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Taylor Phinney of the BMC Racing Team held onto the overall lead Sunday at the Giro d'Italia but not before some nervous moments after he crashed in the final 10 kilometers.
Chase Back After Crash
Phinney suffered only minor scrapes to his right side in the the crash with 8.3 kilometers left in the 206 km race. "I just found myself on the ground, having touched wheels and lost balance," he said. "Then I couldn't get my chain back on. So I kind of made a second prologue effort. I was quite scared there for a second that I was going to lose the jersey." With the help of teammates Danilo Wyss and Alessandro Ballan, the former U.S. national time trial champion mounted a furious chase to regain the peloton, which was more than half a minute ahead. He regained contact with the back of the field with 4.6 km to go. "I had a lot of adrenaline going," he said. "You can't really give a sigh of relief once you get to the back of the pack because there could be splits in it. Then there was that crash with 500 meters to go."
Hushovd Seventh
Phinney was not involved in a crash on the final turn and neither was BMC Racing Team's Thor Hushovd, who made a bid for the stage win. World road champion Mark Cavendish (Sky Procycling) got the victory as Hushovd finished seventh. Assistant Director Max Sciandri said the BMC Racing Team performed well in defense of Phinney, the youngest rider (21 years old) to lead the Giro since the late Laurent Fignon in 1982. "The team did a great job and seventh place for Thor is a confidence boost for him after a bit of bad luck so far this year," Sciandri said. "Taylor's in pink, so we're happy."
Completed post-race interviews are available on the BMC Racing Team AudioLine.

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The BMC Racing Team was present in every major move in Sunday's Vattenfall Cyclassics, capped by Danilo Wyss's 16th place finish in the 245.9-kilometer race in Hamburg, Germany.
Present In Every Move
BMC Racing Team's Marco Pinotti did the majority of the work in a seven-man breakaway that formed after an initial three-man move was reeled in with 60 km to go. When his group was caught 27 km from the finsih, Manuel Quinziato and Greg Van Avermaet got into a small move that enjoyed 10 km of freedom. Van Avermaet was not deterred, though, and battled his way back to the front the final time up the climb of the Waseberg. "Greg tried something in the end but Vattenfall is mostly a sprint, with many teams working to make sure it ends in a sprint," BMC Racing Team Assistant Director Rik Verbrugghe said. Wyss said his work to help Van Avermaet sapped his strength for the dash to the finish, which was won by Arnaud Demare (FDJ-BigMat). "I was helping Greg a bit before the climb, especially when he went in the move with Manuel Quinziato so I didn't have that much energy left for the sprint," Wyss said.
Soigneur Filip Sercu hands up an Elite/Gunz bottle to Danilo Wyss during the more than six-hour race. (BMC Racing Team photo.)


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But then the Army called you and stopped all that fun.
DF: Yes
JM: Tell me what happened. Where did you go?
DF: Well, I went to Fresno. We were inducted there. Actually I was inducted with a bunch of young men from California because that's where I enlisted in Glendale. And so there were several hundred of us inducted at the same time, and almost all of them were from California. I would say we only spent a week or two in Fresno, and then they shipped us out to other places for basic training.
I was sent to what was called Kearns, Utah. It's just outside Salt Lake City on the salt flats there. It was a desolate place, but that's where I went for my basic training.
I had a definite advantage over most of these California boys. Two things: One is I had had some hardworking jobs up here, so physically I was in pretty good shape. I'd worked hard. Second thing was, McNary is at 7,300 feet altitude, and they came from sea level and they went to Salt Lake City, which is near 5,000 feet, and they suffered. It was very strenuous. If I hadn't been in good shape and already acclimated to altitude it would have been a painful experience, but I got along pretty good.
Then I was sent from there to Denver and I was at Lowry Airfield, which still exists, but I don't think it's very active anymore. There I took what they called armament school. You were trained in the handling a processing of bombs and machine guns and cannons and stuff like that. It was armament type school, and I had about three months there. I learned a great deal there. That was a school that taught you quite a bit.
I left there and went to Las Vegas, Nevada. And there I entered gunnery school, and that was aerial gunnery. We fired machine guns while airborne, learned how to supposedly hit targets, which I doubt if we ever became very proficient.
JM: Not like nowadays.
DF: But there was a period of time when I was flying in gunnery school on B-17s. Now I didn't go to war in B-17s, but we were in B-17s. They had a chin turret, if you know what that is. It's a turret that's right on the front of the nose of the plane and you could fire ahead of you. That's called a chin turret.
After we'd do our required gunnery runs in that Nevada desert. It was a desolate area then. You'd go over the mountains away from the city there and the only thing out there was occasionally a stray cow. Well, the pilot would get right down on the ground. We'd be 30 feet off the ground, you'd run along and there was a cow, and boy we'd just let her go!
JM: Oh my gosh! I'll bet the ranchers loved you.
DF: I don't think they realized too much about what was going on. This was such a desolate area. They probably never rounded up those anyway. But anyway, we had a lot of fun.
JM: Well, it's the practice.
DF: Yeah, it was more practice.
And I left there, it would have been January of '44, I don't remember exactly, and went to Barksdale Air Field in Shreveport, Louisiana. There we were assigned to the planes that we would be flying.
I had become classified as what they called a Flight Engineer. And all that is in that day and time was really, you were trained as a mechanic but you flew with the plane in case there was anything you could do when there was a problem. But airborne, there was such a little bit you could do that you didn't practice much mechanical work.
I was assigned to what was classed as a Martin B-26. It was a twin-engine, medium-level bomber that didn't fly high altitudes. We didn't carry oxygen, but we flew from 12,000 to 15,000 feet. We made up crews there. They were six-man crews. We were assigned to a crew at that time. It was the first time I met the people that I would spend the rest of the war with.
JM: You stayed together the rest of the war.
DF: Yeah, until we came home. We left Barksdale and went to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and there we did just flight training, formation, navigation, and all the things to make us more proficient in the air. We spent a couple of months there, and then in the summer of '44 we went to Europe. I spent the first four missions; I believe it was, in England. I flew the English Channel, which is a terrible experience.
JM: Why was that?
DF: There were so many planes that went down in the English Channel, and it was such frigid water that you would not live very long.
JM: They were being shot down or?
DF: They would be damaged or shot down, yes. Or damaged and they couldn't make it all the way back to England. And you had to cross that strip of water and you knew you didn't have a chance if anything happened to you. Of course, there were still German fighters in France at that time, so you were subject to being shot down.
But after four missions, D-Day occurred and shortly after that, we moved to France to an airfield north of Paris. We were there through the rest of the summer and winter. In the next spring, the war in Europe was over, but during that period of time I flew 43 missions over Germany.
JM: So, you'd leave France, fly over Germany and bomb? Were you bombing?
DF: Yes, we were bombing. We dropped bombs. We were considered a tactical application in that we didn't saturate bombs, we were supposed to identify targets and knock those targets out. Maybe even support ground troops at times when they were having trouble. But it was considered a tactical air force.
We had a squadron and a group. A group was 4 squadrons. We were assigned to a squadron, and you never knew if you were going to be assigned to the same squadron as someone else you knew.
JM: What did you think of living in France?
DF: After a few months we began to get some passes, and they were always to Paris, so I did spend some time in Paris. At that time the people were very cordial, very friendly. They were still reeling from being occupied by Germans for several years and they were so tickled to see the Americans that they would do anything for you. So we enjoyed a period of good time there.
The following spring, our outfit was moved to Belgium because the targets we were hitting were in Northern Germany, and that was closer to it, a couple hundred miles closer than where we were flying from. And that helped us. So we flew our last few missions before the War was over out of Louvain, Belgium.
After the War was over, I was moved to a base in Holland. That was actually a processing field to get us processed to get us home.
JM: So you were just going north, north, north!
DF: Yes, and I don't remember the name of that town.
To understand the magnitude of what was going on there. The American military had 16 million men in uniform at that time. Sixteen million! Today if we have 200,000 we think that's a big standing army. Of course, wars are different now. I understand that. But they had probably 2 or 3 million men in Europe that they had to process and put on boats and ship home.
Now, I came home. I left Antwerp, Holland and came home on what they call a Liberty ship. It was a small cargo freighter and their concession to comfort to bring us home was laying wooden boards over the steel deck. And that was our beds.
JM: My first question is, you flew over there, why didn't you fly back?
DF: Well, right after the war they told us we would be flying back. But there was such a great flux occurring at that time, the orders you got today were probably rescinded tomorrow when something different was happening.
JM: You didn't take anything seriously then.
DF: You couldn't rely on it. But they finally decided, and I didn't learn this until some time after the War. There was about 900 B-26s in France. That's the plane we flew in. And they decided they served no usefulness, and they were of no value and they weren't worth flying home. So they put them in fields, put a dynamite charge in each one of them, and blew them up!
JM: Oh, that's incredible.
DF: Yes
JM: Millions of dollars
DF: Oh yes. But they were so designed to fight a war that they were not practical for anything else.
JM: So they would have just come back and been mothballed somewhere.
DF: Yeah, uh hum. Our plane weighed about 16 tons. I think it was 32,000 pounds. It had twin-engines. Two engines each produced about 2,200 horsepower each, and it had some derogatory names because of that tendency not to want to leave the ground. It was very difficult to get airborne, but once it was airborne and you had your speed up it flew great. It flew almost like a fighter plane. We did real well. It was a good flying plane, but to land and take off, we probably lost more planes on the runway either landing or taking off than we lost in combat.
JM: That's not good.
DF: But you couldn't do anything else.
JM: Losing a plane loaded down with bombs is not good at all.
DF: Oh, it blew up occasionally, uh hum! We lived in a different world then.
JM: Yes, we did. So you came home on a Liberty ship.
DF: Yes, landed in Boston
JM: Lying on the ground
DF: On the decks, uh hum
JM: Stacked like cordwood
DF: Yeah, and actually the ships were so packed full of men, just bodies. You could be on 2 or 3 decks below the surface deck, and wherever you were assigned a space, you would go there about the time it got dark. You had to get in and get in your place because there were no aisles, no passageways. There were bodies everywhere. And if it were dark - no lights. If you went in there after dark, you walked on people and they didn't appreciate it. So you got in your place and laid down and you stayed there until daylight. But it only took us 10 days.
We landed at Baltimore. We only stayed there one day, I believe, and they put us on a train. And this train was another experience. It was made up of boxcars. There were no facilities other than that. And they spread straw on the decks of the boxcars for our comfort, and we rode that train five days and nights from Baltimore to Los Angeles. And the railroads were so congested that you couldn't just get on a rail and go. The first two days we were in Canada. They routed us around that way.
JM: From Maryland to Canada?
DF: Yeah, and we came back in at Detroit or somewhere along there in the United States and went from there almost due south to El Paso. And then from El Paso we went through Tucson and Phoenix and Los Angeles.
JM: Did you stop along the way and soldiers were jumping off?
DF: No, they didn't.
JM: Oh, they had to go and be . . .
DF: They had to go to their depot that would check them out.
JM: Oh, I see. So you had to go all the way back to California?
DF: Yes
JM: Because that's where you joined.
DF: That's where I joined. I was discharged at Fort McArthur, in Los Angeles. The Army considered it their responsibility to furnish us transportation after we were discharged, and since I enlisted in the Los Angeles area they gave me like $1.65 for bus fare to downtown Los Angeles!
JM: Whoopie!
DF: So, I got on a train there and rode it to Holbrook, and my folks met me in Holbrook and I came back to McNary. That's not true! I came to Winslow. I got off the train in Winslow, La Posada.
JM: La Posada! So your folks met you at the La Posada, but it wasn't a restaurant then.
DF: Well, yes it was!
JM: Oh, it was!
DF: Yes! It was built in the 1920s and that was a famous place to eat and famous people stayed there. That's where I got off the railroad. My parents had moved from McNary to Winslow by that time, so when I came home I went to Winslow. And about a year later, I had met Maxine.
JM: Is she from Winslow?
DF: Yeah, she was from Winslow and we both went to the Baptist Church, and we got married just a year later.
JM: So now you lived in Winslow.
DF: We lived in Winslow until 1949, and actually I got a chance at a job back in McNary that I thought was an improvement. It turned out that wasn't true, but I didn't know it at the time. So, we moved to McNary and lived there just about a year. Maxine and I were married and we had two small children at that time and we lived in McNary. That's what brought us to Show Low.
When I lost my job in McNary, the Company owned all the housing and there was a housing shortage, so if you were not gainfully employed you were evicted almost immediately. So we left McNary destitute. We did own a car and a few pieces of furniture, but nothing else, and virtually no money.
We made it as far as Show Low. We stopped here. We rented a motel cabin in downtown Show Low. It's about where the New Yorker is now. There was a bunch of old wooden cabins there, and we rented one of those to live in for a while. I expected to be moving on to wherever I could find some work. I didn't have a job and didn't have anything to do. It was very hard to find a job then because these 16 million men were still trying to get back into the economy and. . .
JM: And Rosie the Riveter had taken the jobs.
DF: Lots of jobs, uh huh. They were a great benefit during the war, but after the war it just complicated the matter. Women in general, they never did really return to the home again like it had been before, to raising families and taking care of kids and establishing a household. They were interested in working and making their own money and being independent. I don't know that I criticize them for that, but it was a radical change in that society in that day. So jobs were hard to come by, anything that you could support a family on.
I eventually, without finding a job, set up a power saw shop, gasoline powered chainsaws had just come on the market a year or two before that. So I set up a shop here and I sold power saws to the loggers and I repaired and maintained them. I did that for a couple of years. I almost worked myself to death, but we made good money. That was the first time I ever really made any money.
JM: There was a definite need around here because that was the main industry wasn't it?
DF: Yes, that was the industry. We had a sawmill here in Show Low, and the loggers were working all over the country. Luckily I had become a dealer for one of the better saws at that time. That was the McCullough saw. I sold lots of them.
JM: And you knew people because of being in the industry.
DF: Yes, I knew quite a few of the loggers and the people up in this area, but I also sold saws all the way as far as, almost to Payson. Along the Rim there were a lot of loggers there.
JM: Standard, was the Standard running then?
DF: Standard was close to Pinedale. Yes, so sold saws in there.
JM: Was Maverick going then?
DF: No, not at the end of the war. I think that they had closed it down by then. It was before.
JM: And was there a sawmill down in Hop Canyon?
DF: Yeah. I also sold saws over into New Mexico. I covered the area.
JM: And you had to drive out to the camps?
DF: I'd find these camps, or if sawyers lived in a town, I'd get up real early in the morning, 3 or 4 o'clock. I had my car. I had an old Plymouth coupe which had a long turtle deck in the back, and I could put 5 saws in there. I'd drive to wherever these men lived, and then followed them into the mountains because once they had disappeared I couldn't find them again. I'd follow them in and then sold saws to them.
It was very interesting. I developed a technique that turned out to be very fruitful. Most of the time, when I'd drive up to a bunch of these loggers in the woods, they didn't know me, so we were strangers. They looked at you with a questioning look, "What are you doing here and what do you want?" Well, I would get out and open up the trunk of my car and set these bright, shiny yellow saws out on the ground there.
JM: And they knew instantly!
DF: And they knew instantly! Yes! They picked up their saws, they'd had their cup of coffee, they'd built a fire, and they went off into the woods around where we were there and they started cutting logs. Well, by the middle of morning, they'd come in for a break and they gathered around the fire. And they'd left their saws out where they were cutting. They'd have coffee and of course, by then they would come over and look at my saws. They'd pick them up and they'd say, "Oh, those are too light. They wouldn't stand what we're doing here." And stuff like that. So, I developed a technique and I told each one of them. I said, "I'm going to spend the day here. You can take one of my saws and cut logs with it. You bring your old saw in here. I will tune it up and shorten your chain for you while you do that. And I'll be here all day." And I would say that in 4 out 5 cases, they never gave me my saw back.
JM: (Laughs) Did they have to buy these saws themselves?
DF: Oh yes, they had to buy them themselves. Remember now, this was in poor economic times and they were selling for $400. They were very expensive. That would be equivalent of maybe $1,000 - $1,200 today. They were very expensive.
JM: Well, how did they buy them? They didn't have the money on them.
DF: They made good money, some of them. No, they didn't have money on them, but they could give me a check, or I actually financed after being in business awhile. I began to finance them on six-months contracts. So I made the profit on the saw as well as got the interest on the money. But it worked out. I would occasionally lose a saw. A guy would default on it and disappear and I'd lose it, but as a whole it worked out very well.
After a couple of years I was worn down, worn out working 18-hour days, making good money. By then we had the third child. We had three children and we lived. Let's see if I can think how to tell you. Do you know where Pat's restaurant is, Pat's Place? Yeah. Across the highway, you turn down in there where the Senior Center is.
JM: Where City Hall is?
DF: Yeah, I lived down in there in that area. The old house is still there, and I built it.
JM: Oh, in your spare time! How did you do that?
DF: Well, in the first I didn't have much business and we had to have a place to live to get out of the tourist court, that two-room tourist court. That's a building. That house is another long story and I doubt if you want to get into that.
JM: Something you won't forget, huh?
DF: I bought the lot from Arlie Maxwell. He owned Maxwell House?
JM: Did he own those cabins too?
DF: No, he didn't. A man named Clifford Potts owned those cabins. We rented one from him, and he was an engineer with the Highway Department.
But I bought my lot that I built my house downtown from Arlie Maxwell, three hundred dollars for the lot. It didn't have water. It didn't have sewer. And I think that it didn't have power, but the electric company did bring in power for it. Another guy and I hand dug a trench about 300 feet to get a water line to my house.
JM: You were down there by yourself at that point.
DF: Yes, there was hardly anything down there.
JM: So you built this house yourself and put down the utilities and everything.
DF: The time I worked in Winslow before coming back up here, I had worked for a sawmill there. I knew these people quite well. We were considered friends, so I went down there.
In those days what they classed as #5 lumber, or low-grade lumber, there was no market for it. You couldn't sell it. The markets were pretty poor, so they had lots of this stacked up in their yard out there. I bought a semi-truck load of that lumber, low-grade lumber, for $300 and they hauled it up here for me and unloaded it down there on the lot.
Of course, I had no experience. I'd never been around a house being built, much less built one myself. But for the walls we poured a cement foundation, hand poured it. And then, I would lay a 2X6 flat on it and then another 2x6 flat on top of that. And just keep building them up and nailing nails down through them to hold them in place.
JM: Kind of like a log cabin?
DF: Well, kind of like, except it was 2x6's. And we got up 8 foot high to the top of the wall, for the walls. I had no idea how to put a roof on a house, so I made it a flattop house. And it's still down there, the flattop house.
JM: Oh, I'm going to have to go down there and look!
DF: We laid up those walls solid. And by then, I was in the power saw business. When we got all through, I took a chalk line and marked out where the doors and windows were supposed to be, took the saw and rammed it through there and just cut them out! Knocked it out!
JM: Poor Maxine!
DF: Actually, it was a nice house! It was better than anything we'd ever had! We put siding on the outside, redwood siding.
JM: No insulation?
DF: No. Of course you've got six-inches of solid wood, that's pretty good insulation, just laid flat on top of each other.
JM: Solid! That house is probably going to be there forever! Did it leak?
DF: No
JM: It didn't leak? Humm, very good. How big was it?
DF: It was, as I recall, 30 x 40 feet. We had three bedrooms in it and it was about 1,200 square feet.
JM: Oh, that's good!
DF: We put in a nice kitchen and my wife liked that. We got along real good there. By the time we left there we had 5 children.
JM: Five children, wow! That's great. So you were there awhile.
DF: Couple of years.
JM: Couple of years?
DF: Three years, maybe
In 1956, when I got out of the power saw business I went into the insurance and real estate business. And how I got there is a long story, but eventually I ended up there. I'll say the Lord directed my path.
Of course, I couldn't make much money as we were about to starve to death, except that I'd saved up some money from the power saw days, we couldn't have made it.
I decided the only way I could make it was to start developing land. We came out here to the subdivision just across the street from the Little League Ballpark in the park out here? That little subdivision there, I bought ten acres of ground in there. There wasn't even a road to it. You drove through what's now the park to get to it. You turn off just past Safeway.
JM: On Owens?
DF: Yeah, just past Safeway, and it's on the right down there just opposite the tennis court and the Little League Ballpark. So we lived there for several years and I built a home there, a much nicer home and much bigger. It must been close . . .
JM: You built it yourself?
DF: I had it built in that case. The first one I built, but we hired a man. I was busy enough then with real estate development and insurance business that I hired a couple of men that I knew. And they did a much better job than I could have. We built a two-story house. We must have had about 2,000 square feet in it. Yeah, it was nice and we enjoyed it there.
Eventually I came over and bought 30 acres in this area, developed this subdivision. That was in the late '50s. We moved over here. We moved into this house in 1961. So actually our fortunes dramatically improved over a period of years here, about 10 years.
JM: Rapid years here. And Show Low was growing too.
DF: It hadn't begun to have the boom that we have seen in recent years, but yes, there was constant improvement. In 1953 I was selected as one of the men by the Board of Supervisors from the County to form a committee to incorporate Show Low. I happened to be on that committee.
JM: How many were on that committee?
DF: Five
JM: Do you remember who all they were?
DF: I couldn't tell you. I could tell you some of them. There was Louis Reidhead, Lamar Nikolaus
JM: Okay, he had Nick's grocery
DF: Yes, Hal Butler
JM: He was with FATCO.
DF: He had his own trucking company then.
JM: Okay, he was into the trucking company then.
DF: Yeah, but later he went to FATCO. Yeah, and so we've known each other for many, many years. We were on the first committee and we did a little promotion work and had an election, an incorporation election here in Show Low. The people voted for it, and then the County appointed the same people that were on the committee as the first City Council. I was on the first City Council from 1953 to '56. Actually, we were appointed for one year and then elected for two. Show Low was struggling to become self-sufficient and striving.
One of the things that prompted people to vote for incorporation was our water system was so unsatisfactory, to put it mildly. They got water out of the irrigation ditch.
JM: Yes! Yes! They were still drinking out of that irrigation ditch!
DF: That's right! Even after we moved here. After we became a city, actually, probably in the first or second year, the Council asked me to negotiate with the owner of the water system and buy his franchise so that it could become a city-owned system. And so, we did. The man's name was Joe West.
So about the system, we paid him $105, 000 for all of his system, the wells, the tanks and his franchise. Of course, that was a fortune in those days. And many people in town thought that I got paid off to pay him that much for the water company. And I was accused of taking a bribe. It wasn't true, but we lived through that. It was imperative that we get that water company for the City's benefit.
Maybe it was more that it was worth, I don't know. But anyway, we needed it badly. He owned a motel where Hatch Motors is now, called Palace Motel. He sold it and left town.
JM: Oh he did. Hal Butler told me that he thought another reason why they needed to be incorporated was for animal control.
DF: Animal control was an issue, although the early families, the patriarchal families, they fought that tooth and nail because in the morning they'd let their cows out and they grazed the ditches around town and come back at night.
JM: Did they have to cross the Deuce of Clubs? They had a community pasture before, that all the little boys would have to take their cattle across the Deuce.
DF: Put them in the gate. That was across the creek. Yeah, that's true. That's after we eliminated them from grazing the ditches.
JM: And everybody had their little barns.
DF: Yeah, in town.
JM: In town
DF: And the cows were brought in every night and milked.
JM: Yes, and then here comes the highway, Highway 60.
DF: Yeah, then they built the bridge across the creek and made Highway 60, went on top of the hill and then on to Snowflake. That did away with this Old Linden Road out to Pinedale. And the road that's now from Pinedale to Taylor? That was part of that highway.
JM: It's a sign of a town growing up when the main street becomes an interstate highway. That Highway 60 goes from California to Virginia.
DF: That's correct. In those early days we were an active member of the U.S. 60 Highway Association that had its headquarters in Pampa. I believe it was, Pampa, Oklahoma, some little town. I think that was right. P A M P A, Pampa. And we were active in that and once or twice they had their annual conventions for Highway 60 Association in Show Low here.
JM: Did they?
DF: Yes, they welcome anybody that would join their association, give them a little money and actively promote the Highway.
JM: Oh, that's what it was, for promotion?
DF: Promotion, yeah. We incorporated in '53. Right after we incorporated we had to have an official census taken to get on the tax roll.
And for that first few months, maybe as much as a year, we had virtually no income. And we had taken over police and road maintenance and water and all of this stuff and no income to speak of. I can recall that there were times. We bought our grader, but we bought it on a long-time contract. We bought a grader but there were times when we could not roust up enough money to fill its tanks with fuel so they could go grade the roads.
JM: Navajo County just let you go?
DF: Well, I think politically they had to. Once we incorporated they were not responsible for us, and if they came in and did too much here. I'm softening this a little because they were good to us. They helped us in many ways, but it was a political problem to come in here and do too much because the people of the County would say, "Hey, they're incorporated and we're paying for their maintenance." So you had to be careful what was done. They were very beneficial and I won't criticize them at all.
JM: We had a sheriff?
DF: Deputy Sheriff lived here. He continued to live here. And we had a Constable, a county employee. There was a Deputy Sheriff at Pinetop, I believe, but I don't remember who that was. Jim Stock was the Deputy Sheriff here in Show Low for a long time, yeah.
JM: Oh he was? I know he was the
DF: Fire Chief, yeah
JM: And it was volunteer for a . . .
DF: I was on the Fire Board, not on the Fire Department. On the Board, the political board that ran it when Jim Stock was Chief, so I had a lot of interaction with Jim Stock. We were buying fire trucks and upgrading equipment and stuff like that, but it was a volunteer fire department.
We had to take a census. It had to be an official census, which meant that the U.S. Bureau of Statistics had to conduct it. And so we had to schedule it months ahead of time. And they sent men here from Washington D.C. to train people to go out and take the census and oversee it and then give us an official statement of how many people lived within the City of Show Low. And as I recall the number was approximately 760. And I accused them at that time of counting some dogs!
JM: Didn't think there was that many, huh? Wow!
DF: But we were incorporated and, probably by the end of the first year, we were on the State tax rolls then, and you get a share of the sales tax, a share of the property taxes, share of the gasoline taxes. All that is apportioned out to incorporated cities and counties. So we began to get money and things just improved from then on.
JM: You were able to hire people and get going on starting to form a town.
DF: But it was a struggle to get started.
JM: Probably another thing that would have been controversial was when you started Planning and Zoning, where you're zoning district areas for housing or businesses.
DF: That was very controversial. We live in a very conservative area. I don't know what their political affiliations were or are today, but they are very conservative. And when you start telling people what they can do with their own property, you've got war on your hands.
JM: A lot of these people have 160-acre homesteads.
DF: Yes, and you tell them what they can do with that, and what they can't do with it. Their homes in town and they want to sell them and if they don't come up to code anymore. This all happened when I was on the City Council as Mayor the second time. I was Mayor from '72 to '76.
JM: That was in the '70s then.
DF: Yes, Planning and Zoning was coming of age at that time, and I remember when we had federal people come here and talk to us as a Council. And they told us that we had to adopt Planning and Zoning. It was no longer an option. I think in the early 70s that was actually instituted. They forced us to adopt Planning and Zoning. They said, "If you don't do it, we're coming in here and doing it for you and you'll be bound by what we do. If you want control of it, you do it."
JM: Why was that so important to them?
DF: The federal government said we were going to start upgrading our cities and our towns by planning and zoning. The environmentalists, they were behind that movement.
JM: Because even in the late '50s there were sawmills right here in downtown.
DF: Yes, of course, anything that was here was "grandfathered" anyway.
JM: That was our industry. I mean we don't have a real industry here now, except for tourism.
DF: That's right. And over the years we have switched from a lumber society to a tourist society, services.
JM: I know the timber industry kind of died up on its own, partly because of environmental issues.
DF: Yes, that's what destroyed them.
JM: When McNary closed, that probably had an impact on the whole White Mountains.
DF: It did! The whole area was fed by the payroll from McNary. Economically, it was a disaster.
JM: Whiteriver still has that FATCO going, but that's just for the Indians.
DF: In the earlier years, that didn't exist. See, that's one reason why McNary went out of business. The Indians decided to build their own sawmill, probably in the '70s, I'm not sure when, but whenever they built it down there. The timber contracts began to run out for McNary where they could log timber off of the Reservation. They wouldn't renew them again.
JM: McNary is on the Reservation.
DF: Yes, that's right. It's on the Fort Apache Reservation. They suddenly we're having to haul logs, some as far as New Mexico to keep this mill going. It wasn't economical, so when the sawmill burned that was the straw that broke the camel's back. They wouldn't come in and rebuild it.
JM: And that was in the '70s, wasn't it?
DF: I think it might have been, yeah. I don't remember the exact year. Then they went to Eager and built a mill in Eager because it was closer to their timber supply.
JM: So, anyway, there was the timber industry and now we're tourism.
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Computers in the Classroom
In the September/October 2007 issue of Principal magazine, authors Richard P. Lipka and Thomas M. Brinthaupt argue in their Speaking Out article that schools should think twice before implementing laptops—or other technology—in the classroom. The authors describe the downside of introducing technology into schools, such as hidden costs, operational malfunctions, and managing students' differing technological knowledge.
What problems has your school faced in integrating computers and other emerging technology in classrooms? Do they do more harm than good to the school in the long run?
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In Michigan, one school district has implemented a "pay to plug" policy and another district is considering doing the same, which would require teachers and other school staff to pay a fee for plugging in personal desk clocks, lamps, fans, and other electronic devices to help offset rising electricity costs. According to a Detroit Free Press article, Grosse Pointe Public Schools initiated the measure last spring, while Chippewa Valley Public Schools is deciding whether it should too, beginning as soon as this fall.
Budget cuts and subsequent tight budgets are the driving forces behind this policy, which is estimated to offset or save each district between $25,000 and $45,000 per year in electric costs.
The Grosse Pointe school district put the same policy into practice a few years ago but rescinded it after strong negative reactions. However, the district is willing to try again.
NCLB Changes Curriculum and Instruction
The Center for Education Policy released a report this week that analyzes the changes in curriculum and instruction time since the enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). "Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era" finds that since the enactment of NCLB, 62 percent of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on subjects that are tested for accountability, while 44 percent of school districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch, or recess.
Read the full report to learn about the other findings and recommendations, which include staggering requirements to include tests in other academic subjects.
Putting PE to the Test
Texas just added a new exam to its curriculum—a fitness test for all students in grades 3-12. The Dallas Morning News reported that starting next year, students will be measured on aerobic endurance, body fat, flexibility, and muscle strength. To pass, students must score better than seven out of 10 peers in their age and sex group. Students who fail, however, will not be penalized. Texas education officials say the test results will help guide state research into possible links among physical health and student achievement, school attendance, and discipline problems.
In many schools across the country, PE has taken a back seat to such academic subjects as reading, math, and science. But as more and more children nationwide are identified as overweight or obese, Texas will bring PE more to the forefront and will become the first state to comprehensively gauge students' physical health.
The first round of tests will be next spring. We'll have to wait and see what the final score is, and whether other states will follow suit.
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School is out, and now is the time for reflection. Instead of only gauging the success of the teaching and learning going on in your schools, also think about all the funny episodes that occurred this year. Chances are that you will soon be laughing out loud.
Share your funny stories with fellow principals by submitting humorous anecdotes about school life for publication in Principal magazine. Include your full name, title, and address and send your favorite stories to firstname.lastname@example.com. If your story is published, we'll send you a copy of the magazine and a pencil that says "I'm a funny principal!"
New Team in Place
July 1 marked the beginning of the 2007-2008 term for NAESP's newly elected board members. New president Mary Kay Sommers of Fort Collins, Colorado, will lead the team, which includes Nancy Davenport as president-elect, and newcomers Linda Chamberlin as Zone 3 director, J. Edward Pollard Jr. as Zone 4 director, Juli Mary Kwikkel as Zone 6 director, and Mark Terry as the Foundation director for middle-level schools. We're excited to have these accomplished principals on the NAESP Board of Directors and look forward to what they have in store for the next three years.
A Future of Global Collaboration and Project-Based Learning
NAESP members and staff continue to revisit the strategic issues introduced in the Vision 2021 process—including the need to prepare students to be global citizens. Rich Datz, general manager of Education World, a Web site that offers practical information for teachers and administrators, thinks that schools will soon follow the lead of corporations that routinely learn in global, project-based teams. Datz is following the expansion of project-based work among international companies and predicts that in six to 10 years it should also be common for principals, teachers, and students to use global virtual networks to collaborate in learning. For example, Datz finds that teachers already collaborate extensively in curriculum development.How schools prepare students to be global citizens is emerging as one of the top strategic issues in NAESP's Vision 2021 project. Principals will be leading schools that prepare students to be global citizens for an interconnected and collaborative world. When today's elementary school students join the global workforce, they will need to be experienced in working with teams that span geographic boundaries.
Datz recommends that principals start preparing students for global collaboration by creating projects with other schools within the district. The same skills and technologies, once developed, can be extended to schools anywhere. Datz is less certain about the urgency for American students to acquire a second language to succeed in a global workplace because English is the language of business for people everywhere. But he agrees with the Vision 2021 focus group participants that cultural competencies will be vital. Schools have a role to play in helping children unlearn stereotypes and in preparing to live and work in a culturally diverse society. This demographic change is happening faster, Datz says, than either businesses or schools recognize.
NAESP leaders recognize the need to help principals prepare to create a positive educational culture that draws on the strengths of diverse cultures and languages. Do you agree or disagree with Datz's observations?
The Gender Shift
Just over a decade ago, more male principals could be found at the helm of public elementary schools. But today, according to the most recent stats from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), there are more female principals leading public elementary schools. Between 1993-1994 and 2003-2004, the percentage of female public school principals increased from 41 percent to 56 percent in elementary schools. There was also an increase in female secondary school principals—from 14 percent to 26 percent—although the majority of high school principals are still male. The majority of female principals in private elementary schools stayed the same at 68 percent (with about 34 percent leading private secondary schools).
During this same period, the number of K-12 principals in the U.S. increased from 104,600 to 115,000. You can read more NCES stats on principals at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2007/section4/indicator34.asp.
Doing Whatever It Takes, Part II
According to the numerous comments on the earlier post about activities that principals undertake in the name of student motivation, principals can get pretty creative when it comes to inspiring students to put forth their best efforts. But none of the comments included giving out cold, hard cash, as is the proposal for a special program in New York City schools. Participants of the program could earn up to $500 for doing well on standardized tests and showing up for class, The New York Times reports. The privately funded incentive program, which would start this fall, would also include cash payments for parents who provide stable environments for their school-aged children by, for example, keeping a full-time job and having health insurance. Opponents of the plan argue that students must develop an appreciation for learning for learning's sake, and cash incentives do not instill this value.
Is NCLB Working? Part II
We received some terrific comments on the Principals' Office in response to the recent posting "Is NCLB Working?" One commenter said that Jack Jennings, the CEO of the Center on Education Policy (CEP), cautioned against jumping to any conclusions about the CEP report (Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?) saying that "it is very difficult, if not impossible, to prove causality between state test score trends and NCLB."
So the Principals' Office went straight to the source. Jennings is quoted in the CEP press release as saying that: "The weight of evidence indicates that state test scores in reading and mathematics have increased overall since No Child Left Behind was enacted. However, there should be no rush to judgment as there may be many factors contributing to the increased achievement."
The CEP report also says that student achievement in reading and mathematics have increased overall since the passage of NCLB, but leaves the door open about whether it's all due to NCLB or NCLB and other factors such as increased learning, teaching to tests, more lenient tests, scoring or data analyses, and changes in the populations tested.
The bottom line, as we mentioned in last week's post, is that only 13 states have enough data to compare rates of improvement before and after the law was passed. Tell us what you think. Is NCLB working in your school? With the reauthorization looming, we'd like to hear your thoughts on this most important education legislation.


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Katia has been called upon much earlier than expected, with the average season tracking 12 tropical storms in total. Currently a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and with wind strengths of 96 to 110mph, she is expected to swing toward northern Britain by Monday 12th September as an extra-tropical storm. The deep and compact low pressure system, with a central pressure of around 960mb, is likely to give rise to severe gale to storm force 10 winds as it charges rapidly westward. According to the NOAA National Hurricane Center in the USA there is currently a 30 to 40% risk of storm force winds wreaking damage in the Western Isles and the North of Scotland.
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Less than a week after the Tour de France and its ultimate winner Cadel Evans had climbed the notorious Alpe d'Huez, the participants of the Alpe d'Huez Triathlon were confronted with the same climb. BMC athlete Julien Loy was in excellent form, clinching a strong second place over the short course.
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Yes Naruto, B, Kakashi and Gai are out matched right now, but lets not forget that the entire ninja army is on there way.
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slug mode will save the day wease:
They've been on their way for like 30 chapters already, and this is not DBZ if you know what I mean.
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really?. they wont even make it to the battlefield, the juubi will one shot them from long distance.
beside that, Madara isn't even serious yet.
Simple math is simple. Fodders bounty galore!
Now it's time for some change of sides in the opposition... Otherwise, it's really the END...
lol its the ****ing juubi......as long as naruto does not turn into fairy tail the juubi should rape some major ass
That entire "ninja army" can be 1 shotted by Obito / Naruto / Madara / Bee / 10 tails.
The kages were the 1st and final line of defense and they are ... well ... ****ed.
And this very thing was revived just now....well i would not say screwed up...but I do agree that they are in a trouble now.....I wonder what Naruto would do next..
hell yeah go allied armY!!
Kankuro solo's Juubi now diff
Originally Posted by Simple Math
really?. they wont even make it to the battlefield, the juubi will one shot them from long distance.
beside that, Madara isn't even serious yet.
Madara's serious and got knocked out by Guy for a chapter.
There is no such thing as slug mode
the joint shinobi army struggled against the Edos ... - Naruto/Itachi saved their asses
and you try to tell me that they will stand a chance against the ultimate Ninja ( Madara ) and the Unltimate tailed beast ? ( juubi )?
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text: Kicker 11DX125.2 2-channel car amplifier 30 watts RMS x 2 Zoom Front Left Right Photos Videos My vehicle's homepage We don't check this item for fit or compatibility. Item #: 2061DX1252 Review Summary 12 people say Low Stock Free Crutchfield lifetime tech support Free Shipping Your price $89.99 Add to cart + Add to wishlist Email me alerts for this product Buy this item and earn up to 90 Rewards points See more offers and ways to save Special Financing Available x By buying this product you'll earn up to 90 Rewards points. When you sign up for a Crutchfield account, you'll be enrolled in Crutchfield Rewards. You'll earn one point for every dollar you spend on gear from us. You can turn your points into Rewards Cards that you can use toward future purchases. You can sign up for an account now, or after you complete your purchase (you'll get credit for the points either way). Sign up for a Crutchfield account Overview Details Customer Reviews Q&A Articles & Videos Accessories Our take on the Kicker 11DX125.2 by Buck Pomerantz My system has plenty of power. Who needs an amp? You might think you don't need an amp because you have a 400-watt system in your car, or because your new stereo puts out 50 watts a channel. But those are peak wattage ratings, which may boil down to 15 or 20 watts per channel, using the more realistic RMS rating. An amp sends your speakers the power they need to deliver your music with clarity and impact, whether you're using factory speakers or high-performance components. And low-frequency reproduction requires lots of power, so an amp is an absolute must if you're adding a sub to your system. Boost your music's power For some people, great music is what makes life worth living. Kicker built their DX125.2 2-channel amp to send 30 watts RMS each to a pair of speakers, so you can feel the musical joy too — all from an amp with a footprint less than the size of a piece of computer paper. You can also switch the amp over to 1-channel mode to run a subwoofer with 125 watts RMS of bass goodness. Use the built-in high- and low-pass filters to tailor the amp's output so your speakers sound their best. A bass boost adds some extra bump to your tunes. Isolates and eliminates noise You want lots of power for your speakers, but this Kicker DX amp gives you something extra — clean power. Kicker's FIT™ — Fail-Safe Integration Technology — rejects noise from alternators, audio/video gear, and other car electronics for crisp, clean operation, and accepts a wide range of signals so you can hook up the DX125.2 to almost any stereo. See more info on this item Highlights:2-channel car amplifier30 watts RMS x 2 at 4 ohms (60 watts RMS x 2 at 2 ohms)125 watts RMS x 1 bridged at 4 ohms (4-ohm stable in bridged mode)CEA-2006 compliantselectable low-pass filter (80 Hz, 18 dB/octave)selectable high-pass filter (100 Hz, 18 dB/octave)selectable bass boost (0, 9 dB at 40 Hz)Class AB amp technologydifferential-balanced inputs eliminate noise from your vehicle's electrical systempreamp and speaker-level inputs (speaker-level input requires an optional adapter)8-gauge power and ground leads recommended wiring and hardware not included with amplifierfuse rating: 15A x 18-3/8"W x 2-1/4"H x 8-5/16"Dwarranty: 2 years (extends to 3 years when purchased with either a Kicker single amp wiring kit or a Kicker multi-amp kit)Our 60-day money-back guarantee Hands-on research from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) Features and specs chart | What's in the box? | In-depth notes Features and Specs Performance RMS Power Output (Watts x Channels) 30 x 2 Peak Power Output (Watts x Channels) N/A Power at 2 Ohms (Watts x Channels) 60 x 2 Bridged Power (Watts x Channels) 125 x 1 Minimum Impedance Bridged 4 Minimum Impedance Unbridged 2 Best Frequency Response 20-20k Hz THD at Rated RMS Power 1% Signal to Noise Ratio 84 dB Input Voltage 14.4v Features Amplifier Class AB Low-Pass Crossover Frequency 80 Hz Low-Pass Slope (dB/octave) 18 dB/oct High-Pass Crossover Frequency 100 Hz High-Pass Slope (dB/octave) 18 dB/oct Bass Boost +9 dB Bass Boost Frequency 40 Hz Fan Cooled No Fuse Rating 15 Speaker Level Inputs RCA (adapter req) Preamp Outputs No Width (inches) 8-3/8 Height (inches) 2-1/4 Depth (inches) 8-5/16 Parts Warranty 2 Years Labor Warranty 2 Years Product Research What's in the box? Download owner's manual 2-Channel amplifier Two 15-Amp ATO blade fuses (1 installed/1 spare) Two 4-gauge crimp-on barrier spade connectors Four 12-gauge crimp-on barrier spade connectors One 14-gauge crimp-on barrier spade connector Four 3/4" Self-tapping screws Owner's manual (English/ Spanish/ German/ French) Power certification sheet Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team — they open the box, verify contents, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. We stay on top of new products and technologies to help people make informed choices. Features Controls Connections Warranty Features CEA 2006 Compliant: The Kicker DX125.2's power and signal to noise ratio are measured according to CEA 2006 standards (Consumer Electronics Association). These standards allow you to accurately compare the specifications of all CEA 2006-compliant amplifiers, even if they are different brands. Manufacturers who adhere to the standards can display the CEA 2006 logo on their products and packaging. The rated power output is 30 watts RMS x 2 channels into 4Ω (20 Hz-20 kHz, <1% THD+N). While the CEA 2006 S/N is 84 dB (measured at 1 watt), the S/N at rated power is >95 dB. Kicker Livin' Loud Certified Power: The amplifier comes with a certificate that indicates the total maximum wattage of the particular amplifier, along with the model number, serial number, tested date, and whether the amplifier passed the total harmonic distortion, signal-to-noise ratio, and protection circuit tests. Protection Circuitry: The DX125.2 has protection circuitry that will turn the amp off in the event of overheating, over voltage (power input), under voltage (power input), short circuit (speaker output), and over current (speaker output). If the Protection LED on the left side of the amp illuminates red, the protection circuit has engaged and the amp will not play until the problem is resolved. Fail-Safe Integration Technology (FIT): To accommodate the varying range of signal levels coming from today's factory and aftermarket radios, the DX125.2 utilizes Fail-Safe Integration Technology (FIT), offering isolated differential inputs for significant noise reduction, and compatibility with virtually any factory radio. Speaker Level Input: High level inputs can be used when the source device doesn't have preamp level outputs. The same RCA inputs on the amp are used for either speaker level or line level connections. When a speaker level signal is used, speaker wire to RCA adapters are needed (item number 20609ZISL, sold separately) and the Input Level should be set to High. Controls Gain Control: With the Input Level Control switch at the appropriate setting, you can set the rotary Gain Control to match the output of the source unit. The Gain Controls are adjusted with a flat-head screwdriver and can be set between 0 and 11. Input Level: The input level control is switchable; when set to Low, the amp can accommodate a line level input signal of 125mV-5V, on High, the amp will accept a 250mV-10V speaker level signal. Auto Turn-On: The Auto Turn-On switch offers three options: +12 V: the amp turns on when +12 volts is applied to the remote terminal DC Offset: the amp turns on when a 6 volt surge is detected on the signal inputs (from a speaker level source); in this mode the amp's remote terminal acts as a +12 volt output to turn on another component Audio: the amp turns on when an incoming audio signal is detected; in this mode the amp's remote terminal acts as a +12 volt output to turn on another component Crossover: The crossover can be set for low-pass, high-pass, or full-range operation. The low-pass crossover point is 80 Hz and the high-pass crossover point is 100 Hz; the crossover slope is 18 dB per octave. KICKEQ Bass Boost: The bass boost circuit switch (on/off) provides a +9 dB signal boost at 40 Hz. Connections Left Side of Amplifier: +12V (power): screw terminal; accepts spade connector up to 0.5" wide REM (remote turn-on): screw terminal; accepts spade connector up to 0.325" wide GND (ground): screw terminal; accepts spade connector up to 0.5" wide Speaker Outputs: one pair of screw terminals; accept spade connectors up to 0.325" wide Fuse: one 15-amp ATO fuse (factory installed) Right Side of Amplifier: RCA Inputs: one pair of RCA input jacks Warranty Extended Warranty: Kicker will add a year to the standard two year warranty (for a total of three years) when any matching Kicker amplifier wiring kit is used with this amp (8 gauge minimum). Both the amp and wiring kit should be purchased on the same order and the usual warranty limitations apply (covers manufacturing defects, must be purchased from an authorized Kicker dealer, etc.). Review this product Submit a review and then enter to win a $500 rewards card Kicker 11DX125.2 Reviews Average Customer Review: 12 people say: Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. Please be sure to focus your comments on the product itself. Read our Review Guidelines for more information. Review title * Email Your email won't be visible. Please use the email address that is associated with your order. Display name (e.g., JohnD) Your review will be signed using the display name and location * Your location (e.g., Charlottesville, VA) * Your rating Click on a star to rate the overall product on a scale of 1-5 1500 characters left * Your review Attach a YouTube Review Crutchfield Video Review Guidelines Only submit videos that you made or are authorized to use. Do not submit videos that contain music, video or visuals that are copyrighted and belong to someone else. Please see our Review Guidelines for more information. Submit the URL of your YouTube™ video review or product demonstration. e.g., "http://www.youtube.com/v/o79TWHh598U" 500 characters left Pros 500 characters left Cons * Agree to Terms By checking this box you agree your review becomes the property of Crutchfield, that you are over 18 years of age, that you own or have owned this product, and that you are located within the United States or its territories. Please see our Review Guidelines for more information. We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) 5 out of 5 Kicker 11DX125.2 Reviews Written By JD, Aspen, CO on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Works perfectly as a sub amp. More than enough power for what I need. Pros: Plenty of power for a sub. Cons: None Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Best bang for your $$$$ all the way!!!! Written By Michael T. McCaslin, Gresham, OR 97080 on Sunday, August 03, 2014 For the cost of this amp ill say this is about as good as you will get and ever find. It can truly be used two ways, one you can run it to you door speakers or even a pair of 6by9s and two you can brige it down to run max power and run and nice 10" sub all day. Well hope this helps also haven't had any problems with it yet either so that's always good!! Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 very happy Written By glowbug, batesville, ar on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Works great powering two old Kenwood door speakers. Pros: small Cons: none I see Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Just What I Expected Written By Larry, Princeton, MA on Thursday, June 26, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Nice clean sound and plenty of power to drive the retro sound speaker I bought/ Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Great little amp Written By Anonymous, LA California on Monday, April 21, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Was very easy to install and perfect for the front speakers in my older VW.I like the compact size and power. 1 out of 1 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 KICKER Written By MoonMan, Frackville PA on Sunday, April 13, 2014 Just did up my first car audio system and wow. i got this little thing hooked up to TWO 1300 watt sony Xplodes and these things POUND. i was skeptical at first due to size and wattage but this is THEE BEST bang for your buck. took me a week to hook everything precisely how it was supposed to be but i have volume cranked every minute every hour every time im in my car which is quite a bit, and it hasnt failed me yet gets a little warm after an hour or two of straight full bass thumpin. this amp is awesome would reccomend to everyone who wants a system to show of and bests your friends $1000 pro audio systems at a very cheap price. thank you kicker god you have completed my life :::::)))))))) My only tip would be to make sure every thing is hooked up correctly , and be prepared to blow peoples faces off!!! Pros: handles power constant clean bass, power, and excellence...... Has shut off protection if anything to happen Cons: Not a thing 2 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Great amp Written By Joe joe, houston tx on Monday, February 17, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This is a great little amp I have it pushing one 8" polk sub and couldnt be happier. Pros: Gets it done Cons: none Was this review helpful? Yes | No 4 out of 5 Kicker 11DX125.2 Written By J, Clarksville, TN on Saturday, June 29, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Great product Pros: Compact and delivers quality sound. Cons: N/A 1 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Fantastic amp! Written By Brandon J., Harrah, okay on Thursday, May 30, 2013 My friend actually has this installed in his truck and he recommended it to me. I have mine hooked up to a 12 inch Kicker sub and the sound quality is great! 1 out of 1 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Awesome amp! Written By Sneakyninja, Claremore, Ok on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 I didn't get mine from crutchfield. But non the less its an awesome product! It works great for powering my 6.5" sub. Pros: This amp works great if you have limited space and don't need a ton of bass! Cons: About to get a new car so ill have to upgrade my system. 3 out of 4 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Good Product Written By Brad, Grand Rapids on Monday, October 29, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Had already replaced speakers and receiver, this along with new sub finished off system. Using to power a 6.5 subwoofer in center console- more than capable enough for such a small sub. Pros: fits under dash(out of sight), bridgeable, and adjustable. Cons: cost me extra money due to listening to crutchfields "jeep" expert. told them i needed an amp small enough to mount under dash of my jeep so it wouldn't be seen while top was off in the summer. bought sound ordance unit on there advice only to find out it was way to big to fit. cost return shipping charge off of my refund to return. still bought amp from them as there prices are very good, but recommend doing your own due diligence. still giving 5 stars as this is a review of the product not the company. 8 out of 8 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Kicker amp Written By Brian, Florida on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I needed a small amp, mainly due to size restrictions in my Jeep Wrangler. I don't listen to super loud bass so this seemed to fit my needs. It was easy to install, I use this with a Kicker 6.5" sub and have no issues at all. I followed their advice and put the sub in a sealed box with hollowfill and separated the power and speaker wires. Pros: Price Size Cons: None 4 out of 5 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 1 question already asked Can I connect it to a 3 ohm speaker? [ Chris Aug 01, 2014 ] 1 answer The amp is rated down to 2 omhs in stereo mode but only 4 in bridged mode. [ Charlie Aug 02, 2014 ] Add accessories for the Kicker 11DX125.2 Add Accessories Add a Warranty You'll need an amp wiring kit to install your new amplifier, as wiring is not included. See all categories & accessories You'll need an amp wiring kit to install your new amplifier, as wiring is not included. Single-amp Wiring Kits Bring the music from your amp to your speakers. Speaker Wire Patch cables take the music from your stereo to the amplifier. Most amp wiring kits don't include them. RCA Patch Cables & Adapters Helps protect your car's charging system and improves power handling. 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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A New Jersey man who co-founded a radical Islamic website has pleaded guilty to using the Internet to make threats against Jewish groups.
Forty-five-year-old Yousef Mohamid al-Khattab of Atlantic City started the Revolution Muslim website in 2007 with partner Jesse Curtis Morton.
Al-Khattab, who converted from Judaism and was previously known as Joseph Cohen, is the third person connected with Revolution Muslim to be convicted in federal court in Alexandria. Morton and another man, Zachary Chesser, admitted using the site to deliver thinly veiled threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show for perceived insults to the prophet Muhammad.
Al-Khattab's guilty plea, announced Thursday, does not mention the "South Park" threats. In court documents, al-Khattab admits encouraging readers to "deal with" Jewish leaders or take other actions.
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Melt the boys' hearts with your sickly sweet look in the Drip tee from Lost. It features soft hand sketched graphics with heavy drips running off the bottom, a scoop neck, contrast stitching and comfy slub fabric. Prepare to be deluged with compliments.
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James Taylor got mixed up before Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday, when he began singing the words to "America the Beautiful" instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But the singer quickly recovered, going straight into the correct lyrics. Take a look at these renditions of the national anthem that have drawn controversy.


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What is Guardianship?
Guardianship is a legal process used to provide protection for adults who are incapacitated, as defined by the Texas Probate Code. The Probate Code defines an incapacitated person as: "An adult individual who, because of a physical or mental condition, is substantially unable to provide food, clothing, or shelter to himself or herself, to care for the individual's own physical health, or to manage the individual's own financial affairs."
A guardian is a court-appointed person or entity (such as a state agency) that makes decisions on behalf of an incapacitated person. Chapter 13 of the Texas Probate Code defines the purpose, laws and responsibilities of a guardian. Depending upon the powers granted by the court, guardianship responsibilities include, but are not limited to,
- Providing care, supervision, and protection for incapacitated persons who qualify for guardianship services under the laws of the state of Texas;
- Arranging for services, including medical, mental health and/or services to persons with intellectual disabilities, for these persons under guardianship that qualify for such services;
- Arranging for placement in facilities, such as long-term care facilities, hospitals or foster homes;
- Managing estates; and
- Making medical decisions.
The DADS Guardianship Services Program provides guardianship services, either directly or through contracts with local guardianship programs, to individuals referred to the program by either the Adult Protective Services (APS) or Child Protective Services (CPS) Divisions of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).
These services include:
- Performing an assessment to determine if the individual has diminished capacity,
- Identifying less restrictive alternatives to guardianship, and
- Seeking to identify other individuals or organizations that are willing, able, and appropriate to serve as guardian.
When all least restrictive options have been exhausted and no family member, interested party, or alternate guardian is available, DADS may file an application in a court with probate jurisdiction to be appointed as guardian as defined in Section 161.101 of the Texas Human Resource Code. A proposed ward must have resources to fund long-term care and be otherwise appropriate for DADS guardianship services.
For more information, please call 512-438-3739.
About the DADS Guardianship Program
Guardianship Services is a section within the Access and Intake Division of the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS).
- A Texas Guide to Adult Guardianship (PDF) — With this guide, gain a better understanding of the ins and outs of guardianship. PDF in Spanish
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