it's connector off the MC-612 and see what happens.
Finally, don't worry about the readings you get from the battery monitor -- at least not until you know it's been properly calibrated and you've lived with it awhile. These things can be good, but they can also give very misleading information.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Hope this helps a bit.
I'll bet those batteries are AGM (absorbed glass mat [sometimes material]). Very good batteries btw.
I don't think Lifeline makes gells.
Other than the odd grouping of house batteries - I'll bet there is nothing wrong with your system. I agree with your salesman!
The manual for your motor should give you the specs for the required starting battery. The group 27 battery is probably sufficient. I agree that rewiring the system so the group 27 is your starting battery and the the two 4Ds are your house battery makes sense. You don't want two house banks, just one large one with an simple on/off switch. Use your 1,2,all, off switch as an interconnect so you can start from the house bank if needed. There are many ways to set up your batteries, but this is a common, modern approach.
Following the steps in the Link 20 manual for battery capacity testing should give you an idea of the health of your batteries. If the actual capacity is was off from the advertised capacity you batteries are on their way out.
The first thing you should check is the regulator output setting to see if measured voltage is consistent and do so when the batteries are NOT fully charged.
Additionally, make sure the Link20 rate is properly set and calibrated.
Regardless of the varying opinions with respect to battery configuration between Steve and me, no one can contest the over-riding benefit to combine the two larger batteries as a large house bank. Having a separate 200 amp start battery is overkill when compared with your present 300 amp "Position 1" house bank .
The larger the house bank, the smaller the discharge rate resulting in prolonging the life of the batteries.
Here's what I've got.
The alternator is a 110A Balmar with a Balmar MC-612 Regulator
There are a total of three batteries:
Two are Lifeline 4D 210AH, and one Lifeline Group 27 100AH. All three are gel batteries.
The battery configuration switch configuration is:
Position 1 4D & Group 27 in parallel
Position 2 4D
The monitor is a Xantrex Link 20
I don't have the info on the AC charger at this time. But I don't think that is important since I'm experiencing the same conditions.
Next time at the boat I am going to check the Link 20 configuration to be sure it was set properly in the first place.
Thanks for everyone's comments. Of course there are many opinions. I'll sort them out and see what happens.
k1vsk - I respectfully disagree with your logic. You don't pull half the amps from each battery. More current flows from the larger battery than the small one. This is regulated by the voltage from each. If the voltage starts to drop in one battery (because it is smaller) it will just supply less current until the voltages are equal again. When charging, if one battery received more current, the voltage would rise in that battery and current going into it would decrease. It's a completely self regulating system.
This is a very important point -> It is true that you should not mix and old battery with a new one, but this is more like mixing types (AGM, wet, or gel) than anything to do with size. As a battery ages the chemistry changes.
There is no difference in a system with one large and one small battery than a system with many batteries. For example with a 6 battery setup, from the prospective of any single battery there is no way to tell that it is connected to 5 others or one that's 5 times larger than it. The entire system acts as one large battery.
I think it is relevant to the op so I would add this -
think of what happens to resting voltage when you pull 50% out of a battery vs 25%. The only reason both (in his bank) remain at the same voltage is because they are interconnected - the small one is actually competing with the larger.
No matter how you slice it, when you pull amps out of a bank, each battery loses half the amount. When one is smaller than the other, it suffers disproportionately.
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When you pull a given load from two dissimilar batteries, the effect upon each is different. As an example, if he pulls 100 amps out of a bank consisting of one 200 amp and one 100 amp battery, he lowers the available capacity of each differently - 50 amp from each but 25% of one and 50% of the other all else being equal.
That's the first problem.
The second problem created is in recharging both - the regulator or shore charge doesn't see each battery separately and starts pumping at a rate of the avg which will undercharge the larger battery and over-charge the smaller.
Understood.... I don't have all that info at my fingertips. I will get the info tonight from my manuals and get back to you.
Can we back up a minute before beginning recommendations?
The Alerion Express 38's new come with gelled house batteries, I believe.
PPrimont: could you please give us some more precise details on your setup?
1. Type of house batteries and AH capacity (I'd be surprised if AE put a 200AH and a 100AH gel battery together for the house bank);
2. Type of start battery and AH capacity (is it really 200AH? sounds like overkill. Is it flooded? AGM? Gelled?);
3. Type of regulator on the alternator (internal or external?);
4. Type, model and capacity of battery charger?
5. How are these wired to the battery switch(es)?
These details are important before one can be reasonably sure of what's going on and/or where to look.
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WSJ Pushes Myth That DOJ Lawsuit Against S&P Is "Political Payback"
A Wall Street Journal editorial pushed the myth that a Department of Justice lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) is retaliation for the company downgrading the U.S.'s credit rating, failing to note experts' explanations that the suit is likely a test case that may be used to bolster future action against other credit rating agencies and that the suit predates S&P's downgrade.
S&P Cries Foul Over Alleged DOJ Targeting
DOJ Initiates Lawsuit Against S&P For Mortgage-Backed Securities Fraud. In a February 5 press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department of Justice's (DOJ) investigation and case against S&P:
Yesterday, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against Standard & Poor's Financial Services - as well as its parent company, McGraw-Hill - alleging that the credit rating agency S&P engaged in a scheme to defraud investors in financial products known as Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities, or RMBS, and Collateralized Debt Obligations, or CDOs.
To date, we have identified more than $5 billion in such losses, resulting from CDOs that were rated by S&P between March and October 2007. During this period, nearly every single mortgage-backed CDO that was rated by S&P not only underperformed - but failed. [Department of Justice, 2/5/13 [1]]
S&P Labels Lawsuit Filed by Justice Department "Retaliation." Reuters reported that, in a court filing, S&P claimed the lawsuit had been brought "in retaliation" of its decision to downgrade the U.S.'s credit rating in 2011:
In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., S&P said the government's "impermissibly selective, punitive and meritless" lawsuit was brought "in retaliation for defendants' exercise of their free speech rights with respect to the creditworthiness of the United States of America." It also said the "excessive fines" violated the Eighth Amendment. [Reuters, 9/3/13 [2], via The Washington Post]
Wall Street Journal Pushes S&P's Accusation Of Retaliation
The Wall Street Journal: Timeline of Lawsuit Has "The Aroma Of Political Payback." On September 8, a Wall Street Journal editorial bolstered S&P's claims that the U.S. government is seeking reprisal for its lowered credit rating. The editorial claimed that the DOJ investigation "has the aroma of political payback" because S&P is the only credit rating agency currently being sued, and alleged that the suit was issued in response to S&P's downgrade of the U.S.'s credit rating in 2011:
We've been skeptical of all of these investigations, since credit ratings are merely opinions. The simple solution is for the government to stop forcing people to pay attention to them. But the point of this chronology is that there is an unambiguous record from 2008 through 2010 of various government bodies investigating both S&P and Moody's.
Then along comes 2011. In April of that year, S&P shifted the U.S. credit outlook to "negative" from "stable." As is its custom, S&P made this change to warn markets that Uncle Sam could face a downgrade.
Team Obama was not happy. The Washington Post reported that Administration officials had urged S&P not to make this move. After it was announced, officials criticized S&P's analysis. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner dismissed the warning and said there was "no risk" of a downgrade.
Two months later, this newspaper reported that the SEC was investigating both Moody's and S&P, with particular attention to S&P. Two months after that, in August, S&P announced its downgrade, triggering a stock market selloff and embarrassing the President.
Fewer than two weeks later, the New York Times reported that Justice was conducting an investigation specifically of S&P. The Times said it was "unclear" whether Moody's, which did not downgrade the U.S., was also being investigated. And now we know that Moody's has not been charged in the Justice suit. Coincidentally, Moody's counts among its owners Berkshire Hathaway, run by Obama pal Warren Buffett.
Yet Moody's had a rating identical to S&P's on nearly every tranche of every security mentioned in the lawsuit. All of which raises the question posed by federal Judge David Carter of the Central District of California in a recent court hearing: "Where's Moody's?" [The Wall Street Journal, 9/8/13 [3]]
But Reports Say That The S&P Suit Is Likely A Precursor To Action Against Moody's
Reuters: Officials Say Suit Against Moody's Will Likely Progress After S&P Action Is "Tested In The Courts." Reuters reported that, although the DOJ had initially chosen to dedicate more resources to pursuing a lawsuit against S&P, officials familiar with the case said that the DOJ is also considering a lawsuit against S&P competitor Moody's, but "will likely wait" until the S&P suit is resolved. Reuters quoted a law enforcement official saying: "Don't think Moody's is off the hook." Reuters also explained that the DOJ chose to sue S&P first because the "paper trail" against it is stronger:
Despite similar evidence against both companies, people with knowledge of the rating agencies say authorities may have moved first against S&P because of a stronger paper trail against it.
Richard Greenfield of Greenfield & Goodman, who was part of a suit against Moody's with a settlement last year that included governance reforms and $4.95 million, said looking at the respective evidence, it does appear that there was more material against S&P.
"Here you've got a very, very good paper trail with S&P," he said. "If they are not totally smoking gun documents, they are collectively smoking gun documents."
The paper trail is important because the kinds of documents involved can help keep a judge from dismissing a case before it gets to trial, said Hillary Sale, a securities law and corporate governance expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
The government's complaint against S&P includes numerous embarrassing emails, such as one in which an analyst parodies a Talking Heads song "Burning Down the House" to reflect the "boiling over" subprime market.
"When you have that kind of evidence that looks bad, you don't want to dismiss the case until you have more discovery," Sale said. That kind of a paper trail "helps you survive a motion to dismiss."
Legal experts say the type of activity described in the S&P lawsuit does not appear isolated to that firm, and the S&P case might simply be a prelude to more action.
"It may very well be that the government's testing their waters and they don't want to bite off more than they can chew," said Philip Hilder of Hilder & Associates in Houston, a former federal prosecutor. "Nobody should take these cases lightly." [Reuters, 2/7/13 [4]]
Industry Lawyer: S&P Lawsuit May Spur Similar Charges Against Moody's. In a Bloomberg News article, finance lawyer Robert Piliero explained that while the DOJ is currently only targeting S&P, that lawsuit may be used as a way to bring litigation against other credit rating agencies. From Bloomberg News:
The U.S. is seeking as much as $5 billion in penalties from New York-based McGraw-Hill as punishment for inflated credit ratings that Attorney General Eric Holder said were central to the financial crisis. While Moody's wasn't sued, a victory by the government would spur other lawsuits, according to Robert Piliero, a lawyer at Butzel Long in New York who's worked on structured-finance litigation. [Bloomberg News, 2/6/13 [5]]
AP: S&P Lawsuit Could "Serve As A Template" For Future Action Against Other Credit Rating Agencies. In an article explaining the DOJ's actions, The Associated Press reported that "[e]xperts said the lawsuit could serve as a template for future action against Fitch and Moody's, the other two major credit rating agencies." [The Associated Press, 2/5/13 [6]]
And The DOJ Investigation Predates S&P's Downgrade Decision
CBS News: Investigation Started Years Ago. While discussing the DOJ's lawsuit against S&P, CBS correspondent Anthony Mason noted that investigations take years to conduct, and that this particular one began in 2009:
MASON: Investigators tell me typically these complicated cases take years to build. I mean, this investigation began in 2009, and in this case, the government has had to go through 20 million pages of internal Standard and Poor`s documents. [CBS News, CBS Evening News, 2/5/13, via Nexis]
The Wall Street Journal: Government Has Been Investigating S&P For Years. In an article on the announcement of the DOJ's lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported:
For about three years, the government has been investigating whether S&P managers pushed to weaken company standards for rating mortgage-linked deals or ignored the standards entirely, people familiar with the probe said.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, is the culmination of a government investigation that dates back to at least 2010, former S&P analysts have told the Journal. [The Wall Street Journal, 2/5/13 [7]]
Attorney General Eric Holder: S&P Investigation "Began In November 2009." In his press conference announcing the lawsuit on February 5, Attorney General Eric Holder explained the origin of the investigation and what had been found:
Put simply, this alleged conduct is egregious - and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis. Our investigation into this matter began in November 2009, in connection with the President's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. And it showed that - as early as 2003 - analysts within S&P raised concerns about the accuracy of the company's rating system, as well as the underlying methodology. S&P executives allegedly ignored these warnings, and - between 2004 and 2007 - concealed facts, made false representations to investors and financial institutions, and took other steps to manipulate ratings criteria and credit models to increase revenue and market share.
Even in 2007 - when S&P's internal data showed a severe deterioration in the creditworthiness of the RMBS it had rated - S&P allegedly continued to rate hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of CDOs backed by RMBS collateral - ignoring their own analysts' performance projections showing that the ratings on that collateral would not hold. [Department of Justice, 2/5/13 [1]]
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Canisius vs. Fordham — Friday, 2 p.m.
Canisius vs. West Virginia — Friday, 6:30 p.m.
Canisius vs. Norfolk St. — Saturday, 10 a.m.
Canisius vs. Navy — Saturday, 2 p.m.
- Canisius heads to the Mountaineer Invitational for four matches this weekend.
- The Golden Griffins started the 2013 season by hosting the Golden Griffin Invitational in the Koessler Athletic Center last weekend. The Griffs lost in four sets to Eastern Michigan and Hartford while falling in three sets to Cleveland State and NC State.
- Senior Sydney Palka was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Golden Griffin Invitational.
- Freshman Katlyn Tyler had a double-double with 15 kills and 14 digs against Eastern Michigan. The 15 kills were the most by a Canisius freshman in a collegiate debut in the last 12 years.
- Junior Emily Litwin posted a career-high 33 digs in the season opener against Eastern Michigan.
- Sophomore Rachel Kline had a career-high 10 kills against Cleveland State.
- Canisius was picked third in the MAAC preseason coaches poll. The Griffs were were picked in the top four for the sixth time in the last eight years.
- The Griffs have finished in the top four of the MAAC regular-season standings in each of the last three years and five times in the last seven seasons.
- Fordham went 1-2 at the Winthrop Classic last weekend, defeating Savannah State in three sets before losing to Winthrop and Tennessee Tech. Canisius and Fordham are meeting for the sixth time and for the first time since the 2007 season.
- West Virginia started the season with three wins at the Blue/Gold Invitational at Toledo, defeating Eastern Illinois, Loyola (Chicago) and Toledo. Canisius and West Virginia are meeting third time and for the first time since a five-set match during the 2007 campaign.
- Norfolk State went 1-2 last weekend, defeating Sam Houston State and losing to Loyola (Md.) in five sets and Appalachian State. Canisius and Norfolk St. are meeting for the second time, with the previous meeting coming in 2010 when the Griffs won in four sets at the Radford Invitational.
- Navy went 1-2 in its home tournament last weekend, losing to UNC-Wilmington and Elon while defeating Illinois-Chicago. Canisius and Navy are meeting for the sixth time and for the first time since the 2005 Western New York Invitational.


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Over and over I keep seeing different people mounting their thigh and shin plates in different ways.
The differences I am talking about are how am I supposed to know which thigh plate is for the right thigh ad which shin plate is for the right shin? The shins are obviously unique at the top where there is a right angle on on side, and a gentle slope on the other.
The thighs are also different due to the top of one side having a sort of swoop where as the other side has a flowing curve.
Does anyone know what I mean? Who knows the correct way of mounting these? which one goes on the left and which one on the right for thighs and shins????


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O'Neil juggles three majors, soccer and SGA while preparing for law school
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On Dec. 1, University of the Ozarks senior Morgan O'Neil, from Carbondale, Ill., will take the LSAT (law school admission test) as the first giant step toward her future.
O'Neil is a triple major in political science, environmental studies, and English. To finish three such diverse majors in four years is in itself a huge accomplishment, but O'Neil is nothing if not driven.
Just this year O'Neil has served as Student Government Association president, the student representative for the university's presidential search committee, and captain of the Lady Eagles' soccer team.
"To finish three majors in four years is a lot of work, but I love them all," said O'Neil. "I just added the English major, but I think it's my favorite. But, I also really love law and environmental studies. People ask me all the time how I manage everything, but the answer is simple. I really love what I do, so it's not a hassle to do any of it."
Ozarks senior Morgan O'Neil plans to graduate with majors in political science, environmental studies, and English, then go on to law school next fall.
O'Neil plans to pursue a career in environmental law, but first she must get past the LSAT. Despite months of preparation, O'Neil still expects a challenge during the test.
"My biggest hurdle with the LSAT is to be calm and do things slowly," O'Neil explained. "I'm so used to the answer just popping out at me when I take tests. The LSAT is not designed that way, and I get frazzled when I don't have the answer right away. The toughest part for me is to get into the mindset that I don't know the answer, and that's ok. I have to work it out."
For O'Neil, the LSAT marks the beginning of the end at Ozarks as she'll begin preparing for a future far from her Ozarks family. O'Neil plans to study environmental law in the Pacific Northwest and hopes to have all of her law school applications completed by Jan. 1.
"My first choice law school is Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Right now, it is ranked as the number two environmental law program in the nation. It's small, private, in a beautiful location. Actually, it's scarily similar to Ozarks," O'Neil smiled.
Her second choice is Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, another small, private university like Ozarks. She is also considering a few larger state schools in Oregon and Washington.
"I'll study environmental law, wherever I go, but I haven't decided what to do after law school. I could work in the private sector, I could work with the government, or I could work for a non-profit. There are a lot of different avenues for environmental law," O'Neil said.
While O'Neil may be undecided about her final career path, one thing is certain: If her law school applications are able to convey just a fraction of the work ethic she displayed at Ozarks, she should have no problem having her pick of law schools, and whatever career path she chooses after that will be lucky to have her.


text: In reading all of those posts and analyzing all of the scenarios our team is encountering right now, I have no idea how we are gonna seriously contend for a title next year. In saying that I feel that we will contend and be in the top 4 as far as the eastern conf. is concerned but will we have enough especially in the playoffs to get past a tough Chicago team, Wade and Shaq, and the NBA endorsed Lebroniers. Our 4 core players are still fantastic but I really feel that if we cannot get a center who can play solid on D, be a presence in the middle and give us some much needed pts in the paints, there is absolutely no reason to be overly optimistic. I honestliy believe that we need a major impact player in the center position, if we dont find a way to get that done than there is basically no reason to get our hopes up for another title run. We need an IMPACT center, a PENETRATING, smart PG, a consistent back-up shooting guard. I would lose delf, nazr, flip(although he is staying), lindsey(needs to retire, give him a front office job). I will for sure be here next year to support our squad with some fervor but I will definitely watch from a little afar as oppose to being semi-obssesed with this team. I believe that this organization may be past the point of giving it all they have to put a true championship contender on the floor. They have no reason to. We sell out every game, our popularity is among the elite in the league, and we will still retain our 4 core players. We may have become the Braves and Bills of the NBA. After 2005, they guys upstairs knew what we had and said "%%%% it we're still gonna get paid no reason for urgency here." LIke I said I will be here but it will be more as a casual fan than as an obsessive one.


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President Daniel Ortega, who once was an almost legendary figure in the fight to establish democracy in Nicaragua, has become the exact opposite now that he is in power. His recent actions to ban minority parties from participating in municipal elections or suspending elections and threatening those who express dissident views has made him a caricature of the man he once was in life. Legendary guerrilla heroine, Dora Maria Tellez, is currently in the 9th day of a hunger strike which is aimed at persuading Ortega to cease his dictatorial behavior or resign. Her hunger strike has provoked concerts, vigils, and an outpouring of support, even from the Nicaraguan American Chamber of Commerce(AMCHAM) which has urged Ortega to bring together all political parties and work to maintain the nation's democracy.
There once was a film entitled, "Zapata" about the famous Mexican revolutionary hero. In the film, Zapata has finally obtained power when into his office walks a poor farmer protesting military actions. Zapata's initial reaction is anger until he realizes he once was that man. He storms out of his office and decides to return to his roots. Perhaps, Ortega might view the film and reflect.


text: Governor's budget increases funding across the board On January 22, Governor Deval Patrick released House 2, the final budget of his tenure. The budget proposes spending $36.4 billion for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This is close to a 5 percent increase over current spending levels. The governor's plan invests in education, from early childhood through graduate school, and includes the Foundation Budget Review Commission, a legislative priority of the MTA similar to a bill co-sponsored by the chairs of the Education Committee. Each year the Administration and the Legislature work with leading economists in the Commonwealth to estimate the amount of tax revenues that will likely be available for the budget in the coming fiscal year. This is called the consensus revenue process, and it establishes the basic economic parameters of the budget for that fiscal year. This year's budget is built around an expectation that tax revenues will grow by $1.14 billion (4.9 percent) over last year and will total an estimated $24.34 billion. These revenues provide the majority of the funding for the FY15 budget, which the governor's budget request sets at $36.4 billion. The difference between estimated revenues and the budget total is accounted for largely through revenues the state receives from the federal government, but it also includes revenue from state-run trust funds, fees, reforms and limited-time revenues. The governor has proposed raising revenues by a modest $154 million. Almost every area of the budget receives additional funding over FY14, including human service workers and elder home care, as well as funding for a cost-of-living adjustment for current retirees. House 2 increases Chapter 70 aid – state aid for preK-12 education to municipalities and regional schools – over FY14 spending levels by 2.1 percent, to an all-time high of $4.4 billion. This ensures that every district's foundation budget is fully funded. Efforts to help close the achievement gap in the state's Gateway Cities receives $1.25 million, $750,000 for dual enrollment and $500,000 to launch re-engagement centers aimed at providing students with alternative pathways to graduation. For public higher education, the governor is recommending an additional $64 million (an average increase of over 6 percent for campuses) distributed among the University of Massachusetts system, the state universities and the community colleges. Early education received an increase of $45 million (9 percent) for FY15. Included are increases in funding for kindergarten expansion grants for communities without full-day kindergarten and an additional 1,700 slots for low-income children to attend preschool. Below is a summary of the key elements of the budget that affect public education. For more specific information, click here to view the budget charts. For additional information, please go to the overall analysis of House 2 by the Mass Budget and Policy Center by clicking here. PreK-12 Education Chapter 70 – State Aid to Local School Districts The governor proposes to increase Chapter 70 funding by about $100 million over FY14, an increase of more than 2 percent. This increase includes fully funding the current foundation budget for each school district, which accounts for most of the increase and is statutorily required to be funded under current law. The proposal also: Ensures $25 per pupil over FY14 aid for each school district. Continues the phase-in of the formula changes that began in the FY07 budget, which was stalled during the fiscal crisis. A key element of these changes is that when complete, all districts will receive Chapter 70 funds to cover at least 17.5 percent of their foundation budgets. Includes all preK students now attending public schools in district foundation budgets. PreK-12 Education Grant Programs Overall, House 2 proposes to spend about the same amount of state money on preK-12 education grant programs as it did in FY14. Many programs are level-funded, but some programs are reduced or eliminated. Other programs would see increases. In addition, the governor proposes to fund several new programs. Programs proposed to be funded at current funding levels include: Special Education Circuit Breaker – FY14 funding of $252 million proposed for FY15 Regional School Transportation – FY14 funding of $51.5 million proposed for FY15 Charter School Reimbursement – FY14 funding of $75 million proposed for FY15 (This amount only funds 70 percent of the required reimbursement to cities and towns for charter school tuition.) Programs proposed to receive increases include: Kindergarten Expansion Grants – a $3.1 million increase proposed over FY14 (from $23.9 million to $27 million, a 13 percent increase) Extended Learning Time Grants – a $4 million increase proposed over FY14 (from $14 million to $18 million, a 28 percent increase) Innovation Schools – a $3.6 million increase proposed over FY14 (from $1 million to $4.6 million, a 360 percent increase) Student Assessment – a $5 million increase proposed over FY14 (from $24 million to $29 million, a 21 percent increase) Programs proposed to be cut or eliminated include: MCAS Low-Scoring Support – a $3.3 million reduction from the amount proposed for FY14 (from $9 million to $5.7 million, a 36 percent decrease) Gateway Cities and New Programs Two Gateway Cities programs proposed to be funded by House 2: English Language Learners in Gateway Cities – an increase of $500,000 is proposed for this program over FY14, from $3 million to $3.5 million, a 16 percent increase Gateway Cities Career Academies – governor proposes to level-fund this program at $500,000 New programs proposed to be funded by House 2: Dropout Re-engagement Centers – proposes to fund this new program at $500,000 Early College Initiative – proposes to fund this new program at $750,000 STEM Teacher Corps – proposes to fund this new program at $250,000 School Building Assistance – an increase of about $50 million is included in this budget. Foundation Budget Review Commission The governor includes language in his budget proposal nearly identical to MTA's priority legislation, H457 and S207, An Act to Revive the Foundation Budget Review Commission. Like the legislation, the governor's budget language would reconstitute the Foundation Budget Review Commission, first established in the Education Reform Act of 1993, to ensure that the foundation budget is reviewed at least once every four years and updated, if necessary. It requires a review of the foundation budget and puts the Legislature in control of the process and outcome. The commission is chaired by the Education Committee's co-chairs. The governor's language requires the commission to complete its work by Dec. 31, 2014. The charge of the commission is to determine the educational programs and services necessary to achieve the Commonwealth's educational goals, as well as to determine how resources can be used in the most effective manner. Unlike previous proposals, this commission would review relevant reports and data only and would not undertake an independent cost study. Other Local Aid – Unrestricted General Government Aid (UGGA) The major category of non-education local aid was level-funded. Higher Education House 2 proposes increasing funding for public higher education institutions by $63.4 million over FY14. This represents an increase of over 6 percent, varying by campus. The governor has stated that this should ensure that the University of Massachusetts and other public colleges and universities can freeze tuition rates and fees for another year. Scholarship Programs – level-funded at $90.7 million Early Education and Care The governor's budget increases funding for early education and care programs by nearly $45 million over FY14, a 9 percent increase. Funding is proposed to be increased for these child care programs: Supportive Child Care – an increase of $4.2 million over FY14 (from $76.9 million to $81.2 million, a 5.5 percent increase) TANF-Related Child Care – an increase of $8.4 million over FY14 ($128 million to $136.5 million, a 6.6 percent increase) Low-Income Child Care – an increase of $27.5 million over FY14 ($214 million to $241 million, a 13 percent increase) In addition, the budget proposes to fund three new programs:** Birth Through Pre-School – funded at $15 million K1 Classroom Grant Program – funded at $2 million Quality Rating and Improvement Systems – funded at $2.5 million **Note: It is not clear whether these programs are completely new or whether they were previously incorporated into other line items. For example, two programs that are proposed to be eliminated are Provider Quality Investments (funded at $150,000 in FY14) and the Pre-School Initiative (funded at $15 million in FY14). Revenue Governor Patrick proposes increasing revenues by approximately $154 million in FY15 and approximately $184 million annually thereafter through the following mechanisms: Addressing a loophole related to non-insurance subsidiaries of insurance companies. This would result in an additional $8.4 million in tax revenues in FY15 and $14 million annually thereafter. Closing a loophole related to security corporations that raises $21 million in tax revenues in FY15 and $35 million annually thereafter. Applying the hotel tax to the full price of a hotel room sold by an Internet hotel reseller, which would raise $8.1 million. Applying the room rental tax to various short-term accommodation rentals that currently are exempted from the tax. These include short-term rentals of corporate executive apartments, B&B rooms, vacation condos and time shares. The Patrick Administration estimates that this tax law clarification would raise $2.6 million in FY15 and $6.8 million annually thereafter. Applying the sales tax to candy and soda, generating an estimated $67.8 million in FY15 and $74 million annually after that. Postponing a special tax break available to certain companies when combined reporting was implemented. This is an accounting rule called FAS 109. This delay would raise an estimated $45.8 million in FY15. (It also assumes further delay of special tax break —FAS 109 — beyond FY15) Additionally, Governor Patrick budgeted $24.2 million from an expanded bottle redemption law (a proposal voters will likely consider on the November 2014 ballot). Employee Benefits Teacher and State Employee Pension Funding – The budget increased funding for the pension system by 10 percent, now totaling more than $1.79 billion for FY15. This investment, on top of a strong year for pension investment returns (a more than15 percent increase), is helping to ensure that this important fund will continue to meet the needs of retirees and provide an excellent value to the citizens of the Commonwealth. Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) – The governor's budget provides for a 3 percent increase on the first $13,000 in pension benefits for retired state employees. Group Insurance Commission (GIC) – There were no changes in the percentage of premiums paid for active or retired members' health insurance.


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hello Mina. I got your lovely drawings postcards and zine and loved them all. Really liked the darkness of the zine you wrote. Wondering if that really happened. I will be sending you Arcane Angles issue 2 your way shortly.
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We invite you to take part in the First International Exhibition "ZINESHOW" in Ukraine. Participation is free. Any technique. Any theme and format. No return. Deadline: 15/04/2013. Exhibition on the blog http://zineshow.blogspot.com All works will be exhibited also in the gallery "tymutopiyapres" http://tymutopiyapres.blogspot.com is not a commercial gallery. Welcomed but not "necessarily" summary of your zine or about you or your creative work (this is necessary for further elucidation of the project and possible documentation). Zines for the exhibition please send air mail: "Zineshow" A/C 9875, Sadivnycha 19/1, 79038, Lviv, Ukraine.
it's not my art, it's Edward Gorey's. :) what do you want to trade for my second issue?
Yeah I'm good! Yes I write bits and pieces - do you? :)
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Hey Mina! Thanks for sending me some more stuff, I really love the addition of red in these illustrations :) The postcard is awesome too!
Great zine, thanks! Yours on its way :)
Thanks for the friend request Mina. Hope all is well in London.
Thanks for sending me an unexpected copy of your zine! I would love to see how your illustrations adapt to the fairy tale theme, if you do join my Mix & Match project... :)
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Got your zine today in the mail as well as the postcard <3 Thank you. The illustrations are beautiful.
Ace, I'll message you my address. Looking forward to trading!