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"In the first half we didn't have what I call our runners legs. We did a lot of watching in the second half instead of reacting," Pinkham said. "Defensively we started playing more offensive. We were making very good passes to our offense. Our transition game was much better in the second half.
"The last couple of years we haven't played very well in the first tournament game and we talked about that," added Pinkham. "We did not have that intensity. We talked at the half, and the kids realized we needed to pick it up."
Defregger's three goals gives him 26 on the season, while Bua's two helpers give him a record 31 in a season. Since moving into the starting lineup three games ago, Workman has 7 goals and 4 assists. Simoneau anchored the defense, along with Spencer Klubben, Andrew Kwist and Canole.
"We've made some changes since the Somersworth game (a 3-2 win) and we are a better balanced team right now," Pinkham pointed out.
Gilford (14-3) entertains No. 6 Sanborn (12-4-1) in the second round Saturday afternoon (2). The Indians advanced with a 6-0 win over No. 11 Mascoma.
"We're looking forward to moving on... it doesn't matter who we play," Simoneau said.
The appreciation of five cross listed companies share prices pushed up the DSE all shares (DSEI) during an opening day of this week.
Dar es Salaam. The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) All Shares Index opened this week at 2,081.58 points on Monday’s close, higher than 2,057.05 points recorded during the closing day of last week.
The share price of EABL increased to Sh4.660 on Monday from Sh4,560 on Friday last week while the Acacia share price rose to Sh6,100 on Monday this week from Sh6,000 on Friday’s close.
Arlene Dickinson is general partner, District Ventures Capital.
Think everyone with a great idea gets a fair shake in the world of venture capital? Think again.
According to new data, companies founded by women received just 2.2 per cent of the venture capital money invested in the United States in 2018. That’s down from the 2.5-per-cent level reported for 2017. “The fundamental issue remains that the bulk of large dollars are going to male-only founders,” said Eva Ho, a leade...
How tilted is the playing field? Fortune magazine points out that in 2018, all U.S. female founders put together received US$10-billion less in funding than the e-cigarette company Juul.
The story is much the same in Canada, where female founders receive only 4 per cent of venture capital – and face obstacles in gaining access to other kinds of investments. Put simply, women are still getting only the thinnest slice of the funding pie.
This has to change. And only venture capital firms themselves can change it. VCs need to expand their horizons and break free from their continuing focus on male-dominated firms. I’ve been around long enough that I’ve heard all the excuses about why it can’t be done. Let’s get past that outdated thinking.
As citizens of a country that benefits from good companies that create good jobs, we all have an interest in seeing that women entrepreneurs are supported the same as their male counterparts. On a per capita basis, female entrepreneurs create more jobs than male entrepreneurs in Canada. And female-led businesses have h...
In my view, the VC obsession with technology persists not because decision makers are consciously gender-biased – but because they are industry-biased. They see others investing in tech and, over time, they become effectively blinded to other fields. Heaven forbid they support a consumer packaged goods company created ...
Technology firms are obviously important. But programs and funding should be available to more diverse industries, including those where women play a larger role.
There are some pockets of progress. Ryerson DMZ – a startup incubator at the Ontario university – has a program that offers hands-on support to women founders of tech companies. The focus is on winning contracts and reducing sales cycles. It’s a promising initiative. Meanwhile, BDC Capital has created a $200-million ve...
I look forward to my fund continuing to support our country’s entrepreneurs – women and men. I know how hard it is to raise money as an entrepreneur. And I know it’s even harder when you’re a woman. So far, more than half of the companies we’ve funded have female founders.
I also take pride in being open to supporting new and budding entrepreneurs. Too many in the VC community immediately turn away those who lack experience – another factor that favours men.
In our highly competitive world, investors should be squarely focused on creating the conditions in which all Canadian entrepreneurs – women and men – can make the most of their ideas, their ingenuity and their drive. That’s the path to prosperity, for VC firms and for our country.
To get funded, you should need a killer idea and a bulletproof plan. You shouldn’t need to be a man.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" has landed a second home on basic cable.
TV Guide Network struck a deal with ABC this month to begin repurposing episodes a day after their initial late-night airdate. On Monday, the network quietly began stripping "Kimmel" at 7 p.m. weeknights.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TV Guide Network and ABC declined comment.
The addition of "Kimmel" at 7 p.m. would serve to bolster TV Guide's primetime offerings while potentially exposing the series to new viewers who could sample it back at ABC as well.
While unusual, day-after repurposing of a late-night series is not unprecedented. In 2002, NBC struck separate deals with Comedy Central and E! to grab second windows for "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and "Last Call With Carson Daly," respectively; both arrangements have since lapsed.
NBC has since refocused its late-night rebroadcast strategy, recently making episodes of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and "Conan" available on NBC.com for seven days after their original broadcast.
Late-night repurposing often is done with a careful eye not to irritate network affiliates, who tend to be cautious about siphoning away viewers from an initial airdate.
For the week ending Oct. 14, "Kimmel" averaged 1.8 million total viewers, roughly the same as CBS' "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson."
TV Guide is in 84 million homes.
The procession of the chariot belonging to the Bhoganandishwara temple of Nandi village in Chikkaballapur taluk will be organised on February 21.
The Bhoganandishwara Swamy Devotees’ Association of Doddaballapura is preparing for the big event.
Famous as Southern Kashi, the Association will also organise Anna Dasoha or feeding of the thousands of devotees who visit the temple. The event has been continuing for several years now- just one year short of a century.
The Anna Dasoha was first started in 1913 by the family of Bommanna, a resident of Doddaballapur. Initially an event organised by joint families, it has been taken over by an organisation after the single family system took over.
Members of the Association begin one month in advance to collect money from devotees for the procession and the lunch. Most residents of nearby villages donate generously.
The Dasoha was organised on the premises of the temple, just outside the main building.
The Archaeological Survey of India took over the area about a decade ago and converted into a park. Since then, the programme is organised on the campus of Govinda Theertha College, said G Nanjunda Murthy, office-bearer in the Association.
“About 10 of us spend an entire month collecting funds from the people for it. We need about two quintals of rice, 25 kg tur dal, 30 kg jaggery and 10 kg green gram for the event. We also give water and buttermilk to the thousands of devotees who have lunch at the temple after participating in the procession. The total...
The preparations for the chariot procession too are carried out with enthusiasm. The Muzrai Department, temple staff and residents of Nandi have decided to organise the programme in a different way as compared to previous chariot processions.
“For the first time, a Shivalinga was set up using petals, and leaves. The Shivalinga is about five feet tall,” Monar, resident of Andarlahalli in the taluk, told Deccan Herald.
The flowers were brought from residents’ fields as well as purchased from markets. “We hope to attract the devotees who visit the temple,” he added.
Shivaratri was celebrated with pomp and gaiety at the Kotilinga Temple at Kammasandra in Kolar Gold Fields on Monday.
A flood of people started gathering on the premises of the temple right from dawn. Devotees from even neighbouring states, who drove down to the temple, stood in the queue for a view of the deity.
The procession of the chariot at the temple was conducted on Monday morning.
Flowers were showered on top of the 108-feet tall Shivalinga using helicopters, much to the excitement of the thousands of devotees who had gathered around the idol.
Union minister K H Muniyappa, former minister Sriramulu, legislators Y Sampangi and M Narayanaswamy, BEML managing director V R S Natarajan, BGML security officer Srinivas and others were present during the occasion.
Cultural and religious programmes were organised all through the day as part of Shivaratri festivities.
Team Norton drivers James Moffat and James Caruso took the opportunity to meet with guests of the security software company and Nissan fans during the Melbourne Formula One last weekend. Moffat finished the second race of the V8 supercar challenge in fifth place while Todd Kelly of sister team Jack Daniel’s Racing fini...
Smoke and the sound of a roaring V8 engine filled the Melbourne Showgrounds as Nissan unveiled its V8 Supercars for the 2013 season. The manufacturer has returned to the competition for the first time since 1992 with partners Norton and Jack Daniel's.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda today announced they will increase efforts to produce more hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and said they will work together to build more fueling stations to support them.
Mobile games giant DeNA hopes to begin a robot taxi service in Tokyo by 2020, joining Uber Technologies and Google in the race to offer self-driving cabs and cars.
Nissan hopes to have a car that can navigate Japan's highways on its own next year, and the company plans to have a completely self-driving vehicle for urban areas by 2020.
Truly autonomous cars won't exist for at least 10 years, but earlier models starting next year will do some of the driving for you.
Qualcomm pays $975 billion fine in China ... HP buys cloud security company ... Now you can set up a drone no-fly zone ... and more news.
Managing storage technology is an oxymoron these days. It seems like the more tools you add to manage your increasingly complex environment, the more convoluted the environment becomes. Nirvana is within sight, but your budget prevents you from getting there. Even worse, the budget shrinks but the demand on your resour...
Tequila’s remarkable reputation transformation in the United States seems to be complete. The high end of the spirit has not just become a mainstay of the growing number of tequila-focused bars and restaurant beverage programs around the country, but it is now being embraced with a real sense of passion and burgeoning ...
It’s been a fascinating trajectory for a spirit that, less than a generation ago, struggled to find the deep respect it deserves outside of its most ardent devotees. But a committed focus on quality, a diversity of stylistic options, and a growing number of brands—never forget the importance of brand identity in the wo...
According to the web site of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), “Since 2002, tequila volumes have grown 140%, an average rate of 6.0% per year.” And that’s the overall number, accounting for everything from value brands to super premium ones. During that same time period, super premium volumes...
Tequila's resurgence has been a result of increasing consumer interest, a broad range of stylistic options, and a passionate focus on quality. The new Gran Patrón Smoky, above, is indicative of the adventurous spirit infusing the category (Credit: Patrón Tequila).
It’s a remarkable achievement for a category that, in my youth, at least, was spoken of more as a means to an end (inebriation) rather than as it is now: As a deeply terroir-driven, highly sophisticated spirit that is a key component of any serious bar, alongside top-end single malt Scotch whisky, small-production Bour...
With such a surfeit of options available, however, it can be difficult to choose what to spend your money on. The tequilas in the list below (organized alphabetically) represent a range of high-end bottles that are worth ordering at a bar or restaurant or picking up at a retail shop. They range in price from $25 to $30...
Those strips and gels you use to get your teeth as pearly white as possible may come with some previously unknown risks, according to new, preliminary research out this week. It found that the key ingredient in these products—hydrogen peroxide—could be capable of damaging dentin, the second, deeper layer of our teeth t...
Though organizations such as the American Dental Association do warn whitening products can cause tooth sensitivity or gum inflammation, they’re seen as temporary side effects that go away soon after you stop using them. And by and large, these products are considered safe and effective.
Research on teeth whitening has mainly focused on how hydrogen peroxide and other whitening agents affect enamel, the protective outer coating of teeth. But the authors behind this latest research, presented this week at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s annual meeting, say that considerably...
Previous work by the authors, led by Kelly Keenan, an associate professor of chemistry at Stockton University in New Jersey, had suggested that whitening agents could easily enough reach the dentin layer through our enamel. But they wanted to see how hydrogen peroxide, a common whitening ingredient, directly interacted...
They used extracted human teeth and treated them with whitening strips using the instructions from the manufacturer, meaning they left them on for an hour (those with existing tooth sensitivity can use them for less time). The teeth were dunked in artificial saliva during this time, and were then washed for an hour. Co...
The results are early, and not yet peer-reviewed, and Keenan’s team plans to further study how hydrogen peroxide affects collagen by next looking at how it affects pure collagen. At this point, though, it’s tough to say what the actual health implications of their research could be.
If whitening strips can cause damage to our teeth, it might not necessarily be a big deal, since the tooth’s pulp—the soft center of a tooth filled with nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue—can regenerate lost collagen. But in people who have had root canals that removes this pulp, that’s no longer possible, Ke...
“Also, since the replacement of collagen is slow, it would be more deleterious to do too many treatments in too short a period of time,” added Keenan.
While Keenan stopped short of advocating that people avoid whitening their teeth, she’s said the findings are something to keep in mind when deciding whether to buy these products.
“As always, I think it is best if the public is presented with information and makes individual decisions based on the results,” she said.
The Bahamas must seriously examine switching to a tax system based on “ability to pay”, a top private sector executive urged yesterday, amid renewed IMF calls for “greater income equality”.
Gowon Bowe, the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA), told Tribune Business that the consumption-driven nature of this nation’s VAT-reliant structure meant those on lower incomes continue “to bear a disproportionate tax burden” in comparison to their wealthier counterparts.
Speaking after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) renewed its call for a “a comprehensive review” of the Bahamian tax system following the latest Article IV consultation with the government, Mr Bowe argued that no such study had been conducted since the current model was conceived in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
“They’ve been recommending in their various missions for the last two years that there be consideration given in that regard,” he said of the Fund’s review call, “and that will continue for a while until we demonstrate we’re not chipping away at the edges but doing a comprehensive review of our tax system.
Even though VAT has replaced import duties as the government’s main revenue source ahead of the potential World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession, this has meant The Bahamas’ taxation model remains primarily a consumption-based one.
As a result, lower income Bahamians are still spending a higher proportion of their income on taxes than those earning more - a situation that Mr Bowe, also Clearing Banks Association (CBA), must seriously look at correcting given that tax systems should be based on the principles of fairness and equity.
The IMF seemed to agree, saying in its release yesterday: “Fiscal policy should play a greater medium-term role in achieving public policy objectives, including greater income equality.
“The Bahamas does not levy income or capital gains taxes, relying mostly on VAT, business license fees and international trade taxes. Global tax trends and the prospective accession to the WTO thus present an opportunity for a comprehensive review of the Bahamian tax regime with a view to achieving a more equitable and...
Most nations rely on income tax, both personal and corporate, as their government’s primary source of revenue since it is viewed as a progressive levy directly linked to ability to pay. Those earning more pay more in tax compared to those on lower income, thereby upholding the system’s perceived equity and fairness.
But The Bahamas, which has long cherished its tax neutral platform and the absence of any form of income tax, has bucked this world trend. While income tax was one of the alternative options to VAT, the Christie government ultimately rejected it due to the fact it has no history here and, more importantly, the extra co...
Some cynics, though, suggested that income tax was also turned down because it would force all Bahamians to declare their annual income - thereby exposing all those seemingly living above their means.
But, regardless of the motivation then, Mr Bowe yesterday said the Government needed to “see through” to completion the study of the Bahamian taxation system that it had commissioned jointly with the private sector from Deloitte & Touche’s UK arm.
K P Turnquest, deputy prime minister, told Tribune Business on Monday that this work had effectively been placed on hold by the need to enact reforms to meet the European Union (EU) and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) demands relating to combating tax evasion.
With The Bahamas now having addressed these concerns, Mr Turnquest said the Government would seek to “restart” the Deloitte effort although he gave no dates for when this would happen.
The Deloitte & Touche (UK) study of the Bahamas’ tax structure was to focus on potential reforms to make it more efficient and equitable, and assess options and alternatives to the Business Licence regime among other issues.
Mr Bowe yesterday said the accounting firm’s work had “gone through various iterations”, and added that the research should have continued notwithstanding the immediate need “to put out the fires with the EU”.
He added that The Bahamas could ill-afford to “wait for the next penny to drop with the EU and OECD”, and suggested that rather than wait for the next attack this nation needed to put itself in a position where it can defend its tax system. “Sometimes a good defence is a good offense,” Mr Bowe told Tribune Business.
He argued that any taxation review should focus on the twin objectives of ensuring the Government earns sufficient revenues to pay its bills and meet its citizens’ needs while, at the same time, providing a structure that was fit for purpose and maintained The Bahamas’ international economic competitiveness.
The BICA chief said tax systems should be focused on the principles of simplicity, equity, fairness and efficiency, while eliminating any distortions that penalised a particular group in society.
Mr Bowe, who met the IMF team during its recent visit to The Bahamas, said the encounter was “a pretty positive one” with the Fund giving The Bahamas credit for reforms already enacted.
“They were very much focused on what our economy will look like in the 21st century,” he added.
Mr. Bowe - please reconsider your position. Bear in mind that a LARGE number of persons in the Bahamas are self employed and a great number are illegally employed. THEY would pay ZERO in income tax the same way they pay zero in National Insurance right now. Many self employed persons undoubtedly under-report their inco...
Also bear in mind that the poor pay no customs duties on baby food and baby items (which allows them to more economically produce more poor people), and now recently they pay no VAT on "poor people food" otherwise known as price-controlled items in the food stores.
How much more must we give these people? The poor who come here illegally get even more breaks than our own citizens. Free land, free food (from churches), free lumber (from construction site leftovers), free clothing (from thrift stores) (well, almost free). You ever been on Mackey Street north in the early mornings? ...
The VAT tax is a very excellent tax (if the price control exemption was removed like it was originally) because it ensures that these (censored word) people PAY at least something. Most of them don't have cars so don't pay no insurance, no car license, no drivers license, and no gasoline tax and no gasoline VAT (which ...
The poor need to start being more concerned about themselves. Stop walking around all day with headphones on listening to RAP and other cRAP and learn something and do something besides drinking smoking and grinding. I don't see why we should pay higher taxes to support their SLACKNESS.
The property is the greatest misery! So you paying government 35-45% duty on items used to construct a home/ building. Then they start charging 1-21/2% property tax on that property as soon as it is completed. Then the government also charges 5 % on overdue balances. And this is what really gets property owners into tr...

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