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Less than tepid.
Not enthusiastic.
In fact, rather negative.
Those were the reactions from the New Hampshire House when, at 11:03 a.m., nearly an hour into her budget address, Governor Hassan announced her decision to build $80 million of revenue for a single casino into her revenue projections for the coming biennium.
If there was any doubt (and to me at least, there never was) that the New Hampshire House is no more willing than ever before to approve expanded gambling, the silence in response to Governor Hassan's plea (and indeed it was a plea) spoke volumes.
Last night when I heard Democratic Rep Dan Eaton note on one of the nightly newscasts that a gambling plan was 12 votes short of passage, my reaction was it's closer to 40 or 50 votes shy.
After today's (Thursday, Feb. 14) speech, it should be clear to all pundits that I'm closer than Eaton (and I bet even he would admit it) on a vote come this spring.
Keep an open mind on this; the Governor was relegated to a posture close to begging after virtually no one (maybe 20 people) stood to applaud her gambling proposal, and this was from a chamber which seemed intent on standing for virtually every pronouncement during a long and small ball speech.
At least three times, in fact, the Governor asked for applause, a strange phenomenon, one I've never experienced in 17 years of watching these things.
To truly grasp how minimalist the Hassan budget is, one needed to parse the language closely. I'm not on Finance this year (very happily on criminal justice, thank you very much), but I still know how to parse and add!
She did not fully restore funding to the university system as promised during the campaign. She promised in increase of $20 million the first year and an additional $15 million the second year. You do the math. That would be $55 million (20 and 20 and 15) when $100 million was cut last year. The governor said that amounts to restoring funding to 90 percent, but that all depends on how you work the math. It really amounts to a restoration of just over half the amount cut by the Republican legislature last year. In other words, for all the blasting that Hassan and Democrats did at Republicans; even with $80 million for a gambling plan most likely never to see the light of day; the governor could get just slightly halfway to filling her promise.
Let us parse a few more phrases. Rather than saying her budget would restore funding for CHINS (Children in Need of Services), Hassan chose the words "begin to restore CHINS funding". What does that mean? That there will be very little restoration, I surmise. Prove me wrong.
She was more definitive on the developmentally disabled waiting list, promising to eliminate it. That was one of the few times I stood to applaud; in case you see me sitting while all around me are standing, consider this. I operate under the philosophy that if you stand for everything, it's tantamount to standing for nothing!
There was far too much ado about nothing in today's speech.
The governor promised for an extra five percent of rooms and meals taxes to go back to cities and towns, but here's the kicker — not until the second year of the biennium.
She said LChip (community land and heritage) will be fully funded, but again, not until the second year of the budget. She provides only a paltry $1 million the first year.
The devil, as always, is in the details … or the fine print in case of this speech.
While she said her budget does is based on repeal of the tax credit for school vouchers (I may have been the only Republican to stand for that one!), the Governor also threw a bucket of water on four previously passed plans to reduce business taxes. Her doubling of the research and development credit (to a paltry $2 million, more window dressing than anything else), the four reductions will be suspended if Hassan gets her way.
That's by no means a given; Republican senators will most likely push back hard on those plans.
Governor Hassan called for an additional 20 cents a pack tax on cigarettes on top of the 10 cents which was reduced by Republicans last year. That 30 cent boost drew the loudest applause of the morning, probably five or ten times more than the governor's call for gambling.
As for the all important revenue projections, Governor Hassan claimed she was being conservative, but I suspect not quite conservative enough. She projects a 2.0 percent increase in revenues the first year of the biennium, then 1.9 percent on top of that the second year. My guess is 1.5 but then I'm no longer on Ways and Means. A Republican on that committee just tells me he's looking at one percent.
In other words, even without the $80 million for a gambling plan which most likely will never pass, revenues seem somewhat, if not wildly, inflated.
Time will tell.
In one of the strangest moments of the day, Governor Hassan drew applause for promising she would veto any unbalanced budget, strange because the Constitution requires a balanced budget, and the House and Senate would never think of sending her an unbalanced one.
Go figure what some will do for an extra 20 seconds of applause!
The governor began her long address by noting that she had cut $500 million from department requests (often deemed a wish list). She said her budget is seven percent below the FY2008 level.
She said she will use the rainy day fund (there's not much of it left) to meet the expected shortfall for the current fiscal year.
While she spent a section of her speech detailing the need for additional highway monies, she did not specifically endorse any gas tax or registration fee increase.
She called for 15 new state troopers and funding in the capital budget for construction of a new women's prison.
With all the talk about innovation to meet our needs, I expected the Governor to endorse my plan to consolidate the cultural resources department (not!).
She promised to fully fund educational adequacy and called for $4 million for need-based scholarships to either public or private secondary schools. She had kind words for charter schools plans (a favorite of Republicans) but also called for more regulations (a favorite of Democrats, anathema to the GOP).
To recap, this was way too much ado about very little (if not nothing) and gambling lobbyists must have left pessimistic about their chances … oh well, all the more money will be poured in for their lobbying efforts.
Take that to the bank.
Truth in blogging — I have always supported your right to waste your money any way you so choose, including gambling, but I will never support a monopoly for one or two companies, most likely out of state companies, to print money. That's really what gambling is, a license to print money.
State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt
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CRESTVIEW � Rising fourth- through eighth-graders may register this Saturday for Lego robotics camp.
The camp, presented by Davidson and Shoal River middle schools, will feature a science, technology, electronics and mathematics, or STEM, curriculum. Campers can build levers, pulleys, pumps and valves, among other simple machines.
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In addition, campers can design, build and program Lego robots to perform certain tasks.
Davidson and Shoal River have First Lego League teams that participate in several competitions throughout the school year.
The teams� coaches, Tim Sexton and Laurie Allen, of Davidson and Shoal River, respectively, will run the camps.
Camp dates are July 8-18 or July 29 through Aug. 8. Each camp runs 8 a.m. to noon.
The cost is $150 per student. June 29 is the deadline to register with full payment.
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Beautifully Organized: Craft Rooms
Creative people are not always known for their organization skills, so it's always inspiring and enviable to see perfectly organized craft rooms. Even if a few of these rooms look too good to be true, they all can give us something to aspire to.
Top Row (left to right):
1. Leslie Shewring's Dreamy Crafting Space, Where Women Create
2. Black and White with a Pop of Pink, Claire Bock
3. A chic craft room inspired by Hermes, Better Homes and Gardens
4. A monochromatic sewing room, House and Home
5. Darcy Miller's Craft Room, Martha Stewart
Bottom Row (left to right):
6. A calm and serene space to work, Ideal Home
7. White storage gives a crisp and clean look, Ideal Home
8. A simple sewing room, Real Simple
9. Perfect color coordination, Rue Magazine
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Do I need shots? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Do I need shots? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Mexico View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ReganJoined: 16 Mar 2003Posts: 3Location: Winnipeg, MB Canada Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject: Do I need shots? b]Hello! [/b]My husband and I are moving to Mexico this summer with our two small children. Do we need special immunization? I've had conflicting results so far, with some people saying to get every needle known to man , and others saying don't bother at all. Just thought I'd check with some of you who are and have been living don there. Thanks! Regan Back to top The Old GringoJoined: 15 Feb 2003Posts: 13 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 2:07 am Post subject: I don't like to give medical advice to others. Having said that, I will say that there is much of Mexico that is probably low risk. Some of Mexico is probably high risk. I utilized the travel medicine section of a large HMO a number of years ago because my employer required it. What the travel med nurse recommended was a Tetanus booster and the Hepatitis series. She also gave me a Polio booster and I believe, Typhoid. This may have been "overkill", but it didnt cost me anything at the time. The Tetanus and Hepatitis make sense to me. I have traveled extensively in Latin America and have only rarely been ill. I seem to have a well developed immune system. I do have anecdotal stories of friends who have contracted serious illness in Mexico, but I have not. I think it really depends on where in the country one will be. I don't think mosquito borne illness is an issue in the Sonoran or Chihuahuan desert, for example. On the hand, some of the swamp/jungle areas would be suspect. If I had it to do all over again, I probably wouldnt bother with it as a single person, but some of the horror stories I hear about Hepatitis make that innoculation seem like cheap insurance. Having children in Mexico brings up another whole set of issues that I don't feel competent to address. Research, research, research! TOG Back to top MELEEJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2583Location: The Mexican Hinterland Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:59 pm Post subject: Shots This is one of the questions on our FAQ in our prospective employee pack. Here is our answer. No vaccinations are required for Mexico. Hepatitis A and B are good ideas. The Cholera vaccination is less than 50% effective and cholera can be avoided by employing good hygiene and careful eating practices. Therefor is it not a recommended vaccine. A typhoid vaccination is also be a good idea; we did have one teacher contract typhoid a couple of years ago. There is no malaria in the area, so anti-malarials are not needed. There is dengue but unfortunately there is no vaccination for that. The best precaution is to sleep under a mosquito net, which are widely available here. There is no Yellow Fever in Mexico. Of course all the regular vaccinations should be up to date, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Tetanus, and Diphtheria. Hope that helps. MEL Back to top ReganJoined: 16 Mar 2003Posts: 3Location: Winnipeg, MB Canada Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:35 pm Post subject: Thanks a bunch! That's a great help. Off to the doctor we go..... 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Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap of new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we're playing, but this column is dedicated to new games that you can start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know in the comments section if you have any suggestions for next week's post.
Description: Threes is tiny puzzle that grows on you. Explore our little game's deep challenge and grow your mind beyond imagination. Optimized for Android and human brains.
Description: In BARDBARIAN you play as Brad the Barbarian, who is (once again) awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is no ordinary day though; Brad has grown tired of fighting. The XP grind has grown dull, and his heart beats with a musical bloodlust. Crafting a magic lute out of an old war axe, he steps outside…
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Description: Rid your land of the dastardly and conniving blockish runners. Use the various abilities you unlock to destroy each wave of running, jumping, and sliding foes.
CONFLUX: Connect the Blocks
Description: CONFLUX: Connect the Blocks – is a simple block puzzle game that is addictive. Put your finger on the screen and move it to touch the two blocks together. Keep your finger on the screen until the level is completed or you will lose some seconds.
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Description: We dare you to make just one lap! If you think you're good enough to survive our tracks, then prove it! Test out the 4 lap trial for our new gameplay mode the "Track Endurance Challenge". Unlock the unlimited challenge to go further!
Description: From legendary designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead Studios (with Peter Molyneux), and Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop (with Ian Livingstone); and inkle, the studio behind the award-winning, App Store featured Frankenstein, Sorcery! is an interactive adventure like never before.
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Description: OLO is an addictive game of skill and strategy, a new generation social board game for all ages. Play with up to three friends or play online against anyone, anywhere. The aim is to get as many of your OLOs into your target zone. Use cunning techniques to outmaneuver your opponent and claim victory, but beware the death finger!
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Top-seeded Oakers end Pats' run
Coventry defense too much in semis sweep
It was going to take two perfect performances for the Pilgrim hockey team to upset top-seeded Coventry in the Division II semifinals. While the Patriots hung tough, played solid defense and got great goaltending, Coventry's strength – particularly at the defensive end – kept the Pats from even flirting with that perfection.
The Oakers allowed Pilgrim to put just 22 shots on net in the series and capitalized on their own chances en route to a 2-0 victory Friday night and a 6-1 triumph on Saturday. The victories earned Coventry a sweep and a spot in the Division II championship series, which begins this weekend.
The Pats were left wondering what more they could have done. Against a Coventry team that's looking like a juggernaut, the answer may have been not much.
"They're a better hockey team, there's no question about that. They're beatable, but we would have had to have played the right type of game the right way," said Pilgrim head coach Dave Tober. "We had a system to do it, and believe it or not, we got more into the system tonight – chipping pucks low, beating them to the pucks. I thought we forechecked really well. We just didn't get pucks to the net. You can't score goals if pucks aren't going to the net. Ultimately that did us in."
Pilgrim was one of only two teams to beat Coventry this season, but the win came in the season opener. Since then, the Oakers had reeled off 17 consecutive wins before losing game one of their quarterfinal series. They won the next two for a spot opposite the Pats.
And they brought their defense. While game one was a low-scoring affair and game two more lopsided, the common thread was that the Oakers were clamping down. Pilgrim put just 10 shots on net in game one and only 12 in game two. That combined tally of 22 was two less than Pilgrim's lowest single-game output this season.
"They were strong all year," Tober said. "You knew that was for a reason, whether it was because the puck was always in the offensive zone or their goalie was just that good or because their D is that good. Honestly, I think it's all three. They're the deepest Division II team I've seen in my years of coaching at this level."
Pilgrim was hoping to spring the upset and came out flying in front of a packed house at the Cranston Rink on Friday night. Three minutes into the game, they went on the power play, and though they came up empty, they were skating with the Oakers.
Soon after the power play ended, though, the Pats fell behind. With 9:08 left in the first period, Joseph Stringfellow took a pass from the corner and ripped a slap shot past Pilgrim goalie Ian Giuttari for the 1-0 lead.
The Pats had their best chance for an answer a minute later, when Nick McGuirl slipped a pass from behind the net to a wide open Cody Weaver, but Coventry goalie Stephen Schmitt stopped his point-blank shot.
After that, the Pats didn't get many more looks, and with 5:06 left in the second period, the Oakers made the hole deeper on a goal by Robert Beaudoin.
From there, Giuttari kept Pilgrim in the game with some strong play in net and finished with 22 saves, but the Pats couldn't mount much of a charge. They had just three shots on goal the rest of the way.
"You can't go period after period against a team like Coventry without scoring goals," Tober said. "They're going to score. As good as your own goalie is, they're going to have opportunities and they're going to cash in on some."
That was the blueprint for the Oakers.
"Our forwards can really keep the pace of the game going, and that's our game," said Coventry head coach Ken Bird. "Our game is speed, dumping the puck. Eventually you make a team make mistakes around their goalie."
The Pats tried to regroup for Saturday's game two, and Tober thought the performance was better. The Pats had some chances in the early going and limited Coventry's shots. The teams were scoreless for the first 13:56 of the game.
But then Coventry broke through, and again the Pats found themselves in a hole. With 1:04 left in the first, Michael Pesola cut across the slot, took a pass from Matthew Tanksley and beat Giuttari high for the 1-0 lead.
"I actually thought we played better tonight," Tober said. "Last night, I thought they completely controlled the play and we kind of hung on for dear life. We did more of what we wanted to do tonight, but when you go two nights with 22 shots, you're not going to score. We just couldn't materialize anything offensively. Even though we got the pucks low, getting pucks to the net was tough, and that's a credit to their defense. They're a very, very good team. Deep, they come in waves."
And unfortunately for the Pats, the waves came crashing in the second period. Pesola scored again with 11:06 left to make it 2-0, and Conner DiPietro made it 3-0 on a goal just over three minutes later. The Oakers then added two more goals before the period was over, one from Tanksley and one from Corey Rogers.
"Tonight, we finally got to Ian," Bird said. "He's a fantastic goalie. Even tonight, he might have let in six, but he came up with some fantastic saves. That's six games against him in the last two years. Finally the puck went in tonight."
Facing a 5-0 deficit, the Pats finally got on the board 3:45 into the third period. McGuirl carried the puck to the high slot and sent a shot toward the goal. Susie Cavanagh redirected it into the net to make it a 5-1 game.
But that would stand as Pilgrim's only goal of the series, and the Oakers had no trouble finishing out the victory. They got a goal from Stringfellow with 4:28 left for the final margin.
The Pats had just two more shots the rest of the way, continuing a series-long trend that saw the Oakers wear the Pats down. Fourteen of Pilgrim's 22 shots came in the first period of each game. In the other four periods, the Pats had only eight shots.
"It just goes to show – we can wear teams down," Bird said. "We're deep. We've got five guys playing regularly on defense and we're playing four lines. It shows as the game goes on."
And for a Pilgrim team that skated just two lines all year, it was too much to overcome.
"They're a D-I team," Tober said. "In my opinion, they could be the best public school in the state. They deserve to be in the finals. In the end, we ran up against a really good team and we didn't do enough to beat them. But I'm very proud of them."
For Pilgrim, the loss ended one of the program's most successful seasons in recent memory. The Pats matched last year's regular-season win total and advanced one round further into the playoffs, doing it all with one of the smallest rosters in the division.
"I've got a lot of guys who are upset in that locker room, and it's not because they don't get to play anymore this year," Tober said. "It's because they work so hard and they care so much. That was our season. You look at the people who come out and watch this team. They don't watch them because they're just friends with them in the hallways. You can have a bunch of buddies playing hockey, but you don't sacrifice all this time to come out and watch them play it they're not going to work hard. Just looking at the stands every home game and even most of the away games – it's a tribute to how hard they work."
The Pats will bid farewell to seniors Cavanagh, Danny Gillis, Giuttari, McGuirl and Weaver, a class that is close to Tober's heart. He took over the program when they were freshmen, and the Pats were coming off a 1-15 season.
The Pats have been to the playoffs every year since.
"Outstanding careers," Tober said. "I've been here four years and they were my first class, and we did a lot of good things. Playoffs every year, two semifinal appearances, beating teams no one would think we could beat, and honestly, putting Pilgrim hockey back on the map. Those guys are responsible for that. They just worked and worked and bought into what we were preaching. That's what makes us a successful program. Success isn't just standing on the top of the hill at the end of the season at PC, it's being proud of how hard you work and what you achieve. Pilgrim high school hockey is the epitome of that."


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Mitt transition efforts intensifying
Mitt Romney's campaign may be struggling, but his transition operation is moving full steam ahead.
The GOP presidential candidate's Washington team is intensifying its efforts, moving into official office space and holding meetings on Capitol Hill. The team has also begun reaching out to K Streeters and former Republican administration officials to get guidance on the Senate confirmation process and recommendations for jobs in a possible Romney White House.
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Dubbed "The Readiness Project" inside Romneyworld, the effort began in earnest after the Republican National Convention and is not only focused on compiling a list of job candidates, but also designed to create a 200-day roadmap for congressional relations during the post-election lame duck session and beyond.
( Also on POLITICO: Romney coattails not reaching Senate GOP)
The transition is being led by former Bush Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, a former Utah governor and fellow Mormon who is expected to play a senior role in any Romney White House.
The transition effort — while necessary and appropriate for a GOP nominee so close to the election — is a jarring contrast to a campaign that appears on the ropes to many Republican strategists. Receiving no bump from the Tampa convention, Romney is plowing ahead with a methodical approach to staffing his would-be administration, despite the fact that his campaign is said by some to need a radical makeover.
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Romney has had a tough couple of weeks following criticism of President Barack Obama on foreign policy and the revelation on a secretly-recorded fundraising tape that he believes 47 percent of Americans are dependent on the government.
"Their task is doing their job no matter what," said a source close to the campaign. "Just because the guy had a crap week last week, doesn't mean they stop. This is a very volatile presidential race. They have to prepare as if he wins."
The campaign is not eager to discuss its transition efforts. A Romney spokeswoman declined to comment for this article. Those close to the official transition acknowledged that there is a desire to keep the effort quiet because they don't want to appear overconfident and as though Romney is already measuring the drapes, a criticism that President Barack Obama faced in 2008.
But as his problems on the stump have increased, so have Romney's transition efforts.
Leavitt and Drew Maloney have held at least two meetings with House Republicans in as many weeks. The pair held a meeting with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and committee chairmen and have also met with House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his deputy whips.
Leavitt and Maloney broadly addressed the groups. Sources familiar said the meetings were an invitation to work together as the campaign moves forward and into the congressional lame duck session.
( Also on POLITICO: Romney talks messaging adjustment)
Two sources familiar with the whip's meeting said that it was a first step for the Romney campaign, which wants to hit the ground running by front-loading the legislative agenda if the Massachusetts Republican wins in November.
Leavitt and Maloney also told top Republican vote counters to "tell us if we're doing something stupid" and recognized that they can't dump legislation on the floor and think it will pass because it comes from the president.


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by David W. Reinecke
1994 edition, 104 pages, $35.00
The Marital Property Act gave estate planning practitioners an entirely new responsibility in estate planning: marital property agreements. Now,virtually every estate plan for a married couple should include some type of marital property agreement. Since January 1, 1986, marital property agreements have become the rule rather than the exception.
This book provides lawyers with guidance concerning what can be the most complicated and difficult aspect of estate planning drafting marital property agreements - death disposition clauses.
The book discusses drafting techniques in the context of six typical fact situations. Practitioners will be able to evaluate clients as being in one of the defined fact situations, and then incorporate into a marital property agreement the detailed drafting provisions from the Appendix which are applicable for such situations. In some instances, a particular client may fall somewhere in between two defined groups. The book contains suggestions for blending portions of the various forms provided to come up with a specific "hybrid" form tailor fit for the client's needs. In either case, the forms in the Appendix provide the resources required by the practitioner to complete the project.
The book also includes a detailed discussion of tax concepts relating to the Marital Property Act and a discussion of the Act's provisions relating to various postmortem elections and other concepts important in estate administration.
David W. Reinecke is a partner with Foley &Lardner in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School and teaches courses dealing with estate planning, probate administration, and taxation of trusts and estates. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and a member of the board of directors in the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the Wisconsin State Bar.
This publication contains the following text and sample forms:
Chapter 1: Application of the Marital Property Act to Death Transfers
Rules Regarding Testamentary Transfers of Marital and Nonmarital Property
- Marital Property and Individual Property
- Deferred Marital Property
- Mixed Property
Nonprobate Testamentary Transfers and Marital Property Drafting Considerations
- Survivorship Marital Property
- Joint Tenancy
- Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts
- Will Substitute Agreements
- Life Insurance
Unintended Testamentary Dispositions
Chapter 2: Marital Property Agreement Provisions for Death Dispositions
Drafting Techniques in Typical Fact Situations
- Long-Standing Relationship
- Children Outside Marriage
- Double Income, No Kids
- Traditional Marriage
- Elderly Couple
- Large Disparity in Wealth Acquired Outside the Marriage
Are Death Provisions in Marital Property Agreements"Contractual Wills"?
- Enforcement Implications
- Gift Tax and Death Tax Implications
- Application of Troubling Case Law
Chapter 3: Alternative Testamentary Dispositions by Written Instruments
Will Substitute Agreements
- Gift Tax and Death Tax Considerations
- Problems with Will Substitute Agreements
Chapter 4: Postmortem Marital Property Elections and Remedies
Deferred Marital Property Election
- Assets Subject to Election
- Bar to the Election
Augmented Marital Property Estate Election
- Differences from Deferred Marital Property Election
Equitable Election
- Conflict with Deferred Marital Property Election
- Unintended Forced Elections
- Intentional Forced Elections
Miscellaneous Postmortem Marital Property Elections
- Spousal Allowances
- Property Transferred in Fraud of Surviving Spouse
- Gift Recoveries
- Surviving Spouse's Option to Purchase Life Insurance Policy
- Qualified Disclaimers
Sample Forms and Provisions: Insurance Marital Property Agreement; Authorization to Divide Marital Property on Basis of Aggregate Value;Specific Bequest of Marital Property Titled in Spouse's Name; Life Insurance and Deferred Employment Benefits Classified as Individual Property; Death Provision of Marital Property Titled in Spouse's Name; Death Provision; No Provisions for Death Disposition to Spouse;Will Substitute Agreement; Spouse's Elective Rights; No Forced Equitable Election.


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The No Child Left Behind Act authorizes local educational agencies to use Innovative Assistance Programs funds provided by the Act to support same-sex schools and classrooms, consistent with applicable law. The Act also requires the Department to issue guidelines on single-sex classes and schools. OCR implemented this Congressional mandate by issuing guidelines for school districts that describe and explain which types of single-sex instruction are permissible under current regulatory requirements.
OCR also issued a Notice of Intent to Regulate (NOIR) to explore the feasibility of providing additional flexibility to the Title IX implementing regulations so that educators may establish single-sex classes and schools at the elementary and secondary levels, while ensuring that recipients do not discriminate on the basis of sex. After reviewing and assessing all of the approximately 170 public comments on the NOIR received, OCR drafted proposed amendments to the Title IX regulations to permit more flexibility for single-sex schools and classes. During FY 2004, OCR published the proposed amendments in the Federal Register for public comment.
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OCR is undertaking a number of activities to help students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college. As part of an ongoing effort to support students with disabilities, OCR made multiple presentations to such groups as state departments of education, a consortium on higher education, staffs of individual schools, and special education students. Materials such as a pamphlet on transition of students to postsecondary education and a Frequently Asked Questions document were widely disseminated.
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OCR assisted the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) in preparing a comprehensive guide for management of diabetes at school. NDEP is a federally sponsored partnership of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than 200 partner organizations. Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel provides information about diabetes, how it is managed, and how each member of the school staff can help meet the needs of students with the disease.
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OCR's Elementary and Secondary Schools Survey (E&S Survey) is being merged with the Department's Educational Data Exchange Network (EDEN), a central database that will be the main repository of information for No Child Left Behind Act data. Because the E&S Survey is merging with EDEN, OCR will no longer conduct its data collection survey. Civil rights data will be collected through EDEN's Supplemental Survey Tool Civil Rights Data Collection. OCR contributed its FY 2003 survey funding to develop EDEN's supplemental survey tool and pilot the tool's capability. OCR's contribution to EDEN will expedite the Department's development of an integrated data collection system that can capture essential NCLB data, as well as important civil rights data.


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In "Back to SQL Server's Future" (April 2005, InstantDoc ID 45309), I wrote that data is at the core of most modern computer systems and SQL Server 2005 is set to blur the traditional boundaries of the n-tier model. A key driver that's changing the way we think about tiers in computer architecture is the inclusion of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server CLR is one of the most talked about features of SQL Server 2005, and it draws strong opinions from all camps—from those who want to turn it off forever to those who want to use it for everything. People's reactions to the integration of the CLR into SQL Server 2005 are interesting. One member of the SQL Server development team was giving a presentation about CLR integration when a member of the audience stood up and called out, "Is T-SQL dead?" This question prompted us to build an entire session called "No... T-SQL Isn't Dead!" (I'll cover the enhancements to T-SQL in SQL Server 2005 in a future column.) In contrast, I had a conversation with an ASP programmer who had just found out about SQL Server CLR integration and immediately decided that this would now be a great place for him to store all of the .NET assemblies for his Web site.
When you're thinking about the SQL Server CLR, it is important to understand when it is and isn't appropriate to utilize it. The Microsoft article "Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/2005/2005articles/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlclrguidance.asp) explains in detail how to choose when to use the SQL Server CLR. Judicious use of the CLR can solve many problems that you currently solve by using middle-tier code. In essence, you can think about the SQL Server CLR as a tool that gives you the ability to move complex procedural logic that works primarily against values stored in the database from the middle or client tiers to the server. The CLR lets you take advantage of thousands of useful functions and classes that exist in the .NET Framework API. The ability to use standard managed code can sometimes significantly ease the creation of these complex functions, thanks in part to the many rich constructs—such as arrays and lists—that .NET languages provide but T-SQL doesn't support. These functions can also provide significantly better performance because managed code is precompiled, whereas T-SQL is an interpreted language. In fact, in cases that require complex computation, conditional logic, string manipulation or the like, managed code can outperform T-SQL by an order of magnitude, with fewer network roundtrips than data processing in the middle or client tiers require.
The main question that most people have about the SQL Server CLR is, "Where should my code live?" The SQL Server CLR gives you the ability to write almost any middle-tier business code as data-tier objects—but when is this a good idea? To decide, you need to consider what the code is doing. At Tech ED 2004, I spoke to a software architect who had just been to a SQL Server CLR presentation. He enthused, "This is great! Now I can actually put the right things in my data tier." If your middle-tier code makes heavy use of data—especially if it's manipulating data and putting it back in the database—that code should sit on the SQL Server CLR. For example, credit-card processing is an operation that relies heavily on the person data in the server. The operation uses the data, then interacts with an external credit-card agency to confirm a credit-card transaction. Most of the work is data based, so it's cumbersome to pull all of the personal data off the server and into the middle tier only to send it to an external agency and return a yes or no answer. The integration of the CLR into the SQL Server Engine lets you do all this processing on the server without moving any data.
Another effective use of the SQL Server CLR is to replace most, if not all, of the existing extended stored procedures in many SQL Server installations. The SQL Server CLR can provide security, reliability, and performance benefits that extended stored procedures can't. There are a few processor-intensive operations for which native code in extended stored procedures is still beneficial, but in most cases, you'll want to rewrite existing extended stored procedures as SQL Server CLR functions. I saw a string-manipulation demonstration that illustrated the benefits of making this change. The presenter took an address string stored in a single text field and split it based on a delimiting character. The demonstration showed the code required to perform this operation in Visual Basic .NET and in T-SQL; the Visual Basic .NET implementation required one line of code, whereas the T-SQL version was more than a page long. Also, when the presenter executed the code, the Visual Basic .NET code in the SQL Server CLR ran about 40 times faster than the T-SQL implementation.
Finally, the SQL Server CLR gives developers the ability to extend the database by creating their own, complex user-defined types (UDTs) for SQL Server. One developer I talked to said that the greatest thing the CLR brings to SQL Server is that he can now create a highly performant UDT that converts BIN to HEX, and he can run it in the server, close to the data. This ability removes the need to transfer large quantities of data across the network to perform the conversion in the middle tier, then move the result back into the server. UDTs implemented with the SQL Server CLR also give you the power to extend the database to meet your specific needs. For example, if you need a specific data type that SQL Server doesn't support, you can use a custom UDT to implement the type—an easier option than performing middle-tier conversions of a standard SQL type. Another example is the ability to use UDTs to model the data types of other database vendors. If you work in a heterogeneous environment and have to deal with multiple databases on various database servers, the ability to create types in your SQL Server that directly map to types that other servers support could greatly improve the interoperability of all the systems.
The discussion of whether the SQL Server CLR is good or bad is certainly not over. But if used appropriately, the addition of CLR functionality to SQL Server 2005 can yield many rewards and will lead to a fundamental change in the way we architect and build database systems. Next month, I'll look at the inclusion of XML in SQL Server 2005 and discuss how it helps close the gap between the database and applications.


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Congratulations, AFMSU!
Oct. 20, '09 - MEA-MFT's new members at MSU-Bozeman, the Associated Faculty of MSU (AFMSU), recently adopted a constitution and bylaws and elected their first slate of officers.
MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver congratulated Sandy Osborne and Karen Leech on their election as co-presidents.
"I am confident the two of you, with all the help others will be giving you, are up to big tasks ahead," Feaver said.
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Sandy Osborne and Karen Leech
The Bozeman Chronicle printed the following story:
Montana State University faculty union elects leaders
By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer - October 21, 2009
The new faculty union at Montana State University has approved a constitution and elected Sandy Osborne and Karen Leech as co-presidents for the next two years.
"We're very pleased," Osborne, associate professor of health and human development for 22 years, said Tuesday. "We had a good attendance and are very pleased to be moving forward."
About 80 faculty union members met Monday evening and approved the new union's constitution, Leech said. The constitution maintains separate bargaining units for tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, but combines them in one union, called the Associated Faculty of MSU.
"People did pretty much like that" combination, said Leech, an adjunct music instructor for 38 years. "It was very exciting to be there."
In her election profile, Osborne described herself as a good listener who pays attention to details and is "tenacious." Leech wrote that in her 38 years, she had seen "a long string of arbitrary policies put forth by MSU administrators, changed just as arbitrarily, and replaced with others" and that she would work to win "significant improvements in our working life at MSU."
Also elected were two co-vice presidents, Denbigh Starkey, a computer science professor, and Kari Cargill, an adjunct faculty member in microbiology.
Patrick Hatfield, a professor of animal and range sciences, was elected treasurer, and Richard Wojtowicz, an associate professor and reference librarian, was elected secretary.
None of the positions were contested, though members could make nominations from the floor.
The next step is to urge all faculty members, whether union members or not, to fill out a survey on what the union's bargaining priorities should be, Osborne said.
Faculty will also be asked to suggest names of members who should serve on the bargaining team.
Each department will be asked to elect tenure-track and non-tenure-track representatives to the two representative assemblies, Leech said.
No date has yet been set for bargaining to begin on a first contract, Leech said. It could take weeks or a couple months to formulate what the union will ask for, she added.
Legally, the union represents the interests of all faculty members, but only union members can vote on the contract and participate fully, Leech said. The union plans to urge as many faculty members as possible to join.
The Associated Faculty of MSU is the last faculty group in the Montana University System to unionize. The AFMSU is affiliated with the MEA-MFT teachers union, the state's largest labor organization.
"Exciting stuff," MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver wrote in an e-mail. "Monumental in fact."
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Skip to comments.Fmr. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to Lead Boy Scouts (Architect of lifting DADT)
Posted on 11/13/2013 2:05:13 PM PST by NKP_Vet
The Boy Scouts of America on Wednesday chose former U.S. Secretary of Defense and CIA director Robert Gates as its next president, who will face the task of repairing divisions in the organization from a heated debate over accepting gay scouts.
As Defense Secretary, Gates supported President Barack Obama's withdrawal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Congress repealed the ban in 2010 and it was lifted in 2011.
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time for a schism. let the sodomites have one organization and the rest of us normals have the REAL BSA.
My boys will NOT be joining the Gay Scouts. No way.
I wish the grown ups would go back to teaching young men how to follow, lead, and survive in this world.
The boys don't care about this crap. Of course, if some men joined the leadership it would make things better.
I'm guessing there first choice was Jerry Sandusky.
But he's playing shower tag with the fellas in the State Pen. Not Penn State.
After a span of more than half a century of supporting the Boy Scouts of America, I find it distressing and repulsive that Gates would be selected as the leader of the BSA.
To me, the BSA is beyond its high water mark and on the way out because the BSA has compromised its integrity at the very top.
I do not know how long it will take, but the original physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight boy scout is GONE, thanks to the spineless and corrupt leadership.
I am aware that the justification for the change was considered necessary given the support in the military for accepting homosexual behavior, and the danger of loss of support by the military and commercial interests that provide funds and access to millions of dollars of facilities. Nonetheless it was a corrupt decision that has doomed the original Boy Scouts of America.
I respected, supported and revered the BSA all my life.
But now I have nothing but contempt for them. Caving like abject cowards, embracing degeneracy and perversion, and turning its back on everything it once stood for. I truly, truly spit on them.
We shouldn't be concerned that 18 yr old homosexual men are going camping and spending time alone with 11 yr old boys./sarc
"I am aware that the justification for the change was considered necessary given the support in the military for accepting homosexual behavior".
You can bet your bottom dollar that the senior leadership of the US Armed Forces didn't want to lift DADT. They caved to the pressure of the muslim-in-chief. He basically said agree or be fired. They put their careers over the common good of the US military. Every study that has ever been conducted about homosexuality in the Armed Forces said it was not conducive to good order and discipline and for over 200 years that sound policy never changed. The nothing-in-chief is elected president and he could have cared less what was good for the military. He has never served day in the service of his country and is clueless. Like all good leftists he hates the military. He is all about social change and nothing else. The senior officers who allowed the hostile sodomite takeover of the US Armed Forces (then women in combat) put their careers over the the military. All are traitors to their country, starting with the dunce at the top.
What happened to this once great organization?
The same thing that happened to the rest of the country. Hostile takeover by athiests.
Bet he's queer. Just watch. Does it matter? You damned right it does.
BSA peaked in membership around 1973. It has been on a negative glide slope ever since. The homosexual lobby, Human Rights Campaign, got started around 1980. They concentrated there efforts against corporate America. Took them 30+ years but they succeeded. The infamous poll put out by the BSA last APR showed that the majority of donors still supported the current membership policy, i.e., a version of DADT, but >50% of the Fortune 500 donors wanted homosexuals in BSA. BSA's leadership projected that at worst, they would lose no more than 13% membership by 1/01/2014. The only denominations to flee BSA have been the Southern Baptists, Presbyterian Church in America, Church of Christ, some Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and a small number of Roman Catholic parishes. It does not appear to be a big Exodus from BSA at this point, but it may still be too early. Other FR prognosticators are correct - Robert Gates will usher in the 2nd part of the membership change during his watch - open acceptance of homosexual adult members.
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CNN's Take On 'Book Piracy'
from the where's-the-analysis dept
To be honest, what disappointed me with CNN's article is that it didn't challenge any of the obviously bogus statements made in the article. We already covered the problems with Alexie's, but CNN also notes: "J.K Rowling has thus far refused to make any of her Harry Potter books available digitally because of piracy fears." Of course, that assumes that it's the official digital version that gets copied. While I haven't checked, I would be stunned to find out that all of Ms. Rowling's work is not already widely available via file sharing sites. Her deciding not to offer up an ebook copy didn't stop piracy. In fact, it probably encouraged it, because those who want a digital copy now only have the option of using an unauthorized copy. The article also implies (though doesn't state directly) that Apple iTunes has "solved" the piracy issue in music. Oddly, however, it doesn't note that, unlike the music industry, at least the ebook industry is starting out with at least some legal marketplace for books. The music industry had to be dragged kicking and screaming to get there.


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Do Fans Need an Off-Season?
The Brooklyn Nets, my local basketball outfit, were eliminated from the NBA playoffs Saturday night, surrendering with little resistance in Game 7 of their first-round series to the Chicago Bulls. Brooklyn lost despite owning home court, despite the Bulls shedding multiple players to injury and plague, despite Rihanna shimmering courtside, despite a fancy new arena that looks like a rusted turtle. Oh well. It's the franchise's inaugural season in town. Not a disastrous Year One. It's time for a mental siesta. Time for Nets fans to think about something other than basketball. Time for an off-season.
Or not. Is there such a thing as a sports off-season anymore? It used to be, not long ago, that the conclusion of your team's season put a healthy halt on your attention. Maybe you'd watch other teams in the playoffs, if you could stomach it, but soon it was on to something completely different. Baseball. Hockey. Talking to your children and pets. Detailed projects involving yarn. It was a natural break that allowed emotional wounds to heal and enthusiasm to regenerate. An off-season wasn't just useful for players. An off-season was also for you. And yarn. Lots of yarn.
Except now there's no off-season. There really isn't. There's a season, and there are games, and perhaps playoff games, unless you live someplace like Charlotte or Sacramento, where the postseason is banned by municipal ordinance. But the games are just a fraction of the sports fan's obligation. The other part of following a sports team is the yearlong, all-consuming white noise of gossip and conjecture: hirings, firings, trades, executive machinations and maneuvers that sometimes happen but usually don't. This stuff has always occurred but now it's goosed and amplified and elevated into a mandatory part of the experience, requiring an attention span stretching well beyond the reasonable boundaries of the season. It's exhausting. Sports are no longer hobbies. They've become graduate school.
And there's just an assumption that this is good, good, good, that holding an audience's attention 12 months of the year is a brilliant marketing strategy that carries no risk of audience burnout. There's no pause to think that maybe a degree of rationing might be useful, just to allow fans to recharge and maybe see a movie. A movie? Why, aren't you fancy! A serious fan would be breaking down film and analyzing college prospects. If not college prospects, high-school prospects. If not high-school prospects, eighth-graders. This stuff is 24-7, baby. More is always better. Get with the program.
The greatest example of off-season creep is the NFL, a near-religion which has successfully repositioned itself from a fall-to-winter pastime to a daily relationship, to be attended to constantly. Football is relentless. After the final whistle of Super Bowl, everyone is treated to an approximately 15-minute nap. Then it's immediately on to next year—which teams are getting better, which ones are getting worse, and then the NFL combine, in which prospects inside an unoccupied stadium run and jump. This drama is about as exciting as…people running and jumping inside an unoccupied stadium. Then, of course, comes the NFL player draft, the zenith of off-season events—a series of telephone calls and bear hugs reimagined as prime-time entertainment. Exactly how entertaining it is, is a matter of opinion. The NFL draft is commonly described as "great theater," which should immediately make one wonder what constitutes bad theater.
But the draft doesn't need to be Hamlet. It needs only to exist, because the appetite for football is so intense. So the draft is corn feed, liberally spread. It is also upbeat, which is probably 90% of its appeal. The draft inverts the NFL hierarchy—the bad teams, punch lines September through January, get the best picks and command most of the attention. Fans of the Kansas City Chiefs or New York Jets get to have serious conversations about the future of the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets, and nobody breaks into sidesplitting laughter. It is an optimist's paradise.
One could argue that football, with its jewel-box 16-game season, is already a sport less about the action than the spaces in between. But the busier sports are trying to thrill up the calendar. Even baseball televises its draft—held during the playing season—which is hilarious, since player development in baseball takes far longer than most sports. (Watching a baseball draft is like watching the planting of an oak tree.) There's summer-league NBA to follow and signing day and of course the heat-seeking thrill circus that is intrasquad spring college football. All of these things have been around forever, but now they are urgently packaged and sold as essential and important. We haven't even gotten to the protracted personnel dramas—the free-agent sagas and multiplayer deals and the malcontents trying to talk themselves out of town. Those can inhale the better part of an entire off-season. The NBA is about to enter its third consecutive round of Dwight Howard speculation. Please no. Not even Dwight Howard thinks Dwight Howard is that interesting.
On and on it goes. The evil media, naturally, is partly to blame here—the proliferation of cable and Internet options and 24-hour coverage cycles demanding content. The dialogue is endless; veracity isn't essential; today's trade rumor is just tomorrow's knocked-down speculation. (How amusing it is to hear news networks criticized for sketchy information during a breaking news story: That is the sports world every day.) Now the leagues all have their own bespoke networks, too, though sometimes there's not enough news to fill the day. If you turn on the NFL Network between midnight and 5 a.m., for example, it just shows a live cam of Bill Belichick opening and closing his garage door.
In this nonstop attention and blurring of seasonal boundaries it's possible to see a parallel to the "specialization" culture that has become common in youth sports; this is the notion that a serious junior hockey or baseball or squash player needs to be serious 12 months of the year, which probably results in some college scholarships but mostly leads to a lot of grumpy parents standing in ice rinks in August. Specialization is losing its fashion—coaches and orthopedists believe such single-minded focus contributes to player fatigue and stress injuries, and suggest that child athletes try other things. It's not bad advice for sports fans as well. Some healthy "off" should return to the off-season.
On Sunday, the Brooklyn Nets released their coach, P.J. Carlesimo. There's reportedly a host of candidates to replace him. There's no timetable. Decide in May. Decide in June. Decide whenever. Could they be interested in Dwight Howard? The draft is June 27. Pay attention. Discuss at any time. The action never stops.
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CCM company accredited in the «Achilles Joint Qualification System» in March 2016
On the Forum in Saint-Petersburg it was held the presentation of a new company "Arctic Medical Training"
On the 7th – 8th of April the visit of Alan Kennedy-Bolam – Managing director of the international Institute of Remote HealthCare (Scotland, Edinburg) took place by invitation of LLC "Center of Corporate Medicine."
The company LLC "SibMedCenter" recognized as the best in the region in 2014 in the nomination "For efficiency and business development."
On the 18th of November it was held the meeting of Director General of the Russian-Azerbaijani venture LLC "CCM Sahhat" Pavlenko TA and director M. Kerimov in trade promotion office of Russia in Azerbaijan.
From 1 till 9 of November Director General of the "Center of corporate medicine" took part in business mission in India.
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Representatives of "CCM", visited the Adam Smith Conferences' 9th Annual Russian & CIS Coal Summit 2014 which took place in Moscow on May 14-16, 2014.
The director general of "CCM", LLC Sergey Antipov, took part in the 18th International conference Oil and Gas Uzbekistan 2014 which took place from 13th to 15th May 2014 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The 4th annual Adam Smith conference "HSE in Oil & Gas Russia & CIS" took place on the 18-20 of March in
Center of corporate medicine, represented by the director Sergei Antipov, participated in the International Investment Arctic Sammit "Nothern Sea Route. Infrastructure. Transport communication system of the Arctic region"
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The President of SuperJob Portal A. N. Zakharov awarded an honorary title of the "Attractive Employer – 2013" to "SibMedCenter", LLC in recognition of the company's achievements in 2013.
On the 12th of December 2013 in the "Versiya" theatre there was a solemn award ceremony of the regional "Tomsk business leaders – 2013" Contest. "SibMedCenter", LLC became a winner of "Business efficiency and development" Award.
On the 3-9 of November the director of "CCM", Sergei Antipov, visited Mexico as a member of the official delegation of Tomsk region.
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Don't know enough about the original one to comment on the added frosted pattern but here are some more photos showing it if anyone's got one to compare?Thank you for the help so far.https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/Untitled24#Chris
Mine had the frosted markings round the bottom, same as yours has, so I don't think that's an out-of-the-ordinary addition, but is part of the design.
(if what I was told is correct) this was added to LE weights with a minor(!) flaw, to make it sufficiently different from the limited edition design, and thus be allowed to sell it as second.
It seems a little strange to me to deliberately add a feature such as the etching around the dragonfly weight - obviously involving more time and effort! - just in order to sell it as a second!
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Well, here's my contribution to the e-bike community. I helped a local Anglican church sell about 300 e-bikes from China.ptd wrote:maybe the FAQ's could just point to the tutorials. and speaking of tutorials, is it possible to view a thread, but only the op's posts ? might make for a really quick way to view a build's progression, almost like an instructable. ok, i now see how you can sort by author, but in a 50 page post, it's still a bit of a pain.TylerDurden wrote:When creating reference documents, observe the difference between a FAQ and a tutorial (or article).
They have been confused on this bbs far too many times by well-intended, but misinformed or pedantic authors.
Hehe... "true forum feel"? Care to define please?adam0702 wrote:Lock.. gotta give it a true forum feel right?
PM if you'd like a walk-through, I created https://endless-sphere.com/w/index.php/ ... _Selection, happy to advise in Deutsch oder EnglischDasDouble wrote: ↑Dec 31 2017 1:55pmAlright, so how far are we yet? Is there already some link to the wiki? Can I help with writing articles of how to build / weld a battery even when it´s already finished? I will have plenty of time after June 2018 to spend on writing professional articles about that stuff I have learned in the past few years^^
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If you grew up where it snows, you're probably familiar with this rule of thumb: Front-wheel drive is good in the snow. Rear-wheel drive is bad in the snow.
The same goes for all-wheel-drive vehicles, which are generally more desirable to snow-belt drivers if they're based on front-drive platforms.
But the 2013 Dodge Charger AWD and 2013 Chrysler 300 AWD turn this bit of conventional wisdom directly on its head.
Based on a large rear-wheel-drive platform, the Charger and 300C are already at what seems to be a disadvantage. And the details of their available AWD system only confirm this initial impression.
Thanks to an exclusive active front transfer case, the AWD Charger and 300C are actually RWD vehicles by default, as the front axle remains disconnected above 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Although that axle automatically connects itself below 40 degrees for AWD functionality, maximum torque to the front wheels is just 38 percent of the total, whereas FWD-based competitors generally send no less than 50 percent to the front wheels, and up to 100 percent as circumstances dictate.
In other words, these AWD Chrysler siblings should be tail-sliding, tire-spinning nightmares in the white stuff -- useful for Hollywood movies, maybe, but not for real people dealing with real weather.
But as we discovered on a trip to the Chrysler winter proving grounds in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this rear-biased AWD system might be the best thing to happen to winter driving since the snow tire, and here's why.
RWD cars have an inherent car-control advantage in that they allow you to "steer with the throttle," in a way. It's just simple physics. If you're going around a corner, the front wheels are turned, but the rear wheels are always pointed straight ahead. In a FWD car, pressing the accelerator in this situation sends the extra power to those turned front wheels, which means you'll hold your line at best, and most likely push wide of your intended target ("understeer"). But, in a RWD car, the extra power goes to the rear wheels. Combine that with the turned front wheels and you've got the opposite of understeer -- "oversteer" -- which means the car will resist pushing and even tighten its line through the corner.
Think about how handy this could be in a snow-covered corner in January. If you feel a RWD car start to push wide mid-corner, you can give it some more gas to bring it back on course. But in a FWD car, the throttle is effectively useless; all you can do is lift off, stab the brakes perhaps, and hope for the best.
Ah, but there's a dark side to RWD, and that's too much oversteer. If you've noticed how the bad guys in movies tend to slide around corners sideways, you know what we mean. For highly skilled drivers, excessive oversteer translates to a "powerslide"; that is, a controlled slide that pumps out tire smoke and pleases crowds. But for real-world drivers trying to navigate a treacherous road, excessive oversteer usually means losing control and helicoptering off into a ditch, or worse.
The genius of Chrysler's RWD-based AWD system is its ability to straddle these extremes, giving those real-world drivers access to the kind of car control that's typically only available to Hollywood stunt men.
As we discovered while driving the 2013 Dodge Charger AWD and Chrysler 300 AWD around a 600-foot-diameter snow track, it is virtually impossible to spin these cars out. Thanks to the combination of extra front-end traction and a brilliant stability-control system that seamlessly cuts power to the rear wheels if the rear end slides too much, these cars stubbornly held their lines, no matter how hard we tried to get them out of sorts.
But whenever we felt the car start to push wide, like in one of those snow-covered January corners, a little prod of the accelerator was all it took to restore order. That's the benefit of sending most of the power to the rear wheels, letting the front wheels focus primarily on steering.
You simply can't do that in a FWD-based AWD car.
As we left the proving grounds, it occurred to us that Chrysler hasn't merely come up with a viable RWD-based alternative to FWD-based AWD cars, such as in Subaru's lineup. Instead, the company has in fact optimized all-wheel drive, providing the best car control in all traction scenarios.
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A Roman Catholic church in Chicago, Ill., is displaying a rare relic believed to be of Jesus' manger as well as a fragment of the veil of the Virgin Mary and a thread from the cloak of St. Joseph as it celebrates its 155th anniversary on Sunday.
The church received the fragments, authenticated by Vatican documents, as a gift from the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, a centerpiece of worship for the Italian community of Chicago.
The Rev. Jeremiah J. Boland, administrator of the church, says he is not in favor of carbon testing the items to see if they are from the beginning of the Christian Era. "The Vatican has its own process to determine the authenticity of things," he told Reuters, adding he was more concerned with it as an object of faith.
It's kind of funny.......in the 'comments' section several Protestants are blasting the Catholic church for their idol worship. I just love it when the religious bicker among themselves!
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WOW! I need to contact Boland. I've got several relics I'd be willing to part with - for the right price, of course. A wooden dowel which is a piece of the True Cross (I use it as a toilet paper hanger). Some canned fish from the feeding of the multitudes (expiration date has come and gone, so I'm not eating it). A snippet of cloth from the Shroud of Berwyn (when Jesus appeared to the Native Americans - ohh, wait, that's going to Utah). And, my most precious possession, a small hunk of rock from the original 10 commandments (I live in the country, so they'll have to sort through the gravel in my driveway).
But Wait! There's more! Any church that acts in the next 2 hours ('cause I ain't got all day), and I'll toss in a grilled cheese sandwich with the apparition of the Virgin Mary, a corned beef sandwich with the apparition of Joseph, and a toasted BLT with the apparition of Tickle-Me-Jesus in the manger.
Shipping and handling charges will apply.
I have some lint from Jesus' belly button. It's on the floor underneath my bed. My collection pales in comparison to yours.
You sure that's not a Dust "Easter" Bunny?
I'm going to hold out for the holy speculum.
You'll need to have that authenticated, or else it's just speculative.
No speculum speculation. You have to take it on faith. More than a speck of faith. Spectacular faith.
Not in favor of carbon testing, eh? Then they're not much in favor of an opinion other than their own.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. - James Coley, who served the last three seasons as offensive coordinator at Florida State, has been named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Miami, head coachAl Golden announced Thursday.
Coley spent the last five seasons in Tallahassee on Jimbo Fisher's staff - all five as tight ends coach and the last three as the offensive coordinator. As the recruiting coordinator at Florida State in 2008 and 2009, he was instrumental in the Seminoles landing back-to-back Top 10 signing classes and was also named the ACC's top recruiter in 2010 by ESPN.com.
"We're excited about adding James Coley's leadership, expertise and passion to our staff and Miami Hurricane Football," Golden said. "I've been an admirer of his offenses output and execution, his commitment to student-athlete development as well as his relentless approach to recruiting Dade and Broward counties.
"Coach Coley will be a great asset to the University of Miami and we welcome him, his wife Kenia and their two children back to South Florida," Golden said.
Prior to Florida State, Coley spent one season in his hometown of Miami as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at FIU. He completed overhauled the Golden Panthers offense and established new standards for rushing yardage, as the unit doubled its production over the second half of the season.
He spent two seasons as an offensive assistant with the Miami Dolphins under Nick Saban. While with the Dolphins, Coley worked with running backs Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown when the duo boasted the NFL's seventh-best rushing attack. In 2006, he worked with the Dolphins' receivers, including All-Pro Chris Chambers and Wes Welker, and was responsible for breaking down opposing defenses and self-scouting as the quality control coach.
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And this is before the machine's even had a chance to stratch it, yet.
Halo 3 has only been out for a few hours in the UK, but there's already a problem. The Limited Edition box-set has been added to Microsoft's Disc Replacement Program (DRP) list because of possible scratches to the disc's surface. Halo_3_limited_ed Halo 3 Limited Edition: packaging can scratch the disc The problem first …
And this is before the machine's even had a chance to stratch it, yet.
Halo 3 is up to scratch.
Now where did I leave my coat.
... but if i bought a game where the disk was scratched when i got it, i'd take it straight back to the shop i got it from and demand a replacement, not post it off to microsoft in the hope that they send another sometime before the end of the year.
with the stupid software licencing now all game disks should be freely replaceable through the point of sale, not relying on posting it to the publisher and and paying a fee (i realise its free in this case, but only until december)
they are selling you a product that they know to be faulty and yet you can only get a fee-free replacement until december... that sounds a little wrong to me... presumably by then you will only be able to buy perfect copies of this disc.
Yep my disc is scatched to buggery. And it's the game disc itself not second one with all the extras on it. Just hope it plays ok so I can have ago before I send it back to MicroSoft.
So not only am I annoyed that SendIt didn't get my pre-order to me by the release date, I can now look forward to it not working when it does arrive.
With any luck I might get to play it by Christmas.
Except for the postage charges of course. If mine was working, last thing I'd want to do is post it off to be replaced.
I'd be marching to the desk at the retailer. Surely they have a responsibility as the retailer to replace defective goods?
I was pleasantly surprised to find my copy of Halo 3 on my doorstep when I got back home today, imagine my surprise to lift the box and hear stuff moving around inside, never a good thing. So I opened it and surprise surprise, the disc had fallen out of its holder and was well scratched up. Both of my 360-owning friends said their copies arrived scratched too. Yay.
So a call to Microsoft to complain and I was told to return it to the retailer which I did, although for a refund because I was cheesed off enough to not want to play the game now.
If you actually look at the disc holder, it has to be the most pathetically feeble disc retaining mechanism I have ever come across. Whoever designed it must not have done very well in their engineering degree. So Microsoft can stick their Halo 3, I've had enough already, and thats before i even played the sodding thing.
Let your heart go out to me, another game released today... on the same day, will not be stocked by any major stockists until friday...
I smell the ever so familiar scent of a microsoft back hander to retailers to ensure that the game of the year "ENEMY TERRITORY: Quake Wars" will not be out until friday, or otherwise mar their tumbleweed launch with hoards of people queuing for a different game.
"with the stupid software licencing now all game disks should be freely replaceable through the point of sale, not relying on posting it to the publisher and and paying a fee (i realise its free in this case, but only until december)"
They are, there's nothing to stop you getting it swapped in store, however Microsoft provide these services with the idea being that you don't have to go back to the store, or in the case that you bought it online it may be quicker and easier than dealing with the store. It's more of a courtesy thing however of course it's valid to accept that it's a courtesy thing that shouldn't even need to exist in an ideal world.
For what it's worth though, my Halo 3 arrived fine a day early yesterday from GAME for £29.99 after finally bothering to use up reward points I've built up over the past year so no complaints here ;)
Or shop or wherever you bought it won't really help if they're all scratched.
I agree that you should be able to replace faulty media at your POS, but the point here is that whoever Microsoft got to produce the disks has buggered up the whole production run.
Whether that was at the packaging stage with the flimsy disk holder or an actual fault in the disk manufacturing process, it shouts cheap bastards trying to squeeze every last penny of profit out of the thing.
Test runs in the manufacturing process are, after all, just money out the window - especially when all that's at risk is having to issue free replacements on a couple million DVDs.
The physical product is faulty. It's like buying a book that hasn't been bound properly and the pages fall out, or a cassette with a broken tape. The content doesn't matter and the licence is irrelevant. You're entitled to a full refund from the retailer under sale of goods legislation. If you bought online or by mail order, the retailer is also obliged to pay the cost of postage under distance selling regulations (page 27 of http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/business_leaflets/general/oft698.pdf).
What they then do with the faulty games is their problem.
MS aren't really having much luck with the XBox 360, are they?
Overheating, scratching discs, updates that brick the device... And now they are shipping pre-scratched discs.
Note to MS... The bigger you hype it up, the harder you fall flat on your face when there are problems (or a general disinterest).
When Forza 2 came out it bricked my 360, great. Lets be realistic, MS build quality is (to politely put it) poor. I dont know anyone that hasn't owned at least 2 360's. The point is the software is good, Forza 2 was good, halo 3 is good, if you're put off by a few manufacturing issues..... I'm prepared to overlook the poor manufacturing to play good games!


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Richard D. Kennedy, 72, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Wapakoneta, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at his residence on Longboat Key, Fla.
He was born to Amelia C. (Dorsten) and Richard B. Kennedy.
He is survived by a son, Richard Scott.
He was preceded in death by a son, Steven Daryl Kennedy.
A celebration of life service will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at Shawnee Country Club in Lima.