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WTAE investigation: Port Authority wants to tear floors off building
Two months ago, taxpayers were hit with a $35 million bailout of the Port Authority, but Channel 4 Action News' Jim Parsons has found the agency is spending millions more that will cost taxpayers.
Union employees sacrificed $15 million in August, while state and county taxpayers sacrificed $35 million to prevent a massive cut in service.
At the same time taxpayers and workers were bailing out the Port Authority, the Port Authority board of directors was getting ready to spend millions on a new project.
The project calls for tearing off the top two floors of offices that haven't been used since the Port Authority's executive staff moved from Manchester 12 years ago to a new location downtown in the Heinz Center.
"There's more work to be done here than anyone first thought," said Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie
The partial demolition is complicated by asbestos removal, and for the lower floors left exposed, heating, air conditioning and electrical work, a new roof and a new elevator. will be needed.
"What I'm wondering is: Why doesn't Port Authority just leave these two floors the way they are and leave this building the way it is," Parsons asked.
"The cheapest thing to do is just get rid of it," Ritchie said.
"No, the cheapest thing to do is just leave it alone, isn't it?" Parsons asked.
"No, the cheapest thing to do is to get rid of it," Ritchie said.
Auditor General Jack Wagner told Parsons he thinks "it's a bad management decision."
Wagner took Parsons on a tour of his home community of Beechview, showing him patched potholes along the Port Authority's rails where pedestrians could trip.
"Rather than spend $6 million on a building that doesn't seem to have a purpose, how about putting that $6 million into communities that support the Port Authority?" said Wagner.
Wagner issued a 2007 audit, calling the Port Authority irresponsible for moving out of its Manchester building just a couple of years after spending more than $4 million on refurbishments.
And he said the agency is showing it's never learned its lesson.
"If they were revamping the building in Manchester for the purpose of relocation of downtown offices to Manchester, I could understand that. Since that's not happening, those dollars should be invested right here in the community," Wagner said.
"Ultimately, it's the cheapest solution for us with regard to 'What do we do with this facility?'" Ritchie said.
"As opposed to just leaving it alone?" Parsons asked.
"As opposed to just leaving it alone," Ritchie said.
Port Authority's own analysis shows removing the two floors versus moth-balling them is roughly the same expense.
A Port Authority critic is skeptical of that claim, given the history of the agency's other projects.
"Going and ripping two floors off an unused building is a waste," said Eric Montarti, senior policy analyst at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
"It's part and parcel of ... from the (North Shore) Connector to the Wabash Tunnel, to the South Hills Village Parking Garage, to the cost of the West Busway, there has never been a project where someone says, 'Wow, they came in on time, under budget and this really is a good thing.' I mean, it's never happened," he happened.
Montarti said he believes the decision to demolish office space has nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with eliminating a 12-year-old criticism that Port Authority should move from offices it leases and back to a building it owns.
"Doesn't this project for Port Authority also solve the dilemma down the road, where, when you remove this office tower, nobody in the future can ever say again, 'Isn't it cheaper to just move back to Manchester from downtown?' Because these floors will be gone. You never have to face that question again," Parsons asked Ritchie.
"That's one way to look at it, but it's also the most responsible decision at this time. If it's the cheapest solution for Port Authority, it's the solution we should follow," Ritchie said.
The demolition bids have been awarded and the work to remove the top floors is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks at about the same time Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to announce where he'll get $30 million from taxpayers to bail out the Port Authority.


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10 Signs You Have the Obesity Gene
It's no secret that America has a weight problem. We love food too much and exercise too little. A life like that doesn't have many healthy side effects, affordable health care or pants that don't create muffin tops.
Now science may have an answer for our ever widening waistlines. A new study at Georgetown University Medical Center found that a mutation in a single gene prevents neurons from blocking appetite suppression in the brain and causes massive overeating. How can you tell if you have this abnormality? Keep reading.
1. You call Skittles your "medication."
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8. The big and tall clothing store will only sell you an outfit if you pay a premium.
9. You once lost the TV remote, even though it was in your hand.
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Let's say you have bought or downloaded some third-party Office COM-addin to use on your Citrix- or Terminal Server. Many of these will by default install for all users. What if for one reason or another you only want to let a subset of your users work with that addin? Well, here's what:
Office determines what addins to load by looking at the entries below the following two registry keys:
(where OfficeApp should be replaced with Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
The sub-entries will be named after the addin's ProgID, e.g. "Microsoft.VbaAddinForOutlook.1" is one included by default with most versions of Office. From the name it should typically be fairly obvious which entry belongs to the particular addin that you're after. For the purpose discussed here it is irrelevant what values these sub-entries actually contain.
As you may have guessed the entries under
HKLM define which addins get loaded for all users while the entries under
HKCU define the ones that should be loaded for that user only. Thus, in order to change an addin's load behaviour from "all users" to "some users" all you have to do is essentially move the relevant entry from
HKLM to
HKCU, e.g. by exporting the entry into a .reg-file and then deleting it, then using notepad to change the hive to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER and finally re-import that .reg-file again for the users that should use the addin (or just use a group policy object). Remember that you will have to repeat this whenever you install an update of the addin in question as that will probably rewrite the entry under
More details about addin registration from a developer's point of view can be found on MSDN:
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Welcome to the page dedicated to the answers to Mystic Words of October 21, 2016.
Mystic words is a free which is available for both Android and iOS devices. So you can go directly to Google Play or AppStore to download it, in case you do not have this game. You got stuck at the clue "Destroys", well we have the answer to this clue.
I hope now you do not need any more help. Just tap on the letter blocks to form the word Ruins.
Mystic Words October 21, 2016
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Our website offers mainly answers to Pixwords (in French language). But we decided to add answers to Mystic Words since a lot of our users have contacted us to do so. The pages are built manually, so some errors may occur. If this is the case, visit Destroys for an update on this puzzle.
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You can search digital collections from any page on Seeking Michigan by using the search box in the top right corner. If you want to search by name or other criteria, click the "ADVANCED SEARCH" button and additional search options will drop down.
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Fire Blast is a core mage ability learned at level five. It deals direct fire damage. It is an instant cast spell, and a key to a mage's burst dps.
Modified by
Arcane specialization ability
Frost specialization ability
This spell sees a lot of use in PvP. Instant spells are impossible to interrupt, and spells and abilities that slow casting time have no effect. The only way to stop an instant is to silence the caster.
Instants can be cast on the move, as in kiting, or to chase or escape another player. Fire Blast must be cast while facing the target, but it is possible to jump, turn back to cast, then turn forward again before landing. The target only needs to be within the 180 degree arc in front of the caster.
A common technique to achieve burst damage is to cast Fire Blast right at the tail end of a long cast spell, such as Fireball or Frostbolt. After the long cast spell is finished, the global cooldown is also finished, and both spells will land almost simultaneously. Use the global cooldown time from the instant Fire Blast to move and gain range before casting again.
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Civil War Series on Sunday - Battle of Wilson's Creek
August 10, 2010, was the 149th anniversary of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, less that fifty miles from our cabin, about 10 miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri. The Battle was the second major battle of the Civil War and the first battle fought west of the Mississippi River. Read more of the details in the link provided - it is relatively short and to the point. Also be sure to note the "brother against brother" story in the article.
The battle was also significant in that Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general killed in combat in the war, died in the Bloody Hill action these. Until I retired last year, for 15 years we had lived in Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas - Lyon County having been named for General Lyon.
On September 18, the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation will be sponsoring their annual fundraiser and a Moonlight Tour which will simulate the conditions, on the site of the battle, that existed that early morning 149 years ago.
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Grey Daisy Goblets with Visotubes
Daisy Goblets with Visotubes are used for freezing and storage of biological materials in straws. Arrangement using color coding of straws prior to storage in liquid nitrogen.
Daisy goblet (perforated goblet, white cover and 12 visotubes) Ø: 65mm (67mm with cover) Goblet height: 117mm Total height of daisy goblet (with cover): 135mm
Contains: 5 daisy goblets, 11 triangular colored visotubes (120mm), 1 round clear visotube diameter 17.5mm (133mm).


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FreeBSD is a free computer operating system based on BSD UNIX originally. Many IT companies, like DeployIS is using it to provide an up-to-date, stable operating system.
ieee80211_cfgget, ieee80211_cfgset, ieee80211_ioctl - 802.11 interface
ieee80211_cfgget, ieee80211_cfgset, ieee80211_ioctl - 802.11 interface ioctl commands
#include <net80211/ieee80211_var.h> #include <net80211/ieee80211_proto.h> #include <net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h> int ieee80211_cfgget(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, caddr_t data); int ieee80211_cfgset(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, caddr_t data); int ieee80211_ioctl(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, caddr_t data);
These functions are typically invoked by drivers in response to requests for information or to change settings from the userland. The ieee80211_cfgget() and ieee80211_cfgset() functions implement a legacy interface for getting and setting 802.11 interface attributes respectively. The ieee80211_ioctl() function provides a default implementation of the SIOCS80211 and SIOCG80211 ifioctls commands for 802.11 drivers. The call signature is identical to that of the if_ioctl member found in struct ifnet, however, many drivers store attributes such as IEEE80211_IOC_STATIONNAME in the driver's private soft state structure, so driver writers may prefer to use this as the catch-all in a switch statement to avoid code duplication. ifconfig(8), ieee80211(9), ifnet(9)
The ieee80211 series of functions first appeared in NetBSD 1.5, and were later ported to FreeBSD 4.6.
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2018 Psychic Predictions: Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Britney Spears & More
By James Dinh
January 2, 2018
It's that time of year where we must reflect on the happenings of 2017 and look forward to the New Year with hopes of prosperity, wealth and all that good jazz. Regardless of their level of fame or wealth, celebrities also hope for continuous growth and achievement. After all, their lifestyle really isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
As we do every year, iHeartRadio took to the guidance of a local tarot reader from the New York City area to gather some insight into what's to come for some of your favorite superstars. For the 2018 year, Haylin Belay, a self-proclaimed witch and seasoned sex educator for the Manhattan borough, welcomed us into her cozy Bushwick apartment, where we spoke about the near future for names like Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Britney Spears. As a California-raised Millennial, Belay first started practicing tarot for herself until she started to understand the power and utility it was beginning to have in her life. "I think coming to tarot was partially looking for ways to rebuild an organizational principle for the world, or recreate order in a world that felt really fragmented at the time," she explained of her initial interest in the cards.
Eventually, Belay decided that she wanted to turn the personal practice into a public one after bringing her cards to a friend's birthday brunch. "I was like, 'Oh my goodness. This has been so useful for me, and how wonderful and lovely to have it be useful for other people,'" she recalled of the experience. From there, the multi-talent would go on to work on an intuition-based style of readings that would take time to develop, but create an intimate dynamic with her clients.
In less than a year, Belay mastered the deck card by card, developing an understanding for the storytelling of the visual medium and nailing the syntax and language of what the cards meant in correlation to one another. Now, using her handy Rider-Waite tarot deck as well as some Reiki techniques, Belay came face-to-face with the narratives that the cards had in store for some of our favorite stars. Scroll on below to see some of the celebrity predictions that Haylin foresaw for these superstars in the 2018 year.
With her growing fame and success, will Taylor Swift be able to adjust to this new magnified stage of her career?
"The Star is normally representative of optimism and idealism and everything that's sunshine and roses. What we can see it as in this situation is this card really represents the one thing and the only thing that Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have in common. In many ways, they exemplify technical perfection. The Star is really about that ideal perfection, and that represents the tension that Tay-Tay has currently been holding as someone who is meant to exemplify this perfect image that's impossible to uphold.
The two things that are at stake for her here, and this is why I'm annoyed, is because to see the Hierophant reversed to me says that there's some kind of possibility of bucking social norms. . . Maybe 2018 is the year that it happens, and maybe if that happens, hand to God I will get another tarot tattoo because this sh*t must be real. I think the other possibility is just a regression into the pain and conflict that we've already seen. This to me, seems so much more likely. But, who knows? Yes, the reason I shape this as a triangle is this is where she is now, then the pathways that are available to her. I think the fact that both of these cards are reversed, but they're reversed for different reasons, this is reversed as a bucking of order, and this is a reverse of regression into the same old bullsh*t."
It's been a quiet 2017 for Kanye West. What kind of Kanye West are we in store for in 2018?
"I don't think Kanye's confused ego is gonna get better any time soon, so the story that I'm seeing here, not to sound like the track, 'I Miss the Old Kanye,' but the old Kanye, the Chariot, that's somebody who has total confidence in their ability to move. If that doesn't describe the old Kanye West, I don't know what does. And then, there's the semi-recent chapter up until most recent Kanye. I think the King of Pentacles, it can represent mastery over one's resources, but I think in this case it also represents Kanye's preoccupation with building wealth, which is not an unreasonable preoccupation for a black man in America to have by any stretch of the imagination. I think this story here inevitably leads to an ends with the Page of Wands reversed, which is a very confused ego.
Passion and drive and all of these things, without necessarily direction or intuition or that free flowing movement, Wands is our soul, energy, and the Page is the child of the court cards. You can think of it as the child's mind, or really some of the most tender and vulnerable intimate parts of our self-expression, our ego, our passion. To see it reversed here, especially in this narrative, this is someone who's used to experiencing a lot of control, and power and mastery. Given that this is the Page of Wands, to me that says this is in a process of growth. This might be another year before we hear a ton more from Kanye, professionally, personally, whatever, because this to me says there's a lot more growing up to do, so to speak."
After sharing so much of herself with Lemonade, how will Beyoncé top herself in 2018?
"I don't even want to say this because I want to keep Beyoncé's name out of my mouth, and Beyoncé's business out of my mouth. I don't even feel right talking about this, but a lot of what this says to me is there's more familiar, marital drama in the future, which I guess is inevitable. I know they both released these albums that were all about how they got back together, but this is dissatisfaction; this is spiritual poverty. I think there's more challenges ahead. It might not necessarily be in her marriage, but I think we're going to see, in a strange way, more vulnerability from Beyoncé, who is the world and everything. Oh my God. I hate this because I don't want to see bad news for Beyoncé. This is how you know I'm not throwing the cards on purpose. She has cracked open, but, look, when her self-titled album came out, we were like, 'Gasp. She's talking about her sex life with Jay, and grown woman things,' and then Lemonade came out, and we're like, 'Sh*t. She's really talking about grown woman things.' Who the f*ck knows what comes next?
Both of these cards also have a lot to do with money, and I think that's something that Beyoncé has been more and more explicit and open about. She's really not shy about saying, 'Get your paper. Best revenge is your paper. Billion dollars and an elevator etc.' Walking out with that f**king roll of money clutch bag. Both of these cards do have an undertone of financial greed or misconduct, or kind of materialism. Something along those lines. Beyoncé is everything, but what we're going to see from her is more of this kind of muddling through these issues, and I'm sure it's going to be glorious. It's going to be beautiful."
With new music scheduled for the New Year, how will Justin Timberlake fare in a pop landscape that has changed so much since his last album?
"If he can manage to hit some perfect storm of something, it's going to be for a reason that no one saw coming that he was successful. . . .Whatever he's going to throw out, if it's going to be good, it has to be something that is new, different enough that just happens to hit that right chord that people are responsive to, but I don't think he's going to get there by relying on kind of the JT that we know. Point being, he's got to change things up. It's going to be something different, and it's going to be something, again, unexpected. Look, he's a musical genius, he's a legend for a reason, but it's something that people were not [prepared for]."
As rap's reigning queen, how will Nicki Minaj fare in the battle to keep her spot at the top?
"Nicki is really at a point in her career where she's not a rising star by any stretch of the imagination. She's evaluating what she has in front of her and looking more towards what's the long-term investment here. You can't be Nicki Minaj forever.
That's where her mentality is at and should be. Not to say that she's not still interested in being the reigning rap queen. I think she's made that more than clear, but I think you can even see, just in the way that she handled the whole invented Cardi B beef, I think Nick of 2009 might have had a different reaction to someone coming up as a challenger, because in 2009, she could be challenged in a way that she can't be in 2017. That being said, there is somebody that she does need to worry about. There's someone she doesn't need to worry about who is something of a sort of a false pretender, so someone who maybe seems like they are going to overtake her, but they're not actually the main concern.
The real concern is there's either someone or something happening as far as it comes to the rap game, and especially as it has to do with female rappers. I think there's going to be just a new wave that Nicki's not necessarily about to ride on. I don't know what that thing is. People might have their suspicions of what that might be. Not to say that 2018 Nicki's going to slow down, but I think her relevance as someone who's doing some of the most important stuff ... I mean, that's already not really been true when it comes to innovation and things like that, and I think we're about to see either a person or more likely a movement of people that are really innovating. This person is like the new Nicki. That's not the thing to be concerned with. The thing to be concerned with is something else entirely. I hope Stan Twitter doesn't find me. Don't go on Twitter."
After celebrating her legacy at her Las Vegas residency, where does Britney Spears go from here?
"I think 2018 might be a year of some heartbreak. Not necessarily bad heartbreak or painful heartbreak, but grieving. This is the end of a legacy, and the story that I see here is this is a temporary setback. It'll be very uncomfortable for someone who's been a lifelong performer, to transition out of being necessarily in the spotlight all the time. I don't really necessarily see here that she's going to go on to do a lot more. I mean, Vegas is big. I don't know if she's going to be doing stuff that's much bigger from here on out.
This, to me, really reads like someone who's transitioning out of something that's really meaningful and powerful to them, but all of these cards are in a reversed orientation, and the Britney that we know is changed. I think she'll certainly be a public figure for the rest of her natural life, but not as Britney the performer."
How will Camila Cabello fare establishing herself as a solo artist?
"Everyone was against her. At a certain point, money is going to be a pretty major concern. She's going to have to change up what she's doing. Whether that means, changing up her style, her look, more likely, death is a pretty major change. Maybe you're an actress, sweetie; maybe you're a model; maybe you're something else; maybe you're a TV host; maybe you're not; maybe this isn't for you, because this, especially this kind of combativeness. . . .I think you're going to see her make more decisions that, like, 'Why is she doing this? Because she's got to pay her bills.' We all got to pay our bills."
For more information on Haylin's work as a tarot reader and sex educator, head over to her official website or subscribe to her newsletter, My Feminism Involves Witchcraft.
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You don't want to train for the long run in a short time. Dathan Ritzenhein knew that in January, when he ran the U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Houston after two Achilles tendon surgeries in the previous 10 months had kept him from training for a six-month stretch.
"I got in good shape really fast," Ritzenhein said.
As much pain as the Achilles tendon had caused him, it then felt worse to run a marathon personal best of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 55 seconds and miss the third and final place on the Olympic team by an agonizingly small margin: 8 seconds.
"I never thought I would run 2:09:55 and not make the team," he said.
That sent him on a successful chase for a spot in the 10,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Friday night.
And it cleared the way for him to enter the Oct. 7 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, since Ritzenhein said he probably would not run a fall marathon if he were competing in the Aug. 12 London Olympic marathon.
Chicago Marathon officials are to announce Tuesday they have signed Ritzenhein, who made a third straight U.S. Olympic team by finishing third in Friday's 10,000 with a time (27:36.09) that met the Olympic qualifying standard.
"That fourth-place finish (in the marathon trials) made this so much better," he said. "It was a tough road for me to make this Olympic team, but it is the best one (of the three)."
Ritzenhein was the top U.S. finisher (ninth) in the marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He did not finish in the 10,000 at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The 29-year-old father of two, who grew up in Michigan and now trains in Portland, Ore., has run six marathons since his debut at the distance in 2006. He finished second in the 2007 Olympic trials in New York.
Ritzenhein hopes the fast course in Chicago can help him run the kind of marathon time many have expected from him since 2009, when he had impressive track personal bests at 10,000 meters (27:22.28) and 5,000 meters (12:56:27, then the U.S. record) and the half marathon (60:00).
"The marathon is so fast now you have to have speed in your legs," Ritzenhein said. "I have showed that kind of speed before but the biggest thing going for me in Chicago is this is the healthiest training I have ever had. I've never had a full year of being healthy."


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The VIP Treatment: Catering to Well-Heeled Enthusiasts With Arrive & Drive Programs
Arrive and drive programs are a current source of growth in motorsports as these series offer a way for people to enter or stay in racing. Plus these programs offer unique marketing opportunities for creative racing business owners.
By Laura Culley
Arrive and drive programs offer a variety of benefits to just about anyone in motorsports whether you're an eager young gun or a gentleman driver—and everybody in between. From the driver's perspective, these programs take the hassle out of racing and provide an expedient route to a racing career without all the downsides of individual team ownership.
For a racing entrepreneur, these programs can provide a steady stream of revenue in parts sales and services.
"Arrive and drive programs are becoming increasingly popular because all of the agony of owning your own team is removed," said Hayden Harris of SpeedWorks R&D in Indianapolis, Indiana, the official arrive and drive source for the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge Series sanctioned by the Grand-Am Road Racing Association. "There are the obvious benefits such as the professional race car preparation, but there are also less tangible benefits like not having to constantly update the car to maintain the racer's edge or sell a car when the rules change or the car becomes obsolete. Our business depends on customer satisfaction, so we work hard to have our cars at the state of the art. The driver brings a Grand-Am license, helmet, a HANS device or equivalent, fire suit and personal gear."
It works just as well from the team perspective. "The economics in the Star Mazda series, for example, are that the cost-per-car of hauling one car around to the races is pretty high, but if you're hauling two, three or four cars, you start seeing efficiencies," said Dean Case of MazdaSpeed Motorsports in Irvine, California. MazdaSpeed Motorsports doesn't offer arrive and drive programs directly, but a lot of their series and teams do. "The Star Mazda series has an Expert and Masters class for over 35-year-olds and over 45-year-olds that is a championship within a championship. A lot of those guys are gentleman race drivers, if you will, who want to race with the younger guys. Five years from now when one of these kids wins the Indy 500 he can say, 'I raced with him back in 2010.' There are a lot of gentleman racers in Grand-Am, too, and when it comes to the Rolex 24 Hours, there are slots available for a paying driver."
Training series for budding new talent are hot right now. Top professional-level teams are mining fresh new faces that come without all the baggage inherent in more traditional pathways. As a new driver, you can cut to the chase and concentrate on the driving part to accelerate a budding career. Or, you can also revitalize an old career, hone your skills at a specific track, or simply experience the racing experience for a day.
And with the variety of available programs, it's a snap to choose a program that fits your goals. For example, if you've aimed your aspirations at Formula 1, for example, the Jim Russell Formula 3 program might be for you.
"The Jim Russell Racing Drivers School offers arrive and drive programs at many levels from karting through Formula 3 race cars," said Phil Lane of the Jim Russell Championship Series based at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, that owns, prepares, and fields all the cars on the grid. "We have positioned our series as a premier arrive and drive concept on the global stage. We offer equal equipment at an affordable cost in a modern, relevant racing car based on Lola's 2006 German F3 Championship-winning design so that the focus stays on continuous improvement, driving merit, and consistency."
At the same time, the Russell program includes other benefits for a successful, well-rounded racing career. "These programs are an incredibly cost-effective means of racing a thoroughly modern racing car," Lane explained. "A Formula 3 season can cost in excess of a million dollars. We offer a 16-race championship in a no-compromise car with complete coaching, premium hospitality, off-track training that includes nutrition and fitness, sponsorship acquisition, media training, and more for under $100,000. Since we control the entire race weekend, we can also offer significantly more seat time."
The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Chandler, Arizona, defined the racing school mold and now they have two arrive and drive programs, in addition to their regular driver training for street drivers, novice race drivers, police, and corporate programs.
"The first is with the kart school," explained Casey Milano. "We have a fleet of 125cc Rotax TAG karts that we use for arrive and drive practice sessions and testing. At this point, there is no race series or class for these karts, so it's an opportunity to get good track time without the investment.
"The other is our Bondurant Championship Race Series in Formula Mazda," added Milano, noting that Bondurant has never offered a formal race series until now. "We are utilizing Formula Mazdas for an 18-race championship over nine weekends. For the first year, the Championship Race Series will have a maximum of 12 participants, so it's first come, first served. As long as the driver meets our requirements, they can participate. All they need is their personal equipment—suit, helmet, gloves, driving shoes, and head-and-neck restraint. Bondurant provides everything else. The cars are equally prepared and meticulously maintained."
In road racing, Mazda is the most raced car, holding roughly a 50 percent market share, according to Case. He explained that MazdaSpeed has the Star Mazda series presented by Goodyear, the Skip Barber MazdaSpeed Challenge, and the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup, adding that Mazda is also involved in drag racing and circle track racing, just not so much. "We've also got factory-assisted teams in Dyson Racing in ALMS, SpeedSource in Grand-Am GT, and Tri-Point Motorsports in Speed World Challenge.
"The economics of the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup really lends itself to multi-car teams who run as many as six cars on a regular basis and are capable of running eight or 10 cars," added Case, estimating that a one-off weekend in the MX-5 Cup probably carries a $10,000 price tag. "There isn't one set price. The team will sit down with a driver to discover their needs and objectives. You don't have to commit to doing a full season of MX-5 Cup. One guy came in from the Ferrari Challenge and made the comment that he'd had an accident that cost him $60,000. The MX-5 team owner laughed and said, 'I can build a brand-new MX-5 Cup car ready to race for $47,000 so it's pretty impossible to have a $60,000 crash. Plus, the grand prize for the MX-5 Cup is a full-season in the Speed World Challenge—that's a quarter of a million dollar prize!"
Billed as the first green racing series, the VW Jetta TDI Cup operates more like a contest based on ability. Drivers are selected through a comprehensive application process and there are no one-offs.
"A driver has to have demonstrated a motorsports background and aptitude," explained Adam Hoover, noting that the VW Jetta TDI Cup is powered by the clean burning 2.0-liter TDI four-cylinder turbo diesel. "They will be invited to a driver selection event, which is basically a runoff of sorts, but it's not just on the track. Drivers are evaluated for their marketing aptitude and media readiness, and ultimately, 25 drivers are chosen to participate in the program. The drivers are responsible for a $45,000 entry fee that covers everything but their travel expenses and crash damage to the car. It even covers tires that many series don't."
While arrive and drive programs are abundant in the road racing arena, the idea is just opening up in dirt track racing. Peter D Motorsports based in Phoenix, Arizona, offers a rental car program with Modlites, mini-sprints and Dwarf cars, often called welterweight race cars.
"The old time-is-money cliché is true," said Peter Dozeman, who currently prepares cars for three to six drivers. "The typical person who uses such a service understands that they will get better results by having a professional crew transport, service, and maintain their racing program—and who better than the company who built the car? Our customers typically make a lot more money in the time they would spend maintaining their race car than they pay us for the service. Race results are also better because we supply professional help."
Chuck Johnson of MLC Motorsports in Reno, Nevada, agreed. "As drivers become busier in their own work and family environments, many simply do not have the time to accomplish all the work necessary to prepare their race cars for the track," said Johnson, who in partnership with Bulldog Motorsport of Patterson, California, function as customer support representatives for SCCA Enterprises, Inc., for their Formula Enterprises (FE) and Sport Racer Enterprises (SRE) race cars along with the new Pro Challenge Race Cars for SCCA's San Francisco Region and the Western United States. "Building, prepping, set up, and driving your own car can be intimidating for many people. Drivers can develop the on-track skills to become competitive by attending driving schools available at circle tracks and road courses around the country. However, the bar is raised when adding in the maintenance, transportation, set up, and damage repair to your own car. Arrive and drive solves that problem. Arrive and drive programs are an excellent way for an aspiring race driver to get involved in the sport."
Currently, MLC Motorsports serves between five to seven drivers participating in the regular San Francisco Region regional race series, which totals 11 races over seven to eight weekends each year.Another advantage is you also don't have to lock in a heavy investment right off the bat to organize a team and haul it around the country. "You pay a bit of a premium for the convenience, but arrive and drive programs provide a lot of flexibility to move from series to series," said Jamie Slone of the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge owned by Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. "If you don't own a car, you don't have to worry about selling it later and you don't have to drop all your money up front to get it going."
Other programs are more focused to a specific race track. The Mid-Ohio School at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course based in Dublin, Ohio, started in 1993. The next year Honda signed on as the school and track sponsor.
"We have a whole slew of racing programs from competition licensing, open coaching at a variety of levels, high-performance programs using Acura TSXs and defensive driving using Honda Civics," explained Jesse Ghiorzi, noting that they address every driving level from 16-year-olds with a learner's permit to intense racing programs and corporate events. "Everything except the defensive driving and street training programs will get you on one of the premier tracks in North America where championships are won."
Creative Marketing
While the racing part is fun, the engine for today's motorsports is marketing—creating business relationships, developing synergistic promotions, selling product and sponsorship dollars. Without it, few teams could afford to show up. With a little creative thinking, arrive and drive programs can provide an environment for those things to happen.
"It's much more than just awareness of a business, putting a logo on the side of the car, or measuring if the TV camera caught it," explained Slone. "Those are the old days of sponsorship."
Just about any business can utilize these programs, with sponsorship as one effective method. "There are lots of ways to go with team sponsorship, most of which are quite reasonable," said Harris, also offering the Kenny Brown/SpeedWorks Driving Experience with oversight and coaching by Kenny Brown. "This could allow exposure on our cars, crew gear, and transporter. Probably more important is the business-to-business possibilities with our connections to Ford, Miller Motorsports, BFGoodrich, Grand-Am, and other entities. Business-to-customer relationships fit the entity trying to reach the sports car fan."
Even regular businesses with a product to sell and little to no interest in a hardcore racing effort can get involved with an innovative promotion or an employee team-building exercise. Arrive and drive programs offer cost and time efficiency, economical and practical resource management, and an array of promotional opportunities in an exciting environment with an abundance of business-to-business contacts and competitive out-of-the-box thinking. All you need is the idea.
"First define your goal," advised Slone. "There are a number of ways you can get involved. Perhaps there's a driver you want to work with or maybe you want to provide an internal sales contest for your company where your salespeople are competing for opportunities to go to the race track and have a behind-the-scenes experience. Or maybe you're doing it as a contest for your distributors. Maybe you're interested in driving sales through to your end customer. It could be a sweepstakes or some kind of contest where they win the racing experience. It just depends on what the individual company's needs are. The possibilities are endless."
Mid-Ohio's Ghiorzi agreed. "A lot of people think the only thing you can do at a track is be a spectator at a race," said Ghiorzi. "We only have six spectator events a year and the track is open over 200 days a year when we conduct other events."
Johnson also suggested that shop owners and car builders can get into the business. "Race shop owners or builders who want to increase their customer base have an excellent opportunity to do that via arrive and drive programs," Johnson added. "Many potential drivers have neither the desire nor the expertise to work on their own cars. These programs open up an exciting opportunity to those shops to expand their business and potentially help young drivers move up into professional racing."
If you want to get involved in the arrive and drive market as an equipment and service provider, Johnson suggested building the business one step at a time. "To get started in this business, you need to have transport vehicles and support personnel with race driving and race mechanic experience," he said. "Getting started is generally one step at a time—first the prep shop and mechanics, then a rental car and driver coach followed by the trackside support equipment."
Milano advised that prior experience is also vital. "If you don't have knowledge of the racing business from a team owner or team manager perspective, this may not be for you," she said. "It looks good from the outside, but it takes a well-managed program to be successful. The equipment must be maintained properly and you better perform on race day if you want people to pay to drive your race cars."
The bottom line is that just about any marketing plan will work splendidly in a racing environment. "You are selling fun," said Dozeman. "If you are selling products to a high-end customer and you think they might be interested in an arrive and drive program, work that angle in the deal. It just might make the sale."
Photo courtesy of VW Jetta TDI Cup.
Arrive and drive programs offer racers plenty of effective ways to go racing but without the need of owning a race car or hauler to do so. These series pair equally prepared race cars together so the focus stays on the driver's continuous improvement, driving merit, and consistency. But all is not lost in the sales realm where these customers still need the latest drivers suits, helmets, head and neck restraints, and other safety gear before they can turn that first lap. Photo courtesy of SpeedWorks R&D.
Mazda is a popular brand found at road courses nationwide. And, MazdaSpeed has four Mazda-specific racing series, including the Atlantic Championship, the Star Mazda series presented by Goodyear, the Skip Barber MazdaSpeed Challenge, and the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup (seen here). According to MazdaSpeed's Dean Case, "The economics of the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup really lends itself to multi-car teams who run as many as six cars on a regular basis and are capable of running eight or 10 cars." A benefit to running in this series, according to Case, is that the driver doesn't have to commit to doing a full season of MX-5 Cup.


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[Hand-written 1968, although no specific date given]
"Green Bay Soldier Cited For Bravery in Vietnam
The Army Commendation Medal with V for Valor has been awarded to Sp 4 Ronald W. Harrig of Green Bay for gallantry in action in Vietnam. Harrig, now stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and due to be discharged in July, is the son of the late Eugene Harrig and Mrs. Mary Ann Harrig, 213 Berwyn St.
Harrig, then a private first class in Co. B, 3rd B., 22nd Infantry of the 25th Infantry Division, was cited for bravery during the repulse of a heavy North Vietnamese attack on his company's defensive position the night of April 12, 1968. His battalion, in a night defensive perimeter during a reconnaissance in force, was attacked by a regiment of North Vietnamese regulars.
While his company pulled back to a secondary defensive position under heavy assault, Harrig held his ground and assisted in disrupting the enemy advance by heavy suppressive fire. The attack was thrown back.
The 25-year-old soldier was born in Fond du Lac in 1943 and graduated from Preble High School in 1961. After completing a course in accounting at the Northeastern Wisconsin Technical Institute, he enlisted in the army in July, 1967, and was sent to Vietnam in December.
Subsequent to his heroic action in April, Harrig was twice wounded - in June and again in July of last year."
NOTE: This clipping was passed on to me by my mother-in-law in Green Bay, Wisconsin (and they had been passed on to her by her mother-in-law). There is no date on the clipping apart from the year and no newspaper name. The clipping most likely came from the Green Bay Press-Gazette


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Last week, Barack Obama told an Oakland crowd that the reason he's running for a second term is because his economic plan worked:
In today's OOTD, I scored the results against the plan itself — which doesn't support Obama's argument. I'm not the only person who gives it a failing grade, either. Rasmussen's latest survey shows consumer confidence hitting a 2012 low:
The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures consumer confidence on a daily basis, fell another point on Thursday to the lowest level of 2012. At 78.5, confidence is down three points from a week ago, down three points from a month ago and down 11 points from three months ago.
Confidence is down 19 points from the highest levels of 2012.
However, while confidence is at a new low for this year, it remains well above the lows of recent years. The 2011 low was 58.1, and the all-time low was reached in 2009 at 54.7.
The Rasmussen Investor Index fell five points on Thursday to 89.1. Investor confidence is still up two points from a week ago. However, it is down two points from a month ago but is down 12 points from three months ago. Investor confidence remains five points above the lowest level measured for 2012.
What has gone up? Pessimism:
Most Americans now believe both the overall economy (54%) and their own personal finances (52%) are getting worse. Just 25% believe the economy is getting better. Twenty-two percent (22%) say the same about their personal finances.
Long term optimism about the economy has fallen to the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Just 40% expect the economy to be stronger in five years. That's down from 46% a year ago, 50% two years ago, and 58% three years ago. Most believe the housing market will take more than three years to recover.
Gallup's last consumer confidence level (measured weekly) showed a slight increase, although still very much in negative territory with a -25, down from a May peak of -16. Then again, Rasmussen's consumer confidence levels last week also showed a slight increase, going from 81.4 on Wednesday to 86.5 on Monday of this week. Today's 78.5 is a significant drop from that level, one which Gallup may also find by the end of this week.
So far, neither consumers nor investors concur with Obama's claim to have delivered an economic plan that "worked" — a finality that definitely makes the claim a Mission Accomplished statement, rather than a plan still in process. Jim Geraghty wonders whether this latest claim on economic success in the wake of so much bad data will be worse than Obama's claim that the private sector is doing fine:
Or for that matter, the "you didn't build that" comment:
Actually, I believe these statements will aggregate together to build a narrative that Obama is hopelessly out of touch with Americans on the economy. The Romney campaign apparently agrees, as they have launched a new website today called "Built By Us," featuring this new video:
The site invites small business owners to tell their stories of risk-taking, entrepreneurship, and hard work. We can expect to see more than a few of these stories featured in future Romney ads — and combined with the video of Obama's victory lap in the face of failure, it's going to present a powerful narrative of Obama's cluelessness.
Update: Romney's lead over Obama on the economy narrowed slightly in the last month, though:
Voters continue to have slightly more trust in Mitt Romney than in President Obama when it comes to dealing with the economy. The Republican challenger has narrower leads in trust over the incumbent on four other top issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports, further highlighting the closeness of the race.
A new national telephone survey finds that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters trust Romney more when it comes to the economy, while 43% have more confidence in the president. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Last month, Romney posted a similar 50% to 42% edge over Obama but was ahead 51% to 39% in May. The two men were virtually tied on the issue in early March.
This survey came after the "you didn't build that" comment. Romney actually leads Obama on all of the issues polled by Rasmussen, but his lead on the economy is the only one outside of the margin of error.


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March has been a particularly rich month for dance in Tel Aviv, with both Shades of Dance (Gvanim) at Suzanne Dellal and Home Port in Jaffa. But two of this month's more unique offerings – Lazaro Godoy's Zero-Z-One and Dana Ruttenberg's NABA – premiered outside of these festivals.
In background and approach, these two artists are themselves unique. Cuban-born and Juilliard-trained, Lazaro Godoy performed in Switzerland before landing in Israel last year; since his arrival, he has caught my eye in dances by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, Sahar Azimi, and Maya Levy. Dana Ruttenberg, an Israeli native, also made her way to Manhattan. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Columbia University, she showed her choreography throughout New York before returning to her native country.
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Health Indicator Report of Asthma: Child Prevalence
Asthma is a serious personal and public health issue that has far reaching medical, economic, and psychosocial implications. The burden of asthma can be seen in the number of asthma-related medical events, including emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Asthma Prevalence Among Children Aged 0-17, Utah and U.S., 2011-2017
NotesThe U.S. prevalence is calculated from a different number of states each year because the number of states who ask about child asthma prevalence on their state BRFSS changes from year to year. See below for the number of states that contributed to the yearly prevalence.[[br]] 2011= 16 states[[br]] 2012= 33 states[[br]] 2013= 30 states[[br]] 2014= 33 states[[br]] 2015= 26 states[[br]] 2016= 29 states[[br]] 2017= 25 states[[br]]
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- U.S. Data: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Division of Behavioral Surveillance, CDC Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
Data Interpretation IssuesIn 2011, the BRFSS changed its methodology from a landline only sample and weighting based on post-stratification to a landline/cell phone sample and raking as the weighting methodology. Raking accounts for variables such as income, education, marital status, and home ownership during weighting.
DefinitionPercentage of Utah children ages 0-17 who have ever been diagnosed with asthma and who still have asthma.
NumeratorNumber of Utah children ages 0-17 who were diagnosed with asthma and who still have asthma.
DenominatorTotal number of Utah children ages 0-17.
How Are We Doing?Child asthma rates show no sign of declining in Utah. Child asthma point prevalence is higher for males compared to females at every age category except for 15-17 (2016-2017 BRFSS combined). The highest prevalence for males was in the age category 10-14 at 12.2% vs. 6.3% for females. The highest prevalence for females was in the 15-17 age category at 8.5% vs. 8.0% for males.
How Do We Compare With the U.S.?In 2017, it was estimated that 7.6% of children in the U.S. had current asthma^*^. This was slightly higher than the estimated child asthma prevalence in Utah for that same year, 6.0% (2017 BRFSS).[[br]] [[br]] ---- ''^*^The U.S. prevalence is based on 25 states who asked about child asthma prevalence in their state BRFSS.''
What Is Being Done?The Utah Asthma Program (UAP) in conjunction with the Utah Asthma Task Force and other partners strive to maximize the reach, impact, efficiency, and sustainability of comprehensive asthma control services through providing a seamless alignment of the full array of services across the public health and health care sectors, so that people with asthma receive all of the services they need. The UAP focuses on three types of strategies to create and support a comprehensive asthma control program, these include: building infrastructure strategies to support leadership, strategic partnerships, strategic communications, surveillance, and evaluation; linking services strategies to expand school- and home-based services; and creating health systems strategies to improve coverage, delivery, quality, and use of clinical services. These strategies are expected to increase asthma control and quality of life, by increasing access to health care and by increasing coordination and coverage for comprehensive asthma control services both in the public health and health care sectors. Specifically, these strategies include identifying people with poorly controlled asthma, linking them to health care providers and NAEPP EPR-3 guidelines-based care, educating them on self-management, providing a supportive school environment, and referring to or providing home trigger reduction services for those who need them. The linkage function has the added benefit of bringing more people who might be high utilizers of emergency room and hospital services into primary care and also providing a resource for primary care providers to refer people for intensive self-management education and trigger reduction services when needed.
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THE murder of a female police officer in front of her daughter in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city and financial capital, has increased pressure on President Dilma Rousseff and local authorities to halt a drug-related crime wave in which dozens of police have died.
Marta Umbelina da Silva (44) was opening the garage in her home Saturday night when two assailants shot her ten times in the back, throat and abdomen, police said. Her 11-year-old daughter screamed for help and Silva, a mother of three, was taken to a nearby hospital, but she could not be revived.
More than half of the 90 police murders this year in greater Sao Paulo have occurred in similar execution-style fashion.
The root cause is an escalating, eye-for-an-eye battle between police and a notorious organized crime group known as the First Capital Command. The violence appears to have been triggered by a drug bust months ago, and then spiralled out of control due to campaign politics and alleged police brutality, among other factors, security officials told Reuters.
In just the past week, the city has seen a high-speed chase and deadly shootout on the Marginal Pinheiros, the main highway in the financial district; the arson of several buses; and the deaths of more than 50 civilians, including a 63-year-old man who was run over when a bus driver tried to flee attackers.
The bloodshed has so far been concentrated in poorer areas and has not caused major disruptions to Sao Paulo's business community. It also has not approached the mayhem seen in 2006 when the PCC, as the crime group is known for its initials in Portuguese, effectively shut down activity in the metropolitan area of 20 million people for several days with orchestrated attacks that left nearly 200 dead.
The overall murder rate in Sao Paulo has increased about 8 percent in recent months, to about 10 per 100,000 population, according to local media, meaning it is still less than half the Brazilian national average and comparable to US cities like Dallas and Boston.
Nevertheless, the violence has been an embarrassment for local and state officials as well as President Rousseff, who has struggled to contain a nationwide explosion in crack use - and related crime - in recent years.
It has also fed doubts over whether Brazil can guarantee sufficient safety for visitors during the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament, which is scheduled to open in Sao Paulo.
"The state can't ignore this war anymore," Olimpio Gomes, a legislator in Sao Paulo state and a 29-year police veteran, told reporters at Da Silva's funeral on Sunday.
Conscious of the growing public outcry, Rousseff offered to send in the army, which has successfully fought traffickers in Rio de Janeiro. Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin rejected that idea on Tuesday, saying the state's 130,000-strong police force already has enough manpower. But he accepted her offer to transfer some PCC leaders to maximum-security federal prisons, where it could be harder for them to coordinate violence.
Officials on the front line of the conflict say the bloodletting appears far from over.
"I fear there's a tremendous amount of revenge still to come," said Marcelo Alexandre de Oliveira, a prosecutor and specialist in organized crime who is investigating police murders. "These are people with nothing to lose."
Oliveira said violence intensified following the arrest of several mid-level drug dealers with links to the PCC. The group was particularly unhappy that police used surveillance video from a supermarket in eastern Sao Paulo to help nab the criminals - an apparent violation of "protocol" that the PCC felt compelled to severely punish, Oliveira said.
The PCC responding by threatening, and then killing, police officers, Oliveira and other sources said.
Several police murders were followed by a rash of civilian deaths in nearby areas in the next 24 hours. Human rights groups say the pattern suggests that in some cases, police or affiliated "death squads" are avenging their fallen comrades - a common practice in Brazil, and one that tends to enrage communities and reduce cooperation with police.
The cycle of killings has gotten progressively worse. Gomes, the Sao Paulo legislator, wrote on his blog that the PCC has ordered its associates to execute one police officer for every PCC leader who goes to jail - and two police officers for every PCC member who is killed.
The PCC has also begun accepting the murder of police officers as payment for drugs from low-level dealers, two sources with knowledge of the situation said.
The response has been complicated by national politics. Alckmin, the Sao Paulo governor, is the leading figure in the PSDB, the main opposition party to Rousseff's government. He has made the 70 percent decline in Sao Paulo's murder rate over the past decade one of his signature issues, and stated on Oct. 1 that the PCC is the subject of considerable "myth."
One source told Reuters that Sao Paulo officials were hesitant to ask for federal help prior to the second round of nationwide mayoral elections on Oct. 28, in part because of concern that accepting a "bailout" on security could damage PSDB candidates in those and future elections.
A spokesman for Alckmin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Rousseff has not escaped scrutiny either. Federal spending on security fell 21 percent in 2011, the first year of her government, according to a study released today by Brazilian Forum on Public Security, a non-profit group.
"These police are vulnerable because they have few resources ... and we have a state structure that lets criminals walk out of prison," said Oliveira, the prosecutor. "It's a tragedy."


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