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Trade show survival tips from the pros
March 08, 2011 - MMH Editorial
George Prest: Chief Operating Officer of the Material Handling Industry of America with 30 years of experience both in managing and owning materials handling manufacturing companies.
• Have a plan of attack.
• Study the plan of the show floor and map out your target exhibitors.
• Make sure you understand the segmentation of the show floor. This will help you find a booth if you need to go back because the person you wanted to see wasn't available the first time around.
• Bring plenty of business cards for those chance encounters and networking opportunities.
• Wear a good pair of walking shoes and don't worry about fashion. This is opportunity time and you need to be on your toes!
• Having a couple of energy bars in your pocket is always a good idea, as time goes by fast and you may find that lunchtime blew right by.
Brad Moore: Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Swisslog Logistics and vice chairman of the Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems industry group of the Material Handling Industry of America.
• Plan ahead. Set appointments with the folks you must meet with at show.
• Map your route (determining booths you must see at the show in advance).
• Take a quick walk of the entire show when first arriving and add any new booths/exhibits to your mapped route.
• Stick to your plan.
Sarah Carlson: Marketing Director for Jervis B. Webb Co. and Daifuku America and vice chair of the Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS) industry group of the Material Handling Industry of America.
• Limit what you carry at the show. Walking around the show can be exhausting enough without having to carry a heavy coat and laptop. In terms of literature, most exhibitors will e-mail you brochures after the show. In fact, attendees can scan in a bar code and download our brochures on their smart phones in our booth. And if you're somebody who loves free promotional items, pick them up at the end of the day.
• Eat lunch later. All of the restaurants are packed at lunchtime, which means you have to stand and wait in line. I eat a big breakfast so I can delay my lunch until 1:30 p.m. or 2 p.m.
• Try to walk or stand on the carpeting inside the booths versus the aisles. We pay extra to have thick padding in our booth since we are standing on it all day. If I have to walk across the hall, I usually walk through the booths to give my legs a break. Also, sit whenever possible (although it's tough to get up!).
• If you are hoping to meet with someone in particular, schedule an appointment. We rotate our sales staff throughout the day to give them breaks. Therefore, they may not be in our booth when you visit.
• Unless you are used to standing on concrete, your feet will be sore at the end of day. I stretch my feet by rocking back and forth on my tiptoes. If that doesn't help, a glass of wine or two will always do the trick!
John Hill: Vice President of TranSystems, a veteran of 40 years of materials handling trade shows.
• Although the Spring Equinox occurs on March 20, the day before the show opens, be prepared for one more wintry assault. After all, it's Chicago.
• Wear comfortable shoes. McCormick Place is enormous and with two shows in one (ProMat & Automate 2011), there'll be a lot of walking to do.
• Don't forget your business cards.
• Prepare a show plan for yourself. Don't wander. Identify what and who you want to see and then access MHIA's show Web site, http://www.promatshow.com, to identify the companies and booth locations you want to visit.
• While on the Web site, take a look at the array of educational sessions available through the week. Keynotes on Monday and Tuesday, educational tracks on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and some 80 on-floor seminars Monday through Wednesday offer something for everyone.
• If possible, bring one or two of your colleagues with you, sharing the load and periodically convening to identify booths that all should visit.
• If you can only attend for one or two days and do not have a particular educational session that you want to attend, pick Wednesday and/or Thursday. The traffic on the floor tends to be lighter, and you'll get more attention from booth personnel.
• If you have specific questions that you'd like to have answered, consider contacting the supplier before the show to see if an appointment with the right person can be arranged on a specific day. It could save you a significant amount of time.
• If you do not have a specific requirement or project in mind, you will still want to do some homework. Grab a floor plan off the show Web site. Note that it's broken into three exhibit sections: a Manufacturing & Assembly Solutions Center, an IT Solutions Center, and a Fulfillment & Delivery Solutions Center. Depending upon your interests, you may want to do a quick walk through each of the areas and then determine which deserves more of your attention. Note also that interactive kiosks on the show floor will be available for your queries.
• If you have a question for an exhibitor, ask it—don't be hesitant or timid. You can always politely move on if the response you receive doesn't meet your expectations.
Cheryl Falk: vice president of marketing communications for Dematic.
• Utilize technology to maximize your ProMat experience – search the ProMat Web site for the technology you seek and identify exhibits that offer hands on demos addressing your business pain points.
• Experience "live" technology – take advantage of exhibits showcasing technology in action and experience a bird's eye view of solutions at work.
• Identify solution providers delivering thought leadership – search for solution providers delivering information and additional resources focused on your current business challenges i.e. whitepapers, educational events, state-of-the-art technology, etc.
• Have fun – enjoy the exhibits, enjoy peer networking, enjoy Chicago.
ProMat 2011 will be held March 21 - 24, 2011 at McCormick Place South in Chicago. The tradeshow will showcase the latest manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the material handling and logistics industry.
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Though the middle-school cross country season ended last week, it isn't over for members of the Oak Ridge Track Club. Several Jefferson and Robertsville harriers joined up as part of the ORTC, and competed Tuesday at the Knoxville Area Cross Country Championships. They placed sixth in both team competitions, and qualified six individuals for the Middle School State Cross Country Meet in the process.
Lauren Blade led the girls Oak Ridge Racing contingent. Blade, a JMS student, placed third overall after a slow start — but "hammered the second half of the race," according to coach Allen Etheridge.
Joining Blade will be a pair of Lady Rams: Maddie Zawisza and Natalie Holthausen.
On the boys' side, Eagles runner Jordan Van Druff warmed up as well in the second half of the race and made the cut for the State Meet.
Rams runners Jacob Etheridge and Daniel Hoelzer also made the cut.
The ORTC's new Youth Athletics Program … Oak Ridge Racing … is coached by Etheridge and Sam Roberts and allows the two Oak Ridge middle schools' kids to compete against some of the best runners in the area in the two meets.
Other runners in the Area Championship included Abby Greenhalgh (RMS), Sarah Barclay (RMS), Dalton Morgan (JMS), Dylan Middleton (JMS), Sam Turner (RMS) and Casey Nigh (JMS).
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SANTA CLARA -- All three of the 49ers' quarterbacks are 25 years old, a tripod of NFL neophytes who might welcome in another young arm through this week's draft.
A hotshot rookie won't be coming to steal Colin Kaepernick's job after last season's Super Bowl run. But with 13 draft picks in hand, the 49ers might select a quarterback to compete with backups Colt McCoy and Scott Tolzien.
It's a strategy Bill Walsh deployed amid the 49ers' first Super Bowl runs. Even with Joe Montana in place, the 49ers used late-round picks on Dan Hartwig (1980, ninth round), Joe Adams (1981, 12th), Bryan Clark (1982, ninth), Scott Barry (1985, sixth) and John Paye (1987, 10th).
"I would never sit here in front of the media and say I didn't agree with what Bill Walsh (practiced)," general manager Trent Baalke said last week. "They'd run me out of town."
Speaking of running, the 49ers seemingly would be looking for a mobile quarterback rather than a pocket passer. Their offense is not restricted to Kaepernick's read-option prowess, however, so any promising quarterback could be in play.
"We're not opposed to drafting any position, whether it's inside linebacker, defensive line, quarterback," Baalke said.
Any rookie will be an underdog to unseat McCoy or Tolzien for a roster spot. That rookie might merely be an extra arm for offseason workouts and training camp, or he might show enough promise to land on the practice squad.
McCoy is the 49ers' most experienced quarterback, having appeared in 24 games through three seasons with the Cleveland Browns before they traded him last month. Tolzien retained his role as the 49ers' No. 3 quarterback last season after battling veteran Josh Johnson in training camp.
West Virginia's Geno Smith is widely regarded as this draft's top quarterback, and the 49ers are unlikely suitors considering he might command a first-round selection. Here are a few other candidates:
If none of those quarterbacks are selected by the 49ers, there's always the undrafted market, where two familiar surnames might be available: Vanderbilt's Jordan Rodgers (younger brother of Green Bay Packers' quarterback Aaron Rodgers) and West Virginia Wesleyan's Nate Montana (Joe's oldest son).


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Definición de dope en inglés:
1 informal A drug taken illegally for recreational purposes, especially marijuana or heroin.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- That doesn't make cannabis a gateway - that people who might use heroin start with dope is not the same as saying that people who use dope might use heroin.
- Here they are reminded that it is an offence in Britain to possess or supply heroin, cocaine, dope etc - and then told in the very next sentence that half of young British adults have done these very things.
- Lumping everything from dope to heroin under the category 'drugs', and equating drug-taking with potential violence, is an obvious recipe for a media panic.
(illegal) drugs, narcotics;
cannabis, heroin, cocaine
1.1A drug given to a racehorse or greyhound to inhibit or enhance its performance.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- That inquiry followed positive dope tests on two horses beaten at short odds.
- The horse was automatically dope tested by stewards at the course and the result of those tests will be revealed later this week.
1.2A drug taken by an athlete to improve performance: [as modifier]: he failed a dope test
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Although the most modern methods of finding the athletes who cheat are being used I don't believe that they will catch all of the athletes who use dope to win.
- What is more encouraging is the stance of the IOC President that rather than projecting a negative image, these dope tests and sanctions against cheats would only prove beneficial to sport in the longer run.
- Until testers learnt about the new designer steroid THG, athletes were taking it and still returning negative dope tests.
2 informal A stupid person: though he wasn't an intellectual giant, he was no dope, either
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
- You have to wonder just what other accidents are waiting to happen between now and the end of the Games, and I don't mean the two dopes now out of hospital!
- The real dopes are his lieutenants who appear incapable of helping out their tired leader.
3 informal Information about a subject, especially if not generally known: our reviewer will give you the dope on hot spots around the town
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The obvious solution was to get the dope on him.
- He found out what some of the other cabinet ministers were up to and started collecting the dope on them.
- They really will give you the inside dope on where things are going.
4A varnish applied to the fabric surface of model aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Airplanes were made of dope, fabric, and wood - all highly flammable.
- He had done a lot of wood repair in the aileron and flap bays so there were patches of silver dope on the fabric and it was not really looking so good.
- Carefully tease the loops of the whipping together so that there are no gaps and either give it a coat of quick drying dope used by model aircraft builders or coat it with the specially made rod ring epoxy finish.
4.1A thick liquid used as a lubricant.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Pipe dope is applied to the male threads of pipes to be connected to female threads.
- The pipe dope provides lubrication and seals the joints.
verbo[with object]
1Administer drugs to (a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete) in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance: the horse was doped before the race
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- The prosecution had alleged that the five charged were part of a group that set out to dope racehorses in an attempt to make money off wagering.
- Having mastered how to use the equipment, the chemist can find out whether, for instance, a race horse had been doped, if an area is worth mining or if the proper chemical compound has been made.
- He is a coach more notorious for doping his athletes than for their on-track successes.
drug, administer drugs/narcotics to, tamper with, interfere with;
1.1 (be doped up) informal Be heavily under the influence of drugs, typically illegal ones: he was so doped up that he can't remember a thing
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Maybe if she knew he was doped up on opiate, she might've felt a bit better.
- It was alleged that they, much like some of their human counterparts, were doped up.
- Can you imagine what the story would be like if I tried to write while I was doped up on Kodine?
1.2Treat (food or drink) with drugs: maybe they had doped her Perrier
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The warning comes after reports of an incident where a woman's drink was doped.
add drugs to, tamper with, adulterate, contaminate, lace
informal spike, doctor
2Smear or cover with varnish or other thick liquid: she doped the surface with photographic emulsion
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- However, it is doped as in the olden days, then covered with an impressive paint finish.
- If you dope it afterward, surface tension takes the particles back to a spherical shape.
- The culprit, he believes, was the highly flammable cellulose doping compound used to coat the fabric covering and make it taut.
3 Electronics Add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The flash memory device includes a semiconductor substrate and heavily doped impurity regions formed spaced apart from one another by a predetermined distance in the semiconductor substrate in a first direction.
- Recent research has discovered that a semiconductor can be made magnetic by doping it with an impurity.
- To conduct electricity, a polymer needs to be doped so that electrons can move freely.
Very good: that suit is dope!
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- There's no other way to put it - Saturday was dope.
- Sunday was dope with the unbelievable Red Sox game in the afternoon and then the show at night.
- I have had some dope sessions in San Fransisco.
Verbos con partícula
doper sustantivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- It is not the vehement condemnation of dopers from an athlete in a unique position to give it, but it is the reaction of one who knows her reputation will never fully recover from what history records as an error on the part of the testers.
- But for one shining moment, there was that first album, and on its virtues even dopers and beer-hounds could agree.
- So, we're in a situation where the numbers of dopers are higher, but their chances of getting caught are higher as well.
Early 19th century (in the sense 'thick liquid'): from Dutch doop 'sauce', from doopen 'to dip, mix'.
Palabras que riman con dopeaslope, cope, elope, grope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, soap, taupe, tope, trope
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The storybook Plants vs. Zombies: Brains and the Beanstalk is a mash-up of the insanely addictive video game and a classic fairy tale.
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Now in a thrilling picture book for kids, Jack—of Jack and the Beanstalk fame—enters the fantastical world of the game. He will battle the zombies with his magical beanstalk fighting by his side. The fun never dies in this action-filled adventure for kids with full-color illustrations.
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Officers are still recovering evidence from a drive-by shooting that happened this afternoon at 1702 Martin Luther King Boulevard.
17-year-old John Willie Tanksley, Jr. was shot while standing in front of the Beauty & Beyond 98 Cent Store.
Officers say this could be gang-related.
Sayed Hasan owns Beauty & Beyond, and this is what he heard.
"Boom boom boom, then the guy came from outside to inside. He say, 'Call the police, call the police'."
Before they could call the police, Hasan says the man made it into the store, suffering from a gunshot wound.
"I see the blood," Hasan says.
Something else Hasan saw was a bullet hole that went through the wall and ripped packages hanging there. Investigator Paul Godden says the shots came from a semiautomatic weapon.
"We have a lot of evidence we're trying to recover right now, and hopefully it will point us in the right direction," Godden says.
Investigators spent the afternoon collecting evidence in front of the store.
Claude Brown lives nearby and says he's used to hearing gunshots.
"Sometimes they ride by and shoot and keep going," Brown says.
Investigators say it is a dangerous area, and they suspect this shooting could be gang-related...a situation Brown describes as "scary".
"I just wanna get back in the house and stay there," he says.
Hasan says they called the authorities as soon as they could, and the man sat by the counter screaming that his arm felt hot from the gunshot wound.
"I didn't see that before in my life!" Hasan says. He says he just moved in from Alabama.
Tanksley was taken to MCG, and officials believe the gunshot hit him in the arm.


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While the number of lots sold this year is still way below average, October sales were right at the eight-year average for the first time since 2008. And the average price so far this year is nearly 20 percent higher than last year. There are still a ton of lots for sale, but the trend is moving in the right direction and rather quickly.
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Microbeads could ruin the Greak Lakes' ecosystem
Nothing says "good morning" like a nice healthy scrub with an exfoliant-loaded loofa, however the plastic microbeads found in body washes are accumulating in the Great Lakes and could potentially destroy their ecosystem. Being less than a millimeter in diameter, the microbeads are passing through the filters in water treatment plants and are draining into the Great Lakes, where they are being consumed by fish, turtles and seagulls. The beads then deprive the animals of nutrients or can get lodged and block their digestive systems. So it looks like we have to add microbeads to our "Do Not Buy" list.


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DENVER (AP) - A top Air Force Academy commander who helped the school recover from a sexual assault scandal but later came under fire over a mischaracterization of the faculty's credentials is retiring.
Brig. Gen. Dana Born, the dean of faculty, will step down next summer after 10 years, included eight years as dean of faculty, the school's top academic position, the academy said Thursday.
The academy did not say why Born decided to retire, and she didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The academy, located outside Colorado Springs, has about 4,000 students. Born graduated from the school in 1983, was awarded a doctorate in psychology at Penn State in 1994 and, after a variety of military assignments, returned to the Air Force Academy as a psychology professor in 2002.
When a sexual assault scandal shook the academy the next year, Born was chosen to run its sex-assault prevention program. In 2004 she was promoted to dean of the faculty amid a leadership shake-up because of the scandal.
Nearly 150 women came forward in 2003 to say they had been assaulted by fellow cadets, with many alleging that they were punished, ignored or ostracized by commanders when they spoke out.
Born handled the prevention program and other initiatives with "leadership, enthusiasm and vision," the school's current superintendent, Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, said in a written statement.
Gould also praised Born for initiating cadet training programs in drones and cyber defense, designing the academy's strategic plan and leading the re-accreditation process.
In February of this year, Air Force investigators said Born was negligent when she told a Colorado Springs weekly newspaper that all academy instructors had graduate degrees in the areas they teach or in related areas. The investigators also said they found no evidence that academy faculty aren't qualified.
Born did not publicly comment on the findings and the academy has never said what action, if any, it took against her, citing privacy rules.
Born's infractions were only technical, said William "T" Thompson, chief executive officer of the Association of Graduates, the academy's alumni organization.
"As a practical matter, she did nothing wrong," said Thompson, a 1973 academy graduate.
Thompson praised Born for preparing academy cadets for Air Force careers, citing the training programs in piloting drone aircraft and in cyber defense.
The military can be slow to change, Thompson said. "To have somebody who's pushing the cutting edge ... is fairly notable," he said.
Jeff Dyche, a former associate professor of psychology at the Air Force Academy, said Born seemed to be "over her head" on some academic matters, such as faculty qualifications, because she had limited experience in academia.
"I think she did the best she could with the cards that were dealt to her," said Dyche, a Navy veteran who is now an associate professor of psychology at James Madison University in Virginia.
Born handled the end of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians well, said Tricia Heller, executive director of the Blue Alliance, an association of lesbian and gay academy graduates.
"She has been completely open, very professional, very approachable, very friendly," Heller said.
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I've been hooping with white plastics since I first began experimenting with them a year and a half ago. When I started my extensive research trying to find a lighter, more rigid plastic for my regular hoop, Patrick of psihoops was one of the first people I contacted. He's been using alternative plastics for over five years for LED hoops. Back when he started using these types of plastic, the desire for faster, lighter hoops than could be made with black irrigation tubing just didn't exist in our community. To my (and her) knowledge, Spiral was the first person to start using these plastics for her regular hoops two and a half years ago. She and I each independently went through the trial and error process of ordering samples and finding the right tubing. Once I posted the "Tube Experiment" a while back, these hoops slowly began to trickle into the community as a legitimate option for regular hoops. My original blog was fairly technical, though, and I didn't outline how to connect the tubing. The desire for that information has been clearly expressed by the dozens of emails I get weekly requesting additional information. Hence, I've finally written this comprehensive post sharing everything you'll need to get started.
If you're not a DIY type, Spiral and I will soon be selling signature versions of these types of hoops, to our exact specifications, at our workshops around the country. All hoops sold by Hoop Technique will be made of the high-performance plastics described in this article. More info on our signature designs and dimensions will be posted to the Hoop Technique website very soon.
Hoop Plastic Comparison:
There are two primary types of white plastics being used for hoops: High Density Polyethlyne (HDPE) & Polypropylene (PPE). Traditionally, black hoops have been made from Polyethylene (PE).
I hooped with HDPE for over 6 months after finding these plastics. HDPE is a good stepping stone from a 100 psi standard PE. It's a little stiffer and much lighter, making it faster, more precise, and better for quick reverses than PE. PPE is a dramatic jump though. It's super, super light and and feels slightly springy, in my opinion. This is the fastest, most precise hoop material I've tried. It's also the most challenging plastic I've ever hooped with. You basically have to know where it will be before it gets there, because you'll barely feel it when it arrives.
Both of these plastics can change your hooping, but be prepared for a learning curve. After a year and a half, I'm up to 200+ shoulder reverses per/minute with my PPE hoop. This just wouldn't have been possible with Polyethylene. At this speed you literally are pushing the physical limitations of the material. That limitation is based both on weight and rigidity (as well as size, but material won't change your hoop size necessarily).
Inside Diameter (I.D.) vs. Outside Diameter (O.D.)
Above, you can see that I'm referencing outside diameter (O.D.) and inside diameter (I.D.). This has often been a source of confusion amongst our community, as hardware stores refer to tubing by it's inside diameter (I.D.). They care about it's capacity for moving liquids and ability to withstand pressure. Hoopers care about outside diameter (O.D.), weight, and rigidity. If you were to purchase 3/4″ 100 psi PE, the outside dimension is actually 1″. Compare that to 3/4″ 160 psi PE which has an outside diameter of 1 1/8″. Although the hardware store refers to them both as 3/4″, the outside dimension is not the same because the wall thickness increases with PSI.
Required Tools:
1) Pipe Cutter
2) Pop Rivit Gun with 1/8″ Pop Rivits
3) Drill with 1/8″ Drill Bit
Construction Materials:
I order all of my tube online from McMaster Carr. If you enter the product numbers listed below into the search bar at the top of the website, it will take you directly to the product.
HDPE Hoop Parts List:
Tube A – 7/8″ O.D. HDPE (McMaster Carr #50375K54)
Tube B – 4 in. of 3/4″ O.D. HDPE (McMaster Carr #50375K52)
Fastener – Two 1/8″ pop rivets (available at local hardware stores and online)
HDPE has to be ordered in 25′ lengths from McMaster Carr, so plan on making a few hoops. If you wind up with extra of the thin tube, it makes excellent double off-body hoops.
PPE Hoop Part List:
Tube A – 3/4″ O.D. PPE (McMaster Car# 5392K17)
Tube B – 4 in. of 3/4″ O.D. PPE (McMaster Car #5392K41)
Fastener – Two 1/8″ pop rivets (available at local hardware stores and online)
PPE can be ordered by the foot from McMaster Carr but is a bit more pricey. Currently it costs $1.16/ft. for 3/4″ O.D. PPE.
How To:
Unlike black PE, barbed connectors don't work for these tubes. The strategy I've been using is to purchase a thinner tube and slip it inside the other tubes. This also helps avoid a flat spot on the hoop at the connector because your connector is actually curved. Since there are no barbs on these connectors, we have to fasten the tubing somehow. Adhesives work poorly on HDPE and PPE. I've had the best luck fastening with pop rivets, a method I learned from Cosmic Fire.
Step One
Cut your Tube A for an appropriate size hoop. Both HDPE and PPE respond better as smaller size hoops. I would recommend no greater than 40″ in diameter for HDPE and no greater than 38″ for PPE. The smaller the diameter the hoop, the more rigid it will feel.
Step Two
Cut your connector tube, "Tube B". I've tried various lengths. 3″ seems to work well.
Step Three
Insert Tube B half way into Tube A.
Step Four
Drill a 1/8″ hole through both tubes. The hole should not go all the way through the hoop, just through one side. I prefer to put it on the outside face of the hoop. This will be where the pop rivit goes.
Step Five
Pop rivet your connection. For instructions on how to operate a rivet gun, please see this instructional video.
Step Six
Slip the opposite end of Tube A over Tube B, completing your hoop.
Step Seven
Drill for the second the pop rivit in the second end of the hoop.
Step Eight
Install your second pop rivet.
Now you can go hoop. Good luck! It definitely takes some getting used to, but it's worth it.


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A discographic profile of the popular Cuban bandleader, singer and composer.
Profile: Machito
by John Child (
(Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo)
Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, 16 Feb. '08, Jesús María district, Havana, Cuba, though accounts of his date and place of birth vary;
15 Apr. '84, London) Bandleader, singer, maracas player, composer. Raised in Cuba, son of cigar manufacturer; as a child sang and danced with father's employees. Met group Sexteto Rendención; they split to form Los Jovenes Rendención, asked him to join on maracas and singing. Worked with several bands '28-37; to NYC singing with La Estrella Habanera; recorded '37-9 with Conjunto Moderno (with whom he made his recording debut), Cuarteto Caney (sides featuring Machito collected on
Cuarteto Caney 1939-40
'94, both on Tumbao, and
Cuarteto Caney 1936-1939
'96 on Harlequin), Orquesta Hatuey; appeared with others incl. Noro Morales (with whom he made his recording debut as a lead singer), Pupi Campo.
Formed band with Mario Bauzá '39, split up; joined Orquesta Siboney led by violinist/reeds player Alberto Iznaga (
25 Jul. '06, Havana), recorded eight sides with Xavier Cugat, five of which are compiled on
Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra 1940-42
'91 on Tumbao. Formed own Afro-Cubans late '40 with trumpets and saxes frontline and Cuban rhythm section: 'The monicker was one of the bravest acts in the history of the civil rights movement,' wrote percussionist Bobby Sanabria. Band debuted at NYC's Park Plaza Ballroom 3 Dec. '40. Bauzá returned as mus. dir. '41-75, introducing jazz innovations. Recorded for Decca '41-2:
Machito and his Afro-Cubans - 1941
'89 on Palladium, incl. hit 78 "Sopa de Pichon" (composed by Machito), was a reissue of a Decca 12 inch LP (itself a composite of an eight track 10 inch LP plus four 78 sides all recorded over two sessions '41-2, with timbalero Tito Puente participating in latter);
Cuban Rhythms
'92 on Tumbao collected
Los Reyes del Ritmo
and four cuts from
Cuban Nights
, both Decca 10 inch LPs, by singer Miguelito Valdés (just venturing on a solo career after leaving Cugat) accompanied by Machito and his Afro-Cubans recorded in two days '42 to beat a national musicians strike.
While he was in US Army Apr.-Oct. '43, replaced on lead vocals by Puerto Rican Polito Galíndez (
22 Feb. '84, Mexico) and sister Graciela Grillo Pérez (
23 Aug. '15, Jesús María district, Havana; joined all-women Orquesta Anacaona '33; with whom she recorded for RCA '34, performed in NYC '37 and Paris '38); after discharge due to injury, Galíndez departed, Graciela remained until '75. Recorded for Verne, Coda, Continental, Clef, Mercury, etc. '40s:
Baila Baila Baila 1943-1948
'99 on Harlequin includes rare transcription sessions made for World Broadcasting System featuring piano solos by Joe Loco (band member summer '43-Dec. '45) and vocals by Galíndez, plus a side from the '42 Decca sessions with Valdés;
'97 on Tumbao collects Verne sides '45-7 incl. Valdés singing lead on six tracks; Machito orchestra, along with Tito Rodríguez and Arsenio Rodríguez, accompanied Chano Pozo's vocals and conga playing on his second session for Gabriel Oller's Coda label Feb. '47; this material collected on
Legendary Sessions
'92 on Tumbao;
'97 on Tumbao compiles '47-9 material;
Tremendo Cumban
'53 on Tropical (Seeco's budget imprint; reissued as
Dance Date With Machito
'88 on Palladium) was probably earlier Continental sides;
"Mucho Macho" Machito
'78 on Pablo (reissued '91) collects Clef recordings of band's authentic Afro-Cuban sound '48-9;
Machito and his Afro-Cubans
'96 on Harlequin compiles transcription discs and a live broadcast '48-50.
Band became key outfit in Afro-Cuban jazz/Cubop movement; played NYC Town Hall concert '47 or '48 (accounts vary), sharing bill with Stan Kenton; Dexter Gordon said to be first jazz musician to solo with band at NYC's Ebony Club
'47; band sessioned with Howard McGhee and Brew Moore on Roost 78 "Cubop City - parts 1 & 2" '48: "arguably the first true Latin jazz recording," wrote John Storm Roberts; with Charlie Parker (see
South of the Border
) on records such as "Mango Mangüe," "Okidoke" '48-9; 10 inch LP
Afro-Cuban Suite
'50 also featured Flip Phillips, Buddy Rich, Harry Edison; this material compiled on
The Original Mambo Kings - An Introduction To Afro-Cubop
'93 on Verve;
Cubop City
'92 on Tumbao collects sessions recorded at NYC's Royal Roost and Bop City nightclubs '49-50 featuring McGhee, Moore and Phillips;
'92 on Tumbao compiles three live broadcasts from NYC's Birdland club '51 featuring Zoot Sims and Moore.
Signed with Tico/Roulette '54; highly regarded Roulette title
'57 (aka
Latin Soul Plus Jazz
'73 on Tico), incl. Doc Cheatham, Joe Newman, Cannonball Adderley, Eddie Bert (trombone;
16 May '22, Yonkers, NY; a Kenton alumnus; later played with Elliot Lawrence, Thad Jones, Mingus, etc), and
With Flute To Boot
late '58 on Roulette (aka
Super Mann
on Trip), featuring Herbie Mann, both reissued on Palladium '88-9. Though much of the band's work was not so jazz-oriented, there were fine dance LPs incl.
Mambo Holiday
'52 on Harmony/Columbia (incl. in recommended collection
Tremendo Cumban
'91 on Tumbao),
This Is Machito and his Afro-Cubans
'54 on Seeco (reissued '88 on Palladium as
Machito Plays Mambo & Cha Cha Chá
Cha Cha Chá At The Palladium
(reissued on Palladium '88),
Asia Minor
Si-Si, No-No
The Sun Also Rises
Mi Amigo, Machito
(incl. Ray Santos's glorious "Sunny Ray"),
Irving Berlin In Latin America
A Night Out
, all on Tico '54-60,
Machito At The Concord Hotel
late '50s on Coral. During the '50s Machito band performed free gigs in NYC's Central Park in an attempt to pacify youth gang wars.
During early '60s flute and strings dominated charanga/pachanga craze Machito continued churning out brass and reeds-led big band albums on GNP and Tico. Made
Machito At The Crescendo
The World's Greatest Latin Band
on GNP '61-2 in Hollywood, followed by three Tico LPs '62-3:
The New Sound Of Machito
Machito's Variedades!!!
(reissued by P-Vine '94) and
Tremendo Cumban!!
incl. Panamanian reed player Mauricio Smith providing flute solos "as a sop to the pachangueros," according to John Storm Roberts. Band made historic visit to Japan '62.
'63 was a superb reunion with Miguelito Valdés; band backed Puerto Rican songstress Ruth Fernández on
Es De Borinquen
'63; Graciela was showcased on
Esta Es Graciela
'64 and on band's Tico finale
Intimo y Sentimental
'65. Many of the Tico titles have been reissued during the '90s.
Mid-'60s to mid-'70s (period of '66-9 boogaloo fad, then small group dominated típico revival leading to the mid-'70s salsa boom) were relatively lean years with limited recorded output, LPs incl.
Mucho Mucho Machito
mid-'60s on United Artists (Palladium reissue '89; also issued as
Yo Soy La Rumba
on WS Latino '93) with revered sonero/composer Marcelino Guerra (he and Galíndez shared lead vocals with the Second Afro-Cubans led by Luis Varona, previously Machito's pianist from Jan. to summer '43; aggregation said to have been organised that year by Bauzá, became Marcelino Guerra Orchestra '45 incl. Doc Cheatham, mus. dir./ arr./ esteemed pianist Gilberto Ayala, a Machito band member from '40 until drafted Jan. '43, when replaced by Varona; some regard the Guerra Orch. as the most outstanding Afro-Cuban big band of the '40s; recorded for Verne and Coda [as Orquesta Batamu]; gigs dried up, Guerra joined Merchant Marine; band became Gilberto Ayala y su Orquesta
Machito Goes Memphis
'68 on RCA (Latinized soul hits),
Soul Of Machito
'69 (P-Vine reissue '94) on George Goldner's hit-making boogaloo/Latin soul Cotique label,
'72 on Mericana incl. Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros, arr. by Chico O'Farrill; band backed Tito Rodríguez at his last public appearance '73.
When the salsa boom began, it was pretty much the style he had been playing all along. He also assumed the role of social worker in the early '70s: helping the underprivileged, elderly and drug addicts. Machito band performed O'Farrill's suite "Oro, Incienso y Mirra" with Dizzy Gillespie at NYC's St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5 Jan. '75; later recorded as half of Grammy-nominated
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
'75 on Pablo with Gillespie. Against Bauzá's advice (which he later admitted was erroneous), Machito was persuaded by his son Mario Grillo (timbales player;
17 Mar. '56, NYC) to organise an octet '75 to replace Ray Barretto for performances in Paris and Hamburg, which successfully paved the way for Afro-Cuban jazz in Europe; split with Bauzá late '75; son Mario replaced Bauza as mus. dir. on Grammy nom.
'77 on Coco and subsequent albums; further European engagements followed and a record deal with the Dutch Timeless label. Last three LPs
Machito and his Salsa Big Band 1982
(won Grammy),
Live At North Sea
'82 and
'83 made in Holland on Timeless, all incl. Chocolate.
Band was in residence at Ronnie Scott's club when he suffered a cardiac arrest, five days later he died of a cerebral haemorrhage. Career commemorated in the film
Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy
'87 dir./prod. by Carlos Ortiz, featuring Parker, Puente, Barretto, Gillespie; it premiered at London's NFT Nov. '87 and was broadcast on UK's Channel 4 Jan. '89.
Jammin' In The Bronx
'96 on Tropijazz features a concert tribute to Machito recorded at the Hostos Community College Arts & Culture Center on 19 Oct. '95 with the Machito Orch. (dir. by Mario Grillo; personnel incl. Chocolate, José Mangual Sr. [1924-1998], Jimmy Bosch, Mauricio Smith, Carlos 'Patato' Valdez), Papo Vásquez Latin Jazz Group and an all-star Latin ensemble incl. Chucho Valdés, Giovanni Hidalgo, Dave Valentín, others.
Coinciding with their 60th anniversary, the Machito Orch. are enjoying a renaissance thanks to the the US Swing revival; and 25 years after first performing in Europe, Mario Grillo will be taking the rich Machito legacy into the new millennium with a scheduled tour incl. dates in Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen during Jan./Feb. 2000.
(John Storm Roberts' quotes from his book
Latin Jazz
-This is a revised version of one of over 130 Latin music entries written by John Child (
) for
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
, 2nd Edition, edit. Donald Clarke; Penguin Books; 1998; 1524 pages; US$22.95, UK£16.99.
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California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues President and CEO Diana Dykstra recently conducted a workshop on governance and strategy with the board of directors of Federación Nacional de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crédito (FENACOAC), Guatemala's national credit union trade association.
During the April 8 visit to the Central American country, Dykstra—along with FENACOAC CEO Oswaldo Oliva and World Council of Credit Unions Vice President of the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Victor Miguel Corro—also visited with the Superintendency of Banks to advocate for credit union-specific regulation.
The Leagues have partnered with FENACOAC since 2009 as part of World Council's International Partnerships Program, which seeks to connect developed and emerging credit union movements to form collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships. Learn more about World Council's International Partnerships Program at www.woccu.org/partnerships.
Dykstra's short visit started with a meeting with FENACOAC's full board and senior staff to discuss planning, strategy, and how to forge a vision of the future in an organization. She emphasized the difference between board vs. staff responsibilities.
"The level of cooperation between FENACOAC and the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues has helped propel the federation's board of directors and their initiatives," said Oliva.
In the afternoon, Oliva, Dykstra, and Corro visited with the technical staff from the Superintendency of Banks, Guatemala's credit union regulator. Dykstra was asked about how the industry in the U.S. is regulated. The technical staff is working on a draft that will ultimately result in a credit union law in Guatemala. The Superintendency had asked for help in getting case studies for countries in which credit unions are successfully regulated and where the risk is well managed. World Council provided the study.
"The trip was invaluable in a number of ways, one of which was to be able to share information with Guatemala's credit union regulator to help in the agency's development of regulations that will be beneficial to the country's credit unions and its members," Dykstra said.
Guatemala's MICOOPE system—implemented in 2008—comprises 25 credit unions that adopted a unified brand to help with public awareness, ease of transactions throughout the country and growing credit union membership. Currently they have 1.2 million members. MICOOPE is essentially self-regulated, with FENACOAC acting as the monitoring agent.
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There have been appeals for calm after the horrific assault last week which left a 17-year-old fighting for his life in hospital.
Jordan Duffy, from Townparks South, was savagely beaten in the early hours of last Friday morning (August 5). He is currently in a 'stable condition' in the High Dependency Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Police have confirmed that in the wake of the brutal attack, the families of the three men accused in relation to the attack have received threats of retaliation.
The threats, which were delivered by Facebook and text message were received by a sister of one of those charged with attempted murder. They warn that the 'whole family will get what is coming to them for the attack on Duffy' along with the families of the man's co-accused.
They also threatened to 'get every last one' of them - adding that was 'not a threat - it's a promise'.
PUP South Antrim Chair and Vice Chair of the Antrim Community Safety Partnership, Ken Wilkinson has criticized those making threats as well as local politicians who he claims are 'scoring cheap political points' off the back of the assault.
"This is not acceptable," he told the Guardian. "I know Jordan's family and I can guarantee you that they don't want this to happen. Regardless of what the courts decide, no family should not be held responsible for what their sons are accused of.
"People need to calm down and take a step back and let the law deal with this appropriately. I just want to call for calm heads. We don't need to see a situation where more families have to endure an agonizing sit beside a hospital bed."
The Mayor of Antrim, Councilor Paul Michael has also appealed for calm after visiting Jordan's grandmother over the weekend.
"Jordan is fighting," said the UUP man. "He has a bleed on the brain and most of the bones in his face like his nose, eye socket and cheek bone have been smashed.
"But the family don't want to see any more violence. They are obviously distraught but they know that violence isn't the answer. His grandmother told me she wouldn't wish this kind of thing on anyone."
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Eileen Doyle's first grandchild Conor was born on a Tuesday and she was pulled out of the draw for the Big Money Game Show four days later.
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"I'm over the moon, I still can't believe it," said Eileen, who's sure to spoil her little grandson now with her winnings.
Eileen's sister broke the great news to her when her name was called out on the previous week's show.
"I was watching the football and my sister rang and said I was going to be on the show. I said 'go away out of that' – I thought it was a dream," laughed Eileen.
Sitting in the crowd last Saturday week armed with banners were Eileen's husband Pat and two daughters Michelle and Emma, while Michelle's husband Seán Kane stayed at home to mind the little lucky charm.
"To say 'I've been there, done that', it still doesn't register," added a still-shocked Eileen, who works part-time in PJ Duffy's, Tullow.
"The whole experience was brilliant. They couldn't have been nicer, everyone was so supportive and Derek was absolutely brilliant and puts you at ease," she added.
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Westbound lanes will be closed tonight, Wednesday night and Thursday night from 7 p.m. through 7 a.m. the following morning.
During the work, crews will remove rocks at risk of falling into traffic and take measures to reduce the chances of future rockfall problems.
"They've got to knock down a few loose rocks above the tunnels themselves, but the primary purpose is to put some fencing up there to prevent any rocks from falling," Colorado Department of Transportation spokesman Bob Wilson said. "When they're working up above there, rocks could conceivably get kicked or knocked into traffic, so they can't let (cars) through there."
The project is part of the ongoing preparation for the widening of the eastbound tunnel bore, set to take place next year. Crews will be blasting out the tunnel to allow the highway to be expanded to three lanes, a measure intended to improve traffic flows along the I-70 mountain corridor.
"We're going to start blasting and that could knock things down," Wilson said. "We have to make sure the geological aspects of that (area) are all set."
Transportation officials say crews will be working to complete the rockfall project overnight this week - during a lull in the holiday traffic - to minimize impacts to drivers.
"It's a pretty quiet week," Wilson said. "Even more so because we just don't have a lot of snow. It's still pretty dry."
Crews will take a brief hiatus from preparation work in the later half of December, when holiday skier traffic peaks, resuming some time after the first of the year. Future preparation work will be scheduled outside of peak travel periods, officials say.
The widening project is set to start in full force April 1. It will cause a full closure of the eastbound I-70 lanes through October.


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Scott Wants Teachers to Get $2,500 Pay Raise
Governor's $480 million proposal still needs the approval of the Legislature.
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TALLAHASSEE | Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday continued his crusade to boost public education funding, outlining a plan to give some 168,000 Florida classroom teachers a $2,500 pay raise.
Questions and Answers About Pay Plan
Q. Is the governor's teacher pay plan likely to become law?
A. Scott's plan is the opening move in what will be a four-month debate over the new state budget. With the expectation of increased revenue for 2013-14, Legislative leaders are open to the idea of higher pay for teachers, many of whom have gone for four or five years without a raise. But the devil will be in the details, including how it fits with other state budget needs. The Board of Education requested an $891 million increase for the K-12 system that did not include the raise. Its top budget request was for a $442 million technology upgrade for the schools. How those competing needs will be balanced in the school budget, along with the pressing need for school safety improvements in light of the Connecticut tragedy, will be key. Scott has called for an "across the board" pay raise, while legislative leaders seem to give more priority to a merit-based pay system. But teachers are in a better position this year for a raise — which ultimately will be decided by the individual school districts — than in recent years.
Q. Will increasing teacher pay improve Florida schools?
A. Starting pay for Florida teachers is $34,605 and the average pay is $46,921, according to the National Education Association. In recent years, Florida's teachers have faced a number of challenges. In 2011, the state decided to require teachers as well as other public employees who participate in the state pension fund to begin paying 3 percent of their salaries to their retirement. The pension payment was seen by many as a pay cut since they had not received a raise in recent years. Teachers are also under increasing pressure from the use of standardized testing in the schools to measure performance. A 2011 law that ended a tenure system for newly hired teachers also linked merit pay for teachers with test scores. Scott's pay plan could produce a raise in the range of $600 to $2,500 per classroom teacher.
If that became a reality, it could help provide some relief to a group that has felt embattled in recent years in Tallahassee.
Q. Why has Scott dramatically changed direction on public education funding?
A. Elected as a Tea Party candidate in 2010, Scott took a tough budgetary stance in 2011 when he and lawmakers faced a budget deficit of more than $3.5 billion. The result was a $1.3 billion cut for public schools. Last year, Scott reversed his field and advocated a $1 billion increase for schools, which the Legislature largely adopted.
Now Scott, who signed the tenure-merit pay bill in 2011 that was strongly opposed by the teachers union, is now advocating a raise for teachers. Scott says education funding is critical to Florida's economic future. The governor's critics say he is trying to repair a political image that has suffered as he heads toward a 2014 re-election bid. Not surprisingly, his likely opponent, former Gov. Charlie Crist, has a much more favorable record on school funding and Crist vetoed a version of the 2011 bill that Scott signed when he was governor in 2010.
Q. What's next?
A. Scott's teacher pay plan is only one part of his overall budget proposal for 2013-14, which will exceed the current $70 billion state budget. Next week, Scott is expected to announce his full budget plan.
But the governor's budget is only a proposal that will be considered by the state Legislature, which has the ultimate authority to write the new budget bill.
Lawmakers begin their annual session in March and by early April, the House and Senate will pass their separate versions of a budget bill. Then lawmakers will spend the last three or so weeks of the session negotiating the final budget, which will be passed in early May when the annual session concludes. The new budget — subject to the governor's vetoes — will take effect in July.
But it will be up to the Florida Legislature to decide how much of the governor's $480 million plan will become a reality. Questions abound about the governor's ambitious pay plan, including the fundamental issue of how the state can pay for it while still meeting many other pressing budget needs.
"The governor proposes and the Legislature disposes," said Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville.
The pay plan also drew questions from critics about the politics at play in this latest boost to education spending being floated by Scott.
Elected a Tea Party candidate in 2010, Scott helped engineer a $1.3 billion cut for public school funding in 2011 and the creation of a controversial law tying teacher pay and evaluations to student performance. On Jan. 17, new Education Commissioner Tony Bennett indicated that the governor had asked him to look into how that law will be implemented and said that the measure might need to be "tweaked."
Scott, who endorsed a $1.3 billion public education cut in his first year in office, reversed his position on school funding last year and won support for a $1 billion increase in the kindergarten-through-high-school system.
On Wednesday, Scott — who will deliver his full budget plan for 2013-14 to the Legislature in the next week or so — outlined his teacher pay plan at Ocoee Middle School near Orlando.
"We have made the hard choices over the last few years to get our economy growing again," Scott said. "We are back on track. Now, we need to double down on our investment in education."
In Southwest Florida, some 4,600 full-time classroom teachers would be in line for a $2,500 raise under the proposal.
Legislative leaders were receptive to Scott's proposal, but they cautioned that they will have to see how the measure fits into the overall $70 billion-plus state spending plan for the budget year, which begins July 1.
"I've always been for improving compensation for effective teachers," said Gaetz, a former school superintendent in Okaloosa County. But he added: "$480 million is a lot of money. It's more money than some people think we'll have."
Scott said he will ask for more money for the K-12 system in addition to the $480 million pay plan.
The state Board of Education has asked for an $891 million increase for the K-12 system, without the pay raise. The board included a $442 million request for school technology improvements and $198 million for enrollment growth in Florida's 67 school districts. Following the shooting Connecticut, school districts also are asking for added funding for school safety.
How Scott's pay request will mesh with those initiatives is unclear.
The state's $70 billion budget is expected to have roughly $1.2 billion in additional revenue next year — an amount that could easily be eclipsed by growth in Medicaid, the need to make up a $300 million state university cut, a state worker pay increase and increases for other state programs, ranging from prisons to road construction.
Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, said the Senate is receptive to the idea of a pay increase for teachers but "we need to make sure those funds are there."
Although Scott talked about an "across-the-board" pay increase, Galvano and Gaetz said the Senate was interested in a performance-based pay plan.
Galvano said there also is the question of which school personnel would receive the raises, which would have to be negotiated in each district by the local school boards.
If it is limited strictly to classroom teachers "that excludes a lot of people like guidance counselors and teachers who have been moved out of the classroom because of advancement and achievement on their part and other aspects of the school system from lunch ladies to administrators," Galvano said.
Scott said there will be enough additional money in his K-12 request to cover raises for non-classroom personnel if the districts decide to do that.
Andy Ford, head of the Florida Education Association, the state's major teachers union, said the $2,500 raise "would certainly be welcome, but it's important to put it in its proper context."
Ford noted teachers and other school personnel lost 3 percent of their salary beginning in 2011 when Scott and lawmakers decided the workers needed to contribute to the state pension fund. But Ford called the pay plan "a step in the right direction" that "begins to repair the damage that has been done to our students and those who work in our schools."
Democrats saw a political motive in Scott's plan, noting that the Republican governor has become more of an advocate for public education as his 2014 re-election nears.
Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, called Scott's plan "lofty" but questioned how the governor would fund it while still pressing ahead with tax breaks.
"It's really going to boil down to how is he going to fund it as well as all the tax breaks for businesses in the state," Bullard said. "I might go as far to say it looks like somebody who is trying to run for office."
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With air travel rates literally reaching the skies, many people are choosing to drive instead of fly to their holiday destinations. But along with the excitement of your trip, you can expect to feel some anxiety and stress. Not to mention, succumbing to the inevitable frustration of traffic and road rage after spending hours in the car. In order to balance the added stressors that accompany affordable travel, get into the habit of stretching while on the road.
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Deb Edwards normally wouldn't pick up hitchhikers.
But it was Christmas Day and as she drove along Swan Mountain Road, three young, kind-looking men kindled her holiday spirit.
Instead of offering the standard out-thrust thumbs, they steepled their hands in a gesture of prayer and supplication.
She stopped. They loaded into her SUV, apologizing for the dustings of snow falling on to her seats.
The young men were from France - specifically, the Alps. They were recent college graduates. They were polite. They were charming. It was their first time to Summit County. They had almost no idea where they were.
"I asked them 'Where are you staying,'" Edwards said. "They said, 'Oh, in Breckenridge - in the hills.'"
That low level of geographical awareness is common among the thousands of visitors who flock to Summit County every year and rely almost exclusively on GPS-equipped smartphones to get around. That approach usually works fine - until something happens. A broken leg on the slopes. A car accident. A child with an asthma attack. It's an emergency. Dial 9-1-1.
However, the first question a dispatcher will ask is, "What's the location of the emergency?"
"If people can answer that question, we can get help to them much more quickly," said Bill Pessemier, the director of communications for Summit County.
However, 25 percent of callers simply cannot answer that question with any measure of specificity.
I see mountains, they say. Trees.
"In a lot of cases, people really don't have any idea where they are," Pessemier said. "If we don't have that address, it can cause a delay in time, maybe a minute or two or three. People rely on the GPS capability. They don't realize it's not as accurate as they think. People still assume that when you call 911, dispatchers know exactly where they are."
But in an age that is increasingly forsaking landlines - 80 percent of 911 calls now come from cellphones - it is becoming more difficult for dispatchers to ascertain where to send emergency responders.
Pessemier said landlines offer pinpoint data on the caller's address. However, GPS-enabled smartphones only give dispatchers rough coordinates - usually within 80-100 meters of the actual location.
"That's good for the backcountry," said Lisa Hans, a supervisor with the Summit County communications department, "but in the town with condos and businesses, it's not as helpful."
Interstate 70 is particularly challenging, Hans said.
"Yeah, we just left Denver; we're on our way to California," said Hans, impersonating a typical caller. "We try to narrow it down. Eastbound or westbound? Did you come through a tunnel. Did you pass any towns? We're going through this process of elimination and that takes time."
Hans is the first to admit that even she is over-reliant on wayfinding technology.
"When I use GPS in the car, I just listen to the instruction," she said. "I don't read the directions. I don't even know which streets I took. I just do what it says."
However, she says it is important for tourists and others to begin paying attention to their surroundings.
Hans and Pessemier are now calling on area governments, the lodging industry and ski resorts to begin working together in an education campaign to bolster location awareness for visitors.
Pessemier said efforts are preliminary, and he doesn't have solutions or the potential costs in mind just yet, but he wants to start the conversation with area communications leaders now, before the next high season.
One idea he has is to improve address signage in heavily populated areas.
"If you walk up and down Main Street in Breckenridge or in Frisco you'd be hard-pressed to find addresses," he said.
Other ideas include airing public service messages on the radio and address cards for lodge visitors.
Pessemier said the campaign could take at least six months to crank up. He hopes to have something in place for summer.


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(ii) Unreliable evidence: the testimony of Hans Voigt.
1. Irving's falsification of these statistics is based on the use of an insignificant and unreliable piece of evidence to dismiss or ignore more substantial evidence that does not support his thesis. Through all the years it has been the evidence of only one source that has allowed Irving to argue that 135,000 people died in Dresden. Irving's faith in Hans Voigt is enduring.
2. Four days after the attack a missing persons search bureau was set up in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. At the same time in each of the seven Dresden districts a register of missing persons was established. In one of these districts a central bureau of missing persons was set up to collate information from the six others. Hans Voigt, at the time an assistant school master, was put in charge of establishing a dead persons department for the bureau to collect the records and personal effects of those people already dead, and of those still buried in the ruins. Irving said that it was this department which was 'responsible for the identification of the victims and for arriving at some final estimate of the death-roll.'53
3. Voigt's office had four different filing systems for different data. The first were garment cards, onto which samples of garments taken from unidentified bodies were pasted, together with date, location and so on. Voigt told Irving that up to the time of the capitulation 'we had almost twelve thousand of these cards completed.' The second list was of miscellaneous personal belongings of the unidentified. The third was an alphabetical list of bodies identified by personal papers. The fourth was a list of wedding rings recovered from bodies. According to Irving in 1966, this had been done with bolt croppers. In 1995 he only claimed that they were cut off. Voigt told Irving that between ten and twenty thousand of these had been collected by the time the Russians entered Dresden. With these four indexes the dead persons department was 'able to clear up the identity of some 40,000 of the dead.' Thus Irving arrives at his 'absolute minimum' death roll of 40,000.54 This in turn would tally with the figure of 39,773 given by Georg Feydt.
4. However, Irving did not accept 40,000 as the actual figure because Voigt had told Irving that he himself 'estimated that the final number would have been 135,000'.55 In 1995 Voigt remained Irving's favourite source for a higher death roll. According to Voigt the Russians closed down his offices and quite '"simply struck off the first digit"' to arrive at their own official figure of 35,000.56 Irving repeated this story to a reporter in 1963 as his own opinion, but with an elaboration: '"The Germans simply struck off the first digit to make the figure more acceptable to the Russians, who contended that Bomber Command was not a powerful weapon."'57 This does not seem to be a particularly strong motive for such a blatant act of falsification. Strangely Voigt wrote to Irving as early as September 1962, asking Irving to correct the passage: 'It was probably not the Soviet officials who struck off the first figure, rather Dresden officials (especially the then mayor and later Lord Mayor Weidauer) reduced the figure out of fear of the "Big Four," so as not to speak ill of them.'58
5. Voigt had first contacted Irving in February 1961 in response to an announcement concerning Irving's research in the Dresdener Monatsblätter 59. Voigt provided Irving with a long report of his experiences of the raids on Dresden. The crucial passage in his report read:
This opinion formed the basis of Irving's figure in the first editions of his book, and was the number he sought safety in again after having been forced to retreat from an even higher estimate.
The number of dead people registered as "known" or "unknown" is, as long as I was working on it, as far as I remember at about eighty to ninety thousand. I think that with 135,000 approximately one would be near the correct figure for the death roll of these raids.60
This opinion formed the basis of Irving's figure in the first editions of his book, and was the number he sought safety in again after having been forced to retreat from an even higher estimate.
6. It cannot be too heavily emphasised that this is all based on the spoken testimony of one man. No amount of bureaucratic detail about his former post can hide the fact that his statement is not backed up by a single piece of documentary evidence, wartime or otherwise, and cannot be authenticated. In other words, there is no corroborative evidence of any kind about the missing digit. Moreover Voigt was apparently not a popular man with the cold-war Dresden authorities. Weidauer decries him a 'virulent fascist', who had been rightfully thrown out of East Germany. Voigt, then living in West Germany, may therefore have had a political motive in accusing the Soviet and East-German authorities of falsifying the statistics. Weidauer added that far from being destroyed, the death register which Voigt claimed showed 80,000 to 90,000 dead was still extant in the Dresden Town Hall with a highest card number of 31,102 for an unidentified body. In addition the so-called street books, which were compiled based on the streets and houses where the dead were found, were likewise extant. The numbers in the street books exactly matched those on the registration cards.61
53. Corgi 1966, pp. 200-1; Focal Point, pp. 208-9.
54. Corgi 1966, pp. 212-13; Focal Point, pp. 223-4.
55. Corgi, 1966, p. 225.
56. Focal Point, p. 242.
57. Doc. 142, newspaper clipping from the Daily Sketch, 29 April 1963.
58. DJ 10, Voigt to Irving, 6 September 1962, enclosing comments on Irving's draft.
59. DJ 10, Voigt to Irving, 28 February 1961; Irving to Voigt, 7 March 1961.
60. DJ 10, SG 22, Report of Hans Voigt, Survivor of Dresden Raids, dated 5 June 1961.
61. Walter Weidauer, Inferno Dresden, Über Lügen und Legenden um die Aktion 'Donnerschlag' (East Berlin, 1965), 2nd. ed. 1966, p. 120. Bergander cited Weidauer, p. 268, but perhaps due to a misprint the figure is put at 3,102.
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