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Remembering Arthur M. Climenhaga
Fifth president of Messiah College (1916–2005)
Arthur M. Climenhaga, the fifth president of Messiah College, died on April 25, after savoring a brilliant sunset with his wife, Lona, and some friends, while on vacation in Black Water Falls, West Virginia. He was 89. Climenhaga's illustrious career spanned seven decades and included leadership roles in missions, higher education, national religious institutions, and the Church.
From the beginning, Climenhaga's life was intertwined with Messiah College's history. The grandson of S. R. Smith, Messiah's first president, Climenhaga drew his first breaths on the College's campus, born to faculty members John and Emma (Smith) Climenhaga in the president's home.
During his presidency at Messiah, 1960–1964, Climenhaga deftly guided the College to achieve regional accreditation, worked to recruit and retain a gifted faculty, and increased the size of Messiah's student body. Regional accreditation broadened the College's appeal to a more varied denominational pool of faculty and students, and cleared the way for accreditation of the College's teaching programs. Advocating that Messiah College play a more prominent role in the Harrisburg region, he strengthened relationships between the College and surrounding community leaders, and became involved in community organizations, such as the Rotary Club.
Messiah's current president, Kim S. Phipps, in her memorial service tribute to Climenhaga, emphasized his lasting influence at the College: "Dr. Climenhaga established a foundation of academic quality that has enabled Messiah College to mature and thrive as an institution of academic excellence firmly committed to the Christian faith with a deep and abiding appreciation for its Brethren in Christ rootedness."
In 1964, Arthur Climenhaga resigned from Messiah College to serve as the executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals, one of many prestigious leadership positions he held during his lifetime.
Before becoming president of Messiah, Climenhaga served as president of Upland College, Upland, Calif., but "his heart continued to throb for world missions," notes Darrel Winger, a Messiah College trustee and general secretary of the Brethren in Christ Church. Climenhaga returned to the mission field of Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), where his parents had ministered during his formative years, and later became bishop of Brethren in Christ Missions in Zambia and Zimbabwe, endearing himself to the nationals by mastering the intricate clicks and utterances of their Ndebele language.
His expansive career also included positions after his Messiah college presidency as vice president and dean of Western Evangelical Seminary, Portland, Ore.; director of academic affairs, Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio; and various leadership roles within the Brethren in Christ denomination.
An accomplished orator, Arthur Climenhaga will be vividly remembered for his resonant bass voice and his precise and expansive lexicon. A colleague once remarked that, with his commanding public speaking abilities, Climenhaga could "read the yellow pages and make it seem like the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments]."
Arthur Climenhaga's influence will continue to be felt in various spheres of church and society. In her tribute, President Phipps compared him to a lantern, quoting educator Marian Wright Edelman who wrote, "Oh God, I think you for the lanterns in my life who illumined the dark and uncertain paths, calmed debilitating doubts and fears with encouraging words, wise lessons, gentle touches, firm nudges, and faithful actions along my journey of life back to you." Phipps added, "Arthur Climenhaga was such a lantern for hundreds of students and colleagues throughout his life. We thank God for the gift of his life and ministry in our midst."
— Rebecca Ebersole Kasparek '96


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I write about business, economics, and climate change
Update: I wanted to provide a brief summary of what you will find below. In short, the government wants an equivilent MPG standard for electric cars that goes back to the power plant to estimate that amount of fossil fuels must be burned to create the electricity that fills the batteries of an electric car. The EPA's methodology is flawed because it assumes perfect conversion of the potential energy in fossil fuels to electricity, an assumption that violates the second law of thermodynamics. The Department of Energy has a better methodology that computes electric vehicle equivalent mileage based on real world power plant efficiencies and fuel mixes, while also taking into account energy used for refining gasoline for traditional cars. Using this better DOE methodology, we get MPGe's for electric cars that are barely 1/3 of the EPA figures.
In a parking lot near Detroit, General Motors is accumulating Chevy Volts. They cannot yet be sold to the public because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yet delivered the required mileage sticker for the window. We can, though, get a preview of how the EPA may complete this admittedly tricky task from the mileage numbers they recently assigned to the all-electric Nissan Leaf. The Leaf's numbers make it clear that this Administration is willing to resort to accounting fraud to promote its automotive agenda.
The traditional metric for automobile efficiency is miles per gallon (MPG) of gasoline used. But what does MPG even mean for a vehicle that doesn't burn liquid fuel? Most of us would agree that the Leaf certainly does use fuel — after all, something must create the electricity, and in the US that is generally some sort of fossil fuel. So theoretically we should be able to create an MPG equivalent, or MPGe for short, to measure the fossil fuel use of electric vehicles.
For more than a decade, within the EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE), a number of different approaches to this problem have been discussed. With the release of the numbers for the Nissan Leaf, we now know what approach the EPA is taking, and results are depressing for those of us who would like to see transparency and adherence to science in the Administration. This Administration has a huge intellectual investment in electric vehicles and financial investment in the Chevy Volt. Like a shady company trying to pump up their stock by choosing a series of highly questionable accounting conventions, the EPA has chosen an approach that grossly overestimates the MPGe of electric vehicles.
The Nissan Leaf was rated at 99 MPGe. To reach this number, the EPA created a conversion factor between a quantity of electric energy, measured in kilowatt-hours (KwH) and a volume of gasoline, measured in gallons. They did this be dividing the potential energy or heating value of a gallon of gasoline (115,000 BTUs) by the energy in a KwH of electricity (3412 BTUs) to get a conversion factor of 33.7 gallons per KwH. Using this factor, they can convert miles per KwH of electricity in an electric vehicle to an MPGe that is supposedly comparable to more traditional vehicles.
The problem is that, using this methodology, the EPA is comparing apples to oranges. The single biggest energy loss in fossil fuel combustion is the step when we try to capture useful mechanical work (ie spinning a driveshaft in a car or a generator in a power plant) from the heat of the fuel's combustion. Even the most efficient processes tend to capture only half of the potential energy of the fuel. There can be other losses in the conversion and distribution chain, but this is by far the largest.
The EPA is therefore giving the electric vehicle a huge break. When we measure mpg on a traditional car, the efficiency takes a big hit due to the conversion efficiencies and heat losses in combustion. The same thing happens when we generate electricity, but the electric car in this measurement is not being saddled with these losses, even though we know they still occur in the system.
Lets consider an analogy. We want to measure how efficiently two different workers can install a refrigerator in a customer's apartment. In both cases the customer lives in a fourth floor walkup. The first installer finds the refrigerator has been left on the street. He has to spend much of his time struggling to haul the appliance up four flights of stairs. After that, relatively speaking, the installation is a breeze. The second installer finds his refrigerator has thoughtfully been delivered right to the customer's door on the fourth floor. He quickly brings the unit inside and completes the installation.
So who is a better installer? If one only looks at the installer's time, the second person looks orders of magnitude better. But we know that he is only faster because he offloaded much of the work on the delivery guys. If we were to look at the total time of the delivery person plus the installer, we'd probably find they were much closer in their productivity. The same is true of the mileage standards — by the EPA's metric, the electric vehicle looks much better than the traditional vehicle, but that is only because someone else at the power plant had to do the really hard bit of work that the traditional auto must do itself. Having electricity rather than gasoline in the tank is the equivalent of starting with the refrigerator at the top rather than the bottom of the stairs.
An apples to apples comparison, then, would compare the traditional car's MPG with the Leaf's miles per gallon of gasoline (or gasoline equivalent) that would have to be burned to generate the electricity it uses. Incredibly, the DOE actually established and published such a standard in a rules-making process way back in Clinton Administration. The standard, called "well to wheels," adds a couple new factors to the MPGe calculation we discussed above.
First, the DOE looked at the electrical generation efficiency, and determined that only 32.8% of the potential energy in the fossil fuel becomes electric energy in the average US power plant, which it further reduced to 30.3% to account for transmission losses. However, they realized it was unfair to charge electric vehicles for these losses without also charging gasoline-powered vehicles for the energy cost of refining and gasoline distribution. They calculated these as adding 20% to the energy it takes to run a gas-powered car, but rather than reducing existing MPG standards by this amount, they instead gave a credit back to electric vehicles. The 30.3% electric production and distribution factor was increased to a final adjustment factor of 36.5%. This means that the conversion factor discussed above of 33.7 gallons/KwH must be multiplied by 36.5% to get a true apples to apples MPGe figure.
The end result is startling. Using the DOE's apples to apples methodology, the MPGe of the Nissan Leaf is not 99 but 36! Now, 36 is a good mileage number, but it is pretty pedestrian compared to the overblown expectations for electric vehicles, and is actually lower than the EPA calculated mileage of a number of hybrids and even a few traditional gasoline-powered vehicles like the Honda CR-Z.
"heating value of a gallon of gasoline (115,000 BTUs) by the energy in a KwH of electricity (3412 BTUs) to get a conversion factor of 33.7 gallons per KwH."
Should be 33.7 KwH/gallon
Your "end result" is not nearly as startling as the fact that you, a putative mechanical engineer, are willing to believe that one kilowatt hour of electricity is equivalent to more gasoline than it takes to fill the tank of a Hummer H2. Harvard doesn't surprise me, but I'm surprised that Princeton let you pass without learning arithmetic.
Since you're a graduate of the HBS, I can use an economic argument without fear of confusing you: One kilowatt hour of electricity costs a fraction of a dollar. One gallon of gasoline costs several dollars. If each is priced according to energy content, then one gallon of gasoline must be equivalent to more than one kilowatt hour of electricity, and not the other way 'round. (Your finance professor must be so proud of you.)
Perhaps you can revisit your rant on Carnot efficiency after you've mastered arithmetic. Until you do, your calculations are all of course suspect.
Kudos to "visionofficer" for exhibiting some common sense, and thanks to "mikewinddale" for reprising the doctors of "Le Malade imaginaire" for our amusement.
Your point regarding a Wells to Wheels approach is well taken. But power station efficiency plus transmission losses plus electric motor efficiency should still come out well ahead of gasoline engine efficiency and, in general, power station fuel is much cheaper than oil. Therefore, equivalent MPG should be better and fuel costs lower and the fuel is from domestic sources.
The car in question looks very nice but how much will it cost? The Fisker Karma web site seems to be remarkable clean of anything as dirty as a $ sign. One suspects the cost of gasoline will be of minor concern to anyone who can afford one. Even the more pedestrian Chevy Volt is expensive compared to a Honda Civic.
It would be better to tax the problem fuels, imported oil or dirty coal, and let the market pick winning solutions for lowering vehicle operating costs. If only the GOP had not locked itself into an unsustainable position on taxes we would all be better off. My bet is the price of oil would have declined by the same amount of any tax imposed and we would be using it for domestic development instead of bleeding money overseas.
Many European vehicles are more efficient diesels but they do have bigger emissions problems. With the price of natural gas many times lower than gasoline, it is a surprise we do not have any choices for natural gas fueled SUVs and larger pick-up trucks that have high gasoline fuel bills.
Mr. Meyer,
You wrote:"This Administration has a huge intellectual investment in electric vehicles and financial investment in the Chevy Volt."
The Volt has been in production for many years, long before the previous owners of GM ran their company into bankruptcy, as far back as 2006. All that the current 311 million owners of GM are doing is completing a project begun by others at very little additional cost, a pittance compared to the industrial supports given to other industries.
Mr. Meyer,
You post was titled "The EPA's Electric Vehicle Mileage Fraud". Fraud is crime, in this case it would be felony, so that big word. Fraud is the intentional misrepresentation of facts made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. With this in mind, it would sound like you are preparing to bring a complaint to a grand jury.
Now however you are writing:"Those who want to argue that mpg standards should only look at efficiency using whatever fuel (gas or electric) that is in the 'tank' of the car, I suppose this is a valid argument." That is quite a difference, a felony versus a difference of opinion.
Mr. Meyer,
You claim to be making a reasoned and honest "apples to apples" assessment, yet you all but trivialize the energy required to produce gasoline. If you won't even bother to look into this, how can you claim your argument has ANY merit?
It took about 3 minutes to learn that refining process alone (not the pumping, not the transporting, not the cleanup, not the going to war) runs at 85% efficiency. Which means that producing a gallon of gas requires about 6kwh.
6kwh will run my car for about 22 miles.
Clearly you put a lot of effort toward looking into at least one side of the story. But I'm sure you don't have any agenda here?
Any conversion between electric power and gallons of gasoline is dodgy. Electricity from wind, solar (for daytime charging) or nuclear can't really be converted to gallons except for the gallons you are saving by not using gas. Rather than try to factor in combustion efficiency, it's best to stick with energy/100 km, which the EPA publishes along with MPGe. The energy/distance gives you a good way to compare electrics, and then you can compare to gas in different ways depending on what question you are asking.
If you are trying to stop changing the CO2 content of the atmosphere, you should sign up for wind electric power and can then remove 100% of the CO2 emissions by driving an electric car. If you are interested in comparing cost, take
to get cost per mile for an electric vehicle. Typical electric rates are around $.12/kWhr, the Volt gets .36kWhr/mi, so that's $.043/mi. For a gas car, cost/mile is
which for a Prius at recent gas prices is about ($3.50/gallon)/(50mi/gallon)=$.070/mi.
kWhr is a unit of energy and can be used for all energy, not just electric power. It might make more sense to convert gallons of gasoline to kWhr and then use the kWhr/mi measurement for gasoline-engine cars as well as electric. This way we have one measure (energy/mi) for efficiency of a car no matter what kind of engine. We still have to be careful in estimating the environmental impact, because (like the EPA's MPGe), this does not include the waste heat if the electricity was created by burning fuel.
Small point.
Honda Cr-Z is in fact a Hybrid car very little different from the Insight II or the Honda Civic Hybrid.
Biggest difference is that the transmission is set to go faster for a sportier feel, but that hampers the mileage stats.
With a different tuneup on the trans it could easily get 50-60 mpg.
I found your article as I was researching information on how to compare electric to gas efficiencies. I conclude that you are totally wrong. Let me illustrate three different methods to calculate the mile per gallon equivalent.
I drove my Electric 1985 Chevy S10 for 41 miles, interstate and city, and used 14.55kWh of electricity to refuel it.
1. Based on Cost
Assume electricity costs 0.1 dollars/kWh.
The cost of my trip was $1.46.
This dollar value would purchase 0.45 gallons of gas at $3.225/gallon.
So, 41 miles / 0.45 gallons = 91 mpg.
2. Based on EPA conversion factor of 33.7 kWh/gallon
In your article you provide "33.7 gallons per KwH" as the conversion factor.
It is actually, "33.7 kWh/gallon." Big difference!
I used 14.55 kWh to refuel my truck.
The EPA estimate is then (14.55 kWh) / (33.7 kWh/gal) = 0.43 gallons.
So, my 41 mile trip is (41 miles)/(0.43 gallons) = 95 mpg.
I read through the DOE paper you referenced. It appears you eliminated the ''Fuel Content'' Factor from the equation. On page 2, they summarize the formula as, "mpg = PEF (Wh/gal) / combined [electrical] energy consumption (Wh/mile)". The DoE paper states PFE=82,049 Wh/gal for a pure electric vehicle.
3. Based on DoE paper you referenced.
Following the method they prescribe, we first need to calculate the Wh/mile for my trip:
(14.55 kWh)/(41 miles) = 354.88 Wh/mile.
Using their formula, mpg = (82,049 Wh/gal)/(354.88 Wh/mile) = 231 miles/gallon.
So, it appears that the DoE research suggest that when you add in all the other costs, the electric vehicle's mpg is actually much better than the sticker value shows.

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Fixture Type: Aviva Premiership
Match Date: Sat 08 Feb 2014
Kick Off: 15:00
Venue: Allianz Park
Referee: Dean Richards
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Assistant Referee: Nigel Carrick
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Brian Smith's side scored three first half tries, including two scores within the space of 60 seconds just before half time, on their way to their second away win in the Aviva Premiership.
Matt Parr, Alex Lewington and talismanic captain George Skivington crossed for tries in the opening 40 to see irish home.
The Exiles produced a superb first half display to go into the sheds at half time with a 22 - 8 lead over top of the table Saracens.
James O'Connor got his side off to a perfect start with a penalty goal from 50 metres after Irish were awarded a penalty at the scrum by referee Dean Richards. That was one of three penalties Irish were awarded in the first half, Saracens were awarded 12.
Irish with the winds at their backs then had to absorb plenty of pressure as the hosts mounted numerous attacks on the Irish line. After defending their line valiantly for 10 minutes with 14 men, they finally succumbed and Marcelo Bosch was on hand to put Saracens in the lead with a fine finish.
Irish struck back eight minutes later with their first try of the afternoon. Neat interplay between the Irish loose forwards was pivotal to the try. Skivington, Treviranus and Rouse, offloaded out of the tackle and Parr was the recipient to run in from 15 metres. O'Connor's conversion gave Irish a 10-5 lead.
With five minutes to go in the first half Charlie Hodgson cut the deficit to two points with his first penalty of the match. Irish responded with two tries in the space of 60 seconds which proved decisive in the eventual result.
Firstly, after great work in defence, Charlie Hodgson had his kick charged down and it fell fortuitously to the feet of Tomås O'Leary who passed to Alex Lewington who sprinted for the line to score the second Irish try.
Things got better for London Irish when from the next re-start the ball was fumbled backwards and fell to the feet of Lewington who hacked clear. Saracens were not willing to jump on the ball and after Lewington kicked through again, George Skivington won a foot race with his Saracens counterpart to score his side's third try. O'Connor's conversion made it 22-8 and put Irish in a great position.
The second half saw plenty of ambition from the Exiles, they did not sit back on their lead and relax and, instead opted to keep playing in search of a bonus point score.
They showed plenty of character and courage, as the hosts three the kitchen sink at them. They were rewarded when replacement hooker, Schalk Brits, barged his way over for his side's second try.
It was not enough and Irish held on to claim their second away win of the season.
London Irish travel to Adams Park next Saturday to take on Wasps in the Aviva Premiership.
Score sequence (London Irish first): 3-0, 3-5, 10-5, 10-8, 15-8, 22-8, 22-13,
Scorers: London Irish: Tries: Parr (23), Lewington (38), Skivington (39); Conversions: O'Connor (2); Penalties: O'Connor (1); Saracens: Tries: Bosch (15), Brits (76); Penalties: Hodgson (35)
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15. James O'Connor (rep: Tom Fowlie, 70); 14. Alex Lewington; 13. Fergus Mulchrone; 12. Eamonn Sheridan; 11. Andrew Fenby; 10. Shane Geraghty (rep: Ian humphreys, 77); 9. Tomás O'Leary (rep: Sean kennedy, 64); 1. Matt Parr (rep: John Yapp,40); 2. David Paice (rep: Jimmy Stevens, 63); 3. Jamie Hagan (rep: Leo Halavatau, 77); 4. George Skivington (Captain); 5. Nic Rouse (reo: Gerard Ellis, 76); 6. Kieran Low; 7. Blair Cowan; 8. Ofisa Treviranus (rep: Jebb Sinclair, 63)
Replacements: 16. Jimmy Stevens; 17. John Yapp; 18. Leo Halavatau; 19. Jebb Sinclair; 20. Gerard Ellis; 21. Tom Fowlie; 22. Ian Humphreys; 23. Sean Kennedy
15. Ben Ransom (rep: Joel Tomkins, 53); 14. Chris Ashton (rep: Jack Wilson, 65), 13. Marcelo Bosch, 12. Chris Wyles, 11. David Strettle; 10. Charlie Hodgson, 9. Neil de Kock (rep: Richard Wigglesworth, 53); 1. Richard Barrington (rep: Jared Saunders, 60), 2. Jamie George (rep: Schalk Brits, 54), 3. Matt Stevens (rep: James Johnston, 54), 4. Steve Borthwick (c), 5. Mouritz Botha (rep: George Kruis, 46), 6. Jackson Wray, 7. Jacques Burger, 8. Ernst Joubert
Replacements; 16. Schalk Brits, 17. Jared Saunders, 18. James Johnston, 19. George Kruis, 20. Matt Hankin, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Joel Tomkins, 23. Jack Wilson
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---- — PLATTSBURGH — City of Plattsburgh residents will get a chance to voice their feelings on a plan to re-district voting wards.
The Re-districting Committee will present its plan and hear comments from the public at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Common Council chambers of City Hall.
"I hope anyone with a strong feeling about how the wards are laid out will come and voice them," said Councilor James Calnon (I-Ward 4), who served as liaison to the committee.
The committee is chaired by Peter Ensel and also includes James Barcomb, Peggy de Grandpre, Anne-Marie Farrell and Becky Kasper.
The group was charged with the task of re-configuring the city's six wards based on population figures tabulated in the 2010 U.S. Census, which showed the city's population at 19,989.
Based on that number, the six wards needed to have about 3,332 people each. The committee was allowed to use a variance of 5 percent below the average and 5 percent above, which put the range at 3,165 and 3,498.
Ward 2 had 4,495 people, due to growth on the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base property, and had to be significantly changed. Two dormitories on the campus of Plattsburgh State have tentatively been moved from Ward 2 to Ward 3, which only had 2,904 people.
"We had five reasonable people on the committee who did a great job of keeping the negative things off the table and just did their best to try to make sense of the population changes," Calnon said.
Within 30 days after the public hearing, the committee will formally present its recommendations to the Common Council. The council can accept them or send them back to the committee with suggestions.
The committee can then make changes if it wants, and re-submit their plan to the council. If that doesn't work, a state judge will make a final determination, Calnon said.
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Been in the Emergency Room all 3 times, first they thought it was thyroid, last 2 times thyroid is was normal.
Cardiac tests are normal, EKG, blood tests, x rays all normal. The doctors in the ER do not know what it is....Think they called it epclisolic hypertension, and said glands also needed to be tested and kidneys.
April cardialogist appointment passed, ultra sounds of neck, heart, stress test and was fine, blood pressure running 140/80 average.
This is scaring me silly, while a I try to stay calm and not panic. Especially with no answers. Anyone ever heard of such a mess? And I cannot get into see any specialists till October and Mid November.
Check for sleep disorders, especially for sleep apnea and/or restless leg syndrome. This can take a while to get scheduled with both the sleep specialist and a sleep lab, so if it's a possibility, start trying to make an appointment or get a referral now. Some doctors may prescribe devices that can detect some sleep disorders at home now for cheaper, but a sleep lab can be more comprehensive in detecting problems.
Check your other prescription and non-prescription meds - some can raise blood pressure (bp). Try looking them up in www.rxlist.com or www.drugs.com .
For me after 2 trips to emergency room with bp spikes and palpitations, it turned out to be a combo of sleep apnea (which makes bp hard to control even with multiple meds) and a beta blocker I was on. I'm still on 2 other bp meds, but with cpap treatment for the apnea and discontinuing the beta blocker, my bp is getting pretty stable and much lower in just a month. For some people (like me), a beta blocker can make bp more variable, where a calcium channel blocker can make it less variable. I'm now on a low dose of an ace inhibitor and a calcium channel blocker. (My hubby does fine with a beta blocker for lowering his bp, however.) The cpap treatment made more of a difference than getting off the beta blocker, but both were factors for me.
Good luck, be persistent, don't give up, and don't forget gentle regular exercise.
The doctor wished to prescribe BP medication but I asked to do this first. I will continue with Dr Ornish as this seems to work for me.
I called and got into Mayo Clinic next week.
Now the doctors are talking about Kidney problems. And want to run me all over to all kinds of doctors. Forget that.
Most of you did not say anything much about thryroid which can totally mess up everything.
But I really think it is something with the medications, and reactions to them. They have never stablized my blood pressure in 4 years.
Thanks Heartston
I have recently seen a hypertension specialist who thinks the spikes are caused by emotional distress. I'm currently taking an ACE Inhibitor and Adrenergic Blocker daily. The spikes don't seem as high but I'm experiencing side effects.
Check out on the internet Pseudopheochromacytoma and particularly a paper written by Dr. Samuel J. Mann. I found it very informative.
Good Luck!
I have also done the sleep studies and wear a cpap at night, but my blood pressure still ues up! My doctors are scratching their heads while I'm going crazy with fear and anxiety.
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Saturday, January 31, 2004Macomb, Ill. ? Dan Oppland scored eight of his 22 points in overtime as Valpo defeated Western Illinois 81-79. The Crusaders (10-9, 7-3 Mid-Con) moved into first place in the Mid-Continent Conference by a half game over Oral Roberts (6-3) and IUPUI (6-3). The victory was the sixth straight for Valpo.
Oppland, who grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds to record a double-double, converted 12 of 14 free throw attempts. Ali Berdiel tallied 13 points and five assists, Kikas Gomes netted 12 points and Roberto Nieves added 11. Will Lewis led Western Illinois (3-18, 1-8) with a career-high 24 points, including 20 in the second half and overtime. Bobby Carter added 19 for the Leathernecks.
Western Illinois, which overcame a 13-point deficit in the final 5:24 of regulation, tied the game at 69-69 on T.J. Gray's 3-pointer with one second left. Greg Tonagel's two free throws with five seconds left had given Valpo a 69-66 lead.
In overtime, Western Illinois took a 71-69 lead on Keith Archie's two free throws before Berdiel made a baseline jumper to tie the score at 71-71. Valpo then passed the ball inside to Oppland, who responded with two free throws as the Crusaders regained a 73-71 advantage with 2:48 remaining. After two missed Leatherneck free throws, Oppland made a layup to extend the lead to four (75-71). Lewis turned in a conventional three-point play before Oppland dropped in another layup for a 77-74 lead. Carter drained a 3-pointer to tie the game at 77-77 with 1:12 left and Oppland put Valpo ahead for good with two more charity tosses at the 36-second mark.
Tonagel, who was playing his second game of the season, forced a travel by WIU's Barry Welsh with seven seconds left. A senior, Tonagel sank one of two free throws with six seconds left, but Gray made two free throws with five seconds remaining to pull the Leathernecks within one (80-79). Berdiel split a pair of free tosses with four seconds left before Doyle Cole missed a 10-foot running jumper at the buzzer.
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Valpo, which led most of the game, went on a 6-0 run to break a 16-16 tie and took a 34-28 halftime lead. Oppland and Nieves scored seven points each in the first 20 minutes.
The Crusaders' bench outscored the Western Illinois reserves 23-16. Tonagel finished with eight points and five assists, Mike Oppland added six points and Mbaye scored five.
Valpo shot 50 percent overall (28-56) and made 24 of 34 free throws (71 percent). Western Illinois, which made 39 percent (21-54) of its field goal attempts, came back as a result of outstanding free throw shooting (29-35, 83 percent). WIU made 8 of 24, 3-point shots, while Valpo made 1 of 12 from beyond the arc.
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Last month, K Café (546 Niagara Falls Blvd., Tonawanda, 836-8888) started serving Korean tacos (meat, lettuce, rice, kimchi, slaw and spicy kochujang sauce; three for $6.50) and burritos in a building that last held a spaghetti parlor.
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The split of Zahorski/Miart is disappointing to hear. Are they both planning on continuing? (Apologies if this repeats anything in the GO thread I don't have access)
That is the current rumour, yes.
Are you sure that Florent fell two times? His TES looks too high for that. I would have guessed the deductions come from music or something similar
Hey, someone have Pechalat/Bourzat new programs from Masters d'Orleans???
The second deduction was for time violation.Are you sure that Florent fell two times? His TES looks too high for that. I would have guessed the deductions come from music or something similar
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Does Krylova even make their programs? I thought they had others to do that and Krylova was their technical coach?
I´m a big fan of the Rolling Stones and P&B (and of the songs they picked) but it just doesn't work as a competitive program for me. It all seems a bit flat and I don't know if that's because it's early in the season, I just don't know what more you can do with that music except skate through it. Disappointing FD for me and not what I thought they needed to build on the momentum they gained from last season
P/B was better off with previous coach, IMO. The program is subpar and like exhibition program, very messy. I prefer W/P's FD, if I have to choose between these two Kylova/Camerlengo's teams. It's going to be interesting to see how his teams do at GP.
Papadakis/Cizeron are juniors and I assume it's way too late in the season to make them work on senior programs now, especially from scratch. But I agree that not using the 3rd spot, well, actually, having no one to use it is a waste.Would the FFSG consider sending Papadakis/Cizeron to Euros with the third spot? Seems a shame to waste it...
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The new FPs of Brian Joubert and Florent Amodio.
Amodio was the winner. In the last part of the video there is an interview with him.
While I still enjoy watching P/B, I think they've improved technically but have gradually become less interesting artistically pretty much since they left Lyon. I'd love to see what they could do with some of their old programs at their current level.
Wouldn't that only be a new SD from scratch? The FD would just need some reworking. It might be a good opportunity for them.


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At long last, there is good news for Blackberry fans! After quite a few anxious months, when the very fate of the organization appeared to be in question, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, announced last week that "there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now." What a relief! After all, when you are down 95% in market valuation, you can sort of sense that at some point, if things get worse, questions regarding leadership's prowess will eventually be raised. Fortunately, that won't be necessary, as Mr. Heins also reassured us that "This company is really in the middle of a transition. We know what we're doing; we're executing on our programs." Whew! It could have been really close had management not responded in time with this announcement. Now we know that there's no "death spiral" in RIM's future, although the notion of "free fall" does come to mind. How did this happen? How could a great company, with a great brand, and a great product, be victimized so quickly? Were they ambushed? Did they never see it coming?
The answer, my friends, is that this was not sudden at all. In fact, RIM's slow slide into ignominy has been going on for a rather long-time, as did Kodak's and Nokia's, and the railroads, and fax machines, and the decline of physical mail, as well. The one thing that that all these now "disrupted" organizations had in common was the sloooooowness of how their declines played-out. All too often, disruption is not so much about surprise, as it is about slowprise!
What accounts for slowprise? To a very large extent, the chief culprit is success. Our past success, and a desire to enjoy the associated rewards to the full, lead many firms into denial and sluggishness in the face of needing to adjust to a potential disruptive offering from somewhere else; particularly if we don't take that "somewhere else" very seriously. SONY's reluctance to move away from its once-great Trinitron technology, at a time when everybody else saw that the future was flat-panel TVs, is a case in point. Imagine how difficult it was for RIM to confront the reality of the smart phone challenge in the face of rising revenues and profits, which had been the case over the past several years – with revenues and profits actually peaking in 2011 — until, suddenly it seems too late! But, the point is that RIM's demise was anything but "sudden." And, management missed it. As did, Kodak's, and Nokia's, and so many others.
Another culprit that makes slooowprise so deadly is leadership overconfidence, or hubris; the belief that we know what we're doing, despite everyone else starting to do something different, can be a killer. Isn't that what RIM's Mr. Heins said: "We know what we're doing"? After all, we're "leaders," we must be good! We made it to the top, so we must know what we're doing to get to such positions! Yet, Disney's inability to take computer-animation seriously, at a time when Pixar was experimenting with what would become the industry's next big breakthrough, was likely the result of leadership overconfidence — in a set of technologies that were fast fading from the scene. Similarly, RIM's inability to appreciate what was going on around it as smartphones emerged, is also an example of what has been referred to as "blinding confidence" in the company's C-suite. The "imperial" assumption by many Western entrants into the Chinese market that "only an experienced Western manager was suitable to run a Chinese operation" provides yet another aspect of how "managerial overconfidence" can derail even the best planned strategic alternatives.
The role of leadership confidence turns out to be a complex phenomena. My good friend and IMD colleague Phil Rosenzweig tells me that there is a very strong stream of thought in contemporary management literature revealing overconfidence as a pernicious threat to sound managerial strategic choice, despite its desirability in those instances where we need to inspire employees to take an organization beyond what even they think is possible in the pursuit of a new advantage. And, even in those situations where managerial confidence is a necessary prerequisite for big change initiatives, you need to ensure is that such confidence does not distort the ability of leadership to accurately read the strategic battlefield that the firm is competing on. RIM certainly needs confident leaders at this point in time, but do I really believe that they are looking soberly at the situation at present? Not from Mr. Heins's recent comments! In fact, it appears to me that his view of the future is pocked-marked with "blindspots."
An inability to take threats seriously, or to look far enough outside of the familiar in order to see emerging challenges, frequently leads to firms falling afoul of strategic "blind spots", which are essentially traps for the unwary. Estelle Metayer, a "blindspot spotter", who has worked with me in IMD programs aimed at reducing such myopia, has suggested that HP's appointment of Léo Apotheker, who lacked essential experience outside of software, set HP up for falling into just such blindspots when it came to hardware.
The bottom line of all of this, of course, is that disruption is a failure of leadership more than innovation. It is all-too-often neither rapid, nor unexpected, but slow and tortuous. We all watched in horror as Kodak died a death of thousand tiny cuts, and we all watched in mystification and could not imagine what was taking RIM, or Nokia, so long to wake-up? In every case, well-intentioned, experienced and well-meaning leaders let their organizations down. Perhaps, disruption is less about urgency and more about awareness — the need to watch different communities and to try to look further-out into the future; less about responsiveness and more about pro-sponsiveness– trying more to be the disrupter, or to try to imagine what a disrupter might be thinking, rather than being able to respond quickly, but after the event? If strategy is all about choice, then the way that the C-suite regards the future, and the transitory nature of any competitive advantage, may be one of the biggest choices of all.
Bill Fischer is the co-author (with Andy Boynton & Bill Bole) of The Idea Hunter (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
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i have to strongly disagree with your comparison to old technology. First of all, the name of the company is Research In Motion. Not 'RIM' which is a slanderous term. The whole idea is to lead other technology companies into the future. Obviously we got way too popular and the wrong people took charge. BlackBerry products are designed exclusively for researchers who have time to program and design as we go. Until now, no one has taken the time to write a manual for the PlayBook and consumers are returning them because they dont take the time to fix the errors. if im the last one on earth to run this company, it wont bother me one bit. btw your auto type sucks on forbes.com thanks jtm
i have to strongly disagree with your comparison to old technology. First of all, the name of the company is Research In Motion. Not 'RIM' which is a slanderous term. The whole idea is to lead other technology companies into the future. Obviously we got way too popular and the wrong people took charge. BlackBerry products are designed exclusively for researchers who have time to program and design as we go. Until now, no one has taken the time to write a manual for the PlayBook and consumers are returning them because they dont take the time to fix the errors. if im the last one on earth to run this company, it wont bother me one bit. btw your auto type sucks on forbes.com thanks
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An excellent summary of How the Mighty Fall, by Jim Collins. I really hope he reads this and feels a small sense of pride in his work. It seems everyone and his wife who are interested in business and leadership are familiar with his 2nd major piece (Good to Great), but far too few acknowledge the later works (comparatively speaking). Your hubris comments seem to point the other way though. Good for you, no really.
This is a fantastically similar story to that of Motorola in the late 90′s, which is covered in Jim's book. When will CEOs learn to learn from others?
Great piece!
I have personally been involved with once great comapnies whose management knew more about the market place than their customers, sales force, or service department.
I'm happy to report most are now selling residential real estate or selling used cars on a corner lot. In either case they have minimal impact on the lives of those who supplied their paychecks for WAY too long.
As Bill Fischer wrote, RIM basically did this to themselves. My company spent many hours, resources and $$ developing our apps for the Blackberry, in cooperation with RIM, only to have it be DENIED approval for the Blackberry App Store.
Reason: RIM felt it would compete against their own BBM service.
I know many other App companies who experienced same. Spent time, money, resources developing for the Blackberry platform WITH RIM's full knowledge and cooperation, only to be denied at the end.
IMO, this is worse than blocking, but highly unethical (knowingly cooperating during development, taking time and $$$ with no intention of approving entrance to the Blackberry App Store).
My company and many other mobile app developers, moved onto what was then "new" platforms called Apple iOS and Google's Android. No choice as the star of the party, led us on and told us at the end of the evening, "we don't like you and don't want you.".
So, as the saying goes, "you reap what you sow".
The day RIM goes under will be the day I and many thousands of others who they screwed will be toasting their final demise.
In all of these cases of failed leadership, many employees lost their jobs and it would be instructive to know how well-compensated these failed leaders while their company crumbled around them. I'm guessing very well.


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If you are a tax geek, or even a normal person who wants to keep up with the ongoing debate over restructuring the tax code, download a copy of the congressional Joint Tax Committee's Tax Reform Working Group Report.
It is 568 pages long, doesn't have much of a plot, has no character development (unless you are good at reading between the lines) and sort of peters out at the end. Yet, it is likely to prove an invaluable resource as tax reform moves ahead.
Think of it as the ballpark program you pick up before a baseball game. You can watch the game without it, but it is much more fun if you can keep score and know a little something about who plays for the visiting team.
The report is divided into three parts. The first is a brief summary of the revenue code. Each provision of the law gets explained in a couple of sentences or, sometimes, a few paragraphs. You'll learn about everything from adoption assistance to retirement plans, and from the tax treatment of U.S. territories to depreciation of manufacturing equipment.
And, btw, it answers the musical question: How long does it take to describe the federal tax law in this shorthand? Answer: 444 single-spaced pages.
The second section summarizes a dozen different tax reform plans—ranging from President George W. Bush's 2005 reform commission report to President Obama's fiscal commission plan (aka Bowles-Simpson), and including proposals from the liberal Economic Policy Institute to the conservative Heritage Foundation (Full disclosure: the Tax Policy Center provided technical analysis for many of these plans).
The third section attempts to summarize public comments to the House Ways & Means Committee's tax reform working groups. This section describes, in JCT's best "just the facts" tone, the wide range of ideas presented to the work groups. They can be summarized like this: Keep the government's filthy hands off my tax break.
The plot of the JCT tome, then, reads something like this: The tax code is mind-numbingly complicated and economically inefficient. Just about every reform plan from presidents Bush to Obama and across the spectrum of think-tanks would trim or even eliminate many of the tax code's $1 trillion+ in preferences. Yet, pretty much every lobbyist who commented to the Ways & Means working groups echoed the long-ago doggerel of former Senate Finance Committee chairman Russell Long—"Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the fella behind the tree."
And there we stand.
Nonetheless, download the JCT's report. You'll find yourself looking at it often.
Tax breaks to special interest group are the largest entitlement program we have.
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The new 560 page report from House Ways and Means makes it clear that congress intends to tweak a few tax expenditures and pretend it is tax reform. A little horse-trading (as in I'll vote for some of yours if you vote for some of mine) should get the job done. Bold tax reform with a value added tax (VAT), net wealth adjustment to income or replacement of the job killing payroll taxes is really not on the table (and never was).
Rep Camp wants to cut only enough tax expenditures to reduce the top income tax rates to 25%. This will create more profit for successful investors and corporations without any need for new investment and without creating a single new job.
The Democrats should want to create jobs but they only support union jobs through increased government spending. The Democrats should also want to reverse the wealth gap created by the tax code which caused half the population to lose 70% of their net wealth between 1995 and 2010 but the subject is off limits because the solution requires more progressivity in total tax liability.
Because the Democrats don't have any new or good ideas it is popular to float a carbon tax – a combination of two bad ideas in one. Intelligent regulation of carbon emissions based on the latest technology is the best way to limit carbon. A VAT (used by every developed country in the world) is a better way to raise revenue. The market for "carbon credits" has failed in Europe because it is an attempt by government to control the means of production.
Using the anti-business $50 billion charitable deduction to create 2,000,000 jobs with nonprofits and local government doesn't hurt anyone and is far too sensible to be considered.
The data on distribution of the tax burden on page 216 was pretty interesting. Also the chart that compares partnerships and S corporations – think that was around page 424.
I'm really bumming out. I just spent a couple of hours looking at the darn thing and I don't think I can improve on your post.
I was hoping that this was going to be something like Treasury II that preceeded the Tax Reform Act of 1986 instead it was a summary of 13 disparate proposals.


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Buffalo Bills rookie punter Shawn Powell has been scrutinized -- and rightfully so -- since the club released fan favorite Brian Moorman after Week Three.
Powell has had his shanky moments, but he was a major contributor to Thursday night's 19-14 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Ralph Wilson Stadium.
In a game with multiple special-teams stars, Powell was terrific. He averaged 45.3 yards on seven punts, and his placement mostly was impeccable.
Five of them landed inside the 20-yard line, tying a Bills record.
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CUMBERLAND — A crew from the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service successfully removed a young female bear from a tree in South Cumberland Thursday morning, eventually releasing the bruin on state-owned land in Allegany County.
"The original call came in to our wildlife response team Wednesday night about 10:30," said Harry Spiker, referring to a bear treed on Second Street in front of Jane Frazier Village.
"Our preferred approach is to have people back off and leave the bear alone because the animal will come down on its own and leave. We were in touch with Cumberland Police Department in that regard, but that can be tough to do in a city setting."
On Thursday morning an agency staffer drove by the location and saw that the bear remained in the large maple tree.
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"Because of the nature of the tree and the positioning of the bear, we were pretty comfortable that the bear wouldn't fall and it didn't," Spiker added.
The bruin, a 94-pound female, became sedated while lying on branches.
"Rande Brown climbed up the tree, tossed a rope over a branch and tied it around the bear's foot and we lowered it to the ground," Spiker said.
Knowing it would take 45 to 60 minutes for the drugs to wear off, the crew put the bear in a pickup truck for the trip to a new and less urban setting.
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Although a tooth was removed from the bear for absolute proof of its age, Spiker was certain the animal was 1.5 years old.
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