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- Professor of Finance
- OneAmerica Foundation Endowed Chair
- Indianapolis
- PhD, Purdue University, 1995
- MBA, Western Illinois University, 1991
- BS, Western Illinois University, 1990
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor of Finance, Indiana University, 2003
- Assistant Professor of Finance, Indiana University, 1997
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1995-1997
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- 24 Teaching Excellence Awards (see vita for full details)
- Jensen Prize, Journal of Financial Economics, 2007
- Recognized as one of the academic influencers of 2007 (Business Finance Magazine)
- Recognized as a top five newsmaker of 2006 (Workforce Management)
- Research Excellence Award, Kelley School of Business, 2004
Professional Interests
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mergers and acquisitions
Selected Publications
Heron, R. A. and E. Lie (2009), "What Fraction of Stock Option Grants to Top Executives Have Been Backdated or Manipulated?," Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 4, April, pp. 513-525.
Heron, R. A. and E. Lie (2007), "Does Backdating Explain the Stock Price Pattern Around Executive Stock Option Grants?," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 83, pp. 271-295.
Heron, R. A., E. Lie, and R. T. Perry (2007), "On the Use (and Abuse) of Stock Option Grants," Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 63, May/June, pp. 17-27.
Heron, R. A. and E. Lie (2006), "On the Use of Poison Pills and Defensive Payouts by Takeover Targets," Journal of Business, Vol. 79, pp. 1783-1807.
Heron, R. A. and E. Lie (2004), "A Comparison of the Motivations for and the Information Content of Different Types of Equity Offerings," Journal of Business, Vol. 77, pp. 605-632.
Carow, K., R. A. Heron, and T. Saxton (2004), "Do Early Birds Get the Returns? An Empirical Investigation of Early Mover Advantages in Acquisitions," Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 25, pp. 563-585.
Heron, R. A. and E. Lie (2002), "Operating Performance and the Method of Payment in Takeovers," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 37, pp. 137-155.
Heron, R. A. and W. G. Lewellen (1998), "An Empirical Analysis of the Reincorporation Decision," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 33, pp. 549-568.


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|SALISBURY, NC -- Catawba opened the second half with a 18-4 run and went on to take a 78-64 win over visiting Pfeiffer in women's basketball action on Tuesday night. With the victory, the Catawba Indians improve to 3-1. The Falcons fall to 2-4.
Pfeiffer held an early eight point lead at 17-9, but Catawba went on an 8-1 run to close the gap to 18-17. The teams traded the lead eight times in the opening half with the Falcons scoring the final five points to tie the game at the break.
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Pfeiffer pulled within 43-39 on a basket by Devona Knight, but Catawba answered with a 10-0 run.
Lauren Brittingham led all scorers with 21 for the Falcons. Domonique China tallied 13 points.
Catawba connected on nearly half its shots (31-of-64) on the night and held a 51-40 edge on the boards. Pfeiffer made 33% (25-of-75) from the field and were just 4-of-20 (20%) from beyond the arc.
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Kent State University has named Dr. W. Grant McGimpsey as its new vice president for research. McGimpsey comes to Kent State from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., where he serves as director of the WPI Bioengineering Institute, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and professor of biomedical engineering. He joins Kent State on Aug. 1, 2011. Dr. Sonia Alemagno, who has held the position of interim vice president for research since July 1, 2010, will return to her role as associate dean of Kent State's College of Public Health.
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McGimpsey has been with WPI since 1989, holding such positions as professor and associate provost for research (ad interim). He has been director of the WPI Bioengineering Institute since 2005, where he established the institute's mission and strategy and leads the business and economic development, research and outreach efforts of the institute. During his time at WPI, he received the WPI Trustees Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship, co-founded Active Surface Technologies Incorporated and raised more than $12 million in research funding from government, foundation and corporate sources. Since 2004, he also has served as an adjunct research professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS) Medical School.
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Though no Miami swimmers took first place in any of the 16 events, there were several fine showings by RedHawk athletes. Three of Miami's runners-up were freshmen. One of the rookies, Oxford's EVAN BADER, had two second-place finishes. Bader placed second in both the 100 breaststroke (58.74) and the 200 breast (2:08.77).
Senior ALEX REINHARDT placed second in the 1000 freestyle (9:44.71), finishing two seconds behind Purdue's Nate Hopkins.
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Sophomore JOE BAUMGARTNER lost the 100 freestyle to Purdue's Danny Tucker by less than a second, 45.32 to 46.12.
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Is Sabbath only for the privileged few -- or for all of us?
One of the persistent themes of my spiritual life over the last decade has been an effort to figure out what Sabbath-keeping might look like for a North American Christian in the early 21st century. I am not alone in longing for a Sabbath; in recent years a bumper crop of thoughtful books about Christian Sabbath-keeping have appeared, and almost every time I give a lecture or lead a workshop on something pertaining to Christian spirituality, someone in the audience asks me about Shabbat.
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It doesn't come as a big surprise considering the ratings of late but FOX has announced that they're cancelling Prison Break after four seasons. Will there be a conclusion to this high-suspense series?
Prison Break follows Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), a young structural engineer whose brother (Dominic Purcell) has been framed and incarcerated for murder. To save his brother's life, Michael concocts a detailed plan to have himself sent to prison and then to free both of them. Along the way, they realize they're involved in a far-reaching conspiracy with dire consequences for all around them. The rest of the show's large cast has also included Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams, Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Robin Tunney, Stacy Keach, Leon Russom, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Peter Stormare, Muse Watson, and Patricia Wettig.
The FOX drama debuted on August 29, 2005 to solid ratings of over 10.5 million viewers and a healthy number of 18-49 viewers. Prison's first season finished with an average audience of 12.1 million. The second season declined a bit with an average of 10.1 million viewers. Season three dropped further to 8.2 million and the current season has averaged just 6.1 million viewers.
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Despite losing its star in the offseason, Kamiak is right in the thick of Wesco 4A South title race
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Kamiak's Christine Heisen (12) battles Arlington's Kerra Williamson (left) for the ball during the first half of a game this season. Heisen, who joined the team last year after her schedule forced her to quit the band, is one of the Knights leaders on offense.
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Kamiak's Brelyn Kussman (right) wins a ball in front of Edmonds-Woodway's Ashleigh Fonsen (left) in the first half.
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Arlington's Darby Winterer (left) and Kamiak's Baylie Lux-Lowry (right) hold on to each other as they battle for the ball in the first half.
The next budding Knights star looked to be Emele Chaddock, who led the team in scoring as a freshman last season. But Chaddock tore her anterior cruciate ligament in February, knocking her out for at least the 2013 regular season.
"At the beginning of the season it was a worry," Stewart said of losing Chaddock. "I was like, 'I don't know how we are going to do.' And I honestly didn't."
Stewart wondered before the season who would step up?
The answer: No one and everyone at the same time.
The Knights have once again climbed to the top of the Wesco 4A South standings this season with a leadership-by-committee team that Stewart calls her best 'TEAM' since she's coached at the Mukilteo high school.
"They've just really stepped up and I'm super proud of them," Stewart said. "They play for each other instead of themselves."
After dropping a 3-1 decision to Snohomish last week, the Knights fell a point behind Jackson and Edmonds-Woodway in the 4A South standings. But all three teams have nine wins entering today's games and the Knights are surprise contenders for the league title.
Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise.
What seemed like the Knights' weakness has actually become their strength. During their reign, the Knights had stars who drew all the attention of opposing defenses. But in the playoffs the defenses get better and even with their stars, the Knights have never reached beyond the first round of the state playoffs where defenses get really good at taking away one offensive player.
"Other teams zero in on that obviously, so those (stars) are typically double marked," Stewart said. "It just makes it tricky because that's been your go-to forever. Then who is going to step in and fill that role?
"When you have a team kind of like my team this year -- kind of even across the board -- somebody has to step in (every game). And it's been a different person every time."
Christine Heisen was in the Kamiak Show Band and Color Guard two years ago, but this year she has been a key scorer and one of the two seniors making an impact. Taking running start classes conflicted with band, so Heisen played soccer as a next-best option as a junior. Now she wouldn't go back if she could.
"We've had a lot of success," Heisen said. "It's been great. I like the team chemistry. Everyone gets a long well and it's just fun."
Baylie Lux-Lowry is a co-captain. She stepped up and scored two penalty-kick goals in the Kamiak's big 3-1 win over Arlington two weeks ago. Lux-Lowry seems to lead by showing everyone else how to raise her level of play when the team needs it.
"There's a few certain girls that will be leaders and try to motivate the team, but overall everyone tries to lead the team by their play," the junior midfielder said.
Tylor Adcock is just a sophomore, but has become the biggest leader on the defense. She pairs with Anne Ferguson to anchor the defensive back line.
"The most surprising thing are my two center-backs this year," Stewart said of the duo.
The Kamiak coach marvels at Ferguson's seemingly innate ability to win headers despite a diminutive 5-foot-4 frame.
"She's pretty small, but her timing is perfect and that's a tough thing for a girl," Stewart said. "She and Tylor have communicated well so that's been a huge plus."
Perhaps most importantly, sophomore Shannon Peth has stepped into the net and the defense hasn't missed a beat after the graduation of All-Area goalkeeper Makaela, who is now starting in goal as a freshman at the University of Texas-San Antonio. But Peth who played on the same club as Makaela has only surrendered seven goals on the season.
Peth and Adcock have played together since they were 6-years-old and they say they can practically read each other's mind on the field.
"We work really, really well together," Peth said. "We don't have to communicate that much. We think the same so we know where to tell other people to go."
They played together on club teams, but this one feels more special.
"Going to school makes the chemistry a lot stronger because you see (your teammates) everywhere," Peth said.
The other senior is co-captain Brelyn Kussman, who is a calming presence at the outside right-mid position.
Stewart's biggest problem has been getting someone to lead the girls onto the field before the game.
"The whole team is so quiet," she said. "We tried to figure out who was going to do our pregame cheer and we couldn't.
"We don't really have that big boisterous personality this year and that's really the first time, so it's been different. It's fun."
A year ago Kamiak lost to eventual state runner up in the winner-to-state-loser out crossover game with Kingco's Issaquah.
"We were a crossbar and a sidebar away from state," Stewart said. "It's very small margin and they are believers (this year)."
The coach, whose youngest child is graduating from Kamiak this year, doesn't see herself stepping away from the sideline anytime soon despite the fact that she and her husband own three restaurants that keep them busy year round.
"My best part of my day is going out and coaching these girls," she said.
Good Knights
Record: 9-2-2 overall; 9-2-0 in Wesco 4A South (third place)
Key upcoming dates: vs. Jackson, tonight; at Edmonds-Woodway, Thursday.
Season overview: With games against league co-leaders Jackson and Edmonds-Woodway this week, Kamiak has the ability to gain the upper hand in the race for a Wesco 4A South title.
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As of 2013, members of the California legislature are paid $95,291 per year. They are also given per diem of $141.86 per day in session.<ref>[http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/legisdata/2012-ncsl-legislator-compensation-data.aspx ''NCSL.org'', "2012 State Legislator Compensation and Per Diem Table," accessed March 18, 2013]</ref>
As of 2013, members of the California legislature are paid $95,291 per year. They are also given per diem of $141.86 per day in session.<ref>[http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/legisdata/2012-ncsl-legislator-compensation-data.aspx ''NCSL.org'', "2012 State Legislator Compensation and Per Diem Table," accessed March 18, 2013]</ref>
The [[California Citizens Compensation Commission]] (CCCC) voted in May 2009 to reduce the salaries of California's state legislators by 18%, from $116,208 to $95,291. In June, the compensation commission voted on legislative pay again, this time to reduce the fringe benefits received by state legislators by 18%. The fringe benefit reduction applies to per-diem payments, car allowances, and medical insurance, and becomes effective on December 1, 2009.<ref name="cut">[http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/30/commission-votes-to-cut-state-legislators/ ''Ventura County Star'', "Commission votes to cut state legislators' benefits", June 30, 2009]</ref>
The [[California Citizens Compensation Commission]] (CCCC) voted in May 2009 to reduce the salaries of California's state legislators by 18%, from $116,208 to $95,291. In June, the compensation commission voted on legislative pay again, this time to reduce the fringe benefits received by state legislators by 18%. The fringe benefit reduction applies to per-diem payments, car allowances, and medical insurance, and becomes effective on December 1, 2009.<ref name="cut">[http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/30/commission-votes-to-cut-state-legislators/ ''Ventura County Star'', "Commission votes to cut state legislators' benefits", June 30, 2009]</ref>
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- 1 Sessions
- 2 Ethics and transparency
- 3 Legislators
- 4 Benefits from lobbyists
- 5 Low popularity
- 6 Role in state budget
- 7 Legislative sessions
- 8 Current balance-of-power
- 9 Terms and term limits
- 10 Senate
- 11 State Assembly
- 12 History
- 13 Initiative rights
- 14 Ballot referrals
- 15 Joint legislative committees
- 16 External links
- 17 References
Both chambers of the California legislature have been dominated by the Democratic Party since 1959 except in 1969 to 1971 when the Republican Party held both chambers and from 1994 to 1996, when Republicans briefly held a majority in the Assembly. Each member represents about 423,396 residents, as of the 2000 Census.[1]
California's voters imposed term limits on their State Senators and State Assembly Members in 1990; Senators could not serve for more than two terms (total of eight years) and Assembly Members could not serve for more than three terms (total of six years). California voters modified these limits in 2012 that modified term limits to allow legislators to serve 12 years total - but could spend all 12 in either house (total of three Senate terms or six Assembly terms).
The California legislature has been full-time since 1966.[2]
As of May 2015, California is one of 7 Democratic state government trifectas.
Article IV of the California Constitution establishes when the Legislature is to be in session. Section 3 of Article IV states that the Legislature is to convene in regular session on the first Monday of December in each even-numbered year to organize. The Legislature must adjourn by November 30th of the following even-numbered year.
Section 3 also provides the Governor of California the power to call special sessions of the Legislature.
- See also: Dates of 2014 state legislative sessions
In 2014, the Legislature will be in session from January 6 to September 30.
Major issues
Major issues during the 2014 legislative session include the biennial budget, prison overcrowding and water bonds.[3]
- See also: Dates of 2013 state legislative sessions
In 2013, the Legislature was in session from December 3, 2012 to September 13, 2013.
Major issues
Major issues in the 2013 legislative session included property taxes for education and tax breaks for students.[4]
- See also: Dates of 2012 state legislative sessions
In 2012, the Legislature was in session from January 4 to August 31.
- See also: Dates of 2011 state legislative sessions
In 2011, the Legislature will be in session from January 3- September 9, 2011. The California Legislature was convened in an extraordinary session to act upon legislation that addresses the fiscal emergency proclaimed by Governor Jerry Brown on January 20, 2011. [5]
- See also: Dates of 2010 state legislative sessions
In 2010, the Legislature began its regular session on January 12th, and was scheduled to adjourn on August 31st. Additionally, the legislature adjourned one special session on January 11th of this year, had one ongoing special session that convened in October of 2009, and had another ongoing special session that convened on January 8th, 2010.[6]
On July 28th, 2010 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a declaration of fiscal emergency[7][8] as allowed under California's Constitution as approved in 2004 under proposition 58. Upon issuance of a declaration of fiscal emergency, the legislature must immediately reconvene and may not adjourn until after the fiscal situation is resolved.
Ethics and transparency
Open States Transparency
The Sunlight Foundation released an "Open Legislative Data Report Card" in March 2013. California was given a grade of D in the report. The report card evaluated how adequate, complete and accessible legislative data was to the general public. A total of 10 states received an A: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.[9]
- See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries
As of 2013, members of the California legislature are paid $95,291 per year. They are also given per diem of $141.86 per day in session.[10]
The California Citizens Compensation Commission (CCCC) voted in May 2009 to reduce the salaries of California's state legislators by 18%, from $116,208 to $95,291. In June, the compensation commission voted on legislative pay again, this time to reduce the fringe benefits received by state legislators by 18%. The fringe benefit reduction applies to per-diem payments, car allowances, and medical insurance, and becomes effective on December 1, 2009.[11]
It was originally thought to be the case that the compensation commission is unable to reduce salaries of elected officials in the middle of their terms. However, in November 2009, Jerry Brown in his capacity as California's Attorney General ruled that under Proposition 112 from 1990, the CCCC can "adjust the annual salaries of state officers" each year.[12]
Even with the 2009 reduction to an annual salary of $95,291, California's legislators earn more than state legislators in the other 49 states. Michigan, which has the second best-paid lawmakers, pays its state legislators $79,650 a year.[13]
California does not provide pensions for legislators who took office after 1990.[14]
When sworn in
California legislators assume office the first Monday of December following a general election.
Benefits from lobbyists
As of 2009, perks available to California state legislators include:
- BP America, a gas and petroleum company, sponsors an automated hotline just for California state legislators and their staff that allows them to call the company for free tickets to concerts, shows and sports events. The message on the automated service says that legislators may "ask a member of their own staff to call on their behalf.[15]
- AT&T sponsors a dedicated, private email service that allows state legislators and their staffs use to request tickets to shows such as Britney Spears concerts and Lakers playoffs.[15]
- Michael Duvall, who resigned from the California State Assembly in September when a videotape was made public in which he discussed his sexual adventures with lobbyists, also reported on his mandatory lobbying disclosures that in 2008, he had received gifts of meals, drinks, concert tickets and "a Bluetooth headset".[15]
Low popularity
In December 2009, public opinion polling cited by the Sacramento Bee found that legislature's voter approval rating was at 13%. Newspapers reported this as the institution's all-time low.[16]
The legislature's popularity continued to fall in 2010. The Public Policy Institute of California reported in March 2010 on a poll that showed that the legislature's overall approval rating had fallen to 9%, while voters gave their own members of the state legislature an average approval rating of 27%.[17]
Role in state budget
- Main article: California state budget
In November 2009, the California Legislative Analyst's Office released a document, "The 2010-11 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook." The report says "...the state must address a General Fund budget problem of $20.7 billion between now and the time the Legislature enacts a 2010–11 state budget plan...Addressing this large shortfall will require painful choices—on top of the difficult choices the Legislature made earlier this year." The report also says "The vast majority" of the current year problem can be attributed to the state's inability to implement several major solutions in the July 2009 budget plan."[18][19]
John Myers, the Sacramento Bureau Chief for KQED's "The California Report", said the hard-hitting LAO report "makes it clear that the current problem really lies at the feet of 120 legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger."[19]
A 2/3rds vote is required in the state legislature to raise taxes. An End the Two-Thirds Requirement proposition is circulating in preparation for the November 2, 2010 ballot. Sponsors include those in the state who believe that the state's budget gap should be made up with higher taxes.[20]
Legislative sessions
Length of
- See also: States with a full-time legislature
California is one of 11 states defined as having a full-time legislature, and it has the distinction of having the longest scheduled session of any state legislature in the country.[21]
Proposal to split
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg proposed in December 2009 that the business that comes before the state legislature be divided, so that the two-year legislative sessions include a year confined to budgeting and oversight and a year confined to the consideration of new legislation. If the California legislature agrees to this change, it would join 15 other states where the state budget is considered in only one year of a state's two-year legislative session.[21]
Steinberg's proposal would return the California legislature to a system of alternate years of budgeting and legislation that it used from the end of World War II until 1966. In 1966, voters passed Proposition 1A, which created a full-time legislature and annual budgeting.
Steinberg's proposal is similar to a proposed constitutional amendment, SCA 2, sponsored by Mark Wyland.
Number of bills
The 2009 session of the state legislature approved about 1,000 bills, sending them on to the Governor of California for his signature.[22]
Current balance-of-power
State assembly
|As of May 2015
|Democratic Party
|Republican Party
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the California State House of Representatives from 1992-2013.
State senate
|As of May 2015
|Democratic Party
|Republican Party
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the California State Senate from 1992-2013.
Terms and term limits
California voters imposed term limits on the California Legislature in 1990, when they voted in favor of Proposition 140 by a margin of 52-48%. Proposition 140 limits state Assembly members to three two-year terms and state senators to two four-year terms, and imposes a lifelong ban against seeking the same office once the limits have been reached.
Bates v. Jones
In the case of Bates v. Jones, Bates--a termed-out Assemblyman--sued in federal court to have the provisions of Proposition 140 declared unconstitutional. A federal court agreed with his claim, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against him, keeping the limits in place.
Proposition 45 in 2002
- Main article: California Proposition 45 (2002)
California State Senate president pro tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) vigorously sponsored an effort in 2002 to rollback the provisions of 1990's Proposition 140 by putting Proposition 45 on the March 2002 ballot. Voters rejected Proposition 45 by a margin of 42-58%. Had Proposition 45 passed, it would have allowed state legislators to serve for four years beyond the limits allowed by Proposition 140.
Proposition 93 in 2008
- Main article: California Proposition 93 (2008)
Proposition 93, an initiated constitutional amendment supported by Don Perata was defeated 53.6% to 46.4% during the February 5, 2008 statewide primary election. Had it passed, members of the California State Legislature would have been allowed to remain in their current office up to 12 years.
- Main article: California State Senate
The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. There are 40 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento. The Lieutenant Governor is the ex officio President of the Senate. The officers of the Senate, elected at the start of each legislative session, are; President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Secretary of the Senate Gregory Schmidt, and Senate Sergeant at Arms Tony Beard.
Prior to 1968, state senate districts were restricted such that one county could only hold at most one seat. This led to the situation of Los Angeles County, with 6 million residents as of 1968, receiving 600 times less representation than residents of Alpine County and Calaveras County, some of California's least populous counties. The Reynolds v. Sims decision by the United States Supreme Court compelled all states to draw up districts that were apportioned by population rather than geography. As such, boundaries were changed such that equal representation was provided.
Senators serve four year terms. The terms of the Senators are staggered so that half the membership is elected every two years. The Senators representing the odd-numbered districts are elected in years evenly divisible by four. The Senators from the even-numbered districts are elected in the intervening even-numbered years.
Since the passage of Prop 140 in 1990, California senators have been limited to two terms in office.
Each member represents an average of 931,349 residents, as of the 2010 Census.[23] After the 2000 Census, each member represented 846,791.[24]
State Assembly
- Main article: California State Assembly
The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members to the Assembly, representing a relatively equal amount of constituencies. Each member represents an average of 465,674 residents, as of the 2010 Census.[25] After the 2000 Census, each member represented 423,396.[26] Due to the state's large population and relatively small legislature, the Assembly has the largest population per representative ratio of any lower house legislature in the United States; only the federal U.S. House of Representatives has a larger ratio.
Partisan balance 1992-2013
California State Senate: From 1992-2013, the Democratic Party was the majority in the California State Senate for all 22 years. The California State Senate is 1 of 16 state senates that was Democratic for more than 80 percent of the years between 1992-2013. During the final three years of the study, California was under Democratic trifectas.
Across the country, there were 541 Democratic and 517 Republican state senates from 1992 to 2013.
California State House of Representatives: From 1992-2013, the Democratic Party was the majority in the California State House of Representatives for all 22 years. The California State House is one of 18 state Houses that was Democratic for more than 80 percent of the years between 1992-2013. During the final three years of the study, California was under Democratic trifectas.
Across the country, there were 577 Democratic and 483 Republican State Houses of Representatives from 1992 to 2013.
Over the course of the 22-year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan. At the outset of the study period (1992), 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In 2013, only 13 states have divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied.
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of California, the California State Senate and the California House of Representatives from 1992-2013.
SQLI and partisanship
The chart below depicts the partisanship of the Arkansas state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied. For the SQLI, the states were ranked from 1-50, with 1 being the best and 50 the worst. California has never had a Republican trifecta, but did have Democratic trifectas between the years 1999 and 2003 and again after 2010 to the present. California fell steadily in the SQLI ranking until finally reaching the bottom-10 in 2010. The state reached its highest ranking (28th) in 1998 and 1999, first under divided government and then under a Democratic trifecta. The state's lowest ranking (48th) occurred recently in 2012 under a Democratic trifecta. Except for the years 1995 and 1996, the California legislature has been consistently under Democratic control.
- SQLI average with Democratic trifecta: 37.00
- SQLI average with Republican trifecta: N/A
- SQLI average with divided government: 35.21
Initiative rights
Although the California Constitution establishes the right of California citizens to directly legislate vian initiated constitutional amendments and initiated state statutes, the state legislature develops the ground rules for most of the details of the laws governing the initiative process in California. Through these rules, it can make the initiative process easier or harder, and less expensive or more expensive.
The state legislature can also propose constitutional changes to the initiative process. Several such changes were proposed in the 2009-2010 session of the state legislature. The sponsors of these changes hope to gain the approval of enough of their fellow legislators to qualify their proposed changes for the 2010 ballot.
|Direct democracy measures
|Give state legislature right to change initiated constitutional amendments after signatures are collected
|Edward Hernandez
|Direct democracy measures
|Limit to five the number of initiatives on any single statewide ballot.
|Edward Hernandez
|Direct democracy measures
|California Legislative Analyst's Office would write ballot titles instead of the attorney general
|Roger Niello
|Direct democracy measures
|To be approved, a ballot initiative would require a 2/3rds vote rather than the current simple majority
|Charles Calderon
|Direct democracy measures
|Fewer signatures needed for initiatives if first reviewed by legislature
|Mark DeSaulnier
Ballot referrals
The California State Legislature has the authority to refer statewide ballot propositions to the ballot; these can be:
- Constitutional amendments to the California Constitution.
- Legislatively-referred state statutes, including bond issues.
In November 2009, Robert Stern of the Center for Governmental Studies told the Senate and Assembly Select Committees on Improving State Government at a hearing in Oakland that of the 68 ballot measures approved between 1988 and 2009 that had a price tag attached to them, 51 (or 75%) were legislatively-referred constitutional amendments or legislatively-referred state statutes. The legislatively-referred measures cost $9.8 billion versus $2.05 billion for citizen-initiated measures, according to the CGS.[27]
|Referred amendments
|Referred statutes
|Total referrals
Joint legislative committees
The California State Legislature has seven joint standing committees.
- Arts
- Emergency Management
- Fairs, Allocation, and Classification
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Legislative Audit
- Legislative Budget
- Rules
External links
- ↑ Population in 2000 of the American states, Accessed November 27, 2013
- ↑ Santa Cruz Sentinel, "Laird leads fight against part-time Legislature", September 26, 2009
- ↑ acwa.com, "2014 Legislative Year Begins in Sacramento," January 6, 2014
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, "Calif. Democrats ponder their new power," December 2, 2012
- ↑ California Legislature, accessed June 16, 2011
- ↑ Session dates for California legislature, 2010
- ↑ Schwarzenegger, Arnold (July 28, 2010) "Gov. Schwarzenegger Declares State of Emergency, Issues Executive Order to Impose Furloughs Due to Cash Crisis Caused By Budget Impasse" Office of the Governor. Retrieved August 24, 2010
- ↑ Schwarzenegger, Arnold. (July 28, 2010) "Executive Order S-12-10" Office of the Governor. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ↑ Sunlight Foundation, "Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information," accessed June 16, 2013
- ↑ NCSL.org, "2012 State Legislator Compensation and Per Diem Table," accessed March 18, 2013
- ↑ Ventura County Star, "Commission votes to cut state legislators' benefits", June 30, 2009
- ↑ Legal Newsline, "Business leader praises Brown opinion on gov't salaries", November 21, 2009
- ↑ Record.Net, "Earning their keep: Bid for part-time Legislature wouldn't fix anything", April 5, 2010
- ↑ USA Today, "State-by-state: Benefits available to state legislators," September 23, 2011
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Los Angeles Times, "Duvall incident spotlights politicians' perks in capital", September 11, 2009
- ↑ Sacramento Bee, "California redistricting commission wants a few good citizens", December 16, 2009
- ↑ Central Valley Business Times, "California voters angry, irritated, pessimistic says new survey", March 24, 2010
- ↑ Legislative Analyst's Office, "The 2010-11 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook", November 18, 2009
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 KQED Capital Notes, "$21 billion deficit now, worse later", November 18, 2009
- ↑ Time, "California's Budget Crisis: Is There a Way Out?", July 2, 2009
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 San Francisco Chronicle, "Lawmaker wants to split legislative sessions", December 25, 2009
- ↑ Long Beach Press Telegram, "A modest set of reforms", January 31, 2010
- ↑ www.census.gov/, "Population in 2010 of the American states," accessed January 6, 2014
- ↑ Population in 2000 of the American states, Accessed November 27, 2013
- ↑ www.census.gov/, "Population in 2010 of the American states," accessed January 6, 2014
- ↑ Population in 2000 of the American states, Accessed November 27, 2013
- ↑ Contra Costa Times, "Legislators, not citizens, put pricey measures on the ballot", November 18, 2009


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CS 148 giveth, and CS148 taketh away.
In the previous assignments, we have built up to a working robot soccer player. You have developed an autonomous robot controller for 1-on-1 soccer using Player proxies (or ROS nodes) for position control, bumper, and color blobfinding as well as our in-house overhead localization system. Now it is time to remove the training wheels, specifically external top-down localization (this assignment) and internal state variables (Subsumption assignment).
In the current assignment, you will implement a robot soccer controller that uses only the robot's on-board sensing and perception. Specifically, you are only allowed to use the Create's sensing (odometry, bumper, etc.) and vision functions for blobfinding and AR tag recognition. With this perceptual information, you are tasked with implementing a localization system to determine your robot's pose on the pitch. The pitch has been augmented with color fiducials and AR tags at locations on a map that will be given to you to facilitate localization routines you develop. This map will also assume fixed locations and dimensions of the goals. These fiducials should be detectable using your object recognition code from the Path Planning assignment. Pose estimates from your localization, along with desired pose generation, will given to your working path planning routines.
Don't hate the monster, hate the map
Assigned: November 10, 2010
Range and bearing milestone due: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Spin-and-localize milestone due: Monday, November 29, 2010
Inter-group soccer competition: Monday, December 6, 2010
Project reports due: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 (11:59 pm)
For this project, your client will continually estimate the current pose of your robot to enable path planning. Your localization system must be able to estimate the probability of the robot being in a certain pose X = (x,y,\theta) given the current perception values Z given by odometry, object recognition, and bumper and a known map. The map will contain the locations of relevant objects, namely goals and fiducials. Your existing path planner will use this pose estimate to generate a path on the field to traverse.
In class, we have covered several different localization algorithms based on the Bayes filter:
p(X_{t}|Z_{t}) \propto p(Z_{t}|X_{t}) \sum_{X_t} p(X_{t}|X_{t-1}) p(X_{t-1}|Z_{t-1})
which, roughly stated, generates the robot's new location belief at time t, or posterior p(X_{t}|Z_{t}), by using its old belief at time t-1, or prior p(X_{t-1}|Z_{t-1}) to predict a new belief, using dynamics p(X_{t}|X_{t-1}), that is matched against reality, using a likelihood p(Z_{t}|X_{t}). Several algorithms can be used to perform filtering for localization, although we will only cover the particle filter in depth during lecture:
However, you will find that defining proper likelihood and dynamics terms are not explicitly covered by the algorithms. Specifically, filter dynamics will use odometric information about the robot's pose given by the Create's odometry predict a new belief forward in time. Odometry is published by irobot_create_2_1 in two ways: 1) distance and angle values in the sensorPacket topic that are directly reported from the Open Interface and 2) odom topics using quaternions. Your likelihood function will update the belief by evaluating the plausibility of perceiving information from the AR tag, blobfinder, and bumper proxies given a hypothesis of a particular robot pose. You will spend some time and careful consideration in defining these terms.
Additionally, you will need to consider how to extract a single localization decision if you have a multi-modal posterior distribution. As discussed in class, maximum a posteriori (maximum), expectation (mean), and robust mean are options for extracting such pose estimates.
Active localization: It should be noted that your actions taken by the robot can help resolve ambiguity for your localization system. That is, you can decide to move your robot towards locations that would make its location more clear.
In addition to estimating the current pose of the robot, your controller will need to make decisions for determine desired poses and generating actions to reach these desireds. This decision making can be performed by the path planner you implemented for Assignment 3, assuming the location of the ball can be determined. You are not restricted to using only your path planner for decision making, but it is highly recommended. At the very least, some combination of path planner and other control heuristics is likely warranted. Sharing of path planning code between groups is allowed, only through checkout of code from course repositories for previously graded assignments.
Your calculation of desired pose can (and probably should) use estimates of the ball location of your robot's pose along. While it is not necessary to perform localization on the ball's location, estimating some information about the state of the ball is typically necessary. One recommended approach is to estimate the range and bearing of the ball from the robot's pose.
Given our current soccer setup, localization of the other player will be difficult and is discouraged.
Your group should create an mcl package that includes a node (soccer_mcl) that subscribes to your robot's sensing from the Create base (via irobot_create_2_1), cmvision blobfinder, and ar_recog tag recognition and outputs tag_positions topics for localization.
Your group is free to use additional nodes for performing localization and/or having controllers specific to each challenge.
The pitch map will be given to you as file in the following space-delimited format:
Color Landmarks <color_top> <color_bottom> <x_location> <y_location> <radius> ... <color_top> <color_bottom> <x_location> <y_location> <radius> AR Landmarks <id> <corner_1_x> <corner_1_y> <corner_1_z> ... <corner_4_x> <corner_4_y> <corner_4_z> ... <id> <corner_1_x> <corner_1_y> <corner_1_z> ... <corner_4_x> <corner_4_y> <corner_4_z> Visit <x_location> <y_location> ... <x_location> <y_location> Avoid <x_location> <y_location> <radius> ... <x_location> <y_location> <radius>
The "Color Landmarks" and "AR Landmarks" section lists the colors/corners and locations of non-goal landmarks, the "Visit" section lists the locations to visit (in sequence), and the "Avoid" section lists circular regions on the field to avoid. The location and radius values will be given in the field coordinate system, as given in the last assignment by the overhead localization system. Colors for the landmarks will be specified as one of the following strings: "Green", "Pink", "Orange", or "Yellow". Top and bottom landmark colors can be the same to indicate a single colored fiducial.
Be careful to not make overly limiting assumptions about the map! Make sure you can parse and read the file format. Map files will not be given to you for the skills challenges until just before your run. However, example and competition files will be provided in /course/cs148/pub.
You are expected to conduct least 3 trials with 4 different initial conditions for both your subsumption_soccer node (24 trials total). For each trial, measure the properties mentioned for each challenge. All of your trials must use the same controller without modification.
Document your controller and experimental results in a written report based on the structure described in the course missive. You are welcome to experiment with additional techniques and evaluate the relative performance of each. When completed, your report should be committed to the object_seeking/docs/username directory of your repository.
An intermediate demonstration of your progress is required before the final due date of the Localization project. For this milestone, you will need to demonstrate a working estimation of range and bearing from the robot to fiducial objects (yellow ball, pink landmark, green/orange landmark, orange/green landmark, green goal and orange goal) when seen through the robot's blobfinder. For the milestone, you will be required to estimate range and bearing for all the landmarks, in centimeters and radians respectively. The TAs will set the robot at a random location in the field and place varying landmarks in your field of view. For each landmark, in the robot's current visual stream, you must print out a distance and relative angle to the landmark. No visualization is required for this milestone, but would be appreciated.
It is recommended that a data-driven procedure is used to learn a function that outputs the predicted range of landmark objects, each which have known dimensions and appearance, from perceived blob features. To estimate the range from your robot to a landmark, place the landmark at varying distances from the robot and record features (e.g., height, width, area) of the perceived blob(s) corresponding to the object. The result is a set of example input-output pairs that relate blob features to distance . Once you have recorded blob measurements for each landmark, you should approximate the function that predicts distance from blob features. It is up to you to determine the appropriate features of blobs to use for estimating range.
This blob-feature function can be approximated through a variety of regression techniques, including a nearest neighbors lookup table, linear interpolation, radial-basis interpolation, spline interpolation, and nonparametric regression. You should import your approximated function into your client. For example, a nearest neighbor regressor would import a lookup table data structure into a client. Upon seeing a blob, your client will first identify the type of object (ball, goal, landmark) for the blob, and then use the dimensions of the blob(s) to predict/lookup the distance to the landmark.
To estimate bearing, it is suggested to use the relative proportions of the robot camera field of view, assuming the (default) camera view center and the angular field of view for the PS3 Eye camera.
Your robot will be placed on an unknown location on the field by a TA. Given a map in the file format above and movement to only spin in place, your mcl package must determine and report the robot's location on the field.
The goal scoring challenge and inter-group soccer competition from the Path Planning project will be used for this competition. The navigation challenge will have the same format as Assignment 3 except that obstacles will be pink fiducials and the field boundaries will be enforced by the physical and virtual walls. Both the Goal Scoring and Collision-free Navigation tasks must be completed within 120 seconds.
Your grade for this assignment will be determined by equal weighting of your group's implementation (50%) and your individual written report (50%). The weighted breakdown of grading factors for this assignment are as follows:
Note: Demonstrations of your challenges should occur by scheduling an appointment with a TA. Soccer competitions will be held during class and the preceding hour (12-2pm).


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Both left and right wing plumbing continues. Shown are the left wing landing gear hydraulics, the left wing radiator lines and the right wing landing gear control cylinder plumbing.
The new inboard aileron hinge is test fitted on left wings aileron.
The right wing's interior - fuel cell & wheel well areas - have been refinished.
Work continues on the control stick assembly: The fabrication of the inner control rod for the stick assembly has been completed. Machining the front and rear mounts are underway.
The right wing "Anson Johnson glycol and oil cooler plumbing" installation has been started. The inlet guides need to be completed and installed before the final plumbing goes in.
The missing right wing cooling inlet lower air path formers (Anson Johnson design) have been fabricated and the newly fabricated map case has been installed.
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Product DescriptionThe Continental Race King is the tire choice of two-time XC World Champion Irina Kalentieva (she scored the silver at the 2010 Worlds at Mt. Ste. Anne in Quebec on these tires, on a very soupy course). While the tire can withstand such goop, its rolled shoulder profile and diamond-head arrow center tread pattern is primarily designed for superb power transfer while maintaining a very low profile so that it rolls exceptionally fast. Luckily, Continental also incorporates transitional knobs from the center to the shoulder of the tire, so that when you're making quick weight transfers, from cornering to straight-ahead power and back again, the tire remains stable and secure beneath you. The shoulder knobs are low-profile, like the rest of the tread. Along the outer edge the pattern is doubled, with a ramped leading edge followed by a block tread -- the ramps roll quickly, but the block bites into the dirt for better traction.Here's the caveat about different types of mud: The tread pattern is fairly tight and if your home turf features stickier mud rather than the soupy variety (clay, perhaps?), a tire with a more open pattern, like Continental's X-King, would shed the slop more quickly. Or for a good pairing for most racing conditions, choose the X-King on the nose, for tauter steering control, and the Race King on the tail, for quicker acceleration and faster rolling. The Continental Race King comes in a 2.2" width with a 26" diameter. The casing features 3 plies totaling 84 TPI under the tread and sidewalls. The tire bead is foldable, and it comes in black on black. Claimed weight is 650g. Application: XC Race / TrailGround: Loose, Hard, Mud
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Date Reviewed: March 28, 2014
Strengths: Super fast rolling. Fastest I have driven yet
Weaknesses: You just ride the tire of the rim when you corner fast. Had them for one month, did 2 races and both the tires are broken now at the side just by cornering fast on dry sand.
Bottom Line:
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Similar Products Used: Schwalbe RR, FF
Date Reviewed: June 4, 2013
Strengths: First let me address that this tire isn't good when used on both wheels. I use the 2.2 in the back and a 2.4 Continental MountainKing in the front and it has been the best tire combination for singletrack mountain biking. The race king is a super fast rolling tire that provides great grip in the rear for climbing and traction.
Weaknesses: The tire tread could wrap around the tire a bit more i think.
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Date Reviewed: February 21, 2013
Strengths: High rolling, good control on sand, root, solid ground.
Weaknesses: bad control on wet ground, rocks, sidewall has less protect,
Bottom Line:
But when autumn has came I start lose control on wet ground.
Two times I teared a sidewall on rock.
So I decide to use this tires only on dry weather and without rocks.
For the wet weather I use tire with better hard pack.
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Date Reviewed: July 6, 2012
Strengths: Excellent grip, soft ride, corners well. high volume. quiet and very fast on pavement.
Weaknesses: Mine came in heavier than specified at 457g and 454g, heavier than the 430g specified (2.0 size).
Narrower than claimed, measured 1 7/8" wide @ 35 PSI.
Bottom Line:
Only 4 stars because heavier and narrower than stated by Continental, should labelled 1.9
Three months and no flats yet although I'm using these 90% on paved surfaces, no knobs have fallen off despite heavy braking unlike some users have experienced on here.
If you use your bike to get around town and ride the occiasonal hard packed trail these are a very good choice grip is outstanding and the low knob height means squirm is virtually absent.
For dedicated XC riding and racing there are plenty of other reviews here.
Date Reviewed: May 26, 2012
Strengths: Great climbing grip on hardpack
Fast, incredibly scary fast
Weaknesses: Next to useless on mud or loose dirt
Fragile, keep the heck away from rocks
Cornering can be interesting
Bottom Line:
Downsides? As soon as you hit mud or anything but the thinnest coating of loose dirt, the tire will slide out and dump you on your face, on those surfaces you'll have to ride it as if it's a slick. The Supersonic casing is fragile, it should be treated as a race only tire and not an everyday tire. You'll also have to re-adjust your cornering technique, I've found that a foot down moto-style works best for high speed turns while at lower speeds it helps to weight the tires hard to get it through the turn. If you try to casually lean it through a turn on anything other than paved roads or super solid hardpack, it tends to let go and slide out.
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2012
Strengths: Fast rolling... that is pretty much it
Weaknesses: It doesnt sit properly in the rim (while tubeless), beads dont hold air no matter what presure you pump in it
Bottom Line:
If the rest of the continental line up is like this I wont try them anymore...
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Price Paid: $58.00
Purchased At: universalcycles.com
Similar Products Used: Schwalbe tires, WTB TCS tires
Bike Setup: GT Force 3
Date Reviewed: March 23, 2012
Strengths: Fast rolling and great climbing for a rear tire only!
Weaknesses: Rear tire only none, as a front tire everything except when riding on concrete
Bottom Line:
Bottomlline: as a rear tire only, perfect, as a front, never ever again.
Another note; my Bontrager XR4 aired up ghetto 1st time also. No issues yet.
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Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Price Paid: $45.00
Bike Setup: BMC Speed Fox, 26" 1:9
Date Reviewed: September 17, 2011
Strengths: Super fast, straight line speed and ease of acceleration are great
Weaknesses: Whether dry or wet cornering on these things is a nightmare, i have them front and back and the whole bike just looses it on anything loose but then never gets it back, I can handle a little slip but if you put these tires to the edge theres no getting them back.
Bottom Line:
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Bike Setup: Niner jet 9
Date Reviewed: July 4, 2011
Strengths: fast, light, wear slowly
Weaknesses: none so far
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $60.00
Purchased At: came with the bike
Similar Products Used: relatively expensive
Bike Setup: Rocky Mountain Element team, complete XTR components, Fox RL,
XTR hubs and wheels
Date Reviewed: May 29, 2011
Strengths: Incredible grip on dry hardpack to (slightly) moist singletrack. Grips wet rock and roots very well. Very fast rolling and very light.
Weaknesses: Zero grip in mud. Thorn resistance of a gum wrapper
Bottom Line:
The knobs are low and the tire has a "round" profile, minimizing the amount of tire in contact with the ground at any one time. It rolls very, very fast - on paved or hard sections it is almost like a road tire - and it is super-lightweight so it accelerates very quickly.
The secret to the grip is the sticky "Black Chilli" compound rather than the mechanical interlock of the tire knobs. This means that the tire responds well to load: taking a corner at a slow to medium speed may result in sliding, but really load the tire up and corner hard and it will grip. This takes a little getting used to, but once you realize that the tire wants to be worked hard, you can carry a lot more speed than you thought possible.
The tire has two weaknesses:
The first is that it is utterly unsuitable for mud. The low-profile knobs load up immediately and there are no large side lugs to assist when the going gets sloppy. As little as a quarter-inch of mud can cause these tires to instantly break loose. Moist forest loam is fine, but get into mud and you are going for a ride.
The other is the paper-thin Supersonic carcass. Fine for regular use (and actually surprisingly resilient) the carcass offers zero thorn resistance. If your riding area is full of thorns, this tire is not for you.
Note that Continental's size rating is out to lunch. While listed as a 2.0, this tire measures 1.8"
If the aim is going fast, and the conditions match what the tire is designed for, this is an amazing tire.
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $80.00
Purchased At: Bicycle World
Similar Products Used: Various other XC race tires
Bike Setup: Norco Faze, RK Supersonic 2.0
Date Reviewed: May 4, 2011
Strengths: 2.2 RK - Roll fast, light weight, good volume, great traction in most conditions.
Weaknesses: Thin side walls
Bottom Line:
These tires are extremely fast, provide good cushion, and grip well in corners at the right tire pressure. Pressure for these tires is key > run low pressure.
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $55.00
Purchased At: Jenson USA
Similar Products Used: Conti MKs, Schwalbe RoRo, Panaracer Razer MX
Bike Setup: Light weight 26" hardtail. Tires run with tubes at about 28 psi front, and 35 psi rear.
Date Reviewed: April 28, 2011
Strengths: Lightweight.
Weaknesses: Everything!
Bottom Line:
While those are bad characteristics for a tire to have, the worst is the flimsy - and I do mean flimsy - sidewall. Contrary to problems others have had, I didn't have a problem setting them up tubeless and have never really had major problems with them holding air but where I have a MAJOR problem is with the fact that the sidewall is so week that, once it breaks in, it rolls over every time you dive into a turn making it nothing short of dangerous as you're constantly risking having the tire completely separate from the rim in all moderate or above cornering situations.
Bottom line, don't bother with these things; you'll seriously regret spending your money on garbage!
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Date Reviewed: February 12, 2011
Strengths: X-king RS 2.2 weight, they are so light they cant hold air when mounted tubeless
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Date Reviewed: January 23, 2011
Strengths: Light weight, Big Volume, Easy to mount
Weaknesses: Sloppy mud but what tire doesn't have this as a weakness. Doesn't have great braking power.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $35.00
Purchased At: Amazon
Similar Products Used: Various xc type tires
Bike Setup: Jamis Dragon Pro Conti Race King 2.2 on rear and Mountain King 2.4 front both tubed.
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2010
Strengths: The price, nobody want this tire so you can find cheap. Fas tire in hard surfaces.
Buena rodadora, muy duradera.
Weaknesses: In wet conditions it is the worst tire ever made. In gravel is very bad. Don´t take corners properly.
No agarran nada en condiciones de mojado, con un poco de agua o rocio de la mañana se convierten en muy peligrosas no traccionando nada. No tiene tacos laterales y no agarra bien en curva. No recomendada para rueda delantera, quizas como trasera pueda servir ya que no es mala rodadora.
Bottom Line:
Buena eleccion para gente que va de paseo con la bici o no exige nada a unas cubiertas mas que una buena duracion, ese es el punto fuerte, la duracion. Ademas es buena rodadora, cosa que sirve de poco si no agarra en curva con terreno suelto o humedo.
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $18.00
Purchased At: Motoburgos
Similar Products Used: Kenda, Schwalbe, michelin, tioga, maxxis, duro, Huchinson.
Bike Setup: Exclusive genesis full XT
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- WANN represents a significant moment in American cultural history—the rise of black-oriented broadcasting. Although blacks constituted 10 percent of the population, black interest in broadcasting on any scale, didn't begin until 1948. That year WDIA in Memphis became the first station to go to a format with exclusively black on-air personnel. Shortly after, a handful of stations committed to black interests. WANN was one of the first half-dozen. The station went on the air in 1948, and by 1950 owner and manager Morris Blum had directed his station to the black community in Annapolis and the surrounding area.
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Comments about Dumonde Tech Original Chain Lube:
it has a good gummy smell is what you'll notice at first.dumonde original has a thicker consistency compared to other chain lube.the technique is apply after cleaning /drying your bike chain and wipe off the excess oil before hitting the trail.actually an hour after application is enough time before wiping it off.i like this lube because re-applying is not as often compared to what i used,(pro link).
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I used this product riding the Colorado Trail over the San Juan Mountains. After numerous stream crossings the chain would start to make noise. I would try to limit the use of this product to dry conditions. On the dry days it seemed to last longer.
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Very good lubricant.
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A great plating product if used properly. Best to start with a new chain. Clean oil off new chain before applying. Capillary action will pull product into pins. Clean with water and Park chain cleaner tool. Only reapply after complete cleaning. A good intermediate lube is White Lightning.
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Handy applicator; when used on a clean chain, stays in place and provides miles of noise free enjoyment.
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I normally ride in a lot of dust, using other lube the dust would grind the gears and sprockets till the slots looked long with sharp points at the top. And the chain would be so worn that my chain gauge would go through on the no go side in just a couple of hundred miles. This stuff fixed the problem. I always have a clean chain with no dust on it.
Once you learn to use this stuff correctly you will stick with it. I use the dark green stuff on my mountain bike and the lighter colored stuff on my road bike.
1. Soak the chain in some mean green or simple green to get all the old lube out of it.
2. With the chain on the bike, slowly (real slow) run the chain backwards putting one drop on each lug on every link. It will take a few minutes but well worth the time it takes.
3. Ride the bike around the block a couple of laps shifting gears to make sure you embed the lube into all the gears, sprockets and chain links.
4. When you get back you will notice some black gunk all over everything. Just wipe it all off and go for your normal ride. Do not re-lube.
You will notice the black gunk will come back on the first and maybe second ride after each lube. Don't re-lube, just wipe it off again.
**Don't re-lube till you "think" you hear the chain start making a squeaking sound.
If you wash your bike don't re-lube till you hear the squeaking sound or just feel like re-lubing. But it is not needed. When you do re-lube you will again see the black gunk. Again just wipe it off without re-lubing and keep riding.
I have dry lubes, wax lubes and this stuff is even better then ProGold Lube which at one time would swear by.
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Great product! Does what it advertises. Jenson came through with the best price and very fast delivery. Dripped onto chain with a rag underneath. Hard to tell if I completely covered all of the chain. Had more on the rag than I would expect. Overall, easy to apply, not too messy and will re-do it in a couple of weeks. Worried about build-up.
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I have used many chain lubes over the past 3 years and this one is the best. I've been using this since 2008 and am very happy.
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Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economies of Greed and Excess – Rahul Oka and Ian Kuijt
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System Failure: Institutions, Incentives, and Collective Folly – James Surowiecki
Greed Is Bad, Neutral, and Good: A Historical Perspective on Excessive Accumulation and Consumption – Rahul Oka and Ian Kuij
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Greed in a "Tribal" Economy? Acquisitiveness and Reciprocity in Lisu Society – E. Paul Durrenberger and Kathleen Gillogly
Boons and Busts: Asset Dynamics, Disaster, and the Politics of Wealth in Rural Mongolia – Daniel J. Murphy
Risk-Seeking Peasants, Excessive Artisans: Speculation in the Northern Andes – Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Loci of Greed in a Caribbean Paradise: Land Conflicts in Bocas del Toro, Panama – Gayatri Thamp
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Folk and Scientific Concepts in the Study of Greed – Robert C. Hunt
The Rich Possibilities of Greed and Excess – Virginia R. Dominguez
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