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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY - The county budget has once again been snipped and trimmed and reflects what the county can afford for the next fiscal year, county staff said.
County administrator Joe Baird, county budget director Jason Brown and other department and county staff presented the $252.1 million proposed 2012-13 budget, outlining about $6 million in cuts.
During the budget workshop on July 18, commissioners reinstated some funds back into the budget, which Mr. Baird said would need to come out of the fund reserve account.
The Youth Guidance line item was restored about $22,000 and the Indian River County Chamber of Commerce's economic development division was restored about $9,900, thanks to commissioners' votes.
Another $11,000 was set aside to help pay for a citrus agent who would work both in Indian River County and the surrounding counties. The money will be used if St. Lucie County also designates funds to help pay for an agent.
The budget cuts include the elimination of nine full-time positions, four of which are currently filled, the other five are vacant. The anticipated savings are more than $620,000, according to a county report.
In order to meet the $252.1 million budget, Mr. Baird is proposing to use about $1.8 million from general fund reserves and $2.5 million from emergency services reserves. No tax or fee increases are scheduled.
As he has in prior years, Mr. Baird has followed the county commission's direction to adjust the budget to the amount of anticipated revenue, instead of increasing taxes.
In the past six years, property taxes have decreased from $103.3 million to $69.4 million, a report said.
Mr. Baird is anticipating a decrease in property tax revenue this year of about $3.4 million, from about $72.8 million to $69.4 million, which comes to a 4.7 percent decrease in overall property tax revenue.
An Indian River Shores homeowner with a property assessed at $200,000 and with a $50,000 homestead exemption would pay about $520 in property taxes, a little more than $8 less than last year.
In other incorporated areas of the county that do rely on the county for emergency services, a homeowner with a similar property value would pay $777, also a little more than an $8 decrease from prior year tax bill.
In the unincorporated areas of the county, which fall under the municipal service taxing unit area where the county provides infrastructure support, the tax bill would be $938, which is approximately $8 lower this fiscal year.
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Celebrate National Bike Month In Style
Written on May 11, 2011 at 11:13 am , by Karla Walsh
May marks National Bike Month (see how we're celebrating on page 80 of the May issue!), and with the amazing spring weather, we've been inspired to spin around town a lot lately. We adore pushing pedals because it's great for the environment, a fun way to explore our cities and a quick calorie-blaster—you burn about 500 per hour at a moderate intensity! So we were excited to hear about a fun "pay it forward" contest to get more people out on the trails or the road.
Go to Ride Schwinn's Facebook page or their website to enter the Bike it Forward giveaway: Choose a category that you think a bike-worthy friend will enjoy (mountain, hybrid, road, cruiser, urban, bike path or kids). Each day this month, Schwinn will draw a winner from the online entries. They, and the person who nominated them, will be spinning in style with their choice of a new bike!
Then you'll just need to grab a helmet to match your new ride!
Now tell us: If you could win any piece of exercise equipment, what would it be?
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We were able to receive shots of the Aston Martin Rapide Nurburgring Edition 's first tests in preparation for the high endurance race that is the ADAC 24H Nurburgring. The Rapide has undergone some changes to make the car race-ready, but, true to Aston Martin form, the modifications have been minimal. The only modifications made were to make the car race-ready and to reduce body weight. Body weight reduction was achieved by eliminating the interior trims and features. The Rapide seen here features some nice sleek black livery that we could safely assume will be ripped off closer to race time to reveal the car's original blue color scheme. The Aston Martin Rapide's engine is a 6.0 Liter V12 mated with a six speed Touchtronic 2 automatic transmission producing 470 HP and 443 lb-ft of torque. The original four door sedan has had the back doors sealed off, leaving it with more of a racing feel.
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I enjoyed this book a lot. It is about a young Bohemian girl living in a new country at the turn of the century. Antonia struggles to help her family but wants to be away from them. Antonia trys to make friends and have fun. She often disappoints herself with her actions. This story is told by an middle aged man looking back upon the friendship he shared with Antonia. "My Antonia" is a great book and is easy to read.
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My Antonia is a beautiful book. It is extremely well written. After reading it, the next thing I read seemed very ill-written by comparison. The story is about the lives of Antonia, a Bohemian immigrant to Nebraska, and her childhood friend, Jim. It is a very real book, not hiding the fact that their lives were hard, but not desparing or depressing. I loved it!
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A scene that has played out in the bed of more than one St. Olaf student:
Exhausted, disappointed man rolls over in bed. His equally disappointed girlfriend sighs.
Woman: It just isnt as easy for women as it is for men, honey. It isnt you.
Man: Well, all of my other girlfriends always had an orgasm during sex.
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Man: What?
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Man: What?
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Man: What?
Woman: They were probably faking.
Ouch! The truth hurts, but listen, heterosexual men: If your woman seems to orgasm easily every time you have intercourse, she is probably faking it.
Heterosexual women: Stop faking orgasm with your boyfriends so that when they date women who actually want to experience ultimate pleasure, we will not have to take on the painful task of disabusing them of the notion that they are naturally fabulous lovers.
The fact that women do not orgasm easily through intercourse alone is not groundbreaking news; by now, most people know it. However, in reaction to this knowledge, many men have decided that in order to be good lovers, they must achieve the goal of making their sexual partner orgasm solely through intercourse. It is easier said than done. In addition, I am afraid that many women continue to fake orgasm, allowing their partners to think that they have climbed the Mount Everest of sexual achievement.
Some women fake to make their men feel good about themselves at the expense of their own pleasure. Some women do it to let their men know that they can stop their ineffectual efforts to make them orgasm. However, in the end, fakers end up feeling sexually frustrated, and it is difficult to remedy the situation. How do you tell a guy who thinks you have been having earth-shattering orgasms for the past year that he has never given you an orgasm and that he needs to change everything hes doing in order to give you pleasure?
Furthermore, when these men encounter women who are honest about their level of pleasure, their incompetence can cause serious problems. The men may blame their new partners for not being orgasmic enough, or they may try to last as long as possible, straining to keep from having an orgasm themselves, as they exhaust their partner and wait for a female orgasm that simply is not going to happen. Eventually, a scene like the one I related earlier may ensue, to the severe discomfort of both parties.
Most women who do not orgasm during intercourse enjoy sex. They do not feel that their boyfriends are less manly or bad lovers because they cannot bring them to orgasm through intercourse alone. So men, make your girl happy and give her the big O before or after you get yours.
Some women with whom I spoke also said that they do not need or want to have an orgasm during every lovemaking session, but they do not want to fake an orgasm just to make their man happy either. They claimed that sex still feels good and can be good for women even without climaxing. Many men claimed to experience pain when sex ended without orgasm, but this is not so for women. That is not to say that women who enjoy sex without orgasm always enjoy it that way. Thus, I would suggest that men ask their lady friends what they want and give it to them. In addition, if any men or women out there are set on having an orgasm during intercourse, the man can stimulate the woman into a frenzy pre-penetration and increase the likelihood of her having an orgasm during intercourse but there should be no hard feelings on either side if it just cant be done.
Of course, some women orgasm more easily than others, so its possible that many St. Olaf women are one of those women. Good for you. But there is nothing wrong with the men who cannot make their girlfriends climax during intercourse or the women who dont orgasm from penetration alone. So stop worrying about it and explore the myriad ways to orgasm through pleasures other than intercourse.
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All I did this weekend was eat epic amounts of delicious food and take pictures of how durned pretty it was, so you're gonna have to bear with me here.
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Natomas leaders 'frustrated' over arena battle
Natomas business leaders admitted Monday they're fighting an uphill battle to avoid losing the Sacramento Kings arena.
At a morning press conference, Natomas Chamber of Commerce leaders said they're asking Mayor Kevin Johnson and the Sacramento City Council to reject a task force recommendation announced Friday.
The task force, which was appointed by the mayor, recommends Sacramento developer David Taylor and a Colorado sports facility developer be chosen to explore building an arena downtown over the next three months. That team won the recommendation over three others, including one backed by the Natomas chamber.
"Natomas is not giving up the fight to keep the arena in Natomas," said Chamber President Ed Koop, who stood in a soggy field within view of Arco Arena, the Kings' current home.
The chamber and its arena development team, Natomas Entertainment Sports Center Partners, propose building a new arena on the land – about 100 acres owned by the city.
The chamber and Natomas ESC Partners also encouraged Sacramento residents who support keeping the arena in Natomas to show their support at the City Council meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The task force is scheduled to present an analysis of four arena teams and recommendations to the City Council then.
The Natomas chamber has gathered hundreds of signatures from residents, business owners and others who want to keep the arena in Natomas, said Marni Leger, who chairs the chamber's arena committee.
Koop and Leger spent the rest of the day meeting with City Council members to discuss their concerns. More appointments were scheduled for Tuesday.
They're asking the City Council to determine how much it would cost to build an arena downtown versus in Natomas.
Skanska, the Natomas team's contractor, looked at two proposed downtown sites – the downtown railyards and Westfield Downtown Plaza – and estimated keeping the arena in Natomas would save $100 million to $200 million, said Bob Moreno, managing director of Brookhurst Development Corp. The company is a partner on the Natomas development team.
The ICON-Taylor team doesn't have a plan to build an arena yet but asked the city for 90 days to create one. The task force is recommending the city work exclusively with that team, but the lack of a plan will continue to delay getting an area built after another attempt failed last year. The Natomas site is "shovel-ready" and has all the necessary infrastructure, they said.
"It's pretty frustrating to be at this point," Koop said. "From the beginning, we've known we're fighting an uphill battle."
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With more than 4,000 Rockford area school children in attendance, the Rockford IceHogs dropped a 4-3 overtime matinee against the Abbotsford Heat on Wednesday at the BMO Harris Bank Center.
With a two-goal cushion heading into the final frame, Abbotsford came storming back in the third to tie it up and eventually take a 4-3 win in overtime.
After being down two goals for much of the game, the Heat trimmed the IceHogs lead to one just 17 seconds into the third period and shifted momentum. In his American Hockey League debut, centerman Evan Trupp notched his first career goal as he got the puck past Jason LaBarbera with help from Josh Jooris and Corban Knight to put the score at 3-2.
Abbotsford continued their push as defenseman Chad Billins raced in to the Hogs zone and flipped a backhanded shot past LaBarbera to tie the game at 3-3 with 6:04 left on the clock.
Abbotsford continued the pressure and stole the game 3:40 into the overtime session. After Klas Dahlbeck was nabbed for a holding penalty, Heat centerman Markus Granlund ended the game with 15 seconds left on the power play with the sudden death marker to give the IceHogs a 4-3 OT loss.
For the sixth straight game the IceHogs opened the scoring to take an early 1-0 lead. Defenseman Theo Peckham dropped a pass off for Brad Winchester and he rifled a shot from the blue line that snuck its way to the back of the net at 6:36 in the first.
Then, with Abbotsford's Sven Baertschi in the box for tripping, the Hogs took advantage with the extra attacker and converted on their first power play of the game. Garret Ross picked up a pass from Brett Skinner and netted his 11th marker of the season to extend the lead to 2-0 at 17:35 in the first.
In the second period, Abbotsford cut into the Hogs' lead with a power play strike of their own at 7:21. With traffic in front of the IceHogs net, Mark Cundari fired a puck by LaBarbera to make it a 2-1 game.
Rockford regained the two goal advantage less than four minutes later off the stick of Brandon Mashinter on a power play. Ross fed Mashinter and he chipped in his fourth goal of the season at 11:09 to push the score to 3-1. Mark McNeill also picked up an assist on the play.
The Hogs finished the game two-for-four on the power play while the Heat converted on two of their three chances with the man advantage.
Next Home Game: Mon., Jan. 20 vs Toronto Marlies at 1 p.m. Rockford hosts another day game, this time against Toronto. While enjoying the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the IceHogs are giving away drawstring bags to the first 1,500 kids (14 and under) at the game courtesy of Pepsi.
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Ann All spoke with Kyle Arteaga, vice president of Corporate Communications for Serena Software, a provider of application lifecycle management software, project and portfolio management software and business mashups.
All: I've read accounts that indicate that Serena began using Facebook to replace an intranet. Is this true? Did Facebook replace an existing intranet?
Arteaga: That's correct. Let me give you a little bit of history. We're a 27-year-old enterprise software company. Recently, we've moved into business mashups. Our senior management team has been in place about a year now. And one of the first things they said was, "We need to change the corporate culture." Our average employee is in their mid-40s, they are mainframe developers. A mainframe developer is different than a Web 2.0 developer. We wanted to explain culturally, "How does this Web 2.0 work?" The thinking was, to really make a move into the software-as-a-service business, we need to show our employees what SaaS is really about. You can talk about it all sorts of ways, but until you interact with it, there's no way to really show the value. So we looked at each other and said, "Nobody likes our intranet." All of us were already on Facebook, and we said, "Why don't we outsource (the intranet)?"
All: Facebook isn't what most people think of when they think of SaaS. Was the idea just to get people used to accessing things from a browser? Were you taking it down to that level?
Arteaga: As far as we're concerned, Google is a SaaS company. Salesforce.com is probably the biggest enterprise SaaS company, but only sales and marketing people typically interact with Salesforce. Finance people are on SAP. HR people use SAP or Oracle. Everyone has their own systems. Before we looked to port each of those into a SaaS application, we wanted to do a universal application. The first two that came to my mind: GMail and Facebook.
(Harvard Business School Professor) Andrew McAfee says if you ask 100 people in a room who likes their intranet, he'd be shocked if one person raised their hand. Ours was particularly bad. It did org charts, and that was about it. For three months, the only new news I saw on our intranet was about a blood drive in Portland that was six months old. And I think that's pretty typical. We have a corporate communications department of one. There wasn't time and energy being spent on the intranet, so no one was getting value out of it.
We asked employees what they wanted on an intranet. We did that in parallel with working with IT to determine the usage patterns on the intranet, to find out where people were going. What we found was, first of all, the majority of people weren't going to anything having to do with confidential information. They were doing things like looking up rules on vacation time or checking the holiday schedule. If you look at the company, there are probably only about 20 people in our company of 820 that regularly touch confidential documents. The main thing people were asking for was pictures. When I asked IT if we could add pictures to our intranet, I got a long explanation of how difficult it would be to do that.
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VALPARAISO | During an emergency, a power outage is an inconvenience for most people.
But for senior citizens, that power outage could put their health or lives at risk, especially in extreme weather.
That's why administration at Pines Village Retirement Communities is kicking off a capital campaign to raise money for an emergency shelter site for older adults in Porter County.
"When tragedy hits, and we have a snowstorm or tornado or power outage, it's a tough thing if there's an evacuation," said Amy Page, public relations director for Pines Village.
Page said Pines Village is an independent living community with services to assist the needs of older adults. She said it recently finished expansion of the community in 2009 and feel it is equipped to become an emergency shelter.
"Our first step is to acquire a backup generator so that if there is a power outage it will relieve resources in our county from our emergency personnel in our county. We have had power outages and had to bring in generators for heating, air conditioning, and serving food," said Page, who estimates cost of a generator at $120,000.
She said Pines Village is a natural fit for the emergency shelter since they have the expanded site and have provided these services in the past.
Sharon Kish, president of the United Way of Porter County, agrees.
"It's a wonderful idea, and the Pines has experience working with the elderly so it makes perfect sense. It meets a need in the community," Kish said.
Page said the generator is the first step in the community's plans and it has yet to determine future needs for the emergency shelter, but she hopes to move closer to that goal during the Rebirth of Cool Fundraiser from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Porter County Expo Center.
"It is an event for all ages, and we hope to raise a lot of funds for the shelter," Page said. The fundraiser will include live music, dancing, food and a cash bar.
For more information, contact Page at (219) 465-1591 or visit www.pinesvillage.org/news.php.


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Like Microsoft, Intel has grown fat and sleek on the back of the IBM PC, but like Microsoft it nearly didn't happen. Although this is where the first microprocessor was designed — the famous 4004 — the company had little time for it and did not consider it a successful product. It also fell out with the chief hardware designer, Frederico Faggin, who went off to found Zilog and produce the Z80. But everyone fell out with everyone all the time back then, and now everyone has prizes.
Real-life visiting potential: 8/10. Santa Clara is ghastly, but the Intel Museum should be on the to-do list of all true silicon life forms.
The HP Garage, Palo Alto, California
Almost too well known to be included, the garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard built their first product — an audio oscillator used by Disney — is now a listed building, to be an inspiration for generations of entrepreneurial engineers as yet unborn. Other famous garages include the one in Menlo Park where Sergey Brin and Larry Page started Google, and the Los Altos carport where Steves Wozniak and Jobs kicked off Apple.
Real-life visiting potential: 5/10. It's not nicknamed Shallow Alto for nothing.
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A car-strewn patch of concrete is all that marks the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, which once threatened to beat IBM at its own game. This was where the first American commercial computer Univac was developed, and where Grace Hopper did her first work on third-generation computer languages, leading to the first compiler and, via her language Flow-Matic, to Cobol. But the Univac project hit cost over-runs, the company was bought and the founders resigned.
Real-life visiting potential: 1/10. Handy if you need somewhere to park while visiting 1213 or 1217 Walnut Avenue, Philadelphia.
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All Delighted People EP
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Raise your hand if you saw this coming, because I sure didn't. Earlier this month, Sufjan Stevens announced an October/November tour—an announcement that I admittedly didn't pay much attention to because he's not really coming anywhere close to my neck of the woods (and I just don't have much time for concertgoing these days). And what's more, I'd become a little Sufjan'd out, particularly after the indulgent BQE.
And then Asthmatic Kitty broke the news: a nearly hour-long EP of brand new material that was free for the listening (and that could be had for a nominal fee). The promise of new music from the man was too much to pass up—the old Sufjan fan inside of me dies hard, I guess—and so I hoofed it on over to Bandcamp to check out All Delighted People. And suffice to say, I'm hanging my head in shame, for I should not have let my faith in the man slip. (If that makes me sound like a fanboy, then so be it.)
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Could you say no to your mom?
Published on - August 27th, 2013 (by Jeff Rose)
This is a guest post from Jeff Rose, CFP who blogs at GoodFinancialcents.com. Jeff is well known among bloggers for his various causes: The Debt Movement, The Roth IRA Movement and The Life Insurance Movement. His first book, Soldier of Finance, officially releases September 9, 2013.
"Heck no!"
Imagine if a stranger asked you one of the following questions:
- Can I borrow your credit card to make a quick purchase? I don't have any cash on me.
- Mind if I take your car for a quick trip to the grocery store. I don't feel like waiting for the bus.
- Do you mind co-signing with me on the new house I want to buy? My credit isn't the greatest.
My hope is that if a stranger asked you any of these, your response would be an emphatic, "Heck no!"
Flip the script
Okay, now let's change the situation a bit. Instead of a stranger asking you the questions above, what if it was someone you knew? And not just anyone, someone close. Very close. What would you say then?
It might be easier to turn down a friend, but what if was a relative? What if it was a parent? Then what would you say? Could you say "Heck no!"? Could you at least muster a simple "no"?
Saying "no" to a parent can be much more difficult. It can feel impossible. I know it did for me.
It's just a signature
When I started my career, my future was bright. Good job, good credit; things were progressing as planned. My mom's financial situation at the time, however, was a bit different.
My mom had good amount of cash from selling at the height of the Los Angeles real estate market in 2004 and used those proceeds to pay cash for her new home in the significantly cheaper Las Vegas market. Timing wise, she couldn't have chose a better time.
She could have sit back and enjoyed her retirement years with the excess cash. Instead she wanted in on the real estate boom that was taking over Las Vegas.
Unfortunately, there was one small hitch preventing her from doing so: bad credit. A bankruptcy filing years back had ruined my mom's credit, and that made getting approved for any loans impossible.
She needed someone to help her out.
She needed someone with good credit to co-sign with her.
She needed her son.
"Do you mind co-signing with me on the new house I want to buy? My credit isn't the greatest."
What would you say if it was your mom asking you this question? Could you say no? Here's how it all played out:
This article is about Choices, Credit scores
Wow, that's a toughie. I don't think my mom or dad would ask me for those things, but if they did I would hope I could explain my "no" with compassion. Good question!
It is a tough one, huh?
It was super tough for me!
This is a tricky one. Of course I would say yes to the first two questions for a relative, or a good friend. It's hard for me to contemplate my parents asking for money or to co-sign because I can't imagine that they would.
For me, having a stellar credit score is important for my future business endeavors, so I would just use that as means of an explanation. I'd also probably point out that by having a mortgage liability on the record, it would affect my own chances at getting a mortgage.
Also, dont bankruptcies fall off after a certain period of time? I would probably pull a guilt-trip and ask why would they want to risk my financial health vs, waiting another couple of years?
I'v always been mostly intolerant of people who ask for help getting something they want (not need) at great risk to myself. I know that I would never ask someone, even a close family member, to risk themselves for my desires, so it would be easy for me to say no. Awkward, but easy.
That being said, it might depend on the circumstances of the bankruptcy. If any of it was do to inproper handling of one's finances, that would kill any spark of possibility. But if was due to something completely out of their control, I might consider it. Especially if they were supporting me during the time of the bankruptcy.
Luckily for me, my parents won't be asking for money any time soon. Honestly, I've been the one asking them over the last couple years! (Just to borrow, or for co-signing a loan) I'm still pretty young so it's been nice that they've been able to help me start getting good credit. But I had to show them that I was responsible with my money first!
Solid advice Jeff. I know it can be so difficult to say no to family, especially to parents. We've had similar situations in our family, albeit on a smaller scale, and it's always uncomfortable. Looking back I am so glad that we've made the decisions we have because potentially throwing in money to a close relationship can make things go south awfully quickly.
I help my parents but usually to help them on splurges. They manage their household pretty efficiently, and they have never asked me for money. Even when my dad was unemployed for a really long time.
This is the kind of situation where you would want to help; simply because your dad never asked.
I've heard of situations of unemployed parents mooching off their kids as they literally do nothing.
Actually, my Mom did ask me. When I was in my 20′s, she asked me to cosign on a student loan for my younger sister. And I didn't say no. The results ended up being terrible for everyone involved.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I think the fallout of my saying no would have been less than the fallout of my saying yes. It's taken my Mom and I a decade to recover financially. Everyone's relationship with my sister has been hurt.
I still struggle with saying no, but I'm getting better. Years of saying yes have taught me that I'm really not helping my sister. She has to learn from her own mistakes, and live with her own choices. If she wants a better life, she has to be willing to work for it, just like everyone else.
My mother's situation is 1000% times better than mine would ever be so I can't imagine her asking for any kind of financial assistance. Since she never assisted me via co-signing, loans, etc (not that I've ever asked her), I can't see her asking me for the same.
Its my father I have to be cautious of but I know to look at the situation objectively and not give into it. The balance of power between the two of us educationally, financially, healthwise and even my upbringing with him is not where it would be fair of him to ask me for a dime.
I have been in this situation and have been able to say no. Not t because I don't care, because if the person is not in the right space, financially, taking responsibility, it will just end badly. I give small gifts of money when I can, and other than a spot on the couch if it all goes to hell, that's all I'm going to do. Yes, there is an enabling\enabler relationship going on here as well.
I do not share my financial situation with anyone, including my mom. It's a lot easier when nobody asks. Although my financial situation has improved, the habit of frugality means that I still carry on my life as I did when I was digging myself out of debt. If my mom was responsible with her money, it would be different, but she's not. I'm prepared for the possibility that she might have to come live with me, but that's tomorrow's concern
Someone in our family bled his mother dry. It was not pretty. She resents it and holds out hope that some day he will pay her back. She sees them spending money and never receives back any of the ten of thousands of dollars she gave him.
I don't have the heart to tell her that he will never pay her back.
Anne is right. There are usually takers and givers in families. Rarely do people step out of these roles. It makes me mad just thinking about the situation in our family, even though I wasn't the one who co-signed and bled a relative dry. I want to believe in karma, but usually crappy people never get their due. Other than being completely broke and unemployed, there is no other justice or karma that comes his way.
She should take him to court!
This is one of the toughest things for me to do. I love taking advantage of opportunity but often the opportunity turns out to be a distraction or detour from the financial path I need/should be taking.
Great advice Jeff. Thanks for sharing your personal experience. Good to hear even successful people have struggled with saying NO as well.
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I'd really like to know the rest of the story — what happened to his relationship with his mother as a result?
Please share!
Initially it was strained. We didn't talk for a few months and being stubborn I refused to call her.
When she finally did call it was like nothing happened (regarding you she acted when I turned her down).
After the houses went to short sale, it has never really been discussed on "what could have been" had I co-signed. I casually brought it up once, but it was a very short conversation.
She now knows she made a mistake and let greed takeover. She's complimented many times on my approach to my business and finances, so in a roundabout way, I think she is proud that I did say no.
I think "No" is the only answer weather its family or not. If the person has made mistakes in the past to put themselves in this situation who to say them won't repeat the behavior again.
Jeff Rose;
How did your mom buy that investment property in Las Vegas?
I say no to my mom all the time! "No, Mom, I don't want you to buy my lunch. How about if I get yours?" "No, Mom, I don't need for you to pay me gas money for me to take you shopping. I'll be glad to do it!" "No, Mom, I don't want you to pay for X, I'll save up for it myself."
She still wants to take care of her baby. I find myself doing the same thing with my daughter, and she tells me the same thing. "Thanks, Mom, but I got paid this week. How about I buy you a large coffee?"
Wow. Many of you have some tough stories to share. My family certainly isn't perfect but my Dad is a great example of a person who can say NO and not be manipulated for it. I'll need to lean on that observation in the years to come when inevitably his estate is dispersed among my siblings. When I see him next I'll give him an extra long hug in appreciation.
well, my mom would never ever ask me something like that, and neither my dad, so I guess that´s off the table. I have however been asked by my brother to lend him money, but heeeeell no! I have no obligations to him non whatsoever!
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A guy at work was getting money taken out of his work check by court order because he had co-signed for his brother and now the brother had taken off overseas.
Are you related to Neil Rose?
I am not. Great last name, though.
Another Rose here too.
Phew – what a tough situation which you handled wisely. I'm not sure I would have the courage to say no in a similar situation. Stellar advice. Your mama raised a smart son.
A very wise decision. You said no to a want, not a need.
You can always remind your mother she did a fine job raising an individual with the intellect to know the difference.
This is tricky. If I had money to spare, I would be more comfortable lending then co-signing. I hate the idea of co-signing bc it usually means you are backing a previously financially irresponsible person. (Usually.)
Parents are hard. I have one that has more money than he knows what to do with, and one who told me in five years she will not be able to support herself. I will have to be the bank. It is for survival, not speculation, but still it is a position I never, ever want to put my kids in.
We have given my husband's older sister tens of thousands of dollars over the years, including one time three years ago where we gave her $22k – she was sure she would be ok going forward from there. However, she asked us to bail her out again in the Spring – this time to the tune of about 5k. We told her then that this was it – we were going to be paying for college in a couple of years and just couldn't help her anymore.
I don't know if she'll ask us to help her again and I'm not sure we'd actually say no. She has a history of mental illness including suicide attempts. She spent a couple of years in a state hospital in her late 20′s/early 30′s. Over the last 15 or so years, she graduated law school and has worked as a child advocate as a NYC employee, which is a huge turnaround in her life. Most of the money we've given her has gone to vet bills for her cats and her therapist. In the spring, she told us she hadn't paid her rent in three months, which we're pretty sure was late due to vet and therapy bills.
How do you say no when the person you love might commit suicide or end up on the street? (We live in Philadelphia/she's in NYC).
That's a tough situation. It sounds like they need professional help. You offering money to help pay for stuff is not really helping the situation; it's just prolonging the obvious.
I, personally, prefer no to lend money to anyone, even my son, or do business with any of my or my husband's family. When there is money involved, this is when all the arguments and misunderstandings start.
a useful topic! however in my family people come to me for things that are necessities, not investments. I know my mom fully expects to move into my spare bedroom when she blows through her retirement. Saying no to extra investments is one thing. Telling your mom she's homeless is another!
I was listening to August 16th's Marketplace Money podcast and it was very relevant to this issue. Anybody struggling with it should listen to this:
[Disclaimer: I do not work for American Public Media or NPR, but I recommend their podcasts to all readers of this site.]
Particularly, in this segment, Diane Lim provides a good model, in my opinion, for borrowing from loved ones. Offer to pay back with interest higher than the lender could get from a Savings Account in their bank, but less than it would cost you to likewise borrow from your bank. Sharing the 'spread' that banks charge is a win-win (assuming the borrower pays in the specified time frame).
I too have a sibling who was always supported by his parents due to his musician career choice. In the end, I am not bitter, and actually appreciate having had to work since college. In fact, I think they crippled my brother's future by not making him play by the same rules as everybody else. It's just that, as many others have voiced, I will not help him or my moocher-in-training sister in the future, I do not want to enable that kind of behavior.
I guess I also wonder if anyone on this thread is 1st generation americans? I know a friend of mine (a financial planner no less) whose immigrant parents told them they didn't need 401Ks because they had him to pay for their retirement. I think depending on which family you grow up in it's not manipulation, but the expected tradition. I think the hard part is knowing where it is manipulation and where it isn't.
I agree that you should set terms, but people don't like being told what to do with their money even when it's yours.
I dunno–I'm never going to monetarily pay back my parents for how much they spent on me. I wouldn't cosign on something but I can see putting something in my name and paying rent for my mom.
I have a similar story. I moved out of the house when I was 22, after racking up a ton of student loans to get through trade school. My mom supported me by paying my auto insurance and letting me stay at home rent free while I was in school. She always has (and probably always will) work 60+ hours a week as a nurse. So there's no sense of her being lazy or reckless. Anyway, I met someone and we moved in together while I worked and finished school for a couple more years.
About three years ago, I started noticing that there were some serious hoarding tendencies at my mom's house. The house I grew up in had always been in bad condition since it was originally going to be a remodel/flip, but due to life circumstances and a divorce, ended up being the "main" home. It was really bad and literally falling apart.
So during this time, my mom had been coming to me to borrow money for this or that. She had the engine in her car break down and needed to replace it. She had stopped making payments on her house to force the bank to negotiate with her after her interest rate soared. I finally decided enough was enough. Of course, I couldn't just tell her no and leave her homeless and without the one asset that could potentially let her retire one day.
So my now-husband and I sat down to talk about it. We decided that we would stop paying $2200 per month in rent for our downtown apartment and move back in with her. The house was in such bad condition that we couldn't live there without a complete remodel. So in lieu of paying rent, we would take out a $25,000 loan to get the house to livable condition.
After a lengthy and VERY stressful remodeling process that involved other family members and opened a lot of old wounds — and which turned into a $50,000 remodel, of course — we are now paying half the utilities, putting a lot towards the family food budget and have saved up a ton of money.
My mom has a beautiful, clean home with some decent equity in it for retirement. We've paid off the construction loans in full last month after 1.5 years.
Career-wise, it's limiting for me and my husband. As a freelancer, I could take assignments in downtown with a quick phone call because my job sites are all located there. Now it's an hour-long drive if not more. My husband now works from home; so that's not a problem.
The big benefit is the peace of mind I get. My mom will still borrow money, but it's usually just a day or two until her paycheck comes in for some gas, rather than the check-cashing place she used to go. Bills are all current. Electricity costs are way down because we sealed and insulated. She works nights and we work days; so there's still a lot of privacy, which is very necessary for a young married couple.
In the end, I think we're coming out ahead financially by combining the two households. I don't know what the long-term plan is for my mom, but she will probably have to rent the house out and live in the garage if we convert it. I figure we should be able to break even at the two-year point, which we're almost at. Plus she cooks meals, which saves us a ton.
Just a story about helping parents out when they need it without the direct cash contributions and "borrowing" that many are used to hearing about.
She kept on asking me for money after that and I always told her no, I didn't have any to spare. The inevitable response to that was "Can't you just put it on a credit card?"
I guess I also wonder if anyone on this thread is 1st generation americans
Wonderful insights in the post and in the comments. I value my hard won financial independence and those of my younger children. My eldest is almost fifty. He is handicapped and gets a social welfare grant but I value my ability to care for him beyond what the grant provides for.


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Not to put too fine a point on it, a cursory look at his stats (from Basketball-Reference.com) suggests he's an awful rebounder; a below-average distributor whose assist rate has steadily worsened over the last four seasons; a fairly terrible mid-range shooter (his 3-point percentage was actually higher than his 2-point percentage last season); a player whose very good free throw shooting is largely negated by his inability to get to the line (he has averaged fewer than two free throw attempts in over 26 minutes of play over the last two seasons); and a subpar defender. His low turnover rate seemingly does little to redeem his other apparent shortcomings.
But is he truly so one-dimensional? Is 3-point shooting really the only thing he brings to the table? (more…)
Denver Nuggets training camp is still over a month away, and plenty of time remains for the front office to make additional offseason roster moves. Yet the rumor mill has gone quiet, and by all appearances it seems that Tim Connelly and Josh Kroenke have – at least for now – settled on the 15 players who will constitute the Nuggets roster at the opening of the upcoming season.
Denver has an intriguing, if in certain ways perplexing mix of players on the roster, and at this point it's extremely difficult to foresee how the minutes and rotations will shake out. And with the coaching change, our lack of a concrete picture of the offensive and defensive systems Brian Shaw intends to implement only compounds the unpredictabllity of how things will unfold from here on out.
But despite the fact that we are facing more questions than answers, your trusty Roundball Mining Company writers now bring you, in our latest 5-on-5, our best and boldest predictions about which lineups stand to fare the best and worst, and which players stand to gain or lose the most in this uncharted 2013-14 season.
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The post-Melo Nuggets have always been defined by their depth. Denver didn't just attack you with a killer lineup, they did it with waves of them. They were a machine full of interchangeable gears, a confluence of equally skilled players that elevated the whole through sheer numeracy, and yet whose uniformity ironically tended to serve as their downfall in the postseason. But perennial regular season success is clearly something this team is still trying to strive for and the various transactions of the offseason reveals a similar desire for the "next man up" depth that has been the team's staple for three years.
A look at what Denver's offseason reaping produced has unearthed a comforting familiarity in terms of the depth but some trepidation in how these particular gears fit together. Questions about potential lineups range from the mop-up crew all the way to the starting unit, and many of these queries center around Brian Shaw's unique (and currently unknowable) set of principles, what does he value most in his players? The following is a list of potential lineups Denver could throw out over the course of the season, their pros, their cons, their function, and – most importantly – the likelihood of their success.
As time continues to pass on the Nuggets offseason and people start looking ahead to the coming season one ideal seems to be carrying the belief that the Nuggets will make the playoffs and be successful there; the Nuggets are just too deep to fail.
After all the team is full of good proven players like Kenneth Faried, Wilson Chandler, and healthy Danilo Gallinari and led by a really, really good player in Ty Lawson.
Next to those proven players they have even more guys, like Evan Fournier and Jordan Hamilton, who at the moment are unproven but have shown tools that lead to the belief they can join the ranks of the good.
And just to make things even more complicated, rounding out the roster are the polarizing JaVale McGee, Nate Robinson, Andre Miller and JJ Hickson. Players that have led to a series of debates, especially on this site, as to whether or not they are actually good.
Realistically someone could say that the Nuggets will be anywhere from 10 to 13 deep with good players once everyone is healthy and it wouldn't bring much of an argument.
It's been several months since the NBA's reigning GM of the Year, Masai Ujiri, was inexplicably let go by the Nuggets and replaced with Tim Connelly. Since that time the Nuggets have made a variety of eyebrow-raising moves that have accented the most turbulent offseason in recent memory. Now, in light of the Nuggets' recent completion of putting together a full 15-man roster under the new regime, our team at RMC will divulge our first impressions of Connelly and Co.'s transactions in our latest 5-on-5. As always, we encourage you voice your answers to the following questions in the comments section below.
Earlier today Joel posted this on his Twitter page and I thought it was quite interesting. Below is a graphic of where all current Nuggets players rank in player efficiency rating (PER) and win shares per 48 minutes played (WS/48). These are two of the more popular advanced statistical categories that aim to quantify just how valuable and productive a player is individually and with respect to his team. The following rankings might surprise you.
Q: Which players have the Nuggets signed for 2013-14, and what are their total combined salaries?
A: Based on the latest reported offers, the Nuggets have $60.3 million dedicated to 13 players: Lawson, A. Miller, Foye, Fournier, Hamilton, Gallinari, Chandler, Q. Miller, Faried, Hickson, Arthur, McGee, and Randolph. (Foye and Hickson cannot officially be signed until July 10.) The salary cap is $58.6 million.
Q: Can the Nuggets still sign players even though they're over the cap?
As the reaction here at Roundball Mining Company and towards me on Twitter has trickled in surrounding the loss of Andre Iguodala a general consensus seems to be forming that the move isn't that big a deal for the Nuggets in the 2014 season.
The explanations seem to be centering around two things, that Iguodala didn't shoot well last season, and that he turned the ball over a lot.
Now both of those things are true and they both hurt the Nuggets at points this season but Iguodala did plenty this season to help the Nuggets, and those things are going to be very difficult to replace.
Yesterday I wrote about the previous year in Nuggets basketball, and ended by noting the challenge facing Tim Connelly and Brian Shaw following such a wild season. Here are some issues from the previous year that they will have to deal with going forward:
A look at the rollercoaster year of Nuggets basketball
Hopes were high for the Nuggets at the end of the 2012 offseason, with some analysts predicting up to 59 wins and a top two playoff seed. Masai Ujiri had acquired Olympic gold medalist and star defender Andre Iguodala in a trade, and extended Ty Lawson and JaVale McGee with long-term contracts. He surrounded the team's young core with veteran Andre Miller and cheap talent like Anthony Randolph and Evan Fournier.
But a difficult early schedule loomed. The Nuggets would play 22 of their first 32 games on the road, including 8 sets of back-to-back games. By the end of November, the team had a pair of four game winning streaks sandwiched in between three losing streaks of three games each, including worrying losses to the lowly Suns and Magic.
On Monday morning it was revealed that Tim Connelly, former assistant general manager of the New Orleans Hornets, would be the Denver Nuggets' new Vice President of Basketball Operations. Not much is known about Connelly at this time in terms of his abilities. Those talents can only be revealed after he has assumed his (somewhat titular) GM position in Denver and made moves that can be analyzed. Here is what we do know about his background…
A lot's happened in the last 24 hours surrounding Denver Nuggets. George Karl has been making the rounds with the Denver media sharing what he calls "his side of the story," in regards to his dismissal as Nuggets head coach last week. Meanwhile, Danilo Gallinari claims his knee was never as bad as we all thought, and Andre Iguodala… well, yeah…
I can't lie. I've thought about writing this article for years. Years. After each futile, heartless, disappointing exit in the first round of the playoffs, I was so ready to write this article that I couldn't sleep. This year was no different. This year I wanted it just as bad as I have for the last several years. And yet, here it is, less than a week since Karl was let go, and I'm not sure I even want to write it anymore.
Masai Ujiri leaving the Denver Nuggets has the potential to be one of the most devastating franchise decisions the Kroenke family has ever made. Conversely, the Nuggets might hire the next Masai Ujiri and be just fine. Either way, the decision to let him speak with the Raptors and ultimately sign with his former Canadian squad said something about the Nuggets as a franchise. It said something about the Kroenkes and it said something about the order of the Nuggets' priorities. Our writers have a few ideas about what that something is, which we've laid out below in our latest Roundball Roundtable.


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Kaplan University marks its third consecutive year as the official education partner of the annual Techonomy Conference being held November 11-13 in Tucson, Arizona. Leaders from Kaplan will be in attendance to join the discussion around emerging trends and how today's student can plan for success in a global, digitized society.
This year, through its new KAPx interactive platform, Kaplan is streaming live all plenary sessions of the conference along with providing real-time Twitter updates of the event. Additionally, the University will conduct special interviews as part of its Visionary Voices webinar series with executives from Citi Ventures, MIT Center for Digital Business, Microsoft, EMC, Carnegie Mellon, Center for Large Scale Innovation, International Game Technology, Mashable, TIBCO, and Jive Software. These interviews will be archived and made available to students and the general public on the University's website and social media channels.
"As a higher education leader in the continued transformation of learning going digital, Kaplan University is excited to be a part of the 2012 Techonomy Conference," said Kaplan, Inc. Chief Information Officer Edward Hanapole. "The exchange of ideas from leaders representing the effective and innovative use of technologies to improve their operations and services as well as how technology may impact our economy and new fields of growth will help prepare our students for success in an increasingly competitive employment market."
Hanapole will be a guest panelist at this year's Techonomy education session, which asks the question, "Is This How the World Gets Educated?"
Founded by journalist and best-selling author David Kirkpatrick, the conference was created to gather global leaders in technology, education, economics, and business to share insight about technology's expansion and how it is transforming the world.
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Kaplan University offers a different school of thought for higher education. It strives to help adult students unlock their talent by providing a practical, student-centered education that prepares them for careers in some of the fastest-growing industries. The University, which has its main campus in Davenport, Iowa, and its headquarters in Chicago, is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (www.ncahlc.org) and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Kaplan University serves nearly 50,000 online and campus-based students. The University has 11 campuses in Iowa, Nebraska, Maryland and Maine, and Kaplan University Learning Center in Maryland, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Florida.
Kaplan University is one of Kaplan, Inc.'s higher education institutions, which serve approximately 73,000 students online and approximately 70 campus-based schools across the United States. Kaplan's higher education schools offer a spectrum of academic opportunities, from certificates and diplomas to graduate and professional degrees, including a juris doctor degree. Kaplan, Inc. is a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. It is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), and its largest division. For more information, visit http://www.kaplanuniversity.edu today.
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Kaplan Inc.'s new KAPx™ learning platform (www.kapx.net) provides for student-instructor interaction with live feedback tools in an online "hangout" format, which can be used to engage participants across the country or around the world. KAPx™ is designed to promote student success and includes such features as allowing the presenter to remotely control the view that participants see in their course materials. The platform allows the presenter to webcast the sessions live, leveraging YouTube and Google+ Hangouts. It also permits participants to sign up in advance and allows the presenter to capture user data. Other functionalities include: real-time polling; question-and-answer sessions; and real-time chat between speakers and participants.
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The Techonomy conference is organized by Techonomy Media Inc. (www.techonomy.com). It brings together invited global leaders to explore how technology and innovation can accelerate progress in business and society. Techonomy is not a tech conference. It's a conference about how tech is changing everything else. The 2011 event takes place November 13-15 at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Hotel near Tucson, Arizona. Attendees will include Marc Benioff, Jack Dorsey, Sean Parker, Jim Breyer, Steve Case, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dan Hesse, Marissa Mayer, Craig Mundie and Hamadoun Toure. Sponsors and partners include HP, Forbes, Ashoka, Citi, FedEx, Haworth, Hill & Knowlton, Kaplan University, McKinsey & Co., QlikView, Qualcomm, RightNow, RSA, Salesforce.com and Tibco. For more information visit www.techonomy.com. Techonomy Media also creates and publishes content there and at www.forbes/techonomy.com.
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- Tuesday, April 04, 2000
Lest you think Supermom is JUST a myth. Im going to challenge you in this article that you too, can be Supermom. I actually had a friend of mine make me a Supermom cape. It is made with a colorful material with little m & ms all over it. The big S is made out of measuring tape material. The ties are real cloth measuring tapes. You may think it odd to have a cape with measuring tapes on it, but I find it fitting.
What is the measure of Supermom? How can I possibly obtain the lofty goals of Supermom? Well, you could write down your list of Supermom qualities and check them off as you go. Or you could look to Supermom to tell you. I have chosen the letters of Supermom to help me in my quest. First I would like to mention that all superheroes were NOTHING without their source. I will challenge you that you CAN be Supermom!
The letter S stands for strength. Please read the following verses. Romans 5:6, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 8:2, and Psalm 27:1.
You will find a prevailing theme among these verses. That theme is that in our weakness, HE is our strength. So you see, God has the S covered.
Consider the U which stands for unity. What mother doesnt want children who are unified? In fact, when our children are not in unity with one another, we often feel like we are the failures. Ah, but God can also cover the U. Read Ephesians 4:1-4 and Psalm 133:1. In fact, go ahead and spray paint Psalm 133:1 on the ceilings of all your childrens bedrooms. It says, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." While youre in Ephesians, go ahead and read the whole chapter. Verse 13 in chapter 4 states, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
P is for Patience. Read Luke 8:15, James 1:2-4, and finally Romans 15:4-6. God shows me that HE is the one who gives me my Supermom abilities. He is the God of patience. He can overcome where I fail.
E stands for Endurance. Who do you think gives us the ability to endure? Read Hebrews 10:36-38 and 12:1-2. I used to have a little plaque that said, Lord help me endure my blessings. After awhile I realized that I didnt just want to endure them, I wanted to RUN with endurance for them.
I am going to digress from the mom part of Supermom for a minute. We all know that Supermom is also Radiant. R is Radiant. Can God even help us to be radiant? YES! Psalms 34:5 tells us the Lord is our source of radiance.
Now that we have seen that God can make us Super. Lets move on to Mom.
The first M in Mom is for Mercy. What mom does not need to have an extra measure of mercy? Read Psalms 14:13, Luke 10:37 and 2 Corinthians 4:1. After reading those, please read Psalms 130:7. Once again, it shows that for us to be Supermom, we must rely on the Lord for our mercy.
The O stands for Obedience. As mommies, one of our biggest goals is that of obedience. We must train our children to be obedient and we must also work at obedience ourselves. The verses for Obedience are 1 Samuel 15:22, Psalms 18:44, and Romans 5:19. Once again, God has made a way for us to fulfill the mandate of obedience.
The final M stands for Moments. It stands for the moments in our lives that are permanently etched in the hearts of our children. The final M tells me that I can create in my childrens lives moments that will last forever. You will see in 2 Corinthians 4:17 and Job 34:20 that we dont know how long our time is here with our children. We must be ever so willing to create moments with our children that will have a lasting weight in glory.
As with all Superheroes there is a villain. God has even given us the abilities to thwart the villain. Read 2 Cor 10:4-5 and you will see how you too can thwart the villain.
Finally, dear friends, we are all worthy to wear the cape of Supermom because we have turned to God. Each day and each night, we cry out to Him in our weakness. It is in that moment of weakness that He slips on us the Supermom cape. The cape that says, I am nothing without God. But with HIM as my source of strength, unity, patience, endurance, radiance, mercy, and obedience in all the moments of our lives, I can wear the cape of Supermomdom with honor.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Aviation and AAI Corporation, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Army performed the first "proof of concept" flight demonstrations of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) controlled with a GE Flight Management System (FMS) certified for use in commercial manned aircraft. These flights used the AAI Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System controlled by the GE Aviation FMS as part of the UAS FAA & Industry Team (UFIT) Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA) to demonstrate an approach for the safe integration of UAS into the National Airspace System (NAS) as part of the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System Program.
"The Shadow and the U.S. Army will benefit by using a derivative of this commercial-certified flight management system to provide precise, time-based navigation capability," said Dr. Gerry Vossler, vice president of Strategic Initiatives for GE Aviation Systems. "Continued development of this technology approach offers a path to 4DT UAS operations in NextGen."
The first flight took off at 2:50 p.m. CST on Thursday, December 3rd at the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal Airfield This initial flight lasted 45 minutes and demonstrated both lateral and vertical control of the Shadow 200 UAS coupled with the GE FMS. On Friday, December 4th, a 3 hour demonstration was conducted that allowed for more rigorous testing of the FMS controlled Shadow 200. The results provide a variety of operational and technical assessments to demonstrate the ability to integrate a certified flight management capability into existing U.S. military UAS to support operations in national airspace.
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