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Just bought your non-M E46? Bare essentials maintenance checklist (part #s included)
You just bought your non-M E46 (323/328, 325/330) and you are probably wondering: What do I do now?
Lets start with the basics, shall we?
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Fuel Pump
Fuel Pump Relay
Right off the bat, the first thing I did when I bought my E46 was throw away whatever battery is in the trunk. Unless you have receipts proving the battery is newer than 5 years old, replace it. A weak battery is known to cause many problems with the electrical systems in the form of cluster lighting up with warning lights to the car randomly doing other electrical-related things.
Voltage regulator:
(For Bosch 90a and 120a alternators ONLY) Check your model
The voltage regulator is located on the back of the alternator. It regulates voltage to ensure proper operation of the electrical system. Basically by around 6-10 years, they start to fail. This will kill a new battery. Replace it.This one is a bit tricky because you'll have to pull your alternator out to know which kind you need. There's a rounded D-shaped connector and squared off rectangle connector. Pray you have the squared off rectangle connector because it's cheaper. The D-shape connector is found by searching under the BMW Z4.
Final stage resistor:
This must be replaced. It can drain your battery (killing it permanently no matter how new or old it is) and cause your blower to blow inconsistently or not at all. Replace it. Part#64116923204
Engine oil
Change your engine oil and filter anywhere between 7,500 and 12,000 miles. You can likely go up to 15,000 miles without any problems as our cars hold 7 quarts, however for peace of mind, follow the 7,500-12,000 guideline.
Per the BMW owner's manual, you should check the oil level 5 minutes after a hot engine has been shut down. The dipstick is calibrated to read accurately after 5 minutes has passed.
Note: If you track your car, love to drive in a spirited matter, and/or experience lifter tick noise, it is common practice to overfill by one quart for a total of eight quarts.
You should be using oil with a specification ACEA B3/B4 (extended drain/high performance criteria) and/or LL-01. The following oils are the most readily available proper oil for your car:
Genuine BMW TwinPower 5W-30
Castrol European Formula 0W-30
Mobil 1 European Formula 0W-40
Pennzoil Ultra 5W-40 European Formula
Oil Filters
You can use any OE-spec parts store filter in a pinch, but I recommend using Mahle or Mann OE-quality/OEM filters.
Mahle supplies filters to BMWs for their ///M cars. Mann supplies for non-M. Both are fine but I prefer Mahle--the quality seems more robust/high-end. Part number: 11427512300
Spark plugs
Replace every 60,000 miles (BMW says 100,000) NGK BKR6EQUP (6)
Fuel filter
OEM Mahle. If your upper intake boot has an "F" connector with a vacuum line attached, your car has the integrated fuel pressure regulator. Most E46s come with this. I believe the M56 SULEV 325 cars use the plain in/out filter. Do this every 50,000 miles. Part number: 13327512019
Differential oil
Synthetic 75W-90 gear oil such as Mobil 1 75W-90. Your non-LSD diff holds approximately 1 quart. Do this every 50,000 miles
Transmission oil
You should change your automatic transmission fluid and filter with OE or OE-spec'd high-quality fluid every 50-75k miles. The type and amount of fluid will depend on your year/make/model. I will list the various types of automatic transmissions and their corresponding fluid:
323i/iS/iC 7/98-3/00, 328i/iS 6/98+ - GM 5L40 (A5S 360R) Texaco ETL 7045E, supercedes ETL 7045, BMW part number: 83220026922
323i/Ci 3/00-8/00, 325i/Ci/Cic 8/00+, 325iT 3/01+, 330i/Ci/Cic 6/00+ - ZF 5HP19 (A5S 325Z), Esso ATF LT 71141, BMW part number: 83229407807
325xi/xiT 8/00+, 325iT 8/00+, 330xi 8/00+ - GM GM5 (A5S 390R), Texaco ETL 8072B, BMW part number: 83220024359
BMW MTF-LT-2[/URL], equivalent Pentosin MTF2, or other equivalent. I use Redline D4 ATF. You can also use Redline MT-90.
Air filters
These should be replaced at roughly every 15,000 miles. Use Genuine/OEM Mann. Part number: 13721744869
Cabin air filter
These should be replaced at roughly every 15,000 miles. Part number: 64319071935
Clean idle control valve
http://www.bmw-planet.com/2009/01/10...-cleaning-e46/ Clean every 50,000 miles. If needs replacing, part number: 13411744713.
You might want to replace the rubber boot which seals it to the intake manifold. Part number: 11611437453.
Clean throttle body
Couldn't find a DIY, but personally I recommend cleaning it. From the outside (front) mine appeared to be spotless.
The backside was a VERY different story. Use throttle body cleaner. Requires removal of the airbox, upper and lower intake boots, and electrcial wire junction box. Four bolts hold it on. Replace the rubber throttle body gasket. Throttle body gasket for 323/325/328 part number: 11611716174, for the 330 it is: 13547504729
This part can also cause vacuum leaks. It works by altering the volume of the intake manifold depending on engine operation/speed. Remove and inspect yours to ensure the flap is not loose.
You should feel resistance as you manually operate the flap. There should be no excessive noises or rattling. Part number if you'd like to replace: (courtesy of JFOJ)
325/2.5L engines currently use BMW Part #11617544806, which appears to have superseded an earlier BMW Part #11617502269
330/3.0L engines currently use BMW Part #11617544805, this appears to have superseded an earlier BMW Part #11617502275
323/328 - 2.3L & 2.8L engines appear to currently use BMW Part # 11611440049
Reseal or repair using: DISA Repair Rebuild Kit
Brake fluid
You should completely replace and bleed your brake system every two years or 25,000 miles or more frequently if you see track use or have overheated your brakes/fluid. I recommend ATE Super Blue (or amber if you had blue last)
Valve cover gasket
Major source of leaks. If the front or passenger side (right side) of your engine is covered in oil, then your valve cover gasket is leaking. By 60,000 miles, these are hard, dry, and brittle. Use Permatex Ultra Black at half moon areas and vanos seams. LESS IS MORE. Use very little sealant. Don't forget the 15 rubber grommets: part number: 11121437395. Up to 9/02, part number 11129070990 and 9/02+: 11120030496. If you experience repeated leaking, your valve cover could be damaged or warped.
Oil filter housing gasket
Major source of MAJOR leaks. The left side of the block will be wet and you'll have puddles in your driveway. Replace when leaking. Part number: 11421719855
Vanos line
Do this when you replace the oil filter housing gasket. Part number: 11361705532
Also replace four 14x20 copper sealing gaskets, part number: 32411093596
Power steering
Use ATF Dexron III only. Replace reservoir as it has integrated filter. Part number: 32411097164
Also trim and re-clamp (using new universal clamps) the power steering lines to the bottom of the reservoir and to the return line at the pump. The BMW clamps get loose over time and oil leaks/seeps out.
Of course, clean the exterior/interior and engine compartment. There's nothing worse than a dirty car with an engine compartment full of leaves, debris, oil, spiders, and dead rats. Cleaning also can help reveal problem areas or parts that are leaking. A clean engine is also more satisfying to work on.
I use the Wagner 915 steamer for my interior, engine compartment, and certain exterior items as well. I can't even begin to tell you how well this works! Great for home too. No need for chemicals (Saves $$!!) I bought mine on Amazononian (check my blog for detailing tips and products I personally use: http://www.e46mango.com/2016/03/mang...tips-what.html)
Follow this guide for the E46 cooling system -- do it before it's too late!
or: E46 Cooling Blog I am working on adding more stuff on it -- stay tuned!
These are the absolute bare essentials to have a nice running and decently reliable car. It doesn't stop here though.
For the even higher level enthusiast!
Suspension Refresh Guide
If this guide has helped you, let me know in the comments.
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Happy Birthday, Gustavo!
Happy Birthday, Gustavo!
| Posted by Deborah Borda in Cologne
I'm writing this just a few moments before the musicians will be taking the stage for our first concert in Cologne, this ancient city on the Rhine blessed with a marvelous concert hall.
LA Phil President and CEO Deborah Borda, hard at work on this blog post.
The performances in Lisbon and Madrid found the Beethoven and the Mahler 9 already in stunning shape and growing every night. I find the intensity at times almost overwhelming. Audiences are wonderfully receptive with standing ovations every night.
Our concert in Madrid was a gallery of Angelenos and international friends including Zubin Mehta, James Conlon and the First Lady of Spain. It was quite the scene backstage!
After the concert -- at midnight, in fact -- Gustavo officially turns 30! While there are all sorts of festivities planned for today and tonight, please join me in wishing Gustavo ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!
What a special way to reach this milestone Birthday!

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GENEALOGY-DNA-L ArchivesArchiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2007-10 > 1193267030
From: "Jim Bullock" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] About Genebase and Ancestry.com
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:03:50 -0600
References: <email@example.com><000e01c81656$5cec7ce0$640fa8c0@Villandra2>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c81656$5cec7ce0$640fa8c0@Villandra2>
Your obsession with the Sorenson companies is generating excessive off topic
messages. Please drop it.
Jim Bullock
Administrator, Genealogy-DNA Mail List
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[mailto:] On Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] About Genebase and Ancestry.com
Ann, James Levoy Sorenson is the force behind both companies! James Lee
Sorenson is in on atleast Sorenson Genomics, though it does not specify how
the two men are related.
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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Congregations Taking Action Against Alcohol and Substance Misuse: A Conference for Clergy & Lay Leaders
The Memphis and Tennessee Conferences of the United Methodist Church & the Church Health Center of Memphis, Inc.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM (CDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Addiction is a disease and not a character flaw. Persons in recovery often feel that the Church has abandoned them, and that it doesn't understand the insidious nature of addiction. We hope by providing training, resources and ongoing support that we can equip our faith communities not only to prevent addiction but to understand persons in recovery and better minister to them and their loved ones.
Conference participants will return to their faith communities better equipped to deal with addiction issues that arise. They will also be aware of prevention and recovery programs that can be implemented within the walls of their church.
We expect this conference to be the beginning of an ongoing conversation on the faith community's role in addiction and prevention. We hope participating congregations will form an addiction ministry team for their congregation, and implement one of the programs introduced at the conference of create one that works for their faith community's needs.
Just as Jesus sent out his disciples two-by-two, we hope each congregation will be represented by two people, a lay leader and a member of the clergy for example.
Short Term Goals
- Provide education of clergy and key lay leaders on the issues of recovery and the extent addiction issues affect our communities.
- Identify current resources available to help deal with these issues including best practices throughout the recovery and prevention communities.
- Adopt and/or create ministries in faith communities that complement existing resources.
Long Term Goals
- Create congregational ministries that provide alternatives to addictive behaviors.
- Remove the stigma of addiction by developing an understanding of recovery, the recovery process, and the needs of the addict and their loved ones throughout our faith communities.
- Develop missionally excellent programming led by active and involved lay leaders and clergy for persons who are effected and affected by addiction.
When & Where
Church Health Center Wellness
1115 Union Ave.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM (CDT)
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This conference is made possible by a grant from the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church.


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Associate Director & Account Director (Award-winning specialist healthcare agency)
- Recruiter
- Lee-Roberts Search
- Location
- South-west London
- Salary
- Up to 75K + 5K car allowance
- Posted
- 23 Aug 2013
- Closes
- 23 Sep 2013
- Ref
- 1101-1, 1102-1
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Function
- Account Director, Associate Director
- Discipline
- Corporate Communications, International, Press / Media Relations
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
This superb specialist award-winning healthcare communications agency is looking to make a growth hire at both Associate Director and Account Director level. The practice which has dedicated teams in ethical health communications, consumer health, policy and medical education is situated in SW London in excellent open-plan offices.
This agency is going through enormous development plans with a very exciting forecast. The firm has been an employer of choice for many healthcare communications specialists for several years due to its excellent reputation. Clients consist of some of the leading global pharmaceutical companies in addition to several manufacturers which are house-hold names. The work consists of global, UK and Pan-European campaigns for a wide selection of therapy areas. The agency is about 60-strong now and new development plans for have included a new office opening up in central London - staff will have potential opportunities of working in both this new office and its main office in SW London. The firm has had a fantastic reputation year on year, picking up several awards at industry events and consistently being listed in "great places to work" surveys.
The successful hire will have the opportunity to work in an extremely nurturing and sociable environment. Excellent salaries are on offer + a 5K car allowance and excellent benefits. With a low turnover of staff, this is a happy and inspirational agency and provides a transparent and open career progression plan for its staff


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- Cartoon Characters: Herman, Katnip, Herman's Cousins.
- Voice Actors: Sid Raymond, Arnold Stang.
- Directed By Seymour Kneitel.
- Music: Winston Sharples.
- Originally Released on November 10, 1950.
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 8 minutes.
- Production Number: 5026
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The little mice are planning a Christmas dinner. Katnip shows up dressed as Santa, and they let him in. He takes their food, puts them out in the snow, and hangs up stockings of his own. Cousin Herman shows up and asks, "Why the gloom?" Herman (and his cousins)... (more)
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Marlene Murray: Publications
Refereed Papers
- Murray-Nseula M (2011). Incorporating case studies into an undergraduate genetics course. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 11(3):75-85.
- Murray M and Greenberg ML (2000). Expression of yeast INM1 encoding inositol monophosphatase is regulated by inositol, carbon source and growth stage and is decreased by lithium and valproate. Molecular Microbiology 36(3):651-661.
- Murray M and Greenberg ML (1997). Regulation of Inositol Monophosphatase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Microbiology 25(3):541-546.
Woolford-Hunt C, Murray M, Grajales T, Beenken-Johnson K. Analysis of Endocrine Responses to Perceived Difference in Cross Cultural Interactions. (Submitted) Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science.


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Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens said a month ago that the Reserve wouldn't blind-side the markets with a cash rate hike.
Long before any thought was given to an increase in rates, it would "probably be sensible for the Board to cease references to a future 'period of stability'," he told an audience in Hobart.
The Reserve's latest decision to hold the cash rate at 2.5 per cent and the announcement that accompanies it shows that the softening up period he referred to has not arrived.
The Reserve's statement announcing that rates are on hold - as they have been for a year - is very similar to the one it issued after its meeting a month ago.
Most importantly, the following statement is repeated:
"In the board's judgement, monetary policy is appropriately configured to foster sustainable growth in demand and inflation outcomes consistent with the target. On present indications, the most prudent course is likely to be a period of stability in interest rates."
On Stevens' Hobart formulation, that means that no move up on the rates is on the horizon.
The Australian dollar rose on the news, but not by much, and that gets the tone right.
The Reserve isn't saying that rates are on hold because the economy is in a sweet spot.
It says again, for example, that consumer demand is only growing moderately, that resources sector investment is beginning to decline significantly, and that signs of improved private sector investment "remain tentative as firms wait for more evidence of improved conditions before committing to significant expansion".
In other words the central bank is keeping interest rates on hold because the handover from the resources investment boom to the rest of the economy is still not definitely confirmed.
Until it either is or it isn't, the direction of rates remains uncertain.


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ANDREW Surman insists Cherries will have nothing to fear when they step out for their win or bust Easter Monday showdown against Ipswich.
The Norwich City loan star says Eddie Howe's men will be pulling out all the stops in a bid to keep alive their play-off hopes when they do battle with the Tractor Boys.
Surman will be hoping to help Cherries put one over Ipswich – the Canaries' arch East Anglian rivals – when they lock horns at Portman Road tomorrow (3pm).
The 27-year-old has fond memories of the Suffolk venue having netted the opener in the last derby between the clubs – a 5-1 win for Norwich three years ago to the day of tomorrow's match.
Surman told the Daily Echo: "Having put ourselves in this position, it would be a big disappointment if we didn't make the play-offs. I know people have been saying it has been a great season and some were thinking survival would have been a success.
"But we are in the top half and have put ourselves in a great position. As players, we want to go all the way and it would be disappointing to miss out, especially if we didn't perform as well as we know we can. We have to give it our best shot to give ourselves the best chance.
"Ipswich is a massive game and, if we don't win, we are out of it anyway so we have to go there, get three points and then look to the next game. It felt like a missed opportunity losing to Sheffield Wednesday. Without playing too badly, we gifted them two goals in the first half and missed a few chances, including mine.
"But I still think there is going to be another twist. We can't give it up because teams are going to drop points. If we can pick up maximum points then you never know. We just have to concentrate on what we are doing.
"We are by no means out of it, although it is probably out of our hands. We have to go into the game with a no-fear attitude because we have nothing to lose."
Surman, who helped Norwich reach the Premier League in 2011, added: "I love playing at Portman Road. It is a great stadium and I am really looking forward to the challenge. I have good memories because I scored the last time I played there. It is going to be a tough game but we will have no fear and will give it our all."
Midfielder Harry Arter is available after returning from a three-match suspension, while boss Eddie Howe is set to make a late check on striker Lewis Grabban.


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5th Annual - Badger Kayaking - Long Beach
Los Angeles Badgers
Sunday, August 25, 2013 from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Join the LA Badgers for what has become a summer tradition!! Last year over 40 people went Kayaking. (Check out the pictures on Facebook!) Join us on Alamitos Bay in Long Beach for a kayak adventure! Paddle the calm waters of the bay and canal in a single seater or grab a pal and go double. Beginners are welcome along with any family and friends ready to enjoy some time on the water.
Note: All participants are required to know how to swim!
10:30 am – Arrive, sign waiver, pay, partner-up, safety brief
11:00 am – 1:00 pm - Kayak on the bay
1:30 pm - Drinks/food at Legends Bar on 2nd Street (walking distance)
Legends on 2nd: Recommend Folks Walk from the Kayaking Place
5236 E. Second Street Long Beach CA 90803
Kayaking Cost: $12 - CASH ONLY
How to Pay: James Howard will be collecting cash onsite. Please bring exact change.
Be on time: If you arrive late, you will not be eligible for the group discount
Parking Allow Extra Time for Parking: Street parking is available a short distance away, otherwise meters are available onsite. Bring quarters!! http://en.parkopedia.com/parking/beach/alamitos-bay-beach-ca/
What to bring: Sunscreen, hat, camera, cash, beverages while on the kayak, and dry clothes/shoes to change into for lunch. You will get a bit wet. Dry bags are provided by the facility for your belongings. Beach restrooms are available for use.
Questions: James Howard email at firstname.lastname@example.com or 952-452-6552
Please see the website for additional information and directions: http://www.kayakrentals.net/home.html
When & Where
Kayaks on the Water
5411 East Ocean Blvd
Long Beach,
Sunday, August 25, 2013 from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PDT)
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Los Angeles Badgers
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The fire was reported at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, said Battalion Chief Rob Lindner of the Woodside Fire Protection District.
Two firefighters suffered minor injuries. They were treated on the scene and stayed on duty, firefighters said.
The residents, a man and a woman, were at home at the time of the fire and made the 911 call, firefighters said.
The fire apparently started in the garage and then spread to the house, including the attic, which meant that firefighters had to ventilate the roof of the house, Battalion Chief Lindner said.
Nine fire engines and several fire agencies helped fight the fire. Woodside district battalion chiefs declared a second alarm after determining the fire was threatening the woods around the home.
While a fire crew maintained a watch overnight, the fire itself was contained within the first hour, firefighters said.
The fire damaged a power line that was arcing during the fire, and melted a gas meter. Firefighters allowed the gas to burn off safely until Pacific Gas & Electric workers arrived to shut off the supply.


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|I am a 12 year old c++ expert
|James Parsons wrote:
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|BHXSpecter wrote:
|Me, personally, I don't think you can ever truly become an expert in a language.
|30 years? C++ isn't even 30 years old.
|Look at how many people have 'experts' on news programs or seek their advice and then say things like "I don't agree with their assessment." Being an expert is a self-interest term in my opinion and I will never call myself an expert in anything no matter what my knowledge base is because I don't need that gratification to live my life.
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GENEALOGY-DNA-L ArchivesArchiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2003-11 > 1067800449
From: "Noreen Clough" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] R1b, Surnames, and Ancient Origins
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:14:09 -0000
restes asked "what the Domesday book was recording, and when? Was it like a
I have a one volume edition of the complete Domesday Book published by
Penguin Books in 2002. On the flysheet it says "Domesday was compiled in a
matter of months in 1086........According to to a first hand account by
Robert Bishop of Hereford, those sent out by the King '......made a survey
of all England; of the lands in each of the counties; of the possessions of
each of the magnates, their lands, their habitations, their men, both bond
and free, living in huts or with their own houses or lands; of ploughs,
horses and other animals; of the services and payments due from each and
every estate.' The detailed picture of the English landscape Domesday offers
is unparelleled in any country."
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Producer Paul Heller will make a big screen feature about the life and adventures of British mountaineer George Mallory titled "In High Places."
Bringing back the memory of British mountaineer George Mallory, producer Paul Heller is set to develop a film feature depicting the life and adventures of the strong-willed man, whose frozen body was found in 1999 at Mt. Everest after his last expedition in 1924 with close friend Andrew Irvine
"It is a very good story and the more we looked at it the more exciting it seemed to us," so Heller said as reported by Reuters. "The life of George Mallory is inherently very dramatic and the whole history of the climb, and why he and Irvine were doing it, is so gripping that we decided to go with the project."
Titled "In High Places", the picture will take its focus on Mallory's expeditions to Everest in 1921 and 1922 as well as his final 1924 attempt. It will be made with modest budget of $7 million with first-time director James McEachen at helm and Jamling Tenzing Sherpa serving as the production manager of the film's unit in India.
Taking main locations in Tibet and Indian Himalayan resort of Darjeeling, "Places" will be shot at high altitudes and use the same base camp where Mallory started his last journey. No words on cast yet, but Heller has indicated that a British actor will be chosen to portray Mallory.


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Almost everyone on the internet agrees that most memes are born on 4Chan. How they propagate thereafter is a little fuzzy, but there is little doubt that a big chunk of that credit must go to Tumblr. Only last week, the microblogging platform announced that it is one of the top 10 most-trafficked sites in the US, hosting some 77m blogs with a worldwide reach of 168 million unique visitors every month. That's a hell of a lot of gifs. And as if to cement its popularity, Tumblr was yesterday the victim of its very own hack.
The culprits? Trolling group GNAA, a rep of which told Gawker they had warned Tumblr of system vulnerabilities weeks ago. Yesterday's worm threw up a fake pop-up which then displayed a pertinent message for users (caps emphasis is GNAA's):
"This is in response to the seemingly pandemic growth and worldwide propagation of the most FUCKING WORTHLESS, CONTRIVED, BOURGEOISIE, SELF-CONGRATULATING AND DECADENT BULLSHIT THE INTERNET EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF FACILITATING." and "REPEAT AFTER ME: I WISH I WAS PROFOUND, BUT I'M NOT! I WISH I WAS ORIGINAL, BUT I'M NOT!"
Ouch. Is it really that bad? Let's have a look at the stats.
Tumblr is incredibly popular with pop culture junkies, it's true. You only need to look through some of the tags to realise this. It's also a social network for young people; again, just take a glance at the tags. UK Tumblr demographics reveal that 38% of users are aged 18 to 24, and 54% are female; 80% of users are child-free. In the US, 65% of Tumblr users are white, and 53% are university-educated (this drops to 36% in the UK). Across both locations, one thing is clear: the majority of Tumblr users don't earn a lot of money.
You start to see GNAA's point, when you stick around some corners of Tumblr for any length of time: it is the domain of the incredibly staged self-shot photo, a land where "inspirational" quotes hover in mid-air over a background of shooting stars. Very quickly, it can inspire a existential rage you didn't even know was within you.
I should say that after lurking for a while, I got myself a Tumblr a couple of years ago – and I love it. I'm not very active on it (about 25-30 posts a month on average), and most of my posts are reblogs (a cross-post of someone else's entry). A good amount of what I post features a shower of gifs (recently these have come from this summer's Avengers movie, or Magic Mike and its many delights) and more often than not I am posting about visual popular culture – television, comic books and graphic novels, YouTube videos and films. If you fill your dashboard with like-minded souls, Tumblr rewards you every day, far more than you thought possible. It is also a hideous timesuck.
Like any internet community, it is not without its flaws. Here, the hackers' comments came uncomfortably close to a lot of Tumblr users' excesses. It is sometimes a deeply silly place, keen on self-congratulation. It is also largely decadent, and because it is made of millions of fallible human beings, it's not always terribly original or profound. But that does not mean it does not have the capacity to be those things, and it often is.
Tumblr is where I go to laugh, but it also a fantastic place to learn: this is where I first read about Trayvon Martin, for example. It often hosts some of the most eloquent and nuanced conversations about society, from gender to race to equality and social justice. It is a community that gives and shares and supports its own – only last night, I witnessed people organise a whip-round for a fellow Tumblr user who needed to get out of an abusive situation fast.
It can be a brilliant place, because it is a lot more than the sum of is parts: you get out of it what you put in. Not many sites can give you all of that and a gif of Chris Evans punching a bag in slo-mo. And for that reason, I'll remain onboard. No contest.


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Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to a university or somewhere with JSTOR full text access (or VPN in) if you can. 2. Visit http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069399 as one example page. 3. Click View PDF, and indicate acceptance of the terms & conditions. The PDF will open in a new window. (in my case, it's with PDF X-Change Viewer.) FF shows the tab bar with one tab, the toolbars, awesomebar, etc...it's a regular browser window. 4. Open a new tab in that window. Go to a page with links. 5. Middle click one of those links, or right click and Open In New Tab. Actual results: 6. The new tab will open as the LAST tab in whatever window you used most recently other than the window you're using right now. That window won't activate the new tab or even scroll to it if you have a lot of tabs open (the right arrow will momentarily glow to indicate new tab opening), but the tab will be there. Expected results: 7. The new tab opens in the same window as the one hosting the link that was clicked.
Oops, this posted before I finished writing. It doesn't matter if the original tab is closed, and you only have new, non-PDF tabs open. There is something about that window that no new tabs will open in it. Opening a second defective window (by the same procedure) and having the original "defective" window as the most recently used one doesn't cause new tabs to open in it then either; new tabs open in the most recently used non-funky window. "Funky" or "defective" there mean "opened via the JSTOR View PDF link" but I'm sure there's something else about those windows that is what's causing the bug. Any ideas on how these windows are not like the others?
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6 years ago
Reporter, can you please check how the new window gets opened when clicking on View PDF? Is it done via Javascript? You can select the text and then select view selected code from the context menu. I don't have full access to that site and can't test it on my own. Thanks.
Here is the HTML element, copied from Firebug or View->source: View PDF so no, it looks like it's not done via Javascript, but the good old-fashioned _blank target. I do not observe this bug in 3.6.16; it seems to be a version 4 regression.
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6 years ago
Created attachment 530661 [details]
possible testcase
Is it reproducible with this testcase? Can you also please try in a fresh profile with all extensions and plugins disabled?
The testcase opens the doc in a new tab in the same window. I don't have enough time now to do all the setup etc. for a new profile, maybe later.
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6 years ago
WBT, have you had time to check in a fresh profile? Not only the minimized testcase but also with your original URL.
Not yet; I'm still in crunch mode for another week or two. *sigh...*
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6 years ago
(In reply to Henrik Skupin (:whimboo) from comment #6) > WBT, have you had time to check in a fresh profile? Not only the minimized > testcase but also with your original URL. (In reply to WBT from comment #7) > Not yet; I'm still in crunch mode for another week or two. > *sigh...*
Aha! After scouring the Internet to try to find a more public example, I have found one, and tested it with the latest release (8.0 as of this morning) in a fresh profile, and reproduced the bug again. Here are another set of steps to reproduce: Visit https://enr-apps.as.cmu.edu/open/SOC/SOCServlet?Formname=GET_CLASSES&SUBMIT=Retrieve+Schedule&SEMESTER=S12&GRAD_UNDER=All&MINI=NO&DEPT=EPP Click on any of the courses listed there. A new window will open with the course description. Optional: click on the "related URL" to get to a more interesting page with more links. Middle-click on any link, or right click and Open in New Tab - the new tab opens in the last window that you interacted with before this one. That may be different than the window which launched the popup. The latest version of FF will at least set that window as active (even if it's e. g. on another monitor), but it won't activate that tab - so even if you see the second-to-last-interacted-with-window becoming active, it might just be confusing, and it's possible to not see a new tab if you have many open. ("Why is this other window coming up again? And why isn't the link opening like I wanted to, in the window I was using?") Now that I have it on a public-facing URL with no authentication required, you can give it a try! Note: That link might expire (stop working) around May 2013.


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This course is taught under the assumption that the students have no previous experience with programming or program design. Projects are therefore of a difficulty and complexity that a beginner can handle.
It is, however, important for you to realize that one of the purposes of this course is to help you begin your preparation for a profession. If you continue in computing courses, you will find that your experience here will serve you well. Even if you never take another course in computing, you will have learned much about the kinds of techniques professionals use and especially about the courtesy that they are expected to show to others needing to read and understand their work.
The conventional scheme used in universities to assess a student's accomplishments is the grade. We therefore use a grading system to assess your success not only in writing a program that "works," but also in completing a project that meets the standards of professionalism we have set. Meeting these standards is neither especially difficult, nor especially burdensome in terms of your time.
We hope that you will realize that we are not just being bureaucratic, and that you will understand the benefits of what we are asking you to do. In any event, we are giving you, through the grading system, a tangible incentive to do it.
In developing a project, you will use the Case Study form as illustrated many times in the Feldman/Koffman book. Specifically, you need to prepare and submit all the sections of the Case Study: Problem Statement, Analysis, Data Requirements, Algorithm with refinements, Test Plan, Coding, and Testing. It is acceptable to attach a copy of the project handout and mark it as Problem Statement.
Programming projects are to be submitted in paper form, because the graders will need to make notes on them. Projects will be turned in at the start of lecture and returned during lab. Be sure your name and lab section are on each piece, in case they get accidentally separated. Put the pieces together with a paper clip, not a staple.
Your submission must contain:
-- Name: Elvis Presley
-- E-mail Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
-- Lab Section: CSci 51-30
-- Project #1
-- Date: Feb. 1, 1996
-- Brief Project Description:
-- This project requires the computation of the American
-- price for a quantity of food purchased in Canada,
-- where the food is purchased in kilos and the price
-- is charged in Canadian dollars.
Indentation and comments in the program should follow the style of those in the book, and reflect the major steps of the algorithm as given in the Design Document. Use comments to document each identifier, e.g.
Quantity: Float; -- input - weight of food in kilos
USPrice: Float; -- output - US price of the food
Your grade will be assigned on the basis of 20 points; partial credit is always given where appropriate.
Note that a complete and correct design and test plan will earn 50% of the grade, even if you do not complete the program, and that a correctly developed and formatted program will earn an additional 20%, even if it does not work. This weighting of grades is quite intentional, and is typical of modern computing courses. It is also typical in industry for the coding part of a project to absorb only 30% of the resources.
Your project is due on the assigned date at the beginning of class . A project brought in during the class will normally be counted as late.
Many teachers refuse to accept late projects at all, but in this course you are permitted to turn in projects at any time. Your grade on the project will, however, be reduced by 4 points, or 20%, for each week it is late.
Note that if you are extremely busy, you can buy an additional week of time for a 4-point price. You do not need permission to do so; just turn it in late. The "lateness fee" will be waived only for documented medical situations or other unusual circumstances. "The computer was down" is not an unusual circumstance; our response will always be "the computer often goes down; you should have allowed yourself more time."


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Prisuta: Pens never stopped believing
WASHINGTON — Five minutes prior to the opening face-off, the house lights went down, the sound system started cranking out Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " and a good many of the 18,277 crammed into the Verizon Center for Game 7 between the Penguins and Capitals started singing.
This had indeed been an Eastern Conference semifinal to sing about, and shout about, and to commit to memory if only for the sheer spectacle of it.
But with one game remaining, the series that had a little bit of everything still needed an ending.
The Penguins saw to it on Wednesday night that it would be remembered as perhaps the greatest series ever to end in a blowout.
They never stopped believing, not after they fell behind two games to none and not after they were beaten at home in Game 6, a 5-4 Capitals victory that necessitated Wednesday night's Game 7.
But most importantly, the Penguins never stopped coming.
Their 6-2, series-winning triumph stands as a tribute to perseverance, to keeping the faith and to playing your game.
So complete was their victory that even Alexander Ovechkin couldn't muster up any mustard for the hot dog after scoring the Capitals' first goal at 18:09 of the second period.
It was 5-0 Penguins by then, and rookie sensation Simeon Varlamov was watching from the bench rather than the crease.
The Ovechkin vs. Sidney Crosby showdown this series had been anticipated and even expected given the talents and tenacity of the two superstars.
But Varlamov, by comparison, was a party-crasher, a guy whose resume suggested he could still just as easily be playing for the AHL's Hershey Bears, the team still represented on one side of his helmet.
Yet through six games, Ovechkin and his previously anonymous countryman were threatening to turn Penguins vs. Capitals into "Varly & Me."
So impressive had Varlamov been in standing up to a barrage of Penguins' shots from one game through the next that Pens coach Dan Bylsma was actually asked prior to Game 7 if his team wasn't making things relatively easy on the Russian rookie by keeping him in rhythm with a steady diet of force-fed rubber.
"We're going to try to go out and get 40-plus shots again," Bylsma responded.
They got 16 to the Caps' five in the opening 20 minutes, almost matching the 18-5 advantage they amassed in the first period of Game 6.
The difference this time was that eight seconds after Crosby opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 12:36 of the first, Craig Adams scored again.
All of a sudden it was 2-0, and the rout was on.
With the floodgates finally forced open, the Penguins continued pouring it on.
They got two more in the first 2:12 of the second, at which point Varlamov was yanked.
They greeted backup Jose Theodore with still another goal at 11:37.
By then, the only thing rockin' was the red light behind the Caps' net.
Varlamov and the Caps had come so close.
But the Penguins never doubted their plan or their talent.
"We just kept shootin'," Bill Guerin said.
And when they absolutely had to, they exploded.
As they believed all along they eventually would.


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[USA MEN] In a Twitter session with fans on Monday, U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann confirmed that he expected
injured starters Clint Dempsey and Fabian Johnson to be ready for the World Cup 2014 qualifiers against Costa Rica March
22 and Mexico four days later in Mexico City.
Klinsmann said he had spoken with Dempsey, who has missed the last four Tottenham games with a calf injury, and the forward hoped to play in the Europa League game against Inter Milan on Thursday. He added that Dempsey was "all good" for the Costa Rica and Mexico games.
Klinsmann said Johnson, who sat out Hoffenheim's game on Saturday with a hip injury, "should be good to join us in Denver."
In a separate podcast on Monday, Klinsmann addressed several general issues related to the national team, suggesting that it wasn't an automatic that Landon Donovan will return to the national team after he resumes play with the LA Galaxy and that the USA might in the future line up with Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones in central midfield without a holding midfielder behind them.
Here's what Klinsmann said on Donovan's potential availability when he returns to playing:
"We always have the approach in our environment that the door is always open. I've always said I have all the respect for what Landon did in his career … but we also told him that the team is developing, the team is moving on. He's been barely a part of it since I took over almost two years ago, and therefore we'll see where he's at when he comes back into the game: what his rhythm is and what his shape is. How we look at him [and] how we evaluate him is different than how the Galaxy evaluate him because his role with us is a different one. So we'll see where he's at and whether he comes back or not."
And what he said about the Bradley-Jones partnership in light of good seasons they are having:
"It's very crucial, the partnership between Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones. It's really important that they over time develop a real fine-tuned understanding that when one goes forward and is attacking, the other has to secure him and stay back. Here and there they both end up in the opponent's penalty area and you leave kind of a hole behind. Those are things we would love to work on in the near future, when we play both next to each other and maybe we play without a number six that secures them. It only works if one stays and the other goes, and this is very important. Hopefully now we have the time and more training sessions before a game to work on that, and I think in time if we develop that fine-tuned understanding between these two guys then we have a big plus."


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Bug reports / Re: Bug - Transformation Amplitude Table (SDv.15.1b7).« on: October 03, 2016, 01:21:32 PM »
Thanks Stuart,
bug report noted. I'm on the case.
bug report noted. I'm on the case.
SpinDynamica v2.14.3 released - now compatible with Mathematica 11.
see SpinDynamica section.
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Choose Tax Cuts for Economic Recovery
It's April 16, and you've finished the arduous task of assembling your tax documents and receipts and filing your return. Although the economy is in a recession and times are tough, you scraped together the dollars to pay Uncle Sam his share.
Yet, even though the unemployment rate stands at 8.5%, the highest in 25 years, the Democratic Congress is planning to turn its attention to raising your taxes when it returns from recess next week and goes to work on President Obama's proposed budget.
It includes income tax hikes for upper-income Americans and increases in prices of energy-intensive products, increases to be paid by all consumers.
Fair Warning: tax increases would prolong the recession and discourage employers from hiring. This was shown by Mr. Obama's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, in a paper coauthored with her husband David Romer last November when both were professors of economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Yet Mr. Obama has proposed new limits on carbon emissions, known as "cap-and-trade." This is projected to raise $646 billion in revenue over the next 10 years, a significant tax increase that would impose a drag on the American economy. Manufacturers and utilities would receive an allocation of permits to emit carbon (the "cap"), and would have to purchase additional permits from other firms or the government, or pay penalties for noncompliance, if their emissions exceeded their permitted cap (the "trade").
In addition, Mr. Obama would have the two top income tax rates rise, from 33% to 36%, and from 35% to 40% in 2011. That would affect singles making more than $172,000 in taxable income and couples making more than $209,000. And that would be a blow to many unincorporated small businesses.
Upper-income taxpayers would also face limits on their deductions—for example, for charitable gifts and mortgage interest. That would be an additional, thinly-disguised tax increase.
Raising taxes, whether now or in 2011, is exactly the wrong way to help America recover from the recession, because higher taxes cramp economic growth.
The Romers' paper is entitled "The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks." The innovative feature of the paper is to distinguish between the effects of tax changes arising from legislation and those tax changes that occur automatically, for instance as individuals move into higher tax brackets or stock prices change.
Looking at data from 1947 to 2006, and studying the legislative record behind the tax changes, they conclude that legislated tax changes have far more effect than automatic tax increases. They write, "Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1% of GDP reduces output over the next three years by 3%." A major reason is that higher taxes have a markedly negative effect on investment.
Arizona State University Nobel Prize-winning economist Edward Prescott, looking at tax rates over major industrialized countries, has shown that the higher the levels of taxes, the lower are the hours of work. In highly-taxed France, for example, people on average worked only three-fourths of the American workweek. In the early 1970s, when American taxes were higher, the French worked more than the Americans. Mr. Prescott's results also hold for countries as diverse as Japan, Chile, and Italy.
Rather than raise taxes, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, has introduced a bill, H.R. 6110, that would lower all income tax rates and reform the complex tax code by simplifying it, together with spending cuts that halve the 2019 deficits projected by the Obama White House.
People could elect to pay their taxes on a postcard, with only two rates. If they chose the card, couples would pay 10% of their first $100,000 of taxable income, and then 25% on any earnings above that. There would be no itemized deductions, only a refundable credit to help with the purchase of private-sector health insurance. The rate on capital gains and dividends would be 15 percent, and the rate on interest would be zero.
The system would be progressive due to retention of standard deductions and personal exemptions, so that a family of four would start paying tax only after earning $39,000.
Under Mr. Ryan's proposal, those who prefer the present system, with the 2003 tax rates and complex scheme of deductions, could continue to file as they did this week. In sum, there would be two parallel systems of taxation in place, to minimize the opposition to abandoning one and adopting another. Mr. Ryan would limit the number of times a tax payer could switch between the two systems to minimize gaming the tax code.
The primary objective of Congress and the White House should be to put our economy back on track. That's why Congress should be debating how to lower taxes and government spending, rather than how to raise them.


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GACOBB-L ArchivesArchiver > GACOBB > 2002-02 > 1013813390
From: "Linda Murray" <>
Subject: Re: [GACOBB] Maloney Springs Baptist Church
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:49:50 -0500
References: <email@example.com>
I have been hoping for the same thing for the old Holly Springs Methodist
cemetery for over thirty years. Nothing has been discovered thus far, but I
haven't given up. You don't give up on Maloney Springs either.
I checked both Cobb cemetery books and the 1st Hundred Years and found
neither indexed. There was also nothing except the Maloney Springs cemetery
in the 1st Hundred Years; nothing at all concerning the church itself. I
also checked the index of my old obituary abstracts and found no McPhersons.
Did he/they live long enough to have a death certificate? Have you checked
with the Georgia Room to see if they have anything in their collection of
Cobb church histories?
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Will keep an eye out.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Crilley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: [GACOBB] Maloney Springs Baptist Church
> Jerri
> who is helping us out with all the Obits needs some assistance.
> Please....if anyone knows about this church....or the cemetery, please
> us what you know!
> =================
> Virginia, I need some help with some Cobb Co. research. Searching for any
> church record for Maloney Springs Baptist Church.
> My ggg grandfather, Joel
> Pinkney McPherson was the minister there around 1880. It was in the Smyrna
> area.
> I was told it was in the corner of Austell Rd. and South Cobb Dr.
> The
> cemetery is still there but the church has long since been gone. I was
> there might be some church minutes with mention of Joel Pinkney.
> We do not
> know where he is buried but I am thinking it was in Cobb Co. somewhere.
> wandered if he could be Maloney Springs Cemetery. HIs wife was Mary Amanda
> Turley McPherson. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Virginia Crilley
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00001. The coefficient of multiple determination was .35744 indicating that the combination of the three independent variables explained approximately 363 percent of the variation in the dependent variable.
At the completion of step 3 in the stepwise regression analysis, the .05 limit for the inclusion of additional independent variables had been reached. Therefore, a step 4 that would have included the number of emotional symptoms experienced was not performed. The hypothesis was supported by the results of the stepwise regression analysis.
A factor analysis was performed to determine the characteristics, traits, behaviors, perceptions, and events that best describe or explain a handicapping condition for a child. Orthogonal rotation was the procedure applied in this factor analysis.
A total of eight characteristics, traits, behaviors, perceptions, and events were assessed. These items were (1) age when handicap condition was first observed, (2) age when assistance was first sought for this condition, (3) care giver rating of the quality of information received from the family of the handicapped child, (4) age when child first received instruction from care givers, (5) rating of the appropriateness of instruction received from care givers, (6) overall satisfaction by care givers with the level and quality of parental involvement, (7) age at which the handicapped child was first tested, and (8) rating of the satisfaction by care givers with the outcome of the testing.
Initial Correlation Analysis and Factor Identification
The initial correlation analysis yielded product moment coefficients meeting the inclusion criterion (>p.4) for each of the eight variables in relation to three of the other variables in each instance. The acceptable correlation coefficients for age when handicap condition was first observed, age when assistance was first sought for this condition, age when child first received instruction from care gi...


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Brand lifts Panthers past LOW
McKenna Brand's hat trick and two assists led the Park Rapids-Menahga-Walker-Hackensack-Akeley girls hockey team to a 6-1 win over Lake of the Woods Tuesday night at the Ted O. Johnson Ice Arena.
Allie Bade tallied three assists and Jessica Gapinski had a goal and two assists as the Panthers won their third game in a row.
Goals by Brand and Heather Brostrom gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead after the first period. Gapinski and Bade assisted on Brand's goal at the 12:27 mark while Hannah Williams had an assist on Brostrom's goal at the 1:09 mark.
Gapinski set up Brand for a breakaway goal at the 9:35 mark of the second period as Park Rapids claimed a 3-0 lead.
The Panthers sealed the win by scoring three more times in the third period. Brand completed her hat trick at the 15:46 mark with another breakaway goal on an assist from Bade. Brand then assisted on goals by Williams with 11:30 to play and Gapinski with 6:28 left. Bade also had an assist on Gapinski's power-play goal.
Goalie Bailey Moore made 15 saves as the Panthers improved to 4-7-2.


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After U.S. Army Sergeant Rob Brown led the United States into the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France as the flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony, Team USA went to work on the track and in the field, winning an unprecedented 52 medals. Military Veterans earned three of those medals.
U.S. Army Veteran Scot Severn of Caro, Mich. won a silver medal in the men's shot put F52/53 with a season's best 8.26 meters to secure a spot on the podium on the fourth day of competition in Lyon, just a few weeks shy of the 24th anniversary of his accident while serving with the U.S. Army Reserves at Camp Grayling, Mich.
On Aug. 14, 1989, Severn was directly struck by lightning, resulting in incomplete quadriplegia. A year after discovering wheelchair sports, he competed in the 2004 National Veterans Wheelchair Games, which laid the groundwork for his career with U.S. Paralympics.
"My only regret about this world championships is that it is at the same time as the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, which I love being at," Severn said. "Hopefully, I'll be able to make it next year. I've missed them two years in a row and I really miss them."
On the fifth day of competition, U.S. Army Veteran Ce-Ce Mazyck of Columbia, S.C. claimed the bronze medal the following day in the women's javelin F57/58 with a throw of 19.83, only two hundredths from a silver medal.
"It felt awesome to find out I was on the podium," Mazyck said. "Thank you Jesus. I made it on the podium. It felt awesome to do this and to represent Team USA. I came here to do it and I did it."
Mazyck was injured in November 2003, just prior to Thanksgiving, while doing a parachute jump with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division. A competitor at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, she did not medal in her field events.
"I felt really, really good today, going out there and competing for Team USA," Mazyck said after winning her medal in Lyon. "Just getting on the podium was the main thing for me because in London, I kind of missed the mark a little bit. This was a chance for me to redeem myself. I'm so blessed to be on the podium."
U.S. Army Veteran Scott Winkler of Pittsburg, Pa., added a bronze medal to the Team USA tally on Day 8. On Saturday, he won the bronze medal in the men's shot put F54/55 by throwing 10.82 meters in his final attempt of the competition.
"I used to fight for my country, now I win for it," Winkler said.
While serving in Iraq in 2003 with the 549th Military Police Company out of Fort Stewart, Ga., Winkler fell from a truck and severely injured his spinal cord, resulting in paralysis from the chest down. He joined the U.S. Army a few years after high school, becoming a service technician.
In 2006, he was introduced to track and field at a U.S. Paralympics Military Sports Camp. Winkler competed at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games two years later and also represented Team USA at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships and the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, which were July 19-28, included more than 1,100 athletes from almost 100 countries competing at the Stadium of Parilly. Among the 76 members of Team USA, 10 Veterans and two active duty service members who represent four military branches.
Through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense, U.S. Paralympics and its partners provide thousands of opportunities for Veterans and service members with physical disabilities to compete in Paralympic sport at the recreational, intermediate and elite levels.
Sergeant Rob Brown (Chula Vista, Calif.), U.S. Army
Brown, the U.S. flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, competed in the men's 400 meter T43/44 race, finishing fourth in the second semifinal with a time of 58.21. He did not qualify for the final. On Sept. 24, 2006, Sgt. Brown was injured in firefight with insurgents in Iraq. He suffered multiple gunshots to the hip, one of which cut his sciatic nerve, leaving the lower half of his right leg without sensory or motor functions. His right leg was amputated below the knee in 2008.
Kate Callahan (San Antonio, Texas), U.S. Air Force Veteran
Kate Callahan threw 9.12m in her fifth of six attempts to finish fifth in the women's shot put F55/56/57 on July 21. On July 27, she finished sixth in the women's discus F57/58. Her final throw of the event was her best, reaching 26.02m.
In 1983, she enlisted in the Air Force. After attending nursing school, she continued her service with the Army as a combat medic and flight nurse. In 2000, Callahan paralyzed from the waist down because of complications from surgery.
Robbie Gaupp (Gatesville, Texas), U.S. Army Veteran
Guapp finished eighth in the men's triple jump T45/46/47 with a mark of 11.33m. Before making his debut with the U.S. Paralympics Track and Field Team, Guapp competed at the 2012 Warrior Games presented by Deloitte, a competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and Veterans. Guapp joined the Army in 2003, right out of high school. While supporting Operation Jumpstart, he shattered his right shoulder assisting border patrol units along the Texas-Mexico border, and lost his range of motion. He was medically retired in Jan. 2010.
Steven Hancock (Pueblo, Colo.), U.S. Navy Veteran
Steven Hancock finished 13th in the men's discus F54/55/56 with a personal best 28.17m on July 21. In the men's shot put F54/55 on July 27, Hancock placed 15th with a throw of 8.27m. A competitor at the 2013 Warrior Games, Hancock made his debut with Team USA in Lyon. Hancock was paralyzed during his deployment to Bahrain. His cable snapped during repelling training and he fell five stories.
Ce-Ce Mazyck (Columbia, S.C.), U.S. Army Veteran
Mazyck claimed the bronze medal in the women's javelin F57/58.
Jose Nieves (Gurabo, Puerto Rico), U.S. Army Veteran
On July 25, Nieves finished 13th in the men's javelin throw F54/55/56. While serving in 1997, Nieves suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him.
Luis Puertas (Orlando, Fla.), U.S. Army Veteran
Puertas competed in one event in Lyon, the men's 200m T42 competition. He finished fifth in the second semifinal but did not advance to the final. On Sept. 20, 2006, Puertas was serving with the 4th Infantry Division in Baghdad when his convoy was hit by an explosively formed penetrator (EFP), trapping him beneath the 400 pound armored door of his Humvee. A bilateral above the knee amputee, Puertas was the Army torchbearer at the 2013 Warrior Games.
Max Rohn (Longmont, Colo.), U.S. Navy Veteran
In the men's shot put F44, U.S. Navy Veteran Max Rohn (Longmont, Colo.) finished 11th with a throw of 11.24m. His best throw came on his first attempt of the competition. In Jan. 2009, he was serving with a Marine police transition team in Iraq when his Humvee was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. After two-and-a-half years and 14 surgeries on his right leg, his right leg was amputated below the knee. Rohn competed at the Warrior Games.
Scot Severn (Caro, Mich.), U.S. Army Veteran
Before winning the silver medal in the shot put, Severn placed seventh in the men's discus F51/52/53 with a throw of 20.44m, which came on his fourth attempt. He also finished seventh in the men's javelin F52/53 on July 26 with a season's best 16.91.
Chief Petty Officer Casey Tibbs (San Antonio, Texas), U.S. Navy Veteran
In the men's long jump F44, Chief Petty Officer Casey Tibbs, who became the first active duty service member to represent the United States in a Paralympic Games in 2004, narrowly missed the podium in Lyon. In his lone event of the IPC Athletics World Championships, he finished fourth with a jump of 6.45m.
Stephanie Timmer (Naperville, Ill.), U.S. Marines Corps Veteran
Stephanie Timmer, who began losing her sight in 1996 due to a progressive eye disease known as macular degeneration, finished eighth in the women's discus F11/12. She had a season's best throw of 27.68 meters, which came on her fifth attempt.
Scott Winkler (Pittsburgh, Pa.), U.S. Army Veteran
The lone event of the competition for Winkler was the men's shot put F54/55, where he earned a bronze medal.
LYON, France - Elexis Gillette won a silver medal and U.S. Army Veteran Ce-Ce Mazyck added a bronze medal to give United States two medals today at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships today in Lyon, France.
On his last attempt, Gillette (Raleigh, N.C.) went from nearly last place in the men's triple jump F11 to second with an American record jump of 12.66m. He has a string of silver medals in his events but has never won gold at the Paralympic Games or world championships.
"It's bittersweet I guess because I'm stuck right there at silver but triple is my lesser of the jumping events," said Gillette. "For today, I was losing terribly until the last one so to be able to get a good jump at the end, that was cool. I'm happy about it."
He scratched the first jump. His second jump was 11.62 with the third attempt at 11.58. Gillette scratched the fourth jump before handing in a 12.07, which still kept him at the bottom of the standings.
"That was close," Gillette said.
Mazyck (Columbia, S.C.) claimed the bronze medal in the women's javelin F57/58 with a throw of 19.83, only two hundredths from a silver medal.
"I felt really, really good today, going out there and competing for Team USA," Mazyck said. "Just getting on the podium was the main thing for me because in London, I kind of missed the mark a little bit. This was a chance for me to redeem myself. I'm so blessed to be on the podium."
Mazyck was injured in November 2003, just prior to Thanksgiving, while doing a parachute jump with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
"It felt awesome to find out I was on the podium," Mazyck said. "Thank you Jesus. I made it on the podium. It felt awesome to do this and to represent Team USA. I came here to do it and I did it."
The first race of the day looked to produce a world title for Kerri Morgan (St. Louis, Mo.) and a bronze medal for Cassie Mitchell (Atlanta, Ga.) but it will be reran Thursday. With 200m remaining in the women's 800m T52, Belgium's Marieke Vervoort and Canada's Michelle Stilwell collided, causing the Belgian to tumble.
Morgan managed to get passed the wreckage and take advantage of the pile up to cross the line first with Mitchell third, but the result will not stand as Vervoort - who won Paralympic 100m T52 gold ahead of Stilwell in London - was deemed to have cut across the Canadian. Vervoort was later disqualified.
In the men's long jump F44, Chief Petty Officer Casey Tibbs (San Antonio, Texas), who became the first active duty service member to represent the United States in a Paralympic Games in 2004, narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth with a jump of 6.45m. Hurie Johnson (Detroit, Mich.) was fifth with 6.28 while Paul Peterson (Charlotte, N.C.) took sixth with 6.14.
Josh George (Herndon, Va.) led after 2000m of the men's 5000m T54 race but finished fourth overall with a time of 10:26.90.
Brian Siemann (Savoy, Ill.) finished sixth in the men's 200m T53 final, racing a season's best 27.04.
Zena Cole (Oregon, Ohio) threw a 12.58m in the women's clubs F31/32/51.
U.S. Army Veteran Jose Nieves (Gurabo, Puerto Rico) finished 13th in the men's javelin throw F54/55/56.
Among the highlights of semifinal action, Tatyana McFadden (Clarksville, Md.) won her heat of the 100m and the 1500m T54, securing her spot in the final of those two events. McFadden, who already has three world championships to her credit this year, is pursuing six gold medals in Lyon.
"My body is tired," McFadden said. "It's hard to do all of these races but the crowd is really pushing me every time I am on the track. I could not ask for a better crowd. They've been so supportive."
Raymond Martin (Jersey City, N.J.) won his semifinal of the men's 200m T52 to keep his hopes alive for five world championships in 2013. Already the owner of three world titles, Martin ran a championship record 31.59.
The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, July 19-28, feature more than 1,100 athletes, including 76 Americans, from nearly 100 countries. Live streaming and on demand video is available at www.ParalympicSport.TV while live results are available at www.paralympic.org/events/lyon2013.
For more information, please contact Jamie Blanchard, U.S. Paralympics, at 719-237-2179 or email@example.com.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Hockey announced today the 18-player roster for the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team. The team was selected following a two-day tryout last week (July 19-20) that included 67 players in Williamsville, N.Y. For a complete roster, which features 10 forwards, six defensemen and two goaltenders, click here.
The 2014 Paralympic Winter Games will take place March 7-16 in Sochi, Russia. All sled hockey games will be played at Shayba Arena.
"We're incredibly pleased with the roster we have built for the 2014 Paralympic Games," said Dan Brennan, general manager of the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team. "The talent pool in the U.S. has expanded rapidly in recent years, which made the selection of players very difficult."
"I am excited about the players we have selected," said Jeff Sauer, head coach of the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team, who is in his third season leading the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team. "We have a great mix of Paralympic Veterans as well as some younger players who are ready to take the next step internationally. "
Nine players return from the 2010 U.S. squad that captured the gold medal at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, B.C. The list includes goaltender Steve Cash (Overland, Mo.), who was voted top goaltender of the 2010 Paralympic Games after not allowing a single goal in five games, and defenseman Taylor Chace (Hampton Falls, N.H.), who was named the best defenseman in Vancouver. Additional Paralympic Veterans include defensemen Nikko Landeros (Johnstown, Colo.), Josh Pauls (Green Brook, N.J.) and Andy Yohe (Bettendorf, Iowa); and forwards Taylor Lipsett (Plano, Texas), Adam Page (Lancaster, N.Y.), Alexi Salamone (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Greg Shaw (Merritt Island, Fla.). Cash, Chace, Lipsett, Salamone and Yohe also received bronze medals at the 2006 Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy.
Sixteen players on the Paralympic roster were members of the 2012-13 U.S. National Sled Hockey Team that earned the silver medal at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Sled Hockey World Championship. That list includes Tyler Carron (Fort Collins. Colo.), Declan Farmer (Tampa, Fla.), Jen Lee (San Francisco, Calif.), Dan McCoy (Cheswick, Pa.), Kevin McKee (Davenport, Iowa), Rico Roman (Portland, Ore.), Paul Schaus (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Josh Sweeney (Phoenix, Ariz.), in addition to Cash, Chace, Landeros, Lipsett, Page, Pauls, Salamone and Shaw.
NOTES: Team USA's roster will be trimmed to 17 players by Jan. 1, 2014, to conform to the Paralympic Games roster limit ... The U.S. roster is subject to approval of the United States Olympic Committee ... The youngest player on the roster is Brody Roybal (Northlake, Ill.), who turned 15-years old in May and is making his debut on a U.S. National Team. Declan Farmer is also 15-years old and will turn 16 in November ... The oldest player on the squad is Andy Yohe at 35-years old ... Four members of the team have served in the U.S. military. Jen Lee is active duty in the U.S. Army. Rico Roman is a U.S. Army Veteran, while Paul Schaus and Josh Sweeney served in the U.S. Marine Corps ... Dan Brennan, director of sled and inline national teams for USA Hockey, is serving as the general manager of the 2014 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team ... Guy Gosselin (Grafton, Wis.), American Development Model regional manager for USA Hockey, is in his third season as an assistant coach for the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team ... Additional staff members include team physician Mike Uihlein (Grafton, Wis.), athletic trainer Mike Cortese (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and equipment manager Joel Isaacson (Houghton, Mich.).
It's a journey that likely never would have happened if Puertas hadn't been watching the London 2012 Paralympic Games on his computer at home in Orlando, Fla., last summer.
On that day, Puertas saw Great Britain's Richard Whitehead sprint to a world record and a gold medal in the 200 meters (T42 class).
Puertas, a former specialist with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, already was living an active life — running 10Ks, marathons and swimming — after having lost both his legs above the knees in an explosion that tore apart his Humvee in Iraq in 2006. With the use of prostheses, Puertas was running again less than a year after his surgeries.
The Wolfpack is the first and only Active Duty Military Wheelchair Basketball team participating in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). They are stationed at Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD). This is their first season participating in the NWBA. One other thing: they're awesome.
Last weekend at the Bluegrass Invitational Wheelchair Basketball Tournament, the Wolfpack's warrior spirit was in full effect as they fought to prove they belonged in the highly competitive league. Displaying the tenacity and resolve only learned in military service, the Wolfpack bested their opponents in the finals game, earning the title of Division 3 Champions.
For service members healing in Army Warrior Transition Units (WTU), Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Battalions (WWB), and Navy Medical Transition Companies participating in adaptive sports can mean the difference between leading an active, healthy lifestyle and never fully recovering from injuries. The guys on the Wolfpack are living "mission redefined", and providing an incredible example of what can be accomplished by involvement in adaptive sports.
If you know a disabled Veteran who needs some encouragement, connect him or her to our community sports club finder and our twitter account. There's no better way for disabled Veterans to engage community level, adaptive sports in the communities where they live.
You can expect to see the Wolfpack in the upcoming National Championship Tournaments in April. And if history is any indication, it's going to be one heck of an event.
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Team Selected by US Paralympics for Competition in Sweden
U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today that five athletes will represent the United States at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Nordic Skiing World Championships, Feb. 23-March 5, in Solleftea, Sweden. The roster includes U.S. Navy Lt. Dan Cnossen (Jamestown, Mich.) and Andy Soule (Pearland, Texas), retired Army, who combined for five medals at the recent IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup event in Cable, Wis.
"We are excited to enter a strong team of athletes for the 2013 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships," said John Farra, high performance director for U.S. Paralympics Nordic skiing. "All of the athletes selected are coming off a very successful IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup on home soil in Cable, Wis., where Dan and Andy medaled. The other three have closed the gap and are climbing toward the podium. It is going to be fun to see what Team USA can do next month."
Team USA has never medaled at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships.Each athlete on the U.S. team is an active duty or military Veteran. Competing for the United States in Solleftea with Cnossen and Soule are: Eric Frazier (Maple Hill, N.C.), retired Marine Corps; Sean Halsted (Spokane, Wash./Twin Lakes, Idaho), retired Air Force; and Jeremy Wagner (Honolulu, Hawaii), retired Army Reserve.
Team USA won 13 medals at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup in Cable. Cnossen led the way with four medals, two in biathlon and two in cross-country, while Soule won a silver medal in the middle biathlon event. At the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Soule won a bronze medal in 2.4km biathlon, becoming the first U.S. athlete to medal in biathlon at the Olympic or Paralympic Winter Games.An estimated 150 athletes from 15 countries will compete in biathlon and cross-country races at the competition, which marks the final world championship before the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. The event will be the third world championship for Nordic skiing. Previous IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships took place in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, in 2011, and the inaugural event was in Vuokatti, Finland, in 2009.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and US Paralympics partner to provide physically disabled Veterans with increased opportunities of activity and wellness.
The Olympic Opportunity Fund is a collaborative between the United States Olympic Committee and VA. The Fund provides grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 to organizations that support Paralympic sport and physical activity programs for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces.
The VA also provides a training allowance to athletes who meet established eligibility requirements, including training commitment and qualifying competition standards set forth by US Paralympics.
Participation success highlights partnership of VA, US Paralympics
It was an accident not unheard of for a young combat Veteran.
In June 2008, Omar Bermejo had recently returned from his fourth deployment to Iraq. The then 27 year-old Marine Corps sergeant was racing through life, searching for the familiar rush of fear and adrenaline that had been fueled by bullets and IED's only months before. He bought a motorcycle with the money he'd received as a bonus for his service.
The curve, the gravel, a sense of invincibility, all caused him to lose control of the bike, he said. He slammed into a guardrail nearly severing his arm between the bike and the metal. Many surgeries later, doctors would amputate his arm at the shoulder.
"The day to forget and the day my life changed," Bermejo said. "It's true when they say that one of the ways to appreciate life to the fullest, is to almost die."
In the aftermath of his changed life he became depressed and hopeless. "I was pretty down after my accident," he said. The once fit Marine says he gained weight and felt out of shape. He decided to use some of his benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and visited a nearby VA Medical Center.
"They were awesome, always letting me know I'm not by myself," he said. "I knew it's not over. My time here is not over yet."
He remembers a visit to a wing of hospitalized Veterans all of them amputees.
"There was this guy who lost his leg above the knee. He was telling me 'Don't give up. Don't cash in. Give it your all.'"
Today, Bermejo is a competitive Nordic skier with hopes of making the 2014 Paralympics in biathlon, a combination of cross country skiing and marksmanship. He was one of eight military Veterans on the 11-man U.S. biathlon team at the International Paralympic Committee Nordic Skiing World Cup in Cable, Wisc. Jan. 12-20.
The number of Veterans who competed in the event is an example of the joint efforts by the VA and US Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, to provide physically disabled Veterans with increased opportunities of activity and wellness.
Through an active recruitment effort, US Biathlon Paralympic coach Rob Rosser said he makes visits to military and VA Medical Centers year round.
"Most Veterans joined the military because they wanted a challenge, are highly competitive and enjoy physical exertion," he said. "Biathlon combines the most physiologically demanding sport of cross country skiing with a more mentally challenging sport of marksmanship, under stress of high heart rate and the pressure of the clock running as they shoot. Veteran athletes tell me they picked biathlon because it was the most challenging and most similar to their combat job – moving and shooting."
Army Veteran Jeremy Wagner wasn't sure if biathlon was for him when he was first asked to try the sport.
In 2007, after a year in Iraq, he too returned home and suffered a motorcycle accident. The crash injured his spinal cord and he lost the use of his legs.
"After my injury I was just taking it one day at a time," Wagner said. "I did some rehab on my own, but my cousin helped me go to the VA."
The Hawaii native was treated at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center's Spinal Cord Injury Center in California.
"That's where my real road to recovery began," he said. "My therapist in Palo Alto gave me all the necessary tools to get me going again." She also introduced him to the VA's National Veterans Wheelchair Games.
In 2010, while competing in the Games in Denver, Wagner was approached by a Paralympics biathlon coach.
"I guess he saw me doing the slalom event, and he asked me if I'd be interested in biathlon."
Wagner took a chance and gave up the sandy beaches of Hawaii for the snowcaps of the Colorado Rockies. He moved in with his cousin in Colorado where he now trains full-time in biathlon.
His effort has paid off. In June 2012, Wagner was named to the 2012-13 US Paralympic Nordic Skiing National Team.
"You may think, 'I'll never be at that level,' but you never know until you try," he said. "A lot of us, we want to be good at something right away. When we don't, we give up. But every champion wasn't a champion from the start."
Wagner trains at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, Colo.
In October 2012, NSCD was named one of 97 organizations to receive a grant through the Olympic Opportunity Fund, a partnership between the United States Olympic Committee and VA. The Fund provides grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 to organizations that support Paralympic sport and physical activity programs for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces.
In its third year, the fund has provided more than $4 million to 223 USOC partner and community programs, and has resulted in thousands of Veterans with physical and visual impairments participating in sport programs.
"The partnership and support from the VA has given hope to numerous Veterans," Rosser said. "As the programs grow and expand, the entire country gains awareness of the positive aspects sport offers our Veterans, and the long-lasting affects it has on their quality of life after the sacrifice they have made for our country."
Wagner also receives a monthly training allowance from the VA. The VA and US Paralympics' collaborative provides a stipend to athletes who meet established eligibility requirements, including training commitment and qualifying competition standards.
"The stipend really helps with purchasing poles, gloves, all of the other equipment that's necessary," he said.
When Kevin Burton arrived at the event in Cable, he was still learning the sport and had yet to qualify for the training stipend.
In 2010, while on active duty in the Navy, he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease. The former Arabic linguist had served nine years with the Navy including tours to Iraq and Kuwait when he began losing his eyesight. Before being medically retired, he was treated at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center's Augusta Blind Rehabilitation Center in Georgia.
"The blind rehab program was amazing," Burton said. "I was really worried about losing my remaining vision, but after going through that, I'm not that worried. I know I can still do pretty much anything."
In March 2012, Burton attended the VA's National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo. It was the first time he'd been on skis since losing his sight.
Like all biathlon athletes, he skis and shoots targets, but being visually impaired he has a guide who skis in front of him and shouts directions during the cross country skiing. When it comes time to shoot the rifle he uses audio cues and the pitch of a tone to zone in on the target.
"You wear headphones to tell you how close you are, and if you are on target," he said. "The normal shooting advice doesn't apply to the visually impaired. It's strictly distance from the center."
Despite his newcomer status, Burton went on to win a silver medal in Cable and his finishing time was good enough to earn him the VA training stipend.
"A lot of my success is because of the support I've been given from day one," he said. "But I've still got to work hard and keep improving."
Bermejo agreed. He also qualified for the training allowance during the event.
"Know if you put in the work and have positive thoughts, good things will happen," he said. "The opportunities are there, but in the end, if you want something you will go get it."
Michael Johnston is a paratriathlete with hopes of competing in the sport's Paralympic Games debut in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
But he is also part of another mission: He's trying to encourage fellow Veterans and members of the Armed Forces with physical disabilities to get involved in sports to help open doors to new activities, enrich their lives and get them moving forward.
The "Mission Redefined" campaign, a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Paralympics, will release a 30-second public service announcement on Jan. 15 that features Johnston sprinting down a track.
Johnston says it's a campaign he's proud to be a part of, and believes it's necessary to help disabled Veterans see what's possible.
"When they get out of the military, they don't really know where to go," he said. "They don't know how to get reconnected with their community, with life, so sports are a great way of bridging that gap."
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Johnston knows firsthand about making the transition from being injured in the military to becoming an athlete.
In 2003, Johnston, then in the Navy, lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident. Yet he was able go through rehabilitation, learn to walk with a prosthesis and return to active duty.
His life had gone through a traumatic change, but by staying in the Navy for another seven years he was able to adjust while in a familiar environment.
"I was expected to do the same duties as everybody else and that I previously had been doing," he said.
But it wasn't easy.
"After I was injured, I wasn't even 21 yet, so I had no idea who I was or what I wanted to achieve in my life and I had very little direction," he recalled.
After going through rehabilitation and learning to use his prosthesis (his leg was amputated just below the knee), he began to challenge himself.
What were his limits? What could he do physically? He wanted to not only test himself but prove to others that assumptions of limitations were wrong.
"(It) gave me a drive and determination to break those perceptions, you know, that 'This guy's going to slow us down' and whatnot, of physical limitations that people associate with a lot of amputees and disabilities in general," he said.
Eventually, he got involved in sports through the Navy's Operation Rebound program and also the Challenged Athletes Foundation.
In 2008, he began competing in paratriathlons, and he's competed internationally for the U.S. Paratriathlon National Team. In 2011, he finished fourth at the ITU Paratriathlon World Championship in Beijing.
Becoming an athlete has helped Johnston redefine his own life.
Now he is trying to help others redefine theirs.
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The PSA begins with Johnston at the starting line. At the sound of a starter's pistol, Johnston bursts from the blocks.
As the camera captures him in full stride, the words "Passion," "Power," and then "Strength" appear in place of his churning left leg, until "Strength" explodes and falls away, revealing Johnston's racing prosthesis. As he sprints away, the words "Mission Redefined" appear on screen and a narrator says, "Redefine your mission. Find a sport, get involved." The spot ends with the Mission ReDefined and U.S. Paralympics logos.
Viewers can then go to the Department of Veterans Affairs Adaptive Sports site (www.va.gov/adaptivesports) to find affiliated sports clubs around the nation in which they can get involved.
As Johnston reflects on the weeks and months after his injury in 2003, he believes the "Mission Redefined" campaign would have been inspirational.
"It would definitely move me and hopefully inspire me to get out and re-engage in sports and life again," he said, recalling that he felt lost at the time.
The message with this campaign, he said, is that people and programs are out there to help Veterans get moving, and being active — finding a sport or activity — is a terrific step. But the message, he said, is even simpler.
"The big push I have is just getting involved," said Johnston, now living in San Diego. "Just getting off the couch and being reconnected."
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Christopher Nowak, VA's director of National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events, is in charge of the "Mission Redefined" campaign. Nowak, a Marine Corps Veteran who lost his right leg while serving, started work on the campaign in 2011.
To Nowak, Mission Redefined has multiple meanings.
"One is the VA itself," Nowak said. "We're redefining our mission on how we deliver adaptive sports to Veterans as well as sporting opportunities. And also we're using the campaign for Veterans. There's an opportunity to redefine their mission in life. They've been through a traumatic injury and this is an opportunity for them to use sports to redefine their mission."
The campaign's name works, he said, because to men and women in the military, "everything is defined as a mission."
"What we hope with this campaign is that Veterans understand that after a traumatic injury life is not over. It may seem like it, they all go through it, as well as I did," he said. "You go through a certain phase in your life after your injury. But something clicks in" to get them back on track, he said, and sports can be a giant part of that process.
This campaign, combined with the success and attention garnered by some of the military Veterans competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, is providing a whole new layer of attention and information for Veterans, Nowak said.
And working with the U.S. Olympic Committee as a partner, he said, has helped the VA "get out of the box" and push the message in the most effective way possible.
For Johnston, who was involved in filming the PSA— doing countless takes until 2 or 3 in the morning on a high school track north of Los Angeles — the joint V.A./U.S. Paralympic campaign is worth every penny.
"Anybody that sees it will connect with it," he said. "It breaks down all borders. It's not just amputees, not just military. Everybody will connect with forward movement."
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Doug Williams is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.
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I had a dream last night that I was run over by a car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) Any insights on what the hell that means would be appreciated.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
I had a dream last night that I was run over by a car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) Any insights on what the hell that means would be appreciated.
My gawd, is that drunken SOB driving again?
You fear Liberals will, with the help of the Liberal-biased press, succede in running run-down conservatism, which obstructs their plan to adopt the Communist goals as stated in 1965.
From Betty Bethards "The Dream Book" Sybols for Self-Understanding
Car represents:
You in daily physical life. The larger the vehicle the more potential you are using to manifest what you want. If going up hill, you are going the right way. Down hill is the wrong direction. Both up and down you are not in controll. If you are not in the drivers seat who are you letting drive the car? Get behind the wheel and take charge of your life and it's direction.
So it probably means that you are winning in your battle against the liberals and Kennedy represents a
last ditch effort to kill you off.
Yeah, but I wasn't even in the car. I was on foot and that crazy sumbitch ran me down!
By the way, thanks for reading, you crazy LSTers. Stick around!
Maybe your turning into one of those Patricia Arquette "Medium" kinda people. You're really freakin' me out dude.
This is a warning from the future...lucky you were not wearing the tifoil hat at the time.
Don NOT under ANY circumstances walk on roads in New England while Teddy is alive. It's obvious he reads LST and this blog.
Either that, or Mary Jo Kopechne has been reincarnated in your body.......
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Click to Watch in HD > The Princess Reviews Books #1
Watch Ive been reading a lot, so here are some reviews of the things Ive picked up! Some - most - are awesome! Some - just one - are not so much. What do you like to read? Have you read any of these books? If so, whatre your thoughts? If not, do you plan on it? How long is your TBR because mine is too long to keep track of - I mean I have books I bought months and YEARS ago that I havent gotten to but really want to one day. FIND THE BOOKS: BLOODLINE by CLAUDIA GRAY http://bit.ly/2dMcsVe IF I WAS YOUR GIRL by MEREDITH RUSSO http://bit.ly/1Senn1q HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD by NOT J.K. ROWLING http://bit.ly/1q2pqOJ DUMPLIN by JULIE MURPHY http://bit.ly/2dkLaCh ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁNEZ http://bit.ly/2es2EOM RECOMMENDED VIDEOS ABOUT CURSED CHILD SARAH SNITCH (the first one I watched right after the book came out): http://bit.ly/2dXEhIb MONICA OGDEN (super important discussion about tw: rape culture within the play): http://bit.ly/2dJKdns KIRSTI/MELBOURNE ON MY MIND (came up with the Draco Malfoy: Responsible Parent phrase that Im 110% in love with!): http://bit.ly/2dWG2TG Also a HUGE thank you to Saajid/Books are my Social Life (http://bit.ly/2dwqdlg) because I wouldnt have picked up almost half of this list if he hadnt suggested the books in some way, shape, or form. Go subscribe to his channel if you enjoy books! He gives in depth book reviews that make you either want to read a book immediately or never ever touch it! :D #WithCaptions The Princesss last video: http://bit.ly/2dCSCuv The Scriveners last video: http://bit.ly/2e7GxsS The last TWO together videos!: https://youtu.be/ccxwLYMYsp4 and https://youtu.be/S98N1nQGgjA The Princess and the Scriveners stuff Twitter: https://twitter.com/paigerink, https://twitter.com/sarahrichrdsn, https://twitter.com/prncessmscrivnr Tumblr: http://jmberries.tumblr.com, http://gildedbadger.tumblr.com Instagram: @kerinpaige @forthelionhearted Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Do you know how to read your pay stub?
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A new poll by the Institute of Payroll Professionals shows that nearly one in 10 employees in Britain don't fully understand how to interpret all the figures on theirs - and they're not alone in their confusion.
In Canada, payroll professionals report that a similar one in 10 workers have a poor understanding of the taxes, deductions and benefit premiums on their pay stubs, while 17 per cent of workers have a mediocre understanding, according to the Canadian Payroll Association.
"If you look at a pay statement … sometimes it can get overwhelming," says Steven Van Alstine, vice-president of compliance programs and services at the Canadian association. "I think people probably trust that those amounts are accurate."
In addition, different employers may include different figures on their pay stubs, further confounding those trying to decipher them, says Gary Monk, director of finance and information systems at the Human Resources Professionals Association.
To sort out any lingering confusion, we've broken down a sample stub with expert explanations:
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