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New London adjusts to life with no financial cushion
New London - If the city is hit by a natural disaster before next July or municipal departments spend more than they have in their budgets, taxpayers could be in trouble.
That's because the city has just $312,000 in its fund balance.
"The city has absolutely no cushion,'' said Finance Director Jeffrey Smith. "We run the risk of running out of cash."
Smith said no department can overspend its budget and the city must collect all the revenue it expects to receive during the current fiscal year.
On Tuesday, Smith presented the City Council with preliminary numbers after closing the 2011-12 budget. It showed city departments had overspent the $42 million general government budget by just over $1.6 million. The city also collected about $3 million less than it estimated it would receive in revenues. The Board of Education returned about $31,000 to the city.
The nearly $4.7 million deficit was plugged with cash from the city's fund balance. Another $1.3 million was taken out of the fund balance to cover a deficit in the 2010-11 budget. Two years ago, the fund balance had about $6 million in it. It now has just over $300,000.
"This puts the city in a very precarious situation,'' Smith said.
It make good fiscal sense to keep money in a fund balance, according to the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. It can be used in case of emergencies, such as replacing a fire truck or other unexpected expenditures.
James J. Finley, executive director of the CCM, said most towns in the state try to keep at least 5 percent of their budget in a fund balance.
"But a lot of communities are not able to reach 5 percent because they're trying to keep their property taxes down," he said. "Education costs are increasing, state support is decreasing. Communities have to do a balancing act."
It is especially difficult for municipalities like New London, which are small and provide regional services, such as hospitals, transportation, courts; and recreation, such as Ocean Beach Park.
"New London is one of the many cities in Connecticut that is geographically small and doesn't have property tax wealth to meet all its service needs,'' Finley said. "That's why state aid is so important."
In New London, the adopted policy is to keep 8.3 percent of the budget in the fund balance, or about $6 million. Municipalities can increase a fund balance in various ways, including by saving year-end surpluses and by taxing residents.
A healthy fund balance can also help a city get better interest rates when it goes out to borrow money for large projects. Bonding agencies look for trends in a municipality's finances to help determine interest rates.
The more money you have saved, the better your interest rate, according to Mark Oefinger, the Groton town manager, who oversees a roughly $120 million budget with about $9 million in fund balance. Groton applied $1.5 million from its fund balance to this year's budget to keep its tax increase to about 7 percent. It was a 1.33 mill increase.
"It defies logic,'' he said. "A fund balance shouldn't be complicated, but it is.''
Oefinger said if there's too much money in a fund balance, critics say the municipality is overtaxing its residents. If the balance is too low, the town runs the risk of having to pay for borrowing.
"I'm very conservative,'' said Oefinger. Money that departments save at the end of the year is put into fund balance, he said. Unanticipated revenues can also be added to the fund balance.
"It's all in there and hopefully you never have to use it,'' he said.
In New London, where the $42 million general government budget is up for a referendum Sept. 18, there are no provisions to increase the fund balance. Smith said the city is working on a plan to start increasing its savings.
"It's a big business we're running,'' Smith said, adding that municipal budgets are not as simple as a home budget.
"A lot of people will personalize the budget to small things, like how much someone makes or how much a car costs,'' he said.
The public should instead focus on the level of services the city provides. If the services are adequate, it will cost a certain amount of money.
"We need a more global approach,'' he said. "Are we providing services in the most efficient and effective manner?"
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Vicetone feat. Daniel Gidlund - Chasing Time
October 04, 2013
Making a quick rise in the game of EDM, you could say that time is definitely on the side of the Vicetone boys. The youngster, Dutch rooted, present the long-awaited follow-up to the smashing 'Stars'. Blending the styles once again, rocking about, is 'Chasing Time'. It all started with some unofficial remixes.
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Lots of people associate the idea of a rodeo with the American West – Texas, Oklahoma, someplace dusty, hot, and dotted with cacti. And while rodeo is most certainly a big hit out west, it has deep roots here in the Sunshine State as well. Florida, after all, has been home to a thriving cattle industry for centuries. Native Americans and the Spanish were raising cows as early as the 1500s, long before organized ranching arrived in what would become known as the American West. As new settlers arrived and the era of Spanish ownership came to an end, the herds remained, changed hands many times, and continued to serve as a valuable source of food and trade.
Rodeo developed partly out of the practical needs of a farm or cattle ranch, and partly because the tasks involved naturally lend themselves to competition and spectacle. Roping, herding, and branding cattle, breaking wild horses, and overall dexterity in the saddle were all basic needs of even the earliest cattle ranch hands. The events of modern rodeos are closely related to these traditional skills.
Aside from serving as a demonstration of skill, rodeos have a strong social element that brings together communities like few other traditions can do. In cities and towns where the surrounding region is highly involved in the cattle industry, rodeos are held frequently, and are designed for the entire family to enjoy. Floridians as far south as Homestead and as far north as Bonifay have special annual rodeos with a lengthy past. The Arcadia All-Florida Championship Rodeo, for example, originated in 1928 when the local American Legion post was looking for a fundraiser for a new building. Post officials invited all the local families, including the Seminoles located nearby, to attend a rodeo and parade to raise money for their cause. A band from Wauchula provided music, and even Governor Doyle Carlton rode in the procession. The first rodeo was a smashing success, and even with the arrival of the Great Depression, the people of Arcadia kept up the tradition of holding rodeo events each year. It still continues today.
One of rodeo's most admirable aspects is its inclusiveness. While the crowd may roar at the spectacle of an adult rider using every ounce of strength to stay atop a bucking bull, there's just as much enthusiasm for the large number of events held especially for the kids. From rodeo's earliest days, children have been earnest competitors, demonstrating their horsemanship, roping skills, and overall athleticism in a variety of ways. Older kids with a little more size and experience may compete in junior versions of the same events as adults, while a few events are just for the small fry. At Arcadia, for example, youngsters can participate in the "calf scramble" and "mutton bustin'" challenges. In the calf scramble, an entire army of kids are unleashed on the arena where calves adorned with bandannas have been placed. Those participants who successfully chase down a calf and remove its bandanna are declared the winners. In the mutton scramble, young riders hold onto the backs of sheep as they scurry about the arena. Whoever stays on the longest wins.
These are just a few of the hundreds of images in the Florida Photographic Collection pertaining to the rodeo. Is there a rodeo event near your community? Tell us about your favorite rodeo experiences by leaving a comment below. And don't forget to share this post on Facebook!


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NFV INSIGHTS: Preparing for the future of NFV
By: Andreas Lemke, Ph.D. - Alcatel-Lucent
Have you ever gotten your hands dirty and really implemented an NFV or SDN application? Six teams from academia and industry in Israel and Europe can answer with a resounding yes! These teams gathered in Haifa at the 4-day 2015 Winter School and Hackathon event, organized by Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand team and Israel's leading Institute of Technology, Technion. The event offered a full program to get acquainted with the fundamental concepts behind cloud computing, software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).
Here is how Telecoms Can Keep Over-the-Top in Check
Why I don't use Skype much largely is the result of a savvy move from a telecom provider in Southeast Asia.
I have many friends in Asia, many of whom are not exactly rolling in money. So they can't afford a data plan on their cell phone to use Skype. But what they all can do is use Facebook, and they all can use Facebook because many telecoms in the region give Facebook access away for free while charging for other Internet access such as web browsing. This is a good way to slowly upsell consumers—and to indirectly get me to use Facebook even more than I normally would.
Similar value-added services through selective access to particular mobile applications can be seen here in the U.S., too. T-Mobile, for instance, has recently begun offering unlimited streaming Internet radio even for customers who can't step up for the larger data plans that normally would be needed to support Internet radio on a mobile device.
This is good business. It is a way that operators can help fend off the over-the-top challenge that threatens to turn telecoms into commodity businesses.
Successful Communications Services Have Six Features in Common
Large enterprises increasingly resemble public network service providers as they manage access, transport and network routing while controlling devices and sessions. Whether businesses build their own or buy their communications services through a public provider, the IP communications architectures are looking remarkably similar.
"I've noticed that both private service operators (CIOs of large enterprises) and public service providers are implementing very similar solutions around the globe," wrote Oliver Krahn in a recent TechZine article, 6 Steps that Improve Communications Services.
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NFV INSIGHTS: Making the [business] case for NFV
CloudBand Delivers NFV Solution for Network Operators
Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor
As you already know, the cloud is one of the megatrends of our times, and service providers are embracing the open cloud with the help of network functions virtualization (NFV).
An NFV platform enables providers to run network functions on a homogeneous, distributed cloud infrastructure. Using an NFV solution, they can port network functions such as communications and messaging applications and fixed and mobile network functions over to a virtual machine environment. Freed from proprietary, physical hardware, providers can leverage this virtualized infrastructure as the basis for their own service platforms and operations.
Seeing the opportunity inherent in NFV, as described in detail in an applications note Alcatel-Lucent has developed a purpose-built NFV platform for service providers, CloudBand. The platform supports distributed clouds and dynamic network control to meet application demands, and it optimizes network operations by automating cloud node management, application lifecycle management, smart placement and network configuration.
OpenTouch--Welcome to the Personal Cloud
What mobility has done is change the conversation. For the past 30 years, enterprise data communication was about the personal computer. But that's shifting as smartphones and tablets have given the world the ability to more easily perform work from any device with a cellular and/or Wi-Fi connection. The cloud has then given business the ability to perform business with these devices, effectively taking enterprise computing resources and making them available to any employee with authorized access at any time.
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend within the enterprise is the manifestation of this. And, IP-based communications of all types has also changed quite a bit driven by mobility and the cloud. Collaborative conversation is much easier, and video conferencing is easier than ever.
Helping to meet the needs of the new direction of business companies such as Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) have developed services that help enable this transformation of business.
How the Cloud is Making Datacenters Dynamic
By: Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks
The future of datacenters is virtual, automatic, cloud-based, instantaneous, and boundary-less. These might not be the words associated with datacenters today -- you're more likely to hear slow, cumbersome, and related words in the same breath -- but software is driving this revolution in networking.
It has been undergoing a massive shift to the cloud for years now, driven by enterprise motivations to consolidate, as well as to use computer resources more optimally and efficiently. While computing virtualization has driven this transformation, the network has fallen woefully behind. Imagine having 20 virtual machines (VMs) in a server: Tomorrow that number grows to 100, to 200 the day after, and so on.
As you realize the implications of this growth in the datacenter, it becomes clear that the traditional networking approach of connecting those VMs is mindboggling because it doesn't deliver the true promise of the cloud -- instant access to apps anytime, anywhere and with no disruptions.
Service Providers Cut Costs and Boost Agility by Taking a Cloud Approach to Operations
The cloud is one of the hottest trends in computing, and communication service providers (CSPs) have an edge when it comes to cloud services. That's because unlike IT and internet companies, CSPs also control their own network. This gives CSP's a unique advantage and the carrier cloud a leg up on other offerings.
But the carrier cloud is only one way that CSPs can benefit from the cloud. They also can apply the same technique used with the cloud, namely virtualization, to evolve their own operations.
How Service Providers Can Capitalize on the Enterprise Cloud Market
By Beecher Tuttle
With the demand for cloud services expanding rapidly, service providers are in a unique position to exploit new markets and generate new revenue, in addition to benefiting from the significant capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) savings associated with a cloud infrastructure.
However, to fully capitalize on this market opportunity, service providers need to develop an accurate sense of current and future market conditions as well as enterprise attitudes and perceptions of the cloud.
In an effort to provide a more granular look at these conditions and attitudes Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) recently conducted a global study, "Soaring into the Cloud," involving nearly 4,000 IT decision makers (ITDMs) from medium, large and multi-national companies.
ALU researchers found that 78 percent of companies are currently employing at least one cloud-based application, with organizations in tech, professional services and manufacturing/defense leading the way. Healthcare, government and education enterprises rely less on the cloud, but not by any significant margin.
The Monetization of Mobile Apps
By: Nora Maene, Digital Media Solutions Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Global mobile traffic has increased with a factor of 30 in 5 years time; 6 billion mobile apps have been downloaded in 2010. Besides being a challenge, this explosive growth also presents an opportunity for communication service providers (CSPs) to engage in new ecosystems and business models – embracing cloud services and working with over-the-top players to transform application and content value chains.
Today, a large portion of the return for mobile applications comes from the mobile data revenues that they drive (growing from $260 billion in 2010 to $500 billion in 2015). Given that mobile data revenue is more than a 100-fold the revenues from mobile apps purchases, it is clear that stimulating mobile data consumption is the primary monetization vehicle for service providers.
With a need to increase mobile data usage - and changing market dynamics – it is clear that CSPs have to launch new application services in their markets as soon as possible to monetize the mobile application opportunity.
HP and Alcatel-Lucent Creating the Cloud-Ready Data Center
By Erin Harrison
Cloud computing has already transformed the way we live and do business. Consumers like the idea that they can access low-cost applications anywhere, anytime, on any device – and enterprises are moving applications to the cloud to reduce costs and streamline operations.
The movement toward to the cloud gives service providers an opportunity to deliver cloud services from their data centers as a natural extension of the network and hosting services they already offer. According to Alcatel-Lucent's whitepaper, "Creating the Cloud-Ready Data Center," with the right infrastructure, service providers can leverage their greatest assets:


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Labor senator Trish Crossin has slammed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's endorsement of Olympic athlete Nova Peris for the Senate, saying it ''totally undermines'' Labor's pre-selection process in the Northern Territory.
In a move that overrides the NT branch of the ALP, Ms Gillard appears to have dumped Senator Crossin - an MP of 15 years - to install Ms Peris, who is not yet a member of the party.
Ms Peris, who was the first indigenous Australian to win a gold medal (in hockey) and also represented Australia in athletics, will campaign for the Northern Territory seat currently held by Senator Crossin.
Ms Crossin told reporters in Sydney on Tuesday that the NT branch of the Labor Party had already started its preselection process for the 2013 federal election.
"This announcement by the Prime Minister today totally undermines that process and undermines the right of members in the NT to preselect whom they will want," she said.
But indigenous leader Warren Mundine says Julia Gillard should be congratulated for ''correcting a wrong within the Labor Party'' by endorsing Ms Peris to become Labor's first indigenous representative in federal parliament.
''I have always argued they have got to correct this wrong, otherwise it was an embarrassment for the party,'' said Mr Mundine, a former Labor national president who quit the party last November partly because he was disillusioned by Labor's treatment of indigenous Australians.
'''We couldn't continue going on saying that we were the party for aboriginals without having people sitting in the parliament.
''Today is an historic day, the Prime Minister needs to be congratulated for her stance, and Nova needs to be congratulated for putting her hand up and running.
Former NT Labor politician Marion Scrymgour, who is indigenous, has been challenging Senator Crossin for the top spot on the Senate ticket.
Senator Crossin said she was only told of the move to install Ms Peris as a Senate candidate last night.
Her apparent axing follows Labor's NT election loss last year in which it suffered heavy defeats in rural areas as indigenous voters defected to the Country Liberal Party.
Mr Mundine said it was sad that Senator Crossin had to be replaced but that controversy should be put aside to focus ''on the historic moment''.
Many within the Labor Party saw Mark Arbib's resignation from the Senate last year as an opportunity to appoint Mr Mundine as Labor's first indigenous representative.
But after Kevin Rudd's unsuccessful leadership challenge, Ms Gillard chose Bob Carr to fill the vacant Senate spot and to replace Mr Rudd as Foreign Minister.
If Ms Peris is successful, she will be the first indigenous woman to sit in the federal parliament as well as the first indigenous MP for federal Labor.
Ms Gillard said that while she was ''very proud'' of Labor's work for indigenous Australians since the time of Gough Whitlam, she was ''troubled'' that Labor had never been able to ''count amongst our number an indigenous Australian''.
The Prime Minister described Ms Peris as a ''household name'' and talked of her grit and determination on and off the sporting field.
''I believe Nova will make a great contribution in the federal parliament,'' Ms Gillard said.
A Labor MP, who did not wish to be named, said the matter would inevitably be seen in a leadership context because Senator Crossin voted for former leader Kevin Rudd in last year's leadership ballot.
''Twelve months ago we were told Kevin Rudd made decision on his own and in a chaotic style and she's [Ms Gillard] gone and done this,'' the MP said.
''People will remember how [Senator Crossin] voted last year.''
Labor was keen to have an indigenous MP, the MP said, but noted there were ''long serving'' ALP members such as former party president Warren Mundine who had been unsuccessfully looking for a seat for years.
''This doesn't take anything away from Nova at all but Trish Crossin hasn't been given the dignity to make her own decision,'' the MP said.
'Honoured and humbled'
An emotional Ms Peris thanked Ms Gillard for the ''amazing opportunity''.
''I stand here before you all today not only as an Australian but as a proud Aboriginal woman . . . I certainly understand the significance of this opportunity and I am very honoured and humbled.''
Ms Peris - who says she has always been a Labor voter - is not a member of the Labor Party.
Ms Gillard said the party's national executive would ''resolve'' that issue.
''I'm not going to make it routine for me to intervene in party processes,'' Ms Gillard said. ''But I think there is a national significance here.''
Ms Gillard said that she would let Senator Crossin make her own comments, but suggested that she had asked the senator - who has been in federal parliament for 15 years - to stand down.
''Of course there are only so many positions and that makes tough choices, inevitably tough choices. Choices need to be made about the Labor team and about the people that we put forward,'' Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra.
''I have made a decision and that is it.''
I wasn't consulted: Crossin
A senator since 1998, Senator Crossin was first woman elected to federal parliament from the NT.
In a statement released shortly after Ms Gillard's announcement, Senator Crossin said she was not consulted about the plan.
Senator Crossin said she was only made aware of the move to install Ms Peris as a Senate candidate last night.
"On Monday evening I was told by the Prime Minister of her intention to seek to endorse Nova Peris OAM as a candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory from the national executive of the Australian Labor Party," the statement said.
"This action has been taken without consultation or negotiation with the NT branch of the ALP or my input as the long-serving federal Labor senator for the Northern Territory."
Senator Crossin said she had long-believed that preselection should be a matter for the branch.
"As an advocate and federal representative for the NT, I will not be making further comment until I have spoken with and consulted NT branch members and my colleagues."
Labor MP Andrew Leigh said that while rank and file preselections were the ideal system, he could understand Ms Gillard's frustration about the lack of indigenous representation in the Labor Party.
"I can understand the Prime Minister's determination to have an Indigenous representative in the House of Representatives," he told Fairfax Media.
He said it was important the the Labor caucus looked like the "rest of Australia", adding that rank and file preselections had failed to preselect an indigenous candidate for 12 decades.
Dr Leigh said that while his experiences with Senator Crossin had "all been "terrific", he had found himself turning to Liberal MP - and indigenous parliamentarian - Ken Wyatt for informal advice on indigenous issues.
"I feel myself being pulled in two directions," he said of Tuesday's announcement
Labor 'took their eye off the mark' in NT
Ms Peris says that she was first approached to join the parliament about seven years ago, when she had young children.
"I wasn't ready then," she explained.
The former athlete outlined her passions for health, education, young people and essential services, and observed that the way the NT intervention was implemented "was wrong".
When asked why Labor had lost the support of indigenous voters in NT, Ms Peris said she believed that Labor "took their eye off the mark".
"There was a lot of work done by the CLP [Country Liberal Party] with regard to working hard in the bush and they got a lot of voters to vote, probably a lot of voters who never voted in their life," she said.
"Aboriginal people have been disappointed with government for a long time, and hence the intervention. I saw first hand that you can have the policies but if you don't have the right people implementing it's never going to work".
Ms Peris won gold with the Hockeyroos in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to win Olympic gold.
After making the switch to athletics, she won gold in the 200 metres and 100 metres relay at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games and in 2000 made the semi finals of the 400 metres at the Sydney Olympics.
She was Young Australian of the Year in 1997.
Ms Peris, a mother of three and a grandmother, describes herself as an Aboriginal activist.
She was a "treaty ambassador" for the defunct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and has set up a charity, Peris Enterprises, through which she advocates an active lifestyle and health checks for indigenous children.
Meanwhile, former NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson has announced he will quit politics to put his family first.
Mr Henderson, who was chief minister for five years, has been on the backbench since losing the territory's election last year.
with Stephanie Peatling, AAP
Judith Ireland is a political reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House


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Discover how to make accents, cards, and 3-D projects with the Close To My Heart Cricut® Artiste cartridge. It's easy to learn with the simple instructional booklet and assembly booklet!
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About FERC Office of the General Counsel
What We Do
The Office of the General Counsel provides sound and timely counsel and legal services to the Commission and to the Commission staff. The Office's key responsibilities include: participating, in collaboration with Commission program offices, in the development of Commission draft orders, rulemakings and other Commission decisions; advising the Commission and its staff on legal matters; representing the Commission before the courts; reviewing proposed legislation and preparing Congressional testimony; and advising other government agencies, regulated entities and the public on matters within the Commission's jurisdiction.
- Provides advice and recommendations to the Commission on legal and policy matters related to the Commission's responsibilities.
- Prepares, in collaboration with other staff offices, draft orders, notices of proposed rulemaking, policy statements, final rules, and other documents to be considered or issued by the Commission and verifies that materials are legally sound and take into account the legal and policy precedents established by the Commission.
- Evaluates proposed actions for legal, policy and procedural consistency and ensures that the disposition of issues arising from docketed workload is consistent with the Commission's strategic policy direction.
- Provides legal advice to the Chairman and Commissioners.
- Confers with and advises regulated entities and other interested persons, and attorneys and officers of other Federal and state agencies, on legal questions pertaining to Commission jurisdiction and other regulatory issues.
- Represents Commission in litigation before the courts, including all appellate review of Commission orders; works with the Solicitor Generals Office in the Department of Justice on U.S. Supreme Court proceedings involving the Commission.
- Prepares all orders and formal opinions regarding administrative matters (e.g., equal employment opportunity, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, standards of conduct, procurement); represents the Commission in related administrative hearings.
- Reviews proposed and newly enacted legislation potentially affecting the Commission; coordinates with the Office of Management and Budget on review of legislative matters as appropriate; prepares comments and Congressional testimony; and represents the Commission in Congressional hearings.
- Dispute Resolution Service neutrals assist parties in the voluntary resolution of their energy disputes - prior to or after a complaint is filed with the Commission; educate and train audiences on ADR techniques and skills to prevent, manage and resolve conflict; and promote the systematic application of ADR tools to prevent and reduce energy litigation. Learn more about Dispute Resolution Service
The Office of the General Counsel has the following sub-organizations: Energy Markets-1 Section; Energy Markets-2 Section; Dispute Resolution Service; Energy Projects Section; Solicitor's Office; General and Administrative Law Section; and the Administration and Operations Group.
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Ignoring Conveyor PM Jeopardizes the Entire Pressroom
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In many metalforming facilities, press lines are interlocked to a main scrap conveyor, and if that main conveyor goes down the press lines automatically shut down as well. Even without interlocks, a conveyor shutdown will eventually lead to press downtime. Consider the typical JIT manufacturing scenario in the automotive industry. Should scrap backup cause a body-panel stamping operation to shut down during the morning shift, within 24 hr. the welding lines would likely go down, and then, shortly thereafter, final assembly would cease.
Additionally, excess scrap in stamping and forming operations can affect operator safety, while also putting tools, dies and other equipment at risk.
Imagine Losing $26,000/Min.
The dangers described above are not just hypothetical, as one auto manufacturer with integrated stamping in its main assembly facility can attest. The manufacturer, whose main scrap conveyor crashed and stayed down for two shifts, lost all vehicle production for one shift—it typically operates at a production rate of two vehicles/min. Add to that the cost of the plant's payroll of $26,000/min. and suddenly maintaining the health of the humble scrap conveyor becomes a critical function.
Keeping scrap conveyors running efficiently starts with conveyor design, which presents an opportunity for new facilities and a challenge for many older plants. For example, one major manufacturer (let's call it Manufacturer A) designed and installed an extremely long main conveyor with a good layout for operations but a poor layout for maintenance. More than 1000 ft. long, the conveyor runs the entire length of the plant, but the trench in which it sits provides less than 24 in. of clearance on each side.
The plant diligently performed its housekeeping chores and kept the trench clean and clear of material. However, eventually it decided to turn housekeeping responsibilities over to an outside service, whose employees lacked the plant personnel's understanding of the importance of keeping the conveyor trench tidy—to them it was just another hole in the floor. Over time the trench filled with debris. Along with hindering efficient operation, the debris blocked inspection of the lower rails. As the rails finally wore out, the return strand of belt fell through the frame and became jammed. The press operator, thinking the conveyor was overloaded, continued to increase its speed and eventually caused a catastrophic conveyor failure. It took the plant three weeks to clear a the debris and repair the conveyor.
There Must be a Better
In many metalforming facilities, press lines are interlocked to a main scrap conveyor, and if that main conveyor goes down the press lines automatically shut down as well.
Conversely, consider Manufacturer B, a company that designed its stamping and scrap-handling systems with maintenance accessibility in mind, and now follows up with a program of complete inspection and lubrication of the main conveyor every six months. After more than 20 years of operating 24/7, its 800-ft.-long main conveyor still runs with the original belt, requiring only minor replacement belting sections, all due to the company's robust maintenance program.
Whether or not you have the luxury of a fresh design, Manufacturer B's course—regular and thorough inspection and maintenance—obviously is the to go. Sure, conveyor manufacturers build their equipment to be tough, but let's be realistic. These are mechanical systems subjected to high stress loads, extended duty cycles andeven occasional abuse. As a result, some components must eventually be replaced.
Consider Outsourcing Conveyor Maintenance
A metalformer might add conveyor maintenance to the task list of its maintenance staff, but this may not represent the optimum use of those valuable resources. And, the staff may be highly competent yet lack the specialized skills and expertise needed to keep a scrap conveyor running efficiently. Also, maintenance personnel typically focus on keeping the plant's more expensive and highly visible production equipment up and running, pushing scrap flow well down their list of priorities. This is particularly true in more recent times, when many companies run lean on maintenance resources, and trained personnel are scarce.
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Further, many shops charge their facilities department, rather than production, with purchasing, operating and maintaining their scrap systems. Facilities personnel may not be focused on maintaining an efficient and lucrative production operation; rather, they might be more concerned with keeping the lights on and maintaining the climate-control system. The same holds true for metalformers who hire a scrap-hauling contractor to install and maintain the scrap system.
For many shops, the best solution is to let the conveyor vendor develop a complete preventive-maintenance (PM) agreement covering inspection and maintenance, and including a service component covering emergency repair and the availability and cost of spare parts.
Conveyors should undergo regularly scheduled PM every six months, and include key measurements of system performance as well as inspection of wear components. Cleaning the conveyor is a key element of any PM activity—removing excess material prolongs belt life and the service life of the bearings and reducer, and ensures that limit switches and other electronic sensors will perform as-designed.
Keep all conveyor components well lubricated and properly adjusted, including the belt chain, roller chain, bearings, take-up screw and reducer. Maintenance technicians also should make any needed adjustments to the conveyor-drive assembly, and should check and adjust (as needed) belt-chain tension. They also should inspect and repair all safety guarding.
Regularly scheduled PM sessions provide opportunities for the service provider to train the plant's personnel in the essentials of system maintenance. This encourages the metalformer to take ownership of its conveying equipment, and will dramatically reduce the possibility of unplanned downtime. However, breakdowns do occur, and companies are therefore advised to establish PM agreements that include emergency repairs and parts.
Prepare for Downtime to Minimize the Damage
A service agreement allows the metalformer to preplan and budget for a service technician and for the needed replacement parts. Preplanning for conveyor service and parts saves time and money and shields critical maintenance items from budget-slashing routines. Write purchase orders for headshaft assemblies, drive assemblies and other critical components upfront.
Often, depending on life expectancy and delivery times, it makes sense to stock critical conveyor components. This practice can save hours—sometimes days—and allow a timely restart of production, rather than having to watch production grind to a halt and workers and presses standing idle. By stocking critical replacement parts, the metalformer also can avoid paying overtime and other added fees that pile up when forced to expedite the needed parts.
Unlike the typical emergency-repair situation, where the meter is running and the focus is on getting the service technician off the clock and out of the plant as quickly as possible, a service agreement enables the provider to perform some diagnostics on the malfunctioning part. Thus, instead of merely putting a band-aid on the problem and hoping for the best, the metalformer can gain greater insights into the actual strains on the conveying system, and help avert future trouble. It's likely that a failure in one area of a conveyor indicates other potential problems; additional parts may need to be inspected, repaired, or replaced to keep from simply moving the problem to other, undiscovered areas of the conveyor or operation.
Ultimately that's what preventive maintenance is all about—averting trouble and eliminating or minimizing the many costs that come in trouble's wake. Stampers don't neglect the maintenance of their most valuable presses, why would they neglect the maintenance of their scrap conveyors? Without the scrap conveyor, the most valuable presses aren't worth much at all. MF
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See also: Mayfran International, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Volume XI, No. 3
January 1998
This month's DIGEST OF EEO LAW features a discussion of Commission decisions in which the Commission applied, or declined to apply, the doctrine of abuse of process.
Ronnie Blumenthal, Director
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EDITOR/WRITER: Douglas A. Gallegos
STAFF WRITER: Joan Hannan
Available on audiotape, or in braille, large print and on computer disk upon request. Please send all inquiries and requests to Douglas A. Gallegos, EEOC, Office of Federal Operations, 1801 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20507.
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Governor Jindal, Charles Krauthammer, and others have suggested changes that they believe will lead to GOP victories in the future. I have one too.
Stop the war on drugs. It has targeted black people and those in poverty, has made it harder for those convicted to find jobs once convicted of drug-related offenses, and has encouraged single-mother families without even a chance of receiving alimony.
The stereotype of a drug user is a black man. Here is some NYU information about the NYPD's stop-and-frisks.
In 2003, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 160,851 times.
-- 140,442 were totally innocent (87%)
-- 77,704 were black (54%)
-- 44,581 were Latino (31%)
-- 17,623 were white (12%)
-- 83,499 were aged 14-24 (55%)
The number of stop-and-frisks increased. The attention to whites has decreased; the attention to minorities has increased. The accuracy has decreased.
In 2011, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 685,724 times.
-- 605,328 were totally innocent (88%)
-- 350,743 were black (53%)
-- 223,740 were Latino (34%)
-- 61,805 were white (9%)
-- 341,581 were aged 14-24 (51%)
Comparing these two years, we see that the profiling (guessing) about who should be stopped worsened from 13% correct to 12% correct. Blacks represented 54% of the stop-and-frisks before, down to 53% now. Latinos went up from 31% to 34%. Whites are being chosen for fewer, down from 12% to 9%.
The GOP would have a competitive advantage among the minority groups with a change in perspective on the war on drugs. The issue of legalization needs to stop being seen as the movement of drug addicts and college kids looking for a good time. It is a civil rights issue, and it is damaging our country. More and more people are being put on Prison Welfare. The prison population is heavily skewed against minorities. About 35% of the jailed and imprisoned population is black, even though they make up only about 12.5% of the entire population. And what do you know? The poverty rate for blacks is also 35%. The Democrats claim to be the party of the people because they want bigger government programs, but they are also throwing people into jail for drug crimes. This has been a bipartisan effort since the 1980s. What a chance to take the right side of the issue and play it for all it's worth!
Conservatives should be able to get behind this, and the poor among us should also be able to support this wholeheartedly. Those who are concerned about the increase of those dependent on government handouts ought to consider what happens when a person is sent to prison for a drug 'crime'. They are supported by taxpayer dollars, and it is much more expensive to support them in jail or prison than by just putting them on welfare. We should consider how much money we could save if we took them off government handouts — jail and prison handouts!
Let us be the party of freedom — from jail!
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GOP: Stop imprisoning minorities!
Governor Jindal, Charles Krauthammer, and others have suggested changes that they believe will lead to GOP victories in the future. I have one too.


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There are now nearly 1 million Scottish burial and cremation records available:
a. 313,000 records for Edinburgh's Seafield Cemetery and Crematorium and for Warriston Crematorium are now on www.deceasedonline.com.
b. Nearly 39,000 burial records dating from 1888 to the present day for Seafield Cemetery feature scans of mortality registers (with many of them including details of the type of hearse used!).
c. Over 49,500 records from 1939 for Seafield Crematorium are available as scans of cremation register pages.
d. Records for Warriston Crematorium, numbering nearly 225,000 and dating back to 1929, are available as scans of cremation registers. Please note: records up to 1991 are immediately available – records after this date are still being uploaded but will be available shortly.
e. The combined Edinburgh dataset of 313,000 means that the total Deceased Online database for Scotland now numbers just under 1 million burial and cremation records.
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|Buried Saint Gabriel's Cemetery, Hazleton, PA
It was my hometown's obituaries that caught my attention. An obituary in the Hazleton Standard Speaker for one Rose Marie Dugan. While Rose is no relative of mine, at least not one I'm aware of, she does share a name with a relative. Rose Dugan was the second wife of Dennis Dugan. Dennis' first wife, Elizabeth "Bessie" Dugan nee Quirk was my 2nd great aunt. So why would I be interested in his 2nd wife? A little background...
Bessie was one of (at least) 9 children of William Quirk Sr and Mary A. Lee. Nine children and you would think that there would be lots of descendants around to help me with my research, or heck, just to connect with. Nope. Sometimes life throws curve balls at families and they deal as best as they can:
Child #1 - William Quirk b. 09JUL1869 d. before 1880 - I have 2 baptismal records for William Quirk (son of William and Mary Quirk), which indicates to me since this William is in the 1870 census and then is the same age in the 1880 census that he died before 1880 and the parents later named another son William.
Child #4 - Eleanor "Ella" Quirk b. 15APR1872 d. 01JUL1941 - Ella would have been born between the two Susans, if there were indeed two Susans. She never married. She was a school teacher and helped to raise my grandmother Mary Ann Brown nee Quirk (mentioned immediately below).
Child #5 - Edward Joseph Quirk b. 08AUG1876 d. 19OCT1950 - Edward was my great grandfather. He married Alice Blanchfield on 15SEP1912. They had my grandmother, Mary Ann. Then Alice died in/shortly after childbirth with their second child (name/gender unknown) on 23SEP1915. Edward and Mary then lived with Edward's siblings who helped raise Mary Ann.
Child #6 - Catherine G. Quirk b. 24JUL1878 d. 23JAN1961 - "Aunt Kay". I believe my aunt Cathy is named for her. She never married. Just helped take care of Mary Ann.
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Child #8 - Elizabeth "Bessie" Quirk b. 09FEB1882 d. 14DEC1918 - Bessie was the postmistress in Jeanesville, PA. She married Dennis Dugan on 02OCT1917. She would have been 35 when she got married. Late by standards in the early twentieth century. She died after a cesarean section (on right).
Child #9 - Mary A. Quirk b. 10MAY1887 d. 02DEC1965 - "Aunt Mary" (shocker, I know) never married. She helped to raise Mary Ann as well.
Obviously, William and Mary could have had other children that are not accounted for in the census records and that didn't get sent to me from the church in baptismal records.
It's also obvious that little Mary Ann Quirk was taken care of and loved. I hear those stories from my mom, aunt and uncle. She may have actually been a little spoiled too, and I say that in a loving, good way. She probably didn't want for much. But for William and Mary to have had all those children and end up with only one descendant? Talk about sad. I say "one" because no one in my immediate family knows what happened to Bessie and Dennis' child.
|1920 U.S. Federal Census - Andrew Dugan household
I became fixated with Bessie and Dennis' child. Nothing no name for the child in the newspaper, BUT I did find Dennis in the 1920 census. He was living in Bethlehem, PA with his siblings and his daughter...BETTY! Named after Bessie! YAY!!! Happy dance! 1930 census...well, Dennis is still there in Bethlehem, but he's remarried (to Rose) and with a (step) son...no Betty. Did she die? Did she go off to live with other relatives? I don't know. Certainly it was a little bit of progress on finding another Quirk. But happiness at realizing Bessie's daughter survived was slammed down by a nasty brick wall, and Betty wasn't found with her aunts and uncles in the 1930 census.
|1930 U.S. Federal Census - Dennis Dugan household
That's where I was before yesterday morning. Seeing the Rose Marie Dugan obituary made me realize that I had never checked to see when Dennis' 2nd wife died. If I could find an obituary, maybe I could find a reference to Betty. I don't k now why I hadn't thought to search through the 2nd wife before, but sometimes it just happens.
So I checked the Social Security Death Index for Rose Dugan...yep. Right where I expected her in Bethlehem, PA. Died September 1982. Good. Recent is good. I contacted the local Bethlehem newspaper, The Morning Call, via email and asked for help. Who has the archived copies and are they available through inter-library loan? I let them know who I was looking for and when she died (always hoping that they might perform a random act of genealogical kindness) and throwing in there that I'm from northeastern PA but living in Texas near Fort Hood (gotta try for some military lovin'...I'm not beneath that!).
I got a response a few hours later, and while it wasn't with the obituary, it directed me to the libraries with the microfilm and with some additional information. She told me that their records indicate that there was an obituary published on 14SEP1982 for a Rose Steager Dugan on page B6 under "Local/Region" section. She said I would need a date to request the information from the library. I was excited. Another name...Steager. So what did I do? I jumped on Google and typed a search for "Rose Steager Dugan".
I got an obituary for one James J. Steager Sr. published in...The Morning Call! It mentioned his mother, Rose (King) Dugan and his step-father, Dennis Dugan. Sadly, no mention of Betty. Dennis and Rose did have another child (Francis), but he's no relation to me and he passed away as well.
Still, I got a church name...Saint Ursula. I contacted them for the name of the parish cemetery, Holy Saviour. I've also got the number for the groundskeeper. I called and left a message asking for Dugan burials.
So now I've got names. Perhaps a child of James or Francis knows about Betty. Perhaps they have a picture of Dennis. I would love to see what he looks like. I've got so many pictures in an old album that could be him...with an unknown baby...perhaps Betty.
The wall hasn't been torn down, but I think I whacked a brick or two out of it and can see some light on the other side. The wall will eventually come down. I'm sure of it. I'm not hopeful though to find the result I wanted...another Quirk descendant. If she had lived, wouldn't the she be listed as a step-sister in James' obituary? Who knows, but I won't stop whacking away at that wall. I'm determined and new motivation has energized me!
[The news clipping for Bessie Dugan nee Quirk's death has no source information. It was glued to the inside cover of a photo album with dates penciled in. The dates are presumably for her death and burial rather than actual publication. The newspaper is most likely from the Hazleton Standard Sentinel or Hazleton Plain Speaker which predate the current Hazleton Standard Speaker. It is also possible that the clipping came from a Bethlehem newspaper, but since the rest of the Quirks to which this album belonged lived in/around Hazleton it is unlikely]
**William Quirk is listed in the 1880 census which was enumerated in June 1880...that was before his October birth. Now they were enumerated on June 21st so unless the baptismal record for William is wrong and he was born February-ish in 1880 there was another baby William that died before the one born in October? If you look at the 1900 census William is listed as being born in May 1881! We can expect errors in them to some extent though. Mary Quirk nee Lee is said to have given birth to 9 children 6 still living which is something to go on!


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Braves fall in extras for second straight game
Chances slip again as Atlanta unable to capitalize in series finale
SAN DIEGO -- When the Braves opened this eight-game road trip with three consecutive losses, they could take solace in the fact that they had been beaten by a Dodgers club that is arguably the National League's most talented. But they were forced to face reality on Sunday, when they were handed a 4-3, 10-inning loss that completed a three-game sweep for the Padres.
"We've just got to turn this thing around," Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. "We can't just keep saying, 'We'll get them tomorrow.' It has to be tomorrow, meaning Tuesday. We just have to relax and regroup. We're not out of this thing."
With six straight losses to begin this trip, the Braves now find themselves 3 1/2 games behind the first-place Nationals in the National League East race. They were staring at the possibility of scoring two runs or less in a fifth straight game until Jason Heyward capped a successful day by willing himself to score a game-tying run in the ninth inning.
Heyward, who finished a home run shy of the cycle, doubled to begin the ninth against closer Joaquin Benoit and then used his speed to score when Evan Gattis followed with a chopper back the mound. Benoit's late and errant throw to third base allowed Heyward to race toward the plate with the tying run.
But the Padres delivered the final blow one inning later even after David Hale had turned Rene Rivera's sacrifice bunt attempt into a double play. Two batters later, Everth Cabrera sent a game-ending single past a diving Braves second baseman Tommy La Stella.
"When you're not scoring runs and you're going through those spells, everything gets exposed a little bit," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We had some opportunities,"
The Braves have hit .169 (10-for-59) during their six-game losing streak. But the numbers do not accurately show the ugly manner in which they have squandered chances, especially in their two most recent games.
After tallying just three hits though the first six innings, the Braves finally got to All-Star pitcher Tyson Ross in the seventh inning. Justin Upton drew a four-pitch walk to open the frame and then scored on Heyward's triple. Heyward scored when Gattis followed with a double. But Gattis was left flat-footed as he got a bad read when Johnson followed with a double off the left-center-field wall.
Consequently, Gattis only advanced to third base on a hit that should have scored him in uncontested fashion. The baserunning blunder was magnified when he was still on third base when B.J. Upton ended the inning with a 5-2-3 double play.
"I just had too much on my mind. ... I [messed] up and made a mistake," Gattis said. "That's what I'm most [upset about]. I feel like we win this game if I don't."
This was, incredibly, the second time in less than 24 hours that the Braves did not score after loading the bases with none out. They had also come up empty during the eighth inning of Saturday's 12-inning loss.
"That's the second day in a row," Gonzalez said. "You feel like we have some good at-bats coming in there. Then we didn't get anything again. All you're looking for is a ball that gets out of the infield."
Heyward's ninth-inning dash around the bases erased the damage created when Tommy Medica gave the Padres a short-lived lead with an eighth-inning homer off Anthony Varvaro. Medica batted .481 with three home runs in seven games against the Braves this year.
With the two-run seventh, the Braves erased all of the damage incurred by San Diego native Aaron Harang, who scattered five hits over six innings. Harang had only himself to blame when he allowed Ross, a .146 hitter, to help himself with an RBI single in the second inning. The Braves veteran also walked Ross before allowing Cabrera's one-out sacrifice fly in the fourth inning.
"They're a pesky team over there," said Harang, a former Padre. "I got to play over there. That's their philosophy. They have a lot of guys who make the starter throw a lot of pitches and raise the pitch count real quick. They never let you get in a groove."


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Orange-Avocado Tossed Salad
This salad grabs the mealtime spotlight whenever I serve it. The grapes, mandarin oranges and almonds add sweetness and crunch to the greens and avocado...and the dressing has a mild curry flavor.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 10 min.
Makes12 servings
- 10 cups torn red leaf lettuce
- 1 cup torn fresh spinach
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 cup halved green grapes
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup white wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
- In a large salad bowl, combine the first five ingredients. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the oil, vinegar, garlic, sugar, curry powder and soy sauce; shake well. Drizzle over salad; toss to coat. Garnish with avocado.


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He then allegedly brushed up against a second group of females at the TTC stop.
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Samlall was apprehended at the station, sparing a citywide manhunt but not the embarrassment of everyone knowing he owns a personalized jersey.
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GERARD DOHERTY says he's 'shocked' to be the only Derry City player named in the 2016 PFAI 'Team of the Year' which was announced this week.
There can be few arguments about the experienced City goalkeeper's inclusion in the team, having helped keep 18 clean sheets this season and incredibly played every minute of every game!
However, the Creggan man insists he was 'disappointed' the Brandywell club weren't further represented in the panel which was, predictably, made up largely by Dundalk and Cork City players.
In fact Doherty was the only player outside the top two teams named in the 'Team of the Year' selected by players from the 12 Premier Division clubs.
He reckons it's 'a shame' City's Danish defender, Niclas Vemmelund and Brandywell native, Dean Jarvis were overlooked and believes Derry City are not given the recognition it deserves.
"To be honest I was a bit shocked that there wasn't another couple of Derry City names in there," said the City custodian.
There's been some great performances from the likes of Craig Hyland (Rovers) and Conor Winn (Galway), so I'm sure it was a close enough call.Ger Doherty
"I know the majority is either Dundalk or Cork and I suppose what they've done in Europe has been noted by a lot of people. But at the same time I'm disappointed for at least two or three of my teammates because the likes of 'Nico' and 'Jarvy' have been unbelievable this year.
"I don't really take these awards too seriously but it's disappointing for a few of the boys that weren't name because I know how well they've performed this year.
"They're both playing out of position for about 80 per cent of the league games. And for 'Nico' to come in to a new country and new league and do so well and not get recognised is a bit of a shame from my point of view.
"There's not enough recognition for players up in Derry given the style of football we play and the talent we have."
While he believes certain City players were deserving of the accolade, he claims he's 'honoured' by being included.
"The pleasing thing about the award is that it's voted by the players," said Doherty. "It's an honour to be named in the team given it's from the players. It definitely would have been close this year, goalkeeping-wise. There's been some great performances from the likes of Craig Hyland (Rovers) and Conor Winn (Galway), so I'm sure it was a close enough call. I feel like I've been relatively consistent throughout the year so that probably stood me in good stead."
The City keeper is clearly enjoying his football under Kenny Shiels who has put his full trust in him as his No. 1. And Doherty is delighted with the style of football the manager has instilled this season as they build from the back.
"Kenny has come in and put his stamp on the league, not just in Derry. I think the whole league appreciate what he's trying to do.
"The big games we've been involved in which are televised, people have been complimentary about our style of football and that's down to Kenny. He trusts his players and they have repaid him. I think it's showed in people's performances and maybe the fans as well. Maybe the fans were disappointed in some of the results but they seem to appreciate the style of football we've been playing.
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Talk about a remarkable find! My wife and I found this set in a junk store called Nazam's located on Dorchester Road West of Leeds Avenue in North Charleston and believe me, it looked nothing like this when we bought it for 75.00! Like an idiot, I was not thinking of course when I set out to restore this baby. For some stupid reason I did not take any pictures of the set before I started working on it. This picture was taken after the cabinet was stripped and restained. The sad thing about this radio is the original color was Ivory which is a much sought after set by collectors. I heard through a newsgroup that one sold in North Carolina at an auction for a little over seven hundred dollars. Somewhere along the line some genious decided to paint this set with a enamal white paint, which of course, ruined the original finish. Let me tell you, I had a very hard time removing this horrid finish; whoever did it put several layers on it, and painted everything including the brass escutcheon.
I knew for sure that it was an original ivory set because you could see traces of the original color on the inside of the cabinet. I also learned from some guys in an antique radio newsgroup that I subscribe to about some numbers and details on the chasis that would help me confirm that this was indeed an original ivory set. Apparently, these sets were not in production for very long and to tell you the truth, I have not ever seen another one in all my travels. It took me roughly about a year to strip the cabinet and refinish it, of course they dont make that color anymore (at least I could not find it anywhere) so I used a white pickling stain from Lowes which was as close to the original color as I could get. It took several coats to bring the set out, and in the end, I put a couple of layers of shellac on it which turned out really nice.
The chasis was in pretty good condition and it cleaned up well. I did find a couple of bad tubes so I decided to go ahead and completely re-tube the set. I also went ahead and replaced all the paper caps and electrolytics which did wonders for the radio. The only trouble that I had was the camdown resistor decided to crap out on me. This happened after the re-cap and re-tube plus alignment. Talk about being really stressed out! I did not have a clue how to fix this problem so I had to get help from a good friend who knows a lot more about fixing radios than I do . He went through my junkbox and found all the correct value high voltage resistors and cobbed together a new camdown resistor. Well, it looked ugly but by golly it worked! Thank goodness it was under the chassis so you don't see it! Once it was installed and the old camdown removed, the set sprang to life and has been playing every since. It is one of my favorite sets and I enjoy it very much.