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Town Square
There AM a meeting here tonight!
Original post made by Forest Warn, another community, on May 15, 2008
Gather your tamborines and hymnals! There am a meeting here tonight at 7PM at the Creekside Church, www.alamoca.org
Everything you ever wished to celebrate about Danville Blvd will be preached in many voices and options. On behalf of All things Alamo & Pop(u)lar, I want to make sure no option is missed in our DAZE of discussions:
#1 - Remove Danville Blvd and Stone Valley Road in Alamo's business district as part of a well-planned mall with access lanes.
#2 - Move Danville Blvd east to be part of the MVHS roadway improvements and as a scenic drive through Round Hill.
#3 - Declare Danville Blvd to be a county park as The Avenue of Trees and charge all non-residents an admission fee.
#4 - Create the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel under Danville Blvd for the length of Alamo.
#5 - Build a true Roundabout of sufficient size to handle traffic safely starting in San Ramon, proceeding through Blackhawk, along the ridgeline to Walnut Creek and back through Lafayette, Moraga along Bollinger Canyon to San Ramon.
NOW, doesn't removing Danville Blvd and Stone Valley Road seem like the only logical plan?
Kindly with regards, smiling,
Fore Warn
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a resident of another community
on May 15, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Dear Iron Horse neighbors,
This is the Roundabout website you requested. Be sure to understand the difference between a traffic circle and a roundabout. Roundabouts typically have a larger inside diameter than the current roadway and would not fit easily between Safeway and Longs. Traffic circles, previously referenced in other forums are reportedly dangerous due to lack of staging for cars entering and exiting the circle.
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As a CDSI community courtesy,
Hal Bailey
Member, CDSI Research Fellowship
a resident of another community
on May 16, 2008 at 7:40 am
It is sad to report, Brothers and Sisters, that our congregation was only a few but the WORD was shared by all.
The AIA provided reception to Contra Costa County Public Works Transportation Representative and interactively discussed the three separate listings of projects for our roads and lanes with specific attention to all of Danville Boulevard and Stone Valley Road.
Mr. Brad Waite, President, Alamo Improvement Association, hopes to have a broader response to commitments by CCC-PW Transportation from our entire region and its neighborhoods. Thus, log-on to www.alamoca.org and access the President's e-mail and provide your intentions for our region's roads and lanes. CCC-PW suggested that the same message be sent through District 3 Supervisor to CCC-PW's attention (which means it will never be delivered).
The oxymoron in this exercise is the idea that the will of regional politics will somehow change from the constant expansion of corridors in our Diablo Vista (Alamo) region for commute traffic. Any suggestion that does not meet that continuing goal will be ignored (with or without incorporation).
May I hear AMEN?
One HAL of a Pal
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Reece Murphy
York Technical College announced Wednesday, June 11, it will open a new Indian Land instructional site in August.
Located on the first floor of the Verian Technologies building at 1245 Rosemont Drive, the center will initially offer classes for 120 students. To celebrate the opening, the college is giving scholarships to the first 100 students who sign up
Laura Caskey
s clouds loomed overhead outside, spirits remained up in the Lancaster High School gymnasium. Just after 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 30, LHS administrators made the decision to move the graduation exercises indoors.
Indian Land High School graduate Leander McCall and the class of 2014 expressed their thanks, admiration and farewells "Hunger Game"-style during their commencement ceremony, Friday, May 30.
Denyse Clark
Buford High School's class of 2014 entered the gymnasium with a little pep in their steps on Friday, May 30 and walked out with even more.
That wasn't lost on Genester Curry, aunt of BHS graduate, Tijuan Dixon.
"It's a blessing to see him graduate," she said.
Dixon's grandmother, Pat Dixon, agreed.
Christopher Sardelli
Life may be full of obstacles, but it's how you handle those challenges that means the most.
Those were Tristan Mackey's words of advice to an anxious and excited crowd of seniors during Andrew Jackson High School's graduation in Kershaw on Friday afternoon, May 30.
As graduation grows near, three Lancaster County high schools are celebrating a centuries-old tradition today, Sunday, May 25, to honor students' dedication to learning and wisdom and prepare them for what comes next.
The tradition of holding baccalaureate services is believed to have begun in 1432 at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.
– Editor's note: This is the third installment of a four-part series profiling students who have overcome the odds to earn a high school diploma in 2014.
Laura Caskey
As high school students are pushing towards graduation, bad things happen.
A Buford schools coach and teaching assistant was suspended Wednesday, April 30, after posting a Facebook comment ridiculing L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Rashad Cunningham has served as an assistant boys varsity baseball coach at Buford High School for five years and is employed by Buford Middle School where he monitors in-school suspensions.
South Middle School sixth-grade science teacher Lisa Huss stood in front of the room asking students typical multiple-choice review questions about positive and negative charges, voltage, coils and electromagnetic induction.
With each question the students paused to scan the page in front of them before picking an answer, and waited, squirming in their seats as their less certain classmates caught up.
University of South Carolina Lancaster
Medford Library at the University of South Carolina Lancaster will host author Mary Ann Medford Claud as she signs and reads from her new novel, "The Dancin' Man" at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 4.
A Lancaster native and daughter of WIlliam Medford, for whom the library is named, Claud now lives in Tryon, N.C., with her husband, Olin Sansbury.
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Hello All,
I moved a nuc into a hive Saturday morning while the weather was cool & sunny. This was my first time to handle bees so I suited up and used a smoker. The bees were so easy to transfer that I may not have needed the gloves, jacket, etc. At the same time I poured a half-gallon of syrup into the division feeder that came with the nuc. Since then I've seen bees going in and out the entrance, many carrying pollen.
All the instructions I've read said I shouldn't open the hive again for a week, but after a few days I realized I probably hadn't given them enough syrup to last a full week. Thursday afternoon I took more syrup out, suited up, but didn't use smoke. I slid the cover back just enough to expose the feeder to refill. First thing I noticed: there seemed to be a LOT more bees, and they were much more attentive to me moving around. So much for my worries about absconding. Since they seemed already agitated I didn't try to pull out any frames to look at what they've been doing. I just added the syrup and closed up.
First question: Does anyone have an interpretation about the bees more territorial attitude? (There is a skunk in my neighborhood, but I've raised the hive off the ground a couple feet to prevent it from meddling.) Would the lack of smoke alone do this? A day without syrup? It was maybe 5 degrees colder, about 60F instead of 65F. Was it because it was 5PM instead of 10AM? Was this in my imagination?
Second question: Should I still inspect them this weekend, a week after hiving but just 3-4 days after opening the hive? Of course I will use smoke this time. By luck I saw the marked queen when I moved them, so I know she was there last weekend.
Last question for today: The nuc was arranged as feeder-brood-brood-brood-honey. I moved it into the hive in the same order with three empty frames on either side, followed by a board to close off the rest of the hive. Would it make more sense for the feeder to be on the other side of the honey frame? Or should I move an empty frame somewhere in between the feeder and the one honey frame?
Thanks for sharing your insights.


text: I am going to treat with an oxalic acid drench this fall/winter. I have read to wait until the bees are broodless and even clustered, do you wait until winter and treat on a warmer day? I would think cracking the hive open and dumping fluid on the bees in cold weather would be detrimental, but I have no experience there so I don't know. What are your thoughts on timing? I am in Eastern Washington.


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Top photo: Members of the San Antonio Lion Dance Association
participate in Asian Festival opening ceremonies.
Bottom photo: Demonstration of the Korean martial
art of Kuk Sool Won
Institute of Texan Cultures presents Asian Festival
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(Feb. 6, 2008)--UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures will host the 21st annual Asian Festival: The Year of the Rat, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9.
Today's headlines
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The popular event celebrates the unique histories, stories and foods of cultures from the eastern edge of the Mediterranean to the Pacific islands. Traditionally observed near the Lunar New Year observed in many Asian cultures, the ITC Asian Festival began as a family reunion for the local Asian community.
The Asian Lunar New Year festival will begin with the clashing of cymbals and beating of drums to drive off bad luck. Members of the San Antonio Lion Dance Association in elaborate two-person lion costumes will lead a parade around the festival grounds, followed by the Hula Halau Ohana Elikapeka dance troupe and many colorfully costumed participants.
More than 42 organizations representing countries and cultural groups will present activities including dance, martial arts demonstrations, traditional gaming and delicious food sampling. More than half of the participants have participated in the festival for eight years or more. In 2008, new participants will include a Japanese animé club, an Asian history book dealer and a Japanese shakuhachi musical performer.
The day's activities will include traditional Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Okinawan and Polynesian dance. Various martial arts schools will demonstrate techniques including Iaido, Karate, Kendo, Kuk Sool Won, Kung Fu, Muay Thai and Tai Chi Chuan. Visitors can participate in games including the domino-like mah-jongg.
Admission to the festival is $8; $4 for children, seniors and military with I.D.; and free with UTSACard (enter at main gate).
For more information, visit the Institute of Texan Cultures Web site or call (210) 458-2330.
------------------------------According to the Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. Those born in the Year of the Rat (1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 and 2008) are known for their charm. They have big ambitions and work hard to achieve their dreams. Rats are thrifty and tend to be perfectionists.


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I have a shell. Now what?
While doing a pentest for a client, once we get a bind or a reverse shell on a machine, what should we do and in WHAT ORDER?
- Escalade privileges
- Install useful tools (backdoor, tunnels, etc)
- Enumerate users
- Start cracking passwords to help gain access to other machines
- Erase traces
- Look for interesting files containing database login credentials, sensitive data, etc
- Scan other machines from this host
- Use it as a pivot to attack internal networks
But what else do you do once you own a box?
(aka H1t.M0nk3y)


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Acting Director for Office of Workers' Compensation (OWCP), Gary Steinberg
Statement of
Gary Steinberg,
Acting Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management,
The Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
United States Senate,
July 26, 2011
Chairman Daniel Akaka, Ranking Member Ron Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee:
My name is Gary Steinberg, and I am the Acting Director of the Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP). OWCP administers a number of workers' compensation programs, including the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), which covers 2.7 million Federal and Postal workers and is one of the largest self-insured workers' compensation systems in the world.
I appreciate the opportunity to discuss legislative reforms to FECA that would enhance our ability to assist FECA beneficiaries to return to work, provide a more equitable array of FECA benefits, and generally modernize the program and update the statute. Almost 95 years ago, on September 7, 1916, Congress enacted FECA to provide comprehensive Federal workers' compensation coverage to all Federal employees and their survivors for disability or death due to an employment injury or illness. FECA's fundamental purpose is to provide compensation for wage loss and medical care, facilitate return to work for employees who have recovered from their injuries, and pay benefits to survivors. The faces of FECA include the Postal worker whose mail truck is hit while delivering mail, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent injured or killed in the line of duty, the Department of Veterans' Affairs nurse who hurts her back while lifting patients, and the Federal employee injured in the recovery efforts in Japan. All of these employees will receive benefits provided by this Act.
Since FECA has not been significantly amended in over 35 years, there are areas where the statute could be improved. Thus we have developed a number of proposals to reform and maintain FECA as the model workers' compensation program for the twenty-first century. In the 2012 Budget we estimated 10-year savings of around $400 million, but we think the potential savings are likely higher. After briefly discussing the current status of the FECA program, I am pleased to outline possible changes to the statute for consideration.
Many of the proposals are based on the results of studies by the program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Inspectors General, as well as discussions with stakeholder organizations over the past 20 years. Recently, we have shared these proposed changes with staff of this and other Congressional committees and various outside parties such as representatives of Federal employee unions and members of the disability community.
FECA Today
Benefits under the FECA are payable for both traumatic injuries (injuries sustained during the course of a single work shift) and occupational disease due to sustained injurious exposure in the workplace. If OWCP's review of the evidence determines that a covered employee has sustained a work-related medical condition, the FECA program provides a wide variety of benefits including payment for all reasonable and necessary medical treatment; compensation to the injured worker to replace partial or total lost wages (paid at two-thirds of the employees' salary or at three-fourths if there is at least one dependent); a monetary award in cases of permanent impairment of limbs or other parts of the body; medical and vocational rehabilitation assistance in returning to work as necessary; and benefits to survivors in the event of a work related death.
FECA benefits are based upon an employee's inability to earn pre-injury wages with no time limit on wage loss benefit duration as long as the work-related condition or disability continues; the amount of compensation is based upon the employee's salary up to a maximum of GS-15 Step 10. More than 70% of FECA claimants are paid at the augmented (three-fourths) level. As workers' compensation benefits, they are tax free; long-term benefits are escalated for inflation after the first year of receipt.
FECA is a non adversarial system administered by OWCP. While employing agencies play a significant role in providing information to OWCP and assisting their employees in returning to work, the adjudication of FECA claims is exclusively within the discretion given to the Secretary of Labor by statute and is statutorily exempt from court review. Claimants are provided avenues of review within OWCP through reconsideration and hearing as well as an appellate forum, the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB), a quasi-judicial appellate board within the DOL, completely independent of OWCP.
FECA benefits are paid out of the Employees' Compensation Fund and most are charged back to the employee's agency. During the 2010 chargeback year, which ended on June 30, 2010, the Fund paid more than $1.88 billion in wage-loss compensation, impairment, and death benefits and another $898.1 million to cover medical and rehabilitation services and supplies. These totals include outlays for non-chargeable costs for war risk hazards that total $86.2 million, primarily for overseas Federal contractor coverage under the War Hazards Compensation Act (WHCA). Benefits paid have remained relatively stable at these levels for the past 10 years, with the exception of war risk hazard payments. In addition, the administrative costs to manage the program have consistently averaged a very modest 5% of total outlays.
Although the program is almost 95 years old, OWCP's administration of FECA is by no means antiquated. All new claims are electronically imaged into a sophisticated paperless claims management system. Video and teleconferencing options are available to claimants to expedite the OWCP appeals process. Electronic Data Interchange capabilities are utilized by many of the program's agency partners. A secure, web-based electronic document-filing portal is currently under development; this new access will be deployed later this year and for the first time will be available to all system stakeholders, including injured workers and their physicians. This new tool will further reduce reliance on paper documents and shrink data input and imaging costs while speeding claim processing and reducing administrative costs.
Maintaining Program Integrity
OWCP actively manages the FECA program so that benefits are properly paid. After a case is accepted as covered, OWCP monitors medical treatment for consistency with the accepted condition -- if more than a very brief disability is involved, OWCP often assigns a nurse as part of our early nurse intervention program to assist with the worker's recovery and facilitate the return-to-work effort. If disability is long-term, but the claimant can work in some capacity, a vocational rehabilitation counselor may be assigned to the case.
Once a claim is accepted for ongoing, periodic payments, injured workers are required to submit medical evidence to substantiate continued disability (either annually or on a two or three year schedule for those less likely to regain the ability to work). Injured workers must cooperate with OWCP-directed medical examinations and vocational rehabilitation, accept suitable employment if offered and annually report earnings and employment (including volunteer work) as well as the status of their dependents and any other government benefits. OWCP claims staff carefully review these submissions and can require claimants to be examined by outside medical physicians to resolve questions on the extent of disability or appropriateness of medical treatment such as surgery. OWCP also conducts monthly computer matches with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to identify FECA claimants who have died so that payments can be terminated to avoid overpayments.
In addition, OWCP has conducted program evaluation studies to identify areas for process and policy improvements. I noted earlier some of our case processing improvements. Based on the resulting recommendations and our claims experience, we have also improved how the program approaches disability management and return to work. The program's early nurse intervention and quality case management initiatives are particularly noteworthy as the program evolves to reflect a renewed focus on return to work We have partnered with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and our federal agencies to improve timely filing of claims and reduce lost production days. As result of these efforts, the average number of days lost as a result of the most serious injuries each year has declined from 195 days in 1996 to 156 in 2010. By speeding the average time to return to work in these cases, OWCP saves the government millions of dollars just in the first year of the injury; this also helps to avoid long term disability that can last for years thereafter.
A History of Performance
Under most circumstances FECA claims are submitted by employees to their employing agency, which completes the agency information required on the form and forwards the claim to OWCP. Over the past 5 years, an average of 133,000 new injury and illness claims were filed annually and processed by OWCP. The acceptance rate for new injury claims was 85%. Eighty-four percent (84%) were submitted within program timeliness standards of 10 working days and approximately 95% were processed by OWCP within program timeliness standards which vary depending on the complexity of the injury.
Fewer than 15,000 of the accepted claims per year involve a significant period of disability. Eighty-five percent (85%) of claimants return to work within the first year of injury and a total of 89% return to work by the end of the second year. Due in part to OWCP's efforts to return injured employees to work, less than 2% of all new injury cases remain on the long-term compensation rolls two years after the date of injury. Currently, approximately 45,000 injured workers have long term ongoing disability benefits for partial or total wage loss, which they receive every 4 weeks. Some 15,000 are 66 years of age or older. (It should be noted however, that of this 15,000, over 7,000 have been determined to have no return-to-work potential, largely because of the substantial nature of their disability.)
FECA Reform
As I have discussed, OWCP has made significant administrative and technical changes to improve the administration of FECA. These changes were legally permissible within the existing statutory framework and had a demonstrable effect in advancing our progress. The current FECA reform proposal embodies certain reforms that can only be gained through statutory amendment that transforms FECA into a model twenty-first century workers' compensation program, increasing equity and efficiency while reducing costs. These amendments fall within three categories:
- Return to Work and Rehabilitation
- Updating Benefit Structures
- Modernizing and Improving FECA
Return to Work and Rehabilitation
The proposal that we have crafted for consideration would provide OWCP with enhanced opportunities to facilitate rehabilitation and return-to-work while simultaneously addressing several disincentives that may impact timely return to work by applying a new set of benefit rates prospectively to new injuries and new claims for disability occurring after enactment of the FECA amendments.
We propose additional statutory tools that would enhance OWCP's ability to return injured workers to productive employment. While FECA currently has the authority to provide vocational rehabilitation services and to direct permanently injured employees to participate in vocational rehabilitation, we suggest removing the permanency limitation in the statute to make clear that such services are available to all injured workers and that participation in such an effort is required. It is generally accepted and consistent with our experience that the earlier the claimant is involved in a vocational rehabilitation and a Return-to-Work program, the greater likelihood of a successful and sustained return to work post injury.
The proposal would amend FECA to explicitly allow for vocational rehabilitation, where appropriate, as early as six months after injury. It provides OWCP the authority to require injured claimants unable to return to work within six months of their injury to participate with OWCP in creating a Return to-Work Plan where appropriate. The Return-to-Work Plan would generally be implemented within a two-year period. This provision would send a strong signal to all Federal workers, whether injured or not, that the Federal government as a model employer is committed to doing everything it can to return employees to work as early as possible.
Our proposal would also amend FECA to provide permanent authority for what we call Assisted Reemployment. Assisted Reemployment is a subsidy designed to encourage employers to choose qualified rehabilitated workers whom they might otherwise not hire. As disabled Federal workers with skills transferable to jobs within the general labor market may prove difficult to place due to economic factors, Assisted Reemployment is designed to increase the number of disabled employees who successfully return to the labor force by providing wage reimbursement to potential employers. Recent DOL appropriations bills gave OWCP the authority to provide up to three years of salary reimbursement to private employers who provide suitable employment for injured federal workers. Our data from our currently limited private sector program show that when we enter into an Assisted Reemployment agreement with a private employer, the employee is permanently hired by that employer at or beyond the 3 year period over 55% of the time. Of the employees not working for the same employer, approximately half are working with other employers. Because most Federal employees desire continued employment with the Federal government, our proposal to expand this program to the Federal sector would significantly increase its appeal and effectiveness. We are working closely with OPM and our partner agencies to actively seek re-employment opportunities for Federal workers who become disabled as a result of work related injuries or illnesses. These provisions would assist with that effort and comport with and support the President's Executive Order 13548 to increase hiring of individuals with disability in the Federal government. Under this proposal, OWCP would reimburse in part the salaries paid by Federal agencies that hire workers with work-related injuries.
Return to work following an injury is often a difficult, painful process, requiring physical, mental and emotional adjustments and accommodations. If a workers' compensation system contains disincentives to return to work, that difficult transition back to work will occur more slowly, or in some cases, not at all. Where the medical evidence of ability to work is ambiguous and returning to work would require an employee to overcome actual physical limitations, these disincentives will exact a high price. That high price means a more costly program, lost productivity to the employing agency, and, for the workers themselves, disrupted lives and diminished self-esteem.
As currently structured, FECA creates direct disincentives to return-to-work in two significant ways. The first and most far-reaching is that while the basic rate of FECA compensation, 66 2/3%, is comparable to most state systems, many Federal employees receive an augmented benefit, 75%, if they have at least one dependent. Computed at 75% tax free, FECA benefits often exceed the employee's pre-injury take home pay. Few state systems provide any augmentation for dependents, and none approaches the Federal level.
Since the 75% compensation rate can result in benefits greater than the injured worker's usual take home pay, we also suggest amending FECA to provide that all claimants receive compensation at one uniform level of 70%. This compensation adjustment would remove disincentive to return to work, respond to equity concerns, and significantly simplify administration by greatly reducing documentation requirements for claimants and eliminating potential overpayments that can occur due to changes in dependency status. At this level compensation would remain quite adequate. A similar rate reduction is also proposed in death claims.
A second significant disincentive to return to work is created by the disparity that exists between the level of retirement benefits, provided by the OPM, received by most Federal employees and the level of long-term FECA benefits for retirement age FECA recipients. Under current law, the thousands of long-term FECA beneficiaries who are over normal retirement age have a choice between Federal retirement system benefits and FECA benefits, but they overwhelmingly elect the latter because FECA benefits are typically far more generous. OPM informs us that the average Federal employee retiring optionally on an immediate annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System will receive about 60% of their "high-three" average salary, most of which is taxable, compared to a tax free 75% or 66.66% FECA benefit. The newer Federal Employees' Retirement System is designed to provide a comparable level of retirement replacement income from the three parts of its structure. Because returning to work could mean giving up a FECA benefit in favor of a lower OPM pension amount at eventual retirement, injured workers may have an incentive to consciously or unconsciously resist rehabilitation and instead, in certain cases, may cling to the self-perception of being "permanently disabled." In any event, the considerable difference between FECA benefits and OPM retirement benefits results in certain FECA claimants receiving far more compensation in their post retirement years than if they had completed their Federal careers and received normal retirement benefits like their colleagues. This disparity also suggests that a statutory remedy is needed.
This proposal provides claimants with a "Conversion Entitlement Benefit" upon reaching regular Social Security retirement age (and after receiving full benefits for at least one year) that would reduce their wage-loss benefits to 50% of their gross salary at date of injury (with cost of living adjustments), but would still be tax free. This benefit more closely parallels a regular retirement benefit, as opposed to a full wage-loss benefit, so that FECA recipients are not overly advantaged in their retirement years compared to their non-injured counterparts on OPM retirement. An injured worker receiving this retirement level conversion benefit would no longer be subject to several of the sanction provisions outlined in the FECA, such as forfeiture for failure to report earnings or the requirement to seek/accept suitable employment or participate in vocational rehabilitation. Even at this reduced rate, however, an injured worker would still be required to substantiate continuing injury-related disability or face suspension of compensation benefits.
Updating Benefit Structures
We also propose a number of changes to the current FECA benefit structure. One relates to the schedule award provision, which is designed to address the impact of impairment on an individual's life function, such as the loss of vision, hearing, or a limb. Impairment is permanent, assessed when an individual reaches maximum medical improvement, and is based upon medical evidence that demonstrates a percentage of loss of the affected member. Each member, extremity or function is assigned a specific number of weeks of compensation and the employee's salary is used to compute his or her entitlement to a schedule award. This payment structure results in considerable disparities in compensation: for example, a manager is paid far more than a letter carrier for loss of a leg even though the impact on the letter carrier may in reality be far more severe. In that instance, a GS-15 would receive twice what a GS-7 receives for the same loss of ability to get around, engage in recreational activities, etc., for this permanent impairment. Paying all schedule awards at the rate of 70% of $53,630 (the equivalent of the annual base salary of a GS 11 step 3) adjusted annually for inflation would certainly be more equitable.
Similarly, allowing injured workers to receive FECA schedule award benefits in a lump sum concurrently with FECA wage loss benefits for total or partial disability would provide a more equitable benefits structure for claimants. The current process is complicated and convoluted, often leaving injured workers frustrated and confused. It also can generate substantial unnecessary administrative burdens, as schedule award payments cannot be paid concurrently with FECA wage-loss benefits. To avoid the concurrent receipt prohibition some eligible claimants may elect OPM disability or retirement benefits, which they are allowed to receive for the duration of a schedule award. When the schedule award expires, they may elect to return to the more advantageous FECA wage-loss benefits. While they are collecting OPM benefits, OWCP and employing agency efforts to assist the employee in returning to work are stymied. In addition to switching to OPM benefits during the period of a schedule award, claimants can also switch back and forth between benefit programs over the life of a claim. As a result of these overly complex provisions and benefit streams, claimants sometimes do not return to work as early or as often as they could. By allowing concurrent receipt of these benefits, the claimant is timely compensated for the loss to the scheduled member and switching back and forth between OPM and OWCP benefits for this reason is eliminated. This allows a return-to-work or vocational rehabilitation effort to continue uninterrupted, thereby improving the chances of a successful return to employment.
Finally, this proposal increases benefit levels for funeral expenses and facial disfigurement, both of which have not been significantly updated since 1949, to bring FECA in line with increases in other workers' compensation statutes.
Modernizing and Improving FECA
Because FECA has not been amended in over 35 years, updates are needed to modernize and improve several provisions of the statute. One such change was made several years ago but only applied to workers employed by the U. S. Postal Service (USPS). In order to discourage the filing of claims for minor injuries that resolve very quickly, state workers' compensation programs generally impose a waiting period before an injured worker is entitled to wage-loss compensation. Because of the way in which the 1974 amendments to FECA adding the "Continuation of Pay" provisions were drafted, the waiting period under FECA for traumatic injuries was effectively moved after the worker has received 45 days of "Continuation of Pay," thus defeating the purpose of a waiting period. The Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act of 2006 amended the waiting period for Postal employees by placing the three-day waiting period immediately after an employment injury; we suggest placing the three-day waiting period immediately after an employment injury for all covered employees.
Another longstanding concern addressed by the proposal relates to the application of FECA subrogation provisions to claims. Workers' compensation systems generally provide that when a work-related injury is caused by a negligent third party the worker who seeks damages from that third party must make an appropriate refund to the workers' compensation system. As a result of the way in which the 1974 "Continuation of Pay" provision was drafted, OWCP cannot include amounts paid for Continuation of Pay in calculating the total refund to OWCP when a recovery is received by a FECA beneficiary from a third party.
OWCP also seeks the authority to match Social Security wage data with FECA files. While the SSA collects employment and wage information for workers, OWCP presently does not have authority to match that data to identify individuals who may be working while drawing FECA benefits. OWCP currently is required to ask each individual recipient to sign a voluntary release to obtain such wage information. Direct authority would allow automated screening to ensure that claimants are not receiving salary, pay, or remuneration prohibited by the statute or receiving an inappropriately high level of benefits.
This proposal would also increase the incentive for employing agencies to reduce their injury and lost time rates. Currently the USPS and other agencies not funded by appropriations must pay their "Fair Share" of OWCP administrative expenses, but agencies funded by appropriations are not required to do so. Amending FECA to allow for administrative expenses to be paid out of the Employees' Compensation Fund and included in the agency chargeback bill, would increase Federal agencies' incentive to reduce injuries and more actively manage return to work when injuries do occur.
To improve access to medical care, we suggest a provision that would increase the authority and use of Physicians' Assistants or Nurse Practitioners. We suggest amending FECA to allow Physicians' Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to certify disability during the Continuation of Pay period so that case adjudication is not delayed and treatment can be provided more rapidly. The provision allowing Physicians' Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to certify disability during the Continuation of Pay period would also reduce the burden of disability certifications in war zone areas because access to a physician may be even more limited in these circumstances.
To further address injuries sustained in a designated zone of armed conflict, FECA should be amended to provide Continuation of Pay for wage loss up to 135 days for such injuries. This increase from the standard 45 days would allow additional flexibility for claims handling in these challenging areas and is an outgrowth of a cooperative effort with OPM, the Department of State and the Department of Defense to address the needs of deployed civilian employees.
This proposal provides a fair and reasonable resolution to the disincentives and inadequacies that have arisen within the current FECA statute. Since any FECA reform should be prospective only, it would apply to new injuries and new claims of disability after enactment. Injured workers currently in receipt of disability benefits would see no changes in their benefit level. This will allow all federal employees and federal agencies to embrace and adopt a more pro-active and progressive attitude about return to work and disability employment, and avoid any unfair interruption of benefits. Even with this prospective approach, the ten-year cost savings are estimated to be around $400 million, or potentially even higher.
We believe that our proposals, if adopted, would allow all Federal employees and Federal agencies to embrace and adopt a more pro-active and progressive attitude about return to work and disability employment, and avoid any unfair interruption of existing benefit streams.
The FECA program is at a critical juncture. We have done our best to keep the program current and responsive to the changing world we live in through administrative, technological and procedural innovations and investments. Without these statutory reforms, OWCP's best efforts may yield some further gains. However, we cannot overcome the fundamental disincentives in the current law and achieve the breakthrough improvements that we know are possible within the FECA program which will allow FECA to maintain its status as a model of workers' compensation programs.
The federal workforce comprises dedicated, hard working women and men that are committed to serving the public. OWCP is fully committed to ensuring that all injured workers receive the medical care and compensation they deserve, as well as the assistance needed to return to work when able to do so. FECA reform will enable OWCP to achieve those goals more effectively.
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In ceremonies to be held for the first time on campus in 20 years, Binghamton University will confer an estimated 3,291 degrees for bachelor's, master's and doctoral candidates during the 2004 Commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 15, and Sunday, May 16, in the Events Center. The ceremonies mark the University's 58th Commencement.
The ceremony for the Graduate School will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, the ceremony for Harpur College of Arts and Sciences graduates will begin at 9 a.m., with the ceremony for the professional schools scheduled at 1:30 p.m.
The University will award three honorary doctorates during ceremonies with the recipients making remarks at their respective ceremonies.
Engineering educator Eugene M. DeLoatch will receive the honorary Doctor of Science degree during the Graduate School ceremony. DeLoatch, current and founding dean of the engineering school at Morgan State University in Baltimore, is a recognized leader in his profession. He has devoted his career to enabling more minorities to pursue technological fields, including working closely with the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science to establish The Partnership, a program that identifies academically talented engineering students at Morgan State and other historically black institutions for pursuit of graduate studies.
DeLoatch earned his bachelor of science degree in mathematics and electrical engineering from Tougaloo College in Mississippi and Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and his master of science in electrical engineering and PhD in bioengineering from the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn. He has also taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Howard University.
Melissa L. Killeleagh, a master of public administration (MPA) candidate, will give the student address.
Composer and teacher Ezra Laderman will receive the honorary Doctor of Music degree during the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences ceremony on Sunday. From his solo instrumental and vocal works to large-scale choral and orchestral music, three-time Guggenheim fellow Laderman is widely recognized as a major influence in American composition. After completing military service in the U.S. Army during World War II, Laderman studied composition with Stefan Wolpe of New York and Miriam Gideon at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he earned his bachelor of arts degree. He continued his training at Columbia University, earning a master's degree there.
Laderman has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and was appointed professor and composer-in-residence at Binghamton University in 1972. Interspersed with his academic duties, he has been a productive composer. He has been commissioned three times by the Philadelphia Orchestra and twice by the National, Louisville and Chicago symphonies. He has written nine operas, including his best-known, Galileo, Galilei, premiered in 1979 by the Tri-Cities Opera of Binghamton.
Sean Lebowitz, a political science major, will offer the student address.
Remarks at the professional schools' ceremony will be given by philanthropist and vice president of corporate communications at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) Charlene Kahlor Kramer, who will receive the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. Kramer, a Harpur College alumna, was the first in her family to attend college, earning a bachelor's degree in English. In a desire to help others overcome similar financial barriers, she and her husband, Roger Kramer have endowed a number of scholarships at Binghamton for academically gifted students with financial need.
Kramer joined Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of funds for home mortgages in 1978, and is the key architect of an outreach program specifically designed to help economically disadvantaged and minority families buy their own homes. As a senior executive, she manages Fannie Mae's national award-winning advertising campaigns, as well as its internal communications, publications, video production and web communications. She also oversees Fannie Mae's social responsibility outreach programs, and her work has led to praise for the corporation and its policies from such publications as Working Mother and Fortune.
The student speaker will be Justin Hoch, a psychology and management double major.
Recognition ceremonies
A full schedule of recognition ceremonies for individual schools and residence communities is also planned on Saturday, May 15:
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Division of Humanities, 8:30 a.m., West Gym, graduates, families and guests
School of Education and Human Development
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 9 a.m., East Gym, graduates, families and guests
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 9:30 a.m., AC-Osterhout Concert Theater, graduates, families and guests
Harpur College
Division of Science and Mathematics, 11 a.m., West Gym, graduates, families and guests
School of Management
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 1 p.m. reception, 2 p.m. ceremony, East Gym, graduates, families and guests
Decker School of Nursing
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 1:30 p.m., AC-Osterhout Concert Theater, graduates, families and guests
Harpur College
Division of Social Sciences, 1:30 p.m., West Gym, graduates, families and guests
Educational Opportunity Program
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 4 p.m., Watters Theater, graduates, families and guests
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Dickinson Community
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 4 p.m., Dickinson Dining Hall, graduates, families and guests
Hillside Community
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 4 p.m., Hillside Commons, graduates, families and guests
Hinman College
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Mountainview Community
Recognition Ceremony and Reception, 4 p.m., Marcy Great Room, graduates, families and guests
Newing College
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Susquehanna Community
Reception, 4 p.m., Susquehanna Coffeehouse, graduates, families and guests
Commencement ceremonies for undergraduates will be held Sunday, May 16, in the Events Center:
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, 8 a.m. assembly and 9 a.m. ceremony
Professional schools, 12:30 p.m. assembly and 1:30 p.m. ceremony
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[quote user="slipknottin"][quote user="BlueSanta"]Thats not true at all. They used superimposed images vs Jacoby ford, Javid best, Spliier and the other fast* guys from that year to show us how Mays ran slower that those guys. They also compared Ford to Chris Johnson's record run of 4.24 and confirmed he was slightly slower. The video confirmed the official results for all of us to see on TV. The hand timers were WAY off, they even said it on air.*
As I said, Mays ran a 4.31. The video was simulcast with Trindon Holliday and Jacoby Ford.
Jacoby Ford finished first in the video (he ran a 4.28). Mays finished second, then Holliday finished third. Holliday ran a 4.34.
The official time was absolutely 1000% wrong.
There is absolutely no way he ran faster than Holliday, but had a .1 slower time. As I said, scouts in the stands overall agreed he ran somewhere in the 4.30-4.33 range.
If we want to get further into it... they changed from the RCA dome to Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.
Theres a reason the times at the new stadium have been lower, despite guys who are legitimate world class sprinters (trindon holliday, Chris Rainey, etc). The new turf is already notoriously slower than the old stadium, and player have mentioned it as well.
Chris Johnson would have timed quite a bit slower. Not going to speculate on the difference, but wouldnt be surprised if he ran in the 4.3 flat range.[/quote]Yeah I saw the Vid Slip is talking about. They screwed up the times


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A basic combination of vanilla ice cream, lemon sorbet and raspberry puree creates an amazing shake in minutes. Pour it into your prettiest glasses and enjoy its cool comfort.—Lisa Speer, Palm Beach, Florida
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- 2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries, thawed
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- Place the raspberries, confectioners' sugar and liqueur if desired in a blender; cover and process until blended. Strain and discard seeds.
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Discussion in 'Games Forum' started by MD4x4 Fireman, Sep 13, 2007.
Anyone know of any good 4x4/Offroading games for the PC? I havent really seen any good ones so far.
I'm looking for NASCAR '07,and 08 for the PC myself
i been looking for good 4x4 ones for over a year but aint found anything good
none that I know of....
PC Game
I bought "Off Road Arena" by Oberon a week or so ago. It is pretty entertaining. Take you through several "arenas" around the country. About $20 and worth it, at least to me. Good luck!
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Secondly, "Ask Questions Here" is a thread for me to answer questions.
So if you can somehow interpret that to mean that Jim Lyon, a commercial treating and feeding beekeeper, ought to be answering questions addressed to me, you're missing something.But what I can do and what I like to do is answer questions. So I want to give everybody the free and explicit opportunity to ask serious questions. If you want to be treatment-free, or if you are weighing your options, ask away. I want to help you. I'm not going to be answering challenges or defending my methods or viewpoint. I want to help you if you want to be helped. I want to tell you what you want to know, not what you want to hear. I had tons of questions and many of them will be the same ones you are asking now. You can even go back to 2003 and see them for yourself in the archives.
Just a guess - but most likely there are also other variations in nutrients between different forage sources - vitamins, minerals, different sugars. When there is a dearth, bees will take whatever they can find from any source - including residue from soft drink containers. Bee keepers feeding HFCS is surely not the only cause of malnutrition for bees.
So, when I said malnutrition that is what I meant - improper, or inadequate nutrition including starvation, but not exclusively starvation. And after looking it up in several sources I am fairly confident that I was using the word correctly.
But all that being said, feel free to point out any spelling or punctuation errors that I make while you are at it. Please allow me to apologize in advance - I'm sure there are plenty of them.
I've seen you post there.
And nobody had a problem with it.
The only reaction I've seen is when you offered to run someone's hives for them, and that was rejected, but in good humour.
Bottom line, you feel free to post there, and you do post there.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
So, what's Step 2?
Mark Berninghausen
Malnutrition can occur when Bees collect and consume poor quality pollen. In our area the summer titi bush is an example. If you live in an area of lots of summer titi your bees will forage on it. Feeding it to larva results in "purple Brood". Which ends in dead pupae from poor nutritional value if the summer titi. Look it up if you wish.
The strange thing is that a sister plant, the spring titi is excellent forage and nectar producing plant.
Something can starve to death eating a poor nutritional value food. A root plant in Africa comes to mind as does cellulose.
Straw men?
"Thinking Inside The Box"
And no, I do not feel free to post there because of the aforementioned reason (Jim Lyon and the other commercial beekeepers who do not welcome any not perceived to be of their fraternity). I have asked for a forum related to non-commercial for profit beekeeping, and the idea received a lot of support, but it has been forgotten.
I haven't seen you being made unwelcome, but even if you have been it is untrue to say you don't post there.
While you might have your opinions about who can post where, end of day that will be for the moderator to decide, and that will be based on content rather than who it is.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
Oh thanks for telling me what the straw man is. Now I'll be able to put a name on it when someone does it to me!
Or, maybe that's not a good thing.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
I am pretty sure folks aren't checking into the treatment free forum to hear about Sol's perceived problems with posting on the commercial forum nor do they want to hear my defense. My only comment would be that former moderators should know better than anyone that criticism of moderation has never been tolerated on this or any other forum.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
trying to control the content and stifling input from others didn't work, remember?
i felt that asking someone to move on because their approach is different than yours was wrong and violated the spirit of the free exchange of ideas that makes beesource what it is.
maybe your personal blogspot is the place for what you would like this thread to be.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I'm not criticizing moderation, I'm simply saying there is none. Surely if there was, there would be some pretty obvious evidence.
Bit touchy today?
My understanding when someone says they do not feel free to do something, is that they don't do it. If I said I wasn't free to do something, that's what I would mean.
You do do it, why not just fess up instead of insinuating otherwise?
My point is, you post there, so don't get wound up if they post in some other place.
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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › Tarptent Stratospire 2 first use report
Jan 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm #1284433
Had my Tarptent Stratospire 2 out for a couple nights last weekend – its first time in use. Thought I'd report on my impressions of the tent…
First, a short trip report: This was a 3-day, 2-night trip (January 14th-16th, 2012) to the White Tank Mountains on the west side of the Phoenix metro area. We've day hiked this area a few times now and thought it might make a good winter backpacking location for our family of 4. There is a good, clear, & reliable source of water at Willow Spring that we were able to pump water out of and use for cooking. A group of friends and family hike up with us to the spring and while the rest of the group headed back to the cars, my wife and 2 daughters (8 and 11) stayed with me in the mountains with an overnight backcountry permit available through the visitor center at the entrance to the park. Permit was surprisingly pricey for what there is in the park – $10/person/night. So that was $80 for the 4 of us in two nights.
Since the Stratospire arrived last year (November, I think mine was one of the first off the assembly line?), I've been jonesing for a trip to try it out. Family obligations around the holidays have prevented that, until now. I did a practice pitch back when I first received it and added some reflectorized cord zipper pulls along with some titanium stakes from Lawson. I also cut a ground cloth for under the inner tent from some silnylon that I treated on one side with some diluted silicone/mineral spirits for a little extra moisture barrier underneath.
On the trip, the tent went up well having a good flat spot to pitch it. Got some compliments on the 'cool tent' from my daughters, which always leaves me beaming. My older daughter was to stay in the Strat with me, while my wife and younger daughter were housed in my REI Quarter Dome T2+ (still a favorite of mine). Nights got down into the mid 40's the first night and as my older daughter only has a 40* rating on her down bag, I closed up the fly to hold the warmth in/keep the night breeze out. After the first night, there weren't any issues with condensation during the night or evidence of any in the morning. During the day, we would open up the sides and temps topped out around the mid 60's.
The second night, we had more cloud cover and while the forecast was for a low in the mid-40's, I don't think it dropped much into the 40's as it was definitely a warmer night for me and I never needed to zip up my bag. We did get some rain showers a few times during the night, and I am happy to report that there were no seam leaks resulting in drips during the night.
We woke up fairly early (can only stay in a horizontal position for so long, and the winter nights can seem a bit endless at times), and with the ground pretty wet from the night time rains, we packed up what we could inside the tents. All the gear stored in the large vestibules was nice and dry, but I noticed while sitting up in the tent (in the dark) doing packing and pulling gear in from the vestibules that there had been significant sag in the silnylon from the rain. The upper parts of the large panels were up against the mesh inner tent and while I could sit upright in the tent without touching the mesh ceiling, a few times I did brush up against it and could tell it was quite wet. The outermost staked corners at the doors had sagged and a few inches were lying in the mud at the tent edges. I honestly didn't even think about trying to boost up the trekking poles to see how it would have helped (in retrospect this is regretful), but when I went to bed the night before, everything was extra taut and looking good. I think if I had boosted the poles an inch or two that would have helped considerably with the wet sag. I was concentrating on getting Madeleine's gear into her pack rather than the tent. It was still dark (5:30am?) so there wasn't much interest in a detailed inspection of the tent.
Once we had some coffee/hot drinks and it was getting light out, my wife and I packed up the tents. They were both quite wet still, some from the rain, and some from condensation inside. Both tents were considerably heavier, and while a shake of the REI fly seemed to ditch a fair amount of water, the silnylon seemed to hang on to its water more. It was quite wet on both sides of the outer tent material.
This is my first experience with the silnylon in rainy conditions – my first Tarptent for that matter. I would say that it behaved as I have heard others describe. It was not a big deal, but a more waterproof coating or material certainly makes a difference in my one experience here. Don't think this is any fault of the tent. No 'misting' was experienced during the rains either, although they were only light showers – never had any significant rain.
A few thoughts on the tent performance & design:
I'm about 6'1" tall and sleep on a large Neoair (25"Wx77"L) and then had a Ridgerest on top of that for a little extra warmth, plus my down Montbell sleeping bag. I fit fine with this setup and could easily keep the bag away from anywhere that splash or condensation could be a problem. If someone were a few or more inches taller than I, I would suggest proceeding more cautiously with regards to the length with one's gear, especially if some shifting is anticipated during the night (isn't that a given?). It can be done, but the room for margin becomes a bit more of an issue. A thinner pad setup would help this concern some, in my opinion.
I added reflective cord zipper pulls and am very glad I did. Man, the OEM pulls are tiny and can be difficult to quickly find, grab the right one, and pull the right direction. I fully understand the weight savings, but this makes it easier for me. I had absent-mindedly added them to the outside pulls during my first test pitch, and this was something I quickly resolved in the field and cut some more for the inside pulls after the first night.
I don't know if it's by design or an assembly mistake, but on my inner tent, only one of the two doors has elastic ties to hold the rolled up door out of the way when sitting in the doorway. I somehow got stuck with the side of the tent that didn't have the tie-backs, and really missed them on several occasions.
Lawson's Ti shepherd hook stakes worked very well with this tent. I took 8 and used them all, the last pair holding the guys out over each doorway. Don't think I would change that setup for my next trip. Love how these stakes go into the ground – even the hard desert floor here in AZ.
I would say that my impression of the StratoSpire 2 is a good one. I don't think it's of the luxury level of the REI Quarter Dome T2+, which I really do love, but at a pound and a half savings, this is a no-brainer for me, especially when worried about weight of extra water in the desert/Grand Canyon or if I'm soloing. The SS2 would be a palace for a solo trip and I don't mind carrying the extra weight over a solo to be able to have the space.
Tent and scenery pictures added below (sorry, photos deleted from my photo hosting server – needed the space).Jan 20, 2012 at 6:29 pm #1827471
Thanks for the report Dan. Adding pulls the zipper tabs was a wise move. That's something I'm going to do at some point.
That's weird you've only got cord to tie the door up on one side of the tent. I didn't check to confirm, but I'm think mine has two.
Regarding sag, 30D nylon (whether it's silnylon or PU coated) is going to sag in extended wet conditions. A tent like this that relies on tension in the fly for it's structure is going to be a bit more affected by this than a tent with a complete poled structure. To reduce the sag, you could either re-tension the ridgeline or go with self tensioning guyllnes. The easiest would likely be to incorporate a length of stiff shock cord into the two primary guy lines. You could just cut a foot off the guyline and then add a foot of stiff shock cord.
Regarding mesh/fly contact, I noticed there's not much of a gap between the mesh inner and fly along the ridge line. Thankfully this is an area that we're likely to almost never contact. If you lower the mesh inner into the lower position (ie. 3 person mode) then it increases the gap between the fly and inner by a couple inches which appears like it will work better. I'm going to be using the tent like this quite a bit, as things are commonly pretty wet where I live. With that said, it's a lot better to have fly/mesh contact issues along the ridge line than along the perimeter of the tent. When it contacts along the perimeter, then you've got wet mesh right beside you that is prime for contacting. My Big Agnes Fly Creek UL3 was bad for this.Jan 20, 2012 at 10:11 pm #1827537
Diane PinkersBPL Member
@dipinkLocale: Western Washington
I'll be really interested to hear what you think about the Stratospire in PNW conditions, Dan. I was glad to see the TT Stratospire compared to a a Quarterdome T2 Plus–the tent we currently use. I've been thinking about the Stratospire as a way to reduce weight without compromising too much on space–something my boyfriend is insistent about. We'd looked at the Lunar Duo, but Bill wasn't crazy about the single-wall, non-freestanding aspect of it. The Strat isn't free-standing either, but at least its a "double-wall" tent.Jan 21, 2012 at 7:09 pm #1827897
Mike SobrMember
@breezeLocale: Southeaster
As mentioned I also found that using sections of bungee cord at the main tie-outs helped immensely for keeping a tight pitch as the sil does tend to stretch and sag but just a couple strategically placed shock-cords always kept my Virga and Contrail from drooping overnight…… just pull them really snug just before turning in at night and everything stays taught.
I always wondered why they use sil as it's does stretch and also tends to pass water and always figured it was to save a few ounces over regular tent material?.Mar 20, 2012 at 3:02 pm #1856734
Durwin BassettMember
@onemoremileLocale: inthesticks
@ Dan, I have been eying the Strat 2 since it came out, and would love to hear from you (and others), that have had it out in the field. I appreciated your report and would love to hear if you have had any more opportunities to use it.
DurwinMar 20, 2012 at 3:19 pm #1856741
Hey Durwin,
Sorry to say I haven't much more to add on this tent for the moment. We did some family car-camping w/ day hikes over spring break in Death Valley National Park and I used an older, heavier tent and saved the wear and tear on the Stratospire for future uses. I've got a 7-day Grand Canyon hike planned in a little over a month and will be using this tent as a spacious solo tent for that trip. Will try to get a few more pictures of it in use at that time and can maybe share some additional thoughts on it then as well. Hopefully some others can chime in on use?Mar 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm #1856796
Stephen MBPL Member
@stephen-mLocale: Way up North
Going to use an SS1 in the Picture Rocks area of the Michigan UP.
Will report back on how it fairs out.
If it does well I will use for 6 day trip in Ireland in 3 weeks time.Jun 5, 2012 at 6:59 pm #1884398
I wanted to add a quick review of the SS2 now that I've had more opportunity to live with the tent.
Overall I'm quite enamoured with the tent, especially with how pleasant it is to live out of in the rain. The combination of the protected inner setup, fly and inner that don't get stuck together, doors that don't allow rain to fall in the tent and large (and tall!) vestibules makes it a great haven in the rain. These are highly appreciated characteristics for use in the PNW.
The size of the tent is a decent size for two. While there's no mistaking the tent for a 3 person tent (when using the inner) the usable space inside is pretty good. I'd subjectively say the interior volume is a little above average for a 2 person tent. The combo of the offset poles and the opposing pitch-lock corners works better than any other dual trekking pole supported 2 person tent at providing livable volume out to the corners of the inner. There's still a bit of compromise here (vs. a typical dual arch poled dome tent) but the SS2 makes up for it with it's generous dimensions.
The vestibules are really impressive. Because the trekking poles are right in the vestibules, these storage spaces are nice and tall which keeps the fly away from your stuff and lets you cook without worry of melting the tent. I was able to fit two packrafts, my backpack and shoes in my fly while still having easy egress/ingress to the inner tent. The zippers are also easy to close because the vestibules are tall and wide but not too deep. My 5'6" wife can close her vestibule zip all the way without kneeling out on the ground. The whole door setup works great – in normal rainy conditions you can casually enter/exit the tent without having to dash to keep rain from falling in the tent or even on your stuff stored in the other side of the vestibule.
For maximum headroom/volume in the inner you can leave it clipped to the fly (near the poles) at the regular positions. I do find thought that this leads to a minimal gap between the fly and inner and thus with a bit of condensation the two can become stuck along the ridgeline. The solution is to use the lower clip option which drops the inner down another ~2" and trades a bit of headroom for a larger gap between the fly and inner. I use this in wet/condensation prone conditions and I use the regular spots in drier areas. In the lower spots I haven't had any issues with the fly and inner contacting each other which is great.
One potential issue that could affect the pitch of the tent and the gap between the fly & inner is fabric sag. While I impressively noticed no sag during my couple nights of use in light rainy conditions, I expect in prolonged enough wet conditions the fabric would sag as another BPL'er noticed in just a night or two. Incorporating some sort of bungee into the guyouts would be a wise precautionary step to keep the tent pitched tight.
Overall, the SS2 has really impressed me though 4-5 days of use so far. It's a pleasure to use in wet conditions, which is super important because this is when you really want a tent to be easy to live with. The optional poles you can buy with the SS2 to use instead of trekking poles are a bit flimsy though. I haven't tested them much, but in backyard setup they flex quite a bit when you snug the tent down and they're prone to digging into the ground. The latter is easily remedied in the field, but the former means I wouldn't bring these for challenging weather conditions.Jun 5, 2012 at 8:18 pm #1884430
Dan, sounds like it is working well for you. I had my SS2 out for a week in early May with my daughter in the Grand Canyon and it performed most excellently. Very pleased with the tent and I'm really getting good at a solid pitch now, although I have not set any speed records by any stretch of the imagination. I find I usually have to move a stake or two to get a taut setup, but it is no big deal. Been using Lawson's Ti stakes with the tent and in the very hard GC ground, they have performed exceptionally. Great tent, but I do still miss a couple simple mesh corner pockets. I strung a stiff line on the inside of the mesh tent at the roofline between the corners where the poles go, and use it as a hanger to keep misc. stuff off the tent floor at night. It's a decent substitution for a couple pockets.Jun 5, 2012 at 8:39 pm #1884434
Warren GreerSpectator
@warrengreerLocale: SoCal
I would have bought one of these last year if it had been available. At or just before that time I really didn't want to use my hiking poles for tent poles but have since gotten over that and if I'm laying over I can just simply use my poles if needed for a day adventure and fairly quickly reinstall them at the end of the day. Very nice engineering on this tent. On another note, I'm pretty enamored with and set on a Notch if it turns out I'll be responsible for my own shelter this year. Usually I share a tent with someone who carries it and I carry the bear canister. May not work out this year. Anyway, I digress.
I've also thought of selling my unused FC UL3 and getting the Stratospire 2 but I'm not sure that my 6'7" hiking buddy would fit.
Great thread. And nice photo DandyDan.Jun 5, 2012 at 9:08 pm #1884449
In my recollection, 6'7" would be a little tight but work for occasional use. He'd likely touch the mesh if he were also in a large sleeping bag and thick pad. My wife 5'6" was just touching the mesh when she had our dog occupying the space below her feet which I estimate was about a foot of length (our dog is 20 lbs).
Yeah a couple mesh pockets would be nice. No need for anything crazy like 6…..just one per side would be good.Jun 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm #1884456
Warren GreerSpectator
@warrengreerLocale: SoCal
Great idea for sure. All tents should have one or two. Keeps the fragile items out of harms way and for very little extra weight.Jun 5, 2012 at 9:39 pm #1884460
I have one more thing I really like about this tent design. When I get out of the tent in the morning and have stiff or sore or cold muscles/joints, having a trekking pole at the ready, already vertical and just to the side of me to grab and help pull myself to standing position, it's a blessed thing. Not too many other spacious tents have that feature. Found this to be a nice perk of the SS tents.Aug 4, 2012 at 6:39 am #1900067
Benjamin AuerMember
I'm presuming this tent would be fine for a 6'6" person to use solo. They could just lay diagonally to have enough room to stretch out without having mesh in your face?Aug 4, 2012 at 6:57 am #1900070
A 6'6" person would easily fit diagonally, in my opinion.Aug 4, 2012 at 4:03 pm #1900175
Jason ElsworthBPL Member
@jephotoLocale: New Zealand
Any chance of the SS2 working as a two adult and 1 child shelter (child is a tall 8 year old). Henry lists it as a 2/3 person shelter in one section of the TT website. Perhaps one person could sleep in the vestibule in a minimal bug bivy? We would probably only use it once/twice a year for 3 late summer nights.Aug 4, 2012 at 4:33 pm #1900189
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
you can fit 3x 50cm (20") wide mats inside the inner .
I can't post pics at the moment but you can see that in the TT SS2 product page , the last shot (n10) in the slide show.
here it is…
FrancoAug 4, 2012 at 5:44 pm #1900221
Jason ElsworthBPL Member
@jephotoLocale: New Zealand
Thanks Franco. Looks OK, especially as you have a large covered area to sort wet gear out in before putting up the inner. Could be a good choice for us in summer. The Anjan 3 is only 4 inches wider at its widest point.Aug 7, 2012 at 7:45 am #1900814
Stuart .BPL Member
@lotuseaterLocale: Colorado
I picked up a SS2 on Gear Swap last week, and finally had time to pitch it yesterday. It's an intriguing design – and I mean that in a good way. After reading comments about it being tricky to pitch, I found it surprisingly straightforward – only minor adjustments required to peg positions and I managed a taut pitch first time. Site selection is going to be the main consideration – I can see how its geometry would be affected by uneven ground.
To Jason's question, yes I could see three fitting inside at a pinch, although my five year old son brings new meaning to the term "active sleeper" so I would be more likely to let him and his mum have the inner, and I'd sleep in one vestibule. There is just space for me at 5'9" and the walls are steep enough not to feel claustrophic.
My question to Franco and/or other users of the SS2 is: Which way should it be pitched into the wind for maximum stability – pitch lock corner or trekking pole?
The first option presents the least acute angle for the wind, but it puts the ridge line broadside on. The second option presents a smaller surface area and ridgeline guyout points, but the fly is pitched at a steeper angle. Neither stands out as the obvious answer to me.Aug 7, 2012 at 3:21 pm #1900941
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
Hi Stuart
First the SS2 "solid" (fabric) inner is available now , $20 extra if bought with fly or $135 separately.
There are at least two ways of pitching the SS2.
I prefer my way…
Two reasons .
1) I look for a flattish rectangular area for the tent floor . (the vestibule area does not need to be flat)
So it is easier for me to start pegging down one end of that rectangle.
2) the way Henry does it does not work for me. …
Here is how I do it :
TT SS2 set up
note that it was my second attempt setting it up , the first I tried was Henry's way.
(when HS sends me the drawings for a new tent, I set it up in my head…)
I pitch it with one door panel into the wind so that I can use the lee side , works well in wind driven rain that way.
To me the shape lends itself to hold wind from any direction providing that you have the guylines in the correct spot and that is at the two cardinal points not covered by the Pitch Lock.
This view may give a better idea of that:
(again I can't post pics here, I'll try later…)
FrancoAug 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm #1901024
Stuart .BPL Member
@lotuseaterLocale: Colorado
Hi Franco,
Thanks for your reply. I think the solid inner will be a September order for me. It's still very pleasant at 10,000ft and the mesh will be good till overnight temps are consistently below freezing.
I've watched your video a few times but only now realised that you didn't follow Henry's instructions. You secure a pitch lock corner first; then the other three corners that correspond to the inner. Next the poles are put in place. The outermost points of each vestibule are secured last. That makes perfect sense to me, even though I had no problem with Henry's sequence. I'll try your method tomorrow.
As to my wind direction question, if I understand correctly you recommend pitching the ridge line perpendicular to the wind (my option 2). The ridge guy out points extend the line directly into and away from the wind. I concur that looks like the strongest pitch, with the narrowest surface area to the wind, even though the fly angle is steeper than my option 1.
Much appreciated. I'll be testing the SS2 later in the week, and I'll post my feedback to your suggestions.Aug 12, 2012 at 12:49 pm #1902039
Will WebsterMember
Has anybody tried adding mesh pockets to the SS2 inner? I'd hate to roll over on my glasses…Aug 12, 2012 at 3:41 pm #1902070
Henry SBPL Member
The interior clips (at top of both door zippers) are there for hanging things like glasses. You can hang off one or both or string a line between them.
-HAug 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm #1902079
Will WebsterMember
Thanks, Henry. I sent you a PM.Feb 9, 2015 at 9:39 am #2172801
Thomas KinzerSpectator
I have a stupid question about the Stratospire 2 setup:
One of the things I like to do (with any double wall tent) in nice weather is to setup the inner only which keeps out bugs but has nice ventilation/star gazing, etc. Then if things turn, I throw on the fly which is kept nearby.
I know you can setup the outer/fly on the SS2 first, then clip in the inner, which is obviously perfect in the rain. But can you (easily) do the opposite? Pitch the inner, then add the outer later? If so, what's the process and how fiddly would one expect that to be?
Anyone here with any experience with this?
Another thing I like to do is carry a small 5×8 silnylon Integral Designs tarp which I use for all sorts of things, but one is in active rain (PNW/Sierra hiker here), use as an awning over the door to my Squall which is easy to do even without nearby trees or other support. I'm considering the SS2 vs the Rainshadow 2 and the ability to directly attach or pitch an awning over the doorway is a factor. Improvising an awning on the RS2 would be easy, but does anyone have experience with this on the SS2?
Thanks for any input.
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This is my 2nd yr with bees. I currently have 3 Carniolan hives and want to switch 2 of them over to Italian because of their propensity to swarm and also just to experience the difference in the 2 races. I recently had a swarm issue from each of the 2 hives and now cannot find the new queen or any sign of her in either of the 2 hives (i.e. no larvae) Even if she is there and hasn't started laying yet I would still like to replace her now. I realize that this isn't the best time of year to be replacing queens but I figure that if I don't have a laying queen already in these 2 hives maybe this is as good a time as any.
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FindMyPast has added burial transcripts for Kent to their parish records collection. This time the parishes are Northfleet, Dartford & Gravesend and the time period is 1788 – 1983, all three parishes are quite big places so this addition comprised more than 48,000 records.
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"I don't have $8. Just $6." He took a while to understand this, and he kept saying things like "but why not $8?"
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I gave him the six dollars, a five and a one. He looked at the $5. He said "I need other five." In Tanzania, they use shillings and USD, but only very recent US dollars. I didn't have any other fives. They said they could maybe use it, but my mom had to pay them some of her shillings to take the risk. She gave them 2,000 shillings, equal to about $1.30. So in the end I payed $7.30 (would've been $6) for a necklace that was really $20. After the Masaai village, we went to the Serengeti
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In the first 5 minutes of driving today, we saw a lion lounging up on a rock and 5 hyenas chewing on a dead carcass. Today in total we saw 8 lions (6 male and 2 female), 6 hyenas and just one leopard. I didn't see any lions mating today. Maybe their 7 days are up. That would be great, because they don't eat during that period and now they will be hungry. Our goal now is to find a cheetah, it is about the only thing we haven't seen yet. We also saw a huge hippo pool today, overflowing with about (I would guess) 70 hippos! They were snorting and splashing around, stinking up the water
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Swedes had long suspected that the north contained some of the richest iron ore deposits in the world, but exploitation could not begin until the transportation problem was solved. In 1903, Sweden completed a railroad running from the Baltic port of Luleå, through the iron ore region of Kiruna, then down to the ice-free port of Narvik on the Norwegian coast. The mining boom at Kiruna was on.
Initially open-pit mines, the Kiruna mines transformed the landscape. Historic photos show that mountaintops were removed to reach the rich ore deposits, a precursor to today's controversial mountain top removal in Appalachia. The work was dangerous, and pollution from the pit and tailings piles was notorious. Sulfates contributed to acidification both of local watersheds and larger regional watersheds. Acids leached toxic heavy metals from rocks where they had been safely locked up, into river systems where they contaminated food chains that eventually included people. Smoke from smelters contained heavy metals such as cadmium and lead, which were captured by lichen and then accumulated in reindeer and the people who ate them. Mine tailings were stacked in enormous terraces, and winds blew toxic dust over reindeer pastures. Sediments washed over spawning beds for anadromous fish.
In the 1960s, the Kiruna mines moved underground, safety records improved, and treatment facilities reduced emissions. Yet the toxic legacies persist. Today, according to Per-Ola Hoffsten and colleagues, "wastes from the Kiruna mine … [continue to] drain into the Kalix River. Mercury pollution causes problems locally in Lake Ala Lombolo in the Kiruna area that drains into the Torne River at Jukkasjarvi via Luossajoki stream. The impacts stem from previous pollution and still causes reduced invertebrate diversity and deformed mouthparts in larval midges living here."
Global markets affect local conditions in Sápmi, remote as the region seems to many people. A global steel boom in recent years has increased Asian demand for iron, and LKAB (the Swedish-owned mining company that operates the Kiruna iron mine) has decided to expand the mine, which means Kiruna's city center must be moved, an enormous logistical undertaking.
Local communities accept the need to move Kiruna, but new open-pit mining proposals in the Kalix River valley have met with more opposition. In 2010, an Australian mining company named Kiruna Iron proposed to create three new open-pit mines in the Kalix River valley. These mines would operate for 10 to 20 years, depending on steel prices; Sweden would agree to collect no royalties or taxes on the profits. The Swedish government approved the proposal, ignoring the fact that the proposed mines lie in the heart of two Sámi reindeer villages.
The Sámi argued that the proposed mines would alter ecological relationships within their territories, making it impossible for reindeer herding to persist. The mines, for example, would likely consume 60 to 70 percent of the spring pasture area and substantial portions of fall pasture. Mining infrastructure would block critical migration routes, and dust from tailing piles would change succession patterns in spring pastures, allowing grass to overtake ground lichen. Autumn pastures would also be reduced, increasing reindeer vulnerability to harsh winter conditions. From the Sámi perspective, "how can 20 years of mining take priority over thousands of years of Sámi culture?"
The Swedish government contends that the Sámi have no rights to exclude competing uses from Sámi territories. From their perspective, industrial development is inevitable and the Sámi must make way for it. If the good ore happens to interrupt a migration route, then move the reindeer somewhere else. Put them in trucks if necessary. If tailings piles eliminate lichen, then feed the reindeer something else. In this view, domesticated reindeer are essentially cogs in a machine, not members of interconnected ecological systems. The logic assumes that sharp boundaries exist between wild and tamed nature. But reindeer disrupt these boundaries, for they are semi-domesticated creatures. The migration paths they choose are negotiations with the reindeer herders, not engineered decisions imposed by technical logic. The food they eat is neither purely natural nor domestic, and the pastures they need cannot simply be replaced.
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A timeline of the Verona school referendum
With only weeks to go before the Verona schools referendum, the Times looked back at the events leading up to the March 11 vote.
September 2005
A school referendum, split into two questions, appeared before Verona voters. The first question regarding building repairs passed, but the second for repairs to the Verona High School field failed by 768 votes.
January 2007
Another public vote to fix the Verona High School field was shot down by the public, this time by 473 votes.
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A sinkhole appeared on the Thomas J. Sellitto Field at VHS about a month before the start of football season.
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The Verona Hillbillies opened up their football season at the lower field, found below their normal home at Thomas J. Sellitto, also known as the "upper field."
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A second sinkhole appeared at the upper field.
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During the General Election, a special question proposing full-day kindergarten in Verona failed. The vote marked the most recent school question placed before voters in five years.
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Buildings and Grounds Facility Director Paul McDevitt presented issues affecting Verona schools, at the time pegged at $5 million worth of repairs. Many of the needs discussed became a part of the current referendum.
May 14, 2013
Representatives from French and Parello Associates gave three options on how to handle the upper field situation: fully remediate it at $7 million, dynamic compaction at $2 million, or render it unusable at $97,500.
June 11, 2013
School officials made one of the first mentions of pursuing a referendum during a presentation on the district's five-year strategic plan.
July 30, 2013
The board approved a contract with EI Associates architecture firm for football field design in the amount of $61,400, and additional services for outlines on bleachers, scoreboard and lighting for $15,000.


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I think we are really missing the push up the middle, Think when Canty gets back we may have a better push!
This isn't going to be that popular but I just don't think our line is as good as advertised. Osi is older and Tuck is stuck in his slump, although he has been active this season. I still think it's good but it's not a dominant line. Strahan, Osi, Tuck, Fred Robbins in 2007- now that was DOMINANCE! Those lines with Stray and the Hammer now that was DOMINANCE.
JPP has to become a technician to reach Strahans level. He need's to find that inner drive b/c Stray came to play EVERY SUNDAY no matter what. I don't care if your "not having fun". You're a professional. Suck it up and put your game face on and PLAY HARD!
Austin has a world of talent. He also had a reputation for taking plays off. The worst part is that his suspension and injury has kept him from playing for two years. The kid is inexperienced and rusty. But when he gets some snaps under his belt - he's getting a baptism by fire due to our injuries - watchout for him. Canty and Bernard are solid if unspectacular, and really under appreciated, however, they aren't getting younger. I feel confident after watching their play, that if they can both fulfill their raw potential, we are looking at some very good DT heir apparents.
Right now, though I kind of agree because they are so raw, inexperienced, and undisciplined (meaning, they don't have the veteran savvy or experience not that they dont care to do the right thing). It has nothing to do with talent or potential.