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MOUNT SHASTA – On Friday, Jan. 25, Heather Erickson, Scott Valley Bank's Mount Shasta Branch services manager, presented a check for $1,000 to Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum.
The money will be used to help fund the museum's newest exhibit, "A Man and The Mountain – Messages From Joaquin Miller's Shasta Years," according to a recent press release from Jean Nels, the museum's executive director. Erickson said this support helps fulfill Scott Valley Bank's principle of maintaining strong community relationships by showing support for regional events.
The Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum project on Joaquin Miller will open on April 5. Nels said that the project will take people back in time to understand and appreciate the rich history of the region, as seen through the eyes of a boy, young Joaquin Miller, who arrived in Yreka in 1853 as a 16-year-old.
The project will display quotes from Miller's books and include videos of stories from current community members on how Joaquin Miller's words are still relevant today. Miller's stories describe the beauties and wonders of the area and give a true depiction of the 1850s decade that include the love, war, trials and tribulations of the immigrant settlers, miners and Native American tribes of the Mt. Shasta region.
According to their website, Scott Valley Bank's roots also run deep in these local communities. In fact, just a year prior to Joaquin Miller's arrival in Yreka, Adam Baker Carlock, the founder of Scott Valley Bank, arrived here in 1852, and got his start as a gold miner. After some time, he realized that there was greater profit in providing supplies to the miners. Carlock gained a reputation as a dependable and honest merchant, becoming the "personal banker" for many locals. Nels said it would not be beyond imagination that Adam Carlock and Joaquin Miller might have crossed paths in the muddy streets of Yreka or along the mining paths in the area.
With Scott Valley Bank's support of the Joaquin Miller project, Nels indicated that the museum would be able to meet the matching funds required for the Cal Humanities Community Stories Grant Award. Community Stories is a competitive grant program of Cal Humanities. Grants are awarded to projects that give expression to the extraordinary variety of histories and experiences of California's places and people to ensure that the stories can be shared widely.
As stated on the Cal Humanities website, these narratives help us find our commonalities, appreciate our differences, and learn something new about how to live well together. Cal Humanities is an independent nonprofit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org.


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The Makerbots are working (2011- 04 -01)
All of the Makerbors are working.
There are three filament spools in operation now, with red, black and white ABS. Just pull out a bit of filament, guide it into the extruder of your chosen Makerbot (making sure to avoid any sharp turns), feed it through (with the nozzle heated), and print!
Nutjob (the Noisebridge bot) has had a number of major upgrades performed on it, including heated build platform and Mk 5 extruder. It is now working well. The standard ReplicatorG software and profiles (choose Cupcake with Heated Build Platform) will work fine with it.
Go ahead and use it, the instructions here and on the Makerbot site are appropriate, with one caveat: there is a bug in the Makerbot profiles that will leave the heated build platform and steppers on, which is a fire hazard.
Before printing, install ReplicatorG, find the file called end.gcode, and if it does not contain the M109, M104 and M18 codes, edit it to look like this:
(end of the file, cooldown routines) M104 S0 M109 S0 G91 G1 Z10 M18 (turn off steppers.)
This will turn off everything, leaving the Makerbot in a safe state.
White Rabbit (Gian Pablo's bot) has had its XY stage replaced with a printed one, and Z axis guide rods installed. Please check in with Gian Pablo before using it, because it is now far from standard, and you should make some adjustments in operating procedures.
Scotch (Miloh's bot) has a Mk 5 extruder made with Noisebridge's own laser cutter. It is the thing made out of green acrylic. Check in with Miloh before using it, it is still being debugged and enhanced.
For smaller parts, make a Skeinforge profile where you change the Fill/Extra Shells setting to 0 (no extra shells) and the Fill/Infill Densiety to 1.0. This yields extremely strong and dimensionally accurate parts.
How to Use the Makerbot
if it breaks, we can fix it. don't be afraid of the makerbot! I've crashed it hundreds of times and only permanently broke something once.
install some software first
- Install Java (if you don't already have it) - http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
- Install Python (if you don't already have it). http://www.python.org/download/
- Optionally, install PsyCo, it will make things run much faster. http://psyco.sourceforge.net/download.html
- get yourself a copy of replicatorg: http://replicat.org/download
ReplicatorG now includes various versions of the Skeinforge slicing utility, so no need to download and install separately.
ReplicatorG 0024 has a serious bug in some of the profiles for the Cupcake CNC Makerbot, it will not generate the instructions that turn off heated build platform and stepper motors. This is a potential fire hazard, as the steppers and the build platform can get very hot. Do this:
Go ahead and use it, the instructions here and on the Makerbot site are appropriate, with one caveat: there is a bug in the Makerbot profiles that will leave the heated build platform and steppers on, which is a fire hazard.
Find the file called end.gcode, and if it does not contain the M109, M104 and M18 codes, edit it to look like this:
(end of the file, cooldown routines) M104 S0 M109 S0 G91 G1 Z10 M18 (turn off steppers.)
This will turn off everything, leaving the Makerbot in a safe state.
You are done.
using the software
- Start ReplicatorG.
- Open an STL file. You should see a 3D image of your model.
- Press the 'generate GCode' button on the right.
- You will be asked to choose a profile. Currently you are looking at Cupcake CNC Mk4, but very soon you will want Cupcake CNC Mk5 with Heated Build Platform.
- It will take a while to build the GCode for the model. Go talk to visitors to the space and tell them not to sleep here.
- Refer to the detailed instructions on the Makerbot site for more up-to-date tips and instructions (they change often): http://wiki.makerbot.com/how-to-print
fire the makerbot
Instructions have been updated to reflect the (coming) new and improved Makerbot.
- turn on the makerbot PSU, it's a switch in the back
- plug in the makerbot usb cable
- run replicatorg (./replicatorg)
- (firmware should be updated)
- the first time you run it, machine->driver->cupcake CNC with heated build platform
- also machine->serial port, choose whatever serial port is being emulated via USB
- load filament
- loosen the extruder thumbscrew
- insert filament into the extruder, basically to the level of the motor axle (NOT all the way down into the nozzle - you do this so that you can more easily tell if the motor is working)
- tighten the extruder thumbscrew, just a little bit more than finger tight, enough to get a good grip between the drive gear and the filament - you can adjust this while printing, if the filament starts slipping
- click on the 4 arrows symbol (control panel)
- lay a small piece of paper on the platform
- remove any crud from the nozzle with bent nose pliers (hidden under the EFF hat)
- move X, Y to the center of the platform (you can do this by pressing Disable steppers, then moving it by hand)
- jog down in Z first in 10mm increments, then 1mm increments, until there is maximum drag force on the paper
- jog up in 0.1mm increments until the drag lessens
- click "set zero"
- at the bottom of the control panel there are some settings, set them in this order
- Motor Speed (PWM): 255
- Target Temperature: 220
- Heated Build Platform: 120
- Motor Control: Stop
- wait until the temperature is above 200 then try a test extrusion
- move Z axis up 20mm or so
- click Motor Control: forward
- wait for the filament to enter the extruder, and start coming out the nozzle
- make sure the extruder motor is turning, there is a dot drawn on the axle with sharpie
- if you accidentally start the motor before it's hot, you can fix it by slightly unscrewing the extruder thumbscrew and adjusting the filament
- the build platform should be plenty hot now
- there might be an IR thermometer in a little duct tape pouch thingy
- it should be around 120-130C for best results
- remove ooze from the nozzle with pliers
- zero the Z axis (ie. move it down until it near touches the platform)
- file->open the .gcode file you created earlier with skeinforge
- click 'build' (the solid kidney bean)
- if the first layer doesn't stick at all or peels loose immediately, adjust the z axis down by turning the pulley on top of the makerbot
- if the first layer starts getting fugly during the infill, with crap building up on the nozzle, adjust the z axis up a few steps until it looks perfectly flat with no "fuzz"
- note to self: get some pics and video of first layer too high, first layer too low, and verify zeroing procedure
- now since it probably screwed up somehow, hit stop and remove the grossness with the plastic scraper and/or pliers
- it should still be zeroed, and hopefully at the correct height adjustment now, so just click 'build' again
- if you can't get it to stick at all, the platform is probably at the wrong temperature.
- wait five minutes for it to warm up completely
- ok now presumably you're done printing and nothing went wrong.
- jog Z+ 20mm to give yourself some room
- wait for the piece to cool down, 3 to 5 minutes should be enough
- now just peel it off with your hand
- if you let the piece cool all the way down, maybe 10-15 minutes, it will just "pop" off the build platform by itself
- be careful, the part may still be soft and can deform
- don't use a knife if at all possible, it will mess up the Kapton coating on the platform - just wait for it to cool
- it's easier if you remove the build platform - it's held on with magnets
tweaking skeinforge
there are about 300 different "craft" settings in skeinforge, and they all interrelate in confusing ways. here's a quick overview of the important ones:
- carve->layer height: should be about 0.8*nozzle hole diameter, ship default is 0.4
- carve->width over height: should be about 1.45, if threads in flat parts show gap make this value smaller
- speed->flow rate: 255
- speed->feed rate: start around 35mm/s
- fill->infill solidity: 0.25 is adequate and not too slow. higher for stronger parts
- fill->infill pattern: controls whether you get hashbrowns or honeycombs
- comb keeps it from driving through empty spaces and making stringies
- raft prints a waffle grid thingy to keep the corners held down - will be disabled for heated build platform
- raftless - don't use it, instead turn off the raft checkbox when generating GCode in RepG, use outline to generate a lead-in
- oozebane is useless, forget about it
- jitter is good, set it to a large value like 100
- stretch makes corners un-rounded, but can cause data overload stuttering if "stretch from distance" is too small
- temperature is usually set to 230, but newer extruders can print fine with temperatures as low as 205C. You might need to lower all the temperatures in order to print tall skinny objects.
- wipe should be turned off
- outline should be turned on, it draws a rectangle around the first layer which lets you tweak the Z axis distance and ensure adhesion
You may want to create a profile with an alternative set of settings. In the Generate GCode dialog, select the default profile for your machine (mostly likely Cupcake with Heated Build Platform), duplicate it and call it "SuperSolid" or something like that, and make the following changes:
- Fill/Extra Shells -> 0 (there are a number of extra shells parameters - make all of them zero)
- Fill/Infill Density -> 1.0 (this will make solid objects)
Use this profile for parts that need to be extra strong or precise, ie. working machine parts or gears. Be warned that this will be very slow and will use a lot more plastic. However, the results can be truly outstanding.
you can safely ignore the rest
care and feeding
- don't leave the makerbot unattended for hours, as it can theoretically catch on fire (those heated bed wires are iffy)
- don't leave the extruder hot for hours. periodically flush through plastic to prevent it from oxidizing.
- if you are about to run out of filament, cut off both ends square with diagonal flush cutters (the blue cutters for electronics) and simply hold the filament together as it goes in
- if the filament strips out during use (extruder motor is on, temperature high enough, nothing happening) try pushing it down manually
- if this doesn't work, try reversing the motor until the filament comes out, cut it cleanly, and reinsert
- if it keeps stripping out, you may have to completely disassemble the extruder and remove plastic gunk from the gear teeth.
- use a long 5/64" or 2mm allen key to set the extruder idler wheel/feed gear spacing
- try not to let it happen in the first place. stripping can be caused by setting the first layer too low, blocking the nozzle and letting pressure build up
- don't upgrade the firmware unless you're willing to deal with the consequences
- keep it away from bright light
- don't get any water on it
- never, never ever feed it after midnight.
Usage log
please write your name, what you tried to make, and what happened below (pics or it didnt happen)
Construction log
This describes the current progress of the building of the Makerbot. Instructions are found here, and a forum for it is found here.
Noisebridge's Makerbot kit, thoughtfully purchased by Mitch, arrived at 83C on Monday evening, July 20. Leading the assembly team is Joachim, along with Christoph, Rachel, Steve (Mr Domino), and Jeffrey (ieatlint).
It took about an hour and a half to go through and check the parts against the parts list.
We think we are missing a bag of "laser cut pulleys" but it's hard to be completely sure, as there are a LOT of parts and they are not all labeled exactly as in the parts list A bag of "laser cut pulleys" was replaced by MakerBot-made pulleys, but the parts lists weren't updated. We determined to start assembly anyway.
Cupcake Electronics Assembly
Instructions Christoph soldering one of the stepper motor drivers, one of the endstop switches, and the SMD parts on the motherboard with only occasional bitching to people to STOP MOVING THE TABLE.
Motherboard is tested and able to control stepper motors. Regular firmware needs to be flashed back onto it. This may help. Ieatlint 02:55, 25 July 2009 (PDT)
Cupcake Pulley Assembly
Cupcake CNC Body Assembly
We got the first part of the body together without difficulty, but had trouble with the Z stage as one of the parts had changed from when the docs were written. The Z stage rod holding guides changed from being O-shaped to being U-shaped, and are marked "Z guides". The forums told us to use them anyway.
The next problem was with threaded rods, which had been cut to size. The ends of some would not take a nut. We solved this with judicious use of the bench grinder. There were LOTS of nut/rod jokes, and we were in a state where they were actually funny! Rachel 10:08, 21 July 2009 (PDT)
Progressed to and including the step entitled "Z-stage stepper wiring" as detailed on the body assembly instructions. The body assembly is nearly completed. Ieatlint 03:52, 21 July 2009 (PDT)
Stages assembled and motherboard and stepper driver circuits in place. Driver boards are tested. Axis stops are installed, platforms still need craft stick beam breaks installed. -- JSharp 06:45, 2 August 2009 (PDT)
Cupcake Y Stage Assembly
Cupcake X Stage Assembly
Plastruder MK3 Assembly
- Note: Ubuntu 9.04 specific: the librxtxSerial.so and the RXTXcomm.jar that come in the replicatorg download need to be replaced with some binaries from this other place that I don't remember. -Skory
- Progressed through to end of Heater Barrel Assembly. Miloh 04:24, 21 July 2009 (PDT)
- Progressed through the Filament Drive Assembly, and Joachim mastered the extruder electronics. Miloh 02:03, 24 July 2009 (PDT)
- Progressed through Attach Heater barrel through step 3. Miloh 13:17, 24 July 2009 (PDT)
- Progressed through Attach Heater barrel to the end. Miloh 20:46, 26 July 2009 (PDT)
Continue at Plastruder burn in test. The burn in test can't be completed until the Thermistor and extruder board are recognized by the control system.
- Plastruder board burnt out a few components on power up test. Ordered new plastruder driver from makerbot, should arrive at 83C soon. -- JSharp 06:43, 2 August 2009 (PDT)
- New plastruder control board received and installed. -- JSharp 10:52, 9 August 2009 (PDT)
Status Reports
Martin - The makerbot is working and printing objects well. You will need to download and install "ReplicatorG" and "skeinforge" in order to use the bot. The software runs on Mac, Linux, and PC. (skeinforge requires Python, ReplicatorG requires Java) Example objects are next to the bot.
The X/Y/Z stage endpoints are not yet installed. It requires a number of popsicle sticks to be cut to the correct length and the stage to be calibrated. You can operate the MakerBot with ***great*** care without them.
The extruder head has been upgraded to the Mark-4, with a new bearing and idler wheel. Also, the extruder head is now insulated with the same material they use to insulate the Space Shuttle heat tiles from the skin of the shuttle itself. *** IT IS EXPENSIVE. PLEASE DON'T TAKE APART! *** I can't replace the material, it was given as a gift from a friend at JPL.
Please read all the instructions on how to use the MakerBot on the [Wiki Site] before attempting to use it.
Thanks to excellent efforts and support from Martin, the MakerBot is now in a semi-functional state. There are three things that need to be worked on, however:
- The Y stage endpoint is installed incorrectly (the Y stage and physically crash into it)
- The nichrome wire needs to be better insulated so it can maintain higher temperatures and consistent temperatures.
- The feeding mechanism needs to be reviewed, as it appears that it fails to operate reliably.
Please do NOT attempt to disassemble the plastruder header. Also, do NOT attempt to operate the MakerBot unless you really know what you're doing.
Much has happened to the Makerbot since last noted, the broken idler wheel was replaced and the extruder head assembly was upgraded by me using parts from Bre when he was here. Thanks Bre! I also at that time upgraded the firmware and printed a bunch of skull throwies, yay! Time has passed between then and now and many people have been reporting the makerbot in sickly condition, after much testing I am glad to report this not the case. go go makerbot!
Bre was here on 20/2 and installed a heated build platform on the Makerbot. The heated platform is a new development, still in prototype stage. It is awesome because it prevents warping, and allows workpieces to stick to the build platform without having to build a raft.
He left a sheet of instructions, they say:
"... While here we set you up with a heated build platform. It's hooked up to the fans pot. So before you print, go into the control panel and click [x] fan and it will turn it on. Let it warm up for at least 5 minutes and then print on it. When the model is done, let it cool for 5 minutes and it will 'pop' right off the warm kapton tape.
We are also leaving you a spare parts kit for the extruder. Your nozzle is super thick and slow. This new nozzle has a smaller nozzle hole. Make it, use it, love it!
Bre and Zack, Makerbot"
When asked about the workings of the heated build platform, he said:
"Yup, ours is a prototype part, it's awesome but not very well documented.
You want to plug it in above the mosfet that usually runs the fan.
You can then go into the control panel and just turn the fan on, let it heat up for 8-10 minutes and it will get to about 110F.
Print away and remember to turn it off and unplug the bot when you're done!"
Please note that he's left us the parts for an improved extruder - up to us to build it - and some of the new colored ABS plastic.
After using the makerbot all day I (fenn) noticed the Z axis was consistently jamming up when traversing above 125mm/min. Several hours of head-scratching later I discovered that the heated platform would cause the large acrylic plate that holds the extruder to heat up and expand, pushing outwards on the Z-axis nuts and causing the mechanism to bind ever so slightly. The simple fix of filing the plate down was complicated by the lack of small files and the fact that the machine was assembled wrong, requiring removal of the four small u-shaped plywood "guide plates", which I put back in the correct orientation: gap outwards.
I'm not sure the heated build platform actually ever gets hot enough for ABS to stick to the kapton tape. It seems to max out at 95 celsius, as measured with an infrared thermometer. The RepRap wiki suggests 120-220 degrees for ABS. Perhaps connect the platform directly to a higher voltage power supply?
Lacking a hot enough bed for the first layer to stick to, blue masking tape sorta almost works (the first time you use it), and I got much better results when I taped a business card on top and printed on that instead. I printed a few gears and hope to add a "wade extruder" soonish.
I (fenn) came in today and it appeared that nobody had touched the makerbot since I last left it. But the nozzle wouldn't heat up. Voltage to the wires, it just didnt get hot. So, heeding the warning to not disassemble the nozzle, I removed it and swapped in another one, which works a lot better anyway. Then I attached a 16V transformer to the heated bed, and now it gets up to 165C which is much better than the old 90C running on 12V. Now the first layer actually sticks! Z axis seems to still be jamming up; I didn't file the notches deep enough I guess. Wish I had more time to play with it. Skeinforge settings that seem to work with ABS: layer height: 0.4mm, flow rate: 255, feed rate: 25mm/s.
added a fan to cool off the acrylic plate. make sure you enable the fan before printing and it shouldn't jam up anymore. seems to be working reliably now.
hint: instead of trying to adjust the Z zero in software, manually adjust the height as it prints the first layer.
caution: plugging in or unplugging the heater transformer may cause the power strip breaker to trip and reset the makerbot.
leveled bed by shaving down tabs that were sticking up, pushing magnets back in, and adding a small strip of kapton tape. adjusted toothed gear/idler wheel spacing with 5/64 allen key.
Some of the magnets on the Y stage are in sideways (poles on left & right), not upright (poles on top & bottom). I found this when building my Makerbot, since I wanted the build platform to be interoperable, I tried placing the magnets on the Y stage of the NB 'bot to check polarity, and found that they were sticking corner-to-corner, not face-to-face. - Gian Pablo
I've taken in two functioning nozzle assemblies, and an extruder block with double idler wheel. These should help get the 'bot up and running. The nozzles may need to be heated up, PTFE insulator removed and cleaned. - Gian Pablo
What is the large spool of white plastic next to the Makerbot? It seems a lot softer than ABS, and certainly acts strange when I try to print with it. (It is so soft that it scrunches up in the extruder feed channel, and the pinch wheel starts grinding into it super quickly. It doesn't stink when heated.) Could it be Shapelock? - Gian Pablo
it is PLA, rather than ABS. It melts at a much, much lower temperature. - Martin
It's not PLA, far too soft. There's some green PLA in the bag on top of the pile. I think it's HDPE. Smells like HDPE too. (like a blown out candle.) - fenn
The Makerbot is broken...
i'm really not sure what happened. i was cleaning out the extruder and i think one of the green wires touched the large metal washer; there was a spark and a small poof next to the rj-45 connector on the extruder board, and now nothing turns on. sigh.
I swapped in one of Gian Pablo's extruders and bought a new 606 bearing for the gearmotor. (somehow the original must have fallen out and gotten lost.) Lots of jamming up and cussing ensued. Some adjustments were made, much filament run through the machine, and I deduced that the NEW EXTRUDER REQURIES THE FAN ON whenever it is at operating temperature. I got it to print out a timing pulley on the fifth try, and reliably printing after that, using the same settings as before.
The nozzles I left seem to print reliably at much lower temperatures, try 195C and see how that goes. [gian pablo]
I've ordered an extensive selection of parts, including new extruder, heated build platform, extruder board etc. Should be here next week.
We've started work on this. I've also started printing a replacement XY stage (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4213) on my Makerbot, and ordered the parts for it (bearings, nuts, screws, washers).
[gian pablo]
All the parts have arrived. Miloh unpacked them and started working on it. Things to do:
- Assemble heated build platform
- Assemble relay board
- Assemble Plastruder Mk 5
- Replace extruder controller (and motherboard if necessary)
- Clean the 'bot
- Calibrate it
Watch it. It prints.
The autospool can cinch down and yank your build to ruin. Jake and I modified it to pull out the side in a lazier loop. It needs to be watched.
- Needs More calibration
- feed rate
- stepper driver currents (there were some X-Y 1-2mm shift errors halfway through the first builds)
- Need a get up to speed session & bot day (CrashSpaceLA is having one this weekend)
Miloh 12:51, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Printed different series of shelving brackets in red ABS. Another 2mm shift 1/4 of the way through the print only made them semi-useful. Not sure what caused the shift -- there were ~50 people milling around so I'm going to assume someone just touched the build in progress. The autospool is modified and working well on its side. The new MK5 head is working well so far (without the extrusion blowout and grip problems of the MK4 series pinch wheel and gear drive) improvements:
- we can laser cut 1/16 cork mounting dampeners for the stepper motors
- either replace the Y axis build platform mounting part or the build platform wood back to improve stability in the platform.
Miloh 23:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
All the Makerbots are working.
I've made a bunch of upgrades to White Rabbit and it is working great, there are a few fun sample prints scattered around. Ping me if you want to use it, it is a bit non-standard.
I spent a bit of quality time with Nutjob, cleaned out the driver gear, levelled the Z stage, replaced the drive motor and tidied up the cables. It is pretty standard, go ahead and use it.
There are now two filament spindles up and running, with red and white ABS. Black ABS is on the way.
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Army's Jarrett Mackey hears the same order each day he walks around the barracks at West Point.
Beat Navy and bring home the coveted Commander-in-Chief's Trophy.
''Every single time I pass them, it's, 'Army-Navy. CIC. Let's go,''' Mackey said. ''I wouldn't say it puts more pressure on us, but it's time. Let's do this. We almost need to do it. We've got to get out there and get the win. It's been way too long.''
Try 11 years.
The Army-Navy series is not only the most patriotic rivalry in sports, it's turned into one of the most one-sided. Navy has won 10 straight, doubling the previous winning streak of either team in a series that stretches back to 1890. It only seems like the Black Knights haven't won in 122 years. Army last beat Navy in 2001 at Veterans Stadium. The Vet has since been toppled.
So has Army's all-time lead in the series.
Mackey, a junior defensive end, wants so badly to be part of the class that ends the Middies' dominance. That alone, is incentive enough. But for the first time in nearly two decades, there is more on the line than just bragging rights.
Winning this game usually makes a season, but this one would mean more than most. The winner Saturday leaves Lincoln Financial Field with the Commander-in-Chief's trophy, awarded to the team with the best record in games among the three service academies. Army and Navy each defeated Air Force, putting the prestigious trophy up for grabs in the regular-season finale for the first time since 2005. Army (2-9) hasn't hoisted the CIC trophy since 1996. Navy (7-4) won it a school-record seven straight seasons through 2009 before giving way Air Force the last two seasons.
''We didn't win much, but we won just enough to bring a little extra drama to this game,'' Army coach Rich Ellerson said. ''From the moment these guys got to West Point, every building and everybody's front door says, `Beat Navy' and `Beat Air Force.' There is so much on the table for them.''
Billed as ''America's Game,'' the Linc will be stuffed with Cadets and Midshipmen standing, bouncing and cheering the entire game. Beating Army has become an annual tradition for Navy. None of the Mids want to be associated with a team that ended the streak.
''They're getting closer and closer,'' Navy linebacker Brye French said. ''The 10 wins have been awesome. But this year is even bigger than all those because it actually means something with the CIC.''
Navy's 27-21 win last season was the tightest margin since the winning streak started. The Mids won by a combined 74-3 score in 2007-08 and four times over the last decade the Black Knights failed to score more than six points. Army lost its 49-46-7 series lead during this decade of football futility.
The Black Knights did beat Air Force 30-22 on Oct. 27 to at least squeeze their way into the rare position of playing for the trophy. That ended Army's 13-game losing streak in service academy games.
''I think beating Air Force brings just a little bit extra to the equation,'' Ellerson said. ''We've had a tough year but that gives us some confidence you might not otherwise see because of that win and that common opponent.''
Navy beat Air Force 28-21 in overtime in early October to steer toward the trophy for a record 13th time.
''I think we're both grateful we have an opportunity to play for it,'' Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said.
There's more football left for Navy after Saturday's tradition-filled spectacle. The Mids play Arizona State in the Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 29 in San Francisco.
Yes, the outcome and the trophy are important for each side, but this is a game about more than the final score. The run-heavy contests are rarely a treat to watch. But the Brigade of Midshipmen and Corps of Cadets marching into Lincoln Financial Field - complete with a military flyover - are the moments that make this game one to savor.
''Playing football is the best part of our day,'' Army QB Trent Steelman said. ''It's a struggle for a lot of other teams across the nation. It's our time to get away from everything else that's going on in life.''
For Navy, that escape comes in a tough time for the program. The Midshipmen have been worried daily over the health of third-string quarterback Ralph Montalvo. Montalvo was in a medically-induced coma after he was critically injured in a car accident near his home last on Thanksgiving night.
His family posts updates at caringbridge.org/visit/rafimontalvo/journal. On Thursday, the journal read, ''He stuck his tongue out at us when asked to do so on several occasions. We continue to pray that he will wake soon.''
Montalvo was scheduled to travel to Philadelphia and dress for the Army-Navy game before the accident. The Mids will show support for Montalvo by wearing a sticker that says ''Rafi'' on the back of their helmets.
''The parents are wonderful people and they're hanging in there,'' Niumatalolo said. ''He's a typical academy kid, just a wonderful young man, wonderful American.''


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'It doesn't matter if you're black or white ... You can make it here in America'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made sharply different bets about who would vote this year.
It turned out that Americans who cast ballots looked collectively much more like what Obama had envisioned — a diverse tapestry that reflected a changing America — than the whiter, older electorate Romney had banked on.
Younger voters and minorities came to the polls at levels not far off from the historic coalition Obama assembled in 2008. The reality caught off-guard Republicans who banked on a more monolithic voting body sending them to the White House — and who had based their polling on that assumption.
The outcome revealed a stark problem for Republicans: If they don't broaden their tent, they won't move forward.
And it foreshadowed changes over the next generation that could put long-held Republican states onto the political battleground maps of the future.
"Clearly, when you look at African-American and Latino voters, they went overwhelmingly for the president," said John Stineman, a Republican strategist from Iowa. "And that's certainly a gap that's going to require a lot of attention from Republicans."
In exit polling Tuesday, voters mirrored the voting public's makeup of four years ago, when Obama shattered minority voting barriers and drove young voters to the polls unlike any candidate in generations.
White voters made up 72 percent of the electorate — less than four years ago — while black voters remained at 13 percent and Hispanics increased from 9 percent to 10 percent.
That flew in the face of GOP assumptions that the fierce economic headwinds of the past three years and the passing of the novelty of the first African-American president would trim Obama's support from black voters, perhaps enough to make the difference in a close election.
However, Obama carried Virginia, the heart of the old South, in part by having increased his record support from black voters there in 2008, which reached 18 percent, to more than 20 percent, according to Obama campaign internal tracking polls.
It was also reflected in turnout that matched his 2008 totals in places like Cleveland, which helped Obama carry Ohio solidly despite Romney's all-out effort there in the campaign's final weeks.
"Republicans have been saying for months" that Obama's black support would slip, Democratic pollster Paul Maslin said. "And what happens? When African-Americans had the chance to affirm him, they came out in droves."
Obama won in 2008 by carrying several long-held Republican states, including North Carolina, Virginia and Indiana. And while Romney easily carried Indiana and narrowly peeled back North Carolina, the fact that Obama held Virginia points to a long-term demographic shift that survived the pressures of the poor economy.
Obama carried each contested state except North Carolina by aggressively registering first-time voters. He matched his share of the youth vote from 2008, and nearly matched his support from seniors.
The 2012 electorate mirrored 2008 in terms of party identification and racial makeup, with self-identified Democrats topping Republicans and independents.
During his victory speech Tuesday, Obama nodded to the Democratic coalition he had held together.
"It doesn't matter if you're black or white, or Hispanic or Asian, or Native American, or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight," Obama told his crowd of supporters gathered in Chicago. "You can make it here in America if you're willing to try."
The minority and youth turnout was not the only assumption Romney made that turned out to be wrong.
While voters considered the economy the driving issue in the election, they did not hold Obama wholly responsible, as Romney long had assumed they would.
That realization forced Romney to pivot late in the campaign and attempt to turn the election into a choice of competing visions. Republicans argued late in the campaign that Romney's performance during the first of three debates had energized a groundswell of enthusiasm seen in their polling.
But it seemed Obama's support was quietly amassing with more vigor, GOP strategists said.
"There really wasn't an enthusiasm gap," said Republican strategist Charlie Black, an informal Romney adviser. "And independents didn't break our way."
Still, Obama will have his work cut out if he hopes to heal the partisan wounds of his first term.
The voting public was more ideologically polarized than in 2008 or 2004. The share of moderates dipped slightly to 41 percent, while 25 percent called themselves liberal, the highest share saying so in recent exit polls. Thirty-five percent called themselves conservative, about the same as the previous two presidential contests.
The economy was rated the top issue by about 60 percent of voters surveyed as they left their polling places. But more said former President George W. Bush bore responsibility for current circumstances than Obama did after nearly four years in office.
That boded well for the president, who had worked to turn the election into a choice between his proposals and Romney's, rather than a simple referendum on the economy during his time in the White House.
Unemployment stood at 7.9 percent on Election Day, higher than when the president took office. And despite signs of progress, the economy is still struggling after the worst recession in history.
Obama is the first president to win re-election with unemployment above 7.2 percent since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.


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Pat Forde reports that the Ole Miss investigation is growing.
The NCAA's protracted investigation of Mississippi has taken a new twist within the last month – investigators have interviewed players at two or more rival Southeastern Conference schools about their recruitment by the Rebels, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.
NCAA Enforcement representatives have visited Auburn and Mississippi State, and perhaps at least one more SEC Western Division school, this summer to speak with players who were recruited by Ole Miss. The players were granted immunity from potential NCAA sanctions in exchange for truthful accounts of their recruitment, sources said.
Those interviews indicate that the NCAA investigation has expanded beyond the spring focus on former All-American offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil.
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Expanding investigations is what the NCAA likes to do. I'm starting to think this won't end well for ol' Hugh.


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A brain cancer patient and his wife were on board the volunteer medical flight piloted by a Connecticut man that crashed in a wooded area of central New York, authorities said Sunday.
Frank and Evelyn Amerosa of Utica were aboard an Angel Flight on Friday night when the twin-engine aircraft went down in Ephratah, a sleepy town about an hour west of Albany, according to police and family members.
Officials and family said John Campbell, 70, of Stamford, Conn., was flying the couple back from the Boston area, where Frank Amerosa was being treated for brain cancer.
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"John loved to fly and truly believed in the mission of Angel Flight. He loved volunteering his time and we take some solace in the fact he died doing something he loved while trying to help others," according to a family statement read to The Associated Press by his daughter Kimberly Conti, of Rutherford, N.J.
Rescue workers on Sunday scoured the woods and searched a big, murky pond where the bulk of the aircraft was submerged. Wreckage from the crash was dispersed over a large area, with pieces of the plane found as far as 5 miles away.
"They're doing ground and air and water searches, everything is being covered at this point," Van Nostrand said.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators who returned to the crash site Sunday aim to retrieve the bulk of the wreckage from the water over the next few days, said agency spokesman Eric Weiss. They are looking for smartphones, GPS devices, computer tablets or other items that could "give the investigators some electronic evidence of what happened in the last minutes of flight," he said.
The Piper PA 34 had departed from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y., before it crashed just after 5 p.m. Friday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The plane did not issue a distress call before losing radar and radio contact, the NTSB said.
Terence Kindlon, an Albany attorney who is a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, said he and another lawyer, Dale Thuillez, had flown the couple to Boston on Friday morning in Thuillez's plane. He quickly found out he had something in common with Frank Amerosa.
"We were both former Marines and had been in Vietnam pretty close together in time," Kindlon said. "We hit it right off. He was a nice guy."
The two lawyers flew back to Albany in Thuillez's plane after dropping off the couple in Boston.
While the cause of the crash remains under investigation, Kindlon stressed that "the standards for being an Angel Flight pilot are rigorous."
Authorities had initially said the bodies of two passengers were found after the aircraft went down Friday night. But Van Nostrand corrected that report Sunday, saying the bodies of the Evelyn Amerosa and Campbell had been found.
Witnesses described the destruction that started in the air above Ephratah.
Joan Dudley, owner of Granny's Ice Cream Shanty, which is less than a mile from the crash site, said she and her employees saw the plane flip, then fall apart Friday night.
"Parts and pieces of it were flying through the sky, and a body fell out," Dudley said.
They called 911 as they parked their car and ran to the crash site in the rain to see if they could rescue anyone.
"Airplane parts were all over the place," she said. "They were picking them up all over."
Ephratah resident Roger Berry, 75, said he was outside chopping wood when the plane crashed.
"When I heard it, I knew something was wrong," Berry said.
Berry said he heard a bang, then saw pieces of the plane fall from the sky. The motor fell 50 feet from his neighbor's bedroom, where she was sleeping, Berry said.


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For a wealth of advice and information on aspects of VAT, including essential tips for VAT planning, and how to survive the VAT inspector's visit, visit our VAT guides.
The standard rate of VAT is 20% and remains unchanged.
Making Tax Digital for VAT
The new regime for many VAT-registered businesses started on 1 April 2019.
Businesses that exceed the VAT-registration threshold (£85,000 in 2020/21) are required to keep digital records and file their returns using HMRC-approved software, which means filing using API technology.
Is my business affected by the rules?
VAT-registered businesses are required to check their last 12 months taxable supplies.
If the value exceeds £85,000 then the business is subject to MTD for VAT from the start of the next accounting period, that is, 1 April, 1 May or 1 June for businesses making quarterly VAT returns.
If the value of taxable supplies does not exceed £85,000 then the business must continue to check this value at the end of each month in order to identify when they become subject to MTD for VAT.
Clearly, some businesses will be far below the threshold and are never likely to exceed it so they can dispense with checks.
What are digital records?
Businesses need to keep basic information about the supplies they make and receive digitally. This does not mean transferring all of the VAT requirements into digital form.
The requirements are very brief. For supplies made, the digital record must show:
- The time of supply (usually known as the taxpoint)
- The value (before VAT) of the supply
- The rate of VAT applicable to the supply.
For supplies received, a similar requirement is in place; the digital records must show:
- The time of supply
- The value of the supply, and
- The amount of VAT to be recovered.
Businesses within the flat-rate scheme for VAT do not need to keep records of purchases, except for those capital items on which VAT is to be recovered. Retailers need only keep their daily takings amounts at the various rates of VAT.
Once the digital records are in existence, transfers of date (for example, between software programs or spreadsheets) will have to be by digital links, such as import/export or similar.
Once the basic transactions have been recorded, any amendments to these in order, for example to calculate the VAT recoverable by a partially exempt business, or to calculate output VAT on supplies made through a margin scheme can be done manually, provided a record is retained of the calculations.
The adjustments are either simply entered on a spreadsheet or adjusted on the accounting software package.
Filing the return should then be simple. If a software package is in use, which is approved for MTD filing, it is just a case of submitting the return, remembering to choose the option to submit under MTD when the software offers it.
For those using spreadsheets, it is necessary to obtain 'bridging software' which will allow the return to be filed from the spreadsheet directly to HMRC.
Mandated businesses must not log on to their business tax account and file using the standard VAT100 form provided, although businesses which are below the £85,000 limit will still file their returns in this way if they prefer.
We advise on MTD on VAT, accounting software selection, or the benefit of spreadsheets, so do ask for help if you need it.