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The strong interest in the Brewers also was evident earlier this month when the team's annual 'On Deck' fan festival in Milwaukee sold out for the first time. This year's 'On Deck' will be held Sunday at the Wisconsin Center.
Vandals with “no soul” have trash memorials at the Fawkner Cemetery.
Flowers have been strewn and gifts have been broken and stolen.
Thornbury man Gary Clayton saw the damage when visiting his son’s grave site on Tuesday.
He said about 10 others had also suffered damage.
“It’s gut–wrenching, mate,” Mr Clayton told Tom Elliott.
“I’m grieving as it is.
“I don’t need this added to it.
An interagency working group has identified four barriers that are keeping agencies from managing records effectively.
Nancy Allard, the National Archives and Records Administration's project manager, said the E-Records working group of the Interagency Committee on Government Information later this week will issue a report detailing the problems agencies are having in managing records and the recommendations the committee will make to the Office of Management and Budget and the United States Archivist.
The two biggest challenges agencies face are the inability of legacy systems to manage records and designing RM processes on the front end for new systems, she said.
Allard last week discussed records management and the work of the ICGI at a breakfast sponsored by the Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in Bethesda.
Agencies do not recognize that records management helps their business processes.
Agencies do not see RM as a critical part of their mission.
Managers do not support records management by providing tools and training.
Agencies do not integrate IT and records management well.
The working group held seven meetings with more than 200 public and private sector employees, including CIOs, records managers, agency lawyers and inspector general staff members to identify the barriers, Allard said.
The E-Records group also is developing a framework to create a records management tool kit for agencies to manage records better.
Allard said by September the full committee will send OMB and the Archivist recommendations on the best ways to provide assistance to agencies.
'We want to figure out what the tool kit should include, such as guidance on Web records or a proposal to build records management into new systems,' Allard said.
Mr. Nicholas Graziano is an Independent Director of Xerox Corporation. He has served as Portfolio Manager of Icahn Capital, the entity through which Carl C. Icahn manages investment funds, since February 2018. Mr. Graziano was previously the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of the hedge fund Venetus Partners LP, where he was responsible for portfolio and risk management, along with day-to-day firm management, from June 2015 to August 2017. Prior to founding Venetus, Mr. Graziano was a Partner and Senior Managing Director at the hedge fund Corvex Management LP from December 2010 to March 2015. At Corvex, Mr. Graziano played a key role in investment management and analysis, hiring and training of analysts and risk management. Prior to Corvex, Mr. Graziano was a Portfolio Manager at the hedge fund Omega Advisors, Inc., where he managed a proprietary equity portfolio and made investment recommendations, from September 2009 until December 2010. Before Omega, Mr. Graziano served as a Managing Director and Head of Special Situations Equity at the hedge fund Sandell Asset Management, where he helped build and lead the special situations team responsible for managing a portfolio of concentrated equity and activist investments, from July 2006 to July 2009. Mr. Graziano has served on the Board of Directors of Herbalife Ltd., a nutrition company, since April 2018. Mr. Graziano previously served on the Board of Directors of each of: Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) from February 2008 to May 2013; WCI Communities Inc. from August 2007 to August 2009; and InfoSpace Inc. from May 2007 to October 2008. Carl C. Icahn has non-controlling interests in Herbalife through the ownership of securities. Sandell Asset Management had non-controlling interests in FICO and InfoSpace through the ownership of securities. Mr. Graziano completed a five-year undergraduate/MBA program at Duke University earning a BA in Economics and an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business.
Two Downstate lawmakers’ plan to allow people to carry concealed firearms into the Cook County forest preserves is a bad idea, and the Legislature should kill it.
When Illinois drew up a concealed-carry law two years ago, legislators included provisions to keep hidden weapons out of places where they could be exceptionally dangerous, such as bars and schools. Among the spots also included on the off-limits list were the Cook County forest preserves.
There was logic behind that choice. Many of the people who head to the groves, especially in summer, are attending gatherings where liquor is served – perfectly legally – in copious amounts. Adding guns to heavy drinking is a dangerous equation.
Besides hosting summer picnics, the forest preserves are a place to quietly experience nature and escape the pressures of urban living. You don’t need a gun to do that.
Moreover, trying to chip away at the protections in the concealed-carry law is another step toward the normalization of having guns around in every day life, like chewing bubble gum on a bus. But guns ain’t bubble gum.
Not quite. Because of opposition by gun-rights groups, there is no central national tally on incidents involving concealed carry users. But after researching just those cases reported in the news media since 2007, the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center counted 722 deaths nationwide caused by concealed carry holders. Only 16 were ruled to be self-defense, fewer than the 17 cases in which law enforcement officers were shot.
Because we lack central reporting, those numbers are far from definitive, but they do refute the argument that guns “only provide safety.” Whatever McCarter and Bennett seem to think, the forest preserves have a good safety record. If the legislators want to rewrite the law, which was the product of long and thoughtful negotiations, the burden of proof is on them to show the law as written needs to be changed. They haven’t met that test.
A new global survey of executives confirms a changing mix in how IT services are delivered and consumed. This trend is expected to continue over the next three years.
The survey was conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in December 2013 and sponsored by EMC.
Respondents include CIOs and line-of-business executives (LOBs). The findings and insights complement an earlier EIU study that assessed the emergence of CIOs as strategic leaders in a setting of continuous business and technological change.
To Fast Or Not To Fast?
Fasting –the practice of refraining from food—is an important part of most religions. Ramadan is a major annual fast for Moslems. Committed Jews also practice this discipline. In the first century the Pharisees fasted every week —on Monday and Thursday interceding for their nation (Luke 18:12). There was a strong precedent for this emphasis in their Scriptures. King David fasted after he committed adultery and then murder as he pleaded with God to spare his baby boy (2 Samuel 12:16-20). Prophets declared that God would return and forgive if His people would only repent expressed in genuine weeping and fasting (Joel 2:12-13). In the Persian period when a decree threatened her people, Esther called for a three day fast from food and drink as her people prayed before she went before the King.
In the time of Jesus John the Baptist’s disciples joined the Pharisees and regularly fasted, but Jesus and His disciples didn’t. Why not?
The joyous anticipation of a marriage is not a time for crying and not eating. In response to the question about fasting Jesus makes a powerful claim. He is Israel’s bridegroom—a role God plays in the Old Testament. He is now present on earth with His disciples; therefore, it’s time for them to celebrate, not to grieve and fast.
Then Jesus gives us a foreshadowing of where events are going.
He will be taken away and then His disciples will fast. We will have to wait until Luke’s climax and resolution to find out when and how Jesus was taken away, but at this point in the Story one thing is clear. The same Pharisees who raised serious questions about Jesus eating and drinking with tax collectors don’t like the fact that He doesn’t join them in the discipline of regular fasting.
LORD, thanks that You reveal that Your presence brings joyous feasting and not painful times of sorrow for those who decide to follow You. Now that You are no longer physically present on earth, help me to long for your return—wanting it so much that it will move me to not want to eat as I pray for Your coming.
The last of the hospitalized Iowa football players have been released.
The 13 players checked into the hospital last Monday after complaining of discolored urine and extreme soreness. They were diagnosed with a muscle disorder that can be caused by extreme physical exertion. The students all had participated in intense off-season workouts that started the previous week after the players returned from winter break.
Iowa�s athletic department says five of the students were discharged Friday, six on Saturday and the final two yesterday.
Coach Kirk Ferentz apologized yesterday for the students� ordeal and said they had been training hard but didn�t do anything wrong. He said the university is investigating the source of problem.
Today, UDM leader, Bantu Holomisa will be cross examined by the Lebashe Investment Group. This comes after Holomisa made allegations against the company weeks ago when he testified.
Yesterday, it came to light that within a year of the Public Investment Corporation’s participation in Jayendra Naidoo’s acquisition of 2.75 percent of Steinhoff, through his empowerment group Lancaster – dubbed Project Sierra – the Steinhoff share price began to decline and this impacted on the PlC’s security package.
March 18, 2014, 11:43 a.m.
In 1980, The New York Times launched a daily national edition that, despite a significant upfront investment, turned into a position of strength; today, more than half of the Times’ print subscribers are outside New York. The Washington Post didn’t, and while its strength in the D.C. area generated big profits for a long time, it entered the digital age without the same sort of cross-country reach as its rival up I-95.
But the Post has a new twist on that old debate. The paper said Tuesday it will begin to offer free digital access to its websites and apps to subscribers of a number of local newspapers around the country in an attempt to reach a larger digital audience — and signaling that the paper is moving to position itself as a major national news brand. The Dallas Morning News, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The Toledo Blade, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be the first papers to participate.
The program launches in May and would seem to be a win all around: Local papers get a significant new benefit to offer subscribers; the Post gets extra premium audience online and likely doesn’t lose many (if any) marginal digital subscribers. And it’s a model that could, if successful, be expanded at near-zero cost to dozens or even hundreds of other dailies.
And the idea of a Post digital subscription as a throw-in benefit opens up lots of new possibilities. The Post could potentially work with other subscription services like Amazon Prime, Spotify, or others to offer digital access to the Post, Washington Post president Steve Hills told the Financial Times. He also said that the strategy, one of the first major initiatives launched since Jeff Bezos bought the Post last year, is a substantial shift in how the paper approaches its business.
At this writing, a new digital subscription to the Post goes for $3.99 every four weeks or $39 for a year, although prices can vary depending on current offers. The paper launched its metered paywall last summer.
Bezos is known for not worrying about profit margins, and the FT reports that no money is changing hands as part of the partnership with the six local papers.
Lichterman, Joseph. "The Washington Post goes national by offering free digital access to readers of local newspapers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Mar. 2014. Web. 20 Apr. 2019.
Lichterman, Joseph. "The Washington Post goes national by offering free digital access to readers of local newspapers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 18, 2014. Accessed April 20, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/the-washington-post-goes-national-by-offering-free-digital-access-to-readers-of-local-newspapers/.
This morning WhitePages announced that it has acquired Mr. Number, the call blocking and phone spam identification app that is a top-20 Android app in the communications category, with over seven million downloads.
And WhitePages has some big plans for integrating Mr. Number into its 50-million-unique-visitors-per-month website — plans that should help you avoid spam calls.
Mr. Number users identify SPAM and report it (via the app, the Mr. Number website, etc.). As a result, a phone number’s SPAM score goes up. WhitePages can take this info (a spam number as identified by Mr. Number users) and provide it as such to Current Caller ID users. So, in addition to other information that Current Caller ID provides to users (name, social, etc.), it will also report a number as spam if it’s been identified as such by Mr. Number.
Mr. Number already blocks unwanted calls and texts and allows users to look up unknown numbers before answering. In addition, it conducts reverse lookups of both mobile and landline numbers to stop telemarketers and robo-dialers, and then reports the results to other Mr. Number users.
Now, with WhitePages, that phone-spam database might not only be provided to users of WhitePages’ existing app Current Caller ID — which also offers a social media overview of a caller — it could potentially be used on WhitePages.com to provide a spam score on businesses or individual numbers. WhitePages lists more than 200 million adult Americans, plus businesses, and handles more than two billion identity searches annually.
For the millions who are already using Mr. Number, WhitePages says it will continue to be maintained as a standalone app.
Russia’s campaign to block the messaging service Telegram temporarily took down Twitter, Facebook and Russian tech giants, according to a registry of blacklisted Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
State media regulator Roskomnadzor has begun blocking websites en masse to enforce an April 13 court order to ban Telegram over its refusal to grant access to its users’ private messages to Russia's security services. Google and Amazon cloud services have experienced major disruptions as Roskomnadzor continues to seek their cooperation in denying Telegram accessibility.
The IP addresses of Facebook, Twitter, as well as Russian search engine Yandex and social media website VKontakte, had been added to the national registry of banned sites, blacklist tracker and IT consultant Vladislav Zdolnikov wrote on Telegram early Friday.
The addresses were removed from the registry two hours later, the vc.ru online startup outlet reported. However, almost 18 million IP addresses, including those of Google and YouTube, remain blocked in Russia as of Friday morning.
“This is an agency filled with monkeys with grenades,” Zdolnikov wrote in a follow-up post.
The Bell news website underscores the “symbolic” significance of Roskomnadzor’s willingness to ensnare Russian websites as it chases after Telegram.
Meanwhile, Moscow’s City Hall has approved the Russian Libertarian Party’s pro-Telegram rally for up to 5,000 people on April 30.
State regulators disrupt online services in their effort to ban the Telegram messaging service.
A Russian children’s bookstore has opened a Telegram channel after its website fell victim to the authorities’ efforts to ban the messaging app.
Dmitry Peskov is still using the Telegram messaging service despite state regulator’s efforts to block it from being accessible in the country.
Google was fined 500,000 rubles ($7,530) for failing to filter searches based on a government registry of banned websites.
The Bermuda branch of the Institute of Directors is to offer a two-day leadership course next month.
The certificate in company direction module “Leadership for Directors” will be held on May 2 and 3 from 9am to 5pm at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club.
The course will be led by Murray Eldridge, a chartered director with the United Kingdom’s IoD and the programme leader for courses leading to chartered director accreditation.
The Bermuda branch of the IoD says the course will “explore a more personalised approach to leadership”, with delegates “encouraged to understand and develop their own self-awareness, emotional intelligence and the needs of followers”.
Mr Eldridge, a statement from the Bermuda IoD said, believes that good leadership provides “the keel, the rudder, the sails and the fabric of the ‘vessel’ that is the organisation.
He added: “Good leadership answers in full the what (vision), why (purpose), how (values & behaviour) and who (identity) of the organisation.
“When properly and fully developed these provide, among many others, clarity, direction, ambition, aspiration, motivation, energy, engagement, excitement, the right ethos and a positive, even enjoyable, climate where all who are involved in the venture are able to maximise their contributions to high performance.
He believes corporate scandals arise because people have the wrong reasons for wanting to lead, that those in leadership positions may have inadequate competencies for leading complex organisations in an increasingly volatile world and poor, even venal, guiding philosophies, the statement said.
“What needs to happen is the reverse of the above,” Mr Eldridge said. “It means high ethos leaders who are knowledgeable and engaged in the wider complex world and understand the broad, major shifts taking place. It means leaders who are able to select and build highly effective board and management teams.
The Bermuda IoD branch said the course aims to help people to develop an understanding of how leadership can be defined and understood in relation to the director’s role on the board; to apply techniques for developing a greater awareness of oneself and of the motivations and behaviours of others; to create a culture which constructively engages others in the organisation to achieve the strategic objectives, and to respond effectively to crisis and change, identify how leaders create influence and impact within and beyond the organisation, and assess relevant stakeholder engagement strategies.
Campaigner concerns are misplaced, and the NHS needs more integrated services to survive.
Last month, Allyson Pollock warned in an article for the New Statesman that the development of accountable care organisations represents an attack on the fundamental principles of the NHS. Hers is one of a number of voices arguing that accountable care will result in private companies playing a bigger part in running NHS services and is occurring without proper public and parliamentary debate.
The reality is rather different and more prosaic. The areas of England leading the development of accountable care are doing so in response to the huge pressures on the NHS. Hospitals in particular are struggling to cope with growing numbers of people with complex needs presenting at A&E departments. Senior doctors have stated that patients are dying unnecessarily as staff try to manage ever growing workloads.
The NHS requires more money and staff to avoid a recurrence of this winter’s crisis but it must also redouble efforts to put in place new care models better suited to the population’s changing needs. It is this that lies behind the interest in accountable care, rather than a hidden agenda to privatise service provision.
Areas as diverse as Cumbria, Frimley, Nottingham, Northumbria, and Salford are pioneering new forms of “accountable care” in which health and care services work together to provide more services in people’s homes and the community. Early evidence collected by NHS England shows that these areas have started to buck the long term trend of rising demand for hospital care. This holds out hope that new ways of delivering care will bring benefits for patients and staff.
Why then has accountable care got a bad name? One reason is that the language of accountable care originates in the United States, and carries connotations of the excesses and inequities of that country’s health care system. Another is that NHS England has proposed a new contract for accountable care organisations that could be used by NHS commissioners wishing to develop accountable care by testing the market in a competitive procurement.
Campaigners opposed to accountable care have launched two judicial reviews of the proposed contract. Their main concern is that private companies could compete successfully to take on the contract and that doing so would run counter to the core values of the NHS. The collapse of Carillion has reinforced this concern by illustrating to the public sector the risks of outsourcing services for those who rely on them.
Recognising the reality of these risks, it would be wrong to extrapolate from the experience of the United States to the NHS. The context here is very different with the commitment to a universal and comprehensive health care system available on the basis of need and not ability to pay as strong as ever. There is no prospect that these principles will be compromised by the development of accountable care which is about how services are provided and not how they are funded.
Even if private companies do compete to provide services under the proposed contract, it is highly doubtful that they will able to generate profits in an increasingly cash strapped NHS. The withdrawal of the private health care company, Circle, from a contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire in 2015 because of inadequate funding was a straw in the wind. With many NHS providers running deficits, it is unlikely that private companies will see the NHS as an attractive market to enter.
In any case, areas that are pioneering the development of accountable care have found ways of making progress without the need to use NHS England’s proposed contract. These areas are looking to NHS providers to take the lead in bringing together health and care services into integrated care partnerships. Different services are involved in different areas and they may include hospitals, community health services, mental health services, GPs and adult social care provided by local authorities.
Salford is a leading example. The hospital trust, which also runs community services in the area, is working closely with mental health services and local GPs. The city council has agreed that the trust should take responsibility for the provision of adult social care. The NHS is collaborating with the council to commission these services jointly in order to support the integration of care.
A similar example can be found in Mid Nottinghamshire, where an alliance of care providers and commissioners from the NHS and local government are working to integrate services for a population of 330,000. Integrated teams comprising GPs, specialist nurses, social workers and others have been established to provide joined up care to patients at high risk of being admitted to hospital. This has already helped to reduce the demand on the local hospital, as more care is delivered in peoples’ homes and community settings.
These public sector partnerships and many others like them are based on collaboration and not competition. They represent a shift away from the market-based reforms that have dominated health policy since the early 1990s and, ironically, are moving the NHS in the direction that those campaigning against accountable care have often argued for. The prospect is of services coming together to meet the needs of local people with a much stronger emphasis on collaboration instead of competition between NHS organisations.
NHS England has now announced that it will undertake a public consultation and has agreed to delay the use of the contract until the end of 2018 at the earliest. The House of Commons Health Committee is also about to embark on an inquiry which will explore the concerns of campaigners as well as the experience of those already working to make accountable care happen.
These are welcome moves that should enable a more measured debate to occur based on innovations showing that how the NHS and its partners can improve health and care for the populations they serve. NHS England should also change the language from accountable care to integrated care to more accurately reflect its intentions in promoting these new care models.
Chris Ham is CEO of The King’s Fund.
There are currently two different movies being made about the underground, Chicago-based collective Jane, which performed nearly 12,000 illegal abortions in the ’60s and ’70s before Roe v. Wade.
Jane started in the 1970s as a referral service for women who needed to get in touch with a doctor, but the costs of getting an illegal abortion back then were enormously high. Soon the Jane collective became a group in which members with barely any medical training were performing affordable surgical abortions on women or even inducing miscarriages. The 1996 documentary Jane: An Abortion Service explored the collective’s history in-depth but now, in a particularly fragile time for abortion rights, we’ll be getting new movies on the subject.
First there’s the indie effort Ask For Jane, written and directed by Rachel Carey, and starring Cait Johnston, Alison Wright (The Americans), Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) among others. The movie, which is based on a limited series they made in 2016, is produced by Caroline Hirsch and will even include a cameo from Judith Arcana, who was a real member of The Janes and is acting as a consulting producer on the film.
And the other is This Is Jane, written by Dan Loflin and based on Laura Kaplan’s 1995 non-fiction book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, and picked up by Amazon earlier this year. It’s produced by a bunch of men.