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Hi All,
the attached VI is the Model predictive control that I am trying to develop. I have three inputs (one manipulated and two measured disturbances). I have got my model from system identification. The model is discrete. I am just trying to tune it but could not do it properly. I am just wondering is there any problem with the model (as the D matrix is not zero, I have to make it zero for MPC or not? )or there is anything else wrong?. The limits on my inputs are; for input 1 it is from 0-210, for input 2 it is 10-60 and for input 3 it is 0-1500. The second and third inputs are measured disturbances so we can't manipulate them in order to get the required output (I think we can set up this in weight matrix). The output has range of 20-60. I want my output to follow the refrence output for example 40, but it does not happpen....
@barp. Andy C. please have a look.
Please advise.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Hi Muhammad
Thanks for using the forums!
I have had a look at your code and it seems that you have set this up correctly. Which would suggest that there could be an error in your model.
I can't claim to be an expert in MPC design although there is a pretty comprehensive application in the Example Finder (Help » Find Examples...); navigate to Control and Simulation » Algorithms » "CDEx Model Predictive Control for MIMO.vi". There are a further 3 examples within Control and Simulation » Control Design » MPC.
Hope this helps!
Dear Peter,
Can you please send me that example. I am using LABVIEW 2010 and I dont have that example. Also What Kind of error my model can have??
Kindest Regards
Hi Muhammad
I have attached a zip of a few of the stock examples which should be added when you install the Control Design and Simulation Module. Try navigating to "<root>\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\examples\Control and Simulation\Control Design\MPC" - there should be lots more examples there.
I'm not sure what problems there could be with your model. If you are using the System Identification Toolkit then there could be some issues in your code there, could you post that?
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your quick reply. I cant open the VI for MIMO as it in 2011, I have 2010. Also Attached is the VI that I used for my system identification. Just to let you know that my system has one manipulated variable and two measured disrurbances. I have considered my disturbances as inputs when I was doing system indetification. Is that the right way to do it?
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Hi Muhammad
Sorry about that, the MIMO example is attached for LabVIEW 2010.
I am unsure if you are supposed to consider your disturbances as an input when developing your SS model. I have done my best to read up on the subject, although I have not had any luck!

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- Posted by mangojoe_1975 Guatemala (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 18:04
|http://www.pitplants.com/newsletter/2004_spring.pdf Second page "Common Causes of Citrus Leaf drop..." Read that and if it doesn't help you, ask away. Also, you can do it. I have seen it done hundreds of times.
|I had Manila mango fruit in the mild summer SF bay area...that tree has been through alot and survives. And it bore fruit in a 14-16" pot..about two dozen. The good part is-they are sweet. They arent like some other tropical trees in cool climates that fruit but dont taste worth the effort.
|Joe - Once the colder months are upon us, I will surely have to go back to this site and learn how to acclimate my tropical fruit trees appropriately. Thanks for the link and the encouragement. I cannot wait to taste my first container-grown mango!
stanofh - I think it's very admirable that you got fruit out of your potted mango. This is very high on my to do list! What happened to it? I would love to see pis (if you have any).
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Have you thought about growing other fruit trees than mango? There are many nice Eugenias that grows well in pots, like E. neonitida? This one fruits in 2-3 years from seed, and can take a few degrees of frost.
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|I am in the same situation. Living in Pennsylvania but growing tropicals indoors/outdoors in containers. Just do your research so your not wasting time and money on these plants - some do better than others in this less-than-ideal environment.
|boson - Thanks for the offer but I don't do well with seeds. Also, I've been spoiled with 2-3' mango and lychee trees.
tj11240 - I've been combing through the older posts and googling just about everything that has to do with growing potted mango and other tropical fruit trees in less than ideal conditions. I wouldn't call it 'wasting time'. I'd rather to think of this as a fantastically fun adventure.
|Bo- soon you will see my experience...lol. They will have to stay in containers forever....unless I move to CA or FL....hehehe
|Kristy - You've done an excellent job with your june plum, sugar apple and other tropicals. I think your mangoes will do well under your care too. As a matter of fact, I am really glad you got a mango! I can't wait to hear your experience and compare notes...lol
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|Stanofh, could you give us some advice on fruiting potted mangos? I'm very interested in what soil mix and fertilizer you used, is in fact you did use any.
And like Bo said, some pics would be great.
|yaslan - I only meant 'wasting time' in the sense that some plants can take a decade to fruit, not produce in containers, or are not self-fertile. Any of those outcomes would be disappointing.
|tj11240 - This is true. Thanks for clarifying.
- Posted by mangojoe_1975 Guatemala (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 18:58
|For growing indoors, I have used 1/4 perlite, 1/4 vermiculite, 1/4 right potting medium with peat and 1/4 sand. It's light and will dry quickly.
|I added a Manila mango to my potted collection because of Stan's high regard for it and his good experience with it that he posted on other threads. Like him, I too want a sweet mango when ripened indoors or with marginal heat. But, my guavas are horrible in my weather - just insipid with lots of woody seeds.
I have the manila mango in a pot with perlite, pine bark, peat and potting soil in equal proportions. It is putting out new growth now. I will know in a few years what the fruit tastes like.
|mangojoe_1975 - Thanks for posting your potting medium. It sounds like a great mix and works well.
ashleysf - Great to hear you got a Manila Mango! How long have you had it? Also, I'd love to see pics of your tropical treasure.
|stanofh - Thanks for sharing your pics. I am sorry to hear you lost your 2nd Manila to root virus or gophers. Do you have any potted mangoes currently? If not, then will you try again?
|I bought a Baley's Marvel last mid summer at 3',now its up to over 4' and would be taller-but last summer the fast vertical growth took me by surprise-so I pinched it. So,it's over a foot taller and with branching now. It takes cooler weather is true,having put out a late winter flush,and held all its green foliage.I did garage it two nights in Dec, when we had an arctic front drop temps to near freezing. Other than those two nights-its taken all the rest,wind, rains ,cool. The problem is-will it ever fruit? I know Manila do,Baley's is still a question mark.
- Posted by nancyanne_2010 Z 8 (My Page) on Mon, May 24, 10 at 21:11
|Not growing mangoes but have vanilla orchids, cocoa (Theobroma cacao), pineapple, cloves, cinnamon (C. zeylanicum), blue lilly pilly, capers, dragon fruit, bananas, coffee, and several others in containers - seattle area. May be moving to Wisconsin soon (Z 5) and will take most with me.
|nancyanne_2010 - Tell me more about your cacao and coffee plants. Any luck getting production out of them?
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Enteroendocrine cells are specialized endocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas. They produce gastrointestinal hormones or peptides in response to various stimuli and release them into the bloodstream for systemic effect, diffuse them as local messengers, or transmit them to the enteric nervous system to activate nervous responses.[1][2] Enteroendocrine cells of the intestine are the most numerous endocrine cells of the body.[3][4][5] In a sense they are known to act as chemoreceptors, initiating digestive actions and detecting harmful substances and initiating protective responses.[6][7] Enteroendocrine cells are located in the stomach, in the intestine and in the pancreas.
Intestinal enteroendocrine cells[edit]
Intestinal enteroendocrine cells are not clustered together but spread as single cells throughout the intestinal tract.[8]
Hormones secreted include somatostatin, motilin, cholecystokinin, neurotensin, vasoactive intestinal peptide, and enteroglucagon.[9]
K cell[edit]
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L cell[edit]
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Enterochromaffin cell[edit]
Enterochromaffin cells are enteroendocrine and neuroendocrine cells with a close similarity to adrenomedullary chromaffin cells secreting serotonin.
Gastric enteroendocrine cells[edit]
Gastric enteroendocrine cells are found at stomach glands, mostly at their base. The G cells secrete gastrin, post-ganglionic fibers of the vagus nerve can release gastrin-releasing peptide during parasympathetic stimulation to stimulate secretion. Enterochromaffin-like cells are enteroendocrine and neuroendocrine cells also known for their similarity to chromaffin cells secreting histamine, which gastrin stimulates.
Other hormones produced include cholecystokinin, somatostatin, vasoactive intestinal peptide, substance P, alpha and gamma-endorphin.[9][10]
Pancreatic enteroendocrine cells[edit]
Pancreatic enteroendocrine cells are located in the islets of Langerhans and produce most importantly the hormones insulin and glucagon. The autonomous nervous system strongly regulates their secretion, with parasympathetic stimulation stimulating insulin secretion and inhibiting glucagon secretion and sympathetic stimulation having opposite effect.[11]
Other hormones produced include somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide, amylin and ghrelin.
Rare and slow growing carcinoid and non-carcinoid tumors develop from these cells. When a tumor arises it has the capacity to secrete large volumes of hormones.[2][12]
See also[edit]
- ^ Rehfeld, Jens F. The New Biology of Gastrointestinal Hormones" Physiol. Rev 78: 1087–1108, 1998
- ^ a b Solcia, E; Capella, C; Buffa, R; Usellini, L; Fiocca, R; Frigerio, B; Tenti, P; Sessa, F (1981). "The diffuse endocrine-paracrine system of the gut in health and disease: ultrastructural features.". Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology. Supplement 70: 25–36. PMID 6118945.
- ^ Ahlman, H; Nilsson, (2001). "The gut as the largest endocrine organ in the body.". Annals of Oncology. 12 Suppl 2: S63–8. doi:10.1093/annonc/12.suppl_2.s63. PMID 11762354.
- ^ Schonhoff, SE; Giel-Moloney, M; Leiter, AB (June 2004). "Minireview: Development and differentiation of gut endocrine cells.". Endocrinology 145 (6): 2639–44. doi:10.1210/en.2004-0051. PMID 15044355.
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External links[edit]
- Enteroendocrine cells at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Histology image: 11604loa - Histology Learning System at Boston University - "Endocrine System: duodenum, enteroendocrine cells"


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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Smitten and Simone
Smitten, the country dog is in love with the County.
Simone, the city dog, waits for the warm couch.
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On the ground
The grass on the property is all flattened and partially covered with snow and over the bare patches, there is frost.
Shacks and huts
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Doubt is thick before this young soldier's surgery even begins. The military medical staff have seen dozens of men like him everyday and all through each night. When the soldiers come around after days of powerful pain medications, many take the reality of amputation as an end of their life. Amputee soldiers are often sent home emotionally broken, spiritually empty, and unable to move beyond their traumatic losses. The doctors and nurses go through the motions each time desperately trying to save their physical life, knowing many soldier's spirits die before they ever get to the OR table. Hope is hard to find among their hospital beds.
When this young Marine awoke after days of recovery his first words were to thank all the staff profusely for saving his life and then he paused to thank God for guiding their hands in his healing. The startled staff carefully repeated the severity of his injuries and the extent of his loss thinking he had not understood. He replied that he already knew how bad he was hurt when he was put in the helicopter. He knew this might happen. "God was with me and got me this far," he explained to the nurses wondering when the news would really hit him. Instead of the blank stare and overwhelming grief the nurses were used to, this soldier grinned at them saying, "I'm still living and that's something, isn't it?" It was gratitude that poured out of him, not sorrow or lament or despair. He was grateful to the staff for keeping him alive, to keep his promise to his wife that he would get home and meet his unborn child. The staff marveled at his positive outlook and his determination. They wondered at his hope in the face of such loss.
When Christ came to Mary and Martha, weeping and lament were already in the air. Jesus himself wept with the mourners over Lazarus, sharing in the grief and feeling the weight of this loss. Then Jesus did the unthinkable. He called Lazarus out of the darkness of death and back into light of life, commanding him "Lazarus, come out!" Death seems an insurmountable obstacle to the onlookers but in Christ death is not the final word. The promise of life in Christ is not only an eternal kingdom but full life in the here and now. In the raising of Lazarus, we find hope for life, for transformation, and for resurrection in our time.
Living in hope is living in resurrection. This young Marine's determined spirit despite his devastating loss is a profound reminder there is life beyond loss. There is life abundant if we but chose to grasp it. In Christ, we can imagine a new world of wholeness and healing, a world in which the lost are found, the lame walk and the dead live. In Christ, we are called to imagine a world with resurrection – resurrection in the lives of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.
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Creating a Gate from a Marker
To create a Gate from a Marker on a 1D plot:
|Press the Page 2 tab from the Layout Navigation Toolbar (lower left of the window). You will see a blank histogram and dot plot on that page.
|Select the Home→Editing→Select All command to select all plots.
|Select the Data→Change Data on Selection→Select command.
|Select the file ApoMono.002 located in the Tutorial Sample Data archive.
|Press Open on the file dialog to accept the file choice.
|Click and hold down the mouse button on the X-axis label, (FSC-H), of the histogram.
|Scroll the mouse to choose FL2-H as the new X-axis label.
The histogram should now look similar to Figure T4.11.
Figure T4.11 Histogram with Marker
|Right-click on the histogram to bring up the pop-up menu.
|Select Convert Marker to Gate→Marker #1 (M1) →Convert and Link from the pop-up menu (Figure T4.12).
Figure T4.12 Convert Marker to Gate
A dialog will appear asking you to name the gate.
|Enter "Marker Gate" in the Create a new gate named edit field.
|Press OK to accept the name.
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COLUMBIA — Leslie Francis Pike, a long-time Columbia Daily Tribune employee, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at The Bluffs Nursing Facility. He had recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
He was born Jan. 4, 1910, near Indian Creek, Mo. to John Leslie and Mary Opal Green Pike. In 1932, he graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism. He had been the oldest living graduate.
Mr. Pike was married to Mary Winifred Anthony for 51 years until her death. He later married Clara Marie Wiedmeyer.
He worked at the Tribune for 75 years, as a writer and circulation director. He wrote columns, such as "Mid-Missouri Memoirs," and also wrote several books. He was president of the State Historical Society and a member of the Boone County Historical Society.
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The director Guillermo del Toro loves creatures. Big, squishy mutants and dreamy monsters. Otherworldly tentacled zomboid beasties. He's a master at creating them, a talent that I would not hesitate to call childlike; it's also a gift well-suited to our era. Del Toro can win awards for a highbrow Night Gallery episode like Pan's Labyrinth, with its fantastical images and fascism-is-bad message, and he can then turn around and make a hard-driving psychedelic action-movie fantasia like Hellboy II: The Golden Army, about a domesticated devil hulk and his superfreak comrades.
In Hellboy II, del Toro pushes his fetish for all things weird and shape-shifty to the extreme; he makes us feel childlike, too. You can taste the ripeness of his imagination when you see the new addition to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense team: a German scientist named Johann Krauss, who consists entirely of...gas. (He lives in a robot suit, to give the fumes some form, and his voice is provided by Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane, for that hint of Hogan's Heroes kitsch.)
Hellboy (Ron Perlman), the stogie-sucking demon of a crime fighter, with his sawed-off underworld horns and mighty stone edifice of a giant right fist, is now plunged into a cosmic culture war. An ancient race, led by the pasty scoundrel Prince Nuada (Luke Goss, in a performance that suggests Marilyn Manson played by Tilda Swinton), has declared a holy war on all of humanity. To achieve his apocalyptic vision, Nuada must gather the three sections of a mystical crown, which will activate the Golden Army, a phalanx of clanking medieval robots, each with a chest cavity full of glowing industrial fire.
That's quite an image of sinister magic, and Hellboy II has a lot more of them. The plot is really a fancy excuse for del Toro to keep forging his close encounters of the squirmy kind. New York gets attacked by a giant plant-monster (it has the head of a praying mantis and vines for limbs), which would have looked right at home in a '50s atomic-schlock horror film, and in Ireland there's a warlock gatekeeper who reveals a face that's a blade of flesh as well as wings speckled with eyes, an image to give Salvador Dalí pause. The film's digital-effects artists deserve props, but what makes a creature feature like Hellboy II so much more exciting than, say, The Incredible Hulk is that del Toro's inventions don't just have ''attitude.'' They have temperament. Their personalities seem to have emerged right out of their skewed, fairy-tale-on-acid physiognomies.
That's true of the movie's heroes as well. Hellboy, with his skin the color of tandoori chicken, has a red-hot temper to match, and Perlman, who's even funnier more grumpily assured than he was in the first Hellboy, has mastered a tone of self-deprecatory wise-guy blues; if you can forget how he looks, he sounds like George Clooney after a rough night. Hellboy's sad comedy is his deep-down normalcy the fact that no one sees past his facade. No one, that is, but Liz (Selma Blair), the outwardly normal girl who loves him because she's got some major hellfire of her own: She ignites like a human cigarette lighter, and Blair, glaring through those orange flames, lets you know that she's as angry as that fire is. Abe Sapien, the epicene British gill-man played with courtly grace by Doug Jones, has been given a love interest the evil prince's twin sister (Anna Walton) which only heightens his anachronistic pained delicacy. When he and Hellboy sing a lonely, drunken duet to Barry Manilow's ''Can't Smile Without You,'' it's a priceless moment, because it's really tweaking the hidden torment of every superhero in history.
The Paranormal Research and Defense team is basically a kinkier version of the X-Men crew or the Fantastic Four, but in Hellboy II their collective oddity familiar though it is has an appealing, outsize grandeur. If the movie's plot is mostly comic-book boilerplate, del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly, whether he's choreographing an onslaught of skittery, spidery face-huggers or tracing the rhythmic, thrusting assault of flying swords. The Golden Army dazzles like something out of Jason and the Argonauts. To make a comic-book fantasy this derivative yet this dazzling requires more than technique. It takes a director in touch with his inner hellboy. B+


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Beyond Empire: A Just U.S. Foreign Policy
Here's what we are thinking about for the summer issue of YES! Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
In the latter part of the 20th century, the U.S. moved into an increasingly powerful empire role. After the fall of the USSR, it became the sole superpower, the largest military spender, by far, with close to 800 foreign bases and a mammoth stockpile of nuclear weapons. We also have among the highest per capita rates of consumption of the world's resources, and the U.S. is increasingly placing itself above international law.
In the presidential debates, the candidates and parties differ about foreign policy. But none of them is questioning that the U.S. will continue its imperial course.
This issue of YES! begins with the premise that the American empire cannot last much longer:
- It is fast moving beyond the means of the American people. The U.S. can no longer sustain the massive drain on its resources of maintaining two foreign wars, pork-barrel weapons systems, hundreds of foreign bases. The under-investment in human, social, capital and infrastructure at home is undermining our security.
- The rising oil prices (and limited supply), coupled with the rapidly expanding reach of the Chinese economy and competition for energy and raw materials, are constraining our economic dominance.
- The loss of stature of the U.S. in the wake of the Iraq occupation has undermined the international legitimacy of the U.S. empire.
If the U.S. empire can't be sustained, what comes next? An economic collapse as overreach comes home to roost? A hand-off to other power-centers (China/India/Russia or the E.U.)? All-out war as we attempt to protect our global dominance?
Can we imagine instead that the U.S. leads the way to a post-empire world?
What would it mean to voluntarily step back from empire and join the community of nations? In particular:
- What is our real source of security? Multi-million dollar jet fighters designed for air battles with the USSR? Or sustainable energy technologies widely shared and locally controlled? A generation of veterans and civilians traumatized by the occupation of Iraq? Or populations with reliable access to education and health care, food and water? Garrison states, with secrecy as official policy and limited civil liberties? Or transparency, rule of law, rights for all?
- Can we be secure with a military that is at the same scale as those of other wealthy regions, such as the E.U.? What will it take to unlearn what we've been taught about being under siege?
- Can we dismantle our nuclear stockpile, as recently proposed by Kissinger, Shultz, and other former cold warriors (and by peace advocates for many years), and keep our promises in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to rid ourselves and the world of the existential threat of nuclear weapons?
- How can our economy thrive without the economic stimulus of massive military spending and without the privileged access to the world's resources that comes with super-power status? What resources would be released, and how might that build the foundations of a strong, sustainable domestic economy?
- How can we change our trade policies so migration is less driven by the economic disruptions brought about by NAFTA, CAFTA, the IMF, World Bank, and corporate domination? What is our fair share of the world's resources, and might living within our means reduce the impetus for a global military presence?
- How do climate change, peak oil, and other signs of a "full planet" affect the future of international relations?
- How can our policies help unlock the Israel-Palestinian stalemate, instead of perpetuating it? What can we do to under-cut the causes of terrorism, rather than spending billions and compromising democracy at home and abroad to counter a relatively small group of violent criminals?
- How can we end the occupation of Iraq and prevent an attack on Iran?
- How can we support nonviolent grassroots power to counter tyranny (in other words, how can we support real democracy), rather than supporting despots friendly to the U.S. to counter leaders who aren't? When is outside assistance constructive?
- How can the diversity of cultures complement each other and enrich everyone's lives rather than set the stage for violent misunderstandings.
- How does the trauma of one war set the stage for the next round of violent conflict, and are there ways to interrupt and heal this deadly cycle of trauma?
- How can ordinary people get involved in creating foreign policy through their cities, states, or tribal governments and through citizen-to-citizen diplomacy?
We are especially interested in creative responses, diverse voices, and a variety of forms of articles (essays, profiles, stories, poems, info-graphics).
Please query asap, and before sending submissions: editors [at] yesmagazine.org. Include the number 46 in the subject line.
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Chick-fil-A Continues Donating to Anti-LGBT Organization
September 20, 2012 by HRC staff
Post submitted by Dan Rafter, Former HRC Associate Director of Communications
It's time to talk about Chick-fil-A again.
Just days after the fast food chain reportedly agreed to cease donations to groups that promote discrimination, the Advocate is reporting that just this Tuesday, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy tweeted a photo from an event raising funds for an anti-LGBT group, the Marriage and Family Foundation.
In speaking about the revelation, HRC Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz said: "Chick-fil-A can't claim to be turning over a new leaf while simultaneously funneling thousands of dollars towards a group that does not acknowledge the dignity and respect of LGBT people….This issue is not – nor has it ever been about – whether a particular organization supports marriage equality. It is about the fact that Dan Cathy's personal views are leading to corporate dollars being used to prop up groups that demonize and spread malicious falsehoods about LGBT people. Americans can agree upon the values that make our country great – fairness, respect, and dignity for all. There are a number of organizations that work to promote these types of values. Unfortunately, Chick-fil-A is continuing to support organizations that do not reflect mainstream American values."
In addition to being out-of-step with most Americans, Chick-fil-A's current anti-LGBT donations are simply bad for business – and this summer's earlier controversy adversely impacted their brand. According to According to YouGov's BrandIndex, Chick-fil-A's perception with consumers dropped from a 65– nearly 20 points above the national average for other fast food chains – to a 39 in the week after Dan Cathy's proud and very public embrace of his company's anti-LGBT practices.
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With budget cuts and tradeoffs being discussed among the naval community at the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space gathering this week, Congress is set to examine the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan. When the Obama administration unveiled new strategic guidance for the military that emphasized the importance of the Asia-Pacific to America's enduring interests, many assumed that the Navy and Air Force would reap the benefits. But the president's budget proposal for 2013 shrinks and ages both of these services and their fleets of ships and aircraft.
Like the administration's new guidance, the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel also recognized the importance of the Pacific, stating that "the force structure in the Asia-Pacific needs to be increased." However, the bipartisan commission recommended increasing the size of the fleet to 346 ships and investing in new capabilities to counter anti-access technologies, for example.
The new plan shows a fleet averaging a size of roughly 298 ships over the next three decades, down from 306 ships in a plan the administration released only six months ago. The new plan kills the Navy's long-standing goal for a 313-ship fleet, the size considered the floor by the last CNO.
The Navy's smaller fleet will also be an older one because the new plan also builds fewer ships. Whereas last year the administration planned to build 57 ships over the next five years, the current five year build rate is for 41 new ships.
Two trends exacerbate the older and smaller fleet of today. With reduced construction, the Navy is planning to extend the service lives of select surface combatants in order to keep the fleet from shrinking beyond an acceptable limit. The problem is that the Navy is relying on unrealistic lifecycle estimates for its surface fleet. In order for the plan to work as hoped, cruisers would need to be funded and maintained to stay in service for 35 years and destroyers for 40. These estimates are fantasies. The Navy is currently retiring seven cruisers over the next two years with an average age of just over 20 years. Current cruiser retirements are a full 15 years earlier than the magical new service life assumption found in the latest shipbuilding plan.
Compounding these challenges is the possibility that the Navy may not build as many ships as it hopes. That is because the 30-year shipbuilding plan estimates that the Navy needs to spend $16.8 billion annually on shipbuilding, but the current budget only allocates $12.7 billion a year for this account through FY 2017. What the Navy is effectively advertising is that the "check is in the mail." The promise of future investment is a defense budgeting trick as old as the FYDP. But the new shipbuilding plan emphasizes retiring existing ships from the fleet over new construction in the near term, retiring seven more ships over the next five years than it builds.
Either the Navy is retiring these ships too early or its lifecycle estimates are hopelessly optimistic. But service leaders cannot have it both ways. Similarly, the administration cannot realistically "pivot" to Asia—a region defined by the "tyranny of distance"—and cut the fleet at the same time.
Mackenzie Eaglen is a resident fellow at AEI. She is testifying about the Navy's 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee this afternoon. Click here to watch her testimony live at 2:30 P.M.


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TrustCo To Release Third Quarter Results On October 22, 2012; Conference Call On October 23, 2012
GLENVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TrustCo) (Nasdaq:TRST) today announced that it will release third quarter results after the market close on October 22, 2012. Results are released on the 21 st of the reporting months (January, April, July and October), or on the next day that equity markets are open if the 21 st falls on a weekend or holiday. A conference call to discuss the results will be held at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on October 23, 2012. Those wishing to participate in the call may dial toll-free 1-877-317-6789. International callers must dial + 1-412-317-6789. A replay of the call will be available until January 24, 2013 by dialing 1-877-344-7529 ( 1-412-317-0088 for international callers), Conference Number 10019368.
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UW-Eau Claire
News Bureau
Schofield Hall 218
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Community Leaders Elected to International Honor Society
(715) 836-4741
(715) 836-2900
MAILED: April 27, 1998
EAU CLAIRE -- Tina Emerson Russell, Eau Claire, and Nancy Goldberg, Marshfield, have been elected to membership in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Russell and Goldberg were inducted as community leaders through the Sigma Theta Tau chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Sigma Theta Tau International is a prestigious organization of nurse leaders, scholars and researchers. The honor society, founded at Indiana University in 1922, currently has 356 chapters at more than 400 colleges and universities in Australia, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. The society has more than 230,000 members who live in 73 countries.
Membership in the society is awarded to bachelor's, master's and doctoral nursing candidates who achieve high scholastic averages, and to graduates of nursing programs who have made outstanding contributions to nursing as community leaders. Individuals inducted as community leaders have demonstrated marked achievements in areas such as education, practice, research administration or publication.
For more information, call Dr. Audrey Bryan at (715) 836-4991.
[Administrative Offices]
[News Bureau]
Janice B. Wisner
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 218
(715) 836-4741
Updated: April 27, 1998