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First-Aid Kit
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as well as First Aid Skills instruction showing how to use each item.
| A Checklist is available!
Personal First Aid Kit - from p. 289 of the Boy Scout Handbook.
Personal First Aid Kit
- From the Boy Scout Handbook p. 289
"Carrying a few first aid items on hikes and campouts will allow you to treat scratches, blisters, and other minor injuries, and to provide initial care for more serious emergencies. Everything will fit in a self-sealing plastic bag. Get in the habit of taking along your personal first aid kit whenever you set out on a Scout adventure."
|Adhesive bandages
|Sterile gauze pads, 3-by-3 inch
|Adhesive tape
|1 small roll
|Moleskin, 3-by-6 inch
|1 small bar
|1 small tube
|1 pair
|Latex gloves
|1 pair
|Mouth-barrier device for rescue breathing or CPR
|Plastic goggles or other eye protection
|Pencil and paper
|1 each
- References
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See First-Aid Skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: First Aid Merit Badge Pamphlet - First-Aid Kit - Emergency Kit - Guide to Safe Scouting - Annual Health & Medical Record
- Note that neither the BSA Scout First Aid Kit or Scout Camper First Aid Kit include all of the items listed above.
Guide to Safe Scouting
|— Guide to Safe Scouting
Suggested First-Aid Kit Contents
From the: Guide to Safe Scouting
- ___ Bar of soap
- ___ 2-inch roller bandage
- ___ 1-inch roller bandage
- ___ 1-inch adhesive
- ___ 3-by-3-inch sterile pads
- ___ Triangular bandage
- ___ Assorted gauze pads
- ___ Adhesive strips or tape
- ___ Clinical oral thermometer
- ___ Scissors
- ___ Tweezers
- ___ Sunburn lotion
- ___ Lip salve
- ___ Poison-ivy lotion
- ___ Small flashlight (with extra batteries and bulb)
- ___ Absorbent cotton
- ___ Water purification tablets (iodine)
- ___ Safety pins
- ___ Needles
- ___ Paper cups
- ___ Foot powder
- ___ Instant ice packs
Bloodborne Pathogens
From the: Guide to Safe Scouting
Treat all blood as if it were contaminated with bloodborne viruses. Do not use bare hands to stop bleeding; always use a protective barrier. Always wash exposed skin area with hot water and soap immediately after treating the victim. The following equipment is to be included in all first-aid kits and used when rendering first aid to those in need:
- ___ Latex or vinyl gloves, to be used when stopping bleeding or dressing wounds
- ___ A mouth-barrier device for rendering rescue breathing or CPR
- ___ Plastic goggles or other eye protection to prevent a victim's blood from getting into the rescuer's eyes in the event of serious arterial bleeding
- ___ Antiseptic, for sterilizing or cleaning exposed skin area, particularly if there is no soap or water available.
Related Awards
- Emergency Preparedness Awards
|Emergency Preparedness-related awards
See also
- First Aid Links
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See First-Aid Skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: First Aid Merit Badge Pamphlet - First-Aid Kit - Emergency Kit - Guide to Safe Scouting - Annual Health & Medical Record
- Boy Scout Camping Merit Badge
- Webelos Webelos Outdoorsman
- Boy Scout First Aid Merit Badge
- Webelos Webelos Readyman
- Boy Scout Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge
External Links
- The BSA $11 Scout First Aid Kit does nto contain the items the BSA says a Scout should have.
- Even the $20 Scout Camper First Aid Kit does not include the items each Scout is supposed to carry.
- The American Red Cross Be ReadyFirst Aid Kit has the items recommended by the BSA at $15].
- The [http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/SearchPage.aspx?page=LIST&free_text=01312* BSA CPR Protection kit is $30.
- The American Red Cross Mini CPR Mask is under $4. The Laerdal is under $2 each.
► Video: How to Make a First Aid Kit -step-by-step explains how each item is used.
► Introduction to Bloodborne Pathogens - What are Bloodborne Pathogens? - How to Reduce the Risk of Bloodborne Pathogens


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FIFA asked to withdraw Thiago Silva's yellow card for Brazil's semifinal
It's more than mere coincidence that a European team has never won a World Cup in South America.
Usually calls seem to have a way of going in favour of teams from that part of the world. It may not be intentional but there is an enormous amount of pressure on officials and organizers because of the importance placed on the game here. There is no decision made that isn't analyzed to death with media pressure reaching epic proportions.
Everyone will get a pretty good idea sometime in the next day or so of whether that kind of decision-making will continue.
The Brazilian football association has asked FIFA to overturn a yellow card assessed captain Thiago Silva against Colombia Friday.
It was his second yellow in the tournament and with that second yellow comes a one-game suspension. Silva would serve that suspension in their semifinal game against Germany on Tuesday in Belo Horizonte.
Brazil is already under the gun for that game. They'll be missing star forward Neymar with a back injury.
Silva is arguably their best defender who can also join in the attack.
In its own way, his loss is almost as crucial as Neymar's.
FIFA spokesman Delia Fischer said the disciplinary committee is "analyzing material" submitted by Brazil.
It was not one of Silva's brightest moments. He impeded Colombia's David Ospina as the goalkeeper tried to kick the ball downfield.
The rescinding of a yellow card does not normally happen.
FIFA laws say cautions can be canceled only in "exceptional circumstances."
At the 1962 World Cup, Brazil's Garrincha was sent off in the semifinal victory against host Chile, then was cleared to play in the final.
Cards are taken off the books after the quarterfinal games.
If FIFA rescinds the yellow against Silva and allows him to play in the semifinal, it will send a strong message to the rest of the teams in the tournament that there may be a little home cooking involved when it comes to making decisions.
Who are those kids
It's one of the most asked questions by people watching the World Cup and rarely is it publicly answered.
Who are those kids who get as much camera time on international television as the best-known soccer stars at the World Cup?
Don't say you haven't thought about it. Before every game as teams walk side-by-side out of the tunnel out on the field, each player is holding hands with a young child. During the national anthems, the kids stand in front of their player.
Usually the child is wearing the jersey of the opposing team. It's all done in an effort to promote friendship.
The children you see are part of the FIFA Youth Program which consists of nearly 4,000 kids between six-to-18 who assist with World Cup games by walking players on to the field, assisting the ball crew, or bearing flags. Some 60 program members participate in each game. The young children who walk the players out are specifically part of the McDonald's Escort Program which includes 1,408 kids selected from 70 countries.
Out of the children selected, 26 are from the United States and were chosen through a sweepstakes. These children are given a four-night, five-day trip to Brazil where they escort a player onto the field as well as play a soccer game with other children and participate in local cultural activities. The trip includes airfare, lodging, and meals for the child and a parent or guardian.
The mascots may also wear a T-shirt promoting a campaign such as fighting racism or knife crime.
English striker Wayne Rooney was once a mascot for his local team Everton.

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HARRISONBURG, VA (WWBT) - In a key Colonial Athletic Association football matchup,Old Dominion rallied from a 21-10 halftime deficit to defeat James Madison at Bridgeforth Stadium on Saturday evening. The defeat dropped the Dukes to 7-4 and 5-3 in CAA play, while the Monarchs improved to 10-1 and 7-1 in the league.
The Dukes offense was clicking in the first half to the tune of 217 total yards and three touchdowns. However, the offense was stifled by the Monarchs in the second half, managing only 94 total yards. ODU took advantage of excellent starting field position throughout the second half to score four times on 236 total yards.
ODU quarterback Taylor Heinicke led the Monarchs comeback with 4 touchdowns in the second half and 357 total yards in the game. After throwing a third quarter interception, Heinicke responded by completing 12 consecutive passes and throwing for three touchdowns. '
ODU wide receiver Antonio Vaughan caught ten passes for 123 yards and a touchdown, while wide receiver Nick Mayers had three catches, including two touchdowns. Half back Tyree Lee was the team's leading rusher with 11 yards on seven carries.
Redshirt junior quarterback Justin Thorpe led the Madison attack, running 26 times for 85 yards and three touchdowns. He also completed 10 of 17 passes for 155 yards and a touchdown. Tail back Dae'Quan Scott ran for 41 yards on 18 carries and had three receptions for 68 yards and a touchdown.
Redshirt senior linebacker Jamie Veney finished with eight tackles including a sack to pace the defense. Redshirt senior safety Jakarie Jackson had two tackles and an interception. Old Dominion was led defensively by linebacker Caleb Taylor, with 11 tackles including 3 tackles for a loss. Linebacker Craig Wilkins added 10 tackles with 1.5 sacks.
JMU opened the game with consecutive touchdown drives, both culminating in rushing touchdowns by Thorpe. His leaping effort on a 9-yard QB keeper capped a 13-play, 73-yard drive that was kept alive after converting on 4th and inches from the JMU 49.
After an ODU field goal, Thorpe brought the Dukes down the field again with a 45-yard rush to the ODU 15. Five plays later, Thorpe punched it in on 3rd and goal from the 1-yard line for his second rushing touchdown of the game, giving JMU a 14-3 lead.
After forcing the Dukes to a 3-and-out to start the second quarter, the Monarchs got the ball with excellent field position at the JMU 48. Facing a long third down, the Monarchs threw a deep pass down the sideline and drew a defensive pass interference call on sophomore safety Dean Marlowe. ODU capitalized on the penalty and eventually scored when running back Colby Goodwyn rushed for a 5-yard touchdown, making it 14-10 with 10:18 to go in the second quarter.
Madison immediately responded on the next drive. Thorpe connected with a wide-open Scott downfield and Scott beat the safety in the open field for a 50-yard receiving touchdown. The 50-yard pass by Thorpe was JMU's longest pass play of the season.
The teams traded punts to open up the second half and ODU started its second drive from the JMU 41-yard line. Henicke led the Monarchs down the field in the ensuing drive, going 4-for-4 for 41 yards, including a 9-yard touchdown pass to Mayers to make the score 21-17.
In the next Monarch drive, Heincke was intercepted by Jackson at the ODU 41 and returned to the ODU 22-yard line. With a short field, Thorpe led the Dukes to another score, ending with a 5-yard run by the fourth-year quarterback. It was his third rushing touchdown of the game, giving the Dukes a 28-17 lead.
The Monarchs answered immediately with a 59-yard touchdown strike to Vaughan, cutting the JMU lead to 28-24. The pass put Henicke over 4,000 yards passing for the season, making him the 18th quarterback in FCS history to throw for 4,000 yards.
After a JMU three-and-out, Heincke picked apart the Dukes defense for 43 yards on 6 straight completions. The drive resulted in a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Pinkard to give ODU its first lead at 31-28 with 30 seconds left in the 3rd quarter.
Another JMU three-and-out gave the Monarchs the ball again and Heincke delivered another perfect drive. He complete all four passes of the drive for 50 yards, ending with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Mayers.
JMU's next drive brought the Dukes to the ODU 9-yard line when the Monarchs forced a fourth and inches. Electing to go for it, the Dukes were stopped short on a run by Thorpe, turning the ball over on downs with 7:09 left in the game.
The Dukes would get the ball one last time but were stopped at the ODU 42 yard line, after Thorpe was sacked by ODU defensive end Erik Saylor.
Copyright 2012 WWBT NBC12. All rights reserved.


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When Associate Professor of Religion Lyn Miller teaches her course on the New Testament, she typically draws what she terms a "fascinating mix" of evangelicals, liberals, agnostics, atheists and those from non-Christian faith traditions to her classroom.
"They all start with their own understanding of things, but everyone has to make a case to one another for their own stance," says Miller. "I have to meet students where they are and then help them articulate their own hermeneutic to others in light of the text."
As she endeavors to connect with such a diverse group of students, Miller has a wide range of personal experience on which to draw. She grew up in a non-religious family in Minnesota, but after discovering the mystical tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, she spent three years in formation to become a nun and lived in a convent for a year, though she never took formal vows.
She did her undergraduate work at the College of Saint Catherine in Minnesota, and was surprised when one of her professors - a gruff old nun who specialized in Chaucer - recommended her for a Mellon Fellowship. She used that funding to complete her master's and doctoral work at Harvard. "I owe it all to the nuns," she quips.
Well, not quite all. She also studied Zen meditation practice in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Buddhist practice remains an important part of her personal spirituality. She has also studied religious traditions in Japan and India.
"I ask students to enter into the world of a given religion with their imaginations," she says, adding that she helps her classes imagine diverse traditions by including music, videos and storytelling that relate to various traditions. "I think the only way for students to understand a religion is for students to enter into its drama."
Reflecting on the ways that she encourages students from a myriad of backgrounds to confront difference, Miller underscores a central challenge facing the College.
"Students need more guidance in communicating across their differences," says Miller. "When the whole world can't solve these problems, we can't expect the students to without our help."
Th.D., Harvard Divinity School
Interests: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Comparative Religion


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Road Closures In Acadiana – Did Tornado(s) Touch Down?
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in Breaux Bridge Thursday morning. The path of the tornado was 50 yards wide and 3 miles long. A Breaux Bridge resident says they were awakened by the sound of roaring wind. There are multiple downed trees in the area. More on the story later.
Louisiana State Police Troop I reports that Highway 167 three miles south of Ville Platte has water on the roadway. The detour is highway 748 to highway 103 and then back onto highway 167.
The following routes are now closed due to high water. Motorists are encouraged to avoid these areas and use an alternate route.
From the DOTD:
Effective immediately, the following roads are closed due to high water. The roads will be reopened as soon as conditions improve.
Acadia Parish
La. 91 Pontoon Bridge @ Esterwood
La. 367 (1 mile north of La. 370)
La.365 from La.13 to La.370
La. 1120 from La. 100 to La. 98
La. 95 from south of La. 35 to La. 1108
La. 95 south of Church Point
High Water:
La.3070 between La.98 and La. 100
La.367 between La.98 and La.1113
La.91 between La.3067 and La. 368
La.98 between La.3070 and La.13
La. 95 between La. 1097 and La. 98
La. 13 from La. 1121 to La. 370
La. 35 from La. 370 to La. 95
La. 92 from La. 13 to La. 1124
La. 92 at La. 1119
La. 95 from La. 178 to La. 754
La. 95 from La. 1096 to I-10 overpass
La. 97 at La. 100
La. 97 at La. 98
La. 367 at La. 365 (and on La. 367 0.70 miles north of La. 365)
La. 367 (1 mile north of La. 370)
La. 370 from La. 13 to La. 367
U.S.90 from La. 1124 to Jeff Davis Parish Line
La. 13 from the Acadia Parish line to La. 91
Highway 35 North and South in Church Point is closed.
Highway 190 in the Lawtell area is closed.
Highway 367 North of Rayne between Highways 98 and 1113
Highway 92 West of Highway 13
Highway 98 near Highway 3070
Multiple reports of standing water on the roadways in Rayne
Highway 13 north of I-10 for at least a 1/4 of mile North to Don Shelter, also standing water north on
Standing water on Highway 13 North of I-10 and several spots further North
Evangeline Parish
U.S. 167 from La. 748 to La. 103
La. 10 from La. 13 to La. 106
High Water:
La. 95 from La. 29 to La. 758
U.S. 167 from (Lasalle Street in Ville Platte)
La. 104 from (Mamou) Jct. La. 29 to Jct. La. 3149
La. 106 from La. 13 to U.S. 167
La. 106 from U.S. 167 to La. 3042
La. 1172
Iberia Parish - Roads that are flooded
Parts of Duperior Ave
E St. Peter St
Admiral Doyle Dr between Julia St & Weeks St.
Jane St & Landry Dr.
Hwy 14 between Weeks Island Rd and Avery Island Rd
La. 14 at La. 676 (Valery Road)
French St from Pershing St to Dale St
Center St from Dale St to Pershing St
Bank Ave to Malain from E Dale St
Henshaw Aly from E Dale St to Hacker St
Weeks St between Dale St and Admiral Doyle Dr
Hayes Rd
Northwest Bypass and Admiral Doyle Dr.
Broken Arrow Rd.
Center St Near Weeks Island Rd.
Charles St & Lee St.
and Pinhook near Wal-Mart and Starbucks
Lafayette Parish
La. 342 Ridge from La. 93 Roundabout to Rue Ile Des Cannes
High Water:
La. 89 at Eddie Lewis Rd.
La. 342 at La. 719
La. 342 at La. 700 (Acadia Parish Line)
La. 339 at La. 92
La. 734 at LA. 339
La. 176 at US 167
La. 94 at Louisiana Ave.
La. 3138 at La. 94
La. 98 at La. 343
La. 96 at La. 182
La. 700 at La. 342
La. 89 at Iberia Parish Line
Elias G Road near Breaux Road,
Bourque Road at Coulee Ill Des Cannes
Robley Road at the Lafayette/Vermillion Parish line
City of Scott
300 Block of Rue Bon Secours
1600 and 2200 Blocks of Renaud Rd
Pecan Grove Rd @ Clay Rd
Mills St near Frontage Rd
Portions of St. Louis St, Lafayette St, Blanche St and Victoria St
All of Scott City Park
Old Spanish Trail between Apollo and L. Provost Rd.
Flash floods have produced standing water on University between Johnston and Pinhook
St. Landry Parish
La. 361 1 mile north of La. 71
La. 343 north of La. 761 (Bristol area)
La. 29 at St. Landry Parish Line
La. 13 from La. 91 to Acadia Parish Line
U.S. 190 eastbound at the intersection of La. 104 (Opelousas)
U.S. 190 from Lawtell near the intersection of La. 35 west connection (southbound only)
La. 35 from La. 358 to La. 751
La. 182 from La. 3233 to La. 178
U.S. 190 from La. 13 to east of the city limits.
Hyw 13 in Eunice closed both directions
U.S. 190 in Opelousas
High Water:
La. 361 between U.S. 71 and Big Cane
La. 360 north of La. 10
U.S. 190 from eastern Eunice City Limits to La. 13
La. 182 from La. 3233 to La. 178
St. Martin Parish
La. 347 from the south junction of La. 678 to the north junction La. 678
High Water:
Vermilion Parish
High Water:
La. 3267 from South Hospital Dr. to South Airport Rd.
La. 335 from La. 694 to Melrose Rd.
La. 91 from La. 332 to Spencer Rd.
La. 343 from La. 696 to La 697
La. 338 from La. 14B to Jct. La 14 Business Route (Charity Street)
La. 330 from La. 1260 to La. 82
La. 343 from La. 696 to La 697
La. 335 from La. 14 Bypass to La 14 Business Route (Charity Street in Abbeville)
La. 14 throughout Gueydan
La. 3143
La. 35 south from la. 82 to La. 335
La. 699 from La. 343 to Claude Road
U.S. 167 from La. 92 to Alfred Road
La. 14 from La. 89 to the old La. 14 in Erath


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ISIS beheads NH journalistTIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 19. 2014 10:45PM
New Hampshire-based journalist James Foley, kidnapped two years ago in Syria, was murdered Tuesday by Islamic State insurgents, who released a video showing his beheading and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on U.S. action in Iraq.
"We have never been prouder of our son, Jim," Foley's mother, Diane, said in a statement posted on the "Free James Foley" Facebook page late Tuesday night. "He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people. We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world."
Foley, whose family lives in Rochester, had previously been held captive for 44 days in Libya in 2011.The video, titled "A Message To America," was posted on social media sites.
"His murder was a cowardly act of terrorism and underscores the threat that ISIL poses to the freedoms we hold dear," U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said in a statement. "My thoughts are with the Foley family and everyone who knew and loved James, both in New Hampshire and around the world."
"I remember Jim Foley as a child and I will not allow evil to change the way I remember him," U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter wrote. "I will always choose to remember his goodness, his life and his great family."
"Our hearts are broken for the Foley family," U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte said in a statement. "James was an innocent civilian who was bravely performing his job as a journalist. This barbarous and heinous act shocks the conscience and underscores the truly evil nature of the terrorists we confront, who must be defeated. My thoughts and prayers are with James Foley's family at this extremely difficult time."
Congresswoman Ann Kuster wrote: "Words cannot express the horror of this vile act, which was committed by truly evil individuals who must be brought to justice."
Foley had been working as a freelance journalist in the Middle East — including in Afghanistan — for five years when he was kidnapped in November 2012 while working as a videographer for Agence France-Presse near the city of Idlib, Syria. At the time, he was 39.
Steven Sotloff, a freelance journalist who has worked for Time, appeared at the end of the video. He disappeared in northern Syria while he was reporting in July 2013.
The video was posted after the United States resumed air strikes in Iraq for the first time since the end of the U.S. occupation in 2011.
The video opened with a clip of U.S. President Barack Obama saying he had authorized strikes in Iraq. "Obama authorizes military operations against the Islamic State effectively placing America upon a slippery slope toward a new war front against Muslims," words appear in English and Arabic on the screen.
It showed black and white aerial footage of air strikes with text saying "American aggression against the Islamic State."
A person identified as James Foley and wearing an orange outfit is seen kneeling in the desert as a man in black dress with a black mask stands beside him, holding a knife.
"I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers, the U.S. government, for what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality," the kneeling man says.
"My message to my beloved parents: save me some dignity and don't accept any meager compensation for my death from the same people who effectively hammered the last nail in my coffin with their recent aerial campaign in Iraq."
In a slightly quivering voice, the man then called on a brother, John, who he said serves in the U.S. Air Force, to "think about what you are doing."
"Think about who made the decision to bomb Iraq recently and kill those people, whoever they may have been," he continued. "I died that day, John, when your colleagues dropped the bomb on those people. They signed my death certificate."
The black-clad fighter, a knife gripped in one hand, then warned in slightly accented English that more Americans would be killed if there were more American attacks on the caliphate declared by the group on the huge swaths of northern Iraq and eastern Syria that it has overrun.
After the beheading, words on the side of the screen say "Steven Joel Sotloff" as another prisoner in an orange jumpsuit is shown.
"The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision," the masked man says.
Kelly Foley sent a Tweet last night imploring people not to watch the video: "Please honor James Foley and respect my family's privacy. Don't watch the video. Don't share it. That's not how life should be."
Diane Foley wrote on Facebook: "We thank Jim for all the joy he gave us. He was an extraordinary son, brother, journalist and person. Please respect our privacy in the days ahead as we mourn and cherish Jim."
Gov. Maggie Hassan called Foley "a talented and fearless photojournalist."
"The appalling actions of ISIS are a crime against humanity and the values that we all hold dear," she said in a statement. "I join all Granite Staters and people around the world in mourning the tragic loss of James Foley, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones."
Information from Reuters was used in this report.


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A rash of carbon fork steerer breakages has some concerned.
A small but concentrated group of mid-Atlantic road racers have recently broken the carbon steerers on their 2010 Trek Madone 6-Series bikes. While the regional nature of the reports is probably a coincidence, there does appear to be a pattern indicating that incorrect stem installation — and even stem choice — could lead to catastrophic failure. And at least one racer whose fork broke mid-race is convinced that the 6-Series Madone steerers are prone to breakage even when all of Trek's instructions are followed.
Trek says installation and compatibility problems are at fault and notes that the same concerns apply to carbon steerers from other manufacturers. The company is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission on a consumer alert, and has made a running change to add material to 6-Series Madone steerers.
In recent years, the CPSC has announced recalls of carbon road or 'cross forks from Giant, Salsa, Felt, Novara, Raleigh, Redline, Cervelo and Reynolds, although it's not clear if any of these recalls involved steerers breaking at or below the stem, as with the recent 6-Series Madone failures.
All owners of forks with carbon steerers should pay attention to the concerns raised and installation instructions when installing or buying aftermarket stems.
The cracks begin to appear
Saturday, May 15, began like any other race weekend for Washington, D.C.,-area Category 2 road racer Bryan Vaughan. He suited up and spun to the start line of the Poolesville Road Race on his 2010 6-Series Madone. The race traverses a rolling 10-mile road circuit with a 1.5-mile stretch of gravel and dirt road. The Pro/1/2 field was slated to do seven laps.
On lap 4, shortly after entering the dirt,Vaughan pulled up on the bars to accelerate. He felt the handlebars come off in his hands and crashed hard into the gravel.
Vaughan's steerer had sheared off just below his FSA stem.
The next week, one of Vaughan's teammates stood on the pedals of his 2010 6-Series Madone to pull away from the start line of the Bike Jam Pro/1/2 criterium in Baltimore. His bar and stem suddenly separated from the bike and he crashed, although at a much slower speed than Vaughn. As with Vaughan's, the steerer tube had sheared just below the stem.
The list of broken 6-Series Madone steerers grew by one when Paul Wilson's broke during the Wilmington (Delaware) Grand Prix on May 22. With five laps to go in the Category 3 field, Wilson was hoping to earn the last few upgrade points he needed to move up to the 2s.
"There are small manholes and cracks in the road," related Wilson. "I hit one of those and I heard a … it sounded like metal clanking together … I got out of the saddle and felt the handlebars move," he continued. In fact, his steerer tube had cracked.
Vaughan has begun a mini crusade to get to the bottom of the issue.
Riders on another Trek-sponsored team told him they had experienced two steerer tube failures in just one weekend in April.
Since then, Vaughan turned to Trek, the media, and the Consumer Products Safety Commission in an effort to bring the issue to light.
Trek points to incompatible stems, incorrect installation
Trek says over-tightening stem bolts, incorrectly placing spacers above and below the stem, and using incompatible stems can all cause point loading (uneven clamping force) on the steerer tube, weakening it and causing it to break.
"As the technology going into today's bicycles has increased, so has the responsibility of the mechanic and rider to follow the manufacturer's installation instructions exactly," reads Trek's statement. "This issue is not unique to Trek, but is specific to carbon steerers from every manufacturer."
According to Trek, there are three keys to safe and successful installation of a stem on a carbon steerer:
1) Always use a torque wrench, and never over-tighten stem clamp bolts.
2) Always use spacers above and below the stem. Although less obvious than correct torque, a minimum of 5mm and a maximum of 40mm spacers under the steerer, plus a 5mm spacer above the stem are required. Riders should factor in these spacers when sizing their bike.
3) Use only the stem brand and model that came with the bike, because not all stems will work with carbon steerers. Often the lighter the stem, the less chance it will be compatible with a carbon steerer. Weight-relieving cutouts on the stem clamp and steerer interface can create stress risers.
Vaughan's FSA stem was incompatible with the steerer, Trek said.
(RELATED: More on Vaughan's situation)
Last fall Trek warned its dealers about compatibility and installation issues, which also are covered in bike owners manuals and on the company Web site.
Trek's Ben Coates said Team RadioShack has used 6-Series Madones and Bontrager stems all season without incident.
(RELATED: The entire Trek statement)
(RELATED: The most recent service bulletin distributed to Trek dealers)
Finding fault with FSA?
Trek said Vaughan's FSA stem was "not compatible with any carbon steerer from Trek and most likely any carbon steerer from any bike company."
But no one at FSA was aware, until told by VeloNews on June 8, that Trek disapproved of their stems. FSA isn't convinced they're to blame and points to poor installation as the more likely culprit.
"To say that it's not compatible is a little odd to me," said Max Ralph, FSA marketing manager. "There are lots of stems on the market that are designed similar to ours."
Ralph also felt that Trek's categorical disapproval of FSA stems wasn't fair. "We have stems on the market that are designed very similar to Bontrager's, with clamps that wrap fully around the steerer." He added, "The way we see it, every stem we make is 'carbon friendly.' We are all riding FSA stems on bikes with carbon steerers, daily, here at the office," he said. Ralph also pointed to FSA-sponsored ProTour teams like Liquigas riding bikes (in their case, Cannondale) with carbon steerers and FSA stems.
Furthermore, Ralph is concerned that to his knowledge, there's no remedy in place for riders using an FSA stem that might walk into a bike shop only to be told that Trek doesn't approve its use.
Trek marketing director Dean Gore elaborated on Trek's stance regarding FSA stems, saying, "Trek does not 'approve' stems from anyone outside of the original stem that came with the bike. There are far too many stems on the market with too many variables that change too often." He said that using the service bulletin guidelines should help customers determine which stems would be safe and "carbon-friendly."
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The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) announced today the availability of data on 1998 mortgage lending transactions at individual institutions in metropolitan areas throughout the nation. These data, in the form of disclosure statements, are available from the 7,837 lenders covered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).
The FFIEC prepares and distributes the HMDA statements for individual lenders on behalf of its member agencies -- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve Board, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Office of Thrift Supervision -- and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Lenders are required to make the disclosure statements available at their home offices within three business days of receiving the statements. In addition, for other metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in which they have offices, lenders must either make a copy of the statements available at one branch per MSA or provide a copy upon written request.
The disclosure statements cover home purchase and home improvement loans and contain information about loan originations, loan purchases, and applications that did not result in a loan. The 1998 data include a total of 24.7 million reported loans and applications, an increase of about 50 percent from 1997 that primarily reflects a very large increase (112 percent) in refinancing activity in 1998. For most loans relating to property located in MSAs, the statements identify the geographic location, usually by census tract. The statements give information about three characteristics of applicants or borrowers: race or national origin, sex, and annual income.
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In addition, the FFIEC makes HMDA data directly available to the public in various formats, including magnetic tape, CD-ROM, and at the FFIEC Web site. Some data are available in paper form (tables for 1998 showing the nationwide aggregates and key demographic information for metropolitan areas, for instance). An order form can be obtained by calling 202/452-2016 (an automated response system) and selecting menu options 4 and then 1, or by faxing a request for an order form to 202/452-6497. The order form is also available at the FFIEC Web site at this page: www.ffiec.gov/hmda/orderform.htm . The order form gives descriptions of the various reports, prices, and formats. Advance orders may be placed to be filled when the data become available.
The FFIEC also provides data from the nation's eight private mortgage insurance (PMI) companies. The 1998 PMI data include information on approximately 1.8 million applications for mortgage insurance, about 1.2 million of which were to insure home purchase mortgages, and 0.6 million of which were to insure mortgages to refinance existing obligations. These data will be available at individual PMI companies, at the central depositories in each metropolitan area, and from the FFIEC. By early August, the data will be available at central depositories and from the FFIEC in the same types of reports and in the same formats as the HMDA data.
Questions about a HMDA report for a specific lender should be directed to the lender's supervisory agency at the number listed below:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- 800/934-3342
Federal Reserve Board, HMDA Assistance Line -- 202/452-2016
National Credit Union Administration, Office of Examination -- 703/518-6392
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Community and Consumer Policy -- 202/874-4446
Office of Thrift Supervision, Reports Division -- 972/281-2068
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Security at StartUp RockOn's inauguration party Sunday night escorted headlining rapper Lupe Fiasco offstage when he launched into an anti-Obama rant during his set.
"Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist, Gaza Strip was getting bombed," Fiasco rapped. "Obama didn't say s***. That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either."
Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin reported that Fiasco was thirty minutes into his anti-war song at the Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C. when guards led him off the stage:
So Lupe played one anti-war song for 30 min and said he didn't vote for Obama and eventually was told to move on to the next song.— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) January 21, 2013
Lupe refused to move to the next song so a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go.— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) January 21, 2013
A statement from the event sponsors said that they ended Fiasco's set only because his performance started going poorly:
Lupe Fiasco performed at this private event, and as you may have read, he left the stage earlier than we had planned. But Lupe Fiasco was not "kicked off stage" for an "anti-Obama rant." We are staunch supporters of free speech, and free political speech. This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act.


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WASHINGTON — Day after day in the last month, Mitch McConnell's angry words, aimed squarely at Democrats and their "hard left" constituency, pierced the congressional calm.
The U.S. Senate Republican leader's daily blasts at Democrats on the Senate floor contrast sharply with the let's-get-along attitude that's wafted through the Capitol since Election Day. While House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has publicly preached cooperation, McConnell plays bulldog.
Part of his hard charge may be a concession to 2014, when he's up for re-election in a state where a Tea Party primary challenge could create problems if he's not forceful enough standing up to a Democratic president who didn't do well in Kentucky. Part of his style also is standard for savvy insiders such as McConnell: Talk and act tough but be willing to cut a deal at the right time.
McConnell says he remains eager for a compromise on avoiding the "fiscal cliff," including new tax revenues. He met Thursday with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and he said he'd back capping income-tax deductions for the wealthy.
Geithner offered a $1.6 trillion, 10-year revenue package that included higher rates for the wealthy, and he proposed $50 billion in new spending in one year. McConnell seemed disgusted.
"All we hear from them is raising taxes, and I think they're going to get even more spending here at the end of the year," McConnell said in an interview Thursday in his Capitol Hill office. "The secretary of the treasury came here today with what only could be characterized as an unserious proposal."
To him, the Geithner visit was part of a pattern. "Here's the picture," McConnell said. "The president is out continuing to campaign, the secretary of the treasury is coming in here and making completely unrealistic proposals, and the majority leader is out trying to blow the Senate up at a time when we ought to be trying to narrow our differences and come together and do something important for the country.
"It's mind-boggling. It's hard to understand, but they obviously still want to celebrate the election."
McConnell insists he hasn't changed his tone.
"I'm just stating what I read in the paper. They're having all the hard left down at the White House and promising them they won't do anything about entitlements," he said, referring to President Barack Obama's meeting recently with liberal groups and his reluctance to make major changes in Medicare and Social Security.
But Kentucky analysts see his eye squarely on the 2014 election, when the 70-year-old, five-term veteran plans to seek another term.
The numbers suggest he'll have little trouble. Obama carried only four of Kentucky's 120 counties, though Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state by 1.66 million to 1.15 million.
"It will not politically hurt McConnell's re-election efforts at all in Kentucky if he does not compromise with President Obama on the fiscal cliff issue," said Danny Briscoe, a Democratic consultant in the state.
McConnell's biggest concern is probably his own party. No major Democrat is likely to challenge him, but in 2010 the more conservative Rand Paul trounced McConnell's handpicked choice for Kentucky's other Senate seat, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, in the party primary.
McConnell said 2014 wasn't foremost on his mind. "I don't want to be overly confident here. I don't own my seat," he said. "My only concern right now is not what might happen in 2014 but what might happen in the next three or four weeks."
Still, he has embraced Paul, even hiring Jesse Benton, who this year ran the presidential campaign of Paul's father, U.S. Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, to run the 2014 re-election effort.
Some Democrats in the state see a man reinventing himself to ward off a challenge from the right.
"Mitch McConnell is lizardlike. He can change his colors to match his surroundings," said Dale Emmons, a Democratic consultant.
McConnell is unfailingly taciturn, and won't talk about the roots of any fresh frustration. For years, though, he had his eye on gaining a Senate majority and having a Republican win the White House in the 2012 election.
In October 2010, he sparked Democratic fury when he told the National Journal: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Democrats would not let the quote die, citing Republican tactics as stemming from McConnell's "goal."
McConnell had reason for optimism heading into this year's elections. Obama's re-election bid seemed shaky, and of the 33 Senate seats up for re-election, 23 were controlled by Democrats. Instead, Democrats scored a net gain of two Senate seats. That meant McConnell has another task, doing what leaders of minorities historically do: make themselves heard, loudly.
He's not convincing some skeptics. Many conservatives have long been wary of McConnell, saying he's been too eager over the years to cut deals with Democrats.
They're still upset that the deal that ended last year's struggle over the national debt limit had its roots in McConnell's proposal to raise the limit in three stages.
"He helped write that debt deal with Senator Reid, and it resulted in very few spending cuts and no structural changes to entitlements," said Barney Keller, the communications director at the conservative Club for Growth, speaking of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Other conservatives are more sympathetic. They like how McConnell engaged in an unusual, at times angry debate with Reid this week over Reid's effort to change Senate rules to make it easier to cut off debate.
"What do you expect McConnell to do? I expect him to go all the way and fight," said Tripp Baird, the director of Senate relations at Heritage Action for America, a conservative group. Baird was a top aide to former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi.
Behind the scenes, fiscal cliff discussions are continuing, and McConnell has a history of making deals. He talked Thursday about his proposals to revamp Medicare, perhaps by having the wealthy pay more or implementing a higher retirement age. He won't rule out higher taxes on the wealthy.
"First and foremost, Senator McConnell realizes that he is Kentucky's senator. That's where he starts in all of his political dealings," said Ted Jackson, a Republican political consultant in Louisville. "But he knows he also has a national role to fulfill, and I don't think those two roles are inconsistent for him. He's a very pragmatic politician."


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Texas Congressman Ron Paul raised more than any other GOP candidate in the State of New Hampshire this quarter, with the exception of Mitt Romney, proving once again that he is a serious contender for the presidency in 2012.
Despite not conducting any major fundraising events, the Libertarian Congressman raised $33,095 from 74 donors in the first in the nation primary state.
The total far outstrips any other Republican contender, with the exception of Romney who, as it is well known, has extensive financial clout behind his campaign.
Of the other contenders, Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty emerged most successful, rasing $18,535 from 19 donors.
The rest of the pack – Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, businessman Herman Cain, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann all raised less than $11,000. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pulled in just $1,300 from three donations.
As the Boston Globe points out, Paul even managed to raise more than president Obama, who took $25,085 from 85 donors.
The Globe analysed filings with the Federal Election Commission for the fundraising quarter ending June 30 and found that Romney received $98,775 from 82 separate donations by New Hampshire residents.
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"Establishment candidates are revving up their campaigns and trying to blow the field away with massive fundraising totals," Paul's campaign email [2] stated. "These influence peddlers want to install a different conductor on the Big Government gravy train."
Paul's money bomb raised over $1 million by tapping real and growing grassroots support, a factor that Paul and his supporters claim Romney's campaign lacks.
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Police arrested a man reportedly brandishing an AR-15 assault rifle and verbally assaulting passersby near the Capristrano restaurant on Green Avenue in Orange July 4, reports Officer Dustin Myers.
A "frequent flyer" of the Orange County Jail found himself back inside a cell once again after police arrested him on an outstanding warrant June 15, reports the Orange Police Department (OPD), but a long gash on his forehead proves that the wanted man didn't go quietly
Police in Orange arrested 34-year-old David Nehemiah Diaz for disorderly conduct on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, after Diaz reportedly shouted profanity and slung racial slurs at passersby and security personnel outside of a local grocery store.
Patrolling police arrested 25-year-old Orange resident Ronnie Toby Malbrough for evading arrest when he fled after they attempted to stop him for disorderly conduct on Oct. 18, reports the Orange Police Department.
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A patrol officer in Orange called for backup Sunday evening after his attempt to cite a local resident for loud music got complicated, resulting in two arrests.
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A woman in Orange was arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday, March 16, after using profanity at the Pilot gas station at 2205 Hwy. 62.
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The "magic" of back propagation, or backprop, is that mathematical calculations (the type typically found in first-year calculus) adjust the weights of the connections to minimize the error across the training set. An important attribute of these methods is they generate a reasonably low error across the training set of inputs. However, they do not find the absolute minimum error, but the local minimum. This means that training a neural network is not exact and depends on the precise data set. Repeating the same experiment does not always give the same answer.
Backprop, in its original form, had a lot of issues. Many variations of this algorithm attempt to resolve those weaknesses. Early ideas used momentum and variable learning rate adjustment techniques, such as simulated annealing. When newer tactics are combined with older ones, the combination can optimize learning. For example, we perform batch learning in parallel so that we can run it on multiple cores, saving a tremendous amount of time. All of these variations are supervised learning algorithms: We give them input patterns and train them to output a certain target set of results. In doing so, we map the patterns, which in turn allows us to generalize for new patterns that were not used in training.
There are other algorithms, such as radial nets and kernel regression (also known as Support Vector Machines). All of these algorithms can be used to create approximations of non-linear functions. This approximates how neural networks map a given input to an output. Put simply, we create a universal function "approximator" that, given a set of inputs, can provide a good idea of what the optimal solution to a problem would be.
Client driven
As with most things, interest in neural networks took off when the customer started demanding it. Traders, hungry for the next big thing, were clamoring for the technology in the early 1990s. However, the vast majority of these traders had no background in the processes — and those who had the background knew nothing about the markets or how they work.
But neural networks were not the perfect solution, and after many years of trial and error, it became clear why: Standard neural-network-based signal processing techniques simply do not work in the markets as signal generators. In other words, the process of implementing neural networks correctly must begin far earlier in trading system development. You must create systems that work well without neural networks for neural networks to be able to improve them.
However, this knowledge was not common in the early 1990s. Many large institutions brought in neural network expertise that used methods of building models that did not incorporate domain expertise (market knowledge). Errors of this type were prevalent even among large banks with huge budgets.
In one specific case, a large bank had an in-house team that developed a trading model using deterministic models, such as the Mackey Glass equation, to simulate data. Mackey Glass is a time-delay differential equation that can generate a curve that looks like a stock market price series. The equation most often is used to model many biological processes, such as white blood cell circulation. Expertise in these methods was used as a substitute for market knowledge. They failed completely.


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The Cook Award is named in honor of the late Constance E. Cook, Cornell's first woman vice president, and the late Professor Emeritus Alice E. Cook, founding member of the Advisory Committee on the Status of Women.
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- This table provides the number of persons arrested in nonmetropolitan counties in 2012. These data are broken down by age of the arrestee and include the percent distribution of arrests by offense type.
- The Nonmetropolitan Counties classification encompasses jurisdictions covered by noncity law enforcement agencies located outside currently designated Metropolitan Statistical Areas. (See Area Definitions.)
- These data represent the number of persons arrested; however, some persons may be arrested more than once during a year. Therefore, the statistics in this table could, in some cases, represent multiple arrests of the same person.
The data used in creating this table were from all nonmetropolitan county law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data for 2012.
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- To use ShortestPath, you first need to load the Combinatorica Package using Needs["Combinatorica`"].
- An option Algorithm that takes on the values Automatic, Dijkstra, or BellmanFord is provided. This allows a choice between using Dijkstra's algorithm and the Bellman–Ford algorithm.
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BOSTON — On a night of remarkable plays at the TD Garden, Tim Thomas' superhuman save on Brian Gionta in the second overtime might actually get overlooked by historians.
But there's just no way to undervalue the play he made to get his left pad on the puck and keep tonight's Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Montreal going until Nathan Horton could end it, 2-1, with a goal later in that second extra session.
Here's a look at that amazing play:
"Well when it started I actually came out and was playing it as if [Travis] Moen would have a breakaway, because that's what it looked like, a break, right off the start," recalled Thomas after he made 44 saves in the dramatic win. "And then I realized my D was going to get back and make it a 2-on–1, and I was out pretty far so I had to make sure I started to get my backward momentum going so I could play both the shot and the pass. And I was just barely had enough speed to be able to make that push over on the pass. And I was just fortunate enough to get a leg out and cover that part of the net."
The save did more than just keep the game going. It re-energized everyone. The fans took to their feet to salute Thomas. And the players fed off that. Heck, even without the crowd, Thomas' teammates were psyched to see their Vezina Trophy nominee save the day.
"We got into it too," said defenseman Andrew Ference. "It was a great, great save. That's a hard save to make."
Added Horton: "That was huge for us. That was a big lift. He's been doing that all year, and what a special goaltender he is. That definitely gave us a big lift and gave us a little bit more momentum to carry on after that."
History will determine where Thomas' save ranks among the Horton game-winning goal, the Zdeno Chara save, the Michael Ryder save and other assorted plays that combined to give the Bruins a victory. As far as emotional lift, however, Thomas' save was probably No. 1.


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Monday February 25, 2013
EastEnders star Scott Maslen has revealed that he will be leaving the soap to pursue other opportunities.
The 41-year-old actor, who has played Jack Branning in the BBC soap for almost six years, will make his exit from Albert Square later this year.
"I've loved playing Jack and who wouldn't want to work on one of the most successful British TV series. But I've been offered many other roles and just not been able to explore them in the past, simply because of time and commitments to EastEnders and so now it feels like the time to tread a new path for a while," he said.
"I've played Jack for five and a half years and had some fantastic storylines but it's now time to have a break from him and try something different. I'm incredibly attached to Jack, his family and EastEnders, but as an actor I'd like to take on some new challenges."
Scott - who has been named sexiest male at the British Soap Awards for the past four years - added: "EastEnders is just incredible, it's phenomenally rewarding and I love working here but now it's time to move on."
Executive producer Lorraine Newman teased that there will be more drama for the Brannings, despite Scott's upcoming departure.
"Scott will remain on your screens until late in the year and there is plenty more drama to be played out before his departure," she said.


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State still facing substantial budget deficit, Plummer DFLer stresses.
The State of Minnesota February budget forecast released Thursday shows a projected budget deficit of $627 million for fiscal years 2014-15. This is an improvement of $463 million from the November budget forecast that showed a projected deficit of $1.1 billion.
District 1 State Sen. LeRoy Stumpf said the new forecast is a positive sign that Minnesota's economy is experiencing a fragile recovery. The state seems to be heading in the right direction, he said. However, Stumpf added, the improved forecast number does not change the fact that at $627 million, Minnesota still faces a significant budget deficit.
Most of the savings come from improved job and economic growth. "In fact, we will be back to pre-recession levels in job creation by the end of this year," Stumpf said. "The rest of the country will get there nine months later."
Stumpf said it's vitally important the legislature make responsible budget decisions to ensure this positive economic progress. "It is widely believed that a careful balance of spending cuts, responsible new revenue and targeted government reforms is the sensible combination needed to solve the deficit and support continued economic recovery," he explained, adding that State Economist Tom Stinson, who has served under Republican and Democrat administrations, confirmed that a balanced approach – one that uses some spending cuts and new revenue is the best budget solution for Minnesota.
Since Minnesota began running budget deficits in 2002, Stumpf said the solutions to those deficits have relied heavily on spending reductions and temporary solutions, but very little on tax increases. "In fact, during this period spending cuts have been used at nearly five times the rate as tax increases," he said.
After more than a decade of budget cuts, Stumpf said a fair and stable budget must include both cuts and new revenue to erase our budget deficit while allowing us to make key investments in Minnesotans' shared priorities such as schools, colleges and universities, nursing homes, our rural transportation system, and property tax relief for farms, businesses and homeowners.
"In the coming weeks it is vitally important that legislators roll up their sleeves and compromise on a fair and honest budget solution to end the continual budget deficits and set up Minnesota on the road to fiscal stability," Stumpf said.


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Clayton Struempler, 73 - January 15, 2012
Clayton "Clay" W. Struempler, 73, of Loomis died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, at the Phelps County Memorial Hospital in Holdrege.
Services will be conducted on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m. at the Berryman Funeral Home Chapel at Cozad. Burial, with military honors, will be at the Elwood Cemetery.
A visitation will take place Wednesday (today) from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Berryman Funeral Home of Cozad.
Struempler was born Dec. 25, 1938, at the Buffalo community, north of Lexington, to Albert and Isabel (Dirksen) Struempler. He attended country school north of Buffalo and went on to attend High School in Oconto.
In January of 1958, he entered the U.S. Army, where he was stationed at Ft. Eustis, VA. Following his eventual discharge in January of 1961, he returned to Nebraska.
He was united in marriage to Janet Dolan at Lexington in November of 1961. The couple resided north of Lexington for a few years where he was employed with a feedlot.
Struempler and his wife moved frequently between eastern and central Nebraska where he worked at Vernon Nelson & Sons Feedlot of Loomis before settling at Thedford, where he owned and operated CJ&D Trucking for about a decade.
In 2006, he and his wife settled in the Loomis area where he was employed with Overton Sand and Gravel and T&F Sand and Gravel.
?Struempler was a very giving and welcoming person, rarely without a smile and his excellent sense of humor that allowed him to share that smile with others, according to family members. He had a zest for life and thoroughly enjoyed the time that he spent with his family and loved ones.
He was an avid reader and enjoyed playing cards and working on jigsaw puzzles.
Struempler was preceded in death by: his parents, Albert and Isabel; a nephew, Rick; a great-nephew, Dakota; sister-in-law, Earline Dewey; brother-in-law, Harold Peden.
Survivors include: his wife, Janet of Loomis; his son, David (Debby) Struempler of Kearney; five grandchildren—Dakota, Cody, Trisha, Daniel and Janet "Janie"; a brother, Keith Struempler of Kenai, AK; sister, Carol (Ralph) Hopkins of Eddyville; sister-in-law, Georgia Peden of Missouri; brother-in-law, Bob (Colly) Dolan of Overton; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews and other relatives.
A memorial has been established in his memory.
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Section B of... The Medium is The Middleman For a Revolution Against Media First Published January 1, 1997 With June 2002 Updated Author's Notes by Al Giordano Did You Miss the Opening Lines of This Document? Click Here Section B: Three Immediate Questions: A. How do people develop a language of opposition
against Media when the Media controls all language?
An immedia project defines "language" as all communication: language encompasses more than written and spoken words, more than poetry or lyric. Language, as we define it, includes every grid of expression between people: visual images, physical gestures, the ambiance of architecture and immediate surroundings (what some have called "psychogeography"), music and sound, performance, dance, rhythms, "body language," sexual signals and expressions, experiments in freedoms of impression (through alterations of consciousness), emblems, culinary arts, sculpture, horticulture and landscaping, games of sport, rituals of social engagement and forms of human relationship...even silence...every path of creativity that exists is part of a language.
Media and technology have, in recent decades, given birth to new forms of language, some obvious, some hidden: product logos; technologies to measure and to shape public-opinion and consumption; computerized photography, cinematography, videography, recording, graphical design and word-processing (computer programmers have inflicted a new linguism, haven't they?); "community planning;" social, and now genetic, engineering -- these and any other forms of language are hopefully to be addressed by this inquiry.
At present, we have insufficient language to fully describe or act upon the situation (even the word "language" has connotations that challenge our inquiry). An immedia project is, first, an immedia laboratory. We seek new approaches to language (which might also be called means of communication) in order to break the screens between each other and our selves, and begin a project of mutual, unmediated (or de-mediated), communication.
And although this is a revolution of the individual, we recognize that no one person can reclaim, or even understand, every category or "dialect" of language that has been imposed upon our world. This is why we act together, with each other, to seek a mutual translation 9 and construction of, in many splendoured forms, an immedia language of revolt.
B. Since Media excels at co-opting popular movements, both
political and cultural, how can a popular resistance be
designed to successfully overturn the co-optation process
that has turned other important causes into commodities?
From "political" causes for the natural environment to civil rights and the multitude of equality efforts that encompass "identity politics," to counter-cultural and avant-garde artistic movements, activists and creative people have been divided by Media into market niches. Many have participated in this division by over-identifying with groups or ideologies (as consumers over-identify with brands, hobbies, careers and products). Meanwhile, the Media marginalizes and co-opts all popular movements to sufficiently disarm each's potential to unite the people as a whole.
We find the term "Media Virus" helpful as a tool to understand how the Media co-opts, then destroys (often vaporizing a concept instantly), ideas and acts of revolutionary potential. this view observes that Media behaves like a living organism, and that ideas, concepts and images mutate, like viral agents, within this "datasphere." According to this theory, and idea replicates and evolves as it moves through the Mediated grids of expression. It both subverts the "cells" it passes through, while also becoming changed itself: a Media Virus is not a catalyst (that which remains unchanged), but, rather, a force on an often unpredictable trajectory.
The Media changes the context of each idea it absorbs, and, as Jean Baudrillard and the "post-structuralists" have noted, causes the meaning within ideas to implode: all that remains from this process is a Media of commodified objects.
There are some who say, for example, that it is useless to call a revolt a "revolt," or a "revolution," because, in the Media Age, all revolts become labeled, defined and are eventually packaged as commodities -- usually linked with certain market niches -- which fuel the overall mechanisms of mediation over life.
We see a crack in this co-optation machinery: what would happen if a revolt which held refusal of mediation at the core of its message were to build momentum outside of the Media's grids of expression? This revolt, rather than manifesting itself as a sedentary organization or series of stationary institutions, adopts an unfixed stance; we are not a "solidarity" movement, but one of fluidarity, striking with stealth, surprise and creativity against Media's institutional stations.
We may, at times, appear to 10 come from nowhere; in fact, the tensions and contradictions inherent in modern Media provide us with an underscreen of tunnels through which we travel, elusively, both to shadow and to illuminate the nomadic and economic forces of the power we oppose.
In other words, we are busy constructing an Immedia Virus, creating a situation in which the powers of the Media, should they attempt to co-opt and commodify our message, will be turned against themselves, creating additional ruptures in Media's armor of illusion, which we will then further exploit for the purposes of destroying Media's control over life.
C. In history, revolts have been conducted against
governments, leaders and classes. But how can a
revolt be formulated against a technology such as Media?
An immedia project's revolution against Media, Mediation and Middlemen acknowledges a unique situation before us. Because all people suffer under the Mediated Society, every individual is, potentially, an ally in this cause.
Conversely, because each and every one of us becomes Middlemen in the course of participating in economics, politics and even creativity, every individual (including ourselves) is, potentiall, the enemy, too.
In a sense, this is an appeal to the human within everyone to engage in self-revolution; by throwing off the electronic shackles that turn us into cyborgs, we reclaim our birthright as free men and women.
We don't have the answers (yet) as to how to accomplish such an overwhelming, but necessary, goal. But we are developing the questions and the language by which answers begin to reveal themselves. To succeed in this quest, we feel that a spirit of experimentation -- one that allows for individual mistakes and for learning from their lessons -- is vital to our success.
To this end, we are developing tactics, as well as specific areas of inquiry to be evolved. These essays outline a dozen key pursuits of an immedia project:
I. Unnecessary Labor & the Broken Promises of Technology
II. Technological Imprinting
III. The Political Illusion
IV. Refusing to be Mediated
V. The Cyber-Dilemma
VI. Free Speech and Free Speakership
VII. Middlemen
VIII. Property, Airwaves and Cable: "Steal This Radio"
X. Immedia in Print
XI. Developing an Immedia Language
XII. An Immedia Salon
These "essays of inquiry" should be considered working documents, to be discussed, corrected, improved and acted upon,.. immediately!
Updated Author's Notes in June 2002 Footnotes:
9. The stated need to "act... with others" proved very difficult in 1997 in the United States, although we sure had fun when we did! Post 9/11, it may be even more difficult today. The climate of fear is pervasive up there (and our compañero Buckley is no longer with us to shout, "I have no fear of this machine!" ...and so we have to shout it for him, but mainly for us.) I was very lucky to end up in Chiapas, where the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had indeed "developed a language" of resistance to the tyrannies described in this pamphlet. Narco News was thus born out of a merger of the ideas presented in this text with the practices pioneered by the Mexican indigenous movement, to whom I owe everything, perhaps even my survival, and certainly the inspiration of launching Narco News. During the Drug War on Trial case, I spoke about this synthesis of immedia thought with Zapatista theory and practice in two interviews in which I used the phrase "journalistic zapatismo" in April 2001: One with Dan Kennedy of The Boston Phoenix, and another with Preston Peet of Disinfo.com
10. As the inept Banamex-Citigroup lawyers at Akin Gump and others have learned the hard way, there have been great advantages to our having had no fixed geographic position during the past two years of the Narco News project. "We may, at times appear to come from nowhere," or, at least, from somewhere in a country called América.
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The hours to recharge vs minutes to refuel is accurate if we only account for how long the CAR is employed in the refueling process. In general, the more important part is how much time the driver needs to invest in the process. And the EV wins that contest every time. It takes about 12 minutes (all told with pulling off the road, paying, filling, getting back on the road) to put gas in a car. It takes about three seconds of my time to charge an EV.
So in summary, on a daily basis, it takes me FAR less time to charge my EV than it takes to fill my gas car. For the few times that I take a long trip (outside of the EV's single-charge range) it takes far less time to fill my gas car than to charge my EV. For the car that is the family daily driver, recharging at home is a huge benefit and time saver. I know that every aspect can't be included in the chart. But truly... this aspect of EV ownership is a commonly overlooked benefit in the EV/gasoline comparison. (Hey, how about we also include oil changes and tune-ups!)


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Today, we're going to finish up our draft previews with a look around the NHL neighborhood as to whom other blogs and writers are picking at #4. One of the great things about the internet is the mass of opinions and ideas you can find. I've done a bit of searching and solicited opinions from the Islanders blogosphere to give you an idea of where everyone stands.
Probably the best resource for this sort of exercise is the Mock Draft Database over at DC Pro Sports Report. They compile pretty much every mock draft you can find and put them all together in one place. Of the 72 mocks that they've compiled, 44% of them have the Islanders selecting Murray at #4. It's not quite scientific though, as Murray also leads as being the most likely selected player at #2, with 36% of the mocks having him taken by Columbus.
The internet has Murray going to one of two places 80% of the time, but it can't really make up its mind as to exactly where. This was one of the ideas we highlighted in the podcast this week that if Murray goes prior to the #4 selection, it's most likely to be to Columbus.
Looking specifically at a few blogs, here's a look at some other opinions on the Islanders' pick...
Lighthouse Hockey selects Alex Galchenyuk
The first three teams blogs selected yesterday, putting us in a dilemma we didn't expect: Ryan Murray or Alex Galchenyuk? Defense, or offense?
I'd expected one or the other to be left on the table when our turn came up for the Islanders at #4. There has been ample draft discussion among writers and readers here, but I took this assignment solo, making an executive decision. Which means this pick is biased by my reluctance to pick a defenseman so high in the draft unless you're pretty sure he will be a franchise defenseman.
It's not that I don't recognize defense as a weakness on the current Islanders' roster -- it's that a team really shouldn't make draft decisions based on the needs of next year's (or even the following year's) roster. Defensemen are hard to project, and we've seen some really good ones can fall to later in the first or second rounds because of that.
Meanwhile, forward talent is a little easier to identify correctly at age 18, and Alex Galchenyuk possesses it in spades.
The Checking Line selects Filip Forsberg
Forsberg is who I believe is Garth's #1 target going into this Friday. The talented Swedish winger seems to be a piece that is missing in the Islanders rebuild. A strong winger with great skating abilities and a quick shot to match would be a great addition to any line centered by either Tavares or Strome. A hardworking young man is exactly what the Islanders are looking to add. If Forsberg is available when Garth walks to the stage Friday evening then I expect Forsberg to join him and try on an Islanders sweater.
Christian Arnold of Islanders Hockey Blog selects Matthew Dumba
BD Gallof of CBS selects Filip Forsberg
Filip Forsberg per what I'm hearing from the scouting community. But my gut feel is Teuvo Tervainen is the guy. Teuvo matches criteria based on upside, skill, hockey sense, age, room for growth. Filip is a 2-way power forward. Both outweigh the rest.
TSN selects defender Griffin Reinhart (Murray selected by CBJ)
The 6'4" blueliner can take games over with his size. Has the NHL in his bloodlines with his father Paul and his brother Max.
The Hockey News selects Griffin Reinhart (Murray selected by CBJ)
The Islanders may move this pick with the hope of landing a more NHL-ready defenseman. Otherwise, they'll need to choose between Reinhart, fellow D-man Matt Dumba or winger Filip Forsberg (if still available).


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Song Pop, a Name That Tune game from FreshPlanet (CrunchBase info here), is absolutely fantastic.
I first heard of it earlier this week when Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that it "is one of the most fun and addictive Facebook games I've played in a while." I clicked on it and spent the next two hours trying to pick songs faster than my friends.
At a simple level Song Pop is clearly the result of these guys looking at Draw Something and swapping drawing with picking songs. Much of the user interface is very similar.
But it's actually a much better implementation of simulated synchronous gameplay than I've seen yet in a launched game.
That's the magic, that's why Song Pop is growing so fast.
When you play Song Pop, you start hearing a clip of a song. You select the song name or artist as quickly as you can from four choices (my fastest has been 1.1 seconds). You get points for choosing correctly, choosing quickly, and for getting a bunch in a row correct.
You win if you get more points than the person you're playing against. They've played against the same song clips either before or after you.
But that isn't what's great about it. The reason why I've kept playing this game for hours is that it the app feels like you're playing against the person in real time. It increases anxiety to choose quickly because you see their choices happen in real time (to you).
Song Pop records the other person's game and then plays it back against you as you play. So you see when and what they've chosen as you're hurrying to make your own choice.
It's so realistic that the first few games I played I thought I was actually playing the person in real time.
This is also what Draw Something Does, but Song Pop does it much better. Or perhaps it's just a better use case to show off simulated synchronous gameplay.
Clearly people enjoy playing games against other people instead of just interacting with software. But that usually means asynchronous play where you do something and then later someone else does something. The various scrabble games are good examples of these.
But it's so much more exciting to be trying to rush to be faster than your friend in what appears to be a real time game.
And what makes Song Pop so great is that even once you understand that it's simulated, it's still great fun.


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Talib Zanna scored 15 points, and Pittsburgh rediscovered its shooting touch Tuesday night, hitting 55 percent from the field in a 73-45 win over No. 19 Georgetown.
Zanna went 7 for 9 from the field, Tray Woodall added 11 points and seven assists for the Panthers (13-3, 1-2), who dominated the Hoyas from the opening tip to bounce back from two Big East losses that knocked them out of the Top 25.
No player scored in double figures for the punchless Hoyas (10-3, 0-2), who shot 35 percent to lose by more than 20 points at home for the first time in 13 years. They have lost their first two Big East games for the first time since 2001-02.
Georgetown has failed to score at least 50 points four times this season, including a 49-48 loss at Marquette on Saturday.
The Panthers got their second biggest road win in Big East history by beating the Hoyas inside and out, scoring 18 points in the paint and making 4 of 5 3-point attempts while building a 37-22 halftime lead. Pittsburgh also had big advantages in rebounding (15-9) and assists (11-3) in the first half.
Georgetown had four turnovers from three players during a 90-second stretch in the first half. At the other end, Durand Johnson was hitting a 3-pointer, Dante Taylor was putting away a dunk, and Cameron Wright was converting a fast-break layup to make the score 14-4.
The Panthers didn't slack off in the second half, pushing the lead higher and higher and having fun with alley-oop passes in transition even as the frustration continued to mount for the Hoyas. Georgetown coach John Thompson III drew a technical — his first since March 2007 — for a bout of extended fury when Nate Lubick was called for a foul in the second half.
By the end of the game, Georgetown's home court reverberated with chants of "Let's go, Pitt!" Georgetown finished with more turnovers (17) than field goals (13), and lost by 20 points at home for the first time since a 77-54 rout by Notre Dame on March 4, 2000.
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Memories of war – Anzac Day 2012
25 April, 2012 at 11:56 am 2 comments
For this year's Anzac Day blog post, I thought I would share some extracts from a memoir written by my father-in-law, Noel Edward Farmer (1923 – 1999). In December 1941, after waiting impatiently for three months for the Navy to find a slot for a seaman who "knew how to handle boats", Noel wrote to the Navy to ask if they were aware that Japan had entered the war. A month later a slot at Flinders Naval Depot was found. He was soon appointed a midshipman, although he rose to Lieutenant by the end of the war, and to Captain in the Naval Reserve.
The following extract describes an incident in 1942, when Noel was just 19.
'Westralia' went to Brisbane after Aitapee to pick up air force stores. When leaving the Brisbane River the gyro compass system broke down and the Navigator, running along the upper deck to the gyro room, fell over a deck bolt and was badly concussed. Young Farmer, despite or because of his lack of knowledge/experience at that time, was training as Navigator's assistant and was promptly propelled into the top job – and hence the immediate task of taking a 14,000 ton vessel drawing 30′ through the Barrier Reef and Torres Strait to Darwin with only a magnetic compass. All Navy captains may, and all merchant masters must, unless they have specially qualified for an exemption, take on board a Torres Strait Pilot when making this trip of some 2,000 km – but not my Captain. I had a canvas deck chair placed on the port side of the bridge and spent the next five days there except for toilet visits below. The Captain did somewhat similar and about six days later Westralia berthed safely in Darwin. After about three months, and to my great surprise, the Captain's secretary handed over a cheque in favour of Midshipman N E Farmer from the Navy in Canberra for about 14 pounds, with a chit attached saying "Pilotage – 1100 nautical miles at 3d per mile".
This next extract describes a day in 1944, when Noel was aged 20.
It was a grisly day. … The 7th Fleet had a policy that any enemy soldier taken alive in a landing be sent promptly to a designated ship for interrogation. After replacing the originals on our ill fated southern beach with reserve troops I agreed to take two prisoners in my boat to be interrogated. When the prisoners were dragged to the beach they were young, hurt, shell-shocked and stark naked. My boat was beached, bow on, about ten feet from the water's edge so that anyone boarding had to walk out into water at least one foot deep. The prisoners were in no condition to walk. Their escorts informed me that they were not intending to carry the cretins aboard and began to swing the first by hands and feet to throw him about fifteen feet on to the steel deck.
"Not on," I said. "Carry them aboard or take them back to your own medics for treatment." It was the only argument I ever won with a revolver and a threat to shoot US servicemen, if they threw the prisoner aboard – I'll never know if I would have shot them. For their part they were young, scared, had seen many of their buddies killed and were fearful of their short term future when darkness fell on a slaughterhouse beach.
When hoisted back aboard 'Westralia' on conclusion of that eventful day I was told to report to the Captain. He sat me down and handed me a signal from the Navy saying that brother Charles had died.
The final extract describes a time in January 1945, when Noel was 21.
When we entered Lingayen Gulf air attacks increased in fury and desperation. Every second plane seemed to be Kamikaze and after dropping its bomb load headed for its selection of target and tried to crash on its bridge. … As in Hollandia and Leyte, I led the first wave boats to our allotted beach. We kept on unloading troops, equipment and stores forever it seemed from all variety of ships. Our boats crews tried to ignore the fear and death around them – and tried to conceal their own gut feelings from the green troops we carried.
We fed off the land – that is, we broached the stores we carried to meet our needs – and that day I first saw and ate canned grapefruit pieces. I liked them and ate a lot. The US knew how to feed its front line troops. Here we were in Lingayen on day one with guns and bombs going bang, Kamikazes having a suicide picnic and death all about – cruising slowly towards a beach carrying tons of grapefruit pieces for those who survived to eat them.
Lest we forget.
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Thanks for sharing Kerry, that's a great feat of piloting!!
Thanks for the link Kerry. Sorry to have missed it. Still can't find it amongst the entries on the blog page though, so not sure what happened?. However, will add it now. Its fabulous to have such a fantastic treasure like a memoir to add to your family's treasures. He wrote very well. Thanks again
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