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Do we need so many and such well-paid generals and admirals?
Summary: In today's post guest author Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) asks some hard questions about the senior ranks of the US officer corps. The military is the most trusted institution in America, and so has successfully resisted most efforts to reform it — or even slow its growth. Will this change in the future? Tomorrow's post looks at this in more detail.
- Guest post by Richard A Pawloski
- About the author
- How many flag officers work for defense contractors?
- How many officers do we have vs the past?
- For More Information
(1) Guest post by Richard A Pawloski
(a) A rant about our senior military officers
"Form should follow function"
— American sculptor Horatio Greenough, 1852
I never saw a sign to that effect or affect on any Pentagon wall. That is as say to "influence" a design or dream ('affect) or even serve as the "result" of a design or dream ('effect'). We are doomed to our own illusions and those illusions can be lined up on the ramp of the Pentagon in order of price tag and not one will mean anything to the threats facing us now. The total mobilization of America for WWII was over 8 million in uniform at one time with over 16 million serving during the war (413K deaths). Some 2500 generals and admirals served with under 1500 at any one time (11 KIA) and under 400 actually in combat roles. That is a lot of troops for one star.
Numbers from 2005 to 2010 numbers show that the total US armed forces + DoD + reserves has capped under 2.4 million, but during that time the total numbers of flag officers has gone over 1600 with under 500 properly accounted for in force structure. The ratios of serving soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen to flag ranks has gone from ludicrous to ridiculous and it continues to skyrocket the costs of doing military business. Israel does with 2 cents what we do with a Buck 25.
However deep you want to go and look at it we are at least some three times overpopulated with generals and admirals. Now they have gravitated into their own political entity pointed towards post retirement jobs. Do they really hold up any part of the system that actually defends the United States anymore or are they as totally biased by potential gains or perverted by deliberate incompetence as the rest of the military-industrial complex is?
What drives them is beyond my understanding, but its not the welfare of the armed forces or the security of the United States. Their greed and self-serving is only exceeded by that of corporate America. There are good ones out there, but they are muted as a force for positive change today.
To cut that flag force by 25% would be a good first start for the Pentagon after the cliff is reached. The total savings will amaze us all, probably billions of pampered waste. It should be made retroactive as it brings the benefits in line with what happens to the rest of society and especially the rest of the veterans who have been denied like benefits.
In short – with two wars miserably managed in a corporate style, what have they done for their country? Those that did make a difference, what would they say? "Cut deeper" I suspect.
I was profoundly affected during the dual thrust up the coast to Beirut and then through the Bekaa when Israeli retired general officers showed up in large numbers at aid stations taking care of the wounded and making sure mom got a note home. In the squadrons they taxied aircraft and helped with the maintenance turns. All in their pants and shorts not uniforms doing menial tasks but all the time being the force of the older generation there, on scene.
It just makes you want to cry when you walk around the Pentagon today, who wants any of these guys around you today, and for sure most avoid the chance anyway heading for their interviews. What a world we have become.
(b) A look at our officer corps
Graphics from General and Flag Officer Authorizations for the Active and Reserve Components: a Comparative and Historical Analysis, Library of Congress, December 2007
(c) Some Questions
"Top generals, admirals can make more in retirement than on active duty, report shows", Amanda Palleschi, Government Execute, 3 February 2012:
The military's top generals and admirals can now make more in retirement than they did on active duty, thanks to pension rules that were changed as part of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, USA Today reports. According to the paper's examination of congressional and federal records, a four-star officer retired in 2011 with 38 years in the military can receive a pension of about $219,600, or 63% beyond what was previously allowed. Three-star officers with 35 years' experience can receive about $169,000, or 30% higher than they would before the 2007 law was enacted.
Before the change, the maximum pension was based on an officer's pay at 26 years' of service, USA Today reports. "Pentagon officials sought to change top officers' pensions in 2003, records show, over concerns that the military would lose too many experienced generals and admirals during wartime," USA Today's Tom Vanden Brook wrote.
Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez {explained} "At the time of this legislation, with the exception of cost-of-living increases, most [of the admirals and generals] were serving for over a decade without increases in salary or retired pay. … The legislative changes provided greater incentive and more appropriate compensation of service for individuals who the department retains beyond 30 years of service, increasing readiness through increased retention" …
Perhaps we then need to review some simple facts — and questions. We need 2012 data, not estimates based on 2006 era studies and papers because the world has drastically changed in the last 7 years. There are many questions to be asked.
- Where are the congressional/CBO/GAO/etc. 2012 reports and studies regarding the cost of flag officers ? And associated retirement cost?
- Does anyone know the current number in 2012 of retired Generals and Admirals (active and reserve) drawing military retired pay?
- Does anyone know the projected number ten years from now (e.g. In 2022) of the number of retired Admirals and Generals (active and reserve) who will be drawing military retired pay?
- How many total Generals (active and reserve) retire and begin drawing retired pay each year?
- What is the projected annual cost and total cost of funding military retirement for flag officers during the next 20 years for just for the Generals and Admirals who are now retired (active and reserve) and also including those (active and reserve) who will be promoted to flag rank and also retiring during the next 20 years? This includes all associated perks and people.
- How many years, on average, does a one star active duty general serve before retiring? 3 years? 4 years?
- How many years does a 2 star general actually serve at that rank — on average — before retiring at that rank? 3 years ?
- How many flag officers actually have combat experience, that is rounds fired their way. Rifleman's Badge stuff.
- And what is his/her retired pay currently? Versus the retired pay of a Colonel/O-6?
- What is the annual current retired pay of a 3 star retiring at age 61 with 40 years of service?
In these calculations, important to also include ALL of the Reserve flag officers who also will be receiving retired pay! Try guessing to the nearest hundred million dollars. Here are some bonus questions:
- How many (or % of) retired flag officers also claim "disability" pay ? And is this additional pay in addition to normal retired pay?
- How many are awarded disability status by "grateful" SECDEF's?
- How much does a 80% seriously disabled wounded warrior marine (e.g. E-4 rank, 6 years of service, Afghanistan line of service injury) receive in disability pay from the military/VA when discharged back into the civilian world from the military?
Can it be true that no one knows the answer to these questions ?
(2) About the author
Key points about the background of Richard A Pawloski:
- Captain, USMC: 13 years. Radar Intercept Officer in F4 Phantoms, Forward Air Controller with 3rd Battalion 26th Marines, Air Liaison Officer with the 21st ARVN, Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course with the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactic Squadron
- Former Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFO) squadron VX-4/5: 2 years as test coordinator (advanced evaluation notices on SAM/AAA counter tactics)
- General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F16 Program 25 years, Fighter Weapons Training for 23 countries
- Regional VP 4 years with Satellite Imagery Co in Middle East
- Professional staff member, House Armed Services Committee: 2 years
- Now: Defense Consultant on Force Protection Issues, Forest Air Dragoons Ltd., 9 Seagrave Rd., London
(3) How many flag officers work for defense contractors?
Post-Government Employment of Former DOD Officials Needs Greater Transparency, 21 May 2008 — Summary:
Department of Defense (DOD) officials who serve in senior and acquisition positions and then leave for jobs with defense contractors are subject to the restrictions of post-government employment laws, in order to protect against conflicts of interest.
… In 2006, 52 contractors employed 2,435 former DOD senior and acquisition officials who had previously served as generals, admirals, senior executives, program managers, contracting officers, or in other acquisition positions which made them subject to restrictions on their post-DOD employment. Most of the 2,435 former DOD officials were employed by seven contractors. On the basis of a stratified random sample of contractor-supplied information, GAO estimates that at least 422 former DOD officials could have worked on defense contracts related to their former agencies and that at least nine could have worked on the same contracts for which they had oversight responsibilities or decision-making authorities while at DOD. The information GAO obtained from contractors was not designed to identify violations of the restrictions.
… However, GAO's analysis found a significant under-reporting of the contractors' employment of former DOD officials. … New post-government employment requirements enacted in January 2008 are likely to make written ethics opinions for former DOD officials more readily available to contractors. … This information was not designed to provide a mechanism for DOD to effectively monitor former DOD officials' post-government employment compliance after they begin working for contractors on specific contracts.
(4) How many officers do we have now vs. in the past?
Lots more. A mind-bendingly larger fraction of officers, especially senior officers, than effective military services of the past.
- PowerPoint presentation by Donald E. Vandergriff (Major, US Army, retired) on Officer Manning: Armies of the past.
- Officer Inflation: Its Cost to the Taxpayer and to Military Effectiveness, Officer Inflation: Its Cost to the Taxpayer and to Military Effectiveness, Project on Military Procurement, October 1987
- More Brass, More Bucks: Officer Inflation in Today's Military, Project On Government Oversight, 1 March 1998
- Important: "General and Flag Officer Requirements", testimony of Ben Freeman (Project on Government Oversight) before the Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Personnel, 14 September 2011
(5) For more information
Two articles discussing this problem:
- "Generals Wary of Move to Cut Their Ranks", New York Times, 26 August 2010
- "The Pentagon's Biggest Overrun: Way Too Many Generals", Dina Rasor, Truth-Out, 5 January 2012
Government Reports discussing the problem:
- General and Flag Officer Requirements Are Unclear Based on DOD's 2003 Report to Congress, Government Accounting Office, April 2004
- DOD Could Make Greater Use of Existing Legislative Authority to Manage General and Flag Officer Careers, Government Accounting Office, 23 September 2004
See these FM Reference Pages for all posts about our military:
- America's military, and our national defense strategy
- An Army near the Breaking Point – an archive of links — See Section III: about the Army's ability to attract and retain good people
Other posts about the skill and integrity of our senior military leaders:
- The Core Competence of America's Military Leaders, 27 May 2007
- The moral courage of our senior generals, or their lack of it, 3 July 2008
- Careerism and Psychopathy in the US Military leadership, GI Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired), 2 May 2011
- Rolling Stone releases Colonel Davis' blockbuster report about Afghanistan – and our senior generals!, 12 February 2012
Thomas More permalink9 September 2012 4:32 am
Excellent point. Broadly speaking, the degeneration in the tooth-to-tail ratio of the U.S. military is a serious problem. During WW II the tooth-to-rail ratio was 1:1, meaning one support personnel for 1 soldier in the field. That ratio has today slid down to 2:1, meaning two support guys for every 1 soldier in the field. And the problem is particularly acute the higher you go.
Moreover, America faces the same problem with higher education where administrative personnel have increased by 60% in just the last 20 years and in K-12 education (up from 50% of staff to 70% of staff in schools today). The pay for fire chiefs and police chiefs is also mind-boggling out of line. Even small towns now typically pay their police chiefs north of one hundred thousand dollars.
Consider campus police officer Lt. Pike, he of the infamous pepper spraying of the Occupy demonstrators at UC Berkeley. The guy was getting a hundred thousand dollars a years. One. Hundred. Thousand. Dollars. That's more than a full tenured professor at most colleges!
Robert Kozloski permalink9 September 2012 12:06 pm
Many have written on this topic since SECDEF Gates included the GO/FO problem in his 2010 efficiency efforts. However, to make any significant changes, the infrastructure that supports three decades of growth must be reduced.
G-N added a separate layer of bureaucracy, largely staffed by senior military officers, onto the existing staff of the military services. I address this problem in the latest issue of the Naval War College Review: "Building the Purple Ford", Robert P. Kozlowski, Naval War College Review, Autumn 2012.
FM Note: from the article:Mr. Kozloski is an efficiency analyst for the Department of the Navy. Prior to this current position, he served as a program manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency and Department of Homeland Security. He is a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs.
Bluestocking permalink9 September 2012 2:14 pm
I think it would be interesting and worthwhile for someone to do a historical study on the pay received by top-level officers in the military over the past four decades (if it hasn't been done already). My theory is that you'd find the pay for generals and admirals began climbing sometime in the mid 70's.
Why do I think this? Because that's around the time when the military eliminated the draft and private-sector subcontractors began performing many of the jobs that used to be performed by soldiers, which is probably also around the time that the defense budget began to grow out of all proportion since private industry is not governed by the rules that apply to the military when it comes to pay. As Thomas More has already pointed out, the ratio of combat personnel to support personnel used to be 1:1 during WWII when many if not most support personnel were military — these days, however, the ratio of combat personnel to support personnel is more like 1:2 and many if not most support personnel are civilian contractors. (Speaking as someone who briefly worked for a governmental subcontractor, part of the problem lies in the fact that we're no longer just talking about subcontractors to the military, but subcontractors to the subcontractors and so on — because the longer you make the supply chain, whether it's for materiel or personnel, the more "middle men" there are and the more money needs to be added to the budget because everyone in that chain expects their slice of profit from that relationship.)
Granted, the government tends to award contracts to those companies which offer the lowest bids for the services needed — but the fact remains that private industry will almost certainly charge more for their services than the public sector because profit is the whole point of private industry whereas this is not true of the public sector (Indeed, the national debt is proof of the fact that the public sector can and indeed often does operate at a loss.) Of course, when a subcontractor is awarded a no-bid contract (*cough* Halliburton *cough*), there is every reason to believe that said company will overcharge for their services simply because they're able to get away with it
The reason why I suspect that the pay for generals and admirals began climbing at around the time that the Military Industrial Complex began taking command of our military is very simple. It would not surprise me at all to learn that the generals and the admirals, once they began to see how much money was being paid to the private sector, began feeling envious — especially since there is reason to believe that some of the people in the private sector were being paid more than the generals even though they were (in the scheme of things and especially from the military point of view) playing a less important role. After all, joining the military is not something people usually do when they aspire to be rich…while going to work for a private military subcontractor, especially these days, may actually be a different story.
guest permalink9 September 2012 6:26 pm
The problem looks like a widespread malady that affects other countries in pretty much exactly the same way. Witness:
- France: {article in French from Rue89 – Le Nouvel Observateur}
- Italy: {ForzeArmate.org article in Italian}
- UK: "Bonfire of the generals as 'top heavy' MoD cuts jobs", Guardian, 18 December 2011 — 700 top posts to be axed in next three years, confidential document shows"
All the issues with generous pay and benefits, leaving active service to become "consultants" to the government, or join the private sector (especially in the military-industrial complex), etc, seem to be present in all cases.
guest permalink9 September 2012 8:11 pm
Indeed, the size of the military in the USA changes the nature of the problem.
I am not aware of any study about public confidence in institutions that would give figures directly comparable to the ones for the USA. Europeans love to study public opinion, and you can find reports such as these:
France: {Science Po in french}
Italy: {Euri spes in Italian}
I quickly scanned through them — and the military is not even worthy of being listed in the institutions that people are asked to rate (which confirms your point about the singular place of the military in the USA). The police does, and is rated highly (second to hospitals in France, first in Italy). Political institutions (parliament, president, etc) score very low in both countries.
Thomas More permalink10 September 2012 1:28 am
The blogging software doesn't seem to want to let me post an alternative google docs link to Mr. Kozlowski's report. "Building the Purple Ford", Robert P. Kozlowski, Naval War College Review, Autumn 2012.
Mr. Kozloski is an efficiency analyst for the Department of the Navy. Prior to this current position, he served as a program manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency and Department of Homeland Security. He is a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs.
Thomas More permalink10 September 2012 1:39 am
To address the question from Aliens in the Family, it seems to me that Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy best explains the bloat at the top levels of the U.S. military. The Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any organization there will be two types of people: those who get things done, and those who excel at maneuvering within the organization, and over time the second group will wind up in control of the organization. In the U.S. military this means that those officers who excel at getting their tickets punched will wind up in control, rather than officers who actually excel at winning battles. Ticket-punchers naturally wish to perpetuate the organizational system that got their ticket punched because that benefits them most of all. So there you are.
With the advent of 4GW and the transformation of war as described by Martin van Creveld, the ticket-puncher have gained a definitive and perhaps permanent upper hand because there is no longer any obvious way to win battles in a 4GW world. General Schwarzkopf is probably the last American military officer who will be able to win a major battle. The results of Desert Storm (as well as the Falklands War) showed all potential combatants that pitched battles using large traditional land armies and traditional surface fleet navies are disastrous recipes for defeat/Pyrrhic victory. From now on 4GW is the way to fight, and it is not possible to win a pitched set-piece battle ina 4GW world, so ticket-punching looks like the only viable career path for a the aspiring 21st century military officer.
10 September 2012 1:50 am
This has become a very valuable forum indeed.
The excessive "numbers" of flag officers has become its own monster as this charmed community has also evolved into believing that they are entitled to enormous benefits and privileges and on top of that a guaranteed free ride to high wealth and prominence in the board rooms and senior positions throughout not only the military-industrial complex but also throughout the whole of the American corporate landscape. With the population of retired flag officers growing so fast there are now very special organizations in and out of official channels that cater to all the needs of an aspiring assemblage of retirees to ensure first that all of their clearances and special accesses are properly updated and maintained since the key to all job appointments hinges on such things.
Essentially it is the "clearances" that rule-out any and all possible competition by purist or unassociated academics who have not held or applied for such things in their former jobs. This form of exclusion drives the "over-classification" nightmare the whole country is burden with, but it should be clear now that this is really the driver as to why repeated hundreds of times during the past decades –- at least since Cheney became the champion of Halliburton while in the White House -– hundreds of just retired Colonels working under the tutelage of mentoring generals with no real business experience and even less resources could miraculously get sole-source contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars to undertake emergency activities to support the immediate needs of the forces at war paid for out of the unlimited quarterly "supplemental funding bills" (all borrowed) with minimal if any oversight just because these individuals had the clearances that would allow them to be read into the programs under invention.
If anyone would ask if the clearances were necessary you would be immediately excluded from the access for an answer. The over-population of generals made this and they used this to get themselves and their friends very rich while the wars dribbled on, troops died and were mangled, and of course what was really needed was never provided.
The case of the JIEDDO – the joint effort to combat the IED's is the one most perfect example of fraud, waste, and sheer classified over-kill to pad the pockets of thousands and employ a whole flock of retired incompetence at enormous salaries without yet providing anything that would in any way support the troops in these wars to combat the IED threat. All this serves as gifts to retired Colonels and Generals with no experience or resources but with all the proper clearances to start small companies that could bypass the procurement regulations in war time – all for the benefit of the troops – GMAFB.
Now you must realize we are only scratching the surface but you need an over-population of rank to make this happen properly and smoothly – it is a Ponzi scheme when you get to build the pyramid. It sustains itself because once you have flag rank at the top of organizations it continues to feed the whole budget of the defense establishment. Army divisions not have two general, officers, hell you then need modular large heavy components for them to account for and lead, the Navy needs big aircraft carriers because they contain an Admiral's staff, small ships would never work. And why the Marines need several four star ranks is beyond me, the Commandant should be at the most a humble combat blooded two-star. And this can go on and it – it all feeds into itself – the massive waste and overkill costing billions of taxpayer dollars with no return on investment.
I will stop with a note that I contended that the over-population of generals is the key reason we have lost the ability to win wars and on top of that, the combined blindness and incompetence of these almost politically merged flag people has created the real reason we cannot fight a COIN war properly – the failure in preparing and delivering a capable light COIN air component that would bring the 3rd dimension to all those units at the leading edge of the fighting – but this will be developed in a short time.
Dick Pawloski
Thomas More permalink10 September 2012 4:14 am
Mr.Kozlowski's report "Building the Purple Ford: An Affordable Approach to Jointness" is well worth reading. As an efficiency expert, he offers many valuable insights that would slash bloat and bureaucratic waste in the American military without damaging our military readiness.
That said, Mr. Kozlowski's report contains a remarkable passage: "For the foreseeable future, and until deficit spending and the national debt are brought under control, Defense spending will remain at the center of any serious federal budget discussion." This passages proves remarkable because to date the political reality of American debates about deficit spending and the national debt remains that neither party has seriously discussed cutting U.S. military spending as a path to debt and deficit reduction. Indeed, during the current 2012 presidential election cycle, both parties compete to see who can increase U.S. military spending faster. Barack Obama's budget delivered to the House increased military spending last year by 8% while freezing spending in all other government agencies. With a real inflation rate right now of effectively zero, that means an eye-popping rate of real increase in military spending of 8%, or a doubling time of 9 years (meaning that if continued, Obama's current military spending increases will double the real spending on the U.S. military by 2021). Mitt Romney is even more profligate, with a campaign platform which promises to increase U.S. military spending by 15%. That's a doubling time of only 5 years.
I find it extraordinary that efficiency experts working inside the military clearly see the need to reduce military spending in order to address America's current deficit and debt problems, while essentially all the politicans in Washington D.C. seem to be competing frantically to see how fast they can increase military spending. It seems as though there's a serious and shockingly huge disconnect twixt reality and policy here, and I wonder if Mr. Kozlowski has any comments about that disconnect.
It seems to me that this issue looms large because, as Chuck Spinney and William S. Lind have both pointed out, America's endless pointless foreign wars will not end until the money for the Pentagon's "self-licking ice cream cone" starts to get squeezed, and so far it hasn't.
Robert Kozloski permalink10 September 2012 1:24 pm
Mr. More,
Thank you very much for the kind comments regarding my recent article.
In my opinion, the disconnect comes from the fear of being labeled soft on defense or not concerned about national security. Special interest groups across the MICC could paint any effort to reform the current system or to reduce spending as willingly putting the security of Americans at risk or worse, not concerned about the well-being of the warfighter. The business of defense is vast with many influential stakeholders, each with a great deal to lose if there are any changes to the system. As a nation, we need to have an honest conversation about the real national security concerns facing the US today and in the future.
Another problem that I've noted is the inability to make any significant change in the DoD bureaucracy – the system is designed to defend the status quo by resisting any effort to change. Significant reform, which is sorely needed, cannot be accomplished from within the DoD. The genesis for Goldwater Nichols actually came from the nation's senior military officer admitting the system was broken and he needed congressional support to fix it. I don't see any senior military officer stepping forward and given the gridlock in congress, I doubt something similar to G-N could be accomplished today.
"War Fighters, Not Businessmen", Robert Kozloski, Defense News, 4 March 2012 — "Where Does the Line of 'Inherently Military' Fall?"
An article that you may enjoy is from Defense News on the need to clarify the role of military personnel. As of FY10, $56B/y is spent on military personnel performing commercial work. This is a simple policy change that could result in savings billions each year. Although I received very positive feedback on the article from both civilians and military, no senior official wants to challenge the current system. I think this article dovetails well with the legendary GI Wilson's work on military careerism.
Again, thanks for the comments.
Thomas More permalink10 September 2012 11:32 pm
Many thanks to Mr. Kozloski for the pointer to his other article. Absolutely astounding. I'm flabbergasted that military personnel are getting paid by the military to in effect work as businessmen. The only justification I can imagine for this practice is that perhaps American business has become so Enronized that civilian businessmen can't be trusted not to rob the Pentagon blind…


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MP State Rural Livelihood Mission 190 Various Vacancies 2013
MP State Rural Livelihood Mission – 190 Various Vacancies 2013
Aajeevika – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India in June 2011. Aided in part through investment support by the World Bank, the Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services. Under this scheme of NRLM, the State RLM's were launched.
MP State Rural Livelihood Mission
Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (MPSRLM) has issued a notification for the recruitment of State Project Managers & Support Team Members in 2013. A total of 190 Vacancies are to be filled in via this recruitment process.
Eligible candidates send their application in prescribed format available in the notification on or before 20-08-2013 at 10:30 to 5:30 PM.
Post Details
Total no. of Vacancies: 190
Name of the Post
1. State Project Manager: 01 Post
2. Support Team Member: 189 Posts
Age limit
The candidates applying for this exam must not be less than 18 years and not more than 40 years as on 01-07-2013. Tough age Relaxation is applicable as per Government rules.
Educational Qualification
The Candidates must possess
- Post 1- A minimum 55% MCA/ B.E computer science/ IT ,
- Post 2- PG/ B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Sc Agriculture/ MBA or equivalent qualification.
How to Apply
Interested candidates may send in their applications in prescribed format as mentioned in the notification with
- affixed passport size photograph
- self addressed envelope along with
- Xerox copies of all necessary documents
through Speed/ Registered post to Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (MPSRLM), 3rd floor, Beej Bhavan Arera Hills, Bhopal on or before 20-08-2013 at 10:30 to 5:30 PM.
**It is to be noted that- Last Date for Receipt of Application: 20-08-2013 at 10:30 to 5:30 PM.
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The swim is 200 yards long. Athletes will meet in the Swim Assembly Area (see course map) and be pre-staged by waves. Waves will move to the pool deck for the start of the swim. The swim will begin on the north side (the assembly area side) and will be across the 25-yard wide pool and back four times. A volunteer will count laps. After finishing, athletes will exit the pool and WALK to their right to the pool exit. Volunteers will be there to assist. There will be signage and volunteers to direct athletes to the Transition Area located in Parking Lot C immediately in front of the pool facility.
Transition #1
In the Transition Area athletes will prepare for the bike portion of the event. Helmets MUST be worn and buckled. An unbuckled helmet will result in disqualification. Bikes must be walked to the exit (Bikes Out) of the Transition Area. There will be a bike mounting area outside the Transition Area. Volunteers will be in the Transition Area and bike mounting area to assist athletes.
The bike segment is 6 miles long. The bike course is shown on the map. Athletes will follow the course out of Lot C through the east exit and turn to the right onto the campus perimeter road. The course will be marked by cones and signs. Riders will stay to the right hand side of the road. It is an out-and-back route that consists of three loops. Each of the three loops is to the one-mile point and back for a total of 6 miles. All three loops return to Lot C with the first two loops bypassing the Transition Area and the third loop ending at the Transition Area dismount location.
Lap counting is the responsibility of the athlete. Slap bracelets will be used to count laps. Riders should have 2 bracelets before returning to the Transition Area.
The one-mile turnaround point will be clearly marked and volunteers will be there to direct riders. Riders should be careful of other triathletes on the bike course.
Transition #2
Riders will stop and dismount in the bike dismount area and walk to and in the Transition Area. Helmets may not be removed until the athlete is at his/her Transition Area location and has placed the bike in the rack. The athlete will then prepare for the run segment. There will be volunteers to assist the athletes. The athlete will walk to the Run Out exit from the Transition Area and follow the cones and signs to the running track.
The run is 1-1/4 miles or five laps of the course. The track will be used this year. The course will be run in a counter-clockwise direction. Signs and volunteers will direct athletes. Caution should be used while running as there will be other runners on the course who are doing longer distances and will be running multiple laps. At the end of each lap you will receive a plastic "slap" bracelet that denotes you have completed that lap. You MUST have the correct number of slap bracelets at the finish. The finish line will be to the inside of the course through the large arch on the soccer field. Athletes will walk in the finish line chute and stay in the order that they cross the finish line. Chip timing will be used so the finishing athlete can go directly into the finish corral. The athlete will receive a participation medal and may proceed to the refreshment area.


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Brookhaven physicists and engineers are participating in one of the most ambitious scientific projects in the world – constructing, operating, doing physics analysis of the data, and upgrading a machine the size of a seven-story building that will open up new frontiers in the human pursuit of knowledge about elementary particles and their interactions.
The machine, dubbed ATLAS, is one of four facilities located at the LHC near Geneva, in Switzerland. The LHC consists of two circular vacuum pipes in which protons travel in opposite directions and collide at nearly the speed of light with a total collision energy of 14 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 14 trillion times the designed energy of an electron.
ATLAS is designed to detect particles created by the proton-proton collisions. One of its main goals is to look for a particle dubbed Higgs, which may be the source of mass for all matter. Findings also may offer insight into new physics theories as well as a better understanding of the origin of the universe.
Brookhaven is the headquarters for the 44 U.S. institutions contributing to the project (see a complete list). In total, 176 laboratories and universities around the world are involved in the ATLAS collaboration.
The ATLAS detector has a cylindrical shape with layers stacked onto each other, like the layers of a cylindrical onion. Each of the layers detects different types of particles. When particles from the accelerator collisions are produced in the center of ATLAS, they move throughout the experiment and are detected by its successive layers.


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The MTV Movie Awards has always relished a movie parody. If this leaked clip of Rebel Wilson's "never-before-seen" Magic Mike cameo is any indication of what's in store tonight, this year's show won't disappoint. In the clip, Matthew McConaughey's (only slightly dubbed) Dallas introduces "Pregnant," a baby bumped-up Wilson, to the Xquisite stage.
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Mists of Pandaria talent calculator updated {WoW}
Feb 15th 2012 4:43PM The Paladin talent tree is looking much more balanced now. There's interesting choices and compelling reason to choose talents over each other, and they're really working to remove talent synergy. The level 30 tier is still weak, weak, *wwweeeaak*. Two PvP abilities versus an actual CC? No contest here. I hope they'd be able to tweak this further so we don't have to do "PvP talent builds" anymore - we're getting awfully close with the way the talents are laid out.
Random raid factors and the high cost of failure {WoW}
Jan 30th 2012 3:20PM I remembered Sindragosa vividly because my magic was pathetic and it constantly betrayed me...
12 Days of Winter Veil Giveaway: FigurePrint Statue {WoW}
Dec 19th 2011 4:51PM need roll + role bonus
WoW Rookie: How to get back into WoW if you've not played since Wrath {WoW}
Dec 15th 2011 6:19PM Argh... this is a response to the BattleTag announcement. How the heck did this comment jump between posts...
WoW Rookie: How to get back into WoW if you've not played since Wrath {WoW}
Dec 15th 2011 6:11PM Aw well, looks like that's the nail in the coffin for the noble experiment. I for one felt that the web in general can use a little less anonymity, but vox populi, Guy Fawkes mask and all that good junk.
Officers' Quarters: Members turned poachers {WoW}
Dec 12th 2011 4:25PM I was almost overjoyed (okay, maybe that's a really bad way to describe it...) when I thought I heard the other half of this story:
But since some of the details differ, I guess it's not the exact same situation. Still, it's kind of interesting to imagine that's how the situation collides - and the funny thing is, the advice are given from two totally different perspective with different justification but essentially resolves the problem in the same way to both side's benefit...
WoW Insider's guide to Well of Eternity {WoW}
Nov 28th 2011 2:54PM I've been keeping a close eye so I don't *think* I've missed it, but was there a guide written for End Time, the first of these three instances? I know there's previews and a full video, but I like to read textual guides with ability breakdowns far more than watching blurry videos of avatars jumping around fires on the ground with sparse explanations of what's actually going on (plus, spoilers...).
Mists of Pandaria: The myth of the talent tree choice {WoW}
Oct 31st 2011 8:51PM Yes, there's always going to be the "pop music" equivalent of talent choices. That's by and large fine, if people don't want to think for themselves in the context of a game for entertainment I'm all for that...
But don't look at this second revamp as a design that removes the "right" choice as much as it is one that removes the "wrong" choices. I can literally throw darts at the talent tree and come up with a build that is viable for all but top-tier raiding or pvping. Granted it might not be the way I'd want to play the character, but it's certainly not broken in the way that not taking the +heal talent for healers can literally cripple that healer's performance, especially since all moderately difficult encounters account for the fact that you would have taken those talents already. I have... well, most talent tiers have obvious pvp choices (for those who keep asking to have a pvp build), but 2^6 is still a pretty friggin awesome number compared to 2 out of 4.
That's the whole point. I've almost always had my character builds off the cookie cutter just to get a bit of the personal flavor in, and now instead of struggling with freeing up 5 talent points for about 2 actual talents to put in,
Addon Spotlight: Addon Roulette and win a Razer Nostromo {WoW}
Oct 27th 2011 7:18PM My addons are mostly just cosmetic improvements, although I've become more and more reliant on a heavily customized TellMeWhen to handle all of my character's rotations. It's *almost* able to do everything I ask it to do. Ovale probably has even more options, but I find the coding interface super clunky (y u no autosave).
WoW Archivist: Hoaxes, imaginary content, and the unrealized {WoW}
Oct 25th 2011 4:55PM In a way, I feel kind of sad that Vengence of the Void sounds like a more legitimate sequel to WoW than Mists of Pandaria would ever be.
Are we all unsuspectingly being teleported to a parallel universe?


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18th February, 1926
(Due to arrive Melbourne-20.3.26)
My dear P.M.,
Your telegram asking urgently for the date of Sir George Buchanan's [1] expulsion from the Institute of Civil Engineers arrived at 2 p.m. on Saturday last. I spent till 8 p.m. trying all conceivable means of getting the information -but failed completely. It was a fine weekend-and you know the habits of people in this country in fine weekends. I had got and checked the original story from a man in the India Office, another in the Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and another who is a member of a leading firm of engineers. They were all three impossible to get hold of in the weekend. I tried a dozen other sources, including one that seldom fails-the Intelligence Department of the 'Times'. It appears that the matter was hushed up at the time and did not get into the Press. I had reluctantly to cable you on Saturday night that I couldn't get the information till Monday. [2]
However, the incident had its useful side as it threw me in touch with a man called Maundy Gregory [3], who promises to be most useful. He is nominally the Editor of a monthly periodical called 'The Whitehall Gazette', but is really a sort of subterranean Government Intelligence Agent, whose job is to know all about everybody and who carries out investigations of a confidential nature for the Government. I was personally introduced to him by Lord Southborough [4], who vouched for our respective respectability. I intend to cultivate him as he will be a good spare string to have to one's bow.
Lord Southborough is, I think, a first-class person. What the Americans call a 'hand-made' as opposed to a hereditary peer. Was Sir Francis Hopwood until 1917. A Civil Servant who has come right up to the top. I met him first at Lady Northcote's [5] house. She has, by the way, been particularly good to me and has provided means of my meeting a lot of people.
2. The bulk of the daily press and the weekly reviews (Spectator, New Statesman and the Nation) have come out with strong articles condemning Mussolini's Tyrol speech in the course of this last week. [6] As one of them says, the incident is an index of what he thinks of the Locarno spirit.
The press generally are also waking up to the many dangers inherent in the prospective enlarging of the League Council. The negotiations and intrigue in this direction are a good example of the back-scratching that goes on in the League. Everyone is afraid of hurting someone else's feelings in case it will prejudice his own lively sense of favours to come. Too many soft words and not enough common sense.
3. Whether or not you decide to attend the September Assembly at Geneva yourself, it would seem to me no less than essential that you try to ensure that at least as many as possible of the Dominion delegations are housed in the same hotel as the British Delegation. It is a simple measure making for ease of collaboration, which, if neglected, makes the exchange and co- ordination of views a burden. Last September was a nightmare in this connection as we were at the Metropole on one side of the Lake, and the British delegation were at the Beau Rivage on the other side. If you think well of it, it would be well worth telegraphing to Sir Joseph Cook [7] to make the necessary reservations at once in the same hotel as the British delegation.
4. One important result of the Colwyn Economy Committee's [8] recommendations was implemented at a full meeting of the C.I.D.
last week, when the rate of accumulation of oil reserves by the Navy for the next two years was very materially reduced. The Admiralty have been proceeding on a programme which would have meant the building up within 10 or 12 years of a full 12-months' supply for the Navy in active naval warfare' Of course, Beatty [9] and Bridgeman [10] had their disagreement with this reduction placed on record.
5. The Prime Minister [11] is at the moment attempting to put into effect the advice of the Colwyn Committee as regards economies in the Air Force. With regard to the constant struggle and friction between the Admiralty and the Air Ministry, for control of the Naval Air Arm, he is trying to strike a bargain between the two on the basis of which they will be asked to sink their differences and get along together in some degree of harmony.
6. Cavan [12] has resigned (by effluxion of time) from being Chief of the Imperial General Staff and is replaced by Sir George Milne [13], who Hankey [14] says seems a first-rate man for the job.
7. I am arranging to be supplied daily from the F.O. with copies of the British Official Wireless messages, in order to see what Australia is receiving. It has been indicated to me that if there is any particular incident or item of information that I want included, it will be 'sympathetically considered'.
8. You may be interested to see from a letter which I send by this mail that Guido Baracchi [15] has resigned from the Communist Party of Australia-the reason given being its utter futility as a party. This seems to add point to the other indications that the Communists are not very happy in Australia. However, you have enough other trouble-making elements in the population (especially in Queensland), not to throw up your hat at this evidence of the slow demise of one of them.
9. One thing that I think I have learnt in London is how impossible it is for Dominions to keep in touch with the history and progress and underlying reasons for British Foreign Policy by relying solely on day-to-day telegraphic summaries and a few weekly despatches. Increasing the volume of telegrams and despatches makes the position a little clearer to them but cannot completely elucidate it, even if carried to extremes. You must have someone who can climb the F.O. stairs and talk to the man concerned, and who can send out to his Dominion as full and indiscreet a story as he pleases. And you must have at least a small organisation in the Dominion to file and closely follow what he sends.
I sometimes wonder whether they are not poulticing a broken leg by increasing the volume of cabled matter. A Dominion P.M. who is rather bored with remote Foreign Affairs may think he has the whole story when he has his file of F.O. telegrams. Information that is practically forced upon you is liable not to be appreciated.
I do not for a moment suggest this as a considered opinion-but what would be the effect of H.M.G. altering their procedure, ceasing to telegraph the Dominions on Foreign Affairs, and, instead, make the whole story available to Dominion representatives on personal application at the F.O.? It would mean creating a coordinating Department at the F.O. with a staff to whom Dominion representatives would apply instead of their going to individual Departments. They might even prepare daily bulletins to issue to Dominion representatives as a groundwork for their information and on which they could enlarge by conversation and the production of copies of actual detailed documents if required.
It would shift the burden of responsibility from H.M.G. to the Dominions, who would have to come into line and send a responsible person here if they wanted to keep in touch at all.
The only telegrams on Foreign Affairs that H.M.G. would then send would be queries as to Dominion opinions and suggestions.
10. Apart from thrashing out the means of improving communication and consultation, I don't see how you are going to take any steps to ensure this Diplomatic Unity of the Empire that is so much discussed and so little achieved.
11. Hankey was very pleased to get your personal note from Frankston last week.
12. What is probably a synthetic story of Coolidge. [16] He had been to Church without his wife. When he came back, she asked him what the sermon was about. He said 'Sin'. She asked him what the clergyman had to say about it. 'He was against it'.
13. The exclusion of Vera, Lady Cathcart [17] from U.S. has intrigued London, conveniently filled the press at a slack time, and made a good deal of work for the American Department of the F.O.
There are two theories. Firstly, that the Bradley-Martins (very wealthy New York people and relations of Lord Craven [18]) with whom Craven was staying, wanted to keep Lady Cathcart away from Craven with whom she had had a liaison, and 'managed' that the migration authorities should use the letter and not the spirit of the law. If this is so, it signally failed, as the eventual result was that Craven was obliged to deport himself. The other theory is that the immigration people carried out the law literally in order to show up its inherent stupidity. All the best dinner tables were divided between the two theories.
If this 'expose' has done nothing else, it has given the world the phrase 'moral turps', for which one should be grateful!
I am, Yours sincerely, R. G. CASEY
[Handwritten postscript]
I enclose extract from Cabinet Minutes of 18/2/26-dealing with additional seats on the League Council-for your personal information. [19]


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I've already gotten this posted on the Southern Gardening forum but thought I'd put it here too (hope that's okay!).
Magnolia is near the Louisiana/Arkansas state line. We are about an hour & a half from either Shreveport, LA or Texarkana, Tx. The swap will be at the pavilion at Lake Columbia. Check-in will start around 9 a.m. & the swap will go until people start leaving. Here's the details for the swap: Bring plants, cuttings, bulbs, or seeds to trade for other plants or items, using tickets you'll get when you check in at the swap.
No plants? You can bring other garden-related items such as water hoses, tools, birdhouses, feeders, windchimes, books, potting soil, soil amendments, etc. You can also sign up to bring food, supplies, or door prizes. When you arrive to the swap you will check in & get tickets for everything you bring, including food, supplies, & door prizes. You will then take your stuff (if swapping) & tickets & park somewhere, using your vehicle & any tables you've brought as your 'booth'. Once check-in is over & the swap starts, everyone will use their tickets to "buy" items from other people using their tickets. Hold on to any leftover tickets as we will use these for the door prize drawing. Toward the end, anyone with leftovers they don't want to take home can put in the "surplus" section & everyone can take a turn picking out something until everything's gone. At some point, we'll eat. *****For people who want to bring food, supplies, or door prizes***** FOOD: sandwiches, a bucket of chicken, whatever. We'll also want sides, desserts, drinks & ice. Remember to bring a serving utensil if your dish calls for one. If no one signs up to bring food, we'll just all fend for ourselves. SUPPLIES: paper plates, paper or plastic cups, plastic spoons or forks, napkins or paper towels, name tags or self-adhesive labels DOOR PRIZES: Anything - doesn't have to be garden-related. Handmade or store bought ($ stores, etc.). VOLUNTEERS: To put flyers around your town, help with check-in, handing out door prizes. *****Some suggestions & rules***** *Again, no selling! No pets & no alcohol. Kids are okay to bring, you know to watch them. *You may want to bring a friend to help you. Also, it's a good idea to bring bottled water for your booth, insect repellent, sun block, an umbrella just in case, newspaper to lay down in your trunk, empty box to put plants in. *You can use your trunk or truck bed to put stuff on but you may want to bring a table & a chair Please sign up if you even think you'll be coming so I'll have a count. I'll also need to know who (if anyone) will be bringing food, door prizes, & supplies. LAKE COLUMBIA - there's a swimming area, boating area, & fishing areas in a different location than where the pavilion is located so if anyone wants to bring their kids there's that option for you. No lifeguard so have someone available to watch the kids. Must have a valid Arkansas fishing license to fish. There's RV hookups if anyone wants to stay a weekend (call 8702345253for information). I believe there may be campsites & hiking trails too but not for sure. The pavilion is covered with a grill, 2 long picnic tables, & 3 benches. Bathrooms are within walking distance. The area around the pavilion is under a bunch of trees so it should be fairly shady for us. DIRECTIONS: from the Magnolia square, go around the square & past Fred's. Go 3.3 miles & turn right at the Pure gas station. Go 2.2 miles & turn left on County Road 53 (this is a curvy road!). Go 3.1 miles. You'll pass the boat landing & see the lake. Turn right past that & you'll see the pavilion area right across. Swap will start around 9:00 a.m. or as soon as everyone's checked in. While you're waiting for the checking in to wrap up, you can walk around & arrange swaps if you'd like. Or wait until the swap starts. If you are interested in coming, post here or on the Southern Forum. I'm not really interested in what anyone brings unless it's to sign up for the food, supplies, or door prizes so I can get an approximate head count. I'm putting flyers up in feed stores & nurseries around the local towns within driving distance, & I'm also announcing in nearby newspapers so I hope to have a nice turn out. |
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Hamilton County Public Health is implementing a 12 percent reduction in licensing fees for all food service and retail food operations, effective February 1.
Technology and realignment have driven the cost savings, according to Hamilton County Health Commissioner, Tim Ingram. "We have incorporated considerable new technology in our inspection and reporting processes," Ingram says. "Electronic reporting and data collection speed up the process and provide the public with information on our findings much more quickly. Our establishments get a reduced fee structure while the public gets faster access to our reports through our website."
Air Force Airman Kenneth E. Latchford II graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He completed an "intensive," eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.Latchford earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.Latchford is the son of April Plummer and stepson of Norman Plummer of Finch Lane, Milford. He is a 2011 graduate of Milford High School.
Loveland Magazine reported that the Boys Basketball game schedued for tonight was a home game.
It is not.
The game is at Turpin High School at 7:30 PM.
Editor's Note... Chris Shoals was Loveland Magazine's first sports columnist. This is his profile at the University of Kentucky Athletic Department's Media Relations page. Much thanks goes to Loveland Magazine sponsor, Jarvis Global Investments for supporting our sports coverage of Loveland Tiger athletes.
Chris Shoals is in his second year working the University of Kentucky Media Relations Office and his first as a media relations assistant.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Shoals handles all of Kentucky's communications efforts for its swimming and diving team. In addition, Shoals served as the women's soccer contact during its historic 2011 season, with primary contact John Hayden on maternity leave. While with women's soccer, Shoals helped direct the team to one of its best seasons in school annals, including UK hosting the first NCAA Tournament game at the UK Soccer Complex since the 1999 season.
Women's soccer boasted a bevy of award winners during Shoals' time with the program, including All-Southeastern Conference performers Kelsey Hunyadi and freshman Arin Gilliand. Shoals managed the weekly notes package for the program, served as the official scorer during home games, the editor for the game program, traveled with the team throughout the season and helped coordinate all communication needs for third-year head coach John Lipsitiz.
In addition to Shoals' duties with women's soccer and swimming and diving, he serves as the assistant contact for the nationally ranked UK softball program, coming off the best season in school history, that saw UK host the NCAA Lexington Super Regional. Besides his sport-specific responsibilities, Shoals helps handle the day-to-day management of the UK media relations office assisting in the communication conceptualization of UK's entire 22-sport intercollegiate athletics program. Shoals is a vital resource to the office throughout the year, assisting office coordinator Jamie Holloway in the coordination of daily office needs.
Shoals came to UK during the summer of 2010 as a freshman, immediately becoming vital to the office responsibilities. Before the 2011 school year starter, Shoals was promoted into a media relations assist post, working with his assigned sports with an un-rivaled work ethic and passion.
Before joining UK media relations, Shoals served as a sports columnist for Loveland Magazine back in his hometown, as well as the head basketball and football statistician for his high school. Shoals played three years of golf and soccer for his high school.
Shoals, the son of Michael and Leslie Shoals, has a sister, Katherine, 16, and is currently a sophomore for at UK studying journalism with an emphasis in broadcast.
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Linda Pennington Elected Vice President
Loveland, Ohio - At its annual organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 3, the Loveland City School District Board of Education elected Christine Olsen as the President, and Linda Pennington as the Vice President for 2012. Out-going President Dr. Kathryn Lorenz has served on the Board since January 1992, and was reelected to serve the District for four more years. Also elected in the fall election was new-comer, Art Jarvis. Both were administered an oath of office by District Treasurer, Brett Griffin.
This LOVELAND MAGAZINE HD VIDEO is of the oath of office and the election of officers.
Olsen was first elected to the Board in 2001, and served as Vice-President in 2006. Pennington was first elected to the Board in 1995.held its annual organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. The Board named and. The two Board members elected in November of 2011 were sworn in at the meeting. Dr. Kathryn Lorenz has served on the Board since January 1992. Mr. Art Jarvis was also sworn in for his first term on the Board.
In 2012, all regular Board of Education meetings are scheduled to be held at 7 PM on the third Tuesday of the month except for July and December. The monthly Board work sessions are scheduled for 7 PM on the first Tuesday of the month except for July and December. All meetings are open to the public. The regular Board meetings are held at the Loveland Intermediate School/Loveland Middle School Media Center and work sessions at the Board of Education Administrative Office at 757 South Lebanon Road.
Correction: Loveland Boys at Turpin High School January 13
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Loveland, Ohio - A 3-point basket by Reid Waddell gave the Loveland Tigers a 38-37 win over the Milford Eagles on Tuesday night at Loveland High School. Off the bench with four 3-pointers, Anthony LaMacchia had a game high 16 points for the Tigers. Robert Overbeck led Milford with 12.
Both teams are now 3-3 in Buckeye Division play. These teams meet again on February 10 at Milford.
Walnut Hills is at the top of the standings at 6-1, Turpin holds onto 2nd place and Kings, Milford, and Loveland all have 3-3 records. (See Complete Standings)
Loveland next takes on Turpin, Friday the 13 of January at Loveland High School.
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I was reading Jonathan D. Kramer's program notes during a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concert that I recently attended and was astounded to read what the composer had to say about his own work:
"I have just played over the first movement of my concerto, and only now has it become clear to me that the transition from the first theme to the second is not good and that in this form the first theme is no more than an introduction — and that no fool would believe it to be a second theme. Everybody will think this the beginning of the concerto. I consider the whole movement ruined, and from this minute it has become positively hideous to me. I am simply in despair."
This is Sergei Rachmaninoff speaking of one of the most beloved pieces in music — his second piano concerto in C minor — five days before he was to play the first complete performance!
It always stuns me that the greatest geniuses, the creators of the most profound work, are devastated by self-doubt — and, in Rachmaninoff's case, go into deep and long-lasting depression.
I tell you that to say that your doubts about your work are in no way an accurate reflection of the value of the actual work, nor do they provide a valid assessment of your competence. They are simply a reflection of your own doubts about yourself.
What was Rachmaninoff in despair over? Please sit back in your chair and listen while Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto No. 2.
When you feel like quitting, let these unforgettable strains of music come back to you, and then think about the potential cost of second guessing instead of paying attention to your instinct. Rachmaninoff's instinct told him to write the music in that precise way; his second guessing told him that the form was incorrect. But forms change — because people have the courage to act on intuition. History recognizes these brave pioneers later as visionaries.
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It took an ugly game, but the light bulb finally went off for Dayton long pole Mat Dowd from Loveland, Ohio last year. In the midst of a 21-13 regular-season thrashing at the hands of Grand Valley State, the No. 1 team in the country, Lakers superstar attackman Cam Holding managed to hang an 11-spot on Dowd and the Flyers. It was then that Dowd understood that more is not always better. READ ON AT LaxMagazine.com


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I have region is in external dxf file,
how to extrude it along polyline?
I can't get region after using dxfin method
Database myDxfDb = new Database(false, true); myDxfDb.DxfIn(filename, logFilename); Matrix3d dxfTrf = Matrix3d.Identity; _ThisDatabase.Insert(dxfTrf, myDxfDb, true); _ThisDatabase.UpdateExt(true); myDxfDb.Dispose(); acTrans.Commit(); ObjectId id = AcUtils.EntLast(); Entity _ent = (Entity)acTrans.GetObject(id, OpenMode.ForWrite);
look to the objecttype that is the result of inserting the DXF ==> is it a region or is it a block(definition/-reference....)
- alfred -
dxf file contain only one region object
and now try to insert this DXF into another drawing ==> what does it get then?
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Hi alfred,
yes, I can that. dxf import as block reference.
well, how can I use this block reference
either explode it or use the BlockTableRecord from this object to get the parts of this blockdefinition, there you also find then the region. You can then create an extrusion if this and add it to the database.
Good luck, - alfred -
and a sample for how to create 3D-solids from 2D-objects could be found >>>here<<< (and Kean Walmsley has a lot more interesting samples on his site)
- alfred -
thanks a lot for your interrest alfred,
but my problem is not extrude region. I cant get region from dxf file.
I found the solution
public Entity ImportDxfAsEntity(string FileName, Point3d InsertionPoint, double Rotation = 0) { ObjectId blkid = ObjectId.Null; Entity ent = null; using (Database bdb = new Database(false, true)) { bdb.DxfIn(FileName, @"c:\log.txt"); //blkid = _ThisDatabase.Insert(System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(FileName), bdb, true); blkid = _ThisDatabase.Insert("blok", bdb, true); using (Transaction tr = _ThisDatabase.TransactionManager.StartTransaction( )) { BlockReference bref = new BlockReference(InsertionPoint, blkid); using (BlockTableRecord btAttRec = (BlockTableRecord)bref.BlockTableRecord.GetObject( OpenMode.ForWrite)) { foreach (ObjectId subid in btAttRec) { ent = (Entity)subid.GetObject(OpenMode.ForRead); } } tr.Commit(); } } return ent; }
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