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Coach bought Stuart Weitzman from private equity firm Sycamore Partners in a deal valued at $574 million to expand its high-end offerings.
Net income declined to $11.7 million, or 4 cents per share, in the quarter ended June 27 from $75.2 million, or 27 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company earned 31 cents per share.
Revenue fell nearly 12 percent to $1 billion.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 29 cents per share and revenue of $973 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Angelique Kerber of Germany celebrates after defeating Peng Shuai of China 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (5) on March 20 at the Sony Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Lleyton Hewitt became the third active man to win 600 matches when he rallied past Robin Haase 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 Thursday in the first round at the Sony Open.
The 33-year-old Hewitt joined Roger Federer (942 wins) and Rafael Nadal (675) in reaching the milestone.
"Not many people get the opportunity to get close to that, so it means I have been around for an awfully long time," Hewitt said. "I’m getting old. A few years ago when I had the last couple of surgeries, I probably would have doubted I’d get to this stage. I’m grateful I’m out there and able to compete with the best guys."
Hewitt is a former No. 1 and a three-time Key Biscayne semifinalist.
Fellow Australian Bernard Tomic, mounting a comeback from surgery on both hips and playing for the first time since January, lost to Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-1.
In women’s play, No. 5-seeded Angelique Kerber won her opening match, beating Peng Shuai 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (5). Kerber, a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist, matched her best showing at Key Biscayne by reaching the third round.
No. 12 Ana Ivanovic beat American Lauren Davis 6-1, 6-1, and No. 8 Petra Kvitova defeated Paula Ormaechea 6-3, 6-4. No. 28 Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2006 champion, lost to qualifier Donna Vekic 7-6 (5), 7-5.
Six-time champion Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova were scheduled to play their opening matches later Thursday. Seeded men begin play on Friday.
In other men’s play, Americans Jack Sock and Ryan Harrison won first-round matches. Sock, a qualifier, beat wild card Guido Pella 6-3, 6-4. Harrison, a wild card, defeated Federico Delbonis 6-2, 6-4.
Delbonis, who won his first career title at Sao Paulo three weeks ago, fell to 0-4 this year on hardcourts.
Alen Stajcic was sacked as coach of the Matildas on Saturday.
Just over 24 hours after a press conference was held to formally announce the departure of Stajcic as Matilads boss just five months prior to a World Cup, Kerr took to Twitter to react.
"I have not been gagged by the FFA," Kerr wrote on Twitter.
"I have not commented because I wasn't ready to comment while I am still shocked and upset. My trust was in Staj to lead us to the World Cup final & I believe he was the best coach for that. Thankful for everything his done for me and the team."
West Australian publication Perth Now had reported the striker was held back from commenting on the issue by the FFA, but it appears that wasn't the case.
YORK COUNTY — Police are investigating a bomb threat at the Harley-Davidson plant in Springettsbury Township, according to emergency dispatch.
Several units are on the scene. There is no word on whether they’ve found anything.
The plant was evacuated for the day.
Harley-Davidson contacted local police to investigate a bomb threat. In the interest of employee safety— which is always our highest priority — we have evacuated all employees from the York facility and asked employees to leave for the day. We continue to work with local authorities, who are investigating the threat. We will update you when we have more information.
Reba McEntire will star this fall in the WB sitcom "Deep in the Heart." She’ll portray the mother of a Texas family that is crumbling around her. … Lyle Lovett testified on Thursday (May 17) at a songwriting hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. A delegation of songwriters from the Nashville Songwriters Association International also attended, including Gretchen Peters and "I Hope You Dance" co-writer Mark D. Sanders.
press release:6pm to 8pm, Saturday, December 8, 2018, Mendota Lake House B&B, 704 E Gorham St.
Hosts Bob Klebba & David Waugh and the Board of Directors of OutReach LGBT Center invite you to join us for our annual Holiday Celebration. The event will include a hot and cold buffet, wine and other beverages, mingling and music. Suggested Donation $30; limited income $15. Please join us for this fun and festive event at this beautiful lakeside Bed & Breakfast.
'Harry Potter' production designer Stuart Craig talks to MTV News about helping Harry retrieve Sword of Gryffindor from a frozen lake.
In the weeks leading up to the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1," fans were in a frenzy, trying to figure out just how much of the book would make the first film, which scenes would delight and disappoint, and what characters might not return ever again. And trying to get the tight-lipped folks in the Potter camp to discuss those key points was a bit of a struggle. However, now that the film has opened, MTV News has enlisted the expertise of longtime Potter production designer Stuart Craig for a few behind-the-scenes tidbits.
Much has been said of the production moving away from Hogwarts and out on multiple locations, which Craig described as a "movie on the run."
"We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We traveled quite far, we built sets, and they spend a lot of time in a forest," he explained. "We built forest sets and integrated them into the real forests, so there were challenges there, as you might imagine."
Another one of the production's major challenges — and accomplishments — was shooting the sequence in which Harry retrieves the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of a frozen lake.
"There was a really demanding, complicated special-effects requirement there to do the ice," Craig said. "I think that all works remarkably quite well, actually. Harry breaking the ice, diving in and then subsequently strangled by the Horcrux around his neck and is struggling and can't get up quickly because of the ice above him. It's good stuff."
Which begs the question: How did Craig and his team pull off that scene, and what do they use to make the ice look so real?
"As always, well, as nearly always, there's more than one solution. The camera on top, looking from the outside down on it. It's big, thick sheets of Plexiglass with frosty texture on top of that," he revealed.
"When we're underneath, it's actually an area of wax which floats on top of the water. And wax makes very effective ice. They're tried and tested movie techniques; there are a lot. You could write a book one day, a guidebook, to the very movie techniques — frost on window panes with some Epsom salts and brown nails."
One of the great pleasures in chatting with Craig, whose credits outside the world of Harry Potter include "Ghandi," "The English Patient" and "Notting Hill," is the fact that he has such an informed perspective on the inner-workings of the industry; specifically, how advanced film-making technology is now.
"The great thing about movies these days is that you can fix everything," he said. "I have to give a talk at a film festival early next month, and I've just been looking at films that I've done in the past. In particular, 'Ghandi,' years ago in India. The thing then was: If sometimes there was a compromise, it was filmed and it was there, locked. Forever. You look at the movie 20 years later, and there it would be.
"These days, with visual effects able to do so much, you can do face replacement, you can put Dan Radcliffe's head on somebody else's body.
There's nothing they can't do, it seems. I mean, at a cost, it's not cheap, so terrible things seem to get fixed, which is very reassuring," he added, chuckling.
What was your favorite scene in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1"? Tell us in the comments below!
Check out everything we've got on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1."
Company acquired Keap.com, filed for trademarks, and recently loaded up on Keap-related domains.
CRM and marketing platform Infusionsoft has registered a lot of domain names as it prepares to launch Keap.
What is Keap? I can’t tell for certain, but based on the company’s recent trademark filings and domain registrations, it’s very possible that the company is rebranding as Keap. At a minimum, it is about to launch a new product called Keap.
In August or September 2018, Infusionsoft appears to have acquired the domain name Keap.com from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration.
Then late last year the company filed for nine trademarks involving the brand. The services it filed under seem a lot like what Infusionsoft currently offers.
The domain names use a registrar’s Whois privacy service, but it’s the same corporate registrar at which Infusionsoft.com is registered.
The pattern shows a good practice in corporate branding: first, acquire the domain name. Then file the trademarks. Finally, pick up ancillary domains that might be useful (or detrimental) to the brand.
Expect an announcement from Infusionsoft soon.
I bought gokeap.com just because.
Not concerned about trademark infringement?
This is looking more and more like a full rebrand. They also registered ‘keap’ in a bunch of new TLDs including keap.ninja, keap.soy, keap.world etc.
Existing Infusionsoft accounts will just be known as ‘Infusionsoft by Keap’. There won’t be a change there, just the branding. There will be two products, Keap (Which is the new version of Infusionsoft) and Infusionsoft by Keap, which is the core product that we all know (and love?) Keap is a simpler and more accessible product for smaller businesses, and Infusionsoft is a marketing automation powerhouse for more complex automation.
As God is my witness, KSAs as an initial screening tool will fall.
– Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, channelling Scarlett O’Hara in his address to the IRMCO conference this morning.
Seriously, though, Berry outlined the future role he wants knowledge, skills and abilities essays to play in the government’s hiring process. Some agencies will likely still require finalists for a job opening to write essays outlining their experience and special skills, Berry said, but they shouldn’t need KSAs from thousands of first-round applicants. “Whittle it down until you’ve got the pool of 10 or 20,” Berry said. “Make them write the essays, not the 10,000” initial applicants.
KSAs are right now, known also as essays, short examples, narratives, accomplishments … as part of the Assessment Questionnaires.
The Assessment Questionnaire essays are not rated and ranked, but they are requested frequently with applications that use the Questionnaire as Part 2 of many applications. There are sometimes 10 narratives (known as examples – not using the name “KSA”).
Will these essays be eliminated as well? Are these narrative examples part of the KSA elimination discussion?
Essays? Applicants might need to write essays?
Did anybody consider that there are many, many jobs in which the ability to write is not important?
Essays would rule out highly competent people! Please don’t do it.
Tomi Lahren is going after Jay-Z for comments he made criticizing President Donald Trump.
Lahren wrapped up her opinion segment by calling for Jay-Z to no longer share his opinions on Donald Trump, and to — essentially — stick to music.
“Go back to rapping your filthy lyrics and celebrating your drug-dealing resume, and let Donald Trump make America great again for us all,” Lahren said.
Watch above, via Fox News and Facebook.
Missouri’s unemployment rate has reached its highest level since May, 1984.
The state labor department puts the rate at 7.3 percent for December. Durable goods manufacturing declined by 2,500. The department says private educational services and the field of health care and social assistance gained about 2,000 new jobs.
For the year of 2008, the state lost 26,500 jobs with the biggest losses in transportation equipment manufacturing, which includes motor vehicles. The losses in the next two categories–financial activities and the leisure and hospitality industry–combined do not equal the losses in transportation equipment.
Dylan Davis is an Ardmore native and 2010 graduate of Ardmore High School. Following his high school graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps serving in the “aviation side.” Davis was discharged in 2015.
Q: Why did he choose law enforcement as a career?
Q: Why did he seek a position with the APD?
Having already returned to his hometown, once he decided law enforcement was the career he wanted he said the APD was a clear cut choice. “So I started the application process in August 2015. It was a lengthy process,” he said.
Q: What are his goals as one of the APD’s newest officers?
Q: What does he want the citizens to know?
“I feel this was like the Marine Corps, something I’m meant to do. Like the APD motto says, I’m here to serve and protect. That’s what I’m about to help when I can and treat everyone with respect,” Davis said.
Davis is married. He is currently serves on the midnight shift under the direction of FTO Cpl. Chis Mata.
FNB's cyber security officer spoke at the ITWeb Security Summit 2018 about the importance of educating customers about cyber security.
As social media continues to gain prominence, experts warn users to watch out for blackmail, money laundering, identity theft, and dating scams.
The scam tricks customers to install "protective" software on their PC as the modus operandi to access the online banking profile.
The cyber-criminal threat is so severe that only a co-ordinated technical and business response across all domains will be effective, says ContinuitySA.
CloudConnect provides a single point of access to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Dimension Data Cloud.
A special exhibition of photography marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords will open on Saturday at Siem Reap’s Constable Gallery At Large. The Paris Peace Accords, signed on October 23, 1991, brought stability and democracy back to a country that had been plagued by decades of conflict.
The exhibition is designed to celebrate the exceptional endurance of Cambodians in the face of the many trials they have had to face.
Resilience, which brings together the work of veteran photographers Tim Page and John Rodsted, as well as young gun George Nickels, presents different reflections on Cambodia’s turbulent past – a past that is reflected in its present especially in, for instance, ongoing efforts to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance.
It was at the Landmine Museum near Banteay Srei that the idea for the exhibition came about. Gallery-owner Sasha Constable was teaching painting to students at the museum when peace activist Soth Plai Ngarm of the Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (CPCS) came to give a talk. Their ensuing conversations planted the seed.
CPCS team leader Nikki Singer says resilience is something that comes up a lot when talking about Cambodia, especially in the context of the Peace Accords.
“[The Accords] represented a moment when the different fighting factions in Cambodia agreed that the time had come to try a different way. This moment is an important one to celebrate, but it was also important to us to show what followed – what was made possible during the period that followed the agreements,” she says.
The different works depict: images of the UN peacekeeping force known as UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia) from British photographer Page, who first made his name shooting the Vietnam War; landmine clearance efforts as documented by Rodsted; and a look, by Nickels, at how economic migration is breaking up communities across Cambodia as it becomes increasingly impossible for many to find life-sustaining work near home. Nickels also examines the novel approach that uses rats to clear landmines.
For Constable, the choices were clear.
“When I started to form the exhibition idea in my head, I immediately thought of contacting Tim Page .. . He’s a fabulous storyteller; I always found his tales from UNTAC times captivating,” she says.
For Page, who at the time his photographs were taken would not see them unless someone remembered to bring back a copy of the Observer or one of the other publications for which he photographed, this shows how the power of photography goes beyond recording a moment in time, and even changing the course of history, to acting as an historical tool, facilitating reflection and development.
Resilience runs from Saturday, October 1, until November 30, with a special grand opening on October 23, the anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords. Tim Page and George Nickels will both attend the event, at which Page will speak about his work. On the evening before, CPCS will host a special Masquerade Charity Gala & Auction at Le Meridien Angkor.
My encounters with him as Vice President and as a candidate were consistent with everything we have been hearing since his passing—he was a very good man who was disarmingly modest and focused on the people he met in a caring, personal way.
My wife, Linda Kasem, encountered him as President when he cared enough to spend several hours one afternoon in South Central LA after the Los Angeles race riots triggered by the Rodney Kind beating. Linda was working for Sheriff Sherman Block in support of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Youth Foundation. It was a charity that, with volunteer support of hundreds of sheriffs deputies and major donations from the business community, ran a number of youth centers where at-risk kids could play basketball and other sports, learn to use computers and get good counseling.
The White House decided it was a suitable way to visit Los Angeles. Rather than a quick drop in, Bush took an interest in the kids, shot baskets, talked with the young people learning computers and spent more hours than had been planned. As he was leaving, he asked his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, to check his bag for some White House souvenirs he could leave behind as a thank you gifts. Scowcroft go on the ground to rummage through the bag, and Bush soon joined him. Whereupon the entire presidential detail got on their knees to help.
Suitable memorabilia were found and distributed, and the entourage departed.
A few days later, Linda received a hand-written note from the President thanking her for the opportunity to visit and enclosing a personal check for $1000 to the Sheriff’s Youth Foundation, with an injunction that he did not want any publicity but just to lend his support to a worthy cause.

Coach bought Stuart Weitzman from private equity firm Sycamore Partners in a deal valued at $574 million to expand its high-end offerings.

Net income declined to $11.7 million, or 4 cents per share, in the quarter ended June 27 from $75.2 million, or 27 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding items, the company earned 31 cents per share.

Revenue fell nearly 12 percent to $1 billion.

Analysts on average had expected a profit of 29 cents per share and revenue of $973 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Angelique Kerber of Germany celebrates after defeating Peng Shuai of China 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (5) on March 20 at the Sony Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Lleyton Hewitt became the third active man to win 600 matches when he rallied past Robin Haase 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 Thursday in the first round at the Sony Open.

The 33-year-old Hewitt joined Roger Federer (942 wins) and Rafael Nadal (675) in reaching the milestone.

"Not many people get the opportunity to get close to that, so it means I have been around for an awfully long time," Hewitt said. "I’m getting old. A few years ago when I had the last couple of surgeries, I probably would have doubted I’d get to this stage. I’m grateful I’m out there and able to compete with the best guys."

Hewitt is a former No. 1 and a three-time Key Biscayne semifinalist.

Fellow Australian Bernard Tomic, mounting a comeback from surgery on both hips and playing for the first time since January, lost to Jarkko Nieminen 6-0, 6-1.

In women’s play, No. 5-seeded Angelique Kerber won her opening match, beating Peng Shuai 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (5). Kerber, a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist, matched her best showing at Key Biscayne by reaching the third round.

No. 12 Ana Ivanovic beat American Lauren Davis 6-1, 6-1, and No. 8 Petra Kvitova defeated Paula Ormaechea 6-3, 6-4. No. 28 Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2006 champion, lost to qualifier Donna Vekic 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Six-time champion Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova were scheduled to play their opening matches later Thursday. Seeded men begin play on Friday.

In other men’s play, Americans Jack Sock and Ryan Harrison won first-round matches. Sock, a qualifier, beat wild card Guido Pella 6-3, 6-4. Harrison, a wild card, defeated Federico Delbonis 6-2, 6-4.

Delbonis, who won his first career title at Sao Paulo three weeks ago, fell to 0-4 this year on hardcourts.

Alen Stajcic was sacked as coach of the Matildas on Saturday.

Just over 24 hours after a press conference was held to formally announce the departure of Stajcic as Matilads boss just five months prior to a World Cup, Kerr took to Twitter to react.

"I have not been gagged by the FFA," Kerr wrote on Twitter.

"I have not commented because I wasn't ready to comment while I am still shocked and upset. My trust was in Staj to lead us to the World Cup final & I believe he was the best coach for that. Thankful for everything his done for me and the team."

West Australian publication Perth Now had reported the striker was held back from commenting on the issue by the FFA, but it appears that wasn't the case.

YORK COUNTY — Police are investigating a bomb threat at the Harley-Davidson plant in Springettsbury Township, according to emergency dispatch.

Several units are on the scene. There is no word on whether they’ve found anything.

The plant was evacuated for the day.

Harley-Davidson contacted local police to investigate a bomb threat. In the interest of employee safety— which is always our highest priority — we have evacuated all employees from the York facility and asked employees to leave for the day. We continue to work with local authorities, who are investigating the threat. We will update you when we have more information.

Reba McEntire will star this fall in the WB sitcom "Deep in the Heart." She’ll portray the mother of a Texas family that is crumbling around her. … Lyle Lovett testified on Thursday (May 17) at a songwriting hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. A delegation of songwriters from the Nashville Songwriters Association International also attended, including Gretchen Peters and "I Hope You Dance" co-writer Mark D. Sanders.

press release:6pm to 8pm, Saturday, December 8, 2018, Mendota Lake House B&B, 704 E Gorham St.

Hosts Bob Klebba & David Waugh and the Board of Directors of OutReach LGBT Center invite you to join us for our annual Holiday Celebration. The event will include a hot and cold buffet, wine and other beverages, mingling and music. Suggested Donation $30; limited income $15. Please join us for this fun and festive event at this beautiful lakeside Bed & Breakfast.

'Harry Potter' production designer Stuart Craig talks to MTV News about helping Harry retrieve Sword of Gryffindor from a frozen lake.

In the weeks leading up to the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1," fans were in a frenzy, trying to figure out just how much of the book would make the first film, which scenes would delight and disappoint, and what characters might not return ever again. And trying to get the tight-lipped folks in the Potter camp to discuss those key points was a bit of a struggle. However, now that the film has opened, MTV News has enlisted the expertise of longtime Potter production designer Stuart Craig for a few behind-the-scenes tidbits.

Much has been said of the production moving away from Hogwarts and out on multiple locations, which Craig described as a "movie on the run."

"We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We traveled quite far, we built sets, and they spend a lot of time in a forest," he explained. "We built forest sets and integrated them into the real forests, so there were challenges there, as you might imagine."

Another one of the production's major challenges — and accomplishments — was shooting the sequence in which Harry retrieves the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of a frozen lake.

"There was a really demanding, complicated special-effects requirement there to do the ice," Craig said. "I think that all works remarkably quite well, actually. Harry breaking the ice, diving in and then subsequently strangled by the Horcrux around his neck and is struggling and can't get up quickly because of the ice above him. It's good stuff."

Which begs the question: How did Craig and his team pull off that scene, and what do they use to make the ice look so real?

"As always, well, as nearly always, there's more than one solution. The camera on top, looking from the outside down on it. It's big, thick sheets of Plexiglass with frosty texture on top of that," he revealed.

"When we're underneath, it's actually an area of wax which floats on top of the water. And wax makes very effective ice. They're tried and tested movie techniques; there are a lot. You could write a book one day, a guidebook, to the very movie techniques — frost on window panes with some Epsom salts and brown nails."

One of the great pleasures in chatting with Craig, whose credits outside the world of Harry Potter include "Ghandi," "The English Patient" and "Notting Hill," is the fact that he has such an informed perspective on the inner-workings of the industry; specifically, how advanced film-making technology is now.

"The great thing about movies these days is that you can fix everything," he said. "I have to give a talk at a film festival early next month, and I've just been looking at films that I've done in the past. In particular, 'Ghandi,' years ago in India. The thing then was: If sometimes there was a compromise, it was filmed and it was there, locked. Forever. You look at the movie 20 years later, and there it would be.

"These days, with visual effects able to do so much, you can do face replacement, you can put Dan Radcliffe's head on somebody else's body.

There's nothing they can't do, it seems. I mean, at a cost, it's not cheap, so terrible things seem to get fixed, which is very reassuring," he added, chuckling.

What was your favorite scene in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1"? Tell us in the comments below!

Check out everything we've got on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1."

Company acquired Keap.com, filed for trademarks, and recently loaded up on Keap-related domains.

CRM and marketing platform Infusionsoft has registered a lot of domain names as it prepares to launch Keap.

What is Keap? I can’t tell for certain, but based on the company’s recent trademark filings and domain registrations, it’s very possible that the company is rebranding as Keap. At a minimum, it is about to launch a new product called Keap.

In August or September 2018, Infusionsoft appears to have acquired the domain name Keap.com from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration.

Then late last year the company filed for nine trademarks involving the brand. The services it filed under seem a lot like what Infusionsoft currently offers.

The domain names use a registrar’s Whois privacy service, but it’s the same corporate registrar at which Infusionsoft.com is registered.

The pattern shows a good practice in corporate branding: first, acquire the domain name. Then file the trademarks. Finally, pick up ancillary domains that might be useful (or detrimental) to the brand.

Expect an announcement from Infusionsoft soon.

I bought gokeap.com just because.

Not concerned about trademark infringement?

This is looking more and more like a full rebrand. They also registered ‘keap’ in a bunch of new TLDs including keap.ninja, keap.soy, keap.world etc.

Existing Infusionsoft accounts will just be known as ‘Infusionsoft by Keap’. There won’t be a change there, just the branding. There will be two products, Keap (Which is the new version of Infusionsoft) and Infusionsoft by Keap, which is the core product that we all know (and love?) Keap is a simpler and more accessible product for smaller businesses, and Infusionsoft is a marketing automation powerhouse for more complex automation.

As God is my witness, KSAs as an initial screening tool will fall.

– Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, channelling Scarlett O’Hara in his address to the IRMCO conference this morning.

Seriously, though, Berry outlined the future role he wants knowledge, skills and abilities essays to play in the government’s hiring process. Some agencies will likely still require finalists for a job opening to write essays outlining their experience and special skills, Berry said, but they shouldn’t need KSAs from thousands of first-round applicants. “Whittle it down until you’ve got the pool of 10 or 20,” Berry said. “Make them write the essays, not the 10,000” initial applicants.

KSAs are right now, known also as essays, short examples, narratives, accomplishments … as part of the Assessment Questionnaires.

The Assessment Questionnaire essays are not rated and ranked, but they are requested frequently with applications that use the Questionnaire as Part 2 of many applications. There are sometimes 10 narratives (known as examples – not using the name “KSA”).

Will these essays be eliminated as well? Are these narrative examples part of the KSA elimination discussion?

Essays? Applicants might need to write essays?

Did anybody consider that there are many, many jobs in which the ability to write is not important?

Essays would rule out highly competent people! Please don’t do it.

Tomi Lahren is going after Jay-Z for comments he made criticizing President Donald Trump.

Lahren wrapped up her opinion segment by calling for Jay-Z to no longer share his opinions on Donald Trump, and to — essentially — stick to music.

“Go back to rapping your filthy lyrics and celebrating your drug-dealing resume, and let Donald Trump make America great again for us all,” Lahren said.

Watch above, via Fox News and Facebook.

Missouri’s unemployment rate has reached its highest level since May, 1984.

The state labor department puts the rate at 7.3 percent for December. Durable goods manufacturing declined by 2,500. The department says private educational services and the field of health care and social assistance gained about 2,000 new jobs.

For the year of 2008, the state lost 26,500 jobs with the biggest losses in transportation equipment manufacturing, which includes motor vehicles. The losses in the next two categories–financial activities and the leisure and hospitality industry–combined do not equal the losses in transportation equipment.

Dylan Davis is an Ardmore native and 2010 graduate of Ardmore High School. Following his high school graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps serving in the “aviation side.” Davis was discharged in 2015.

Q: Why did he choose law enforcement as a career?

Q: Why did he seek a position with the APD?

Having already returned to his hometown, once he decided law enforcement was the career he wanted he said the APD was a clear cut choice. “So I started the application process in August 2015. It was a lengthy process,” he said.

Q: What are his goals as one of the APD’s newest officers?

Q: What does he want the citizens to know?

“I feel this was like the Marine Corps, something I’m meant to do. Like the APD motto says, I’m here to serve and protect. That’s what I’m about to help when I can and treat everyone with respect,” Davis said.

Davis is married. He is currently serves on the midnight shift under the direction of FTO Cpl. Chis Mata.

FNB's cyber security officer spoke at the ITWeb Security Summit 2018 about the importance of educating customers about cyber security.

As social media continues to gain prominence, experts warn users to watch out for blackmail, money laundering, identity theft, and dating scams.

The scam tricks customers to install "protective" software on their PC as the modus operandi to access the online banking profile.

The cyber-criminal threat is so severe that only a co-ordinated technical and business response across all domains will be effective, says ContinuitySA.

CloudConnect provides a single point of access to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Dimension Data Cloud.

A special exhibition of photography marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords will open on Saturday at Siem Reap’s Constable Gallery At Large. The Paris Peace Accords, signed on October 23, 1991, brought stability and democracy back to a country that had been plagued by decades of conflict.

The exhibition is designed to celebrate the exceptional endurance of Cambodians in the face of the many trials they have had to face.

Resilience, which brings together the work of veteran photographers Tim Page and John Rodsted, as well as young gun George Nickels, presents different reflections on Cambodia’s turbulent past – a past that is reflected in its present especially in, for instance, ongoing efforts to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance.

It was at the Landmine Museum near Banteay Srei that the idea for the exhibition came about. Gallery-owner Sasha Constable was teaching painting to students at the museum when peace activist Soth Plai Ngarm of the Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (CPCS) came to give a talk. Their ensuing conversations planted the seed.

CPCS team leader Nikki Singer says resilience is something that comes up a lot when talking about Cambodia, especially in the context of the Peace Accords.

“[The Accords] represented a moment when the different fighting factions in Cambodia agreed that the time had come to try a different way. This moment is an important one to celebrate, but it was also important to us to show what followed – what was made possible during the period that followed the agreements,” she says.

The different works depict: images of the UN peacekeeping force known as UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia) from British photographer Page, who first made his name shooting the Vietnam War; landmine clearance efforts as documented by Rodsted; and a look, by Nickels, at how economic migration is breaking up communities across Cambodia as it becomes increasingly impossible for many to find life-sustaining work near home. Nickels also examines the novel approach that uses rats to clear landmines.

For Constable, the choices were clear.

“When I started to form the exhibition idea in my head, I immediately thought of contacting Tim Page .. . He’s a fabulous storyteller; I always found his tales from UNTAC times captivating,” she says.

For Page, who at the time his photographs were taken would not see them unless someone remembered to bring back a copy of the Observer or one of the other publications for which he photographed, this shows how the power of photography goes beyond recording a moment in time, and even changing the course of history, to acting as an historical tool, facilitating reflection and development.

Resilience runs from Saturday, October 1, until November 30, with a special grand opening on October 23, the anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords. Tim Page and George Nickels will both attend the event, at which Page will speak about his work. On the evening before, CPCS will host a special Masquerade Charity Gala & Auction at Le Meridien Angkor.

My encounters with him as Vice President and as a candidate were consistent with everything we have been hearing since his passing—he was a very good man who was disarmingly modest and focused on the people he met in a caring, personal way.

My wife, Linda Kasem, encountered him as President when he cared enough to spend several hours one afternoon in South Central LA after the Los Angeles race riots triggered by the Rodney Kind beating. Linda was working for Sheriff Sherman Block in support of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Youth Foundation. It was a charity that, with volunteer support of hundreds of sheriffs deputies and major donations from the business community, ran a number of youth centers where at-risk kids could play basketball and other sports, learn to use computers and get good counseling.

The White House decided it was a suitable way to visit Los Angeles. Rather than a quick drop in, Bush took an interest in the kids, shot baskets, talked with the young people learning computers and spent more hours than had been planned. As he was leaving, he asked his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, to check his bag for some White House souvenirs he could leave behind as a thank you gifts. Scowcroft go on the ground to rummage through the bag, and Bush soon joined him. Whereupon the entire presidential detail got on their knees to help.

Suitable memorabilia were found and distributed, and the entourage departed.

A few days later, Linda received a hand-written note from the President thanking her for the opportunity to visit and enclosing a personal check for $1000 to the Sheriff’s Youth Foundation, with an injunction that he did not want any publicity but just to lend his support to a worthy cause.