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Section 6: Accounting for Grants and Contracts
Grants and Contracts Accounting Practices
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This guideline outlines the accounting practices applied to restricted funds received as grants and contracts.
In addition to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the following federal guidelines govern accounting practices for grants and contracts.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, "Cost Principles for Educational Institutions".
OMB Circular A-110, "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Other Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non Profit Organizations".
OMB Circular A-133, "Audits of States, Local Governments and Non Profit Organizations".
Table of Contents
A. Background
B. Account Activation
C. Account Closeout Accounts Receivable Services
G. CASB Disclosure Statement (DS-2)
H. Cost Sharing
I. Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A)
J. Financial Reporting
K. Fiscal Year End Accounting
L. Program Income
A. Background
Grants and Contracts Financial Services (GCFS) has responsibility for the financial management of sponsored programs by promoting cost accounting practices and consistency in the recording and reporting of financial data. Specific accountability includes:
Insuring consistency and adherence to the University of San Antonio's (UTSA) financial policies in account activation, account close out and fiscal year-end accounting activities.
Maintenance of the cash position for each grant and contract is per the applicable terms and conditions governing each project through cash management and accounts receivable services.
Effective communication with sponsors through the judicious submission of accurate financial reports and invoices.
Compliance with OMB Circular A-21 and A-110 requirements as applicable in execution of these responsibilities.
B. Account Activation
Upon receipt of an award notice from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), GCFS initiates an account set-up in the UTSA's official accounting records (DEFINE).
Externally funded sponsored programs are classified as current restricted funds in accordance with GAAP. Grant and contract awards are established in individual accounts (26-xxxx-xx) to insure that the restricted resources are allocated to specific projects.
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A. Identifies the account as a grant or contract.
The monitoring of expenditures is the responsibility of OSP. Edits exist within the automated accounting system to aid in ensuring that expenditures are allowable and incurred within the specified performance period, and that sufficient funds are available.
C. Account Closeout
The UTSA must close out accounts within sponsor deadlines and promote efficient collection of all account receivables. To insure the effectiveness of this process, all outstanding financial issues must be resolved in a timely manner. Most sponsoring agencies require that closeout documents be submitted within 90 days of the last day of the performance period.
1. Closure
The close out of Sponsored Program accounts (26) is not governed solely by available balances, level of activity or termination dates. In fact, the close-out criteria may vary amongst the accounts depending upon the requirements of each sponsoring agency. Primary factors include:
Acceptance of deliverables/final report by the sponsor.
Resolution of compliance issues such as cost sharing, time and effort reporting and program income.
Assurance that all project charges have been posted to the account.
Assurance that all matters pertaining to sub-recipients have been addressed.
Disposition of remaining cash balances.
Completion of all financial reports, as well as invention reports, inventory, equipment and property reports.
OSP initiates the grant close-out process by sending a Close-Out Certification form to GCFS. With this form, OSP certifies that the factors listed above have been satisfied, in particular that:
All financial activity has been posted;
All required reports have been submitted, and
Any cost sharing commitments have been documented.
For fixed price contracts, there is a close-out period of not less than 90 days during which unexpended funds may not be transferred to another UTSA account.
2. Close-out of fixed price contracts
For these contracts, payments are not based on cost reimbursement but rather on an agreed (fixed) sum in support of the project. After the completion of the project, if there is a balance of funds, the revenue is retained by the UTSA.
Close out procedures are initiated by notification from OSP to GCFS.
The UTSA will be reimbursed for unrecovered Facilities and Administrative costs (F&A) on the remaining unexpended balance.
After F&A is taken, unexpended balances > 25% of the total contract amount will revert to the College, Institute or Center that administered the project.
Unexpended balances< 25% (after F&A is taken) will revert to the principal investigator.
3. Deletion
Accounts are deleted from DEFINE at the close of each fiscal year. Prior to deletion, GCFS reviews all identified accounts to insure that the account is eligible for deletion.
Even after 26 accounts are financially closed, accounts remain on the books for an additional fiscal year beyond the termination date. This is to insure that all compliance issues have been resolved and that any cost disallowances by the sponsor have been corrected.
In addition, some 26 accounts may belong to a series of accounts servicing one grant project. For consistency and clarity, these accounts may remain on the books (in closed status) until the termination of the entire project.
D. Accounts Receivable Services
Grants and contract receivables represent the amount owed to the UTSA for expenses associated with sponsored projects.
1. Control of Receivables
GCFS is primarily responsible for the collection of grants and contract receivables. The prompt collection of receivables is important and a defined sequence of collection efforts is necessary.
An automated system is used to prepare and record monthly invoices for grants and contracts. Final invoices are submitted within the time frame dictated by the terms of the grant, contract or other agreement.
Manual invoices are prepared only for awards that reference tasks, milestones or similar circumstances as a basis for calculating the amount owed.
Grant and contract receivables are reconciled on a monthly basis. An aging list is maintained and a monthly review of past due accounts is conducted.
GCFS staff exercise due diligence in collection efforts for all outstanding accounts.
2. Collection Procedures
GCFS begins pro-active collection efforts when a receivable from a non-federal sponsor is past due (defined as 60 days from the invoice date).
When an account becomes 60 days past due:
A computer generated dunning letter is sent to the sponsor with copies to the Principal Investigator (PI) and the Grant Specialist in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP).
During the next thirty days, GCFS personnel will perform a follow-up with the sponsor via e-mail and phone contacts.
When an account becomes 90 days past due:
A second letter is sent to the sponsor (return receipt) with copies to the PI and the Grants Specialist, OSP.
Due diligence on the part of GCFS shall include two documented instances where letter/e-mail and/or phone contact with the sponsor has been made within the first 90 days.
If no response is received from the sponsor for collections that are greater than 90 days past due:
GCFS contacts OSP and the PI, if necessary, for consultation and possible assistance.
The account may be frozen and no further expenses allowed, if there is no acceptable response from the delinquent agency.
NOTE: An acceptable response would include payment and/or a mutually agreed upon payment schedule.
If no response is received within 120 days:
GCFS consults with the University Controller to determine a course of action. This may include a request to the UTSA's legal counsel to review the contractual documents and/or the submission of the account to a collection agency or another course of action suitable to the specific circumstances.
If problems are encountered collecting funds from a federal sponsor, GCFS will inform the PI and the Director, OSP. All efforts will be made to resolve disputes and insure that the UTSA is reimbursed.
If problems are encountered collecting funds from a private foundation with whom the UTSA may have other projects, GCFS will contact the Office of Development for advice and/or assistance in addition to notifying OSP.
3. Automatic Payments
Grants and contracts with automatic payment schedules require special attention. Whenever the Internal Notice of Award, transmitted by OSP, indicates that the payment is "automatic", GCFS reviews the accompanying documentation and takes the following actions.
Call the funding entity to determine if an invoice is required to initiate payment. If so, an invoice will be sent immediately. Thereafter, standard collection procedures will be followed.
If the entity does not require an invoice, a payment date will be determined. If payment is not received as specified, a dunning letter will be sent.
4. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
An allowance for doubtful accounts is an estimate of invoiced amounts that may not be collected.
Receivables are presented in the financial statements net of an allowance for uncollectible amounts. GCFS calculates an allowance for the estimated uncollectible balance on non-Federal grants and contract receivables. The allowance is a contra-revenue account and is recorded by a reduction of revenues and a credit to the allowance. Subsequently, any write-offs deemed necessary are recorded by a debit to the allowance account and a credit to the receivable.
Based upon historical experience, Federal grants and contract receivables are considered 100% collectible; therefore, no allowance is estimated and no adjustment is made to the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.
5. Calculation
The allowance account is adjusted at year-end based on the calculated estimate of uncollectible receivables. The estimate is based on past history and an analysis of current grants and contract receivables at August 31st. The method of calculation used is a percentage of accounts receivable. The calculation is based on the percentage of uncollectible accounts over a three year average of grants and contract receivables at August 31st.
6. Write Off of Grants and Contract Receivables
After the collection process is followed and it is determined that an invoice is not collectible, the balance is no longer considered an asset. The write off is the removal of the receivable and a reduction of the allowance account.
At year end, after reviewing the estimate for uncollectible accounts, GCFS will record an adjustment to the allowance account as necessary.
E. Cash Management Services
It is imperative that the UTSA receive all funds to which it is entitled and that the university's cash position be maximized while also adhering to federal cash management regulations. GCFS monitors the cash position of all sponsored program account. The cash position is analyzed on a monthly basis.
1. Timing of Payment Requests
OMB Circular A-110 states the following:
"…The timing and amount of cash advances shall be as close as is administratively feasible to the actual disbursements by the recipient organization for direct program or project costs and the proportionate share of any allowable indirect costs." (OMB A-110, Subpart C, Section 22 (b))
Funding methods and reimbursement requirements vary according to the terms and conditions of the grant or contract.
For cost reimbursable projects, monthly invoices are either computer generated or, if agency-specific forms are required, invoices are prepared manually
Generally, federal funds are requested either by Letter of Credit or Cash Request forms
For fixed price projects, a payment schedule is negotiated with the sponsor.
To minimize the time between the transfer of funds from the federal government to the UTSA and the expenditure of those funds, the following practices apply:
As a general rule, the UTSA requests payment after funds have been expended, i.e., on a reimbursable basis rather than in advance of expenditures.
The billing system and the letter of credit determinations are based on expenditures posted to the grant accounts. Both systems eliminate accruals from the accounts to be requested.
Although Disbursements and Travel Services schedules payments to vendors based on the terms of the invoices (e.g. net 30), payments to be charged to sponsored program accounts (26 accounts) are not scheduled but are paid as soon as the required paperwork is processed.
2. Interest Payments
Despite efforts to insure that funds are not drawn in advance, it may happen that the UTSA receives federal funds for a particular program prior to the expenditures being incurred. An example of this is the U.S. Department of Defense contracts for which a payment schedule is provided and adhered to by the sponsor, regardless of the timing of expenditures. Another example would be the receipt of Direct Loan funds from the U.S. Department of Education versus the release of those funds to the students.
If federal funds are on hand prior to expenditures, an interest liability may accrue. The potential for the accrual of an interest liability on federal grants and contracts is identified by GCFS. The information is forwarded to the Office of Accounting which monitors cash deposits and posts accrued interest on a monthly basis.
In coordination with the Office of Student Financial Aid, the Office of Financial Services tracks the potential accrual of interest on the Direct Loan Program.
If required, interest over the amount of $250 per year is remitted to the appropriate federal agency at the close of the federal fiscal year.
F. Cost Accounting Standards
The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) has issued four cost accounting standards for colleges and universities.
These standards are:
Consistency in Estimating, Accumulating, and Reporting Costs.
Consistency in Allocating Costs Incurred for the Same Purpose.
Accounting for Unallowable Costs
Cost Accounting Period.
For additional details, see FMOG – Accounting for Cost Sharing.
G. CASB Disclosure Statement (DS-2)
The Federal government requires a Disclosure Statement of cost accounting practices from any institution of higher education that receives $25 million or more in sponsored agreements. Universities must demonstrate adherence to cost accounting standards as stated in OMB Circular A-21.
The DS-2 outlines the cost accounting practices that the university follows or proposes to follow. UTSA submitted a Disclosure Statement to the Department of Health and Human in September 2008.
H. Cost Sharing
Cost sharing is that portion of a sponsored project's costs not borne by the sponsoring agency. Either the UTSA or a third party may contribute cost sharing to a sponsored agreement.
OSP will:
Inform GCFS if an award includes cost sharing and provide the cost sharing source account.
Provide the written authorization from the account holder allowing GCFS to initiate the budget transfer.
Monitor and document that the cost sharing has been met.
GCFS will:
Create the cost sharing account and inform all concerned parties.
Report cost sharing to the sponsoring agencies upon receipt of documentation from OSP.
Terminate cost sharing accounts at the same end date as the associated sponsored program account.
For additional information, see FMOG – Accounting for Cost Sharing.
I. Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A)
GCFS coordinates the preparation and submission of the UTSA's F&A Cost Proposal to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Rates are expressed as a percentage of modified total direct costs (MTDC). By definition, MTDC excludes equipment, capital expenditures, patient care costs, tuition remission, rental costs of off-site facilities, scholarships and fellowships as well as the portion of each subgrant and subcontract in excess of $25,000.
The current F&A Agreement covers the period September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2015. Current rates are:
Research - on campus – 47% MTDC
Other Sponsored Activities - on campus – 35% MTDC
All Programs - off campus- 26% MTDC
F&A revenue is recorded into a designated fund on a monthly basis as earned. The calculation and posting is automated through the DEFINE system.
On an annual basis, F&A is allocated as specified in a Memorandum of Understanding for the Distribution of Facilities and Administrative Indirect Cost Recovery, (MOU) signed by the Vice President for Research, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Business Affairs. GCFS also assists in the preparation of the Annual F&A Report to recap the uses and amounts of funds distributed pursuant to the MOU.
J. Financial Reporting
GCFS is responsible for submission of financial reports to outside agencies for all grants and contracts that are set up as sponsored programs. Financial reporting requirements and due dates for projects vary based on the specific terms and conditions of the sponsor, e.g. monthly, quarterly, based on the achievement of milestones or annually based on the project's budget period. Internal statistics and reports are generally based on the university's fiscal year.
The basis for all financial reporting is the DEFINE accounting system. The submission of accurate financial reports and invoices is necessary to minimize negative outcomes such as:
Loss or delay of renewal funding due to the failure to meet sponsor reporting requirements.
Increase of uncollectible receivable amounts due to the late submission of financial reports.
Even for accounts with unresolved allocability issues, financial reports will be sent no later than the final due date. When appropriate, GCFS will address any unresolved issues through a revised report.
Reporting includes:
Formal financial reports to sponsoring agencies per the terms and conditions of the award.
Quarterly reconciliation reports to the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation.
Expenditure reports to the Department of Education via the G5 Payment System.
Reports to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Annual Survey of Research Expenditures
Research Development Fund Certification
National Science Foundation Academic R+D Survey
Data requests from the UTSA community
Performance Indicators for the Legislative Budget Board
Annual Financial Report
K. Fiscal Year End Accounting
The following summarizes specific year-end accounting activities conducted by GCFS:
Deletion of closed accounts.
Balance Forward process for continuing accounts.
Preparation of schedules for the Annual Financial Report.
Confirmation of pass-through funds with other agencies and institutions.
Accounting Adjustments, e.g. Deferred Revenue, Unbilled Accounts Receivable.
L. Program Income
The UTSA is accountable for program income generated from sponsored program activities. OMB Circular A-110 defines program income as "…gross income earned by the recipient that is directly generated by a supported activity or earned as a result of the award."
Examples of program income are:
Income from fees for services performed.
Usage or rental fees charged for use of facilities or equipment.
Funds generated by the sale of commodities developed by the project, e.g. tissue cultures, cell lines, etc.
OMB Circular A-110 also outlines the uses and restrictions associated with program income. Program income earned during the project period is retained by the UTSA and must be either:
Added to the funds committed to the project to further eligible project or program objectives.
Used to finance the non-Federal share of the project or program.
Deducted from the total project or program allowable cost to determine the net allowable costs on which the Federal share of costs is based.
If the awarding agency does not specify how program income is to be used, the third bullet above applies automatically to all projects or programs except research. For awards that support research, the first bullet above applies automatically unless the awarding agency indicates otherwise.
The UTSA must account for program income using the same rules that apply to Federal grant funds. GCFS must be informed whenever it is determined that program income will be generated. GCFS will determine the appropriate method of accounting for the income and establish accounts to record the income.
GCFS will include program income in financial reports as required by the awarding agencies.
UTSA Handbook of Operating Procedures, Chapter 9.32, Sponsored Program Administration
UT System Administration Policy Library, Series UTS 142 - Accounting Policies
UT System Administration Policy Library, INT 152 - Cost Transfer Policy
UT System Administration Policy Library, INT 153 - Time and Effort Management and Reporting Policy
UTSA Sponsored Program Operations Guide
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21 (revised 08/31/05) includes Appendix A – CASB's Cost Accounting Standards
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-110
None at this time.
Revised the Facilities and Administrative (F&A) rates, effective September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2015.
Revised Section E. Cash Management and added subsections 1 and 2. Removed "Cognizant Agency" entry from Definitions section. Conducted consistency edits throughout document.
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to latest ADVD BJH "Once Again", to the possibilities of re-issue on DVDA old EMI/Angel quadraphonic catalogs
condition of huge quantity of the product with at least 9 out of 10 garanteed demand.
Audio BD still a niche within niche and big labels, oriented on the mass product, wouldn't be soon in hurry to switch from
convinient formats to something new. my guess those couple of releases on BD - nothing else but a testing of future possibilities.
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just sent my email to emi ca - looking forward to this and replacing my cd4 version.....
Silver Greyhound....see you in the air...
Quick ?. Why are we sending emails to "EMI Canada"? Shouldn't we be sending them to EMI UK?
The Ian Anderson Interview (2011)
In September, there's a collector's edition of the Aqualung album being released by EMI, which I just finished working on in conjunction with Abbey Road studios. An engineer has remixed the album very nicely in 5.1 surround as well as stereo, so the collector's edition will have the original mixes, the remixes, the 5.1 mixes and about 11 bonus tracks, including some outtakes from the album, which we were able to find amongst the old tapes stored at Abbey Road studios these days.
Will the 5.1 mix be on SACD or Blu-ray?
It's not on Blu-ray. It will be released as a pack with a CD and DVD. We only just finished this in the last week or two. Believe it or not, I have a CD of the remixes sitting on my desk that arrived a couple days ago, but I only got back a couple of days ago from a Latin American tour. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but I will to do that tomorrow morning. I listened to the final mixes, but I haven't heard the actual mastered versions, which had been put into the final trim at Abbey Road studios.
Hey, we're making some headway!
Got some more feedback from EMI Canada. The Director of New Media replied to say that they have started a file; are passing everything along (presumably to EMI); and to keep the comments coming.
You are not going to happy come Sept if you get a Dolby or DTS 5.1 Aqualung. Let 'em know that you want dvd-audio. Send your comments here:
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Yes, I sent a DVD-A request also....a format that is still 'universal' for most of us here. Did I read that posting correct about their U.S./Canada tour?? I didn't see any venue East of Chicago! Or did I miss flipping a page somewhere? Even my wife was a fan back in the day and would like to see them live.....John
I just sent EMI a note stating most buyers of 5.1 music demand DVD-Audio, Bluray Audio or SACD...I figure why not give them a choice as to acceptable formats.
If you haven't yet sent them a message, please do so to keep this thing moving.
If they do end up doing it in the DVD-A format I hope they include a DTS 24/96 track for those of us without DVD-A playback capability[so we at least get something close to hi res quality].
No I only sent the one about the possibility of Blu ray.
Sent mine off too... asked for DVD-A MLP and a DTS 96/24 track.
Told them please don't leave us hanging with just Dolby!
Hope it works!
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Someday we'll all sing together.
Q/A: Jethro Tulls Ian Anderson sets the recording straight Aqualung put them on the international map
June 16, 2011
by Jeff Melton and Scott Steele
This week, venerable English rock legends Jethro Tull return to Eugene and Portland playing outdoors at both Cuthbert Amphitheatre on Thursday, June 16th and Edgefield on Friday, June 17th. They will play their classic 1971 album Aqualung in its entirety, in honor of its 40th anniversary. Bandleader Ian Anderson has been busy both with Tull and with his own solo performances, and the local appearances of the band are the first since the late nineties.
OMN was lucky enough to chat with Anderson earlier this month.
Do you remember the last time you were here in Portland?
Ian Anderson: I think I was there doing an orchestral concert, wasnt I?
Right, that was last year. And the last time Jethro Tull was here?
Id have to look it up to tell you. You know better than I do.
Jethro Tull was last in town in 1998 and now youre going to be playing all of Aqualung live, is that right? Is it true that Tull has never played the entire album live?
No, they played it back in 2005 and 2006 in a few concerts both in the USA, mostly on the East Coast, and some dates in the UK. But its only been done in a few shows, and this is the first time in your part of the country that we have played all of the tracks together.
For this particular tour, were there songs that were harder to relearn than others?
Not really. We often play Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, and My God those have been featured in Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson shows for forty years. Theyve been constant visitors to the set list. Some songs, like Mother Goose are quite frequently played, and some songs like Hymn 43″ and Slipstream have hardly been played at all. Wind Up hasnt been played for a long time either. They are okay songs, but the ones I enjoy the most are the classic three. Theyve been good songs to feature live and in my solo concerts with orchestras, string quartets and so on.
The word has already leaked out that the surround-sound mix for Aqualung is going to be coming out very shortly, in the next couple of months, right?
Its scheduled for September release by EMI as a collectors edition with all the remixes, the original masters, some bonus tracks, and some alternative recordings of a few songs that were uncovered from the original master tapes. So, its a big project. Its three months in the making were just finishing the artwork now, and we should be ready to release it in September.
Were you there to help supervise some of the remixing? Is this the first time youve met and worked with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree?
Thats correct.
So what do you think of his prowess of as an engineer? Have you heard the King Crimson remixes that he did?
No, I havent. Steven Wilson did a very good job hes a little younger than me, but he has an avid interest in some of the classic albums of that era. His approach is very sympathetic and very respectful to the original presentation. Hes given it a lot more sonic clarity and more authority. Now it sounds a lot punchier and a lot cleaner for the digital age.
The sound is an improvement from the rather muddy mixes which resulted from working in a studio that was very much an untried and untested room with terrible acoustics and equipment problems. It made it a bit of a nightmare to record the original album. So its good that Steven Wilson had a chance to revisit all that in a way that would fill me personally with some horror, to have to go into the studio and start work on something like that again, even with fresh ears or after all that time. Apart from which Ive been on the road doing concerts a lot. So I wouldnt find it very easy to fit it in time-wise anyway. But then hes done a very good job.
Once the remix process started, were there any specific corrections that needed to be made before you settled on a final mix that you were happy with?
You have to remember that these tapes are very old tapes. When you are working with old tapes, chances are youll have a bit of a tradeoff. You can tidy things up, you can clean some things up with contemporary digital technology; however, its true to say that some of the oxide will have been lost from the tapes, from playing and just age. Some tapes are really too old and too fragile to work with safely. You have to bake them in an oven to try and get everything to glue to the backing of the tape again, and you have to try to keep the oxide intact long enough to give it a couple of passes to get some high-fidelity, professional-standard, digital copies made. In the case of Aqualung and indeed Thick as a Brick, I made one-to-one tape copies of those about fifteen years ago. So we actually have backup multi-track tape copies, as well as the original tapes.
Watch Thick as a Brick at Madison Square Garden in New York City in October 1978:
That is very good foresight on your part!
They were the only two I actually took the trouble to do, but it was definitely worth doing in terms of having some contemporary tape stock with those with the material copied one-to-one in the analog tradition. It was worth it. Im pretty confident. Some of the very old tapes are actually in better condition than the tapes from the late seventies and early eighties, at which point tapes were becoming thinner and theoretically of better quality; they in fact were very fragile, and some of the worst tape stock is actually from the early eighties. That was a bad time for certain batches of tape. But going back into the late sixties and early seventies the tape was much thicker. Because of the thickness of the tape, there isnt as much tape on a reel, so you didnt have as much playing time per reel. That was kind of good because of the quality of the tape. It was more solid, more resilient, thicker tape, and the oxide stuck to it better. Then tapes got thinner in order to put more tape on a reel and get more playing time.
Stand Up was a wonderful record. The surround-sound mixes you got of the Carnegie Hall gig were excellent, and the fact that you were able to restore the entire gig and its running order is very wonderful. So thank you very much for doing that.
We were pleased with that one too.
Ive got one question about the Stand Up reissue. The packaging is great and the miniaturization is really cool, but theres no lyric sheet included! There wasnt one there originally, but it would have been nice to have that.
It would have been nice to have had it, but luckily in this day and age all you have to do is to Google search, and they will then appear in alphabetical order. Sometimes the lyrics will have the odd mistake in, but I use those websites a lot. It goes a lot quicker and faster. If I have to relearn a song I havent sung in some time, and I need a quick lyrical cue, then I just pop online and print out something off the Internet, and then reword it if I have to, if they have made some mistakes. But its a quick and easy way of getting the lyrics in an editable form, so I use those sites all the time. I wouldnt worry about that which is not on the album, theyre not on the original as you say, and when were trying to do these re-masters and re-presentations, its very much about trying to stay close to the original; true to the original design work and original concept of the album, both in terms of the artwork and packaging and in terms of the music.
By chance are you going to sing the original lyrics for My God?
Well, that song was actually performed live many months before it was recorded. The original lyrics, whilst it might be amusing to sing them, are not the lyrics that most people know. So Im going to attempt to stick with the one that was the recorded version.
Watch My God live in 1970 from the DVD Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle Of Wight 1970:
How much did your first wife help you with the lyrics of the Aqualung album?
Thats a touchy subject that I really dont want to get into. It was based on some material which she provided. It was one of the very rare attempts to have a joint effort in writing any music, let alone lyrics. Im a loner. I like to work alone, but once in a while you try to do something with other people musically or, on this very rare occasion, sometimes lyrically. I think she remembers it a little differently to how I do.
How important was American FM radio in 1971 to get the album tracks played in America to set the tone for the popularity of the album?
It was incredibly important. Its interesting to note, however, that Aqualung, was a fairly universal success story for Jethro Tull, putting the band on the map internationally, was successful in a lot of countries where there was no radio play at all. I think it was by word of mouth, by reputation and by approach of the fact that it was talked about. It had a place in the subculture of music, at least as far afield as the ex-USSR countries, the Latin American countries, and in some of the more Latin countries of Europe like Italy and Spain. In these places, Aqualung is a big album without getting any radio play. In fact in the UK it hardly got any radio play and we still dont today.
So yeah, it was important in America, because that was the medium and that was the culture. But it certainly managed very well without radio exposure in other countries. I think Aqualung probably contains two or three songs that have had a lasting impact and are still played on radio today. I think thats why the album over the years has become a benchmark of Jethro Tulls singer/songwriter kind of music as well as its full rock features.
Was the band already headlining in the US when that album came out?
Jethro Tull was headlining in 1969 in some smaller venues. But in 1970 and 1971 we were able to venture into the larger theaters and by 1972 into larger venues, into sports arenas and so on.
When I was in Denver last night at Red Rocks Arena, I noted that Jethro Tull first played at Red Rocks in 1970 and again a year later in 1971. So we were the headline act at a venue associated with, I suppose, the good and the great of American and British rock music over the years. I guess we were doing okay back then just as we were last night, to have a lot of people sitting in a place that has played host to U2 and Bob Dylan and pretty much everyone who has ruled the planet and sold a few million records.
I think the importance of Aqualung as an album was that it wasnt just about having a short-term or even big out-of-the-box success. It had the effect of consolidating our music up to that date, and it took us on just to that slightly higher level, not only in the USA, but in most of the major markets in the world. It really put Jethro Tull on the international map.
I think its important. Not that its important to people in America, because in the US, you dont have the culture of thinking globally in the way that in Europe we tend to do. Its rather like Formula One doesnt really exist for Americans though its the international popular form of motor racing, in the US it doesnt exist at all. We have to accept that America is really quite a unique and totally different place with a totally different sort of culture and values regarding music and entertainment. We obviously want to cross over, but its its own world with its own identity. I think long ago, the British and a few European acts realized that America is a very special place to be successful and to perform in, but you cant compare it to any other markets, partly because it has a huge tradition of rock radio which is really just not paralleled in any other country that I can think of.
Classic rock is a comfort blanket to a generation.
Youve got that right!
As people say, its the soundtrack of our lives, and of course, thats what its about. But sadly, it tends to be driven by advertising. Increasingly, as far as being representative of the different artists and their catalogs, its going to be just those few songs that get all the plays on their small playlists, and very rarely do radio stations and their jocks have their freedom to go a little deeper into the catalog.
Watch Locomotive Breath live in Chile from 2007:
Terry Ellis, your old manager at Chrysalis, was quoted in Prog Magazine as saying that Aqualung was his favorite Tull record because it struck a really good balance between acoustic and electric pieces. Would you like to comment?
It was at the point when I was feeling a little more confident to sit in the studio on my own and get some music onto tape without the other guys being around. So there are quite a few tracks that were recorded really around the vocal and guitar parts. I mean songs like Wondering Aloud, Slipstream, and Mother Goose, and Cheap Day Return. They are rather more like singer/songwriter kind of acoustic songs.
The other guys would be involved in overdubbing their contributions to the master track that I put down. That was the way of getting that kind of intimacy. I thought that everything revolved around the master vocal and master guitar part. I didnt like to add my vocals on afterward. They were always one of the main ingredients.
One of the things that was interesting about Wondering Aloud was that I sang and played it twice, and I think it was the first of the two takes was the one that was declared to be the master, and we overdubbed string quartet, too, whereas take two has some piano playing as well, but no strings. It is interesting that there is just the two takes, both with the relative master vocal recorded live. We decided to include the version without string quartet, just as it was recorded live.
So are there any completely unreleased pieces that you are putting on the Aqualung reissue?
There was really nothing that has never been released. Ive been all through the catalog in years gone by. If it had not been released, there were a few incomplete songs that were just doodles. Maybe there was just a demo put down, but they are not complete songs, just incomplete backing tracks. The men at EMI were kind of hankering after putting one of those incomplete ideas out just for the fans, and I said No. Thats a bit like getting out of bed in the morning and being photographed for a fashion magazine, bleary-eyed, in your underwear. Its not for public consumption. Its a private moment involving us all to the point where you go, This doesnt work. Especially when these bits are not very well played, it doesnt serve the reputations of the musicians when you are just fooling around in the studio with an idea that doesnt go anywhere. I have to draw the line somewhere, and Ive drawn it pretty firmly a long time ago with a few pieces of music that were incomplete and could be subsequently given some degree of completion. Like on the I forget what it was called . . . it was an album I did back . . . it was Nightcap.
Oh, right, the bits and pieces record! Fans of A Passion Play were very happy to be able to hear the precursor of that.
Yeah, well, thats it. There was some of that stuff that was sufficiently well played and sufficiently well formed, and even if there were songs that had not yet had lyrics written to them, there was a melody. Some melodic flute additions were made to the original backing tracks, just to give them something to make them worth listening to. But there are relatively few of those around, and theyve all been released by now in one form or another.
Are you planning anything of a similar nature for the Thick as a Brick anniversary?
Its a bit early to talk about that now. It will be a little while before I turn my attention to that one. You can ask me again in December or early January and I might be able to answer your question. At the moment Ive got a little work to do between now and the end of October when we finish our tours this year.
You were recently quoted as saying that you listened to Roy Harper and that he was a bit of an influence on you. Which albums of Roys do you like?
Roys music was becoming very involved he was also a little bit under the influence of people like me, and Jimmy Page and some of the Pink Floyd people, we had a kind of a mutual admiration society going on. We respected and enjoyed each others work and saw it as being a source of if not a direct source, a sort of an inspirational source. Roy was very much infatuated with the idea of being in a rock and roll band, whereas some of the folks who were in rock and roll bands were interested in becoming lonesome troubadours who could get out and entertain with just an acoustic guitar and a pair of long trousers. You always like the idea of what other people do.
But Roy was getting a little bit more involved as a musician at that point, and though I think he did some great tunes at that point, it was his earlier work that appealed to me. A really good set of tunes appeared on Come Out Fighting Genghis Smith that came out in the summer of 1968. That was the first record that impacted upon me, although I knew something of Roys reputation, because he came from the same patch of northern England that I had come down to London from.
Are you planning to do any more recordings like Rupis Dance, recording and touring with that kind of material and approach?
The answer is probably yes, because I do lots of different kinds of concerts outside of the Jethro Tull framework. So when Im not doing perhaps the more mainstream rock material, I might work with an acoustic lineup, a string quartet, an orchestra, special guests, whatever it might be. I tend to do a lot more specifically different things when I go out on tour most of the year, and relatively few concerts these days that are specific to Jethro Tull.
For example, this September I have a bunch of dates in the UK just as a trio, just me and two guys. Thats a way of stripping things down to a pretty basic and sometimes different way of doing the music, because without bass and drums, you have to think more about the way you convey the tune with a rather simpler arrangement.
As of October, its going to be a string quartet in the late year, which will be more acoustic oriented, but well have some of the rock arrangements, albeit done in a slightly different not hugely quiet, but I get to do a lot of different kinds of things, whether it is acoustic stuff or rock stuff. Its part of what I do for fun. I get to dabble in a number of areas of music outside of the more rigid and rather, I suppose, anticipated format that comes with doing gigs with Jethro Tull, especially in America, where Jethro Tull tends to be more synonymous with a classic rock band. Those songs that perhaps have had the most impact on the widest cross-section of the American public, whereas elsewhere I guess Jethro Tull is probably thought of more as a folk-rock band rather than very simply a rock band.
Anyway, very nice to talk to you but I must move on.
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Are there are limits to how far Apple's share price can fall?
FORTUNE -- "Run for the hills!" a reader e-mailed yesterday, "because its going to get ugly. $400 by April 2013, $270 by next fall ... almost inevitable."
He continued: "Zabitsky's target of $270 was dead on, just early on the draw."
That's a reference the advice of ACI Research's Ed Zabitsky, who set a price target of $270 a share last January and famously advised his institutional clients to sell Apple (AAPL) short just as the stock was beginning an eight-month, 68% run from $420 to $705.
I've been getting a lot of e-mails like that lately, and seeing similar sentiments -- although not always that extreme -- expressed on CNBC, Seeking Alpha and even mainstream business publications such as, ahem, Forbes.
A lot of investors are wondering how low Apple can go in the wake of the sell-off that took its share price from over $705 in September to less than $523 in Thursday's trading -- a 26% drop. [UPDATE: It fell below $506 in late-morning trading Friday.]
Apple has had worse sell-offs in the past. In 2002 it fell 41% in the space of four months. During the 2008 fiscal crisis it fell 45% in just six weeks.
But there are limits to how far Apple can go today. For one thing, it's sitting on more than $121 billion in cash and marketable securities, or nearly $130 per share, with zero debt. It's also paying, at today's stock price, a 2% dividend. And by its own conservative estimates, it expects to sell more than $52 billion worth of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macs this quarter.
In a note to clients Thursday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty laid out her bull, base and bear cases for the stock. We reported on the first two cases yesterday. Here's her bear case:
"Apple begins to cede market share to Windows 8 in mature markets and lower-priced solutions in emerging markets. Single-digit revenue growth and lack of continued gross margin expansion limits EPS growth. P/E multiple is depressed at 11x due to growth and competitive concerns. Price target: $495."
I supposed Ed Zabitsky and my doomsday correspondent could be right, and Apple could fall all the way to $400 or even $270.
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GPS Discussion / Re: Open Street Map?« on: August 11, 2013, 12:21:33 pm »
The first thing to make clear is that this is NOT a general purpose routable map, as it's specifically tuned for bicycling, and should not be used for automotive routing. (The best bicycle routes come when you tell this to use automotive routings.) Routing for faster time favours cycle tracks, while routing shorter distance takes you on cycle friendly (ish) roads if cycle specific options are out of the way. This carries over in other ways, in that a POI search for the "automotive service" will return nearby bike shops. Searching by address seems to work fine on my Dakota 20. Initial tests looks good, at least where the OSM data are good. But again, when I find problems with the OSM data, I can apply a fix, directly.
This encoding seems to be similar to that described by the Velomaps site, too. I've built OSM data using the Velomaps encoding (started before he started offering any options for North America), but that's slow and kludgy compared to getting this OpenFietsMap encoding, and in my limited testing, the OFM encoding seems to be working better.


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Tyrik S. Haynes, 19, of Middletown, is being held at the county jail on $1 million bail after being charged with first-degree attempted murder and weapons offenses by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. Haynes is accused of stabbing a Keansburg woman 12 times at the Middletown Bed, Bath and Beyond on Thursday.
Alleged Ramsey Mobster 'PapaSmurf' Accused of Running Trash Scam
A reputed local mobster known as "Papa Smurf" could face nearly two centuries in prison after he was charged Wednesday with conspiring to grab control of the waste management industry in New York and New Jersey. The mob-targeted federal sweep netted a dozen others.
Ramsey resident Carmine Franco, 77, is a known associate of the Genovese Crime Family, federal law enforcement officials said.
Two East Rutherford residents are facing carjacking and kidnapping charges for allegedly holding a 71-year-old woman at gunpoint at a Parsippany parking lot and then stuffing her in the trunk of her car.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a Hurricane Sandy relief package totaling $50.7 billion. Local lawmakers battled House Republicans for months, who claimed the relief aid was filled with government "pork."
Montclair State Reverses Student's Suspension Over Online Fat Jokes
Joseph Aziz, a 26-year-old student from Weehawken, was suspended by Montclair State University after posting YouTube videos in which he called a fellow student "fat." The university later reversed its ruling.
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A 17-year-old Newark youth was arrested Wednesday after he fired several rounds from a shotgun and aimed the weapon at a police officer, the Newark Police Department claimed.
Deptford Firefighter Admits to Arson
A 23-year-old firefighter from Deptford, Michael S. Petrilak, pleaded guilty to setting a house on fire in January. He testified that he and co-defendant Lewis Brooks Jr., 20, used gasoline to set a vacant home on fire. The pair will make restitution payments.
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John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
The university will hold graduate commencement ceremonies at 2:00p.m. and 7:00p.m.
Graduate students check in and line up for the Academic Procession in the Engleman
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Bill Laimbeer shot 3-pointers like a forward, played center like a center
In his bullets last week, Henry Abbott wrote about Bill Laimbeer's 3-point shooting:
Bill Laimbeer is known as one of the NBA's real 3-point shooting big men. But he hardly shot any for the first several years of his career. And while shooting a lukewarm 33 percent, over his entire 14 years he made 202 — plenty of players have made more than that in a single season. So, how'd he get that reputation? I'd guess it's simply that back then nobody appreciated the 3 as much as they should have, and hardly any big men used it at all. So he stood out. But today, all kinds of players, big and small, shoot it more and better.
Yes, Abbott praises Laimbeer's outside shooting, but his tone indicates a bit of, let's call it skepticism, about whether Laimbeer deserves his reputation as 3-point sharpshooter. As far as Abbott's point about all kind of players shooting 3-pointers more and better today, there's no doubt that's correct. But I still think he sells Laimbeer short.
Abbott correctly notes Laimbeer was slow to embrace the 3-pointer. Laimbeer, whose NBA career began one season after the 3-pointer's, didn't make any 3s his first and fourth seasons and didn't attempt many in between. But after that, Laimbeer became an average 3-point shooter at a time centers were decidedly below average 3-point shooters.
When Laimbeer retired, just three centers had made more than 40 3-pointers – Brad Lohaus, Jack Sikma and Laimbeer. Since then, no center has passed him in career 3-pointers. Not a single one.
As much as players have gotten better at shooting 3-pointers, centers haven't made much progress. Who's the best 3-point shooting center in the game today? It's a fairly challenging question. Try naming your top three. You'll have to include someone you don't feel comfortable listing – either because he doesn't shoot from distance well enough or he might be considered forward.
Just 148 centers have ever made a 3-pointers. For perspective, 148 forwards have made at least 140 3-pointers, and 148 guards have made at least 381 3-pointers.
Why haven't centers improved at 3-pointers
Short answer: stretch fours.
Among players 6-foot-10 or taller, only Tom Chambers, Lohaus and Sikma made more 3-pointers when Laimbeer retired. Now, Laimbeer ranks 30th in career 3-pointers among players 6-foot-10 or taller. If you're tall and can makes 3s now, teams play you at forward.
People talk about a time when men were men. Well, Laimbeer played center when centers were centers.
Of the 29 players 6-foot-10 or taller who've made more 3-pointers than Laimbeer did, none had a higher career rebounding percentage. Just three – Derrick Coleman, Terry Mills and Mehmet Okur – weighed more.
No offense to a pair of fine Detroiters, but that says more about Coleman's and Mills' struggles with keeping their playing weights reasonable than anything else. They certainly didn't use their bulk to play as strongly as Laimbeer did, especially Mills, whom a friend of mine calls the heaviest shooting guard in NBA history.
That leaves Okur, sixth-best rebounder on the list, as the only player who can make a legitimate case as Laimbeer's heir apparent to the center/3-point shooter throne. But Okur's interior defense doesn't hold a candle to Laimbeer's.
In every respect besides his 3-point shooting, Laimbeer looked and played like a center. As long as this trend toward stretch fours continues, don't expect anybody to resemble him anytime soon.
I'm not sure whether Laimbeer was ahead of his time, because if he was, time still hasn't caught up. That's why Laimbeer deserves recognition as a 3-point revolutionary.
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by Laser
few issues here, some you touched on.
1) PF and C have become pretty interchangeable these days. and you're not likely to have two goliaths on the floor who are both strong outside shooters, so the guy who isn't won't likely be called the center. you touched on this, but it bears repeating.
2) this probably has more to do with roles than anything. you need big men to be inside, rebound, box out, do the dirty work. when your bigs are camping out on the three point line, they can't do that stuff. and when the pistons tried to throw positions and roles out the window, they started to suck. if i have three or four reliable shooters on the floor, i'd rather have a big guy banging down low (TWSS).
3) off the top of my head i was instantly thinking of channing frye, then bargnani. i thought of ryan anderson after a second. in my defense, i don't know if okur's even played a game more recently than sheed has, but i slapped my forehead when i settled on those other guys as my 3. other than that, none stick out. though i haven't exactly put much thought into it. probably all goes back to my first two points.
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I won't salute the flag, or stand during the anthem, am I unpatriotic?
I absolutely refuse to bow my head in public prayer, pledge allegiance to or salute the flag, I won't stand during the national anthem, and I refuse to wear a Chinese made flag lapel pin. Am I less deserving of America's grace? Should I leave it? Just because I don't get teary eyed or goose bumpy at the sight of the flag wafting in the breeze, is there something deeply wrong with me?
Now, when I hear Ray Charles singing 'America the beautiful', I do indeed get all teary-eyed, is there hope for me?


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HARRISONBURG, Va., April 12, 2013 – After splitting a doubleheader with Virginia Tech on Wednesday, the James Madison softball team continues its seven-game homestand by hosting in-state rival George Mason for a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series at Veterans Memorial Park this weekend.
JMU has won 13 straight CAA games, including a 9-0 start to this season. It is tied for first in the league with Delaware with four conference series remaining for each team. Hofstra is in second place with a 7-1 mark and hosts Delaware in Hempstead, N.Y. this weekend.
Madison stole five bases on Wednesday against Virginia Tech after coming into the weekend ranked first in the country in steals per game. The Dukes are averaging 2.87 steals per game and have stolen a school-record 109 bases in 127 attempts. They are succeeding at a 79.6-percent clip during the year.
Senior center fielder Jasmine Butler (Winter Garden, Fla./West Orange) leads the team with 32 thefts in 34 attempts, ranking fourth in the country in steals per game. Sophomore left fielder Morgan Heath (Yorktown, Va./Grafton) is second on the squad and 76th in the nation wit 16 steals.
JMU also ranks 23rd in the nation in earned run average at 1.82 and 24th in batting average (.313). Six Dukes are hitting better than .300 on the season led by sophomore utility Sarah Mooney (Huntersville, N.C./North Mecklenburg). Mooney is hitting .387 and leads the team with 10 home runs and 41 RBIs. She is three RBIs shy of tying Jenn Chavez's (2005-08) school record for RBIs in a season. Freshman pitcher/first baseman Jailyn Ford (Hot Springs, Va./Bath County) is hitting .380 with nine home runs and 30 RBIs.
In the circle, both Ford and sophomore right-hander Heather Kiefer (Potomac Falls, Va./Potomac Falls) rank in the top 41 in earned run average. Kiefer is 12th in the country at 1.13 while Ford ranks 41st at 1.59. Ford also ranks 11th in the nation in strikeouts per seven innings (9.7), 12th in shutouts (six), 15th in hits allowed per game (4.21) and 48th in wins (15) and strikeouts (149).
The Dukes are 6-2 at home this season with a 3-0 mark in CAA play at home. They have not lost a conference game at home since losing both ends of a doubleheader to Hofstra on April 21 of last season.
The Patriots enter the weekend with a 12-27 overall record after going 3-1 in non-conference play this week. They swept a doubleheader from Hampton on Tuesday before splitting a pair of games against Maryland on Wednesday. Last weekend, Mason was swept at home in CAA play against Delaware dropping them to 2-7 in the league. Overall, the Patriots are 3-7 away from home, including a 2-6 mark in true road games.
Shortstop Brooke Blankenship paces the George Mason offense, hitting .319 with 13 doubles, one triple and two home runs. The sophomore leads the team with 28 RBIs and is tied for second with 14 runs scored. Infielder Megan Blank is hitting .250 with 19 RBIs while outfielder Julia Czarnecki leads the team with 20 runs scored. Czarnecki has stolen six bases in six attempts and outfielder Tiffany Webb leads the team with eight steals in nine attempts.
Anna Blessing is the team's top option in the circle. She leads the team with a 1.99 ERA, but is just 1-5 in nine games started. Casey Herring has a team-best 49 strikeouts in 60 2/3 innings. She is 3-6 with a 3.46 ERA.
Joe Verbanic is in his ninth season as the Patriot head coach. He owns a 109-246 record with the team.
JMU and GMU have faced each other 34 times dating back to 2002 with the Dukes leading the all-time series 24-10. Madison has won seven straight in the series and 17 of the last 18. All-time Madison is 9-6 in games played in Harrisonburg and 3-0 at Veterans Memorial Park.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are set to visit the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight at the Consol Energy Arena. The Penguins have yet to win at home this season and get another opportunity to erase that stat tonight against a Leafs team that is hoping to remain undefeated. Jonas Gustavsson will get his first start between the pipes according to Sportsnet.


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In this suspense drama, Doctor Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) is a premiere surgeon who's scheduled to operate on the President (James Naughton). She's thrust into a political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by a rogue FBI agent, Duncan Carlisle (Dylan McDermott). He orders her to assassinate the President by causing his death on the operating table.
Carlisle's highly skilled accomplices include his brother-in-law Kramer (Rhys Coiro), whose loyalty to Carlisle will be tested; quick-tempered and intimidating Archer (Billy Brown), an ex-military man with a razor-sharp tongue; and the only woman involved, Sandrine (Sandrine Holt), a mysterious last-minute replacement to the team.
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Luella Secrest
Luella M. Secrest, 89, formerly of Mendon, died at 7:10 a.m. June 26, 2007, at her daughter's residence in Montezuma.
She was born Jan. 12, 1918, in Freyburg, to Edward and Ida Schneider Scheblo. On Nov. 23, 1940, she married Lloyd D. Secrest, who died April 11, 1993.
Surviving are two sons, Dale and David, of Mendon; six daughters, Connie (Paul) Gates, Rockford, Louise (Daniel) Toler, Montezuma, Carol Zizelman, Shirley Brandon, Sharalene (Lester) Flore and Lois, all of Celina; 17 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; 11 step great-grandchildren and three step great-great-grandchildren.
Deceased are four sisters, two brothers, one half-brother and three sons-in-law.
She was a homemaker who also assisted with the family farm and was a member of Mercer United Methodist Church, Mercer.
Services are 1 p.m. Friday at W. H. Dick & Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Home, Celina, the Rev. Kenny Baker officiating. Burial is at Liberty Chapel Cemetery, Liberty Township.
Calling is 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Contributions can be made to the Cancer Association of Mercer County.
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