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F. Sale and/or distribution of drugs
G. Any situation in which a student has demonstrated the potential for harm to others or property.
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The following statements serve as the rationale for the Honor Code:
1. Students should be conscious of the need to take personal responsibility for all their work both as individuals and as members of a class.
2. Students and faculty members should actively engage in discussions related to academic integrity (e.g., differences between plagiarism and legitimate scholarly work and appropriate versus inappropriate sharing of information among classmates).
3. Faculty members should be able to treat their students as fellow searchers for knowledge; in order to do so; they should not have to police examination rooms.
The following procedures for adopting the Honor Code are suggested:
1. At the beginning of a course, a professor may choose to discuss the Honor Code and academic integrity in general.
2. A class would be asked to vote on the use of the Code. A vote would be taken, by secret ballot, during the first few days of the course. In order to adopt the Code, the vote must be unanimous.
3. All students would sign an Honor Pledge at the end of every examination.
4. The professor would leave the classroom during examinations but would remain available in case of questions.
5. Students would feel obligated to report breaches of the Honor Code to the professor or to the Office of Academic Affairs.
6. Violations of the Honor Code would be handled exactly like any other cases of plagiarism or cheating.
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The following activities help students put their knowledge of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial into a broader perspective.
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Working together with whatever supplies you and the groups can muster, have the students create a model of their memorial. The model can be simple (made of crayon-decorated paper for example) or complex (such as being modeled of clay and stucco or wooden building supplies). Each group should include a written description of the ideas behind the structure with its final project. Have students present their memorials to the class and explain why they chose the person and symbols that they did. Have students note if there any common themes in the type of people chosen or the character traits represented. Are they political figures? Sports figures? Actors? Musicians? Humanitarians? Etc.
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Resources for students may include local or national histories and biographies, newspaper clippings, interviews (oral history), photographs, or other resources. The student or the groups should visit the site of the memorial and either take a photograph or make a drawing to share with the class. Have each student or group report their findings to, and share pictures with, the class. Post the pictures on bulletin boards and hold a class discussion to compare the design of memorials from different eras. Offer to exhibit the pictures with brief interpretive paragraphs written by the students in the school library for the whole school to view. You might even consider offering them for display at a local library or historical society.

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A 4-wheel drive tractor was acquired by the Municipality of Pavia and the Department of Agriculture RFO6 through the BUB Project.
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The Niagara-Wheatfield Board of Education at its June 5 meeting answered concerns about transportation service and its costs to the district, as well as continued to look for more ways to cut its proposed budget.
Mark Walsh of Transportation Advisory Services told the board that Niagara-Wheatfield, in the agency's opinion, is not in a position to contract out its transportation department.
He explained that there are several options that allow districts to do this, and N-W doesn't meet any of those options. Many of the obstacles, while not all of them, include labor agreements and the length of time it would take to negotiate and implement sourcing out this service.
"I've looked at the economics of your program and, more importantly, I've had the opportunity to look at your labor agreement, operating protocols and in my opinion it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for this school district to go through a conversion process from public sector to private sector," said Walsh.
In order to look at conversion, Walsh explained, the first part of the process is decision and impact bargaining under the Taylor Law. It states that, in order to convert, because employees are unionized, there are three scenarios. A labor agreement can provide one the right to subcontract and negotiate financial impact. Niagara-Wheatfield's labor agreement does not provide this, he said.
Next is a labor agreement that is silent with no reference at all to outsourcing. This, also, is not relevant to Niagara-Wheatfield.
The third, which is where Niagara-Wheatfield falls, is an agreement that prohibits outsourcing or has language dealing with decisions impacting bargaining.
The district would be required to provide the union with the notice that they have a right to negotiate to subcontract.
In Walsh's experience he sees the union's response as being negative, which may require the district to hire labor counsel.
"If you were to go through the process and were successful," continued Walsh, "I think best case you are looking at 18 months and legal fees in six digits."
Walsh went on to detail how these decisions are reached, as well as the cost and length of time it would take.
If they went through all this and wanted to continue, the second phase would be to negotiate with the union the financial terms of the conversion. This means that the district would have to spend a certain dollar amount to buy-out the employees' accrued days, sick days and benefits because they would no longer be part of the public retirement system.
When all this was settled, the district could then develop bid specifications that would go out publically for companies to bid on the job. Law requires this.
"Best case scenario is that the conversion wouldn't happen for three years from now," said Walsh.
"Niagara Wheatfield's costs are reasonable and competitive," said Walsh. "I see no significant issues that you would have to outsource."
"If you are competitive, stay that way," he urged. "If you can't run it efficiently, then outsource."
One of the recommendations from TAS is for Niagara-Wheatfield to look at its labor agreements with regard to paid sick days, overtime and operating procedures.
"Your best transportation is having the same driver on the same route every day," Walsh remarked. "An aggressive, well-funded attendance program is effective."
•Board President Steven Sabo rescinded a motion made at the last board meeting calling for $430,000 in cuts in the middle school team and support staff.
Instead he made a motion for the cuts to total $403,050 that reflects the reduction in the tax levy. This sets the budget for 2013-14 at $62,753,100 and a 4.5 percent tax levy increase.
These cuts will include reducing teachers in social studies, science, English language arts and art; reducing hours for two teacher aides; reduction in a monitor; and cutting one clerical position.
The district still needs to make $42,987 in cuts and those will be brought to the board shortly.
Residents attending the meeting asked the board to share, in writing, what cuts will be on-the-line if the budget doesn't pass, and the district will be required to go to a contingency budget.
"Obviously we are coming to a very difficult time for schools in New York state," said Sabo. "The number of schools reported as being insolvent in the next year is growing.
"The cost-per-student ratio which you will see in Business First and efficiency ratings are taken from data from a year ago," he continued.
"People don't understand the cost per student and depending on what services a student requires can go up and down."
Sabo cited the recent increase in special education funding needed by Lewiston-Porter. After they had made cuts to their budget, they found they needed to increase the special education funding.
"There are so many things we have to provide for students in order to give them a successful education that drives the costs up," said Sabo.
"Please remember that when looking at Business First and other publications," he urged.
•The board also passed a resolution that will be sent on the New York Legislature asking that the referendum to redefine the boundaries of the relicensing settlement agreement with the New York Power Authority be rejected.
Similar resolutions have been passed by local townships and the Lewiston-Porter Central School District as being contrary to the interests of the school districts and townships.
•The budget vote will be held Tuesday, June 18, from noon to 8 p.m. in the Adult Learning Center at the high school.


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The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than World War I. It is estimated that 675,000 Americans died from this disease and that between September 1, 1918 and January 16, 1919, 45,000 people died in Massachusetts. The disease entered the country with some sailors that docked in Boston on August 27. Within two weeks, over two thousand men stationed in the Boston area were infected. By October, towns in western Massachusetts were seeing high rates of infection and death. This article reports that the disease reached an epidemic in Greenfield on September 28. From September 26 thru noon on October 4, there were 340 cases and 16 deaths. The deaths included two nurses. The Board of Health ordered schools, libraries, theaters, and private clubs closed.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Satchmo at Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary: The Complete Performances
My notes have a lot of backstory but a quick blog shout-out to the late Gösta Hägglöf, one of my friends, mentors, influences and a frequent presence in the early days of this blog. Gus, as friends called him, was one of the first people to really latch on to my rantings. (If you'd like to know more about him and our relationship, please click here.) He wrote me for the first time in August 2007, two months after I started this thing, and we corresponded weekly, sometimes daily, until he passed away in March 2009. In one of his earliest e-mails, he told me that he was working on a complete version of Satchmo at Symphony Hall. He never told me the source or his exact plans but he did hint at it from time to time, always tantalizing to me.
Flash forward to 2011 when I, now serving as Archivist to the Louis Armstrong House Museum, excitedly waited for Hagglof's collection to arrive. You see, in his will, the ever-generous Hagglof donated his entire Armstrong collection--which he had been compiling since he first heard Louis do "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" 60 years before his death--to the Louis Armstrong House Museum. The collection arrived in August 2011 and I immediately tore through the boxes looking for the complete Symphony Hall concert. Well, long story short, I found it and it was a knockout.
I had recently helped Universal with their 2-CD Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl release, which is how I met Harry Weinger. I invited Harry out to the Armstrong Archives in October 2012 and played the Symphony Hall concert for him. He loved it (how could you not?). It turns out that Universal didn't have the unreleased material so Hagglof's version was IT. Harry green-lighted the project and started off a one-year process which has finally resulted in the complete concert being issued for the first time.
Anytime I've posted about it on Facebook, someone always asks, "Yeah, that's great but what's so new about it?" To backtrack, the original 2-LP release in 1951 was about 90 minutes and Milt Gabler had to do his damndest to squeeze it all on there. Still, it became a classic of classics and no one ever questioned what was missing. Then in 1994, Decca put it out on CD again but this time Orrin Keepnews, staring at 90 minutes of music in the era of 74-minute CDs, shaved off three performances to make it fit onto a single disc. Going one step further, Keepnews shuffled the original track order. And that has been the only way Satchmo at Symphony Hall has been available for nearly 20 years (and the CD has been out-of-print for ages; only a download has remained).
So first off, the new release has all of the original 1947 material from the 1951 release, back in the original order of the concert. Great! If I say so myself, that's cause enough for celebration. But there's more: Gabler had to eliminate all of the original spoken word announcements. All of them have been restored. Then there's the theme songs: two versions of "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" and "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues." There's even a snippet of the band tuning up and Louis introducing the musicians, which adds to the "complete" nature of the performances. And some of Gabler's smaller cuts have resulted in restored material: Dick Cary now has a piano solo on "Royal Garden Blues" and a slightly longer introduction on "Black and Blue" while Barney Bigard's noodling goes on for a few more seconds on "Tea for Two."
For completists, this is all wonderful but I know there's a cynic out there saying, "Hurumph, all this hoopla over a Dick Cary piano solo?" Okay, let me unleash the big guns: FOUR complete performances cut from the original album. They are (with running times), "Back O'Town Blues" (5:55), "St. James Infirmary" (4:03), "Velma's Blues" (6:48), and "Jack Armstrong Blues" (4:09). How about them apples? Four main events, my friends--even if you're not a fan of Velma's singing, trust me, this version has an encore, resulting in the All Stars playing the blues for almost seven minutes (and oh, to hear Big Sid Catlett playing for Velma's dancing, catching her every move!).
The other question I get after I explode with all of the excitement about the unreleased tracks is, "Okay, what about the sound quality?" And here's where I have to be honest: the original 1951 material (aka about 80% of the set) has never sounded better, remastered from the original tapes. But all of the unreleased material came from a variety of sources: Hagglof's original CD transfers from acetates, Hagglof's remasters, a 16-inch acetate disc donated to the Armstrong Archives in 1995, etc. Sound quality varied from source to source and Seth Foster did a remarkable job in editing them all together seamlessly and getting every track to sound as best as possible. Really, the worst is gets is some of Louis's announcements are scratch. The good news is, they usually last 5 to 10 seconds. The unreleased tracks also have a little more hisses and pops than the originally released tracks but overall, still sound very, very good. A few seconds of crackle now and then shouldn't deter anyone from enjoying the music of that truly special night.
And that's another thing: I did mention it's complete, right? God knows, there's countless All Stars concerts floating around out there but very few are complete, two-set shows, everything from tuning up to the closing good-nights. With the announcements and everything, you really get to feel what a prime, 1947 All Stars concert sounded like from start to finish.
Well, that ends my promotion of the release on the blog; like I said for more of my blathering, check out the CD. But seriously, who cares about me? It's Pops, Big T, Barney, Dick Cary, Arvell, Big Sid, Velma, for two glorious hours in 1947. It's the Pops release of the year and you know I'd be saying that even if I had nothing to do with it. So run to Amazon (I'd say run to your local record store but they don't exist anymore), pick it up and please let me know what you think!
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
way to go! can't wait to hear it
- October 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Ehsan Khoshbakht said...
I was anxiously waiting for this release. Since I left Facebook (for good!) couldn't stay updated about your recent activities, so this good news double my pleasure.
And a question Ricky:
Do you know this Pops related Czech film?
Hallo Satchmo (Jan Spata.1965)
- October 17, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- Swingin' Drummer said...
Hi Ricky, Really well done on this. It doesn't seem to have come out in the UK yet, but I'll be in LA on Tuesday and picking up my copy shortly thereafter!
- October 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Ricky, you have the best job in the whole world. Thanks for your work on this. My first recording of Louis was this concert, and it is what got me hooked. I can't wait to check it out.
- November 4, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Swingin' Drummer said...
Hey Ricki, Just got my copy of this and listened to the whole thing flying out to a show in Ohio and what an awesome job! I was always a bit miffed that they'd taken out several tracks on the earlier CD issue, so now to have not just those tracks restored, but four new tracks is really brilliant. It's Pops at his very best and also some of the finest drumming ever committed to record. And the CD set itself is beautifully presented, loved the book, your sleeve notes and everything about this. Thanks a lot for your hard work on this one, I'm sure Gus would be very proud of the finished result! Now for a deluxe edition DVD of "Satchmo the Great"... Please!!! Cheers, Peter
- November 14, 2012 at 2:42 AM


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Phoebe (Conrad) Skinner is, as female ancestors tend to be, hard to know. Here are a few things we can pull from the lives of the men around her.
From her father's, Daniel Conrad's will1 we can see that Phoebe's dad was a character. The will also indicates that she was raised with slaves in the household. Census records indicate that she became Alexander's second wife when she was about 15 and he was about 22. Fifteen was very young in the 1800s, just as it is today. Unlike most of her neighbors, Phoebe could read and write. Her husband, Alexander, could not.
She and Alexander both grew up in pioneer homes and they hued their life together from the wilderness. They began in the wilderness, but their neighborhood became a settled farming community during their lifetime and they were, in the way of that place and time, rather wealthy. Phoebe bore fourteen children, which is a goodly number even by the 1800s standards. Some of her sons and sons-in-laws served in the Confederate Army. Her husband and others fought the Yankees as partisans and the struggle they endured continued long after the war ended.
She brings some of our most interesting ancestor stories in her heritage. Anyone from Orlando with a Skinner or Conrad in their lineage, which is just about all of us, inherits these stories. Phoebe (Conrad) Skinner's father's father, Swiss immigrant Jacob Conrad, Jr. fought in the Revolutionary War. Through her father's mother, Hannah Bogardus, she relates us to Humphrey Bogart!
Her mother's grandfather's story is one of the best Revolutionary War stories we have. Her great-grandfather Peter Shields came to the colonies to fight for the King with Burgoine's army and switched to the Colonial Army. See the entry for Mar '06 Revolutionary War Veteran Peter Shields
1. A transcription of Daniel Conrad's will can be found in Darrell Grove'sRootsWeb family tree at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dwgroves&id=I01077
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Grandma Phoebe Conrad
Labels: Era Early Settlers, Family Conrad, Family Skinner
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- AnonymousSaturday, November 29, 2008
She was my ancestor too. I'd love to find out more! Thanks for the entry.ReplyDelete
my great grandfather was ezra henline so that would make her my great great great grandmother also finding out we are kin to humphrey bogart is just to cool :)ReplyDelete
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If I could, I would like to give Olympic medals to some people...
To all the Sensei who have taught Karate in their garages and carports so that they could teach for free or keep their fees very low for their students.
To all the Sensei who never earned a dime teaching Karate, and actually spent a fortune on their students and guests from the orient and the mainland.
To all the Sensei who taught week after week, missed vacations, and arranged their lives around teaching their students.
To all the Sensei who taught that values are more important than techniques, and that character is more important than mere conditioning.
To all the Sensei who made their students feel that they belonged and were valuable human beings.
To all the Sensei who taught that Karate should be studied together with Okinawan culture and values.
To all the family members who supported their Karate Sensei fathers, uncles, brothers, etc.
To all the students who attended class regularly, tried their best, applied what they learned in the dojo in their daily lives, and sold sweatbread and Portuguese sausage to raise funds for demonstrations, trips, and visitors.
To all the students who held their temper, avoided fights, and tried to help rather than hurt others.
To all the instructors and seniors who were patient with beginners, and gave them a chance, even if they did not learn quickly.
And personally...
To all my Sensei and seniors, who have always been supportive of my training, research, and Hawaii Karate Museum efforts.
To everyone who has helped me with Japanese translation -- since I do not speak or write Japanese (ironic, no?).
To all the Sensei and their family members who have donated so many priceless books, photographs, weapons and artifacts to the Hawaii Karate Museum. Very soon, those books will have a new home at the University of Hawaii.
To my wife, who has never made me feel bad about be Karate bakka (crazy).
Of course, I am not a fan of medals or trophies, so good thoughts and gratitude will have to do.
Charles C. Goodin
My Own Olympic Medals
If I could, I would like to give Olympic medals to some people...
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Samsung ATIV S - First to announce and last to market
Yesterday we commented how Samsung appears to be late to the Windows Phone 8 train with their ATIV S smartphone. While not as visually eye-catching as HTC or Nokia's offerings, the device has strong appeal to the smartphone traditionalists out there or just those who want every high spec tossed into a phone. Sporting a 4.8" display, 32GB of onboard storage (with an expansion card option), dual-core 1.5Ghz CPU, a massive 2300 mAh battery and a slick, metal finish, the phone has its fans.
Unfortunately, we just received direct word that Expansys is pushing back expected availability from November to the week of December 4th. That reinforces our hypothesis that Samsung is either having some production delays or software hiccups, which is preventing them from getting this phone into customer hands. And if Expansys is expecting delays, you can bet carriers like Rogers will too.
While that won't matter too much for the off-contract people, it seems to have affected carriers who so far have been gun-shy in s supporting the ATIV S. To date, no US carrier has announced this phone, which is most shocking for AT&T who has been a big supporter of Samsung Windows Phones in the past.
Having said that, we wouldn't be surprised to see some late-carrier additions of this phone when Samsung gets it together.
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My pre-bankruptcy court hearing is on Nov. 9th in california. However, because the courts are backed up here, my chap. 7 bankruptcy may not be discharged for at least 3-5 months. I want to move to colorado and rent an apartment in march, however, my fear is that my bankruptcy may not be discharged before then. Can i rent before my bankruptcy has been discharged? I am moving to Colorado.
Thank You!
ANSWER: The fact that you are in a bankruptcy case should not prevent you from renting a necessary place to live. Second you do not have to remain in California while your case is pending in the bankruptcy courts.
Will it make it more difficult to rent a place? I've looked at a few places in Colorado and I was told that my bankruptcy must be discharged prior to me filing an application and that no one would rent to someone who has an open bankruptcy


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Unprecedented Demand for Tickets was More Than Twice Seating Capacity; Largest Organized Supporters Section in U.S. Soccer History Will be on Hand
CHICAGO (Aug. 2, 2013) – The U.S. Men's National Team will be playing in front of a capacity crowd when it faces Mexico on Sept. 10 in a 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
The demand for tickets for the match was unprecedented in U.S. Soccer history, with more than twice as many requests than could be accommodated. The seating capacity for Columbus Crew Stadium is slightly more than 24,000.
Individuals that applied through the lottery phase will be informed today via email whether they were selected or not to purchase tickets.
The sell-out crowd will be energized by the presence of the largest organized supporters section in U.S. Soccer history. More than 9,000 members will occupy 27 sections, which is more than three times larger than any group of organized supporters for a previous match.
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"It's absolutely huge that the stadium is sold out for USA-Mexico," said U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "The atmosphere for our game against Jamaica last year was one of the best I have ever seen, and we really need that support when we play our biggest rival. To have more than 9,000 organized supporters there is awesome. We have been working hard for two years to build a great relationship with the fans, and it's only getting bigger."
The match kicks off at 8 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live on ESPN, WatchESPN and UniMas. Fans can also follow the match live on ESPN Deportes Radio, online via ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and on Twitter @ussoccer.
For those in the Columbus area, U.S. Soccer's Headquarters will be at Easton Town Center starting on Friday, Sept. 6. The night before the match on Monday, Sept. 9, U.S. Soccer will host a Pep Rally with U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann and select players at The Bluestone. More details will be announced on ussoccer.com.
With four games remaining in World Cup Qualifying, the USA leads the Hexagonal with a 4-1-1 record and 13 points, followed by Costa Rica (3-1-2, 11 points) and Mexico (1-0-5, 8 points). The top three CONCACAF teams automatically qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the fourth-place team will face New Zealand in a playoff to determine the final spot.
The USA recently won its fifth CONCACAF Gold Cup crown after defeating Panama 1-0 on July 28 at Soldier Field in Chicago. The U.S. also extended its record winning streak to 11 games and improved to 12-2-2 on the year.
The next match for the U.S. is a friendly against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday, Aug. 14 in Sarajevo. Kickoff at Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium is set for 8:30 p.m. local (2:30 p.m. ET). The match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and WatchESPN. Fans can also follow the match live on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and on Twitter @ussoccer.
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What you need to know about the new White House Budget Director
-This article was originally published at Hot Air.
Who is Shaun Donovan?
Recently confirmed by the Senate to head the White House's budget office, Donovan at first appears to be a typical bureaucrat. He has held the position of Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 2009, and has now been promoted to one of the highest offices in the U.S. bureaucracy.
However, a look at Donovan's tenure at HUD and his lack of knowledge about America's fiscal circumstances shows that the Senate should have opposed his nomination. Instead, a majority of Republicans and every voting Democrat ignored Donovan's ignorance about the federal budget and entitlements, as well as probable fraud at HUD under his leadership.
How little does Donovan know? Consider what Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, said on the Senate floor in opposition to Donovan's nomination. Sessions noted, per Donovan's written testimony to the Senate Budget Committee, that Donovan has "not written any papers or given any talks or lectures that specifically lay out a comprehensive plan for Medicare or Social Security."
Also, according to Sessions, "in response to one question about Medicare data, Mr. Donovan told me the data did not exist. The data does in fact exist, and Mr. Donovan's response cited the very report in which the data could be found."
Finally, Sessions pointed out that "at his hearing, Mr. Donovan could not answer fundamental questions from Senator Johnson about the Social Security Trust Fund." During that hearing, Johnson asked Donovan if he found agreement with how the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) — which Donovan now heads — described the Social Security Trust Fund in 2010. As Johnson summarized the OMB report, "you have an asset in the Trust Fund offset by the liability, netting to zero value for the federal government."
Donovan's answer was to regurgitate political talking points. Specifically, he said that "it's important for seniors to understand that those are full faith and credit obligations of the U.S. government…" He then said that — emphasis added — "if [the Trust Fund and liabilities] are offsetting, I believe…that the Trust Fund is a useful tool for the American people and seniors to understand transparently the long-term costs of Social Security."
Donovan followed this non-answer with several nonsensical responses to Johnson's next question, regarding how the Treasury would redeem Trust Fund assets in the form of Treasury bonds. He appeared to not know the proper answer: that taxes would have to rise, benefits would have to be cut, or more debt would have to be incurred.
He did eventually confess, at least in part, to a piece of the truth: that deficits greater than what could be funded by existing revenues "would have to be financed." In other words, the federal government would have to borrow the money.
Clearly, what a senior Senate aide told me is correct: Donovan does not understand what the Social Security Trust Fund is, or the severity of Social Security's financial problems.
Yet the Senate Budget Committee approved his nomination, and the Senate allowed him to head up one of the most important finance-related offices in the federal government. In a statement to me, Johnson, who voted against Donovan, said that he did so because Donovan was dishonest.
"Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen were willing to acknowledge what the Office of Management and Budget's own publication stated — that the trust fund consists of an asset offset by a liability, netting to zero," said the Senator. "They were willing to be truthful with the American public. Shaun Donovan was not."
It is not just a lack of knowledge that should have kept Donovan from heading up OMB. Sessions' speech also highlighted a fraud investigation taking place by the Inspector General (IG) of HUD. According to the IG report, published on May 30 of this year, a non-staff consultant for HUD was paid $622,369 from February 14, 2011 through February 27, 2014, from an account that was illegally accessed for the payments.
As one Hill staffer told me, "we could see the OMB director simultaneously in office and in jail" over the investigation.
Furthermore, Sessions noted that in 2013, only two of 24 federal agencies failed their annual audits. One was the Department of Defense, and the other was HUD — under Donovan's leadership. And this was the second failure in a row for HUD.
In light of these concerns, I contacted Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patti Murray's (D-WA) office several times to ask about Donovan's nomination. Her office did not respond, leaving me to wonder why Murray, her Democratic colleagues, and even many Republican Senators seem unwilling to fulfill their constitutional obligations to give "advice and consent" for executive branch nominees.


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How much wind power is available way up high in the sky? Turns out a lot, according to new research from the Carnegie Institution for Science and California State University. Researchers there recently crunched 28 years worth of data and discovered not only that high altitude winds contain enough energy to meet the world's global energy demand 100 times over, but they also determined that the best places to capture that wind are over population centers in East Asia and the eastern US. Which means New York City is a prime candidate for high altitude wind energy captured by tethered kite wind turbines.
Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Cristina Archer of California State University, Chico have created the first wind energy maps for high altitudes, and have assessed the potential wind energy density (kW/m²), which factors in both wind speed and air density. Their findings show that wind energy density is highest near populations centers, specifically over Japan and eastern China, the eastern coast of the United States, southern Australia, and north-eastern Africa. In those areas at high altitude, the average wind energy density is 10 kW/m² – compare that to the wind energy at ground level, which is, at best, 1 kW/m².
Ideally, the researchers say, "you would like to be up near the jet streams, around 30,000 feet," where the "winds blow much more strongly and steadily than near-surface winds." Jet streams winds are 10 times faster than surface winds making them that much steadier and reliable for renewable energy generation, despite their seasonal shift. A number of technologies have been proposed to capture this steady supply of wind, including tethered wind kites, which could generate up to 40 MW of power with current designs.
The Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power also studied the wind resources of the world's five largest cities – New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Sao Paulo and Mexico City. The cities located further north (New York, Tokyo, and Seoul) all had better high-altitude resources than Sao Paulo and Mexico City, which are located in tropical latitudes. The northernmost cities are all regularly affected by jet streams, and New York City has the highest wind energy density at 16 kW/m². Naturally though, the wind isn't blowing constantly in the upper atmosphere and even in the best locations the wind doesn't blow for 5% of the time. But even still, high-altitude winds could provide an amazing amount of power, if we can develop the wind turbine technology to capture it safely.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's tennis team fell 4-1 in an Atlantic Sun Conference match to Stetson on Friday at Huston-Marsh- Griffith Tennis Center on the Lipscomb campus. The match was played in a clinch format.
"It was a tough match today but the guys played well," Lipscomb coach Mario Hernandez said. "We were close in getting the doubles point, but came up just short."
The Bisons dropped to 1-4 in conference play with the loss.
In doubles play, Lipscomb's pair of Stuart Tierney & Miguel Cortez defeated SU's pair of Laurynas Antropikas & Chester Espie , 8-6.
In singles, Daniel Hernandez at No. 3 recorded the Bisons only victory against SU's Simon Julin. (6-4, 6-1)
David Salazar at No. 2 lost in straight sets to the Hatters Laurynas Antropika (7-6(5), 6-3.
"My ankle is almost 100 percent and I am moving better," Salazar said. "It was a close match and overall the team fought well and left everything they had on the court. I am very proud of them."
"The boys fought really hard today," John Tougher said. "Unfortunately we came up just short, but we will reset and come back tomorrow for another important match.
"We hope to have a big crowd out for what is now our biggest match of the year."
Miguel Cortez at No. 5 for the Bison was leading 6-2 in the match before Stetson clinched.
"It was a tough loss," said Cortez. "We were really close in getting the doubles point."
"We have another great opportunity tomorrow and we will go from there," Hernandez said.
Lipscomb will be back in action against Florida Gulf Coast tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Match Results:
- Nathan Debut (SU) def. Rob Mitchell (Lip) 6-4,7-5
- Laurynas Antropikas (SU) def. David Salazar (Lip) 7-6(5), 6-3
- Daniel Hernandez (Lip) def. Simon Julin (SU) 6-4, 6-1
- Cahit Kapukiran (SU) def. Stuart Tierney (Lip) 6-2, 6-2
- Miguel Cortez (Lip) vs. Graham Ball (SU) – DNF 6-2
- Nacor Ibanez (Lip) vs. Chester Espie (SU) 1-6,0-2
Tierney / Cortez (Lip) def. Espie/ Antropikas (SU) 8-6
Debut/ Riseng Hans Adrian (SU) def. Hernandez/ Mitchell (Lip) 8-7(6)
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Your farm or ranch is more than a business, or even a way of life—it's your legacy, something that may have been in your family for generations. You want that to continue, so one day your grandchildren can walk the land their great-grandparents did, and take the same satisfaction in knowing what they do every day is a vital part of our economy.
But farm succession planning is not an easy task. Land, equipment, equity, your own retirement—how do you even begin to think about handing your business over to the next generation? You'll need a team of professionals, including your insurance agent. But to help you get started here are a few things to consider when handing off a farm or ranch to the next generation.
Succession Planning for Farmers
Setting Goals
To develop an effective farm succession planning strategy, you need defined goals. What is your intention when you transfer the family farm to the next generation? You will need to have clearly-defined roles for your successor(s) as well as those who have a vested interest in the transfer but may not be working on the farm. Division of assets can be an emotionally fraught subject, so the more time you have to plan and set up expectations for your family, the better off you—and they—will be.
Every family situation is different, and in the interest of the overall health and success of your agricultural operation, the best thing you can do is take a step back and look at your succession goals as critically and unemotionally as possible. Ask yourself these questions:
- Would your successor(s) be as committed to the land and family business as you are?
- Are they in it for the long haul?
- When the time comes, will you be ready to share control and management decisions?
The best business decision could be difficult for some members of the family, but keeping the business at the center of your decision-making can help ensure the continued success of your farm or ranch operation.
Transferring Ownership
You know your operation has a lot of moving parts, so transferring ownership is an important step of your farm succession plan. Some things to considering when transferring your farm or ranch to your successor:
This can be dealt with in a variety of ways. It can be sold, either outright, in installments, or ownership can be transferred when the machine is traded. These all have tax implications, so you will want to consult with your tax advisor to decide which option will work best for you. Gifting machinery may help limit some income tax consequences, but could also result in a gift tax. Finally, the machinery can be leased to your successor, but you will have to determine beforehand who will pay for repairs.
Feed and Livestock
As with machinery, there are many ways to transfer ownership of feed and livestock. When dealing with breeding livestock, you may choose to sell a portion of your breeding herd to your successor. Payments can be made in installments, or you may choose a roll-over approach, where you continue to own the breeding herd, but you and your successor share joint ownership of the offspring.
Feed and market livestock can also be sold or given, and it's up to you to decide when is the best time for that to happen, but many choose to transfer at the low point of the feed inventory (just before harvest), or between the sale and replacement of market livestock.
Instead of selling your successor an interest in your market livestock, the livestock can also be inventoried (you will receive the inventory value of the livestock when it's sold, and the remaining proceeds will be divided between you and your successor). This can also have tax implications, so review carefully with your tax professional.
When creating a farm succession plan, consider how you would like to transfer ownership of your land. Land can be transferred during your lifetime by sale or gift, or upon your death. Sales make take place through cash or installment.
Gifting your land to your children can help with gift taxes, especially if you're dividing it among several people; you can give up to $10,000 of property each year (to as many people as you'd like) without having to pay a gift tax.
However, gifting a property means that you are also giving up any right to ownership of that property – which means you may end up paying rent to your heirs.
Transferring upon death is the most common option for just such a reason, because it allows you to use the property and receive income from it all through retirement. Tax laws vary regarding inheritance; again, consulting with a tax professional is a very important step before making any land transfer decisions.
Where Can I Learn More About Farm Succession Planning?
By taking a look at your assets long before you're ready to transfer ownership of your farm or ranch, you're giving yourself time to choose the decision that's best for your family. Transferring your farm or ranch property over to the next generation isn't an easy task, but you're not alone. And if you have more questions, your local Farm Bureau agent can help you with the process and ensure that your farm or ranch remains in your family for generations to come.
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A Solemn Discharge of Duty
One of the most popular sermons I have preached is entitled "How to Fire Your Pastor." I should have been suspicious when so many people requested copies of it! My purpose wasn't to advocate such action; rather, I wanted …Read More
Some Will Apostatize
The Bible never sugarcoats the painful realities of living in a fallen world. Sin is portrayed in all of its dark hues, and the best of men are acknowledged to be at best, mere men. Similarly, the church is portrayed …Read More
No Little People
"With God there are no little people." So wrote Francis Schaeffer echoing the meaning of Paul's words in the first three verses of 1 Timothy 5: "Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a …Read More
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With three decades plus change in the pastoral ministry, the gospel seems to be getting bigger and Jesus is appearing more gracious than ever. Maybe that's because I've never been more aware of my brokenness and more disrupted by longings …Read More
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Q. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and …Read More
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We have a jam packed New Year's Eve for you today LIVE on Ustream.TV.
First, SQPN will be doing a New Year's Eve Podcast Marathon all day. Be sure to drop in and say hi. They are trying to raise money to support SQPN in 2008:
Next, in partnership with EQ.TV, we will be bringing you Paul Rodgers (remember Bad Company's Feel Like Making Love!) LIVE in concert starting at 6pm EST/3pm PST:
Finally, starting at 9pm EST/6pm PST Congressman Dennis Kucinich "Resolution For Peace Concert" will be bringing you a variety of musicians who support the Congressman:
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Illinois State Police have conducted special patrols in the last week focusing on impaired drivers and people who were not using their seat belt.
Troopers arrested one person for driving under the influence and two others on drug or alcohol-related offenses during a detail in Macoupin County Dec. 28. Troopers also issued six speeding tickets during that patrol.
A day later in Montgomery County, troopers issued 17 tickets for seat belt violations.


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Welcome to the CRG Discussion Forum!Forum registration problems: Make sure you enter your email correctly and you check your spam box first. *Then* email KurtS2@gmail for help.Classified ads are not allowed on the forum.
KurtS...Not sure if this will help with your research of the Yellow Light Radio but here are some pics of a Blue-Light. The car is a '69 Van Nuys 12A build. Let me know if more pics are needed. The sticker in the 3rd&4th pic, looks like when the unit was repaired. The servicer applied a repair/service tag dated 3/3/1995 for possibly repair warranty validation. Can anyone tell me what the sticker on the 3rd & 4Th pic means. I believe this is the correct radio for the car but this March 30, 1995 tag . Could it be a recondition inspection sticker or is it the wrong radio?http://www.camaros.org/TopicsofResearch.shtml
Radio Contd...looks like someone took a file to the mounting bracket. Anyone know what this sticker is for?
on the topic of the yellow light radio - I have a yellow light am/fm radio, I always thought it was a 70's model or from when the dealer installed the 8-trackI know the radio is not stereo Is there a way to verify the radio is from 69 (it has no sticker on it any longer)?
Is there a possibility that a "Blue-Light" FM2 designation was used for early production '69 camaros? Everything my radio has is consistant with a factory blue-light install, AIM U79 A2, down to original factory labels on radio and cables.The radio has been serviced as indicated by the label, but I can't see why anyone would go through the trouble of changing tags, casing, or interior components. Can anyone help?
paceme - here is a pic of the back of the radio


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Heavy, wet snow and wind are causing trees and branches to fall. Lincoln residents are asked to call the Lincoln Police Department's non-emergency number at 402-441-6000 to report fallen trees and limbs that are blocking streets. Community Forestry crews are working to open streets so that snow removal operations can proceed. The first priority is removing trees and limbs from arterial streets, and the second priority will be removing trees and limbs from residential streets.
If branches are down on sidewalks or in the public right of way between the sidewalk and the curb, residents are asked to call the Community Forestry phone number 402-441-7035, or e-mail the location of the tree debris to firstname.lastname@example.com. Community Forestry staff will begin removing street tree debris after priority work to open streets is completed.


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Established in 1989 to meet the growing demand for short and long term financial commitments, the President's Partners are a society of loyal Cameron University donors. Year after year these donors give $1,000 to the Cameron University Foundation. The majority of those funds are allocated to scholarships for Freshmen and Sophomores while the remainder allows the university to create state-of-the-art facilities, fund faculty and student research, enhance educational resources, and support CU's Study Abroad Program.
President's Partners
By becoming a member of this elite group, you are benefitting CU students and faculty while simultaneously earning your own benefits. Being a member of President's Partners entitles you to the following:
- Invitations to special events
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- A Cameron Magazine subscription
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- Listing in the CU Annual Report and on the Cameron University Foundation website
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When you pledge $1,000 to Cameron University through President's Partners, you may choose to make payments in full, bi-annually, or quarterly by check, credit card or payroll deduction.* You may also designate up to half of your payment to the university program, scholarship, or lectureship of your choice! What a great way to contribute to Cameron University and its success while earning a tax deduction!
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These individuals, organizations, and businesses are donors who pledge $1,000 annually to Cameron University's President's Partners fund.
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These individuals, organizations, and businesses are donors who have pledged at least $10,000 to the President's Partners program.
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Russell Brand has filed for divorce from Katy Perry ... TMZ has learned.
In the docs, filed in L.A., Brand cites "irreconcilable differences." The two were married Oct. 23, 2010 in India. They have no kids.
The divorce docs say there are "community property assets" -- it's a sign there might not be a prenup, or if there is one it doesn't cover all of the earnings and other assets they accumulated.
The docs do not give a date the couple separated.
Russell has released a statement, claiming, "Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage. I'll always adore her and I know we'll remain friends."
Russell proposed to Katy in India on New Year's Eve 2009 -- nearly two years ago ... to the day.
Sources had told TMZ the couple was having problems, evidenced by the fact that they spent Christmas apart and neither was wearing a wedding ring.
Although it's not 100%, based on what we now know it appears Brand may have blindsided Perry by filing the divorce petition.
Russell appeared on "Ellen" just this month, slamming divorce rumors (below) -- claiming, "I'm really happily married ... I'm married to Katy. Perpetually, until death do us part was the pledge. I'm still alive."
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I suspect that I am about to bring the Wrath of Ed down on me, but here it goes...
There are quite a few Java code generators that can take an arbitrary XML Schema and spit out tons of code that a developer doesn't have to write. There is JAXB, Apache XMLBeans and of course EMF. I am sure there are others. While code generators save us a lot of time, the push-button approach can lead to dumbing down of our models.
I would argue that there are relatively few core modeling patterns, but the flexibility of XML makes it easy to express these patterns in a variety of ways. The generated code then unintentionally surfaces (rather than hiding) these XML serialization details in the model layer. This forces the clients of the model to deal with inconsistent and often difficult to use API.
Consider the basic example of a boolean property. I have seen at least three different ways of representing that in XML:
<some-flag-enabled/> <!-- absence means false -->
<some flag value="true"/> <!-- the attribute is required -->
The above three cases would generate different model code even though from the modeling perspective, they represent the same construct.
A more complex pattern is the selector-details construct where selector is a type enumeration and details provide settings specific to the type. I stopped counting how many different ways I've seen that pattern represented. Here are two of the most common examples:
Example 1: An explicit type element controls which property elements are applicable.
<type>...</type> <!-- valid values are X and Y -->
<property-1>...</property-2> <!-- associated with type X -->
<property-2>...</property-2> <!-- associated with type Y -->
<property-3>...</property-3> <!-- associated with type X and type Y -->
Example 2: In this case, the elements alternative-x and alternative-y are mutually exclusive. The element names are functioning as type selectors.
I would argue that the the above cases are semantically identical and therefore should have the same representation in the Java model. Of course, that doesn't happen. All of the existing code generators that I am aware of will produce drastically different code for these two alternatives.
So why should we care? I would argue that in many cases, while we are saving time by generating model code, the cost savings are at the expense of complicating the model consumer code. Recently, I took over a project at Oracle that was building a form-based editors for several rather complicated WebLogic Server deployment descriptors. The schemas of these descriptors evolved over many server releases and many people had a hand at augmenting them. The result is a complete lack of consistency. You could say that perhaps the schemas should have been more carefully evolved, but I would argue that they represent a rather realistic example of what real world complex schemas look like. In any case, the first attempt at building these editors was to generate an EMF model based on the XSDs and to build UI that would bind to EMF. That worked ok for a while, but eventually the UI code started to get too complicated. Many of the UI binding code had to be hand-written. It ultimately made sense to throw away the generated model code and to hand-code the model. That allowed us to arbitrarily control how model surfaces XML constructs and made it possible to reduce the amount of custom UI code that was necessary by literally several orders of magnitude.
I am certainly not trying to say that generated model code is a bad idea, but the ease with which it is possible to toss an XSD into a code generator and get a bunch of model code in return plays part in encouraging developers to pay less attention than is really necessary to the model layer.


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Congrats to J-Town. It was a pleasure playing today with Dave K and Randy. It was great that Frank walked most of the round with us.
Thanks for hosting J-Town! Had a blast with a great card. Thanks Tom for another gathering of the faithful. Already looking forward to next year.


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The Montana Land Board has voted to grant easements for the Keystone XL pipeline.
These leases would allow the company Trans-Canada to build their pipeline through property owned by the state of Montana as long as the project passes environmental review.
The controversial proposed pipeline still has a long process ahead of it before construction can begin.
The last action item of Governor Brian Schweitzer's last meeting with the Montana Land Board was an item of national interest on Monday–granting nearly 40 land easements to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
TransCanada needs these easements to cross the Keystone Pipeline through parcels of state land as it makes its way south. The controversial pipeline would run from oil sands in northeastern Alberta, Canada all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas.
Supporters say the project would help the US toward its goal of North American energy independence and also say it would create jobs.
Opponents fault the environmental impacts from Keystone. Several of those critics made their opinions known to the Land Board. College student Colton Hash pointed out extracting oil from the Canadian tar sands results in the release of more greenhouse gas emissions than more conventional measures.
"The impacts from climate change we should be taking very seriously especially in relation to Montana's agriculture and Montana's wildfires," Hash said.
"We are not dealing with your everyday crude oil in this pipeline," said Executive Director of the Montana Environmental Information Center.
The tar extracted from the sands in Canada needs to be mixed with chemicals in order to produce a type of synthetic crude oil. Jensen says this mixture has not been properly tested for its impacts on aquatic environments, and the 36 inch wide keystone pipeline would cross under several Montana rivers.
TransCanada says it has agreed to bury the pipeline 40 feet beneath the bed of major Montana rivers.
Governor Schweitzer says those with environmental concerns are coming to the wrong place in making these arguments.
"Asking the Land Board to assess the environmental capabilities of any particular case would be like going to an auto mechanic and asking him to fix your jet," Schweitzer said.
Schweitzer says the Land Board simply votes whether or not to grant leases or easements for these types of projects.
A company like TransCanada cannot move forward with their project unless it passes the permitting process at the Department of Environmental Quality. Keystone has passed this permitting from DEQ.
It's just another step in a long process for the pipeline.
The project faces court battles in other states. Keystone also needs Presidential approval for crossing international borders.
Montana gets paid once this Presidential permit is granted.
The Land Board sold the 50-year easements to TransCanada for over $740 thousand dollars. The money would go to Montana schools.


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Yesterday Round 3 of the Cyprus Sunshine Cup took place and I am in bits. Like a truck had run over me, put in the reverse gear and rolled over me again. Not because I went super hard - my legs actually feel fine, not very tired at all, but because I crashed about 5 times on the course. I have to admit, whereas previously I was always a bit skeptic about the robustness of a carbon fiber bike, I can safely say now that my S-Works Epic has been thoroughly crash tested and I would trust it blindly: while my bike didn't receive any blemish, I've added a fair amount of bruises and scratches to my body yesterday.
The course was just outside Limassol, at Amathous-Agios Tychon, some famous old ruins (a famous Acropolis wall, amongst them). A lap was 5.76km long going around and through these ancient ruins with 175m of climb. Ladies had a startloop + 4 laps and men had a startloop + 6 laps. But this doesn't say much about the terrain of the course. First of all it was very different from the other 2 races which contained a lot of fireroad. This course was the most technical and fun course in the Cyprus Sunshine Cup so far. Almost all of it was technical single track, either descending steep or loose rocky descents or rock steps along a cliff, climbing steep granny ring requiring hills or traversing on rocky, bumpy, jittery benchcut singletrack along the ancient Acropolis wall - a real fun full suss course. In my first pre-ride lap I thought I wouldn't be able to ride it all, but all of it (bar a loose ground steep climb that I never got) was actually rideable, you just had to keep concentrating the whole time, there was absolutely no letup. The day before the race we went up to register and ride another lap or two and also found out that the bit along the beach was actually not on the wooden walkway as we had assumed, but along the beach itself, with a killer descent down to it, jeez.....
Not only was the course super technical and challenging, the competition was just as challenging. There was real prominence there with Olympic gold-medalist 2008 Sabine Spitz (Germany, Central Ghost Pro Team, ranked 1st in the world), Specialized World Team rider Lene Byberg from Norway, Alexandra Engen who won all the other races in the Sunshine cup so far, Elisabeth Osl (Austria, Central Ghost Pro Team, ranked 6th in UCI world ranking), Tereza Hurikova (Czech, CESKA SPORITELNA MTB, 10th in UCI world ranking) and the German national team, just to name a few. However, some of the other high competition from the first two races were gone, such as Petra Henzi, Ivonne Kraft, Arielle van Meurs, so I was hoping that I would be able to get a similar result to last week (around 8th/9th place).
On race day (super early start: 9am!) my legs felt good. I was happy also to hear that they had taken out the bit down by the sea, since the water was about half a meter high, so we went along the wooden walkway instead. We lined up at the start and I was very focused. I actually felt good and was looking forward to the course. Whistle blown and we went off along the start loop. The group divided quite quickly and I was able to bridge up to the top group and stay with them. We went down the first singletrack descent, I was able to make up a position by overtaking a girl just before the singletrack, now riding in about 6th position, descended and *WHAM!* - I was lying on the ground. There was a drop down a wall that I got fine, but I didn't follow the single track line after the drop exactly and rode into a hidden rock in the grass, endoed and was catapulted through the air. The impact was actually quite severe and I thought I had gotten a concussion. The girls behind me started yelling (eh, sorry, I didn't crash on purpose), but hey, I wouldn't be Mel if I didn't get back onto the bike quickly (it was perfect, thank god!) and rode on. This incident cost me a good few positions but I tried my best to refocus and get back on to the girls.
Then the next bit is a bit of a blur, but I saw Githa ahead of me - she's been my target in all the other races and I was happy to see her, because she's the perfect person for me to hang on, just a little faster than me (yet... - I will get her soon!!). So I followed her and she followed a German Rothaus Cube rider. There was no other girls in the near vicinity before or after us. I rode all the technical bits really well and felt good, maybe a bit dead on the steep climbs, but a few times I underestimated the loose dry ground on the "easy" straight sections and I washed out another few times, eventually loosing contact to Githa, but still ahead of the Rothaus Cube girl.
Finally, after another stupid crash and a lost chain - I had to keep telling myself to take it easier and to concentrate - I was overtaken by the Rothaus Cube girl. I stuck on to her till the end and I tried to get her in a sprint finish that I started coming out of the singletrack onto the finish straight about 10 sec behind her and I almost got her, finishing only 3 hundreds of a second behind her. Damn, but she deserves it. Instead of riding inconsistently and letting concentration slip on easy single track and paying for it by washing out and crashing she kept focused and concentrated and rode the course consistently without crashing.
My legs felt well today and I really enjoyed the course, but I still felt I couldn't tap into my high intensity potential. But my heartrate was up with an average of 167 bpm for the race, so I definitely wasn't tootling. Maybe the girls are just better and I am expecting too much in what is only my second real season as an Elite rider. I keep forgetting that all of the girls ahead of me have been cycling at a high level for years already.
Anyway, I came in 10th in the end and had had a great race. And this is definitely setting me up well for fast technical riding. It's amazing what kind of jumps in technical ability you make when you throw yourself into the deep end. It's good also to race on bone dry courses like these for a change, so different from Irish muddy courses. Bone dry (not an Irish bone dry, but dusty dry) courses aren't actually as grippy as I had expected, the bit of sand and gravel on them make them real slide traps.
Lene Byberg won the race, 10min 49 secs ahead of me (she's like Emil Lindgren, floating effortlessly and elegantly around the course, barely touching the ground, like an elf!), closely followed by Tereza Hurikova and Alexandra Engen. Sabine Spitz was in 4th and Elisabeth Osl came in 5th. I'm not feeling so bad now, only coming 6min behind Sabine. It's OK to get your ass kicked by an Olympic champion ;)
Another great thing about these races is hanging out afterwards and chatting to some really interesting people with really cool jobs from all over the world. The nice thing was that Ryan's race was on after mine, so I could wander around the course and take some great pics (as Ryan had done during my race) and get to know some nice people.
As usual, thanks to Frederick from the Bike Station for doing our feed zone and tech support - we've been really taken care off since we were here (including a thorough bike service to find a creaking noise, some dirt and water had come into some joints, copious amounts of chain oil, lend of new pedals, transport, food, advice on training, riding, the mountain biking scene etc. etc.).
Thanks to Cycleways, Specialized, and KCNC for making it possible for me to ride such an amazing light and well-handling but amazingly robust bike. It's great to be able to just rely on your bike. Thanks to Torq as usual for fueling us during our races. People are shocked by the amount of Torq drink and gels Ryan and I consume during our races. Thanks also to my college who gave me a sports scholarship that allows me to go to these important early season races. And the biggest thanks always goes to Ryan. I wouldn't be here without you.
Some great descending in the course
Results from this round can be found on the Cyprus Sunshine Results page and on Cyclingnews.com. The general classification from the cup after this penultimate round can be found on mtb-live.com.
Reports are up on the Cyprus Sunshine Cup website and on mtb-live.com.
Reports are up on the Cyprus Sunshine Cup website and on mtb-live.com.


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U.S. Shares Little Changed on Correction Fears
Worries about a possible correction led to a flat markets session in a deal-heavy day. Polya Lesova reports on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Figosa camera straps Figosa straps first came to my attention a while back when someone linked me to them on twitter. And I liked what I saw, hand made Italian leather camera straps, crafted with passion. Now I have one and I can tell you, they are worth every penny.


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Gambian pouched rat
|Gambian pouched rat
|A Gambian pouched rat in captivity
|Scientific classification
C. gambianus
|Binomial name
|Cricetomys gambianus
Waterhouse, 1840
The Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also known as the African giant pouched rat, is a nocturnal pouched rat of the giant pouched rat genus Cricetomys, and is among the largest muroids in the world, growing up to about 0.9 metres (3 ft) long including their tail which makes up half their length.[2] It is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging geographically from Senegal to Kenya and from Angola to Mozambique (although it is absent from much of the DR Congo, where Emin's pouched rat is present) and in altitude from sea level to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).[1]
The Gambian pouched rat has very poor eyesight and so depends on its senses of smell and hearing. Its name comes from the large, hamster-like pouches in its cheeks. It is not a true rat but is part of an African branch of muroid rodents. It typically weighs between 1 and 1.4 kilograms (2.2 and 3.1 lb).[2] In its native Africa, the pouched rat lives in colonies of up to twenty, usually in forests and thickets, but also commonly in termite mounds. It is omnivorous, feeding on vegetables, insects, crabs, snails and other items, but apparently preferring palm fruits and palm kernels.
Unlike domestic rats, it has cheek pouches like a hamster. These cheek pouches allow it to gather up several kilograms of nuts per night for storage underground. It has been known to stuff its pouches so full of date palm nuts so as to be hardly able to squeeze through the entrance of its burrow. The burrow consists of a long passage with side alleys and several chambers, one for sleeping and the others for storage. The Gambian pouched rat reaches sexual maturity at 5–7 months of age. It has up to four litters every nine months, with up to six offspring in each litter. Males are territorial and tend to be aggressive when they encounter one another.
Invasive species[edit]
Gambian pouched rats have become an invasive species on Grassy Key in the Florida Keys,[3] after a private breeder allowed the animals to escape.[4] This outsized African rodent is also believed to be responsible for the 2003 outbreak of monkeypox in the United States, after spreading it to prairie dogs which were purchased as pets. In 2003, the United States' CDC and FDA issued an order preventing the importation of the rodents following the first reported outbreak of monkeypox. Around 20 individuals were affected.[5]
Ability to detect land mines and tuberculosis by scent[edit]
A Tanzanian social enterprise founded by two Belgians, APOPO, trains Gambian pouched rats to detect land mines and tuberculosis with their highly developed sense of smell. The trained pouched rats are called HeroRATS. The rats are cheaper to train than mine-detecting dogs; a rat requires $7,300 for nine months of training, whereas a dog costs about $25,000 for training.[6]
Currently studies are being conducted in various countries about the best ways to train these rats, and determine their abilities and limits to detecting mines.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b van der Straeten, E.; Kerbis Peterhans, J.; Howell, K. & Oguge, N. (2008). "Cricetomys gambianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
- ^ a b Kingdon, J. (1997). The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. p. 199-200. ISBN 0-12-408355-2
- ^ "More huge Gambian rats found on Grassy Key", keysnet.com, March 25, 2012, archived from the original on 2012-03-28
- ^ Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats, Reuters, 2007
- ^ Conlon, Michael (2008-10-06). "Kids want an exotic pet? Ask your doctor first". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
- ^ http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-donations-can-now-fund-mine-detecting-super-rats/
- Novak, R.M. and Paradiso, J.L.; Walkers Mammals of the World, Vol II. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991.
- Perry, N. D., et al. 2006. "New invasive species in southern Florida: Gambian rat (Cricetomys gambianus)". Journal of Mammalogy, 87:262-264.
- Peterson, A. T., et al. 2006. "Native range ecology and invasive potential of Cricetomys in North America". Journal of Mammalogy, 87:427-432.
- [1] - a story from National Geographic News regarding the use of giant pouched rats and bees to detect land mines in Africa
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cricetomys gambianus.


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You might think your souped-up computer is great for withstanding any task you throw at it without crashing, but the University College London (UCL) has a computer that actually never crashes. According to New Scientist, the "systemic" computer, as it's dubbed, was designed by UCL's Peter Bentley and Christos Sakellariou to mimic nature's chaos and randomness.
The systemic computer prevents an impending crash by quickly repairing corrupted data and carrying out several tasks simultaneously. Let's say you give the computer something to do. It divides the result into several copies or "systems," which are executed all at once so if one system crashes, the computer can simply access another system to carry out your command. Ordinary computers, however, carry out results by going through the process in a linear fashion. It doesn't create several copies of the result like the systemic computer does, so if it can't access a part of its memory that it needs to execute a task, it crashes.
Bentley and Sakellariou are working on giving the computer the ability to rewrite its own code as a response to environmental factors. In the future, this super-smart computer could be used for scientific research and mission-critical machines, like drones that can reprogram themselves as a response to damage, or even on remote search-and-rescue robots that can make adjustments based on its environment.
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