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How long does a marriage have to last before the spouse is entitled to pension benefits? 23 Answers as of November 09, 2011My wife filed for divorce in September. We have no children, no property and no joint debt. I have two pensions that I am to receive at 55. We have been married for six years. She cashed out her 401k this summer. I received no money. Is she entittled to a share of the pensions that I am to receive?
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Reeves Law Firm, P.C. | Roy L. Reeves
Unless the pension is protected (VA benefits, Rail Road Retirement are two protected pensions) she can ask for a portion but that portion is subject to limitations. The most simple answer is this. If you had one pension earned prior to marriage, it is off limits. The second (or both if both accrued in part during the marriage) are treated like this: Take the number of months you were married and accruing points and divide that by the number of months you earned points in total then divide the result by two. For example - government or military retirement which is earned on points (one point for each month of credible service) - Married 6 years (72) months, but enlisted for 22 years (268 months) also assuming the marriage was all during the enlistment - 72/268 = 31.5% divided by 2 = 15.25% to her, you get the rest. Same scenario and the marriage and service overlapped only 30 months (it is the time service and marriage overlap that counts, not the length of the marriage per se) and her share drops to 5.6%. If the retirement is a 401K (this would apply to her money) or a retirement based on your contributions - the application is to take the value on date of marriage and the value on date of divorce (you can claim for hers, that the money was withdrawn and moved but is still subject to the same division), subtract the first amount from the second to find out how much was contributed/earned during marriage and each is entitled to half of that amount.
Answer Applies to: Texas
Replied: 11/9/2011
Joanna Mitchell & Associates, P.A. | Joanna Mitchell
It's not about how long the marriage lasted, but rather when the benefits were accrued. You should consult with an attorney.
Answer Applies to: Florida
Replied: 11/8/2011
AyerHoffman, LLP | Cara Lee Thompson
In Massachusetts, pensions can certainly be included in the marital estate that is to be "equitably divided" between divorcing spouses; however, given the length of your marriage and the fact that she has already cashed out her 401k without providing you with any of these monies, it may be unlikely that she receives any of your pension. However, more information is needed here in order to ascertain the likelihood of your pension being left out of the picture - and you should consult your state's statute as well as an attorney in order to take steps to keep your pension out of the marital "pot".
Answer Applies to: Massachusetts
Replied: 11/8/2011
The Law Office of Cathy R. Cook | Cathy R. Cook
Your wife is entitled to one-half of the portion of your pensions earned during the marriage. You also have a claim to one-half her 401k earned during the marriage. If she did not spend that money on marital purposes, you might be able to reduce her share of your pensions by your share of her 401k.
Answer Applies to: Ohio
Replied: 11/7/2011
Law Offices of Paul A. Eads, A.P.C. | Paul A. Eads
Only for contributions you made during the marriage.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 11/7/2011
Reza Athari & Associates, PLLC | Seth L. Reszko
Yes. Your spouse is entitled to a share of the pensions. The exact amount I cannot compute without further information. This doesn't mean that your spouse is entitled to 1/2 of the pension, but whatever amount that was obtained during the six years of marriage, she is generally entitled to that 1/2 interest.
Answer Applies to: Nevada
Replied: 11/7/2011
Dunnings Law Firm | Steven Dunnings
Not necessarily, and if she is, the amount is limited to the value accumulated during the marriage, not what you earned prior to the marriage.
Answer Applies to: Michigan
Replied: 11/7/2011
John E. Kirchner, Attorney at Law | John Kirchner
In general, the length of the marriage is only relevant to computing what portion of the pension or retirement benefits are considered marital property. Only marital property can be divided in the divorce.
Answer Applies to: Colorado
Replied: 11/7/2011
Linda C. Garrett Law | Linda Garrett
With all due respect, you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is: "Does the community estate" have any interest in any pensions? Answer: a community estate would have an interest if either husband and wife (and/or their employer) made contributions from date of marriage to date of separation. The contribution could be a few bucks or a fortune. This is known is the "communicate estate" portion of the pension. Regarding distributions from pensions, the next question as to your wife's distribution is this, "When were the distributions made-during marriage or after date of separation. If during marriage, then there is nothing can do-unless the other party can prove some type of fraudulent behavior by the spouse. If after DOS, then need to determine if all or some of the distribution is community or a combination of separate and community. To determine whether your spouse is entitled to your pension benefits, I recommend you speak with an attorney-because there are numerous follow up questions that need to be asked and answered before an attorney can answer your specific question.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 11/7/2011
Law Offices of Arlene D. Kock | Arlene D. Kock
Your wife entitled to1/2 of any pension amount earned during the marriage.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 11/7/2011
Bruning & Associates, PC | Kevin Bruning
Your wife may be entitled to 50% of the pension accumulated during the marriage. Your wife may also have dissipated assets when she cashed in her 401k. You may be entitled to an offset in the amount of 50% of the 401k.
Answer Applies to: Illinois
Replied: 11/7/2011
Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch, P.S., Inc. | Mark Brown
Under Washington community property law, only that portion of a pension benefit (or 401K; or other retirement account) that accrues during the marriage is community in character. The portion of the benefit that accrued prior to marriage, or after separation (September) is the separate property of the person earning the benefit. Thus, plainly stated, the pension is part community property and part separate property based on the ratio of the separate and community months during which contributions to the pension were made. Another note: If your retirement benefit is a true "pension", it is a "defined benefit plan" that may require a valuation by a specialized actuarial accountant, who can also calculate the ratio of separate to community. In order to evaluate your claim to the proceeds of the 401K cashed out this summer, one would need more information.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 11/7/2011
Law Office of L. Paul Zahn | Paul Zahn
She is entitled to one-half of the community interest in your pension. The formula for calculating it is based upon the length of time that you accrued the pension, divided by the total time you accrue the pension from date of hire to date of retirement.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 11/7/2011
Glenn E. Tanner | Glenn E. Tanner
Theoretically, one second. A court divides all assets fairly and equitably. How much of a particular asset you get depends on many factors.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 11/7/2011
Gary Moore, Attorney at Law | Gary Moore
She is entitle to a FAIR SHARE of your pension, which partly depends on the value of the 401K which she cased out. She is entitled to one third to one half of that portion of your pension which accrued from the date of the wedding to the date of the filing of the divorce complaint, with deduction for her disposing of the 401K. It is feasible that she might get none of your pension. Hire an attorney if you have not because there is something valuable involved in your divorce.
Answer Applies to: New Jersey
Replied: 11/7/2011
David A. Browde, P.C. | David Browde
Probably - but it won't likely be a substantial share. You should discuss your situation in detail with a local divorce attorney.
Answer Applies to: New York
Replied: 11/7/2011
Attorney Paul Lancia | Paul Lancia
She can make a claim for a portion of these pensions. But she may not prevail based on the length of the marriage. First and foremost, I see that you take this situation seriously. You need to protect your legal rights and representing yourself is not the way to do so. Representing yourself is a recipe for problems, if not now, in the future. Retaining a lawyer need not be as expensive or difficult as you think.
Answer Applies to: Massachusetts
Replied: 11/7/2011
Vincent J. Bernabei LLC | Vincent J. Bernabei
She is eligible for 50% of the pension earned during the marriage only. This may be offset by the value of other assets
Answer Applies to: Oregon
Replied: 11/7/2011
Law Office of Michael W. Bugni | Jay W. Neff
I would think that, in general, the longer the marriage, the greater the chance of your spouse getting some portion of the retirement. However, as a practical matter, it is pretty much impossible to deal with just one asset in isolation, in most cases. The statute says that the court is to make a fair and equitable division of all of the property. There are a number of factors that the court is supposed to consider in reaching that division. If the court is going to divide the property, it first has to classify it. All of the property is going to be classified as your separate property, her separate property, or community property. Which of these classifications a particular piece of property falls into will depend on how and when the property was obtained. In most cases, property obtained during the marriage will be community property. Once the property is classified, how it gets divided will depend on a number of factors. Some of the factors that the court may consider are: the duration of the marriage, the ages of the parties, the health of the parties, the educational background of the parties, the employment history of the parties, and each party's future prospects. The court then has to come up with what the court believes is a fair and equitable division of all of the property using these and other factors. Now, if there is enough community property so that the court can come up with a fair division using just the community property, the court will generally do that. However, if there is not enough community property for the court to reach what it believes is a fair division, then, it can invade separate property.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 11/7/2011
Law Office Of Jody A. Miller | Jody A. Miller
It is possible that a part of your pension is marital property. You need to consult with an attorney about your specific situation and they can help determine how much is marital property; with a defined benefit pension plan, there is usually a formula to determine how much is separate and how much is marital property.
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Saudi Arabia's interior ministry fired out a last warning Monday at employers of illegal workers, stressing they were liable to both a prison term and a fine if they failed to sort out their employees' papers.
The ministry said company bosses and businessmen found to be employing illegal labour after August 30, the final deadline for papers to be straightened out, face a three-year jail term and a 13,335-dollar fine for each worker illegally employed.
The punishments also apply to Saudi and foreign bosses who employ expatriate labour in a field other than that specified on their work permits as well as those allowing expatriates to strike out on their own, the ministry said.
The ministry also warned in the statement carried by the official SPA news agency of sanctions against Saudis who lodge or rent accommodation to foreigners working illegally.
More than 350,000 illegal workers have left Saudi Arabia since an April 20 amnesty exempting those with invalid residency permits from a hefty fine and possible imprisonment.
Saudi authorities had warned six months in jail, a 26,600-dollar fine and deportation after a deadline to legalise their status ran out on July 2.
The Gulf state launched a campaign against illegal immigrants in October 1997. About 1.5 million people, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, have since been expelled, according to official figures.
Meanwhile, a newspaper reported Monday that Riyadh had decided to increase the costs of obtaining or renewing expatriates' residence and work permits in the kingdom.
Foreign workers will now have to pay 600 rials ($160), up from 500 rials ($133) before, for a residence visa, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat said, quoting a royal decree.
The cost of a work permit has increased threefold to 150 rials ($40) a year from 50 rials ($13.30) previously.
The sums generated by these increases will be allocated to a special fund "for the development of human resources" which has as its goal the creation of new jobs for Saudi nationals, the paper said.
The fund, created by the cabinet on July 21, particularly aims "to prepare the Saudi workforce for work in the private sector."
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Arcanum - Interview with Leonard Boyarsky @ RPG Codex
RPG Codex has done one of their retrospective interviews - this time with Leonard Boyarsky, the man who worked on Arcanum, Fallout, Fallout 2 and currently working at Blizzard Entertainment on Diablo 3. It's rather interesting....
A quote about how Boyarsky got into the business
How did you find your way into role-playing video game design? Did you come from pen & paper RPGs?
I did not have a lot of experience with pen and paper RPGs, unfortunately. I was fascinated with DnD and other RPGs when I was younger, but I never found a good group of people to play with. My first PnP experiences were at Interplay with Tim Cain running a Conan campaign. He also ran a pretty cool GURPS Space campaign, if I recall correctly.
The fact that I ended up a game designer was purely by accident..... However, once we finished the art for the game and had the time to start playing it in earnest, we found that a lot of our original area design and philosophy somehow hadn't made it into the game. I remember specifically that there was nothing in the Brotherhood of Steel apart from the NPCs with talking heads – and we were supposed to be shipping soon. So Jason and I, with the unbounded arrogance of youth, decided we were going to start writing and editing dialogues and adding quests for the game. And so I became a game designer.
And a qoute about a business decision:
In the book Gamers At Work, Tim Cain mentions that Troika might have kept itself afloat by taking on various non-RPG projects, but that he was unwilling to sign on to games he "had no interest in playing." How do you feel about this kind of decision today? Is there – was there ever – a place for this kind of idealism in the industry, or should pragmatism have ruled the day?
I don't think it was idealism. If we had no interest in playing a certain style of game, we would have no passion for making it. Making games is not easy – you definitely need to have passion for what you're doing to be successful. Without the passion, you're sunk.
A quote about on what he sees as defining the rpg genre:
In your view, what makes a good role-playing game and what are the defining elements of the genre?
I don't think there is one set of criteria for what makes a good role playing game—it depends on what type of RPG you're making. There would be a whole different list of criteria for a Mass Effect style game than there would be for Diablo III, for instance. It just depends on what the goals of the game are. However, one thing all RPGs do need to have is the ability to choose how to play your character in terms of skills and abilities.
Lastly, Boyarsky's views on Kickstarter:
Given the recent Kickstarter success stories of Tim Schafer and Brian Fargo, what do you think of crowdfunding as an alternative way of video game publishing? Do you believe it can significantly change the landscape of the industry, and would you consider turning to crowdfunding yourself in the future? (For a Troika reunion maybe?)
I think it's great. It's wonderful that old school games are being funded this way. I don't know that it will have much of an effect on the publishing industry, though, unless one of the games is a huge hit.
And I'm happy working at Blizzard, so I don't see crowdfunding in my future—especially since I have no desire to run my own company again.
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Known for "Next to Normal," "Les Misérables," and "Catch Me If You Can," Tveit makes his debut as a series regular on USA Network's "Graceland."
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Low-income students achieve academic, social strides at Cradle Beach Camp
When Pauline Perna's two grandchildren walk to her house in downtown Niagara Falls, they pass a park where drug dealers sell cocaine and smoke weed.
The 12- and 11-year-old siblings come from a low-income family, like almost all of their peers at Niagara Charter School. Because Jacqulyn and Jerry Phillips' parents work a lot, they often stay at Perna's house. And their typical summer day involves delivering the Tonawanda News with her and staying around adults. It's safer that way, Perna says.
Meanwhile, children in the suburbs – from middle- to high-income families – often go to summer camp, play outside, and in general, have the opportunity to make academic and social strides. Come September, they're academically and socially ahead. Summer camp was never an option for the Phillips kids.
Until this summer.
Lynn Kirshey, the Niagara Charter School special-education coordinator, helped raise more than $1,800 to send 15 students to Cradle Beach, a summer camp in Angola that hosts children with disabilities and those from economically disadvantaged families. The camp charges families based on their incomes. About 80 percent of the campers pay $100 for 10 days of camping, which is the rate the Niagara Charter School students received.
"Where they live, in the city, it's a rough neighborhood," Perna said. "And a lot of the lower-income families don't really have choices of getting into a better neighborhood. ... So getting them out of the city and into nature is something that helps teach the kids that there is a different world out there. There is more to the world than just drugs and guns."
Jacqulyn and Jerry have been at Cradle Beach since July 12, and their last day is Monday.
As Jerry sat outside his cabin Thursday morning, he talked about his favorite parts of Cradle Beach: swimming and playing basketball. But he also said summer camp has taught him lessons that he'll take with him this coming school year.
"Sometimes, I'm not respectful when I'm mad," said Jerry, as he admitted to misbehaving in school. At Cradle Beach, he said he has learned to "respect your counselors and do teamwork."
"Respecting your counselor is just like respecting your teacher, and teamwork is the same thing that you gotta do when you're in school," he said.
What Jerry may not realize is that as he comes to understand the concepts of responsibility, respect and teamwork, he's becoming more qualified to compete against his peers who come from middle- to high-income families in the future.
Kiowa Mt. Pleasant, who just graduated from Niagara Charter School, lives with her great-grandmother in Wheatfield. She barely sees her peers in the summer. Her grandmother spends a lot of time reading on the couch while she plays on the computer, Mt. Pleasant said, so camp has been a thrill. She feels more socially prepared for middle school next year.
"I'm not really a lot, like, sociable," the 12-year-old said. "But here, I could be, like, whatever – like meet new people all the time. No one here will judge you like they do at other places."
Jerry and Kiowa are making social strides, as well as academic ones.
This year, Cradle Beach is requiring all campers to participate in activities geared toward learning science, technology, engineering and math, through hands-on experiments. STEM is "where the jobs are for the future," says Tim Boling, the camp's executive director.
"A lot of these kids, inner-city kids, poverty-level or below, struggle so much in school because they can't connect to things," Kirshey said. "... So this offers them the background knowledge that they can bring to their education. 'Oh yeah, that's like what I learned at camp.' They can connect to it. And that's when learning happens – when there are connections."
Most students lose about two months of grade-level equivalency in mathematical computation skills during the summer. On top of that, low-income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, while their middle-class peers make slight gains, according to the National Summer Learning Association.
The association also reports that more than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities. Thus, low-income youth are less likely to graduate from high school or enter college.
Niagara Charter School counselor Cheri Keetch witnessed one of her troubled students change after the school raised funds to send a few students to Cradle Beach last year.
"He didn't fly off the handle as much," she said of him this year. "He was a little bit easier to calm down compared to last year. ... I saw him as a student that grew from fifth grade to sixth grade. It was amazing the turnaround in him." Keetch said.
Kirshey spent Thursday morning watching Jacqulyn, Jerry, Kiowa and her other 12 students swimming, running around with their new friends, following their counselors' directions, cleaning their cabins and engaging in academic activities. She's inspired to continue fundraising for her students to go to Cradle Beach.
Kirshey and Keetch hope to send double the number of students to Cradle Beach next year, and maybe even double that the year after. If more students from Niagara Charter School spend their summers at Cradle Beach, maybe the statistics of lower-income students losing academic and social strides in the summer will begin to change.
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When it comes to big institutions, good intentions — recycling, turning off lights and computers, printing only when necessary — can get buried under day-to-day priorities and staff turnover.
The Office of Sustainability at West Virginia University is working to make those good intentions — well, sustainable.
"Rather than being an anomaly or what I would call a 'gall bladder' of the institution that can be snipped and thrown away, we've tried to align all our strategies with both longevity and legacy in mind," said Sustainability Director Clement Solomon, "so it can go beyond a person — it's more of an institutional framework."
As part of activities around Earth Day on April 22, the office held a town hall–style meeting on April 18 to unveil a draft "Sustainability Strategic Plan" for the coming five years and to get ideas from the university and the local community.
Every aspect of the strategic plan — not only its five interconnected program areas that go beyond stewardship to civic engagement and communication, but also its development by a Sustainability Committee of 18 faculty, staff and students from across the university — reflects the intention to create a culture of sustainability, one that builds on interests all across campus, permeates all aspects of university life and extends out into the community.
The public service and civic engagement area of the strategic plan is one example. As dozens of participants circulated among the five tables representing the five aspects of the strategic plan at the town hall meeting, Stephanie Toothman of Recycling Services in Facilities Management spoke at the public service and civic engagement table about ideas that would engage students in activities that work both as research projects and as service learning, and would benefit the surrounding community.
"If you're familiar with our Ecolympics," Toothman said — that's the month-long event the university holds each year in which buildings across campus compete to recycle the most and conserve the most energy — "one idea is more on a community scale. We could have neighborhoods competing to see who could recycle the most, who could conserve the most energy."
Another idea would build on a February "Taste not Waste" public education and research project, she said, in which student volunteers sorted and weighed recyclables and waste at WVU dining halls for a week. In the follow-up project, a biodigester run on food waste collected both from dining halls and from community restaurants would generate electricity for use on campus.
Asked about successes in sustainability on campus so far, Solomon spoke of the university's 2006 energy performance contract, in which Siemens Industry, Inc. identified $50 million in investments through 2016 that would bring guaranteed energy savings. Investments have totaled about $37 million so far and are ongoing; through them, the university saved $6.6 million in 2012 alone.
Solomon spoke of the 12 Evive reusable water bottle cleaning and filling stations on campus that saved more than 50,000 plastic bottles in the first month — that's more than a ton of plastic kept out of landfills.
And he spoke of the success of 25 student internships in the Sustainability Office.
"We've been very intentional about providing platforms for learning beyond those four walls," he said, "giving students a chance to think about things cradle to grave. What are the barriers to more sustainable practices? How do we overcome them?"
One of those interns is Katie Frontino, from Summersville, a senior in design studies with a minor in sustainable design.
As an intern, Frontino inventoried printer and copier use in five representative departments on campus. She concluded that, by moving from desktop printers to network printing, the university could cut waste and save $1.2 million. Plans for making those changes are forming now.
"I never knew how you could be sustainable in a business settings and also save money," Frontino said.
"I'm moving soon to North Carolina and I was looking at solar industry jobs," she said of the influence the experience will have on her career choice. "I'd love to work for a company that operates sustainably."
The sustainability effort on campus is not about activism, Solomon said — it's about building awareness and forming partnerships across campus.
"I see this as a journey of various interests, and one does not trump the other," Solomon said. "Collectively, seeing the cause from environmental, economic and social perspectives helps us all frame this journey together."
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I really like this ammo. I inspected each round and I used all 150 rounds. There were no rejects. The priners and bullets were seated properly and there were no case cracks. The bullets were smooth and looked like bullets in new ammo.
I inspected the case on the FTE and there were no signs of a problerm so I assume it was just random. The report from the gun gave no indication of a problem either.
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Good product for a good price.
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Great Buy
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Great stuff
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201 HOLIDAY ELECTRIC FLY and R/C EXPO (NE OHIO)
Indoor flying at the SPIRE INSTITUTE sports complex's olympic-size track and field building.
The 2012 Holiday Electric Fly and R/C Expo is on for this year!
First full weekend in December, starting Friday afternoon Dec 7th, all day Saturday, and Sunday until about 3pm.
An AMA-sanctioned electric flying event, sponsored by HORIZON Hobby, LAZERTOYZ, and hosted by the MARCS club of NE Ohio
Website: http://hef-rcexpo.com
Event Flyer: http://www.hef-rcexpo.com/images/Ele...er3-2sides.pdf
Here's a quick 1min video showing off the view from the balcony (from 2010):
2010 - we had 107 registered pilots and more than 400 models a the very first HEF event.
2011 - we had 214 registered pilots and more than 600 models.
We may already be one of the country's largest indoor events!
Last year with more than 200 pilots, we had NO WAITING, NO LINES to FLY, AND PLENTY OF ROOM. The pilot's pit area was busy, but there's lots of room for everyone to spread out.
2012 - we can handle 350+ pilots and 1000+ airplanes. NO PROBLEM.
Event CD: Tony Husak at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Here is some info about the 2012 HEF RC Expo:
- Lot of Fun events, including full-contact combat and special events for micros
- Vendors will be there with all sorts of cool stuff for Christmas!
- TEN flight stations at the HUGE main racetrack flying area - and separate flying areas for 3D and Micro airplanes
- 600 feet long x 300 feet wide main stadium under one roof - the main racetrack flying area is football-field size (360 x 160 feet). The 3D flying area is 150 x 40 feet using the track for landing with those tiny wheels. The ceiling reaches 70-foot at the highest point with indirect lighting. The football field has artificial grass turf and is surrounded by a real 10-lane Olympic track and an extra 100 feet at each end. The 10 pilot stations in the main flying area are along the long side of the field near the grandstands.
- Large Pit Area for pilots with tables and some electricity - please bring extension cords
- Pilot prizes are awarded continuously, plus we'll have some prizes for flying contests
- Big MARCS club annual raffle - the prizes will be awarded at this event!
- FOOD DRIVE for Charity - bring at least 3 cans and receive a FREE raffle ticket to the big MARCS raffle.
- Climate controlled inside, free parking outside (sorry, no camping in the parking lot)
- Grandstand seats 4000+ spectators!
- Spire has it's own Sports Cafeteria called "FUEL" located at the Olympic Swimming facilty adjacent to the flying area.
- Nearby motels - and there is a Wendy's, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and two restaurants across the main road nearby.
- Geneva OH is at the Rt 534 exit on I-90, and the venue is very close to the exit (Geneva is about 1hr east from Cleveland OH or 1hr west of Erie PA, and about 1.5 hours north of Pittsburgh)
- Note, planned demos will not shut down flying, unlike at many other events. We promise to keep the disruptions from the contests to a minimum.
- Several contests are planned, including full-contact combat ($5 fee, pot to the winner), micro carrier, pylon races, Musical Airplanes and others TBD or we'll do them on the fly. Some of these events will require a shut down of open flying for short periods of time, but most will not. The large 3D and Micro areas are separate, so their events will not affect the main flying area!
As reminders:
- No food or drink allowed on the track floor, must remain in grandstand area.
- No combustion engines allowed
- We have separate areas for 3D aircraft, and Helicopters and Micro for safe flying.
- Flying Model weight limit: 16oz with battery - Largest motor size : airplanes 300, helicopters 250 NOTE: exceptions are possible but require approval and permission of the event CD
- early birds on Friday will have to endure set-up of tables, etc
- "bring your own" safe container for charging Lithum-Polymer batteries
- Register early on the HEF website with Paypal, or pay at the door.
- AMA membership card required for pilots. In order to be allowed on the main floor (where the pilots are) everyone must sign waiver forms, even if they are not pilots. See registration area for more information.


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suppose you have tire insurance from the dealer who sold you the tires. you have a flat that is covered by the guarantee; you change the tire, bring it to them and they replace and remount it free.
but suppose you paid a service truck to change the tire...
would you expect the dealer to cover that cost as well?
I'm unsure how your story relates to this situation. Are you saying I should have sent the pistol to the ammunition distributor, or the ammunition manufacturer, to be fixed?
It is my argument that the goods in question failed with regard to the implied warranty of merchantability, among other law, and perhaps the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, as I certainly purchased no ammunition insurance policy, if such a thing even exists.
excerpt from IC 26-1-2.1-212
Implied warranty of merchantability
(2) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as:
(b) in the case of fungible goods, are of fair average quality within the description;
(c) are fit for the ordinary purposes for which goods of that type are used;
(d) ... of even kind, quality, and quantity within each unit and among all units involved;
I do not think that ammunition that fails to leave the barrel, subjecting the user to a high risk of injury were it not noticed, qualifies as goods of fair average quality fit for the ordinary purposes for which goods of that type are used. I additionally think that the presence of a squib round in a box of ammunition disqualifies it from being considered of even kind and quality within each unit, and among all units.
I don't know if they will pay my gunsmithing bill, but I plan to pursue it for kicks if they don't. The products liability cases I have been involved with so far have been much less entertaining.
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Carl "Shiloh" Parker, 83, of Hayesville died Wednesday, August 7, 2013. He was a native and lifetime resident of Clay County. He was a retired heavy equipment operator. He was of the Christian faith. His hobbies included fly fishing and coon hunting. Shiloh loved the mountains and knew a lot about the history of the mountains of Clay County and the surrounding area.
He was the son of the late Bryson and Naomi Spivey Parker. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Carrie Anderson; and two brothers, George and Harley Parker.
Surviving are his wife, Jeanette Patterson Parker; a daughter, Wanda Cook and husband, Donnie of Hayesville; two sons, Harold Parker and wife, Evelyn of Hayesville and Cline Parker of Hiawassee, GA; a brother, Robert Parker of Seattle, WA; and seven grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren
Funeral services were held at 10:00 AM Saturday, August 10 in the Chapel of Ivie Funeral Home, Hayesville with the Rev. John Talley officiating. Interment was in Bethel Cemetery. Pallbearers were Harold, Dusty, and Adam Parker, Barry and Brandon Cook, and Rob Burch.
The family received friends from 5-8 Friday evening at the Ivie Funeral Home, Hayesville.
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Were any of Ross' divorces played for tragedy apart from maybe Emily? Because I recall number three being a drunken Vegas wedding.
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- Romantic Plot Tumour: In later seasons both Ross/Rachel and Joey/Rachel. Fans were sick of Ross and Rachel's Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them and Joey/Rachel was awkward, out of character and a "Shaggy Dog" Story which stopped Joey's personal arc. At that point it was getting hard to care who Rachel ended up with, and made her look like a Creator's Pet pulling attention from Phoebe's relationship with Mike and Monica and Chandler having children which people actually cared about. Plus only one couple could last and Genre Savvy viewers figured they'd never ditch Ross/Rachel. Sure enough Joey and Rachel broke up after barely three episodes and Joey was left alone at the end of the series.
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Homochirality and Darwin
|April 27, 2010
|Posted by Robert Sheldon under Intelligent Design
One of the smaller mysteries of life is that it is built out of asymmetric building blocks. The amino acids that are chained together to make proteins are asymmetric, as are the sugars that are chained together to make starch, cellulose, and other useful polysaccharides. The standard way to show this, is by making a solution of the specific molecule, shining polarized light through it, and demonstrating that the "plane of polarization" has rotated. Those that rotate the light counter-clockwise are "left-handed" and those that rotate it clockwise are "right-handed". Using the letters "l" for left, and "d" for right, we now can label the mirror-image molecules with their appropriate chirality. (The amino acids are labelled L or D not by their rotation of light, but by their chemical synthesis from l- or d-glyceraldehyde. All L-amino acids do not rotate light the same direction, but they can all be derived from l-glyceraldehyde.)
A science fair project that deeply impressed me as a junior high student, was to take two plane polarizers (such as those found in sunglasses) and put different thicknesses of ordinary cellophane tape in between, by taping it to a clear sheet of acrylic (overhead transparency for those old enough to remember). Each thickness of tape (D-sugar!) would rotate the light more, and when viewed through "crossed" polarizers, different colors would appear as if by magic. The explanation was even more magical, and I spent an hour or more playing with tape and polarizers.
Evidently, this also impressed chemists in the early 1800's, since inorganic crystals did not show these colors. They took this as evidence of one more way that living things were different from non-living things–they turned colors under polarized light, as well as multiplied, fermented, decomposed, and otherwise did miracles with common substances. Which is why they separated "inorganic" from "organic" chemistry. Darwin, of course, refused to acknowledge any separation between organic and inorganic chemistry, and this intransigence has plagued his theory ever since.
21 Responses to Homochirality and Darwin
Robert Sheldon, though I am still not completely comfortable with some of the overarching conclusions you have drawn from the meteorites, you have put many of my concerns, that you were overreaching the evidence, to rest. The article is a very well written post that I enjoyed reading very much. I especially liked your summation at the end:
"Whether one can or cannot start with a dimer and end up with tweezer piles is irrelevant, because there is no abiotic path from a racemic solution to a stereo-active solution of amino acid that doesn't involve a biotic chiral agent, be it chiral beads or Louis Pasteur himself. Like many critiques of ID, the problem with these "Darwinist" solutions is that they always smuggle in some information, in this case, chiral agents.
If those 12 carbonaceous chondrites represent 12 separate OOL events, then the probability of finding at least one with D-amino acid overabundance should have been 99.97%. Does not finding a single D-amino mean OOL is disproven? Not if one is willing to overlook 1 in 10^1107 odds in the first place. After all, what are a mere three more zeroes? We've merely moved it up to 1 in 10^1110 odds."
Dr. Sheldon,
hot off the press:
Detection of ice and organics on an asteroidal surface. Nature, 2010; 464 (7293): 1322 DOI: 10.1038/nature09028
Astronomers Find Water On 24 Themis Asteroid's Surface
Once one accepts that the extreme improbability of the configurations of life are down to ID, then that admits all sorts of ways in which that intelligence may create the patterns of life. An intelligent agent has many ways it can choose to work and this is evidenced by ID supporters ranging from YECs to those who accept millions of years of "front loaded" common descent.
But does ID's fold include theistic evolutionists? What if Robert Sheldon's remarks about the unlikelihood of an asymmetry in chirality being manufactured from a standard physical scenario ultimately prove to be wrong? Does this challenge ID?
Although I am open to the idea that life may require a creative dispensation supplementing standard physics, I'm very wary of identifying ID exclusively with extra-evolutionary science: One needs to guard against the possibility that physical scenarios explaining the asymmetry in chirality might just creep out of the wood work (see for example the comment by "David" on Robert Sheldon's blog). Then what? Do we stay with ID only in so far as standard "evolutionary" theory proves wanting? Would we give up our belief in the need of an intelligent creator if physics proved efficacious enough to generate life?
I think not: If life can "evolve" given the standard physical dispensation, then it would only do so because that dispensation has been selected by the Creator from amongst so many possibilities that its information content would then be great enough to support the information required by life. The information embodied in life would have its source in an extremely rare and surprising choice of physics and therefore there would be no need to dispense with ID should evolutionary ideas prove valid.
As we know experimental evidence regarding the history of life is ambiguous enough to allow ID supporters to range from YEC's through those who accept millions of years of common descent, to those such as Robert Sheldon who appear to be toying Hoyle's with panspermia. The equivocation amongst ID theorists about the evidence for natural history sets a precedent that could be used to justify a tolerance of theistic evolutionists amongst the anti-evolution ID community. The evidence concerning the historical details of how the Almighty has imposed remarkable and rare patterns on the cosmos may be equivocal and contentious, but ID supporters from YECs to theistic evolutionists can agree on the ultimate source of improbability: Intelligent Design.
Bornagain77: Thanks again for those links you gave me here.
Unfortunately as in other anti-evolutionist treatments of complexity, they critique only the suggestion of the dynamic "production of information" from non-linear processes
Firstly, I am making no demand that information be "created" by a physical process – that information, I would acknowledge, is sourced in the creator; my question relates more to how that information is introduced by the creator. Clearly there are great differences of opinion here: For example, great differences between just how the YEC community see the creator's information being introduced and those on UD who believe in an old Earth.
Secondly, the object I am trying to get a handle on is not a dynamic object like a bio-polymer, but a static platonic object; namely the layout of configuration space. This object is a computational object and has no material reification. It therefore cannot be precipitated out in test tube.
So in summary it looks as though these links don't address my pertinent issues. However, I hope to deal with these links in more detail and with more justice on my blog; the above is rather cursory.
Mr Reeves, these links may be of interest to you:
Explaining Information Transfer in Quantum Teleportation: Armond Duwell †‡ University of Pittsburgh
Excerpt: In contrast to a classical bit, the description of a (photon) qubit requires an infinite amount of information. The amount of information is infinite because two real numbers are required in the expansion of the state vector of a two state quantum system (Jozsa 1997, 1) — Concept 2. is used by Bennett, et al. Recall that they infer that since an infinite amount of information is required to specify a qubit, an infinite amount of information must be transferred to teleport. http://www.cas.umt.edu/phil/fa.....lPSA2K.pdf
Single photons to soak up data:
Excerpt: the orbital angular momentum of a photon can take on an infinite number of values. Since a photon can also exist in a superposition of these states, it could – in principle – be encoded with an infinite amount of information.
Ultra-Dense Optical Storage – on One Photon
Excerpt: Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
It is interesting to note that the information is encoded on the photon in the experiment while the photon is in its "wave" state (a wave state which is defined as infinite information by Duwell)
also of note "quantum information waves" have been shown to have the ability to be completely transcendent of any 3-D material basis in teleportation experiments (completely without regard to time or space, save for the speed of light communication of particle state imposed on us retrieving the teleported information)):
Unconditional Quantum Teleportation – abstract
Excerpt: This is the first realization of unconditional quantum teleportation where every state entering the device is actually teleported,,
Thus "transcendent information" is a entity of its own right, separate from matter-energy that has dominion of 3D material reality.
This following experiment highlights the centrality of consciousness in the Double Slit Experiment as to the wave collapse and refutes any "detector centered" arguments for wave collapse:
Delayed choice quantum eraser
of note; Consciousness must be INFORMED with local certainty to cause the wave to become a particle. We know from the Double Slit Experiment, with delayed erasure, that the simple fact of a detector being present is NOT sufficient to explain the wave collapse. If the detector results are erased after detection but before conscious analysis we see the wave form result instead of the particle result. This clearly establishes the centrality of consciousness to the whole experiment. i.e. The clear implication from the experiment is that consciousness is primary, and detection secondary, to the collapse of the wave function to a 3-D particle. Consciousness must precede 3-Dimensional material reality.
Thus Mr Reeves,
Infinite transcendent information and consciousness are both shown to be necessary for 3-D material reality to exist, and as I hope you can see this "scientifically" provides a mechanism for how "God" implements novel information onto existing quantum waves, of matter-energy, in order to create a new life forms.
Bornagain said,
"Consciousness must be INFORMED with local certainty to cause the wave to become a particle. We know from the Double Slit Experiment, with delayed erasure, that the simple fact of a detector being present is NOT sufficient to explain the wave collapse. If the detector results are erased after detection but before conscious analysis we see the wave form result instead of the particle result. This clearly establishes the centrality of consciousness to the whole experiment. i.e. The clear implication from the experiment is that consciousness is primary, and detection secondary, to the collapse of the wave function to a 3-D particle. Consciousness must precede 3-Dimensional material reality."
Does this mean that later detection by a conscious observer actually has an effect of what is detected in the past?
7PhaedrosApril 30, 2010 at 5:00 pm
"Does this mean that later detection by a conscious observer actually has an effect of what is detected in the past?"
I've heard something like that claimed regarding an experiment involving random number generators.
What does it mean that photons have infinite information?
Collin, Quantum events are shown to be independent of time constraints:
Wheeler's Classic Delayed Choice Experiment:
Excerpt: "our delayed choice of how to measure the particle determines how the particle actually behaved at an earlier time.""",,, So it seems that time has nothing to do with effects of quantum mechanics. And, indeed, the original thought experiment was not based on any analysis of how particles evolve and behave over time – it was based on the mathematics. This is what the mathematics predicted for a result, and this is exactly the result obtained in the laboratory.
This is only extremely problematic for the materialist Collin.
Collin you ask;
"What does it mean that photons have infinite information?"
That a photon is found to be mathematically defined as "infinite information" fits extremely well with the Theistic postulation that only the mind of God is infinite and perfect in knowledge. i.e. since it takes infinite information for a photon qubit to have a defined reality, which has been verified empirically by teleportation, then only that which is able to impart infinite specified information may create each individual photon qubit at the Big Bang.
11SeverskyApril 30, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Collin @ 8
What does it mean that photons have infinite information?
Think of it like one of those just-so stories Darwinists are always being accused of spinning – only bigger.
5:00 pm
What does it mean that photons have infinite information?
Converting Quantum Bits: Physicists Transfer Information Between Matter and Light
Excerpt: A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon.
But alas seversky, do not dogmatic materialists, such as yourself insist that information is but an "emergent" property of atoms which is not real but an illusion? Such as you insist the mind is but an emergent illusion? How is it then possible for an "illusion" of two groups of atoms to be encoded and decoded from a single photon?
Don't despair, I think I found the "scientific" solution for the crushing problem that transcendent information presents to you materialists seversky:
13SeverskyMay 1, 2010 at 6:48 am
bornagain77 @ 12
Converting Quantum Bits: Physicists Transfer Information Between Matter and Light…
Fascinating phenomenon. Nothing in there about single photons containing infinite transcendent information. Anything else?
Exactly what is the payoff for me providing you with any further evidence whatsoever since you will simply deny it is valid? I would much rather that you provide the formal proof that your base materialistic philosophy is scientifically valid in the first place. If you did provide such formal proof for the validity of materialism at least I would be reasonable enough to admit that you had a valid scientific point instead of just denying your proof is valid, solely based on my own "tastes" as to how the "evidence" should be interpreted as you do to IDists with all the evidence that validates Theism.
Why Quantum Theory Does Not Support Materialism – By Bruce L Gordon:
Excerpt: Because quantum theory is thought to provide the bedrock for our scientific understanding of physical reality, it is to this theory that the materialist inevitably appeals in support of his worldview. But having fled to science in search of a safe haven for his doctrines, the materialist instead finds that quantum theory in fact dissolves and defeats his materialist understanding of the world.
"Atoms are not things"
Werner Heisenberg
Bornagain77. Thanks for the fascinating links! I think this thread has gone stratospheric as a consequence! Hope Dr. Sheldon doesn't mind too much.
B'again77 says:
The clear implication from the experiment is that consciousness is primary, and detection secondary, to the collapse of the wave function to a 3-D particle. Consciousness must precede 3-Dimensional material reality.
My Comment: Although I might quibble a little over just how 'clear' it is, I nevertheless agree with the sentiment that "sentience is primary"; in any case I lean toward a Berkelian Idealist position.
Thus Mr Reeves,
Infinite transcendent information and consciousness are both shown to be necessary for 3-D material reality to exist, and as I hope you can see this "scientifically" provides a mechanism for how "God" implements novel information onto existing quantum waves, of matter-energy, in order to create a new life forms.
My comment: Yes, possibly: I think I would have to think long and hard about that. Trouble is, this "configuration space" object that I keep harping on about, and which is so pertinent to standard evolution and abiogenesis, is as much as an unknown to me as these more exotic suggestions. Hence, I have to run these unknowns side by side in my mind. Dr. Sheldon's panspermian (?) suggestions seem to be yet another scenario to take on board!
Exactly what is the payoff for me providing you with any further evidence whatsoever since you will simply deny it is valid?
My comment: I know feeling! I might use that phrase myself somewhere!
Mr. Reeves, a little more to chew on as you think this over is that "information" in quantum teleportation, and entanglement, experiments is shown to be completely transcendent of space and time. Couple that with the fact that the entity needed to explain the origination of energy in the Big Bang must be transcendent of space-time, matter-energy, since space-time, matter-energy, were brought into being at the Big Bang, then you can start to see how the puzzle fits neatly together:
"Every solution to the equations of general relativity guarantees the existence of a singular boundary for space and time in the past."(Hawking, Penrose, Ellis) – 1970
"The prediction of the standard model that the universe began to exist remains today as secure as ever—indeed, more secure, in light of the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem and that prediction's corroboration by the repeated and often imaginative attempts to falsify it. The person who believes that the universe began to exist remains solidly and comfortably within mainstream science." – William Lane Craig
Inflationary spacetimes are not past-complete – Borde-Guth-Vilenkin – 2003
Excerpt: inflationary models require physics other than inflation to describe the past boundary of the inflating region of spacetime.
"It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can long longer hide behind the possibility of a past eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning." Alexander Vilenkin – Many Worlds In One – Pg. 176
I like wide-ranging debates, even if they never return to their starting point.
On the one hand, claiming that infinite information can be encoded in one photon, is an oxymoron, since two infitinities are more than one, so what do we do with virtual photons and the infinity of infinities?
On the other hand, it is a clever way to turn the universe inside out, putting the whole universe in a grain of sand….
My way of resolving this dual conundrum, is to believe in truth of both. (You remember the scene from Fiddler on the Roof–…and you're right too! said Tevya. "But Tevya, they can't BOTH be right!" "And you're right TOO!")
Let "turning the universe inside out" be a mathematical operator, say, the Fourier Transform. Then just as the universe is infinite, so also the spatial transform of the universe must be infinite, even when the space has been integrated out. To maximize the information content of the system, both the universe and its transform must have the same amount of information. Thus if the universe has infinite information, so does its transform, as idealized in a photon.
In just such a way, homochirality is a window into the mind of the maker. There may yet turn out to be a physical reason that necessitates homochirality, but the important thing is that it exists, and that its Fourier transform has the information why life is left-handed.
Dr. Sheldon, a photon is not the "absolute infinite", i.e. God as by Georg Cantor. A photon is a merely a "specified infinite":
Gödel's Incompleteness: The #1 Mathematical Breakthrough of the 20th Century
Excerpt: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says:
"Anything you can draw a circle around cannot explain itself without referring to something outside the circle – something you have to assume but cannot prove."
This video will let you understand the absolute infinity of Cantor a little better:
BBC-Dangerous Knowledge (Part 1-10)
BBC-Dangerous Knowledge (Part 2-10)
Dr. Sheldon, I just remembered Hilbert's Hotel goes well with the paradox of a photon having the "hypothetically" ability to be encoded with infinite information:
Hilbert's Hotel and Infinity – William Lane Craig
Dr. Sheldon, Hopefully we can bring it back around to Homochirality very soon as I do want to learn more, thanks for your patience, but I just wanted to address your passing remark about "virtual" photons before we do, in that I believe the virtual photons may tie directly into the anthropic principle, as virtual particles have now been found to tie in directly to it:
Virtual Particles, Anthropic Principle & Relativity – Michael Strauss PhD.
Dr. Sheldon,
It seems virtual photons may be tide to the anthropic principle through the 1 in 10^120 cosmological constant for dark energy:
We introduce a new model for dark energy in the Universe in which a small cosmological constant is generated by ordinary electromagnetic vacuum energy. The corresponding virtual photons exist at all frequencies but switch from a gravitationally active phase at low frequencies to a gravitationally inactive phase at higher frequencies via a Ginzburg–Landau type of phase transition. Only virtual photons in the gravitationally active state contribute to the cosmological constant. A small vacuum energy density, consistent with astronomical observations, is naturally generated in this model. We propose possible laboratory tests for such a scenario based on phase synchronization in superconductors.
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