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HCPS interns develop software prototype
Two Henrico County students have spent their summer internships creating a working prototype of an online application system for students applying to the county's high school specialty centers.
The interns and management of eTelic Inc., the information technology firm that hosted the interns this summer, estimate that an automated system could save students, teachers and administrators as many as 20,000 total hours per year currently spent using the paper-based application process. Printing and paper costs for all also would be substantially reduced.
Jack Palen, a recent Maggie L. Walker Governor's School graduate headed to the University of Michigan, and Shravan Ravishankar, a rising senior at Deep Run High School, developed the online software application during their four-week internship using eTelic's proprietary rapid software application generator called Turanto.
According to Lynne Norris, department chairperson of Deep Run's Center for Information Technology, the real-world experience provided to Palen and Ravishankar in this endeavor will prove invaluable as they transition to college and a job after academics.
"This type of experience allows a student to see beyond school and experience what a business goes through in working to solve a real problem for itself or for a customer," Norris said. "Not many students have an opportunity to do that prior to entering the job market, which everyone knows is getting more competitive each year."
The two students are planning to schedule a presentation to HCPS officials in order to demonstrate the prototype, hoping it will assist county management in determining the scope and value of automating the current system in the future. An online system could replace the paper-based system used by 3,700 students per year as well as hundreds of teachers and administrators who submit transcripts and recommendations for eighth-grade applicants to the county's high school specialty centers.
"Normally this type of software program would take an experienced programmer working full time up to six months to create," said eTelic president Mukul Paithane. "It is remarkable that these two bright students built this complex, data-driven software application in only four weeks, and with minimal programming. Jack and Shravan were able to use their limited time focusing on analyzing a real-world 'business problem' and developing a practical solution to replace a paper-based application process, saving time and money for everyone involved."
Further development of the prototype would allow Henrico County eighth-grade students, teachers and administrators to complete, submit and review various documents online, including the application itself, along with other documents such as transcripts and teacher recommendations. They would be provided with secure access to the system in order to process information needed from them. Specialty Center school admissions officials would then use the system to access all information used to make decisions on which students should be admitted into various magnet schools.
"From my experience in using the current paper system, I know that an automated process would save other students tremendous amounts of time when applying, and the cost-savings for the county should be significant as well," said County Intern Coordinator Robert Stephens.
County plans Fourth of July event
Henrico County Recreation and Parks will present "Red, White, and Lights" at Meadow Farm Museum/Crump Park July 4.
Henrico County has hosted a Fourth of July celebration annually since 1981, but this year's event will offer a later start time and expanded hours and be highlighted by new entertainment.
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As part of its strategic plan, the YMCA of Greater Richmond works to identify, address and eliminate economic, geographic and cultural barriers. > Read more.
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Operator: Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the First Quarter 2012 Franklin Covey Earnings Conference Call. My name is Larry, and I'll be your operator for today. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. Later we will conduct the question-and-answer session.
I will now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Derek Hatch, Corporate Controller. Please proceed.
Derek Hatch - Corporate Controller, Central Services, Finance: Good afternoon, everyone, and Happy New Year. On behalf of Franklin Covey I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter conference call for fiscal 2012.
Before we begin today's presentation, we'd like to simply remind you that our presentation today contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based upon management's current expectations and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the ability of the Company to stabilize and grow revenues, the ability of the Company to hire productive sales professionals, general economic conditions, competition in the Company's targeted marketplace, market acceptance of new products or services and marketing strategies, changes in the Company's market share, changes in the size of the overall market for the Company's products, changes in the training and spending policies of the Company's clients and other factors identified and discussed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Many of these conditions are beyond our control or influence, any one of which may cause future results to differ materially from the Company's current expectations, and there can be no assurance that the Company's actual future performance will meet management's expectations. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of today's presentation.
With that out of the way, we'd like to turn the time over to Mr. Bob Whitman, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
Robert A. Whitman - Chairman and CEO: Good afternoon, everyone. We are delighted to have you with us. We're delighted to report on a very strong first quarter. Hopefully you've seen the press release on that. It turned out to be the strongest first quarter ever for our current business and one that also somewhat exceed our expectations. We continue to feel very good about the business, about our backlog, pipeline, momentum, and our outlook for the second quarter of the year and the expected trajectory of our business over the next several years.
Today I'm going to keep my remarks relatively brief to allow time – plenty of time for questions. So, I'd like to touch on three topics. First, some key headlines regarding the financial performance of the business during the first quarter. Second, our outlook for the year and what we see as the very positive trajectory for the business and our growth and earnings potential over the next several years, and then finally the potential for further accelerating our growth with the specific focus on one particular growth opportunity.

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CORINTH-- The Bucksport Bucks softball team has dominated since they moved down to class C before the 2012 season.
They came into this season as back to back state champions and with a 40 game win streak. The Bucks came into their class C semifinal contest against the Central Red Devils as the underdogs. Bucksport lost three games this season, including two against Central.
On Saturday afternoon, Bucksport proved they are the champions until someone knocks them off. Alanna Davis had two hits and four RBI, as the Bucks cruised to an 8-1 victory over the Red Devils.
Debbie Wight, Kim Nason, and Eliza Hosford recorded two hits each, while Samantha Goode pitched a complete game six hitter, walking three, and striking out eight for the Bucks.
Central started the game strong, as Becca Kelley retired the side in order, with two strikeouts during the top of the first inning. The Red Devils took the lead when Kelley ripped a run scoring double to center field.
Central held that lead until the Bucks scored three runs in the third inning. Davis had the big hit when she nailed a two run double to left center field. Wight hit a double that scored Davis for the third run of the inning. Hosford started the rally with her first of two bunt hits.
Tyler Dupont led off the top of the fourth inning with a single. She advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt from Madysen Robichaud, and to third on a wild pitch. Dupont came around to score when Hosford put down another perfect bunt.
The Bucks put the game away with four runs in the final two innings. That was plenty of run support for Goode, who seemed to get stronger as the game went on. Goode threw 118 pitched (74 strikes) and strikeout the final batter of the game on a devastating change up.
Brianna Bires reached base four times, with one hit, three walks, and one stolen base from the lead off spot for the Bucks. Hosford provided the lineup with balance as she reached base three times, scored two runs, and had one RBI from the number nine spot in the order.
Bucksport (15-3) will face Calais in the regional final at Brewer high school on Tuesday. Calais is 18-0 and they have outscored their opponents 245-13 this season.
Kelley strikeout eight in a complete game effort for the Red Devils. Tiffany Smith recorded two hits, including a double. Smith also draw a walk. Central finishes the season with a 14-4 record.


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What causes phobias?
The phobias can be caused by bad personal experiences, evolutionary processes which produced fear to warn us against dangers, cultural differences and learned behaviors from parents. They can start in childhood but rarely start after the individual reaches the age of 30.
These fears begin when people change their lives to accommodate the fear much like the examples of avoiding escalators and elevators and walking up many flights of stairs or avoiding places which have escalators and elevators altogether.
Simple phobias usually start in childhood but no one really knows what causes complex phobias. Researchers believe that social phobias may be caused by an extremely stressful situation.
Theories of Survival
Many theorists postulate that phobias stem from a biological need for survival. Children and adults were vulnerable to wild animal attacks. On the other hand social phobias and the fear of stranger could have been a result of attacks from strangers and warring tribes going as far back as cave man days and beyond.
Brain chemistry
Because the mind is not functioning appropriately by becoming too sensitive to the past situation it responds as if the situation is fresh and new each time the individual comes face to face with the situation. For example a person may have been bitten by a dog. Now, every time the person sees a dog he or she remembers that experience or maybe even relives it.
The amygdala will release the fight or flight response in the brain. In the case of phobias the mind may become oversensitive to a very bad experience and relives the memories over and over again. There are treatments that can relinquish that first memory and allow the individual to calm down when facing the terrifying object or thing.
Phobias are much more intense than simply just a simply fear.
Making the fear bigger than life
Exaggerating the risk of danger
Abnormal breathing (panting, trying to catch your breath)
accelerated heartbeat
Hot flushes
a sensation of choking
chest pains, chest tightness
butterflies in the stomach
pins and needles
dry mouth
confusion and disorientation
The MNT Knowledge Center goes on to say that, "Children may cry, become very clingy, attempt to hide behind a parent's legs or an object, or have tantrums."
Some phobias do not affect the person's life that much such as ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) when the person lives in the city and rarely if ever comes into contact with snakes. Others can be quite debilitating such as agoraphobia or social phobia where people are afraid to meet people or even leave their homes.
Other common phobias
Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Individuals will not go hiking or avoid living in tall apartment buildings. They may have trouble visiting doctors and other professions working in tall office buildings. Entering such buildings, walking up or down hills or other elevated places can lead to anxiety attacks.
Astraphobia, Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia, or CeraunophobiaAll these phobias refer to the fear of thunder or lightening
Driving phobia - fear of driving a car
Emetophobia - fear of vomiting
Erythrophobia - fear of blushing
Hypochondria - fear of becoming ill
Mysophobia – fear of germs or dirt
Trypanophobia – fear of injections and needles
Zoophobia - fear of animals
Non-psychological phobias of a biological nature
Photophobia is an extreme sensitivity to light. This is not a psychological phobia because you are not afraid of light just sensitive to it.
Hydrophobia is an extreme sensitivity to water. It can be a symptom brought on by rabies. Sufferers find it very difficult to drink.
Cognitive phobias
Homophobia is not a fear but a dislike or prejudice of a certain kind of people, such as gays
Ephebiphobia is a dislike of teenagers or young people
Xenophobia is the dislike of foreigners or all strangers or even a fear of the unknown.
Treatments for phobias
Medications such as beta-blockers used for high blood pressure, antidepressants, tranquilizers, behavior and cognitive therapy , are successful in combating phobias. Your doctor will discuss the proper treatment for you.


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More: We love the word reinvention at More, and you clearly define it. You went from being a rock-and-roll star to a respected entrepreneur. Why the change?
Bret Michaels: It was a combination of working hard, skill, luck and moving forward. For me, channeling my experience into something new was organic to what I do creatively in music. If I was going to make the change, it had to work for me—and it did. I first needed to succeed on a personal level, and when I felt I did I was ready to take my passion to the next level. I also discovered I need to laugh at both my failures and my successes.
More: Failures?
BM: Yes, but actually I don't call them failures. I call them lesser successes, and I don't let it drag me down. I try to take those experiences and learn from them so I can become stronger professionally. Trust me when I say I have been told no too many times to count. But rather than walking away, I push myself and work harder. The best education I gave myself was to read a lot of books and articles on how to succeed.
More: You have persisted in other areas as well, including your health.
BM: Yes, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was six years old. Not only was I the only kid in my class with this condition but, sadly, it runs in my family and took the life of my grandmother, who I was really close to, my great-grandmother and a few cousins. It's like a curse that hangs over my head.
More: Yet you said there was a positive to all of this?
BM: Yes. It made me grow up faster, roll with the punches and become a pretty strong person. I had to start acting like an adult really quickly and learn how to take care of myself.
More: Does it impact your red-carpet lifestyle?
BM: Diabetes will impact your life but you have to adjust for it. If I go on the set for something, I have to check my blood sugar every two hours and give myself five injections of insulin a day. However, I don't let it stop me from doing things I love, like riding my dirt bike and playing football and baseball. I mean, it takes more work than the average person's to do these things, but it's the card I was dealt so I just have to accept it.
More: Does it make you angry?
BM: Yes, because I did not ask for this. However, I have now learned how to funnel my negative energy into positive energy, such as exploring my creativity. That for me is the key to managing this and not taking my anger out on myself, my friends or my family.
More: You have also used your experiences with the condition to benefit other people.
BM: My mom and I formed a special camp for children with diabetes. Doing philanthropy work and using my celebrity to get programs pushed through has really helped me face my own obstacles.
More: You were also involved in a horrible car crash.
BM: That was a horrific experience. Between that, my diabetes, my brain hemorrhage and my appendectomy, there is an angel up above who is working overtime on me [laughs].
More: Let's talk about the brain hemorrhage you suffered.
BM: It was an explosion in the brain. What is still frightening to think about is there is no way to avoid it or keep it from happening. In my case, the blood vessel exploded at the base of the brainstem, which is extremely dangerous and sometimes fatal. Although I don't remember the three days of my life after it happened, I do remember the next 14 days in the ICU and finally being able to go to rehab and learn how to walk again.
More: You must have nine lives.
BH: All of these health scares have taught me the importance of embracing life. They made me decide not to be scared but to live life to the fullest. I have to learn how to mentally embrace what has happened to me and not be angry but just grateful that I am here. My only focus is to enjoy my life both professionally and personally.
More: Are you happy?
BM: I am happy. I have a beautiful family, I have beautiful kids, plus, Kristi [Kristi Gibson, his ex-fiancée and the mother of his two children] has been an amazing person in my life through thick and thin.
More: Last year you announced you both were calling off your engagement. How are you handling the split?
BM: We are fantastic. We have been through so many ups and downs before and always come out stronger and on top. I don't know what the future holds for us, but I can tell you we are the best of friends, more so than we have ever been.
More: How are the children doing with your new arrangement?
BM: When Kristi and I separated there was never any harsh fighting or using our kids. Although it wasn't easy and, yes, there were many tears involved because this is not easy to explain, we did work together as a team. We live close to each other so I see my kids every single day when I'm in town, I do their homework with them on the phone, I drive them to school and I make every effort to be there even when I am on the road. We talk about everything, keep the lines of communication open and always reinforce that we are a family no matter what.
More: Is the door open for reconciliation?
BM: If it is meant to be, it is meant to be.
More: Let's talk about your career. You released your latest album back in December.
BM: It is called Bret Michaels: Good Songs & Good Friends and it is 15 songs with everyone from Jimmy Buffett to Loretta Lynn to KISS to Van Halen, and Lil Jon even does rap. Making this album was the most fun I have ever had because it is a combination of all of the music both with Poison and solo.
More: You are also returning to the boardroom to face Donald Trump again. What is that all about?
BM: I love the fight, the business savvy of it all, the competition and making money for my charity, Bret Michaels Life Rocks Foundation. For me, doing All-Star Celebrity Apprentice was a no-brainer. When I got ill, it made me realize the importance of asking your friends to give, to raise money and delegate it to where it needs to go to help those less fortunate.
More: In addition to this show, you are also teaming up with the Travel Channel?
BM: Yes, I am doing a series called Rock My RV, which I did because it took me back to my childhood and the time of my life when all we did was RV, barbecue and camp.
More: You have had one too many trips to the ER. Aren't you taking on too much too soon?
BM: No. I feel great and am just embracing life to the fullest.
More: It sounds like you have it all.
BM: No. There is definitely a price to pay for having this lifestyle. Unfortunately, whatever you succeed at, there is always a price tag that comes with it and someone gets the short end of the stick. Unfortunately for me, I am forced to miss some things in my kids' lives. I try to make it up to them the best way I can by coming back for the big things. However, the extra travel really wears me out, especially with everything my body has been through.


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THE council has vowed to clamp down on Barnsley's litterbugs and is warning offenders will be punished with heavy fines.
Coun Charlie Wraith branded litter-dropping residents as 'cretins' and Coun Joe Hayward asked for offenders to be named and shamed.
"Enough is enough," Coun Hayward added. "We should not accept litter in Barnsley and there should be a zero tolerance approach. It is time for them to be named and shamed."
Coun Wraith visited Littleworth Park near Monk Bretton and said there was an 'indescribable' amount of litter strewn across the area.
He said: "There was easily two wagon loads of rubbish. We are looking at addresses of alleged offenders and hopefully there will be successful prosecutions."
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College Hockey:ECAC West Quarterfinal Playoff Games
It was a wild Saturday of hockey during the quarterfinal round of the ECAC West playoffs.
No. 3 Hobart defeated No. 2 Manhattanville, 6-2, at Playland Casino by carrying play through the first two periods. The Statesmen outshot Manhattanville, 26-12, during those 40 minutes and built a commanding 3-0 lead.
The Valiants had to open things up in the third period to put pressure on the Hobart net, but the Statesmen took advantage and outscored Manhattanville 3-2 in the stanza. Six different players scored, and every forward line earned points for Hobart in a very balanced attack.
The Neumann/Elmira game was anything but calm, cool, and collected.
The game seemed to be following Elmira's plan during the first 40 minutes. Darcy Vaillancourt tallied a pair of goals, one in the first and another to open the second period, and Elmira found itself with a comfortable 4-1 at home entering the third period.
An extraordinary occurrence was Neumann goaltender Ross MacKinnon being ejected from the game following Vaillancourt's goal 29 seconds into the second period. There was a scrum in front of MacKinnon, who took exception to something and swung away. Unfortunately, the blow landed on the referee who stepped in between he and an Elmira player. Bill Foster for Neumann earned a roughing penalty and Brock Sawyer from Elmira added an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during the same exchange.
Obviously, Elmira didn't pay attention to Neumann's comeback against Utica on Wednesday in the first round of the playoffs. In that game, the Knights were down 3-1 entering the third period, but roared back to beat the Pioneers, 4-3, in overtime.
Neumann followed a similar game plan against Elmira. Jordan Zalba scored just 19 seconds into the third period, and the Knights were off to the races. Ryan Dreger and Harley Garrioch tied the game 4-4 midway through the stanza, as Neumann outshot Elmira, 17-2, in the period.
Marlon Gardner took advantage of a sloppy Elmira line change 1:41 into overtime to finish off Neumann's comeback.
The 5-4 overtime win sends Neumann to Hobart for the championship game on March 3.
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Community banking at Astra Bank takes on a far deeper meaning beyond just serving the local community with banking products and services. We take our motto of "deep roots, deeper commitment" very seriously. It would be wonderful if we could centralize our community outreach efforts and manage everything in one place, but we recognize that this is neither feasible nor advantageous to the communities we serve. And that is why we place the onus of community involvement on our different branches and their staff. Location managers are empowered to scout suitable opportunities within their local community where the branch and its staff team can reach out, lend a hand and make a difference.
Our community service programs and initiatives run the whole gamut from helping to maintain local ball fields and parks, to charity golf tournaments, fundraising barbecues, food and clothing donation drives, helping out at retirement homes, and so on. Our branches also make sure that when doing business they support the local hospital bond issues and other economic efforts to help make things happen the way they should. We offer our help and support with general obligation bonds and also work closely with local governments and municipal corporations to help fund community initiatives.
We asked Richard Campbell, Astra Bank Chairman to comment on the bank's community involvement and he said, "When you have been around as a rock solid institution for over a 100 years, you can't help being deeply entrenched into the communities you serve. We consider ourselves an integral part of the community so making a difference and being a driver of positive change is what we take pride in doing every day, in many small and big ways."
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Elusive Pikes Peak Speed Record Is Safe For Another Year
It's a busy time in sports, with the World Cup, Wimbledon and lots of baseball competing for our attention. Racing fans have more than enough Formula One, Moto GP and Nascar to keep them distracted. But that's no excuse to forget about the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
The event, which wrapped up yesterday, is among my favorite motorsports contests partly because it is one of the few that still has an "unlimited" class. This is where highly modified vehicles with turbocharged engines putting out 1,000 horsepower snarl and spit fire from their exhaust pipes as they spin wheels and slide their way from the start line at 9,390 feet to the finish at the Peak's 14,110-foot summit. It is also an exciting, dangerous race that hasn't changed much since it began in 1916.
The 88th running of the contest near Colorado Springs, known as the Race to the Clouds, generated a lot of excitement this year because many predicted the longstanding 10-minute barrier would finally fall. In 1994 a driver named Rod Millen completed the 12.42-mile course in 10 minutes 4 seconds, giving everyone the impression that someone could finish in less than 10 within a year or two. But the mountain has been stingy ever since. Millen's record stood until Nobuhiro "Monster" Najima won in 2007 in 10 minutes, 1 second. With a more powerful car this year Najima hoped to break the record but managed just 10 minutes, 11 seconds. Still, he won overall for the fifth time in a row. A video of his record run show's how Najima handled the changing road surfaces.
While covering roughly 12 and a half miles in 10 minutes doesn't seem like a big accomplishment, doing so on the Pikes Peak course would be close to a miracle. The road changes among dirt, gravel and paved surfaces and the thin air at altitude robs engines of power and drivers of stamina. And there are limits to how much power one can actually use on the course's 156 slippery turns.
There is talk of paving the entire course, perhaps within a year or so. That would change the feel of the race, I think, for the worse. I would miss the graceful, sideways sweep of cars negotiating sharp bends on the dirt road. Pavement would also kill the 10-minute mystique because cars would be much faster on a paved road. Let's hope a driver can rewrite the record books before the pavers arrive.


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The fate of a tax credit that advocates say is needed to maintain tens of thousands of wind energy jobs will be decided during high-stakes, last-minute negotiations between President Obama and House Republicans over fiscal issues.
The credit was first signed by President George H.W. Bush and backed by a number of prominent Republicans. But some conservative House Republicans objected to the extension of the latest form of the credit this summer, arguing it is wasteful spending. Their cause was taken up by the party's presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, who argued the credit should expire.
Still, Republicans governors Terry Branstad of Iowa and Sam Brownback of Kansas joined Democratic governors on Tuesday's call urging the credit's extension. They said they represented a bipartisan group of 28 governors who back the tax break.


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The Competition is no longer the 'guys across the street'
The move to put work in lower-cost countries is a direct response to high labor costs and finding less-expensive places to build parts of planes, Boisture said. "It's no more complicated than that," Boisture said. The price of an airplane can't rise fast enough to cover cost increases, Boisture said. "This is a company whose costs are constantly increasing, and the market is not paying us back at the rate they're increasing," Boisture said. In the past, Wichita business jetmakers Cessna, Bombardier Learjet and Hawker Beechcraft primarily competed with one another, so costs were similar. In the future, literally "it's not going to be the guys across the street," said Textron's Donnelly. There's every reason to believe new competitors will have lower cost structures, he said. In addition, the majority of the orders for business jets are coming from global customers. And that's expected to grow. "That means we're building stuff in the wrong place, because we're going to be selling it, servicing it and delivering it on the other side of the word," Boisture said. That will take some flexibility to figure out what that means for the companies in the future, he said.
outsourcing is not a "zero-sum game," Spirit's Turner said, although it can feel that way in the current down cycle. Spirit has been a big recipient of outsourcing. It's facilities do work for Boeing, Airbus, Sikorsky, Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft and others. Airbus turned to Spirit because the Wichita company was on its list of low-cost locations, Turner said. On the other hand, Spirit is outsourcing work as well.
"You're going to see an ebb and flow as time goes on with those supply networks," as the value of the dollar improves and productivity of sites improve, Turner said. Some things will be done in-house, some not.
With all the projects Spirit has in the works with customers around the world, the Wichita facility can't do everything, Turner said. "We'd have a terrible time trying to design, build and ship everything out of Wichita," Turner said. Expectations, needs Long-term, the market will return and grow. Historically, each up cycle has been more robust than the previous one. "We ultimately have a growth industry," Turner said.
Eventually, the companies will need a trained work force. They're expecting a labor shortage when the economy turns around. Long-term, Cessna expects Sedgwick County will face a shortage of enough labor to support all its work, Pelton said. Cessna has an aging work force, and the number of employees eligible for retirement over the next 10 years is high, Pelton said. A work force shortage might sound bizarre considering thousands of Wichita workers were laid off in the past year. But a shortage followed the downturn in the early part of the last decade, Turner said. "It's going to happen."
Training is vital. Laid-off workers should be receiving stipends so they can get technical training today, Turner said. "It's the knowledge of our workers that make the difference," Turner said. There's no time to train and retrain when the market is booming. The city and state must work to protect aviation jobs in other ways. In a speech at last week's Wichita Aero Club luncheon, Gov. Mark Parkinson implored members of Wichita's aircraft industry to keep jobs in Wichita if they can. Parkinson said he recognizes that some states and areas are working hard to woo jobs by offering lucrative incentive packages. But if the incentives from Kansas are even close, he urged them to keep the work here.
Cessna's Pelton said Parkinson should have added one thing. He should have said that those incentives are a wake-up call for Wichita and for Kansas. Kansas must be sure it can stand on its own and compete.
"It's not about the state throwing a lot of money at us," Pelton said. "It's about having capabilities in place."
Keeping the aviation industry competitive is a skilled labor force, competitive labor rates and tax policies and treatments that support an industrial climate, he said. School systems must be able to support the industry, and the state must support the National Institute for Aviation Research and the work force training center, Turner added. There are a lot of ingredients, Pelton said. Wichita must be a dynamic place willing to change, Turner said. "This aviation industry is an absolute jewel for Wichita, south-central Kansas and for Kansas," Turner said. "We ought to have some serious strategies on how to keep it healthy."
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On the seventh anniversary of the Columbia disaster, President Obama unveiled a sweeping change of course for the nation's space program Monday, putting an end to NASA's post-Columbia moon program and shifting development and operation of new rockets and capsules from the government to private industry.
Requesting some $19 billion for NASA in fiscal 2011, the administration announced plans to pump an additional $6 billion into NASA's budget over the next five years to kick-start development of a new commercial manned spaceflight capability, including some $500 million in 2011.
A launch tower being built for the Ares I rocket, part of NASA's now-canceled Constellation program, stands at the Kennedy Space Center with the program's target–the moon–visible in the remote distance.
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Over that same five years, some $7.8 billion will be earmarked for new technology development, including autonomous rendezvous, orbital fuel transfer systems, and closed-loop life support systems. Another $3.1 billion will support development of new propulsion technologies needed by future heavy-lift rockets. And $3 billion will go to pay for a series of robotic missions to the moon and beyond to test systems needed for eventual manned flights.
"Imagine trips to Mars that take weeks instead of nearly a year, people fanning out across the inner solar system, exploring the moon, asteroids, and Mars nearly simultaneously in a steady stream of firsts," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told reporters. "And imagine all of this being done collaboratively with nations around the world. That is what the president's plan for NASA will enable, once we develop the new capabilities to make it a reality."
No timetables were established for human flights beyond low-Earth orbit, with deputies saying the focus instead will be on enabling technology development and innovation.
As for commercial flights to and from the International Space Station, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said she hoped a new private-sector launch system, possibly including modified versions of technology developed for the canceled moon program, could be available by around 2016 if not earlier.
"We will try to accelerate and use the great minds of industry to get a competition going, and I'm sure they'll want to beat that," she said.
Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin, chief architect of the now-canceled moon program, told CBS News the shift to commercial space operations was a profound mistake.
"I'm one of the biggest proponents of commercial spaceflight that there is, but it doesn't yet exist," he said. "I would like an enlightened government policy to help bring it about, but I don't believe you get there by destroying all your government capability so there's no option but for the government to do whatever necessary to get the 'commercial operators' to succeed. That's not the way to do it.
"Basically, you're burning the bridge behind you. Even if it's successful, now what you've done is you've created not a space program for the United States, you've created a capability to get to low-Earth orbit but there's nothing to do there because there's no government program," Griffin said. "Where's the market?"
Griffin said, "For the U.S. government to deliberately give up its lead in something that is fundamentally an enterprise of governments…for the United States to give up something that's an important part of our national identity in favor of outsourcing it to commercial enterprises when and as they come into being is bizarre."
George Bush's post-Columbia initiative to finish the International Space Station and retire the shuttle by the end of 2010 remains intact, with just five more missions planned for NASA's iconic winged spaceships. Funding is available to support operations through the end of the year–or early 2011 if necessary.
NASA dims lights for Constellation program (photos)
The new budget also extends operation of the space station through at least 2020 and increases funding for science and utilization.
But as expected, it halts development of the Ares family of rockets and the Orion crew capsules NASA was designing to carry astronauts to the station and back to the moon by the early 2020s as part of the Bush administration's Constellation program.
The cancellation of Constellation and the near-term shift to commercial launch operations is a "more radical (plan) than I expected," said John Logsdon, a space policy analyst at George Washington University.
"It represents a fundamental shift in the way NASA goes about doing business, from being the direct designer of our space capabilities and then having industry build NASA designs to being the customer of what industry builds," he said. "Even NASA people use the analogy to the air mail contracts the government signed in the '30s. It's going to be a very different way of doing business."
The Obama administration concluded the Constellation program, which has cost taxpayers more than $9 billion so far, "was over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation due to a failure to invest in critical new technologies," according to a budget summary.
"Using a broad range of criteria, an independent review panel determined that even if fully funded, NASA's program to repeat many of the achievements of the Apollo era…was the least attractive approach to space exploration as compared to potential alternatives."
The independent review, chaired by aerospace executive Norman Augustine, concluded last fall that the Constellation program, hobbled by previous budget reductions under the Bush and Obama administrations, was not workable without an additional $3 billion a year in restored funding.
The panel outlined a variety of alternatives and favored a so-called "flexible path" approach that called for relying on private industry for manned flights to and from low-Earth orbit while NASA focused on development of a new heavy-lift rocket and eventual flights to a variety of possible deep space targets, including the moon, asteroids, and even the moons of Mars.
The budget unveiled Monday said the Constellation program took money away from other NASA programs, "including robotic space exploration, science, and Earth observations."
The new budget cancels Constellation and replaces it with a focus on preparing a more capable approach to space exploration, including:
Research and development to support future heavy-lift rocket systems that will increase the capability of future exploration and lower operations costs.
A technology development and test program that aims to increase the capabilities and reduce the cost of future exploration activities. NASA, working with industry, will build, fly, and test in orbit key technologies such as automated, autonomous rendezvous and docking, closed-loop life support systems, in-orbit propellant transfer, and advanced in-space propulsion so that our future human and robotic exploration missions are both highly capable and affordable.
A series of robotic exploration missions to scout locations and demonstrate technologies to increase the safety and capability of future human missions and provide scientific dividends.
In a statement, Augustine said, "By allocating the technology resources highlighted in our report as being necessary, it will be possible to lay the foundation for travel beyond low-Earth-orbit…NASA will be able to focus on this true frontier and to regain its position as a cutting-edge research and development organization.
"This is obviously a demanding period from a budgetary standpoint. Importantly, the president's proposed program seems to match means to ends, and should therefore be executable," he said.
In a startling break with the past, the Obama administration ordered NASA to focus on a new initiative that would effectively outsource manned flight, turning to private industry to design and develop the rockets and spacecraft needed to carry U.S. astronauts to and from the space station.
Between the shuttle's retirement and the emergence of a new manned rocket system, U.S., European, Japanese, and Canadian astronauts will be forced to hitch rides on Russian Soyuz rockets at more than $50 million a ticket.
"The budget funds NASA to contract with industry to provide astronaut transportation to the International Space Station as soon as possible, reducing the risk of relying solely on foreign crew transports for years to come," the budget summary stated.
"A strengthened U.S. commercial space launch industry will bring needed competition, act as a catalyst for the development of other new businesses capitalizing on affordable access to space, help create thousands of new jobs, and help reduce the cost of human access to space."
The only U.S. rockets currently flying that are powerful enough to step into the roll of crew transport in the near term are the Boeing-built Delta 4 and Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 boosters used to launch military, scientific, and commercial satellites. Neither family of rockets is certified to carry humans.
Other companies are in the process of developing new spacecraft to carry supplies to the space station after the shuttle's retirement. But it remains to be seen how long it might take any of the commercial interests to develop, test, and deploy a manned rocket system.
It also is not yet clear what sort of control and oversight NASA will have in the new commercial arena, whether astronauts will remain government employees or private contractors, or how the agency's decades of operational experience might be leveraged by commercial operators.
"I think the primary way it translates over is for the winners in this commercial competition to hire the people that have the institutional memory," Logsdon said. "Second, we're going to be an operating station until at least 2020. So there's a core of operational folks inside NASA that will still be very much involved."
Contractors already occupy key positions in mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and at other NASA facilities, but it's not yet known how commercial manned space flights will be managed; who will have responsibility for mission design, safety, and execution; or how government facilities might be utilized.
Bolden and Garver provided no details into how the new program will be executed, but Bolden insisted safety will remain a top priority.
"NASA will set standards and processes to ensure that these commercially built and operated crew vehicles are safe," he said. "No one cares about safety more than I. I flew on the space shuttle four times. I lost friends in the two space shuttle tragedies. So I give you my word these vehicles will be safe."
William Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He has covered more than 115 shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune, and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harwood is a devoted amateur astronomer and co-author of "Comm Check: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia." You can follow his frequent status updates at the CBSNews.com Space Place, where this story was first published.
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BERLIN — Military officials from the European countries with orders to buy the Airbus A400M military transport plane tried and failed again Friday to resolve differences over how to share billions of euros in cost overruns, but said they would resume negotiations this coming week in Berlin in the hope of meeting a Jan. 31 deadline.
Many of the participating countries need the aircraft urgently as they play a greater and more demanding role in peacekeeping missions. The repeated delays — the A400M is now more than four years behind schedule — represent a big setback for European military cooperation.
Military procurement ministers from the seven customer nations met until late into the night Thursday with top managers from Airbus and its parent company, European Aeronautic Defense & Space.
"We will meet again early next week here in Berlin," a German defense ministry spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said Friday. "All of the participants do want a solution to this problem." Two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said they would likely take place Tuesday.
Alexander Reinhardt, a spokesman for EADS, said nailing down the critical details of how to finance the program remained a thorny issue.
"The negotiations have been difficult, as expected," Mr. Reinhardt said. Seven countries — Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey — together ordered 180 A400Ms in 2003 for €20 billion, or $28.2 billion. Last year, EADS and Airbus asked them to help cover an additional €5.2 billion in costs and to accept significant delivery delays. The company has asked the countries to agree to an additional 25 percent payment, or around €5 billion, according to people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. The Airbus chief executive, Thomas O. Enders, warned this month that without an agreement soon, the project might have to be abandoned, placing as many as 40,000 European jobs at risk.
But while France said it would consider paying more, Germany has been more than reluctant. It has ordered 60 of the 180 aircraft, while France has ordered 50.
France was supposed to receive the first deliveries of the A400M transport aircraft late last year and Germany in 2010, but the plane made its first test flight only last month. Both countries will now have to wait several years more, according to the German Defense Ministry.
Germany, however, has little room to maneuver. With 4,300 German troops based in northern Afghanistan, Berlin needs access to such aircraft for transporting not only troops but also such heavy equipment as tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters. Without the A400M, it must either modernize at huge expense its Transall aircraft, which are more than 30 years old, or lease Russian Antonov aircraft.
"We want the A400M but not at any price," the German defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, reiterated during an interview with the Bayernkurier newspaper to be published Saturday. "Our willingness to compromise has its limits." Britain, too, is furious about the delays, especially given its big role in Afghanistan. The German Defense ministry official said that cost was not the only issue still on the table, but range and payload as well. The A400M is currently several tons over its specified weight.
An audit of the A400M program by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was commissioned last year by the governments, has blamed a significant portion of the cost over-runs on EADS and Airbus for failing to put proper budget controls in place. It also said the manufacturer had consistently underestimated development costs.
The auditor's report, which was leaked to several European media this past week, estimated that the A400M was roughly €7.6 billion over budget.
EADS and Airbus have rejected the findings of the audit, but have so far failed to provide their own cost estimate for the program, now four years behind schedule.
EADS has already written off €2.4 billion in costs for a project that continues to expend cash at a rate of around €100 million each month.
The seven countries failed to meet an year-end 2009 deadline to agree on a new delivery schedule and financing arrangement for the contract, and last month set a new deadline of Jan. 31.
With the financial crisis and recession straining budgets across Europe, the governments have been reluctant to come up with more money.]]>
Hackers working with Iraqi militants were able to determine which areas of the country were under surveillance by the U.S. military, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, adding that video feeds from drones in Afghanistan also appear to have been compromised.
Meanwhile, a senior Air Force officer said Wednesday that a wave of new surveillance aircraft, both manned and unmanned, were being deployed to Afghanistan to bolster 'eyes in the sky' protection for the influx of American troops ordered by President Obama.
This apparent security breach, which had been known in military and intelligence circles to be possible, arose because the Predator unmanned aerial vehicles do not use encryption in the final link to their operators on the ground.
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Barring poor weather or technical issues, Airbus Military officials late this week expect to complete a roughly 3-hr. flight from the company's facility here to demonstrate the aircraft's basic handling characteristics.
The event has been a long time coming, owing, in part, to development delays with the engine and subsystems that have set the program back several years. The event marks the official beginning of a flight-test program that calls for 4,370 hr., says Eric Isorce, chief flight test engineer. About 60% of the effort will focus on military certification, the balance will be dedicated to gaining European Aviation Safety Agency approval.
Six crew will be onboard, backed by 50 engineers at each of the two main telemetry stations in Seville and Toulouse.
The aircraft will initially be flown in direct law with some dampening. After takeoff—rotation speed is projected to be 120 kt.—the aircraft will climb to a medium altitude and the gear will be retracted. At 10,000 ft. some basic performance checks will occur, the aircraft will be taken close to its maximum speed of around Mach 0.72, and then to its minimum speed, says Ed Strongman, Airbus's chief military test pilot who will be at the controls. Afterward, flight controls will be shifted to normal law and further segments of the flight envelope will be explored before returning to Seville.
The flight will likely be followed by two days of data evaluation and inspections. Strongman expects the pace of flight trials to pick up early next year.
Ground trials by the flight-test department have been underway since Nov. 12 and already a number of system refinements have been identified. Some are needed for first flight, others can wait until further in the development. Still, Strongman says, preparations are "ahead of my expectations."
One problem is nacelle heating when the airlifter is on the ground. Heat buildup is higher than anticipated—something already seen on the C-130 flying testbed. As a fix, engineers have determined that they can take some air off the high-pressure compressor for a nacelle ejector system to provide better ventilation at low power. The switchover, only needed on the ground at low speed and low wind, is now activated manually, but an automatic function is to be developed.
The exhaust gases are also overheating aft parts of the nacelle in some conditions. As an interim step, insulation and metal plate protection is being added. A more permanent fix is planned for the third flight-test aircraft.
On the other hand, engineers are seeing less heat buildup at the auxiliary power unit exhaust on the wing than expected, potentially allowing the exhaust to be shortened to reduce drag.
Tweaks are also being made to the engine settings. For now, high reverse power is limited to inboard engines. The ground-idle position may change for a better neutral-thrust position, Strongman says, noting that the issue will not affect first-flight plans. Overall, engines have shown "good response."
As expected, in ground reverse the pitot static tubes are exposed to airflow that is leading to anomalous air speed indications, which is causing the information to be rejected by the flight-control computer. Airbus officials anticipated the anomaly and are assessing where to apply the needed software filter.
Airbus also had to refine the software controlling the anti-skid braking system, which, early on, showed poor characteristics. Initial trials also encountered the loss of tachometer data from some of the wheels. This is being addressed in the near term by strengthening connectors.
"We are solving problems very quickly," Strongman notes. In one case, the TP400D turboprop engines had start-up difficulties, but the Europrop International engine consortium was able to deliver a software fix to the full authority digital flight control system overnight.
Eventually, the flight-test program will comprise five aircraft. Program officials still have a bit of margin to handle any glitches, but are downplaying the chance of recovering some of the schedule lost.
From http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/A400MUPDATE120409.xml&headline=Airbus%20Military%20Poised%20For%20First%20Flight%20This%20Week
If the new development schedule can be met it may still be that the aircraft will attract a wide market and come to be a mainstay of Military airlift.
The A400 is intended to carry up to nearly 40,000 kg 1800nm, cruise at up to 400 kts and take off from unprepared fields under 1000 m. It is planned to have a ferry range of 5000nm. Wow.
Airbus has said its long-delayed A400M military transport aircraft should be ready to make its first test flight around the 7th December.
The A400M, designed to replace ageing military cargo carriers, has been on order by several European air forces for many years, however, a series of technical problems has created delays.
The aircraft was due to enter service with air forces this year, but the date has now been put back to 2013.
French and German officials have already told Airbus it only has until the end of the year to prove that the project remains viable.
Earlier this month, South Africa cancelled a multi-billion dollar contract for the planes.]]>
The MV-22s, which fly higher and faster than the helicopters they replace, are less vulnerable to ground fire. MV-22s were only fired on a few times in Iraq, and none of the aircraft were hit. The high speed and altitude (at least 9,000 feet, or 3,000 meters), kept the aircraft out range of most enemy weapons. Helicopters fly lower and slower. To do otherwise would further reduce the range of a helicopter. A big advantage in Afghanistan is the higher speed (about twice that of helicopters), enabling reinforcements to reach their objective in a more timely fashion. MV-22s also have longer range than helicopters, meaning more of Afghanistan is within range of fast moving reinforcements (of troops and supplies.)
The MV-22s proved easier to maintain than the CH-46 aircraft they are replacing. The MV-22s needed 9.5 man hours of maintenance for each hour in the air, versus 24 hours of maintenance for each hour the CH-46s fly. These helicopters are all over twenty years old, which adds a few hours to their maintenance requirements. While the MV-22 required less maintenance than expected, the dust and sand in Iraq led to some engines being replaced earlier than expected. That problem has been tended to, so the MV-22s in Afghanistan will have less of a problem.
Some of the MV-22s sent to Afghanistan are equipped with a GAU-2B machine-gun fitted to the bottom of the aircraft. The GAU-2B is a remote control turret using a six-barrel 7.62mm machine-gun. This system has a rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute (50 per second), and max range of 1,500 meters. The system weighs a few hundred pounds and includes 4,000 rounds of ammo. A member of the crew uses a video game like interface to operate the gun.
The marine MV-22s can carry 24 troops 700 kilometers (vertical take-off, level flight, landing, and return) at 400 kilometers an hour. The MV-22 is replacing the CH-46E helicopter, which can carry 12 troops 350 kilometers at a speed of 200 kilometers an hour. The MV-22 can carry a 10,000-pound external sling load 135 kilometers, while the CH-46E can carry 3,000 pounds only 90 kilometers.
From http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairmo/articles/20091121.aspx
The Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments — or MATRIX — fired a 2½ kilowatt-class high energy laser that knocked down the aircraft, according to an Air Force Research Laboratory statement.
MATRIX "acquired, tracked" and destroyed the targets at "significant ranges," the statement said. Scientists and engineers will design the laser system to protect the U.S. from enemy unmanned aircraft.
It was unclear how the laser brought down the aircraft or how big they were.
Boeing Directed Energy Systems built the MATRIX. The defense contractor has also developed the Airborne Laser — a Boeing 747 with a laser mounted on the nose designed to shoot down ballistic missiles.
Boeing also tested its Laser Avenger system at China Lake. The Humvee-mounted directed energy air defense system shot down another unmanned aircraft.
The Air Force Research Lab sponsored the test, which also was attended by Army and Navy officials.
"These tests validate the use of directed energy to negate potential hostile threats against the homeland," Bill Baker, chief scientist of the Lab's Directed Energy Directorate,
The 100-kilowatt target
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has reported that it has fired a solid-state laser beam with a potency of 105.5 kilowatts.
For the ray-gun wing of the military-industrial complex, the 100-kilowatt threshold is a major milestone, marking the entry point to weapons-grade laser weapons. Adding to the appeal is that solid-state lasers are much more compact, and less noxious, than chemical laser systems such as the one in the works for the 747-centric Airborne Laser.
The technical details of Northrop's achievement break down this way, starting with a modular, "building block" approach that bodes well for scalable systems, the company said:
For building blocks, the company utilizes "laser amplifier chains," each producing approximately 15kW of power in a high-quality beam. Seven laser chains were combined to produce a single beam of 105.5 kW. The seven-chain JHPSSL laser demonstrator ran for more than five minutes, achieved electro-optical efficiency of 19.3 percent, reaching full power in less than 0.6 seconds, all with beam quality of better than 3.0.
Adding an eighth chain that the system was designed for would increase laser power to 120 kilowatts, Northrop says.
Where this test saw five minutes of continuous operation for the laser, altogether the system has been operated at above 100 kilowatts for a total duration of more than 85 minutes.
The efforts are part of the Pentagon's Joint High Power Solid State Laser (JHPSSL) program.
Even though 100 kilowatts has long been the "proof of principle" sought for weapons systems, Northrop says that "in fact, many militarily useful effects can be achieved by laser weapons of 25 kW or 50 kW, provided this energy is transmitted with good beam quality, as our system does."
Of course, this is still a laboratory laser system and not a field-tested, ruggedized product. "It is still a little heavy and a little big," Dan Wildt, vice president of Northrop's directed energy systems program, told the LA Times.
That's probably a significant understatement. Says Noah Shachtman at Wired's Danger Room blog of the news from Northrop:
Does that mean energy weapons are a done deal? Hardly. There are still all sorts of technical issues–thermal management and miniaturization, to name two–that have to be handled first. Then, the ray gunners have to find the money. The National Academies figure it'll take another $100 million to get battlefield lasers right.
In a separate post, Shachtman reports on what's involved in getting specific laser systems ready to go over the next several years.
Earlier this year, Boeing said that it had used a "kilowatt-class" solid-state laser to shoot down a UAV from a ground-based system. The company hopes that the Airborne Laser, meanwhile, will do its first-ever aerial target shoot sometime in 2009.


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By Your Horse
Tack and equipment advice
07 February 2012 14:41
The chambon is used to encourage the horse to work in a longer, lower outline, using the muscles over the back, quarters and neck. It's ideal for the early stages of a horse's education or in retraining. "It's effective for horses who go in a hollow outline, with their head up, back dropped and quarters trailing," explains expert instructor and dressage trainer Tara Osborn. "By encouraging the longer, lower frame, the horse will learn to use his back muscles and engage his quarters. It must be introduced slowly and the horse must be encouraged forward into the contact to get the best results."
What is it?A cord clips to each bit ring and then passes upwards and through a loop on each side of a poll strap. From here, the cords drop downwards to attach to a single strap that passes between the horse's forelegs and loops onto the girth or roller.
When should it be used?For lungeing or loose schooling on the flat.
How does it work?The chambon acts on the poll and, via the bit, on the corners of the mouth. When the horse raises his head higher than desired, the bit is raised in the mouth and poll pressure is applied. As soon as he lowers his head the pressure is removed. In effect, the horse works the chambon.
What is it good for- Developing suppleness of the back- Encouraging a longer, lower frame- Developing muscle over the back and loins - particularly good for strengthening those used for show jumping- Strengthening the hindquarters- Developing looseness in the paces through suppleness in the back- Developing topline muscle
If fitted too tightly, the horse will draw his neck back and become overbent. If the chambon is too loose, the horse will trail his quarters and little muscle development will be achieved. Finally, the horse shouldn't be allowed to slop along so no connection to the contact is made. Any of these mistakes will lead to the horse working on his forehand.
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AVON — It wasn't pretty, but the Wadsworth boys track and field team had more than enough firepower Saturday to rule the field for the second straight year at the 37th Avon Reynolds Relays.
The Grizzlies won seven out of 16 events and finished with 121 points to easily outdistance Avon (97). The Grizzlies were so dominant that a dropped baton in the 4×200-meter relay — the last event — was a non-factor.
Ryan Looser and Hunter Williams each had multiple wins.
Looser won the 110-meter hurdles (15.94) and teamed with Zack Metz to win the long jump relay (39 feet, 2½ inches). Looser had the meet's best long jump mark at 19-11¾.
He was also a member of the second-place shuttle hurdles (1:06.98) and the third-place sprint medley (1:38.23).
"We came out here knowing what we had to do," Looser said. "We were looking to get PRs (personal records). When you are focused on that, you're sure to run well and get good results. We had a good team effort."
Wadsworth is the first boys team at the Reynolds classic to win back-to-back titles since Highland in 2006 and '07.
"That 400 leg in the sprint medley certainly is tough," Looser said. "You're moving your legs as fast as you can, but it seems like you're not going very fast."
Hunter Williams won the 100 (11.23) and teamed with Devon Gilkerson, Matt Blamble and Josh Weber for the winning 4×100 (44.18).
Williams didn't appear satisfied.
"Many of us had an off day, but we still got it done," said Williams. "Personally, I could have done better. I was a little disappointed with my 100-meter time.
But overall, I think we'll be happy going home."
Metz also had a hand in the winning pole vault relay with Matt Palak (25-6), which gave him three wins.
Jeff Batey and Jon Bach contributed in two winning relays. They teamed with Nick Winkler and Matt Biedler in the 4×800 (8:34.43) after teaming earlier with Ben Murphy and Theo Bach to take the 4x,1600 (18:49.63) by four seconds over Avon Lake (18:53.76).
The Highland girls were in contention nearly the entire way before finishing third (74) behind Avon (84) and Rocky River (76).
Sam Duale, Colleen Hoynes, Emma Grantier and Sarah Carpenter won the 4×1 (50.26) and 4×2 (1:46.81) relays.
Carlee Rhoads won the 1,600 (5:11.05) by 14 seconds. Nikki McKenna and Jenna Saunders combined to help the Hornets to win the high jump relay (10-0) at Avon for the fifth year in a row.
"The girls did a very nice job," Highland coach Paul Lushes said. "Aside from Carlee Rhoads, we don't have the depth yet in the distance events. We have some young girls coming up and struggle there a little bit but we make up for it there in the field events. Obviously, the sprinters did very well.
"We've been fortunate to have many good high jumpers like Nikki McKenna and Jenna Saunders. Nikki came through in a big way. She was very sick to her stomach all morning. Her dad called at 6:30 this morning and said she was throwing up. She had to miss the team bus and I wasn't sure if she could make it up here. Her dad brought her to meet at around 10:30 and she ends up going 5-2 in high jump despite feeling pretty nauseous."
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Men's Four Captures Head Of The Charles
Cardinal crew captures championship four class
2011-12 Stanford Athletics Year In Review
Honors and awards for the 2011-12 season
Stanford Men's II Eight Into IRA Grand Final
Cardinal out-races Navy for last Grand Final berth of heat
Stanford Men Claim Third At Pac-12 Championships
Cardinal I Eight takes third in Grand Final
2010-11: Named to Pac-10 All-Academic second team ... placed second in the Sharp Cabrillo Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic.
2009-10: Walked on and won a Bronze medal in Frosh 8+ at 2010 Pac-10 ... finished sixth in Frosh 8+ at 2010 IRA.
High School: Varsity basketball player and swimmer, captained wrestling and baseball at HCHS ... Bernard S. Miller Award for service to high school athletics ... National Merit Scholar winner.
Personal: Born in Manhattan, N.Y. ... has one younger brother, Daniel ... parents are Helene and Joel Lupatkin.


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Apart from the Janacek cancellation, The Dallas Opera has announced some intriguing programming for 2011-12. In collaboration with the Dallas Theater Center, across the street at the Wyly Theatre, the company will mount three performances of Peter Maxwell Davies' chamber opera The Lighthouse, a work both musically innovative and fairly short. We'll also get, next year, the company's second production (the first was 35 years ago) of Wagner's revolutionary Tristan und Isolde, but now only semistaged. Not much actually happens in Wagner, anyway, at least for the eye; the lovers and other characters in Tristan spend a lot of their time just standing onstage, bemoaning their fates. The Dallas Opera has re-engaged Elaine McCarthy, who did the brilliant computer-generated projections for the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick last year. Light staging and projections—"light" in two senses—will cost less than renting costumes and sets.
One thing Cerny doesn't want opera to be is "fussy." Going after students, young people, new audiences is all well and good. But the advertising that the marketing gurus have generated might astound and annoy even someone lacking old fogey status. In print, we see this for next season: "Lucia di Lammermoor: Dead Men DO Wear Plaid." And "La Traviata: Let's Party Like It's 1849!" And on the radio, you may recall the far from fetching interchange last March advertising Rigoletto: "It's about a jester"; "Surely, you jest"; "Don't call me Shirley." Fort Worth Opera is even worse, with so-called "real" conversations between timid, scared first-time opera-goers who need reassurance that everything will be all right. I am not a stuffy fuddy-duddy, but these people sound—not to put too fine a word on it—imbecilic.
My question to Cerny: aren't these radio spots demeaning and condescending, not just to the art form but to the potential audiences who are being insulted as crude and barbaric by the very group trying to woo them? He said that even in San Francisco, the supposedly more sophisticated city on the hill, similar ads produced positive results. The public loved them. Go figure. I guess people like being talked down to; it calms their nerves rather than insults their intelligence.
Of all the arts, opera is the costliest because it is the most collaborative. Demographically, its audiences are older than those at the symphony. Audiences for dance, even ballet, are younger still. One understands why: dance gives you bodies in motion. It's sex onstage. And neither dance nor orchestral music threatens to take as much of your time as an evening of "Grand" (horrible adjective) Opera. The businessmen, creative people, and the patrons who hold the purse strings must work together to keep what was a lively popular form in the 19th century, the age of most operatic masterpieces, alive. If ads that seem vulgar to an academic like me will do the trick, I'll be happy to reap the benefit of their success. If ramping up revenues requires dumbing down advertising, so be it.
Whatever works, works. In arts organizations, what has worked best and most, until now, is longevity. And this presents a real problem today. The late Peter Marzio directed the Houston Museum of Fine Arts for nearly 30 years. He built up relations with local donors; he increased the stature of a great museum. Ditto David Gockley, who turned the Houston Grand Opera into an internationally acclaimed company, famous for new commissions and premieres, during his even longer tenure, until 2005, when he left for San Francisco. Going farther afield, we find the conductor James Levine, however faltering, in his 40th year at the Metropolitan Opera. Philippe de Montebello held the reins at the Metropolitan Museum for three decades.
No Dallas arts organization has had the good luck or the luxury of such lengthy directorship. Keith Cerny won't stay here for 30 years. The question is: can he, and other arts leaders, work their miracles in shorter time spans? One of Cerny's fans is Arlene Dayton, a major arts patron who has worked for just about every organization in town. She calls Cerny "knowledgeable in music, management, and finance, a strategic thinker with ideas and plans about how this opera company should look in the 21st century." She is playing her cards close to her vest. Major musical organizations across the country—the estimable Philadelphia Orchestra and George Steel's New York City Opera most prominently—are beginning to totter or sink. Some will disappear. Cerny and The Dallas Opera will succeed if they deliver the kind of product, and nurture the kinds of audiences, they want and need. And if they can do this while also living within their fiscal means, then they will have made an important statement about the artistic value of economic prudence.
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The government of Pakistan said on Dec. 28 it has evidence that Al Qaeda was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Her supporters immediately cast blame on the rival Musharraf regime when Bhutto was murdered
Her funeral on Dec. 28 was a massive outpouring of public grief.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners filled the streets near Larkana, Pakistan Dec. 28 morning, as the ambulance carrying the coffin of Benazir Bhutto made its way to her family's mausoleum.
The 54-year-old opposition leader was shot and killed after a political rally on Dec. 27.
20 others were also killed by a suicide bomber.
"How can this blast happen amid so much security," said one Bhutto supporter.
Bhutto's husband and one of her three children could be seen approaching the gravesite.
Some wept, others shouted "Benazir is alive" as the plain wooden coffin, draped in the flag of her Pakistan's people's party, was placed in a grave beside her father and brothers, who were also assassinated.
"What has happened is incredibly tragic and we recognize that she is the fourth Bhutto to die and she is a 'Shahid,' said Zulfqar Ali Bhutto Bhutto's nephew.
At least 23 dead people have died in the past day as Bhutto supporters, many of whom blame President Pervez Musharraf's government for the assassination, rioted in several cities, less than two weeks before crucial elections.
"We are all very sad of Benazir's death may God grant her a place in heaven, but her supporters should not burn cars," said Mohammad Ilyas, a local resident.
But Pakistan's interior minister now says Al-Qaida and the Taliban were behind the attack.
The family requested a private funeral.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will go to the Pakistan Embassy here in Washington on Dec. 28 to sign the condolence book.
Pakistan is covered in violence following Bhutto's assassination.
There have been reports of mobs burning ten railway stations and several trains.
And a senior railroad official says rioters have uprooted a section of track leading to the Indian border.
Bus services have also been canceled.


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Cult Heroes: Nicky Summerbee
by Ashley Houghton
Fan favourite in the spotlight.
Pacy winger Nicky Summerbee was an integral part of the 1998-99 championship winning campaign, providing many of the goals for the deadly strike partnership of Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips.
Along with Allan Johnston on the opposite flank, Summerbee became renowned for the ability to plant balls onto the head of Quinn and into the feet of Phillips – in a season where the Black Cats scored 108 goals in all competitions.
Summerbee signed for Sunderland as part of an exchange deal with Manchester City worth £1m, with Craig Russell moving in the other direction.
The Cheshire-born winger went on to make over 100 appearances for the Black Cats in a four-year spell at the Stadium of Light.
He made an instant impact as well, scoring on his debut as Sunderland hammered Portsmouth 4-1 at Fratton Park.
Summerbee scored the fourth goal in the famous Wembley play-off final to Charlton Athletic, whilst also scoring his penalty as the Black Cats suffered penalty heart-break.
Running out onto the pitch at the SoL remains Summerbee's fondest memory and he holds the fans in the highest regard - still attending matches when work commitments allow.


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