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Sustainable Landscapes & Grounds
Sustainable landscape practices have been used at UAF for a long time. The Georgeson Botanical Garden at the UAF Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station has one of the oldest compost piles in Interior Alaska! UAF Grounds utilizes a combination of methods to minimize pollution, practice wise water use, avoid erosion, reduce waste and implement integrated pest management.
What is UAF doing?
- Integrated Pest Management and organic fertilizers are used at the Facilities Services Greenhouse.
- UAF banned all pesticide use in greenhouses and limits pesticide use to spot spraying in campus lawn areas.
- Native and perennial plants are replacing annuals in flowerbeds.
- Solar panels were installed to heat water at the FS greenhouse.
- The Georgeson Botanical Garden at UAF is composting all their garden waste.
- Natural Resource Conservation Service helped to plan how to control erosion at the GBG.
- GBG uses soaker hoses and trickle irrigation systems and mulching.
- Green food spaces were created in flowerbeds, the Chancellor's house and Lola Tily Commons.
- Fish and bird waste from our beloved greenhouse pets is used as organic fertilizer.
- Food from the commons, grass clippings and paper waste are being composted and applied on flowerbeds.
- Facilities Services created a sustainable IPM and fertilizer operations manual for campus greenhouse and flower and vegetable beds.
- Excess heat from the power plants is being used to heat the greenhouse.
- Cooperative Extension Services produced and sells an Alaska Sustainable Gardening Manual.


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Eating Pussy is an oral sexual activity: Stimulating a woman's pussy, including outer and inner labia, outer edge of her vagina, clitoris, pudendum, and surrounding regions with your tongue and lips: Licking the exterior pussy area and clit, sucking the clit and sticking your tongue into her pussy. Eating pussy is a combination of clitoral stimulation and pussy penetration. Eating pussy is the female equivalent of receiving a blow job and usually consists of clitoral stimulation and vaginal stimulation. If two women eat each others pussy it is also called carpet munching. If he eats her pussy while she delivers a blowjob it is called 69er. If the tongue only teases her clit and is not entered into her pussy, it is not considered penetration. Eating pussy will always make the giving partner taste her pussy juice. Men do not really enjoy to eat pussies with a strange pussy odor. For that reason during the hot season many ladies perform airing pussy frequently to keep bad odors away from their pussies.
ES: Cunnilingus. Recibir la estimulación del coño con la lengua, lamiendo la zona exterior (conejo) mientras se juega con el clitoris.
Equivalente a la mamada.
Common Positions for Eating Pussy
Eating Pussy Missionary Style
The most common style to eat pussy is positioning herself into the missionary sex position: She lies flat on her back and her legs are spread and pulled up in a 70 to 90 degree angle, while the tongue approaches her pussy from between her legs. The pussy eater can use his hands to stimulate her nipples while eating her pussy. The receiving woman does not do anything but enjoying the moment.
Eating Pussy 69 Style
This type of position puts both partners into the receiving and giving role. This position is discussed under 69.
Eating Seated Pussy
This type of position does not require to lie flat and can be performed almost anywhere where she finds a spot to seat herself. This position has been spotted in cars as well as behind bar counters or in movie theaters.
Face Sitting
The receiving female sits or knees above the head of the giving partner. She can sit in either direction, or facing his feet or facing away from his feet. If she faces his feet, the giving partner's nose will tickle her anus and the giving partner will be practically blind: Therefore face sitting is also common in domination games. When eating pussy this way, the giving partner will face lots of pussy juice drooling on him.
Lesbian Group Pussy Eating
More than two women eating each others pussy might lead to chained sex.
Basic Instructions for Happy Pussy Eating
- Start with a gentle stimulation of the labia and the whole pussy area instead of starting on her sensitive clitoris. Simply licking pussy is always a good start!
- Run your tongue clockwise around her pussy.
- Insert your tongue slowly into her pussy.
- When she is fully aroused you can start slowly to touch her clit with your tongue.
- Do not suck too often or too intensely on her clitoris. See sucking clit.
- Work slowly and make sure she is enjoying herself by listening for those tell-tale moans of ecstasy.
- If she drags you close then don't hold back - suck her stuff as much as you can because she will repay your favour very soon so don't be a miser in pleasing her.
Advanced techniques for eating pussy
From the front and facing your partner lay your tongue flat and cover her entire pussy. With the tip of your tongue touching the spot between the anus and her vagina. Use long lapping strokes avoiding the clit at the top. Instead, when reaching the top, move your tongue to one side and encircle the Clit, briefly slipping in under it hood. After she is wet slips two fingers inside and work them back and forth against one another like scissors. Continue to lick around the opening of her delicious pussy while periodically stopping at the top to draw that wonderful clitoris out and make it swell nicely. My girl prefers it when I work her G spot, clit, and anus at the same time. I'm up there with both hands and mouth working my wizardry. If we are in 69 position you can bet your next orgasm that my nose is buried in her beautiful butt hole.
It is not recommended to eat any pussy which is surrounded by lots of long pubic hair, which means she has a hairy pussy. Those hairs might get lose and get stuck in your throat, which might lead to suffication. The best pussies to eat are bald pussy, followed by any type of shaved Pussy or landing strips.
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LOS ANGELES >> The two largest law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County have polar opposite opinions when it comes to taking a bite out of crime. The difference in K-9 programs boils down to drawing blood versus baring teeth.
Depending on whether a K-9 officer deploys from the Los Angeles Police Department or the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a suspect may have a higher chance of getting chomped.
The Sheriff's Department's dogs bit nearly 50 percent more often last year than LAPD's K-9s, according to statistics obtained from the LAPD and the Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC). In 2012, LAPD had a 20.5 percent bite ratio — a statistic that weighs the number of bites against the number of suspects located — while LASD exceeded 30 percent. Both percentages factor in officer-ordered "directed bites," which LASD typically leaves out of its numbers.
Despite having a lower bite ratio, LAPD employs nearly double the dogs — 24 compared with LASD's 12.
The difference in bite percentages highlights two opposite approaches to handling. LAPD uses a tactic called "find and bark." LASD's tactic, which it officially refers to as "Handler Control With An Emphasis on Positive Alert," is more commonly described as "find and bite."
A "find and bite" dog searches for a suspect once released by their handler and then immediately attempts to subdue whoever it finds. The LAPD switched from "find and bite" in the early 1990s to reduce the risk of litigation, according to Sgt. Michael Goosby, LAPD's chief trainer for the K-9 program.
"We went through a large amount of lawsuits," he said. "It got to the point where we were getting ready to lose the unit."
The LAPD's bite ratio skyrocketed to 81 percent in 1990, according to a 1998 University of Southern California study by Alec Campbell, Richard Berk and James Fyfe. LASD's bite ratio was around 36 percent based on data from 1991, according to that study.
The Los Angeles Police Department averaged 45 to 55 percent in the early 1990s, Goosby said. That percentage dropped to 15 to 25 after "find and bark" became the norm, he said.
"It forced us to change our game," Goosby said.
LASD's bite ratio has fluctuated in recent years. It was less than 10 percent in 1998, but has stayed at roughly 30 percent for the last several years, according to data released by PARC.
Both departments deploy K-9s under specific conditions, usually when a suspect is believed holed up or armed and hidden. K-9s typically reduce the risk of harm for their human colleagues by detecting suspects who may otherwise get the drop on officers. Goosby noted that both departments use similar procedures, except for the difference of the dog's end goal: the bite versus the bark.
A recent joint-training exercise by LAPD and LASD came a few weeks after a scathing report by PARC called on the Sheriff's Department to improve its K-9 program. The report by PARC Special Counsel Merrick Bobb determined that LASD's handlers more readily use dog bites when K-9s are deployed instead of using less damaging types of force.
"Used properly, this tool can greatly enhance the efficiency of resolving the crisis, prevent deputy-involved shootings and improve officer safety," the report states. "Used incorrectly, and a dog bite can easily become a significant misuse of force that results in serious injury to a suspect or innocent bystander and significant legal exposure for the County."
LASD has paid out $1.1 million in settlements for cases involving accidental dog bites since 2009, according to PARC. Both departments use warnings — played by loud speaker — before sending their dogs, but those warnings are not always heard. In one 2010 case, a man living in a shed slept through the announcements and was bitten when a K-9 came upon him, resulting in a $225,000 payout by the county, according to PARC.
Goosby used a recent example of a LAPD K-9 coming across a female bystander to illustrate how "find and bite" helps avoid such incidents.
"(The K-9) goes in the closet and she's there, and boom, bark, bark, bark right in her face," Goosby said. "Had he gone in there and taken her out, we'd have a liability on our hands."
Bobb's study found roughly half of the K-9 bites it reviewed may have been avoidable. In instances where a suspect hid in a small enclosed space, LASD handlers tended to open the door and send in a dog rather than negotiating or tossing in tear gas or a flash bang (device), according to PARC.
"If officers could open the door safely to send in the dog, they just as safely and easily could have used tear gas or other less risky, and less potentially damaging force," the report states.
LASD's K-9s are trained to "bite and hold" discovered suspects until ordered to stop by their handler. Most LASD handlers commanded their canines to release in less than 10 seconds, though some bites lasted as long as 20 to 40 seconds, according to PARC's review of handler reports. A suspect may get ordered out with the dog still attached, causing even more damage.
"In one study, for example, researchers found that canine bites resulted in hospital visits 67.5 percent of the time, while other uses of force, like batons or Tasers, resulted in hospital visits 22 percent of the time or less," PARC's report states. "They opined that canine bites should be considered a level of force immediately below deadly force and equated a bite to an officer swinging a baton with three-centimeter spikes attached."
A "find and bark" dog is more likely to pinpoint a suspect's location, compared with a "find and bite" dog, which might circle repeatedly looking for a way in, making it unclear where exactly an officer should focus, according to Goosby.
"He is trying to find a way into the trunk, because his end game is biting," Goosby said.
A "find and bark dog" will still attack someone who makes sudden movements, but it does also have a higher risk of getting hurt because it gives a suspect, particularly with a weapon, a small window to attack.
PARC's study found that 89 percent of the total bites recorded between 2004 and 2012 involved black or Latino suspects. In the first six months of 2013, 100 percent of the 17 recorded bites affected those two groups.
"The police operate within a society that continues to produce often unequal and unfair results. That does not, however, absolve the police of responsibility to deal with those consequences," the report states.
The five Sheriff's Department stations in Century, Lennox, Compton, Lakewood and Industry had more bites between 2004 and 2013 than all of the other 21 stations combined, according to PARC.
Those areas have higher amounts of bites and deployments because they have more crime, according to sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. Goosby agreed that the numbers for each station did not seem out of the ordinary.
PARC agreed with the higher crime rates, but remained concerned about the trend shown by the data.
"The stark disparity leads us to wonder why canine deployments seem to occur disproportionately in less affluent areas with larger minority populations," the report states.
The five stations with the lowest bites — La Crescenta, Altadena, Marina Del Rey, West Hollywood and Malibu — made up only 2 percent of the total. La Crescenta did not have any bites in the past nine years.
Even if some areas have higher crime rates, the topic requires a thorough investigation, according Peter Eliasberg, legal director for ACLU of Southern California.
"Any time you see these kind of disproportionate results, I think that should be cause for concern," Eliasberg said. "I think we as a society should be concerned that we have policies that have these results, even if they are not necessarily driven by a segregation mindset."
Those areas, while they have more crime, should not produce such high numbers, he said.
"There are plenty of white suspects that are thought to be armed or thought to have committed a crime," Eliasberg said of the idea that the best explanation is high crime. "The numbers seem to be so disproportionate in the same way the 'stop and frisk' numbers have been so disproportionate in New York and L.A. I don't find that to be a persuasive argument."
To help reduce bites across the board, PARC recommended LASD implement more thorough reports on dog bites by tracking the injuries suffered and by requiring handlers to document why they used a dog over another form of force. It also suggested hiring an additional sergeant — the unit only has three — to help reduce misuse. The oversight group further suggests the Sheriff's Department consider a moratorium on the use of canines in all but the most "critical circumstances involving armed suspects" until practices are developed to "curb the disproportionate impact" on minorities.
Whitmore said LASD brass plans to analyze the report to see if improvements are needed, but in the month since the report was released there have been no changes.
"It was indicated the Department didn't change their policy on K-9 deployment," Whitmore wrote in an email. "They did a joint training with LAPD recently and the tactics are only slightly different.
"All the K-9s (both LAPD and LASD) are traditionally trained to alert, however LASD then takes it a step further and trains/integrates the dogs into the entry SWAT teams," he said.
Though "find and bark" was mandated to LAPD, Goosby stressed he'd fight against any attempt to switch back.
"It made us get better at what we do," he said.
The article has been updated from an earlier version to correct the percentage difference between the bite ratio of Sheriff's Department K-9s and that of the LAPD. The Sheriff's Department's K-9s bit 50 percent more often than the LAPD's in 2012.


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Would the Chicago Bulls Have Gone Further With Derrick Rose? — Sports Survey of the Day
In the 2012 playoffs, Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose went down with a season-ending ACL injury. That injury cost him the entire 2013 season, and may have cost the Bulls a real title shot.
A torn anterior cruciate ligament is no laughing matter. Many players are never the same again. At just 24 years old, Rose has a good shot at a full recovery, but nothing is certain.
Miami eliminated Chicago from the NBA playoffs on Wednesday night with a 94-91 win. The question is, would Rose have made a major difference? The Heat are playing unbelievably good basketball, and it's possible the series would have ended last night even if Rose had played.


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Wine casks cause glut-feelingPosted by Martin Field on 27 October 2009 in Wine
Every wine cask (bag in box) has a silver lining. At least for wine drinkers.
You can more or less judge the state of the Australian wine industry by the quality of wine available in casks. When cask wine is generally crap, it's bad for consumers and means the industry is making a packet, selling all it produces across the price spectrum. Read the rest of this entry


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"The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us...." Marcel Proust
Friday, November 14, 2008
diet Coke Chicken
I got this recipe from my friend Dot years ago. She was born and raised in Mississippi and her "mama" made this for her. My mother met Dot on her trips to Hawaii, and Dot made this for her once. I think her mother probably used regular Coke, but Dot adjusted it to diet Coke because that's what she had on hand, and so that's how I make this too. This is good, ol' fashioned Southern white trash food at its finest... Diet Coke Chicken Spray a 8" square glass baking dish with Pam. Arrange boneless, skinless chicken breasts in pan (4 fit nicely, or use bigger dish for more). Squirt a blob of ketchup on each chicken breast, then top with a thin slice of onion. Pour about 1/2 can of diet Coke on top, about 1/2 inch in pan. Bake at about 350 for 30-40 minutes, basting with a spoon occasionally, until chicken is done and sauce is a little bubbly. Pour remainder of diet Coke over ice, splash with rum and garnish with lemon. Drink while waiting for chicken. Mmmm Mmmm Good.
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I will have to try the chicken because it sounds great. I have already tried the drink(many times), and I know that it is GREAT.
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John Deere KernelStar Processor
John Deere announced that it will further advance its competence around Biomass as well as animal nutrition through the acquisition of the innovative kernel/forage processing technology KernelStar for self propelled forage harvesters. The intellectual property rights have been acquired from the German company CAWI. The technology has already established very strong customer acceptance, especially focusing on enhancing the forage quality for livestock and biogas producers.
"The new John Deere KernelStar technology will add significant value to John Deere self-propelled forage harvesters and should further enhance their productivity in the field. The integration of this new kernel processor is the result of intensive customer research and reflects the growing demand for the best possible forage and substrate quality", says Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Chris Wigger. "Following the 'Harvest Lab Sensor', which has established itself in the last 5 years as the key leading ingredient sensing technology for self propelled forage harvesters, KernelStar is the second pillar of 'forage technology innovation'.
KernelStar, a state-of the-art concept is based on a patented "bevel" disc design which allows for more intensive treatment of the kernels when compared to either the conventional cylindrical roll design or other disc designs on the market. "Apart from the improved processing of kernels, a significant reduction of over-length particles can be achieved as well as a reduction of the component's power consumption", explains SPFH Division Marketing Manager Richard Halsall. The new design applies contoured intermeshing discs which provide an increased surface area to enhance the crop processing. "Due to their special patented shape, the discs provide almost three times the effective processing width compared to the conventional standard roll type kernel processor", adds Halsall.
Full integration of the concept into John Deere foragers as a factory installed option will be announced later this year, in the short term for 2012 kits can be purchased to convert self propelled forage harvesters. Specific information will be available from John Deere dealers in the coming weeks. "This new component seamlessly ties in with a number of other industry leading solutions on John Deere foragers, including innovative header solutions, the DuraDrum cutterhead and the award winning HarvestLab moisture and constituents sensor", says Halsall.
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Isuzu Tradepack has everything a tradie is likely to need including a real payload capacity, drop-side tray, bullbar, ladder racks, genuine Isuzu 3500kg tow bar etc. There are two models: Standard and Premium. The Premium model is distinguished by metallic silver paint and Automated Manual Transmission (no clutch!) plus a lockable tool box.
The Isuzu Servicepack is basically a truck sized tool trolley. The unique folded steel body has a 1,500kg Payload and seven lockable compartments, each connected to the truck's central locking system. So you know all your gear is safe and sound at all times.
The Isuzu Ready-to-Work Traypack does everything your average ute can do, and more. Available in short- and medium-wheelbases with a truck-sized aluminium tray, it carries bigger payloads for bigger paydays. Yet it's nimble enough to go wherever your work takes you.
The Isuzu range of Ready-to-Work Tippers can be driven with passenger-car license. But they can carry almost half a tonne more than your average ute. And with the Isuzu Tri-Tipper's unique three-way tipping ability, you'll have an even more capable tipper, from any angle.
When it comes to convenience and comfort, the Ready-To-Work Vanpack really delivers the goods. Or the furniture. Or whatever needs delivering. If you've got a small business, go to town in an Isuzu Ready-To-Work Vanpack.
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text: I lost touch with Juri (the guy who started the documentation project of openMosix) 2-3 months ago. More info about LinuxPMI you can find on Freenode #linuxpmi or #openmosix As far as I can see the domain is registered until next year and there is some routing problem New York before the server. I'm sorry but I do not know of any mirrors as Juri's machine was the central storage of the documented patches. Hi actually split the openMosix into series of patches so that it can be ported to 2.6 easier. Regards Marian On Wednesday 01 October 2008 14:33:38 Tony Travis wrote: > Tony Travis wrote: > > [...] > > Hello, Marian. > > > > Great! I didn't know about LinuxMPI: I've not been following openMosix > > developments recently. I can't access their web site - Is it mirrored > > anywhere? > > Following up my own message, I meant LinuxPMI of course ;-) > > Not much evidence that the LinuxPMI project is still active, though. > Google reports a lot of hits for the pending DNS de-registration of > "linuxmpi.com'... > > Anyone else know what's happening with LinuxPMI? > > Thanks, > > Tony.


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Before school shooting, Newtown reported only 1 homicide in almost a decade
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CNN) — Nearly three decades ago, a woman disappeared from the Connecticut town of Newtown, leaving behind a trail of questions.
For years, investigators grappled for answers in the 1984 case. In 2010, they found her skeletal remains buried under the flooring of an apartment kitchen, and arrested her husband.
Until last week's elementary school massacre, the break in the cold case was the big headline in the town of 27,000 people.
It became the only reported homicide in the town in nearly a decade. A study of FBI numbers dating to 2004 listed only the woman's killing.
Then came Friday, when a gunman blasted his way through Sandy Hook Elementary School, spraying bullets and slaughtering terrified children in the second-deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
When the whiz of bullets subsided, 20 children, six adults, and the gunman lay dead. Earlier, he had shot and killed his mother.
The latest deaths jolted the scenic town filled with twinkling holiday lights and vibrant poinsettias. The upscale community features expansive homes surrounded by woods. Lobster bakes and dances are popular among residents.
Many residents commute to jobs in Manhattan and the nearby Connecticut cities of Stamford and Hartford.
Unlike the mass shooting, the cold case involving the last murder in the town was short on details.
John Heath reported his wife missing from their Newtown home in April 1984. Friends and relatives said her disappearance was unusual; she would never walk out on her 4-year-old daughter, according to the Hartford Courant.
The couple was going through a divorce when she disappeared, the Newtown Bee reported.
Twenty-six years after the missing-person report, a man and his son renovating an apartment once owned by Heath found the woman's bones.
A search at the location revealed more of Mary Elizabeth Heath's remains stuffed in beddings.
She suffered blunt force trauma to the head and had two broken arms, court records showed, the latter defense wounds a result of putting her arms up.
Police charged John Heath with murder, to which he pleaded not guilty and awaits trial.
The story rocked the small community.
Regional news outlets competed with local ones to report the latest developments.
On Friday, the town was in the headlines again. This time, all over the world.
This article was written and provided by Faith Karimi with the CNN Wire. TM & © 2012 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.


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Initial jobless claims in the US jumped 25,000 to 304,000 last week, moving the average for seasonally adjusted jobless claims above the closely-watched 300,000 level.
National economic activity weakened in June, according to the Chicago Federal Reserve National Activity Index. The Chicago Federal Reserve's index used 85 indicators of national economic activity in four overall categories.
US retail sales rose 0.2 in June from May and are up 4.3 percent since last year, according tot he US Census Bureau. Sales of nominal 'discretionary items' such as home furnishings and consumers fell from May's levels but are higher compared to last year.
Mortgage rates for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages went up, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage rates, however, are still down from the sky-high levels back in 2007 before the Great Recession and the housing market collapsed.
'Total unemployment' declined to 12.1 percent in June, while traditionally-reported unemployment rate also went down to 6.1 percent. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report last week.
Mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed rate loan fell to 4.08 percent since last week, the lowest in nearly a year and a half. In addition to falling mortgage rates, the the purchase application volume decreased 1 percent and the refinance application volume increased 11 percent over the same period.
Construction spending in the US declined in June, according to the US Census Bureau. Total residential spending declined 0.3 percent from May, although construction spending is 7.4 percent higher in June compared to last year.
US total unemployment increased to 12.2 percent in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. The traditionally-reported unemployment rate also rose to 6.2 percent.
Pending home sales in the US declined 1.1 percent in June, according to the National Association of Realtors. There are conditions that deter potential buyers, such as a shortage of homes in parts of the country.
A recovered hedgehog is held in gloved hands before its release near Kecskemet, Hungary, on Wednesday. Some forty previously injured and rehabilitated animals belonging to the protected species were released into the wild as a result of the joint efforts of the Kecskemet Zoo and Kiskunsag National Park.
The US Census Bureau released the latest read on construction spending Tuesday, showing a mixed bag for May. Both total private construction spending and single family construction spending declined, but non-residential construction spending increased.
National economic activity grew in May, according to the Chicago Federal Reserve National Activity Index. The index looks at 85 indicators that fall under four categories such as 'employment, unemployment, and income' and 'sales, orders, and inventories.'
In March, 79,476 people were removed from SNAP. The number of households receiving food stamps benefits has fallen 2.76 percent since last year.
Mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell four basis points to 4.16 percent since last week. Mortgage rates have been falling steadily since the beginning of 2014.
The US Department of Labor released its employment situation report on Friday. Less workers were employed for 27 weeks or longer, but the US still has a long way to go before returning to pre-recession levels.
The US Department of Labor released its weekly jobless claims report on Thursday. Initial unemployment claims increased by 8,000, but continued unemployment claims decreased by 20,000.
The private sector added 179,000 jobs in May, according to the ADP's latest National Employment Report. This brought up total employment level 2.06 percent higher than it was in May 2013.
The US Census Bureau released their latest read on construction spending. Total private construction spending and single family construction spending since March has gone up, while non-residential construction spending declined.
The US Census Department released its monthly New Residential Home Sales Report for April on Saturday. Sales are improving, but home sales aren't at the level as they were in recent years.
The average rate for a 30 year fixed rate mortgage (from FHA and conforming GSE data) decreased 2 basis points to 4.34 percent since last week while the purchase application volume declined 4 percent and the refinance application volume declined 7 percent over the same period.
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California teen recognized with $10,000 scholarship for Zshred: Miniature skateboard business
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 21, 2011 – In recognition of his work in becoming a leading seller of custom miniature skateboards in the United States, Dillon Morgan of Westlake Village, California, has been named the 2011 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneur Foundation. Mr. Morgan was selected from among 4,000 nationwide candidates. In recognition of his achievements, Morgan has been awarded a $10,000 educational scholarship that will help defray the cost of his tuition at the University of Southern California.
"The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in our next generation of business owners," said Kurt Summers, chairman, NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation Board of Directors. "Our first prize winner, Dillon Morgan, was inspired to make custom miniature skateboards, known as 'fingerboards,' when he realized few of the products were actually made in America. Today, Dillon has filled over 5,000 orders for his products to 17 different countries, and his company, Z shred, is on its way to becoming the most successful fingerboard company in America. Dillon's ambition and innovation should be an inspiration to all young entrepreneurs. This year's finalists all show an incredible drive for success, and I congratulate each of them for their accomplishments."
Morgan says he was inspired to create his business manufacturing customized miniature skateboards after realizing there were few domestic manufacturers of the products. His business, Z shred, quickly took off when he became one of the first fingerboard companies to offer innovative new features and customizable options, such as polyurethane wheels and colored trucks.
"The memories, the experience, and the knowledge that has come from Z shred is priceless," said Morgan. "As I move on to college to major in business, my goal is to be involved in a hi-tech company creating Eco-friendly, innovative products that make the world…better."
Morgan was among five finalists being considered for the $10,000 scholarship. The four other finalists will receive $5,000 scholarships. They are:
- Jared Schlosnagle of Pleasureville, KY: Mr Schlosnagle has been involved in the egg farming business since age 10, and today owns Chelsey's Gourmet Pasture Eggs, which distributes to retailers and grocery stores such as Whole Foods.
- Jordan Renda of St. John's, FL: Mr. Renda created a haunted house business called Haunted Productions, LLC. His company is in its third successful year with attractions such as the popular Night Terrors Haunted House, a walk-through attraction in Jacksonville, FL.
- Colton Day of Wellington, KS: Mr. Day founded Colton Day Farms, a diverse agricultural company, in 2007. Today, he produces crops on 440 acres of dry land soil in south central Kansas. He also has 20 cows, which he breeds and sells the calves.
- Rohit Agrawal of Plymouth, MN: Mr. Agrawal is founder of Pwn with your Phone, where he develops and sells applications for Android smartphones. His apps to enhance business productivity and user experience on Android phones have been recommended by publications such as PC World, the New York Times, and more.
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Congratulations for Dillon Morgan, not only the USA, the world also needs people like you. It was very inspiring.
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Tomorrow the Senate Banking Committee will likely hold a vote on President Obama's recent nominations to the Federal Reserve Board, Harvard professor Jeremy Stein and former investment banker and Treasury official Jerome Powell. I've written elsewhere on how these two fail to meet the statutory requirements for board membership, as it relates to geography. But there is another issue that continues to bother me about these nominations. That is the unwritten assumption that Wall Street gets a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
As Bloomberg reports Powell "would bring expertise on financial markets to the Fed's board, filling a void left by Kevin Warsh, a former Morgan Stanley banker." But this overlooks the fact that the New York Federal Reserve President, currently former Goldman Exec William Dudley, is a permanent member of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). As an institutional matter, the Fed already has a line from Wall Street via the New York Fed, where's the need for another?
The Federal Reserve Act requires the president, when making nominations to the Fed, to give "due regard to a fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial, and commercial interests." As far as I can tell there is zero representation on the Board for "agricultural, industrial and commercial interests" and already one former banker (Duke) on the Board. How is that "fair?" While this "fairness" requirement is not as black and white as the geography issue, I do believe it is one fundamental to the functioning of the Fed. Is this a Fed that represents all sectors and interests in the economy, or is this a Fed that mainly represents Wall Street (and academia, which is never mentioned in the Federal Reserve Act)?
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text: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Erik Paulson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:11:01PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Rajiv wrote: > > > > > Dear All, > > > Are there any Beowulf packages for windows? > > > > Not that I know of. In fact, the whole concept seems a bit oxymoronic, > > as the definition of a beowulf is a cluster supercomputer running an > > open source operating system. > > > > It's really time that gave up on trying to hold a strong definition > to "beowulf". It's like kleenex or hacker/cracker. The world doesn't > care. Clusters of x86 PCs doing "HPC" = beowulf Now look what you did. Used up my whole morning, just about. The easily bored can skip the rant below. <rant id="389"> This (what's a beowulf?) is list discussion #389, actually. Or maybe it is that the discussion has occurred 389 times, I can't remember. I do remember that the first time I participated in it was around seven or eight years ago, that I advanced the point of view that you espouse here -- and that I changed my mind. The definition of beowulf as OPPOSED to "just" a cluster of systems (nuttin' in the definition about them being "PC"s, just COTS systems) was given by the members of the original beowulf project with explicit reasons for each component. Note well that cluster supercomputing was at the time not new -- I'd been doing it myself by then for years (on COTS systems, for that matter, if Unix workstations can be considered off the shelf), and I was far, far from the first. At that time, there were already NOWs, COWs, PoPs and more. See Pfister's "In Search of Clusters" for a lovely, balanced, and not terribly beowulf-centric historical review. Two things differentiated the beowulf from earlier cluster efforts. a) Custom software designed to present a view of the cluster as "a supercomputer" in the same sense (precisely) that e.g. an SP2 or SP3 is "a supercomputer" -- a single "head" that is identified as being "the computer", specialized communications channels to augment the speed of communications (then quite slow on 10 Mbps ethernet), stuff like bproc designed to support the member computers being "processors" in a multiprocessor machine rather than standalone computers. Note that this idea was NOT totally original to the beowulf project, as PVM already had incorporated much of this vision years earlier. b) The fact that the beowulf utilized an open source operating system and was built on top of open source software. The reasons for this at the time were manifest, and really haven't changed. In order to realize their design goals that >>extended<< the concepts already in place in PVM, they had to write numerous kernel drivers (hard to do without the kernel source) as well as a variety of support packages. Don Becker wrote (IIRC) something like -- would that be all of the linux kernel's network drivers at the time or just 80% of them? -- hard to remember at this point, but a grep on Becker in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net is STILL pretty revealing. Now look for Sterling and Becker's contributions to the WinXX networking stack. Hmmmm.... The insistence on COTS hardware, actually, is what I'd consider the "weakest" component of the original definition, as it is the one component that was readily bent by the community in order to better realize the design goal of a parallel supercomputer capable of running fine grained parallel code competitively with "big iron" supercomputers. The beowulf community readily embraced non-commodity networks when they appeared. Note that I consider "commodity" as meaning multisourced with real competition holding down prices and generally built on an "open" standard, e.g. ethernet is open and has many vendors, myrinet is not open and is available only from Myricom (although at all points there has been at least some generic competition at least between high end proprietary networks). Myrinet historically was perhaps >>the<< key component that permitted beowulves to reach and even exceed the performance of so-called big iron supercomputers for precisely the kind of fine grained numerical problems that the supercomputers had historically dominated. I remember well Greg Lindahl, for example, showing graphs of Alpha/Myrinet speedup scaling compared to e.g. SP-series systems and others, with the beowulf model actually winning (at less than 1/3 the price, even using the relatively expensive hardware involved). > And on the Beowulf on Windows bit - > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262692759/qid=1097514164/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-7091285-1915902?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 > > "Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows (Scientific and Engineering Computation) > by Thomas Sterling" - If Tom says that you can build a beowulf on > Windows, I think you can. I can only reply with: http://www.beowulf.org/community/column2.html by Don Becker, in which he points out that when they first met, Sterling was "obsessed with writing open source network drivers". Or if you prefer, Question Number One of the beowulf FAQ: 1. What's a Beowulf? Beowulf Clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. Each consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through only a single node. Some Linux clusters are built for reliability instead of speed. These are not Beowulfs. Or check out my "snapshot" of the original beowulf website, preserved in electronic amber (so to speak) from back when I ran a mirror: http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf/ The introduction and overview contains a number of lovely tidbits concerning the beowulf design and how it differs from a NOW. It makes it pretty clear that the only way a pile of WinXX boxes could be "a beowulf" (as opposed to a NOW) would be if Microsoft Made it So -- the WinXX kernels and networking stack and job scheduling and management are essentially inaccessible to developers in an open community, which is why WinXX clusters like Cornell's (however well they work) stand alone, supported only to the extent that MS or Cornell pay for it with little community synergy. Nobody would argue, of course, that one can't build a NOW based on WinXX boxes. A number exist. WinXX boxes run PVM or MPI (and have been able to for many years, probably even predating the beowulf project although I'm too lazy to check the mod dates of the WinXX ifdefs in PVM). One can also obviously build a grid with WinXX boxes in it, probably more easily than one can build a true parallel cluster. Grid-style clusters (a.k.a. "compute farms") predate even virtual supercomputers in cluster taxonomy, for all that they have a new name and a relatively new set of high-level support software (just as the beowulf has, in the form of bproc implemented in clustermatic and scyld). Those of use who used to "roll our own" gridware to permit the use of entire LANs of workstations on embarrassingly parallel problems find this (toplevel support software) a welcome development, and it has indeed blurred the lines between beowulfs and other NOWs to some degree, but if anything it is DIMINISHING the identification of all clusters as "beowulfs". Look at all the Grid projects in the universe -- BioGRID, the smallpox grid, ATLAS grid, PatriotGrid -- grids are proliferating like crazy, but they aren't considered or referred to as beowulfs. In most cases "beowulf" isn't even mentioned in their toplevel documentation. One of the fundamental reasons for differentiation is this very list. Few people who have been on the list for a long time and who have worked with beowulfs and other kinds of open source clusters for a long time have any particular interest in providing community support to cluster computing under Windows. For one thing, it is nearly impossible -- it requires somebody with trans-MCSE knowledge of Windows' kernels, libraries, drivers, networking stack, and tools including the various WinXX ports of key cluster software where it exists. For another, people who work in that community who DO have that level of expertise don't seem to want to share -- they want to sell. One has to pay to become a MCSE; one then expects a high rate of consultative return on the investment. One cannot easily obtain access to WinXX source code, and open or not, access to kernel-level source code turns out to be essential to getting maximal performance out of a true beowulf or even advanced non-beowulf style cluster. Besides, nearly all the tools involved (beyond userspace stuff like PVM or MPI in certain flavors) are SOLD and supported by Microsoft (only) or other Microsoft-connected commercial developers and the only "benefit" we get back in the community from providing support for them is to increase their profits and to encourage them to turn around and resell us our own developments and ideas at a high cost. So let THEM provide the consultation and expertise and "intellectual property" they prize so highly; I will not contribute. Contrast that with the really rather unbelieveable level of support freely offered via this list to (yes) general cluster computer users and builders (not just "beowulf" builders by the strict definition). This support is predicated on the fundamental notions of open source software -- that effort expended on it comes back to you amplified tenfold as the COMMUNITY is strengthened in the open and free exchange of ideas. Consider the many tools and products that support beowulfery (or generalized cluster computer operation) that would simply be impossible to develop in a closed source proprietary model. People who participate in this sort of development have no desire to do all the work to create new tools and products only to have Microsoft and its software lackeys do its usual job of co-opting the tool, branding it, shifting the core standard from open to proprietary, and then squeezing out the original inventors (extended rant available on request:-). For all of these reasons, I think that it is worthwhile to maintain the moderately strict definition of "a beowulf" as a particular isolated network arrangement of COTS systems running open source software and functioning as a cluster capable of running anything from fine grained parallel problems down to distributed single tasks with a single "view" of task ID space. This is a fairly open and embracing definition -- people on the list run "beowulfs" with a single head, multiple heads, many operating systems other than Linux (most of them open source -- WinXX users are subjected to fairly merciless teasing if nothing else ...hotter:-). It is differentiated from (recently emerging) definitions of Grid-style clusters, from my much older definition of a "distributed parallel supercomputer" (built largely of dual use workstations that function as desktop machines in a LAN while still permitting long-running numerical tasks to be run in the background), from MUCH older definitions of NOWs, COWs, Piles of PCs. So, if somebody says they've "built a beowulf" out of a bunch of WinXX boxes, yes, I know what they mean, even though what they say is almost certainly not correct. The list is fairly tolerant of pretty much anybody doing any kind of cluster computing, even Windows based NOWs or Grids. "Extreme Linux" as a more general vehicle for linux cluster development never quite took off, and www.extremelinux.org continues to be a blank page as it has been for years now. As I said above, I personally don't even DO "real" beowulf computing and never have -- my clusters tend to be NOWs, although we're gradually shifting more towards a Grid model as improved software makes this the easy path support-wise. As a final note, I personally view the original PVM team as the "inventors of commodity cluster computing" even more than Sterling and Becker (much as I revere their contributions). If a "beowulf" is a network of computers running e.g. PVM on top of proprietary software, Dongarra et. al. beat Sterling and Becker to the punch by years. This isn't a crazy idea -- PVM already contains "out of the box" many of the design goals of the beowulf project -- a unified process id space (tids), a single control head that supports the "virtual machine" model, the ability to run on commodity hardware. It just does it in userspace, and hence has limits on what can be accomplished performance-wise, and has the usual PVM vs MPI problems with the older supercomputer programmers (who all used MPI, for interesting historical reasons). (Interestingly, "old hands" in the beowulf/cluster business nearly all tell me that they used to use and still prefer PVM, while MPI is still the "commercially salable" parallel library that better favors the traditional big iron supercomputing model;-) To what PVM already provided, Sterling and Becker contributed the notions of >>network isolation<< to achieve predictable network latency, >>channel bonding<< of network channels, built on top of open source network drivers, to improve network bandwidth (an accomplishment somewhat overshadowed by the rapid development faster networks and low-latency networks), and eventually >>kernel-level modifications<< that truly converted a cluster of PCs into a "single machine" the components of which could no longer stand alone but were merely "processors" in a massively parallel system with a single user-level kernel interface. So how in the world can Sterling argue that this >>beowulf<< software, developed by the original beowulf team, is available for Windows? Did I miss something? Network isolation, fine, that's a matter of trivial network arrangement that anybody with $50 for an OTC router/firewall can now accomplish, but channel bonded networks? Unified process id spaces? Kernel modifications that make nodes into virtual processors in a single "machine"? Not that I know of, anyway, and obviously impossible without fairly open access to Windows source code in any event. At a guess, it would require such a violent modification even to the more modern and POSIX compliant WinXX's that the result could be called "Windows" only in the sense that linux running a windowing system can be called "Windows" -- pretty much a complete rewrite and de-integration of the GUI from the OS kernel would be required (something that Microsoft has argued in court is impossible, amusingly enough, as they have sought to convince an ignorant public that Internet Explorer -- a userspace program if ever there was one -- cannot be be de-integrated from Windows:-). Asserting that there are truly Windows-based beowulfs does not make it so, and coopting the term "beowulf" to apply to generic computing models and tools that preceded the project by years is a kind of newspeak. I'll have to just go on thinking of the idea as an oxymoronic one, at least until Microsoft opens its source code or somebody succeeds in rewriting history and the original definition and goals of the beowulf project. > ps - define "supercomputer" :) AT THE TIME of the beowulf project, the definition was actually pretty clear, if only by example. I'd say it is still pretty clear, actually. At that time (and still today, mostly) the generic term "computer" embraced: a) Mainframes (the oldest example of "computer", still annoyingly common in business, industry and academe). b) Minicomputers (e.g. PDP's, Vaxes, Harris's). Basically cheaper/smaller versions of mainframes that generally stood alone although of course a number of them were used as the core servers for Unix-based workstation LANs. c) Workstations (e.g. Suns, SGIs). Typically desktop-sized computers in a client-server arrangement on a LAN. Server-class Suns and SGIs were sometimes refrigerator-sized units that were de facto minicomputers, blurring the lines between b) and c) in the case where both were running Unix flavors (or at least real multitasking operating systems). d) Personal computers. A "personal" computer was always a desktop sized unit, and the term "PC" generally applied to x86-family examples, although clearly Apples were (and continue to be) PCs as well. Note that PCs were sometimes as capable, hardware-wise, as workstations and had been networkable for years, so networking or hardware per se had nothing to do with being a PC vs a workstation. A PC really was differentiated from being a workstation by a key feature of its operating system -- the INability to login to the system remotely over a network. To use a PC, you had to sit at the PC's actual interface. (Note that aftermarket tools like "PC anywhere" did not a PC a workstation make). e) Supercomputers. A supercomputer was (and continues to be) a generic term for a "computer" capable of doing numerical (HPC) computations much faster than the CURRENT GENERATION of a-d computers. Obviously a moving target, given Moore's Law. From the "first" so-called supercomputer, the 12 MFLOP Cray-1, through to today's top 500 list, the differentiating feature is obviously RELATIVE performance, as the Palm Tungsten C in my pocket (with its 400 MHz CPU) is faster than the Cray 1. f) Today there is a weak association between "supercomputer" and "single task" HPC (so Grids and compute farms of various sorts are somewhat excluded, probably BECAUSE of the top500 list and its insistence on parallel linpack-y sorts of stuff as the relevant measure of supercomputer performance). So Grids have emerged as a kind of cluster in their own right that isn't ordinarily viewed as a supercomputer although a Grid is essentially unbounded from above in terms of aggregate floating point capacity in a way that supercomputers are not. One could make a grid of all the top500 supercomputers, in fact... Note that historically supercomputers are differentiated from other a-d class computers not by being "mainframe" or not, not by being vector processor based vs interconnected parallel multiprocessor based, not by its operating system, not even by its underlying computational paradigm (e.g. shared memory vs message passing), certainly not by its ABSOLUTE performance, but strictly by relative numerical performance. My Palm a decade ago would have been an export-restricted munition supercomputer, usable by rogue nations to simulate nuclear blasts and build WMD. Today it is a casual tool used by businessmen to check the web and email and remind them of appointments, while other munitions-quality systems are now toys, used by my kids to race virtual motorcycles around hyperrealistically rendered city streets. Talk about swords into plowshares...;-) The exact multiplier between "ordinary computer" performance and supercomputer performance is of course not terribly sharp. Over the years, a factor of order ten has often sufficed. In the original beowulf project, aggregating 16 80486DX processors (at best a few hundred aggregate FLOPS, again, my Palm probably would beat it at a walk) was enough. Nowadays perhaps we are jaded, and only clusters consisting of hundreds or thousands of CPUs, instead of tens, are in the running. Maybe only the top500 systems are "supercomputers. Maybe the term itself is really obsolete, as fewer and fewer systems that are anything BUT a beowulf style cluster (even if it is assembled and sold as a big iron "single system" with its internal cluster CPUs and IPC network and memory model hidden by a custom designed operating system) appear in the HPC marketplace. Still, I think most people still know what "supercomputer" means. In fact, when one looks over the current top500, it appears that it has >>almost<< become synonymous with the term "beowulf";-) But not (note well!) with the term "grid", as grids aren't architected to excell at linpack, and a grid is very definitely not a beowulf. As far as I can tell, just about 100% of the top500 are clusters (COTS or otherwise) architected along the lines laid out by the beowulf project, with 95% of them having lots scalar processors and the remaining 5% having lots of vector processors. Unfortunately, the top500 (which I continue to think of as being almost totally useless for anything but advertising) doesn't present us with a clear picture of the operating systems or systems software architectures in place on most of the clusters. In fact, it provides remarkably little useful information except the name of the cluster manufacturer/integrator/reseller (imagine that;-). Two clusters on the list (#146 at Cornell and #233 in Korea) are explicitly indicated as running Windows. Looking over the general cluster hardware architectures and manufacturer/integrator/resellers, I would guess that linux is overwhelmingly dominant, followed by freebsd and other (proprietary) flavors of Unix, with WinXX quite possibly dead last. Open source development is an evolutionary model, capable of paradigm shifts, far jumps in parametric space, and N^3 advantage in searching high dimensional spaces. Proprietary software development is by its nature a gradient search process, prone to optimizing in perpetuity around a slowly evolving local minimum, making long jumps only when it steals fully developed memetic patterns (such as the Internet, cluster computing, and many more) more often than not produced by evolutionary communities. To be fair, new patterns are sometimes introduced a priori by brilliant individuals without clear roots in open communities (e.g. "Turbo" compilers), although that is less common in recent years as the open source development process has itself evolved. The individuals only RARELY work for major corporations any more, and the corporations that are famous as idea factories -- e.g. Bell Labs -- created internal "open" communities of their very own where the new ideas were incubated and exchanged and kicked around. It's just a matter of mathematics, you see. Linux = mammal (sorry, Tux:-) Evolving at a stupendous speed (compare everything from kernel to complete distributions over the last decade) WinXX = Great White Shark Evolutionarily frozen, remarkably efficient at what it does, immensely yet curiously vulnerable... </rant> Well, that's enough rant for the day. I've GOT to get some actual work done... rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Running back Maurice Jones-Drew left Sunday's game with a sprained ankle in the second quarter versus the Oakland Raiders. He did not return, and the Raiders won 19-9.
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What is a 100-year floodplain?
It is the area of land inundated by flood waters from a storm that has a one percent (1%) probability of being equaled or exceeded in any given 12-month period. Some smaller water courses in Garland are not shown on the FEMA published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), but are still subject to inundation in a 100-year flood.
What is a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)?
FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) designate most of the 100-year floodplain (see above) as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). The SFHA is the land in the floodplain within Garland subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given 12-month period, and is designated as Zone AE on the FEMA published FIRMs for the City of Garland.
Am I required to carry flood insurance?
Per the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) all residential or commercial structures that are located within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) are required to carry flood insurance in order to secure a federally backed mortgage. In addition, your mortgage company has the option to require flood insurance at their discretion.
The City of Garland cannot participate in negotiations to remove flood insurance purchase requirements from a given property.
Is my home or business in the floodplain?
A residential or commercial building is considered to be within the 100-year floodplain if floodwater levels during a 100-year flood event touch the exterior foundation of the building.
My mortgage company says my home or business is in the floodplain, but I disagree. What can be done to address this?
In order to officially remove a property from the 100-year floodplain, it is necessary to obtain a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) from FEMA. If you want to apply for a LOMA, you must first obtain an Elevation Certificate for your property.
How do I obtain an Elevation Certificate?
The Engineering Department can produce Elevation Certificates upon request. Elevation Certificates are kept on file in the Engineering Department. Copies are available to the public free of charge.
New Elevation Certificates for properties and structures that do not already have them can be prepared by the Engineering Department upon request. Fees for the preparation of these certificates are outlined in Section 31.107 of the City of Garland Code of Ordinances.
If a new Elevation Certificate is desired, the Engineering Department needs the following information:
Name of the person requesting the Certificate and their role (homeowner, insurance agent, etc.) in the process, and a contact phone number.
The address of the property.
You may submit a request via
, by fax 972-205-2675 (
Elevation Certificate Request Sheet
) or by calling the Engineering Department at 972-205-2170. When a request is received, and the required fees are paid as outlined in Section 31.107 of the Code of Ordinances, a representative of the Engineering Department will call the contact person listed to arrange a time to meet with the survey crew at the property. It is not required for the survey crew to have access to the interior of the property, though many times it is helpful. The field survey time required is approximately 30 to 45 minutes. The entire process generally takes approximately one week.
If the Elevation Certificate shows that a Letter of Map Amendment (see below) can be obtained, the Engineering Department can prepare the necessary documentation for FEMA to issue one. Once the fees have been paid and all necessary paperwork compiled, the City will submit the package to FEMA for review and issuance of a LOMA. Generally, FEMA requires 6-8 weeks of review time to issue a LOMA once the paperwork is received in their office.
When can I develop in the floodplain?
Any development in a flood plain carries a risk of increasing flood elevations and causing damage to the development and nearby properties. The City of Garland is committed to the concept of "zero-rise" flood plain development. This means that any development within a flood plain in Garland must ensure that no rises in 100-year water surface elevations occur as a result of it. This is normally accomplished by balancing fill in the flood plain with excavation. A flood study must be prepared by a state-licensed professional engineer. The flood study analyzes the development's impact on the floodplain. Prior to any construction, the flood study is submitted to and approved by the Engineering Department. These requirements apply to FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA), as well as smaller flood plains within the City that do not appear on FEMA-published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs). Sections 31.101 through 31.106 of the City of Garland Code of Ordinances contain the requirements that must be met in order to secure a Flood Plain Development Permit. In addition, any development project within a FEMA SFHA must conform to all FEMA requirements outlined in Section 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR), chapters 59 through 78.
What is a Floodplain Development Permit?
A Floodplain development Permit is required for all development of any type within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). These forms must be completed by the project owner or contractor and submitted to the Engineering Department for review and approval. Find out more information on
What is the difference between FEMA designated zones A, AE, X (shaded), and X?
Zone A is the section of Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) where the 100-year water surface elevation has not been determined. Only a few small areas within the City of Garland are Zone A. Zone AE is the section of SFHA where the 100-year flood elevation has been determined, as well as a designated floodway (see below). Zone X (shaded) is an area inundated by the 0.20 annual chance flood, better known as the 500-year flood, with average depths of less than 1 foot or with drainage areas less than 1 square mile; and areas protected by levees from the 1% annual chance flood. Finally, Zone X (un-shaded) refers to areas outside the land inundated by the 0.20 annual chance flood event. It should be noted that some small creeks do not appear on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps. Interested parties may contact the City of Garland Engineering Department to determine if flood plain information is available for these creeks.
What is the floodway?
Section 31.101 (N) of the City of Garland Code of Ordinances defines a floodway as "the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base (100-year) flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation by more than one foot". Floodways are delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs). This area must be kept clear of fences, buildings, fill, or any other obstructions that could inhibit flood flows. Section 31.104 of the Code of Ordinances specifies requirements for any proposed development within a floodway. In addition, FEMA regulations for floodway development must be followed.
What is a LOMA, LOMR, LOMR-F, or CLOMR?
LOMA (Letter of Map Amendment) is a letter from FEMA that a given structure or parcel of property is not within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as shown on the effective Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). Typically a LOMA will remove the Federal requirement for the lender to require flood insurance coverage for a property located in SFHA. However, the lender may determine as a business decision or policy that it wishes to continue the flood insurance requirement.
LOMR (Letter of Map Revision) is a letter from FEMA officially revising the current FIRM to show changes to floodplains, floodways, or flood elevations. Typically these letters are associated with large scale map changes, or larger commercial or residential subdivision developments. When a LOMR is issued by FEMA, the affected FIRM will be reissued, physically changing the map to reflect the results of the LOMR.
LOMR-F (Letter of Map Revision based on Fill) is a letter from FFEMA stating that an existing structure or parcel of land that has been elevated by fill material would not be inundated by the 100-year flood and therefore is not located within the SFHA. This is similar to a LOMA, except that a LOMA details with properties that have not had any fill material brought in to elevate the structure above the 100-year flood elevation.
CLOMR (Conditional Letter of Map Revision) is a letter from FEMA commentating on whether a proposed project, if built as proposed, would meet minimum National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) standards or proposed hydrology changes.


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