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We make a 3,207-mile road trip in a Pro Touring '66 Chevelle to compete in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.
At the heart of our sport, there's a basic fact that many people lose sight of: Cars were made to be driven. We're not talking about new cars, but older cars—the way hot rodders build them. More power, better brakes, and updated handling all equate to better driving characteristics. So why do so many great cars get carted to and from events in trailers?
I've kept this in mind with my '66 Chevelle. I've owned this car for 25 years and have used it for everything from drag racing to daily commuting. I have a long history of driving this car, and intend to continue that. I recently did a frame-off rebuild of the car, turning it into a contemporary Pro Touring muscle car. The drivetrain is now comprised of an LS3, Tremec six-speed, and Moser 9-inch. The ABC Performance suspension puts the car on par with a Z06 Corvette in handling. Big 14-inch Baer rotors and six-piston calipers make the stoppers as capable as the powertrain and suspension.
After driving the car to several events around the Midwest for competition, we decided to qualify for the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI), and if we managed to snag a spot in this event, we would drive the Chevelle from Detroit to Las Vegas for the event. Robert McGaffin—the photographer whose work graces many pages in this magazine—told us, "If you do that, I want to go!"
Fast-forward a month or so: We were among the first group of invitees to the 2012 Optima challenge, and we hashed out a plan to bring you along on the adventure. We were excited about the drive and competing with the world-class cars and drivers at the race, and worried about the exact same things.
We were among the first group of invitees to the 2012 Optima challenge, and we hashed out a plan to bring you along on the adventure.
I'm not a newbie to driving relics of various quality on cross-country trips. I enjoy the combination of driving a hot rod, seeing the country, and reverting back to basic survival instincts when something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. We knew the weaknesses of the Chevelle in question, and packed accordingly. In racing, we had taken out serpentine belts, power steering pumps, and a water pump. In addition, we had just replaced the coilovers at all four corners with double-adjustable units from Viking Performance, so we anticipated the need to make some ride-height adjustments and play with the shock valving.
To make the story a little more interesting, you need to know that over time the wiper system had been removed, the heater was gone, the stereo was a distant memory, and even the comfy padded stock seats were swapped for Kirkey vintage racing buckets. Ironically, it was a cold and rainy day in Detroit when I finally rowed the gears in the Tremec six-speed and set the engine into its happy range for the trip westward. I motored out of hometown Detroit and into Chicago to pick up Robert. It took a bit of effort for us to add his gear to the already full trunk and the area formerly called a backseat. This was it: We were really doing this trip.
We had eight days to get from Detroit to Vegas. Google Maps claimed that we would cover 2,000 miles if Robert and I took the direct route. We had no intention of doing that. We kept track of roughly how far we should try to travel each day, but Robert and I didn't have hotel reservations and decided we'd pretty much do whatever we wanted along the way. We took the southern route to avoid possible snow in Colorado and Utah. Robert quickly pointed out that we'd roughly be driving Route 66, so we opted to become Mother Road tourists.
At the end of this first chapter in our adventure, we would reside in Las Vegas for a week to partake in the SEMA Show routine, but the main goal was for us and the Chevelle to arrive at the Optima challenge in good shape. The first event at Optima is the Detroit Speed & Engineering/JRi Shocks Road Rally, which is a staged drive from SEMA to the racetrack to demonstrate the true streetability of the participating cars. One stop would include a fun lap around the interior road course at the Las Vegas Speedway and a tour of the Shelby American facility before heading into the mountains to Pahrump, Nevada.
Saturday of Optima is a full-day thrash, starting at sunup with check-in and tech inspection. The event itself is pretty brutal. Before sunset, all 50 competitors have to complete the BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge, RideTech Autocross Challenge, and Wilwood Disc Brakes Speed-Stop Challenge. You also have to make sure that your car is judged for the Lingenfelter Performance and Design Challenge. To manage this feat, the team at Optima have the entire event coordinated like a military invasion. Each event is timed with specific start and stop times, the field is divided into four groups and if you miss your time slot, well, you're going down in flames. Points are awarded to the top positions in each segment of the competition and added to points that everyone could earn during the road rally. The champion is the one with the most points.
The photos tell the story of the adventure, but allow us to jump to the end. When the awards were announced at the end of the day, we were quite happy to have tied for 34th Place. I was completely humbled, though, to have Bret Voelkel call my name to receive the RideTech Renegade award for doing the most with the least and having fun in the spirit of the event!
Our first photo stop along Route 66 was just south of Chicago in the quaint Midwest town of Pontiac, Illinois. We arrived too late to check out the Route 66 museum there, but the back of the building sported a great mural with a convenient place to park and take a picture.
From Chicago through St. Louis, what's left of Route 66 is now the frontage road along I-55. It veers off here and there to become Main Street of the small towns along its path. We found this completely deserted stretch of the Mother Road south of Bloomington, Illinois.
On the western side of Springfield, Missouri, Route 66 departs I-40 and runs far enough asunder that it becomes more genuine. This is the start of the old Route 66 that the world has bypassed. From this point on, we really experienced the history and people tied to this historic road. Rob and I also saw a fair amount of this: local business that didn't survive the Great Depression or the many other economic crashes since Route 66 officially opened in 1926.
Robert and I kicked back at the Boots Hotel in Carthage, Missouri, one of the best restored hotels from the period along the route. Ron Hart was busy restoring one of the rooms when we arrived, but took the time to show us everything including the rooms that Clark Gable stayed in when he would visit.
We pulled over in Caterville, Missouri, to shoot photos of relics sitting roadside at the Bulger Motor Co. and Auto Body, when owner Mickey Bulger came out to invite us in and show us pieces of history he's been collecting. The business was started by his dad and uncle in 1946.
John Hargrove runs a custom upholstery shop in Arcadia, Oklahoma, but you wouldn't really know it if you stopped in. He was stitching up an interior in a Model A when we visited, but what drew us there was his incredibly ecliptic collection of automotive collectibles strewn throughout his buildings and the surrounding grounds. He gave us a lesson in forming aluminum body panels in front of his B/A '34 Ford that has been converted back to street use.
Not far from Bulgler Motor Co. is the Route 66 drive-in. By far the best restored drive-in we saw during our drive, it had been converted to a junkyard during much of its recent life. It reopened in 1998 as a drive-in and plays movies for tourists and locals alike from spring through fall.
The Blue Swallow in Tucumcari, New Mexico, was our favorite period-correct motel. The current owners moved from Michigan to take the reins of the historic property, bringing their vintage Pontiacs with them. Another great aspect of traveling Route 66 is meeting the people who live there as well as the people traveling. Unlike staying at Holiday Inn Express, no one is there just for a pillow and a shower.
We talked the park ranger at Lake Valley, New Mexico, into letting us stay and shoot just one more photo in front of the abandoned Conoco fuel station on the edge of the ghost town. This town is completely unchanged from when I visited it 25 years ago.
As soon as the sun rose over the mountains in Pahrump, Nevada, the Optima challenge competitors were at the track and in line to get teched. This was the most thorough tech inspection the Chevelle had been through since I started road racing and autocrossing.
It was pretty hard to stay in one place for all of the SEMA Show after driving 3,207 miles to get there. From Facebook posts about the adventure, we had people from as far away as Australia stop by to see the car, and most people who were not familiar with our drive found it hard to believe that this car had just driven so far to get to the show.
Laps on the road course were akin to a fighter pilot trying to keep his plane airborne while still trying to take out a few enemy craft. An inconsistent loss of engine power kept us from pushing the car to its limits. After spending weekends throughout the year beating on the car hard at racetracks, this was not what we expected.
From The Passenger Seat
From the first time Cole mentioned the possibility of driving his Chevelle from Detroit to Vegas, I knew that I had to be in the passenger seat. Once Cole and I discussed the route, it was evident that we would be traveling along Route 66. What better way to see the country than by following the Mother Road as much as possible?
Even though Cole had written many features for PHR accompanying my photos, we hadn't really gotten to know each other. I didn't know how this trip would go, but soon discovered that we had much in common, and a friendship quickly ensued.
Much of the first few days it felt like we were getting nowhere fast. We weren't, but we didn't want to miss a thing. We didn't see half the history of Route 66, but we had a blast trying. And boy did I get good at getting in and out of a fully 'caged car.
As the time and miles rolled by, it gave me the chance to slow down a bit from the hectic pace I was working at. It recharged me both personally and creatively. We regularly posted to Facebook on the journey, but we only understood the impact of it when we hit Vegas. I was amazed how many people mentioned how they followed our progress. That in itself was pretty cool.
I came away from this with a great new friend and the appreciation of stopping and smelling the roses and how important this can be. You don't necessarily need a muscle car for this kind of a trip, but it certainly doesn't hurt! — Robert McGaffin
At The Optima Challenge
We pulled into the pits and sorted our way past tractor-trailer supported teams to find a spot where we could unload the trunk. Like many of the competitors, we had never raced on this track before. As soon as the car was teched, we lined up for guided laps on the track, which were offered up to let us get familiar with the track at moderate speeds. That's good, because the only other time you get on the track during OUSCI are the five laps that are recorded for the BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge. To raise the heart rate a little more, our group was selected for the hot laps first. That left us about 15 minutes to air down the tires and get the coilovers adjusted for the track, and we would have to guess at the compression and rebound settings as there would only be one session on the road course.
Our concerns about the shock settings soon evaporated, though. Before the warm-up lap was complete, the engine began cutting out unpredictably. I mentally worked through the checklist of possible causes while trying to hit a decent line on the track. I checked the gauges and found nothing out of the ordinary. The tank was full, so it wasn't fuel slosh uncovering the pickup tube. It wasn't happening at a specific rpm and it was a complete loss of power, not just dropping a few cylinders, which ruled out the ignition. Short on answers and limited in what I could do while on track, I did my best to complete the hot laps without risking a meeting a guardrail.
I pulled into the pits and opened the hood. We plugged in the handheld controller to check diagnostics. Nothing. Then we checked the throttle position sensor to make sure it was functioning correctly. Again, nothing. By this time, there were several people offering help and advice, but we were already being called to the RideTech Autocross Challenge. We held out as long as possible, trying to determine what was wrong. Then Optima gave us the message: Get out there now or forfeit your chance at competing in the autocross.
You only get three laps on the autocross. Our first pass was livable with only two or three episodes of power loss. The second pass was pitiful, with the car completely shutting down mid-course. I gave up my third time on the course and limped back to the pits. One thing was for sure: The longer I was on track, the worse the issue became.
This time, I had about an hour and a half before I had to go back on track for the Wilwood Disc Brakes Speed-Stop Challenge. At this point, any hope of doing well in the OUSCI was gone and my new goal was simply to complete the entire competition. This last driving event was a combination of a start-stop box and a slalom. The goal was to accelerate drag-race style to the end of the tarmac, make a 180, return through a slalom and then stop in a box that seems small at 60-80 mph. Like the autocross, you get three laps, and your best time is recorded. Unexpectedly, my Chevelle performed well on the first lap without even a sneeze from the engine! Unfortunately, I blew past the stop box by several feet, disqualifying the first attempt. On the second lap, the sporadic loss of power returned, but I nailed the stop box. That was it. I had finished. Much like a marathon runner, just crossing the finish line was victory enough.


text: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > I find it interesting (and surprising) how little people like tape :) It isn't that difficult to understand. People WOULD like tape and USED to like tape back when a single tape on a single tape drive would back up your whole system. I even remember those days. But what, maybe seven or eight years ago the hard disk curve (which has an even shorter capacity doubling time than Moore's Law does for the rest of the system) crossed over the tape curve (which has a MUCH longer one) and life has sucked ever since. Tape backups even back when they still "worked", kind of, had gotten madly expensive compared to the disk they were backing up -- you could pay $1000 for disk and $3000 for the tape backup unit really easily. Then suddenly you needed an entire tape library and were looking at $5000 in hardware plus a pile of $100 tapes (that had to be replaced once a year or thereabouts) to back up your $1000 worth of disk. At the same time, the bandwidth issue has steadily grown -- if you're backing up (say) 20 TB to a $7000 tape library holding $2400 worth of tapes over a 1 Gbps channel, that's 8 seconds per GB (idealized) times 20,000 GB, or 160,000 seconds -- about two >>days<< to do a full backup at 86,400 seconds per day. And of course if people are using the disks being backed during that time one has the usual problems with possible inconsistency. So we're still in that pickle -- tape libraries with TB capacity are expensive, bottlenecked, finicky (bad tapes happen, often silently until you need them for a restore), and did I mention expensive? And necessary, alas. Even maintaining a full mirror of RAID 5 systems for disk-to-disk backup doesn't give one the warm fuzzies that a good old tape library with period full backups archived and stored in a fireproof box offsite. The only alternative that comes close is to rent space on an offsite RAID in a for-rent server farm (lots of them out there these days) and pump a periodic dump out to it from your primary servers, but that typically only works for relatively small sets of critical data -- things USB backpack disks can probably manage just as well -- or you run into the significantly greater network bottleneck of Internet WANs. So for backing up my home md RAID (which has a downed disk and is about to be rebuilt with twice the capacity intead of adding back another 80 GB drive) I use a cheap 160 GB backpack disk, ditto for my laptop (although I only back up data from either one as distros are infinitely reinstallable). For professional/work backup, a tape library is the ONLY way to go, however painful and expensive it might be. In fact, the current capacity of our tape backup system is the size limiting factor to our provision of disk -- adding disk is cheap cheap cheap as I can build a perfectly usable 2 TB RAID 5 (5 500 GB disks) out of OTC parts for what, $1500 these days? Or put it into a commercial hot-swap chassis and gussie it up as a pro-grade RAID that is even larger for maybe twice that. RAID 5 is less than $1/GB out to the 2 TB level, in other words. But tape drives for standalone systems that might back such a RAID up are pretty much nonexistant these days at the consumer level. It's been years since I saw a PC with a built in tape, because the tapes one could build in cost more than the PC. I don't know, ultimately, if this is really a good or a bad thing. I've lived through many changes in tape format at this point, and seen firsthand that tapes actually do suck as a long term archival storage mechanism. I've got an unreadable QIC tape from IBM 5100's in my office (with my archaic copy of APL mastermind on it:-) and an ALMOST unreadable 9 track reel tape with some ancient fortran for quantum chemistry on it, just for luck. I used to have 5.25" floppies around until a few years ago when I finally sighed and pitched them. Tape is professionally necessary, but the reality of long term data storage is a continuous process of revolving upgrade and migration, generally disk to disk, facilitated by the ever growing capacity of those disks. Data on the shelf, any shelf, will almost certainly be unrecoverable on a decadal timescale between information degradation on most media (those pesky very high energy cosmic rays with their showers of secondary particles on an in-medium collision, thermal degradation, dust, coffee, tape bleed, etc) and the disappearance of players for the obsolete media -- does ANYBODY on this list still have a floppy drive capable of reading 360 KB floppies? How about 9-track reel tapes? I think we're seeing CD-ROM entering its end-stage right now. DVD drives are replacing CDs across the board, fortunately backwards read compatible -- so far. Music CDs seem to be about the only thing sustaining the format's existence. As flash continues to drop in price and its capacity continues to grow, though, I'm expecting to see OTC music migrate. We're already at the stage where if somebody was really clever they could build a nifty solid-state flash backup unit (or active disk) of 50+ GB capacity for maybe $1000 dollars, as earlier discussion indicated. In a year or two that will be doubled and halved, and PCs may actually start coming with a standard 10-50 GB flash as its basic OS disk, add on hard disk strictly optional. So tapes ARE necessary, but sure, nobody likes them. Who would? What we WANT is a 20 TB capacity uber-reliable radiation hard redundant box the size of a standard 5.25" drive enclosure that stores the data on a removable unit the size of a zip drive from the old days, that costs $200 or so OTC from any of twenty vendors (media costing $10 a unit) and with a 10 Gbps out-of-band channel between it and our hard disk array with complete file locking support and hot and cold running software to automate real-time, reliable backups with. :-) What we've got is tape.:-p rgb > >> But something that you have to be prepared for when going to that >> storage volume is that you *will* suffer data corruption at some >> point, and you need to plan for it. See for example >> >> http://cern.ch/Peter.Kelemen/talk/2007/kelemen-2007-C5-Silent_Corruptions.pdf >> > > Thanks! > >> It's quite possible (though unlikely) for a hard disk to suddenly >> return corrupted data without signalling a read error, and this is a >> possibility that raid controllers typically just ignores. And then you >> have the usual crop of software, firmware and hardware errors that can >> trash your data more or less silently. > > It seems ZFS end-to-end checksums is not such a bad idea after all :) > >> At a minimum, make sure you keep checksums of all files so you can >> verify their integrity. > > Thank you for the feedback! > > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu

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Hello thereeeee. I've told you guys that I would be back, right? Bahahah, anyway, I'll be going to visit my family tomorrow. Four days without logging into sl seems unbearable… Not because I think I can't do it, or that I will long to log on, but more because I will have TONS of notices and capped messages when I come back. So if you're reading this, and you're thinking of sending me a review copy or whatever else, please, please do so today or after thursday. Or send me a notecard, because I have those sorted quite well now, and I'll notice if one has been added.
Okay! Well, I went on a major shopping trip. The Dressing Room Fusion is open, Collab is open, Frost is open, Zodiac is open, My Attic – The Deck is open as well… and with all these awesome events who bring tons of high quality designers for a low price, I could not /not/ buy everything I saw. I saw soooo many gorgeous pieces and I was very excited to make a post about it. Of course, this isn't everything you can buy at these events, and there's a ton more, more, more items there on low prices – so you should definitely have a look for yourself. Happy shopping, merry Christmas, and I'll be back thursday! Gonna miss all of youuuu and I hope I won't miss any cool releases while I'm gone!
- Skin: *L* Sapphire – Cream – Pure – CL
- Hair: .ploom. Mosch (My Attic, The Deck)
- Eyes: {D.A} Cloudy Blue
- Eyeshadow: MONS / Makeups – Eyeshadow Mystery2
- Lippy: ROZENA/ Kiss Kiss ~ mango jelly
- Pipe: O.M.E.N – Smoke Pipe – Black
- Blouse: *Edelweiss* School-Line Shirts – pink
- Necklace: +9 leater coin purse
- Belt: *May's Soul* Sweet Belt
- Shorts: erratic / jessy – studded shorts / brown
- Shoes: tulip. Studded Loafer (Olive)
- Bag: The Secret Store – Tiny Satchel – Red Polka (The Arcade)
- Bandages: .::DMD::. Band-aids + Wounds w Heart
- Skin: Glam Affair – Roza Basic – Artic – Clean D
- Eyes: {D.A} Faded Brown
- Hair: tram B921 hair / beige
- Glasses: [ glow ] studio Birdy Glasses (The Arcade)
- Bow: *BOOM* Perky Bowkerchief (My Attic, The Deck)
- Sweater: [PO] Capricorn Sweater – white (Zodiac)
- Pants: (Milk Motion) flowers hightwaist pants (TDR)
- Ballerina: .O. the Princess Ballerina Pet Rock (The Arcade)
- Ring: Noodles – Celestual Ring Silver/Rose (Collabor88)
- Socks: Pig – Duotone Socks Mit Suspenders
- Shoes: *Kookie* Snugs (no longer available)


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Sweet home, Chicago! Home to the blues, deep dish pizza, the Magnificent Mile, one of the most spectacular skylines in the world, and now… home to the 12th Interlending and Document Supply Conference .
Today's information seekers have unprecedented access to information and expect those resources to be delivered to their digital door. Meeting the unprecedented demands of a new generation of researchers requires an equally unprecedented commitment to resource sharing across borders, time zones and oceans.
Come to the Windy City to hear how libraries across the globe are creatively sharing their resources to cope with shrinking library budgets, skyrocketing collection costs, and increasingly restrictive copyright laws. Our speakers will describe many cutting-edge projects, from cooperative collection development ventures to shared storage facilities to purchase-on-demand programs. You'll hear about the latest developments in interlibrary loan: new technologies, recent cost studies, sharing digital resources, and strategies for improving transborder ILL.
Join us as the global resource community gathers in Chicago on September 19 – 21 to discuss Resource Sharing in the Digital Age.


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Nano in the News
Nano in the News
A look at what is coming to the Mohawk Valley…
$1.5 billion has been invested into Nano Utica at SUNY IT with the Nano Marcy project also looming in the near future. Nano Utica refers to the Computer Chip Commercialization Center (Quad-C) currently under construction at the SUNY IT campus. Slated to open its doors in December 2014, Quad-C is expected to bring 1,500 jobs to the local area with a projected annual operating budget of $500 million when complete.
What will Quad-C look like:
• Fabrication Building (FAB): 120,000 square foot, 4-component structure with a multi-level 56,000 square-foot clean room featuring a unique stacked design.
• Central Utility Building (CUB): 56,000 square foot, three-story, 106 foot structure containing support utilities for the clean room facility
• 12.5 acre site on the SUNY IT campus
• Auditorium: Large-tiered, 84-seat meeting, exhibit, and presentation area, including state-of-the-art web conferencing capabilities for global collaboration


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Outfit Details
Top- Qmode
Blazer- Michael Kors Marshalls
Lace Skirt- DKNY Thrifted Savers
Tights- Hue Marshalls
Heels- Paris Hilton Marshalls
Ring- F21
Earrings- Jewelmint
Bag- Lulus Hautelook.com
Lipstick- Smitten Revlon
I almost busted my face wearing these heels...but after looking over the pictures I guess it was worth it...you know when you are walking and your heel falls into one of those cracks in the street? Yeah that happened while I was walking into a clients office...it was silly...to top it all off, this skirt doesn't allow me to walk very far, so I basically feel like Jessica Rabbit struttin around...haha Lesson learned...if I have to go ANYWHERE...while walking....don't wear these shoes....
Just a little insight into our filming yesterday...it was pretty awesome...and when I say pretty...I mean like totally Bad A**, we kicked some major boootey....but I can't turn my neck and I feel broken...P.E. does too...thanks for all of your support!!!
Oh and ummm is anyone out there watching the Housewives? haha ok, fine..well we are and umm haha NENE has lost her dog gone mind...seriously....


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Joe Baxter
December 13, 2012
Investors have quickly moved beyond the uncertainty related to the outcome of the November elections, to focus almost entirely on the ambiguity surrounding the outcome of the so-called "fiscal cliff." Like other investors, we are mindful of the negotiations taking place in Washington, D.C., over the coming weeks. However, understanding that we cannot predict their ultimate outcome, we continue to focus on what we do know and on what we can control.
If legislators in Washington cannot reach a deal before Dec. 31, 2012:
In our opinion, most investors seem to view the fiscal cliff as a zero-sum event — either we fall off the proverbial cliff or we don't. With this in mind, many investors have adopted a "risk-off" stance since the election, shifting out of equities and other risk assets and moving toward lower-risk securities. Indeed, municipal bonds have, in our opinion, benefited from this shift since the election.
In our view, however, many investors, including municipal bond investors, have largely ignored the risks inherent in some of the potential deals being discussed to avert the cliff. We have noted, for example, that twice during negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans, the idea of capping municipal bonds' tax deduction at 28% has been raised. If enacted, a 28% cap on municipal bonds' tax exemption could reduce their attractiveness to high income earners, a group that historically has invested in municipal bonds due to their unique tax benefits.
Even with the strong historical performance that the municipal bond market has enjoyed year-to-date, we believe there remains opportunity within the market and can see certain scenarios related to the fiscal cliff in which new value opportunities may emerge. We specifically look toward two possibilities as potential buying opportunities:
In either of these cases, we look to relatively recent history — specifically, the three-month period ended January 2011 during which municipal bonds experienced a steep selloff — to support our belief that what investors may initially view as a negative event for the municipal bond market, could offer a significant opportunity for long-term investors such as ourselves to locate and purchase deeply discounted securities.
In our view, the municipal market overshot its true value to the downside in 2010 as investors turned away from the municipal market, fearing a massive wave of defaults that simply never occurred.
Within our portfolios, we were able to take advantage of what we believe were some extraordinary value opportunities that emerged at that time. Today, we continue to hold many of the fundamentally sound bonds that we purchased at that time at deep discounts, when many investors had fled the municipal market entirely.
It's important to note, however, that while we continue to see opportunity for performance within the municipal market and look to benefit from any potential unrest in the coming months, we remain aware that a number of significant headwinds — aside from the fiscal cliff situation in the United States — have yet to be resolved. Accordingly, we currently maintain a cautious view within the portfolios we manage, focusing on credit-level analysis, studying one bond at a time, monitoring prevailing credit conditions, and maintaining diversified portfolios across both credit rating and yield curve considerations. This approach also generally leads us to favor revenue bonds over general obligation (GO) debt, and state issues over local debt, as we believe that state officials will have better tools to address the consequences of deficit-reduction policies that appear on the horizon, whether or not a deficit deal is struck between now and Dec. 31.
1Applies to unearned income from interest dividends, capital gains, annuities, royalties, and rent. Income from municipal bond interest is exempt.
Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Funds' prospectuses and their summary prospectuses, which may be obtained by visiting delawarefunds.com/literature or calling 800 362-7500. Investors should read the prospectuses and the summary prospectuses carefully before investing.
Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.
Fixed income securities and bond funds can lose value, and investors can lose principal, as interest rates rise. They also may be affected by economic conditions that hinder an issuer's ability to make interest and principal payments on its debt.
Bond funds may also be subject to prepayment risk, the risk that the principal of a bond that is held by a portfolio will be prepaid prior to maturity, at the time when interest rates are lower than what the bond was paying. A portfolio may then have to reinvest that money at a lower interest rate.
Funds that invest primarily in one state may be more susceptible to the economic, regulatory, regional, and other factors of that state than funds than geographically diversified funds.
High yielding, non-investment-grade bonds (junk bonds) involve higher risk than investment grade bonds.
Substantially all dividend income derived from tax-free funds is exempt from federal income tax. Some income may be subject to state or local taxes and/or the federal alternative minimum tax (AMT) that applies to certain investors. Capital gains, if any, are taxable.
Diversification may not protect against market risk.
Head of Municipal Bonds, Senior Portfolio Manager
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Senior Vice President, Head of Municipal Bonds, Senior Portfolio Manager
Joseph R. Baxter is head of municipal bonds in the Americas and is responsible for setting the department's investment strategy. He is also a co-portfolio manager of the firm's municipal bond funds and several client accounts. Before joining Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in 1999 as head municipal bond trader, he held investment positions with First Union, most recently as a municipal portfolio manager with the Evergreen Funds. Baxter received a bachelor's degree in finance and marketing from La Salle University.


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How to change your Site Name in Joomla 3.1
Your Site Name in Joomla 3.0 is used in several different places. For example, if you look at your HTML source code, you'll see your site name listed in the title tag (if you have this setting enabled). If your template is designed to do so, you may also see your site name listed somewhere on your site, such as in the footer (see the screenshot to the right). In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we will show you how to modify your site name.
This is a very simple change you can make to your Joomla 3.0 website. It's not a change to the server itself, so regardless of your Joomla host, you should not have any problems editing your Site Name.
Changing your Site Name in Joomla 3.0:
- Log into your Joomla 3.0 site admin
- Click Global Configuration in the left menu
- If you are not on the Site tab, click Site at the top of the page
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storyasking is a game we can play to share language learning.. we can storyask to teach language we know.. and we can also play to learn new language.. we call it storyasking because we don't tell stories, we ask stories.. when we storyask, we're not sure what's gonna happen in a story, but chances are we're gonna have fun, feel good and learn each other's language.. how?
more than anything, we learn because we're having fun.. we're not bored by studying grammar or tired old stories.. our stories are alive; they've never been heard before.. and they're about us.. we learn new language just like we learned language we already know.. with input we understand and care about.
storyasking works with a key ingredient: input.. input from a storyasker who knows the language.. and cares enough to make input meaningful to players who want to learn.. why is input key? how make input meaningful?
does everyone get it?
if asking any story, make sure everyone understands all the words.. if players don't know what language even says, how can anyone expect to follow any story? so if you wanna help players learn new language, help them learn to hear it and understand what it says and know what it means.. here are some rules:
does anyone care?
understandable input, if boring, is boring.. to really connect learners with language, input must be meaningful, interesting, funny, sad, wise, truthful, whatever.. a good way to connect with players is to ask how they feel about stories or life in general.. ask about feelings..
who cares?
who is getting the input? what are their names? what do they like to do? ask them to write their name and draw a picture of what they like to do.. circle with balls.. ask them to answer a questionnaire.. it's hard to connect with anyone or make anything meaningful if you don't learn who they are.. the only way to find out is to ask..
ask real questions
ask real questions to learn who players are and what they like.. real questions can lead to cute answers, sad stories, wise words like sayings or proverbs, etc.. whatever it takes to make input meaningful.. it's usually about feelings.. real questions can even get kinda personal like:
by asking real questions, you make stories that players care about.. so they want to know more.. good stories connect with our feelings.. the more we connect with stories, the more meaningful the language is to us.. when stories ask us what we love and hate, what we want and fear, we connect with the stories and we learn from them..
ask useful questions
before any question or story can be meaningful, it must first be understandable.. so practically speaking, players should first learn practical questions to confirm comprehension:
as players work with useful questions and real questions, they are more able to interact with the story and take an active role in their own learning of a language..
ask good questions
good questions can be simple but not easy to answer.. what's it all about, alfie? really good questions really make you think.. if you wanna "think" in a language, try thinking about good questions..
circle them questions
questions can "circle" around any new language.. "circling" questions ask around a blob of new language over and over in slightly new contexts.. questions and more questions.. questions that circle around new language confirm that all players understand the new language.. and how the new language changes the story.. after answering enough questions, players start to speak a little in language..
interaction in language is where the action is.. if a player isn't answering questions or playing a role, then a player is out of the game.. the more a player wants to learn, the more they play.. with answers.. to all kindsa questions.. it's best if all players answer all questions all the time.. always..
if you're playing, you first learn to react, with feeling.. reacting to the story.. your reactions tell the storyasker either that you get it.. or not.. players start with four or five little words to react, with feeling, to any story:
if you want to learn the language, the most important question you can ask is "huh?".. if you don't ask for help, you don't get what you want.. you feel lost and feel bad.. not good.. but it's easy to change that.. just ask for help!
after you practice reacting, learn to answer questions.. the storyasker asks as few questions as possible, so players focus on really learning.. better dig deep than wide.. when we really know language, we can use what we know to learn more language.. here are some simple answers to start with:
later players can learn how to answer which, where, when, how many and other questions.. any storyaskers can ask any question.. but best start with as few questions and answers as possible..
as you learn how to answer questions, you learn how to ask questions.. when you learn how to ask questions in a new language, you have the keys to learn more and more of the language.. all you have to do is ask!
when you learn by storyasking, you're like to learn how to teach with storyasking.. the more language you know, the more you can teach.. it's pretty easy: repeat, learn to listen, answer, ask questions, ask a story, make sure everyone gets it, have fun and GO SLOW!..
if you wanna learn language and play storyasking, you don't just sit back.. you play the game.. you are a part of it.. you react, you answer, you ask.. you learn how to learn language you want to learn.. it takes some work to learn language, but it can be so much fun it really just feels like play..
happy ending
to get anything done, it often helps to keep your eyes on the prize.. to begin with the end in mind.. ask yourself: what do you want?
in a game, players wanna win.. in some games, everybody wins! storyasking is about learning more language.. so we can communicate with more people.. who loses? the more we can communicate, the more opportunities we have to make friends.. the more friends we make, the more people we can play with and the more we can learn together..
storyasking isn't about speaking exactly perfectly correctly at first.. that comes later.. even if mistakes are made, if we focus first on communication, we learn from the best teachers of all.. the natives:
"In the real world, conversations with sympathetic native speakers who are willing to help the acquirer understand are very helpful." -- Dr. Stephen Krashen
it took time to learn your first language.. it takes time and practice to learn any language.. trying to speak perfectly from the first step can cause potentially great communicators to feel bad and stop.. it feels much better to forgive mistakes and just focus on communication.. the more you communicate and read in any language, the more you will learn that language.. like they say: "practice makes perfect" or maybe "mejor mearse de risa y no de prisa"..
around the world
storyasking ain't only about learning language in some classroom.. it's about learning language out on the playground, on the street and especially online on the internet.. meeting people, sharing stories and learning language can be so much fun.. if you want to learn language, try to use it everywhere you can! have fun with the language and make friends with it..
http://storyask.com has this page with some links..
storyasking is a free child of TPRS.. TPRS is an awesome tool used by thousands of language teachers.. storyasking wants to bring TPRS to more language learners, especially young language learners using the OLPC XO..
some kinda storyasking game might be able to integrate with WiXi and Scratch..


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I'm trying to solve task 44 of the first chapter of Stanleys Enumerative Combinatorics (found here).
Show that the total number of cycles of all even permutations of $[n]$ and the total number of cycles of all odd permutations of $[n]$ differ by $(−1)^n (n − 2)!$. Use generating functions.
I might be completely off the track here, but the way I thought of this problem is the following. A permutation can be written as a product of disjoint cycles, and a permutation is odd iff there is an odd number of even-length cycles.
The set of cycles partition $[n]$ into disjoint orbits, and thus the number of cycles of all odd permutations of $[n]$ should be equal to the number of partitions of $[n]$ into even parts, with an odd number of such parts (and similarly for the even permutations).
Is this right or have I misunderstood something? Also, I'm not quite sure how to proceed from here and how to set up the generating functions.
I did find this question, which might be of some use if my interpretation of this problem is correct.
However, I did not clearly see how one could end up with $(-1)^n (n-2)!$ from that.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For Republicans eager to lead Texas after Gov. Rick Perry finally steps aside in 2014, there's one easy way to describe their campaign blunders so far: Oops.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, the early favorite to replace Perry, thanked a supporter who tweeted that likely Democratic challenger Wendy Davis was a "retard Barbie." Top Abbott strategist Dave Carney, who ran Perry's failed White House bid in 2012, himself tweeted the headline of an article that said Davis was "too stupid" to be governor.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, facing a fierce GOP primary challenge for his seat, was trying to show his conservative mettle at a debate this week when he said he doesn't put Democrats in charge of "critical committees." Among his Senate panels helmed by Democrats: Veteran Affairs.
All are unforced errors by GOP front-runners that any political opponent would relish — especially Texas Democrats, who need all the help they can get to lessen the long odds next year of the party winning a statewide office for the first time in 20 years.
But as they wait for Davis' expected Oct. 3 announcement that she will run, they're left without a candidate to pounce on their rivals' missteps.
"When Todd Akin made a misstep, at least there was Claire McCaskill to take an opportunity," said Democratic strategist Matt Glazer of the Austin-based Glazer Group. He was referring to the 2012 U.S. Senate race in Missouri when Akin, a Republican, doomed his candidacy by saying that women's bodies have a way of shutting down during "legitimate" rape.
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"I disagree with that statement and we're going to make sure that this campaign focuses on the real issues that matter to Texans," Abbott said.
In August, Abbott wrote "thanks for your support" to a backer who tweeted that Davis was a "retard Barbie." Abbott has said he did not see the comment while firing of gratitude to supporters and rebuked the language in the tweet.
Democratic Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who is rumored to be weighing a run for lieutenant governor and chairs the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs, sent Dewhurst a letter this week criticizing his characterization of the panels he leaves in the hands of Democrats.
"As a Democrat in the state of Texas, I would understand if you attacked me personally at a Republican political debate. However, I take great exception with dismissing the work of the committee which I chair," Van de Putte wrote.
A spokesman for Dewhurst responded with a statement asserting his support for veterans and their families.
Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University, said the tweets will only haunt Abbott if it becomes a pattern. Davis shot to national fame this summer during an 11-hour filibuster that temporarily delayed the passage of tighter abortion restrictions in Texas, and Democrats have accused Republicans of waging a war on women with the new laws.
Jones said the issue is a delicate one for the Texas GOP. Barring a female Republican candidate getting in a race, Jones said the party will go into 2014 without at least one female candidate running for one of the state's top six executive posts for the first time since 1986.
But being so early in the campaign season, hardly all rank-and-file voters are noticing the slip-ups, anyway.
Lisa Sneed, a Republican who said she owned a cupcake bakery near Dallas that was frequented by Perry, was not even aware of the miscues by Abbott and Dewhurst. She is a strong supporter of Abbott, but said she hoped he was careful with Davis in the months ahead.
"I love Gov. Perry. I love him. But he is not a good public speaker. He does not have a gauge, a filter, between the brain and the mouth," Sneed said. "Abbott can improvise when he's speaking. He's a whole lot more natural than Perry.
"But I don't think you ever count anybody out."
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The Prime Minister's Task Group on Emissions Trading gives its report to the PM today and is expected to recommend the introduction of a national emissions trading scheme in Australia.
I have been pretty sceptical about the taskgroup, given its membership: of the twelve members, five are from within the government, three are from mining / resources companies, one is from a power company, two are from heavy energy users (aluminium and airline companies). Only one (from National Australia Bank) is not from a heavy greenhouse-gas-emitting company. There are no representatives from outside government or big business and no businesses that would have an interest in a strong trading scheme (eg, insurers, agriculture, tourism, renewable energy).
The group is also repeating work that has been done pretty thoroughly already: the National Emissions Trading Taskforce was established by the Australian states and territories in January 2004. It presented key design propositions for a successful trading scheme later in 2004, issued a background paper and undertook public consultation in 2005, and presented a proposed trading scheme in August last year. As far as I'm aware, the federal government declined to have any involvement in the NETT process. The states and territories have committed to a national state-based scheme by 2010 if the federal government fails to introduce its own national scheme.
And the terms of reference themselves seem to suggest the result:
Australia enjoys major competitive advantages through the possession of large reserves of fossil fuels and uranium. In assessing Australia's further contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, these advantages must be preserved.
Against this background the Task Group will be asked to advise on the nature and design of a workable global emissions trading system in which Australia would be able to participate. The Task Group will advise and report on additional steps that might be taken, in Australia, consistent with the goal of establishing such a system.
Nevertheless, the media are tipping that the taskforce will recommend a national trading scheme. If so, it's remarkable that the government lags behind even the most reactionary businesses with the most to lose from action on climate change. Why does the PM have to wait until even coal miners and electricity generators call for some action on climate change?
Clive Hamilton has an article today suggesting 7 tests for a decent trading system, which I think are pretty sensible. In summary they are:
1. Comprehensive coverage of the main emissions sources.
2. A clear target.
3. No loopholes. (Hamilton reckons there shouldn't be offsets or credits from actions like planting trees. I disagree, but the challenge is ensuring that offsets are genuine and robust.)
4. Permits should be auctioned, not handed out to existing big polluters for free.
5. It should be able to link in with foreign schemes.
6. Allow the market to work unconstrained.
7. Ensure medium-term economic certainty (ie, fixed emissions caps) but longer-term flexibility to adjust caps if necessary.
We should see the report later today or tomorrow – it will be interesting to see what it says. The PM will apparently respond on Sunday. The opposition has attempted to steal the PM's thunder by issuing its own policies today (including a national emissions trading scheme by 2010 coupled with a mandatory renewable energy target) – they are mostly pretty good but I'm not sure there's anything new there they haven't announced before.


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Prescribed Burn Sparks 14,000-acre Grassland Fire
LEMMON - A prescribed burn started by the U.S. Forest Service southeast of Hettinger, N.D., has escaped containment lines and scorched about 14,000 acres of grassland in South Dakota's Perkins County.
No injuries or structure damage have been reported, but crews are still working to suppress the Pautre Fire.
The Forest Service says the fire escaped Wednesday as ignition operations were ending. Winds carried the fire east and south as crews tried to contain the blaze on the Grand River National Grasslands.
Grand River District Ranger Paul Hancock says the Forest Service regrets that the burn escaped and affected so many people.
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Truvada Drug Trials Signal "Turning Point" in AIDS Epidemic
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Three new studies show the potential promise, as well as challenges, of using HIV drugs to prevent infection among healthy but high-risk patients.
Two studies of African heterosexuals show pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduced the rate of HIV infection by 62 percent to 75 percent, a rate similar to that seen in PrEP studies involving gay men. A third study focusing on African women ended early after showing no effect, mostly because fewer than 40 percent of participants took the pills as prescribed.
The studies overall bolster the idea of PrEP as one of the several powerful HIV prevention tools, said Myron Cohen, a professor at the University of North Carolina and co-author of an editorial accompanying the studies.
"We're at some sort of turning point in the AIDS epidemic," said Cohen. "It's not a single thing going on here. It's the culmination of what's happened for 30 years. ... Each of them is moving the political world to start thinking about an AIDS-free generation."
A lingering challenge is finding ways to motivate uninfected patients to take the drugs properly. Researchers should investigate if the women in Africa stopped taking the drugs due to side effects or because they underestimated their risk of infection, Cohen said. About 3 percent of the women became infected during the study, whether they received the drugs or a placebo.
In two of the trials, patients were randomly assigned to receive either Truvada (tenofovir and emtricitabine) or placebo. In a third, they were randomly assigned to placebo, Truvada or tenofovir. The Truvada and tenofovir groups had similar results.
In May, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended the agency approve Truvada for PrEP.
[PNU editor's note: The three studies and editorial appear in the New England Journal of Medicine (2012;doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1108524; doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1202614; doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1110711; and doi: 10.1056/NEJMe1207438]
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The People's Bank of China on Tuesday offered 28-day repurchase agreements to discharge 30 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) in liquidity from the local money markets, the first time it employed such a draining operation since June.
The repo auction – which reflects easy money conditions – follows a series of liquidity injections by the central bank in recent weeks, via short-term reverse repurchase agreements. That included a net addition of 662 billion yuan in the run-up to the Chinese New Year, when demand for cash typically surges.
Tuesday's move also comes just ahead of the maturity of a big chunk of reverse repos this week, which will drain another 860 billion yuan from the market.
Crédit Agricole senior economist Dariusz Kowalczyk said the very fact that the PBOC was now conducting repo auctions was a "hawkish signal," and the message the central bank is likely trying to send is that it doesn't want money-market conditions to be too easy.
"Not surprisingly, Shanghai [Composite Index] fell. … Tighter liquidity will also limit gains in the equity market," Kowalczyk said, referring to the sharp fall for Chinese equities.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 1% to 2,396.90 in the morning session Tuesday, and the Shenzhen Composite Index skidded 1.4% to 956.19, underperforming regional stocks by a big margin. Read Asia Markets.
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[edit] The House Analogy
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work. When a house is going to be built, contractors must make sure that
the land they are going to build the house on is big enough to contain
it. Once the house is built it gets its own street address depending on
where it is at on the street. Then, no matter who is living in the
house, the street address will remain the same.
Likewise, when a variable is being created in a program, the program must make sure that its memory location is large enough to hold the variable. Once the variable is created it gets its own memory address depending on where in memory it is residing. Then, no matter what value is stored in the variable, the memory address will remain the same.
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When a report surfaced Saturday that Dr. James Andrews was recommending that Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III sit out the first few weeks of the regular season to allow his knee more time to heal, the team acted fast to deny it.
Philadelphia radio and TV reporter Howard Eskin wrote on Twitter on Saturday, citing unnamed sources, that Dr. Andrews had recommended to the Redskins that they not play Griffin until after their Week Five bye, which would mean Griffin wouldn't get on the field until Week Six at Dallas on October 13. Eskin added, however, that Redskins coach Mike Shanahan was expected to play Griffin in Week One regardless of Andrews' recommendation.
The Redskins quickly put out word that the report was false. Although the team didn't make any official statement, multiple Redskins beat writers heard from an unnamed team source who denied the report. Chick Hernandez of CSNWashington.com, John Keim of ESPN and Mike Jones of the Washington Post all took to Twitter to say that a Redskins source had told them the report is false.
Shanahan, who took some criticism for his handling of Griffin's knee injury in the Redskins' playoff loss to the Seahawks, has insisted all offseason that he will follow the recommendations of the medical staff in determining when to put Griffin back on the field. So it's no surprise that the "unnamed team source" quickly spoke out to say that the Redskins wouldn't do anything to jeopardize Griffin's health.


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PORTLAND, Maine — The premier of Nova Scotia has committed to subsidizing a new ferry service between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and a Maine port, a decision that would benefit Maine and help attract additional tourism dollars to the state, several people familiar with the issue told the Bangor Daily News.
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter on Friday said he would commit to finding a new operator and to providing $21 million over seven years to help subsidize ferry service across the Gulf of Maine, which was lost at the end of 2009 when Bay Ferries Ltd. shut down the service because of tough economic conditions. Dexter made the announcement after receiving the final report from an independent panel tasked with determining under what conditions a ferry service between Nova Scotia and Maine would be successful.
Bay Ferries Ltd. stopped operating The Cat between Nova Scotia, Portland and Bar Harbor at the end of 2009 after the Nova Scotia government said it no longer could subsidize the service, which it was doing at the time to the tune of nearly $7 million a year.
The loss of the ferry service has hurt southwestern Nova Scotia's economy. Bringing the ferry service back, along with its resulting tourism dollars, became a political talking point in the province.
"I have said all along that the province would support a ferry service that could stand on its own, a service that could be successful and profitable," Dexter said in a statement. "We now know that ferry could exist, with the right business model and the right partners."
Michael Brennan, Portland's mayor, said he was pleased by Dexter's announcement, though he was still without many details. Brennan said his office would reach out to Dexter's office later this week to let the premier know that Portland is "willing and prepared to have discussions."
The return of ferry service between Nova Scotia and Maine certainly would benefit Maine and its economy, said John Henshaw, executive director of the Maine Port Authority. At one point, the Canadian government or Bay Ferries Ltd. — Henshaw's not sure which — was running full-page ads for the ferry service in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
"In the past the Canadians advertised heavily for the service and we benefited from that," Henshaw said.
Barbara Whitten, president of the Greater Portland Convention & Visitors Bureau, said the loss of The Cat was felt by tourism-related businesses in Portland when it left in 2009, as it brought many people to Portland who stayed overnight on either end of their trip to Nova Scotia.
"It was a positive thing for Portland, a positive thing for our hotels, a positive thing all around," Whitten said.
Henshaw and Whitten don't have firm numbers on the impact the Nova Scotia-Maine ferry service had on Maine's economy. Charles Colgan, a professor at the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, said several years ago he tried to generate interest in studying the demographics of The Cat's passengers, which would have helped marketing efforts, but couldn't secure the necessary funding.
"When it's up and running, no one cares, and when it's gone, everybody wants to know about it," Colgan said.
However, renewed ferry service is far from a done deal. Several elements are unknown, such as whether a private sector operator could be found; whether the ferry would visit Portland, Bar Harbor or both; and whether a high-speed ferry like The Cat would be the way to go.
There are also plenty of uncertainties that would affect the financial success of such a ferry service, including fuel prices and the cost of crews, but the critical uncertainty is whether a revived ferry service would be able to meet the passenger threshold needed to be commercially viable, which the panel estimates to be between 130,000 to 135,000 annual passengers.
That number is higher than the roughly 75,000 passengers that boarded The Cat during its final year in service, but less than the combined 330,000 passengers that used The Cat and the Scotia Prince, the ferry that operated between Nova Scotia and Portland between 1982 to 2004, during the peak year of 2002.
"There's no shortage of challenges, but it's a potential opportunity as well — for Maine, for Canada, for everyone," Henshaw said.
The Cat and its ferry service was hit by "a perfect storm" of national, regional and local economic factors, which led to its ultimate demise, the report found. (The Cat was sold last year to Fujian Cross Strait Ferry Corp. and now provides high-speed ferry service between mainland China and Taiwan.) However, the report concludes, "many of the depressants are now unlikely to worsen and signs of slow recovery of the U.S. economy and of consumer confidence are becoming more evident."
Colgan agreed. "As the economy winds out of this recession and we get some more solid growth in the years ahead, it makes a fair amount of sense" to restart the ferry service, he said. "The recession put pressure on the Nova Scotia government's budget, downward pressure on ridership and the use of service, and so like many businesses, when the recovery gets going, the underlying logic is that people will try to find ways to get [the ferry service] going again."
The former ferry services also served as an important transportation option for commercial freight moving from the Canadian Maritime Provinces to New England.
"The commercial vehicle side of this was almost more important at times than the vacation travelers," Colgan said.
The panel concluded that a ferry service could be successful without government subsidy "in the medium term" as long as the right pieces are in place. Those pieces include a business model built around the passenger experience, a "cruise ferry" if you will, rather than just being a transportation link; a sophisticated marketing strategy by the ferry operator and Nova Scotia's government; and "greater development of the destination experience in Nova Scotia. … In other words, the marketing message needs to be validated by the visitor's experience."
The panel's report estimates that the provincial and federal governments would need to commit between $30 million and $35 million to get the ferry service back up and running. That includes about $13 million to refurbish the terminal facility in Nova Scotia, which is owned by the Canadian government.
While the Nova Scotia and Canadian governments subsidized The Cat ferry service, Portland and Maine never did. However, Nicole Clegg, a spokeswoman for Portland, said the city could show its support in other ways.
"While we can't provide millions of dollars in subsidies, we are able to negotiate favorable lease terms for the ferry," Clegg said, referring to the lease negotiations that would need to occur for the ferry to use Portland's marine terminal facilities.
Brennan said it was too early to discuss how Portland would handle lease negotiations with a still-hypothetical ferry operator, but said the city would "do what we could to facilitate having ferry service return to Portland and negotiate something that would be of mutual benefit."


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Very likely Opalina Fiorentina from Empoli. I believe I have that decor in a labelled piece, although it's well buried in the garage.
Keep in mind though that you can't necessarily trust everything you see on eBay. I think this time the seller is right, but often sellers just guess, and if enough people just guess then a false identification moves into folklaw. Unless you find a labelled example, but even labels can be moved or faked.
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