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Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice
Alicia Epstein Korten, Kim Klein (Series Editor) | September 2009 | US $34.95
A how-to guide for creating and funding social justice program grants
This groundbreaking book shows how to increase funding for social justice philanthropy. Social justice philanthropy provides direct services to alleviate suffering and works to transform the systems and institutions that cause that suffering. Written in an engaging, easy-to-read style, Change Philanthropy offers an insider's view what works and what doesn't work when developing grantmaking strategies in support of social change. It gives clear guidance showcases foundations of all types and sizes including Liberty Hill Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Needmor Fund, Jacobs Family Foundation, Discount Foundation, Global Fund for Women, Schott Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. The book also includes a wealth of illustrative examples and contains practical suggestions and tips that can be applied immediately to support any social justice agenda.
- Offers a guide for increasing funds for social justice programs
- and suggestions for foundations on which programs to fund
- Gives step-by-step advice for developing a successful grantmaking strategy
- Includes a wealth of examples from leading foundations
- Sponsored by The Center for Community Change
Table of Contents
Foreword (Christopher Harris, Deepak Bhargava).
PART ONE: Securing Success with Campaigns.
1 Strengthening Unusual Alliances for Living Wages.
The Case of the Discount Foundation.
2 Supporting Citizen Action and Litigation for Education Reform.
The Case of the Schott Foundation.
PART TWO: Infl uencing Market Forces in Support of People and the Planet.
3 Using an Endowment to Build the Field of Socially Responsible Investing.
The Case of the Needmor Fund.
4 Transforming Business Structures for Communities.
The Case of the Jacobs Family Foundation and Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation.
PART THREE: Aiding an Identity-Based Movement.
5 Supporting the Development of an Immigrant Rights Field.
The Case of the Ford Foundation.
6 Maturing an Immigrant Movement.
The Case of the Open Society Institute.
PART FOUR: Creating Infrastructure for Justice.
7 Building Community-Based Power in Los Angeles.
The Case of the Liberty Hill Foundation.
8 Strengthening National Community-Based Networks.
The Case of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
PART FIVE: Transforming Funder-Grantee Power Relationships Through Creative Foundation Structures.
9 Addressing Internationally Women's Needs for Funding.
The Case of the Global Fund for Women.
10 Responding to Disaster Recovery and Beyond.
The Case of the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, a Special Project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
PART SIX: Gleaning Lessons for Change.
11 Lessons for the Road.
Afterword: Race and Social Justice (Maya Wiley).
A Words You Need to Know to Read This Book.
B Lobbying (John Pomeranz).
C Ten Questions to Consider Asking Inside Your Foundation.
D Where to Turn for Next Steps.
Center for Community Change.
About the Project Director.
About the Author.
The Author Alicia Epstein Korten is the CEO of ReNual LLC, a consulting firm that supports foundations, nonprofit organizations, and socially responsible businesses with strategic planning and publications. She is a contributing author to Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over from Jossey-Bass.

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Was Dwight Howard's Play During NBA All-Star Weekend A Farewell To Orlando?
By Barry Janoff
February 27, 2012: It should have been a weekend dominated by the presence of Dwight Howard of the hometown Orlando Magic.
Instead, it was Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder who took over, not only playing in the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando on Feb. 26, but also participating in earlier events such as the Three-Point Contest and coaching in the Sprint All-Star Celebrity Game, as well as starring in a new commercial for Sprint and for the NBA's "BIG" campaign and being featured in another for BBVA.
Howard coached against Duncan in the Celebrity Game on Feb. 24 and was seen courtside during the All-Star Saturday Night events. But it was Derrick Rose who adidas chose to feature in a series of activations and not fellow adidas spokesman Howard. And it was Durant who scored 36 points (to go with seven rebounds, three assists and three steals) in the All-Star Game and was named MVP, while Howard had nine points and ten rebounds.
Is this another significant signal that Howard is on his way out of Orlando via trade before he becomes a free agent at the end of this NBA season? It certainly seems that way.
Trade talks involving Howard have focused on three teams — the Los Angeles Lakers, the soon-to-be-Brooklyn Nets and the Dallas Mavericks — but the Magic would have been shooting themselves in the foot had they pulled the trigger on a deal prior to hosting All-Star festivities, and then have had to endure Howard's return in an opposing team's uniform.
For his part, Howard was politically correct during the weekend, seemingly not counting down the days to the NBA's March 15 trade deadline. "I just want to have fun," he said during player gatherings with the media. "This is All-Star weekend, it's in Orlando and let's forget about that stuff for a couple days and let's focus on what's here. Instead of worrying about trades [let's focus on] what's going on."
Meanwhile, Durant was all the rage during the weekend. In the 30-second Sprint spot, which broke in time to coincide with the NBA's mid-season All-Star break, Durant is shown in his OKC uniform explaining a recent play.
"Man, I was double-teamed, with no one to pass it to, so I pull it up and hit the shot for the win," Durant explains as we see the action play out. "And you didn't see it.
"It's the data-playing role - always stressing about overages," the All-Star forward bemoans. "I get that. But seriously - you chose to download 'Doodle Jump' instead of streaming my shot. "Doodle Jump!?"
Text then offers, "Avoid a data dilemma," while Durant says, "Man, that's messed up."
A voiceover confirms, "Switch to Sprint, the only network with truly unlimited data."
Sprint is in the first year of a four-year deal with the NBA, under which it replaced T-Mobile as the league's official wireless communications partner. Earlier Sprint-NBA commercials featured generic shots of game action.
As for Howard: He took the floor prior to the All-Star Game, won by the West, 152-149, and with microphone in hand told fans that Orlando was "my city, my home." How long that holds true remains to be seen.


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Played in 23 matches a freshman...Posted double-digit kills on four occasions, the first time at Santa Clara (Sept. 15) when she tallied 15 and also collected a season-best six digs...The following match, she had 13 kills in a five-game loss to Cal State Northridge (Sept. 21)...Had a strong showing at the season-ending Baden Thanksgiving Classic, posting a .303 (14k, 4e, 33a) clip in the win over Temple (Nov. 23) along with a season-high three block assists...The next day, she notched a season-high 16 kills in a win over Yale...Was third amongst Gaucho freshmen and sixth overall with 108 kills on the year. High School
Played at Marina High School where she was team captain, team kills leader, and Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006 under head coach Brad Simons...A three-year varsity letterwinner, she helped the Vikings to a CIF Division IA appearance in 2006...Named First Team All-Sunset League during both her junior and senior years...Was a Scholar-Athlete for all four years of her prep career and was tops amongst four-year letterwinners with a 4.1 GPA...Earned Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition Player of the Week honors after posting 29 kills against cross-town rival Edison...Was voted Most Athletic Female of her senior class at Marina HS...Graduated with honors. Club
Played club ball with TCA for four years under coach Neil Mason...On the TCA 18-1 team, she earned a gold medal at the 2006 National Girls Junior Olympics Open Championship in Atlanta, Ga....In 2007 her team took third in the 18-open championship...The same year, her team won three qualifiers and placed second in Las Vegas...In 2005 she earned all-tournament honors as her 16-1 team took gold at the Junior Olympics Invitational in Louisville, Ky. Personal
Stacey Brianne Schmidt was born on March 5, 1989 in Anaheim, Calif. to Debbie and Craig Schmidt...Has a younger brother named Jacob...Enjoys playing beach volleyball...Majoring in business economics at UCSB with a minor in sports management...A member of the Dean's List at UCSB...Enjoys swimming when she's not playing volleyball...Her favorite movie is "Forrest Gump"...Most memorable athletic achievement was winning Junior Olympics in 2006. Career Stats
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56% of survey respondents say they plan on getting an iPhone, Samsung next in line
posted by Daniel P. / Apr 12, 2012, 3:12 AM
About 56% of those who plan on replacing their phones in the next three months said they are going to get an iPhone, which is the second highest percentage on the research company's record, and shows Apple doesn't have much to worry about in Q2.
We wonder how these results might change in the months after the Samsung Galaxy S III announcement, and before Apple has started selling the next iPhone version.
via CNN
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1. darac
Posts: 2156; Member since: Oct 17, 2011
The actually market figures are telling a quite different story. Even in the US, android phones sold more than iPhone in the latest Gartner report. And worldwide its not even a contest - 80-90 million vs 30-35 million estimated for Q1.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 3:54 AM 10
8. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
you have to remember when they asked for a survey to see what 4G phones people were going to buy a staggering 30% said iphone 4"G" ...so this 56% is the same bunch
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 6:05 AM 4
9. DontHateOnS60
Posts: 872; Member since: Apr 20, 2009
I love when people come into my store and ask for the iPhone 4G lol. I tell them, sorry, there is no iPhone 4G yet, but we have the 4S and iPhone 4 if you're interested, or I'll just say, Oh, you mean the 4S, right? Yeah, you really do mean the 4S.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 6:29 AM 10
26. davecann2
Posts: 460; Member since: Mar 15, 2011
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posted on Apr 12, 2012, 10:26 AM 1
32. beatsandmelody
Posts: 109; Member since: Nov 01, 2011
Did they get the AT&T update that changed their iPhone network indicator to say 4G? That's why. I remember seeing an acquaintance's instagram photo when their phone got changed to 4G. Poor girl.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 11:53 AM 0
Posts: 2315; Member since: Jul 30, 2011
Remember that, "they" all have to upgrade because "their" hardware is always outdated; even when "they" all stand on-line to buy the current year's upgrade it is understood that [ANY] hardware upgrades are going to be miNiMal at best. Therefore, it would make perfect sense that "they" aka "°•°" would need to upgrade all of "their" outdated iDuds year-after- year or month-after-month or day-after-day. On the Samsung issue, people just want to upgrade to Samsung because they want the next exciting BIG thing with a 5.3 screen and not the other way around (3.5) because, otherwise, they would become "they" or, in effect, "°•°" and would need to also invest in biNoculArs.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 7:10 AM 2
16. hepresearch unregistered
Well... yeah, but, these aren't supposed to replace or be current market figures. This is a three-month intention survey outlook, so nothing in the current market (except current advertising methods and expenditures, which has influenced the current intentions of consumers by this point) should be confused with this data. This info is somewhat useful, although they are on the very high-end of other data I am looking at this month. I would include them in the average I use, but it will still not be this high a percentage for my purposes. I wish they had divided this up by OS, and not by OEM, and even with this done by OEM, I wish they had included Nokia.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 8:12 AM 2
18. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
again, these mean nothing. hep, here, this proves my point to a T about using these graphs to your research... you want to know if people are lying? NO they are not, but to many iphone is synonymous with "smartphone". look at that graph. for just a moment, lets take it as fact. it says that more than half the people want an iphone, and all together only 25% of people want android phones. Now look at reality. Its OPPOSITE. Android has more than 50% of the market share and GROWING. While iphone units are selling in high numbers, the OS itself is statistically stagnant most quarters. EVERY survey that they have polled shows the iphone in a huuuge lead for "what im going to buy next", but when it comes down to it, people en masse choose android. Android outsold iOS, even on the launch of the i4s... which as you can see by the chart garnered a 60%+ "im going to buy it now" rate. People are not lying, they are just saying "iphone", when they mean "smartphone". most people that know anything at all think in android and apple, not apple and samsung and HTC, ect... or they just think "iphone = any smartphone" which is why your data is so far off. Trust me, it happens all the time. I have people come in at least once a week that go and look at the SGS2 and go, "hey how much is this new iphone". seriously.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 8:17 AM 4
20. hepresearch unregistered
Again, remix, you have applied "reality" to an non-reality data point. The problem here is that you have arbitrarily decided that if you see data about the future that does not match what you see today, then it must be wrong and skewed by some other artificial means because tomorrow ought to look just like today, and unfortunately this is NOT a luxury that a decent analyst can ever afford to take. I am not arguing with you about current market share... but you want this data to reflect current market share in order to be realistic, when really there need not be any immediate correlation. Remember, we are dealing with data that displays something that, inately, is not the current reality, and it is SUPPOSED to be that way! If I wanted to "predict" the current situation, I could use past data to show you that I can predict the current market share by using past intention poll data, past sales figures, and past market share values, but that is hardly a prediction when I could just as well look at the current market share data without needing to predict it because it has already been directly measured. As for the surveys being so far off because of misunderstanding and lingo, I disagree with you. People are not so inatley dumb on such a mass-scale, and yes, if people say they will go to iOS, and then stay with Android, then they are lying, especially if they already have a year-or-more-old Android device and should know the difference. Now, there is a phenomenon that better describes what you are saying, and it is called "the group-think lie". You are essentially claiming that this survey is a huge display of such a "group-think lie", but you forget one important point: "group-think lies" only last for a small period of time before they either melt away, or become the new reality. Perhaps this is what Apple understands best about marketing, because if what you are saying is true, then this IS the best use of a "group-think lie" that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I do not have the resources to compute how long such a "group-think" could last in this case, as it is tied to a lot of variables and complex analysis, and because I am not a sociologist (though I have had interests in the field), but the point is that either this would have melted away into oblivion a year or two ago, or Apple has hyped it up so much that it is now transitioning into real sales more and more. In other words, even if this "group-think" that you are claiming is in fact happening, it is only a matter of time before it translates into reality. For the data to be this high means that it is probably already too late for it to pull a dissappearing act in the next year of surveys, and although people can "group-think lie" over short terms, their actions will ALWAYS catch up to their words.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 8:53 AM 3
21. hepresearch unregistered
You know, remix, I've been thinking... I think the big difference between you and me on this issue is that you are like the judge that cites case-law, and I am like an attorney that is citing legistative law. Case-law is all about historical events and precedents... and aiming to keep reasonable perspective... whereas legislative law is all about answering new developing trends in social behavior... and hence more recent law practices. You want to show that recent behavior is no different from past behavior, and is qualitatively predictable in a historical context, and I am trying to show that recent behavior follows a set of quantitative laws which can predict new behaviors which may never have been directly observed before. Both of these approaches have their merits, and both ought to have bearing on this right now... but the only problem is that we are producing different answers at the moment.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 8:54 AM 2
23. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
sure, but go find graphs on the same subject from the past that try to predict future trends. Without fail EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM shows the iphone has a huge lead in "my next phone purchase", and without fail, every last sales month has android out pacing apple. Thats my point. when you match future predictors to the outcome, they do not in fact match. not a single one of them since the launch of android. Had they matched, android wouldnt have more than 25% market share while apple would be up in the 50-60 range, as per the regular "what phone will i buy next" poll. It is the exact opposite. I keep showing you the exact proof you say you need to see to show that people's intentions do not match the reality of their purchases, yet every time you brush it off. Im starting to think you are too attached to your equasion, right or wrong. lol. There is impirical data proving my exact points. No matter how many times they have run brand loyalty or purchase intention polls, apple has ALWAYS come out on top. But when it comes down to actual sales, android has ALWAYS come down on top. You are trying to see why people are lying, because u say its unusual. Im trying to show you with evidence that people are not lying. What they are doing is using iphone as a synonym for smartphone. Go ask 20 people that are not tech savy the first thing that comes to their mind when they think of smartphone.. i bet you hear iphone more often than not. iphone is a synonym for smartphone. Brilliant marketing on apple's part, but it skews every data set for future purchase intentions. It makes these polls and any like them.. worthless. And that is why your formula the way it is will never be true.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 9:25 AM 1
29. hepresearch unregistered
remix said: "Without fail EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM shows the iphone has a huge lead in "my next phone purchase", and without fail, every last sales month has android out pacing apple." This is not true. It may seem that way now and in recent memory, but there are many sources that show Android and iOS more balanced in this metric as of a year and a half to two and a half years ago. There are still some polls showing Android over iOS as of the end of 2010. It is only in the last year that EVERYBODY is calling iOS over Android in these intent polls, and as this phenomenon sparked my curiosity (because, like you, I wanted to PROVE that Android would eventually shoot ahead again) I started my analysis around August of last year. My results were startling to me, but thus far (8 months later) the initial analysis, even without tweaking for adjustments to loyalty metrics (I had prepared an initial adjustment in the event of a total Samsung legal loss to Apple, but obviously never had to implement it) is only off by an error of 0.3% from current market share stats as of this month. I even predicted that feature phones would dive from their 61% US market share in August to the 49% where it is now (April). remix said: "There is impirical data proving my exact points. No matter how many times they have run brand loyalty or purchase intention polls, apple has ALWAYS come out on top." Now as to the use of "empirical data", as you put it... you must understand that there is no way to get empirical data from the future... it simply has not happened yet! So, the best we can ever do today is to get empirical data from NOW, and apply intention data to it in a mathematically consistent method, which is what I am doing. The formula, as I have proven before, is well-known and sound. The method is about the best I can imagine at this point for a truly analytical approach, and so although I admit it cannot be perfect, I am working to improve it as fast as I am able. The data, I will admit, is quite debatable, and for that reason is controversial... but it is the best I can find that actually isolates future intention from current standing.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 10:53 AM 1
33. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
on the point about empirical data from the future. yes you can. you pull up past comparisons. When the old polls were done, they were always pointing towards future purchases. You compare that to phone sales 3-6 months in advance from when the "intention" poll was taken to see if it became reality. Plot those data points for the last 2 years and see what you come up with.. One line for intention, and one line for a 3-6 month ahead OS share per intention. You are comparing "the future", to "the present" by doing that. AKA you find an intention poll from say.. january 2010, you match it to an OS poll from march or june of 2010, and continue that on till the intention poll 3 months ago.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 12:02 PM 0
36. hepresearch unregistered
Okay, this IS how one would handle a prediction, but it only becomes data once the prediction term has come to pass into reality... otherwise it remains a predictive forecast until the day of the forecast's legitimacy arrives. I think we are having a misunderstanding of jargon at this point, and looking back, I think it is partly my fault. I have been referring to all of this stuff as "data" when I really should not have. The fact is that anything that is either "measured directly at this time" or "previously predicted and now at forcast-term" is considered data... the first is "real data", the second is "projected data". To compare real and projected data gives you the basis for measuring accuracy. This is the process that you have above described, and I also touched on in earlier comments, and in that definition we are both correct. However, what I am trying to say is this: the projections/predictions/forecasts I make based on the "data" are not "data" until the time of their potential fulfillment arrives. So, if I make a 6-month-term forecast, it will remain only a forecast until those 6 months are up, at which time it becomes data, along with the directly measured, or "real", data of that same instant in time. Only then can the forecast be compared to reality. It seems to me that you are saying that a "forecast" can instantly be treated as data, because you can compare it to past "forecast outcomes" at the very moment of making this new "forecast", and thus it can be judged as if it has already come to pass. This is the way, it seems to me, that you have been treating my forecast ever since I gave it, even though the main prediction I gave is still six years away from potential fulfillment, and thus six years from being verifiable either way, in my book. To me, it seems as if you are trying to say that you can already authoritatively verify that my prediction has failed six years from now, when my concept of causality and forward-time-bias tells me that you cannot yet make that call with total authority at this moment in time. I think perhaps what you are really trying to tell me is that the comparison of past such data shows a heavy bias to iOS over every other OS, and you are arguing that I cannot trust that data. You are trying to warn me that this intention-based OS loyalty data is bad data. I, on the other hand, am trying to explain why I have no choice but to use this data, and I have given reasons why it could still be considered trustworthy and useful in many respects. One thing needs to be clear, though... no prediction that has not yet reached its term can ever be considered empirical data, so please don't treat my predictions like they have already been compared to "future" empirical data that is yet to exist.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 1:05 PM 0
37. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
alright, i have to admit. i have a delorean Hop in and I'll show u the future... just .. have .. to get to.. 88 .. miles an .. hour. :) yes, thats pretty much exactly what i was saying, if you compare past intentions to past sales, you will see that intentions and sales almost never mirror each other... for this specific category.. cell phones. Thats been my point the whole time. If we cant trust the past data to be accurate, there is no way to trust the present or future data. There would have to be mass education on the consumer side for them to give accurate results (again, they are not lying, they are merely using the iphone as a synonym). if you cant trust intention polls, then you can only take sales data and hypothesis from that with knowlege of the events likely to come that have the most potential to disrupt the system (the rise of WP7, apple taking a public spanking, or complete fall of RIM for example) and make best guess. Well, thats what I do anyways. :)
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 1:11 PM 1
40. hepresearch unregistered
Haha... +1 on the Back To The Future reference... That is a fair assessment, and if your assessment is true, then it means that there is currently no way to predict future sales with the method I use, despite the correctness of the mathematical end of it, because the data collected for the needed transition elements is completely untrustworthy. That would certainly lead to problems on my end for any short-term prediction, as well as long-term ones, so I imagine we will see if my theory, that we can actually trust the intention data thanks to societal group-think theories, holds in this prediction, or if you are correct in that group-think is self-perpetuating but not self-correcting. So, I am hopeful that there IS a way to quantitatively calculate future market share movements, but if I fail, and your qualitative approach is the only viable result, then I will certainly give credit where credit is due.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 5:50 PM 0
30. hepresearch unregistered
So, as I imagine that other folks here are tired of hearing us bicker over this, I am sure everyone would like me to be accountable for my predictions. Up until now, I have been measuring my accuracy by the Chi-squared sum method... that is, I take the square root of the sum of all values of Chi-squared (the value Chi is equal to the linear difference between my prediction and reality, for each predicted market share OS at a given time of prediction that has now come to pass in reality) between the predicted data and the real data when the time of the prediction arrives. My current error of 0.3% is the result of a total Chi-squared of 0.0000087. It is actually remarkably good, if I may say so myself, for being 8 months out already. So, my question is... by what standard would you, remix, prefer I measure my accuracy by? Should I continue to use the Chi-squared method (standard scientific practice for floating error), or would you rather I use a set error as a standard? Also, I have in the past said that I think it will take about two to four years for the market to start to show the difference between your predicted future and my predicted future, although I don't think the final results will actually come to a definite fruition until 2018; however, I believe that, based on my experience thus far, my method has the ability to make very accurate forecasts even in the short-term, and since no one wants to wait for two whole years to see which of us is right, how short a time scale is acceptable for our purposes? Once we can agree upon a standard of measuring error, and a reasonable measure of time for said prediction, I am willing to make a deal with you: if I make a prediction after we agree on this, and I fall outside of the agreed acceptable error range when the time comes due and measured info is available, then I will not make predictions based in this method ever again, and I will never ever mention math or science here for any reason ever again, either. In return, I ask for the opportunity to post another prediction for the same forecast length, measured by the same error standard, to be scrutinized again in the future. If I turn out to be right, then I ought to be posting these predictions regularly until 2014 or beyond, until you are satisfied that my method works. Otherwise, I will never mention this, or anything like it, ever again. So, let us start the negotiating of terms, if you would like to...
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 11:16 AM 0
31. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
no, i dont want u to stop mentioning it. you have every right to. just like i have every right to disagree with it. :) You dont need permission, especially from me. I'm nothing more than a poster like anyone else. i rather like the challenge. Its far and above more intellectually entertaining and stimulating than the usual mudslinging. as far as what data sets i'd prefer, id have to revisit that after rereading up on them when i have time. I havent actually sat down and physically done any stats an analysis in quite some time. Advanced statistics self study was so traumatizing i think i tried to block it out. lol. dont ever do that! To make it viable, it needs to be visited on a yearly basis of some sort. short term goals leading to the long term outcome. Since im changing directions in my life with going from tech to medicine, its unlikely that ill still be trollin the boards in 2018, but ya never know. lol That said, i dont think there will be any life altering changes in 2012. 2013 will be the year WP8 starts gaining momentum on the back of its homogenized PC,phone,video game console roll out. Most of those sales will be from new adopters, which is going to pull more from iOS sales than android, thus reducing iOS marketshare from anywhere between 5-20% of current value. It will also wipe out remaining RIM share down to less than 5% at best, as MS markets for business use with desktop compatibility in the mobile OS. Android's growth will become statistically stagnant with a serious 3rd system competing, but stay above the 50% range for a good while. The entire industry will of course continue to grow and show record after record in sales. By the time the SGS4 comes out, samsung will be poised to take away the "highest selling phone" award from apple. Thats my 2012-2013 prediction.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 11:41 AM 0
38. hepresearch unregistered
Yeah, it is entertaining to debate and calculate... I must say, remix, that although we disagree a lot and vehemently, I do find that once I really understand what you are trying to say, you really aren't being too terribly unreasonable after all. It sort of is like the case-law vs. legistative-law comparison... both are necessary for a complete picture, at least until one comes to a complete knowledge of how both are just two different views or aspects of the same universal truth in the center. We are looking for the same thing, just going about it in very different ways, and getting very different answers at the moment... I can certainly agree to a one-year term for revisiting and evaluating the prior predictions. So, I suppose I will run some different data cases and see where my prediction falls in one year from now, and then I will post my prediction for everyone to see... and in one year, we will take a look at where things have actually gone. You are predicting 5 to 20% down for iOS from current share levels (by exact share percent, or by percentage of current share percent?), BlackBerry/QNX at less than 5% of market, and Android remains near or above 50%, all by this time of year in 2013 or so? Tell you what... could you provide me with the current US market share numbers of your choosing for each major OS, and for feature phones and anything that isn't in a major category otherwise? I have been using averages of all of the values I can find, so I think we need to run our predictions based on sharing the same starting values for market share in the US (and this must be US only... I am not prepared for a worldwide prediction at this point). Since your analysis is largely qualitative, would you mind if I then provided my own numbers (from my poll data averages I'm already using) for the quantitative analysis on my end, which you will not be needing for your prediction? I think if we can agree on the US market share starting point, and the prediction term, then we will have no problem when it is time to compare results. ... and if you want to give other worldwide predictions, or other more specific OEM predictions (like the Samsung Galaxy S IV prediction above), that will be fine too as long as you understand I may not participate in more specific stuff like that. So, lets get our starting point US market share numbers... I think Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and non-specified/feature are required categories... and I might recommend adding values (albeit small ones) for Symbian or webOS, too, but please let me know what you think about that.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 1:30 PM 0
39. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
we should be close to another statistical report about US. market share so let's start with that to have fresh info. use whatever data u like to make the prediction from there. your much more mathematical to my historical ÷ "reading the tea leaves" so it should make for an interesting difference in our process and prediction. I may ammend my prediction a hair depending on what the data looks like but I feel rather confident as it is. so the span is from the next report till 12/31/2013 I don't mean to come off rude. internet conversations can be easily misconstrued by the inflections the reader puts in to what they are reading. its Natural. I know I write pretty direct sometimes. ;)
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 4:51 PM 0
41. hepresearch unregistered
Cool. I agree that will be a good starting point. Ammending the predictions based on the data in the next report is perfectly fine by me. So, we'll go from this next report until 12/31/2013... so our "predictions" will officially reach maturity on that day. I say we should each give our predicted percentage values for each OS category in the report, and one for all non-categorized/feature devices if they do not include a category for that (as in... take all smart OS's to equal the remainder of market that isn't feature phones as a starting point, essentially, if they do not specify how large the total smartphone market is compared to the entire US market), and we will make sure we agree on the current data before we hit the "go button", so to speak. So, we could post the info in this form: Starting share: percent for each... Android, iOS, WP, BB, etc..., and feature phone = 100% of current US market share Predictions: percent for each... all of the same categories... = 100% of future US market share as of 12/31/2013; one set for you, one set for me. On or after 12/31/2013, as soon as new data on the equivalent future report is available, we will see who is the closest for each entry... but I am sure that iOS and Android will likely be the highlights. Beyond that, feel free to attach other non-competing predictions of further interest outside of our official comparison as we see fit, just for fun! Alright, so can we agree on this format? As for the "writing direct on the internet" thing, I do the same thing, so I can't blame you, and I apologize if I have ever come across as offensive or offended myself. I admit I'm a little like the cockatoo that raises his crest and stands on his tip-toes to try to look a little taller than the other cockatoo... just a little! LOL! Either way, no hard feelings? I say lets do the predictions, and just have fun with it. I don't mind being wrong, and for me this is about trying to do the right thing by testing an idea more than anything else. I look forward to seeing if my theory has any merit to it, or not, and I hope we can get along and have a good time here at PhoneArena in the process. (Handshake)
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 6:11 PM 0
22. hepresearch unregistered
I also ought to point out that the data in this survey is only marginally useful to me, as it cannot be seperated out by which OS the transitionees are coming from, so that makes it difficult to use. I can compare it to the totals for each metric line, though, but beyond that I would have to be able to see their source data to know if it can be seperated out the way I need it to be. Besides, like I said before, the 56% that they quote here is on the super-high end... I am showing a current average of about 27% right now between all of the other analysis houses I'm tapping, and even if I was to add this at standard weight to the other existing data, the average would only rise to just over 28% over the entire US market. Now, in my own neighborhood and locality, we must live in a different world here because it is like 99% of people I know around here now have the iPhone in its various iterations, and alot of them got iPads as well. I have one friend who just picked up a Nokia Lumia 710 on Monday, and I have a handful of friends and a neighbor who have Android devices. So, here where I live, it is pretty darn skewed for whatever reason.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 9:20 AM 0
2. eaxvac
Posts: 328; Member since: Jan 15, 2012
baaa. (says the isheep)
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 3:59 AM 8
10. HTCFreak
Posts: 156; Member since: Jul 17, 2010
What's your problem? Did the iFans ever insult the android users? no, so stfu please... :)
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 6:54 AM 2
15. tedkord
Posts: 17414; Member since: Jun 17, 2009
Are you trying to rip off the signature laugh of my namesake? http://kryptoknightcomics.blog
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 8:01 AM 0
3. bbblader
Posts: 590; Member since: Oct 24, 2011
if you ask me most of these people are dumbies (not only the iPhone wanters) even in math a recent survey in facebook: in math: 9-5+5x0+3=? if the answer was 3 they like if the answer was 7 they share 800 people shared 1500 people liked and if most people don't know math that means that most people don't have a clue on phones and because iPhone is thought of as a god among phones because of its many followers I admit before I knew anything about phones I wanted an iPhone and after my first serious phone the Nokia C6-01
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 4:21 AM 3
4. bbblader
Posts: 590; Member since: Oct 24, 2011
I got more interested in phones and now if someone asks if to pick a iP4S or a SGSII I would reccomend sgsii or some other phones people think that iPhone is something different well today I managed to get my class together and go out with them when a certain question popped up who wants an iPhone 4S? out of 24 people only 1 person said ''Me'' that was the person that 1 year ago thought android was a phone and symbian was a computer, iPad a music player,iPod a cd player and Mac - mcdonalds... so yes alot of people now are getting smarter but alot of people remain dumb about phones
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 4:26 AM 2
Posts: 58; Member since: Apr 10, 2012
And half of them are ios users. idimwits.
posted on Apr 12, 2012, 5:39 AM 1
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Headquarters: Peterson Air Force Base
Directorate: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station[3]
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North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, /ˈnɔræd/) is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for Northern America.[4] Headquarters for NORAD and the NORAD/United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) center are located at Peterson Air Force Base in El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The nearby Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker has the Alternate Command Center. The NORAD commander and deputy commander (CINCNORAD) are, respectively, a United States four-star general or equivalent and a Canadian three-star general or equivalent.
- 1 Organization
- 2 History
- 3 In popular culture
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
CINCNORAD maintains the NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Center at Peterson AFB serves as a central collection and coordination facility for a worldwide system of sensors designed to provide the commander and the leadership of Canada and the U.S. with an accurate picture of any aerospace or maritime threat.[5] NORAD has administratively divided the North American landmass into three regions: the Alaska NORAD (ANR) Region, under Eleventh Air Force (11 AF); the Canadian NORAD (CANR) Region, under 1 Canadian Air Division, and the Continental U.S. (CONR) Region, under 1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH. Both the CONR and CANR regions are divided into eastern and western sectors.
Alaska NORAD Region
The Alaska NORAD Region (ANR) maintains continuous capability to detect, validate and warn of any atmospheric threat in its area of operations from its Regional Operations Control Center (ROCC) at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
ANR also maintains the readiness to conduct a continuum of aerospace control missions, which include daily air sovereignty in peacetime, contingency and/or deterrence in time of tension, and active air defense against manned and unmanned air-breathing atmospheric vehicles in times of crisis.
ANR is supported by both active duty and reserve units. Active duty forces are provided by 11 AF and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), and reserve forces provided by the Alaska Air National Guard. Both 11 AF and the CAF provide active duty personnel to the ROCC to maintain continuous surveillance of Alaskan airspace.
Canadian NORAD Region
1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters is at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is responsible for providing surveillance and control of Canadian airspace. The Royal Canadian Air Force provides alert assets to NORAD. CANR is divided into two sectors, which are designated as the Canada East Sector and Canada West Sector. Both Sector Operations Control Centers (SOCCs) are co-located at CFB North Bay Ontario. The routine operation of the SOCCs includes reporting track data, sensor status and aircraft alert status to NORAD headquarters.
Canadian air defense forces assigned to NORAD include 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Bagotville, Quebec. All squadrons fly the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft.[6]
To monitor for drug trafficking,[7] in cooperation with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the United States drug law enforcement agencies, the Canadian NORAD Region monitors all air traffic approaching the coast of Canada. Any aircraft that has not filed a flight plan may be directed to land and be inspected by RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency.
Continental United States NORAD Region
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The Continental NORAD Region (CONR) is the component of NORAD that provides airspace surveillance and control and directs air sovereignty activities for the Contiguous United States (CONUS).
CONR is the NORAD designation of the United States Air Force First Air Force/AFNORTH. Its headquarters is located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The First Air Force (1 AF) became responsible for the USAF air defense mission on 30 September 1990. AFNORTH is the United States Air Force component of United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM),
1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH comprises State Air National Guard Fighter Wings assigned an air defense mission to 1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH, made up primarily of citizen Airmen. The primary weapons systems are the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft.
It plans, conducts, controls, coordinates and ensures air sovereignty and provides for the unilateral defense of the United States. It is organized with a combined First Air Force command post at Tyndall Air Force Base and two Sector Operations Control Centers (SOCC) at Rome, New York for the US East ROCC and McChord Field, Washington for the US West ROCC manned by active duty personnel to maintain continuous surveillance of CONUS airspace.
In its role as the CONUS NORAD Region, 1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH also performs counter-drug surveillance operations.
NORAD (originally known as the North American Air Defense Command), was recommended by the Joint Canadian-U.S. Military Group in late 1956, approved by the United States JCS in February 1957, and announced on 1 August 1957;[8] the "establishment of [NORAD] command headquarters" was on 12 September 1957,[9] at Ent Air Force Base's 1954 blockhouse. The 1958 international agreement designated the NORAD commander always be a United States officer (Canadian vice commander), and "RCAF officers ... agreed the command's primary purpose would be…early warning and defense for SAC's retaliatory forces."[10]:252 In late 1958, Canada and the United States started the Continental Air Defense Integration North (CADIN) for the SAGE air defense network[10]:253 (initial CADIN cost sharing agreement between the countries was on 5 January 1959), and two December 1958 plans submitted by NORAD had "average yearly expenditure of around five and one half billions", including "cost of the accelerated Nike Zeus program" and three Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) sites.[11]
Canada's NORAD bunker with a SAGE AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central computer was constructed from 1959 to 1963, and each of the USAF's eight smaller AN/FSQ-8 Combat Control Central systems provided NORAD with data and could command the entire United States air defense. The RCAF's 1950 "ground observer system, the Long Range Air Raid Warning System,"[12] was discontinued and on 31 January 1959, the United States Ground Observer Corps was deactivated.[10]:222 The Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker's planned mission was expanded in August 1960 to "a hardened center from which CINCNORAD would supervise and direct operations against space attack as well as air attack"[13] (NORAD would be renamed North American Aerospace Defense Command in March 1981). The Secretary of Defense assigned on 7 October 1960, "operational command of all space surveillance to Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) and operational control to North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)".[14]
The JCS placed the Ent Air Force Base Space Detection and Tracking System (496L System with Philco 2000 Model 212 computer)[15] "under the operational control of CINCNORAD on December 1, 1960";[16] during Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker excavation, and the joint SAC-NORAD exercise "Sky Shield II" — and on 2 September 1962 — "Sky Shield III" were conducted for mock penetration of NORAD sectors.[17]
NORAD command center operations moved from Ent Air Force Base to the 1963 partially underground "Combined Operations Center" for Aerospace Defense Command and NORAD[18] at the Chidlaw Building. President John F. Kennedy visited "NORAD headquarters" after the 5 June 1963 United States Air Force Academy graduation.[19] NORAD had an exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair,[20] and on 30 October 1964, "NORAD began manning" the Cheynne Mountain Combat Operations Center.[16] By 1965, about 250,000 United States and Canadian personnel were involved in the operation of NORAD,[not in citation given][21] On 1 January 1966, Air Force Systems Command turned the COC over to NORAD[22] The NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex was accepted on 8 February 1966.[16]:319
1968 reorganization
United States Department of Defense realignments for the NORAD command organization began by 15 November 1968 (e.g., Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM))[23] and by 1972, there were eight NORAD "regional areas ... for all air defense",[24] and the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex Improvements Program (427M System)[22] became operational in 1979.[25]
False alarms
On at least three occasions, NORAD systems failed, such as on 9 November 1979, when a technician in NORAD loaded a test tape, but failed to switch the system status to "test", causing a stream of constant false warnings to spread to two "continuity of government" bunkers as well as command posts worldwide.[26] On 3 June 1980, and again on 6 June 1980, a computer communications device failure caused warning messages to sporadically flash in U.S. Air Force command posts around the world that a nuclear attack was taking place.[27] During these incidents, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) properly had their planes (loaded with nuclear bombs) in the air; Strategic Air Command (SAC) did not and took criticism, because they did not follow procedure, even though the SAC command knew these were almost certainly false alarms, as did PACAF.[citation needed] Both command posts had recently begun receiving and processing direct reports from the various radar, satellite, and other missile attack detection systems, and those direct reports simply did not match anything about the erroneous data received from NORAD.[citation needed]
1980 reorganization
Following the 1979 Joint US-Canada Air Defense Study, the command structure for aerospace defense was changed, e.g., "SAC assumed control of ballistic missile warning and space surveillance facilities" on 1 December 1979 from ADCOM.[29]:48 The Aerospace Defense Command major command ended 31 March 1980. and its organizations in Cheyenne Mountain became the "ADCOM" specified command under the same commander as NORAD,[18] e.g., HQ NORAD/ADCOM J31 manned the Space Surveillance Center. By 1982, a NORAD Off-site Test Facility[30] was located at Peterson AFB.[31] The DEW Line was to be replaced with the North Warning System (NWS); the Over-the-Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) radar was to be deployed; more advanced fighters were deployed, and E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft were planned for greater use. These recommendations were accepted by the governments in 1985. The United States Space Command was formed in September 1985 as an adjunct, but not a component of NORAD.
Post–Cold War
In 1989 NORAD operations expanded to cover counter-drug operations, e.g., tracking of small aircraft entering and operating within the United States and Canada.[32] DEW line sites were replaced between 1986 and 1995 by the North Warning System. The Cheyenne Mountain site was also upgraded, but none of the proposed OTH-B radars are currently in operation.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the NORAD Air Warning Center's mission "expanded to include the interior airspace of North America."[33]
The Cheyenne Mountain Realignment[34] was announced on 28 July 2006, to consolidate NORAD's day-to-day operations at Peterson Air Force Base[35] with Cheyenne Mountain in "warm standby" staffed with support personnel.
|Former NORAD Regions/Sectors
In popular culture
Movies and television
The NORAD command center was depicted in the satirical film Dr. Strangelove that starred Peter Sellers and in the drama Fail-Safe, which starred Henry Fonda. Both films were released in 1964; a television adaptation of Fail-Safe starring George Clooney and Richard Dreyfuss was broadcast live on CBS in 2000.
Cheyenne Mountain is a setting of the 1983 film WarGames and the "Jeremiah" and Stargate television series.
NORAD HQ is a retreat facility for NASA in the mid/late 21st century in the 2014 science fiction film Interstellar.
NORAD Tracks Santa
On December 24, 1955, a Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper that told children they could telephone Santa Claus and included a number for them to call. However, the telephone number printed was erroneously that of the Colorado Springs command center of NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). Colonel Harry Shoup, who was on duty that night, told his staff to give all children who called in a "current location" for Santa Claus — and a Christmas Eve tradition was born, now known as the "NORAD Tracks Santa" program.[40] Every year on Christmas Eve, "NORAD Tracks Santa" purports to track Santa Claus as he leaves the North Pole and delivers presents to children around the world. Today, NORAD relies on volunteers to make the program possible.
See also
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- Commanders-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command
- Air Forces Northern National Security Emergency Preparedness Directorate
- 154th Wing
- Joint Surveillance System
- ↑ 1AF (AFNORTH) National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP) Directorate
- ↑ NORAD Official History
- ↑ Cheyenne Mountain Directorate Official Page
- ↑ NORAD - Fact Sheet
- ↑ NORAD.mil: Organizational History
- ↑ "Canada's CF-18 Hornets". CBC News. 2011-03-21.
- ↑ CBC Digital Archives – Norad: Watching the Skies
- ↑ Sturm, Thomas A. (January 1965). Command and Control for North American Air Defense, 1959-1963 (Report). Liaison Office, USAF History Division. pp. 14–7. (cited by Schaffel p. 251 & 315)
- ↑ McMullen, Richard F. (1965). Command and Control Planning, 1958-1965 (ADC HIST STUDY 35) (Report). pp. 1–2. (cited by Schaffel p. 252 & 315)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Schaffel, Kenneth (1991). Emerging Shield: The Air Force and the Evolution of Continental Air Defense 1945-1960 (45MB PDF). General Histories (Report) (Office of Air Force History). ISBN 0-912799-60-9. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ↑ 1959 Jul-Dec NORAD/CONAD Historical Summary
- ↑ Canadian Long Range Early Warning (LETTER TO HQ WADF), HQ CONAC, 16 October 1950 (cited by Schaffel p. 138 & 304)
- ↑ title tbd (Report). Air Research and Development Command. (cited by Schaffel, p. 262)
- ↑ Sturdevant, Rick W (1995). "Chapter 7: The United States Air Force Organizes for Space: The Operational Quest". In Launius, Roger D. Organizing for the Use of Space: Historical Perspectives on a Persistent Issue (Report). AAS History Series. Volume 18. Univelt for the American Astronautical Society. ISSN 0730-3564.
- ↑ Weeden, Brian C; Cefola, Paul J. Computer Systems and Algorithms for Space Situational Awareness: History and Future Development (PDF) (Report). SWFound.org. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Leonard, Barry (2008). History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II: 1956-1972 (ARMY.MIL PDF (ALSO AVAILABLE AT GOOGLE BOOKS)). Retrieved 2012-09-01.
The missile and space surveillance and warning system currently [1972] consists of five systems and a space computational center located in the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain complex. The five systems are: the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System; the Defense Support Program (DSP) formerly called Project 647; the Forward Scatter over the Horizon Radar (440L [AN/FRT-80 transmitter, AN/FSQ-76 receiver]) system; the Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile Warning System; and the Space Detection and Warning System. ... In July of 1961, the National Space Surveillance and Control Center (NSSCC) was discontinued as the new SPADATS Center became operational at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. Officially, this marked the beginning of aerospace operations by CINCNORAD.262
- ↑ http://www.atlasmissilesilo.com/Documents/SquadronUnitHistory/AtlasF/579thSMS/AF-D-O-579-99-RO-00009_6thBombWing_UnitHistory_1962_09_September.pdf p. 17, PDF
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "NORAD Chronology". NORAD.mil. Retrieved 2012-07-28. (see also FAS.org chronology)
- ↑ http://justmypointofview.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/a-veterans-day-story-jfks-visit-to-cheyenne-mountain/#comment-364
- ↑ Newton, Dorr E., Jr. (1964), Memorandum for All Personnel Assigned to NORAD Exhibit, North American Air Defense Command
- ↑ Renuart, Victor E., Jr. (2009). "The Enduring Value Of NORAD" (PDF). Joint Force Quarterly 54: 92–6. Academic Search Premier. Web. 18 Sept. 2012.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Del Papa, Dr. E. Michael; Warner, Mary P (October 1987). A Historical Chronology of the Electronic Systems Division 1947-1986 (PDF) (Report) (ESD-TR-88-276 (AD-A201 708)). Retrieved 2012-07-19.
McNamara…reasoned that Soviet missiles could eliminate air defense systems in a first strike ... the policy that emerged [sic] embraced the most extreme option: massive retaliation, popularly referred to ... as mutual assured destruction (MAD). ... 1966…NORAD ... Combat Operations Center ... integrated several distinct systems into a single workable unit to provide the NORAD Commander with the necessary information and control to perform his mission. ... the Space Defense Center combining the Air Force's Space Track and the Navy's Spasur.
- ↑ title tbd (PDF) (Report).
On November 15, 1968, as part of the internal reorganization of the Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM), the 47th Artillery Brigade was transferred east. the Army Air Defense command at Fort MacArthur became the 19th Artillery Group (Air Defense). This change was made to align ARADCOM units in accordance with a reorganization of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- ↑ "Chapter 1: Air Defense Doctrine and Procedures". U.S. Army Air Defense Digest, 1972. Hillman Hall, Fort Bliss, Texas. 1972. North American Air Defense Command. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
Currently, the North American Continent is divided into eight regional areas (fig 2) of air defense responsibility· Each region commander is responsible to CINCNORAD for all air defense activity within his designated area. … The average number of unknowns in the system has steadily declined over the years until now the number is approximately 40 per month.
- ↑ "Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade (CMU)". FY97 DOT&E Annual Report (WEBPAGE TRANSCRIPTION OF CHAPTER) (Report). Retrieved 2012-09-09.
CMU also upgrades and provides new capability to survivable communication and warning elements at the National Military Command Center (NMCC), U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and other forward user locations. CMU additionally provides at Offutt, AFB an austere backup to Cheyenne Mountain ballistic missile warning. … Granite Sentry provides a Message Processing Subsystem and a Video Distribution Subsystem, and it upgrades the NORAD Computer System display capability and four major centers: (1) the Air Defense Operations Center, (2) the NORAD Command Center, (3) the Battle Staff Support Center, and (4) the Weather Support Unit. Granite Sentry also processes and displays nuclear detection data provided from the Integrated Correlation and Display System.
- ↑ The 3 am Phone Call: False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks during 1979–80 Led to Alert Actions for U.S. Strategic Forces, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 371, National Security Archive, Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, 1 March 2012, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb371/index.htm
- ↑ "NORAD's Missile Warning System: What Went Wrong? (MASAD-81-30)" (PDF). U.S. Government Accountability Office. U.S. GAO. 15 May 1981. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
"Attack Warning: Better Management Required to Resolve NORAD Integration Deficiencies (IMTEC-89-26)" (PDF). U.S. Government Accountability Office. U.S. GAO. 7 July 1989. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
- ↑ [who?]. "Saturday June 9 – Colorado Springs CO". Colorado Trip 2012. WordPress.com. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
- ↑ Winkler, David F; Webster, Julie L (June 1997). Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program (PDF) (Report). U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ↑ "Brigadier General David A. Cotton". Af.mil. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
- ↑ http://gao.justia.com/department-of-defense/1991/4/attack-warning-imtec-91-23/IMTEC-91-23-full-report.pdf
- ↑ FAS: Cheyenne Mtn Complex
- ↑ "Cheyenne Mountain Complex". NORAD Public Affairs. AWC [Air Warning Center]. Archived from the original on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- ↑ D'Agostino, Davi M (21 May 2007). Defense Infrastructure: Full Costs and Security Implications of Cheyenne Mountain Realignment Have Not Been Determined [GAO--07-803R] (PDF) (Report). United States General Accounting Office. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- ↑ "After 4 Decades, a Cold War Symbol Stands Down, 29 July. 2006, by Kirk Johnson". New York Times. 29 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- ↑ "North American Aerospace Defense Command – NORAD Tracks Santa". NORAD. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ "Eastern Air Defense Sector to Track Santa Claus on Christmas Eve: New York Air Guardsman Once Again Will Help NORAD Track Santa" (Press release). New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ Pellerin, Cheryl. "NORAD Gears Up to Track Santa Claus". Informatics. Scientific Computing. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ↑ Official NORAD Santa Tracker (multilingual) and official seasonal hotline: 1-877-Hi-NORAD[verification needed]
- ↑ "NORAD Tracks Santa". NORAD.mil. Archived from the original on December 24, 2009.
External links
- www.norad.mil — official NORAD site


text: Main Content House Bill 4788 (2009) rss? friendly link printer friendly Friendly Link: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2009-HB-4788 Public Act 201 of 2009 (Effective: 1/4/2010) Find this PA in the MCL Sponsors Bert Johnson - (primary)Tim Melton (click name to see bills sponsored by that person) Categories Education: school districts; Labor: collective bargaining; Education; school districts; changes in collective bargaining act to allow more flexibility in failing schools; provide for. Amends sec. 15 of 1947 PA 336 (MCL 423.215). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4787'09, HB 5596'09, SB 0926'09, SB 0981'09 Bill Documents Bill Document Formatting Information [x] The following bill formatting applies to the 2009-2010 session:- New language in an amendatory bill will be shown in BOLD AND UPPERCASE.- Language to be removed will be stricken.- Amendments made by the House will be blue with square brackets, such as: [House amended text].- Amendments made by the Senate will be red with double greater/lesser than symbols, such as: <<Senate amended text>>. (gray icons indicate that the action did not occur or that the document is not available) Documents House Introduced Bill Introduced bills appear as they were introduced and reflect no subsequent amendments or changes. As Passed by the House As Passed by the House is the bill, as introduced, that includes any adopted House amendments. As Passed by the Senate As Passed by the Senate is the bill, as received from the House, that includes any adopted Senate amendments. Public Act Public Act is a bill that has become law. Legislative Service Bureau Compiler Notes Public Act 201 of 2009 with Editorial InformationThis document analyzes: HB4788 Bill Analysis House Fiscal Agency Analysis Summary as Introduced (05-04-09)This document analyzes: HB4787, HB4788, HB4789 Summary as Reported from Committee (06-25-09)This document analyzes: HB4787, HB4788, HB4789 Analysis as Passed by the House (08-24-09)This document analyzes: HB4787, HB4788, HB4789 Preliminary Summary as Enrolled (12-28-09)This document analyzes: HB4787, HB4788, HB5596, SB0926, SB0981 Senate Fiscal Analysis COMMITTEE SUMMARY (Date Completed: 10-15-09)This document analyzes: HB4787, HB4788, HB4789 SUMMARY AS ENACTED (Date Completed: 4-12-10 )This document analyzes: SB0926, SB0981, HB4787, HB4788, HB5596 History (House actions in lowercase, Senate actions in UPPERCASE) Date JournalAction 4/2/2009HJ 30 Pg. 629introduced by Representative Bert Johnson 4/2/2009HJ 30 Pg. 629read a first time 4/2/2009HJ 30 Pg. 629referred to Committee on Education 4/21/2009HJ 31 Pg. 639printed bill filed 04/03/2009 6/18/2009HJ 57 Pg. 1149reported with recommendation with substitute H-3 6/18/2009HJ 57 Pg. 1149referred to second reading 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233read a second time 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233substitute H-3 adopted 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233placed on third reading 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233placed on immediate passage 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233read a third time 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 358 Yeas 68 Nays 41 6/25/2009HJ 60 Pg. 1233transmitted 7/15/2009SJ 60 Pg. 1237REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2362DISCHARGE COMMITTEE APPROVED 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2362PLACED ON ORDER OF GENERAL ORDERS 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2362REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-4 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2362SUBSTITUTE S-4 CONCURRED IN 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2362PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE S-4 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2363RULES SUSPENDED 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2363PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 12/9/2009SJ 102 Pg. 2368PASSED ROLL CALL # 684 YEAS 24 NAYS 13 EXCUSED 1 NOT VOTING 0 12/9/2009HJ 106 Pg. 2443returned from Senate with substitute S-4 12/9/2009HJ 106 Pg. 2443laid over one day under the rules 12/10/2009HJ 107 Pg. 2449Senate substitute S-4 nonconcurred in 12/10/2009HJ 107 Pg. 2449 Roll Call # 604 Yeas 0 Nays 108 12/16/2009HJ 109 Pg. 2518House conferees named 12/16/2009: Reps. Tim Melton Douglas Geiss Phil Pavlov 12/17/2009SJ 104 Pg. 2448SENATE NAMED CONFEREES 12/16/2009: SENS. WAYNE KUIPERS, GERALD VAN WOERKOM, SAMUEL THOMAS 12/17/2009HJ 110 Pg. 2572Senate conferees named 12/16/2009: Sens. Wayne Kuipers Gerald Van Woerkom Samuel Thomas 12/17/2009HJ 110 Pg. 2572referred to conference committee 12/16/2009 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2599conference report received 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2599laid over one day under the rules 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2599rule suspended 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2599conference report adopted Roll Call # 684 Yeas 94 Nays 4 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2599retransmitted 12/19/2009SJ 106 Pg. 2547CONFERENCE REPORT RECEIVED IN SENATE 12/19/2009SJ 106 Pg. 2547SENATE ADOPTED CONFERENCE REPORT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 754 YEAS 26 NAYS 5 EXCUSED 7 NOT VOTING 0 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2653conference report adopted by Senate with immediate effect 12/19/2009HJ 112 Pg. 2653bill ordered enrolled 12/30/2009HJ 113 Pg. 2656presented to the Governor 12/28/2009 @ 10:30 AM 12/31/2009HJ 114 Pg. 2668approved by the Governor 1/4/2010 @ 10:30 AM 2009 ADDENDA 12/31/2009HJ 114 Pg. 2668filed with Secretary of State 1/4/2010 @ 1:49 PM 2009 ADDENDA 12/31/2009HJ 114 Pg. 2668assigned PA 201'09 with immediate effect 2009 ADDENDA


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Thermarest Neoair All Season, Mini Pump and Auriga Blanket review/s
I have long been a fan of the Neoair mattresses. Russ first review one of these back in 2010 http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/for...-NeoAir-Review. Since then they have brought out an all season version which is a bit heavier but warmer and tougher. I have used one of these as my main mat for the last few years and am a big fan. Themarest sent me the current model to review along with the Auriga Blanket. Ive been testing these out for a while now so here are my thoughts.
Swag, Neoair, Auriga Blanket and Crusader Mug
The Neoair All Season
The current All Season model is, as far as I can tell identical to my older model. The pack size insulation and weight are all the same. For the long model I have this means 710g, 4.9 R value and rolled up fits in the hand like this
What is new is you get a mini pump. And they are not kidding when they say mini.
Ill come back to the pump. First a quick summary of the mattress itself. Fantastic. As I said I am a huge fan of the Neoair mats. They pack smaller than any other mat, are warm enough, big enough and robust enough to put up with the abuse I give mats. They are thick when inflated so soak up all the uneven ground and give you a comfortable nights rest.
I used to rave about my Exped Down mat and they were super warm and comfortable. The pack size was bigger and the weight considerably more but worse, in my experience they did not last. I had one delaminate and split and another separate so instead of being flat it was a big sausage shape. Neither of these issues lent themselves to a field repair. Basically all that can go wrong with a Neoair is a puncture and that, you can generally remain in the field.
One issue you could level at the Neoair was because it was not in any way self inflating you ended up light headed blowing the damn thing up, however, few people were inflating it by mouth. You got an adapter you fitted to a big bag and by scooping air into the bag and squeezing it out into the mat you inflated it. This was straight forward and quick and with no real downsides. The only thing it did need was a bit of room. However, this has not stopped Thermarest making an improvement.
Neoair Mini Pump
Enter the Neoair Mini Pump.
The pump is battery operated. Many people are concerned about tech in the field as it can break, batteries can run flat etc. These are critical issues for critical kit, however, the mini pump is an accessory. It makes your life easier but if it breaks, you blow the mat up with your lungs and no harm comes to anyone.
The pump has a door at the front that opens to reveal a rubber nozzle tucked inside.
As soon as you take the nozzle out the pump starts running.
This can actually be a bit annoying. I think I would prefer a simple on / off switch. You could of course take the batteries out till you wanted it to run but it is not that annoying. The batteries are two AAA size.
Use of the pump is as simple as can be. Open the valve on your mat. Open the front of the pump, pull out the nozzle and fit to the valve on the mat. Stand back for a couple of minutes while the mat inflates.
The mini pump inflates the mattress surprisingly quickly but not to a high pressure. I found it inflated it to a comfortable pressure with enough give for you to sink in and be comfortable without bottoming out unless you sit up. If you want the mattress firmer then you may need to give one lungful of air to finish it off.
As I say the mini pump is not a critical piece of kit and using a big bag to inflate the mat was no great hardship but there are some advantages. Inflating the mat in a small one man tent is a lot easier with the pump. Also using my Swag or if you have a Bivi Bag that has the mat inside then you can simply unroll this as one fit the pump and have the mat inflated. Amazingly the pump packs as small and is really no heavier than the bag and adapter so there is no downside in that respect. I am not sure the benefits of the pump on its own would justify the cost of one but as part of the Neoair mat purchase it is definitely a benefit.
Auriga Blanket
Now talking of bivy bags, swags or bedrolls this has long been something I have wanted for a sleep system. One rolled up package that you can unroll, get into and go to sleep. The Swag I have comes with a mattress but frankly it makes it stupidly huge and heavy. the Neoair fits perfectly and a sleeping bag finishes it off, or even better a blanket, better still a down blanket. I have down under blankets that have worked for this but was keen to try the thermals Auriga Blanket. In the hand and lightly compressed it looks like this. It could go a lot smaller.
The long one I was trying weighs in at 622g, is 132cm wide and 198cm long. It has 750+ Fill Goose Down and is rated for comfort to 2C.
As I often feel with down blankets or sleeping bags they feel like they will not be warm enough. But in use I have found this warm to lower than zero. Of course I had merino base layer on and was in a swag so there was extra insulation there as you would also find in a small tent.
The blanket comes with tabs you can stick to your mat for attaching it.
However, i did not use these. I attached cord to the tabs on the blanket to hold it to the mat. the top one of these I could unclip when I wanted to open the blanket up some. you can get a thin fitted sheet for the mat that the blanket clips to. This makes fitting the blanket super easy and stops the sweatiness you can get from the mat if you sleep naked.
You can see that the blanket has a foot section for the mat to go into and baffles at the side to cut down on draughts.
I found this made the blanket a little tighter at my feet than I would have liked. Also because I am freakishly tall (6foot 3inches) it mean the blanket only came up to my chin.
If I unhooked the blanket from the bottom of the mat then it gave me plenty of foot room and a few more inches of blanket to come up over my face a bit. I should also say there is plenty of room width wise to turn over and move about so in this way the blanket is a lot less restrictive than a mummy bag.
Now this is not really a fault with the blanket. I have similar issues with sleeping bags. Plus with a down bag or blanket you dont really want to be breathing into it as the condensation will damp down the down . Also when I am really sleeping in cold conditions I will have a merino hat on and maybe even a neck buff. If I need to I can curl up under the blanket but part of the appeal of the blanket is being able to open my eyes and see the stars above from my Swag when it is not raining. When it is raining I will have the swag pulled over anyway which will keep in heat. Ill also have my dog deployed to stop draughts
When using the down blanket you need to give it a bit of a shake and airing every couple of days. There is a tendency for the down to migrate to the edges which can leave cold spots.
I realise I am not using the blanket in the way it is intended. it is aimed at the ultralight camper and I am not in that camp. So I lent it to a friend who does trail running on multi day trips. He was going to write a separate review and may still get round to it but in summary I can tell you he loved it. The weight saving and pack size where huge advantages for him. He found it more than warm enough for the spring runs he took it on. I had quite a hard time getting it back from him as he really did not want to give it back. I suspect he is ordering one as I type. Stuart is about 6 inches shorter than me and this may also have been a factor in his love of the blanket.
If I was 6 inches shorter or this blanket was 6 inches longer I think I would be raving about it. It has press studs that allow you to clip the top corners behind your neck to stop any draughts but I was just too tall for this to be comfortable. It is a shame as the long Thermarest mats are more than long enough for me. So I have a kind of split recommendation for you. Regardless of what height you are I would always get the long version of the blanket. If you are over 6 foot tall then I dont think I would recommend this, unless you are really watching the grammes. If you are doing three season camping and like a bedroll type solution or are fed up with the restrictive mummy bags then this could well be ideal for you. And if you are a trail runner shaving every gramme it is really worth your consideration.
If Thermarest are reading this then add six inches to the length of this, up the insulation to make it a four season blanket and i will be first in line for one of these. It would then do for ground dwelling and as a top blanket in my hammock set up.


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Kovač brothers take charge of Croatia
Monday 21 January 2013
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Former Croatian internationals Niko and Robert Kovač have replaced Ivan Šušak in charge of the national Under-21 side, the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) has announced.
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The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) has announced that brothers Niko and Robert Kovač will take charge of the country's Under-21 side.
The former internationals succeed Ivan Šušak, who led the team to a fourth-place finish in UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying Group 5, which concluded in September.
"This is an important moment for HNS," said president Davor Šuker. "These are men who know what it means to wear the Croatia shirt and all young players can see an example in them. We all hope they will reach our expectations."
"We will do our best to make the players ready to follow our path," said Niko, who captained the full national team during an illustrious career in which he turned out as a midfielder for Hamburger SV, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern München. "I hope they will be the nation's pride and that we will have a good relationship with the senior national coach [Igor Štimac]."
The siblings have a wealth of international experience, with Robert, a former Bayern, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund defender, winning 84 caps. Niko made one fewer appearance, but scored an impressive 14 goals. The role is Robert's first in a coaching capacity, while Niko has experience working as an assistant at FC Salzburg.


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Like most people, I move often with my laptop, and thus I also often switch WiFis networks. There is a WiFi network I often connect to which requires the IP to be entered manually.
So I opened Network Preferences, picked WiFi, clicked Advanced..., TCP/IP, and I told it to "Configure IPv4: Manually". I entered all the info and it connected just fine.
But now I am back home, where I always get the IP using DHCP. To my surprise, the "Configure IPv4" stayed at "Manually". Why didn't it revert to DHCP?
In short, why isn't the "Configure IPv4" option per-network as it should be? What's the idea behind making it a global setting for all networks?
And finally, can I make it a per-network setting?


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Friday, December 24, 2010
CFUN-AM Radio Aircheck (December 24, 1976)
What were folks driving around in their Datsuns listening to on the radio in Vancouver on Christmas Eve 1976? Find out here. (if you are too impatient to click - the answer is they were listening to some obnoxious jerk).
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 12:06 AM
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- jb said...
It's not that I'm impatient,but I can't play .ram files. Nevertheless, your site is beyond awesome. Holiday best to you and yours, and thanks for the goodies all year long.
- December 24, 2010 at 4:39 AM
- Kliph Nesteroff said...
i'm just linking to it, not uploading it (like everything on this site), that's all they've got. RealPlayer would help you.
- December 24, 2010 at 4:56 AM
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The Wittenberg Tigers ran their regular season winning streak to 25 in a row with a 41-19 victory over Oberlin.
Wittenberg, ranked 15th by the American Football Coaches Association and 16th by d3football.com, improved to 5-0 at the midway point of the 2011 season. The Yeomen dropped to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the NCAC.
More importantly, the win over Oberlin, which hasn't defeated Wittenberg since 1954, moved the Tigers to 3-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). The Tigers have now won 16 conference games in a row — putting them more than halfway to their NCAC record of 31 straight between 1997 and 2002 — and 17 straight home games.
Big plays on both sides of the ball were key for the Tigers on an unseasonably cold, blustery afternoon. The defense bent on several occasions but came up with a season-high five turnovers to keep a potent Oberlin offense largely under wraps. Offensively, eight plays covering 20 yards or more in the game were key to overcoming a slow start that led to a slim 14-7 halftime advantage.
Wittenberg took a 14-0 lead on a 21-yard touchdown run by senior Conner Warye (Maineville, Ohio/Kings) in the first quarter and a 30-yard touchdown pass from senior Ben Zoeller (Louisville, Ky./St. Xavier) to senior Josh McKee (New Carlisle, Ohio/Tecumseh) in the second quarter. The hook-up between Zoeller and McKee came on fourth down from the 30-yard-line after the Tigers lost 25 yards due to penalties.
Oberlin rallied for a touchdown to make it a seven-point difference at halftime, but the Tigers built the lead back to 11 points in the third quarter. The scoring started with a 31-yard touchdown pass from Zoeller to senior Corey Weber (Pataskala, Ohio/Watkins Memorial), followed by an Oberlin score and an 18-yard field goal by junior Sean Williams (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield).
The Tigers broke the game open in the fourth frame, starting with a bit of trickery as Warye hauled in a 21-yard pass from McKee. After Oberlin scored, Weber found the end zone from 13 yards out and Williams capped the scoring with his second field goal of the day, giving him a perfect 8-for-8 on the season.
Zoeller finished 17-of-29 for 296 yards on the day, and the tailback tandem of Warye and Weber combined for their best day of the season with a combined 113 yards rushing and 61 yards receiving. Senior Michael Cooper (Springfield, Ohio/South) led with seven catches for 129 yards, while junior Garth Gilbert (Medway, Ohio/Tecumseh) added a career-best four receptions for 66 yards.
Wittenberg finished with 450 yards offensively, compared to 229 for the Yeomen. The key for the Tiger defense was a whopping 50 yards in tackles for loss, including three sacks. Sophomore Josh Montgomery (Reynoldsburg, Ohio/Reynoldsburg) led in that area with two of the Tigers' three sacks.
Senior linebacker Zach Hurtt (Fort Thomas, Ky./Highlands) reached double figures in tackles for the fifth straight game, leading the Tigers with 10, matching the career-best total turned in by junior defensive tackle Cory Cosby (Canal Winchester, Ohio/Pickerington North). Also of note was the play of sophomore safety Mark Swope (Fairborn, Ohio/Fairborn), who made nine tackles, including 1.5 for a loss of eight yards, intercepted a pass, broke up another pass and was credited with the other sack.


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We can define the (first) homology of a surface $S$ by working with graphs embedded in $S$. That is, we take any (oriented) graph which is 2-cell embedded in $S$, and take cycles modulo boundaries in the usual way. Here, I am talking about homology with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}$. The group that we get is independent of the graph, so is indeed a topological invariant of the surface.
I work with group-labelled graphs, which are oriented graphs with their edges labelled from a finite abelian group $\Gamma$. Proceeding as above, group-labelled graphs allow us to define group-labelled surfaces. That is, let $G$ be a $\Gamma$-labelled graph 2-cell embedded in a surface $S$. If each face of the embedding has group-value zero (the labels of edges on the boundary of the face sum to zero), then this gives a well-defined map on homology. In fact, the embedding of $G$ in S induces a homomorphism from $H_1(S)$ to $\Gamma$. So, we can forget about the $\Gamma$-labelled graph and just study this homomorphism.
My question is: how does this construction relate to taking homology with coefficients from $\Gamma$?
Someone once told me that what I am really doing is working with cohomology with coefficients in $\Gamma$, but I didn't really get this. Can someone please clarify?


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Yuraygir National Park and State Conservation Area (and Solitary Islands Marine Park and South West Solitary Island Nature Reserve)
Yuraygir National Park and State Conservation Area (SCA) is the largest coastal park in New South Wales with over 60 kilometres of coastline featuring rocky headlands, sweeping beaches and diversity of natural environments which include forests, heaths, freshwater streams, swamps, estuaries, coastal lagoons and lakes.
Yuraygir National Park is within the traditional homelands of the Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr Nations, and local Aboriginal people have significant cultural connections to its land and waters. Aboriginal custodians continue to care for the land, working closely with government agencies to manage and interpret their traditional lands.
The management of national parks in New South Wales (NSW) occurs within the context of a legislative and policy framework, primarily the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and the policies of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Other legislation, international agreements and charters may also apply to management of the area. In particular, Yuraygir National Park and SCA are part of the Upper North East Regional Forest Agreements (RFA). This 20-year agreement arose following a Comprehensive Regional Assessment of forest values and uses that was the basis for decisions for the conservation and sustainable management of native forests. A number of the reserves forming the Yuraygir National Park and SCA were previously State Forests which transferred into the national park estate as part of the RFA process.
Contemporary management of the reserve system includes strong community involvement in order to grow a park, protect biodiversity and enable opportunities for enjoyment and appreciation. The Regional Community Advisory Committee, reserve neighbours, the Rural Fire Service, volunteers and the Livestock, Health and Pest Authority help to ensure reserves are managed effectively by providing advice and assistance. The Aboriginal community also works closely with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to manage Yuraygir National Park and SCA.
Adding to the importance of this forested coastal protected area is the bordering Solitary Islands Marine Park, which has considerable significance because of the variety of habitats and the special circumstances in the in-shore coastal zone. The waters around the Solitary Islands are bathed by the warm southward flowing East Australian Current that begins its journey in the Coral Sea near the Equator. The coastline and inshore waters are subject to cooler currents from the south. The diverse habitats and the mixing currents give the park its uniqueness and an amazing array of marine plants and animals.
The Yuraygir National Park in conjunction with the Solitary Islands Marine Park is one of the few areas in Australia with a full combination of protected ecological systems. Forests, estuaries, beaches, headlands, islands and offshore waters as well as a significant proportion of the catchments of those estuaries are protected in the area.
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Context, location and size
Yuraygir National Park (approx 34,537 hectares) and SCA (approx 3,146 hectares) are located on the north coast of New South Wales, less than an hours drive from Grafton, Maclean and Coffs Harbour. The park embraces one of the most scenically magnificent tracts on the east Australian seaboard, extending over 60 kilometres of coastline from Lake Wooloweyah, a tidal lake at the mouth of the Clarence River, to the Corindi River in the South.
The Solitary Islands Marine Park is 72,200 hectares, the northern half of which adjoins Yuraygir National Park. One of the defining natural features is South West Solitary Island Nature Reserve, a four hectare island within the Solitary Islands Marine Park, six kilometres off-shore from Yuraygir National Park south of Red Rock.
Biodiversity and Cultural features
Yuraygir National Park and SCA hold special significance to the Gumbaynggirr and Yaegl people as a cultural landscape. The planning area contains sites, places, stories and resources that are essential in maintaining traditional and contemporary links to the land.
The planning area is located well within the Macleay-Macpherson overlap; an ecological transition zone between the temperate southern areas of eastern Australia and the tropical north. The zone of overlap has significance for the number and diversity of both plant and animal species.
There are nine major groupings of plant association within Yuragyir National Park which are predominantly influenced by topography, hydrology, soils and exposure to coastal influences. There are five groups of Forests including littoral rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest, dry sclerophyll forest, swamp sclerophyll forest and mangrove forest. The other groups are woodland, shrubland/scrub, heathland, sedgeland, grassland, fernland/sedgeland, saltmarsh complex and frontal dune complex. Six hundred and fifty-eight native plants have been recorded in the area and of these twenty-two are considered to have high conservation and/or special ecological significance.
Yuraygir's large size, location and history all contribute to a diversity of topographic and vegetational features which provide a broad range of habitats for wildlife, particularly birds. Over one hundred and eighty bird species have been recorded in the park and it is a core habitat for the coastal emu (Dromaeius novaehollandiae) whose populations have declined as a result of habitat fragmentation.
IUCN Red List endangered species in Yuraygir National Park and SCA include the regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia), the Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas). Vulnerable species include the great knot (Calidris tenuirostris), red goshawk (Erythrotrirchis radiatus), grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus), green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) and the wallum froglet (Crinia tinnula). There are also over 30 other species listed as 'least concerned' or 'near threatened'.
Pest animal and weed management programs are identified and prioritised in Yuraygir National Park and SCA through regional pest management strategies and integrated into the NSW Threatened Species Priorities Action Statement, threat abatement plans, recovery plans and reserve management plans. Long-running cooperative programmes are in place with a variety of landholders, land management agencies and community groups for the management of weeds (such as groundsel bush, bitou bush, glory lily, slash pine and lantana), pest animals (such as foxes, wild dogs, feral horses, pigs and cane toads) and forest health (such as bell miner associated dieback). These programs are also integrated with other park management programs such as fire management. Fire is a natural and recurring factor that shapes the NSW environment. Fire management in Yuraygir National Park and SCA is a mix of prevention, mitigation, planned use and suppression to help minimise threats to human life, property and cultural heritage and tourism, while maintaining ecological processes that support the area's rich biodiversity,. Fire is a relatively common factor in the forests and heathlands of the costal zone resulting in a mosaic of vegetation age classes across the parks.
Opportunities for enjoyment
The Yuraygir landscape has always been a popular area for people to call home and visit throughout time, including generations of the Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal people who camped, fished, held ceremonies and traversed the country.
Spending summer holidays camped by the seaside on the north coast has been a regular activity of family groups for many decades and continues to this day. Campers enjoy fishing, swimming, surfing, canoeing, sailing, walking and simply relaxing with family and friends in this beautiful environment. Opportunities to engage with the natural world attract hikers, snorkellers, divers, birdwatchers, wildflower enthusiasts and whale watchers at different times of the year.
The signposted 65 kilometre Yuraygir Coastal Walk traverses Yuraygir National Park from Angourie to Red Rock along the longest stretch of protected coastline in NSW. The walk is a series of tracks, trails, beaches and rock platforms that are linked by following the coastal emu footprint markers. The walk can be completed in a single 4-day trip, camping or staying in small coastal villages along the way, or enjoyed as several half or single day walks. Along the journey, you will encounter forests, vast heathland plains, long sandy beaches, crystal clear creeks and lagoons, rocky headlands and abundant wildflowers and birdlife.