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Ray was first reported missing when he didn’t show up to work on Sunday night, according to Coloradoan archives.
He worked at a check collection agency as his day job, Davey said, but he’d always wanted to be on the radio and had just started as a night DJ for a local radio station.
When officers went to Ray’s home, they discovered it had been burglarized, according to Coloradoan archives. The break-ins, and ultimately Ray’s murder, were traced back to his former roommate, Stephen Zyromski.
Zyromski had a bit of a troubled past and was getting his feet under him while he stayed with Ray, Davey said.
Police found Ray's body buried in a shallow grave in a cornfield out in Pierce, some 20 miles away.
Police in Utah arrested Zyromski, William Erben and another man, Nathanial Poe Kindred, at a traffic stop Sept. 12, 1999 according to an Associated Press report.
All three were extradited to Colorado, and Zyromski and Erben eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Kindred pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder.
Davey didn't know anything had happened to Ray until three days after his death. She saw police across the street at Ray’s house, and there were a lot of them. She knew it was bad.
Davey’s art professor chose to give her some freedom in the aftermath.
“He told me to go make art and do what I could,” Davey said.
She made some sculptures based off Ray's death, but she also began arranging the photos she took on her long walk to his burial site and put them into a book. For years, she only showed it to family and some art students. A few weeks ago, she showed it to the public for the first time during one day of her Parkland-inspired exhibit at Colorado State University.
The damage done to families and communities doesn’t disappear after the news cycle ends, she said. Even nearly 20 years after Michael Ray’s death, she doesn’t see the world like she used to.
The act of violence itself can be so quick — just like that car ride back after her long walk, she said. But healing takes more time.
"Violence happens quickly," Davey said. "But understanding, compassion and empathy happen when we slow down."
Jennifer Davey's project based on the Parkland shooting will be on display until Nov. 3 at Colorado State University's Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center.
You can also check out her work at Artworks Loveland, 310 N. Railroad Ave., Suite 129.
To learn more about her art, go to www.jenniferdavey.net.
Archives|N.Y.U. GIRLS DEFEAT HUNTER TEAM, 35-23; Open Their Basketball Season With Victory -- Score Is Tied at Half Time.
N.Y.U. GIRLS DEFEAT HUNTER TEAM, 35-23; Open Their Basketball Season With Victory -- Score Is Tied at Half Time.
A complaint against the former Respect MP George Galloway about his use of parliamentary funds has been referred to the police, the parliamentary standards watchdog has said.
Galloway’s former parliamentary assistant Aisha Ali Khan reported him to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority earlier this year, claiming that she spent more time running personal errands for him than on official work.
She alleged that, during her six months as his taxpayer-funded assistant in 2012, she was required to help plan his wedding; shop for underwear; sort out his laundry; make his breakfast and work for the Viva Palestina charity he helped establish.
Her lawyers say this amounts to a breach of the requirement to use funds for parliamentary purposes. Galloway denies the allegations.
After an assessment of Ali Khan’s claims, Ipsa’s compliance officer, Peter Davis, passed the case on to the Metropolitan police.
Responding to the Ipsa statement, Galloway said: “This is news to me. According to the media, Ipsa have had a complaint but they haven’t informed me who has complained or exactly what the complaint is about. And then, without even a call, an email or a letter, they appear to have handed it on to the Met and gone public about it.
Galloway lost his Bradford West seat at the general election this month.
‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.’ In other words, don’t break out the barbie until Theresa May’s got her deal? This May, next May, May 2030?
Any horse owner will tell you that a horse is like an Italian sports car. If it can break down, it will. ‘Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.’ Rubbish! Lightning strikes repeatedly wherever the surface offers points of conductivity – and where the conditions produce lots of thunderstorms.
‘Cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis.’ Most medical studies have found no link whatsoever between this annoying habit and arthritis. The cracking sound isn’t bones being mangled out of shape, but the release of pockets of gas from between joints. However, long periods of knuckle-cracking may contribute to lesser grip strength. So best pack it in!
Basically, these sayings are straight out of the ‘I saw you coming’ school of coffee table books and not meant to be taken literally. A bit like those nightmares in which you’re about to sit an exam but can’t because you’re astride a horse naked except for wellies… Or you’re about to plunge over a cliff edge into an abyss.
Help! Are we back to ‘Ne’er cast a clout till (Theresa) May IS out’?
Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99; £0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
Dubai: Business visitors in the UAE can now start securing value-added tax (VAT) refunds, it has been confirmed.
The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) announced on Tuesday that it is now receiving refund applications for VAT charges incurred in the UAE by business visitors in 2018, a move that seeks to further cement the country's position as a business-friendly destination.
Those who are qualified to secure a refund can simply access a dedicated form through the FTA website. The minimum VAT amount that can be reclaimed is Dh2,000.
Since January 1, 2018, consumers have been paying an extra 5 per cent on most goods and services, ending an era of a completely zero-tax regime. But not every single shopper is mandated to pay the tax. Tourists, for one, are entitled to claim back the taxes on any purchases they make in the UAE, effective November 18.
As for business visitors, the FTA clarified that VAT refunds are available to those who have no place of establishment in the UAE or another "implementing state" in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
“The VAT Refunds for Business Visitors procedure calls for refunding taxes to business visitors who have no place of establishment in the UAE or another GCC implementing state; who are not registered or are not a taxable person in the UAE; who are registered as an establishment with a competent authority in the jurisdiction in which they are established; and who are from a country that implements VAT and refunds VAT to UAE entities in similar circumstances,” the FTA said in a statement.
FTA director general Khalid Ali Al Bustani said the new procedure complements efforts to establish the UAE as a global hub for trade and creates an investment-friendly environment to support economic activities in the sectors where business visitors are active.
“Reciprocity is a key condition for the procedure, whereby the authority will collaborate with countries that refund VAT for UAE businesses visiting their territories,” Al Bustani explained.
1.To be able to claim a refund, visitors need to submit their original tax receipts.
2. Businesses residing in any GCC state that has not implemented VAT can still get a refund.
The foreign business in question makes supplies in the UAE, unless the recipient is obliged to account for VAT under the reverse-charge mechanism.
The input tax in respect of any goods or services is non-recoverable, as per VAT legislations, therefore, not recoverable by a taxable person in the UAE.
The foreign business is a non-resident tour operator.
Joe Biden Colbert interview: Vice President, emotional over loss of son, not sure if he'd be able to give "110 percent" in presidential race.
Vice President Joe Biden gave an emotional interview on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Thursday night in which the two men talked about Catholicism, death, grief, and how to know if you’re ready to run for president. Colbert asked about Biden’s son, Beau, who died in May of brain cancer, and Biden opened up about his grief and the role of religion in his life, and the difficulty of deciding whether to run for the Oval Office in 2016, which Beau, in the last days of his life, had urged his father to do.
An earlier family tragedy played a formative role in Joe Biden’s political career before he was sworn into office in the U.S. Senate. He’d won his seat in the 1972 election and was set to join the body the following January when his wife and children, out for Christmas shopping, were struck by a tractor-trailer in their car. Biden’s first wife and his daughter did not survive and his two sons, Hunter and Beau, faced long, painful rehabilitation.
During Beau’s recovery from the accident and indeed, throughout his life, Biden said, “I never one single time, my word as a Biden, heard my child complain.” When Colbert, who lost his father and two of his brothers in a plane crash when he was 10 years old, said that he partially “raised his mother” during her time of grief, Biden said that “my sons honest to God did” raise him in the aftermath of losing his wife and daughter.
Biden had a different idea, encouraging Colbert to run so Biden could jump on board as his VP candidate.
EXCLUSIVE / Renovating the European Union’s building stock for energy efficiency will save €80 to €153 billion of investment costs into the bloc’s power system by 2050, new research obtained by EURACTIV has found.
The savings, estimated after deep renovation, are at grid and production level. They are in addition to the lower costs delivered from reduced consumption caused by the efficiency measures.
Research by climate consultancy Ecofys found that electricity demand and peak loads could be slashed by nearly 57 gigawatts (GW), the same as the total electricity production capacity of the Netherlands and Austria.
“These additional savings in peak load capacities and grid infrastructure […] should be part of the estimation of the economics of energy efficiency in buildings including deep renovation strategies,” the report,to be published later today (14 October), will say.
In order to meet its carbon targets, the EU is expected to move towards the electrification of heating, and away from fossil fuels. Doing so will enable clean renewables to heat homes through heat pumps, which turn electricity into heat.
The European Commission wants the bloc to be 80% to 95% carbon free by 2050. But without improved energy efficiency, the electricity grid will need expensive overhauling to handle the increased demand.
That will require significant investment into the grid but billions of euros could be offset against the cost through deep renovation, the study, commissioned by the European Insulation Manufacturers Association (Eurima), found. Not upgrading the power system to face increased demand could lead to shortages and blackouts.
Researchers found that building renovation also gives much-needed flexibility to the grid at times of peak demand. It reduces electricity demand, levelling off the peak, meaning less investment is needed in generation and grid infrastructure to handle the demand.
More efficient homes keep room temperatures stable for longer, even when the heating is turned off. The ability to turn off heating could lead to an additional demand reduction of about 12 GW.
Previous studies by Ecofys have highlighted the other benefits of renovation for efficiency, including reduction of global warming CO2 emissions, the boost in energy security and in jobs.
But this is the first time researchers have focused on the benefits to the supply side of the power system, which, they said, would help create a resilient energy system.
The Commission’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan expects to deliver 2 million jobs, increased industrial competitiveness, and potential savings estimated at €1,000 per European household.
€60-€100 billion is needed to be invested annually in EU buildings to achieve Europe’s 2020 energy efficiency target of 20% compared to 1990 levels, according to research. In October last year, EU leaders agreed a 27% target by 2030.
Despite the increasingly-recognised benefits of renovating Europe’s building stock, current investments are below half of these requirements and five times lower than required to deliver 2050.
It is estimated by the Commission, which has called for energy efficiency to be prioritised by national policymakers, that 75% of Europe’s buildings are inefficient.
The Commission has identified energy efficiency, especially in buildings, as an important part of its Energy Union strategy, which aims to bolster the bloc’s resilience to shortages, its energy security, and to fight climate change.
The report is timely. It is being published on Renovate Europe Day and in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. World leaders will try and secure an agreement to cap global warming at no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
The Commission is also preparing its heating and cooling strategy, which is expected in February next year. It is also reviewing the Energy Efficiency and Energy Performance in Buildings Directives. Both pieces of legislation have not been properly put onto national lawbooks by governments.
Both directives will be recast in 2016 with the goal of ensuring the EU hits its 2030 efficiency target.
“The findings of this report, in particular the supply side financial and flexibility gains flexibility should be considered in the upcoming heating and cooling strategy and the reviews of the efficiency directives,” said Celine Carré, the chairwoman of Eurima’s energy efficiency committee.
“This is a message to encourage greater commitment in innovation. Policymakers should be bolder and more ambitious when it comes to renovating the EU’s building stock,” she said.
Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU, according to the European Commission.
The Renovate Europe campaign says that, thanks to modern technology, buildings' energy demands can be cut by 80%. But, it adds, in order for that to happen, there needs to be an effective regulatory and legislative framework in place. Today (15 October) is Renovate Europe Day.
Campaigners and policymakers agree that energy efficiency through the renovation of buildings has great potential for reducing emissions, spurring the economy, and bolstering energy security.
1 What Is Business Research?
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, who are willing to bet large sums of money and time to build, launch and develop a business. Just because you're a risk taker doesn't mean you don't look before you jump into the lake. Performing smart, thorough business research mitigates your risks, by providing you with the right data to make strategic decisions. Business research helps you learn about the market and your competitors, so that you can find the most cost-effective solutions within your fulfillment chain.
Market research is broken down into two main types: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative market research determines if there is a need and desire in the marketplace for your product or service. It defines a target demographic and then establishes how big that market is.
For example, a high-end vacuum salesperson might target married women with a college education and a certain household income level. Others may buy your product but this market would have the money to buy the high-end product and understand the benefits of it.
The qualitative analysis considers why your product or service is better than others. It goes beyond discovering the gap in the market that the quantitative research provided and seeks to answer the questions of how and why a person needs or wants your product. By doing this research, you'll develop your "unique selling proposition" which is used for marketing and advertising.
If you've done the qualitative analysis correctly, you'll have a head start on a competitive analysis. The competitive analysis is looking at your products or services and compares them to the market. But it goes one step further. It considers your company's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and threats from competitors or outside forces such as regulations. This type of analysis is also called a SWOT Analysis.
Your strengths could be unique or a new product, but this isn't necessarily true. Your strength could be that you do the same thing that other competitors offer but you do it for less. Weaknesses might be low capitalization, meaning that you don't have the same money to launch and market products as do larger or more established competitors.
Most of the opportunities and threats should be derived from the market research section but they need to go further, exploring the number of competitors and how close they are, and to determine if are there any new laws or regulations that could inhibit your sales.
Business overhead is costly. Whenever you can save on costs without sacrificing the quality of your products or services, the more profitable your company will be. This is why researching operations solutions are vital and should be done regularly. Don't assume that the supplier or wholesaler that you've been using for the past two years is still the best or the cheapest. Make calls to his competitors and shop for better deals.
Shipment and fulfillment methods not only get products to customers faster but they can also save you money. Research automation systems such as self-serve kiosks for customers or computerized point of sale systems with inventory management. This type of research can reduce the cost of getting your products into consumers hands, and can ultimately save you money that can be passed on to consumers or enjoyed as higher net profits.
Forbes: How Does Market Research Help Brands Today?
Leonard, Kimberlee. "Definition of Business Research." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/definition-business-research-42009.html. 06 March 2019.
I remember discussing the great comedy-drama “About Schmidt” with a close friend after I saw it in or around the winter of 2002. It was peak-era Alexander Payne directing Jack Nicholson before the swirl of retirement and dementia was starting to tear down the edges of his great career.
The movie was one I was passionately amused by, but never more so than in the way the titular character narrates his life in a series of letters to a young African child he sponsors through a monthly charitable stipend. This device, in fact, has led me to work with the Christian Children’s Fund (now ChildFund) ever since.
I felt a similar pull on the old heartstrings this week when I popped in for what feels like an annual Mark Wahlberg family holiday comedy. I won’t be fostering any kids of my own, but “Instant Family” does a tremendous job of educating why the foster system is both crucial and mutually-beneficial and also does more than a passable job of entertaining the casual moviegoer. It does not deserve the jabs it’s been defending itself from for being manipulative or for making light of a brutally important subject.
Pete (Wahlberg) and Ellie Wagner (Rose Byrne) are a hardworking American couple who flip houses that they remodel through their renovation company. They spend a lot of time and money fixing up clunkers and turning them over for a modest profit to new families. It’s a rewarding job and one that they’re good at.
But it’s not enough. Building a career took longer than expected and now they’re unsure about committing to children as they approach (barely) middle age. It’s here where a casual joke by Pete about adopting a five year-old gets Ellie investigating that very possibility. During a rather stiff and un-Hollywood sequence, they dig into the world of foster care and meet a couple of case workers (the always excellent Octavia Spencer and a delightful Tig Notaro, a stand-up comedian using her trademark dry wit) who keep them gliding toward possible adoption.
Before long, Ellie and Pete are auditioning for the role of a lifetime: Mommy and Daddy. They, of course, want a Caucasian infant. That point is one of interesting muted laughs when it comes up. But, as we learn, the foster system is full of all kinds of kids from all kinds of backgrounds and is only short on one thing — qualified parents.
At a county-sponsored picnic, fifteen-year-old Lizzy (Isabela Moner) comes into their lives in a sassy way like movie kids usually do. She’s funny and smart and cute and they feel a cosmic connection to her all at once. But Lizzy is a packaged deal. Adopt her and you have to take ten-year-old Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and five year-old Lita (Julianna Gamiz) to keep her from breaking apart from her siblings.
The Wagners are too committed at this point to balk at the proposition and here “Instant Family” becomes your standard comedy about raising three grown children with no prior experience. Juan is a genuine klutz and a lot of time is spent protecting him from himself. Broken glass, high fences, basketballs, a nail gun — there’s nothing this kid can’t use to make himself bleed.
And little Lita is a screamer. Can’t have potato chips for dinner? No problem, she’ll cry about it at the top of her lungs.
Lizzy can be extremely helpful with the younger kids, having raised them by herself since they were all little. Their mom is in jail for drug offenses. But Lizzy is also a willful teenager trying to be her own person. The more we see of her, the more worrisome we become. She’s got some low-rent friends and something brewing with the weirdo janitor (Nicholas Logan) at her school. She’s at a dangerous age.
Fortunately, director Sean Anders (known for the “Daddy’s Home” movies with Wahlberg) keeps it heading in a positive direction all the time. If you’re moved to help, check out www.instantfamily.org or www.childfund.org for more ways to perform your own good deeds.
“Instant Family” runs 119 minutes and is rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual material, language, and some drug references. I give this film three stars out of four.
(JTA) — The first graduate of Yeshivat Maharat to take the title “rabbi” said she has been hired by an unnamed American Orthodox synagogue.
Graduates of the New York seminary have so far eschewed taking the title rabbi, though the school is explicit that its mission is to train female Orthodox “clergy.” Most have taken on the title maharat, an acronym that translates roughly to female spiritual leader. Kagedan reportedly is the first graduate to call herself a rabbi.