After months of negotiations, the City of Sioux Falls and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Lodge #1, have reached impasse in labor negotiations. The administration will ask the City Council to approve its last best offer at the December 18, 2018, meeting.
The City's last best offer included cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) of 2.5 percent for 2019, and 3 percent for 2020. The Sioux Falls Firefighters Association Union and American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) overwhelmingly passed similar economic packages and the City Council recently approved those contracts. Additionally, each member of the Police Department's Detective Bureau would receive a $500 incentive payment annually upon conclusion of one-year of service in that bureau in 2019 and 2020.
The City and Union fundamentally disagree over matters of compensation for officers and sergeants.
The FOP proposed receiving less than the City's last best offer in base wages for all members so that a limited group of members with longer tenure and specialty assignments would receive more pay. Under the FOP's proposal, a least senior officer without longevity or specialty assignments would only receive COLAs of 2 percent in 2019 and 2.5 percent in 2020.
As an example of the FOP's economic proposal, a FOP member with 25 or more years of service that was enrolled in two specialty assignments would receive as much as a 12.5 percent pay increase (2 percent COLA, 6 percent Speciality, 4.5 percent Longevity) over 2018 wage levels.
The FOP's proposed reduction in the overall COLA to all members would not offset the total additional cost required to pay for the FOP's desired longevity and specialty pay proposals. Additionally, the City was concerned the FOP proposals would create disincentives for Sergeants to promote to the management rank of Lieutenant due to pay compression issues and increase pension liabilities.
South Dakota Codified Law states that a public employer may unilaterally impose terms of its last best offer where a legitimate impasse exists. Given the impasse between the parties over the economic packages, the City is moving forward in a manner allowable under state law and will ask the City Council to approve implementing the terms of the City's last best offer which was bargained for in good faith at the bargaining table. If approved by the City Council, the economic terms will go into effect by January 14, 2019, (first pay period of 2019) which is the same time as the other respective labor contracts.


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Milwaukee Wire EDM Machine Shop Large Production Contract Job Expansion Launched
CAM Technologies Inc, a Milwaukee-area wire EDM specialist, has announced their facility expansion, making the workshop capable of catering to large production machining contract jobs.
Muskego, United States - January 15, 2020 /NewsNetwork/ —
CAM Technologies Inc, a wire EDM (electrical discharge machining) company based near Milwaukee in Muskego, Wisconsin, has announced their facility has expanded and can now cater to much larger production contract jobs.
For more information visit: http://www.camtechnologiesinc.com
Recently launched, the CAM Technologies facility expansion has included the addition of 6,000 square feet of workshop floor space. This has enabled the company to house 12 high-speed wire EDMs and two EDM micro hole drilling stations. So, while the team at CAM Technologies is not a large-scale operation, the skilled team can now tackle much larger production contract jobs with precision and provide an even higher quality of workmanship along with quick turnaround.
Taking pride in their exceptional customer service and attention to detail, CAM Technologies Inc assists their customers through every phase of their project, from prototyping to production runs. The company also adheres to customer schedules so that deadline and schedule success is assured.
Wire EDM capabilities at CAM Technologies suits difficult to machine parts or materials for molding components, stamping dies, prototyping, aerospace, and medical materials. EDM micro hole drilling, on the other hand, can place holes in conductive, soft or hardened materials.
CAM Technologies Inc has been in business for nearly 24 years with about half of that time in their current location. The company services Muskego, Waukesha, Milwaukee, and the surrounding areas of southeastern Wisconsin and Chicago.
When asked about the expansion, a representative for CAM Technologies Inc said, "The addition of more square feet to the facility means we could increase the number of EDM machines we had in the workshop. This increased capacity allows us to fulfill larger orders with greater precision."
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Globes carpet kicks off with big sleeves and shades of pink
NEW YORK — Cynthia Erivo and Greta Gerwig rocked sparkling chokers as the Golden Globes red carpet kicked off Sunday, with Erivo in a hand-beaded custom Thom Browne gown and Gerwig in black and cream. Both went off-shoulder for the big night in Beverly Hills, California. Erivo, the "Harriet" star and fashion standout, said her dress includes designs of her favorite flower, the peony, at the hem and in her lining. The short-sleeve gown, Erivo told E!, took 800 hours. A huge blue stone dropped from her short necklace. Shades of pink had an early trend moment on Kirsten Dunst...
Solidarity march against anti-Semitism, acts of hate
NEW YORK — Throngs of demonstrators joined by elected officials walked solemnly across the Brooklyn Bridge in a solidarity march Sunday against anti-Semitism and all acts of hate. The "No Hate, No Fear" march was organized by New York's Jewish community in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including a knife attack at a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City that left five people wounded and a fatal shootout at a kosher grocery in Jersey City, New Jersey. The crowds of participants jammed the streets in lower Manhattan as they waited their turns to get across the bridge. "It...
Judge: No slander in Alec Baldwin's comments on parking spat
NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin didn't slander a man in interviews about a parking dispute that turned physical, a judge has ruled as dueling lawsuits between the actor and the other driver continue. Baldwin's remarks — including claims that Wojciech Cieszkowski's driving was "really fast," "really aggressive" and made the actor think his wife and son were about to be run over — were "hyperbole" and "rhetorical illustrations," Manhattan judge David B. Cohen wrote Thursday. "They are words of frustration with someone's driving," not accusations that amount to slander, Cohen wrote. He tossed out Cieszkowski's slander claim, but his assault...
Innovative fashion designers lead the way on sustainability
LONDON — Innovative fashion designers are turning to such things as horseradish and nettles to make sustainable clothing and accessories to the delight of a growing number of buyers. While more consumers are paying closer attention to how the production of goods impacts the environment, old habits die hard. A buy-and-toss mentality persists despite a boost from celebrities helping to drive the upcycle and vintage movements. Actress Maggie Q, who created an activewear line from recycled fabrics, is among activists who see plenty of room for improvement. She says she feels "sick about fast fashion.'' "You hear people say, 'Well,...
Streep, Miranda and Stone are named as Met Gala co-0chairs
NEW YORK — Next year's Met Gala may be the closest we'll ever come to getting a Miranda Priestly moment at the starry event. Meryl Streep has been named as a co-chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Oscar-winner played Priestly, a thinly veiled fictional version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, in the movie "The Devil Wears Prada." Wintour clearly has no hard feelings because she selected Streep as a co-chair along with Lin-Manuel Miranda and fellow Oscar-winner Emma Stone. Designer Nicolas Ghesquiere rounds out the group. The gala's theme is "About Time: Fashion and Duration," which...
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Стафилины шейкогрудые () — род жуков-стафилинид из подсемейства Oxytelinae (триба Thinobiini). Встречаются в Старом Свете: Палеарктика, Африка, Юго-восточная Азия, Океания. Более 400 видов. Предпочитают побережья рек. Обладают цилиндрическим телом и копательными ногами; живут в вырытых ими норках.

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I'm a military brat, and proud of it.
grandmother. She also served. All saw war, though not all saw front-line combat.
I never considered myself as part of a subculture, but I suppose it's true. Being America's oldest subculture makes sense, as the United States Army turns 241 today. Since America' birthday is considered to be 4 July 1776, the United States Army is actually a year older than the country.
A few sources, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, estimate the number of soldiers who died serving the United States since the American Revolution to be 1.1 to 1.3 million. Since I don't think the numbers include those who died at a later date due to wounds received or disease contracted, I'm leaning toward a number even higher than 1.3 million.
As you might imagine, soldiers of the United States Army figure dearly in those numbers.
times of war and peace define the character of this great nation.
is the strategic land power of the joint force; called upon to prevent, shape, and win against our adversaries."
conventional, asymmetrical, or full spectrum combat operations."
Happy 241st Birthday, U.S. Army! I am forever grateful for your service, and deeply humbled by your sacrifice.
Wow. This brought tears to my eyes. I agree that military families also sacrifice. Thank you for making this point. Duty, service, honor - these infuse our nations heroes and their loved ones to a tremendous degree. We need to treat our veterans a thousand times better.
Thank you for this. And for your family's service/sacrifice. Best wishes!
I so much appreciate the comment, Darla. It's nice to know it was read and received.


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Africa, Environment-Climate, Evangelicals, Godbeat, International News, LGBTQ, Mainline, Marriage & Family, Methodists, Mormons, Nones, Politics, Race, Richard Ostling, Same-sex Marriage, Vatican, World Religions
Yet more forecasting on what to expect in religion news and trends during 2019
Those who read GetReligion on Dec. 20 (thereby postponing their holiday chores) may recall The Religion Guy's list of the big three religion news themes for the new year:
(1) Ongoing debate over using the CRISPR technique to create human "designer babies" and manipulate genes that will be passed along to future generations. (The Guy – uniquely -- also proclaimed this the #1 religion story of 2018.)
(2) How Catholic leaders cope with multiplying cases of priests molesting minors, both at Pope Francis' February summit and afterward. And don't neglect those Protestant sexual abuse scandals.
(3) Reverberations from the United Methodist Church's special February General Conference that decides whether and how to either hold together or to split over same-sex issues.
On the same theme, Religion News Service posted a longish item New Year's Eve headlined "What's coming for religion in 2019? Here's what the experts predict." This was a collection of brief articles commissioned from a multi-faith lineup. It turned out to be one of those ideas that seemed better in the story conference than in the resulting copy.
Understandably, no panelist expected an end to the persistent Catholic scandals.
Otherwise, the pieces predicted things like this:
Tagged: CRISPR, United Methodists, RNS, Religion News Service, climate change, LDS, ReligionLink, Kelsey Dallas, religion:all, Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, The Economist, missionaries
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Nix 'Mormon' talk in news! How can media handle major faith's unreasonable plea?
The venerable Mormon Tabernacle Choir has announced that it is now named "The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square." (Will newswriters trim that to "Tabernacle Choir"?)
Reason: President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has declared that "the importance of the name" that God "revealed for His Church," means believers and outsiders must drop "Mormon" and use that full nine-word name. (Copyreaders will note: definite article with capital T, hyphen, lower-case d.)
Church scriptures say this name was given to founder Joseph Smith, Jr., on April 26, 1838, the same day God granted him "the keys of this kingdom."
Nelson, a former surgeon who became Smith's successor as prophet in January, even asserts that use of "Mormon" is "a major victory for Satan." He admits "it's going to be a challenge to undo tradition of more than 100 years," but change is "non-negotiable" because "the Lord wants it that way."
The faith will lose something, because the "Mormon" people have long built up respect for their nickname through upright and neighborly living. Indeed, the church spent serious money on an image-boosting "Meet the Mormons" movie and "I'm a Mormon" ads.
The name game is a blame game that puts the media in a bind, as news executives said after Nelson's August edict, so The Religion Guy adds some guidance to GetReligion's prior article and this tmatt interview with an LDS journalism professor.
Obviously, The Guy gave this perennial problem considerable thought in co-authoring the book "Mormon America" with his late wife Joan.
The Associated Press Stylebook deems the long-ingrained "Mormon" label acceptable — although it originated with 19th Century antagonists — and was only gradually adopted by the believers themselves.
Since "Mormon" is no slur for 21st Century audiences, what's going on here?
Tagged: Mormons, Joel Campbell, Brigham Young, Mormon Tabernacle, LDS, AP, Associated Press Stylebook, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell Nelson, Joseph Smith
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When a 12-year-old Mormon says she's gay, CNN is all over it. But is this really a news story?
Just in time for Pride Week or Pride Month, we have a story from CNN about a 12-year-old girl coming out to her Latter-day Saints congregation. On May 7, a girl named Savannah stood up during a service to give a brief speech about being a lesbian.
After about three minutes, the leaders turned off her mic and asked her to sit down.
Since then, the story of the girl from Eagle Mountain, Utah, has spread, culminating in an article on CNN a few days ago.
There are all kinds of journalism challenges in this story: The big questions are whether the CNN team is actually interested in what is going on right now, in terms of Mormons adapting some -- repeat, "some" -- of their doctrines to the LGBTQ age. Also, there is this: How stable is the sexual identity of a 12-year-old female?
Let's work our way through this:
(CNN) Savannah, 12, made a decision this January; she was going to come out as lesbian at her Mormon Church. Nothing was going to stop her.
She's a normal almost-teenage girl in Utah: She loves to draw and make art. When she grows up, she wants to be a Disney animator. Her favorite bands are Imagine Dragons and Fall Out Boy.
On June 22, 2016, one day after her birthday, Savannah came out to her parents as lesbian. Mom had suspicions and knew that day might come.
"I looked at her and said, 'OK, I love you. And I'll support you no matter what you do,'" said Heather, her mother.
The family felt strongly that they didn't have the right to prevent Savannah from telling her story publicly, including sharing it with CNN, but asked that their hometown and last names be withheld to give them a measure of privacy.
The story went on to describe -- quoting printed documents, of course -- Mormon policy on same-sex relationships.
Tagged: Mormons, gays, Savannah, LDS, CNN
Ethics, Joe Carter, Journalism, Mormons, People, Pop Culture
Mormonism is a religion, not just a culture
For people serious about their faith, religious beliefs tend not only to influence other types of beliefs but they tend to be presuppositional. Believers adopt particular cultural and political beliefs because of their religious views. For example, an evangelical who believes that abortion is wrong tends to adopt cultural and political views that flow from their religious convictions. Not all evangelicals oppose abortion rights, of course, and even those that do may have developed their position on the issue apart from their religious views. But those who are pro-life tend to be so in a way that is different than those who developed a secular-minded opposition to abortion.
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Upcoming North American Tour Announcement...?
October 21, 2014 in Newswire
While on Carnivores Tour, we heard a few rumblings about an upcoming winter arena tour in North America for Linkin Park. However, we heard the exact same thing on Honda Civic Tour 2012 (before the scrapped European Fall Tour that year) and the tour didn't end up happening as Linkin Park went to New Zealand and then Australia for Soundwave instead.
A few things have been mentioned about a North American Tour next year. In the September 18th LPU Chat with Joe, someone asked if the band would be doing another USA tour after the European shows for The Hunting Party, to which he replied, "yes."
Most recently, FOH Online did a great press piece on the Linkin Park crew that has quote of "Next up, we're doing arena tours in Europe with the same P.A., rehearsing in late October and performing in November. Then shows in Brazil and there's some talk of another U.S. arena tour in January."
And way back in fall 2013, Chester mentioned to radio that Linkin Park was preparing a North American Tour for 2015. While some of these simply just mention a tour of the continent in 2015, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that they would do an arena tour since the summer amphitheaters were covered on Carnivores. The band has also yet to hit other markets such as Asia and Australia (perhaps the Middle East as well) for The Hunting Party. It will have been four years since they had last played at Madison Square Garden and four years since a North American tour of arenas.
Linkin Park usually announces these shows only a few months before instead of much earlier like a summer tour. The last arena tour in North America for A Thousand Suns was announced on November 15, 2010. That time period is approaching rapidly and also falls in the middle of the upcoming European Tour, so time will tell.
As far as other rumors go, the Multishow broadcasters for the Belo Horizonte, Brazil webcast mentioned that Linkin Park is rumored to headline Rock In Rio 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between September 18th and 27th and that they could also perform in Sao Paulo around the same time. A European Tour for next summer (August time frame) is rumored - specifically, a return to Germany. The band's first show in India as well as an Asia and Australia run is expected in mid-to-late 2015.
felipeintheend
I dont see any chance for Lollapalooza if RiR get into the negotiation. Of course they has more power.
I think a US Arena Tour in January/February/March time slot would be great, it'd be cool if they played some B cities like they did in 2008 instead of all major cities like with the 2011 tour. I'd definitely go to Madison Square Garden and other east coast shows.
Edited October 21, 2014 by Geki
February/March/April - North America Tour with Mexico
May - Las Vegas
July/August - Europe Tour
September - Asian Tour
October - Australian Tour
LeonardoMF93
Ohh no! I don't want an Arena Tour in North America. I planning to travel to US in the middle of the year to see them in NY. They never play in New York City, just in some cities near by. I hope they announce an Asian or Australian Tour for the beginning of the year and then an American Tour for May, June or July.
Multishow belongs to Globo group, one of the partners of Rock in Rio, so I think they have credibility to talk about that. They helped to bring the festival to Brazil in 2011 after 10 years. It's a reliable source.
Agree. I think that's more believable to see LP playing at Rock in Rio than Lollapalooza. It's more economically attractive and the RIR executives worked with the band in a lot of opportunities in the past (3 in Lisbon and now in US).
But it's good to say: Lollapalooza and Rock in Rio don't work with contracts of exclusivity, so it's a possibility to see them playing in both festivals. It's hard to believe that this gonna happen but it's not impossible. I bet they will be playing at Rock in Rio and not at Lollapalooza. One thing we an say for sure: The band was consulted by both and we have 90% of chances to see them in the stage of one of those festivals.
Edited October 21, 2014 by LeonardoMF93
Ohh no! I don't want an Arena Tour in North America. I planning to travel to US in the middle of the year to see them in NY. They never play in New York City, just in some cities near by.
Pretty much the only way to see them now directly in NYC is Madison Square Garden.
And Best Buy Theater...
but they won't play that on a regular tour, there are other small venues but they won't play them. If they do an arena tour it's MSG, if they do an amphitheatre tour in the summer it will be Wantagh.
I see. Isn't possible a LP concert in NYC in another place?
So probably I will have to go from NYC to another city to see them. That's not good.
LPFreak64
If there isn't a Nashville/Atlanta/Birmingham date in Jan - Mar, I think I'll go crazy.
Hopefully there will be a couple of good openers and I'll explode. If not, I'll do MFR.
Really hoping for a good middle band with an album release within the last year (Chevelle, Flyleaf, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Nonpoint, Adelitas Way) and then an up-&-coming band that is starting to get radio airplay, and need a big tour to launch them even higher (You Me at Six, Nothing More, Starset).
They'll never play Alabama I bet they play Nashville.
hahahhaha It would be great for you
Maybe 2 or 3 shows in Mexico would be awesome
LP is a huge band, so they aren't going to play small venues or obscure places unless they intentionally want to do so. LP wanted an intimate venue in 2010, so that is why they chose the Best Buy Theater. On a regular tour, Linkin Park is going to play places more like Madison Square Garden because they know they can sell the tickets and bring in way more people. Chester said it best during MTV The Ride. He said when they dropped Meteora, they had to basically start over again, going from selling out huge arenas and stuff to having to play smaller places with less people, which they didn't enjoy as much. Madison Square Garden is a great venue, though, I have only been there once to see LP, but I recommend it to anyone that has the opportunity to go.
lakersfan13
This is the one I've been waiting for. With a lot of effort and moving things around, I was able to pull off 5 shows this summer. I'll probably do less shows this time around because arena shows end up being farther from each other IMO, but getting to the shows should take little effort with a lot of free time.
Also DC101 has been playing a lot of LP leading up to their "Big Announcement" at 2:10. One can hope something will come out of it. Probably not though. EDIT: Nope it's Foo Fighters playing a club show.
Edited October 21, 2014 by lakersfan13
I get it. So I will have to prepare my backpack to travel some miles from NYC to another city next year.
No because they will likely play MSG. Wantagh is really hard to get to from NYC.
Tyleronlplive
Just hoping they don't do 90% of the same cities as they did for Carnivores. I'd kill for Pittsburgh and some smaller cities.
And hopefully some new setlists will be made for the tour.
Butnhonestly, the band needs some time between tours. The ATS world tour took a toll on them, especially Chester.
I won't be able to travel for a Winter Tour, only in May, June or July. That's the problem.
Really? I saw that I can take the Babylon (I think that's a train) somewhere near Manhattan and then a cab in the Wantagh Avenue. It doesn't look so hard. I know it's far away but it looks so simple.
This is all just speculation anyways. I'd wait for an official announcement from the actual band to rule anything out travel wise.
It's not that hard but you definitely have a really hard time with amphitheaters without a car, public transport to those doesn't really exist. Getting a cab back might be a problem with all the after show traffic, and is going to be expensive if you are stuck in traffic. Arenas are usually directly in the major city centers, so that is a plus. Amphitheaters are not in cities, they are in tiny little shitty towns, and not even in walking distance from there.
That is a lot easier to do in the Summer. US Arena Tour is usually in the winter and if you're on the east coast, that can suck. I remember waiting to get into the TD Arena or whatever in Boston back in 2011 and it was literally like 5 degrees out in the middle of a huge blizzard, and that was just to get into the venue.
I'll totally do MSG, should they be playing a show there. Susquehanna Bank Center is also an option (it can function as an arena in the winter months).
I think if we just look at the schedule of the 2008 and 2011 arena tours, we have an idea of most of the places the band will be playing. I wouldn't go back as far as 2004 or prior, because LP is arguable a bigger band now and has a lot of respect from people in terms of their live show. For the east coast, I would say TD Garden (Boston), Madison Square Garden (New York), Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville) and Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester, NH) are all places that I would attend. Then you have stuff like Montreal, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, etc. as well but those are pretty far from me. I couldn't really see them doing Manchester, NH again for some reason, I think they would probably rather just do Boston since they are so close to each other and the TD Garden is a more well known venue. Madison Square Garden is probably guaranteed basically if they do an arena tour. Not sure about Mohegan Sun Arena, but maybe. I'll probably do 2 shows and try for 3 if I'm lucky.
Yeah, I'm fucked anyway.
Ahh by the way, LP and Metallica will be playing at the same day at Rock in Rio USA, according to José Norberto Flesch, one of the best journalists in Brazil.
He is the same person who confirmed before the official announcement the concerts in Belo Horizonte, Brasilia and the South American Tour 2012.
Link: https://twitter.com/jnflesch/status/524613238840127488


Anyone should be able to quickly recognize the following scenario either as a manager or as an employee: Deadlines are closing, uncertainties are abundant and a certain employee, you had handed down an assignment a week ago to, keeps coming back with questions that make you wish you had done it yourself and saved that precious time.
Another relevant scenario is the perfectionist employee trying to find a perfect solution to a practical problem unable to accept time and money constraints.
Usually these scenarios end in conflict, shouts and frustrations for both sides. Expectations where no met for neither of them. The employee had expected guidance and tutoring and the manager expected results.
I feel many employees don't fully understand how powerful a solution oriented mind set can be or how much frustration an unsecure or perfectionist employee might generate. The purpose of this post is to convey my perception of what is maybe the most important trait an employee can have: a solution oriented mind set.
This dream employee will be an asset to any organization. It's really much simpler than it sounds. I believe the basic guideline to becoming solution oriented is to come back with results, not only more questions.
How do we make this miracle happen?
One of the first things you understand when you become a manager is to accept trade-offs. You can't have everything, you can't eat a cake and leave it whole, you can't light a candle on both ends, and you get the point.
Perfectionists don't understand tradeoffs or are willing to make sacrifices their managers won't. The golden rule of 80%/20% applies here as well. You'll usually get 80% done in 20% of the time. The remaining 20% will usually take 80% of the time.
Accepting less than perfect solutions is an important first step in being able to produce viable practical solutions in shorter times.
For some reason we have a natural tendency to complicate things. Every single problem can be further complicated with each further complication messing things up even more.
For example consider building an excel sheet which is supposed to be used for budgetary planning. You could choose to look at an ordinary or average family and quickly build a rough sketch and have something to present quickly enough. You could also start researching every expense that was ever made trying to cover every option instead of just adding "Other Expenses". This might not be perfect but it's simplified and more importantly: it's ready.
1. What is the higher purpose of this assignment?
2. How do I get it done without losing myself in the process?
Nothing is as complicated as it seems. Everything can be simplified and taken from there. Even presenting your perception of the problem or a very rough and initial solution shows you are solution oriented and your manager will thank you for doing some thinking and sparing him that precious time.
A very important part of a solution oriented approach is to get something done. Try to resist the urge to return empty handed with more questions and get something done either on a piece of paper, an excel sheet or an assembly line.
Managers like to see results but they appreciate effort as well. If you're trying you've got it half made. No one can ignore a tangible effort.
An initial solution is better than nothing. It's something to work and improve on. It's much easier for a manager to guide and tutor with something tangible. Asking questions or clarifications with nothing to talk about but the general concept of the problem is not helpful and is perceived as time consuming and sometimes as lazy.
Be optimistic. Believe in solutions. I'm not trying to sell "success in 21 days" books but there's a certain attitude required to becoming solution oriented. You've got to believe there is a solution.
It might be weak or partial but it's better than nothing. You'll be surprised how a change of attitudes or behavior can influence your believes (through cognitive dissonance for example).
The best thing you can do is come up with several solution outlines you're not sure about and presenting them for your manager to decide. You're not only on the right way to solving the problem and completing the assignment you're also giving your manager exactly what he expects: Decisions to make.
These rough solution outlines, together with an initial sound recommendation are priceless and so are the employees that can put them together.


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A few years ago, I wrote an article titled "Nine Mistakes in Retirement Planning," which discussed some common strategic errors that some people may make that leave them short of their financial goals for retirement.
Fast forward to today: has anything changed? Not really—lots of people are still making these same mistakes.
Retirement is supposed to be the time of life when people finally have the opportunity to pursue all the interests they may not have had time for during their working years. Yet many people are putting their comfortable retirement at risk every day by the financial decisions they make, and just don't realize it.
Saving in a company's 401(k) plan is often one of your best savings opportunities because it grows tax-free until you take the money out after you retire.
Consideration should be given to balancing your portfolio between stocks, bonds and cash. In addition, diversifying within the asset classes into small vs. large cap stocks, or growth vs. value, may help to create an efficient portfolio.
No matter how good your company is, various outside factors like a changing economic landscape or increasing competition can drive its stock price down.
Individuals who handle their own investments often let emotions cloud their judgment. An experienced advisor takes the emotion out of investment decision-making.
An investment plan should define your risk tolerance and the appropriate investment vehicles. The best plans are created — and followed — in partnership with a financial advisor.
Recent economic conditions point to a work force that is putting off what they thought was going to be their retirement date. Make a realistic assessment of when you are going to retire; this affects your current asset allocation strategy.
A cash position can help alleviate a lot of stress concerning your income; and may help prevent you from being forced to sell good investments in bad markets.
Longer life-spans stretch retirement accounts. Over time, inflation and taxes will erode a retirement account's buying power. Too often retirees become too conservative and don't invest enough in equities.
Non-qualified IRA distributions, before the year you turn 59½, incur a 10% penalty. You will not incur this tax, however, if you create a distribution plan to take "substantially similar" payments over the longer period of 5 years, or until you reach age 59½.
Making any of these mistakes may damage a lifetime's worth of retirement planning. When your money has to last the rest of your life, avoiding unnecessary risk may be as important as choosing how to invest it in the first place.
Nadav Baum, Executive Vice President, BPU Investment Management, Inc., can be reached at nbaum@bpuinvestments.com.
The Information contained herein is not intended to provide any specific investment or tax advice. A qualified tax professional should be consulted prior to finalizing any planning decisions. The information presented is intended solely to bring into perspective for consideration the availability of certain planning strategies that might be beneficial. An appropriate recommendation can only be made after proper consultation to determine if any of the strategies are right for you.


The Meeting of the Minds Dementia Conference is the premier dementia conference for people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or early dementia, families, friends and professionals. The conference is a collaboration between the Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota Chapter and Mayo Clinic, who work together to create a day designed to inform, equip and support persons with dementia, family caregivers and professionals. Every year national, regional and local presenters come together to ensure an innovative and insightful conference for the 1,300 participants and over 70 sponsors and exhibits.


Circuit Winkel Bible Studies are prepared by the LCMS Praesidium and Council of Presidents for pastors to use during their circuit meetings. The studies, which are funded by a $200 grant from each LCMS district, are designed to help pastors grow in God's Word and to strengthen relationships within circuits.
Questions and comments may be directed to the series general editor, Rev. Mark W. Love.
The Lord inspired St. Paul to write three letters specifically for pastors, one for Titus and two for Timothy, and we get to look over their shoulders to read them as well.
Without a doubt, we live in times "when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions" (2 Tim. 4:3). So, how will we help one another "always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry" (2 Tim. 4:5)?
Our circuit pastoral conferences (circuit "winkels") were originally designed for that purpose. We offer the 2018-19 Bible study series with the prayer that you may thereby be renewed in the gifts of the Spirit for the pastoral ministry.


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A Report on the properties of the YHDC SCT006 current transformer and its suitability for use with the OpenEnergyMonitor system.
The YHDC SCT006 current transformer is manufactured by Beijing YaoHuadechang Electronic Co., Ltd. It has no internal burden resistor, but a transient suppressor diode limits the output voltage in the event of accidental disconnection from the burden.
All tests were carried out at 50 Hz. For the tests, the CT primary consisted of 1 or 5 passes of insulated 16/0.2mm wire. For currents below about 0.5 A, the 0.68 Ω resistor was supplemented by an additional series rheostat so that a higher voltage could be applied to allow finer control of current.
(Note: The current exceeds the rating of the wire used for the primary, but as the coil is loosely bunched except where it passes through the transformer core, and because each test is of relatively short duration, heating is not a problem).
The primary current was monitored by the 0.33 Ω shunt. The potentiometers, current limiting resistor and diodes in both the shunt and the CT outputs are to protect the computer sound card from over-voltage and switching transients, the potentiometers were adjusted such that the voltage did not exceed 1.0 V peak and at this voltage, the diodes do not affect the shape of the monitored waveform. To ensure minimum phase differences between channels, both potentiometers were adjusted to give exactly the same voltage with the same input (i.e. both potentiometers fed from the same source in parallel).
When the shape of the waveform was of interest, the primary current and CT voltage waveform were recorded using a software oscilloscope (Soundcard Oscilloscope from http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en) and the recorded waveform imported into a spreadsheet for analysis.
It is not easy to examine the internal components without damaging the c.t. It is evident that a transient suppressor diode or similar device is connected across the secondary winding, as the output is clipped at about 15.8 V p-p.
The current arrow represents current flowing in the direction of the arrow moulded into the base of the c.t, then the plug tip is positive with respect to the sleeve.
The ring of the plug is not connected.
Two samples of the CT were checked. The currents were measured by the voltage dropped by the meter shunt in the primary circuit, and by the burden voltage in the secondary circuit. Both were calibrated against a true rms digital multimeter. For the 'upper' range of currents, so as to satisfactorily illustrate the effect of saturation, the primary current was set in steps of 1 A from 10 A up to 25 A. For the 'lower' range of currents expected of smaller appliances, the primary current was set following approximately exponential steps from 20 mA to 10 A. Burden values of 22 Ω, representing the emonTx and emonPi, and 5 Ω (the manufacturer's specified maximum) were used. The specified minimum current is 10 mA, but measurements below 20 mA with the 22 Ω burden, and below 50 mA with the 5 Ω burden, were unreliable. It is worth noting that these represent voltages of 0.55 mV or 0.3125 mV respectively at the input of the ADC; when one ADC step is 3.22 mV.
The ratio (or linearity) accuracy is within acceptable limits up to 17 A, when used with a 22 Ω burden.
The maximum burden resistance specified by the manufacturer is just 5 Ω. The effect of increasing the burden resistance is to overload the c.t, resulting in early saturation of the core and, inevitably, distortion of the waveform. Distortion is becoming visible at little more than 6 A with a 120 Ω burden, and at 15 A with a 22 Ω burden. With a 5 Ω burden, both c.t's are good to the specified maximum current of 20 A.
The phase error was measured for 2 values of burden resistor. The values chosen were 22 Ω, the value used in the emonTx V3 & emonPi, and 120 Ω, which is the value used for the high sensitivity input of the emonTx V3. Phase errors with the 5 Ω burden were not checked, as this value is not realistically usable with the emonTx or emonPi. The phase error when used with the 100 A input is acceptable up to 16 A, where it starts to increase dramatically. When used with the high sensitivity input, the error is on the limit of acceptability over most of the working range of currents, and its use here for real power measurement is strongly discouraged.
When operated without an external burden, the core quickly saturates. The protective transient suppressor diode conducts at about 16 V peak-peak and this corresponds to a primary current of about 2 A. At this current, the core is clearly being driven well into saturation, and the errors are large.
The diode is not intended to nor will it protect the input circuitry of the ATMega 328 processor and this voltage could seriously damage or destroy the ATMega 328 chip.
The blue trace is output voltage, the yellow trace is the shunt voltage (primary current), the flattening is caused by large numbers of rectifier loads on the network.
Introducing an air gap of 0.04 mm in one side of the core caused the secondary current to fall by about 15%, and the phase error to increase to around 30°.
To measure this, a large coil of 20 turns carrying 5 A, oriented so as to simulate a parallel conductor carrying 100 A, was used. The current transformer under test was outside the coil. The equivalent current is the current that the CT would have measured in a conductor passing through the CT.
The YHDC SCT006 current transformer is suitable in limited circumstances for use with the emonTx and emonPi.
It cannot develop sufficient voltage to fully utilise the resolution of the Atmega 328 processor's analogue input, but it can offer an improvement over the SCT-013-000 on individual low-current circuits. The advantage over the 100 A c.t. is 2.5 times, significantly less than might be expected from the current rating alone and that, when measuring currents up to 16 A using the "100 A" inputs of the emonTx or emonPi, is roughly equivalent to having an 11-bit rather than the 10-bit ADC.
The c.t. is not recommended for use with the high sensitivity input of the emonTx. When used here, the phase error is on the limit of the range where it can be satisfactorily compensated by the correction mechanism of the standard pre-loaded sketches, and the maximum current is a little over 6 A, making it suitable only for measuring current (and not real power) in a lighting circuit or similar.


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Wing Keel Travails
by Gary Blankenship
It's surprising, at least to me, how many people become infatuated with sailing and boatbuilding, procure a design, and then with little to guide them but impetuosity proceed to make changes, including to hull and rig.
Then again experimentation is the necessary ingredient for advancing any art or science, but even when you supposedly know what you're doing, it's easy to get carried away. I've had lots of time recently to contemplate on whether I've crossed the boundary from careful innovation to reckless tinkering.
The experimental platform is a 30-foot custom Phil Bolger design (#457), Le Dulci-Mer, built and launched 17 years ago. The original goal was to develop a single-handed ocean racer suitable for the OSTAR, Because of family considerations, the race was impossible to do, but the boat was a joy to sail. It was refined over the years; the original 7-foot draft was shortened to 5.5 feet in deference to Florida Gulf Coast realities and the original dipping lug rig (which took three to five minutes to tack) was altered to a balanced lug, which is handy and can be raised, reefed and lowered from the cockpit. It costs some windward performance but gains on downwind runs.
Here's my boat as it was originally built, with the lower, shorter cabin, non-lowering mast, flush cockpit and the motor hung off a bracket in back. It's being sailed off Carrabelle in the St. George Sound. This picture is about 10 years old. (click to enlarge)
But after several years, I began to question the practicality of the boat. The still relatively deep draft meant the boat had to be kept an hour and a half away from home, and the ocean-going, low cabin meant less than five-feet of headroom. (Accommodations are spartan by anyone's standards, only two berths and barely room for a porta potty, but I've always liked the simplicity, if not the necessary stooping.) The cabin, with large Lexan windows for inside visibility, also was uncomfortably hot in the Florida summer. Essentially I was using the boat for day sailing and overnighting, which didn't seem a smart use of its capabilities.
I got to have lunch about five years ago with Bolger and his wife, Susanne, during a trip to the Boston area and in passing mentioned my reservations. In about 10 minutes, they had barnstormed a number of changes to address my concerns. I was hooked. A few months later, they sent the revised plans.
Detail of Wingkeel. (click to enlarge)
Basically, there were four major changes to Le Dulci-Mer:
• The cabin was lengthened and made higher. Also, there are hatches the entire length for ventilation. There are a couple cross beams, so it's not quite a Birdwatcher cabin top, but it's close. The cabin is a great success, improving the livability of the interior, although, alas, while it has character I don't think it's as attractive as the original.
• The mast was mounted in a tabernacle and made to pivot, eliminating the need for a crane to lower the mast. Except for one slight problem with the original design for the hoisting/lowering line, this has worked.
• The flush decked cockpit was overhauled. The outboard motor had been mounted on a bracket off the stern. That made it hard to get at, plus vulnerable to cavitation in the short chop of the Gulf. Bolger designed in a footwell, with a motor mount board at the back in an uncovered well. This moved the motor about two feet forward of the transom, requiring that the transom be cut in two. Bolger called for two shallow rudders on either side of the motor cutout; I've gone with one deeper rudder offset to starboard to save weight and also reuse the modified existing rudder.
This photo shows the modified boat, with the higher cabin and the fold down mast. The transom, at the far right remains unmodified, except for a shallower, wider rudder with an end plate. On the far left is a parital view of the old fin keel, on the ground to the right are the molded wings for the new keel, and the black and white thing above them is the new keel. The white is the epoxy undercoating and the black is bottom paint. The bar under the middle of the boat is the ballast control bar, the headboard and bar have already been installed here. (click to enlarge)
• The biggest change was to replace the keel. Rather than the former fixed fin, the keel would be shallower, would pivot like a centerboard, and the wings would cantilever, remaining parallel to the bottom as the keel retracts. It should be explained that the original keel, for construction simplicity, was mounted in a keel case that was similar to a centerboard case. The case, about 18 inches high, ran down the middle of the main cabin, and the keel was bolted in place to the case. The new plan call for raising the case, about two inches at the aft end and almost 30 at the forward end, to make room for the lifting keel. (Okay, so it's like a centerboard. But when it gets this heavy, 1,400 to 1,500 pounds total, I think of it as a moveable keel.) The cantilever mechanism was brilliant simplicity. The steel, air-foiled keel is hollow and free flooding, with openings on top and bottom. The foil-shaped wings — cast of lead — mount on a pivot about a third of the way back. An I-beam runs through the keel to a second pivot about two-thirds of the way back on the wings. The geometry is such that the I-beam cannot simply be attached to the headblock of the keel case; the wings would not maintain their proper orientation (parallel to the bottom) as the keel rotates up and down. To get the proper pivot, a triangular headboard was bolted perpendicular to the keel headblock and which actually extended through the hollow top of the keel. The I-beam, or ballast control bar, was fastened to this with a 3/4-inch pin, to allow free rotation. Draft was now about 4 feet 9 inches with the keel fully down and about 2 feet with it fully raised.
side view of the boat, giving a better idea of the hull shape. Again, the ballast control bar is visible under the hull. (click to enlarge)
Yep. It was a prototype. And perhaps surprisingly, everything worked. Of course, it didn't go perfectly. For one thing, there was no room for fine adjustments. To put the conglomeration together, the headboard had to be bolted on, then the ballast control bar attached, then the boat lifted up and lowered down on the upright keel, with the ballast control bar threaded through the middle. After the centerboard pin is installed (and lining it up is no small task), then the ballast wings, at 500 pounds each, have to be manhandled in place and slid on the (greased) forward pivot bar. Next the wings would have to be lined up with lower end the ballast control bar and the second pivoting pin slid into place. If anything wound up out of kilter, then the entire process would have to be reversed to make any adjustments.
And, of course, something did come out wrong. When it was all assembled, without too much trouble, the wings had a definite tilt up at the aft end. Most likely the problem was the installation of the headboard, which had to be done precisely but was handicapped by the 5.5-inch wide keel case. Ideally, the headboard would have been installed during the boat construction before the keel case sides, but in this instance, in retrofitting an existing boat, the sides were already in place.
Having been working on all the modifications, except for the cockpit, for over a year, I decided to forgo any attempt to fix it, since the tilt didn't seem too bad and it was angled to provide some lift while beating.
side view of the new keel, in its Elsie the Cow camoflage. On on the upper right, you can just make out the hole for the keel, or centerboard, pin, and the bar through the bottom of the mast is where the wings will mount. Note the opening at the top of the free flooding keel.
(My initial impression was it was about a 5 degree angle, but I was so rushed I didn't take time to measure. When I did measure the next time the boat was out, it came out at closer to 10 degrees.)
The second glitch became evident soon after leaving the boat yard. With the fixed keel, Bolger has specified fairing blocking inside the case and even with the boat bottom. They helped brace the fixed keel at the keel along the bottom and also streamlined the water flow — instead of a 5.5-inch gap, it was only ½ inch. The blocking was also a handy place to mount a depth finder transducer forward of the keel and a mechanical knot-log propeller behind the keel, without putting any holes in the hull (the necessary wiring ran through the top of the keel case, well above the waterline). Obviously with a keel that retracts like a centerboard, such solid fairing was not possible, and the keel case was entirely open on the bottom. The first thing I noticed after relaunching was a ruckus of water inside the aft end of the case. Not anticipating this problem, the caulking of the top of the keel case had been haphazard, and water spurted through the cracks at the aft end whenever the speed got over three knots. Better caulking fixed the seepage, but it was also obvious the extra drag was slowing the boat, anywhere from ½ to 1 knot was my best guess. Think about sailing at, say, five or six knots and then putting a 2 by 6 timber over the side, the flat face perpendicular to your course and about a foot deep (don't try this, you could get hurt!). That's the extra drag that had been added.
Le DulciMer at the dock on a recent rainy evening.
If those were the immediate problems, there were also some benefits. In the initial sails, the boat maintained her momentum much better through tacks. Leeway seemed reduced, although I never made any precise measurements. What wasn't closely checked right away were my tacking angles.
That was rectified in the course of an embarrassing race, albeit against fairly practiced racers. Previous casual contests with the original fin keel against the typical racer-cruisers at most marinas had established the boat was usually just a bit slower and not quite as close winded as those craft, but usually faster running and reaching. That day, in a two lap race, we got lapped. Before the boat had with attention, would do 100 degree tacks, and 110 degree tacks would be done with little attention. Ths time, the first real dedicated windward work with the new keel, it was difficult to make good 120 degree tacks, and the speed was obviously off.
top view of the keel (in our van), showing again the mounting bar and the bottom opening of the keel, through which the ballast control bat will pass.
Before the race began, I had heard a small bang on the boat, and had assumed it was some piece of rigging shifting or straightening a kink. Nothing seems to change about the boat. But after the race, I found a small leak had started around the front of the keel case. The miracle of underwater epoxy got the leaks stopped from inside, but I was surprised to find one of the leaks was around the lower of the two half-inch stainless bolts holding the headboard to the keel headblock.
It was a few weeks later before I thought to shine a flashlight down the opening at the top of the keel case cover where the lifting pendant exits. To my horror, the top of the ballast control bar headboard (which is above the waterline) had pulled almost 1/4-inch away from the keel case headblock. No wonder the bottom bolt, which is below the waterline, had leaked. It didn't appear to be an immediate danger of catastrophic failure, because I had been out sailing several times since, including partially raising and lowering the keel. But it was obvious repairs were needed.
Scheduling problems (and the fact the nearest boatyard is 38 miles away) gave me plenty of time to think about potential fixes. I also decided to make the cockpit and footwell changes that had been bypassed in the earlier renovations, and do something about the drag of the keel case slot.
the wing keel operating as originally designed. Here the keel is retracted about halfway, the wings are remaining parallel (more of less, there was actually an uptilt to the trailing edge that doesn't show in this pic) to the bottom of the boat.
The time finally came, and the boat was hauled and the work begun. After a couple days of hard work, the headboard was heavily caulked with 3M 5200 and the bolts refastened, and work on the cockpit modifications had begun. Because of a shortage of blocking, the boatyard had been unable to block the boat up high enough to allow the keel to be fully lowered. I had raised and lowered it as much as possible several times to test the fastenings with no problems. Now the yard Travelift came and picked it up so the keel could be lowered fully to allow some minor maintenance. I climbed inside, lowered the keel, and climbed outside and had one of my worst moments as a boat owner. The wings, which had been cocked up almost 10 degrees at the aft end, were now hanging down about 30 degrees. Something was obviously wrong. A check of the headboard showed this time it had pulled about three inches away from the keelcase headblock. It had failed catastrophically.
the wings hanging, somewhat forlornly I think, after the headboard and ballast control bar were removed after the headboard failure.
The triangular headboard was made of four layers of ½-plywood, sandwiched around 1/4-inch thick fiberglass T-beams along the edges of the two longest sides. Two D-shaped openings were cut into the board a couple inches behind the forward edge to allow the nuts to be applied to the thru-bolts. What had happened is the top bolt, complete with washers and nut, had pulled through the two-inch thick ply, which had more or less shattered. Apparently the force, which was applied against the ply's end grain, was too great.
There were three choices: 1) get a new headboard made out of heavy stainless steel (with at least eight bolts instead of two), and disassemble the wings and keel, and then put everything back together; 2) find a way to fix the wings in place so they no longer cantilevered. The keel could be retracted, but the wings would create more and more drag as the keel came up; or 3) remove the keel and the keel case and replace them with a shallow fin to enhance maneuvering, pull the mast and have a pleasant, if fairly low-speed, power boat.
a close-up of the remaining stub of the ballast control bar with two 3/8-inch bolts, set in epoxy. When the wings are in the proper position, the bolts will be in the keel cavity, which was filled with epoxy. There is also a failed plywood plate on the bottom of the wings with three half-inch bolts running into the cavity and embedded in the epoxy, which is 8-10 inches deep. (click to enlarge)
I picked the second option. Partly it was because that would be the easiest, but also it would allow better fairing where the wings meet the keel. Because the wings had to pivot, there was a gap between their inside edge and the keel, indeed it was nearly an inch wide at the forward end. I suspected turbulence there had at least some minor detrimental effect on boat speed. It would also allow me to get the wings as precisely as possible parallel to the waterline — goodbye out of kilter wings, which I also suspected had also contributed to drag.
Option 2 was the choice. Bolts were mounted in a faired plywood plate along the bottom of the wings, with the bolts extending into the keel cavity. The ballast control bar — which was still attached to the rear pivoting bar in the wings — was cut off. A couple bolts were mounted into the stub, which still reached into the keel cavity. The openings around the keel cavity were carefully sealed (using duct tape and expanding foam) and the bottom 8 to 10 inches of the cavity were filled with epoxy, locking the bolts into place. (Since the keel is no longer free flooding, the top also had to be covered.) It shows no weaknesses. Of course, the wings were carefully leveled to match the waterline before this was done. The last step was filling and fairing the gaps between the inboard edges of the wings and the keel. The minimum draft is now about 3 feet, with all kinds of turbulence as the wings are at a 45 degree or more angle to the water. I joke that it is the only sailboat with built-in brakes. In reality, the keel is only raised under power and at low tide (and then to about the four foot level) so I can get in and out of the channel that leads to the dock.
the keel in its final form, no longer pivoting. Note the fairing along the inside edge of the wings. You can make out two "spots" on the side of the wing. Those are the half-inch bolts (with big custom washers) that hold the wings on to the two bars. (click to enlarge)
Interestingly, immobilizing the wings does give a bit of control over the angle of the wings. They were installed to be level with the waterline when the keel is fully extended. If a degree of two of wing trim is desired to improve windward performance, the keel just has to be raised an inch or two. I look forward to experimenting with this.
As for the keel slot turbulence, strips of 1/8 by 4-inch rubber were screwed to each side of the bottom. The strips are cut out to match the profile of the keel in its full down position, but otherwise leave about a 1/4-inch gap in the middle aft of the keel. As the keel is raised, the rubber bends to allow it to retract, and then returns to cover the slot when the keel is lowered.
the cutout in the transom, hull bottom and the flush cockpit necessary to install the footwell and new motor mount. Yes, it is traumatic cutting up your boat like this.... (click to enlarge)
The new footwell and motor mount modifications were accomplished in a straightforward manner.
So how did it work out?
Well, the first thing noticed as the boat accelerated away from the boatyard was a lack of fuss in the keel case. The rubber strips (and probably fairing around the wings and the correcting of the canted wings) were doing their duty. And the boat felt much more alive. Before at half throttle, the speed had been 3 mph. Now it was 4 and even a little bit better. Top speed was a bit over 6 (this with a 30-year old Evinrude 6 hp outboard) — as good or maybe a bit better than with the old fin keel.
As for sailing, she feels much more lively, especially to windward. It's only been out twice, once on a light air day and once on a light to moderate breeze. Perhaps the most surprising trait is by the compass, she consistently did 90 degree tacks on both days. In fact, she could be pinched up, at a loss of speed, to do 80-degree tacks — something almost unheard of with four-sided sails. It's not clear that all to the good; the GPS indicated leeway on both tacks, but then we were sailing into a flood tide. I did see on one tack when we passed a racing buoy that the boat's wake drifted considerably to leeward, but I'm not sure if that was tide or surface drift. What's really needed is a day when the wind is blowing 90 degrees to the tidal current, or getting further out from shore where the current is less. Reaching and running speeds are good. We did 4 mph downwind with the remaining tail wind so light I could barely feel it.
the finished transom, although the details don't stand out in the white paint. (click to enlarge)
The new footwell takes some getting used to but makes sitting easier. The new motor arrangement is an unmitigated success. The motor is much easier to get at, start, control, and generally use. It's easy to throw both the motor and tiller hard over and turn the boat around in only a little more than its length — handy if tight maneuvers are needed in the 100-foot wide canal where the boat is docked.
What's been learned? It's still too early to reach any final conclusions about this wing keel. It does seem to help maneuverability, has apparently improved pointing ability and has given me a bit of a shoaler draft craft. The wing controlling mechanism had some teething problems, but I'm satisfied it can work. The next generation of this concept needs to address the stronger headboard for the ballast control bar, and a way to adjust the angle of the wings without disassembling everything; neither is an insurmountable problem. (Bolger in one drawing of the keel arrangement seemed to show an opening in the keel side by where the ballast control bar meets the headboard, but there were no written instruction on it. That would be one way to address the adjustment issue. There are, by the way, inspection ports above the water line in the keel case to allow access to various parts of the keel. I've already given my solution above for the headboard.)
the footwell and motor mount right after relaunch, while we're motoring home. The cockpit is still untidy from all of the boatyard work.
After many years of tinkering, both after the initial launch and after the recent revamping, the boat is nearly in its final form. I'm certain it will be more useable for its home waters, and hope to learn over the next few months how to get the best out of its sailing abilities. Perhaps there will a further report on that.
In the meantime, my interest in pivoting wingkeels has been stimulated. But if I do any more experimenting, it will be on a smaller boat where disassembly and maintenance can be done on a trailer at home, instead of a boatyard. Maybe a daggerboard with fixed wings. Or a small centerboarder. Or how about a leeboard with pivoting wings?????
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Missouri native Gregg Williams, who is the defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints will receive the University of Central Missouri's Distinguished Service Award during the undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 7.
Williams grew up in Excelsior Springs, MO, and attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University), where he earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1979. After graduation, he went on to earn a master's degree in education at the University of Central Missouri while serving as a teacher and coach at Belton High School in the early 1980s.


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O Esquadrão N.º 41 da Real Força Aérea (RAF) é um esquadrão de teste e avaliação, que se encontra na Base Aérea de Coningsby, em Lincolnshire. O seu título oficial é "41(R) TES". O esquadrão foi formado em 1916 durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial e serviu na Frente Ocidental como esquadrão de ataque terrestre e de combate aéreo. Extinto em 1919, voltou a ser formado em 1923.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial o esquadrão pilotou aeronaves Supermarine Spitfire e viu acção em Dunquerque e durante a Batalha da Grã-Bretanha; esta acção continuou até 1945, até ao cessar das hostilidades. Depois do final da guerra, permaneceu na Alemanha até 1946 como parte da ocupação. No pós-guerra, o esquadrão voltou a ser extinto em 1963 e re-criado em 1965 e 1970, período em que operou aeronaves a jato, de combate aéreo, de reconhecimento e de intercepção. Foi re-criado pela última vez em 1972 e mantém-se activo até aos dias de hoje, desempenhando desde 2010 funções de teste e avaliação de aeronaves.

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In this latest episode of Listen, Ladies, host Maryalice Aymong interviews Maggie Gray, a pioneer in digital sports broadcasting and sports social media. Gray is one-third of WFAN show, Carlin, Maggie and Bart and previously worked as lead anchor for all Sports Illustrated digital video productions. Gray has covered major sporting events, including the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the NCAA Final Four basketball championships, and she's reported on the NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, college football, horse racing, and boxing.
Listen, Ladies (LL): Why do you do what you do? How did you get into this work and why do you stay?
Maggie Gray (MG): So, I got into this because I really did and do love sports. If you don't love it, this would be an insufferable job and you would hate every second of your life. So, I really do love sports. It was a hobby of mine growing up. My mom always said that people say life is short, but life is actually very long, so if you don't like what you're doing, you're going to be miserable. And I loved sports. When I was in high school, I was keeping stats for the minor league hockey team in Binghamton, New York, and from there I went to the college radio station. There was just something about it—I always felt like I was in my element. I am the kind of person who really works off of fear, and something about when the red light goes on—there's this sort of anxiety that I actually love. It's weird. There's the performance aspect, and it is now or never—it's go time. I think I was born with a sense of urgency coming out of the womb, so it really gives me that fix every day. I know I'm going to be broadcasting, and I am going to be doing something. I got started at it at a very young age, in college and high school, and I just kept getting more jobs and kept working and had it going through the natural progressions of the industry. A couple of twists and turns, a couple of zigs and zags, and then I found myself here at WFAN.
LL: When you started this job and began to work on this show—in the press releases, it said Gray would be the first woman on WFAN's daytime schedule since 2001. You host the show with Bart Scott, a former (New York) Jets linebacker, and Chris Carlin, who spent several years at WFAN. Do you think about your voice as the one woman voice on the show? And on the day time schedule? Or do you not really need to think about that?
MG: I think it is kinda hard not think about it just because I know that I am going to have a different point of view, or potentially, I am going to have a different point of view that anyone else on the station. It is a little overwhelming sometimes when I try to think, 'I don't want to be speaking for every woman within earshot.' I do take it as a big responsibility for sure, not just for myself, but to try to bring that perspective that maybe people hadn't thought about because 99 percent of our audience is male. It is trying to bring them a different perspective that maybe they hadn't thought about. I am basically the one. There is also Laurie Rubinstein, who does a little. She does some overnights, and Kid Jones does fill-ins, and Susan Waldman does the Yankees. I feel like there is a lot of responsibility, like if I don't do a great job, or if I were to get exposed somehow, or like I couldn't handle the job, that's going to hurt the next woman who comes along. That shouldn't be the case. I can't help but think that if I went on the air and messed up, it could be a complete disaster and is that going to hurt the next woman who walks through the door and wants to show them that I can do this job, which has normally and always been all- male? That is a lot of it. That is a lot of what I am thinking about, not to overwhelm myself with it, but to keep that in mind. I am doing it for myself, but I am hoping that one day when I am gone from here, whenever that is, that they may want to fill my seat with another woman. And I would feel great about that, if I could help a little in that regard.
LL: What do you think about the fact that athletes do have such a big platform?
MG: It is such big business. When speaking out or not speaking out, guys often feel like they are making a business decision. They have to feel like if I do step outside what the normal confessions are for athletes, how am I going to be prepared to handle or deal with it? Some guys say, 'Bring it on. This is something I feel deep in my heart and soul, and I am willing to take a stand upward.' Other guys will say, 'Not for me. I would rather just play it down the middle and be as vanilla as I can possibly be because I do not want to share myself with the public in that way.' I think it is kind of both. As for the athletes and how much they're paid, it is abstract money. If the market and economy say that person is worth that amount, then I think they are worth it.
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MG: She's a public figure, who had a very public melt down, so the criticism is definitely fair. You are in this public space. You do this big thing and have this moment. The critics are going to come no matter what. She knows that more than anybody. So fair, unfair, it is just part of it. People are going to be critical. There was a lot there. I think women saw that exchange with the umpire very different than men did, or most men. I think women saw that differently because it did seem like there was a bit of a power struggle between her and the chair umpire. The frustration kept building and building and building. What is the job of the umpire? In my opinion it is to de-escalate a situation that could be brewing or feels like emotions are getting way too high. Instead, I felt like the umpire did not do that. We do this for men from athlete to athlete. Tom Brady is on the sidelines screaming at his teammates, and we say that he is "fiery," he has passion. Odell Beckham Jr. does it, and he is a distraction, he is immature, he is a head case. I think that we pick and choose from athlete to athlete whether we think their responses are appropriate or not, whether we feel like they are good winners or good losers, or whether they are classy, or whether they take the high road, or whether they are just caught up in the moment. We judge each athlete case by case. Sometimes I feel like it is unfair; sometimes I feel like it is totally warranted. But I feel like that is what happened with Serena. She's had issues with line judges before, and judges weren't able to just judge it on what it was at the time. I think that is part of this being in the public eye like that. Everyone is going to have an opinion, and I guarantee that she could have cared less about all of that. I really do. Your emotions are on 100, and it just took away from her opponent, who was also so overwhelmed with emotion. That was such a powder keg of crazy. But I do think some of the criticism she got was unfair. I thought it was coded like, 'women are hysterical,' which I don't like because a lot of times men don't get labeled as being that. They get labeled as being passionate or having a lot of heart. I think it is really hard for people to change their perspective about them. Especially when it gets in your brain that you think so-and-so is this way, then it is really hard to change people's minds. There are just certain athletes that, no matter what they do, (critics) will always bring up something negative they did in college or try to connect these dots. Imagine if people were doing that to regular people. With athletes, we try to build a narrative, and once it is built, it is very hard to change. I think LeBron James has changed it the most. After he left Cleveland and went to Miami the first time people were burning his jersey and calling him a traitor. He had a narrative that he was a villain and how dare he leave Cleveland to go to Miami. He goes to Miami, wins a couple titles there, goes back to Cleveland and wins a title there. He changed from being the villain back to the hero in this big way. He has done a lot to change his narrative, but for other people, I think it is really hard.


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By Gene Bisbee in Main Page, Other cycling
Specialized Bicycles is on the hot seat with bicyclists — many of whom say they're boycotting the company — after trademark attorneys for the US-based bike maker threatened to sue a war veteran in Canada.
Just one example of social media reaction to Specialized…
It looks like the company is backing down, however, after it initially alleged that Dan Richter's Cafe Roubaix Bicycle Studio near Calgary violates the trademark that Specialized holds on the model name of one of its road bikes — Roubaix.
The issue went viral on Saturday after a blog posting by Tom Babin at the Calgary Herald: "War vet forced to change bike shop's name after threat for U.S. bike giant Specialized."
Specialized backing down
The news unleashed a firestorm on the social media over the weekend, and by Monday night it looked like Specialized was rethinking its stance.
Richter posted on his Facebook page Monday night:
"We can announce that your voices have been heard. We are now back in discussions with the other party. We are aware of recent announcements by third parties within the industry.
"We thank you for your continued support….
"Over the weekend, we have received over 3500 emails, hundreds of phone calls and messages, how many #s and @s? Tweets? Do numbers go that high? Our little studio is just barely 900 sqft and cycling fans, cyclists, Velomintus, industry leaders & big shots, pro riders, and icons have all made their voice heard."
The "third parties" that Richter refers to is Advanced Sport International (ASI), which owns the Roubaix trademark and licensed it to Specialized in the United States in 2003.
ASI told Bicycle Retailer Monday night that Specialized "overstepped its bounds when it registered the Roubaix trademark in Canada and then tried to prevent a Calgary retailer from using the name."
ASI's CEO Pat Cunnane told Bicycle Retailer:
"We are in the process of notifying Specialized that they did not have the authority, as part of our license agreement, to stop Daniel Richter … from using the Roubaix name. While ASI does have the authority to object to Mr. Richter's use of the name and while we at ASI understand the importance of protecting our bicycle model names, we believe that Mr. Richter did not intend for consumers to confuse his brick-and-mortar establishment or his wheel line with our Roubaix road bike. And we believe consumers are capable of distinguishing his bike shop and wheel line from our established bikes."
Last weekend, Richter, who doesn't have the money to fight Specialized, said he didn't intend to boost his business by stealing the Roubaix name from Specialized. Instead, he named it after "a region in France that hosts one of the most famous bike races in the world, the gruelling 117-year-old Paris-Roubaix."
Richter, who served with Canadian forces in Afghanistan, told Babin:
"It's been frustrating. The response throughout this process (from Specialized) has been arrogant and almost unbelievably dismissive."
The story about the giant US company going after a small Canadian bike shop incensed readers, and the issue went viral on Twitter and Facebook over the weekend. Hundreds of Tweets supported Cafe Roubaix and attacked Specialized for being a bully.
It also brought up the sore subject of Specialized going after the tiny Epic wheel works company in Portland a few years ago, as Epic also is the trademark of bike model. More bizarre is Specialized's action against a Portland-based bike builder for using the name "Stumptown" on its cyclocross bike. Specialized claimed it violated the trademark on its "Stumpjumper" bicycle.
I understand that a company has to protect its trademarks or lose them. What I don't understand is how a company can get a trademark on the name of a town in France, then hunt down bike outfits that use that name. Shouldn't place names be in the public domain?
Since the story broke, support for Richter has rolled in. Attorneys have contacted him about taking his case pro bono, and a website, "Save Cafe Roubaix!", is raising money for legal action.
The only word from Specialized has been from the managing director of Specialized Canada Inc., who said on Friday that the company is protecting its trademark, which is registered in Canada but not the US.
The Bicycle Retailer website said a statement from the company was forthcoming on Monday, but nothing had been issued as of Monday night.
This whole trademark business can become ridiculous. Consider:
If you're like me, you CRAVE (TM Specialized) more news about the STATUS (TM Specialized) of the bike shop owner's FATE (TM Specialized). Specialized is kind of stuck between a CRUX (TM Specialized) and a HARDROCK (TM Specialized), but the shop owner might have to choose an ALIAS (TM Specialized) to continue his business.
Here are a list of Specialized bike models. I would think that the company's trademark attorneys must keep themselves fairly busy protecting some of these names.
STUMPJUMPER FSR
SPECIALIZED EDITION
TRICROSS
bike shop, Roubaix, Specialized
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Hey, I was just browsing the names of the specialized bikes and I noticed a bike named fatboy, that happens to be the name of a popular Harley Davidson motorcycle, did specialized lease the name from H.D????
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Local and European election campaigns start in Catalonia
On Sunday May 26 voters will get to choose political representatives to sit in town halls and in Brussels
The campaign period for the local elections is underway, with voters able to cast their ballots to choose who governs in town halls in Catalonia and all over Spain on Sunday May 26. On that same day, voters will also get to choose the 54 MEPs allocated to Spain who will sit in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Of Catalonia's 948 municipalities, Barcelona is the one attracting the most attention, where Ada Colau is looking to be reelected as mayor of the Catalan capital. In fact, a recent poll from Spain's Center for Sociological Research (CIS) forecasts Colau winning again, with 23% of the vote and at least 10 or 11 councillors.
Yet, the poll predicts Ernest Maragall, the candidate for the leftwing pro-independence Esquerra party (ERC), close behind with 22.9% of the vote and 9 to 11 councillors. The Catalan Socialist party (PSC) would be third with 12.9% and 6 or 7 seats, over the pro-independence Junts per Catalunya party (JxCat) in fourth, with 11.2% and 2 to 4 seats.
The Barcelona local election also includes former French prime minister, Manuel Valls, who the poll predicts would be out of the running for mayor, with 11.9% and 5 to 6 seats.
The battle for seats in Brussels
As for what is likely to happen on a European level, the CIS predicts victory for the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE), with 17 or 18 seats in Brussels and 29-31% of the vote.
The run-up to the elections saw much controversy around former president in exile, Carles Puigdemont, who was at first barred from running along with two of his former ministers. Yet, the ban was overturned by the Constitutional Court, and the Lliures per Europa candidate list he heads is expected to get at least 1 seat in Brussels, with 1-3% of the vote.
The polls predict a better result of 3 seats (5-7%) for Ara Repúbliques, headed by ERC leader Oriol Junqueras, who is in jail while being tried in the Supreme Court.
A feature of Spanish politics in recent months has been the rise of the far-right Vox party, which the CIS predicts will make its debut in Brussels with 4 or 5 seats (7-9% of the vote). Despite its poor showing in the recent general election, the conservative People's Party (PP) is expected to come second in Spain, with 11 or 12 seats (18-20%). That would put PP above the unionist Ciudadanos party (Cs) and the leftwing Podemos party, which are expected to get 8 seats each, with around 14% of the vote.


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