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- 06-30-13 01:23 PM #1Cadillac Owners Member
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2013 black raven paint issues
Does anyone else think the paint on their cts is poor? I find that it scratches very easily. I have even scratched it with a clean microfiber towel. I recently hit the trunklid with my fingernail which scratched the clearcoat and now I can't polish out the scratches. I have even noticed some dust and small hairs or lint in the factory paintjob here and there in places on the car. The car was purchased brand new from the dealer but the paint IMO sucks. I think gm should look into the type of paint they are spraying on the cadillac.
Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
Black paint shows everything.
That said,
These new waterbased paints are clearly inferior in durability, my 700 mile, 10/12 build date car is already trashed, something I'll be correcting with the 3m spray on clear bra hopefully, but if tiny imperfections bother you, I'm afraid that you bought the worst color possible.
Cadillac supposedly uses a ceramic clear that's very hard to polish, what kind of polish and method are you using?
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You re right-the black looks great, but I am too ocd for this color. I am just surprised as how easiy it scratches and the imperfections in the factory paint. I tried a 3m 3000 grit polish, a turtle war clear coat safe polish, and both did nothing to remove the surface scratches and in two cases scratched the clearcoat worse. I am not sure what to do to remove the scratches in the clear. I may take it to a detailer who did my window tinting.
Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
You will not perform corrections on GM Clear by hand. You need at a minimum M205/105 and a Random orbital like a 7424XP.
Unfortunately, all GM Ceramic clear I've had is like this. Easily damaged, hard to polish. I've no idea how they manged to do this, but Black Raven uses the same clear as the rest of the colors in the Cadillac Lineup. It's simply that it's a flat black that you notice everything.
You want some real advice?
Quit being so damn OCD. I was like you once, I fretted over the most minute imperfections, it drove me crazy, and at once point I was 6 months into an ordeal of 4 resprays on a certain rear bumper. Eventually though, I've grown to realize that the time I spent stressing on the car was better spent enjoying it and driving it.
No one will notice that there's a 2" scratch on the 1/4 panel. They'll 95% of the time see the car 20' away while passing, and when washed and polished, it'll look just as nice.
That's not to say I treat it like a work truck, but all the fiddly small paint chips and tiny scratches? They don't bother me anymore. The ATS I have now, if I were the same person I was a year go, would be at the dealer getting resprayed or corrected in some fashion.
These are not quarter million dollar ferrari's. Don't spend your time treating it as such. Drive it.
Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
My wife thinks the same as I wax the car every two weeks. I still think the paint scratches too easily. My 07 vettes paint was way more durable. Perhaps this is my last blk car. If gm still had the monterey red that my vette had i wouldn't have gotten black this time either. Until then I'll think about a car therapist for my ocd issues with the cars asthetics.
- 06-30-13 05:29 PM #6Cadillac Owners Connoisseur
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- 06-30-13 07:52 PM #7Cadillac Owners Fanatic
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Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
If I were you I would buy the black turtle wax kit, they have a bottle of black pre wax, which fills in a lot of little scratches and swirl marks, and then you can polish it with mequires or Zano(sp) wax. I have been trying to fiqure out where my scratches have been coming from and I'm going to blame it on the micro fibre towels,most of them are made out of polyester, that is like taking John travoltas shirt he wore in Saturday Night Fever and wrapping it up in a ball and polishing your car with it. You have to buy 100% cotton T-Shirts or cotton baby diapers. Now polyester would of done a beautiful job on some of the old cars which had a hard paint finish, but not on the new cars.
Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
I seen a brand new black SRX on the lot and the sun was hitting just right. You could all kinds of swirl marks in it from the dealer washing it.
- 06-30-13 09:17 PM #9Originally Posted by HGK2
My car looks great, but you can occasionally see a swirl mark (more like a line or two) if the sun hits it just right.
I owned white cars for most of my life, my last Acura was my first darker car (Carbon Grey) which took more work, but is no where near as bad as black.
When I was shopping for my coupe, I went into it thinking I was getting the White Diamond, and then I saw Black Raven and I started having second thoughts, and then was hooked when I saw Black Diamond.
- 07-01-13 01:24 AM #10Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
I have a 2010 Black Raven wagon, and I cringe every time I look at the paint close up in the garage. I know, flourescents bring out every detail in the paint. At first I thought the previous owner brought it through a car wash and managed to scratch it to hell. Its like razor blade thin scratches in consistent patterns all over the car. So I drove to my local dealership, saw another Raven car, and yep, just as bad.
The Meguiars Black wax helps, I got the 2 or 3 step kit, and it comes with black detailer. That stuff works and most scratches are hardly noticable unless you are close up or in the garage. But this was after a 2 bucket wash, clay bar, 3 different compounds/polishes, and about 5 coats of the multi step wax. Yes, I have a lot of free time on my hands lol. I find Black Raven looks way better than Black Diamond ONLY when it is clean. The Diamond hides everything, which will look better 90% of the time.
I blame it on the clear coat. I have a friend who owns a body shop, and when I have had enough of it (soon) we will wet sand and throw some (better) more clear coats on her.
Re: 2013 black raven paint issuesI have the black diamond and I think that tends to be a little more forgiving than Black Raven.
My Black Diamond Sedan could hide a small child in the paint.
- 07-01-13 10:33 AM #12Originally Posted by M5eater
Re: 2013 black raven paint issues
I had my one obligatory black Cadillac, just like I had to have a red Corvette. That said black was one in and then out. No more black for me. I have the switchblade silver which for the most part is very forgiving , but my garage has daylight bulbs which tend to highlight even the slightest imperfection. I switched to a synthetic wax that seems to fill in a lot of the scratches as long as they are just surface scratches. This makes the car a lot easier for me to live with.
I have no problem with the "Raven Black" color. You complainers did test ride the vehicle and was given the time to examine, did you not?
Enough already!!
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Oh yes, too many times to admit
Must be in the water in this part of the USA
Last year I bought a bunch of Tungten Matrix shotshells and a choke to use with an 870 before I even ordered my Wingmaster
I'm seriously thinking about collecting some Wilson Combat 47D's and a holster for a 1911 that I might not even buy for another 6 months...I think I've got compulsive tendencies
yes, yes I have... BUT, if you find a good deal on a piece of gear your going to buy anyway.... then why not? Your saving $$$ and time. If only makes sense...Right? Right? Sometimes I just can't help myself.... picking up a new gun is like waiting on xmas to get here, it brings out the kid in me :smt026
Me and a buddy bought some hi-cap Para Ord. magazines in the late 90's at a good price (at that time ) so we could use them in our still non-existant hi-cap .45's. But someday..................
Yep that's what I'm talking about.
Collecting toys with anticipation and stumbling across good deals
And heck, with the lead-time on some of the custom holsters I've seen, you almost need to order one a half year in advance.
So are ya' sayin' I need to go ahead and order a holster for the STI and P7M8 I don't own? .......................OK, I'll do it.
Well, I have a bunch of buckshot right now and no shotgun. I also recently eBayed some items for a gun I changed my mind about later on.
Yep. Several holsters and a range bag full of mags I picked up cheap in case I ever buy that gun.
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I refuse to answer on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me..........LOL
Well, yes. I've bought several pairs of handsome wood grips for which I had not gun at the time. Also bought a hammer for a Ruger Blackhawk that I did not have. Left it on my desk a couple of weeks, and blamed if I didn't stumble across not one, but two, Rugers in need of re-working.
Now if I leave a part out, my wife asks if a new gun is going to "materialize."
Bob Wright
Just bought $150. worth of ammo. for a .45 auto I haven't purchased yet. And I don't have any other .45's. I'm layin' down a deposit on the gun tomorrow though. Will pick it up in a couple weeks.
Sure did I came a cross several H&K P7K3 .380 mags in a discount bin at a local gun shop bought all of them for like $20.00. One day Ill come a cross a K3 for sale that I can afford.
Can't say I ever done that but I have bought a bunch of junk for guns I bought. Most of it I still got. Just last night I bought two 10 round clips for my 1911 and found out today they are junk. You think I would have learned my now, not to buy on inpulse.
Yup!Have you ever bought accessories for a gun before you bought the gun?
I've got dies and brass for the S&W 460 I don't have.
I buy holsters all the time for future guns. It's my way of reasoning with myself. If I have the holster then I better get the gun or I wasted money on a holster.
Years ago I ordered a holster from Ken L. Null for my Bersa Thunder 45. Ken borrowed a Bersa pistol to do the fitting but the pistol was a Bersa Thunder .380. The holster came and it was a piece of art. I kept it because I had an interest in the Bersa Thunder .380; I shopped and found a Bersa Thunder .380. This is one of the best mistakes I have been a party to. Why? The Bersa Thunder .380 is a great handgun. Regards, Richard


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Building up alt/grassroots media would be nice to get a reply :)
Hi guys,
Good to get a reply about this project from you.
OMN is a network of Open Media Sites.
The currency (value) of the web is the link without linking content (no matter how good) it has little/no value online and will likely not be seen offline.
Left wing and progressive sites DO NOT LINK and share content with each other. This leads them to have little or no value outside the bubble/echo chambers. And we are surprised and depressed when we always loose, there is nothing surprising about this, but there is something depressing about it.
Why is the OMN different to all the other activist tech failed projects.
The top 5:
1) It's based on the #4opens, meaning it doesn't have the buy-in issue of NGO's and dotcons and can spread as wildly as the original WWW if people start to use it/build it out.
2) It's KISS, that is simple and standards based, so open to be built-out in unseen directions and open to wide creativity.
3) It's not under the control of one group and is a universal in its subject matter, so can build and link many niches to link a real alternative.
4) It solidifies a morality of co-operation and trust rather than fear and compation.
5) It gives the tech/grassroots #fashionista's something useful to do and promote at their events.
Hi Hamish,
Aren't Real Media doing this anyway, linking all media groups together? Afraid I'm not techie enough to understand what OMN is, how it's different, or any of the points you've made, but I'm happy to go along with what everyone else decides if it can be explained in plain English!
Hi XXXX,
We have done some "user story's" https://github.com/Openmedianetwork/OMN/wiki/user-storys hope this helps get away from the tech :)
This is a part list of current working roll-out https://github.com/tomspost/OMN/wiki your content already appears as links on all these sites as you post it.
The realmedia site/project is version of the visionontv project we were fund-raising and trying to build 10 years ago. Fine for the silo it is but the world has moved on.
All current successful projects are networks or in the case of the #dotcon social networks (closed) sudo networks.
Currently the OMN is the only bud of a network we have in place in the alt/progressive.
What dues the OMN mean for the XXXX
Nothing has to change in what you do if you don't want to do more.
To be part of the network you add a easy OMN sidebar/section/page to your existing site with the content flow you are interested in from any OMN site.
At the moment the is just the one/first that covers the best of grassroots media from a UK focus so use that one http://omn.openworlds.info:8080
That's it, you can do more if you like but don't have to.
What this means is that your site will link and share content with other grassroots/alt media sites on there sidebar/section/pages.
Your content as you publish it on your site will appear (you do not have to do anything for this to work) on many other OMN sidebars/sections/pages on other sites and blogs.
What we are talking about is building huge distribution outside Facebook. You can, and should continue to use Facebook etc. what the OMN dues is start to build independent and horizontal alternative that runs/expands in parallel, its working now.
Am more than happy to help set-up the embed in your wordpress site, will take 20 min.
Be the first of the 4 alt/grassroots media sites to take the step ;)
Just in case you are worried about security of your site all scripting is striped from the articles and links and the embed is a standard plug-in that comes from the wordpress market that 1000's of people have been using for years with out any issues.
Its mature and safe tech that just works.
I have been talking about the fashernisatas for the last few years, its an idea/group that I have been struggling to work with my whole time in the alt/grassroots. So what is a #fahernista? A group of individuals who value/push there own individual advancement over the needs of the croup and community, generally they do not realise or see that they are doing this. This has the end affect of diluting and killing off possible alternatives and selling "grassroots" to NGO's and corporatist agenda's. #fashernista takeing over projects in hand with the geek problem's has lead to endless dead-ends in all alt/grassroots tech. Most recently this has manifested in encrypt everything, bitcoin/blockchain ect. this is a dead end. The #OMN linking project is basic tech that I have been working on for more than 10 years, in past times the has been more interesting tech/social problems in alt/grassroots media to work on so linking has taken a back seat as its basic stuff. At this stage we only have the basics left. Lets take a first step linking alt/grassroots producers, and build tools to push this into a #rebooted open web to start the needed move out of the #dotcon ghetto's. Lets try as hard as we can to avoid #fahernisa take over of this basic #reboot. #fahernista will set-up parallel projects, raise parallel funding, push these into the traditional media and dominate the #dotcon conversation. Non of this inevitable pointless #fahernista noise should distract from the basics, as it will just flash bang and fad into nothing. Keep the basics going, linking, building. In the long term the rest is noise, distraction, for the conspiracy minded its our very own "false flag". Hummm... how to spot drift into the #fahernisat agenda?
The is a strong anti-dote in the #4opens
How to move on with alt/grassroots media producers linking to each other? Currently the shamelessly do not do this, even though they have repeatedly stated they do over the last 5 years.
1) Keep private messaging them on steps they can take, this works to an extent, as asked them to add more tags to their posts and they "broke" the User Interface on the #OMN software we are using by adding lots more – which is a good problem to have :)
2) Publicly talk to them as a alt/grassroots media group in blog post and their social media – this currently has little affect.
3) Talk to them in public as producer groups – this has had a limited affect with some of the groups, will try this more.
4) Public talk to them as individual's, this will generally get a private response and little action just words so far.
5) Name them as groups who do not link/share in public, this might be needed for some of the groups.
6) Name them as individuals within the producer groups and push for linking directly to them in public, name and point to the individual that this is a clear #fail a last stage.
Its a shame that this escalation is needed - linking is a clear path to success on the web – the right-wing blogs/producers do this, its a blank faced #fail that the left/progressive do not now and generally never have.
"Make the world you wont to see" LINKING is a strong path to this.
Looking for helpful/happy people to crowed source the active conversation to make this happen.
Lets start with these groups.
The Canary
Reel Media
Real News
The OMN is an open network so we call each of the sites "nodes" as they are small parts of the wider World Wide Web (WWW). Openworlds is the first node/site of the network, currently with links to 10 embeds on sites as an initial soft roll out. We are aiming to expand this out up to 100 sites over the summer for the hard launch.
If you have a web site and want to play a part in this "soft roll out" go to openworlds
Step 1: If you are interested in only some subjects or groups, click on group tags (with @ in front) and/or subject tags. You can choose as many as you like and then only these will show up in your river embed. Then click the RSS link.
Step 2: Take the URL of the RSS feed, in the new window that opens. Go to your CMS/site/blog and install a RSS display/widget and add the RSS URL to it. You can use the formatting options to change the number of items and what info to display to make it look nice.
That's it for now, your site is now a part of a open alt/grassroots media network. Playing a role in linking and cooperating to build a progressive worldview empowering people to build a better world.
A first step to reboot alt/grassroots media land an update on were we are on the OMN (open media network) linking project.
* The is a node/site up http://omn.openworlds.info:8080/
* This currently has 10 embeds https://github.com/tomspost/OMN/wiki on sites as a soft roll out
* we are aiming to expand this out to 100 sites over the summer for the hard launch
We bring good content in and push it out as links on site sidebars/sections on these sites. To make this work better the producer sites need to add more subject tags to posts as embedding sites can use these to display content flows they like ie. the more tags the more shared views for producer sites.
For a lose time scale of the project http://bit.ly/2mUDA3f
Howto use the OMN
This is a first step of a longer project.
Goto http://omn.openworlds.info:8080
1) You can click on the RSS feed button to get a news river for your site, this will link to articles from all the feeds in the node/site.
2) If you are interested in only some subjects or groups click on group tags (with @ in front) and/or subject tags. You can chose as many as you like and then only these will show up in your river embed. Then click the RSS link.
3) Take the URL of the RSS feed, in the new window that opens. Go to your CMS/site/blog and install a RSS display/widget and add the RSS URL to it. You can use the formatting options to change the number of items and what info to display.
That's it for now.
Your site is now a part of a open alt/grassroots media network. Planing a role in linking up and cooperating to build a progressive world view. To empower people to build a better world.
Its not the people we should be angry at for the current Brixet/Trump mess, it is the small/tiny number of people who pushed neo-liberal polices through for the last 30 years, probably a few thousand.
The people rebelled, yes, they could have rebelled to the left or the right, they rebelled to the right as the right were more competent in the face of the lefts divisions and general uselessness. Be angry with these few and make friends with the majority who decide our future.
And the left stop this divided uselessness, we need a left reboot, keep it KISS currently few "ideas" on the left are worth much. A good first step for the left is for groups to link to each other and share media and events, work out KISS "liberal" diversity of tactics and co-operate.
Stop the rot and start the composting.
The OMN rollout is a 10 step process
Rollout a single node to link alt media and share content to 100 sites.
Rollout full social taging flows and start the offline backup, start to move away from the dotcons.
The openweb grows into the semantic web, the dotcons become history.
Time scale
* This could take a year with support and full on effort
* 2 years with interest and some geek commitment
* 5 years with active BLOCKING and geek's turning away and doing something "better".
* It will FAIL if the alt/grassroots groups don't links to each other and each tries/pushes to be the "one" ie if we strive for the same dotcon working in alt/grassroots media.
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as "open" rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project.
Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts video CD project. With the transitioning from dialup to broadband internet speed the was a possibility to move the the distribution of screening quality video to the spreading peer2peer web.As you will continue to see thought my narration here my core thinking changes little.
The first dotcon (enclosures) boom had bust, the web was still a health open network through the "open" pioneers were being pushed out by more mainstream fahernisata people, these people were being snapped up by the next wave of dotcon funding so the clock was ticking on the next boom (and attempt as enclosing the web for control and profit).
Fashernisa´s were all over the open web, conferences, events, media. Geeks were developing open standards - each one unlinked/incompatible with the next it was a "fun" time for "open". This flowering of geek culture had its fashernista side, the were 100 applications for zipping files or FTP and no easy to use open tools - the geek problem.
P from undercurrents got involved to do the funding side, a lot of "brainstorming" was done. During this time we see a "splitting" of the project. It was obvious that streaming video - that is a technology for watching video real time without having a local copy was going to grow to dominate the next dotcon boom and the fashionistas were buying into this big time. This is a client server technology - from one to many - its old (traditional) media distribution. At the same time the was a subculture flowering or peer2peer technology being used for "free content" this was a "native" open web technology.
The "splitting" was around a miscommunication/misunderstanding of what was going to happen in the next 5 years. And "funding" pushed this in a bad way, it was easy to talk to funders about "online video" it was fahernista mainstream. Few had any thought to the "cost" of jumping on the #dotconS fahernista wave. And in time the rise of the #dotcons from the second boom that was rising for all to see.
The "brainstorming" lead to the project being renamed visionOntv - just for the funding and outreach - much easier to get funding. Why would anyone be interested in offlinetv and peer2peer technologies all the value was about "owning" online space. That is enclosing the commons was unthinkingly embraced as a good thing - a touch on controlfreekery.
This simple change was the first step to the project losing direction and failing.
The is an issue of fast flowing (lower quality) news sites dominating over slower flowing (quality) sites on short 5/10 story sidebars on the #OMN
To get round this the are a number of options:
But for this to work in nodes (sites/hubs) with lots of source feeds we will need a rolling group RSS polling update system say 5 or 10 feeds at a time, divided into the total polling time frame.
So a site has 30 feeds polling ones per hour than it will divide this into 3 groups of 10 feeds and pole these in turns ever 20 min so that the feeds are undated ones per hour but in 3 different groups so that the is a turn over of content for the feed for option 1) to maximize slower site flows getting linked to in the #OMN
A second option that we do now on the node dispay iis we randomize the content in site flow feeds, this will give a wider view of older content and will even out faster/slower feed flows to bring diversity. But you wont get time based "news".
What we do now, we show content in liner order, however due to the way that RSS polling works the updates will be in groups and faster updating sites will dominate over slower updating sites. This is far from satisfactory, as it rewords sites that "game" the system by scatter gun publishing publishing lower quality content.


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Four months after huge protests against the military junta which rules Myanmar, the nation's independence from Great Britain will be celebrated in Rangoon as thousands of police and soldiers observe the scene. Residents watched as hundreds of police gathered at bus stops, railroad stations, and other places where large numbers of people might congregate. The junta's leader, General Than Thew called for building a "discipline-flourishing democratic state." Meanwhile, members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), whose leader Aung San Sui Kyi, has spent most of the past 12 years under house arrest, stood quietly outside their party headquarters wearing the prison uniform of dark blue longyi and pale blue shirts with the words, "Fee Political Prisoners" on the back. In another attempt to crush access to information, the Burmese government increased fees for satellite TV from $6 to $1,000.
The sixty or so monks who will participate in the "celebration" of their nation's independence will be a far cry from the thousands who demonstrated four months ago. The military junta remains firmly in power, the world is silent about Burma, and life goes on its normal course of events. What ever happened to a UN attempt to help restore freedom to the Burmese people?


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'"He jumped off the ice to hit me, and he extended his arms," Mironov said later at the Air Canada Center, referring to Mair. "At the last second, I saw him and I moved my head. If he hit me straight, he probably would have knocked me out and I spend the night in the hospital."'
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'"It's something that if I needed to I could play through it," Kaleta said. "I've been better. It's my first practice in a long time. Obviously, I'm going to have to work a little bit to get my conditioning back, but that's the least of my worries right now."'
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Prisoner Update Processing System (PUPS), SSA/OPB
Effective Date: March 8, 1999
System number: 60-0269
System Name:
Prisoner Update Processing System (PUPS), SSA/OPB
Security Classification:
System Location:
Social Security Administration
Office of Systems Operations
6401 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21235
Categories of individuals covered by the system:
Persons reported to the Social Security Administration, under Privacy Act computer matching agreements as well as certain informal reporting arrangements, as confined in certain institutions. Certain data regarding confined individuals is reported to SSA under agreements which are, along with any information exchanged pursuant to the agreements, wholly exempt from the Privacy Act's requirements. See section 1611(e)(1)(I) of the Social Security Act (Act), 42 U.S.C. 1386(e)(i)(I). The records in the system will include those of individuals reported by jails, prisons, other penal institutions or correctional facilities, certain mental health institutions and various third parties, including media sources. The records included will be those of Retirement, Survivors, or Disability Insurance (RSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries, as well as non-beneficiaries who may have claims in some stage of SSA's adjudicative process.
Categories of records in the system:
PUPS will contain all identifying information requested by SSA and supplied by the reporting source, including the individual's name, Social Security number, date of birth, sex, date of conviction, date of confinement, release date, inmate status code, and such other information as may be supplied or acquired during the benefit suspension or reinstatement process.
Authority for maintenance of the system:
Sections 202(x)(1) and 1611(e)(1) of the Act.
PUPS will record inmate information in support of the above cited provisions mandating nonpayment of RSDI and SSI benefits to certain confined individuals. All information on the system will be maintained under each affected individual's Social Security number. The PUPS system will expedite the handling of inmate reports in SSA field offices, and provide a control mechanism for any inmate or confinement alerts generated by SSA's computer matching programs or by informal reports to SSA regarding an individual's confinement. It will facilitate the suspension of benefits to appropriate individuals, and the reinstatement of benefits to beneficiaries when such individuals are released from confinement.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purposes of such uses:
Disclosure may be made for routine uses as indicated below:
1. Disclosure to third-party contacts in situations where the party to be contacted has, or is expected to have, information relating to the individual's eligibility for, or entitlement to, benefits under a Social Security program when the data are needed to establish the validity of evidence or to verify the accuracy of information presented by the individual, and it concerns one or more of the following:
(a) his or her eligibility for benefits under a Social Security program;
(b) the amount of his or her benefit payment;
(c) any case in which the evidence is being reviewed as a result of suspected fraud, concern for program integrity, quality appraisal, or evaluation and measurement activities.
2. Disclosure to third-party contacts where necessary to establish or verify information presented by representative payees or payee applicants.
3. Disclosure to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for:
(a) investigating and prosecuting violations of the Act to which criminal penalties attach;
(b) representing the Commissioner of Social Security;
(c) investigating issues of fraud by agency officers or employees, or violations of civil rights.
4. Disclosure to the Office of the President for the purpose of responding to an individual pursuant to an inquiry received from that individual or from a third party on his/her behalf.
5. Disclosure to a congressional office in response to an inquiry from that office made at the request of the subject of a record.
6. Disclosure in response to legal process or interrogatories relating to the enforcement of an individual's child support or alimony obligations, as required under sections 459 and 461 of the Act.
7. Disclosure to Federal, State, or local agencies, (or agents on their behalf) for administering income-maintenance or health-maintenance programs (including programs under the Act).
8. Disclosure to third-party contacts (including private collection agencies under contract to SSA) for the purpose of assisting SSA in recovering overpayments.
9. Disclosure to contractors and other Federal agencies, as necessary, for the purpose of assisting SSA in the efficient administration of its programs.
10. Disclosure to DOJ, a court or other tribunal, or other third party before such tribunal when:
(a) SSA, or any component thereof; or
(b) Any SSA employee in his/her official capacity; or
(c) Any SSA employee in his/her individual capacity where DOJ (or SSA where it is authorized to do so) has agreed to represent the employee; or
(d) the
is a party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and SSA determines that the use of such records by DOJ, the court or other tribunal is relevant and necessary to the litigation, provided, however, that in each case, SSA determines that such disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which the records were collected.
11. Non-tax return information which is not restricted from disclosure by federal law may be disclosed to the General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Archives and Records Management (NARA) under 44 U.S.C. § 2904 and § 2906, as amended by NARA Act of 1984, for the use of those agencies in conducting records management studies.
12. We may disclose information to appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, entities, and persons when (1) we suspect or confirm that the security or confidentiality of information in this system of records has been compromised; (2) we determine that as a result of the suspected or confirmed compromise there is a risk of harm to economic or property interests, identity theft or fraud, or harm to the security or integrity of this system or other systems or programs of SSA that rely upon the compromised information; and (3) we determine that disclosing the information to such agencies, entities, and persons is necessary to assist in our efforts to respond to the suspected or confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize, or remedy such harm. SSA will use this routine use to respond only to those incidents involving an unintentional release of its records.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining and disposing of records in the system:
Records are stored in magnetic media (e.g., magnetic tape and magnetic diskette).
Records in this system are indexed and retrieved by SSN.
Security measures include the use of access codes to enter the computer system which will maintain the data, and storage of the computerized records in secured areas which are accessible only to employees who require the information in performing their official duties. SSA personnel who have access to the data will be informed of the criminal penalties of the Privacy Act for unauthorized access to or disclosure of information maintained in this system. For records electronically transmitted between SSA's central office and field office locations, safeguards include a lock/unlock password system, exclusive use of leased telephone lines, a terminal oriented transaction matrix and secured printers.
Retention and disposal:
SSA will retain PUPS records for the period of time required for any processing related to the relevant data exchange and then, within 12 months, will either return the records to the source or destroy the records, unless the records must be retained in individual claim folders for documentation purposes and/or to meet evidentiary requirements. In that instance, the records eventually will be retired to the Federal Records Center and destroyed, in accordance with the applicable Federal Records Retention Schedule (44 U.S.C. 3303a) and any other relevant standards established by SSA and the National Archives and Records Administration.
System manager and address:
Division of Payment Policy
Office of Program Benefits
Social Security Administration
6401 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, Maryland 21235
Notification procedure:
An individual can determine if this system contains a record about him/her by writing to the systems manager(s) at the above address and providing his/her name, SSN or other information that may be in the system of records that will identify him/her. An individual requesting notification of records in person should provide the same information, as well as provide an identity document, preferably with a photograph, such as a driver's license or some other means of identification, such as a voter registration card, credit card, etc. If an individual does not have any identification documents sufficient to establish his/her identity, the individual must certify in writing that he/she is the person claimed to be and that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense.
If notification is requested by telephone, an individual must verify his/her identity by providing identifying information that parallels the record to which notification is being requested. If it is determined that the identifying information provided by telephone is insufficient, the individual will be required to submit a request in writing or in person. If an individual is requesting information by telephone on behalf of another individual, the subject individual must be connected with SSA and the requesting individual in the same phone call. SSA will establish the subject individual's identity (his/her name, SSN, address, date of birth and place of birth along with one other piece of information such as mother's maiden name) and ask for his/her consent in providing information to the requesting individual.
If a request for notification is submitted by mail, an individual must include a notarized statement to SSA to verify his/her identity or must certify in the request that he/she is the person claimed to be and that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 CFR § 401.40).
Record access procedures:
Same as notification procedures. Requesters should also reasonably specify the record contents being sought. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations 20 CFR Section 401.45.
Contesting record procedures:
Same as notification procedures. Requesters should also reasonably identify the record, specify the information they are contesting and state the corrective action sought and the reasons for the correction with supporting justification showing their reasons for believing that the record should be amended. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations 20 CFR Section 401.65.
Record source categories:
Data for the PUPS are secured primarily from various facilities with which SSA has appropriate arrangements for reporting of such information including jails, prisons, other penal institutions or correctional facilities, departments or divisions of corrections or correctional services, and certain mental health facilities. Data is also reported by individuals and certain other third party sources, such as news media, etc.
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Food is such an important part of all our lives. In Australia we are lucky enough to view food as something enjoyable, and in many ways taken for granted. It is not the desperate necessity for life that is is in so many places, such as in Africa, where millions are in very dire straits.
Unfortunately, due to this abundance, The Australia Institute research shows that Australians waste more than $5 billion of food each year. There is a major cost to the environment when the endpoint of production is wasted as well as the cost to the individual families.
There is also the 'waste' that occurs because we decide we have to use what we have and overeat. Both of these topics are well covered throughout the media so I am going to diverge to another aspect of food which is of concern to me.
This is of diversity of food, particularly food plants. When I was a child (many moons ago) most people I knew had a vegetable garden. This was used for the family and extras were swapped around the neighbourhood. There were many hours spent in the garden with my Grandmother setting out new lettuce plants each week so we had a constant supply and also in the kitchen where we bottled fruit and put up vegetables so we would have a supply all year around. my Grandmother was from England and had lived through WW2. Living in Brisbane we didn't really ever have the winters she had seen in England or even the ones in Goulburn New South Wales which is where she and my Father lived from 1949 after emigrating.
As the vegetables and fruit were grown in close proximity to where they were being used, there was no problem with transport or with the vegetables having softer skins.There also used to be variety in the vegetables with many different types of beans, tomatoes, strawberries etc.
Since the disappearance of the home vegetable gardener the diversity of tomatoes particularly has decreased with the commercially produced fruit having thicker skins. This mean they survive the distances travelled between farm to market to table but are nothing like the soft skinned tomatoes i remember from my childhood. They also have decreased flavour.
The Irish used potatoes as the staple to feed the growing population. Specifically, they planted the "lumper" potato variety. As potatoes don't grow from seed but from eyes off a potato all the potatoes were genetically identical to one another. As there was no genetic variation they were less able to adapt to changing environmental conditions and were particularly susceptible to the Potato Blight.
Back to our tomatoes, there are places such as Eden Seeds where you can buy different varieties for your garden. They seed bank and collect heritage seeds. They have 168 varieties of tomato seeds from around the world. Types such as the Eva Purple Ball. The description from their website is " heirloom of the Black Forest region of Germany. Fine texture, does well in hot humid areas, resistance to diseases, from late 1800's" At A$3.20 for 40 seeds the best money you will spend for flavour. Or there is the Green Zebra, Earl of Edgecombe and Purple Calabash varieties to name just a few for you to try.
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In these troubled economic times it makes sense to go back even if just in a small way to the vegetable gardens we knew as as children. There are numerous advantages which include teaching the children of today how food is grown (it also has a side benefit in that the children are more likely to eat something they have grown themselves!), it decreases waste, it decreases the carbon footprint because you are not transporting the vegetables long distance.
It also can increase community spirit. this has been particularly true in England where there has been a resurgence in Alotment gardens . Or at the very least you can share your excess vegetables amongst your neighbours.
It is perhaps time to bring back the slogan that was seen in World War 2. It is as true today as it was then.


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Boffins: Give up on CO2 cuts, only geoengineering can work
Ordinary eco-efforts a foolish distraction
Top British climate boffins have said that the only practical hope for arresting global warming is the use of "geoengineering" - techniques intended to reduce the effects of CO2 emissions, as opposed to reducing the CO2 emissions themselves.
The scientists add that not only are large emissions cuts politically and diplomatically unfeasible, but that geoengineering would actually be cheaper and easier.
The new arguments come from Professor Peter Cox, Met Office Chair in climate system dynamics at Exeter Uni, and Hazel Jeffery, a major bigwig at the UK Natural Environment Research Council. The pair presented the case for geoengineering in an article for Physics World yesterday.
Following on from a recent review of geoengineering techniques carried out for the Royal Society, Cox and Jeffery outline the various strategies which have been put forward - generally efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere or to reflect sunlight back into space.
According to the two scientists, so-called "conventional mitigation" - that is, the curbing of CO2 emissions - is highly unlikely to be implemented effectively by the whole human race, and even if it is it won't work.
Even if global CO2 emissions are cut by 50% by 2050, this now seems unlikely to be enough to keep global warming below 2°C this century ... global CO2 emissions have continued to climb despite growing concerns over climate change. Given that conventional mitigation now appears insufficient to avoid dangerous climate change, do we have a plan B? This is the motivation for geoengineering.
Cox and Jeffery say that most climate scientists have until lately refused to discuss geoengineering as it might seem to allow continued or even increased carbon emissions - generally seen as totally unacceptable among specialists in the field.
Discussion of geoengineering proposals remained taboo among mainstream climate scientists until 2006... The primary reason there has been so little debate about geoengineering amongst climate scientists is concern that such a debate would imply an alternative to reducing the human carbon footprint.


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By Pria Whitehead
A couple of weeks ago, I cited Michael Ellsberg and Ezra Klein in a post about questions surrounding higher education in the U.S. I'd like to return briefly to Klein's article, which appeared in both Bloomberg and The Washington Post, in which he asserts that the migration to Wall Street among recent liberal arts graduates is indicative of the "failure" of liberal arts programs to administer a useful education to their students.
One of my first encounters with this article occurred in conversation with a friend who, himself a Harvard graduate and Bay Area entrepreneur, wholly disagreed with Klein's premise. My friend had rather fervently disputed Klein's dismissal of liberal arts classes in "subjects like English literature and history and political science, all of which are fine and interesting, but none of which leave you with marketable skills" (Klein). "What about the fact that I learned how to write, argue and persuade in college?" my friend had asked. "Does he think I could have started a successful business without learning how to write?"
Klein's argument is compelling insofar as it provides a framework for understanding the draw of the finance industry for recent college grads, but the careful construction of this framework is perhaps too quickly subjugated to a fairly antiseptic dichotomy between the liberal arts and the world of finance. Granted, Klein is not the first to have imagined this dichotomy. In the article itself, he cites a 2008 commencement speech by the president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust, in which Faust himself denounces the finance industry's "all but irresistible recruiting juggernaut." But in Klein's very denunciation of an incongruity between the categories of finance and the liberal arts is an avid affirmation of – and, perhaps, contribution to – their mutual alienation.
When Klein describes the early Wall Street career as "a practical graduate school," he seems to be referring to its compensatory pragmatism for the individual rather than to its wider social application. This individual-centric approach appears only partially fair, as it neglects the notions of accountability and cooperation inherent to any career – and perhaps especially to a career in the finance industry, which is responsible for managing massive proportions of the world's wealth.
Yale economics professor Robert Shiller, who notoriously predicted the stock market and real estate bubbles of the past decade, appeared at the Commonwealth Club last month to discuss the rationale for his book Finance and the Good Society (Listen to the MP3 of Shiller's speech). In the book, Shiller urges readers to recognize the fundamental and large-scale contributions of the finance industry to the management of our economic, social and political assets and objectives. Though sympathetic to the criticism of the finance industry, Shiller argued in his talk that "there is a fundamental problem with being so angry at finance," and proceeded to outline the contributions of financial capitalism to global progress. "There are some people," he continued, "that scare others. They haven't committed any crimes yet … but … unless they commit a crime they're going to be out there, so we have to design a system that is nice, that encourages them to be constructive."
Based on Shiller's remarks, it would seem that society could draw a wider framework around the finance industry – a framework that wholly incorporates and, in some way, incentivizes social responsibility. Our system of capitalism is largely based on a correlation – not an opposition – between social good and financial gain. The fact that this balance is capable of going horribly awry suggests a reconsideration of the ways in which these two things, good and gain, might work together.
Assuming, as Klein argues, that an early-stage job in finance constitutes a type of education, perhaps it would be constructive to conceive of this kind of job as a continuation of, rather than an alternative to, a learning process. While questions surrounding the value of college institutions are paramount, the fact is that the liberal arts remain an integral part of many youngsters' educations; one can speculate on a variety of academic and non-academic skills that such an education might hone. Perhaps a step in the right direction would be to take the numbers* that Klein cited – however astounding they may be – as a given, and figure out how better to make them work to our advantage as a society.
* "In December, the New York Times' Catherine Rampell asked Harvard, Yale and Princeton for data on the professions their graduates were entering. As of 2011, finance remained the most popular career for Harvard graduates, sucking up 17 percent of those who went from college to a full-time job. At Yale, 14 percent of the 2010 graduating class, and at Princeton, 35.9 percent, were headed into finance."


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Cox Wins Twice as Green Bay Falls to Toledo 5-2
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's tennis team (7-2) was dealt a 5-2 loss at the hands of Toledo (13-6) on Sunday in a neutral-site contest at the Helfaer Tennis Center in Milwaukee.
Senior Craig Cox (Surrey, England) had a strong match for the Phoenix, first pairing up with classmate Erik Finkenbrink (Duelmen, Germany) for an 8-6 victory at No. 1 doubles over Tomas Stillman and Nicky Wong for Green Bay's lone doubles win, then earning a come-from-behind win over Francisco Stuardo (5-7, 7-6, 6-2) at No. 3 singles.
Sophomore Michael Tenzer (Neuried, Germany) also picked up a singles win at No. 1, rolling past Stillman 6-1, 6-2.
Green Bay continues its road stretch this weekend with a pair of tough matches. The Phoenix first travels to face No. 71 Purdue on Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind. (3 p.m. CT), then heads to Milwaukee to take on Marquette on Sunday at noon.
Toledo 5, Green Bay 2
No. 1 - Michael Tenzer (GB) def. Tomas Stillman (UT) 6-1, 6-2
No. 2 - Grant Adams (UT) def. Erik Finkenbrink (GB) 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 - Craig Cox (GB) def. Francisco Stuardo (UT) 5-7, 7-6, 6-2
No. 4 - Nicky Wong (UT) def. Leopold Gomez Islinger (GB) 6-4, 6-3
No. 5 - Terence Weigand (UT) def. Joey Leto (GB) 6-4, 6-3
No. 6 - Bryant Dudzik (UT) def. Rowan Isaaks (GB) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
No. 1 - Erik Finkenbrink/Craig Cox (GB) def. Tomas Stillman/Nicky Wong (UT) 8-6
No. 2 - Francisco Stuardo/Grant Adams (UT) def. Michael Tenzer/Howard Scott (GB) 9-7
No. 3 - Bryant Dudzik/Ryan Jorgensen (UT) def. Michael Tebon/Rowan Isaaks (GB) 8-5
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If you select the P/NP option, you must complete all coursework and attendance requirements assigned by the instructor;
All regulations concerning probation and disqualification apply to P/NP courses;
You may choose to apply to the associate degree with no more than 16 units of P-graded classes;
Courses specifically required for your major may not be evaluated by the P-grade;
The P/NP option is not intended to be reversible; and
If you intend to transfer to a university, be aware that most universities require letter grades in transfer courses. Universities may not accept P/NP evaluation.