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Feds Announce Land Buyback Program (Dec 18, 2012)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - U.S. government officials are rolling out a Native American land buyback program as part of a $3.4 billion settlement over mismanaged royalties.
The 10-year, $1.9 billion program is meant to purchase individual allotments from willing Indians and turn over the consolidated parcels to tribes.
Program manager John McClanahan said Tuesday it could be up to a year before the first land sales are completed.
The program is the largest portion of the settlement finalized last month. It aims to reduce Indian Country's high number of individual tracts with multiple owners.
Land fractionation was caused by the 1887 Dawes Act, which split tribal lands into individual allotments often inherited by multiple heirs with each passing generation.
In some places, more than 1,000 individual owners own portions of a single tract.
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a preschool girl, a blank canvas,
tubs of paint in bold colors.
She starts with three bright streaks,
yellow, green, and red, cautiously smeared.
A dab of blue sneaks in.
But then the excitement of paints
and bare hands is too much
and caution goes out the window.
Bold colors mix, painted hands smash,
and out comes blackest-black hands
and a little giggling girl who
can't believe her mess-making luck.
The quick wash up after? Expected.
The glee of paint slung near
and far with mom smiling on?
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News & Notes: Game 45
Sunday, May 22, 2011 (1:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (18-26, T5th(-9.0), North)
RHP Josh Stinson (1-4, 6.32)
Charlotte Knights (20-21, 3rd(-3.5), South)
RHP Matt Zaleski (NR)
TODAY'S GAME: This afternoon, the Bisons take on the Charlotte Knights in the second game of a four-game series from Coca-Cola Field (1:05 p.m.). The Herd opened their eight-game homestand last night, falling to the Knights by a 6-3 score. Buffalo is now 11-12 in 23 games at home this season.
VS. THE KNIGHTS: The Knights took the early 1-0 lead in the 2011 season series with last night's 6-3 win. Charlotte is one of only two teams in the International League that the Bisons have a losing record to since the Herd rejoined the IL. Buffalo is 49-56 against the Knights for a .467 winning percentage. Buffalo is also 27-29 against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
TODAY'S STARTER: RHP JOSH STINSON is making his eighth start of the season today, tying him with RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN for most on the team. Stinson is looking to snap a personal three-game losing streak that has dropped his record to 1-4. The righty has pitched great at home this season, with a 1-0 record and a 2.55ERA in three starts (17.2IP, 10H, 8K).
GONE FISHIN': INF MICHAEL FISHER brings a six-game hit streak into today's game. The Triple-A rookie smashed an RBI-double last night and has hit an even .500 (12-24) since May 15. Included in Fisher's hit streak are four multi-hit performances, five RBI and three runs scored. On the year, the infielder is hitting .412 (14-34) in his first nine Triple-A games.
TOLLS FOR US: In his Coca-Cola Field debut last night, OF BUBBA BELL showed his skills in a pair of unique doubleplays. In the first inning, he caught Tyler Flower's fly ball and then made a great throw to third base to beat Jim Gallagher trying to advance on the play. Then in the fourth inning, Bell alertly got caught in a rundown to allow a run to score before the Knights could complete an inning-ending doubleplay.
BISONS BITS: The Bisons are the only team in the International League that has yet to allow a passed ball…OF KIRK NIEUWENHUIS is the only player in the International League who has played 44 games. He has made 40 starts in centerfield, two in right and two as the designated hitter…Nieuwenhuis ranks 4th in the IL in doubles (15) and total bases (86).
METS UPDATE: The Mets (22-23) allowed four home runs as they lost to the Yankees, 7-3, last night in the Subway Series. Former Bison INF JUSTIN TURNER set a team record by becoming the first rookie to drive in a run in seven straight games. The rubber match of the three-game set it today at 1:05 p.m.


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In-Your-Face Fitness: Humbled by Los Angeles Marathon training
For a recreational runner, there's no rite of passage as masochistic as running a marathon. We ache for the battle scars: chafing, blisters and psychosis brought on by trying to figure out how to use the GPS watch that's supposed to be a training aid.
I've run several 10Ks but never more than 10 miles in one outing. Just before Christmas, I decided to make the leap to get that marathon monkey off my back.
On Sunday, I'll be one of the 23,000 people running from Dodger Stadium to the Santa Monica Pier in the Los Angeles Marathon.
Lessons learned running a first marathon
I fantasized about finishing in under four hours, which runners would consider respectable for a middle-aged guy like me. But since this was just for fun, I didn't stress about the training. There are marathon coaches, running clubs and articles that provide detailed training schedules — for regular folks. As a certified fitness professional, I figured I was fully qualified to put one foot in front of the other. How hard could it be?
Plenty hard, it turns out.
My running schedule was based on two simple ideas: Add distance incrementally and push hard. The goal was to build up to 22 miles by early March, then ease off for the final two weeks before the race to give my body a chance to recover.
To augment the distance training, I planned to keep my conditioning up with a few comparatively short 9- to 12-mile runs each week. Weight training would change to boost endurance: lighter loads and higher reps.
But things didn't go according to plan.
Here's how my training actually progressed (then regressed):
Resources for marathon training
On the first day of winter, I ran my first half marathon in 1 hour, 41 minutes, 37 seconds and was neither tired nor sore. The rule of thumb for estimating your marathon time is to double your best — or, in my case, only — half-marathon time and add 10 minutes. That calculation predicted a 3:33 finish.
I felt invincible!
Three weeks later, I ran 16 miles at an 8-minute-per-mile pace. That would have been a 3:30 finish at marathon distance. My thighs were battered, but the invincible feeling remained.
Two weeks after that, I logged another 16 miles at the same pace. My right ankle turned stiff. An 11-mile run later in the week sealed the ankle's fate: purple, swollen and definitely painful.
Experts at the running injury clinic at a local university did a full work-up, including a treadmill gait analysis. The verdict: Insufficient hip strength was causing my ankles to bend inward upon landing. It wasn't the distances that had done me in, it was the speed, which causes a significantly higher impact. Speed kills.
Upcoming marathons in Southern California
So in February I traded in running for hip-strengthening exercises with a resistance band, plus a few hours on my road bike. I also got a little depressed, drank more beer than usual and put on a couple of pounds.
Training resumed this month, but a lackluster race performance is certain. Last week it took me 1:59:44 to go a half-marathon distance. I could have gone faster, but I also could have ended up on IV ibuprofen afterward.
I thought I was tough. But being in great physical condition is not enough. What matters is listening to your body when it's warning you that you're pushing yourself too hard. Don't let arrogance mute that message.
See you at the finish. I hope.
Fell is a certified strength and conditioning specialist who has a new appreciation for long-distance runners.


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- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoTo be located in the center of Madrid, the verdant Vallehermoso Sports Center will occupy a space once held by an outdated stadium that was built in the 1950s. Designed by Spain's ABM Architects, the stadium's unique design is partially submerged in the earth, making it unobtrusive and giving it insulation benefits. The complex is also designed to integrate steel tubing on its façade, which will emulate the screen of real foliage that shades the front of the building.1
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoLocated in the Chamberi district of Vallehermoso, the new complex will house basketball courts, a soccer field with track and stadium seating, fitness center, fencing area, indoor and outdoor pools, cafeteria, spa, physiotherapy area, and areas for classes.2
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoThe complex uniquely focuses on both the enjoyment of team sports, but also the individual, with individual training and therapy. The building itself is built within a sloped hill, and surrounded by trees.3
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoThis will minimize its effect on the local scenery- residents will notice the new park-like foliage more than the actual stadium itself. In fact, the building just barely protrudes over the trees.4
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoThe outside of the building will be encases with steel tubing painted green,that emulates the surrounding trees, and creates a sort of forest within itself. The trompe l'oeil will create a relationship between the closed building, and the local greenery. Part of the complex protrudes above the sloped area, and is also lined with the green tubing. When illuminated at night, this section of the sports complex mimics moonlight filtering through trees, creating a visual treat for passersby of a sort of floating light amongst the trees.5
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoThe stadium's submersion keeps the interior naturally cool, and protected from the solar gain, which is absorbed by the encasing turf. ABM designed much of the building to have a solarium like effect, flooding areas such as the pools, courtyards and classrooms with natural light.6
- ABM Centro Deportivo VallehermosoThe Vallehermoso Sports Center is slated to begin construction in 2012, and will be open for everyone in the community.7


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|Several Monster High dolls come with a diary belonging to the respective character. Select a character to read their individual diary, or click here for an overview on the diary continuity.
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|Clawdeen Wolf - Cleo de Nile - Deuce Gorgon - Draculaura - Frankie Stein - Ghoulia Yelps - Holt Hyde - Lagoona Blue
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July 1st
Another day of doing exactly what I wanted to do. I can hardly wait for school to start. How many times would I need to write that line before I started to believe it?
July 15th
It rained today, which totally wrecked my plans to try out my new skate deck. I sat on the porch, turning flies into pebbles until Mom yelled that they were putting dents in the deck. Wish this rain would hurry up and stop.
July 16th
Dude, I love Mom's killer Greek food, but that's like ALL she ever cooks. I wanted to make this scary good ghoulash recipe I found, but Mom said it wasn't "a proper meal for a growing boy." Mom rocks and all, but sometimes she acts like I'm still 10 years old or something.
July 18th
Went to the park to try and find a pick up game of casketball, but there was nobody on the courts except some lame human kid. I was gonna slide out of there, but he asked if I wanted to play some one on one. I figured it wouldn't take long to make him look like a statue out there, but I was wrong. He had a scary good jump shot and even crossed me over a couple times. I had just started to play really hard when my glasses got knocked off and broke. Now I have to figure out a way to get home without stoning someone, but dude just took off his shades and handed them over to me. He said to keep them until I got home and he'd get them later. Told me his name is Jackson Jekyll. He said he wants a rematch. I told him any time, any place. Not a bad guy...for a human.
August 18th
Perseus ate all of Mom's fetid cheese this morning. It's not his fault he's a rat and cheese is, like, his favourite thing. Mom threatened to turn him into a paperweight if he so much as sniffed the kitchen, so I kept him out of her sight for the rest of the day.
August 19th
Went to The Maul today 'cause Mom dropped some cash on me for school clothes and I wanted to see if I could find some new kicks that didn't look like something a human would wear. No luck. I WAS digging this cookbook I found at this kitchen store until Clawdeen Wolf walked by and said something stupid. I was totally going to stone her, but Clawd walked up and so I didn't. I'm not afraid of any monster, but he's on the team and I didn't want to start any trouble with him.
August 23rd
Took Cleo de Nile out tonight. I was, like, five minutes late and she spent the first part of the date treating me like a statue. I guess it's all part of dating royalty, which is cool, but dating royalty is also stone cold expensive. I was hoping she'd want to hang out and order a screechza, but she chose prime rib instead and there went the money I was saving for those wicked new shades I wanted. I thought the food was killer, but she ending up sending her meal back, like, a hundred times. I felt bad for the waiter and chef, especially since that's kinda what I'd like to do one day. I didn't say much after we left so she probably thought I was mad at her.
August 25th
So I've been trying to talk Mom into letting me get my driver's license, but she's totally not being cooperative like...at all. Every time I bring it up, she crosses her arms and her hair gets all hissy. Then I get the lecture about how when she was my age she didn't have a car and got along just fine. One time I made the big mistake of telling her that nobody had a car when she was my age because they hadn't been invented yet. Dude, not a good idea. She said, "We didn't have skateboards either!" and I had to walk everywhere I went for the next two weeks. I think she may be coming around though, 'cause now she waits until after listening to my reasons for wanting my license to tell me to go clean my room. Well, one thing's for certain, I may not be getting a license or a car anytime soon, but I will definitely not be riding on the school hearse this year. No way no how.
September 1st
I got my regular pre-school year letter about making sure I wear my shades at all times when I'm on campus. Whatever. I mean, first of all, when I turn someone to stone they don't stay that way. That's my mom, okay? It only lasts up to 24 hours and usually not even that long. Second of all, you don't shatter like glass if you fall over and people can't break off pieces of you, so when you turn back your earlobes aren't gone or something. Thirdly, you still know what's going on around you, so it's not like you missed anything. And lastly, it's not like I want to turn my friends into rock stars anyway, although sometimes it is kinda fun to let them think that I might.
September 6th
Nothing on television (check)
No new video games I haven't played and beaten TWICE on the hardest level (check)
Mom starting to find new and unusual chores to keep me busy (check)
Cleo de Nile continuing to find new and unusual ways for me to spend money on her (check) (check) (check)
The sweet life of summer about to be replaced by the grind of the school year (check) (check) (check) (check) (check) (check) (check) (check) (check)


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Maj. Mark Thompson not guilty of sex assault, guilty on other charges
A former U.S. Naval Academy history teacher has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a female student, but he was convicted of lesser charges and sentenced.
A military jury on Friday found Marine Corps Maj. Mark Thompson not guilty of sexual assault but guilty of indecent acts, fraternization and conduct unbecoming an officer.
The incident occurred after the annual croquet match between the academy and St. John's College in April 2011. Two female midshipmen said they went to Thompson's apartment after drinking alcohol. One of them reported to Navy investigators that Thompson had assaulted her.
Thompson's attorneys argued that the woman fabricated the story.
Thompson was assigned to the academy in July 2010. He was reassigned shortly after the allegations were made.
Thompson was sentenced Monday to 60 days in a military jail. He'll also be fined $2,500 a month for two years and receive a reprimand that will be part of his record.
The academy said Thompson's future status will be evaluated.


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Khloe Kardashian may be adding another TV show to her resume. The reality star is reportedly the front-runner to host The X Factor, TMZ reports.
According to the site, the reality star is the lead contender out of all the hopeful hosts. Producers, including Simon Cowell, who has said he wants two hosts — a man and a woman — reportedly think Kardashian is the most sensible pick since judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato also share Kardashian's young fan base.
Simon Cowell on The Voice's additional night: NBC is playing "dirty tricks"Kardashian's other television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, is also still hugely popular. It's probable that Cowell and the other producers are hoping that audience will follow Kardashian to X Factor, giving the Fox show an edge over NBC's The Voice and its host Carson Daly.The two singing competition series have been feuding since NBC announced it was adding an extra day of The Voice on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 8/7c, the same time that X Factor premieres.Who would you rather watch: Daly or Kardashian?


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The time of holiday meals is upon us, and it strikes me that I haven't yet posted the recipe for my extra-technical-and-complicated-yet-remarkable green bean casserole. I'd intended to document the process this Thanksgiving, but Kraken Rum happened, and the casserole was eaten before I could take any pretty snapshots. That's how good it is– it moves too quickly for pictures. So no pictures– if you want to see what it looks like, you'll need to make it for yourself.
I notice with some chagrin that the "official Campbell's recipe" has been modified to include "98% Fat Free or Healthy Request®" Cream of Mushroom soup. Which, ew. The point behind green bean casserole is to take delicious, crunchy, healthy green beans and make them bad for you. (Also: soy sauce? Whut?)
Not that there's anything wrong with the traditional version: dump some canned green beans, some canned soup and some milk in a casserole dish, stir it up, top it with French fried onions, and bake. Okay, comforting, easy, but what would a *real* green bean casserole taste like? What would it be like if you took the time and effort to make this dish without any of the canned or processed nonsense, and added copious amounts of cheese? What if green bean casserole, instead of a quick toss-together cop-out any schmo can do, was mind-numbingly inconvenient and terribly complicated?
Well now, you are about to find out. The answer is: This is the Gold Standard of Green Bean Casseroles. Many will attest.
You'll need:
- ~2 lbs fresh green beans
- ~1 lb grated mozzarella cheese
- ~1 lb grated sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 large sweet onion
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
- 1 pint+ whole milk
- 1 stick butter
- unflavored oil (canola? peanut?) for frying
- unbleached flour
- salt
- paprika
- nutmeg
- white pepper
Total prep time: A lazy holiday afternoon. Probably plan on at least two glasses of wine worth of prep. At least.
Total cooking time: 1 hour or thereabouts.
1. Wash your green beans, snap off the ends, then French cut them. You've had French cut beans– they're split down the middle. The best way to do this is with a peeling knife:
The curvy tip is perfect for inserting into the seam and splitting in half. Or a paring knife would work, too. They don't have to be perfect, but this is a holiday, not a marathon, so don't rush it.
2. Fill a big stockpot with water, and salt it. Bring to a boil, and place the beans into the water to taste, until they're mostly tender to the tooth (about 10 minutes?). They'll cook when baked, too, so don't make them too soft. And definitely don't leave them all crunchy– crunchy beans = healthy beans, and we don't want that! Drain, rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process, and set aside.
3. Slice your onion REALLY thin, like paper thin, then chop into segments (about 1 inch). Place in a bowl and cover the onions with milk. Set aside to soak for at least 10 minutes. (This makes a difference!)
4. Mix together a large portion of sifted flour (depending on how big your onion is, this is probably about 1.5 cups), 1 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp white pepper and 1 tbsp paprika.
5. Coat the onions in the flour mixture, then fry in the oil. You'll likely need to do batches. You want lots of these, as they tend to get eaten while you're cooking. Once they're all fried, set aside. Eat some. Share a few. But save most of them.
6. Preheat the oven to 350.
7. Grease a large casserole dish or baking dish. Cover the bottom of the dish with some of your shredded mozzarella cheese (not all of it, now!).
8. In a saucepan on Low, melt the butter into the whipping cream (slowly, now!). Add about 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp pepper. Using a whisk, stir constantly, adding pinches of flour so it gets smooth and starts to thicken. When it's slightly thick, begin adding about 3/4 of the grated cheddar, a little at a time. Alternate with milk– delicately– some cheddar, some milk, some cheddar, some milk. Some lumpiness is to be expected. Eventually, you will end up with a delightful, smooth cheese sauce. Feel free to play with this sauce. Add stuff, take stuff away, try some different textures, but be sure it's not at all watery, or you will end up unhappy.
9. Toss the rest of the shredded mozzarella with the green beans, then pour the beans/cheese into the casserole dish.
10. Using a spatula/smoother, scrape the sauce over the beans, smoothing it down so it drips into the nooks and crannies of the green beans.
11. Top it off with all of the rest of your cheese, then a thick layer of fried onions.
12. Bake for one hour. Or, longer if the temperature is lower because pies and poultry and such are also baking. Or, if you want it faster, jack that sucker up to 450 and back for 1/2 hour. You can cook this over a period of time. If the onions get really dark without burning, it's done.
Also, don't pre-make this the night before to bake the next day. Why spoil a delightfully inconvenient process?
I'm telling you, you will never go back to the icky Campbell's version again, ever. Well, maybe, but you'll never be able to eat any green bean casserole again without thinking of this one. And I am serious, here!
UPDATE! The lovely E has procured the only known photograph that proves the existence of the Gold Standard Green Bean Casserole! In spite of the blurry, sasquatch-photo-like quality of this image, you can FEEL the golden glow of its power calling you!


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Looking at the graphs, it seems to me that there is an up and down pulsation within the overall descending curve. Is this real, or a chance artifact? If real, what would cause it? Patrick McDonald (MDP) PS. If this is covered in another forum, please advise and accept my apologies.
Nova Del 2013 pulsations
Arne and I have discussed these pulsations. I assume you are talking about the ones that are and hour or so in time. What is really needed is several time series (at least 2) to confirm the behavior. It is in places on the light curve, and in other places, one can conclude that its an artifact. There are places where 2 time series overlap, but they do different things. Arne has been working with observers to eliminate the artifacts from various causes.
I am going to go most of the night tonight. Looks clear here in ACK. Any takers? Had a good clear night last night. Most of east coast look clear. It would be great to get several light curves supporting either pulsations or not.
Perhaps you are talking about the changes in slopes that occur days apart. The light curve does seem to do this also. Let us know which you are seeing.
I just uploaded my time series from last night (analysis from 560 images). I have started to box-average my measurements, e.g. here I averaged always 11 data points. This corresponds to about five minutes for every data point after averaging. I think the error bars (standard deviation) make more sense this way.
Regarding the "daily" fluctuations: I am wondering if the sparse measurements during half of the days emphasize the appearance of fluctuations. It would be really nice if some of our Asian observers would upload some time series, or even more observations :) .
I am observing tonight, too, weather is so nice here in the NE of US. But I have a hard time to keep up with analysis of all the data...
Helmar (AHM}
Hello Helmar
Very nice light curve from last night. I too observed tonight, and just uploaded the data. Observed until air mass = 2. Can't wait to see your data from tonight, and any other observers.
Thanks for the compliment! Part of it is your fault, since you have taken time series for a while, too. I am a beginner in this field, and this nova is the first object I reported data of to the AAVSO.
In the beginning I compared my single data points to your data I was pretty close (except your "superhumps"...). That gave me confidence to continue
I had a number of e-mail exchanges with Arne, too, after his gracious offer to look at our data. I thought, too, that this is a great opportunity to learn more and improve (not only my own skills, but also the overall quality of the AAVSO data, if more people would take advantage of Arne's offer).
This week has been incredible in terms of weather here in the NE of USA. Several nights in a row with outstanding skies. I didn't get a lot of sleep, and at work people are wondering about my puffy and/or red eyes (I didn't fall asleep in a meeting, yet). But taking data and analysing them it is a lot of fun. Now I understand when people say, variable observations are addictive...
Well, enough said, I am taking data right now, another series during a clear night. Looking forward to see your (stacked?) data.
- Helmar (AHM)
Hello Helmar and all:
Can't wait to see your data today. I got a big surprise last night when I plotted it. Seemed like the night was about the same a prior night. Weather seemed the same.
The only difference is that I tried to stack 6 images at a time, rather than 10. Should not make a difference.
Hi Gary et all,
Just uploaded my data from last night (around JD 2456555.7), again box-averaging over 11 data points.
I always wish my data would show the same interesting features as yours... but I think they don't
I am wondering, though, why your data look so much smoother, why are the error bars so small (or the other way: why are my error bars so much larger)? I do know that I calculate the mean and the standard variation of the 11 points I am box-averaging over. Do you know what determines your error bars? Maybe Jim could chime in?
Richard (SRIC) submitted a time series with transformed data. His and my data "line up" quite nicely.
Would it make sense and be possible for you, Gary, to revisit your data set and use the same comp and check stars as Richard and I have used (i.e.80 000-BLC-955 and 98 000-BLC-945)? I would do a re-run myself with 98 and 112, respectively, but I think I do not have 112 in my field-of-view (by the way, I could not find 112 in the photometry tables, what star is that actually?).
My apologies for all my questions and requests, but I just try to understand...
Helmar (AHM)
P.S.: I noticed that Arne is getting the big guns out now (W30)
Hello All
Helmar's comments about keeping up with the data got me thinking. I hate to average the frames, because its a PITA to pull into Excel, and then manipulate, only to be rejected by WebObs for some format thing. But there is a better way, that I just tried. Long time AAVSO member Jim Jones has written a VBS script that stacks images in groups of x, where you just input x in a GUI. Its available on the Maxim page, as an "extra" at no charge. It does work only with Maxim as far as I know. JJ chime in here. Its fantastic.
I just took 386 images from last night, and boiled it down to 38 stacks of 10. I chose 10 at my option. Then redid the PT on the stacks. Saved as AAVSO extended format. Then I retracted my 386 observations and replaced them with the 38 from the stacks. Wah Lah. All done. It took about 1 minute for "StackFitsFrames" to produce the stacks. So its painless. Thank you Jim.
I usually am able to reduce the data from a long night by doing it while the camera is warming to room temp, and I am shutting down the equipment. This includes submitting via webobs.
Hello Gary et al.,
Just uploaded my time series from yesterday, see LCG, end date JD 2456555., with .6 days. Nice comparison!
I guess I started a new craze, "stacking"...
Emery (EEY) seems to have supplied a stacked time series, too.
Now I am glad that I asked Arne for his blessings when I uploaded my first stacked series. The data look so much clearer now - much easier to compare. I don't think that we need to look at fluctuations with time periods of smaller than five minutes, but that might be a question for discussion.
So, don't throw all your images away - we might be asked later for different stacking parameters...
My method is a little different than Gary's who is using Jim Jones' "stacking script" and Maxim. I don't own Maxim (and I am reluctant to spend the money for it), but I am using AIP4Win for image analysis. The latter creates "AAVSO Reports" in the extended format. I am not stacking the images, but the extracted magnitude values of the target, comparison and check stars (or ensemble averages). I agree, Excel is a bear to use. I wrote my own scripts using "IDL", a language that is actually used in the astronomy community with plenty of free astro-libraries available (which I am not using for these simple calculations, i.e. mean and standard deviation). IDL is not free, but I have access to it at work, and it allows me to make "pretty pictures".
I think it is instructive to look at the raw data and stacked series with various parameters, e.g. I box-averaged 3, 5, 11, 21, 51 etc. data points (at half minute intervals, my typical settings for image acquisition using CCDSoft), and you can still see major features of the light curve. If there is interest, I could share a compilation of these figures for a time series.
Helmar (AHM)
I had noticed the latter ones, both in V filter(green) and visual observations. They seem awfully persistent to be artifacts.
I agree, and I think Arne would also, that the changes in slope several days apart are probably real.
This thread belongs in the Nova forum; I'll have it moved sometime today. There are strong suggestions of brightness fluctuations on a multi-hour time scale. As Gary says, only a few observers are doing time series, and those rarely overlap, so some of the variation may be real, some may be instrumental, with no conclusions until we get good confirmation. What we can say is that the nova has faded about 0.25mag in the last 4 days, and is getting faint enough that larger telescopes can start playing an important role. If you can do time series, especially late in the western U.S. or points across the Pacific, those datasets would be very welcome.
BSM_Berry is currently not operational; we are in the midst of reconfiguring the hardware during full moon. Of course, it is clear. :-)
Hello Helmar
Your suggestion is a good one, about using the 80 and 98 comp/check stars. I cannot fit both in the same field for my setup. So I have to choose between them. The 112 is the next brightest star in the field when only the Nova and the 98 are in the field. Its a couple arc minutes west of the Nova. I use 112 to designate it, as I measured that value in the images.
Arne suggested that the 80 was flawed. So I have been using the 98 for the past week or so.
Clear Skies
Your suggestion is a good one, about using the 80 and 98 comp/check stars. I cannot fit both in the same field for my setup. So I have to choose between them. The 112 is the next brightest star in the field when only the Nova and the 98 are in the field. Its a couple arc minutes west of the Nova. I use 112 to designate it, as I measured that value in the images.
Arne suggested that the 80 was flawed. So I have been using the 98 for the past week or so.
When Gary was showing flares on the nova a few days ago, I asked him to send me a few images. Those images demonstrated that the culprit was the 80 star on Gary's images, which were showing the mirror effect (the 80 star was fading rapidly, then exponentially recovering, while other stars in the field were constant). I suggested to him that either the 80 star was variable, or there was some instrumental effect, and I was pretty sure the latter was correct as the inverted flares are not a common variable-star feature. On a subsequent night, I had BSM-Berry data at the same time Gary was showing flares, and my photometry of the 80 star was constant within its uncertainty. Gary then switched to the 98 star for his comp, as there was nothing obvious in the images and the 98 star avoids the problem.
The two-night calibration that we did using W30 also show the 80 star as constant, and it closely matches the color of the nova. The 98 star is considerably different (B-V about 0.9), and so if I had a choice, I'd use the 80 star as my comparison. Be aware of its two companions to the east and use an appropriate aperture size.
Gary's recent data has low scatter because he is now using the 61cm telescope at Maria Mitchell, and is stacking multiple frames. The bumps and wiggles shown by several observers (including BSM Berry!) are suggestive of some low-level variation, but there is not enough time series overlap, nor geographical diversity, to confirm this behavior. It has a similar time scale to airmass variation or GEM flips, and so needs to be looked at very carefully.
Gary, can you point out the 112 star better for me? There is a star west of the variable by 3-4 arcmin, but it has a magnitude of 11.09 using the W30 data. It is also red, with B-V = 1.37 and would not be recommended as a comparison, though possibly ok as a check.
Hello Arne
The star that I call 112, can be identified by the image and sequence values you sent a couple of days ago as the 10.98, Its between the Nova and the 9.829. Not exactly in line.
Tonight I am back on Cape. Have to suffer with the 12 inch. No 24 inch tonight!
Hello, Arne mentioned:
Gary's recent data has low scatter because he is now using the 61cm telescope at Maria Mitchell, and is stacking multiple frames.
This is true, but having 5 photometric nights in a row, with no clouds from dusk until dawn, probably helped a lot. I expect 6 weeks of clouds to average out this spectacular NE weather. I did not have to dump a single image, most nights.
RE:"But there is a better way, that I just tried. Long time AAVSO member Jim Jones has written a VBS script that stacks images in groups of x, where you just input x in a GUI. Its available on the Maxim page, as an "extra" at no charge. It does work only with Maxim as far as I know. JJ chime in here. Its fantastic."
Thanks Gary! Just tried this with my triple set of 35x8sec images at 1x1 bin. I'm using a 200mm telephoto lens at F/8 with a full frame (24x35mm) CCD so I'm able to get 11 comp stars to the 10.1 Vp magnitude. (I enclose a picture of my set-up on the attachment.)
Using this stacks .vbs program I made 21 images composed of 5 stacked 8-sec 1x1 bin Vp filter shots of the area centered on V0339 Del. Now that I'm getting more "smooth" data for each set, I'll shot this object at least a couple more nights before oct new moon.
It's a pitty that weather here is not permitting any time series or measurements at the moment. Next week it will probably clear up again, so maybe I can try to catch another time series again after some break...
RE"It's a pitty that weather here is not permitting any time series or measurements at the moment."
Superb clear night in SoCal tonight! I adjusted my 200mm lens to F/11 and am going for BVBV images for 2.5 hours on V0339 Del. Time exposure for these will be 20sec at B:5X20sec & V:150X20sec sequences; too bad my download times are 14 seconds each image!
p.s. Graphs of last weeks data attached
I observed the nova last night (Sept 22, 10:15 to about 12:15 EDT) with my SSP-5a on a 10" LX200 taking 21 observations about 6 minutes apart. I have uploaded my data in BV&R and you can see it using the LCG for last night
In V, the magnitude is 8.222+/-0.004 using all 21 data points with a p-p variation of 0.017. The plot looks pretty much like I would expect with normal astronomical seeing in Michigan.
Thanks, Gerry! If you can continue your time series for a couple of nights, that would be great. The last night or two have not had much fluctuations from other observers, so I don't know whether we are in a quiet phase or a different mix of observers. For the next few nights, the northeast looks clear, and I expect several eastern time series to be made.
Just uploaded last nights' observations (2013-09-23, after JD 2456559.4) , time series of about 550 images every 1/2 minutes, box-averaged over 11 data points. Now I got some curious variations (steps and pulsations?) that might need some "careful critique". Comparison, check star and differences look good.
LCG-link: http://www.aavso.org/lcg/plot?auid=000-BLC-933&starname=NOVA%20DEL%20201...
Helmar (AHM)
Just posted on the Photometry Forum on how Maxim aligns using the "1 star Method" with and without "use Centroid.
Its probably best to concentrate the discussion in one place, so I won't post the answer here.
The night of 25-26th was pretty good and I observed about 3 hours in BVR with my SSP-5a. The R data is the best naturally since seeing has less effect on that passband. P-P variation is about 0.01 mag in R and no sign of any pulsation. After doing 8 hours of this over three nights, I'm going back to my regular stars and doing just a single observation of the nova.
Thank you very much for all your efforts on V339 Del!
Your work is potentially very useful for addressing a general question that might have particular relevance for V339 Del: What happens to the accretion disk after a nova explosion? More specifically: 1) When does the accretion disk reform (assuming that it was destroyed by the eruption)? and 2) Is an accretion disk responsible for the bipolar structure that is seem from some novae?
Since cataclysmic-variable-like optical flickering is one signature of an accretion disk, the appearance of such flickering could be a crucial piece of information for understanding how and when the disk reforms. For V339 Del, *if* gamma-ray production ends up having something to do with bipolar structure or jets, it would be invaluable to know whether the bipolar outflows could have been produced by an accretion disk (as in active galaxies, protostars, etc.). Recording the turn-on of optical flickering could thus be very important for V339 Del.
Since V339 Del is well past the "fireball" stage, and our view down to the accretion region should now be clear, any detection of optical flickering -- or constraints on the amplitude of such flickering -- is now meaningful. But since many types of systematic error can mimic stochastic brightness variations like those from an accretion disk, however, it would be best to have simultaneous light curves from multiple observers. In other words, time series from two different observers on the same night would be more valuable than two nights with time series from only one person each night. Since I don't know if or when fast variations might be expected to appear, I cannot really argue that people should be spending their time searching for them every night. Perhaps looking for fast variations once every week or two would be more manageable (and still very useful).
Finally, in addition to CV-like disk flickering, any periodic variations would of course be excellent for revealing whether V339 Del is magnetic (i.e., a polar or intermediate polar) and uncovering instabilities in the system.
Thanks again!
- Jeno
Hello Jeno,
Where it is understandable that you cannot predict the time when any "stochastic variations" might appear, could you give an estimate of the size/dynamic range we should be looking for (e.g. in V: How many magnitudes, tenth of magnitudes)? During what time frame: Hours, 15 minutes, minutes?
Most of us doing time-series have now pretty decent error bars and - after stacking - seem to be able to reduce seeing effects to small variations (e.g. look at last night's data in V for AHM, EEY, HQA, MZK and OAR - in alphabetic order ), as LCG-curve (JD2456563.45+) :
The "waviness" seems to be real, but is probably much smaller in variation than what you are referring to?
Helmar (AHM)
Wow! Your data are phenomenal. It is possible that the variations you are seeing are exactly the signatures of resumed accretion that I was mentioning.
Overall, the amplitude and time scale of the rapid variations you have detected are reasonable for accretion. You are right that in an accreting white dwarf that has not just experienced a nova explosion, the typical rms amplitude of the flickering would be somewhat larger than what you have found (maybe around tenths of a magnitude). But for a recent nova, any flickering light from the accretion disk probably makes up only a small part of the optical signal. You are also detecting emission from the hot ejecta, which is unlikely to be variable on a time scale of hours. If this is what is going on in V339 Del, I would expect the rapid variations to *increase* in fractional amplitude (i.e., in magnitude units) as the nova continues to fade. A change in the character of the rapid variations from 'wavy', with a typical time scale of hours, to more jagged, with detectable variations on a time scale of minutes, is something that could indicate that the disk is in the process of being rebuilt (e.g., Sokoloski & Kenyon 2003, ApJ, 584, 1027; arXiv:astro-ph/0211041). Fantastic!
Congratulations on this nice finding (and for a beautiful demonstration of the power of having high time-resolution observations from multiple observers).
I'm doing a time series right now, would of course be interesting to get someone joining in so I have something to compare later :-). This is my first observation of V339 Del thru a telescope (before I did it with telephoto lenses), I hope I didn't mess up something.
Well, during the ca 1.5 h observation that I did on the 30th, I could not confidently detect any non-random variations/pulsations, at least none that exceeded the scatter in (checkstar - compstar). I did 13 sec exposures with a cadence of 1 exposure every 20sec, and the (variable - compstar) values have a std dev of ca 0.017, not that good actually, but comparable to the std dev of (compstar - checkstar). I used the nearby stars 80 and 90 respectively as comp and checkstar.
I made another, longer time series last night which I will reduce tomorrow.
Hello Bikeman,
How did your longer time series come out? There should be a number of time series measurements on the days of your observations, see LCG. I am not sure about your time zone, though, Europe-Germany? What camera are you using (DSLR?)?
Helmar (AHM)
Timezone is GMT+2, Central European DST . During the working week I usually try to do exposures from around 21:00 to midnight local time, weather permitting.
The Oct 1st data is still sitting on my hard disk waiting to be reduced. I'm currently using an Olympus e420, which served me reasonably well with 40k+ shutter actions so far, but I'll get a Canon EOS 1100D in one or two weeks. Should have MUCH lower dark current and readout noise. No sensor cleaning tho .... (The sensor cleaning on the Olympus is nearly perfect).
I've got a question: do you guys deal with 2nd order , color-dependent, extinction effects?
Hello Jeno,
Thank you very much for the compliments! Your positive feedback made me smile - and I am sure some others, too. Here is another nice set from yesterday (JD 2456568.45+) from David, Gary and Helmar (including some B values):
And thanks for the reference! That and your explanation make it clearer what you/we are looking for.
Helmar (AHM)
Hi Helmar,
Yes, the brightness variations were very obvious last night in your and my data. I am observing it now and should continue until its two low several hours from now. I will post the data in the morning.
-- Dave LDJ
I just had to stop due to incoming clouds .
Keep it rolling, the variations appeared to become really clean lately! Hopefully that will continue.
Good luck!
Cheers, Helmar (AHM)
Unfortunately the stretch of nice "photometric" weather seems to come to an end in the NE of USA. Hopefully some others will be able to continue the time-series coverage for possible pulsations/fluctuations of Nova Del 2013.
Clear skies,
Helmar (AHM)
I have now submitted my Oct 1st observations as untransformed, Tri-color-green measurements, with a zero point from Tycho2 VT measurements. Blocks of 10 individual measurements with 13 sec exposure time and 20 sec cadence were averaged to a single reported measurement.
Unfortunately there is again very little overlap with other observers, but I'm confident that at least the first "hump" that you see in the LC is real. In general the amplitude and timescale of variations look similar to what others have observed here.
Whether you want it or not, you are always making measurements in 3 filters with a DSLR, and I also looked at the lightcurves from the blue and red filters. The blue filter results look very much like the green filter LC, so in other words the color (TB-TG) is almost constant within the uncertainty of the meaurements. The red light curve looks quite a bit smoother, and for example the first "hump" is not visible in the TR lightcurve. I guess this would mean that the "hump" is in the continuum part of the spectrum, not the H-alpha line?
The Nova Del 2013 light curve seems to show some interesting structure in my time series data taken on Oct. 6th. The comp - check star plot appears to be fairly flat except for some scatter over the same period.
More info on my web site: https://sites.google.com/site/kseobservatory/
-Emery (EEY)
Hello Emery
Great Light curve. Thanks for observing for a long time. This behavior has been hinted at in prior nights, but not as dramatic.
Its clear in New England tonight, and I encourage everyone to observe as much as possible. It would also be great to get a West Coast and a Hawaii observer to go all night, to define what the late light cure looks like. Its also necessary to have a couple of obserers at the same time.
I have to travel tomorrow at 8am, butI plan to observe all night.
Hello Gary,
Thanks for the encouraging comments. I've sent in some more observations made on Oct. 8th which show some clearly visible fluctuations in the V339 light curve. These are the most dramatic yet and it would be great if other observers could confirm that these are real and not some systematic errors in my equipment.
I've posted the "quick look" image that AIP4Win generates from the MMT here: https://sites.google.com/site/kseobservatory/
The weather doesn't look favorable for observing over the next few nights here in the San Diego area but I'll continue to cover V339 Del as long as I can.
I have recorded pulsations of Nova Del 2013 from the nights of Oct. 6-7 EDT and Oct. 7-8 that seem to overlap with your observatons and they clearly show pulsations - at least one period a little more than an hour and a hints of a longer period. Graphs attached.
Taken with a 14 inch telescope with a focal reducer, CCD camera: SBIG ST7xme, Green filter, 20 sec integrations, dark and flat field compensated, but not transformed to V yet.
The first graph is broken-up because of trying a lower CCD temperature midway through, soon to be succombed by frost. The second graph was interrupted by an unexpected program/camera "crash" after only 2 hours while unattended.
Another run with exceptionally clear skies again tonight (Oct8-9).
Don Collins (CDK)
Hello Don,
Thanks for posting your light curves! It looks like the amplitude and period of the fluctuations correspond with my observations. Have you sent in any of your recent data? It would be interesting to see if our observations overlap in VStar.
I know how frustrating equipment problems can be. I operate my ST-7E at -10C and I usually have to wait over an hour for it to cool down and "defrost" before I can use it. Baking out the desicant plug every other month helps. I use CCDSoft V5 and it never crashed on my PC (the PC is mounted below the scope and also runs the scope remotely). It's old software but seems to be reliable.
It looks like we'll have cloudy nights here in San Diego until Friday!
Best wishes,
The pulses that I observed on Oct. 5-6, Oct. 7-8 are not visible on Oct. 8-9 (last night). For comparison here are the links for the graphs for Oct. 5-6, Oct. 7-8 :
and last nights flat graph is attached.


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When researchers 500 years from now look back at the American empire circa 1980 - 2010, they'll come across Ron Paul. And they'll say "damn, that's one dude that understood what was going on. Too bad nobody listened"
A partisan Democrat kicks off this video, but then Ron Paul brings it home. Watch the whole thing. Damn, it would be nice to see him run as an Independent. His voice is needed in the debates.
And folks, I want to amend my "VOTE ALL THE BUMS OUT - ALL OF 'EM" recommendation. For the people in Texas, 14th District only, I'll make one and only one exception - PLEASE KEEP RON PAUL IN THE HOUSE.
Everyone else everywhere - kick 'em out. All of 'em.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A judge sentenced Peregrine Financial Group Inc. founder Russ Wasendorf Sr. to 50 years in prison on Thursday for stealing $215 million from investors over 20 years in what a prosecutor called the biggest fraud in Iowa history.
U.S. District Judge Linda Reade told Wasendorf, 64, that the stiff sentence was warranted because of the "staggering losses" his greed caused to more than 13,000 investors, employees and creditors over 20 years.
Instead of having the courage to admit his company was a failure since its inception in the early 1990s, she said Wasendorf lavishly spent clients' money to make himself look like "a big shot," Reade said. Last summer's collapse of the company, nicknamed PFGBest, rippled across the financial industry, affecting regulatory agencies and the nation as a whole.
"By imposing a substantial sentence, the court sends a message that white collar criminals may serve long prison sentences for stealing money from other people," Reade said.
Wasendorf, who has been kept in an isolation unit since last summer, seemed frail in his orange prison jumpsuit. His attorney said he'd lost a substantial amount of weight behind bars and was suffering from serious health problems, including a tumor on his pancreas that doctors are testing for cancer.
Before he was sentenced, Wasendorf issued a broad apology for the damage he caused and said he would accept any punishment.
"I just want to say I'm very, very sorry for the financial and emotional damage I have caused to investors and employees of Peregrine Financial Group," Wasendorf said.
He said he regretted the damage "my deceit has caused" the industry and his community and family. He also said any sentence would pale in comparison to the punishment of being estranged from his son, Russ Wasendorf, Jr., who helped him run the company and has been described as shocked about the fraud.
"I've lost the love of my son, and I'll never see my grandchildren again," Wasendorf said, breaking up.
Prosecutors said they don't anticipate bringing charges against Wasendorf's son or anyone else.
Wasendorf pleaded guilty in September to misusing at least $100 million to cover business losses at PFGBest and a range of personal expenses. This week, he agreed with prosecutors that he caused $215 million in losses. Reade ordered Wasendorf to pay that amount in restitution, but said it was "highly unlikely" the victims would ever be compensated in full.
Wasendorf hid the theft from colleagues and regulators by making phony financial statements for nearly two decades that made the company appear healthy.
At a news conference after the hearing, acting U.S. Attorney Sean Berry praised the sentence, saying it was the longest ever given to a white-collar criminal in the northern district of Iowa. He said the punishment was fitting because Wasendorf carried out the largest fraud in Iowa history.
"This is a just sentence for a con man," he said.
Wasendorf's attorney, public defender Jane Kelly, had urged Reade to impose a more lenient sentence than the 50-year prison term recommended by advisory guidelines. She argued that Wasendorf had cooperated with regulators and investigators to help customers maximize their refunds. She also said Reade should consider that he wasn't motivated by greed because he had made significant contributions to charity for medical research and other causes.
But Reade rejected those arguments. She said he cooperated only after he was arrested and left a suicide note detailing his theft. She blasted Wasendorf for blaming overzealous regulators for prompting him to start stealing. And she said all of his good acts in the community built up Wasendorf's reputation — and allowed him to victimize more people.
Wasendorf was found unconscious outside the company's headquarters last July after attempting suicide in his vehicle by connecting a tube to his exhaust pipe. He left a startling suicide note in which he confessed to the fraud. He wrote that he started stealing because his "ego was too big to fail" and that he did not feel bad about duping regulators he felt were overzealous. He said he managed to get away with it for so long because he became adept at making "convincing forgeries" of bank and financial statements using printers and scanners.
Regulators immediately discovered PFGBest could not account for more than $200 million in customer funds it was supposed to be holding, and the firm filed for bankruptcy protection. Some 24,000 customers were unable to access their accounts and still have not been fully reimbursed. Customers who opened accounts to trade commodities have received between 30 and 40 percent of their money back, while customers who traded foreign currency have received nothing because that activity has less legal protection.
Wasendorf used their money to build up a business empire that included a publishing company, a corporate jet, the nicest restaurant in Cedar Falls, and a family charity known for making donations to universities and hospitals.
Customer money also helped build what was perhaps the biggest symbol of Wasendorf's home-grown success with a firm he started in a basement 30 years ago: PFG's $20 million headquarters, a three-story glass building that opened in 2009 and included a gym, a daycare center, a Montessori school, and a restaurant. Today, the building is largely empty and up for sale.


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A Texas high school confiscated all the copies of this year's yearbook after two special needs students were incorrectly labeled as "mentally retarded," according to KDFW-TV in Dallas.
Mesquite High School distributed the yearbooks on Friday, but the school recalled all the copies within a few hours after the mistake was noticed.
According to the KDFW, the yearbook contained a section for special needs students and incorrectly identified two students as being "mentally retarded."
The section in question had photos of several students, but school officials said their parents had not given the school permission to use the photos.
"There was an oversight in the editing approval process," Laura Jobe, the communication director for the Mesquite school district, told The Dallas Morning News. "Those who work inside the special education department know these requirements."
The school plans to redistribute the yearbooks after the pages have been removed.
"We earnestly regret the term 'mentally retarded' was included and offer our apologies to our students and their families," Jobe said. "The use of the words 'mentally retarded' is something we would never condone."
Mesquite is about 11 miles east of Dallas.


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5 Things Retirees Should Do Now
Follow these steps to make sure you have enough money.
I've heard much about the losses people have incurred in their retirement nest eggs. However, everyone seems to be addressing what people who are within a few years of retiring should do. No one is talking about those of us who already are retired. What should we do? I've lost 15% in the last two months, and I'm allegedly in low-risk investments.
I've received many letters from readers like you, who are already retired and wondering how to stretch their now-diminished nest eggs. Many are about to make some big mistakes. Instead, the following five steps can help you protect your retirement savings both now and in the future.
1. Make sure your investments match your time frame. You may be tempted to take a lot of your money out of the stock market and switch it to more conservative investments so you won't have to worry about this volatility anymore. But that is one of the worst things you can do. By selling most of your stocks or stock funds now, you'll lock in the losses and won't be able to benefit when the market finally recovers.
Stocks have performed better than bonds and cash over the long run, which you still need to remember in retirement because you may have 20 or 30 years to go. If you panic and switch all of your money to fixed-income investments, then your portfolio will have a tough time keeping up with inflation, and you'll be more likely to outlive your retirement savings.
"This is not the time to abandon the fundamentals, and the fundamentals include cash for your immediate needs and growth for your long-term needs, which you still have even after you retire," says Stuart Ritter, a certified financial planner with T. Rowe Price. "You are not going to use all of your money in the next two years."
He recommends keeping about 55% of your retirement savings in a diversified portfolio of stocks and stock funds at age 65 and making changes to your portfolio based on your investing time frame, rather than short-term movements in the market. "They should not create a portfolio based on what the market has done in the past few months or what they're feeling in the past few weeks -- because they're really only a few months older," says Ritter.
See Three Ways to Cope in This Market and Retiring in Volatile Times for more information.
Meanwhile, keep a stash of money in a safe place for short-term needs, so you don't need to sell stocks when they're down to pay your bills or worry about the market's short-term movements. Marc Schindler, a certified financial planner in Bellaire, Tex., recommends keeping up to two years' worth of expenses in cash, such as a money-market account or short-term CD. He recommends GE Interest Plus or ING Direct. See our Credit & Money Management page for the top rates.
2. Withdraw less money than originally planned. You can't control the market; you can just make some moves to spread your risk. But you can decide how much money to withdraw each year, which affects how long your savings can last.
Many people start retirement by withdrawing 4% of their portfolios in the first year, then adjusting their withdrawals by 3% of that original balance every year to keep up with inflation. With that strategy, your retirement savings has an 89% chance of lasting for 30 years, according to an analysis by T. Rowe Price, which ran a 55% equity/45% bond portfolio through 10,000 potential market scenarios.
The study assumes that the investor retired on January 1, 2000, with $500,000 in savings. But if that diversified portfolio's value declined by 15.3% (which is what happened from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2002) and the retiree continued to boost his annual withdrawals by 3% every year, his retirement savings would have only a 57% chance at that point of lasting for the remaining 27 years. And if he switched to a 100% bond portfolio on January 1, 2003, and continued withdrawals as planned, then the account would be worth only $337,000 on January 31, 2008, and his odds of success would shrink to 5%, according to the study.
If the retiree had maintained the 55% equity/45% bond portfolio but stopped increasing his withdrawals to keep up with inflation until January 1, 2004, however, he would continue to have an 89% chance that his retirement savings would last for 30 years. He could improve his chances of success even more if he withdrew just 4% of his reduced retirement savings, rather than 4% of the original balance.
You can run your own numbers through T. Rowe Price's Retirement Income Calculator to see how reducing your withdrawals can lower the odds of outliving your savings.
This also can be a great time to get a check-up from a financial adviser, who can review your investments, make any adjustments based on your time frame and risk tolerance, and help you calculate how much you can afford to withdraw. See Getting the Best Financial Advice for help finding a good adviser.
3. Cut your expenses. It might work in theory to lower your withdrawals while your investments are down. But how can you live on less money? "The thing you have the most control over -- and that can improve your prospects the most -- is how much you are spending," Ritter says.
Delay major purchases or travel, if possible. And take some of the same steps to slash your expenses and tighten your belt as everyone else is. See How to Create a Budget for tips on monitoring your expenses. And see Save Money on Practically Everything for ways to trim your expenses without having to make major sacrifices.
As a retiree, health care is probably one of your biggest monthly expenses. This is a great time of year to lower your health-care costs. Medicare beneficiaries have from November 15 to December 31 to sign up for a new Medicare Part D prescription-drug plan for 2009. Some of the largest plans are increasing their premiums and boosting other out-of-pocket expenses. Switching to another plan can save you a lot of money throughout the year.
And you can save even more money if you switch from brand-name to generic or other lower-cost drugs when possible. Go to the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder, type in your drugs and dosages, and find the total out-of-pocket costs you'd pay for the year under each plan available in your area. Click on "use lower-cost drugs when available" to find out about generic equivalents or other low-cost alternatives.
Ask your doctor if you can make the switch before picking your 2009 Part D plan. The plan that is the best deal for brand-name drugs may not be the best deal for generics. And switching plans can make a huge difference in your costs for the year. A study by Destination Rx shows that the average senior with osteoarthritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, high cholesterol and hypertension would save 88%, or $4,461.36, under the most popular Part D plans by switching from brand-name drugs to lower-cost alternatives.
Another option is to switch to a Medicare Advantage plan, which provides coverage for medical care and prescription drugs from a private insurer. The premiums are usually lower, but you may end up with larger out-of-pocket costs. Use the Medicare Options Compare tool to find the cost of plans available in your area.
4. Boost your income. Taking a part-time job just a few days a week can help you stretch your retirement savings -- even if you're earning much less than you did before retirement. The more money you earn, the less you'll need to withdraw from your retirement savings, and you might even be able to save more for retirement and delay taking Social Security. Take a couple who are withdrawing $20,000 a year from their investments. If they can get a job paying $10,000 a year, they can reduce the stress on their portfolio by 50%, says June Lantz Walbert, a certified financial planner with USAA.
The new job doesn't need to be drudgery; it can even be your dream job. Walbert calls it a "jobby" because it can be a cross between a job and a hobby. "You can be doing something you love, such as working at a golf course, home improvement or garden center or veterinary clinic," she says. In addition to earning money, you might get an employee discount that could reduce the expenses for your hobbies.
See Act II: Retire to a New Career for some ideas. Or you might be able to get a job for the holidays -– retailers and other businesses generally start hiring extra workers in November.
5. Increase your lifetime income. You don't need to withdraw enough money from your retirement savings to cover all of your expenses. Instead, you only need to withdraw the difference between your expenses and any income you already have coming in. Most people get regular checks from Social Security and perhaps a pension. Anything you can do to boost those payouts means you'll need to withdraw less money from your retirement savings every year.
There's good news for Social Security recipients: Benefits are increasing by 5.8% in 2009, which is the largest increase since 1982. And you can boost your annual payout even further if you can delay taking Social Security -- receiving an 8% credit for every year beyond your normal retirement age until you reach 70. If you qualified for full benefits of $1,600 a month at your normal retirement age of 66, then waiting until age 70 will boost your benefit by about 32%, to about $2,100 a month. You can run your numbers through the Retirement Estimator at the Social Security Web site to see how much you'd receive in extra benefits for every year you delay signing up for Social Security.
If you've already started receiving Social Security benefits, you still can increase your future retirement income. If you have some extra cash -- especially if you were thinking about using it to buy an immediate annuity -- you could pay back the amount that you've received from Social Security since you started getting benefits (interest-free) and start again at an older age -- which can boost your payouts for the rest of your life. See Secret Ways to Boost Social Security for details.


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Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is out today on PSN (tomorrow on XBL and October 3rd for PC). It's a Metroidvania style game—a 2D game with lots of exploration, killing, and item finding—but with a twist.
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Patrick Nile on 01/28/2016
I found a live bedbug in the center of our bed between us after our fourth night spent in the Allerton, Thursday morning during the week of Sunday October 13-October 19, 2013. I believe the room was on the 9th floor. After searching we discovered blood stains and waste on the edge of the mattress inside the piping. My wife had several bites on her legs, but didn't have an allergic reaction to them. I wrapped the bedbug in a Kleenex and took it down to the front desk and showed to the desk cler
k. The hotel manager immediately moved us to another room, upgrading us from a king size junior suite to a full fledged king suite with separate living room for the remainder of our stay. They sent a bellman to our room to collect all of our clothing for laundering and dry cleaning and steam cleaned our luggage. The cleaned everything and returned it to us that same Thursday evening in our new suite. Very pleased with management's reaction and response to the situation and wouldn't hesitate staying there again. Even the nicest most expensive hotels have been victimized by these insidious bugs brought into this country again by traveler's from third world countries after they had been eradicated here in the 1950s with the use of DDT and other pesticides.
Lauren on 06/29/2014
We stayed at the Allerton 6/24-6/28/14 and stayed in room 1201, a two bedroom suite. After our first night in the hotel, I noticed I had bug bites all on my left side and back. I thought perhaps I got them during the day the precious day and thought nothing of it. That night, I checked myself before going to bed and saw no new bites. When I woke up the next morning, I had numerous new bites in the same areas and asked my husband if he had any bites - and he was also covered in bites. We looked
on the sheets but didn't see bed bugs (I've never had a bed bug issue so didn't know we should have looked in the crevices of the mattress). We brought it to the attention of the front desk who moved us to another suite. We did not have bed big issues in that room however there was a ventilation issue in that room that caused it to smell of poop whenever someone in a nearby room used the restroom. It was frustrating to say the least. One of the maids told us that the bed bugs hide in the mattress and come out at 2 or 3 in the morning so they are hard to see. She also told us the ventilation issue is a big problem there because of the age of the hotel. I never would have expected this of a four star hotel. Unfortunately we booked this on travelocity so our trip was prepaid and we didn't bother asking for a refund.
They also tried to charge us $60 per night for valet when we didn't even have a car. Sigh.... Disappointed does not begin to cover our thoughts on this hotel.
Business traveller on 10/31/2013
Stayed one night at the end of September, 2013 and will not go back.
When I pulled back the covers on the bed I saw two small specks on the sheet. When I looked closer, I saw that they were tiny bugs and they were moving. I was horrified.
I called the desk and a manager came up to take a look. He said they didn't appear to be bedbugs; he wasn't sure what they were. It was still disturbing and I really just wanted to leave and go stay at another hotel.
They ended up moving me to a suite
on a different floor. I fully inspected that bed and didn't find evidence of bugs. I was still uneasy and was never able to relax enough to fall asleep, which made for a very long day of business meetings followed by a five hour drive home the next day.
The manager was nice and tried to be accommodating but this is the first time I've ever found bugs in a hotel bed and I will never return to their hotel, nor can I recommend it to anyone.
Anonymous on 09/15/2013
My husband, 4 month old and I stayed at the Allerton hotel September 12th- 14th.. I checked the bed right away for bugs also but didn't examine thoroughly because it was a 4 star hotel. Anyways, we went to bed that night and woke up early morning to see baby spiders on the bed and all over our ceiling! Called the front dest and they apologized and moved us to a new room right next door stating also that it was just a confined incident and should not have the same problem again. We of course look
ed around the ceiling by the windows that morning and saw nothing inside but saw big spiders on the outside of each window but didn't think it was an issue since they were outside. We went about our day enjoying our day downtown Chicago came back that evening and went to bed. We woke up that morning and again baby spiders all over the ceiling in the bathroom by the vent by all the windows, above the TV!!!!! I was shocked and very disappointed so I again called the front desk to ask for a manager to complain... She was in a meeting and would contact me is what I was told. 2 hours later after my husband spending the morning killing spiders I called the desk again to complain and got the manager. She apologized comped our room service and said its an issue the whole city of Chicago is having... Asked if we had our windows open. Obviously not that night it was 45 outside and we have a 4 month old also. I was very disappointed in our stay especially spending over $100 nightly plus $120 in parking at there hotel. 4 star hotel this should have not been an issue.... I was not even offered a refund!
Amie on 10/05/2011
During the last week of September, we stayed there for 5 days and had 3 rooms on the 9th & 11th floors. We did not see any signs of bed bugs in our rooms. It was a very nice stay.
Jessica (guest on more than one occassion) on 10/03/2011
I have stayed at this location on 2 separate occassions (August 2011)and was more than pleased with my accomodations...despite being in a corner room on my first visit...they are the smallest of the rooms...I saw NO SIGN of bugs, and will be staying with them again this coming weekend. I am sure that if there were a problem there would be more than one person reporting it...and coming from someone who has worked at several hotel chains, the front desk employees may use discretion, but it is def
initely not something that is overlooked, because we KNOW the long term affects of such a problem...and we don't take it lightly...however I have encountered MANY guests when I worked as a receptionist that find fault with anything they can to get a free night stay OR to avoid being charged for something they realized they couldn't afford...not saying anyone has done that, but just a thought...
Anonymous on 04/04/2011
Has the problem of the bed bugs been taken care of?
TX Business Traveler on 02/23/2011
Have stayed at The Allerton twice in the last 60 days and have not had any problems whatsoever - the hotel appears to be very clean and well maintained.
General Manager on 01/18/2011
We take any guest complaint very seriously, especially when it relates to our guests' well being. Once I learned of your concerns, I immediately contacted a nationally recognized pest control expert, Steritech, to conduct a thorough examination of your guestroom. Part of this inspection included treating the room for bedbugs, despite inconclusive findings, as we prefer to take no chances when an issue such as this arises. I can verify the front desk agent's assertion that we have no
t had an issue with bed bugs in this hotel, as you can see from the lack of reports on this site, but I am pleased that the staff made an attempt to accommodate you with another room and that Arturo ensured that you were not charged for anything during your time at the hotel. We want to exceed our guests' expectations, and it is our goal for each of our guests to enjoy a safe, clean and comfortable environment in our hotel. If you would like to discuss this matter with me further, please contact me directly at your convenience.
Clay Spencer
General Manager
Allerton Hotel
Dominic E. on 01/18/2011
Booked a last minute trip to the Allerton on Jan. 14th for a Jan 15th 2011 stay. After check-in around noon we immediately checked our sheets, pillows and mattresses for any bug signs as my wife is a little paranoid. Prior to booking we also checked this site only to find a clean record. The room appeared to be bedbug free and we continued on with our day.
After touring the city, dinner and a cocktail we returned to our room and I got into bed. As my wife entered bed she found 1 bug on he
r pillow and multiple bugs underneath the pillow and along the mattress edge. We immediately called the front desk where we were told that the Allerton does not have bedbugs and they must be some other form of bug. The front desk sent security up for a report of the situation and a bellhop with room keys to another room. We showed security the bugs and we even collected a few in a ziplock as evidence. When showing the front desk supervisor he still said that he was not sure what type of bugs those were but would call a professional exterminator to make the judgement. He also stated that the bugs are typically a room by room incident and that we shouldnt be worried staying in another room (I find that hard to believe). My wife and I denied another room and opted to leave the hotel and journey home at 2am that evening. This was a major inconvenience to us but we did not want to chance gaining another room with bugs, moving to another hotel with the same problem, or staying with local friends incase we'd pass this epidemic to them.
I contacted the Hotel the following day and spoke with the Security Manager, Arturo where he assured me there would be proper investigation and I would not be charged any fees for our trouble. He also offered me a free nights stay if we decided to return.
This hotel was worth the stay for their rate but NOTHING is worth potenitally bringing these bugs home with you. I hope they take care of this problem as they were defintely not admitting they had one.
Our room was 2015 a King Room (if I remember correctly)
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#include <Wire.h>int resetPin=3;int clockPin=4;int dataPint=5;void clock(){ analogWrite(clockPin, 1023); delay(70); analogWrite(clockPin, 0);}void setup(){ Wire.begin(); Serial.begin(9600); Wire.beginTransmission(0x00); analogWrite(resetPin, 1023); clock(); analogWrite(resetPin,0); Serial.println(Wire.receive()); Wire.endTransmission();}void loop(){}
so I discover that by sending a "answer to reset" command to the card I should get a 4 byte string that identify the card type.
To send an ATR command you have to held the reset pin high, send one clock, relase the reset pin and then you can read the 4 byte data.
1. VCC (alimentation)2. RST (remise à zéro)3. CLK (horloge)
I've plugged 1 with the 5v pin2 with the 3 analog pin3 with the 5 analog pin
Since you have connected the clock pin (#3 on the card), to an analog pin, which is, by definition, input only, how did you "send one clock"?
So I have no idea how to send one clock, i tried to do it in my code (see clock() function) but it doesn't work.
Since you have called Wire.begin() you can't modify analog pin #4 and #5 unless with Wire lib functions...
Doing something like "digitalWrite(A5, HIGH); ... ; digitalWrite(A5, LOW)" doesn't work...
The analog pins can be used identically to the digital pins, using the aliases A0 (for analog input 0), A1, etc. For example, the code would look like this to set analog pin 0 to an output, and to set it HIGH:pinMode(A0, OUTPUT);digitalWrite(A0, HIGH);