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United States, AL, Madison
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I don't know what else to do
Problem (same two frames):
Attempted solutions:
The only way I have been able to find to get rid of the wobble is to cut the roll/pitch PID settings pretty much in half. I understand these values are wrong and too low (makes it a bit sensitive). But I don't know what else to do.
I'm really at a loss as to what I'm doing wrong. I've tried two different frames now with the only common factor being the FC.
First frame:
Second frame:
Here are a couple of clips, the first from the 220mm frame and the second from the larger kindjal-style frame.
(Note: the 220mm frame oscillates faster than the kindjal so it's harder to see in the video)
Kindjal-style frame (at stock settings - 4P and then 1.8P):
220mm Frame (at stock 4P):
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naze32 uses the MWC code, so a MWC FC would behave similarly with the same PIDs. PIDs were annoying to me at first but now i can manage fairly well.
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Default P is 4 on the baseflight.hex for the naze.
It wobbles down to 1.8. Only there is it completely wobble-free, but of course that's too low for good control.
After going so low I only tried going up because I just wanted to try anything.
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Many thanks for your help and time in responding sirbow2. I greatly appreciate it.
Changing I to .040 and D to 33, it only slightly wobbles when it's at P = 3 now, 2.5 it gets almost perfect.
I guess I should have added in my OP that I had it fundamentally ingrained in my head ( not sure why or from where) that PID all had to go up or down together but not opposite directions. I guess I was terribly wrong there.
At I = 0.050, D = 43 it's good at 3.
Is it ok to keep going up on I and D to get P to the target goal of 4?
Or is this undesired - similar to going down to 1.8 P?
Since I'm just hovering over my bed, I thought the 1.8P was great until I was told it was wrong. I'm sure I would realize it if I flew outside in more space. So this is why I'm asking if going up too much on I or D would be wrong too.
Actually nm, nothing will make it stable at 4 it seems.
Yeah P=3 is the limit with only slight wobble in hover with I >=0.045 and D >=43
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yes, too much I or D could be bad too. its like a balancing act lol. i think if you increase I and decrease D you should be able to increase P, too.
This is pretty much what you need to know:
"Increasing value for P:
It will become more solid/stable until P is too high where it starts to oscillate and loose control
You will notice a very strong resistive force to any attempts to move the MultiRotor
Decreasing value for P:
It will start to drift in control until P is too low when it becomes very unstable.
Will be less resistive to any attempts to change orientation
Increasing value for I:
Increase the ability to hold overall initial position and reduce drift, but also increase the delay in returning to initial position
Will also decrease the importance of P.
Decreasing value for I:
Will improve reaction to changes, but increase drift and reduce ability to hold position
Will also increase the importance of P.
Increasing value for D: (remember, that means a LOWER number as it is a negative value)
Improves the speed at which deviations are recovered
With fast recovery speed comes a higher probability of overshooting and oscillations
Will also increase the effect of P
Decreasing value for D: (remember, that means a HIGHER number as it is a negative value - i.e. further from zero)
Reduces the oscillations when returning any deviations to their initial position
Recovery to initial position becomes slower
Will also decrease the effect of P"
links about PID:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1375728 (my favorite :P)
oh and thanks to your post, i now know what OP means because of the way you used it in the setnence i never knew i a was too lazy to find out-- it means original post?
edit: oops i said that wrong, fixed
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My understanding is that if I is too *low* it causes drift, and too high causes slower oscillations. You should decrease I until drift is unacceptable, and then raise it up.
Derivative (D) is the resistance to predicted delta from a setpoint. As you increase D, you should gain stability, but it also reduces the weight of P. As for being sluggish... I don't think it matters on the MultiWii platform because you can set the "Rate" which is 0 by default. This is a linear decay of your PID's based on stick movement. You can have super stability at no or low stick, and at higher stick it will become super responsive.
I have not played with my D values yet. From the reading I've done, D should be as high as you can get it.
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For me setting I and D to zero and then changing only P until I get a fast wobbles in Forward Flight. Then I back P down .2. Once I have P set I increase the I value until the copter will hold its angle and not try to self correct when I push forward on the pitch or roll stick. Once P and I are set, I leave D alone since it does nothing but cause me problems. D stays at zero.
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The result is a super stable platform, and with the I factor set appropriately, little to no drift over time. The downside is slow response times with the high P and D values. With MultiWii, you can overcome this by setting the Rate above zero so the PID values are lowered the farther you push the stick. When you snap the stick back to the middle, your PID values are high again, giving you super stability.
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I thank you guys for helping me out with this. I'm usually quick on the uptake with these types of things but for some reason these setups have been giving me trouble.
sirbow2, you've helped me understand the meaning of the values better than I thought I did.
I tried Nick_P's idea of setting I and D to 0 and started at 1.8P. It was stable, but too sensitive so I started raising P until it started wobbling at 2.3. I then raised the values of D, which in turn let me raise P. Eventually I was able to get to 3.4P 0.005I and 25D with just a little wobble when not moving sideways.
I could go 3.5P and 27D but then it starts feeling a tad too sluggish...needs a lot of control input to change directions. Granted this might be better for flying outside, but inside my room I need it to react quickly before I hit a wall. I'll have to test that out more once I can take it out somewhere.
In terms of drift I don't know what's normal. I don't expect it to hover as if it was glued to a pole on the ground, but with small constant corrections I can keep it in a one foot radius. If I don't touch the sticks it starts slowly going in some direction. I don't have the space to see how long it takes to correct yet. If I raise I, it will wobble again so I'd have to increase D (I mean the actual value in the box) and make it more sluggish or decrease P and make it more sensitive. I'll try to see if I can find a better balance.
Hopefully the BT module I ordered won't take too long to get here to make this adjustment process easier...right now I have to connect it to my PC each time.
All in all I'd say this has been a great improvement thanks to you guys and I really appreciate your help.
Small quad are much harder to fly.
I did a couple .. you need to eliminate ALL vibrations prior to try to tune anything.
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Yeah, I balanced the props. Might try using dampers on the FC.
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking of buying some kind of vibration sensor.
Or I wonder if it's possible to do with my oscilloscope and a mic placed on the frame. Not sure where I'd go from there though.
I think I would have to figure out the resonant frequencies the FC doesn't like then compare it to the frequencies generated by the frame at various RPMs.
I haven't taken those classes yet.
I'll hopefully flash my HK ESCs next week so that may help a bit.
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This might be useful for relative comparisons after adjustments to see if the max and mean went down. Although I'm sure there are other variables thrown in each time I put the phone on, but relative ballpark might help.
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I use this program to balance motors. The number represents magnitude and not frequency of the vibration wave. So while you are flying it is picking up the large magnitude movements of you hovering the quad along with motor vibes.
I suggest strapping the quad down and mounting the phone onto the quad. Run the motors up to half throttle and monitor the values. This will give you a more realistic idea of the vibes you are getting.
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We might say that someone who is exceptionally chatty can "talk a blue streak." What is the origin and meaning of this phrase? Is it generally insulting, or a nice way of saying someone is a chatterbox?
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According to The Word Detective in all likelihood, the term did arise by analogy to the speed and force of a bolt of lightning, especially in "talk a blue streak," meaning to speak rapidly and excitedly. The "blue" in "curse a blue streak" probably also invokes "blue" in the sense of "obscene." So it it is not really insulting when you say that somebody talks a blue streak, it is just an informal way of saying that he/she talks very fast and endlessly and very often aimlessly.
To curse/swear a blue streak means to speak rapidly, too, but using swear/curse words. Cursing/swearing a blue streak is usually an outburst-- a retort or angry reaction, and short-lived. However, it can also mean using a lot of swear words repeatedly over a period of time: My teenager has been cursing a blue streak during the past month means that he/she has been using a lot of swear words, and often.
Talking or cursing a blue streak is when somebody is so wound up in something they're talking and talking and talking or cussing or cussing or cussing so hard they run clear out of breath and keep on talking and talking and talking or cussing and cussing and -- until their face starts turning blue from lack of oxygen and they just can't seem to stop until they see stars from lack of oxygen and maybe even pass clear out on the ground. Now, that's a 'blue streak'.
Tony Pastor's vaudeville theater used to give actors warnings in blue envelopes when their acts included language he found objectionable. That's where we get the phrase "blue language". Is "blue streak" just an extension of that idea?
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He is expected to call for a serious boost in our ethanol supply and consumption, but in terms of a climate change policy? The White House has gone so far as to outright DENY its intention to cap emissions.
Well, what about the state of our atmosphere? Of the Arctic sea ice or the Greenland ice sheet? What about the state of the union in 2050?
Last year, the "addicted to oil" comment was supposedly added last minute, so let's just hope (feverishly) that he puts a final cap on the State of the Union by capping carbon dioxide emissions. Failing to do so would render the speech–and his presidency–irrelevant.
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US GHG emissions grew at a rate much higher under Clinton than they have under GBUSH. Does that make the Clinton presidency irrelevant?
With Dingell running the House Energy and Commerce Committe to you think congress will cap CO2 emissions? (I don't think so) If not, won't that make the 110th irrelevant?
Canada's GHG emissions growth rate far exceed US's. Does that make Canada's goverment irrelevant?
Hippie – you're not adding anything to the real conversation, just trying to defend Bush which is the ultimate losing side of the debate. Does that make your comment irrelevant? Methinks you're definitely no hippie… most likely a troll trying to pass oneself off as a liberal. Terrible job if that's the case.
And in the future if you want to spout off such claims it behooves you to also post a credible source to back it up. GHG emissions grew at a faster rate under Clinton? Hard to believe – although Clinton certainly never even tried to limit GHG emissions he left many of the current restrictions in place while GWB removed or relaxed many of the restrictions on atmospheric emissions such as CO2, methane and even mercury (which accounts for the increased concentration of mercury in sea fish thank you very much)
2006 Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
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Hippie tried to make a similar argument on Think Progress.
This list represents, year by year, the amount of increase in the rate of emissions in millions of metric tons. The only trend you can discern here is that you get drops in emissions rate increases whenever there's a recession:
1991 = -43
1992 = +102
1993 = +96
1994 = +68
1995 = +50
1996 = +189
1997 = +68
1998 = +50
1999 = +44
2000 = +162
2001 = -79
2002 = +40
2003 = +49
2004 = +104
Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/excel/figure108_data.xls
There is no trend of smaller increases. It's pretty much a steady rate of increase, except when there's a recession.
You've selected data for energy-related co2 emissions only. That's a subset of all GHG. For more complete data on GHG see the annual report I've cited above.
In 2007 it's not relevant who did what 10 years ago. As a simple matter of fact, Clinton did not have a terribly good record on environmental policy. But again, that is not relevant today since it is not 1996 today.
Haven't had time to dig into those links yet but thanks for posting them.
However the main point that rears its head no matter the outcome of this argument is that BUSH is in charge now, and that turning this into another Clinton smear project does nothing to advance the actual discussion other than to play the blame game. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Clinton wasn't perfect but he at least kept America in one piece.
With the evidence mounting and understanding growing of how urgent action is needed NOW, Bush can take a far greater slice of the blame if you ask me – especially when you consider his outright DENIAL of there even being a problem.
Weather, Water, Energy 1-21-07…
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Don't deny yourself the takedowns of Bushnev's coming SOTU address and the excerpts of Hell or High Water over at ClimateProgress….


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Convention 2016 is almost here!
We've been informed there are some construction detours you might encounter on your way to Heminger Center in Tiffin. Click here for a map.
See you there!
From the North From the South Right on Hall Street Left on Clay Street Left on Wall Street Left on Miami Street Right on Miami Street
* The Tiffin Glass Company - From the Inside by Mike Carlson and Martha Ziegler
* Bedroom and Bathroom Glass by Margaret and Kenn Whitmyer
* American Iridescent Stretch Glass by Dr. David shetlar
* Indiana Glass - The Depression Years by Craig Scheming
* Steuben - The Modern Years by Tom Felt and Bob O'Grady
A bus trip is scheduled for Friday, July 15, and will visit three of Ohios best glass museums. The bus will leave Tiffin Universitys Heminger Center at 7 a.m. sharp and stop at the National Museum of Cambridge Glass in Cambridge, National Heisey Glass Museum in Newark, and Tiffin Glass Museum. The schedule will be as follows:
- 7 a.m. Leave Tiffin Universitys Heminger Center
- 10 a.m. Arrive at the National Museum of Cambridge Glass in Cambridge, Ohio
- 10-11:30 a.m. Tour the museum
- 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Travel to National Heisey Glass Museum in Newark, Ohio (including a half-hour lunch break)
- 1 p.m. Arrive at the National Heisey Glass Museum in Newark, Ohio
- 1-2:30 p.m. Tour the museum
- 4:30 p.m. Arrive at the Tiffin Glass Museum
- 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tour the museum
- 5:30 p.m. Return to Tiffin Universitys Heminger Center
The bus will stop for lunch while en route to Newark, but feel free to bring snacks and beverages (with lids) for the ride. The bus will return by 5:30 p.m.
The cost of the bus tour is $25. Seating is limited and the first fifty paid reservations will secure seats. Any additional reservations will be placed on a waiting list. If you have already sent in reservations, please send payments to secure your seat(s). Checks should be made out to: Northwest Ohio Glass Association (NOGA). Please send reservations and contact information (name(s), address, phone number) to Tom Maiberger at 345 Hedges St., Tiffin, Ohio 44883 before June 15th. Please contact Tom at 419-618-5036 or email@example.com with any questions.
Spring has sprung and there is a small amount of time until the 2016 National Convention in Tiffin Ohio. Look at our 2016 Convention page for the latest schedule, events and lodging information.
Send in your completed registration form for the Friday night Banquet.
There are three hotels located in Tiffin that have given glass enthusiasts a special rate for convention goes. You must mentioned NDGA when reserving your room. Your choices include:
- The Days Inn 419-447-6313, rates from $72.66 to $106.64
- The Holiday Inn Express 419-443-5100 rates from $109 to $119
- The Hampton Inn 419-443-5300 rate from $112
- Seneca County Fair Grounds 419-447-7888 rate of $20 / night
- Meadowbrook Park Camp Ground 419-937-2242 rate of $30 / night
Tiffin and Seneca County are making plans to welcome the National Depression Glass Association for their Annual Convention Show & Sale. They have created a 30 second video commericial Check it out below.
Have you noticed the "Amazon" link on the left hand size and wondered why it is on our page? Quite simply, NDGA geta a "referral fee" everytime you purchase something on Amazon, but only if you first start at our customized link on the left. It's that easy - you don't have to do anything else.
Another way you can help NDGA is using the Paypal Giving Fund link in the left menu. It allows to you make a tax deductible donation to NDGA by credit card, and NDGA does not incur any credit card charges. So NDGA receives the full 100% of your donation.
NDGA will be starting the Annual Fund campaign soon and we'll update the Annual Fund page with the latest information. Speaking of latest information, have you checked out the latest on the 2016 Convention ? July is rapidly approaching!
Have you added the 2016 Convention to your calendar?
Today is the day for lovers and includes lots of red and pink. What glassware will you use today? Is it pink American Sweetheart by Macbeth Evans or pink Miss American by Anchor Hocking or some other pink pattern?
Just a reminder that the NDGA National Glass Museum is closed during the winter months of January through March and will be ready for you in April!
Just a reminder that the NDGA National Glass Museum is closed during the months of January through March. This allows for the unexpected changes in weather, as well as museum work. We will be cleaning glass and updating the displays during this time. We'll be ready for you in April!
Include a stop at the museum as you make your vacation plans for 2016 as well as the 2016 Convention in Tiffin Ohio.
At the 40th NDGA Annual Convention in 2014 we had Ornaments made to commemorate the NDGA National Glass Museum and Paperweights to commemorate the 40th anniversary of our convention. These were made out of the beautiful Ruby Glass by the Crystal Memories Company out of Tiffin, OH and the Mosser Glass Company in Cambridge, OH respectfully. Although we have sold many of these items, we still have a number that we are storing. Since we need the space the Museum Board of Trustee and the NDGA Board of Directors voted to allow us to discount these items by 20% making the Ornaments $28.00 and the Paperweights $32.00. Just in time for Christmas gift giving or decorating your tree! We would love to ship you one or more of these beautiful pieces. The cost of boxing and postage will run $7.75. If ordering more than one item it would, of course, cost accordingly. Please contact Pam Meyer at email@example.com or phone at 972-672-6213 if you wish to purchase one or more.
Planing continues on the 2016 convention to be held in Tiffin, OH, MO. Check the convention page for the latest information.
You may also be doing some end-of-year tax planning. Your donations of glass for the national collection are always appreciated, as well as items for resale in the gift shop. If you're considering a cash donation, we are registered with Ebay Giving Works that allows you to make a donation via PayPal with NDGA receiving 100% of the proceeds.
And if you're an Amazon shopper, make sure to click on our link to Amazon.com so that NDGA receives a referral credit.
August 5th brought a big turn out as Dennis and Ara Ann Duty of Wichita brought some of Dennis's toy trains and railroad memorabilia down to share with us, including some of the railroad china and glasses he had acquired.
On the recent September First Friday, Angie Hilt of Wellington demonstrated the Rock Candy making process. She showed how it is similar to the glass making process, using sugar insted of sand.
We had a group of Red Hat Ladies from Winfield who came for a group tour. They kept us busy answering questions and enjoying the glass. We always have extra volunteers on hand to accomodate groups so that no one goes away without being able to ask their questions ... and the volunteers are getting very good at answering questions.
We look forward to seeing you - don't forget to stop and see our museum when you're driving through Kansas.
This year the Wellington Fall Fest and Homecoming falls on October 9-10th. The Museum will be participating in this event with a beautiful basket give away. All anyone has to do to win is visit the Museum during the weekend and sign up for the drawing. The basket has a beautiful green Crackle glass pitcher and six tumblers, a Museum t-shirt and matching tote, Museum post cars and a jar of Olene Wrights famous jam. There may be other additions before the big drawing.
Also during this time we plan to hold an Excess Inventory Sale. After processing many boxes and tubs of glass this past weekend we find that there is more gift shop inventory than we can possibly store for any length of time so lets see about freeing up space and bring in support funds. The sale will be held Saturday October 10th only from 9:30-2:00 or till customers quit coming. There is a 5K race downtown that morning and there will be lots of folks and activity on our block.
For anyone wishing to come purchase glass from the Excess Inventory Sale we will definitely have a lot of Royal Ruby and Forest Green. There will be many other items as well. The gift shop will also be open with all the shelves filled to the brim with wonderful finds. We hope you will make the effort to come to Wellington for all the fun and action during the Fest. You can go on line to the Chambers website www.wellingtonkschamber.com to find out all the activities that are planned for this special event. We hope to see you there!!
Please give me a call if you have any questions about this activity!!
Pam Meyer
(972) 672-6213
The results of the NDGA 2015 election are as follows:
- President - Danny Cornelius
- Secretary - Linda Brendengerd
- Director at Large - David Adams, Betty Buersmeyer, John Fields, and Cynthia Hillman
- The change of the By-Laws was approved.
There were 462 ballots mailed out, and 305 returned, a 66% response by the membership.
The Nominating Committee would like to thank all those who ran for office, and all the members who took the time to vote.
All officers and administrators are listed on our page: About The NDGA.
It was a great time for everyone in Kansas City Missiouri at the 41st NDGA annual convention.
Mark your calendar and make plans to join us next July 16-17 in Tiffin Ohio. We'll be adding information to our convention page as it becomes available.
We're instituting a new column that we hope will both educate our readers and help out our collectors. Most (we believe this should be all, but there may be an exception) of us have collections that are missing a "part". It may be a creamer withour a sugar, a bottom without a lid, a saucer without a cup ... you get the idea by now.
Check the latest issue of the News & Views for the current requests. You'll also find directions on how to submit your input. With your help, these lonely pieces will find their lost mate.
The National Glass Museumj, located in Wellington Kansas, has seen a lot of visitors this year. All of our volunteers have done an outstanding job this year greeting visitors and helping to spread the word about the museum. We had the opportunity to recognize our Volunteers and Donors at an appreciation party in early December. Thank you everyone!!!
It seems like everyone is busy with planning for the holidays, and so are we. The Museum is decked out in color for the season, and ready to welcome visitors.
The December/January issue of the News & Views has a cover story about preserving our past.The NDGA National Glass Museum for the past year or so has been taking broken pieces of glass collected from dealers at shows or just items that we find that have been damaged beyond use and turning them into pendants or earrings.
Many items can be purchased from the Gift Shop at the museum. Jewelry items along with many other items are often available at glass shows and sales throughout the country. Check out some of our selection here.<
We've all seen the ads to support Public Broadcasting. Now, here's a really good reason.
During the July 2013 Convention, television station KTWU located in Topeka Kansas, spent some time videotaping at the Convention and Museum. The result was broadcast as the October 10, 2013 program of Sunflower Journeys. It is a 27 minute program with two other stories. Our story begins 10 minutes into the program and lasts for 8 minutes. Make sure you are using supported software to view the program.
Many thanks to Pam Meyer and others for making this happen. Let us know what you thought of the program.
It was only a year ago a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the Grand Opening of the NDGA National Glass Museum located at 117 S Washington Ave. in Wellington KS.
This past year has seen the Museum grow from an empty building to one that houses a collection of glass from the 1800's to the 1970's, representing a large number of the companies that were in existence during those times. It also has a working reference library for the public to use in their research of glassware. The museum is staffed by volunteers, who are always willing to help answer questions.
The museum will help in serving the two main goals of the organization, education and preservation of all American made glassware with an emphasis on the Depression Era.
NDGA is a 501(c)(3) organization with the museum opened to the public at no charge. The museum is supported by donations and proceeds from the gift shop where you may purchase glass items, along with t-shirts, tote bags and post cards. A donation jar is also available to anyone wishing to help support the museum.
The Museum is opened Thursday, Friday and Saturday between the hours of
11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., with additional hours available by appointment.
Please call 620-326-6400 or 316-524-1553 for those arrangements.
The children then went on to making rock candy, which just like glass, needs the correct ingredients fired at the correct temperature to create a product. Yuum!
One of the highlights of 2013 NDGA Convention was the participation by guest author Barbara Mauzy. She presented a session titled "Passing on the Passion" on Saturday and repeated on Sunday. Barbara also wrote a book "Child of the Great Depression" (ISBN #0985967870).
Are you a depression glass collector? Have you had trouble getting your children or grandchildren to appreciate depression glass and its significance in American history. Well here is the perfect resource for the young reader. Written and illustrated by well known glass author Barbara Mauzy, this book will help young new collectors to appreciate the significance of depression glass; what was the Great Depression, why did it happen, how does the glassware relate to the times, etc... That and much more is included in this great new book designed specifically for the young collector. Your purchase of this book helps to support The National Depression Glass Association and The National Glass Museum.
Remember, the holidays are coming. Contact Pam Meyer to order your copy, and perhaps a second one as a gift.
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Italian soldiers with the NATO- forces secure the area after a suicide attack near the city of Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The suicide attack on Sunday had no casualties except death of the bomber, officials said. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in northern Iraq.
A statement by the military says the Joint Base Balad soldier was killed while conducting operations on Monday.
The incident is under investigation and no details were given.
The name of the deceased soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The death raises to at least 4,400 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That's according to an Associated Press count.
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Ex-Merrill Banker Seeks to Resurrect European CMBS: Mortgages
Nassar Hussain, a London-based managing director of Merrill Lynch & Co., was so concerned by the cheap mortgages being offered to commercial real estate borrowers in 2007 that he sold his holdings, resigned and moved to Dubai to work in private equity.
Five years after Europe's property markets and lending collapsed, Hussain is back in the U.K. capital leading efforts to restore demand for new commercial mortgage backed securities, a product he says is essential to revive Europe's struggling banks. As chairman of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council Europe committee on CMBS, he plans to make the debt more attractive by ending a system where banks get paid even when the underlying loans default.
"In the last few years, securitization has been a bit of a negative word," said Hussain, 44, managing partner at Brookland Partners LLP, which has advised on 18 billion euros ($22 billion) of real estate debt transactions since he set the company up in 2009. "Without a liquid and deep capital markets funding base, the problems in the banking market are going to take significantly longer to overcome."
Only 210 million pounds ($326 million) of CMBS were originated in Europe this year compared with $42 billion of 2006 loans that were later rolled into the securities, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The loans six years ago were granted at a time when cheap financing was pushing up values of skyscrapers, shopping centers and apartment buildings from London to Berlin.
Difficulty Refinancing
Commercial property owners have 260 billion euros of debt coming due in Europe this year, according to broker DTZ. Refinancing will be difficult, with many banks unwilling to increase lending until they can sell existing loans to meet regulatory requirements.
"At present, there is no clear source of funding to refinance an estimated 75 billion euros in outstanding European CMBS loans, most of which was originated at the peak of the securitization boom" from 2004 through 2007, the Finance Council said in a statement today.
Central to Hussain's proposed CMBS reforms are changes in so-called Class X notes, through which banks and other lenders generate income after mortgages are packaged and sold to investors. Banks and other originators currently continue to receive payments on the notes even when borrowers default or have loans restructured, eroding the returns for other noteholders, the Finance Council said in April 2011.
New Guidelines
Under the new guidelines, Class X notes will not continue to generate a payoff when some loans default, Conor Downey, a partner specializing in real estate finance at law firm Paul Hastings LLP, said in an interview in the City of London financial district.
"It was very deliberately put at the top to try and protect against any adverse credit events on underlying loans," Clive Bull, a Deutsche Bank AG director who manages the lender's European commercial real estate group, said at a presentation on the new guidelines today. "That generated a lot of anger" among bondholders when the "underlying loans ceased to pay."
"There's a perception in the market that European CMBS is a badly structured product and that it doesn't work in the way that people had anticipated," said Downey, who's also a member of the Finance Council committee. "It's unfair because European CMBS has actually performed well. Losses on European triple A CMBS are running at less than one percent."
Relative Yields
Still, while relative yields on European commercial mortgage debt packaged into securities narrowed 135 basis points, or 1.35 percentage points, this year to 440 basis points, the spreads are wider than a year ago and more than four times the level in November 2007, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. data.
CMBS deals done before the financial crisis included provisions that were too complex or vague, Downey said. That resulted in disputes among bondholders about the returns they were entitled to when a loan defaulted, hurting the reputation of the securities.
Buyers will be given better access to documentation on properties that secure the loans, both before and after the CMBS are sold, according to the guidelines.
"The drafting will become much simpler, much clearer" under the new guidelines, Downey said. "There will be much better disclosure and much better descriptions of the underlying documents."
Hussain Resigned
The new guidelines, known informally as CMBS 2.0, recommend that the arranger provides a cash-flow model for investors once a deal is closed, which should help increase trading of the bonds after the securitization is closed, said Hussain, who was responsible for loan distribution and trading at Merrill's European real-estate finance team before resigning in 2007.
Europe's banks, forced to sell real estate assets to conform with new regulations, will gain a new way to refinance debt if the CMBS changes attract buyers, he said. With securitization markets frozen, banks such as Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc have been buying properties they foreclosed upon using other units of the bank. They then sell the properties to investors, often helping the buyer finance the purchase.
The first CMBS 2.0 origination could be sold this year, Rob Marshall, head of asset backed securities and property credit research at M&G Investments said at today's presentation. Bull believes it is more likely to be next year before the first CMBS 2.0 is sold into the market.
Transforming Liabilities
"Until securitization comes back properly, the transactions banks are using to fund their loans are really only transforming their liability from one type to another type," Downey said by e-mail.
The Bank of England has talked to the Finance Council about when the securitization markets can be re-opened, Mark Nichol, a structured finance analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said at the presentation today.
Convincing insurance companies and other investors to buy new notes may prove difficult. Four out of five loans packaged into European commercial mortgage-backed securities maturing in the first quarter were not repaid on time, Moody's Investors Service said in a May 31 report. That's more than twice the 2009 level.
Those figures don't show that Class A notes in European CMBS notes have been largely unaffected by turmoil in real estate markets, according to Hussain.
Insurers and pension funds may be deterred by proposed regulatory changes that would make the capital penalty for buying the highest-rated CMBS notes about eight times higher than for AAA-rated corporate bonds, said Christian Aufsatz, a London-based securitization analyst at Barclays Capital.
'Not Bullish'
The investment bank's research desk is "not bullish on European securitization new issuance volume, in particular not CMBS," Aufsatz said by telephone. He expects insurers to be interested in buying some new CMBS, "but if you want to issue 20 to 30 billion pounds annually, then it's doubtful you would find sufficient demand."
Sales of CMBS in the U.S. to pension and life insurance companies has increased thanks to new ratings, "more robust" underwriting of loans and credit enhancements that reduce the risk of bondholders' losses, Richard Hill, a Stamford, Connecticut-based analyst at RBS said in a telephone interview.
More than $13 billion of the new type of CMBS was issued in the U.S. this year through July 14, he said. Buyers now tend to be "real money as opposed to fast money," he said, referring to the absence of collaterized debt obligation investors in the market. U.S. CMBS sales in 2007 totaled a record $232 billion.
Insurance companies have bought about 17.7 percent of so-called CMBS 2.0 and CMBS 3.0 bonds in the U.S. after revisions were made there, compared with 12.6 percent of the earlier version of the securities, Hill wrote in an April 11 report.
Europe will need to learn how to convince those same money managers and insurers to become buyers, Downey said.
"We have a generation of bankers that haven't had to sell to pension and life companies," Downey said. "People have to develop contacts, figure out what these investors want and tailor the product to their needs."


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By Giovanni Mezgec, GM, Lync Marketing
Last week, I attended Enterprise Connect 2013, the largest conference focusing on the unified communications industry. When Microsoft first came to this show many years ago, we were considered an outsider and many people wondered if our vision of using software to deliver a truly unified communications platform was even feasible.
It's clear now that we're considered a leader in unified communications, with a compelling enterprise voice platform and incredible customer momentum. During the conference, Derek Burney was able to give a live demonstration of Lync 2013 — proving that we've brought this unique vision to life. I encourage you to watch the keynote for a guided tour of the best that Lync has to offer.
This doesn't mean that our work is done and customers don't still have questions for us — the one I heard most at Enterprise Connect was about the Cloud and their desire to purchase Lync Enterprise Voice "as a Service." Having started with IM/P and perhaps Conferencing, many customers now see the advantages of consolidating their PBXs and using the full power of Lync for Enterprise Voice. However, they are unsure of how to move forward with their existing infrastructure without adding even more complexity to their environment.
The fact is, Lync allows enterprises to move to the Cloud today — on their terms and at their own pace. We enable this by working closely with Cloud Service Providers to let customer requirements determine if Lync should be managed in their own on-premise datacenter, hosted in a partner's cloud, or delivered by Lync Online as part of Microsoft Office 365.
On this topic, I want to highlight two announcements made at the conference from two of our strategic partners, AT&T and HP, who announced support for customers regardless of whether they choose to deploy Lync. These partners join other market leaders such as BT, Dimension Data, OBS and T-Systems, plus many other Lync Certified Support Partners to offer the IT integration, network management, and end-to-end support that makes Lync a fully reliable and scalable platform to meet your current and future communication needs.
If you are thinking about how to modernize your organization's communication platform, please contact your Microsoft account executive who, along with your preferred Service Provider, can get you started with an envisioning workshop and network assessment.


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