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Autumn Leaves is a 50k and 50 mile race held in the beautiful fall colors along the Willamette River at Oregon's popular Champoeg State Park.The race will be held on Saturday October 28, 2017
If you sign up prior to June 30th your name will go into our annual drawing for your own private Port-A-Potty! We will be drawing two lucky winners for 2018. You and only you will get to use your own personally decorated P-A-P at the start finish line for the entire day. Sign up early and save plus a chance to win your own "Blue Box".
The course is a 10k loop consisting of 80% paved bike path and 20% dirt single track. It is built for speed as the course is very flat with some small rollers for fun.50k runners will complete 5 loops and the 50 milers will do 8.
Just a heads up about part of our course this year. The wooden bridge at about mile 2 1/2 is undergoing some restoration work and it is currently about the width of a single track trail. Runners can pass in opposite directions but it will be "tight". They have built turn offs to allow areas to allow runners, bikers etc more room in a couple of spots. Once the race thins out this should be a non-event but please give way to runners that are heading back towards the start finish line, those folks will have preference as the outbound runners are on the side of the turnoffs while staying to the right.
50k - Awards for 1st through 3rd for men and women and Masters.
50 mile - Awards for 1st through 3rd for men and women and Masters.
All 50 mile finishers will receive the coveted ORRC Autumn Leaves custom belt buckle.
Since the race is close to Halloween if you feel the spirits move you, we will award two runners for being the best or most creatively dressed.
Each 50k and 50 mile participant will receive our popular ORRC Autumn Leaves technical running shirt at no extra cost.
This year we will have live splits from the turn around at mile 3.2Follow your favorite runner live on race day at http://hubertiming.com/results/2017AutumnLeaves
5:30 AM Packet Pick-up Opens6:00 AM 50 Mile Early Start7:00 AM 50 Mile and 50k Start4:00 PM Cut-Off Time to Start Last Lap
The use of personal music devices is strongly discouraged at this race. To enjoy all that our race has to offer and for the safety of all participants, ORRC Autumn Leaves 50/50 encourages a headphone-free environment during the running of Autumn Leaves .


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Outdoor Idaho "Hometown Ski Hills" Community ski hills are scattered throughout Idaho, each with its own "field of dreams" story to tell. We profile three of them - Bogus Basin near Boise; Little Ski Hill by McCall; and Pomerelle near Albion - to learn what makes each of these ski areas unique.G
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Dialogue "Behind The Scenes at POV" Host Marcia Franklin interviews Simon Kilmurry, executive director and producer of the documentary film series POV, during his recent visit to Idaho. They discuss how films are chosen for the series and the state of independent non-fiction film.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Mt. St. Helens Glacier-Caves/High Cascade Springs" A precarious glacier in the volcano's crater is growing at an unprecedented rate, posing danger to the valley below.G
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Travelscope "Chile - from Seaside to Mountaintop" Joseph starts his Chilean adventure in the country's capital, Santiago, and then heads into the Andes where he meets up with glacier-trekking ice climbers before descending into the Maipo Valley for wine touring and tasting and then taking in the nightlife and ocean breezes of the port city of Valparaiso. D

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Public Events & Calendar
Got Transparency?
Open Meeting and Public Records Talks Across the State
The Transparency Tour began in the fall of 2011 after Jim Condos was first elected secretary of state.
"It was clear to me that there was a general lack of information on open meeting and public records law available to the public. It's great that the statutes are accessible online, but the statutes often leave room for interpretation, which can make it particularly difficult to understand and intimidating for a newcomer," says Secretary Condos.
Originally planned as a one-time tour of the state, Secretary Condos decided to expand the tour to a biennial event which covers ten to twelve stops across Vermont and generally takes place in the autumn of a non-election year.
The presentation, which covers both open meeting and public records laws, lasts approximately two hours—with ample time for questions.
"I find that the presentation works best when the audience participates. Often I am in a community because they have questions so participation is key!" Secretary Condos adds that, "The presentation is geared towards everyone—local municipal officials and to constituents looking to get involved—it's about transparency, accountability, and accessibility."
View the secretary′s full calendar of upcoming tour dates and other public speaking engagements.
While the official tour is biennial, Secretary Condos offers to come to any community that has questions at all times of the year. To schedule a presentation, please email our office.
Voter Registration and Civics Education
Secretary Condos and the Elections division are glad to attend school voter registration drives and give educational talks on civic engagement, how local government works, and the legislative process. These talks can be targeted for school children of all ages. It is never too early to become an informed and engaged Vermonter!
The Office of the Secretary of State also has a variety of civics educational materials that can be ordered from our website.
To schedule a school visit, please email our office.


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Thursday, March 08, 2012
Thursday Wrap-Up.
I've been a little lazy about commenting this week, but maybe all this napping will get me back on things. In the meantime, I hope you all have a fun weekend!
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We hope your weekend is fun too. We hope Spring soon gets here.ReplyDelete
Nappin on the Mom is impawtant business! We're glad you got that out of the way!ReplyDelete
Is ok bowt the commenting. We'z pooped and prolly won't comment much till Caturday. The "creditayshuns" visit is over but the outcome will take months. The Human figures it wented okay, but she'll be retired soon so even if it didn't it won't really be hur problem, MOL!!!ReplyDelete
We want to be done with cold and snow too.. We're ready for spring with all the birdies, bunnies, squirrels and whatever else that becomes more active at that time of year!ReplyDelete
Any weekend when my human is away, like this one, is bound to be fun and paparazzi-free.ReplyDelete
William,we are happy you got some good Mom time :)ReplyDelete
Purrfect way to end the week.
We are excited as Mom will be home tonight!!!! woot!!!
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Tiger,Treasure and JJ
Enjoy your napping.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, March 09, 2012 2:24:00 PM
It's important to have quality naps and to takeover the lap.ReplyDelete
Have a good weekend.
William, I'm alarmed. Did you know we losted an hour? Where is it? I looked in my tunnel but it's not there. How can we be "saving" daylight if we are losing hours???ReplyDelete
Alas, my Human wants to assure your Mom it is *not* Mr. Clooney, but rather someone *younger* (39) and even better looking, and super-nice, and single! Since the Human took this photo on the sly from quite a distance (she did not want to ask him since she thought he might Wonder What the Heck She Was Going to Do with It), she did not want to show his pretty face, MOL. She thought he was fair photo game, though, since there he was, all out on the public street and all. Too bad the Human is old enough to be his Mom--in fact, his Mom is a friend of hers who used to live across the hall also, till she moved up north and gave the apartment to Handsome Son.ReplyDelete
Spring is coming. Hang in there William!ReplyDelete
do you have spring now?ReplyDelete


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Capitol Hill Cubans, a Washington D.C.-based anti-Castro blog, has a post up Thursday about the Republican presidential candidates' positions on Cuba.
The blog's conclusion: The two weakest hopefuls on Cuba policy are Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.
Paul, the blog says, "supports unilaterally lifting all sanctions towards Cuba and unconditionally normalizing relations with the Castro dictatorship."
And as for Gingrich? He "has expressed his support for the Obama Administration's policy of unlimited travel and remittances to Cuba (which has more than doubled the Castro regime's foreign currency reserves)."
According to the blog, which is edited by Mauricio Claver-Carone, director of the hardline U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC:
Fortunately, the rest of the field (congruently) supports strengthening the pro-democracy movement, while depriving the dictatorship of the hard-currency it desperately needs.


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Two in custody, third sought in China murder
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has released the identity of the murder victim discovered on South China Road on the morning of April 5 and is still searching for one man in relation to the murder. The Sheriff's Office reports the victim was 53-year-old Kevin Alton Moyer of Dallas.
Two of three men wanted in relation to a murder investigation in Jefferson County are in custody as of April 7, Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies report, and the search is on for the third man, 27-year-old Cody Jamar Lewis of Beaumont, who should be considered armed and dangerous. The murder investigation was initiated as the result of a body discovered on South China Road in China on Saturday morning, April 5.
According to a press release issued by JCSO on April 5, dispatch received a call that morning at about 10:29 a.m. in reference to an "unknown medical call" on South China Road east of Highway 365. Upon arrival at the scene, first responders with Acadian Ambulance Service and Jefferson County ESD No. 3 discovered a deceased white male in the rear seat of a tan 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, naked and wrapped in what appeared to be a bed sheet, Deputy Rod Carroll reports. Judge Ray Chesson pronounced the unidentified male deceased at the scene and ordered an autopsy.
Monday, April 7, Deputy Carroll reported that three suspects related to the case have been identified. JCSO has 21-year-old Beaumont resident Arthur Christopher Harmon and 31-year-old Yiannis Nikolaos Mihail, also of Beaumont, in custody for murder. Bond has been set at $1 million for each of the two. Currently, deputies are searching for 27-year-old Cody Jamar Lewis of Beaumont. He is wanted on tampering with physical evidence charges.
The investigation is ongoing. JCSO reports their office identified the victim, Moyer, through confirmation of dental records. Moyer's Facebook page indicated he was formerly the Southwest Regional Sales Manager at Royal Crown Derby USA in Dallas.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Lewis should contact Crime Stoppers at (409) 833-8477. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information leading to the location and arrest of Lewis or any other wanted fugitive. No attempt should be made to detain him as Lewis is considered armed and dangerous.
— Sharon Brooks


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On Poetry
Two PoetsBy Sam Stephenson
From 1993 to 1995 I stumbled in two graduate programs, first economics and then religious studies. I was undone by advanced calculus and cultural theory—couldn't handle the rigor of either, the puzzle of value unsolved. The abstract challenges of school were leavened by my job at Quail Ridge Books, an independent store in Raleigh. There, I shelved hardbacks and backlist paperbacks by Baldwin, Banks, Berger, (Amy) Bloom, Boland, Gass, Grumbach, Gurganus, Le Guin, L'Engle, Malamud, McCarthy, Mitchell, Munro, Walker, Wideman, (C.D.) Wright, (Charles) Wright, (Richard) Wright; I managed the magazines and literary journals, worked the cash register, and made friends with the customers.
I met the late Don Adcock there. A jazz flute player and the longtime band director at North Carolina State University, he first heard bebop in 1945 when he stepped off a battleship in San Francisco and wandered into a joint where Howard McGhee was playing. Fifty years later he would walk into the store and instantly identify whichever jazz musicians were playing on the house stereo—Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Al Haig, Dexter Gordon, Zoot Sims, Lee Morgan, Bunny Berigan—and he knew all the songs, too. He often visited the store with his wife, the poet Betty Adcock, who taught at the local Meredith College as well as at Warren Wilson. Don and Betty became critical sources of encouragement for me as my writing developed, and I spent many afternoons at their Raleigh home—a modern, postwar structure with a flat roof surrounded by heavy woods.


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When cool weather arrives and harvest season is done, Southern farmers will remember 2006 as exceedingly difficult. Mother Nature has played no cropping favorites — drought, oppressive heat and high energy costs have pummeled all. But after a USDA announcement on Aug. 18, rice farmers can surely claim the cruelest blow.
On that day, USDA Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns announced that trace amounts of Bayer's unapproved, genetically modified LibertyLink rice had been found in the U.S. rice supply. Despite FDA assurances that the rice remained safe for consumption, markets dipped quickly.
Farmers who had seen the rising price of rice as a salve for drained bank accounts and hard days in the field immediately began asking questions. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is now tasked with finding answers. Spokesmen for the agency have said that will take at least two or three months.
"It will take some time to sort this out," said Dwight Roberts, US Rice Producers Association (USRPA) president, at the Missouri Rice Research and Demonstration Farm field day outside Glennonville, Mo., on Aug. 23. "This whole process is generating many rumors and stories. There are a bunch of unanswered questions that we've been trying to get answers to… The situation is extremely unfair to farmers. They were finally looking at a good rice price for the first time in many years."
Two trading days into the ordeal, Roberts calculated farmers had lost "about $150 million." This was in response to what amounts to six kernels of rice in 10,000.
Since Johann's announcement, the market has remained on a roller-coaster and farmers' anxieties have hardly calmed as evidenced by several lawsuits filed in federal and Arkansas courts. And more will be filed: even as harvest begins in earnest, attorney/farmer meetings across east Arkansas have been well-attended.
Although every facet of the rice industry was hit with the unwelcome news, many questions were directed at Stuttgart, Ark.-based Riceland Foods. Claiming 9,000 members, the Riceland co-op handles a third of the nation's rice crop. It was a Riceland customer who first alerted the company to a potential problem last January.
According to Bill Reed, Riceland vice president of public affairs, the months between that initial inquiry and Johann's statement have often felt like "looking in a haystack and not even knowing you're looking for a needle."
In an Aug. 25 interview, Reed attempted to calm the situation.
"We've spoken with many farmers. They want to know what to do. For our farmer members, it's business as usual. Cut your crop, deliver your crop and bring it to the dryer. We're going to dump trucks as fast as we can just like we always have… We're going to find a way through this situation."
When Riceland's client alerted the company to a potential problem, Reed said the claim was taken seriously. But the origin of the client's trace finding was baffling.
"Since there was no known commercial production of GM rice, we thought it would be shown as fragments of soybeans or grain dust left in transportation systems. It's in such minute quantities they couldn't determine the material's origin…
"The last thing we expected is this was caused by GM rice. There was none being grown. We even looked at cotton bags — thinking maybe it was in the LibertyLink cotton fibers."
By June, "we were finally thinking, 'this looks like it could be Bayer's product.' So we talked with Bayer, sent them a sample and they began looking.
"It was July 31 when Bayer called us and told us what they'd found. They told us they were legally required to report their findings to USDA. They did that before (the 24 hour requirement) was up."
Johanns' announcement came 18 days later.
Richard Bell is uniquely qualified to comment on the GM rice imbroglio. Having first worked at the USDA during the Ford administration, Bell made a move to Riceland. After running the co-op since 1981, Bell agreed to helm the Arkansas Department of Agriculture in 2005. From his new position Bell helps oversee the state with the largest rice crop in the nation.
Following Johanns' announcement, Bell was part of a joint teleconference with his counterparts in rice-growing states in the South.
"I had two questions. First, where is it in the South? That was never answered.
"Second, why are you deregulating it? They're in the process of deregulating it, which makes it eligible for commercialization. I guess the thinking is that will designate it safe for consumption. But I thought that was odd.
"And if you'll look at the press releases, there are two other LibertyLink varieties that have been deregulated but not commercialized. And by 'commercialized' we mean going into trade. That hasn't happened because the rice industry objected to it."
Later, said Bell, the USDA floated an "off-the-wall proposal… They asked what we thought about removing limits on rice trading in Chicago on Monday morning.
"My answer to that was, 'Well, that's why we have the rules in place. We don't want that to happen.'
"The rule is if the market is down the limit two days in a row, you extend the limits. If you go down the same for another couple of days, further steps are taken. But you don't take the bottom out of it. I'm glad they didn't do that."
The question Bell hears the most is, "'When will this end?' I believe as we go through the next several weeks, the market loss will be regained. Rice supplies are tight.
"The other problem is not knowing what variety (the LibertyLink trait) is in. I've told farmers that if they have storage space to try and keep varieties separated. But everyone knows that by (the week of Aug. 28), we'll be in harvest in a big way. And as we don't have enough storage space, through necessity, varieties will be mixed."


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The Hottest Shoe Trends From New York Fashion Week
Fashion designer Alexander Wang delivered the most buzzed-about shoe so far at the New York Fashion Week: An edgy boot that goes over the knee. WSJ's Elizabeth Holmes takes a look at this and other shoe trends from the catwalk. (Photo: Getty Images)
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One of the first Greek pilots was Dimitrios Kamperos, an artillery officer. In June 1912, he converted his Henri Farman to a hydroplane and reached a speed of 110 km/h, setting a new world record. After World War I, he served briefly as chief instructor of the Hellenic Air Force Academy ("Icarus School"). He died of cold and starvation during the great famine of 1942.
The nickname Trelokamperos (Crazy Kamperos) that he earned for his daredevil flying lives on in the Greek language today.
The French carte postale below shows Kamperos ("Campères" in French). It reads: "Henri Farman biplane piloted by Lieutenant Kamperos of the Hellenic Army has landed at Champagne the 1st of May 1912".
Operational History
December 1911 - Chosen from a list of 60 applicants, the first Greek officers to be trained as pilots are Dimitrios Kamperos (1st Lt., Artillery), Michalis Moutousis (1st Lt. Engineers) and Christos Adamidis (2nd Lt., Cavalry). The training is held at the flight school of the Farman brothers in Etampes, France.
April 1912 - Three more are added; Loukas Papaloukas (1st Lt., Infantry), Markos Drakos (1st Lt., Artillery), Panoutsos Notaras (2nd Lt., Cavalry).
9 April 1912 - The first four aircraft arrive at the port of Piraeus inside wooden boxes.
Early May 1912 - Having graduated, Dimitris Kamperos arrives to Greece together with his French mechanic, A. Chauveau. The aircraft are assembled inside the Zoo of Paleo Faliro.
13 May 1912 - Kamperos takes off and flies for a few minutes. This is the first military flight in Greece. Note that Emmanouil Argyropoulos has already performed the first civilian flight in front of thousands of spectators on 8 February 1912.
27 May 1912 - Official ceremony and christening of the aircraft by Venizelos, as "Daedalus", "Aetos", "Gyps", "Ierax". A large crowd has gathered to see them.
June 1912 - Having converted his Henri Farman to a hydroplane, Kamperos breaks the airspeed world record, reaching 110 km/h.
September 1912 - All trainees are called back from Etampes to Greece, to participate in the first Balkan war against the Ottoman Empire.
5 October 1912 - In the first ever Greek air operation, Kamperos takes off from the new Larisa Aerodrome, flies over the borders at the area of "Skompia" and returns to report on the enemy's position.
17 October 1912 - Prince Constantine sends a telegraph asking Kamperos to perform reconnaissance flights over the enemy positions in Kozani. On a forced landing near Kozani due to mechanical failure, both Kamperos and Chauveau are injured.
Henri Farman Biplane "Daedalus"
Crew: 1
Length: 12 m (39 ft 4½ in)
Wingspan: 10 m (33 ft 9¾ in)
Height: 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 40 m² (430.56 ft²)
Gross weight: 550 kg (1213 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Gnome et Rhône 7-cylinder rotary engine, 37 kW (50 hp)
Max. Speed: 60 km/h
For Gamers and Game designers
The Henri Farman aircraft could realistically be used only for reconnaissance.
For Modellers
The profile below is based on the replica Daedalus at the entrance of the National War Museum in Athens.


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Select Sires Declares 2011 a Record-Breaking Year
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, February 10, 2012 - Select Sires Inc., along with its member cooperatives, are proud to report that 2011 was once again a record-breaking year. Dairy and beef producers continue to turn to the trusted leader in the A.I. industry, and as a result, Select Sires' sales grew to surpass 12.8 million units of semen to its member cooperatives and international distributors in 2011. This achievement marks the eighth year of sales growth in the past nine years and is a result of the continuous improvements that have been led by the farmer-owned and -controlled cooperative's board of directors.
For 46 years, Select Sires has become the trusted source for breed-leading genetics, superior programs and the best trained professional sales and service staff, leading to continued success for the customer-owners.
Breed-Leading Genetics
The dairy and beef sire programs are on the cutting edge with a combination of new genomic technology and the industry's gold standard in proving programs, the Program for Genetic Advancement™ (PGA™).
One of the keys to Select Sires continued success is their breed-leading Holstein lineup. Offering the industry's most diverse selection of sires, breeders across the U.S. and abroad have ample choices to meet their goals. Some of these top sires include 7HO9165 Regancrest S BRAXTON-ET (EX-95), the reigning No. 1 sire for Type at +3.87 PTAT; 7HO9441 Stouder JAYVEN-ET (EX-94), the top Holstein sire for Milk at +2,899; the No. 1 sire for Lifetime Profit Index (LPI) in Canada (+2638 GLPI), 7HO9264 Lirr Drew DEMPSEY (VG-86); 7HO8081 Ensenada Taboo PLANET-ET (EX-90-GM), who ranks as the highest sire on the Top 100 Total Performance Index℠ (TPI℠) list with 97% Reliability or greater (+2184 GTPI); and the No. 1 sire for Udder Composite (+3.84 UDC), 7HO9545 Siemers Toys HERO 9701-ET (EX-92). In addition to the outstanding Holstein lineup, Select Sires continues to be the trusted source for all dairy breeds and is home to many leaders in the high-components breeds arena.
Superior Programs
Select Sires remains a leader in innovation through the many products and services that they offer. This is represented through the gender SELECTed™ product; semen fertility research via the Program for Fertility Advancement™ (PFA™); modern synchronization programs; and activity monitoring heat detection systems with Select Detect™. In addition, their innovation is recognized by new concepts to advance profitability, such as FeedPRO®; supportive research on crossbreeding; inbreeding studies that are praised by production-minded dairy producers; and a newly formed partnership with The Beef Connection to enhance profitability for beef producers. Select Sires is also proud to serve their customer-owners through customer-focused programs designed to enhance reproduction and genetic progress - Select Reproductive Solutions™ (SRS™) and Select Mating Service™ (SMS™).
Best Trained Professional Sales and Service Staff
A passion for the industry and their customers' success drives Select Sires employees to learn and improve upon their skills. Select Sires provides training programs and classes to develop the skills of their employees to serve dairy and beef producers around the world. No A.I. company has invested more in improving on-farm reproduction than Select Sires. Select Sires technicians receive continuous hands-on instruction through SelectCheck™ training school. In addition, SMS genetic consultants and SRS specialists attend annual educational conferences. Biennially, more than 350 of Select Sires' finest gather for a week-long training program in Columbus, Ohio. Select Sires' comprehensive online learning site, the Center for Excellence, is available year-round for employees to advance their skills and knowledge. The cooperative offers staff members these diverse training options because they believe that their patrons deserve a trusted and qualified partner.
It is this passion for customer success that drives Select Sires to offer their customer-owners the best genetics, enhanced programs and outstanding service to deliver pregnancies and genetic progress.
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of nine farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.™Program for Genetic Advancement, PGA, gender SELECTed, Program for Fertility Advancement, PFA, Select Detect, Select Reproductive Solutions, SRS, Select Mating Service, SMS and SelectCheck are trademarks of Select Sires Inc. ®FeedPRO is a registered trademark of Select Sires Inc. ℠Total Performance Index and TPI are service marks of Holstein Association USA.
Source: 12/11 USDA Genomic Evaluation, USDA/HA Genomic Type Evaluation and Interbull. Holstein Association USA's Top 100 TPI List with 97% Reliability and Top 50 Lists with at least 75% Domestic U.S. Reliability for PTA Type, Milk and UDC. 12/11 Rel: BRAXTON Type 93%; JAYVEN Yield 91%; DEMPSEY Type 82%; and HERO Type 89%.


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Howard Wang, vice president and chief scientific officer of NanoMas, founded the company in January with fellow researchers Zhihao Yang, president and chief technology officer, and Tom Xu, vice president and chief operating officer. The NanoMas team has developed efficient, cost-effective processes for manufacturing electronic inks made of silver and zinc oxide nanoparticles suspended in liquid.
The inks serve as conductors and semiconductors. Printing them onto thin, flexible substrate, manufacturers can mass-produce circuitry much as a printing press cranks out newspaper sheets. Along with paper-thin video screens and clothing that heats and cools as needed, these light, flexible electronics could form the basis for environmental sensors. They could also enable a new, less-expensive generation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which manufacturers will embed in product packaging to help retailers manage inventory.
Today, though, manufacturers that are developing machines to print electronic circuitry in high volume are getting ready to bring their products to market, probably by 2008. Once they do, demand for electronic inks will surge. Although many researchers are working on electronic inks, NanoMas's nanoparticles are ideally suited to that application, according to Howard Wang. "For performance, smaller is definitely better, but smaller also means more unstable - difficult to make as well as difficult to use." NanoMas has struck a balance between small and stable.
The researchers have also figured out how to control manufacturing costs so they can price their products attractively. "We invented an approach that is similar to making fertilizer or plastics, a large-scale wet chemistry approach, which can be scaled up", Howard Wang stated.
In C.J. Zhong's case, a $100.000 Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) feasibility study grant from the United States Air Force to develop air quality sensors for aircraft cockpits plus an invitation to apply for a $750.000 Phase II SBIR grant to turn the prototype sensors into products, provided the spark for his company, NSC Technology.
C.J. Zhong and post-doctoral senior research associate Jin Luo, who serves as the company's CEO, founded NSC Technology in late 2005. NSC Technology takes advantage of the fact that nanomaterials react more sensitively to the presence of chemicals than the same materials at larger scale. C.J. Zhong's lab has created chips containing nanoparticles of different metals and metal oxides, each of which emits an electronic signal when it comes in contact with a specific chemical.
Most sensors on the market today are designed to detect only one chemical at a time, according to C.J. Zhong. But since people may need to monitor numerous substances in the air, these sensors aren't as useful as they might be. "We believe we can design sensors that simultaneously target multiple chemicals", he stated.
C.J. Zhong is collaborating with colleague Susan Lu, assistant professor of systems science and industrial engineering, to package the chips in handheld devices with software to interpret the electronic signals, alerting the user to the presence of the target chemicals. A similar approach could produce a sensor that checks the breath of a diabetic person for acetone, a biomarker that indicates the level of glucose in the blood, according to C.J. Zhong.
NSC Technology is also working with metals and alloys on the nanoscale to develop more durable, less expensive catalysts for use in fuel cells. The market potential for both the sensors and the catalysts is strong, according to C.J. Zhong. "People are concerned about the air they breathe. People worry about their future energy sources. I think we're in the right business."
NSC Technology has been contacted by a number of investors and discussions are underway to partner with economic development groups and service providers who have a vested interest in the entrepreneurial climate of Upstate New York.
Both NanoMas and NSC Technology are located in the University's Start-Up Suite in the Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC). Offering fledgling companies low-cost office space, the Start-Up Suite also features a state-of-the-art conference room, access to high-speed printers, copiers and other business equipment and a receptionist. Companies that occupy the suite must have their roots in technology developed at the University and work in areas directly related to the life sciences. While Howard Wang and C.J. Zhong are the first pioneers to occupy the Start-up Suite, the possibility of moving into a well-appointed office environment, rather than searching for quality space off campus, is encouraging more faculty to enter the commercial world, according to Eugene Krentsel, the University's director of technology transfer and innovative partnerships.
When faculty researchers decide to explore the commercial world, "we're here to provide the services and facilities and advice they need to do that", Eugene Krentsel stated. Available services include help finding potential investors, dealing with intellectual property issues and scouting for space in the community when the time comes to expand. With several other applications pending, the Start-up Suite is likely to fill in a couple of years, according to Eugene Krentsel. "That's much faster than anybody anticipated when we were designing this facility. University faculty have been developing companies in the last year at a greatly accelerated rate."


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Because the vast majority of the ArchWiki contains indications that may need clarification for users new to GNU/Linux, this rundown of basic procedures was written both to avoid confusion in the assimilation of the articles and to deter repetition in the content itself.
Regular user or root
Some lines are written like so:
# pacman -S kernel26
Others have a different prefix:
$ makepkg -s
The numeral sign (#) indicates that the line is to be entered as root, whereas the dollar sign ($) shows that the line is to be entered as a regular user.
A notable exception to watch out for:
# This alias makes ls colorize the listing alias ls='ls --color=auto'
In this example, the context surrounding the numeral sign communicates that this is not to be run as a command; it should be edited into a file instead. So in this case, the numeral sign denotes a comment. A comment can be explanatory text that will not be interpreted by the associated program. Bash scripts denotation for comments happens to coincide with the root PS1.
After further examination, "give away" signs include the uppercase character following the # sign. Usually, Unix commands are not written this way and most of the time they are short abbreviations instead of full-blown English words (e.g., Copy becomes
Regardless, most articles make this easy to discern by notifying the reader:
Append to
# This alias makes ls colorize the listing alias ls='ls --color=auto
Append, create, edit and source
When prompted to append, add, create or edit, consider it an indication for using a text editor, such as nano, in order to make changes to configuration file(s):
# nano /etc/bash.bashrc
In programs, be it shells or otherwise, sourcing applies settings specified in a file. For Bash, sourcing can be done in a command prompt:
$ source /etc/bash.bashrc
and it can also happen in a file itself:
# This line includes settings from another file source /etc/bash.bashrc
As a result, sourcing a file after alteration is an implied omission in the case of shell files.
However, not all articles will specify the nature of the changes to be made, nor which file to alter in the first place. This wiki builds-up on previous knowledge, such as common locations for files that are prone to sporadic editing.
System-wide versus user-specific configuration
It is important to remember that there are two different kinds of configurations on a GNU/Linux system. System-wide configuration affects all users. Since system-wide settings are generally located in the
/etc directory, root privileges are required in order to alter them. E.g., to apply a Bash setting that affects all users,
/etc/bash.bashrc should be modified.
User-specific configuration affects only a single user. Dotfiles are used for user-specific configuration. For example, the file
~/.bashrc is the user-specific configuration file. The idea is that each user can define their own settings, such as aliases, functions and other interactive features like the prompt, without affecting other users' preferences.
~/ is a shortcut for the user's home directory, usually
Common shell files
For ease of use, here is a selective listing of basic configuration files and their locations.
See also: Bash and
man bash
Within Bash and other bourne-compatible shells, such as Zsh, there is even further differentiation in the purposes of the configuration files. Some files only get sourced when Bash is starting as a login shell, whereas other files only do so when Bash is an interactive shell.
When Bash is run in a virtual console, for instance, it is started as a login shell. Bash shells started in a Xorg session, such as those employed by xterm, are interactive shells.
Common files:
- System-wide settings; sourced only by a login shell
- Personal shell settings; sourced only by an interactive shell
See also: Zsh and
man zsh
Common files:
- System-wide settings; sourced only by a login shell
- Personal shell settings; sourced only by an interactive shell
Closing notes
Recurring procedures include:


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Retiree Forms Index
- Appeal forms
- Aetna Member Complaint and Appeal form [PDF 296K]
- Moda Appeal form [PDF 31K]
- Authorization for the use and/or disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Authorization for the Use and/or Disclosure of PHI (ben043) [PDF 129K]
- Automatic Withdrawal Form
- Automatic Funds Withdrawal for COBRA and Direct Bill Premiums [PayFlex]
- Claim forms
- Prescription drug claim form [PDF 341K]
- Dental claim form [PDF 2.0M]
- Medical claim form [PDF 427K]
- Vision claim form [PDF 597K]
- Enrollment forms
- Retiree Health Dependent Change (02-1854r)
- Other Health Insurance Verification form [PDF 134K]
- Authorizes other carriers to give Aetna information about any coverage they provide in relation to you and your dependents.
- Provider Nomination form [PDF 37K]
- Use this form to submit provider contact information to Aetna.
- Student status verification [PDF 143K]
- Verify your student dependents with Aetna so they may be covered.
Aetna form library
Use the above link for the following forms:
- Health Benefits Claim form
- Non-preferred provider
- Other Health Insurance Verification
- Pharmacy forms
- Precertification


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|Home >> Ask Olympus: How do Teleconverters work?
Do the EC-14 and EC-20 teleconverters work with the kit lenses that came with my Olympus DSLR body?
The Olympus E-System of Four Thirds DSLRs is just that – a system. This means that components of the system are, for the most part, compatible with each other. The Zuiko Digital lenses are compatible with all of the E-System DSLR bodies. By the same measure, the EC-14 and EC-20 teleconverters are compatible with all of the E-System Zuiko Digital lenses. Teleconverters can be used with Four Thirds lenses on Olympus PEN Micro Four Thirds cameras when using the MMF-1 (Four Thirds Lens Adapter to Micro Four Thirds Lens Adapter). Of course, using a teleconverter with some lenses may be counterproductive, such as with wide-angle lenses whose purpose is to capture a wide field of view. Because of the teleconverters small size, they are ideal for travel because they can reduce the number of lenses needed to cover a trip.
Teleconverters increase the effective focal length of a lens by magnifying the central portion of the image. The EC-14 magnifies the image by 1.4x and the EC-20 magnifies the image by 2x. The teleconverters cannot be stacked, nor can they be used with the EX-25 Extension Tube.
Because the converters are magnifying the image there will be some loss of light because the light entering the lens is being spread over a larger area by the teleconverter. This is because of the Inverse Square Law. To demonstrate the Inverse Square Law, in a darkened room stand near a wall and point a flashlight at it and then start backing away. You will see that as the circle of light grows wider it also becomes dimmer. It is the same output of light being spread over a wider area, so, in effect, the light becomes thinner (dimmer). It is important to understand this in regard to teleconverters because they make the light reaching the lens and autofocus system dimmer (the EC-14 by 1.4 f-stops and the EC-20 by 2 f-stops). Therefore, the teleconverter changes the effective aperture (f-stop). If a lens such as the 70-300mm Zuiko Digital is extended to 300mm, its maximum f-stop is f5.6. But if it is used with the EC-20, the effective f-stop at maximum aperture of 5.6 (the brightness of the light reaching the sensor and autofocus system) is actually f11. This means that higher ISOs might be required because of the lower light transmission and the image will appear dimmer in the viewfinder. If the light in the shooting environment is too low, the autofocus system may have difficulty getting a focus lock.
The other thing to keep in mind is that because the magnification of the image is increased, the narrower angle of view may make it more difficult to hold the camera steady. If the camera has Image Stabilization, it will take the teleconverter into account when applying the necessary degree of stabilization. When using a teleconverter it is a good idea to use a higher ISO and shoot in the S (Shutter Priority) mode so that higher shutter speeds can be selected to help steady the image. If possible, use a tripod or monopod when shooting with long lenses and teleconverters to steady the camera and lens.
Archive - E-System:
- Advantages of digital lenses
- Transferring your photos to a CD
- Printing the date on your photos
- Best image sizes for emailing
- Lens connections and F-stop
- Indoor sports photos
- AF illuminator and camera flashes
- Camera locks up while shooting closeups
- Taking photos of the Northern Lights
- Shooting in cold weather
- Pixel Mapping
- Waterfall and Stream Effects
- Camera unable to secure autofocus
- Night sports photos
- Can I use a teleconverter with my kit lens?
- What is MY MODE?
- Saving Your Camera Settings
- What does the Fn button do?
- Tips for shooting holiday lights outdoors
- Tips about memory card usage
- The purpose of IMAGE ASPECT when shooting?
- Tips for digitizing 35mm color slides
- Double exposures and xD card questions
- Taking better indoor photos
- Shooting in RAW
- Battery charging guidelines
- E-System Compatibility
- Cleaning your mirror box
- Studio Lighting
- Tricks for manually focusing
- Focusing E-System cameras in low light
- P, A, S and M modes
- Keeping a zoom lens steady
- What lenses can I use with my DSLR?
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
- Post-processing color controls in OLYMPUS Master
- How do I use bracketing modes?
- Save a zoomed playback image
- How can CONTRAST, SHARPNESS and
SATURATION be applied creatively?
- Shooting indoors in the winter
- What does the GRADATION feature in the menu do?
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Full article available here:The vulnerability affects both the 2.2 and 2.4 series of Linux kernels, the core of the operating system, said Alan Cox, one of the key deputies of Linux founder Linus Torvalds in the programming community that collectively produces Linux. Those kernels are at the center of several Linux products released recently from companies such as Red Hat and SuSE.
The problem could let "local" computer users--those with permission to log on to a machine--to gain "root" access and take complete control of the machine, Cox said. Such local vulnerabilities are considered less severe than remote ones that let attackers over a network take over a machine even if they don't have a basic user account on it.


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Build your business for the future and partner with Google for Education
We've designed the Google for Education Partner Programme to enable our partners to sell, provide service and innovate by leveraging our products and platform across the Google for Education suite. Partners are a fundamental part of the Google for Education mission – to help teachers inspire curiosity and for students to discover and learn together.
Keep and strengthen your hard-earned customer relationships
Google for Education Partners maintain full ownership of the customer and billing relationship, including pricing, support, professional services and communications.
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Successful Sales and Services Partners build strong relationships with Technology Partners to provide robust, end-to-end ation solutions.
New revenue opportunities to help you support Education customers
Sales and Services Partners receive a discount on the list price of our suite of products and can increase profitability by offering value-added services and products.
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These are the tracks available for partners to choose from.
The Services Track
The Services Track is for partners who provide services to schools that may include selling, consulting, training, implementing and providing technical support for Google for Education products.
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The Technology Track is for partners who create products that complement, enhance or extend the reach or functionality of Google for Education products.
The Sales Track
The Sales Track is for partners whose core competency is marketing and selling Google for Education products at high volume.
This programme is reserved for distributors and invited partners.
In each track, partners can specialise in the following Google for Education products:
G Suite for Education (required)
Google Chrome
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Programme tracks
The Partner Tier
The Google for Education Partner Programme gives partners access to a robust set of resources to help them with their customers – everything from technical resources to marketing and support.
- Access to Google for Work and Education Connect (Our one-stop community for partners to access marketing campaigns, sales content, support resources and training)
- Ongoing programme communications
- Console to manage customer accounts
- Use of the Google for Education Partner badge
- Discount on the list price of selected products
- Listing in our partner directory
The Premier Tier
The Premier Tier is reserved for partners who have demonstrated higher levels of competency and performance. Premier Partners receive additional exclusive opportunities and support, including:
- All the benefits available to Partners
- Designated partner manager support
- Co-marketing opportunities with Google
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- Potential rebates, WIR, Spiff and partner incentives
- Use of the exclusive Premier Partner badge
More than 50 million students, teachers and administrators around the world are using G Suite for Education, and there are more than 10,000 institutions using Chromebooks.
"Google is a valued CDW-G partner in K-12 because of its philosophy of starting with the customer and working backward. With a deep market knowledge, Google customizes and designs solutions specifically for students and teachers. Together, Google and CDW-G have built tremendous credibility because of our commitment to education."
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The Catalan region of the Costa Brava in north-eastern Spain is usually associated with beaches full of tourists and package holiday trips. However, turn the clock back 100 years and the region was somewhat different. Untouched by tourism until the mid 1960's, the Costa Brava was mainly a fishing region, with small fishing villages and towns pocketed along the Costa Brava coastline.
This was the landscape into which the surrealist artist Salavador Dali was born in 1904, and the spectacular scenery and lighting of the region inspired many of his finest paintings. Dali was born in the town of Figueres which is approximately 35km north of Girona (Gerona) Airport, and around 150km north of Barcelona. Apart from his artwork, Dali has left 2 legacies to his admirer's – his home in Port Lligat near Cadaques, and the museum which he designed in his hometown of Figureres, both of which are open to the public.
Dali's House, Port Lligat
Cadaques is a small fishing village around an hour and a half drive north-east of Girona. Cadaques is where Dali spent many of his later years, and the spectacular coastline provided the inspiration for many of his best known paintings. Cadaques itself is a former fishing port, but is now an exclusive tourist resort, popular with the French and Spanish. Dali's house is located in the small village of Port Lligat, slightly to the north of Cadaques. Dali's house is open to the public, but check opening hours before visiting.
The house itself was formerly a number of small fishermen's houses which Dali purchased and converted into a single palatial home where he lived with his wife Gala, and painted many of his most famous paintings. There are many strange exhibits inside the house such as a stuffed polar bear which greets visitors, and a tiny cage in Dali's bedroom which once contained a cricket. Dali loved the sound of the cricket singing. Don't expect to find many of Dali's paintings at the house, although there is a large unfinished work in one of the rooms.
The Dali Museum, Figueres
The Dali museum in Figueres was designed by the artist himself, and although it contains the world's most comprehensive collection of his original paintings, it is the internal design and architecture which is possibly even more striking. Dali was a big fan of the visual arts, and many of the works in the museum are visual experiences which were intricately designed by Dali. In the busy summer months there may be queues at the museum, so it is worth booking tickets in advance.
Getting to Girona
Girona Airport is served by Ryanair, so if you want to visit the region please check their website for flight information.


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In Souciant this week, I examine the weakness of the Left in the US despite numbers that should mean it is much stronger. In times of economic stress like these, the left should be able to provide alternatives, and make them actionable. While liberals fight to hold the center and Tea Partiers push the country to a radical and self-destructive right, the left continues to eat itself. It need not be.
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A gastrostomy feeding tube insertion is the placement of a feeding tube through the skin and the stomach wall, directly into the stomach.
Alternative Names
Gastrostomy tube insertion; G-tube insertion; PEG tube insertion; Stomach tube insertion; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube insertion
Gastrostomy feeding tube insertion is done in part using a procedure called endoscopy. For information on how this procedure is done, see:
After the endoscopy tube is inserted, the skin over the left side of belly (abdomen) area is cleaned and numbed. The doctor makes a small surgical cut in this area and inserts a small, flexible, hollow tube with a balloon or special tip into the stomach. The doctor uses stitches to close the stomach around the tube.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Gastrostomy feeding tubes are put in for different reasons. They may be needed for a short while or permanently. This procedure may be recommended for:
- Babies with birth defects of the mouth, esophagus, or stomach (for example,
esophageal atresiaor tracheal esophageal fistula)
- Patients who cannot swallow correctly
- Patients who cannot take enough food by mouth to stay healthy
- Patients who often breathe in food when eating
Risks for any anesthesia are:
- Reactions to medications
- Problems breathing
Risks for surgical or endoscopic feeding tube insertion are:
- Bleeding
- Infection
Before the Procedure
You will be given a sedative and a painkiller. In most cases, these medicines are given through a vein (IV line) in your arm. You should feel no pain and not remember the procedure.
A numbing medicine may be sprayed into your mouth to prevent the urge to cough or gag when the endoscope is inserted. A mouth guard will be inserted to protect your teeth and the endoscope.
Dentures must be removed.
After the Procedure
This is most often a simple surgery with a good outlook.
Outlook (Prognosis)
The stomach and abdomen will heal in 5 to 7 days. Moderate pain can be treated with medications. Feedings will start slowly with clear liquids, and increase slowly.
The patient/family will be taught:
- How to care for the skin around the tube
- Signs and symptoms of infection
- What to do if the tube is pulled out
- Signs and symptoms of tube blockage
- How to empty the stomach through the tube
- How and what to feed through the tube
- How to hide the tube under clothing
- What normal activities can be continued


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Proceeds would be used to buy park land in three areas including Wilderness Park
Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely today said the proposed sale of city-owned land at Holmes Golf Course to Talent+, a human resource consulting firm, is a win-win situation for the city and the company.
Under the proposal, the city would sell 2.31 acres of park land at Holmes for the fair market value of the property, determined by an independent appraiser to be in excess of $650,000. The city would use the proceeds to buy more than 70 acres of new park land. The new park land would include land along the flood plain of Salt Creek, expanding Wilderness Park. A new community park site would be purchased to serve newly developing areas of Lincoln, and a new neighborhood park would be created in the East Campus neighborhood. In addition, Talent+ would replace the outdated maintenance building at Holmes Golf Course at a cost of about $150,000.
"This sale will allow us to create two new parks, add to Wilderness Park and build a badly needed maintenance facility," Mayor Wesely said. "It will also help a successful Lincoln company, which employs about 75 people, to expand its operations here in Lincoln."
In 1998, Talent+ received Planning Commission approval to build a 42,000-square-foot office building and a parking lot on the north side of Pioneers Boulevard between South 56th and South 70th streets. A short time later, Talent+ approached the city about purchasing the publicly owned land immediately west of their site to create a corporate campus with a larger office building and an expanded parking area. Talent+ has delayed construction of its previously approved first phase until details of the sale of the Holmes Golf Course property could be finalized.
The request by Talent+ to purchase property at Holmes Golf Course has followed the process outlined by a 1994 administration regulation. The Planning Commission reviewed the proposal on January 10, 2001 and determined that the land sale is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. The City Council will consider an ordinance to approve the sale in the next few weeks, and a public hearing date will be set.
Process for the sale of publicly owned land
Because Federal Land and Water Conservation Funds were used in developing Holmes Park and Golf Course, the land sale and purchase of replacement property must be approved by the Nebraska Game and Parks Department and the National Park Service. This process would begin after City Council approval. In accepting the federal funds, the city agreed to certain conditions regarding any future sale of any or all of the property. Replacement land of equal or greater appraised value must be purchased with the proceeds from the sale of the property.
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a competing factor is the house prices now are lower than the cost to rebuild them. inflationary pressure on materials will make this disparity increase. so in the very long term, it seems like real estate would be a good "commodity" investment.
Real Estate: Is the Bottom In, or Is This a Head-Fake?
Everyone interested in real estate is asking the same question: Is the bottom in, or is this just another "green shoots" recovery that will soon wilt?
Let's start by reviewing the fundamental forces currently affecting real estate valuations.
Expanding the pool of potential buyers has reached the upper limit
There are two ways to expand the pool of qualified home buyers, and they both rely on expanding leverage: A) lower the down payment from 20% cash to 3%, and B) lower the mortgage rate to 3.5%.
Lowering the down payment increases the leverage from 4-to-1 to 33-to-1, a massive leap.
Increasing leverage increases risk. Over 90% of all mortgages are guaranteed or backed by Federal agencies such as FHA. This "socialization" of the mortgage industry means that losses ultimately flow through to the taxpayers, who are subsidizing the housing industry via these agencies.
Lowering the mortgage rate increases the leverage of income. It now takes much less income to qualify for greatly reduced monthly payments.
With mortgage rates barely above the prime rate and Treasury bond yields negative in terms of inflation, there is simply no room left for lower rates or down payments. The "increase home sales by expanding the pool of buyers" game plan has been run to the absolute limit.
The pool of buyers cannot be expanded any further; that boost to sales is done.
The unintended consequence of enticing marginal buyers to buy homes is that defaults are rising: 1 out of 6 FHA-insured loans are delinquent. This is the "blowback" of qualifying everyone with an income above the poverty line as a homebuyer.
The mortgage industry has escaped any consequences of "robo-signing" mortgage fraud
If the rule of law existed in more than name, this is what should have happened:
- MERS, the mortgage industry's placeholder of fictitious mortgage notes, would have been summarily shut down.
- All mortgages and derivatives based on mortgages would have been marked-to-market.
- All losses would be booked immediately, and any institution that was deemed insolvent would have been shuttered and its assets auctioned off in an orderly fashion.
- Regardless of the cost to owners of mortgages, every deed, lien, and note would be painstakingly reconstructed on every mortgage in the U.S., and the deed and note properly filed in each county as per U.S. law.
That none of this has happened is proof that the rule of law is "optional" for financial institutions in America.
The $25 billion mortgage fraud settlement turned a blind eye to the fraud, and now the banks are applying losses they have already booked to the $25 billion, mooting the supposed "benefit" of the settlement to consumers.
The Federal Reserve's purchase of mortgages – over $1.1 trillion in 2009-10 and now another $40 billion a month – is essentially a money-laundering operation in which the Fed exchanges cash for dodgy mortgages.
Analyst Catherine Austin Fitts (QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Estate Market) summarized what this means:
"The Fed is now where mortgages go to die."
"Thousands of mortgages on homes that do not exist or on homes that have more than one 'first' mortgage are now going to the Fed to disappear. Thousands of multifamily and commercial mortgages will be bought up as well. With documents shredded, criminal liabilities extinguished and financial institutions made whole, funds can return without fear of seizure.
QE3 proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that the extent of the fraud was as bad as I said it was. You can count up the bailouts and QE1, QE2, QE3 the numbers speak for themselves. The fraud was indeed in the many trillions of dollars."
In other words, the financial sector has gotten away with murder, and the "overhang" of systemic fraud has been erased with Fed connivance.
Banks are restricting inventory
The banks are withholding distressed properties to restrict the inventory of homes for sale.
If supply overwhelms demand, prices decline. That would be a bad thing for banks sitting on millions of defaulted mortgages and distressed properties. Millions of impaired properties are being held off the market so supply is lower than demand.
The strategy has costs. Thousands of defaulted homeowners have been living mortgage-free for years. But the gains have been impressive. With supply dwindling, beaten-down markets have seen gains of 20+% this year as strong investor demand has pushed prices higher.
Since the strategy has paid such handsome returns, why change it?
ZIRP has attracted investment
The Fed's ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) has pushed investors into a "search for safe yield" that has led many to buy corporate bonds, dividend stocks and everyone's favorite "safe" fixed asset, real estate.
In many markets, one-third or more of all sales have been to investors.
Some are buying distressed properties to "flip" in strong-demand markets, but many are buying the homes as rentals with the plan being to hold them for a few years as prices rise and then sell to reap appreciation.
Anecdotally, every investor class is getting into the act, from Mom and Pop to big players such as insurance companies and Wall Street funds. One of my contacts in the insurance industry told me that his firm was buying large multi-unit apartment complexes, as these rentals generated a yield of 6% to 7%, far above the 1.7% yield of ten-year Treasury bonds.
In a non-ZIRP world, Treasuries and other asset classes would offer similar yields but without the risks and costs of managing rentals. But in a ZIRP world of near-zero yields for low-risk financial assets, rental real estate is a compelling investment: decent yields, relatively low risk, and strong appreciation potential if housing has indeed bottomed.
"The bottom is in" – isn't it?
Once potential buyers see prices rise and they conclude that "the bottom is in," they jump in and buy, pushing prices higher in a positive feedback loop. The higher prices rise, the more evidence there is that the bottom is in, and the greater the incentives to jump in before prices once again rise out of reach.
Favorable rent/buy ratio
With mortgage rates well below 4%, the rent-buy ratio is favorable in many areas. It may indeed be cheaper to buy than to rent in some locales.
"Hot money" flowing into real-estate
As economies in Europe and Asia falter, "hot money" is flowing into perceived "safe havens" such as the U.S. and Canada. Some of this "hot money" ($225-$300 billion a year is leaving China alone) is flowing into real estate, a well-known phenomenon in markets such as Vancouver, B.C., Miami, and Los Angeles.
What can we conclude from this overview of fundamentals?
- The mortgage industry escaped any real consequence from its systemic fraud
- The Status Quo plan to reflate the housing market with super-low mortgage rates and down payments has worked to some degree
- The financial sector's plan to boost home prices by limiting supply has also worked
- ZIRP has created a "crowded trade" in low-risk investments with attractive yields such as corporate bonds, dividend stocks, and real estate, which is being fueled by a self-reinforcing perception that "the bottom is in"
The question now is will these forces continue pushing prices higher? If so, the bottom may well be in. If these forces deteriorate or lose their effectiveness, then the "green shoots" of investor interest may wither as the U.S. economy joins Europe and Japan by re-entering recession.
In Part II: Forecasting the Future of Rental Housing and Home Valuations, we will examine what forces could change "the bottom is in!" to "this is just another head-fake" – with the real bottom still ahead.
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From BusinessInsider.com:
Citi's Global Head of Credit Strategy, Matt King, has a knack for putting together useful illustrations.
The slide presented below is particularly striking. King explained it to us like this:
"It's what I like to call "the most depressing slide I've ever created." In almost every country you look at, the peak in real estate prices has coincided – give or take literally a couple of years – with the peak in the inverse dependency ratio (the proportion of population of working age relative to old and young).
In the past, we all levered up, bought a big house, enjoyed capital gains tax-free, lived in the thing, and then, when the kids grew up and left home, we sold it to someone in our children's generation. Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well when there start to be more pensioners than workers."
The slide:
From BusinessInsider.com:
Citi's Global Head of Credit Strategy, Matt King, has a knack for putting together useful illustrations.
The slide presented below is particularly striking. King explained it to us like this:
"It's what I like to call "the most depressing slide I've ever created." In almost every country you look at, the peak in real estate prices has coincided – give or take literally a couple of years – with the peak in the inverse dependency ratio (the proportion of population of working age relative to old and young).
In the past, we all levered up, bought a big house, enjoyed capital gains tax-free, lived in the thing, and then, when the kids grew up and left home, we sold it to someone in our children's generation. Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well when there start to be more pensioners than workers."
The slide:
Takeaway - Move to Ireland?
Is it a modest sized one that Generation Y can afford, or is it a 4,000+ sq.ft. McMansion that some boomers "upgrade" to later in life, but may never end up owning? I suspect the former will hold their value much better than the latter in the coming years, especially as energy costs inevitably rise. Apart from that, we often forget that "housing as an investment" is a historically recent phenomenon -- prior to 1960 a house was just a place you lived in and the price didn't go up much other than matching inflation. Maybe we are getting back to those days.
Just watched David Lichtenstein on Bloomberg, and he convinced me that there is plenty of space for investing in real estate. As with any investment, stocks, bonds and buying and selling real estate, there is a risk that the value of the investment will go up and down, but the bottom line is, as David Lichtenstein explains, real estate values have and always will appreciate.
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2009-04-29 / Events & Calendar
Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition needs help
The Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition announced yesterday that it needs help in order to help others. "We realize that times are tough," said Debbie Basile, president of the BBCC, "but we must raise funds in order to help our neighbors who suffer from breast cancer, and other cancers affecting women.
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Feb. 6, 2007
The Lady Bisons indoor track team finished seventh in the McDonald's Invitational at Southern Illinois in Carbondale.
It was the first meet of the season for the Lady Bisons.
The results:
Lauren Elmore, 17th, Shot Put, 10.09m, 33-01.25
Hannah Joiner, 18th, Shot Put, 10.03m, 32-11,00
6th, 60-Meter Hurdles, 9.63 5th, 60-Meter Hurdles, Final, 9.78
Danielle Graham, sixth, Triple Jump, 10.61m, 34-09.79
Jessica Strange, 20th, 60-Meter Dash, 9.25
Paige Griffin, 13th, 1-Mile Run, 5:33.26
Shannon Shoemake, 14th, 1-Mile Run, 5:38.14
Kay West, 16th, 400-Meter Dash, 1:08.59
Lauren Floyd, 17th, 400-Meter Dash, 1:08.59
13th, 200-Meter Dash, 30.76
Rachel Snider, 6th, 800-Meter Run, 2:20.34
Jill Dyer, 17th, 800-Meter Run, 2:26.48
Samantha Wood, fourth, 3,000-Meter Run, 10:30.64
Susan Worden, fifth, 3,000-Meter Run, 10:37.43
Carolyn Latham, 12th, 3000-Meter Run, 11:11.68
Anna Day, 21st, 3000-Meter Run, 11:36.70
Paloma Floden, 3,000-Meter Run, 11:40.68
Erin Pyles, 23rd, 3,000-Meter Run, 11:43. 56


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Chief Derbyshire Fire Officer Sean Frayne is facing a trial after he has been accused of rape.
Mr Frayne, 47, formerly of Etwall, appeared at Derby Crown Court on Monday, April 14, and his trial was fixed for November 10.
It is alleged that he raped a woman in Etwall between November 30, 2006, and January 1, 2007.
The trial is expected to last between two and three days. Mr Frayne will next appear for a plea and case management hearing on June 5.
He was released on bail on the condition he does not contact the complainant or another named person and that Mr Frayne resides at his new home address of Spinneyfield, Huddersfield.
The fire service has said Mr Frayne has been suspended from his post. A fire service spokesman said deputy chief fire officer Andy Waldie and deputy chief executive Joy Smith are covering the chief fire officer and chief executive responsibilities.


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TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Lightning had two days off before Thursday's game against a Pittsburgh Penguins team that will be traveling for the second half of a back-to-back, but Victor Hedman doesn't want to think about potential advantages.
"We can't fall into any false securities about them being tired. We need to bring our A game," Hedman said Wednesday, two days after the Lightning rallied from two goals down for a 4-3 overtime win over the Washington Capitals.
Pittsburgh (2-1-1) has bounced back from a rough start, opening the year with a 5-4 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues and a 10-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
On Wednesday night, the Penguins got three power-play goals in a 3-2 win over the same Capitals, including the first of the season for Patric Hornqvist.
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan was pleased with the results after mixing up his line combinations and finding a spark.
"There's a fine line between letting them play through some of the struggles or just mixing it up to see if we can get a fresh look," Sullivan told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We stayed with it there for a fair amount of the game. The coaches thought that it was time to give them a fresh look. We stayed with a lot of the similar guys; we just moved people around a little bit. It ended up working for us."
The Lightning (2-1-0) know all about the Penguins' power play. Pittsburgh swept the season series 3-0 last year, outscoring Tampa Bay 15-7 and going 6 of 11 on the power play along the way.
Pittsburgh had been 2 of 12 in its first three games before converting three chances -- for all its goals -- to beat the Capitals.
The Lightning, after splitting two games with the Florida Panthers to open the season, cooled off the Capitals on Monday, tying the score in the third and winning on Brayden Point's redirect of a Nikita Kucherov power-play shot in overtime.
"We're very happy with the way we played Monday, the way we responded to our Saturday (loss) against Florida," Hedman said. "We're exciting about the upcoming games, but we have a real good Pittsburgh team coming in."
Point has multiple points in all three games for the Lightning, with three goals and four assists to lead the team in scoring in just his second NHL season.
Steven Stamkos is still seeking his first goal of the season, though he has four assists in his return after missing much of last season because of injury.
How will Pittsburgh handle a back-to-back? They lost both in their season-opening back-to-back, and in 15 last season, they were swept six times, split six times and won both three times, though none in their first seven chances of the season.
Whether rest can help the Lightning pull off a home win against the defending Stanley Cup champions remains to be seen.


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Here are the recipes I told those doing the "challenge" that I would post for you... some of my favorites!
1 cup peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, or your favorite nut butter
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut oil
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup flaxseed (you can omit this and do 1 cup of coconut instead of 1/2)
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips, optional (if you're doing the challenge make sure you use a "challenge worthy" chocolate chip)
In a medium pot set over medium-low heat, melt together nut butter, honey, and coconut oil, stirring until smooth. Remove from stove and stir in oats, coconut and flaxseed. Pour mixture into a 9- by 13-inch baking dish. Spread into an even layer, sprinkle with mini chocolate chips, and firmly press down with the back of a spatula or clean hands. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm. Slice into squares or bars (I like to cut 3 rows of 6 bars each) and remove from pan. Store in refrigerator.
6 cups natural popcorn, popped
1/8 c coconut oil
1/8 c honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
Pop popcorn. Melt oil and honey together, then add vanilla and salt. Coat popcorn with mixture.
2 tsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp lime juice
1 tsp minced garlic
1/2 box wheat linguini
16 oz bag stir fry vegetables
1/4-1/2 cup chicken broth
Cooked cubed chicken (if desired)
Melt together peanut butter, milk, soy sauce, honey, lime juice, and garlic. Spray large pan and dump veggies in. Cover and cook on med-hi for 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, cook linguini. Once veggies are tender, add prepared peanut sauce and then broth slowly (stop when you reach desired consistency of sauce). Add chicken, if desired. Turn heat to low and cook until warms through. Toss in linguini.
2 tomatoes, diced
2 cucumbers, peeled and chopped
2 chopped avocados
1/2 red onion, chopped
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
2 Tbsp chopped cilantro
juice of 1 lime
1 tsp cumin
salt and pepper to taste
Toss all together in a bowl and enjoy!


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