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President Barack Obama enters his second term with confidence and with renewed purpose. Gone are the days that he can be accused somehow of being illegitimate. He is the first incumbent since Dwight D. Eisenhower to win a majority in two straight elections. Although he is advised to behave more like Bill Clinton, he managed to do what the Arkansan never did – win 50 percent of the vote.
Yet, there are those within the Democratic party who now advise Obama to forget "the base" and essentially become a moderate Republican. Simpson-Bowles, the harsh prescriptions of Pete Petersen and anyone on the Wall Street Journal's editorial staff are considered guide posts for his second four years. Gut Medicare and fiddle with Social Security, slam the middle class and poor and you suddenly receive the moniker of being a responsible bipartisan unfettered by labels.
And apparently not by loyalty. Bill Clinton certainly turned his back on generations of Democratic policy when he proudly proclaimed "the era of big government is over." In 1996, he gained the approbation of Wall Street when he gutted and abolished aid for dependent children. Obama to his credit has not sold out Democratic party ideals. Clinton was and is a good rhetorical Democrat, like the wheezy uncle at Christmas, excellent for ceremonial occasions but thoroughly unreliable at coming through on substance.
Only on rare occasions, such as the Libya adventure, which was driven by Hillary Clinton, has Obama seemed to submit to the dogmas of the Democratic leadership councils. But he is under pressure with a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and a number of so-called centrists hankering for austerity.
Obama would be well-advised to heed history. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt, bowing to pressure to balance the budget, cut the Works Project administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. In doing so, he plunged the nation into what came to be known as the "Roosevelt recession." Given that the New Deal was somewhat herky-jerky in its approach, FDR fell back on the orthodoxy he favored prior to 1933. Turned out the new ways were better. Nevertheless, by listening to the voices of so-called centrism, he fostered a conservative resurgence in 1938. Leave one you love for a tight-fisted replacement, and that is the result.
But you cannot underestimate the pressures on Obama. On one show you see Tom Brokaw lament that one simply cannot live on $250,000 a year in urban areas. Or Chris Matthews advocating austerity, certainly not for himself. Moderate Republicanism is not Democratic. It is preferable to the ultra-right ideology of the present day GOP – but it is not why most people vote for a Democrat.
Which brings us to what Arthur Larson asked in 1956 about the Republican Party: "What are we for?" Although Democrats certainly are proud of Civil Rights gains for those denied them, its main goal is fairness and economic justice. In the last few years, inequalities have grown and not necessarily because of the vaunted "hidden hand" of Adam Smith. One only needs to remember the scoundrels of 2008 to note how wealth was accrued.
Obama has had to fight a great deal, from those who question his citizenship to his political loyalty. By winning a second term, he can probably end all talk of his legitimacy. But he also can begin to use the bully pulpit to question the culture of inequality that has been rampant since 1981. Even by losing a few votes, he can strengthen the cause of progressivism. Certainly, taking the advice of so-called moderates is not a place to begin his second term.


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During a recent conversation with public policy makers about the advantages of year-round education (not necessarily year-round schools), my thinking went almost immediately to traditional Asian rice farming, athletics and the process of teaching intelligence. All are connected.
Intelligence is the product of innate capacity and lots of high quality, hard work. University researchers have long triangulated on the educability of intelligence and will be happy to tell you about it if you can wake them up at the party. Essentially, the harder you work, the smarter you get. Most successful people have chosen to outwork those who are not.
In athletic endeavors, we have no trouble accepting the concept that the hardest workers with the best coaching are the predominant and perennial winners. At one of my schools, for example, swimmers used the pool on a 24/7 basis. This also carries over into careful dieting and weight training matched specifically to individual athletes and their sports. The most successful athletes are those who choose to outwork others.
So what does this have to do with year-round learning? As it turns out, everything.
Academic achievement is a function of quality time on task, not just seat time, and most students simply don't get enough of it. The highest performing students in our schools are those whose quality learning time is extended beyond their peers' by parents and/or others in their environments. Each year, they jump farther ahead of those in their age cohort because their learning is tied not to the 180-day school cycle, but is driven by and through their home environments on a nonstop basis. This is similar to athletes whose parents provide training and opportunities for skill development that extends well beyond recreation or the school-provided coaching. We often refer to these youngsters, at some point, as champions.
What is ironic to me is that lesser achieving peers and many adults fail to notice the weeks, months and years of committed and often lonely preparation that produced the visible-tip-of-the-iceberg winning performance. They missed the locker room banner about losers having excuses and winners having programs.
The above-mentioned researchers can also dig up piles of data showing that growth in student achievement during the actual school year is fairly consistent among socio-economic, racial and ethnic groups. The intergroup divergence, though, begins early and grows with age as the top echelon of achieving students and athletes climb the performance curve on a nonstop basis compared to their less aggressive peers. The latter pursue achievement on a part-time and often less serious basis.
There is also a very real regression effect brought on by long periods of off-task time, especially summer recesses. This is why Federal law requires an extended school year for some students with disabilities. At least the first month of the school year for many students is spent in relearning and reconnecting to the prior year's instructional stream. This is a little like paying for the same real estate twice.
So where does the rice farmer come in to this and what does he have to do with education?
Traditional Asian rice farming requires arduous, careful and very skilled work on the part of the farmer in order to achieve a high yield. This work is carried out meticulously from dawn to dusk on virtually every day of the year. Unlike traditional European farming that gave us our current school calendar, there is no down time between planting and harvesting. The work never stops.
Cultural values and expectations carried over into the American system of education usually result in families having not only higher expectation for their students, but the enforcement of longer periods of high quality effort and achievement, both during and outside the school year.
They not only respect and revere education and educators, but assure the achievement of their progeny by enforcing a strong work ethic.
Even beyond this, there is a clear expectation to take on "high yield" fields of study and career pathways, eg., science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In addition to dominating the ranks of our highest achieving students, large numbers of university faculty and researchers in the STEM areas are made up of individuals of Asian descent. This is true, too, of others whose cultural values stress hard work and limited leisure as a template for success. Not innately more intelligent, they simply choose to do the work necessary to succeed at high levels.
Socio-economic situations are also a marker for success. Parents who have worked well beyond the norm to achieve success expect the same from their offspring and usually provide the environment and means for achievement opportunities beyond what is offered in the abbreviated school calendar. When it comes to hard work, they get it, too.
The movement toward year-round learning (not necessarily year-round school) offers not only the opportunity to mitigate the limitations of the agrarian calendar, but with it many of our outmoded notions of learning that go with it.
As my sons frequently remind me, every day is an opportunity to get better. What's our choice going to be?
Editor's Note: Dr. Terry Wallace is a member of the graduate faculty at Muskingum University, a signatory of the Boston-based Time to Succeed Coalition and a Senior Fellow at Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia

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This lower tax rate, an increase of seven cents over last year, would have effectively been lower than last year because the school district was able to lower the amount needed to repay its debt for the new elementary school.
The total proposed tax rate for the district, which includes the amount required to repay bonds, was $1.52189 compared to $1.55376 last year.
While those are the published numbers — they did change slightly Tuesday night.
Property value increases meant that the amount of tax required to pay the district's bond debt was lowered by five cents, which meant that trustees were actually voting on an overall lower tax rate that initially published.
"They had an opportunity that would trigger an eight-cent tax decrease for everyone," said Robin Thomas, special programs director.
Now, it's back to the drawing board for the tax rate and the budget.
"It is financial crisis mode," Thomas said. "We have to scrap the budget."
Thomas said that the board has met seven times to discuss and create the budget based upon the proposed – but ultimately not trustee-approved – tax rate.
"That is why this was such a complete jolt. It doesn't make any sense," she said. "There were some things built into (the budget) that were definitely needed."
On July 17, a notice was placed in this newspaper notifying residents of the proposed tax rate.
The additional money generated from this rate would have funded a multitude of projects.
According to information provided by the district, changes to the budget could include:
• A salary freeze along with a rise in insurance cost. According to minutes from the meetings, "Mr. (Troy) Hughes stated that, despite no opposition to the salary increase in seven previous budget workshops, all S-T staff members should now know that they get paid better than anyone in the area and should have no problems with this action."
• Eliminating planned funding for student/staff safety and security measures in response to recent nationwide school violence and eliminating planned funding to improve classroom technology.
• Cutting a teacher/coach position (despite program enrollment).
• No purchasing of additional band instruments.
• Eliminating air conditioning in the gym that was planned to improve student and adult safety.
• Possible implementation of the "last in, first out" policy and a girls teacher/coach position.
She added that also on the cut list is a special education bus.
"There was some things built into that were definitely needed," she said.
When asked, Superintendent Dr. Brett Belmarez described the reaction of those in the audience as "shocked and bewildered."
"Not only it is an eight-cent decrease, but we are so property poor in Skidmore that, for every dollar we generate in local taxes, the state matches us with three dollars," he said referring to the Robin Hood act. "When we reduce our local taxing effort, we leave money sitting on the table."
Funding for many of the projects, including the security improvements to the district schools, would have come from $2.5 million in notes paid for through the operations budget. The plan was to repay the notes within 10 years at today's low interest rate.
That idea is now scrapped.
Belmarez said that when the board voted to publish notice of the proposed tax rate, the vote was six to one with only Trustee James Bennett offering dissent.
However, on Tuesday evening, the tax rate garnered only two affirmative votes — Keith Petrus and Salvador Soto, Jr.
Without that increase in the operations portion of the budget, they won't be able to fund much of what they had hoped.
Even the basics, such as the teacher raises, are in jeopardy as they look to create a new budget by the state-mandated Aug. 30.
"If we were just to say everybody's salary is frozen, that statement is not all in of itself true," Belmarez said. "This year, the state insurance the teachers get has increased substantially.
"Essentially, what teachers and staff are getting is a pay cut. If insurance is going up, and salary stays the same, that is a pay cut."
Belmarez said that he is concerned the district won't be able to make the safety improvements to the school — one of which is the air conditioning inside their old gym.
"We were looking forward to air conditioning in that old gym," Belmarez said. "That gym gets to be around 100 degrees.
"We have had people just about pass out."
The gym is still used quite frequently, and its use is growing as the number of youth enrolling in sports has grown.
"We have volleyball practice in there," he said.
"The windows are still boarded up from the last hurricane, and there is no air flow."
The question before Belmarez is what comes next.
Carol Estes, business manager, told Belmarez that "Connie Rose from the Comptroller's Office stated that 'there is nothing in the tax code to give the district direction on what steps need to be taken, and the legislature never foresaw this happening and that she has not heard of a district doing this before and that S-TISD is on virgin ground.'"
The board has until Sept. 30 to adopt a tax rate but must have its budget by Aug. 30. The next planned meeting, as of Thursday, is Aug. 29.
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Great tires, great price.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These tires are paired with a set of reasonably priced Reynolds shadow wheels on my bike. They currently have more than 2,000 miles on them, 3 crashes (one crash folded the wheel) and I have only had one flat due to a particularly nasty pot hole. Of course after so many miles they are near the end of their service life, being mostly flat. However even in their compromised state I have not seen a noticeable loss of grip in any condition. For the price I think It would be impossible to find a better tire.
Great Tires, noticeably grippy and fast
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I've put about 50miles on these tires and immediately noticed my bikes handling and grip increased. No issues with flats or wearing yet but I'm only 50miles in, more testing to come.
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lasted for two years on my chinese carbon clinchers with alloy rim bed and brake tracks. did 5 centuries with it and countless miles of training rides. tire on the rear started forming an S bend and i have encountered those kinds of problems before on continental tires. and no, it's not an inner tube problem. i replaced it right away. for the price of $19 bucks, i say it's worth it. i'm still using the front tire.
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These tires are pretty sweet. I threw them on my townie to get to the bars at night and I haven't crashed yet! I would highly recommend them.
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Weight? Duh?
Schwalbe shows 255 grams for the folding bead, 700x23 size. If these are wire bead, the weight goes up to 355 grams.


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Wouldn't surprise me if the team is secondary in his plans too. Despite all the triumphing he is after all a business man in it to make money. He's hardly likely to do that from Salford but form the land, potential retail developments and possibly the stadium..........? Be interesting to see how things, eg ownership of the stadium, are set up.
He's said he isn't in it for the money, he has enough of that and other income streams. He said he is in it for sporting reasons, he likes to win.
No reason to not think that he's genuine and won't be a big boost for both Salford & the game.


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Stir It Up: Time for a New Year's reality checkAP PHOTO
Chicken With Mushroom Sauce is easy to make, freezes beautifully and can help ease you into post-holiday reality. The photo and recipe are from "Southern Living Fix It & Freeze It, Heat It & Eat It."
Once the holidays are over, life loses a bit of its glow. The decorations come down (or hang around and seem depressing). You miss hearing those carols that you thought were so annoying. Every meal no longer seems like a party.
It's time for a reality check — time to roll up your sleeves and get back to the routine of cooking regular meals.
The editors of Southern Living magazine offer up "Southern Living Fix It & Freeze It, Heat It & Eat It" (Oxmoor House, 2012), a cookbook that is all about ease and planning. The idea is to cook ahead of time and free up daily life for the rest of "reality."
The book includes some valuable hints about freezing foods:
n Casseroles, soups, stews, chili and meatloaf freeze well, as do many baked goods.
n Cool dishes quickly before freezing by placing them, uncovered, in the fridge. Bowls of hot stews and soups can be placed in larger bowls of ice water and stirred.
n Choose the right container. Check all plastic wraps, bags and containers for guidelines on freezing and reheating.
n Avoid freezer burn by removing air from bags before sealing. Store soups and stews in freezer bags, which can be placed flat and frozen quickly. Store foods in small servings (no more than one quart).
n No matter how positive you are that you can identify a food after you freeze it, LABEL it. Use a permanent marker to write down the name of the dish and the date it was made. Note: It's easier to write on plastic bags before you freeze them.
n The more quickly food freezes, the better its quality will be when thawed. Allow enough room for air to circulate so that food freezes rapidly. Slowly frozen food forms large ice crystals that can turn the food mushy. Use a freezer thermometer to ensure that your unit remains at zero degrees or lower.
n If your freezer doesn't have built-in organizational features, create your own with plastic storage containers. Label the bins. If there is no rack, add plastic-coated, freestanding wire shelves to increase storage space.
The chicken dish below can help you ease into the new year. It is easily cooked and frozen, but it still seems like a party. Hum some carols while you make it.
Chicken With Mushroom Sauce
Yield: 4 servings
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1½ teaspoons salt
¼ cup all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon black pepper
½ cup milk
1 cup Italian-seasoned bread crumbs
Olive oil
1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
12 fresh mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
4 scallions, trimmed and chopped
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons capers
½ cup chicken broth or water
½ cup Marsala or white wine
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 lemons, sliced
Place chicken breasts between 2 sheets of heavy-duty plastic wrap. Using a meat mallet or rolling pin, pound and flatten chicken to ½-inch thickness. Sprinkle chicken evenly with ½ teaspoon salt.
Combine flour, pepper and another ½ teaspoon salt in a shallow dish. Pour milk in a shallow bowl. Put bread crumbs in a shallow dish. Dredge chicken in flour mixture, shaking off excess. Dip chicken in milk and dredge in bread crumbs.
Line a platter with paper towels and set aside. Pour olive oil to a depth of ¼ inch in a large skillet and heat over medium-high. Working in batches, fry chicken 5 to 6 minutes on each side. Remove from skillet and drain on the lined platter. Discard oil and drippings, reserving 2 tablespoons in the pan.
Saute garlic in hot drippings 20 seconds over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and saute 3 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add scallions, parsley and capers; saute 1 minute. Stir in broth (or water), wine, lemon juice and the remaining ½ teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, 2 minutes or until slightly thickened. Serve mushroom sauce over chicken, with lemon slices on the side.
TO FREEZE CHICKEN: Fry chicken as directed until almost done. Cool quickly. Freeze on baking sheets, then place in labeled zip-top plastic freezer bags and freeze up to 4 months. To reheat, thaw in refrigerator overnight. Place in a shallow pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, or until temperature reaches 165 degrees.
TO FREEZE MUSHROOM SAUCE: Ladle room-temperature sauce into zip-top plastic freezer bags. Seal and freeze up to 4 months. To reheat, thaw in refrigerator overnight. Reheat in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
Recipe from "Southern Living Fix It & Freeze It, Heat It & Eat It" (Oxmoor House, 2012).
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We can admit that sometimes it might make sense to fake your death. You know, like if you're on the run from the mob, or maybe if it's in order to more effectively strike fear into the criminal underworld while working as a costumed vigilante.
Or you could go a totally different route and fake your death for a really asinine reason. Kind of like these people...
6Amir Vehabovic Wants to Find His True Friends
The Dearly Departed
Friends, we have gathered here to celebrate and remember Amir Vehabovic, who left us far too soon at the tender age of 45. Amir, a native of Bosnia, turned up dead of mysterious causes in March of 2007 , but damned if there wasn't a bona fide certificate of death and a real coffin delivered by the undertaker to be placed six-feet-under. We'd like to tell you hundreds turned out to bid a fond farewell to their passed friend. Well, maybe dozens. Or at least a couple. Come on, at least a couple people showed up to pay their respect, right?
The Cause of "Death"
Nope. Not even a couple. Only one person turned up for Amir's funeral, and that was his mother. This would only be kind of crushingly depressing, if Amir hadn't actually staged his death just to see how popular he was.
Now, we've all thought about what it would be like to watch our own funeral. You're curious, you want to find out who shows up, who doesn't, who cries and what members of the opposite sex would blurt out how they've always wanted to have filthy sex with you. Deciding the stew of sympathy was too much to resist, Amir hatched an elaborate plan to fake his own death, then forged a death certificate and bribed an undertaker to deliver the coffin. For his trouble, he learned first hand why most of us only think about our funerals.
Considerably more people mourned the passing of the Frasier dog.
See, there's no good outcome. If lots of people show up, they'll hate you when they discover the lie and, as Amir learned, if no one shows up, they already hate you. After no one showed up to his funeral, Amir learned a valuable lesson about life and, in an effort to change his ways... oh wait, no, he sent strongly worded letters to the 45 "friends" who didn't attend, which, really Amir, is an impossible stance to take. If they didn't care enough to attend your funeral when they thought you were actually dead, finding out that you're both alive and the creepiest guy they know probably isn't going to do the trick.
But look on the bright side, you are the only person who's not a figment of Mark Twain's imagination who gets a do-over on their funeral. And next time, we'd imagine it will be significantly less awkward for you.
5Dianne Craven Is REALLY Bad at Breaking Up
The Dearly Departed
Earlier this year, tragic news struck Stuart Shortland: His lover of nearly five years, Dianne Craven, had suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage and passed away. Dianne and Stuart had been having their illicit affair for years, but not long before her death, Dianne had informed Stuart that she'd had his child, a baby girl named Ruby. But when Stuart traveled to see his lover and daughter, both had disappeared, and it was then that he was given the news that Dianne had died, as well as information about the funeral. Oh, and he found all of this out via text message, which studies show is the douchiest way to inform someone of terrible news.
The Cause of "Death"
Dianne is apparently really, really bad at breakups. Let's be honest here, there are two things you should never, ever relay to someone via text message. The first is, "I'm breaking up with you." The second? "Hey, UR loved 1 died, TTYL." Particularly when the second one is in no way, shape or form true. Dianne Craven managed to do both at once with Stuart Shortland.
Yes, the whole thing was simply a plan to break things off with Stuart without having to go through the pain or normalcy of actually telling the person that it's just not working out. Basically, Dianne took the old "it's not you, it's me" and ratcheted it up about 50 notches by replacing "me" with "brain hemorrhage." To make matters worse, Stuart's distress and heartbreak caused him to develop alopecia (think Stan Sitwell from Arrested Development) and go bald, so we can only imagine his reaction when photos of Dianne and her husband living happily in Bali surfaced online three months later. She's still alive to this day and still hasn't answered for her actions. Though, to be fair, she'd probably just fake a heart attack the day before the interview. The lesson we can really take away from this, though, is that when you fake your own death, it's probably a good idea to get rid of your Facebook page.


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Top Vt. judge Franklin Billings Jr. dies at age 91March 10,2014
By Kevin O'Connor
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WOODSTOCK — Back in 1925, Franklin S. Billings Jr., then age 3, scampered on his family's porch beside his father, who was governor of Vermont, and friend Calvin Coolidge, who was president of the United States.
It didn't matter that the Secret Service shooed him away. Billings already had inherited a passion for public life he would share — be it as a state speaker of the house, Supreme Court chief justice and U.S. District Court judge — until his death at his home here Sunday at age 91.
"He exemplified the best qualities of Vermont and what a Vermont statesman should be," said U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who first met Billings as a fledgling lawyer recruited to help the Legislature navigate the New Frontier of the 1960s.
Entering the world June 5, 1922, Billings was believed to be the great-great-grandson of the first white colonist born in Vermont (in 1754). He went to Woodstock public schools until 1935, when his father died of a heart attack and his mother moved the family to her native Milton, Mass.
Billings graduated from Harvard University in 1943, only to flunk his physical exam for World War II military service. Undeterred, he volunteered as an Army ambulance driver in Italy, where he crawled out of a flaming vehicle after it struck a landmine in 1944, only to be rescued by a British transport that tipped over, mixing up his identification with the papers of an injured German lieutenant.
(Billings would finally receive a Purple Heart for his efforts in 2010.)
Earning a law degree from the University of Virginia School in 1947, Billings returned to his Vermont roots, where elementary classmates welcomed him to join their high school reunions.
Locally, Billings served as a village trustee, selectman, school director, planning commissioner, library trustee, town moderator and, regionally, as a Hartford municipal court judge from 1955-62.
At the state level, he was assistant Senate secretary from 1949-54, Gov. Joseph Johnson's executive clerk from 1955-56, Senate secretary from 1957-59 and Gov. Robert Stafford's secretary of civil and military affairs from 1959-60.
Elected Woodstock's state House representative in 1960, the Republican joined 10 other freshmen in an informal caucus tagged the "Young Turks." When one of them — a fellow lawyer named Philip Hoff — was inaugurated as the state's first popularly elected Democratic governor in 1963, Billings was voted speaker of the house.
The first Vermonter to win two consecutive terms, Billings presided over the Legislature that reapportioned itself from a 246-seat House where each of Vermont's cities and towns had its own representative to the current 150-member chamber.
Billings would support Hoff over Republican challenger Richard Snelling in 1966, then win the Democrat's appointment as a Superior Court judge later that year and earn succeeding Gov. Thomas P. Salmon's nomination as a Supreme Court justice in 1975.
But Billings ascended to his top posts thanks to the GOP. Snelling, after trying to torpedo his Superior Court selection, named him Supreme Court chief justice in 1982 — the first in state history to be decided by the chief executive rather than by seniority.
President Ronald Reagan promoted Billings to the U.S. District Court in 1984 — but only after postponing the process for months after partisans questioned whether Billings was an "activist" judge.
As Supreme Court chief justice, Billings pushed for female judges (three decades ago, Vermont had yet to appoint one) and cameras in courtrooms (the state was the only one in New England to bar them).
"Society has changed, and I'm not sure this court has," he said at the time. "The law has to develop with it."
A full-time U.S. judge until his 72nd birthday in 1994, Billings became an outspoken opponent of federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
"This type of statute denies the judges of this court and of all courts the right to bring their conscience, experience, discretion and sense of what is just into the sentencing procedure," he said in 1990. "It, in effect, makes the judge a computer, automatically imposing sentences without regard to what is right."
The same year, Billings presided over the first case tried in a federal court that allowed DNA testing as evidence.
Billings married the former Pauline Gillingham — granddaughter of the founder of Woodstock's famed F. H. Gillingham & Sons general store — in 1951. The couple went on to raise four children: sons Frank and Jireh, who now own and operate the downtown institution, and daughters Elizabeth and Ann.
Billings was a member of the Grange, Masons and Shrine and on the board of Vermont Law School in South Royalton. He was also an original trustee of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, having attended the president's 1933 burial service at age 11.
Leahy, who as a U.S. senator would support Billings' nomination to the federal court, "always admired" the late judge.
"He was wise and decent and generous," Leahy said. "Though we were of different parties, he was always helpful in the best interests of Vermont, and never partisan."
Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock said Sunday it would publicize service arrangements after it met with Billings' family today.
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Recovery in home prices not expected until spring
Inventories of homes for sale have dropped to lowest levels since 2004
Even though home prices are rebounding in some parts of the country the overall housing market won't start turning the corner until spring of next year, according to the latest forecast based on the Fiserv Case-Shiller indices.
The forecast, which tracks 384 markets, predicts that nationwide home prices will dip another 1 percent between March of this year and March 2013.
At that point, prices will start gaining momentum, said Fiserv. The financial analytics firm is forecasting that nationwide home prices will climb 5 percent between March 2013 and March 2014.
For the time being, though, the recovery will remain choppy. As Fiserv pointed out, eight out of the 10 markets that saw the biggest prices gains over the past 12 months are projected to fall the most over the next year. These include some markets that were hit hard by the housing bust -- Detroit, Phoenix and Miami, to name a few.
And in Florida, several cities still have many months of falling prices to face before a sustained recovery will take shape, Fiserv projected. In the Naples area, Fiserv forecasts a price decline of close to 14 percent during the 24 months ending March, 2014. Miami's home prices are expected to plunge 13.4 percent and Fort Lauderdale's are projected to fall 11.9 percent.
Meanwhile, in other cities, prices will be lifted by a shrinking supply of homes for sale and fewer foreclosures on the market, said David Stiff, Fiserv's chief economist.
Inventories of homes for sale have dropped to their lowest levels since 2004, he said. Part of the reason is that many underwater homeowners can't afford to pay the difference between what they owe on their mortgage and their home's value -- and therefore can't afford to sell their home. Those who do have equity in their home are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for home prices to improve before they sell.
Also helping to lift home prices in some areas is the fact that fewer foreclosures are taking place. Instead, more struggling homeowners are selling their homes in short sales, which tend to fetch higher prices than foreclosures.
One thing that could derail the housing market's recovery is the shaky economy, said Stiff. If confidence in that drops -- either because of financial crisis in Europe or the pending "fiscal cliff" here in the U.S. -- it could take home prices down.
However, buying a home is historically cheap, he said. And if consumer confidence falls, it would probably result in continued record low -- or even lower -- mortgage rates. That would mean even better affordability, which could be enough to offset the economic gloom.
"We may be at a point where housing markets can finally withstand a weak economy," said Stiff.
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nvidia must be desperate to even do this
Nvidia Corp. has demonstrated one of the first products based on its newly-announced Fermi architecture. The first card, which pictures appeared on Japanese PC Watch web-site, based on the graphics processing unit (GPU) known as G300, GT300 or NV60 is apparently not a GeForce, but Tesla, which is designer for high-performance computing or simulation market.
Nvidia Tesla Fermi-G300 card, which is intended for massively parallel computing and not video games, does feature DVI-I output, unlike today's Tesla cards. An interesting thing to point out is that the shown-off Tesla card does not seem to feature Nvidia IO chip, which contains display controllers, which means that either the new flagship GPU features integrated TMDS transmitters, or the DVI-I output does not work.
Nvidia graphics card powered by Fermi-G300 graphics processor. Image by PC Watch
The demonstrated unit has surprisingly short print-circuit board (PCB), which is a good news for those, who use smaller computer cases and cannot fit longer add-in cards. The novelty has rather small cooling fan, which is natural for Tesla products, but a six-pin (which has neither pins nor soldering points) and an eight-pin (which soldering points are not placed correctly, which may imply that the connector also does not work) PCI Express power connectors, which means that the board should be a rather power-hungry one. The cooling system itself looks rather flashy with a carbon-fiber like inset, which should probably imply on fast sport cars.
Nvidia graphics card powered by Fermi-G300 graphics processor. Image by PC Watch
The Tesla add-in-card based on a Fermi graphics processor demonstrated by Nvidia is a rather strange one, in fact. Even though the card has two mounting places for DVI-I connectors, it sports only one connector and the bracket does not allow to install the second one. Besides, the PCB seems to be rather simplistic, which is a surprise, considering the fact that the GT300 graphics processor has 384-bit memory bus. Even though the board features two MIO connectors for SLI multi-GPU setups, the second connector cannot be utilized due to presence of a large heat-spreader on the backside of the card. In general, the shown-off add-in-card may be a very early sample of a Tesla/GeForce product that is intended for testing internally, but not for sale.
Nvidia G300/NV60 graphics processing unit based on Fermi architecture. Image by PC Watch
Nvidia Fermi-G300 graphics chip resembles all top-of-the-range graphics processors from the company in the last three years: it is covered by an aluminum heat-spreader. The A1 revision chip was made on the 35th week of 2009, in late August. Typically, Nvidia ships A2 revisions of the chip on commercial products.
Die shot of Nvidia G300 graphics processing unit based on Fermi architecture. Image by PC Watch
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For Undergraduate Students Title: General ChemistryAuthor: Linus PaulingDescription: Although somewhat old, this is still the the best book to learn General Chemistry from.--Mitch
General Chemistry by Linus Pauling seems a bit more advanced than what we covered in Gen Chem. It is quite a nice book to have around though, I've read through a lot of it. In school, we used Zumdahl and Zumdahl's "Chemistry". The book itself wasn't bad, but what really made it shine was the companion website. It has videos for every chapter explaining each important topic from the ground up. It was especially helpful for the later chapters on ligand field theory and main group elements. It also has videos of fun reactions dealing with each section of the book. I still get on there from time to time...
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